Line #26 Fanfic/OyasumiMidoriya


1	!It is ''highly'' recommended that you read the fic before reading this, as [[SpoilAtYourOwnRisk much of the story's enjoyment comes from not knowing.]] Major spoilers are ahead.
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4	[[caption-width-right:350:[[BlatantLies The one and only.]] ([[https://squipedmew.tumblr.com/post/183382045637/two-dekus-a-drew-for-my-fic-oyasumi-midoriya Art by Squiped_Mew.]])]]
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6	--> Midoriya: ''"Do you trust me?"''
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8	--> Bakugou: ''"...No."''
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10	Midoriya Izuku has a quirk. And yet, he doesn't know what it does.
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12	All he knows is it's something bad.
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14	[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm Really bad.]]
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16	''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16237514/chapters/37958840 Oyasumi Midoriya]]'' was a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfiction that ran from October 18th, 2018, to June 4th, 2020, written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Squiped_Mew Squiped_Mew.]] The story loosely follows the manga's plot,[[spoiler: at least at first]], with most of the changes in the story stemming from Midoriya's quirk, which he isn't quite sure of what it does. What follows is his quest to find out what exactly the true depths of his power are, and finding out some sinister secrets about his classmates along the way.
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18	Sound straightforward enough? [[ShmuckBait Yeah, right.]]
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20	''Oyasumi Midoriya'' is somewhat known for being both an incredibly confusing work, as well as a frightening one. Much of its horror comes from how much of [[MindScrew what exactly is going on is unknown.]] The other half of the horror comes from the fact that in this fic there is NoFourthWall, and it is most certainly [[PlayedForHorror Played For Horror.]] Tread lightly, as it does contain quite a bit of disturbing content.
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22	For another work by the same author, see the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheTalesOfTeamOMEN''.
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24	!!Due to the nature of the work, all spoilers are unmarked. Be warned!
25	* AbusiveParents:
26	** [[InSpiteOfANail Just like in canon]], Endeavor is still horrible to his son. [[LaserGuidedKarma He ends up getting what's coming to him.]]
27	** Momo's parents are also awful, being emotionally abusive, hitting her, and locking her in a cellar that, unbeknownst to them, is filled with dragonflies (although it is implied that they might know, and simply don't care enough.)
28	** Special shoutout to ''Inko,'' of all people, being dismissive of her son at best, and outright ''abandoning'' him when he gets in legal trouble. It's later shown that Momo's parents hired her to oversee him.
29	* AcidTripDimension: The lower layers that Three takes Bakugou into. They're implied to be SO strange that Bakugou can't even look at them, and has to wear a blindfold.
30	* AdaptationalAbomination: As has become a bit common with some Hero Academia fics, Midoriya's quirk is shown to possess monstrous abilities. Taken one step further, when it's revealed that he actually is [[HumanoidAbomination something other than human.]]
31	* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Bakugou, Momo, and Todoroki, the other three main characters, are all hit with this.
32	** Bakugou: While he starts out the same pompous jerk that he was in the show, over time he becomes a bit kinder to those around him, probably in no small part to the sobering trip that was the [[WhamEpisode USJ exercise.]]
33	** Momo: She's still a kind honors student, but is given a [[AscendedExtra much bigger role.]] She's later fleshed out as having known all along about Midoriya's true nature, as her parents sent her to UA to spy on him.
34	** Todoroki: While he arguably changes the least out of the three, he still has some development. He goes from the stoic and aloof prodigy that is dead-set on beating Midoriya, to arguably the most emotionally stable of the three, as well as lightening up a significant amount.
35	* AdaptationNameChange: Izuku and Bakugou use different Hero names than in canon: Izuku uses Morning Cloak, whilst Bakugou uses Minefield.
36	* AlternateRealityGame: Downplayed. While it has shades of this, with both the links and the fact that the commenters have a direct effect on the events of the story, it never strays too far into our reality.
37	* AmbiguousEnding: Where exactly did Midoriya go in the end? Why are so many things different? Who ''is'' Mikumo? Was any of this even real? It's never explained.
38	* AndIMustScream: Six, being only a fragment of Midoriya, isn't technically corporeal, and therefore cannot die. Because of this, when All Might [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone attempts to kill him and bury the evidence,]] Six is stuck buried [[IncrediblyLamePun six feet underground]] in a junkyard, for presumably ''months.'' By the time Six crawls out, he's decayed beyond recognition, being described as almost zombie-like.
39	-->''All heads turned to a rotted, blistered claw, grasping onto a rock, pulling itself up, followed by a rotting torso, sand embedded into its skin, skeletal legs, and slimy, disgusting, poisoned blood dripping onto the ground, months of rotting in hot sand apparent. The face of the thing wearing Midoriya's rotted skull smiled, eyes falling out of its skull.''
40	** [[https://squipedmew.tumblr.com/post/187904983162/a-ref-for-all-of-the-midoriyas-from-my-fic-for The official pictures of him aren't any more pleasant.]]
41	* AntiAntiChrist: Despite Midoriya's status as a god/eldritch abomination, with the capability to easily shatter reality if he wanted to, he's genuinely affable and enjoys humans, so much so that he tried to become one.
42	* AnyoneCanDie: Shigaraki, the main villain of the manga, is killed off 19 chapters in.
43	** Later on, Aizawa, a prominent character in this story, is shot by accident by the police who were trying to catch Midoriya.
44	* ArcSymbol: Each for the four main characters. Midoriya is butterflies, Bakugou is wasps, Momo is dragonflies, and Todoroki is crickets.
45	* ArcWords:
46	** "Are you scared of me?"
47	** "I wish for..." [[note]]A variation of this is shown at the end of every animatic.[[/note]]
48	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: What happens to Midoriya at the end.
49	* BittersweetEnding: Midoriya goes back to wherever he's from, taking everyone's memories of him with him, save for Bakugou. However, it's shown that because of his non-presence, Todoroki has gotten away from his abusive father, and Momo's parents got a divorce, saving her from having to live with them and deal with their dysfunction. It's also implied that [[BackFromTheDead Aizawa is back as well.]]
50	* BlindedByTheLight:Midoriya's eyes start spewing light during layer 57, blinding everyone around him. In response to this, he [[EyeScream nails a sheet of iron over his eyes.]]
51	* BodyHorror: All over the place.
52	** To start, it's shown that at various intervals, Midoriya/One's fingers split open and start spewing some kind of gas. [[NothingIsScarier It's never explained.]]
53	** How Shigaraki is killed - his head is ''[[YourHeadASplode literally blown open.]]''
54	** When Midoriya's [[EyeScream eyes start leaking light,]] what's the first thing he does? ''Nail a sheet of iron to his face.'' While there is somewhat of a discretion shot, that only makes you think about [[NothingIsScarier what that might have looked like.]]
55	** Muscular is tricked into backing off of a cliff, causing him to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice fall on a burnt tree trunk.]] The way it's described isn't pretty.
56	--->He didn’t even hit the ground, stomach being pierced by the trunk of a half-burnt pine tree, burned branches having sharpened it to a point. Acrid stomach fluid mixed with blood spilled out, painting the tree red and yellow, tubers twisting and punctuating with sickening splats, Muscular crying and screaming all the while.
57	--->After a long time, or no time at all, he stilled, all life bled out of him.
58	** And of course, Six in general. While he looked fairly normal during the first few chapters he appeared after All-Might accidentally blew a hole in his stomach. [[note]] Although it's implied that Six goaded him into it for his [[ItAmusedMe own sick amusement.]][[/note]] He's then stuck buried in a junkyard for what is almost ''six months.'' It's not pretty when [[TheBusCameBack he finally shows up again.]]
59	* BrainComputerInterface: Midoriya/One attempts this, being shown to have holed himself up in his room after Inko abandons him, tangled in wires. He only relents when [[CoolTeacher Aizawa comes to get him.]]
60	* CheshireCatGrin: Six seems to sport this at all times.
61	* ChildishPillowFight: Three and Bakugou get into one during layer 21.
62	* CloneAngst: Midoriya, slowly coming to realize that there are more of them out there, starts to have a decay of his own identity and existence, so much so that he starts going barefoot in order to ground himself in reality. Two doesn't seem too happy about being a clone either.
63	* CooldownHug: Midoriya/One gives one to Bakugou after he finally confronts the former about his plans.
64	* CosmicHorrorStory: Most certainly fits the category, with the mystery surrounding Midoriya, and the sinister things that unfold around him.
65	** Leans into SurrealHorror quite a bit, especially in the animatics.
66	* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Virtually the premise of the entire fic.
67	* EarthyBarefootCharacter: Midoriya/One prefers going barefoot whenever possible. It helps keep him grounded.
68	* EvilTwin: More like evil ''septuplets''. Although some are more benevolent than others, such as Four, who is the most helpful out of the seven.
69	* EyeMotifs: Very prevalent in the antimatics, as [[MediumBlending real-life eyes]] show up rather frequently, especially in Six's.
70	* FakeMemories: Midoriya/One of his 'childhood.'
71	* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: It starts with simple encoded links at the end of each chapter, but slowly and surely ''your own presence'' as a reader is taken into account, as the fic starts encoding links directly into the words of the chapter itself, switching to first person to directly address the reader, as well as addressing the fictional reality of it all.
72	* FriendshipDenial: Bakugou, for much of the story, denies that he has any positive feelings towards Midoriya whatsoever, to the point where Momo has to punch him in order to get him to accept it.
73	* GainaxEnding: Midoriya vanishes, after splitting back apart to give one final farewell, and suddenly everything is back to normal, but not quite. It's never explained what exactly even ''happened.'' The author has stated that it's up to the reader to interpret the ending however they want.
74	* HackerCave: After Inko leaves, Midoriya/One's room turns into this.
75	* HateSink: [[ManipulativeBastard Nedzu.]] Subverted when it's shown that he was trying to protect Midoriya from Momo's family.
76	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: As an explicit nod to ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'', most chapters are called layers.
77	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Implied to be the motive behind why Midoriya tried to become human.
78	* InspiredBy: "Inspired By ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain''" is one of the fic's tags.
79	* LiteralSplitPersonality: Big time. One is the cornerstone, Two is emotion (not sympathy, keep that in mind), Three is desire, Four is empathy, Five is intellect, Six is Anger, and Seven is fear.
80	* MadnessMantra:
81	** Layer 8's endnote is an encoded phrase repeated 24 times. Decoded, it reads "brain matter all over the floor", foreshadowing Shigaraki's death at the USJ.
82	** Layer 53's endnote, when decrypted, is the word "why" repeated 520 times, followed by the phrase "i feel bad".
83	* MindScrew: Oh, ''so much.''
84	** Midoriya's very existence is a mind screw in itself. He seems to break every convention of both his world and the world of the fic itself.
85	** The scenes in the fic often change and warp dramatically to a disorienting degree.
86	** At the end of every chapter, there is often an encoded link to something, usually story-related, that comes from all corners of the internet. The interactivity of that in itself can get pretty screwy when ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou there start being links inserted into the text itself.]]'' Spooky stuff.
87	* MirrorScare: Midoriya is startled by another version of himself that he sees in the mirror, so much so that he breaks the mirror.
88	* NothingIsScarier: Despite 80 chapters, we never do find out what exactly Midoriya is.
89	* TheOnlyOneITrust: Three to Bakugou.
90	* RetGone: What happens to Midoriya at the end of the story.
91	* SanitySlippage: One could argue that ''the very fic itself'' is [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou going through this.]] The writing becomes more and more frantic as the story goes on, with some scenes bleeding into each other, chapter titles repeating before glitching out, and the narrator's seeming moments of lucidity.
92	* ShoutOut: Plenty, though there are three main ones:
93	** To start, the whole fanfiction is inspired pretty heavily by ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'', which also deals with themes of identity through the lens of technology and fiction.
94	** ''Anime/AngelsEgg'' is also referenced, having links to it in the notes, and referring to some of the same questions that it asks about God.
95	** Near the end, ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'' is also referenced quite a bit, the fate of Midoriya almost paralleling the ending of the show.
96	* ShutUpHannibal: Bakugou shuts Three down when he tries to convince Bakugou that Midoriya/One is just like him.
97	** The Midoriyas give All for One one of these before they fight.
98	* TheSoulless: Midoriya/One, due to his powers causing his soul to fracture into pieces.
99	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Invoked, subverted, and discussed all at once. It becomes such a blur of those three that sometimes you're not sure which is which.
100	* VitriolicBestBuds: While Bakugou and Momo bicker quite a bit, they are still shown to care a lot about each other.

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