Some fanart of the Lost and Found AU by @beachbeibi, I hope you like it. I had lots of fun drawing this. I am such a sucker for them having an actually good brotherly relationship.
Takes place during Hawks' infiltration a bit before the League attack the CRC.
Garaki begins melding people's DNA together to purposefully create more intricate and powerful quirks to help study his doomsday theory. His plan after his research was to transfer the successful experiment's quirks to AFO and turn those he didn't want into Nomu.
Dabi finds out about his and Hawks' 'son' and is completely thrown for a loop. He is not interested in being a parent but seeing someone mess with eugenics regarding him once more pisses him off and he demands to be given the kid. Garaki refuses but Shigaraki convinces the doctor to let them take the boy on the condition that he can still study him to see his work's progress in the real world. Hawks finds out soon after and is horrified. He also has no desire to be a parent but he can't leave the kid with the League so he turns to the HPSC who tell him to focus on the mission. One test tube baby's life isn't worth the millions at risk right now. They will rescue him when the job is over and forge him into a hero like they did Hawks.
Without meaning to, they both continue the cycle of abuse they both faced as children- making their son feel unwanted and unloved. As if he is a faulty product or a burden that shouldn't have ever been born. Both Dabi and Hawks see what they've done and have to come to their own decisions about whether they step up and try to do what they wished their parents had been for them or continue to back away and focus on themselves.
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Basically, this AU is a shit excuse to draw what I think their kid would look like and use him as a mirror for Hawks and Dabi so they're forced to look at themselves instead of wallowing or deflecting the issues to chase after grand goals.
Not necessarily a ship AU but it's open enough to be that way if you like.
Also, I'm not sure of how old I want him to be so the drawings above kinda jump ages a bit. Blame it on rapid development serum or something idk
Ichika being Basil is a little too perfect. Polite? Gardener? Insecure? Yikes.
This AU is ROUGHH because I think Saki's dreamscape would manifest the people closest to Tsukasa instead of her friends due to pure guilt and wanting to see him hang out happy around the people he loved most.
Though Ichika is there purely due to the underlying truth of what happened. Saki wouldn't realize it until way later.
Ruikasa as Hero and Mari real btw
Nene in place of Aubrey makes the most sense to be in terms of how brash she is.
Obviously, it's not going to play out like the games. But a lot of aspects are still there.
Nene getting more aggressive, Rui shutting into himself and blaming everyone (and even so himself), Toya being the one who never stop to give Saki space because damn it, he's not about to lose another sibling.
Honami and Shiho being terrified because for once, Ichika and Saki are the ones pushing them away.
This AU is a horrible one and I will cry myself to sleep bc of it.
Wanted to put Emu in but drawing more people in that small space would've killed me.
Read an Omori AU fic where Saki cut her hair mid hysterics and now she looked like Tsukasa. I'm taking that into my canon. Thank you, author, for that horrible horrible angst.
HEAVILY inspired by that fic but also not really?? I got the idea from the fic but I changed so much that it's my own Omori AU at this point