History Fanfic / MyHuntsmanAcademia

''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/my-huntsman-academia-rwby-mha-cross-quest.549311/ My Huntsman Academia]]'' is a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''[=/=]''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' FusionFic [[{{Gamebooks}} Quest Thread]] written by Creator/{{gorilla_fingers}} on Website/{{Spacebattles}}. Taking place in the world of Remnant with My Hero Academia's Hero Course students becoming Huntsmen-in-Training, it follows Izuku's path to follow in his idol's footsteps as a hero in the making along with all of the choices that come with it.

** Izuku only said "Holy woah!" a handful of times in the English dub of his home series. Here it's his CatchPhrase akin to [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo "Zoinks!" or "Jinkies!"]] when he's surprised.

* AdaptationDeviation: Aside from the fact that the world of RWBY is mixed with the world of My Hero Academia, the world is pretty much running on the schedule of the seasons of RWBY... with the exception of time. The first volume of the story (covering Initiation to the Docks) takes place in where the first semester of a school would, timeline-wise, which means that the Docks take place in the winter. In canon RWBY, the first sign of changing seasons only came in season three, when Fall happened, and by the end of that season snow had begun to fall.

** The members of RWBY and JNPR are placed in different teams due to the [[AdaptedOut absence of Jaune]] and the presence of a few ''My Hero Academia'' characters, with Pyrrha, Nora, and Weiss being in a team with Izuku, Ruby and Ren being in a team with Shoto and Bakugo, and Blake and Yang being in a team with Tenya and Tsuyu.

** A few members of Class 1-A, such as Momo, Mina, Kaminari, and Kirishima, do not attend Beacon and instead go to one of the other Hunter School.

** Izuku, because of how Aura interacts with attempts to build muscles. As Yang explains, when you work out and you have Aura, Aura grants you SuperStrength and so you're not lifting weights purely with your muscles anymore, you're lifting them with Aura. As such, it takes much more time and effort into building actual muscle tone when you're a Hunter, and because most people have their Aura unlocked when they're in their early teens (or even earlier), most Hunters and Huntresses tend towards leaner, more wiry builds. Izuku, on the other hand, didn't have this and went through ten months of TrainingFromHell without a shred of Aura to make the process easier. When he finally gets his Aura unlocked, he has six-pack abs and notable muscles, which draws the attention of a lot of girls. Compare this to the source work, where he was described as "plain-looking" and the majority of the guys in class are just as if not more muscular than him.

** Toshinori gets to have the incredible fight against the Noumu again, although this time its an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome instead of the visual spectacle it was originally. This includes the finishing move where he punches the Nomu through the ceiling of the training facility. Except, instead of the USJ, which was a normal building (if a giant dome), he pulls the same stunt here... through ''a hundred feet of solid rock.'' The Noumu is later found on a nearby ''mountain''. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Weiss actually drops her formal persona and swears at the sight of the hole.]]
** Tensei Iida in canon tried to fight Stain but lost in an implied CurbStompBattle, being left with crippling injuries while Stain wasn't sgnificantly injured at all. In this version he still lost, but he exhausted and seriously wounded Stain, meaning that the fight was close enough to deplete both their Auras. He also has a transforming weapon -- a jousting lance with a dust cannon -- instead of just relying on jet-propelled martial arts.

** Yang is about as slim as most of her peers in RWBY, but in this story she's described as leanly muscular and Ruby says Izuku's biceps are "almost as big" as Yang's at the start of the story.

** Thanks to changed circumstances, the trip to Forever Fall, which capped off the Jaundice arc in canon, doesn't happen. Instead the teams are sent to Mountain Glenn for the USJ-equivalent.
** the GM confirms that the Robot Fight from early season 2 didn't happen, and instead is replaced with the Worpeltinger Saga.

* AnachronicOrder: The story's events aren't always played in chronological order, hopping from scene to scene to allow people to vote in on what happens next in each individual scene or write in their own ideas for how the story should go. For example, early on Izuku is talking to Pyrrha, and made several time skips so that the voters could choose how Izuku would respond, but continued the conversation around those skipped segments. The choices would show up in the next update. This is removed in the Fanfiction.net version, which is edited to be more coherent.
* AndThenWhat: This trope is why Izuku considers Toshinori to be superior to Enji Todoroki, despite Enji having more successful missions under his belt. Enji will go out, do the mission, then report back and go for the next mission. Toshinori will stay with the settlement or people he helped and give them aid in terms of morale, helping them rebuild, or even trying to solve the underlying issue that led to the situation in the first place. Izuku notes that thanks to the Grimm's emotion sensing abilities and how Toshinori's method makes people hopeful, Grimm attacks in the regions that Toshinori helps will sharply decrease.

* BadassTeacher: The entire faculty at Beacon, between Toshinori, Ozpin, Glynda etc., can be considered this. Taiyang, despite his retired status, also counts as he teaches at Signal, as can Qrow.

* BoringButPractical: Mei Hatsume claims that tech and weapons made in Mountain Glenn tends to be this- in her words, "designed more for efficiency rather than any spark or showmanship."

** Cardin Winchester and his team try to pick on Velvet, someone who's not very confident and has failed a grade before, not to mention is a [[FantasticRacism Faunus.]] Then he tries to pull Katsuki in, and when he refuses, tries to get violent with Katsuki. [[CurbStompBattle The resulting event is only shown by Bakugou walking away with a few bruises and saying "he handled it."]] He then aims for Tsu, and meets an angry Yang as a result. After this, Cardin turns his sights on Izuku, who proceeds to beat Cardin down without taking a single solid hit during their spar after scaring the rest of Team CRDL off with One For All: Full Cowl.

* CastHerd: The characters in the story are quickly divided up into teams and factions, such as the core three first-year teams, Team MNVW, Team RSBR, and Team TABY.

* CombinationAttack: Izuku formulates these for his team members from time-to-time in order to expand their options in a fight. He has currently developed two of these:

** Principal Nezu, the one in charge of U.A. in MHA, was the headmaster of Beacon before Ozpin, and isn't mentioned much. In MHA, he was still an extra, but one that played an important role in the running of the school.

** Neo openly dismisses the idea of attacking the Docks (which she and Roman did in canon) because it would draw way too much attention to themselves... and again, Toshinori is name dropped.

** Because of the way scenes are set up, allowing the players to direct Izuku's actions to different people, sometimes potential character interactions show up well before Izuku actually does. Early on, after Ozpin's speech the first night at Beacon, the author said that among the conversation options were several characters who would eventually show up properly later, including a green-haired girl on a scroll call (Tsuyu), a blue-haired boy stretching (Tenya), a boy with multi-colored hair who glared at Izuku when he tried to approach (Shoto), a red-haired girl talking to a dark haired boy (Nora and Ren), a white-haired girl looking for her bags (Weiss), and a red-haired girl trying to not be noticed by the wall (Pyrrha). The players chose to speak with only Weiss and Pyrrha, though over the next few chapters, all of them would be introduced to Izuku.

* EnhancedArchaicWeapon: The majority of the cast use medieval style weapons that are upgraded and outfitted for the modern era like Ruby's Crescent Rose, a scythe with a massive built-in sniper rifle. Notable exceptions are Ren, who just uses a pair of machine pistols with bayonets, Shoto and Kaminari, who mainly rely on their Semblances and carry a pistol as a RangedEmergencyWeapon, and Eijirou, who throws metal balls as projectiles.

* ExtranormalInstitute: Beacon Academy is the most prestigious of the four Huntsmen Academies. Students are admitted by being flung into a forest full of bloodthirsty monsters with orders to eliminate everything in their way after retrieving an artifact. Should they pass, they then have to handle Port's inundating speeches and monster-filled live exercises, survive sparring with lethal weaponry, and listen in on lightning quick history lectures. Then there's the criminals seeking to undermine the world's peace and stability.

** Pyrrha is also a celebrity world-wide for her flawless winning streak as a tournament fighter, leading to her epithet: "The Invincible Girl". It makes her TheDreaded in combat classes.

** Izuku starts building a reputation for himself through his various deeds. At Beacon, he becomes popular among the faculty and students for heading the investigation to solve the mystery of the exploding bathrooms and for standing up to Cardin. In Vale, he and the rest of Team MNVW end up putting Junior's criminal operations out of business. In his hometown of Mountain Glenn, he becomes well-reported as the one of the Beacon Huntsmen who helped clear out the tunnels of Grimm and terrorists when [[spoiler:the Monochrome League attacked.]]

** Tsuyu points out that while the White Fang may have pushed along advancements in terms of laws that protect Faunus, in reality their deeds do more harm than good as they drive normal people to fear and hate Faunus. It's a bit of an ArmorPiercingResponse for Blake, since Tsuyu ''is'' a Faunus (and thus, allows Blake to see that despite her efforts in the White Fang, her actions didn't just hurt humans, but the people she was trying to protect).

** Mountain Glenn is nothing more than abandoned ruins in the main RWBY canon, but Toshinori's intervention has allowed it to become a small, protected city that's as heavily guarded if not more-so than Vale. It's also Izuku's and Katsuki's hometown, having become known as the "City of Hope" for Toshinori's heroics with a statue dedicated to him as thanks.

*** It's also subtly implied that because of Toshinori bringing a new era of hope and optimism to Remnant, the birth rate is much higher than it was in canon. This leads to new students and expanded class sizes at Huntsmen Academies, explaining the addition of BNHA students in the canon classes.

** Tenya has Team TABY cooped up in their dorm while studying for their final exams. Because of this, Blake isn't at Vale's docks that day to meet Sun and his role as Blake's confidant is passed to Izuku. Things get even more complicated for Sun when Team MNVW and Team RSBR happen to see him while he's already being chased by Team MADE, meaning that twelve Huntsmen and Huntresses-in-Training (including [[FragileSpeedster Ruby, Weiss]], and [[TheAce Pyrrha]]) are running after him.

** Weiss seeks out a teacher upon finding out that she wasn't made leader of the team. However, in canon, this was because she found Ruby's command style to be utterly lacking and completely disorganized. In addition, it's revealed that she was, in part, ''looking'' for a reason to hate Ruby from the start since she wasn't picked, and the thing about looking for reasons to dislike someone is, you usually find enough to justify yourself. In the quest, she still seeks out a teacher... but unlike with Ruby, this time she was impressed with Izuku. When there were embarrassing moments, he wasn't the one to deliberately instigate them. He tried to understand his team and attempted to make both himself and them better. He volunteers information freely for class. All in all, not a perfect leader, but Weiss realizes that he is doing a good job... which is a problem for her. In the end, her conversation with Toshinori is not about how she should be the leader, but that she recognizes that Izuku is a fine leader, but she feels awful that she still thinks she's owed the position. In short, in canon she went to a teacher and got taught a lesson about how she was acting entitled and needed to give others a chance. In the quest, she realized the lesson already and needed help getting over what she felt her attitude said about her.

* FunWithAcronyms: The teams' names are able derived from the first letter in each of the members' first or last names.

** While heroes like Endeavour or All Might still exist, they become Hunters with no hero names, and are simply known as their normal names of Enji and Toshinori. That said, they may have titles bestowed upon them which may reflect their original hero names. Toshinori, for example, is referred to as the "All Mighty Huntsman," and Enji is called "the Endeavouring Huntsman."

* GoneHorriblyRight: Yang, in the tunnels, jokes that she needs to rest to recover, so 'if only there was a strong hunter with great abs that could carry me.' She starts blushing ''hard'' when Izuku believes that that's a good idea, and crouches down so he can give her a piggyback ride. It even works- she gets back multiple points of HP thanks to her resting from the ride.
* HandCannon: Shoto carries a .44 caliber automatic pistol for when he overuses his Semblance. A member of the White Fang that Yang and Izuku fights carries a pair of revolvers with mid-high grade Fire Dust ammo that easily blast through concrete. Nieto Monoma also carries one of these.

* HeroesRUs: Famous Huntsmen often have their own merchandise. Toshinori is the most blatant one, with posters, stationery, dice, toys, bedsheets, clothes and even a cartoon TV show. Izuku and Katsuki both owned at least one set of Toshinori-styled onesies as toddlers that they loved to wear. Nowadays, they [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto desperately hide any pictures of themselves wearing them.]]
* HideousHangoverCure: Subverted. Tenya explicitly outlines that eating before drinking, drinking at a steady and controlled pace, and drinking plenty of water are necessary to avoid getting a hangover. Ren ends up pouring everyone tea to sooth their headaches the following day, as everyone sans Ren, Tenya, and Nora (who was explicitly told by Ren not to drink) ends up hungover after the Long Night party (albeit, Izuku didn't have it nearly as bad as the others due to taking it slow).

* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: Despite the story starting on the day everyone arrives at Beacon, the things that happened to the main cast are largely the same: the Red, White, Yellow, and Black trailers still happened without any major changes and are occasionally referenced in-story. Ruby's foiled Torchwick's Dust heist and was transferred to Beacon two years early as before. Izuku's story did change a bit - his "Quirklessness" was replaced with being "Broken," and the Sludge Villain is replaced by rogue Grimm, not to mention other setting-specific details (Mountain Glenn is ''not'' near an ocean, thus the "clearing the beach" training montage had to be altered) - but is, again, the same for all intents and purposes. Shoto's past and his father's attempts to create a weapon to dethrone Toshinori as the the best in the world are the same, as are Nora and Ren's backstory.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The nature of One For All is a tightly-kept secret. To the world at large, Izuku was just a really late bloomer who needed a mysterious Huntsman's help to unlock his Aura. The only ones in the know at Beacon are Izuku, Toshinori, Ozpin, Peach, Glynda, Sorahiko Torino, and later [[spoiler:Pyrrha, Weiss, Nora, Yang, and Inko]]. Qrow also knows, and while it's not outright stated, Nighteye is heavily implied to know as well and doesn't approve. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Raven is in on the secret.]]

* MetaphoricallyTrue: When Katsuki confronts Izuku about his new Aura, Izuku says he just needed help to get it. He did need help, but from Toshinori and One For All.

* MixAndMatchWeapon: As per RWBY tradition, "It's also a gun". Izuku's own weapon, Emerald Gust, is a set of boots and retractable gauntlets with built-in shotguns to help to give his attacks more oomph, having styled them after Toshinori's smashes. Essentially, it's Yang and Mercury's canon weapons, but all on one person.

* NeverGetsDrunk: Played with. In this story, the Huntsmen and Huntresses-in-Training are allowed to drink alcohol for as long as they don't do anything destructive while doing so. They can also burn off the effects of alcohol quickly by using their Auras to "heal" it away. But that doesn't mean they ''can't'' get drunk and they can still get a hangover if they drink in excess, as the Team Leader meeting after the Long Night shows. Mirio passes out where he sits, Coco vomits in a trash can, and Ruby moans about her headache. It can also not overcome the effects of drinking rapidly, as shown when Izuku goes out drinking with Toshinori and downs two drinks in quick succession.

** Izuku quickly learns that being a Huntsman is expensive, spending hundreds or even thousands of lien on upgrading and maintaining Emerald Gust, buying and repairing his clothes, and making sure he's stocked up on medical supplies and ammo. That's not even getting into the money he spends on regular school supplies, gifts and other things for his friends, and for necessities like food. While he gets some help from Pyrrha's and Weiss's sizable fortunes for team expenditures, he doesn't want to rely on them for his own equipment.

** Kaminari and Kirishima tell Izuku that their team got invited to a birthday party, so Momo claimed she would have her cake butler stop by with some great cake for the party. The rest of the team laughed it up, until she showed up at said party with said cake butler.

** Aura users are also able to remain in peak form for longer periods of time. Glynda looks like she's in her mid-20s or early-30s despite being as old as Toshinori due to application of her Aura. But this usage of Aura can wear out the body's connection to the soul faster, which can lead them to die at around 80-100 years old. Those who don't care about their appearance and form, like Sorahiko, can live to 130 and still kick the average Huntsman's ass.

* {{Pilot}}: [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/boku-no-hero-academia-ideas-and-discussion-thread.389237/page-169#post-36824830 This]] snippet in the Spacebattles My Hero Academia Snips page was posted a few weeks before the quest started, and shows off Izuku's actions in the entrance exam. There are changes- for example, the fight against the Grimm is more similar to what canon RWBY would show as the Deathstalker fight vs. JNPR, and likewise, the Grimm Izuku uses his power on is said Deathstalker. While Jaune was still not a factor in this early stage, Team CRDL would be replaced by Team FEBY (February) consisting of Fumikage Tokoyami, Eijiro Kirishima, Bakugou Katsuki, and Yaoyorozu Momo. Further, these were supposed to be the ''only'' My Hero Academia characters to translate over into the main cast.

* PsychoForHire: Tenya reveals that the higher social strata of Atlas suspect that [[spoiler:the "former Huntsman" Stain who has been killing major business leaders is actually under Headmaster Ironwood's employ. Neither Izuku or Tenya believe these rumors to be true]].

* ScarsAreForever: Mostly subverted. Aura protects one's body and heals it rapidly enough to prevent scarring in most cases. But those born without Aura like Izuku don't have this luxury, which is why he hasn't scarred himself permanently with One For All but still has the callouses from his training to obtain it. But in cases of severe injury, even Aura might not be able to prevent scarring, or worse. Weiss' DuelingScar, Toshinori's GameBreakingInjury, and Shoto's eye scar are examples of this.

** After wrecking one of the gauntlets of Emerald Gust with his first use of One For All, Izuku ends up having both of his gauntlets modified so that they can slide over the fingers by disengaging the safeties and off by reengaging them so he can use his Semblance without wrecking them again. This mechanism is reminiscent of the hand guards of the the [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Burning Gundam]], which slide back when [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZjjebXD5Quw/hqdefault.jpg it's utilizing]] the [[https://youtu.be/eZpa9RF9aj4?t=48 Erupting Burning Finger.]]

** During the investigation into the bathroom bombings, Izuku has multiple options to close the case, which include [[Franchise/LupinIII confronting Cardin honestly and playing it by the rules like Zenigata]] or being a CowboyCop because [[Film/DirtyHarry he's feeling lucky]]. He also has the option to report directly to Ozpin, upon which he can use his keen eye for detail to show that [[Manga/CaseClosed only one truth prevails]] or go out of way to prove it simply because [[Franchise/AceAttorney it's the only choice he has.]]

** Izuku is constant reminded of his Broken days by his struggle to control One For All, which breaks his arms and legs frequently.

** Aside from some receiving some occasional anti-Faunus racism, Tsuyu's life story is normal compared to her peers, growing up around her many family members near the swampier parts of Vale. Compare that to TheChosenOne (Izuku), [[Fiction500 the heiress to the most powerful company in the world]] (Weiss), [[TheAce a four-time tournament champion]] (Pyrrha), [[HeroicLineage the scions of distinguished Huntsmen families]] (Tenya and Shoto), two orphans with a DarkAndTroubledPast, (Ren and Nora), the valedictorian of Birch Academy (Katsuki), a GradeSkipper (Ruby), and a former terrorist (Blake).

** As per RWBY canon, several members of Ozpin's inner circle are named after characters from the Wizard of Oz. Ozpin himself is named after the Wizard, whose full name spelled out O.Z.P.I.N.H.E.A.D. Glynda is named after Glinda, the Good Witch of the South. General Ironwood is named after a Russian translation of the Tin Man's name. Qrow Branwen is associated with the Scarecrow. Lionheart references the Cowardly Lion.

* TokenBoy: Izuku and Tenya are both the leaders and only guys on their respective teams, which each have three girls.
* TooDumbToLive: This is Neo's opinion on the Monochrome League for deliberately gunning for the Symbol of Peace. She doesn't know about Toshinori's weakness, so to her it seems like a bunch of kids trying to kill an Ursa with sticks and cardboard armor.

** Canon Outtake 237, "Itch," is a big one. [[spoiler: For the first time in the story, All For One, the BigBad of My Hero Academia, communicates with his underlings. In addition, he casually namedrops Salem, the BigBad of RWBY, confirming outright that both these characters exist. While it was fairly safe to assume that they did -- the Monochrome League and the League of Villains and the existence of the Grimm made it fairly clear -- but this was the first out-and-out confirmation in the quest's canon.]]

** "That's just the kind of person Spumoni is." [[spoiler:Said by Mirio about the name of his fourth team member. The reason this is a wham line is because Spumoni is the name of Neo's sister, who died well before the events that led to the fourth person leaving team MHA -- and revealing that Neo was in fact the fourth member of the team.]]

* AWorldHalfFull: For a world filled with heroes, high-octane action, and humor, Remnant is a rather dangerous place to live. There are only four major safe havens from the Grimm on the planet and attempts to expand often failed (and in Mountain Glenn's case, was barely saved and restricted to a much smaller settlement than originally planned). The seedy criminal underworld undermines even these places of sanctuary and it's clear that forces are conspiring against the peace and safety of humanity and Faunus alike. At the same time, Beacon radiates positivity and there plenty of plucky teenagers with superpowers who are raring to fight the good fight in the name of protecting everything they hold dear, not to mention the World's Symbol of Peace and Justice, Toshinori Yagi.

** Certain Semblances are powerful enough to be handed down from parent to child. The Schnees' Glyphs are one of these rare hereditary Semblances. Enji Todoroki married his wife with the explicit intent to produce an heir that possesses both of their Semblances and succeeded.
** The Maidens are able to use real magic separate from Dust and Semblances, but as of the first week of second semester there aren't any examples of it.

* StoryWithinAStory: In one non-canon omake, Izuku is writing [[BlandNameProduct a "Journey" on "GalaxySkirmishes"]] in his free time that gets mistaken for a SelfInsertFic. He insists that it isn't, passing his friends notes that declare the story's title to be [[Franchise/SpiderMan "The Spectacular Spider-Man"]]. This also acts as an advertisement for the author's latest work, ''Fanfic/TheWebOfTheSpiderMan''.

* BadassInCharge:
** The individual team leaders (i.e. Izuku, Ruby, Tenya, Mirio, Coco etc.) are in charge of their respective teams and they're all very badass. Ozpin is also a BadassTeacher and the head of Beacon Academy on top of being TheChessmaster in charge of running TheConspiracy to defend Remnant from the Grimm.
** Izuku plays with this a bit - due to his [[RookieRedRanger lack of experience compared to his teammates]], he's still badass, but notably less so than they are. They can (and frequently do) clean his clock in a straight fight.

It is also being edited into traditional fanfic format by Shovern and Wind-Waker and can be read on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13031606/1/My-Huntsman-Academia FanFiction.net]]. It isn't exactly the same; for one, mentions of the mechanics of the game (so common in the Quest proper) are removed. Sections are trimmed down, edited, and moved around to make it third-person instead of second-person, not to mention have a more consistent feel (one canon omake had its ending (which made it more comedic) removed so as to make it a touch more somber).

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Izuku has to find Aizawa, who is posing as a "Huntsman" who can be found for extra credit. What does Izuku do? He asks Glynda where he is and she tells him.
** In canon, Weiss tried to convince Pyrrha to be on her team, only to wind up partnered with Ruby instead. Here she ends up on the same team as Pyrrha, but learns a harsh lesson that just because someone is strong and popular, doesn't necessarily mean that you'll like them as much as you thought- as the old saying goes, "Never meet your heroes." Weiss quickly gets frustrated with Pyrrha's ApologizesALot and ExtremeDoormat traits, not to mention her total disinterest in using her fame.
** While schools like Beacon and U.A. are spoken of as the best places to get an education as a Hunter, there are other schools that aren't as prestigious, like Birch. It ''has'' a Hunter program, but their specialty is survivalism and engineering. You can still learn how to be a Hunter there, it just isn't as good as an education from Signal, for example.
** While it works out in a lot of cases, Beacon's method of picking teams- "The person you make eye contact with and whoever else gets a similar relic,"- is shown to have problems. Specifically, Team EGNT. Toshinori and Enji butted heads constantly over who got the top role, causing friction the whole four years. It also doesn't take into account what will happen if team members have vastly different goals- the team disintegrated basically the moment that graduation happened, rather than form a group of TrueCompanions.
** Putting pressure on a group to be equal to a man so powerful and great an entire ''age of history'' was named after him can work... or it can destroy the people you pressure. STRQ fell into the latter category. Tai retired to become a house husband away from the strain, Raven cracked and led to her severing all ties to be a bandit in Mistral, Qrow is an alcoholic, and Summer tried to hold the line by going on more and more dangerous missions until she didn't come back.

** The narration and gameplay mechanics, however, make a point to say that because how how [[BizarreAlienBiology Grimm biology is entirely homogeneous]], buckshot rounds like those [[SubvertedTrope shotguns typically use are largely ineffective]] except at point-blank range.

* CastHerd: The LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters in the story are quickly divided up into teams and factions, such as the core three first-year teams, Team MNVW, Team RSBR, and Team TABY.

* DemotedToExtra: Because both RWBY and My Hero Academia have LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, some will inevitably get reduced presences.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: This story is a fusion of RWBY, which already has a massive cast, and Boku No Hero Academia, which has 21 characters in class 1-A ''alone.'' The number of named characters in this story is honestly staggering. It's telling that the primary cast that Izuku interacts with numbers at about a dozen, and that's not counting students from other schools, grades, classes, teachers, family...

** When one or more members of Team MNVW needs to be pitted against another team in a spar, they'll often end up against characters who are blatantly lifted from other works, such as Caitlyn and Vi from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' Lloyd, Presea, Genis, and Zelos from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' or the Lady of Pain (named Dolore Sigillo here) from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Exotic hair colors like green, blue, and red are not uncommon on Remnant, and that's ''before'' the My Hero Academia cast is added in.

''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/my-huntsman-academia-rwby-mha-cross-quest.549311/ My Huntsman Academia]]'' is a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''[=/=]''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' FusionFic [[{{Gamebooks}} Quest Thread]] written by gorilla_fingers on Website/{{Spacebattles}}. Taking place in the world of Remnant with My Hero Academia's Hero Course students becoming Huntsmen-in-Training, it follows Izuku's path to follow in his idol's footsteps as a hero in the making along with all of the choices that come with it.

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: The entire gang is studying and training to become Hunters who protect the peace. That doesn't stop them from foiling some actual crime here and there.

** During the investigation into the bathroom bombings, Izuku has multiple options to close the case, which include [[Franchise/LupinIII confronting Cardin honestly and playing it by the rules like Zenigata]] or being a CowboyCop because [[Film/DirtyHarry he's feeling lucky]]. He also has the option to report directly to Ozpin, upon which he can use his keen eye for detail to show that [[Manga/DetectiveConan only one truth prevails]] or go out of way to prove it simply because [[Franchise/AceAttorney it's the only choice he has.]]

* DecompositeCharacter: General Ironwood is not actually a General in this universe. He is only the Headmaster of Atlas Academy, holding just the one seat on Atlas's governing council for that role. His other role from canon, high command of Atlas's military, is split off into a new character, General Fyter.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The nature of One For All is a tightly-kept secret. To the world at large, Izuku was just a really late bloomer who needed a mysterious Huntsman's help to unlock his Aura. The only ones in the know at Beacon are Izuku, Toshinori, Ozpin, Peach, Glynda, Sorahiko Torino, and later [[spoiler:Pyrrha, Weiss, Nora, and Yang]]. Qrow also knows, and while it's not outright stated, Nighteye is heavily implied to know as well and doesn't approve. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Raven is in on the secret.]]

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The nature of One For All is a tightly-kept secret. To the world at large, Izuku was just a really late bloomer who needed a mysterious Huntsman's help to unlock his Aura. The only ones in the know at Beacon are Izuku, Toshinori, Ozpin, Peach, Glynda, and later Sorahiko Torino. Qrow also knows, and while it's not outright stated, Nighteye is heavily implied to know as well and doesn't approve. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Raven is in on the secret.]]

* WhamEpisode: Canon Outtake 237, "Itch," is a big one. [[spoiler: For the first time in the story, All For One, the BigBad of My Hero Academia, communicates with his underlings. In addition, he casually namedrops Salem, the BigBad of RWBY, confirming outright that both these characters exist. While it was fairly safe to assume that they did -- the Monochrome League and the League of Villains and the existence of the Grimm made it fairly clear -- but this was the first out-and-out confirmation in the quest's canon.]]