[Misty Nights]

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*Halloween Special!*

Idea from: Me :)

Word count: 2367

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The rolling must coated the ground like a thick blanket, swirling in the late autumn wind. Halloween night. The sound of children skittering and giggles filled the air as they bounded down the streets in search for some candy, knocking on doors with the words 'Trick or Treat!'

Nowadays it was no longer a question, adults would just toss a few peices of sugary treats out to the kids and send them on their merry way. It took the thrill out of the idea of having a treat or being tricked. It honestly annoyed Dabi... Or rather Touya as he had been in a past life.

Back then, he would have been one of the overly excited little shits that now lined the pavement, wearing their bright costumes, cackling excitedly as they showed of their haul. With who would Touya go with?

Good question.

Touya had many luxuries during his time as a living, breathing human being. He was rich, being born into a wealthy family. He had gone to a good school, and potentially would have gotten a decent job had he not taken his own life.

The reason you may ask?

He was miserable.

Enji Todoroki, cheif of police in their town who owned many businesses behind the scenes, was a failure as a father. Indoctrinating his own kids into his ways of life even if they were unwilling, not to mention the state he'd left his wife in... The Todoroki children were never allowed friends, partners or individual dreams. All simply clones of one another for their fathers own pleasure.

Well... Touya did have one friend, but he was whisked away before he'd even gotten to know him properly. A shame honestly... Keigo was a delight.

The afterlife was for those who have regrets, things they have not completed in their life. That's why Touya is here now.

The vessel you are delivered back to this earth in is not the same as the one once sported, it took the most important features but twisted the rest in an inhuman manour. That's why Dabi (The name Touya goes by now), enjoyed Halloween so much.

It was his only opportunity to escape the harsh reality of being bound to earth looking this wretched, this twisted, having to hide away for the majority of his seemingly unending days in hopes of not being seen.

His body looked wrong, purple marks twisting over his ragged dead skin (or what was left). He looked like a zombie, decayed and skinny, just barely clinging on to whatever muscle he had left on his arms and abs.

In his own eyes, he was a vile monster, it churned his stomach to see these kids dress up like a creature that was him now. The only remaining feature was his azure eyes, the mysterious cerulean depths that once shone with life now dulled with the extensive years he's lived.

"You okay there Dabs?"

A gentle voice called from behind, young.

He turned to see his friend Toga, one of many beasts he'd met in the shadows. She was a skinwalker, able to take the shape of humans she consumed. By all accounts, she looked more normal that Dabi. Even if her limbs looked to be far too large for her natural shape most times. Even if her almost chalk white skin wrinkled like an ugly blanket around her shoulders and elbows, too slack for her own frame.

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