from left to right: Takami Keigo, Takami Shinyo
Fear of You
is a My Hero Academia fanfiction that focuses on the Takami Thief, who escaped Tartarus on the day of his execution and his son, five-year-old Keigo Takami (Hawks) who has known abuse all his life.
Upon his escape, the thief heads back to his apartment, only to find it trashed and abandoned, hiding an malnourished Keigo. The thief, at first, saves Keigo with the intention of selling him off, but he slowly finds himself starting to care about his traumatized son.
The story follows these two as they run from Pro Hero Endeavor and other dangerous criminals, who are hunting them down.
Ongoing with 15 chapters and currently over 208.000 words.
[Fear Of You] contains examples of:
- Cain and Abel: Later in the story, a villain hunting them is revealed to be Shinyo's older brother and Keigo's Evil Uncle, Takami Junto. During their childhood together, the Siblings in Crime had a Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling dynamic full of Hypocritical Heartwarming.
- Evil Matriarch: Subverted. As Shinyo brings Keigo to his mother, the assumption is that she is neglecting Keigo without reason. This is later subverted, as it was Shinyo's fault as well. She actually cared about Keigo, but was mentally unprepared to raise a child under the circumstances Shinyo left her in.
- Feuding Families: Both Keigo and Touya are facing the other in a conflict only because of their fathers' Arch-Enemy relationship.
- Hates Being Touched: There are multiple instances of characters avoiding and tensing at physical contact:
- Keigo is openly distrusting/scared of physical contact, because of the domestic abuse he suffered.
- Since an implied assault in prison and especially after his wife touched him comfortingly, only to to be able to use her quirk on him, Shinyo openly hates physical contact.
- Touya is implied to be scared of his father's touch, because of physical abuse from Endeavor.
- Heel Realization: Shinyo started out as a Villain Protagonist, before he realized the Personal Horror of what he was doing to Keigo and is now on a Redemption Quest.
- My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad: During the second run-in of the two father-son duos, Touya and Keigo talk about who of their dads will win the fight.
- Offing the Offspring: Played with a few times:
- Chapter One Shinyo Would Hurt a Child, as he lethally endangers Keigo's life by pushing him off a tower in order to corrupt him into stealing from the dangerous Pro Hero Endeavor.
- Later, Keigo's mother risks to kill Keigo in order to trick her husband into a Self-Poisoning Gambit.
- Papa Wolf: Despite all odds and being deathly injured, Shinyo finds the strength to protect Keigo and defeat Itami, the Dragon Quirk user who was Keigo's step-father.
- Reformed, but Not Tamed: Even as Shinyo changes his behavior towards Keigo, as to for examplenot swearing infront of the kid he keeps a lot of his flaws and destructive behaviors.
- Sad Clown: Shinyo makes jokes and puns to lighten the mood in dangerous/painful situations. Shinyo's dad jokes and Gallows Humor is especially apparent when he is waiting for his death sentence in a flashback. Later, Keigo takes after his father and also starts making fun of his own pain.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Both Endeavor feels like he is the only one allowed to capture the Takamis. Oji Harima does seem to feel the same way.
