#shin and mikey had had to be separated by the foster care system. what then.

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

So after establishing Shinichiro's mental health depends on Mikey since he's his last family member he knew of before his life collapsed

He would've become a – the – influential organized crimes member of Japan; stopping only because he had to take care of Mikey. By doing so, canon happens, and Mikey finds himself, in every single future timeline (final timeline aside) as the most influential criminal of Japan. Everyone dies around him or he makes them leave, the same way OG Timeline Shinichiro seems to do (albeit to a lesser extent, but then, OG timeline Shinichiro wasn't the most influential criminal in Japan - he was even arguably a criminal). Shinichiro's last 4 years in the OG timeline were a living hell. Mikey's life is a living hell. Shinichiro saving Mikey's life was a selfish decision; a world where Mikey's alive is paradise, no matter what may happen. Except the hands of time and Karma don't work that way – and a world where everybody dies but Mikey isn't a paradise world for Mikey. He has to lose everyone so as to stay alive; and he isn't even the one who made the decision. Yet, he's the one paying the price

Shinichiro and Mikey's arc are very similar. And I wonder if the curse isn't Shinichiro's grief or something else. One thing is sure though, and that is that it's Shinichiro's. Whatever that thing might be (aside a metaphorical depiction of Mikey's mental health but ehhhhhh) it's Shinichiro's. It's his curse, and it's his love, and it's his choices, and it's his selfishness, and it's his grief and it's his pain and—

And everyone, mostly Mikey, have to suffer the consequences that should've fell on him.

#mindless rambling #mikey is the reason why BD1st gen stopped. which meant if shin had lived in og timeline BD would have started again as if those past 4 years #were a 'break' - and there werent really since they were in shady business still for mikey #but like. if mikey had died as a child. a really young child. if he had died with his father. or if their grandfather wasnt alive and #shin and mikey had had to be separated by the foster care system. what then. #mikey was doomed by Shinichiro. Shinichiro was doomed from the start. and he is the one who doomed everyone else (almost) #tokyo revengers #tok rev #tr #tokrev #sano shinichiro #tr shinichiro #tokrev shinichiro #tr mikey #tr manjiro #tokrev mikey #tokrev manjiro #sano siblings #sano family #sano mikey #manjiro sano #tr spoilers #tokrev spoilers #tokyo revengers spoilers

[soldrawss]

Hi so I have a question about the big brother mikey au. Does Mikey ever worry that he will have his brothers taken away from him by foster care? I don’t really know how the foster system works but if I had to take care of my siblings than I would be paranoid all the time about that,, does a social worker monitor them? Like one that comes over regularly to check if everything is going alright? I honestly don’t even know what I’m talking about I’ll stop bothering you now bye

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned it a few times in past anons but yes! This is a BIG worry of Mikey’s, because Raph was 4 and the twins were 9 when their dad passed away, and Mikey had to do everything in his power and then some at the young age of barely 16 in order to keep custody of his brothers so that they wouldn’t be separated. (Which IRL is super hard, but not impossible if you take the right parameters for proving that you’re able to provide and home children that young) Mikey took parenting classes and got his GED that summer and did backflips in order to prove himself to the courts that he could be a capable caretaker. And even though the court and judge took pity on Mikey, he was still 16, and thus had to agree to meet up with a child service agent every couple of months and check-in with how things were going, and if Mikey could really keep up with all the responsibilities of taking care of and raising 3 children under the age of 10, when he was practically a child himself. But Mikey did it proudly and with his head held high, and never considered the responsibility of taking care of his only family as a burden, even when it seemed impossibly hard sometimes. And it was hard. There were times when the child service agent they sent had it out for Mikey and would try to use everything they could to fail Mikey’s evaluation, or send an agent at the worst possible time, sometimes without advance warning. There was the time that Leo got a black eye from a fight he got into at school and was suspended for a week, and April had to take the boys out that day so the agent wouldn’t view and write it off as negligence on Mikey’s part. There were times when the heater in their stupid old apartment would break or they had to get all of their supplies from dollar stores or goodwills and Mikey constantly had to laugh it off and use some excuse to divert the attention.  But Mikey did it, and 3 years after his dads death, he’s still doing it. And it’s still hard, but he’s managing it better than how he was those first couple of awkward months, when he was ignoring the grief of losing his father in exchange for focusing all his attention on the wellbeing and happiness of his baby brothers. He still has nightmares about his brothers being taken from him in the dead of night. And he still worries about whether he’s doing the right thing, and maybe it was a mistake to be as selfish as he was and keep his brothers, as opposed to letting them go and live with people that could probably provide bigger and better lives than stupid useless big brother Mikey ever could. But Donnie is coming home with A+ science projects, and Leo’s absolutely shinning on the baseball team, and Raph’s smile is like the sun on the surface of water, bright and brilliant and blinding, and Mikey definitely thinks he’s being selfish by keeping these boys all to himself. 

And he thinks that he wouldn’t have it any other way.

#bbm au #big brother mikey au #rottmnt #rottmnt human #their social service agent is Bishop and he's an asshole that likes to makes mikey's life misserable #and draxum as their power of attorney drops in every now and again unannounced to see how things are and determine Mikey's worth #but mikey does his best to power through all the difficulties and smile like he's the richest man in the world #and with brothers like his #he thinks he kinda IS #just not rich in the monetary way