Izuku Midoriya the Rabbit
is a My Hero Academia fanfic by treegirl5 where Izuku Midoriya is a sapient rabbit with a Quirk who wants to be a Hero.
Izuku Midoriya the Rabbit contains examples of...
- Abusive Parents: Endeavor, as in canon, though it comes out far earlier than in canon due to the fact Izuku Cannot Tell a Lie. Mitsuki's actions toward Katsuki are also treated much more seriously than in canon, with him becoming a ward of U.A. after Izuku tells of it too.
- Adaptational Badass: Mirio has One For All in this story.
- Adaptational Dumbass: Justified. This Izuku is a sapient rabbit, so he has a hard time comprehending the complexity of human thought, and never had the chance to formally attend school until U.A., only knowing as much as he does thanks to Bakugou's tutelage. He only managed to pass the written portion of the Entrance Exam by two points and is near the bottom of the class rankings when it comes to regular school work.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Mirko appears in the story at the Sports Festival, long before her canon appearance during the pro-hero rankings announcement and the fight between Endeavor and the High-End Nomu. She later becomes Izuku's mentor during his Work Studies after he gets his provisional license.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Bakugou, in the sense that he never became a bully since Izuku is just the sapient rabbit that lives in a burrow under his house instead of his Quirkless Childhood Friend.
- Adaptational Species Change:
- Instead of a Quirkless human, Izuku is a sapient rabbit with a Quirk.
- As a consequence of this, Inko is also a rabbit. She has the same Quirk as in canon, though she's not sapient like Izuku.
- Also, instead of being a human with a gecko Quirk, Spinner is a gecko with an ape Quirk, specifically a human.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Izuku doesn't have One For All in this story. Instead, he has a variant of Inko's Quirk that causes him to telekinetically pull his mass into himself, making him denser and heavier than the average rabbit. How it's connected to his sapience is still unclear, despite Izuku's attempt to explain it to others.
- Adaptational Villainy:
- Endeavor, who never gets a Heel Realization and has his abuse revealed to the public much earlier.
- Hawks, due to the Hero Commission being the true Big Bad of the story instead of All For One. Here, his brainwashing by the Commission is more thorough and he has Undying Loyalty towards them, while in canon it's implied he recognizes the corruption of the Commission and part of the reason why he's so devoted to improving hero society is so he doesn't have to do so much of their dirty work anymore. He even tries to trick Eri into coming with him so she can be trained to be a Commission agent like him.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Izuku can be easily distracted by anything that catches his attention, whether that be something shiny, grass/flowers he wants to snack on, or a bird outside the window.
- Berserk Button: Izuku does not like people trying to pick him up without permission.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Izuku may be a rather naïve rabbit who frequently suffers from Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! and Comically Missing the Point, but don't think that makes him harmless. He's a 75-pound Killer Rabbit with Super-Strength, Super-Speed, and a willingness to rip out the throat of anyone he believes is an enemy, as Aizawa almost found out.
- Big Bad: The Hero Commission.
- Big Eater: Inko, who uses her Quirk to steal food to snack on. One scene sees her trying to steal the lettuce from a sandwich Todoroki is trying to make. Izuku too, once he gets to UA and is given a diet tailored to fuel his powers.
- Black-and-White Morality:
- Izuku doesn't believe in this trope so much that he can't understand any concepts or beliefs beyond it; he literally cannot comprehend "Heroes" who only do their job for selfish reasons and not because it's the right thing to do. This, however, is justified by the fact that Izuku is a rabbit with a minor case of Blue-and-Orange Morality who has a hard time understanding the more complex parts of human morality and behavior.
- The simplicity of his morality is what appeals him to Stain, as Izuku is a hero because "[h]elping is good and hurting is bad" and he wants to do good. This leads to Stain declaring Izuku the only real hero in the world besides All Might.
- Blatant Lies: Aizawa discovers several members of his class in Kamino ward after Todoroki freezes both Twice and Toga while they were trying to escape. Todoroki tells him they were on a leisurely stroll, and the ice was already there when his group got there. He lets it slide because he was technically acting as a vigilante as well when he went to save Izuku with All Might and the other heroes.
- Book Dumb: Izuku can read and write, but only because the Bakugos taught him how, and just barely squeaks by on grades, as he's never gotten any official schooling. He only barely passed the Written exam for UA by two points!
- Cannot Tell a Lie: Izuku's Black-and-White Morality leaves him unwilling to tell lies or keep secrets. If he learns something that should be kept secret, he will tell someone else (usually Bakugou). Nedzu notes that the idea of such deception is foreign to animals in general and that even he first struggled with it after he escaped the lab that was experimenting on him.
- Crack Fic: While it does have serious moments, for the most part, the story is this.
- Comically Missing the Point: Izuku suffers from this frequently. Justified by the fact that he's a rabbit with a bit of a Blue-and-Orange Morality. A good example is when he thinks the reason people keep on staring at him while at the U.A. Entrance Exams is because he has green fur, not understanding that the reason they're staring is because he's a literal rabbit (albeit a sapient one) that is trying to become a student at hero school.
- Commonality Connection: Nedzu and Izuku connect due to both being sapient Quirked animals living in a world of humans.
- Cuteness Proximity: Izuku, due to being rabbit, is adorable by association and more than one person coos over him.
- Diving Kick: As a rabbit, most of Izuku's muscle is located in his hind legs, so while he can use the rest of his body to fight, this is one of his strongest attacks.
- Ear Ache: Stain cuts one of Izuku's ears when they fight.
- Entertainingly Wrong: Frequently. Since Izuku sees things from an animal's perspective and instincts, he often wildly misinterprets many of the events that happen around him. For example, when he first meets All Might, he initially mistakes him for a villain because All Might is a large, loud, unfamiliar person who smells like blood.
- Eloquent in My Native Tongue:
- Izuku is, well, a rabbit who needs a communicator to speak with humans. When he has to give the opening speech at the Sports Festival without his communicator, most of the audience can't understand his squeaks, honks, chirps, and foot thumpings. Mirko, the only one present who can understand him (except for Koda), is driven to tears by how inspirational his speech was.
- Later on, a video of Izuku and Mirko talking to each other in rabbit-speak goes viral due to how cute they sound. Unknown to everyone but Izuku and Mirko is that the two are having a heated argument, with the former calling out the latter for refusing to participate in the Yakuza Raid and rescue a little girl (Eri) because "she doesn't do teamwork".
- Before he gets Hatzume's translation device, the only people who can understand Izuku are Miriko, Koda, and Nezu (who can't speak rabbit, but knows enough to "get by").
- Fantastic Racism: Unsurprisingly, Endeavour looks down on Izuku and refers to him as "vermin".
- Fear Is the Appropriate Response: Played seriously. Izuku explains this using animal logic: As a rabbit that lives in a warren, Izuku is used to the idea that not reacting strongly enough to danger will result in death.
- Hope Bringer: Izuku sums up the problems with hope bringers: that they may give people a false sense of security and stop them from realizing they are in danger and need to act.Izuku: If there's a fox in your burrow, feeling safe will get you eaten. Being scared when there could be danger is important. If the rabbit watching for danger acts like it's ok then everyone gets eaten.
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite being, you know, a bunny in this version, Izuku still interns with Gran Torino. This time, it's because Izuku asks All Might for help, as he wants to train under someone "small, fast, and great at jumping" like himself. Despite knowing what a Sadist Teacher Torino is, All Might can't really dispute the fact that his old teacher is probably one of the best jumpers in the world.
- Killer Rabbit: Izuku might look like an adorable green bunny, and he is, but he's likely also the most powerful Quirked animal on the planet and can lay a hell of a beatdown when he wants to.
- Literal-Minded: As a rabbit, Izuku has almost no concept of metaphor, which leads him to wildly misinterpret the words of others frequently. For example, when Todoroki makes his declaration of war to him right before the Sports Festival, Izuku thinks he believes he's a country because Bakugou explained to him a while ago that war is something that happens between countries.
- Logical Weakness: Despite his intelligence, Izuku is still a rabbit, and has all the same instincts as any skittish prey animal. Unlike most rabbits, he can fight back against predators, but certain situations override his sapience and set off his "fight or flight" mode, such as getting dumped in the Water Area during the USJ incident. He panics and mindlessly attacks anything that comes near him in the pool as he struggles to reach dry land, not realizing that one of them is Tsu trying to fish him out with her tongue. He also has trouble dealing with flying enemies, because it sets off instinctive fears of predator birds.
- Magnetic Hero: Izuku, due to his earnest desire to help people, easily makes friends with others and acts as Positive Friend Influence to all of them. When he's kidnapped by the League of Villains, all eighteen of his classmates head to Kamino to rescue him despite it being illegal, and when the Commission nabs him after he foils their attempt to make Eri into another Hawks, it leads to a revolution.
- Mood Whiplash: A lot of serious moments in canon become unintentionally hilarious when Izuku gets involved, resulting in this.
- Todoroki's serious declaration of war to him right before the Sports Festival is followed by Izuku being completely unable to comprehend what he's trying to say, and then licking his hand to comfort him. Bakugou, understandably, doubles in laughter at the sight.
- When Stain is giving his filmed speech after saving Izuku from a Nomu, he loudly declares that the only heroes that can kill him are All Might...and "that rabbit", who is currently lying down, half-asleep, with his tongue sticking out.
- Motor Mouth: Once Izuku gets a device from Hatsume that translates his thoughts into human speech, he becomes this by commenting on everything that catches his interest (and having Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!, almost everything catches his interest). When he meets Nejire, they engage in a rapid-fire question-answer conversation where one asks a question, the other answers before immediately asking their own question.
- The Nose Knows: Unrelated to his Quirk, Izuku has an incredible sense of smell due to being a rabbit and easily picks up scents humans can't. He helps get Mineta expelled during the Quirk Test because he can pick up the smell of fear from the girls in the class and tells Aizawa about it (after biting Mineta on the hand to get him to back off), and is the first to realize there's something wrong with All Might since he reeks of blood.
- Open Secret: It's well-known that Hawks is a Commission puppet, but no one is willing to publicly call him out on it due to the Commission's political power.
- Point of Divergence: The admission of a sentient rabbit as a hero student for U.A.'s hero course eventually culminates into a government revolution and the downfall of the Hero Commission.
- Tunnel King: Izuku loves to dig, having spent most of his life living in underground warrens, and is excited when he meets Mirio for the first time, thinking he's a great digger rather than being able to simply pass through the ground thanks to his intangibility Quirk.
- Sole Survivor: Before coming to live in the Bakugos yard, Izuku and Inko lived in the wild, until their entire burrow was massacred by wild dogs, with the two of them being the only survivors.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Along with Koda, in this story Mirko's Quirk allows her to speak fluent rabbit, which makes her one of the only humans able to speak with Izuku in his native tongue.
