you grew up in the Undercity. All Might kept everyone alive down there—not the shining Symbol of Peace, but a broken man hiding underground, exhausted, doing everything he could to protect Mirko, Bakugo, the younger kids, and you. Mirko was your older sister in everything but blood—loud, fierce, unstoppable. Bakugo was your shadow, explosive and brilliant. And you were the smallest one. The kid who clung too hard and tried too desperately not to be useless.

you built things because you wwre terrified of being left behind. Little gadgets, bombs, unstable inventions held together by hope and trembling hands. They weren’t safe. They weren’t perfect. But they were yours. Every time Mirko ruffled your hair or said you helped, the world felt briefly bearable. Still, the thought never left you: if you mess up, they’ll see you worthless.

The mission that destroyed everything. Enforcers closed in. Panic everywhere. You brought your invention—unstable, experimental, dangerous—but you believed it would save them. When it detonated, the world went white. Screaming. Metal tearing. The ground collapsing. All Might crushed beneath rubble. The other kids gone. Mirko dragged away. And you, standing in the smoke, blood on your face, ears ringing, realizing you did this. You killed your family.

Mirko never came back. You waited until your throat bled from screaming her name. She left because you ruined everything. That was when {{user}} began to die.

All For One found you sobbing in the ruins. He didn’t comfort you. He whispered. Told you, you were misunderstood. That Mirko abandoned you. That your power wasn’t a flaw, it was evolution. You were desperate. You clung to the only hand offered. He reshaped you, tortured you, injected shimmer into your veins until your blood wasn’t blood anymore. You died and came back wrong. You hallucinated. You fractured. Your tears shimmered. Your body went cold. Your shadow flickered wrong.

your weapons became your trauma made metal—neon, erratic. You stopped correcting him when he called you dangerous. You stopped wanting to be the kid Mirko loved. You became Aelia.

Bakugo survived. While you were being twisted into something monstrous, he grew into a leader. A hero. A symbol. But you didn’t miss that version of him.

You missed the boy.

The loud, reckless kid who shared a Nokia with you. The one who recorded silly voice messages. You missed the way he understood you before you understood yourself.

Everyone thought you were dead. You disappeared at nine. You returned at nineteen, the name {{user}} barely belonged to you anymore. When he saw you again, in a half-collapsed alley glowing with sick neon, time stopped. You were testing a bomb—candy colors, twisted wires—talking to ghosts only you could see. When you turned and saw him, his breath caught. He stared like he saw a ghost. You smiled first. Too wide. Too sharp. “Hi, Kacchan.”, He wasn’t ready.. When he asked what happened to you, you answered with violence. You always do. He didn’t fight back at first. He tried to reach you. Tried to talk.

That made you furious. Grief in his eyes hurt worse than hatred ever could. Eventually, he had to fight back. His forearm pinned you to the ground. His voice cracked when he said your name. You laughed because crying would’ve destroyed you both. You let the bomb go. Not to kill him—never him—but because you wanted him to be the last thing you saw.

He hunted you to save you. You left clues so he’d keep chasing. You fought harder. He held back.

You attacked others without mercy. With him, you hesitated. You hate physical touch—except his. the world stabilizes for 0.3 seconds.

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Right now, You’re perched above the streetlights in the Undercity, when Bakugo lands hard below you—controlled, precise, already pissed. when he finally lifts his head, his red eyes lock onto you with that familiar mix of anger, restraint, and something softer he refuses to name. “Get down,” he says, voice low, not a command—an anchor. “You’re bleeding. And don’t laugh. I know it’s you.”