#and thats why aizawa and mic are extremely pro-submissive rights

[flfverse]

on the subject of historical worldbuilding, i bring you the two tidbits i actually do have.

the first tidbit: in Cross the Line (chapter 2, specifically), katsuki and izuku watch a series of bad all might movies. the second movie gives all might a fiction sidekick unsubtly based on a real historical figure—the first submissive hero, morioka kaida. [she still needs a hero name. and a quirk. shh]

the second tidbit: kurogiri is a sub in this universe. i had two options there: either oboro was initially a dom or switch, and the nomu-creating process made kurogiri a sub anyway, or oboro was always a sub. i went with the second route and decided to give oboro the honor of being the first submissive at UA.

so. that means that the ban on submissive heroes would’ve been lifted right before oboro (and aizawa, midnight, and mic) came to UA, making morioka only a few years older than them.

speaking of her, let’s extrapolate from izuku’s rambling about her portrayal in the film. she was a submissive posing as a switch going through hero school (not UA, i said it was UA in the fic and that’s wrong/will be changed, but somewhere).

morioka was an excellent student, fourth in her class. but after being outed in her third year, she was expelled and immediately became the center of a national scandal. she spent several months fighting the expulsion, eventually being granted the right to graduate and become a hero. [when i have free time i’ll look up law stuff and flesh out the exact legal timeline more]

an agency took her on as a sidekick, but she spent most of six months resigned to menial work and search and rescue. after she made a minor, but public, mistake during a rescue, she was unceremoniously dropped and no other agency wanted to risk taking her on. morioka reluctantly retired from hero work, turning to activism instead. some conspiracy theorists argue that she became a vigilante as well, unable to fully give up her career, but surely she would never do something like that….and even if she did, it’s not like you can prove it!

ahem. anyway, all of that was happening when oboro and co. were around 13-14, just before they started at UA. obviously he had been following the situation closely, and looked up to morioka as a hero. he may or may not have had a phase where he tried to prove she was still out there as a vigilante.

the movie bkdk watch in Cross the Line comes out about two years after submissives are allowed in the hero program, so late in the kids’ second year. it’s a very unflattering portrayal of a submissive sidekick that ends with morioka’s stand-in choosing a more “suitable” career and giving up heroism. the kids would have absolutely hated that. oboro in particular vowed to be the best hero possible and prove that morioka was right.

then, only a few weeks later, he dies.

[yeah, i know, i’m crying too, don’t kill me.]

and that’s about all i got, historically, which isn’t even great because it all occurs within 20 years of the “present” timeline. still, might be something of a jumping-off point