How Yoichi Sees His Brother Vs How AFO Sees Yoichi

"What are you using what you have been given for? Who are you using it for? That strong will is what power lives in. That's why people call them Quirks."

All Tomorrows/Killer Folk AU: Random lore and Ideas I have currently thought of: TW/CW - Mentions of suicide, death, and cannibalism. Read at own discretion

The vast majority of Areian cultures don't have writing systems. Areians are naturally farsighted (difficulty seeing things up close) so written writing systems are only useful at a distance. To combat this, many cultures have developed variations of tactile writing systems. Variants of embroidery journals, quipu knots, and wampum beads are common tactile writing methods. Corvids also act as the memory part of the Areian mind. They have better memory, so story-telling, songs, and corvid memory are other methods of writing and record keeping.

The Accurst are actually a diaspora. While most of their culture and cultural identity has been lost, they have been able to survive by intertwining with other Areian groups and hiding their identities as mush as possible. This had the backlash affect of erasing their cultural identity even more. To the point that only a few cultural marks exist, but very few Accurst know what they mean.

Areians beliefs are a mish-mash of pagan, shinto, animism, and jewish/islamic eating beliefs. Areians don't believe in good and evil, they believe in the concept of Health and Sickness. Health = Good and Sickness = Bad. Health is meant to be both physical and mental health as strength. Being able to die in battle, having given their full strength is considered a glorious death. Death by old age isn't frowned upon, but being old and not being right of mind is. Sickness is weakness and being weak of mind means you are risk. Most homes have either a separate Sick House/Sick Room to hide away those who are Sick. Blood is fine, but pus vomit, and other sickness related symptoms are considered bad.

This is where the Conventry comes into play. One of their advertised roles is that they are willing to interact with and help the sick. While Areians do have methods to deal with sickness (tonic, pills, food, etc...) most will just leave the sick alone. The assumption being that if a person succumbs to sickness, they were weak and a hindrance. The Conventry, with their access to ancient knowledge, is able to help these lepers and offer them the aid they were denied. Many clans find the conventry invaluable as a result. Hence, why they can influence the advancement of Areian societies. The fear of the very world becoming Sick is strong. So Areians work diligently to care for and cultivate the natural world around them. Anything that may help them, but would risk making the world sick is forbidden.

Sickness (physical and mental) varies across cultures. Most physical disabilities are still considered something to overcome and so are considered Sickness adjacent. Because the person is willing to overcome their ailments, they are still considered healthy. The same goes for mental illness.

This actually leads into another unique cultural aspect. Suicide is considered socially acceptable. Suicide is considered when a person starts to experience Sickness and doesn't want to die from it. Instead they will take tonics or pills to quickly end their lives. It is considered the honorable option because they are still of sound mind (health) and are capable of making such decisions.

Accurst are assumed to automatically be Sick because of their physical "deformaties". Which is why they are either hunted or indoctrinated by others in an attempt to cleanse sickness.

Ritual cannibalism is also a common funerary right. Throwing a large feast and eating the recently deceased is commonplace across cultures. The belief is that one can gain the the deceased strengths or skills and that their life wasn't a waste.

RUN!

Mi abuela me regaño por reírme demasiado fuerte y me mandó a dormir, amo Tumblr.

5 headcanons where AFO went into the shadows because excessive exposure to his "lovely" personality was making too many Heroes.

What this isn't canon? Haha. This has been happening over many generations:

All for One stole ice cream from two younger children as a teenager. Those children were Second and Third, and they vowed revenge.

All for One saved Crimson Riot's life as a child because he was trying (and failing) to steal his quirk. This inspired Crimson Riot to become a hero.

Gran Torino was originally an employee of All for One but quit because All for One forgot to pay him.

All for One accidentally inspired the entire underground hero industry with an online rant about how heroes seek glory.

Nezu was going to become a villain because of his tragic past. However he only lasted a day working for All for One before the monologues drove him to quit.

Endeavor and All for One were online buddies. All for One gave him advice on good PR and handling his family. This helped Endeavor rise to the top in his career and totally ruin his family. All for One thought he was mentoring a young villain and was very annoyed when he realized. He later kidnapped Touya for revenge.

Kirishima was inspired by Crimson Riot, creating the second generation of All for One's mistakes.

HAHAHA, ¡¡ESTE ES BUENO!!.

Izuku talking to the Vestiges: so what was your favorite moment before you died? It has to be the closest to when you died though.

Nana: my very last moments when I flipped off All for One and gave a sassy hair flip, just before he crushed me with a giant bolder.

Banjo: That one time when I dropkicked All for one using my blackwhip

2nd, still in the corner: I made All for one cry once

Yoichi: when I escaped the vault and left a recording of my voice that was triggered by the vault door opening that had me cursing him out and telling him that next time he wants to keep someone in a vault to take care of their mental state too, because I'm coming for him.

Everyone: silence

2nd: when did this happen?

Yoichi: I had it recorded for a while, it was supposed to be either for my funeral or for a last message when i got out sort of thing. I set it up while you guys were getting some stuff to take with us back to camp but I had almost nothing to pack so I just did that and then shoved everything I owned into a bag.

Izuku: that sounds fun.

Aizawa, walking in on the conversation: Izuku who are you talking to?

Izuku, looking him dead (haha) in the eyes: dead people. They are talking about the best experiences they had before death.

Aizawa, tired: and why does that sound fun?

Izuku, forgetting to give Aizawa context: well, the one who is all for one's brother left him a voice recording telling him off once he was able to escape the vault he put him in, that's what sounds fun. Not being in the vault, but the voice recording.

(I will let you continue this before I get out of hand and use too much space for the ask space to handle)

(im just laughing my ass off at this it's funny as fuck thank you for the ask!)

aizawa sitting down next to izuku : okay so... what else was the others best moments?

izuku : nana flipped him off and did a sassy hair flip! Banjo drop kicked him with the help of blackwip! second made him cry! ans ofc yoichis! so someone else go!

aizawa pale : how did they die again?

izukj : all for one. they all died to him apart from the 4th!

aizawa : Oh....

en: I mean I told him to go suck a rubber duck before throwing a bunch of them at him..

izuku snorting laughing : YOU DID WHAT?

aizawa : what they do?

izuku : en threw a bunch of rubber ducks at all for one while telling him to go fuck himself with them!

aizawa chucking : okay that's good.

third : I gave him a clone nose and wig and told him to go be with his brethren

izuku : WHAT... HAHAHA FUCK OFF REALLY?

aizawa : care to share?

izuku : pffttt 3rd gave him a clown nose and wig and told him to be with his brethren!

aizawa snorting a little : pfft that's amazing

izuku nodding : well now I feel like I gotta step up when I die.

aizawa : no.

one for all users : absolutely not.

izuku : dahm shut down so fast....

In the club

AU where Shigamom lives and AFO becomes a sex worker like her.

Don’t think that she’d be very happy about it, if she accepted her new responsibilities as a parent then minding her life experience quite possible she would try to do everything to make lives of her children distinct from hers. Probably, given right opportunities, she would insist on them getting normal education and stable legal office jobs - but it’s actually doubtful how well it would work with afo

Pretty sure afo would search for the fast ways to gain money on his own from a very early age, having alive mother as well, that’d be one of his main priorities - so it’s possible that he would skip school for example if he decided that he didn’t need it: doesn’t matter what mom says about education, if his actions bring them food and don’t put their family in danger, it’s okay, and it’s not like she really can argue with it. It would be entirely different situation for Yoichi though - he would be forced by both their mother and afo to finish school and go further, they would give him all the money he needed (the debt he would never be able to pay off, the guilt that would tie him to the family better than any vault)

So if coming out of age afo did realise that people not only found him attractive but were actually willing to pay a lot of money for his service, maybe he would have a phase like that, but I suspect that a gem like him would make his way into the modelling or acting in (adult) films sooner than later

thinking about gohan and vegeta and how their bond is underrated

the difference in their reactions to each other 😭

Gohan being the first one to step between Vegeta and Certain Death, twice, without an ounce of hesitation, and Vegeta saving him back despite his feelings about battle intervention.

Vegeta knowing Gohan's the best of all of them

Vegeta and Gohan both born prodigies assigned an unfair amount of responsibility to be Great and be a Saiyan Messiah(tm) way too young by a stubborn and proud if not (relatively) well-meaning father who didn't see any other option and I just think Gohan doesn't get enough credit as like. The first serious muscle behind Geets' personal growth.

Estoy teniendo una maldita crisis, Yoichi es el amor de mi vida, y está sufriendo, quiero gritar, ya grité, quiero gritar más, Crisis, dolor, pena, miseria, necesito el próximo capítulo, quiero llorar, quiero morir.

Okay. I’ve had time to process the spoilers for chapter 407: Paranormal Orphan.

Here are my thoughts:

-WTF?! They are twins?! What is it with Japanese mangaka and having unhinged twin relationships?! I’m looking at you, Nightow.

-AFO was born with his Quirk activated. Stealing nutrients from his mother then desperately feeding off of her corpse. Stole her Quirk too and seems to have some sentimental value in it as he still uses it often to this day.

-Low-key, I think there’s a hint here that the genetic change in babies and pre-pubescent kids started as some sort of STD that evolved considering their mom was a prostitute and “contracted” an illness. That’s just me, though.

-The first person he ever had was Yoichi and he held his hand right after birth. Also: JFC THAT’S A BIG BOY

-AFO is a victim of his Quirk like the other villains(Toga, Touya, Tenko). He was born wanting to possess things. I don’t like the whole “he was born evil” narrative. Yeah, he looks like a crazy ass Omen baby, but it makes sense he’d think the way he does.

-AFO is also an unreliable narrator here as this is all from his POV

-He says something to the effect of (we’ll know more once we get the scanlations) how, even though Yoichi can’t give him anything like he wants from everyone else, he’s still “his”.

-So, did he just get up and start walking and taking care of his brother out of sheer will when he was still a baby or did someone pick them up and raise them to the point when AFO wanted something from them and killed them when he didn’t get it?

-Yoichi still believes there is some good in his brother because he held his hand as a baby. 😭 Poor kid

-Poor wittle Yoichi getting kicked because he threw something at AFO. For how they’ve had to live, it makes sense AFO would react that way…in a manner of speaking.

-Yoichi learning to read from comics he finds in rubble/a dump. AFO takes notice and sits next to him. He then likes the part where the author says “One for All, All for One.” He should have had a name prior that he must have given himself as Yoichi has one. Though it would make sense that AFO named Yoichi himself as “first gift” since he was the first thing he ever had.

-AFO being jealous of the Glowing Baby is pretty spot on. All of this seems to hint that AFO and Yoichi were the first to have powers considering how AFO talks about the Glowing Baby and the 50 kids born in India.

-The last page is quite a cliffhanger and it sucks we have to wait 2 weeks for the next part(there’s no way this isn’t a two parter).

-How AFO is thinking about Yoichi leaving him is intensely possessive and reminds me of how Vader choked Padme when he thought she was betraying/leaving him. This also ties into how AFO didn’t know he had killed Yoichi.

-My guess is that AFO lashed out and sliced off Yoichi’s hand in a possessive rage. He was so startled by his own action that it gave the 3rd user time to grab Kudo and Yoichi then speed out of there.

-Is it just me or does anyone else hope AFO kept Yoichi’s hand? Parallel to Tomura having all of his family’s hands. I sure hope he did because I need even more twisted twin obsession.

-It’s most likely Yoichi lived long enough after this(and maybe with his blood) transferred OFA to Kudo. He then died from his blood loss and that’s why AFO didn’t know he had killed him.

-AFO crying over Yoichi’s death maybe the first and only time he’s ever cried. Yoichi did mean something to him, maybe even more than a “thing”, but he didn’t realize it until that one moment. He blames Kudo for his death because of the mental gymnastics he has to go through to convince himself that there’s no way he would have hurt the only person he’s ever actually loved—possessive as it may be. If Kudo hadn’t have taken him from the vault, he wouldn’t have reacted and cut off Yoichi’s hand, and therefore, Yoichi would still be alive.

-If he takes OFA with Yoichi’s soul in it, then Yoichi will be his again and “I totally didn’t kill him. See! He’s still alive!”

-The internet’s hot-takes that AFO is homophobic because he went full possessive Vader over Yoichi is weird. I said it.

-A part of me wants there to be a cliffhanger where we think Bakugo may have defeated AFO. We then get the intense fight between Tomura and Deku. Deku is about to win, however that’s going to happen, but then AFO shows up around the age he was when he kicked Yoichi, and he’s holding Bakugo as a threat, demanding Deku give him his brother back. But that’s just me. Again.

Anyway, I can admit when I’m wrong about a villain’s backstory. It wouldn’t be the first time and I honestly should have expected something like this considering Horikoshi going full on horror during this Final War arc. However, I don’t think AFO being born with his Quirk activated and “wanting to take” necessarily makes him “born evil.” The twins still had to survive on the streets as orphans, anti-meta people believing AFO is a diseased heathen and never wanting to help either of them. So, he took on exactly what they thought of him. It’s actually quite sad when you stop to think about it.

I’m going to be frothing at the mouth for the next two weeks to see how this backstory ends. Since it started with AFO going nuts and thinking Bakugo is Kudo, I’m assuming we’ll get further context of AFO’s thoughts when he’s crying.

Goku: We will defeat you with the powers of- Gohan: Friendship. Piccolo: Harmony. Vegeta: Incredible violence. Future Trunks: And love.