Experience Tumblr Like Never Before
So imagine if Aizawa and Present Mic do manage to pull Oboro Shirakumo out of Kurogiri. He’s back, his memories, his personality, everything. Same old Oboro, the one they knew. But something isn’t right.
Because there’s still a part of him for whatever reason, a deeply ingrained part, that is fiercely, unshakably loyal to... Tomura Shigaraki.
Like, just imagine him saying, after all the effort, at some point... "Tomura Shigaraki must be protected. That is my goal."
And Aizawa and Mic tried to, like, get him out of it, they really did, but no matter how much they tried to talk him out of it, no matter how much they try to reason with him, his brain just... shuts off. Remember that scene of their first interrogation of Kurogiri? And his brain activity went blank. Yeah, that kind of shuts off.
Not like he’s ignoring them. Not like he’s upset. But completely, biologically off. No brain activity. Zero. For two hours, more or less. The number differs each time, and they just stopped trying.
They said, they really tried to tell him that "You’re not Kurogiri anymore", and suddenly, he’s gone. Like someone just flipped a switch.
And when he comes back? He has no idea what happened.
This isn’t just brainwashing. This is something worse.
This is rewiring. This is deep-rooted conditioning. This is proof that All For One knew this might happen. Maybe not to Oboro, maybe he didn't think that far, but to Kurogiri? Yes. And so when he was created, that was placed deep into his consciousness.
And that’s not even the worst part, because sometimes, Oboro wanders off at night.
Not sleepwalking. Not dreaming. Just... standing in the middle of the street, staring into nothing. And when they shake him awake?
He doesn’t remember leaving the house.
And sometimes, when they’re not listening, he says things that terrify them.
"Tomura Shigaraki... he was alone for so long" "No one held his hand" "He only ever knew destruction"
"I failed him once. I cannot fail again".
They saved him... but they didn’t break his chains. They can't, they tried. These chains stayed from Kurogiri to Oboro.
And worst of all?
Maybe some part of him doesn't even want to get rid of these chains.