Hey guys! I don't have an actual chapter ready for you all, so I've been keeping this to share just in case!

Where did I get the idea for Asuga's character? Well, Asuga wasn't actually "Asuga" for a really long time. If I remember correctly, her name was "Mika" and she wasn't at all like Asuga.

My very very very first draft of Mika was really cringy. She wore an eyepatch over her left eye. I don't remember exactly why, but it had to do with her quirk or her heterochromia. I remember very little about her appearance and such but I specifically remember one scene I placed her in... and it was a cringefest. She and Todoroki (I think I was obsessed with him at the time...) had been captured by the League and put in these weird tube, preservation/testing tanks where they were brainwashed. The rest of class 1-A tried to get them out, only to discover that they weren't the same Mika and Todoroki they remember. All for One then came on a telecom or camera system and ordered Mika and Todoroki to attack. They did, and the fight ended up with class-a winning by using Uraraka's quirk to immobilize them, Sero and Tsuyu and captured them, and I think that they knocked them out or something...? That last part is a bit unsure. I can't specifically recall what her quirk was either. But I do remember Mika's final draft a lot better.

(Final-draft) Mika was a blonde haired, blue-eyed girl who was short but sweet. She was this shy, timid girl who couldn't kill a fly. Well, that is, until the League captured her for her quirk. Mika's quirk wasn't like teleportation at all. She had a copying quirk, and a strong one. As soon as she saw someone use their quirk, all she had to do was think of that time and she could use the quirk for up to a whole hour. If the quirks were extremely similar, sometimes she could combine them. This ended up with her being very much like Midoriya with their hero-studying habits since she had to take notes on heroes and others in order to keep up her memory and have an idea of what her quirks do and what she can use.

My first idea of Mika—or really just my BNHA oc—was this kid that was chained up by the League and then released when she was in front of class 1-A students. Then, she would go "I'm sorry" or "Please, run while you can" and then would rip apart the ground with her quirk. That's usually how my character-making process works. I think of a single scene and how the character would act in that scene and build off of them that way.

As soon as I realized that a copy quirk was stupidly overpowered and that's not fun to write about, I came up with a different quirk. One that would be powerful, but had decent and realistic limitations. It would be a teleportation quirk, but not exactly teleportation. And voila! Asuga's quirk!

Asuga's character design was something I struggled with. The base was always the same. Bangs and close to black hair. I eventually got the idea for her mint ends, but turned it down in favor of horns. I felt like I had to make some part of her special and would make her stand out. I actually ended up not liking how she got horns. I planned it that Asahi, using his quirk, would give his own horns to her, but that was weird… And then I thought of how she had them and wanted to hide them. She could do that because they were really tiny and could be hidden by two buns on her head (Toga would help her with that). But I ditched the idea and stuck with the mint-green ends. But I wanted a bit more. Something hairstyle-wise that would be a signature look. A combination of ideas from Zero Two (Darling in the Franxx), Emerald (RWBY), and Toga (BNHA) gave me the hairstyle we have today!

Asuga's personality has been a bit of a rollercoaster to be honest. At first, she was going to be really timid. I mean she wouldn't talk to anyone for weeks kind of timid. Then, she was super anger-management needing and went back and forth between those two opposites. One thing that has been certain, is trust issues. Asuga has a ton of trust issues and that has been something in all of the drafts of her that has stayed the same. Asuga hardly ever trusts anyone or anything completely.

If I'm being honest, Asuga's character currently is still taking shape. This is purposeful, don't worry. Asuga went through a lot in her childhood, so it's safe to say her personality hasn't fully been able to develop. She still has a long way to go to get situated at UA and to find out who she is outside of her past. And, yes, those both will have something to do with each other.

I apologize for the late chapter, I've had lots to do for projects and have been having a bit of writer's block, so please bear with me! I was supposed to publish this yesterday, but I had to wake up at 5 am and had some family time. Hopefully, I won't skip chapters often, but I've been super stressed lately and have been treating myself to a little more me-time than I probably should. And please don't think that this story is a burden! If anything, it's the opposite! I love writing this story and it is more than incredible that I can publish it with so many supporters! I almost always have a tab open where I'm working on the story and use it as a procrastination tool a lot.

I have been pondering this for a while, and I think it is best I change my publishing schedule to Sundays instead of Saturdays. This will give me more time to write weekend chapters for you all and a little less crunching for me.

Oh! And I made a mistake when I gave Asuga's weight in the "Character Analysis #1" chapter! I put her weight down as 54 kg. It is definitely not that! At this point in the story, she's more like 45 kg (~99 pounds). I think I just got the digits mixed up and didn't think twice about it, but Asuga is definitely a string bean. A muscular string bean, but still a string bean.

I also wanted to give a shoutout to a reader that wrote the first-ever comment on Broken Glass. Their username is "Ravimar" and I think they deserve an honorary mention! Like I've said, I take any chance I have to check and see if anyone has commented and I usually see their name first after I publish a new chapter! Thank you, Ravimar! (And I hope you're okay with me mentioning your name w)

Peace!