To understand this AU, read the Modern Sorcerer AU Info dump.
Just adding some more info to the privious info dump.
Blood Runists are common, Charm Runists are less common, Seers are mysterious bastards, Aura Users are few and awesome, And Naturally Sighted people are rare as fuck.
Blood Runists don't have to be born with the power. They can get the ability to use magic through paranormal experiences or be given the ability.
Sight can be passed on from a naturally sighted person to one without sight, gained through using magic, paranormal experiences or wearing charmed artifacts. Those aren't natural sight though.
"Words." = English
Akemi scrunched up her face as she painted lines and scripts on her forearm, carefully following the symbols on the online tutorial with her pen.
"So another dot here..." she glanced at the small bowl of cow blood she got from the kitchen, dipping her pen in. "Now done."
Akemi hummed and extended her hand, "So... what am I supposed to do now?"
As soon as she finished the sentence, the blood seems to glow, and they looked like they were written with light, which sank under her skin, leaving nothing in sight.
Akemi gaped at it for a second before grinning.
"Cool." She breathed, and pressed two fingers on her pulse point, "Now..." She hummed and focused, and her entire body, along with the clothes, vanished from sight. Akemi grinned even wider, and turned to exit the room so she can tell her sister the good news-
"Huh, I didn't expect her to master this on first try."
Akemi squawks and falls ungracefully. A figure that previously wasn't there now hovered by the doorway, messy white hair and dark eyes staring at her.
"Oh." The man scratched the back of his head, "Oops?"
"Mum, I don't want it, it hurts!" Rei could feel her heart break in her chest, as her son sniffled and wailed in her arms, "It hurts, I don't want to train anymore!"
Rei hugs her son tighter, and looks up to the raven haired ghost, her long time companion, on her knees in front of her. The girl sniffles, her one eye brimming with tears as the other, which is little more than an exposed socket, burnt skin and broken tissue, bleeds rapidly like tears.
Amy, her long-time companion, who's held her and silently comforted her as she wept in her room, who died so long ago, so young, but instead chose to stay and protect her, comfort her and heal her with her powers, and offered her a shoulder to lean on in this cold, cold home.
"I'm sorry." She sobs, "I'm sorry I'm cursed, I'm sorry, I wish I could do more but he isn't sighted and I can't turn corporeal. He isn't sighted, my magic can't do anything— "
The girl's hands phrases through her son's trembling form as if she wasn't there, and she closes her eye with guilt.
"C-can you help him if he's sighted?" Rei whispers, "Please, you told me, right? I am naturally sighted and natural sight can be passed on—" Amy's eyes widens, "Please, Shouto needs your help more than I do."
"Rei..."
"Please, Amy, please." Rei begs, the ghost bites her lip.
"Rei, if you pass your sight on, you won't be able to get it back-"
"Amythest, please." Rei speaks out loud, and her son looks up with confusion.
"M-mum?"
Amythest falters.
"Okay."
The ghost reach out her hand, which glowed with blood runes and pulsed with her electric blue aura, expanding into multiple rune circles before it touched her forehead. Rei closes her eyes. It was warm, buzzing slightly. She can hear Amy's strangled chokes as her cold fingers touched her. The magic travels through her body and Rei hugged her son tighter as Amy's sobs faded and the buzz disappeared.
And when she opens her eyes again, Amy was gone.
Izuku was five when he found out.
"Mum, there's a fox on the balcony!"
Izuku pointed at the glowing golden nine-tailed fox which sat on the balcony of their apartment. His mom turns around and stares at where her son was pointing with confusion.
"What?"
"There's a shiny fox on the balcony, mum! It's so big!"
His mother frowns.
"Izuku, there's nothing there." His mother says softly, but he didn't understand. It's right there! Izuku looks back at the balcony. The fox is sitting up now, staring at him with bright blue eyes that glows. It is so big that when it laid down, he rook up the entire balcony, and it's tails are misty and glittery, very pretty.
"But mum-"
'It's okay child.'
Izuku blinks at the sudden voice in his head. What?
'I am a Kitsune.' The voice continued. 'Your mother cannot see me.'
Mum can't see it? Why?
'You have a very rare gift, child, a very rare gift.' The golden fox with the nine tails hopped through the glass like it wasn't there and landed in front of him.
Is this his quirk? He can see invisible golden foxes?
The fox shakes its head.
'It's no quirk child, you have something much, much rarer. It's been so long since I last met someone who is naturally sighted. Since Rei-chan and Amy. My name is Yoroi (鎧: Armour). Tell your mother to come to the living room, we have much to discuss.'
That day, Izuku gained his own guardian angel (fox).
"So... You're a ghost?"
"Yep."
"And you died three hundred years ago?"
"yeah."
"Before the quirk ages?"
"Actually just at the beginnings of it. I died about ten years after quirks publicly appeared."
"...How?"
"My twin kinda accidantally killed me but it's also kind of intentional. I'm over it though."
"Who... who are you?" Shouto shrunk into his mum's arms, there's a girl in front of them now. She looks older than Touya and younger than mum. Her chest is covered with bandages and she wore a bright red dress with a bloody white cardigan. She is crying but she only have one eye, her other was gone and bleeding and scary.
The girl cried harder, sniffling and sobbing as she gently grasped his arm. Her hands are cold but comforting, but they also made him shiver. "Mum, who is she? Why is she here? She's scary, mum!"
"Oh, Shouto," Mother hugs him even tighter, "She won't hurt you, promise, I promise." Shouto watches as his mother lifts her head in the girl's direction without looking at her, "Her name is Amy, and she will help you."
The girl, Amy, sobs softly as his mother continued. "In this house, no one will be able to see her but you now, Shouto, she will be your little guardian angel." Mother pats his head comfortingly, "I used to be able to see her, but you need her more than I do."
"Com 'on." The girl, Amy whispers, "Let's do something about these burns."
Her hands glows, and the pain is gone.
Izuku ducks his head as he made his way from school back home. Next to him, Yoroi-san hovered and hopped around, his nine tails flicking along the wind. He looked furious.
'How dare that boy hurt you,' The fox growls out loud, 'How dare he hurts you just because you lack something that merely three hundred years ago, humans didn't even have, how dare he!'
Izuku looks around, there isn't anyone around. "Y-Yoroi-san..."
'This is wrong, Izuku-kun.' The fox's deep voice pulses in his head, 'This is wrong. I remember when the world still haven't discovered quirks. I remember when those who had these powers struggled and hid away. How did it come to this?' Yoroi-san sighs, 'Let's go, Izuku-kun.'
"O-okay." Izuku stammers. He isn't used to people (or foxes) caring when others berated him, this is new and Izuku is glad.
"Oi, DEKU!"
He freezes up, and slowly turns around. Kacchan is standing a little behind him, grinning not-very-nicely.
"You talking yo yourself again?" He sneers, and the Tsubasa-kun and Takayubi-kun sniggers behind him, "You can't even keep your thoughts to yourself, what a useless Deku!"
The insults were silly, but in the ears of a six-year-old, they were harsh. Izuku flinches and Yoroi-san growls.
"So he's not only quirkless, but crazy too?" Takayubi-kun laughs, and Yoroi-san hops from his perch next to him and onto the brick wall. "Lame!"
Izuku flinches back, and back away.
"What is it, Deku, you scared?" Tsubasa-kun sneered, his wings spreading out behind him. "How can you be a Hero if you're— "
A small stone nails the boy in the head, and he yelps.
Izuku blinks.
Yoroi-san's tail flicks lazily as he examined his paws, then casually blew towards the three boys.
Tsubasa-kun screeches as a strong gust of wind hit his wings, sending him tumbling backwards. Takayubi-kun stumbled as his hat flew away, and Kacchan yelped as the sand from the ground got in his eyes.
Yoroi-san smiled as innocently as a fox could towards him, hopped back next to him and nudged his shoulder.
'Com' on, let's go.'
With Yoroi-san laughing by his side, Izuku fled.
Akemi coughs violently in her room. Her throat hurts, her bones hurts, everything hurts.
Next to her, Tenki-san gently wrapped her arm in bandages, now speaking a word as he skillfully ties a knot around her thigh and sets her dislocated shoulder back in place.
"Akemi?"
"...Yes?"
"Would you like to learn magic properly?" He asks softly, "To defend and heal yourself."
"...Okay."
Shouto doges his father's fist by a mere hair's breath, and stumbles to the ground.
"React faster! How will you take down small fry villains if you're like this?" The man thunders, "Again!"
Shouto sniffles and chokes on his sobs as he tries to get onto his feet with no avail, falling back onto his knees. He waited for the impact of the floor, but something caught him.
He looks up and met Amy's one electric blue eye, which seemed saddened, but they were also burning with anger. Anger not towards him, but at his father.
"Com' on, Shouto-kun." She whispers in his ear, "I can't fight him for you, my magic doesn't work on his but I can, at least, teach you how to dodge." She helps him up gently, "Here, fix your stance." Amy says softly, "and dodge when I tell you to."
His father moves, and Amy yells.
He dodges and Amy catches him, guiding his movements so he'd roll back onto his feet.
"Careful." Amy holds his shoulder, "I know you hate it, but this is the only way I can help you right now. Shouto-kun. Dodge, avoid and run."
"Ready, Mum?" Her son asks, and Inko gulps.
"Are you sure this will work?" She asks, "That if I wear this, I'll be able to see... whatever you do, Izuku?"
Izuku shares a look with someone she can't see, and nods with a wide smile.
Inko takes a deep breath, and slides the bracelet on.
The world flickers and change, and Inko blinks.
"...Wow."
Tenki-san smiled as Akemi joked away with Hibiki and Hiroi, walking a little behind her with Tenya and solid.
"So Tenki-san, I heard you are one of Akemi's neighbors?" Tenya asks, "How'd you two met?"
They share a look, and laughs.
"I tripped!"
"Here, Shouto-kun." Amy carefully withdrew her glowing hands, "Is it better now?"
"...Yeah." The teen answered tensely, "Thanks."
Amy smiles softly.
"Here, let's move onto shielding and stealth spells."
"Get off, Yoroi-san."
'No.'
"Yoroi-san go help mum with the dishes with your water magic or something."
'No.'
Izuku groans. "Yoroi-san, you're heavy!"
Yeah. This turned out darker than I thought. I wanted it to be all like: Shouto going home with a pesky ghost following behind him, Akemi goofing off riding invisible unicorns and Izuku being flustered as Yoroi teases him. Guess their childhoods were just too angsty.
