Prompt:

Prompt:

"Why did you stop?"

"When no one is listening, is there a point in talking?"

Writing Prompt:

Didn't you know? Monsters like us don't get a happy end"

Or:

"Haven't you read the fairytales? You know monsters like you and I never get happy endings"

Raccoon Izuku AU

When you found a thing and it is cursed and terrifying, but your brain goes... What if.. and now it is a Thing.

Prompt comes from https://archiveofourown.org/works/25455724/chapters/61756255#workskin by Teobot, check it out please because credit.

Anyway, Raccoon Izuku

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Izuku is heading home after a long day, shoulders still smarting from school when he hears something in an alleyway. A clang and a couple loud voices. He knows he shouldn't look, or intervene at all, but Izuku has always been bad at listening to reason. He peeks into the alleyway, and then immediately hides behind the corner, chest heaving. Five guys, all surrounding someone on the ground. He's pretty sure he saw something metal flash, and oh my god they are going to kill someone. He chances another glance. He was right, the leader is holding a knife. He leans back trying to catch his breath. If he leaves, they are going to kill that person! But, if he stays, they might kill him! Or worse, recognize his uniform, trackhimdownfindouthe'squirklessandandattackhismomandthenshemightdieandtheyhewouldbetotallyaloneandohmygodhewasnotpreparedtodealwiththistoday.

Something catches his eye from the dumpster. A horridly bright neon pink stuffed raccoon head. Will it work as a distraction? The voices grow louder. He makes his choice and opens the dumpster to get it. And immediately regrets his decision because this isn't a stuffed animal head to throw, this is a fursuit. He almost laughs, because what is his life now. Then he slips the mangled but untorn suit on. It smells awful, but, if this works, the shock factor will be enough to scare them away. Or at least give him enough time to get the victim to run away. Hopefully. Maybe. He sends a brief thanks to his mom, just in case, and gets out of the dumpster. And almost immediately falls on his face. Then he is up and running but it's the wrong direction, it's towards the thugs not the victim and he's pretty sure he's some sort of noise but he's not sure what.

The first thug turns, sees him, drops the gun and bolts. The other four share confused looks before bolting too, directly into the wall, where they collapse, unconscious. Izuku stumbles to a shock, trips again and catches himself on his hands. He did not expect that to work at all. He's pretty sure his life passed before his eyes and Jesus he needs to spend less time watching All Might documentaries. There is a rustle on the right and a soft 'what the fuck?' and Izuku snaps his head over, neck cracking. The victim visibly bluescreens. Izuku makes direct eye contact, and then it hits him. He just saved someone. While dressed in a suit. A raccoon suit. What the heck. Relief and adrenaline bubble up in him, and Izuku's shoulders start shaking, trying to keep the laughter in. He fails. Out of the corner of his eye, he sees the person back out of the alley, but he is too busy trying to catch his breath. When he finally stops, he realizes that he can hear the distant sound of police sirens. And Izuku has another realization. He really doesn't want to explain this. Ever. To anyone. So he stands up, finds the right alleyway home and starts running.

Omake:

"Final question," Naomasa says, pad and paper in hand. "Who was it that caught you?"

The criminal changes from quiet to terrified and he abruptly starts blubbering. "I-I dont know man- it came from the dumpster and it was bright pink, oh God why was it pink and it was screeching and running at us and please please please can you put me in jail I don't ever want to see it again. It was big, why was it so big, I'm never going down an alley ever again just take me away please."

Naomasa writes the words down, then slowly blinks and looks back up. "What?"

The criminal leans forward, eyes flicking about nervously "Please get me out of here, I don't want it to come back, last month my brother lost his eye to a territorial raccoon over a piece of chicken and that one was normal sized. You gotta get me out of here before it comes back. I don't wanna be raccoon food man. Please."

Naomasa gestures for the policemen to take him away, bewildered because his quirk listed all of that as true. None of them had been lying. He had thought it a fluke, but no, even the victim had said something about a "deranged pink raccoon that stared into the soul and then started chittering/laughing." How is he going to explain any of this to the police chief? Or file paperwork? Does this count as an animal attack? He genuinely doesn't want to know.

Notes: In this story his laughter is now high pitched and quick, so yes, he did sound similar to a chittering raccoon. And yes, I can't spell Naomasa's last name for the life of me, so he stays Naomasa.

Random Thoughts: Persephone and Hades Pt 1

The classics portray Persephone as a maiden, pure, who was kidnapped and tricked by Hades and was forced to become The Queen of the Underworld for Sixth Months. But that has a lot of things wrong with it.

So let's turn that in its head. Hades is not one for petty games and crimes and lack of empathy and thought like Zues, nor is he uncontrollable and everchanging and volitile like Posiden. Instead, he is just and he is fair. He has to believe that life is precious in order for the murders and abusers to be sent to the Fields of Punishment. He has to be caring about others to give those that did good things a place in the Islands of Paradise and give them a chance to be reborn when they tire of it. He has to be kind to make the dead forget their life in the Fields of Eislym so that they will not spend their time dead waiting and grieving and hurting.

So when the apathetic (he has to be apathetic or he will fall apart) Thanatos picks you up from whence you were, you will not find a malevolent God of the Dead, you will not find someone who will look down on you from a throne, you will find a man who sits next to you on a soft couch or bed, and he will turn to you and say "Tell me everything" And he will listen, and he will get mad at the injustices and happy for you successes. And when you are done, when you have spilt every second of your life from your lips, he will hug you and give you a choice. To choose to rest, or to wait and try again. And when you step out the door of that safe place with the fireplace and the blankets, he will remember you. And he will not judge.

Hades is not the hand of Death, nor is he the creeping cold. He is not that which burns or that which drowns. He is the soft comfort of silence after a long day. He is the inviting dark and the cover of dark that reveals the stars. He is the quiet of old dusty and forgotten libraries. He is a friend. Thanks

Random Thoughts: Hades and Persephone Pt. 2

Persephone: Also known as Kore/Kora, which I will be using because it is shorter and spelling is dumb. She is not an innocent maiden. She is someone who is unflinching and tenacious, to see winter and the Death it brings and choose to start again, even though she knows it won't change. She is someone who isn't squeamish, to see corpses staining the ground and use it as fertilizer. She is someone who looks at dead things and grows over them, someone who creeps moss over building to allow for things to grow. She is someone who ate a fruit that looked of blood and loves a man whom most fear. She is someone who was not afraid to walk into that abyss at the edge of the field, who was not afraid to follow the voice and her curiosity. She is someone who looked at her life, found it wanting, and was not afraid to change it.

So while Hades deals with the others, she deals with the bad. She listens to each boast about every bad deed, each hit they throw or take and she decides whether to give them another chance after some punishment, or to chop their soul into bits to feed to Ceberus. And she is not scared.

Persephone is not a tainted lily, nor is she a caged bird. She is not that which is soft against the skin nor that which can be stolen and kept. She is the wind whistling through the cave. She is the flower blooming in a skull and the rot that covers a corpse. She is a garden full of posion all the more beautiful for being untamed. She is a hunter and she is a shield.

You know, you're scrolling your tag and you see like two ideas and you just want to smash them together? No? Well I do sometimes. So here:

Consider Izuku as a vigilante for longer than the police realize. They only have figured out in the past week or so (not the current year or two ) because Izuku basically cosplays as different underground heroes. And I'm not talking put a wig and outfit on and call it good, I'm talking wearing makeup, and indiscreet voice changer (or quirk at bottom), outfit as close as possible, with stilts or pumps heels even and contacts and wigs and mannerisms. He planned this out for months, spent hours researching different underground heroes just to get their mannerisms, fight styles, patrols and hobbies. He got so good he's fooling not only the civilians, but other pros at a distance. The only reason there was a report a new vigilante was out and about was because he literally ran into Eraserhead while cosplaying as him. So now Eraserhead is trying to find his double and Izuku is committed now to staying as Eraserhead.(He doesn't want to be caught in a different cosplay and cause more suspicion or paranoia). (Alternatively, he just focused on Eraserhead because he was the easiest to copy)

Notes on Izuku profile: Notably, there would be some changes. Considering Aizawa is 6ft ish/ 183 cm, Izuku would have to be decently tall to be close. Let's say between Shinsou's height of 177 (5'9) and Kirishima's 170 (5'6) so about 5'8-5'7 (Add 1in pumps) It's still a solid four inches, but if Izuku doesn't actually slouch as much, just gives off the appearance, or doesn't stand close to Aizawa, no one can tell. Also consider that his hair would be shaved shorter so that wigs would stay on easier. (More crew cut like, at least on the sides (think undercut?)) If you really wanted to, 3-4in pumps (but that seems clunky) Listen Izuku got really into his cosplay, of course he shaved his sides.

Effects of world around him? One, people are more confused about what Eraserhead's quirk is, because sometimes he erases quirks and sometimes he can...taze people? Move really fast? Heal overnight/in hours? (Because they switch) If USJ, Shigaraki takes longer because the underground has no clue what the cues are either

Two: UA could probably be for sixteen (not fifteen) years olds, just to make the height difference easier.

Three: On April 1st, Aizawa creates a truce and he makes the vigilante (Eraser Head or EH/Eh Rubberskull? Rubbernoggin? Pencillead? Leadtail? for short) be him instead. His friends only catch when Izuku starts skipping away. They have several seconds of bluescreening before that though.

Midoriya's possible quirk? Mimic: Whether it be just a voice thing, or expands to mannerisms and or quirk (very slightly/asthetics) (Shinso bonding or Monoma bonding?)

Or, alternatively, a minor shape-shifting quirk, not enough for permenance (does it once and it lasts for like 4hrs) and has to perfect by himself. (Or a friend who could do that to other people)

Finally, Echo: has a set of three quirks that he can echo- can activate for 3-5 seconds. Easier and longer the more time he spends in their presence, and are consciously chosen. (He can use his mom's for 20 minutes, but only because he grew up with her). (Monoma bonding?)

Other Random sidenotes:

Izuku bringing Shinsou in on it (maybe once on the day before the next April fool's, after he was caught)

"Are you sure it isn't mitosis? Because I'm staring at three Aizawas and I'm pretty sure I'm not seeing things "

If the whole class is involved:

"Guys, Aizawa multiplied. There is no class, and mini-hims are all sleeping around campus. I almost tripped over one of them on five separate occasions."

"You think that's bad? We ran out of coffee again. We bought coffee beans last week! One of them even hissed at me like Aizawa does when I tried to get my own!"

Meanwhile Aizawa: no schoolwork :)))

Random student: *traumatized* there are neon yellow catapillars everyone and Everytime I look back they've gotten closer

Other random: At least you know where they are. When I look back, they Vanish

Izuku standing next to Aizawa, both dressed as Eraserhead.

"Are you sure it isn't the shorter one?"-Mic

*Both give Mic a disappointed look*

Mimic!Izuku in 1A:

"Guys guys watch this- *changes to Aizawa voice* -Hi I'm Aizawa, I'm 30, going through my midlife crisis, sleepless and part cat and catapillar. Also I despise everything-"

Or *in Aizawa voice "*cackles* Logical Ruse!"