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I recently got sick, so instead of using my time productively, I switched around the lyrics of Frozen’s let it go for a bnha spirit AU. Hope you like it.
Okay, so the background to this is I was thinking, what if a student from a different course faced Todoroki in the finals round? My idea was based as an AU where quirks were there are spirits tied to a quirk user.
It’s along the lines where spirits were dying out with the rapid increase of the human population and pollution and to survive they started inhibiting humans, hence the existence of their quirks. A symbiotic relationship where the spirit continues to exist by lending them a bit of their users power.
So Todoroki faces this person, and he’s been denying his fireside of his quirk, using only ice but? The student facing him has a quirk that allows them to see spirits and also use their powers.
The quirk allows them lending their body and energy for the spirit to use. I consider seeing as a more passive and actually handing their body over stressing and tiring. So, the other student is just like ‘hell no, you are not continuing to treat your spirits like that!’ and they allow the spirit to use their body to knock some sense into Todoroki because they really don’t like seeing his spirits suffering.
Hence, this scene I wrote where he fights his Half cold spirit who is literally taunting him by singing about their life in an edited version of Let it Go.
“I’ll make you” whispered the student, trembling in rage. “I’ll make you use your flames” he shouted.
“Sorry, but the fights not going to last long enough for you to even try,” said Todoroki coldly, flinging his ice as a giant iceberg. Anyone sane would’ve ran, but they couldn’t, they had something to do.
“That’s your mistake, that your power wouldn’t fight against you fir the crap your pulling.” Torooki barely heard them as their eyes slipped shut, the ice washing over them. For a second, everything was still, the entire arena was silent, wondering if that was it, but it wasn’t so simple.
“You shouldn’t have done that, letting your spirit out so easily,” spoke Todoroki. “I’m going to make you open your eyes, so, come and fight me-you only have your fire powers left after all!” he smirked and the real Todoroki stared at his double in shock. Standing before him, clad in the same UA uniform was him, only not. The double had pure white hair and dark brown gray eyes, not a scar in sight.
“You-what did you do!?” snarled Todoroki, shooting up and seeing his reflection on the big screen and his anger skyrocket at seeing that he had ruby red hair, and two teal eyes, one surrounded by a burn, completely devoid of his mother’s side.
“Oh, it’s not so much as what they did but what they allowed, but let’s not get into that right now,” smiled the double. “I’m here to make you use your fire, to accept your other side.”
“I will never use my flames! I can beat you without them! I don’t care what tricks you’re pulling with your quirk, but I’ll take you down!” The smile on the white haired doubles face fell, turning into a cold glower that was more familiar but all the harsher.
“I see.” Slowly, that glower turned dark and wicked as frost coated his skin, curling up elegantly as his eyes turned hard like icy shards. making the difference between them all the more stark.
“Then come at me, I’ll force you to use your flames. I’ll force you to accept yourself!” he shouted before smirking.
“So, come and try Shouto, but you won’t be too happy, after all, I’m ICE!” He lashed out with a heavy blast and Todoroki barely jumped to the side, just managing to dodge the spikes.
“The snow glows white when our powers fight. Not a flare of heat to be seen~” The double started to sing softly, spinning snow and ice around as he attacked Todoroki who stubbornly refused to use his powers.
“A kingdom of Isolation~ and it looks like~ I’m the king!” he spat out, freezing Todoroki to the ground for a moment, as if the song held more precedent than winning the fight. It’s not that Todoroki had a bad singing voice, but as the real one struggled, he realized that the song was more than to just p*ss him off.
“These flames are howling like the burning storm inside! Couldn’t keep it in, heaven know’s I’ve tried~” Todoroki’s flames spluttered unbidden and he slammed his hand over it, refusing to use them, making his double glare, snapping his head away.
“Won’t let him in, won’t let him see-be the puppet that we were born to be! Conceal-don’t feel-don’t let them know~!” he sang loudly, slamming his foot on the ground and Todoroki cried out, having no choice but to melt the spikes that would’ve skewered him. It sickened him, to use this power, this quirk and his doubles expression looked hurt before it turned to fury.
“Well, now they know!” he snarled. “Let it go~ Let it go! You can’t hold it back no more! Let it go-let it go! Turn him away and slam the door~!” he sang, making snow fall, icing the entire arena. It was as if he changed the weather, creating snow from the moisture in the air.
“and I don’t care! What they’re going to say!” he belted out. “Let the storm rage on! The cold never bothered us anyways!”
“You b*st*rd!” Todoroki snarled but the double just smirked and Todoroki’s face stared back at him.
“It’s funny how some distance, makes you start to freak out now, and the fear that once consumed us, is burning you to the ground!” he sang with that infuriating smirk, the words piercing and cold.
“Shouldn’t you see what you can do? Stop holding back and let it break through? No him! Heroes, or who to be~!” he asked. “Be Free!” He slammed his foot into the ground, ice skating across the ground and raising the barrier line so it’d be harder to just jump out and escape. Without his quirk, Todoroki couldn’t skate on it and even though he lunged, the other just dodged so easily, continuing that d*mn song.
“Let it go, let it go! Be one with fire and Ice, let it go-let it go! There’s been enough cause of him tonight~ So here I’ll stand! And here I’ll stay! Until you use your flames~” he swung his arm out, but it wasn’t an attack. The floor was suddenly patterned with frost. Beautiful and delicate, glittering like gems and Todoroki for a moment, wondered how he could make something so beautiful, before throwing himself back into the fight.
“My power flurries through the air and through the ground!” he twirled, a smile on his face, only this one was happy as he controlled the snow. “Our souls been spiraling like the frozen fractals all around~! And one thoughts been crystalized, like an icy blast~” he built up, throwing frost on his outfit, making it silvery blue, almost like a prince before he strutted forward a little, smirking down at him, suddenly so different from Todoroki.
“You’re not gonna win you’re still caught up in the past!” they sang and Todoroki snarled. He wouldn’t, he refused, he refused that man! “Just let it go! Let it go! And we can rise like the break of dawn! Let it go, let it go-and his perfect tool is gone!” Sang Rune, walking over, freezing Todoroki against a block of ice. “We’ll stand here! In the light of day!” he gestured, to everyone, everything.
“The storm rages on! The cold never bothered us anyways~….” he trailed off, staring down at Todoroki who was still glaring so fiercely, who still refused to use his flames.
“So…why do you hate the other half of us?” asked the double sadly.
“You know why-you son of a b*tch! You and your f*cking quirk! Dragging this out!”
“tch! You really are blind,” glared his double. “Do I have to spell it out for you!? They wouldn’t know these things-hell, who would know these things but you? And me. I would know, cause I’ve been with you, but you never see us, you only see me,” he spat, expression a mix of angry and bitter desperation. “I’m Half cold!” He shouted to the world.
“W-what?” Todoroki actually stuttered, looking at his double in honest disbelief.
“I’m the ice of your quirk….but I’m not just Ice, we’re not just ice Shouto!” he said, frigid tears falling. “I’m fire too! You as well-but you hate half of me-you hate who we are-what we are!” he said with a choked off sob, collapsing to his knees.
“I-I don’t-I don’t! I hate his-“
“But we’re not his quirk! We’re not him!” shouted Half Cold, looking up at Todoroki angrily but so-so done, with all of it, everything. “other people have fire quirks you know! So what if his quirk is fire!? We’re yours Shouto! A spirit of fire of ice to give you powers over fire and ice. I’m yours yet-yet you hate me! Separate what I am and it’s unbearable. I’m not just ice! I’m not just fire-and I’m not his flames! I’m your quirk! Your’s and yours alone! It’s your power I gave you and yet-! Why…?” he asked brokenly, still crying. “Why do you still…acting like you have to be him...when the choice is yours?”
That’s all I have and really it’s more of a clip then a story but I hope you like it!