History Fanfic / BlankCanvas

All his life, nobody truly believed in Midoriya Izuku's dream of being a Hero. Not his mother, his childhood friend, his classmates or teachers...not even the Number One Hero believes in him. What is a Quirkless boy to do?

Show the world it's wrong, that's what. Finally, after years of no one believing him, there was one man who did. After All Might left Izuku on a roof with the answer of 'no', one man who was not a Hero finally told the boy, "I believe you can become a Hero." Izuku wants to prove the man right.

Short version: One person, who is NOT a Hero, finally tells him yes, and Izuku decides to become a Hero through the Support Course, making friends along the way.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2241342 Blank Canvas]] is a Franchise/MyHeroAcademia fanfic series by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/jokeraddict0/pseuds/jokeraddict0 jokeraddict0]], following Izuku's pursuits as he strives to become the first Quirkless hero.

The second part, titled Blank Canvas: Convictions, can be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30433344/chapters/75037461 here]] on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13856618/1/Blank-Canvas-Convictions here]] on Website/FanFictionDotNet.

The third part, titled Blank Canvas: Heritage, can be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40214349/chapters/100724205 here]] on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14110881/1/Blank-Canvas-Heritage here]] on Website/FanFictionDotNet.

** Chapters 1-7 are the U.A. Begnnings arc.

** Due to the changes on the Sports Festival, the event is also heavily expanded, taking over 19 chapters to cover it, and 8 more for its aftermath.

--> "You need to rethink why you want to be a Hero, Bakugou. Do you want to be one to help people like All Might? Or do you want to be one to be the best like Endeavor?"

** Stain goes from a minor character in the Hero Killer arc, to being the person who reaffirms Izuku's dreams. So deeply does his words impact Izuku that he even influences Izuku's hero name and costume.
** Hitoshi Shinsou was originally a minor character from the Sports Festival Arc. Here, becomes Izuku's best friend, with whom Izuku works with to transfer to the hero course. By the second half of Part I onwards, he has officially become the story's {{Deuteragonist}}.

** Since Izuku starts off as a Support Course student, Higari Majima/Power Loader has more recurring appearances than in canon, where he usually shows up only to chastise Mei for exploding something up on her lab.

* ForWantOfANail:
** After All Might crushes Izuku's dreams and leaves him on the roof, Stain is the one to comfort a devastated Izuku and declare that he can be a hero. This reignites Izuku's determination to work hard towards his dreams.
** Thanks to Izuku's warning of Shigaraki's quirk, Aizawa's elbow does not disintegrate.
** Due to their impressive performance in the Sports Festival, Izuku and Shinsou are offered a chance to transfer to the hero course.
** It is implied that Izuku's positive influence on Stain led him to refrain from crippling Ingenium, even going so far as to phone an ambulance to save his life.

--> "What in the ever '''fucking''' hell is happening?!"

* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaEntropy'': Both fics feature a quirkless Izuku protagonist with the same divergence points, the Sludge Villain never escaping, and so Izuku never proves his worth to All Might. Also in both, Izuku becomes friends with Hitoshi and Mei, and in both, he has his chances to be a hero shut down by All Might. But unlike here, in Entropy, Izuku lacks emotional support from anyone besides his friends, and even Aizawa refuses to see his potential. The result is Izuku being DrivenToVillainy alongside Shinso and Hatsume.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Dabi. [[spoiler: As Rei's flashbacks reveal, Toya managed to grow out of his jealousy and IrrationalHatred towards his youngest brother and the rest of the Todoroki family, to hate only Endeavor, the actual person to blame for the abuse he and his siblings had to endure. Come present-day story, Dabi is enraged upon finding out that Endeavor is still putting Shoto through the same TrainingFromHell that both of them had to endure since their Quirks came in, and gives Stain the necessary info to take down the Number Two Hero.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: All for One truly loves Izuku, or the closest thing to love that villain like him can feel. When Izuku sent a distress call before his fight against Stain, All for One hoped that his son wouldn't be caught in the chaos Tomura unleashed on Hosu, otherwise there would be "harsh words", which implies even though he claims to care about Shigaraki, not even he will have a free pass for harming his son.]]

--> ''She didn’t know when but she would meet this Midoriya Izuku and thank him for all that he has done for her son. And subsequently for her. And maybe someday…welcome him to their family.''

* AbledInTheAdaptation: Since Stain did not attacked him with intention to maim, Tensei Iida doesn't become paralyzed from the waist below, altough it will take a while before he is ready to return to hero duty.

** Ejiro Kirishima is introduced on chapter 5, instead of the first day at U.A, where he is inspired by Izuku to follow his dream of being a hero despite having a seemingly weak quirk.

* AffectionateNickname: Izuku collects a few throughout the story. Mei calls him "Hero-kun", Stain refers to him as "Little Hero", Uraraka calls him "Mido", and Dark Shadow labels him as "Sun Boy". Present Mic calls him "Little Listener", Midnight, and Shinsou take to calling him "Green Bean."

** Hitoshi Shinsou was originally a minor character from the Sports Festival Arc. Here, becomes Izuku's best friend, with whom Izuku works with to transfer to the hero course. By the second half of the Part I onwards, he has officially become the story's {{Deuteragonist}}.

** Present Mic appears more often than in canon, since he is married to Aizawa.

* BadPowersGoodPeople: {{Invoked}} and {{discussed}}. Hitoshi spent his entire life, ever since his Quirk manifested being called a villain in the making. However, he never used nor intended to use Brainwashing to hurt people and always wished to be a hero. Izuku was the first person on his life to not only say his Quirk is not villainous, but also make a extensive list of all the positive things he could use it for.

* BeneathTheMask: Neito Monoma may keep a very arrogant and condescending attitude, but all of it rooted on insecurity, because no one ever thought his quirk would useful for heroics, since it relies on working with other people for it to work, effectively making him Quirkless. Izuku manages to see through it and becomes the first person to ever praise him for his Quirk, something that means a lot to him
* BrickJoke: Izuku and Hitoshi comment that with Hitoshi's brood and gloomy personality, he could would have to fight against [[FightingSpirit Tokoyami]] or [[ShadowWalker Kuroiro]] of Class B, over the title of being "Friend of Darkness." Come the Sports Festival, and Hitoshi ends up facing off Tokoyami during his second match.
* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. Despite Stain's BlackAndWhiteInsanity, he doesn't disavow All Might when he finds out through Izuku that All Might is the AllLovingHero that he believed he was. Stain is still rather disappointed that All Might engages in FantasticRacism and didn't see Izuku's potential. Stain still idolizes All Might but he's no longer Stain's ideal hero.
* CruelToBeKind: {{Deconstructed}}. Bakugo justifies bully attitude by saying that all the emotional, physical and verbal abuse is done in order to prevent Izuku from dying following a hero career. This logic fall apart for three reasons: 1) He never thinks about all of this from Izuku's perspective, only hurting him and moving on. 2) This is rooted on an InsaneTrollLogic thought that just because Midoriya never backed away from his dream despite the setbacks, [[ItsAllAboutMe Midoriya is looking down on him.]] 3) ''His own conscience'' calls him out on his toxic behaviour, especially the infamous suicide baiting. Which means no matter how much he tries to justify it, Bakugo bullied Midoriya because he liked doing it.

* DemotedToExtra: Class 1-A, by the exception of Ochako, Kirishima and later Todoroki, don't make any meaningful appeareance outside of any story arc until the Sports Festival. Justified, since Izuku and Hitoshi only transfer to the hero course after it.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Stain was [[spoiler:disgusted when he sneaked in to the Todoroki household and saw the abuse Endeavor put Shouto through]].

** Thanks to Izuku's warning of Shigaraki's quirk, Aizawa's elbow does not get disintegrated.

** First, manages to talk Hitoshi out of his aloof and friendless atitude with his sheer kindness and good heart.
** He later manages to get trough Monoma's jerkass and actually manages to make him grow out of his IrrationalHatred towards 1-A.
** Izuku's idealism and kindness marginally soften Stain's BlackAndWhiteInsanity to be more careful in picking his targets and reduce collateral damage due to wanting to live up Izuku's heroism in the small ways he can.

* ShipperOnDeck: Mei, Hitoshi and Ochako know that Izuku and Shoto have a crush on each other and firmly support it. Midnight becomes aware that Izuku has a crush on someone from 1-A and keeps teasing him about it until he confirms is Shoto prior to their match, much to her delight.
* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaEntropy'': Both fics have feature a quirkless Izuku protagonist with same divergence points, the Sludge Villain never escaping, and so Izuku never proves his worth to All Might. Also in both, Izuku becomes friends with Hitoshi and Mei, and in both he has his chances to be a hero shut down by All Might. But unlike here, in Entropy, Izuku lacks emotional support from anyone besides his friends, and even Aizawa refuses to see his potential. The result is Izuku being DrivenToVillainy alongside Shinso and Hatsume.

* TookALevelInDumbass: In the Battle Training arc, All Might enters the observation room and promptly deflates into his skeletal form...without checking first if anyone was already inside. He immediately panics he sees Hiro, terrified that he inadvertently revealed his secret to another kid.

--> ''"If you really are looking for fake Heroes and want a better class of Hero, you should look into the family life of…Endeavor."''

** Since Ochako never redefined the meaning of "Deku", Izuku takes the name of "Edge" a reference his conversation with Chizome that inspired him to become a hero.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Dabi. [[spoiler: As Rei's flashbacks reveal, Toya managed to grow out of his jealousy and IrrationalHatred towards his youngest brother and the rest of the Todoroki family, to hate only Endeavor, the actual person to blame for the abuse he and his siblings had to endure. Comes present day story, Dabi is enraged upon finding out that Endeavor is still putting Shoto through the same TrainingFromHell that both of them had to endure since their Quirks came in, and gives Stain necessary info to take down the Number Two Hero.]]
* BatmanGambit: How Izuku defeats Stain during the Hero Killer/Hosu arc: [[spoiler:Izuku realizes that Stain does not have immunity to his own Quirk, so he soaks one of Stain's blades, the one that accidentally impaled his stomach, on a pool of Chizome's blood. When Chizome uses Bloodcurdle, both him and Izuku are paralyzed.]] Stain praises Izuku for taking him down with so much creativity.

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Amongst the list of things that Tomura hates and wants to destroy include: Sandwiches, itchy clothes and [[WorldsStrongestMan All Might]].
* BrokenBase: InUniverse example. Izuku being credited by Stain's arrest causes a the opinions about the Quirkless hero student to become divisive: There are people who believe that dismiss the incident and Izuku winning the Sports Festival as a lucky shot that doesn't mean anything in the long run, while others say this is sign of changing times, that mean that anyone can truly be a hero.

* DramaticIrony: In chapter 8, Shoto, still believing [[MythologyGag that Izuku is Aizawa's secret love child]] theorizes that Hisashi is using CGI to change his looks during their video call. [[spoiler: The following chapter reveals he is not far from the truth, as All for One is using a quirk called Mirage to conceal his appearence during his calls to home.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: All for One truly loves Izuku, or the closest thing to love that villain like him can feel. When Izuku sent a distress call during before his fight against Stain, All for One hoped that his son wouldn't be caught in the chaos Tomura unleashed on Hosu, otherwise there would be "harsh words", which implies even though he claims to care about Shigaraki, not even he will have a free pass for harming his son.]]

* InSpiteOfANail: Iida Tenya still comes across and attempts to fight Stain. Although this was not for revenge nor was it pre-mediated. Tenya was in Hosu to intern under his recovering brother. He only intervened because he felt duty-bound to save Native.

* LampshadeHanging: After Izuku is taken by the Winged Nomu, even Chizome can't help but comment Izuku's DoomMagnet status.

* ShipperOnDeck: Following the trend of the previous part, even more people ship Izuku and Shoto. Inko and Aizawa are aware of it, and following their reuinion, Rei delivers this line after she hears about how better Shoto's life became after meeting Izuku.

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Izuku and Hitoshi often engage into it. One of the second part's best examples is before their confrontation with Stain:
--> '''Izuku''' ''(about jumping from one roof to another to reach out Iida)'': I'll carry you.\\

** One example that actually works for the heroes favor: Eraserhead sends a quirked glare to Izuku when he jokes after defeating the Hero Killer, which causes Stain's paralysis to wear off faster. However this allows to break free from his restrains and save Izuku when the teenager is taken by the Winged Nomu.
* WhatTheHellHero: Aizawa to All Might, when he found out that the he had not only failed to render aid after Izuku was attached by the sludge villain, he also left him on the roof after telling him he could not be a Hero.

* ShipTease: Hitoshi and Denki start to have one during I-Island, with the brainwasher blushing with embarassement after he gets a coffee with a cat drawing on it. Appearently, Denki heard that Hitoshi likes cats and black coffe, so he decide to mend two of his favorite things.

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* BrokenBase: InUniverse example. Izuku being credited by Stain's arrest causes a the opinions about the Quirkless hero student to become divisive: There are people who believe that dismiss the incident and Izuku winning the Sports Festival as a lucky shot that doesn't mean anything in the long run, while others say this is sign of chaging times, that mean that anyone can truly be a hero.

** [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Edna Mode]] is a hero costume designer, and her "No Capes" rule is still law.

* PositiveFriendInfluence: Izuku's idealism and kindness marginally soften Stain's BlackAndWhiteInsanity to be more careful in picking his targets and reduce collateral damage due to wanting to live up Izuku's heroism in the small ways he can.

** Since Izuku starts off as a Support Course student, Higari Majima/Power Loader has more recurring appearences than in canon, where he usually shows up only to chastise Mei for exploding something up on her lab.

* BeneathTheMask: Neito Monoma may keep a very arrogant and condescending attitude, but all of it rooted on insecurity, because no one ever thought his quirk would useful for heroics, since it relies on working with other people for it to work, effectively making him Quirkless. Izuku manages to see trough it and becomes the first person to ever praise him for his Quirk, something that means a lot to him

* DemotedToExtra: Class 1-A, by the exception of Ochako, Kirishima and later Todoroki, don't make any meaningful appeareance outside of any story arc until the Sports Festival. Justified, since Izuku and Hitoshi only tranfer to the hero course after it.

* HappilyMarried: Eraserhead and Present Mic are married here.

* TheReasonYouSuck: After Bakugou accuses Izuku of cheating his way into the Sports Festival finals, attacks him, and destroys almost all his support gear, Izuku finally snaps and delivers a scathing one to him.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Dabi. [[spoiler: As Rei's flashbacks reveal, Toya managed to grow out of his jealousy and IrrationalHatred towards his youngest brother and the rest of the Todoroki family, to hate only Endeavor, the actual person to blame for the abuse he and his siblings had to endure. Comes present day story, Dabi is enraged upon finding out that Endeavor is still putting Shoto trough the same TrainningFromHell that both of them had to endure since their Quirks came in, and gives Stain necessary info to take down the Number Two Hero.]]

* WhamEpisode: In Chapter 9, it is revealed that [[spoiler: All For One is Izuku's father]].

A third part, titled Blank Canvas: Heritage, has been announced.

** Stain, the main point of divergence from canon is introduced in chapter 2, the U.A. Begnnings arc, instaed of during the Hero Killer arc.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2241342 Blank Canvas]] is a Franchise/MyHeroAcademia fanfiction series by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/jokeraddict0/pseuds/jokeraddict0 jokeraddict0]], following Izuku's pursuits as he strives to become the first Quirkless hero.

The [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2241342 Blank Canvas AU]] is a Franchise/MyHeroAcademia fanfiction series by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/jokeraddict0/pseuds/jokeraddict0 jokeraddict0]], following Izuku's pursuits as he strives to become the first Quirkless hero.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23195962/chapters/55527568 Blank Canvas]] is a Franchise/MyHeroAcademia fanfic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/jokeraddict0/pseuds/jokeraddict0 jokeraddict0]], following Izuku's pursuits as he strives to become the first Quirkless hero.

* CruelToBeKind: {{Deconstructed}}. Bakugo justifies bully attitude by saying that all the emotional, physical and verbal abuse is done in order to prevent Izuku from dying following a hero carrer. This logic fall apart for three reasons: 1) He never thinks about all of this from Izuku's perspective, only hurting him and moving on. 2) This is rooted on an InsaneTrollLogic thought that just because Midoriya never backed away from his dream despite the setbacks, [[ItsAllAboutMe Midoriya is looking down on him.]] 3) ''His own conscience'' calls him out on his toxic behaviour, especially the infamous suicide baiting. Which means no matter how much he tries to justify it, Bakugo bullied Midoriya because he liked doing it.

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:All Might has become one to Izuku as his insistence of making Izuku the next inheritor of One For All and claiming that he'd have better potential with a qurik caused him to snap and lose the admiration he had of the hero]].