Chapter 447 - My SI Stash #47 - Blue Flame by BANIX (MHA) (1/2)
-We already got a SI!Endeavour so here's the obligatory SI!Dabi~ SI!Shoto is next/
Synopsis: Todoroki Toya, that's my identity in this life. A life that I shouldn't be living. Even so, I still try my best to live. I don't have much of a goal other than trying to live for the people that I had grown to care about. I don't remember everything from the series but I will try my best to help those who needs my help, one person at a time. (Reincarnated OC as Dabi, Slow Updates)
Rated: T
Words: 13K
Posted on: m.fanfiction.net/s/13742475/1/Blue-Flame (BANIX)
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Chapter 1
Cremation, that's the quirk that I am born with in this world. A world that is supposed to be fiction.
Todoroki, that's the family I am born into in this world. A family that is a classic example of domestic abuse.
Todoroki Toya, that's the name I am gifted with in this life. A life that I shouldn't be living.
I still try my best to live, nevertheless. I don't have much of a goal in life other than trying to live for the people that I had grown to care about. My mother, my siblings, and the people that depend on me to make a living. For them, I continue to walk this earth in this sickly body.
I don't remember everything from the My Hero Academia series but I do remember a popular fan theory speculating that Dabi is Todoroki Toya, the eldest of the Todoroki siblings. Being reincarnated as Toya in this world, I can safely say that this theory is true. After I dyed my hair black the moment I left the Todoroki household my resemblance to Dabi is uncannily similar.
I have no idea what happened to canon me, but I didn't turn to the dark side despite the tempting thought. I did suffer damage to my own body from the overuse of my quirk though, resulting in me having similar injuries to canon Dabi. I guess some things stay the same.
No matter how much I tried to turn him around, my father in this life, Todoroki Enji, is still the same abusive man as depicted in the series. I didn't read any further in my past life to see if he did anything to redeem himself but at least in this life, he is still a sorry excuse of a human being.
I don't want to have any association with him if at all possible. Alas, I had decided to be a hero to spite his ideals with mine, so there were a rare few times that I had to work with him much to my reluctance.
The one thing I dislike about this world is the criteria that defines what a hero is. Saving people had turned into a popularity contest. Instead of focusing on what a hero should do many heroes now focus on fame and wealth, ignoring what the word hero truly means.
I had decided early on not to be that kind of hero. After all, one such ”hero” is my father. I don't aim to be the best hero there is, but I strive to be a better man than he will ever be. This is the only thing that is driving me forward in my hero work, to learn how to be a better man so that I can be a passable hero.
Frankly speaking, my quirk is more suited to villain work. It's too destructive, making non-lethal takedown extremely difficult. My hero costume places emphasis on toning down my power so that I can conduct non-lethal takedowns and so that it would reduce the chances of me burning my body from the inside out.
I managed to set up my own agency after working as Best Jeanist's sidekick for a year after graduation from U.A. He was my mentor when I did my internship as a U.A. student. Interning under him was the best decision I could have made. He taught me many things, not just how to properly use my quirk and how to conduct proper hero work, but also what it means to be a hero.
Heroes don't make excuses no matter the situation. Heroes must maintain a positive influence. Heroes must spread a sense of peace to all people. Heroes must be selfless, brave, and charismatic.
That is what I had learnt from him.
Best Jeanist's quirk requires him to have very fine control, something which I lacked when I first started out as a hero-in-training. He has my eternal gratitude for helping me to learn how to properly control my quirk by imparting his own experience to me. Till this date, we still keep in close contact despite us being a decade apart in age.
My work experience with him led me to notice that while many of the top heroes are active in solving high-profile cases, many of the petty crimes tend to fall through the cracks. Crimes that are often not noticeable enough for top Pro Heroes to notice, but also too much for the weaker Pro Heroes to handle.
Ever since I decided to aim to be a better man instead of striving to be a top hero, I decided to focus my hero work on solving this category of crimes. I want to help make this world a better place. I want to spit on my father's ideals, I want to show him that being the strongest hero means jack shit if he does not know how to be a proper human being.
I believe that to be a hero, one must first learn how to be a proper human being.
Seeing that my ideologies are closely similar to Spiderman's ideology from what I could remember about him in my previous life, I decided to call myself the Neighbourhood Hero: Dabi. The name Dabi means 'Cremation'. Not the best name I could have used for a hero name, I know. I chose the name Dabi as a reminder to myself on who this person could have been if I didn't inhabit this body for some unknown reason. A reminder to myself that I am constantly toeing on a fine line that separates heroes and villains.
As Best Jeanist often said, heroes and villains are both cut from the same cloth.
My hero agency is located in Hosu City. It is close enough to home so that my siblings can come and find me whenever they want, and it is also fairly close to the hospital which my mother is now living in. I never gave that man my number or address to my home. I don't wish to see him.
His deeds are horrid. The manga and anime series had seriously downplayed the severity of his actions. I loathe that man. I couldn't save Shoto from him, which is still my biggest regret.
My typical working day goes something like this: Wake up, eat breakfast, check some email and go through some doc.u.ments that my staff deemed important enough for me to go through personally. Go patrol, check on people that I need to check on, eat lunch. After lunch, continue patrol and beat up some villains if I have to, eat dinner. After dinner, either train or go through more doc.u.ments, then give a quick call to my siblings and my mother before calling it a day.
Boring life with the occasional excitement in the form of beating up villains, but I'm fine with this arrangement as long as the area I am in charge of is safe.
My ranking as a hero isn't that high, which is to be expected since I am not interested in fame or the likes. I just want to do my job properly. On the bright side, it seems that I am highly popular among Hosu citizens despite my disfigured looks since I interact with them regularly.
I can remember a fair bit of canon. Not everything and certainly not in detail, just bits and pieces of it. Even then, I know my youngest brother will definitely be in a lot of shit when he finally enters U.A.
I have no idea what I can do to help from the outside, but I can try.
In fact, I already did help, considering who I employed in my agency. Little by little, I will do what I can to help to change whatever bad canonical fate of whatever people that don't deserve it.
Starting from those who can be saved.
Hey, wassup! Jin Bubaigawara in the house, yo! Pro Hero Dabi's sidekick and trusted assistant, Twice, at your service!
Wait, what?! You don't know who I am?! Eh, that's reasonable, I guess. Not many who are from outside of Hosu know who we are. In that case, let me introduce myself!
As mentioned, my name is Jin Bubaigawara, Hero name: Twice! I was a no-good lazy thug that inflicted insanity onto myself. Parents died, got fired, nowhere to go, used my quirk on myself, nearly killed myself and to this day I still don't know if I am a clone or the original… Yeah, you get the drift. I'm certified insane.