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    Twenty years ago, Midoriya Hisashi walked out on his wife and Quirkless child. Three days ago, Midoriya Inko received a phone call informing her of his demise and when his funeral would take place.

    Sometimes you're a 25 year old war veteran, making a difference one day at a time in a post-All For One Japan that's still feeling the repercussions of your high school days. Other times you're simply the forgotten child of a deadbeat, left to clean up your father's messes because he was too much of a coward to take any responsibility.

    And now, you're a full time big brother, because the biggest mess left behind was the child your father replaced you with.

    Now with a TV Tropes page!

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    20 Mar 2026

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    “I’m Midoriya Izuku,” he said, extending his hand. “By the way.”

    The boy didn’t take it right away.
    Instead, his gaze dropped to Izuku’s hand, lingering on the scars that crossed his knuckles and fingers—old fractures, healed wrong. For a moment, his expression flickered with something Izuku couldn’t place. Hesitation. Fear.

    Then, slowly, the boy lifted his own hand.
    He reached out.

    And passed straight through.

    A sharp, electric chill tore up Izuku’s arm, pins and needles erupting where their hands should have met. The sensation was wrong—too cold, too empty—and Izuku gasped, yanking his arm back as if burned.

    “What the f—“
    He looked up, horror flooding his chest, green eyes blown wide.

    The boy only smiled.

    It wasn’t the dazzling grin from before. It was smaller. Sadder. Like he’d known this would happen and had been bracing for it all along.

    The boy laughed softly, as he said, “Name’s Shirakumo Oboro,” he said. “And I’m— well. Not—”

    The word landed fully formed in Izuku’s mind before it was ever spoken.

    Ghost.

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    Izuku gains the ability to see ghosts. So now he has to figure out how to solve the death of a boy who shouldn't exist.

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    14 Mar 2026

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    Izuku Midoriya was a hero—until he wasn't. In the ruins of a world shattered by Shigaraki and All For One, he is given an impossible second chance. A quirk malfunction propels him back in time. With knowledge of the dark future, Izuku works behind the scenes, determined to change fate without revealing himself to his past self, his mentors, classmates… but for how long can he keep up the act before his mask slips?

    Or: Mid-war Izuku gets thrown into the past! Where he attempts to secretly guide his past self, take down villains, and save those who are in danger! All in trying to mask his identity to his former self, classmates and mentors. How will a mentally drained and exhausted Izuku be able to keep up with trying to rewrite the future?

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    03 Mar 2026

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    No matter how hard he tried, Izuku could never make a difference. A late bloomer, too slow to save his mom, and only able to help after someone had died.
    But what else could he do with a Quirk that rewinds time when he dies and lets him see ghosts, when only the dead believed him and he wasn't strong enough to make a difference by himself?
    Still, Izuku was determined to help any way he could.

    When All Might offers him One for All, Izuku thought he could finally have the strength to save others. Even if he had to hide his ghost friends. Even if his old Quirk slowly started to meld with One for All. Even when the past would catch up with him eventually.

    Protecting people with a straightforward strength Quirk that didn't require him to die couldn't be that hard, right?

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    Izuku has a Quirk that rewinds time when he dies and lets him see ghosts. This is his journey of finding a family, overcoming the past, and learning to live with a Quirk that wants him to die.

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    30 Jan 2026

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    “I didn’t mean to do that,” Ochako says. “I swear, oh fuck, fuck, I didn’t mean to do that—I’m sorry, I’m sorry—”
    “Calm down,” Izuku says.

    An unfortunate accident happens in the final weeks before they graduate UA. Fortunately, good friends are not that hard to come by if you are in the notorious class A. And you know what they say about good friends and dead bodies.

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