#athenoot is the best

[thelazyhermits]

*drops this in ur dash n vanishes into the night*

I AM HEREEE to deliver the TABF heroes rising ch. 31 bakugou-fortune scene in COMIC FORM BC PAIN IS ART OR WHATEVER THE SAYING WAS >:D i cut off some of the dialogue to save a bit of time, i hope thats ok!! ^^' (this is a part 1 n i'm hoping to finish the rest of the scene soon bC I LOVE BAKUGO SO MUCH IN IT but yeah hehe i hope you like it haze! 💖)

Submitted by @athenoot

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS SO FREAKIN AMAZING!!! I AM PRACTICALLY SPEECHLESS, UNABLE TO DO ANYTHING BUT STARE IN AWE AND INTERNALLY SCREAM. THIS IS A SUCKER PUNCH STRAIGHT TO THE FEELS 😭😭😭😭

Oh man, the way you drew their expressions is absolute perfection. Bakugou is so on point, and the way you can visibly see Fortune getting steadily closer to her impending breakdown is so freakin good, absolutely amazing. And that little picture of Kyuzo with him smiling and covered in blood is just chilling. Totally perfect for that moment.

I seriously love everything about this. I knew I would cause I absolutely adore your art, but you met my expectations and zoomed straight past them into the freakin stratosphere. I love this so freakin much 😭💕😭💕

Thank you so much for drawing this!! I can’t wait to see part 2! I know it’s gonna be nothing short of spectacular!!! 💕💕💕💕

#submission #TABF fanart #bakugou katsuki #I am just in awe #this is so freakin good #look how amazing this art is y'all #athenoot is the best #I was not expecting an actual comic but I am not complaining lol #it captures the scene so perfectly #catch me crying in the club #over all these feels 😭 #thank you so much!! #also don't worry about the missing dialogue #I totally understand #and I think this looks perfect just as it is 👍

[thelazyhermits]

Submitted by @athenoot

hehe bet you weren't expecting a FICLET of this darn encanto au from me huh? XD

this basically just came to me on the spot and i've never written something so fast in a span of an hour lmao

but i hope you like it! (it's different from the fics i usually write so hopefully i did ok???)

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The night Izuku doesn't get a gift, you are asked by your Obaa-san to have a vision.

She is desperate, you knew, for answers that you alone can find through sand and emerald glass. As much as you harbor some resentment for the power that made you be perceived as a bad omen, you love your family too much to deny her request.

You see the magic in danger, the house breaking, and Izuku right in the center of it.

The vision, you later realize, is different. It can change. As if there's no one answer, no clear fate; like the future is undecided. (izuku can change the future, you want to believe. he can do it. he can.)

But you knew how it was gonna look, you knew what everyone would think because it's you and everyone always assumes the worst.

So you leave, the glow of your door fading into nothing as you think to yourself that you're doing the right thing. Izuku will be safer this way. The family will be safer this way. It's for the best, it is,

(you cry silently, alone, and guilty for the storm that hitoshi is raging, the cries that shouta is echoing, the confusion everyone must be in. it's for the best. it's for the best. it's for the best.)

-

You watch their lives pass by without you behind the walls.

You watch Izuku grow up a black sheep among the herd of special people, desperate to prove himself. (he will later plead to you to come with him, to save the miracle and come home to the family. and you will say yes.)

You watch Shouta and Hitoshi pull themselves away but not so far from reach because you know that, deep down, they love their family. (it's just your fault. they're bitter and distant because of you.)

You watch as Katsuki turns so angry with everything, with his gift, with Izuku, and it hurts you, angers you even, but you know, deep down, that Katsuki is hurting too.

You watch as the new member of the family is celebrated, her gift so innocent and right for her that you're happy you made her that unicorn toy.

Maybe everything will be okay.

-

Izuku finds you after escaping the disastrous dinner, and you try to keep your distance, but he's not one to give up.

He falls but you catch him, and you reveal the sad prophet's tale because once upon a time, you, too, had wanted to make the family proud of you, just once.

But he promises he'll save the miracle. With your help. We'll save the miracle together, he says.

In that moment, your faith in him is stronger than your fear of what's to come. (in that moment, you miss being with your family more than wanting to stay here in a place so lonely.)

You say yes.

-

It's just the same thing—magic in danger, the house dying, Izuku in the center, undecided, no clear fate—you got to stop.

But Izuku needs to know where it goes. There has to be an answer, he says. Something you're not seeing.

And you see it; a butterfly fluttering to an out-of-order sequence that ends with an embrace.

-

Reuniting with your brothers was never in your current plans.

Just your luck, they were looking for Izuku and assumed he'd be in Eri's room. You stand still, but among the three of you, you were always the one who breaks the tension.

You say hello like an old friend.

They pull you in their arms like a missing piece of a puzzle, a puzzle where you all fit, and you've never felt this whole.

(you have so much to say, so many apologies to give, but for now, you bury yourself in the warmth you've missed for ten years.)

-

Katsuki and Izuku, Izuku and Katsuki, Kacchan and Deku.

They made up, it seems, as Katsuki smiles at Izuku for the first time in a long time.

You're a bad influence, Katsuki tells him. They laugh together, weightless and free of expectation. Everything was okay.

Then Obaa-san returns and it all explodes from there.

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You watch from the shadows as everything unravels like a knotted ball of thread, an argument between a grandmother and a grandson, a fissure splitting them apart, your vision coming to fruition.

Izuku doesn't leave the house. Instead, you watch as he goes for the candle. As if a candle is more important than his life.

(you thought that too, once. you thought the future, the consequences of revealing it, and preserving the miracle were more important than you staying with your brothers.)

But you won't watch as the world caves in on your little miracle.

You shield him with your body as your tower falls and—

(and minka helps you. minka saves you, protects you from the worst of it, but you're stuck. you're stuck, and you hear the family—hitoshi, shouta, inko, toshinori, eri, katsuki, mirio—try to get you out, and you use the time to tell Izuku.)

("you are more worth it than any stupid candle in the world.")

And you hope he believes it.

(he does.)

-

Minka, you realize, isn't really gone. It just needs a new foundation.

The townspeople gather to help revive Minka, brick by brick, wood by wood. Some are still wary of you, and some are not, but you don't particularly care.

Because your brothers, your family, are all you truly need.

In the months passing, you reconnect. Reconnecting and reforging bonds that were left rusty with age and misunderstanding.

(your grandmother, with all her traumas and faults, lays her soul bare to you, apologies slipping her lips and all you can do is hug her. it doesn't excuse her, nothing truly will, but you could never really hate her. because you are all a family because of her.)

You, Shouta, and Hitoshi have never been as close as you three are now. (you almost want to cry.)

The house is finished, and you stand with your family to see Izuku have the ceremony he always deserved.

You saw how bright he burned, how brave he'd been. Now it's time for him to see himself the way you did, the way everyone in the family does.

And Minka returns, along with the magic, and it's like a song is echoing in the valley. The family comes together with the help of Minka, with you finally in it.

You smile, your brothers and family surrounding you, and for the first time in a long time since your ceremony, you think this is the beginning of a brighter future.

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! THAT WAS AMAZING!! CATCH ME CRYING AND SCREAMING IN THE CLUB!!!!

I absolutely was not expecting this. Talk about the best surprise ever!! I am seriously just in awe of how freakin good this is. You did an fantastic job! I love your writing so much!!! 😭💕😭💕

You captured everything so perfectly. I just love how you handled this sequence of events and how you portrayed everyone. I am just overflowing with feels right now cause of how amazing this is 😭💕

Thank you so much for writing this!!! I love it so much!!! 💕💕💕💕

#submission #TABF encanto AU #this is so freakin good #your writing is just as awesome as your art #talk about mad skills #reading this makes me so happy #I love everything about it #I thought you did a great job writing from second person POV #thank you so much for this!! #you totally made my day 💕