text; un: midoriya

[procedere]

tell me.

what do you do when the one thing you've always wanted, the one thing you've dreamed of, isn't possible anymore?

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text; un: Levi

[wingbound]

See what still is possible.

Choose what you can most bear to live with.

Then move on.

- Levi


[ He's not even going to offer any optimistic "Well how do you know it's not possible anymore?" because his first thought is someone dying, and, well. You can't undo that. Not back in his world at least. ]

[procedere]

what's still possible, what i can most bear to live with. i guess. i'll think about it. thank you.

[It isn't anything as final as that. Though he's come close to dying or seriously permanently injuring himself multiple times over the past year especially. But there has never been a hero without a Quirk.]

un: abnormalitylover, text

[abnormalizes]

What I do is tell myself I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up in the first place, but I don't really recommend that.

[procedere]

but i did. i had a taste of it. wanted it more than anything. i really thought i could do it. but i ended up losing my quirk, so now i have to figure something else.

[abnormalizes]

But you were a hero. You saved people's lives. Not being able to do it forever doesn't make that worth nothing.

un:happyaround

[roundandaround]

Who's to say it's not?

[procedere]

nobody has made it as a hero without a quirk.

text; un: fruitpunchsamurai

[bombdemon]

[ Hopefully this isn't still about the tattoo... ]

If it is something that important, then I will continue fighting for it. There would be no great inventions, works of art or revolutions in the history of mankind if everybody limited themselves only to things considered possible.

[procedere]

what if i can't keep fighting for it? without my quirk, i can't be a pro hero. i wouldn't stand a chance against the villains.

[The only reason things had worked out when he had run to help Bakugo back then was because others had been there to also step in. It wasn't like Izuku had really been able to take on that villain on his own without a Quirk.]

[shamtagonist]

That depends on what's making it no longer possible.
In most cases only the inability to move or function would stop me.
ヽ(`⌒´メ)ノ

[procedere]

if i don't have my quirk back home, i can't stand a chance against the villains to be a pro hero anymore.

text; UN: Vaggi

[notamusical]

Sometimes your dreams don't come true. But you just have to find a way to keep going, to find another dream or something to keep you going.

[procedere]

another dream? i've been so focused on becoming a pro hero, i've never thought of any other options.

Text; un: shoto

[itsmypower]

[If it's about what he thinks it is...]

You dream things differently at this point-

[It's impossible not to empathize to some extent. What seems cruel is what hoping presents only to snatch it away. There's still attempts to pry a piece of it, loose- Repurposed, reimagined with new emphasis on what exists of the rest of it. Natsu in Jean. Fuyumi in Mukuro. His mother in Hijikata.

Toya in food.]

Maybe the dreams you started out with change their shapes just a little.

[He's known how this story ends-]

I'll only promise we'll help you find those shapes.


[Delayed Private Text]

We'll never leave each other behind.
1-A's showed me that.

[procedere]

i never wanted, i never thought about any other shapes. any other options. i always was chasing after just one thing.

[Private:]

you guys were pretty stubborn and determined to bring me back. i know. i appreciate it, todoroki-san.

Text; un: caster

[colchismagecraft]

[She didn't know this person. But... perhaps, she could sense a similar gnawing desperation in this message, too, one she knew far too well. It was that which prompted an unusually honest answer from this villainess; ]

i find a way to make it possible
whatever i have to do and however hopeless it seems

because accepting the alternative is far worse

[Call on darker magics. Fight a war she had no hope of winning for a chance to wish on the Holy Grail. Kill, if need be.

But that was the sort of woman Caster was.]

[procedere]

but what if it isn't possible? i was told for so long it wasn't. i finally got a quirk to be able to study to be a hero, and now i will be losing it.

[For all that he is upset, he still wouldn't approve of taking someone else's Quirk by force the way All For One did. Izuku isn't like that. But he can't help being left wondering what to do now. After the battle with All For One and Shigaraki.]

UN:FKBarghest, text

[houndofmanchester]

If I am reading these replies correctly, you will lose your power in the future, but still wish to be able to save others? There are ways to do that that do not require might of arms. It is perhaps not as glamorous, but could becoming a firefighter or similar work as a sort of soft "retirement?"

[procedere]

something like that. basically. i'm not saying it has to be strength like i got from my quirk, but. everyone has something. some quirk to help them against the villains with theirs.

i guess that sort of thing could be an option, but it definitely feels like a step down from being a pro hero.

text - UN: KingofHell

[dadbeatdad]

As someone who went through this, it is hard to know what to do after. I honestly sometimes still am not sure what to do. And I've had thousands of years to think on it. But I know I have found new dreams, new goals to keep me going.

Finding love anew here.

Helping my daughter accomplish her dreams.

Perhaps, in time, you will find a new dream. Even if your first one may no longer be possible. And I am sorry if that is the case for you. Deeply sorry.

[procedere]

new dreams, huh? i've spent so long focused on this one as long as i can remember.

but eh? l-love? um. i'm not so sure about that one. and i don't have a daughter. but of course, i'd want to support eri-chan, i guess.

but. thank you.

text; un: psychicgirl

[yersavior]

Talkin' from experience, find a new dream. Or a different way to realize yer original dream.

It's fine if you don't know what that is yet. For me, it took time to find that out, and that was by relyin' on the people around me and do a bit of self reflection.

[procedere]

not sure if a different way to realize my dream of being a pro hero is still possible. i know there's support gear, but that isn't the same as having a quirk.

but you're right. it isn't like i need to decide on anything right here and now.

[ Text : UN: FireStarter | Sorry, Deku, he's wordy but he has THOUGHTS about this exact thing. ]

[foxfireheart]

[ Ishkode read through all the replies here and debated answering but... ]

When I was a kid, my greatest dream, the only thing I wanted, was to be a professional hockey player. I knew I wanted that at two years old, no joke. Everything I did revolved around that.

And then I got changed. And they don't let giant turtles play pro hockey. They don't even make skates and gear that could fit me.

So I gave up. I got sad. I got angry. Spent a lot of time feeling sorry for myself and taking it out on other people.

And then I wound up here. In Ellipsa. Where people like me are normal. Accepted. And while this place doesn't have the NHL like I grew up with, I can play hockey again. Maybe I can even spread it and start a pro league here, myself. Grab hold of a version of my dream that I never even imagined was possible before.

I dunno what a 'quirk' is but it sounds like special powers. So why not make your dream come true here in Ellipsa? You got Season powers. You could be a pro hero here. Get to be hella strong and help save a whole dang world. You might be standing right in front of your dream and you're not seeing it cause you're still looking for the first version of it.

Who knows? Maybe that's why the stuff that picks people picked you? So you could have your real dream here, in this place, just differently. I know that's what it's given me and I'm grabbing it with both hands.

text | un: Pop Star Royalty

[denyingit]

I'll find a way to make it possible and I won't take NO for an answer from anyone, especially not from myself.