Thread of Awesome: THIS! IS!! QUOTEFILE!!!

[Aleh]

From later on in that same fic:

“If I use guns and martial arts training that I obtained…” Mostly during his retreat to America, damn if that wasn’t an eventful journey towards self-realization and brutal extinguishment of your enemies. “...I can actually become Japan’s first quirkless hero. No one is going to say no to the former Number One Hero. I can become a symbol for other quirkless, showing them that they can become heroes too!”

And probably atoning finally in his own eyes for the stupid answer he gave to Izuku back then. That was a really badly thought reply.

“And, for as much as I love spending the time with my family and teaching the kids at UA, I just…” He takes a deep breath. “I need to help people. Heroism is… it’s just a core point of what I am, of what I always was. It’s the mantle of the Symbol of Peace that I grew weary of.”

Besides, this is the only way of legalizing the small arsenal that he obtained along the way. Or, at least, the only one that he can achieve on a reasonable timescale.

Silence reigns in the room for almost ten seconds. During that time, she takes another sip of the tea. Gracefully, of course. Then she puts it back on the table. And All Might can feel her eyes on him. With their whole intensity.

“Toshi.” She says. With confidence, grace and seriousness that’s almost unlike her. “I’m not vetoing your decision to become a hero again, now that your health is improving rapidly. Especially not if it’s going to make quirkless people out there not go through the same things that happened to Izuku. I’m vetoing your decision to do that while wearing a cowboy hat and under a hero name of Y’all Might.”

Truly, betrayal of those close to you stings the most.