#he also is getting either married or adopted by a collection of pro heroes

[dark-elf-writes]

(squints) Speaking of perma solutions, now I'm picturing Desmond in BNHA with Isu Arm and traces of Eden-power.

... that'll go hilariously off kilter. shit.

Desmond, fresh in Japan hunting for a new piece of Eden: I’m sure nothing crazy will happen to me here :)

AfO: I found an orb that lets me control people :)

Desmond: F U C K

[hey-hamlet]

BNHA AU Ideas : Quirkless Erasure

Also on AO3!

TL;DR: 

In some worlds, Midoriya Izuku is the first quirkless hero. But not in this one, not by far.

Because his homeroom teacher is the hero he's always looked up to: UA's first quirkless Pro Hero.

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Izuku isn't the only quirkless one, and Aizawa gets into the hero course via emotional devastation against his opponents.

anyway so: quirkless aizawa bc i need that

everyone thinks he has a quirk like emotional manipulation of something but no he's just fucking savage, he gets into the hero course bc he blasted the absolute shit out of mic

everything’s on youtube it’s one of the most viewed videos of all time

this aizawa's eyes are permanently gold bc i headcanon it's his quirk that makes his eyes black, not the colour they flash

"you yell because you have a constant fear no one is really listening to you. you play the class clown and don't try too hard so when you look back you think "i failed because i didn't try" not "i failed because i wasn't good enough""

"bro,,, bro what the fuck did i do to you"

aizawa isn’t even salty he’s quirkless tbh

"you're pushing this on me because it hurts, right? your loud, flashy but damaging quirk means the only thing people think you're useful for is heroics. did you want to do this, or is this the only way society will let you feel comfortable in the role it presses in on you"

"well being quirkless is rough but at least i cn be whatever i want to be"

mics just shell shocked mics not even using his quirk and everyone’s just uwu he’s erasing mics quirk

all aizawa does is walk is close and mutter "society thinks im worthless, which is rough. but you have to put your life on the line or you're nothing better than a villain to the people"

and just, lightly pushes him out of bounds

pls mics just in Love this guy tore him to fucking pieces but Damn

aizawa  helps him up off the floor

"so im probably not wrong but im a little sorry for saying it on live tv"

mic "youre amazing"

aizawa just goes bright red and starts sputtering

aizawa: the emotional devastation hero weakness: genuine compliments

consider 1A teacher aizawa just still made of emotional devastation, nezu made him promise not to use his powers of destruction on his children unless he was expelling them 

this is a quirkless izuku au too, mirio got ofa, allmight encouraged izuku to be a hero after the fight but had no quirk to give him and he manages to make his own way into the hero course

so izuku is a little analyst, gets mostly hero points but uses sharp rebar and poles to smash in the sensors of some robots, getting him a few non-rescue points either. Aizawa is watching like "oh interesting a non-combat quirk" and beside him allmight is vibrating with excitement

"he might actually do it!"

"who might do what"

allmight turns sheepishly to aizawa

"young midoriya on camera 6, he might just be the first quirkless student to pass the enterance exam to heroics straight up"

and aizawa can hardly watch anyone else for the rest of the exam, he adopts this kid on the fucking Spot

hes on the edge of his fucking seat, when nezu sends out the zero pointer. "this kid only needs 10 more points, just ten more" and izuku turns around to look at the 0 pointer and aizawa is like "fuck kid i hope you know what youre doing"

he manages to shove a piece of rebar into the treads, stoping it in its place. it tries to swat him like a bug but he just dives out of the way, picks up ochako and sprints and aizawa is like "holy shit holy shit these bastards better give this kid hero points for that"

like they are assigning final hero points and aizawa has to awkwardly put his hand up "i,,, should probably be excluded from giving midoriya hero points because i went from 0 to bias very very quickly"

allmight just nods sagely

"young midoriya be like that sometimes"

pls aizawa tries to act extra tough bc he can’t let anyone know he’s Adopted this child

for all izuku's brain hes useless w social stuff and thinks aizawa hates him but everyone else k n o w s

also izuku is the only person in 1A who knows ab aizawa's "quirk" and hes like, constantly vibrating w glee around the guy

aizawa walks in the first day, hears bakugo asking how this "quirkless bastard" got in, grabs bakugo w his scarf and yeets him into vlad’s room

"ok students, looks like we are a class of 19. any other comments before we start?"

and like everyone is so lost no one questions it

bakugo is screaming bloody murder until vlad "kindly" tells him ua has a strict no discrimination policy and aizawa would have been well within his rights to expel him

please nezu is like "uwu take one of 1B to make the classes even" and vlad is like "no ive already bonded tough cookies" vlad just adopts bakugo instantly

monoma and bakugou become bros, the baku-squad is 50% a thing, but its mostly 1B students but with pinning kiri. kendo and bakugo both keep monoma in line, monoma and kendo keep bakugo in line

during the sports festival shinsou is like "you must have a blessed quirk to get into the hero course"

and izuku just has this "really. this si what we're doing now" look on his face. hes just gesturing to shinso in exasperation, trying to make eye contact w aizawa hidden up in the commentary box

all you can hear from the box is aizawa quiet snickering as mic tries not to give the game away. he yeets shinso out of bonds and just hauls him back to his feet

"im quirkless you nonce"

"oh,,,"

"yeah, oh. what, gonna be embarrassed a quirkless kid kicked your ass?"

"nah i just feel bad for being a dick"

"ok you are the only valid person ive ever met, come meet my not-dad"

"wait what"

izuku fireman carries shinso into the announcers booth and just presents him to aizawa

you can just vaguely hear "no not kid" "but he'll be perfect" "kid this is live ask me after the festival" "but! hed be perfect! and you could train him to carry on your legacy of soul-crushing burns" "... hmmm"

"do i get a say in this?" "no" "nope"

mic just loudly saying "SO BEFORE WE WITNESS A CHILD CRY LIVE ON AIR AGAIN, AS ALWAYS HAPPENS IN THIS FESTIVAL, LETS START THE NEXT ROUND!"

there’s a counter “days since someone last cried: 0”

please its like "times cried durring all sports festivals" "average cry events" "number of times cried this festival"

aizawa being even more of a dad than canon, like hes a mess he sees on sad kid and he's like "wow that's my kid now"

he makes them soup when they get sick and leaves it outside their doors, refuses to admit its him doing it

soup cryptid

please mic is like 100% in love with him and had been for years but aizawa still has internal bias against the quirkless and thinks he's not good enough for mic so he cant make himself see the flirting for what it really is

“haha he’s just being friendlyL

“aizawa i literally want to marry u”

“awww ur so nice u mean as friends tho right?”

in this au ive decided that quirkless heroes are a thing, but pretty rare, in japan they are all underground bc villains go after them a l o t. there are some public ones in america but they tend to,,, die,,, pretty quickly

and bc there are some quirkless heroes everyone acts like discrimination isn't a thing anymore and quirkless people should shut up while quirkless people are still getting killed and committing suicide at like 500% the rate of people with quirks

also the suicide rate is,,,,, significantly higher in japan but no one ever talks abt it bc japan the “ideal place for people with quirks” so that surely means nothing could ever go wrong

izuku does the "its your power" speech in like 3 parts, before, during and after the sports festival bc he needs he bones w no quirk

stain asks izuku what his quirk is and izuku does the "wouldn't you like to know, weather boy"

",,, where are your parents"

"one abandoned me straight up and the other is giving it a red hot go right now, try me coward"

izuku but everytime he roasts a villain he does it in vine quotes

tl;dr in the au inko is like,, not ok w izuku being a hero and she's trying to do the "leave the school or you can't live here any more" ultimatum and it's not working for her

bc izuku said "ok bye then" and now lives out of his backpack. no one knows. he just like,, sleeps on the train

and iida is like "owo could i come over to your house" and izuku is like

"aaaaa its on fire. yep. made of arsenic and always in flames, why dont we go to the park"

everyone in 1a is like betting on what his house is like. they harass katsuki in 1b but he refuses to talk

hes like "hell no i got thrown into another class for talking ab that nerd eat my left tit"

they only fucking work it out when aizawa and allmight go to izukus house to talk ab dorms and there is literally no one there

aizawa asks izuku ab it like "kid you need to update your forms with your current address" and hes like "oh worm, she moved? wack."

“u,,,,didn’t know,,,,”

“nah lmao i sleep on the bench in a park near here”

“my boy,,,,,l

"what, ochako lives alone!"

"yeah, in a fucking house, kid"

aizawas just: this is literal child abuse i’m ur guardian now

allmight "hes my kid too dont be greedy"

"fuck off all might you already have mirio" "and you already have shinsou!" nighteye, from around the corner "ill take him!" aizawa and allmight "NO"                                  

mic adopts him nezu just sitting in the distance "well, its my school. i get the kid" one whole school full of adult heroes "NO ITS MY SON,,," izukus like crying "wait,,, you guys aren't sick of me? wild" while sobbing

afo out of nowhere: i’ll take the child :))) everyone collectively: N O

for self-indulgence, izuku is the youngest in the class for this au so they all call him their little brother

consider: quirkless aizawa is very similar to normal aizawa but he does practise self-care, he just tries to make it look like he doesnt because hes like that

if i dont take care of myself ill never be able to stand up to the heroes w quirks but also do i deserve normal good human things

tl:dr: he can cook well and is trying to teach izuku that 2-minute noodles and apples arent hero fuel

inko is like: "uwu i wont change what i cook for you so you'll just have to make do owo" in like, a pathetic attempt to get him to stop training so izuku runs off protein bars, electrolyte drinks and raw vegetables

just like, his bento at school. its only raw mushrooms, spinach, tomatoes and 2 full carrots

the only time he gets like a kinda valid balanced meal for a hero in training is when he pops by bakugous place and mitsuki forces him to stay for lunch

izuku is like "oh hi bakugo i have ur book-" "HI ITS LUNCH GET IN PIPSQUEAK"

hes just thrown into a chair, bakugo isnt even confused. izuku is like ",,,, so vlad gave me your book bc your house is near mums." "fair enough. hope you like miso salmon"

izuku just looks stary eyed

"f i s h ??? warm food bakugo id kill for you"

"deku wtf"

"i had nothing but 3 scoops of protein powder and 2 tomatoes today"

“dEKU WHAT THE FUCK”

"i had to eat the protein podwer with plain water kacchan. protein sludge followed by two raw tomatoes. i would commit real actual murder for you"

mitsuki always packs an extra bento after that

so like when it’s dorm time izuku gets rly stressed out bc he doesn’t know how to cook for himself??? bakugous in the 1b dorms and even if he wasn’t he definitely wouldn’t cook for him

1a goes on a fucking shopping trip, chaperoned, obviously

and they’re lining up and aizawa sees that izukus cart is only filled with like??? instant noodles and like two (2) fruits and he’s losing his mind bc yes okay he’s a child but he’s also a young hero and he’s going to get a heart attack by 20 if he doesn’t fix his diet

aizawa is like "izuku, you cant eat that" and izuku just goes "oh ok" puts the noodles back and comes back with a tub of protein powder and like 11 vegetables and a bag of kale

okay this is an improvement kinda, how do u cook it

,,,,,c

cook?

izuku just has a totally blank face

"i was just gonna like,,, eat it"

"raw."

"uh, yeah, is that not how u eat vegetables?”

"thats a potato. and some leeks. thats a fucking onion"

"it wont kill me though"

"thats,,, that not how you pick food kid."

“but vegetable??? good????”

"kid do you even fucking like any of this"

"wait, im supposed to like?? my food???"

yagi in the fucking health food isle hearing this is 50% laughing but 50% crying

aizawa: “izuku ur supposed to eat a well balanced and tasty meal”

izuku: *surprized pikachu face*

please even todoroki is like ",,, at least fuyumi could c o o k"

oh god imagine having a worse diet than shouto todoroki from 1a who eats nothing but cold soba and drinks juice

also please aizawa is like "kid i thought you just happened to be thin but now im seeing thats not the case"

bakugo in the distance "like inko ever fed him enough anyway lmao"

aizawa "WAIT WHAT"

whys bakugou shopping with 1a? its actually all 40 of the first years just descending on this poor little store. it’s this little mom and pop grocery store and a billion hungry hero hopefuls just burst through the door like 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒏𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒔

izuku is like "oh its too expensive" and aizawa is just holding a bag of rice, aizawa is like "its cheaper than the protein powder you have"

and izuku is like "yeah i mean its empty calories and im not paying that much for empty calories"

",,,"

"thats what you taught us sensei!"

"EMPTY CALORIES ARE ONLY A PROBLEM IF UR EATING TOO MUCH"

"and?"

"YOU HAVE 3 POTAOES FOR THE NEXT 2 WEEKS"

"i can put some back if you want?"

"THATS EXACTLY WHAT I DONT WANT"

[materialsworld]

Interview with the ss Great Britain Trust

Often at Materials World, we end up speaking to fascinating people with very sumptuous stories to tell. And as often, because brevity is important, much of their comments get left out of our write-ups.

Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Nick Booth, Head of Collections, Simon Strain, Active Interpretation Officer, and Luke Holmes, Interpretation Officer, at the ss Great Britain Trust (and got to play around the ship a bit) and, as you can imagine with interviews between three people, there was a lot said.

The recreated kitchen of the ss Great Britain

In the next issue of Materials World, we begin our first regular feature, Material Marvels, looking at engineering ingenuity and history, starting with the ss Great Britain. However, I thought you might enjoy some tidbits - copied verbatim - that didn’t make it into the magazine.

Entirely unsponsored and personal recommendation, but if you’re in the Bristol area, check out the museum some time. The ship has been lovingly recreated, the museum chronicles the timeline of the ship fantastically, and the docks are a sweet place to be. - Khai

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The Dry Dock that helps preserve the ship’s iron hull

I understand Brunel was a core component in persuading the Navy into adopting iron ships, as they were hesitant to move away from wooden ship, although again I can't speak for the validity of this claim.

Strain: I don't know much about Brunel's involvement with persuading the Navy. I know there had been early tests with iron ships, and the problem was that under cannon fire, iron is brittle and shattered and that was the reason for the hesitancy within the admiralty. It's also why Warrior was iron clad, because the combination of the huge oak hull with an outer layer of iron addressed the brittle issue, as the wood gave a degree of flexibility, but I don't know much about Brunel's involvement in iron warships.

*murmurs of agreement from Holmes and Booth*

I could be wrong.

*laughter*

Holmes: He got up to a lot!

Strain: No doubt he had an opinion about it, and surely made it well known to the admiralty! That's the downside, there's so much he was involved in and so many stories that despite all of the research done and all of the objects found, there're just things that slip through the gaps.

Holmes: I guess the best thing we know [on this] is that he really didn't like the admiralty at all. He got fed up with them very quickly, and I think that's why he preferred private, commercial business. He felt people would listen and he could exact change, whereas the admiralty was just bureaucracy through and through, and there are multiple accounts of him getting very frustrated when he was forced to work with the admiralty or military, or even just the government, and how it took them weeks to replace to one of his letters, but he could do it in a day. He found that whole process very frustrating.

Strain: It's so good to know things have improved a lot, because the military and Government are so good at that nowadays.

*laughter*

Booth: He didn't patent things either. He didn't agree with government interference to that level, and he didn't think engineers should be subject to government inspection. When the Government tried to bring in military inspectors to look at bridges, he didn't agree to an extreme degree. And not patenting things is obviously very interesting, he probably could've made a lot of money from the things he did - and his dad did patent a lot.

Holmes: He felt it interfered with competition in that period, and he mentioned explicitly that it would stifle the ingenuity of the working class. He thought the patent system didn't encourage competitive thinking and coming up with innovation, and I think it was the same with how he hated getting medals and awards for anything. Because he felt people shouldn't be encouraged to do things for merit or reward. Good ideas will make their own living.

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A replica of Brunel’s original six-bladed iron propeller

The six-bladed propeller was replaced with four, and later to two. I don't know very much about the mechanics of screw propellers, so I'm curious as to why.

Holmes: A lot of the issues were that the six-bladed propeller Brunel designed was the most efficient at the time. That was based on the findings of the report Simon [Strain] just mentioned. But if you imagine, it's still a largely untested technology at that scale, and essentially was too weak. Blades would snap off beneath the water. The other thing was, because they were traveling from Bristol to New York, the water gets very cold and the iron gets exposed to cold iron fatigue - because the iron contracts and expands, it essentially wears the propeller so it deforms and breaks. That was a huge problem, and the propeller was far from a reliable technology in the early life of the ship. As the screw propeller gets more successful and people take more interest in designing them and manufacturing processes catch up, becoming a developed technology better at forging the propellers and tweaking materials used, it got several upgrades over its life. The two-blade propeller was the most successful.

Booth: We've also got a two-blade propeller on the HMS Rattler, a Naval ship, which Brunel inspired. If you can use the propeller, it's a better military technology, leaves more room for guns.

Holmes: There's an interesting relationship between Brunel and the admiralty, because he applied to the admiralty for what is essentially funding for experiments. They were conservative and hated the idea of the propeller - or at least certain people in the admiralty-

Strain: I was going to say, I've read other accounts.

Holmes: But the Rattler is a great example of that. Brunel was promised a ship to experiment on, and they gave him the most rundown, old ship they could find. He turned it into a real success story, and the Rattler went on to have a really successful military career as effectively one of the first screw-propelled warships ever.

Booth: It's really nice that Brunel has to tie-in too. His success in the commercial world and military world. He did write a report for the admiralty too, which we have his handwritten copy here in which he lists the pros and cons, and comes out endorsing the propeller. It's in the format you would recognise today, and not all of his working-out is correct because, well, it was the very start.

*laughter*

Booth: But it's still really interesting to see. There's a famous tug-of-war between the Rattler and another Navy ship with a side propeller...

Strain: The Alecto.

Booth: The Rattler won, pulling the Alecto at a couple of knots, and you can't argue with that. It would be considered now as a PR stunt. Both sides were aware that the Rattler would win. But you can't really argue with that, can you?

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An imitation decorative sheep’s (?) head atop a pie in the Great Britain kitchen.

Throughout the Great Britain's lifespan, the parameters of the ship changed a lot. The number of propeller blades changed, and the propeller was removed entirely eventually, and the number of masts went down. This gives me the suggestion that there was a gradual backlash against the early innovations of the ship as time went by.

Booth: When she was originally built, she was a transatlantic ship, designed as a steamship with auxiliary sails. When she ran aground in Ireland in Dundrum Bay and there for over a year, and only really survived because she was made of iron, she bankrupted the company that owned her, and was bought and transferred to a sailship with an auxiliary engine, so kinda a switch. That was because she was sailing to Australia and you couldn't carry enough coal to steam all of the way there. That was Brunel's plan for his third ship, something big enough to do that [the Australia trip]. So I think that was the ship changing her life, I'm not sure there was a backlash against the engines, more changing the job she was doing.

Holmes: She was so successful that she grew to an old age, and she couldn't be insured. So they wanted to make as much space for cargo as possible, and that was when she was changed into a windjammer. Interestingly, though, she carried coal so I don't think it's a backlash against that technology as such. In a way, she still facilitated that technology.

Strain: A lot of modern ships built today have a working life of 15-20 years in mind. The Great Britain, which was experimental, was in service as a passenger ship for around 30 years, double what we would expect from a modern ship today. Plus it had a couple of extra years as a cargo ship, and another 30 years as a floating warehouse, so it's really a testament to how well built and designed she was that she lasted for so long and was able to go through so many iterations. Rather than a backlash, I think it's a testament to how sound the basic design of the ship was that she could be repurposed and reused in so many different ways.

Holmes: And rescued.

Strain: And rescued, and brought back! Arguably she is still a working ship today as an award-winning visitor attraction and wedding venue.

Wedding venue?

*murmurs of agreement*

Booth: We get quite a lot of steampunks, I think.

*laughter*

Strain: My father got remarried on the ship. He was a helicopter engineer for the Royal Navy and Brunel is a huge hero of his, so he couldn't pass up the opportunity to get married on the ship.

Booth: You get the whole ship for the afternoon, eat in the dining room.

Strain: No sheep's head.

*laughter*

I'm not interested anymore.

Booth: We do a lot of events, like murder mysteries. They are really fun.