Look At Him With That Smile, He Looks So Proud Of Himself!

Look at him with that smile, he looks so proud of himself!

Actual footage of Spinner after making love to Shigaraki

I came up with this idea for a story based around the Shimura family rising from the dead and having a confrontation with both sides of Nana’s legacy about a week ago, and I’m in the process of turning it into a full-length fic. Unfortunately, there’s no way I’m gonna be able to finish it in time for spooky month. But for the sake of Halloween, I thought it would be nice to share the general idea I’ve got down for the plot. So without further ado, here’s the WIP summary for what I’m gonna call Spooky Scary Shimuras:

(Spoilers for the general plot and story beats)

A house in a well-to-do neighborhood in Musutafu has been rebuilt from the crater left behind a little over a decade ago. The family that moved in has a little boy who manifests his quirk on Halloween: Arise. It allows him to bring lost souls who died in the area back to the earthly plane so that they have a chance to seek closure and finally pass on. Guess who gets hit with it?

All Might and the Wonder Duo are in the area because they were escorting kids  going trick or treating that night and are walking home when a family of ghosts are resurrected, so they are the first on the scene to investigate. They learn from the ghost family about the events that led to their deaths fairly quickly, and of the remorse they feel at letting everything get to that point of no return. All Might and company are willing to try to help them reunite with the missing member, Tenko, so the family can apologize for their actions and finally pass on knowing that they were able to do right by the child for once.

There’s just one problem: while the family knows their relationships to each other, their past, and their first names, they collectively can’t remember their shared last name. So it becomes a mystery of trying to find that last bit of information needed to start the search for Tenko’s current whereabouts by piecing it together from what they can remember of when they were alive.

At the same time as this search into the name is happening, the League of Villains are using Halloween as an excuse to make mischief, and have been committing various acts of vandalism around Japan, with Musutafu as the next target. Soon enough, they happen upon a road that Tomura is strangely familiar with, and when he ends up recognizing his former neighborhood he gets an idea: to investigate his old house and see it’s state after 15 years. Is it still a crater or did it get rebuilt? And if it was rebuilt, has it been abandoned due to it’s dark history? The rest of the league is mostly onboard if only for the fact that if there’s an abandoned house in that spot, they could explore a genuine haunted house!

What will happen when the ghost family finally rediscovers their last name? How will they react when they learn about the connections between them, All Might, and his successors? And most importantly, what will happen when all of them finally encounter the last surviving Shimura?

I don’t know if they’ll play the song straight up, but I’m personally hoping for the anime to play a reworking of “You Say Run” during that scene, something that keeps the main melody but adds something that emphasizes that this is Shigaraki’s song. I’m sure it’s possible since they did it before with “Jet Set Run”, “Katsuki and Izuku”, and “Might+U”. If I had to guess what they’d do, I think it would be cool to combine it with “Enemy Strike” to add a threatening tone that makes it stand out among the other versions.

And honestly, a takeover of the main heroic musical theme is exactly what Shigaraki deserves as the new protagonist of MHA.

I think it would be incredibly cool if, when MVA gets animated, Studio Bones played "You Say Run" over Shigaraki’s final blow against Re Destro. Dare I say, a cultural reset?

I want him to say "my theme now >:3c"

Who are your favourite members of the league of villains???

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Oh no where do I start?!

I really enjoy the dynamic between the league as a whole, it’s why I enjoyed the My Villain Academia arc. But if I had to choose favorites, my top four are Toga, Twice, Spinner, and Shigaraki, with Shigaraki at the top.

I like their backstories (sorry Mr. Compress, you’ll get one eventually) and how they clearly care about each other (Dabi I’m looking at you). Toga and Twice always look out for each other, Spinner is set on supporting Shigaraki however he can, and Shigaraki’s only limit to his destruction are the things his friends like (and it subtly shows that he never truly lost that empathy he had for the people who were left out).

Overall, these guys are my favorites because they’re the ones that manifest the my favorite trope (found family) the most, and I’m excited to see what they do next.

The League of Villains ganging up on Horikoshi for putting them through all that bullshit.

...and Spinner taking a second to check in while presumably cradling Shigaraki in the background as he gets over his AFO induced hangover.