I'm totally not typing this because I'm avoiding writing the next chapter of my fanfiction on my other account...no, no, nothing like that.

What's up, everybody?

(looks at word count of last chapter, chuckles nervously) I literally sat down and didn't check my word count...how in the universe did I type that much without realizing it? Ha, ha...anyway.

It's time for us to learn more about what happened to Odin! How did she end up the way she is? Who's Janice? *pauses, sheds a tear over the name, then shakes it off* Um...ignore that.

BY THE WAY! This is my THIRD revision of the backstory, and I KNOW it's different than the canon backstory with a few different quirks-THIS IS INTENTIONAL AND ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BEFORE I READ THE ORIGINAL BACKSTORY.

Ahem.

Enjoy the chapter!

"Janice lived in a small town somewhere in America over two hundred years ago," Odin said. "She seemed like your average girl. She didn't have a quirk-nobody did at the time, they didn't even exist yet. She was a bit of a nerd, had glasses, always wore a pony-tail, was in the school marching band, had a few friends, was very introverted around people she didn't really know, but still. Life was pretty normal, until one day when she was seventeen years old.

"It was a summer day that started just like any other. Janice didn't really have anything going on that day, so she hopped onto her bike and just...biked around some country roads to kill time. She biked...and biked...and biked...until she found herself with a flat tire. So, she stopped, got off her bike, and started to walk her bike home...but suddenly, there was a strange flash in the woods nearby. Janice was really curious, so she walked over, and, to her surprise...she found a strange green substance. You've probably seen movies-your stereotypical radioactive waste. Janice didn't touch it-she wasn't stupid-but getting close to it was enough. She walked away, but she got dizzy-her back ached, her vision got blurry, but she still continued to walk...and walk...until she collapsed on the side of the road because she got so dizzy...then, all of a sudden, it went away. Her back felt fine, her head didn't hurt, she could see clearly...and she felt something on her back."

"Wings," Izuku whispered.

Odin nodded. "A pair of wings appeared out of Janice's back. Of course, she freaked out, then began to run home, but it hurt. Her wings were so big that they dragged on the ground, and she could feel them, but she didn't know how to move them yet, and she didn't have anything to tie them with so they wouldn't drag, so she ran home, threw her bike into the yard, and walked inside, yelling to her parents that something was wrong. They came running and saw her wings. Her mother screamed upon seeing her daughter with wings. Janice startled at that, then turned and ran. Her wings started flapping as she ran out of the house, and, just like that, she flew into the air. She didn't know what she was doing, but she just flew as far as she could. She didn't go back home. After a whole day, her parents freaked out and called the police. They explained the whole situation, wings and all...the police sent helicopters in, and after too long, they found Janice...but they weren't planning on sending her home."

Yui gasped. "N-No...they didn't."

"They brought her to a research facility to figure out what had happened," Odin said, gulping. "S-She stayed there for a few years until another case was found-a baby in China that could glow. The government realized that Janice wasn't the only one, and that this wasn't just...some isolated case-especially when more started appearing around the world. It still took them three years after the baby was born before they released Janice...it had been about five years there. When she got home, she wanted to see her best friends...her crush...only to realize that they'd all forgotten her. They'd all moved on...so Janice was...nothing. Her crush had already married, they already had a baby boy named Lucas-he later changed his name to Junichiro, but for most of my life and death, I've called him Liam, so I have a harder time calling him Junichiro, I'll get to that part. Janice was disappointed, but she decided to move on. She didn't want to stay there, so she moved away. The government had given her an education when she was captive there, and they also gave her money, so she moved to Japan, having learned Japanese in captivity and Japan having a higher number of people with powers than America had at the time, and got a job at a police department-with her wings, she didn't need a police car, and she could go much faster. Of course, she still went back to that small town each year for Christmas. Her family was wary of her, and her friends tried to get to know her again, but it never was the same...but her crush and his wife made the decision to make Janice the godmother of their children-three years after she'd come back, they had another son named Yoichi Liam-I'd usually tease him and call him Liam, but Yoichi makes more sense for the story. Four years later, they had a daughter...named Irene." Odin bit her lip, tears coming to her eyes.

"You," Izuku whispered.

Odin nodded. "B-But there was something w-wrong with me. I-I didn't look like their child. I-I-I...I was born with a pair of wings, just like Janice. I-I was strong, too, and when I could speak, my voice did something strange-I could do something with my surroundings. M-My quirk's always been there...and my...birth mother was terrified by me. So, when Janice came around for Christmas like she did every year, my birth mother shoved me at her and screamed that she did something to me-she made me strange...she made me a...freak."

"That's not true-you aren't a freak," Yui said.

"I know...I know," Odin said. "B-But still. J-Janice was angry, so she adopted me on the spot and took me away with her to Japan. S-She raised me as her daughter. She taught me how to fly, when she noticed my strength and speed, she helped me control it. When my voice did stuff, she taught me to control it so I could use that power while singing only. I-I loved her. J-Janice was my mom-I called her that. If it hadn't been for the yearly Christmas visits and my birth mother yelling about me being a freak of a daughter, I never would've known better, honestly. I even looked like Janice. So, until I was about...thirteen years old, that's how things worked. I lived with Janice, saw my brothers once a year, and everything was fine. I even interned on the police force from time to time because I was so fast-I could outfly Janice, and when someone needed to get to Florida because of a family emergency when we were visiting one time, I flew them over and got back before the day was over-we didn't even miss our plane! Once that happened, I actually ended up doing a part-time job where I flew people around so they didn't have to take a train or car or something-quirk regulations weren't really in place as much back then. Overall, it was pretty fun...but when I was thirteen, my real parents died in a car crash."

Yui and Izuku gasped-as did Hisashi, but he wasn't as hearable.

"Yeah," Odin said. "Janice and I went to the town for the funeral...then flew with my brothers back to Japan, since she was their godmother. So, Janice bought a larger house for us, but it was barely bigger, which was fine. I mean, Lucas was nineteen, but he didn't want to be left in America, so he just ended up going to college in Japan, deciding that he'd rather go to college here instead of in America because of quirkism. Yoichi was sixteen, and because he was pretty nerdy and didn't have many friends in America anyway, not to mention being sick often and, no offense to him, pretty week, he didn't really care what happened as long as he had some personal space...because he didn't like being in the house. Janice had a quirk, I had a quirk, and Lucas had a quirk, too...he...he could take other people's quirks and give them to others." (Can you guess who these two are? :))

"Wait, that's a thing?" Izuku asked.

"Yeah," Odin said. "Of course, there weren't that many people with quirks back then, which made Yoichi angry about it. Before, he'd been just like almost everyone else in town, but now he was living with three other people with quirks in a huge city without any friends and a sister that he'd grown up thinking was a freak."

"You aren't-" Izuku started.

"That's what he grew up thinking, I don't think of myself that way," Odin said. "But...yeah. Anyways. I didn't really get along with either of them that well, but it was fine. Lucas was at college, Yoichi avoided me, and I got to be with Janice plenty..and things went ok for the next five years. I made plenty of money with my business, Lucas and I ended up getting along pretty well-better than either of us got along with Yoichi, really, although we ended up having a semi-stable relationship once he went away for college. Once he didn't have to be around me all the time. So...yeah. So, when I was seventeen, though, my mom wanted me to get my driver's license-because of my work with the police, I could get mine a little early, but with my wings, driving wasn't easy, but as a just-in-case if my wings got injured…well, we decided to go for it. So, I got my learner's permit and started practicing driving with Janice. One winter day, Lucas had to get to a planetarium a little ways out of town, but he didn't have a car, so Janice had me drive the two of them...it wasn't a good idea. T-There were icy roads that day that we didn't know about, a-and I didn't know...a little ways out of the city, a-a large semi spun out of control and hit us."

The other three gasped, and Odin was crying.

"W-We were sent flying and landed upside down," Odin said through sobs. "M-Mom and I were killed almost instantly. T-The semi-driver managed to call a-an ambulance, a-and Lucas s-survived...b-but s-something happened j-just as I d-died. L-Lucas t-tried to reach me-I-I was c-closer to him...a-and he a-a-accidentally t-took my quirk...just as I died." She sniffed. "T-That caused him t-to take my s-soul a-as well. H-He freaked out-h-he was so scared...h-he ended up g-giving m-my quirk...a-and me...t-to Yoichi, s-so h-he would have something l-like that and h-hopefully help with his condition. B-But he didn't factor in something. Yoichi w-wasn't quirkless."

"Wait, you said that he was, though," You said softly.

"W-We thought t-that he was," Odin said. "I-Instead, h-he had a h-hidden quirk. It was called Stockpile. I-It stored energy, but never enough to help him, a-and Yoichi could give it to someone else. T-That person would then add energy and pass it on. Rinse and repeat. With each person to receive it, the energy would become more powerful."

"Wow, that sounds useful," Izuku said.

"It wasn't, really," Odin said. "Without an offensive quirk, Yoichi couldn't use that energy."

"But he had you and your quirk," Hisashi said. They all looked at him.

Odin nodded. "Because of the nature of his quirk, and the fact that my soul was attached to my quirk, my soul became attached to his quirk. What that meant was that I couldn't go far from whoever had the quirk-at most a few yards, but that was about it. Yoichi did not want that-he didn't like the idea that his dead sister was stuck following him around-he didn't even call me by my name, he gave me the name One For All, or Ofa for short so he could pretend that I was someone else-but I'll get there." She took a deep breath. "Things got…weird after that. Yoichi got stronger, but Lucas-Junichiro, he's…he became different than my brother after my death, well…Junichiro locked Yoichi in an underground vault."

"I'm sorry…what?" Hisashi exclaimed, eyes wide.

"So!" Odin said, clasping her hands together. "Junichiro was tired of quirk discrimination and, after my death, become some sort of…I'd best describe it as a mafia boss."

"...that escalated," Izuku said.

"I know-I can't remember all the details, I'm just surprised I remember my actual name after all this time," Odin said. "But…yeah. Fun fact. Yoichi was opposed to Junichiro's methods, so he tried to fight him, and…well. Underground vault." She thought for a few seconds. "To continue to the next part, Yoichi and Junichiro didn't know that I could be passed onto the next person…until Lucas got some new quirks. One to make him…basically immortal, one to make him teleport, one for offense…I don't remember what it is right now…and one that could bring back the dead."

"Wait, so-!" Izuku started.

"Junichiro came after Yoichi and tried to get me back-it was too late to find Mom's ghost, I had no idea where she was," Odin said. "The two fought, and Yoichi managed to escape with the help of two vigilantes that wanted to see Junichiro defeated-I can't remember their names, honestly, but they found Yoichi and got him out of there. Yoichi didn't know how his part of my quirk worked, so the three, while hiding from Junichiro, managed to eventually find someone that could see what quirks people had. That's when they found out that I could be passed along through DNA transfer. As a result, as time passed, and, eventually, I was passed over to one of the two vigilantes, and not long later, Yoichi died, and the two vigilantes fled. My full quirk didn't transfer, however, only really the strength part, as well as storing energy. He eventually passed me onto the other vigilante, dying not long later to Junichiro. The second vigilante then fled to America, assuming that, because of the quirk discrimination being the reason Junichiro had left in the first place. Of course, he had been wrong, Junichiro had followed, going by Lucas again because it was America, following him around until everything really went down in Rhode Island at the start of the American Quirk Wars. At that point, because of the Quirk Wars, he had to stay and fight Lucas off as well as he could. The Third User-I started calling them Users after a while, with Yoichi being the first-was pretty nice to me, and we fought Lucas together time and time again, and Lucas eventually killed him, the Third User barely managing to pass the quirk onto the Fourth User before fully dying, his dying moments being what's kinda counted as what stopped the Quirk Wars, but that's another story. The Fourth User didn't really acknowledge me when he could get away with it-he didn't really like me because he thought that I could have saved the Third User, who was his hero, but…yeah."

"Why aren't you giving us any of their names?" Hisashi asked.

"Because...I can't remember most of them...but they don't really matter right now-if I really need to, I can probably find out more about them later," Odin said. "Their names aren't part of the story. To me, Users appear and disappear in a blink of an eye. On average, they last twenty-five years. Anyway. The Third User's death was what really ended the Quirk Wars, and to prevent something similar from happening, Rhode Island named seven people as official heroes-the seven big figures fighting in the war. The Third User was named an honorary hero, and a statue was built in his honor, but he was gone. The rest of the states-then the rest of the world-followed Rhode Island's example and began to name pro heroes, setting up schools and programs to train the next generations so people would be safe...the Fourth User decided that he didn't really want to do that, deciding to make the quirk as strong as possible. He moved over to Japan and started to live in seclusion, training as well as he could so the next user would be stronger. Lucas eventually found him, but the Fourth User had already passed me onto the next User-he was a pro hero, I don't really remember his name, he was underground. However, he had a different quirk-that I remember, called Blackwhip-and he preferred to use that instead, so, after some time, he decided that he didn't want Lucas to keep attacking him-Lucas had, at this point, started attacking more and more people, trying to lure the Users out. User Five eventually decided that he wanted to give the quirk to a vigilante that was eager to fight Lucas with all her might…but that's when something a little...disturbing about the quirk was discovered."

"Do I wanna hear it?" Izuku asked nervously.

Odin bit her lip. "I'm not completely sure...but I should probably tell you-don't worry, though. You don't have to worry about it. I don't have that amount of energy-you have the version of the quirk from back when I was alive, not the added energy of the Users."

"Ok," Izuku said.

"So...User Five tried to give the quirk to a vigilante-one that he'd seen time and time again on the streets," Odin said. "Of course, they agreed...but as soon as I was transferred over to the other, something went wrong, and we discovered a painful truth about the quirk. With each and every new User, as more energy was added, each User had to have a certain amount of strength to contain the energy. Before that, there hadn't been a problem...but that vigilante wasn't strong enough to contain the energy...and they exploded."

Izuku, Yui, and Hisashi's eyes all bulged as Odin shuddered at the memory.

"I was instantly transferred back to User Five, who was angry about the whole thing, but he was too afraid of trying to give me to someone else-he was scarred for life after that-and, honestly, I would've been, too, but I'd seen some of the same stuff...and I'm already dead, so that can't exactly work." She chuckled a little, but it did nothing to relieve the tension in the room. "So, User Five ended up discovering the whole energy thing, so he eventually found a new User and told them about the quirk, but instead said that in order for them to be worthy of it, they'd have to train their muscles and body to contain the energy. He probably shouldn't've said that to the User-they already didn't have any self-worth, I spotted him trying to jump off a building, and that's how we found him in the first place. Strangely, though, this pushed the boy to get stronger-to feel that he was worthy of something, anything. It took him five years before User Five decided that it was about time to try to pass on the quirk...and it worked...but Lucas took her life about a year later. User Six was weirded out by me, but discovered something interesting-if he wanted someone to be able to see me, they could. So, he told me to stay silent, and he showed me off to his friends, teachers, anyone like I was some kind of trophy that proved that he was worthy. Ugh. I hated User Six, but I didn't really say anything, so I just waited. I waited as Lucas fought him again and again, and eventually, User Six found a girl named-yes, named, we're finally getting to the point where their names are important-Nana Shimura."

"Nana Shimura?" Hisashi asked, clearly surprised.

They all looked at him.

"You know her?" Izuku asked.

"I know of her," Hisashi corrected. "She was a Pro Hero named Juryoku. She had super strength, and she could fly around. She's been dead for...I wanna say...twenty some years now?"

"Twenty two, to be exact-at least, I'm pretty sure," Odin said. "I first met her when she was two years from going for hero school entrance exams. User Six trained her and gave her the quirk with six months to spare, then trained her in the use of the quirk in that time, dying shortly after Nana took her entrance exams...but that one wasn't because of Lucas. In fact, when User Six met Nana, Lucas had dropped off the map entirely. Sure, some things seemed connected to him, but there were no real leads. User Six died from cancer, and Nana went through high school peacefully without worries. In fact, it was so long before Lucas showed up again that she even fell in love and started a family. She had a husband and a son before Lucas showed up again with a vengeance, more determined than ever to take Nana down. In fear for her family, Nana broke up with her husband and only saw her son two or three times a year. Her son grew up as one of the few people she allowed to see me...but he was kind to me. Whenever he was at Nana's house, I was his babysitter, and we played all kinds of games-I honestly wanted to beg Nana to let her son become User Nine...but I knew that she would refuse. She didn't want her family to get involved in the first place. So, her son grew up resenting his mother, and over time, he kinda started hating me, too...then Nana found her perfect User Nine. A boy like Yoichi, a boy that everyone thought was quirkless, but he had the passion and drive to become a great hero. His name was Toshinori Yagi...and I'll tell you who he is today in a minute. His parents didn't really care about him, so Nana adopted him and trained him...which made her son resent her. He wanted that relationship with her, but she pushed him away and offered it to a complete stranger instead. Of course, though, she still saw him two or three times a year, and she saw the family that he made for himself...and she allowed them to see me, too, as they got older." Odin smiled sadly. "She had a granddaughter named Hana and a grandson named Tenko. I never really got to know them that well because Lucas killed Nana when Tenko, the younger one, was about three years old, and Toshinori refused to see them after that, but Hana was really kind to me, and I was constantly holding Tenko since he was really young and wanted to be held." Odin took a deep breath. "Toshinori resented my very existence, saying that if only I had been a better quirk-because, according to him, that's all I was-a quirk that he called One For All, given to him so he could fight Lucas, who'd been called All For One by more than a few of the past Users-then Nana would still be alive. Lucas...All For One would be long gone. Toshinori wouldn't have to live with his master gone...ignoring the fact that he never would've gotten the quirk...gotten me...had that been true...and I wasn't the one that fought my brother. Sure, I sometimes stepped in to stop him from killing the Users because I wasn't sure what would happen to me otherwise-I never really cared for any of them, besides User Three, none of them were really that nice to me-but other than that...I didn't want to hurt my brother. I just...didn't. No matter how many people he hurt, no matter who he killed...I can't help but think of him as my older brother. He's in pain because he lost me and Mom...in trying to revive me, he killed our other brother. Lucas just...he's my older brother. I...I can't hate him, because there were days when I wanted nothing more than to betray the current User. Sometimes I wished that Lucas could kill them-well, not really, but find a way to get me back-and revive me...but other days, I wanted him to be arrested-could only see him as Junichiro, this bad person that had hurt so many people. He needs professional help. He probably has severe PTSD from the incident that just...never went away. And now he can't even die. He's stuck how he is unless he can get rid of the quirk that keeps him alive, but he won't. He just wants to have some kind of family again. A full family, but he won't be able to get that with Mom and Yoichi long gone. I don't even know where either one is. I mean, there's lingering energy from Yoichi left with Toshinori, but other than that, he's just...gone." Odin took a deep breath. "But that's not the point right now. Toshinori ended up going to UA High, and he graduated to become...All Might."

"WHAT?!" Izuku, Yui, and Hisashi exclaimed at the same time.

Odin nodded. "Yes, User Eight, Toshinori Yagi, is All Might, the greatest Pro Hero to ever grace the Earth with his presence. He's kind to people...but I can never forgive him for anything. Honestly, I don't think I could ever forgive any of the Users. They used me, and when they got sick of me, they just...passed me to the next one in hopes that they could get rid of Lucas...but they never really could." She took another deep breath. "It's been about four days now...All Might fought Lucas four days ago. No back-up or anything. In a rash decision, he fought my brother, but Lucas nearly killed him...but towards the end of the battle, Lucas sent a black beam towards All Might. I dove in front of him and took the hit, but All Might still got really hurt. The next beam Lucas sent...was a strange pink color, and it made it so there wasn't anymore pain. He even kinda healed All Might...which didn't make sense...until I stepped away from the battle...and went further from All Might than I had ever gone from a User before. It was...amazing. I-I could go places that I wanted to, but at the end of the battle-which came quick after that...All Might smashed Lucas's head into the ground. A-Any normal person would've died, but Lucas didn't. Maybe I should've said something so All Might could finish him off. So I could be with Lucas's ghost and leave the Users behind forever...but I didn't. I let All Might believe that my brother was dead as the police arrived on the scene, and All Might was taken to the hospital and put into surgery for a large wound in his side-he'll recover from it and go back to being a hero again, I can guarantee it. But while All Might was in surgery...I took the liberty to explore the entire hospital, walking around and talking to ghosts and people that were close to death...it was...wonderful, talking to people that I wanted to talk to. On the third day at the hospital, though...yesterday...I left, and found myself at the park." She looked at Izuku-they all did. "That's when I saw you-a kid that was genuinely concerned about me." She snorted. "A kid that thought that he was quirkless, but really wasn't. I said that I would see you this morning, then went back to the hospital. All Might was awake, and he-as well as a few others that could see me-scolded me for leaving, but I told them that I could do whatever I wanted...and I told All Might that I wasn't going to stay around...and I let my wings out, completely disconnecting myself from him as I ran out of there and flew away. The rest is history...also known as today." She smiled. "Izuku, Hisashi...Yui. I've only met the three of you today, but you've already been kinder to me than any User has since User Three-heh, honestly, you've probably been nicer than even Nana's family was." She sniffed, then wiped away some stray tears. "I-I love you guys already, even though I've just met you...I want to stay with you all forever, make more memories-memories that actually mean something to me, with people I actually care about, away from the entire situation. Away from constantly fighting my brother. Away from just being wanted because of my quirk. Away from it all. Because...you guys are the best people I've met in a long time, and I love it."

"Odin...thank you," Izuku said. "I can promise that we'll make sure you're included. You're part of me now, and I refuse to let you be hurt like that again. If another Side wants to disagree and hurt you, then I'll...I dunno, can I even get rid of a Side?"

"I don't know, and I don't think I want to," Hisashi said. "But don't worry-you're a good judge of character, Izuku. I'm sure that none of your Sides will ever be mean."

"Thanks, Dad," Izuku said.

Odin smiled. "Thank you."

"No, thank you, for telling us everything," Izuku said. "If you want, we can clean all the All Might merch out of my room and give it to Kacchan and Hito-chan-I don't think I'll ever think of All Might completely the same again."

"He's a good hero," Odin said. "Really. It's just how he treated me."

"Still-I won't like anyone that mistreats my Sides-I don't care if they're a Pro Hero, Vigilante, Villain, regular person-it doesn't matter!" Izuku said, then held a hand to Odin. "Got it?"

Odin smiled, then grabbed his hand. "Got it."

"Now, it's getting kinda late-we should get ready for bed," Izuku said.

"Ooh, sleeping in the Mind Palace-let's see what that's like!" Yui said, then she and Odin disappeared.

"Good night, Izuku, Odin, Yui," Hisashi said as he tucked Izuku into bed, then turned off the lights and closed the door.

Izuku smiled, then closed his eyes…

...and found himself in a living-room area, where Odin and Yui were sitting on a couch-there was only a couch and a side table.

All three looked surprised.

"When asleep, Izuku Midoriya has access to the Mind Palace," the voice said. "He will gain energy while in the Mind Palace, and he gets to spend time there."

All three stayed silent for a few seconds.

"Um...welcome to the Mind Palace?" Odin said, sounding confused herself.

Ooooh, what's going to happen next?

What did you think about Odin's backstory? I'm not sure if there are some inconsistencies, and it probably doesn't align with canon, but hey, Izuku's quirk doesn't, either, and Odin-Ofa-Irene-whatever her name is, doesn't exist in canon, so...yay!

Well, until next time! Take it easy, guys, gals, and non-bianary pals!

Peace out! (two points if you get those references.)