Fanfic / A Hero Rises

Izuku's meeting with All Might goes slightly differently, with All Might being a more perceptive hero and teacher he gives Izuku a chance to talk, he receives the help he needs along the way to becoming a hero. Izuku will struggle, and prove to everyone that a once Quirkless child can be a hero. With the help he receives along the way from those around him and those he loves they will witness as a hero rises.

A Hero Rises by Zabeck is a My Hero Academia story that takes an alternate look at the world of My Hero Academia that would come out if All Might was a smarter person and a better teacher to Izuku.

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This fanfic provides examples of:

• Accidental Murder: A self-defense example. Refusing to surrender after being defeated by Izuku, Overhaul makes an attempt to kill Eri before being captured. This prompts Izuku to punch a hole in the villain's chest in order to save the girl.
• Adaptation Expansion: The author goes out of their way to actively pad the gaps between the canon story arcs with filler content which consists of, in their words, "fluff, relationship building, dates, and glorious smut". To wit, the first 16 chapters alone cover the 10 months Izuku spent building his body to receive One For All and his relationship with Himiko, while chapters 34-50 cover the time between the USJ Incident and the Sports Festival. In addition, they also add some original content, like a supervillain quartet titled The Elemental Lords and the fact that Nana and Gran Torino beat them by themselves at one point. Or rather, Nana took on the Firelord, Earthlord, and Waterlord by herself on one side of Japan, while Torino took on the Windlord on the other side. Torino actually holds the title of Windlord for himself because of this, even though it's worthless. Torino even still goes to Tartarus to have tea with him, if only to boast about winning.
• Adaptation Name Change: Rather than Deku, Izuku's hero name is "Taikyu: the Enduring Hero". Mina's hero name also gets changed to "Acid Hero: Queen".
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Izuku and Shigaraki. In canon, the two never interacted outside of combat situations save for the one incident at the mall. Here the two interact multiple times outside of combat to the point that they have an Odd Friendship reminiscent of Magneto and Professor X.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade:
  • In their youth, Izuku and Bakugou had an encounter with an intelligent, mortally injured Nomu that could smell Izuku's Quirklessness and offered to "make him great". Bakugou refused to remember the encounter until after the USJ attack, and Izuku seemingly repressed it. When Bakugou leads All Might and Izuku back there, All Might smashes down a wall and uncovers a heap of decayed skeletons behind it. And after All Might returns a bit later with the Wild Wild Pussycats, it's revealed that the Nomu was still there and alive, waiting over a decade for Izuku to come back before expiring.
  • In the actual series, the winged Nomu being Bakugou's old lackey Tsubasa was only heavily implied by Word of God. Here, Izuku makes the connection after he and Bakugou are called in to examine its corpse post-Hosu and recognize an old burn scar on its wing. Both are sickened and horrified by the revelation.
• Adaptational Badass: Izuku gets an upgrade compared to canon. Due to All Might getting U.A. involved with Izuku's 10-month training crunch in the first place, it goes more swimmingly than it does in canon: Recovery Girl giving him a full physical before he even starts, Aizawa getting involved with giving him hand-to-hand combat training, multiple people keeping a close eye on him so that he doesn't try to overexert himself, and Nezu personally teaching Izuku after he's pulled out of Aldera. The result is Izuku receiving One For All in January, getting a month to train with it, and taking both the recommended student exam and the general entrance exam, with him racking up a good number of Villain points in the latter before saving Ochako. Downplayed, in that he gets the shit kicked out of him a degree worse than in canon.
• Adaptational Early Appearance:
  • Stain, Himiko Toga, Naomasa Tsukauchi, and Nezu all make their first appearances in chapter two, which takes place right after the sludge villain incident to the next day, months before they appear in canon.
  • Mitsuki Bakugou appears in chapter nine, which is during the ten months before the Entrance exam.
  • Aizawa, Midnight, and Present Mic appear early in the year when All Might trains Izuku.
  • Shoto Todoroki, Momo Yaoyorozu, and Yoarashi Inasa show up in the recommended students entrance exam rather than on the first day of class. Or in Inasa's case during the provisional license exam.
  • MLA member Curious makes a full appearance in chapter 76 which takes place right after Hosu on her way to interview Izuku after her Early-Bird Cameo in chapter 2.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Himiko Toga is strictly a hero and member of Class 1-A. While she still attacked Saito and ran away from home, she subsisted on stolen blood bags and dead people until her encounters with Stain and Izuku. Although she does admit that she was close to completely breaking into villainy.
  • In a way, Stain of all people. Due to actually meeting Himiko (unlike canon, where they've never met) and All Might's press conference, he ends up telling her to be a hero, rather than follow in his footsteps. The fact that they're both also blood-based Quirk wielders makes him more sympathetic toward her plight. He also doesn't completely fall into the sheer Black-and-White Insanity his canon counterpart has - the fact that he not only gave Himiko the time of day to talk to her, but even suggesting becoming a hero and changing the industry from the inside, shows that to a degree, he knows his "cull the fakes" mentality can only go so far and that his "Hero Killer" moniker is a degree of an act. Especially since in canon, he sees the results and unintended consequences of it after Japan gets hit with a civil war hard enough that the country's gone to hell in a hand-basket and the number of native active heroes is dwindling due to them quitting in response to the severe civilian backlash.
  • Combined with a Shout-Out, Senator Armstrong, of all people, is a hero in this fic, with Raiden as a Cyborg-enhanced Quirkless Hero. Armstrong is a hero who acts like an ambassador to the rest of the world, something that unfortunately Stain would not approve of. According to All Might, he doesn't have a permanent home as he's focusing on the international aspect of heroism. Based on where he was a senator, the state of Colorado, chances are his home base is either Denver or Colorado Springs.
• Adaptational Intelligence: While All Might is by no means an idiot, the canon version of him was an admittedly poor teacher in general and an even poorer mentor to Izuku in particular until after the Kamino Ward arc. Him getting the vision of Nana's vestige gives him the kick in the pants to get his act together much quicker, even getting help from his fellow teachers, although he still has his dim moments.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • Bakugou is much more self-centered here, dipping into Adaptational Villainy. He physically abused Izuku, believes It's All About Me, and in a training exercise involving fake hostages, he only cares about beating the villains, losing when the latter "kill" the hostages. The change is explained via a story original subplot: Izuku and Katsuki found an abandoned Nomu lab when they were eight and encountered a mortally wounded Nomu that AFO and his Doc pumped full of search-based Quirks. Said Nomu tried to recruit Izuku (detecting his Quirklessness) to "become great" and Katsuki drove it off, but the event was so traumatizing that Izuku's mind ended up blocking the event out and Katsuki's attitude went from bad to worse.
  • Hisashi Midoriya is revealed to have divorced his wife and left his family for America after Izuku received his Quirkless diagnosis.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • Several staff members of Aldera are either members or supporters of the Meta Liberation Army and their ideals.
  • Mineta is revealed to have been enrolled in and kicked out of several schools before applying to U.A., with every expulsion being the result of him sexually harassing his female classmates, and that's before he illegally remained on U.A. grounds after being kicked out solely so he could peep on the girls in the changing room, thus ensuring he'd face criminal charges.
• Age Lift: A retroactive one. The story was originally started with everyone at their canon ages and with U.A. being a high school, but it eventually got changed so that all the teenage characters have graduated high school and U.A. is instead a university. A comment thread for chapter 72 reveals that this was mainly to follow the rules of the Discord server the author workshops the story on.
• Aggressive Submissive:
  • Izuku is very strong-minded and can be very fierce in a fight. In the bedroom, however, he is a switch and can completely give up all control to Himiko and later his other girlfriends as well.
  • In Monoma's case, is arrogant submissive. He may keep a very condescending and jerkass attitude, but as revealed during the Training Camp, he is a massive bottom for Kendo. She promises to squeeze his balls very tight if makes sure none of the guys in the tries peep in the coed bath. Monoma immediately complies.
  • Setsuna also turns out to be one during the Training Camp arc. While she is very teasing, laidback and a Lovable Sex Maniac, Tokage is very submissive to Ragdoll following their flirtatious exchange at the second day of training, something Izuku and his girlfriends are surprised to know when they accidentally spot the two about to make out.
  • Endeavor out of all people. Shoto, always oblivious, says that he heard his parents fighting in their room and that Rei said that she would be on top.
• All for Nothing: Played for Laughs. Izuku walks in on the girls from both classes planning Ibara’s upcoming date with Mezo, something they’ve clearly been at for a while…only for him to point out that Mezo was the one who asked Ibara out, so the onus would be on him to plan the date…which causes the girls to fall over at the realization that they’d spent so much time and energy on plans that they wouldn’t even be able to use for Ibara’s date.
• Artistic License – Gun Safety: Defied. When Snipe gives Class 1-A a lesson on firearms and lets them fire paintball guns that work like regular guns, he tells them the standard rules of gun safety and chews out Kaminari for firing his Gangsta Style.
• Ascended Extra: Since Himiko is a hero, Mustard takes her place as a member of the League, receiving characterization during his introduction and not being captured during the Training Camp.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Izuku's Quirk analysis hobby gets brought up a few times.
  • During the recommended student exams, Shoto asks Izuku to brutally rip apart his father's Hellfire Quirk. After he does so and is pressed about it, Izuku mentions that he only did it because of the pleading look in Shoto's eyes, which also made him realize that there's something wrong with the Todoroki family.
  • After the Battle Trials, Tsuyu asks Izuku to tear her Quirk apart, something that leaves her blushing and the rest of the girls sans Momo and Himiko stunned once he's done.
  • Part of his assessment of Mina's Acid includes suggesting she create "acid armor" for protection/attack purposes, referencing her Acidman super move from later in the manga canon.
  • Izuku makes Momo have a small mental breakdown at the idea of half-making things with her Quirk and reabsorbing them to save lipids.
  • It ends up rubbing off on Kirishima during his and Tetsutetsu's internship with Fourth Kind since he ends up asking about the specifics of Tetsu's Quirk and diet.
• Batman Gambit: How Izuku defeats Nagant in chapter 134. While going on one of his fanboy mumblings causes the sniper to lose her cool and tell him to shut up. However, she says it loud enough for Izuku to pinpoint her location and drop a floor building on her.
• Battle At The Center Of The Mind: One happens during the Battle of Kamino. Through meditation with his predecessors, Izuku manages to drag All for One's conscience into the Vestige realm during his fight against All Might where the previous wielders proceed to give the villain a massive No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. It doesn't kill him, but weakens him enough for All Might to deliver the final blow.
• Battle Harem: Izuku is dating all of the girls of Class 1-A, all of whom are capable heroes-in-training.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Izuku forces his way into the vestige realm within One For All after his fight with All Might. The vestiges in turn force Izuku to experience the memories of each of their deaths.
• Berserk Button: Bullying, abuse, and endangering the welfare of the U.A. students in general, but Izuku in particular, especially since he's getting help to recover from over a decade of bullying and abuse.
  • Chapter 3-4: When Aizawa asks if Izuku is being given OFA out of compassion or pity, Inko goes Mama Bear and attempts to strangle him with his capture scarf while All Might goes Papa Wolf and buffs back up to stare him down. After Nezu breaks the tension, Toshinori sets the record straight. Later when Aizawa is having Izuku do the Quirk Assessment Test to get his athletics baseline, Inko apologizes for snapping like she did...then clarifies that if she did want to kill him, she'd have gone for the capillaries in his brain instead.
  • Chapter 9: Mitsuki goes to figure out why Inko's been avoiding her and Masaru for the past few months while dragging Katsuki along. Upon seeing him at their door, Himiko and Inko's moods just drop - the former eventually pulls a knife on him, while the latter gets so livid she uses her Quirk to essentially Force-Choke him.
  • Chapter 16: Gran Torino gets brought in to see what he can do regarding Izuku's training with One For All and starts to suggest putting Izuku through the same Training from Hell that he put Toshinori through. Himiko, Aizawa, All Might, and Nezu all start laying on the Killing Intent to make him stand down.
  • Chapter 33: During the third act of the USJ Incident, Izuku gets his chest caved in and appears to die. Himiko goes mad with grief, transforms into Stain, and kills five villains. When All Might arrives and one of the Red Shirt mook villains claims that Izuku is dead, All Might just coldly does to him what he did to All For One: crushes his skull in his hand and kills him. He then proceeds to beat this shit out of the Nomu. Small talk between Toshinori and Cementoss in chapter 38 on what would've happened if Inko was there just boils down to Toshi telling Ken that "she would have killed every villain there".
  • Chapter 36: Nezu cows both the Hero Public Safety Commission and U.A.'s board of directors into dancing to his tune in the face of them being more worried about money than the safety of the students, even forcing them to foot the bill.
  • Chapter 58: During a meeting between Nezu, Aizawa, and the Top 10 after the Sports Festival, Best Jeanist and Yoroi Musha end up asking what their course of action should have been if the League of Villains attacked. They get momentarily stunned into silence when Aizawa says "kill them".
  • Anytime Bakugo insults or mistreats one of the girls in the class, Izuku and the others are on the edge of attacking him. When he calls Himiko a bitch during the Final Exam arc, Izuku threatens to have Nezu toss Bakugo straight at Tartarus.
  • When Izuku suggests that All for One did not love Yoichi because he refused to submit to him, the supervillain snaps in anger, one of the few times he drops his smugness.
• Brawn Hilda: Due to receiving a Gender Flip here, Kendo Rappa is a massive, ripped woman.
• Bridal Carry: Izuku carries Reiko like this during their training exercise against Nagant.
• Canon Discontinuity: When first introduced and during the sports festival Endeavor is shown to be much closer to his Fanon interpretation with him being physically abusive and wanting to set up a Quirk marriage between Shoto and Momo. However, come chapter 70, and it's revealed Endeavor is closer to his canon self after the reveals in chapter 304.
• Chick Magnet: Izuku is quite popular among the girls of Class 1-A.
• Chuunibyou: Izuku mentally calls Bakugo a chuuni twice while Class 1-A was coming up with their hero names.
• Costume Evolution: Chapters 48 and 49 are mostly focused on updating the costumes and weaponry of the 1-A girls: Himiko's doesn't get changed at all; Mina's gets made acid proof; Ochako only voices design concerns; Momo's costume design stays mostly the same, but the material gets changed to self-repairing cloth, her dictionaries and belt-shelf get replaced with an arm-mounted tablet, and a cloak like with her winter variant; Hagakure gets the biggest overhaul in that she gets sent to Power Loader to get a proper costume compared to her canon just-gloves-and-boots costume, the reason being the off-chance she fights someone that can disable mutant Quirks; Jirou gets recommended vibroweapons and more speakers built into her costume; and Tsuyu considers an actual drysuit for her winter costume instead of the temperature-regulating collar from canon.
• Curbstomp Battle: Izuku and Momo vs Ashido and Jirou in the former's favor during the battle trial.
  • The match between Izuku and Bakugo is this, again in the former's favor.
• Cuteness Proximity: Some of Himiko's antics while she's feeding, mainly her nuzzling and purring, induce this. On a lesser note, the same can be said for Tsuyu's croaking.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • After accepting his role as Izuku's rival, Tomura tracks down the Sludge Villain and kills him for nearly killing his friend.
  • Overhaul meets his end at the climax of the Internship arc, with Izuku ramming his arm through his torso, killing him instantly.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: A huge part of Tomura's character development comes from this. Meeting up with Izuku, he realizes that doesn't want to be evil for the sake of being evil and wants to be his own kind of villain with his own goals. As he gets to know the rest of the League, Tomura comes to the realization that he wants to build a world where nobody will be an outcast for being different.
• Disappointed in You: Played for Laughs example. During one of the polycule's dates, Jiro accidentally spots Shigaraki and the League, who had just finished faking Mustard's death, on a rooftop. The whole conversation plays out in one of the series' best possible examples of Black Comedy, with Izuku chastizing Tomura (who helped Moonfish escape prison a couple of weeks prior) like a disappointed older brother, and both the League and Izuku's harem wondering what even is the conversation they are watching.
• Doorstopper: In a little over two years ^note March 6, 2020 to March 18, 2022, the story is 102 chapters long and totals over 500,000 words. Granted, a chunk of it is chapters dedicated to slice-of-life stuff and sex scenes.
• Double Entendre: Most of what Midnight says, as per canon, but Himiko gets in on the act enough that it seems like she wants to outdo her.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: In Chapter 26, Bakugo insists that being a Pro Hero is entirely about fighting villains, not saving people, going so far as to declare that saving hostages isn't his job. When All Might attempts an Armor-Piercing Response by pointing out that by Bakugo's logic, he should've left the boy to die at the hands of the Sludge Villain, Bakugo simply insists he didn't need any help.
• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • Chitose Kizuki a.k.a Curious appears in chapter 2 as a reporter at All Might's press conference, Melissa Shield gets an unnamed reference in said conference, while Giran gets mentioned by name in chapter 5.
  • Lady Nagant appears in chapter 78 when All Might and Nedzu visit Stain in Tartarus.
  • Dictator and Kunieida appear during Izuku's trip to Tartarus, before the License Exam.
• Enemy Mine:
  • Stain lends his aid to the 1-A students (more so in Himiko and Tokoyami's case) during the USJ attack. And as much as they didn't want to, the U.A. staff ended up letting him go due to the circumstances behind his involvement and the amount of post-attack cleanup.
  • Kitsune reveals that this the nature of her relationship with Bokor in Okinawa. She makes sure no big-name villains, like the League, make the city their home and he handles the less dangerous nuisances.
  • Izuku and Tomura's relationship is evolving into this. Is even Discussed during and after Izuku's time in captivity. Both have goals to bring a free and better world for outcasts like them, and while they can't exactly work together, for obvious reasons, they can often land some help the other in other ways. This ends up coming to fruition during the Shie Hassaikai arc, where the League ends up working alongside the raid team in order to rescue Eri and stop Overhaul.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: Invoked. The main reason Spinner is allowed to join the League of Villains despite the fact he has no criminal past or training is because of the fact that he has such a strong mutant Quirk. Allowing him to join makes the League look as though they don't discriminate.
• Ethical Slut: Izuku is portrayed as this. He enjoys regular sex with his Battle Harem, to the point of sneaking off for quickies in empty classrooms. However, he never forces anyone to do something they don't want to do and became a hero for the sole purpose of saving others because it is the right thing to do.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Midnight, not exactly a stranger to sexual controversy in-universe, is so disgusted with Mineta's degrees of pervertedness that she advocates not just banning him from the U.A. Heroics courses, but even the General Education courses.
  • Bakugo considers Best Jeanist a "walking fashion disaster" for the Pro Hero's denim-based fashion line. Which is admittedly a bit fair, since his own parents also work in the fashion industry.
  • Played for Laughs example, after finding out Monoma and Kendo are into ball torture fetishes, Himiko says she is okay with all kinds of kinks, except foot-related ones. Kendo bluntly says that "feet are made for walking and kicking ass."
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Stain of all people sees the USJ attack as wrong and that killing children is crossing the line, so he intervenes to stop it.
  • Played for Laughs. Shigaraki and the rest of the League won't inform Mustard, who is 14 years old, of anything sexual like Moonfish's outfit, or why Himiko attacking someone is hot, to the point of putting child blocks on his computer, or allow him to drink alcohol. Yet they have no problem with him killing another kid and then burning his house down to fake his death.
  • Re-Destro sees any form of discrimination as wrong to the point of defending Quirkless people, saying that oppressing them would make the MLA no better than the people who oppressed the first Quirk users that Destro fought against.
  • Several members of the Meta Liberation Army left after discovering what one of their cells did at Aldera. They don't want to create a world where they have to fear that their children would be victims of systemic bigotry-based bullying.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Dabi, who believes there is no such thing as selfless heroes in the world, is genuinely confused upon interacting with a Humble Hero like Tamaki.
• Fandom-Specific Plot: Kinda invoked. The author uses a variant of the "Minoru is expelled" plot - he's outright barred from even General Education, but "accepted" for the sake of keeping Aizawa "on brand". Himiko ends up being his replacement instead of Shinso, who is still stuck in Gen Ed. By the end of the Sports Festival, however, Aizawa states that Shinso will join the Hero Course in the future. He does after Bakugo is kicked to Gen Ed.
• Fantastic Ableism:
  • People with "villain" Quirks and Quirkless people are treated poorly by the rest of society.
  • There is an element within the Meta Liberation Army that believes in Quirk Supremacy that Re-Destro is shocked by as that is not what he is fighting for or what his father before him fought for.
• Fiction 500: Izuku reveals in chapter 126 that All for One had an open bounty hunt on his head building interest for the past century or so, and since he was the one who put the villain on Tartarus, he collected it, and while the specific value wasn't stated, saying it is a lot is an understatement.
• Foil:
  • Himiko is one to Izuku. She was mistreated and abused her entire life for her villainous quirk, and much like Izuku is a disciple of All Might, she is one of Stain, seeking to change the system so people like her will not suffer for being different. And much Izuku did with Toshinori, she also adopted Chizome as her father figure after being saved by him.
  • Mustard is one to Himiko. Both were ostracized for their villainous quirks to the point they were disowned by their parents. But while Izuku saved Himiko and helped her become a hero, Mustard was found by Tomura.
  • Tomura is one to Bakugo. While Bakugo was Izuku's friend who ultimately became his main tormentor, Tomura literally tried to kill Izuku when they first met but eventually became his friend, despite both being on opposite sides of the law. Tomura actually matures thanks to Izuku's influence, while Bakugo becomes even more of a manchild.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Bakugo is this, specially after the girls start dating Izuku and find out about his abusive past.
  • Muscular and Moonfish are this for the League. Tomura actually thanks Izuku for getting rid of them after the Training Camp attack.
  • Dabi is downplayed. While he is overall more bearable and useful than the psychopath and the cannibal, Tomura arranges for his room to stay close to Moonfish, saying that it would be tragic if something happened, but they would find a way to move on.
• Gender Flip: While male in canon, here Kendo "The Rapper" Rappa is female.
• Glorified Sperm Donor: Hisashi is considered this by Izuku and Inko. For all effects, Toshi is Izuku's father.
• Good Bad Girl: While Himiko already qualifies as such, Momo evolves into one. She is a very responsible, reliable, kind, and nice girl, with manners of a Proper Lady. She is also the biggest Lovable Sex Maniac in the polycule, only behind Himiko, always eager to find new ways to pleasure her partners and herself, openly thirsting over Izuku when he is working out, and she is not above arriving late to class for morning hook-up if the opportunity presents itself.
• Groin Attack: During a training exercise, Izuku slips on a piece of Todoroki's ice causing him to land crotch-first on a pole.
• Heel Realization: While Bakugo has a small one in the first chapter, even mentally calling the sludge monster attack Laser-Guided Karma for being such a shit person, he proceeds to throw his mask of bravado back up and buries it as a means of coping. It takes until their fight in the Sports Festival for him to finally outright admit to Izuku's face that he knows he royally fucked up and that things between them can never be the same.
• Horrifying the Horror:
  • During their "bonding exercise", the League watches Muscular and Moonfish slaughter a couple of civillians. Dabi, Tomura, and Mustard are visibly disturbed, and Shigaraki starts to understand the importance of having standards.
  • Played for Laughs example. After Izuku completely breaks down the League's Quirks, most of them are left pretty much catatonic. Tomura asks him to not do it again.
• Iconic Item: Himiko has a red scarf that Izuku got for her that she uses as part of her Hero costume, which she subtly uses to proclaim that she's a Stain follower.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • Izuku still wrecks his legs and right arm saving Uraraka from the Zero Pointer in the entrance exam.
  • Izuku still wrecks himself during the Quirk Assessment Test, although the degree and circumstances have changed: Izuku ends up using low power percentages during most of the tests to keep from damaging himself too badly, mainly getting stress fractures from using percentages he hasn't acclimated to yet, but Aizawa has him go 100% for the ball toss to help impart a lesson on going beyond one's limits to the rest of the class. Said 100% ends up being his whole right arm, instead of a single finger like in canon.
  • The girls of 1-A still get talked into doing the cheerleader routine before the third Sports Festival event, but there's two deviations: first, Kaminari's partner in crime is Awase instead of Mineta; second, Awase's involvement gets the girls of 1-B roped into it as well.
  • Stain cripples Tensei like in canon, though the vigilante was planning to spare him and only didn't after Tensei realizes that he was once Stendhal.
  • Izuku still breaks the fingers on his right hand using Delaware Smash against Shoto, although in this continuity it was more to make a point than a case of incompetence. It isn't mentioned if his fingers ended up as mangled as they are in canon, though, but they likely aren't.
  • The League still uses the Stain fight footage for their pre-Kamino Ward recruitment drive.
  • Izuku and Bakugo are still paired together to fight against All Might for their end-of-first-term practical exam.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Izuku and Tenya reach this agreement after Izuku ends up seeing a naked Mei in Tenya's room early in the morning before the License Exam.
• Lifesaving Misfortune: During the cleaning of the beach, Izuku gets trapped when a rebar pierces his arm between the radius and ulna. Fortunately, Toga ends up finding him and saves him by calling Nezu with Izuku's phone: this leads to Toga becoming Happily Adopted by Inko and teaming up with Izuku, much to their mutual joy.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Izuku and Stain are this to Himiko. When Izuku nearly died in the USJ Incident, Himiko goes mad with grief to the point she uses her Quirk to turn into Stain and kills five villains. It gets discussed in chapter 56 between Aizawa, Hizashi, and Nezu in regards to Stain's attack on Tensei, with them believing she'll break down and retreat into herself once she finds out about it. Izuku, Momo, and Ochako end up keeping her from regressing, but she's still depressed about it.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Whoo boy, we have multiple loops with multiple layers.
  • The number of people that know about Izuku being All Might's successor, him inheriting One For All, All Might's fight against AFO, and the history of One For All and All For One are greater than canon: Inko finds out everything the night of the Sludge Villain attack, Aizawa finds out everything because he got pulled in by Nezu to help All Might train Izuku, Himiko knows everything because she's living with and dating him, Stain finds out about Izuku being All Might's successor and All Might himself being a "late bloomer" (but not about One For All, All For One, or the fight), the rest of the first year teachers plus Lunch Rush find out everything after extensive background checks on Nezu's part to prevent the secret from possibly leaking, and finally (as of chapter 58) Momo, Ochako, and their respective parents know about the wound and the barest gist of how he got it.
  • The full extent of Izuku's history with Bakugo is known only to Inko, All Might, Naomasa, Nezu, and Himiko. Out of the U.A. staff sans Nezu, only Recovery Girl, Hound Dog, and Aizawa know in full, while the rest of the first year teachers know in general (although Midnight finds out more during the Sports Festival finals). Out of the rest of the 1-A students, everyone know the basics, while Jirou overheard Izuku verbally thrashing Bakugo during their match and was moved to tears by it.
  • The number of people who know Himiko is a follower of Stain is just Izuku, Inko, All Might, Nezu, and the first year U.A. teaching staff plus Recovery Girl and Lunch Rush. A number of her classmates know she's at least met him before long enough for her to have gotten blood from him based on what happens at in the USJ Incident. Momo and Ochako end up finding out after Himiko sees the news regarding Stain attacking Tensei. Tenya and Shoto end up finding out everything after the Hosu Incident.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: All for One attempts to pull this to Izuku during the Battle on Kamino, but Izuku calls his bluff since he knows that Hisashi doesn't even resemble All for One before he had his skull crushed by All Might. Later chapters reveal that Hisashi is working for an American company, and Izuku makes clear that he is not welcome in their lives anymore.
• Marshmallow Hell: Midnight sends Izuku and Himiko into this whenever she hugs them, especially considering their heights (5'5" and 5'2" respectively) compared to hers (5'9"). She eventually stops, but only after Himiko speaks up about how uncomfortable it makes Izuku. Momo (5'8") also ends up doing this but is more innocent/embarrassed about it, plus Izuku and Himiko don't mind it as much because they're attracted to her.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: One OC character is a villain called Kitsune. What she is exactly is left vague. She could be a person with a powerful illusion quirk or an actual Fox Yokai. She is eventually confirmed to be a true Fox Yokai in chapter 130.
• Named After Someone Famous: Original Character Oyobi Hiyama's wife, Elizabeth, is named after Elizabeth Bathory. She even mentions it's deliberate, explaining that her family has a history of developing blood/vampirism-based Quirks and it's a family tradition to name themselves after vampires, with her own mother being named Carmilla. Himiko even decides to use Carmilla as her hero name.
• Oh, Crap!: Izuku's reaction to Midnight appearing for one of his and Toga's lessons (followed by their attempt to run), as well as Aizawa's when he learns of it. It's justified on both ends. For Izuku it's because one, he already heard "horror stories" about her, and two, she handcuffed him and Toga to chairs to give them The Talk. For Aizawa, it's because he knows how unrestrained she is at times and knows that she has no problem using their sex tape as reference material, to his horror.
• Pet the Dog: Shigaraki gives Mustard one last chance to back out of villainy when they visit a funeral held for the latter after they fake his death. Mustard for his part refuses to back out.
• Point of Divergence: A lot of points, it seems.
  • Instead of telling Izuku he should seek a more realistic dream during their first meeting, All Might gets a vision of Nana Shimura that prompts him to speak with Izuku more thoroughly. Even further, their talk happens in the underpass Izuku was attacked in, with All Might having given the bottled villain to another Hero so he could watch over Izuku until he woke up.
  • Due to All Might's press conference, plus chance meetings with both Stain and Izuku, Himiko Toga never becomes a villain.
  • Because Izuku finished the beach cleanup a month earlier, he not only ended up getting One For All earlier than canon but is able to actually train with it, rather than having it awaken during the entrance exam. This leads to him getting the top score for the physical part of the exam and being the one to give the first year speech during the Sports Festival.
  • On a more humorous note, due to Nezu getting the green light for the on-campus dorms well before the events of Kamino Ward, Aizawa subsequently pushes to do his Quirk Assessment Test after every student in 1-A (plus Minoru) arrives at their dorm building for move-in day. Which ends up having Class 1-A attend the opening ceremony for once ever since Aizawa became that class's homeroom teacher.
  • The first Battle Trial class features different teams, and rather than repeating the same "there is a bomb, heroes win if they touch it", several teachers suggest scenarios based on previous missions.
  • Izuku ends up staying class representative, instead of giving the role over to Iida.
  • All Might being a better teacher allows Izuku to get a stronger grasp of One for All sooner, learning how to use Full Cowling just before the Sports Festival instead of after.
  • Due to Izuku being the first year hero class representative instead of Bakugo, the rest of the first year classes don't start holding 1-A in contempt and it's enough that 1-A (sans Todoroki and Bakugo) and 1-B peacefully discuss who all between the two classes would advance to the third stage during the second. Izuku also ends up dissuading the female students of both classes from interning with Uwabami.
  • Learning Full Cowling before the Sports Festival allows Izuku to defeat Shoto and move on to the finals to fight Bakugo, where he then trounces Bakugo in a Curb-Stomp Battle (helped by the fact that this is the first time they've fought in this continuity).
  • Said finals fight against Bakugo leads Tomura to seek out Izuku to talk before his failed attempt to recruit Stain instead of well after, with the promise of more discussions in the future.
  • Due to Ochako never redefining "Deku" for Izuku, it keeps the bad baggage attached to it and he chooses a different hero name.
  • Some of the internships end up changing: Momo ends up going with Fat Gum, Jirou interns with Present Mic instead of Death Arms, and Iida interns with his father instead of with Manual.
  • Aizawa and Nezu actually end up looking into the Todoroki family situation, where they find out it's more nuanced than they thought. This has the result of Enji starting his redemption arc way earlier than in canon, with the author making a point of not going the "Endeavor is an irredeemable monster" route that most fanfics keep doing even post manga chapters 300-304.
  • Izuku gets permission from Torino to fight during the Hosu Incident, instead of being told to just stay on the bullet train.
  • Izuku, Shoto, and Tenya end up getting the credit for taking down Stain, rather than it getting covered up with Endeavor having to take the credit. Tenya's dad even says that it's part of his punishment for going rogue.
  • The practical part of the first term final exams ends up being against the Top 10 heroes instead of against the UA faculty.
  • The League attacks the Training Camp with extra Nomus, and Itsuka and Tetsutesu fail to capture Mustard.
  • Himiko has her Quirk Awakening during the attack.
  • Izuku and Bakugo are captured by the League.
  • Mina joins the Kamino rescue team.
  • Thanks to training with the Vestiges, Izuku manages to drag All for One to Battle At The Center Of The Mind during his final battle against All Might.
  • Izuku is present during All Might's final clash with All for One and is publicly acknowledged as his successor.
  • Bakugo's fight against Izuku happens after the Kamino battle and ends in Izuku's favor.
  • Mirio's fight against Class 1-A happens before the License Exam.
  • Kitsune infiltrates the License Exam and takes Gang Orca's role as the villain the students will have to face.
  • Bakugo is removed from the Hero Course after his failure at the License Exam and his refusal to change his jerkass behaviour.
  • Izuku asks Tomura's help to take down Overhaul and save Eri during the Shie Hassaikai arc.
• Poke in the Third Eye: When Nighteye sees Izuku's future, he sees Eri in it. To his shock, Eri meets his eyes and glares at him.
• Polyamory:
  • Izuku and Toga are an established couple by the time U.A. rolls around, but eventually both also start to crush on Momo and Ochako, who are also crushing on them (and each other), prompting the two to join them in a polyamorous relationship. And going by the story tags, it'll eventually expand to include all the girls of Class 1-A.
  • Aizawa, Present Mic, and Midnight have been in a polyamorous relationship for some time. Their experience in such a relationship is used to help Izuku and Toga navigate their own.
  • Zabeck initially revealed in the comments section that Iida, Hatsume, and Melissa Shield would eventually enter a poly relationship after the story hits the events of the first movie. Come that point, it gets dropped after he finds out he doesn't like writing for Melissa.
  • Mirio, Tamaki and Nejire are confirmed to be polyamourous on Chapter 124.
• Primal Scene: Subverted, thankfully. Shoto says he heard his parents "fighting" in their room back home and tried to check on that before Fuyumi caught him and prevented her little brother from being traumatized for life. Izuku mentions that he probably should get his friend to go through one of Midnight's Sex Ed classes again.
• Required Secondary Powers: Quirk users that need to consume blood such as Stain and Toga have special antibodies in their saliva that kills blood-born pathogens. This prevents them from getting diseases when drinking blood.
• Running Gag:
  • Izuku's ironic novelty t-shirts. In canon, they seem to be a deliberate fashion choice. In the story, they seem to just magically appear in his closet, to everyone's confusion. Even after he moves into the U.A. dorms. Himiko's even figured out how to "control" it for specific designs. There's even a reference to his canon "bad fashion sense" in chapter 64, during his pre-internship training with All Might to prepare him for Gran Torino.
  • Toga whispering something provocative to Izuku only for a mortified Jirou to overhear her.
  • Izuku saying "Fuck me" under stressful situations and Himiko either saying "later" or "if you insist." When she is not around, he usually comments "I miss my vampire".
• Safe, Sane, and Consensual: Midnight makes a point of explaining how to safely engage in BDSM to Izuku and Himiko, especially because the latter has a fetish for bloodplay and is a sadist. As Midnight explains, both fetishes can be indulged safely but they should be careful and she asks that they come to her with any questions they have, no matter how embarrassing rather than trying to figure things out on their own and potentially hurting themselves.
• Screw Destiny: Nighteye foresees Izuku dying to Overhaul in their first encounter, but that clash doesn't happen as Izuku instead gives Eri a tracker so he can save her later.
• Secret Secret-Keeper:
  • Shouji accidentally overhears Momo commenting about going to cuddle with Izuku and the rest of the girls for the night but believes he misunderstood it and keeps it for himself.
  • Setsuna from Class 1-B finds out about the polycule after hearing and seeing Izuku and Mina taking a shower and talking about their relationship with the girls. She reveals it to Izuku and the girls during the coed bath in chapter 105.
• The Scapegoat: Tomura turns himself into one in order to protect Izuku from being perscuted after he kills Overhaul in self-defense.
• Side Bet: The teachers make a bet on whether Izuku, Himiko, or both would attack Mineta when he makes perverted comments about Himiko. Shouta ends up winning due to Izuku throwing the first punch in order to threaten Mineta into silence.
• Skewed Priorities:
  • Mineta chooses to hide in the girl's locker room to watch them change, completely ignoring the danger it would bring to him both after Izuku's previous warning after the peephole incident or the fact that he was kicked out of UA at the end of Aizawa's test, thus risking criminal status by illegally remaining on campus.
  • Even though it was partially to throw him off his game, Izuku asks Stain for permission to marry Himiko, due to him being the closest thing to a father figure she has during their fight. Shoto just bluntly goes "there's a time and place, this is neither".
• Ship Tease: Some blatant teasing between Iida and Hatsume.
• Shout-Out:
  • For the post-Licensing Exam work studies, Hagakure interns with Shikamaru and Temari.
  • Gentle tells Izuku "You sly dog, you got me monologuing!".
• Smart People Play Chess: The recommendation exams are briefly delayed by Nezu to continue his chess game with Izuku through the P.A. system. Izuku checkmates the principal with a pawn, justifiably scaring the other examinees.
• Spotting the Thread: Played for Laughs. Izuku finds that his, All Might, and Nana's civilian names and his hero name all have the kanji for the number that corresponds to the order that they bore One For All. Aptly enough, he has a minor breakdown when he realizes it. When he goes to bring it up to Toshi and Nezu, the former is confused while the latter goes into denial mode. To add salt to the metaphorical wound, there's five students at U.A. that could be "number 10": Hagakure, Himiko, Honenuki, Shishida, and Mirio. And during his second encounter with Tomura, he realizes (to his horror) that the latter is a potential tenth as well.
• Stunned Silence: Happens to the Top 10 Heroes twice in chapter 58, the first after Nezu reveals that he was willing to allow them to kill if the League of Villains decided to attack the Sports Festival and the second when Torino boasts that despite his age, he can still run rings around heroes several decades his junior. Mirko thinks he's bluffing and busts out laughing until he immediately proves it by stealing her carrot before she can bite into it.
• Sympathy for the Devil: The more times Izuku and Tomura meet, the more Izuku starts to sympathize with the villain's tragic story. After their meeting on Kiyashi Mall, where Tomura declares his intention to create a world where people like him, Izuku, and the League will not be scorned for being different, Izuku has the following thought:
  Izuku felt a tear run down his cheek as he watched what he knew was his counterpart disappear, knowing that if he had never met Toshi, had no one ever helped him to be a hero that those words would have taken him in wholeheartedly, that he would have called that man his brother.
• The Talk: After catching Izuku and Himiko in a very compromising position, Inko gets Midnight to give them a sex-ed class.
• Teacher/Student Romance: Ragdoll and Setsuna start to hook up during the Summer Training Camp.
• Too Dumb to Live: Mineta thought it was a brilliant idea to sneak into the girls' locker room and hide in a locker to peep on the girls after he gets kicked out at the end of Aizawa's test, completely forgetting about the threat he received from Izuku. Considering Himiko was willing to stab him if she found him, he's lucky that Izuku found him first, or that Aizawa simply knocked him out cold and decided to have him face criminal charges.
• Too Much Information: Believing his parents were fighting, Shouto gives his friends and Yoarashi enough information for everyone except Shouto to realize that they were fucking, which is more information than what Yoarashi wanted.
• There Are No Therapists: Averted. Part of the strides made to help Izuku recover from his years of bullying and abuse included therapy. He even goes out of his way to recommend going to Hound Dog to Sero after the USJ attack. Izuku himself finally realizes after the attack that his reckless mentality regarding his own well-being is very unhealthy and he decides to get additional therapy to help. Part of Himiko's rehabilitation also included therapy, specifically Quirk therapy from Vlad King. Her and Izuku's in-depth sex-ed lesson from Midnight counts via providing safer and (relatively) healthier outlets for her sadism and Hemo Erotic tendencies.
• Unreliable Narrator: Shoto is an unintentional example. He misinterpreted a good number of his father's actions. For example, the reason Endeavor began his training at such a young age and harped so much on his flames when he was older was to prevent Shoto from setting things on fire unintentionally, (Toya would often use his Quirk as a toddler during tantrums).
• Villain Respect: Tomura grows to have this for Izuku, seeing him not only as a rival to help him grow into a better villain but also as an equal and a friend.
• Weird Crossover: In the form of an invoked Big-Lipped Alligator Moment - Himiko ends up meeting Master Shake and Meatwad in a 7-11/Subway hybrid store, then kicking Shake's ass after he knocks over a Twinkie display shelf and disses people that like pomegranates. In the comments section of the chapter, the author admits that the only reason it's in the story is "revenge" for someone with Shake as their Discord avatar posting fanart of a sad Himiko (said person was amused at the idea). Shake getting listed as an S-Class Villain is just the top of the weirdness cake.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Tomura's Character Development leads him to become this. After meeting and learning about Izuku's, as well as his comrades' backstories, Tomura decides to create a world where everyone, heroic or villainous quirk or quirkless at all will be free, and he is willing to use any tool at his power to do so, even unleashing unhinged monsters such as Muscular and Moonfish on anyone who stands on his way.
• WTH, Costuming Department?: invoked
  • Izuku's In-Universe reaction to Momo's hero costume (past a flustered panic) is to drag her to the teachers and demand to know who okayed it. Momo also mentions that her original draft was based on Midnight's debut costume from the Vigilantes manga.
  • The above is followed later by Izuku running through all of his female classmates' costumes for critiques and suggestions. Midnight explains that everyone's costume ideas were sent to an independent company then sent the designs to the support department. Of particular note, the people who designed Mina's costume followed her notes to make the boots acid-proof and made only the boots acid-proof.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Izuku gives one to Tenya during the Hosu arc by pointing out the speedster dumped his own father on a city filled with Nomus to going on a revenge quest.
  • Inverted during the Trainning Camp. Izuku gives a "What the Hell, Villain?", to Tomura for letting Mustard, an eleven-year-old boy, hang around with a psychotic Muscular and the perverted Moonfish.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Himiko transformed into Izuku pulls this off while wearing her clothes.

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