ok so i came up with a rly dumb au that i think is hilarious
i call it the "if good intentions pave the road to hell, then is it the same vice versa?" au
in other words, if a person with only good intentions but unfortunate impacts goes to hell, then does a person with only evil intentions but positive impacts go to heaven?
do evil intentions pave the staircase to heaven?
in this au, izuku is a quirkless villain, whose villainy lies mostly in producing illegal support technology and general mad science. he has only bad intentions for the world and for people in general, but for each thing he does with evil intentions, the positive impact far outweighs the negative
for instance, he designs a quirk suppressant using chemicals without human experimentation with the explicit intention of selling it to villains so they could use it against heroes
in the end, it spreads out to the common people, who find rhat its rly helpful for reducing the strain of overly strong quirks, or mutant quirks that make life significantly more difficult. there are minimal side effects, and it improves the quality of life overall
every single evil thing izuku tries to do ends up going like this.
everyone loves him and nobody even realizes hes a villain and hes just fucking seething with rage because he wants to spread chaos and misery and he fucking cant
he was fucking. ahab. assigned hero at birth.