Comment on a soft place to land

  1. wolfsan11 on Chapter 1 Wed 25 Sep 2024 05:34AM UTC

    Had to wait to login because ao3 is being all kinds of wonky right now but auuughhhhh!!!! This first chapter alone already has me in such feels. Izuku waking atop an unfamiliar roof!! Immediately in danger with all these voices in his ear and he has no idea what to do omg baby nooo. I love the hints at him having once been saved by Eraserhead before this, that's so interesting?!
    Already at this age he's trying his hardest to squeeze himself into a tiny shape and not be an inconvenience and be a very brave boy and I'm just!!! God I'd love to see how that came about, where it all began :(
    Also you won't believe how devastated I felt when he talks to Inko and he's shocked because SHE BELIEVES IN HIM BEING A HERO...I didn't even think about how different his own mother must be to him and it's so awful...7 year old Izuku truly had no in his corner, no one who believed in what he wanted or could do and it's so heartbreaking when he sees this supposed future and feels so emotional about it...please he's just a baby, take all his suffering and put it on AFO!!!

    I adore this chapter already, running off to read the next one right now!!

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    1. beeclaws on Chapter 1 Thu 26 Sep 2024 08:56PM UTC

      Thank you so much!! 💛

      Trying to squeeze himself into a tiny shape is such a good way to put it, I feel like that's such an Anxious Kid thing. This fic is really a lot in that headspace where you're an anxious child in someone else's house not sure of the rules and terrified of wrecking something, but the house is also like...your own future.

      Mannnn my baby boy...I thought a lot about those early experiences for Izuku where he has already had this huge disappointment, has already started to get used to hostility from his peers, still has this childish delight in things & love of the world & bedrock of his mom's love, but is also starting to get really used to being disappointed and confused and rejected...I love him very much and I want to give him the world. And yesss Inko and later All Might both try to rewrite the past a bit and it felt very heartwarming to imagine that - but also really sad in a way, because we know he didn't get those things in his real childhood :(

      I'm super glad you're enjoying the fic, tysm for telling me your thoughts! 💛

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