AN: I finished University. Got a job. It's been hectic but here's something I've had in my drafts. Also cross-posted in Ao3.


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Enji Todoroki does not do things by halves.

If he had, he wouldn't have climbed the Hero ranks as steadily and as quickly as he did, wouldn't have secured a marriage with the ever prestigious Himura family. More importantly, he wouldn't have managed getting two steps closer to surpassing All-Might all in one day.

Touya and Miyuki; the first of progeny.

With heads of red and white, his firstborn children mirror him and his wife in every way, only with one welcomed difference: despite being premature, the twins' Quirks are strong. Stronger than his and Rei's had been at their ages (or would be, in Rei's case), as mutated as their Quirks are.

Frostbite and Wildfire.

Even their names implicate his children of greatness.

When Rei finally allows him to start their training, and he sees for the first time how high Touya's flames can reach for a boy of his stature and just how far Miyuki's ice can go, Enji can't help but laugh.

It makes sense his first seed would result in two, he thinks, watching as Touya folds himself into his sister's arms in excitement, pleased to see their father laughing.

His dreams are too big for a lesser man but for twins, Enji supposes a problem shared is a problem halved.

And so what else is there for the number two Hero to do but resume training his children with a new reverence. Day and night. Through weeks and into months. Enji pushes his children to surpass their limits from the day before harder and more intensely than he's ever had before. Even when Fuyumi comes into the picture (a pleasant surprise, Rei had said. A spare, Enji knew), Enji Todoroki remains tenacious in his endeavor.

It's only when he takes the twins for their monthly checkup that Enji discovers a blip in his grand plan.

It seems, for as strong as their Quirks are, his children were adapted for the wrong Quirk. Touya has his mother's weak constitution, the Doctor reveals, Miyuki's blood test indicating Enji's near-inoculation to heat.

Rei's despondent at the news. Enji, not so much.

Ordinary men would see the twins' news as the end of the road, would see it as a sign to settle for what he has in front of him.

But Enji Todoroki has never settled for less, and he is by far from the ordinary man.

What others consider a weakness, Enji resolves to find another route.

And he does.

It's no secret that his children's co-dependency runs deep.

He's seen it in the way Touya thaws away at his sister's cold demeanor, has heard it in the way Miyuki tempers her brother's flaring temper. In many ways, Touya and Miyuki compliment each other the same way the sun compliments the moon.

"–like twin stars," Rei says to him one day, the first she's spoken to him since Touya walked in with a mild burn. "Always in orbit, always together...".

On the edge of his yard, Enji can already see the changes as the twins work on increasing their maximum output.

His twin stars not in orbit but working and burning, together.

Each time Touya's skin starts to smoke, ash thick in the air, Miyuki is right by his side. Palms pressed against his shoulder as a thin layer of frost creeps up his arms, not too cold that it'd scar any minor burns but just enough to act as balm.

The relieved sigh Touya releases as he grins, eyes snapping to his in fierce determination, makes Enji wonder why never trained them together to begin with.

Their reliance on each other (and subsequently, their ability to negate the fallbacks of the other's Quirk) will only empower them in the end. And when Rei slides the door shut a little too loudly behind them, the Todoroki patriarch pays no heed.

With an eclipse of his own making, all Enji Todoroki can think about is how he can't wait to surpass All-Might.

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He doesn't.

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In the end, the twins' Quirks are too destructive, Touya's temper too flammable. His son would burn before he became anything else and Miyuki would undoubtedly follow her twin, as dependant as they've become.

Eclipses, as glorious as they are, are temporary.

Enji reminds himself of this every time Touya demands to go again, even in spite of his blackened arms. Tells himself even if his children are celestial beings who've come to life, their potential is fleeting each time Miyuki succumbs to her Quirk, lips blue and body shaking.

Even if by some chance they manage to overcome his expectations, Enji doesn't want a phyric victory (blackened skin, pale blue lips, his children on death's doorstep)– he wants what's absolute.

Thankfully, by that point, Rei manages to give him two more sons.

Natsuo, whose Quirk is the same as Fuyumi and therefore virtually useless, and Shoto. With features alluding to a hybridized Quirk, Shouto Todoroki is everything Enji was ever expecting and more.

The day Shouto's Quirk manifests, fire bursting from his left and ice blasting from his right, Enji's dream burns a little brighter.

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He is not the only Todoroki that burns.