And here's the last of the Reddit posts. This time, it's a crossover! Happy days!
We Called it the Traveller
(Inspired by Destiny)
What would an MHA/Destiny crossover look like to all of you, and what would you want to see in such an idea?
For me, if I were to write a crossover between MHA and Destiny, I think I would put more focus on the esoteric and fantastical elements of Destiny's lore and how they would mesh with a world like MHA and its more shounen/comic book-like world. Things such as the Sword Logic, Throne Worlds, the Dreaming City, Ahamkara and Wish Magic, and so on.
For characters and races from Destiny and how they would be integrated into MHA, I'm not sure about what I would do for the Exos, but here's what I would do for the enemy races instead:
The Vex in this universe would simply be a replacement for the training droids and villain droids of U.A., with the various frames replacing the point bots, that being the Goblin (one pointer), the Hobgoblin (two pointer), the Minotaur (three pointer), and the Hydra being the zero pointer, with Wyverns and Harpies representing new four pointer and half pointer models. The only actually villainous example of a Vex in this story would be the Sol Divisive subset of the Vex training droids, which would end up malfunctioning and having their programming corrupted by the villains of this story.
In this crossover story, the Fallen would actually be refugees from a neighbouring country that had been destroyed in a great disaster, and had formed into various crime families upon arriving in Japan that they would refer to as Houses. At the time of the story's beginning, the Houses are on the verge of fracturing thanks to the efforts of the heroes, and the lead house would begin to call for all remaining Fallen houses to merge together. The Fallen worship a Goddess of Light that they would refer to as the Great Machine, and practice their worship of her by modifying their bodies with cybernetics and grafting an extra pair of arms onto themselves, as well as feeding themselves on a drug-like stimulant that they call Ether.
The Cabal, meanwhile, are an opposing crime family that had been born into Japan, made up of former JSDF members after the JSDF had been disbanded by the heroes, and adopting a heavily militaristic method of forcing others into submission. Have currently contracted a family of powerful telepaths into their ranks that they call the Psions. Many of them seek a return to old Japanese Confucianism and warlike mentality, and gather under the number of those in their ranks who refer to themselves as the Red Legion. However, others rally under the banner of their former self-imposed emperor, now gone into exile, while others see promise in the daughter of said former-emperor...
And then, there is the Hive, a radical, violent cult that take the ideals of the typical villain, that being the rule of the strong and the want to dominate others, and have formed an entire religion around it, as they have come to worship what they call the Sword Logic, the belief that life must be cut down to its simplest shape, and that only the strongest may survive. So, they seek to prove themselves to be the strongest, and are out to kill anyone who may stand against this goal. They have centred their worship around three siblings who have built thrones in other dimensions for themselves; a sister who gains her strength from war, a brother who turns hero society against itself, and a sister who is growing sick of the sword, and is looking for her own way out...
The Taken would be the result of the Hive brother's quirk, that being the ability to take his enemies and turn them into his minions, corrupting them with that he calls the Darkness. His Taken would be made up of many different factions, from the Cabal, the Fallen, the Vex, his own Hive, even heroes and villains alike. These Taken would be left as wild and directionless without the brother around to command them. However, soon enough, even without the brother around, his Taken would start receiving orders from another...
The Scorn would operate much like the Taken in a way, though instead of being ordinary people turned into monsters, the Scorn would be made up of reanimated Fallen, Eliksni corpses that have been risen from the dead by a corrupted elixir of Ether and the magics of a Taken hero that saved herself from total submission with the powers of her quirk, that being Wish Magic. The Scorn would at first be rabid and mindless, but soon enough, they too would begin receiving direction and purpose, first from the Barons that control them, and then from another...
And then, we get to the larger forces at play in this world. The League of Villain, who take up the roles of Tormentors and Subjugators, Kurogiri, who serves as All for One's first Disciple, Shigaraki, who fashions himself as a God of Pain, and All for One, who, instead of wanting to be the ultimate villain, is simply seeking meaning in what he thinks is a meaningless world...
And the woman who hangs over U.A., covered in a white cloak, a veil as pale as her heart, who made a new people known as the Awoken and blessed them with a city made out of their dreams...
Some call her a silent goddess. Others call her a Great Machine.
To the rest, she is known as simply the Traveller.