TLDWC Chapter 12: From the Flames (Pheonix Quirk) Form 2

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Summary: Izuku's quirk is a mixed blessing

A Phoenix Quirk might seem like a wonderful quirk. As long as your injury isn't immediately fatal, you will revive from your own ashes. But this... Toshinori Yagi locked eyes with his successor. He did not look away. Couldn't. They had cut off his eyelids so he couldn't close his eyes, his head strapped into a contraption that would not allow him to look away. Even if he could, he wouldn't be able to escape the sound of Izuku's tortured screaming. They tortured the boy to death every few days. And the very nature of his quirk revived him. There was blind faith, in those eyes, faith, love, and worse of all, forgiveness. The boy was being tortured to death because of him, and even now, after innumerable agonizing deaths, he still loved him, still looked up to him, still believed in him, and not once did Midoriya Izuku blame him for this.

All Might had many regrets.

As he watched his successor's body burst into flames once again, he regretted giving the boy One for All.

At least then, maybe Izuku would not be in this position.