Divine Wrath

divine wrath

Dadmight Alternate First Meeting AU….

Where Izuku was allowed to take the written portion of the exam but was then stopped by Present Mic before he could board the bus. He was told that, due to being quirkless, there was just too much risk to allow him to take the physical exam.

And Izuku is heartbroken at being denied a shot at his dreams. He got so close, yet still failed.

He still makes it into U.A., but it’s U.A’s Gen Ed course.

And while no one is outwardly mean, Izuku still feels isolated from everyone in his class and at his school. It doesn’t help that whenever he attempts to use U.A.’s public gym, he’s once again denied entry as many of the equipment there are deemed too dangerous for him.

One thing leads to another and somehow, this all cumulates into Izuku taking on his entire class’ cleaning duties. Every day. Why you may ask?

Well… just because he can’t be a hero, that doesn’t mean his classmates can’t.

And Izuku will gladly let everyone have an extra hour to themselves to train while he mops the floor, cleans the windows, and wipes the chalkboard. He’s practically a Cinderella. A Cinder-deku.

And who should one day find this Cinder-deku but a skeleton-looking Fairy Godmother named Yagi Toshinori.

Now Yagi’s been struggling to find a new successor at U.A. Sure, the first years are filled with potential, but when Yagi pictures giving them his quirk, his legacy, it feels… unfair.

Yes, One for All will make its user more powerful but… those in Class 1-A and 1-B (even 3-A) were already born with power. With quirks. Would they truly understand the sacredness of One for All? He’s not saying that he thinks they’ll be ungrateful! It’s just… would they treat his quirk as something special?

Or would they only use it as a means to further themselves?

He looks at Young Bakugo, Young Todoroki, even Young Uraraka and all he can see is… selfishness. Not bad selfishness in Uraraka’s case but still….

There wasn’t that spark of truly wanting to help others.

Then one day, Yagi passes by one of the Gen Ed classes and hears… singing?

More specifically, someone is singing the opening to All Might The Anime: The Silver Wars Saga and is belting out the chorus: “No matter who you are/I’ll leap from afar/There’s nothing to fear/Because I am here!”

And when Yagi pokes his head into the classroom, he meets the eyes of the green haired quirkless student that Mic had spoken about and pitied. He meets Midoriya Izuku, cleaning the classroom by himself.

Of course Izuku screams, half from shock and half from embarrassment, when he catches the tall, yellow-haired, scarecrow/skeleton man looking at him.

But after calming down, and giving Yagi a tissue to clean up the blood from his cough, the two begin talking.

And it’s during that conversation that Yagi realizes who he wants his successor to be.

(What follows then is Yagi getting second-hand embarrassment at Izuku’s All Might fanboying, Izuku constantly worrying about Yagi’s health, and the two of them becoming friends. Also, cue training montage at Dagobah beach.)

We know that canonically, by the Third Age, there mortal stories about Galadriel, telling of the creepy elf-sorceress whose powers are unknown and undefined. That those who enter her woods do not leave again the same.

Personally, I suspect elves have the same ideas, they're just not stupid enough to say them out loud because she might hear. Yes they're currently in Imladris and she's in Lothlorien, what's your point?

Like, I really feel like it's important to note how utterly alien Galadriel would be and feel to pretty much everyone else by the Third Age. Even other elves.

The most obvious difference would be that she's looked upon the trees, but I also think the fact that she was born and raised in Aman is... actually probably a big deal?

Like: she grew up near the only direct source of light in her time, and much of the food she was eating was probably blessed by Yavanna, Vanna, or one of their Maia. The men in her family, Turgon and Maedhros most famously, are notably tall. Galadriel herself is described as 'no less tall than' her husband Celeborn in lord of the rings. I take this to mean they're the same height but... the wording doesn't technically rule out her being taller? She could be a damn giant.

And she's the only elf who we know looks visibly Vanya. Elrond, the only other named elf who we know had Vanya heritage seems to take after his mother (probably, at least in coloring). Even if there are other elves with some Vanya looks kicking around by the time the fellowship roles up pretty much all of the elves any of them would have seen would be some combination of Sinda, Silvan, and Noldor. We know that canonically her coloring is quite different from these, with her hair being closer to Vanya gold than Teleri or Noldor colorings. It's not clear exactly how different these groups are in appearence, but it could be dramatic. Certainly, her hair is... ya know... kinda a big deal. In the books. Just a bit.

Basically, she is tall, stunningly gorgeous in a deeply unfamiliar way, powerfully magical in a way no one else in middle earth is and her eyes are fucking glowing because of the treelight. She learned magic from the Middle Earth equivalent of a minor god and she's at least somewhat telepathic.

Everyone with any sense is afraid of this woman.

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