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Some Conductor!Toshinori warmup sketches from my Musician AU.

In this AU, the shadows on All Might's face are from the harsh stage lights he uses during his performances. All Might is considered one of the greatest composers in Japan (if not in the world), but after medical issues caused an inability to play/conduct, he started performing less and less, at shorter and shorter concerts. His final performance was a song he composed called "Final Act," which he performed in response to the piece "Death Of A Symbol" composed by All For One.

"His final act... as the Symbol Of Peace..."

Once Toshinori's condition progressed, he performed fewer and fewer concerts until his performances were few and far between. Taking this as an opportunity to sully his rival's name, All For One performed the piece "Death of a Symbol" and spoke publicly about it being the end of All Might's musical career. While Toshinori initially remained silent, he took to the stage again when All For One made comments about Toshinori's ability to teach and the skill of his students, at which point he performed his piece "Final Act." This song consisted of the largest orchestra All Might had ever conducted, and was one of his longest pieces. This performance was also the first time All Might was on stage since his body began majorly deteriorating. Conducting the entire piece pushed him past the time he could normally handle, and the performance marked the beginning of All Might's retirement.

Playing off the current trend of Ba Sing Se residents being absolutely mindblown that Lee the nice-if-grumpy young man from the tea shop is now Fire Lord, I present another headcanon:

They don’t think that Lee was secretly Prince Zuko this whole time.  They genuinely believe that the Fire Nation straight up made a Worthy Tea Shop Waiter the next Fire Lord.  After all, they’ve had such poor luck with their last three Fire Lords, it might be better to pull their next Fire Lord from the common ranks instead, someone who has absolutely no ties to the Fire Nation, and really, who better than someone who has literally served the people before?

“No, no,” an exasperated Zuko tries to explain to well-wishers that he knew from when he lived in the Lower Ring.  “I really was Prince Zuko back then.  I was just in hiding from my family.”

Sure, they say, humoring him, but they all know that it’s just a line he has to say because that’s how the Fire Nation is justifying their choice and legitimizing his rule, that he really was the long-lost exiled Prince of the Fire Nation.  Could you imagine, though?  A prince?  Working in customer service?  In the food industry?  A spoiled little silver-spoon brat like that wouldn’t have lasted even a day as a tea shop waiter, let alone handle all those Kah-Rens with such aplomb as their Lee did.

Zuko eventually gives up, and whenever he visits the Jasmine Dragon and dons the waiter’s apron henceforth, he just lets the patrons welcome him “home.”

I love him I swear

the devil is real

and he's not a little red men with horns and a tail

he can be beautiful.

they are just havin fun

This might be a problem later

Can I be honest here? When I first saw this scene, I was honestly worried for a second that All Might would be a untouchable, a bit arrogant and overly confident guy. Just for a split-second, I thought “Oh no, he’s gonna be one of those untouchable hero-idols again who will only show up in the story whenever there’s a really big fight that the protagonist can’t handle”.

Why I thought that – perhaps because I felt something about his behavior was faked. Perhaps because he just picked up the nearest piece of paper he could find and wrote down his autograph without even being asked for it, probably thinking that everyone would love to have his autograph, anyway.

But gosh, was I wrong. In the mere span of a few minutes, all those worries were shut down.

Untouchable? Invincible? No. All Might is shown to be bleeding and hiding behind a strong façade only a bit later.

Him not showing up in the series apart from important fights? Ha! Since the manga started, All Might has been at Izuku’s side as often as possible. I even miss him when he isn’t there, because I’m just so used to him being close to Izuku (even if it’s just watching from around the corner like a worried dad)

And then, when I rewatched BNHA, I noticed this little scene here:

All Might didn’t just pick the notebook up and write his autograph into it. He really read it first. The book had fallen open during the fight with slime guy, if I remember correctly. He probably caught sight of the sketches of heroes Izuku had done and took a look into it.

He noticed how detailed Izuku’s notes where. He took into consideration how much time the boy had spent gathering all those information about the heroes, and how much love had went into each detail. Knowing Izuku, that fanboy probably even wrote down his thoughts near the notes, little bits and pieces of excited rambling and theories.

All Might didn’t write his autograph into the notebook because he egoistically assumed that it would be what the boy wanted.

He wrote the autograph into the notebook because, after seeing Izuku’s addiction to heroes, his love for everything concerning it, he knew how much this autograph would mean for the boy.

Well done, Horikoshi. You managed to literally pulverize all the clichés concerning shounen-mentors and designed one of the most lovable, dorkiest yet most awesome characters I’ve ever seen. Not to mention what a heartwarming relationship between mentor and student was created here.

Also, what kind of dorky autograph is this, you drew your own eyebrows and eye-shadows under it you utter DORK

So...I might have thought up one of the most badass All Might headcanons.

Picture it, guesstimately 28-29 years ago, an incident occurs. One of great devastations on a busy road.Fire, upturned concrete, and bodies were everywhere. People, screaming and crying for help. Whether it was a villain that caused this or a horrific traffic accident that may have involved a tanker truck or two is up to you.

Personally, I chose the latter.

Anyways, in this chaos of flames and smoke, the surviving victims and rescue responders fail to notice a jet coming in from the east side. It was coming, and coming fast. While still in flight, the side cargo hatch opens up so that a large blonde man (dressed in red, white, blue, and yellow) can leap out and plummet to the fiery earth below with a huge grin on his, ready to save those people.

I bet there is an interview somewhere that has All Might say something along the lines of:

"Who would've thought that my first day back in Japan would also be my debut?"

Ahaha, that would be classic All Might behavior 😂 I’ve always wondered how that first rescue went, I wish we got to see it more in detail. Like where did this huge American looking guy come from??? And why is he laughing??????

Timeskip comic where they try to align their schedules to have lunch together 💚🌸