#All Might is more than happy to commiserate but unfortunately also doesn't understand teens

[purgatoryandme]

If I may ask, what are those BNHA AUs that you probably won't write about?

Ah, I think I’ve mentioned one of them on here before? I love Time Travel fics and feel like they’re kinda underutilized other than as an excuse to kinda Mary Sue a character, so I wanted one for BNHA! The idea was that Izuku in the future isn’t the number one hero, because the hero system relies of heroes eliminating the largest number of villains or ending the maximum number of situations in the shortest time period. Since in canon there’s some mention of the “quirk singularity” and kids beginning to not see people weaker than them as people anymore, I figured I’d make a future hero world where the number one hero is Baku due to raw ‘power’, but him and the other OP 1-A kids have begun to lose their way a bit in the posturing and superiority of their position. Izuku winds up working with Aizawa as an underground hero, intentionally skirting the hero system so he can get at redeemable villains or unstable civilians before heroes who would arrest them, then recruiting them as vigilantes or helping them hide their power. In a situation that is WAY over his head, a kid has recently manifested a time quirk like Eri’s and Izuku manages to get them to chill out long enough for an extraction. His partner winds up startling them though…so Izuku gets dumped back at the training camp. 

The idea was really fun for me because it had a somewhat disenchanted Izuku who had a very different relationship with one of his teachers and with underground heroes in general. He still loves heroes and heroism, is still an idealist, but he’s not too sure how to work within the system that currently exists and it’s made him a bit bitter at himself and, perhaps undeservingly, at Baku. I also had Dabi as one of his main informants in the future and someone he was desperately trying to bring over to his side despite hating him (considering Dabi irredeemable after he begins committing murders like he is implied to in canon). Meeting Dabi again during the training camp is bizarre for him, because this Dabi hasn’t gone too far yet, but Izuku still kindof wants to kick his ass? Kick his ass and make him into a hero?? So Izuku preys on Dabi’s need to protect those that heroes won’t protect - to protect children especially - as essentially tries to trick Dabi into helping Aizawa out. He has…mixed success. He also accidentally makes Shigaraki start thinking a lot smarter than intended.

Idk, it keeps the core of Izuku as a character (loves heroes and heroism, idealist, convinced of his own weaknesses, intolerant of poor morals, analytical) while shifting all of his relationships pretty dramatically in ways that I think would show off some more complex aspects of other characters. I thought it’d be especially cool to see a retired All Might whole-heartedly supporting ‘barely a hero’ Izuku as his successor as the entire hero world is like ??? the old man has lost his mind. 

The other idea was a spin on the whole “Izuku has a quirk that is a mutation of his parents”. I LOVE the fics that intentionally give Izuku a weird quirk and then slowly make it more powerful by utilizing his analytical abilities - minor banishment was a really entertaining one. I wanted to invert the whole “minor attraction” quirk into “minor repulsion”. I wanted Izuku to repel, on a minor scale, attention! It’s not very strong, but as long as he uses psychological warfare, he can render himself completely invisible in a fight! He render OTHER people invisible by just making OTHER things more interesting relative to himself. By the time he enters UA he realizes his quirk isn’t repulsion of interest, but is actually ATTRACTION of it. He’s just attracting interest in anything other than himself. 

Anyway he uses it to become a student at UA despite failing the exam. He takes part in every exercise despite no one really realizing he is there (since they don’t expect him to be), and even befriends some other students in 1-B that never talk about him because ??? why would they, only to finally be exposed during the USJ incident. He gets One for All and it becomes a KILLER combo that have people shook.