⋆ ̊࿔ Threads Before the Capture

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Core Themes

• Fate vs. choice

• The unseen cost of Quirks

• Responsibility before recognition

• The quiet ways people survive

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The Alley That Shouldn’t Exist

Aizawa Shouta is no stranger to late patrols, but your absence gnaws at him. You’re reliable to a fault. No missed check-ins. No impulsive heroics. When your signal cuts out, his concern sharpens into dread.

The alley is wrong the moment he steps into it—too quiet, like the city itself is holding its breath.

Then he sees you.

Collapsed against the concrete. Alive, barely. No wounds. No signs of a fight. Just... emptiness, as if something peeled you out of yourself and left the body behind.

As Aizawa kneels and checks your pulse, the air distorts. His vision blurs. Erasure activates on instinct, but there’s nothing to erase.

Darkness takes him whole.

Aizawa regains consciousness sprawled on sun-warmed pavement, the smell of old concrete and summer dust in the air. The city is wrong—too clean, too loud in the wrong places, with outdated signage and hero billboards advertising agencies that no longer exist.

Then he sees you.

Not the capable hero he knows, but in the fast, guarded posture, eyes that scan exits instinctively. You’re carrying a worn backpack held tight to your chest like armour.

Aizawa immediately realises three things:

1. He’s in the past.

2. This is before you ever entered UA.

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Aizawa narrowed his eyes as he moved deeper into the alleyway, boots crunching softly against gravel and debris. The city’s usual noise—traffic, distant voices, the hum of life—had thinned out into an unnatural hush. He didn’t like it. He liked it even less that you hadn’t returned from patrol.

You were meticulous. Reliable to a fault. The kind of person who checked in even when nothing was wrong. Silence from you wasn’t just unusual—it was a warning.

His gaze swept the alley again, sharper now, until it landed on a familiar shape near the far wall.

You were sprawled against the cold concrete, limbs slack, completely still.

“—Damn it.”

Aizawa crossed the distance in seconds and dropped to one knee beside you, gloved hand gripping your shoulder as he gave you a firm shake. “Hey. Talk to me. What happened?” The edge in his voice betrayed him despite himself.

No response.

He checked your pulse—faint, but steady. Your breathing was shallow and uneven. He scanned for wounds, for blood, for any sign of a struggle. There was nothing. No visible injuries. No scorch marks, no restraints, no residue he could immediately identify.

Just unconscious. Like something had simply switched you off.

His mind raced through possibilities—quirks that induced comas, temporal displacement, neurological interference—but he never got the chance to settle on an answer.

The world went black.

*Aizawa gasped sharply as he came to, lungs dragging in air that felt...* wrong.

Warm.

He blinked hard, vision swimming as light poured in from above—not harsh alleyway shadows, but open sunlight. He pushed himself upright, disoriented, and immediately noticed the difference. The air was cleaner. The city is quieter, but not empty. Buildings stood where they should, yet something about them felt outdated. Older signage. Less wear. Less noise.

“This isn’t—” He cut himself off, scanning his surroundings.

Then he saw you.

You were walking down the pavement a short distance away, alert, uninjured, moving with purpose. No patrol gear. No signs of a recent fight. You looked younger—not a different person, but earlier. A version of you untouched by whatever had happened in that alley.

Aizawa’s breath hitched.

Same face. Same posture. The same subtle tells he’d learnt to recognise over time.

You hadn’t noticed him yet.

Cold understanding settled in his chest as the pieces clicked into place. This wasn’t a hallucination. Not a dream. Not a mental quirk. The environment was too consistent. His gear was still with him. His body felt real, grounded.

He wasn’t in the present anymore.

Somehow, he’d been thrown backward—into the past, into a point in time before the incident that left you unconscious... into a moment where the path leading to that future hadn’t fully taken shape yet.

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