#shirakumo lives au

Yeah sure there are a lot of takes on the whole Shirakumo Lives/Aizawa Gets Nomu-fied thing but fuck it I’m throwing my hat in that ring now too

Some thoughts:

- Shirakumo still gets hit with debris in the battle with Garvey, but he’s just knocked out (leaving him with a gnarly scar on his forehead). When he comes to, he finds out that Aizawa beat Garvey, but was fatally injured in the process

- Mic and Shirakumo still open an agency after graduation. Things are a little rocky at first since they’re still not very good at the business side of things, but they want to see the plans they made together with Aizawa through to the end

- Their hero costumes will change over the years but the matching goggles/glasses are nonnegotiable

- They definitely still become teachers! Shirakumo is very serious about making sure the kids have a fighting chance in the industry like Aizawa is in-canon, BUT he’s much more upfront about it. Instead of the whole “you have no potential/expel and re-enroll students so they’ll take things seriously” thing Aizawa has, Shirakumo is more like “Look I’m going to do everything I can to help you become the best heroes you can be but there’s a very real chance that you won’t live to adulthood in this industry and I’m not gonna send you out there if I don’t think you can make it”

- Meanwhile, Nomuzawa. Personality and role wise he’s basically the same as Kurogiri, but some bits of Aizawa shine through. More focused on logic/practicality, and he was a bit more strict with Shigaraki while raising him. His tantrums are easier to deal with when you can just cancel out his quirk, after all

- He has a gorgon quirk on top of his own to A. give him more eyes and B. let him paralyze people who aren’t effected by erasure. Should probably give his quirks some weakness/limit though, he’d be kinda op this way

- In place of warp gate he either has Johnny’s quirk, or just keeps a Johnny on hand.

- When Shirakumo and corpseman aizawa meet at the USJ Shirakumo doesn’t recognize him but does see that his quirk functions similarly to erasure and that blocking his vision is the way to stop him. He still gets the shit beat out of him by the other Nomu, though

If anyone else has thots on this whole au I’d love to hear it, this shit is my jam