#quirkless deku au

[sleeplessdreamer14]

in regards to my twin! midoriya headcanons, imagine if you will; one of you is in the hero course and the other is in the support course

[tomboy014]

Hey, how's it going? Can you talk about what your MHA rewrite will be like?

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

ABSOLUTELY!

So first and foremost, it's going to be a quirkless Deku AU. It mostly starts out the same, except when All Might tells Izuku he can never be a hero because he doesn't have a quirk, instead of moping, he gets angry. He's been bullied and told his dream is stupid/impossible and even his own mother (from his point of view) doesn't support it. And now even his hero, the All Might himself, has told him to give up

give up...

give up...

give up give up give up give up give up give up give up give up give up give up give up give up give up give up give up give up...

GIVE UP

NO!!!

He is not going to give up. He'll prove them wrong. He'll prove them all wrong, and he WILL become a hero, out of motherfucking spite, and he's going to be the best damn one there is.

He tears down all the All Might merch in his room, and sits down to make a plan. A real plan. No more wishing and dreaming.

At first, he tries to do everything on his own since he needs to prove himself. He studies past UA entrance exams. He signs up for self defense classes and a local gym. Except other gym members give him advice on different exercises, the importance of proper form and stretching, and they also give him a lot of dietary advice to help build muscle, the importance of keeping his body fueled, etc.

With what he learned, he knows that exercising isn't just limited to things like push ups, and heroes are supposed to be all about helping the citizens and community, so he decides to clean the beach he jogs by every morning. Except, as he starts, he realizes he doesn't have a way to get the junk off the beach, until a retired old man says he can use his son's delivery truck. He'll park it near the beach at night and take it to the dump in the morning before his son needs it again. People who run the shops on that street notice, and suddenly there are people who offer Izuku a nice snack or drink or bento for all his hard work, so he helps them out by moving boxes, fixing a bike, etc. Slowly, he realizes that heroes, true heroes, can't and shouldn't be separate from the communities they protect. They're a part of it, and he's got a whole bunch of people now rooting for him to make it into UA.

But because he doesn't have a quirk, he doesn't pass the entrance exam for the hero course. He does, however, get into the general course, and he knows from there, he can do things to get himself transferred into the hero course.

At this point, he's also started a little bit of after hours vigilantism. Without all the same support the hero classes get, he doesn't have a professional costume, so he buys a hoodie, googles, and some gear from the military surplus store to cobble together his own, and honestly, he looks kinda like a mugger, but he's going to do his best! And his first few "patrols" he doesn't do much. He sees a crime and calls it in to the cops. But as time goes on, he gets bolder and stops a couple muggings and purse snatchings.

And while most of the people in his nearby neighborhoods know he's a good guy, as he expands his "territory" he runs into Shinsou, who sees a shady guy in dark clothes skulking around at night, and decides to take matters into his own hands and chases down Izuku with a baseball bat.

The next day at school, they recognize each other. They've been in the same class for weeks, but they've also both been self-absorbed in their own plans to make it into the hero course. After convincing Shinsou he's not a mugger, they decide to team up since their goals align. Shinsou takes Izuku to the first aid and parkour classes he signed up for. Izuku drags Shinsou to his karate classes and every workout he's inflicted on himself. Shinsou also cobbles together a costume for himself and they start patrolling as "heroes" together.

They've, unfortunately, also started getting the attention of the cops and local heroes after this, including Eraser Head. They recognize their just kids, but vigilantism is illegal, and they're going to get themselves hurt.

Stuff carries on until both do extremely well in the Sports Festival in October, and they get transferred to the hero track, with Izuku in 1A and Shinsou in 1B. The hero course is much stricter, so students in both classes 1A and 1B drop like flies, and the classes are much smaller than in canon. Because the classes are whittled down so much, there's room to transfer Izuku and Shinsou into the hero tracks now rather than in their second year, and despite the two being split up, this does not stop them from going over to the other's class every lunch and break they get.

They also reach out to Mei Hatsume after her performance in the Sports Festival because her gear is awesome and she should totally build stuff for them. I want to work her in so these three become the new main trio. Overall, I want to show a lot more of the other tracks and how cooperation leads to a lot more success than the current system that pits heroes against each other.

The addition of Shinsou and Izuku to the hero track also help revitalize the other students, and their enthusiasm helps rekindle the passions the other students had quickly been losing after the hellish training they've been put through since spring, reminding a lot of them about why they wanted to be heroes in the first place, and getting them to open up and bond more.

I'm also going to delve into Aizawa's backstory (canon divergent) and how he became broken by the system as he realized the UA program is really just a meat grinder to push out as many highly marketable, child soldier celebrities as possible, and he's seen so many of his former students broken by the industry. So now, to save as many as possible, he flunks out as many students as he can as fast as he can before their lives are ruined.

Stain would play a much bigger role as the main villain since his ideology about hero society mirror's Izuku's views. Endeavor will definitely be held accountable for the abuse he inflicted on his family (maybe not publicly, but privately and within the family, yes). And I also want to focus a lot more on villains being rehabilitated and shown as humans who the system has failed.

I've got a lot more, but the other thing holding me back is that I haven't gotten caught up on the series since Bakugou was kidnapped by the League of Villains, so I need to get caught up.

Feel free to ask more questions!

[inkalight]

Hero Comic Con with artist alley Izuku

Izuku has his own booth with all sorts of goodies 🩵

it caught the eyes of one of the heroes :3

[habken]

my aus have aus, it's like a big tree and all the little branches are the slightly different situations I've put my favourite little guys in

[magicpiano]

I am thinking of a DC/Batfam x BNHA/MHA crossover.

Somehow a portal to an alternate universe opens up in the sewer near Izuku's home. (The why and how are not important.) He finds it because he was running away from his bullies, and looking for a place to hide.

Izuku crawls out into Gotham City's sewer and finds a whole other world where most people don't have quirks and many heroes have no special powers at all. Naturally he begins spending all his free time here. Because of the time difference, after school in Japan is basically the middle of the night in Gotham.

He breaks out new notebooks and fills them with information on the heroes of this world. In particular he pays special attention to the heroes without powers hoping to take inspiration from them so he can emulate them back in his world.

Naturally the whole bat team, which are nearly all quirkless, are favorites of his, and he starts following them around. He studies their methods, takes notes and makes plans.

They notice of course, because Izuku is really not that stealthy, but he just kind of reminds them of Tim when he was younger, and Izuku hasn't actually done anything dangerous or gotten too close yet, so they leave him be for the most part.

At least till one day Tim asks Izuku what he is always writing in his notebook.

Izuku says he is taking notes because he wants to be a hero someday, and unlike people back home, Red Robin doesn't laugh and say that is impossible.

Tim does ask to read the notebook though, figuring it would be childish doodles or costume ideas. Instead he finds a detailed layout of every major hero, including their strengths, weaknesses, ways they could improves and plans on how to take them down in battle. Tim realizes that this kid is not just some fan, but is legitimately, dangerously, smart.

Tim asks to borrow the notebook to show Batman with the promise to return it tomorrow. Izuku agrees because he is nerding out at the idea of Batman seeing his work. As he leaves to go back home, Tim quietly follows, only to realize the kid seemingly lives in the sewer.

So yeah, Izuku is a genius who appears homeless and wants to be a hero, basically top tier adoption bait for Bruce.

[izukus-shattered-elbow-bones]

When people think/write about adult quirkless deku AU where he never got ofo and never became a hero, that he'd be all rage filled and hate bakugo still.

But I feel there's a lot of missed opportunities where he's not rage-filled and hateful but just awkward and weirded out by the whole situation.

Like imagine you're Izuku, you are now a grown ass man, you are completely over Middle School and all of the events that transpired there, you don't really care about Katsuki.

But the problem is you see his face everywhere. Taking the bus to work? Bam! Childhood bully on a billboard. Trying to watch a YouTube video? Bam! Unskippable ad of your childhood bully trying to sell you cookware.

You go on a hero forum to nerd out and you see a couple posts talking about how "Hot hero Dynamite is", and you just have to remember that this is the same guy who, when you were five, you were at a sleepover together and he peed the bed and you had to help him hide the evidence and agree to never speak of it again.

The whole situation is just so unbelievably awkward. And gods forbid you ever try to talk to anyone about heroes irl.

You start talking about heroes but then they bring up Dynamite and you have to try to change the conversation to a different hero without them getting suspicious. You're doomed if you get into a conversation with someone you find out to be a super fan of his. Or worse, you call him "Kacchan" out of habit and then they look at you weird.

And you're not just going to go around telling people that you grew up with him. Cuz either they don't believe you or they just think you're weird and still salty about your childhood.

You really don't care about him anymore! You just wish he would stop popping up in your life.

[thefriendlyghost-exe]

Class 1-A: *talking about Quirks*

Kaminari: yeah, I got my quirk mostly from my mom! What'd your mom give you, Midoriya?

Midoriya:

Midoriya: Anxiety, Kaminari.

Midoriya: She gave me anxiety.

[jp---v]

I know the series hasn't ended yet, but I'm proposing an alternate ending with what I assume would be a similar level of consistency.

Class 2A is going about the clean up(because for some reason, winning the war wasn't enough work for them to do for the useless adults), there's a slapstick violence gag, Midoriya gets hit in the head, and it fades to black...

He wakes up in a hospital bed, no muscles, no scars, no quirk. He's 14 again. The last 2 years never happened. All Might didn't save him from the Sludge Villain. He never got One for All. He never got into UA. The war never happened. The Sludge Villain had been puppeteering his body for three days before getting caught. Everything had been a comatose hallucination.

He's in a daze, gets discharged from the hospital, and goes to school the next day. When he sees how Bakugou still treats him, Midoriya realizes how bad it really is. "You told me to take a swan dive off the roof. When I was gone, did you ever worry that I did?"

We don't get an answer.

"You could be a great hero, Kac-Bakugou. If only you could learn to care about anyone but yourself."

Midoriya goes to Dagobah beach after school, still covered in mountains of garbage. We see bandages on him.

'This is the story of how I became a quirkless hero.'

He starts cleaning.

End.

[clayberry24]

Comfort Cuddles

Quirkless AU numbero 9

[homelesstravelerssp]

Au, where everything is almost the same, but quirks appeared a little earlier. Because of this, the quirkless population dropped from 20% to a measly 1%, or even less. That is, it is practically impossible for this to happen

And when Izuku had absolutely every sign pointing to him not having a quirk, everyone was like: “No way😳😳😳” and put in his card: “not yet discovered / specific requirements for activation.”

AND FROM THIS MOMENT, his every action is accompanied by: “maybe this is your quirk?!”

"You're mumbling like that...maybe your quirk is the inability to think to yourself?"

"Wow, you're so smart! Is this your quirk?!"

"It's incredible, you cry so much! Maybe your quirk is hypersensitive?!"

It went so far that someone once said that Izuku's quirk was to imitate a quirkless person.

I JUST— I want him to end up in UA in this AU and have every teacher, including Nedzu, try to find his quirk. And he simply doesn't have any😭😭😭🤘🤘🤘

[amourcherie606]

Izuku Midoriya!! AU where All Might tells Izuku to build gadgets and tools that can assist All Might and preserve his strength, so Izuku joins the support course and later along the way realizes that even w/o a quirk, he too can be a hero.

TDLR: Quirkless, Support course! Izuku finds the drive to still be a hero on his own.

Izuku basically lives in the basement of UA? /hj he works on gear for All Might and Class 1-A ♥ + mha rant under the cut

I have, admittedly, a lot written down for this LMAOOO. mha has always frustrated me because of the potential it has and the messages it sends. I am a firm believer that Izuku should have stayed quirkless and strive to be a hero still, the message it sends by giving Izuku a quirk instead of letting him still strive to be a hero-just sucks and doesnt make sense! Its sending the message that you need a quirk to be a hero, when throughout the series Izuku has proven that he has the brains and capabilities to be a hero without even using his quirk. Also the series has shown perfect examples as to why the society in mha is corrupt yet it does nothing to challenge or combat it, only accepting it-LIKE IT GETS WORSE AFTER THE TIMESKIP TOO??

I love mha tho like the pookies and concepts it has are very swag.

[quirkless-forums]

Quirkless Deku Fanfiction Recs Organized by Wordcount

My Quirkless Deku Rec list after like 5 years of being in the fandom, on and off. Focus on unique fics that highlight or complement Deku's quirkless status in some way, usually with strong storytelling.

It has 48 fics on it!

It first lists the outline, where fics are ordered based on length, then the summaries with my thoughts will be posted at the numbers. The numbered links will bring you to a post with the summary for only that fic, so you can bookmark which fics you want to read by clicking the number and bookmarking the post there.

It’s a list I’ve posted to Reddit, but maybe I’ll convert it to Tumblr one day.

For now, here’s the link.

Have you read any on this list? Let me know which ones and what were your favorites!

[megtheuntalented]

Tomura Shigaraki and AFO decided to strike a year earlier than cannon. Izuku and Katsuki were together because Katsuki was trying to hunt down Izuku to bully him some more. Then, Tomura launched his biggest attack yet and released lots of nomu. So, Izuku and Katsuki were stuck in the apocalypse together. Izuku's analysis and Katsuki's battle sense become incredible resources and they survive with each other's help (they also thrive, as Izuku is great when the most valuable thing in the world is knowledge, and Izuku helps Katsuki's quirk, as the second most valuable is strength). They become close friends. They become more, although they never define what they are because there was no one else to define it for. All that was left was them, and they already knew what they were to each other. Best friends, confidante, supports, heroes. They didn't think many people were alive, but the stories of their plights spread amongst the remaining survivors. Eventually, a rag-tag group of heroes and one escaped villain find them and recruit them. They go for a little (Katsuki is cautious and doesn't want to rely on others, but Izuku wants to build a suvivors group, so they agree on a trial period), and the group sees how good the others are at surviving and taking down nomu, so they start a small Rebellion. It soon grows large under the leadership of the two, and they both face off against Shigaraki in a final battle. There's no more nomu as they previously destroyed all the factories and killed all the other nomu. They become legends.

[cosmiccdivinityy]

I hate when you can tell how young a fandom is. MHA for instance is so full of youngins and their views of black and white mentality.

If I see another quirkless vigilante Deku and All Might bashing on my feed imma scream.

Was All Might supposed to tell this quirkless kid who almost got killed by sludge yes you can be a hero be fucking for real.

Deku would’ve got killed by the first villain he fought come on now. He’s smart but that isn’t a quirk he’s just smart so is Bakugo and even he almost got killed by sludge with quirks.

Can you imagine Deku going up against Stain or Dabi with no quirk in what world is he surviving?

Just because he’s quirkless doesn’t make him Batman and let’s be honest Batman only wins through plot armor if Superman randomly decided to flick Batman into space because his voice was annoying him in a meeting he’d be dead.

Also bashing all might and not aizawa who was canonically an asshole is questionable. Will never understand or his mom who legit said sorry and was crying for him.

May not have been what he wanted to hear but she was being realistic parents fuck up it doesn’t make them bad parents.

[lance-space-mommy]

Revel in my Greatness

Just when life seemed to be going upward for Midoriya, chaos had to ensue.

Midoriya was happy he got into UA High School. He was bullied for being a plain looking nerd all his life so at least he could say being a nerd got him into the best school in Japan. He convinced himself it was because he was perceived as an easy target and nothing they said held any weight.

So what if he had freckles? It didn’t matter that his hair was untamable and he had a babyface. It wasn’t like he was in control of his appearance.

Of course the same line of thinking didn’t apply to him being a bookworm. He couldn’t help it and he didn’t want to change a thing. He loved reading, studying, and growing smarter with each passing day. Education and knowledge was far more powerful than being popular.

None of that mattered once he entered the most prodigious school in all of Japan. Only the smartest people in the world got a chance to attend. Sure, a person may want to present themselves in the way they want to be perceived, but no one was getting into the school just because they were popular or they had status.

After their first round of exams passed, students' rankings were announced. Midoriya was ranked fourth in his class of twenty. He did his best, but he also focused on maintaining a social life and worked out daily.

Meanwhile Momo Yaoyorozu, number one, and Tenya Iida, number two, focused a lot more time on studying and less on other aspects of their life. Bakugo, who placed third, studied a lot, but also prioritized sleep.

It was a miracle Midoriya was so smart and it was a mystery to him how he managed to keep his rank at number four. He was always doing something and mainly studied enough to get by. He supposed he was gifted to a degree, but tried to avoid thinking of himself in such a way. It was disrespectful to his friends.

On the topic of friends, everyone in class 1-A loved Midoriya. He was passionate, charismatic, and humble. To many in the class, it was refreshing to talk to someone so goofy, but down to earth at the same time.

Within the first month of being at the school, Midoriya had bonded with everyone but Bakugo. That was to be expected.

Bakugo was Midoriya’s childhood rival. Ever since they were young, Bakugo has been insistent on making everything a competition. Midoriya didn’t mind, but he always wondered what made Bakugo so hateful toward him.

It was hard to swallow, but Midoriya knew the only reason he was bullied growing up was because of Bakugo. If Bakugo hadn’t been so cruel, his old classmates wouldn’t have targeted him. Still, Midoriya could have punched Bakugo in the face, but he wasn’t going to risk his record.

Uraraka was the first person Midoriya became friends with. They met the day of the entry exam. She stopped him from falling. The entrance exam consisted of two parts: a written exam and a practical section.

The practical section consisted of five intelligence based challenges a duo had to complete under a short time frame. Uraraka and Midoriya chose one another and he helped her pass when he carried the partner section of the exam. She made some great points, but the pressure of the challenges being timed frazzled her.

Todoroki was quiet and withdrawn. Midoriya was worried why he was so bitter and later helped him out in the middle of an important debate. Midoriya was stern, but genuine when he disciplined Todoroki on his attitude. The two were inseparable ever since.

Iida and Midoriya got along for multiple reasons. They were both academic scholars, they always seemed to help each other grow even during the moments when they butted heads. Midoriya even saved Iida when he was planning to use his skills to blackmail his brother's workplace when they unfairly fired Tensei.

Those were just three people in the class Midoriya bonded with. Midoriya also got along with Ojiro, Tokoyami, Tsuyu, Kirishima, and the rest of the long list.

Despite how popular Midoriya was, no one really knew about his hobbies. Midoriya was a comic book nerd and loved doing hero analysis. Many people knew he liked analyzing things, but he never specified what.

No one knew Midoriya worked out either. The school uniforms hid away each perfectly developed muscle he trained hard for. Midoriya spent two hours every day at the school's gym. UA High was a large boarding school so it made sense they had a bunch of random facilities.

Sure students could leave campus, but offering different options for the students was for their safety. While it was horrible, there were people who would attempt to rob the students. UA High did have a stigma that only rich people attended. At least that’s what the parents of the teens who didn’t pass would convince themselves.

There were a couple of students who regularly trained at the gym that Midoriya became friends with. Mirio Togata was the main person Midoriya talked to and he was a third year. Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, in class 1-B, was another person who Midoriya often saw at the gym, but they weren’t close.

Midoriya was minding his business, happily talking with Todoroki, Uraraka, and Kirishima in between classes. Suddenly someone came up to the group with a phone and a strange gadget.

“Midoriya!” shouted the random person with a chipper tone.

“Hello! What can I do for you?” questioned Midoriya, turning his attention to the mystery individual.

The girl with long periwinkle hair flashed a bright smile. “Mirio was telling me all about you and I just have to know your result!”

“Oh, you must be Nejire! What result are you talking about?” reiterated Midoriya, still confused about what she could want.

“Your grip strength. Mirio just bought this to track his progress and said he was curious about your score,” explained Nejire, holding up a grip strength hand trainer.

Midoriya flashed a smile, happily taking the instrument from Nejire. “Okay! Let me do this quickly.”

Uraraka, Kirishima, and Todoroki were confused. They recalled that Mirio was part of the big three, but they’d never met him before. The three were mainly shocked that Midoriya knew Mirio.

Kirishima pulled out his phone to record the exchange. The class may or may not have had a group chat without Midoriya in it to gush about everything he did. This was going to be one of the things they talked about.

Uraraka and Todoroki were busy watching Midoriya squeeze the grip strength hand trainer. Midoriya bent his elbow and squeezed tight, eyes closing and he tried to not grit his teeth too hard.

Letting out a sharp breath when he was done, he looked at it before turning it to Nejire. “A little over sixty kilograms!”

Nejire’s jaw dropped. Todoroki’s jaw dropped. Uraraka’s jaw dropped, Kirishima’s jaw dropped.

“Thank you! Gotta go,” shouted Nejire before bolting away in excitement.

“Of course!” called out Midoriya with urgency, a bit startled by her sudden evacuation.

Midoriya turned back to his friends, bowing. “Sorry for interrupting our conversation! Anyways, you were talking about Mina throwing a banana at Kaminari.”

Kirishima held up a hand, forcing Midoriya to pause. “Hold on dude. You have a grip strength of sixty kilograms! What the hell?”

“What? Is that bad?” asked Midoriya in a panic, worried he disappointed his friend.

Kirishima shook his head dramatically with wide eyes. “That’s super good! I’ve never met someone who’s even gotten close to the score you just got. You work out?”

“Yeah! I do cardio in the morning and I weight train two hours later in the day,” revealed Midoriya shyly. He didn’t think anyone would find that aspect of his life interesting.

“So that’s why you seem to disappear!” gasped Uraraka, connecting the dots. “I find it kind of amazing that you manage to dedicate two hours every day to working out.”

“Could you lift me?” asked Todoroki curiously, not bothering to try and hide his intentions.

Midoriya smiled, holding a thumbs up. “Yes! I can do it after school if you’d like.”

Todoroki nodded with a small grin. “Please.”

Kirishima jabbed a thumb to his chest as he shouted. “Me too!”

“Me three!” pitched in Uraraka, more than happy to be lifted like a princess.

A warmth flooded Midoriya as his friends showed interest in what he put a lot of effort into. Still the conversation made heat rush to his face. It wasn’t everyday he got this kind of attention.

Midoriya kept his promise, but the rest of class 1-A was quickly filled in. Bakugo was pissed by the news. He couldn’t believe Midoriya was somehow one step ahead of him. Marching to the gym, Bakugo could already tell it was empty except for Midoriya.

Walking into the large area filled with untouched equipment, Bakugo spotted Midoriya in the back. He made his way over, ready to shout and tease Midoriya when he was stopped in his tracks.

The sight in front of Bakugo was godly. Midoriya had a barbell with an insane amount of weight on it. Midoriya seemed unbothered as he back squatted the large amount of weight. Midoriya was wearing some gym shorts and a baggy tee shirt, but Bakugo could see enough.

When Midoriya squatted, he brought his knees over his toes. Midoriya also hit incredible depth with his butt just inches above the ground. Bakugo watched as Midoriya’s shorts rode up enough to show his leg muscles flexing. Midoriya was mainly training his quads so Bakugo got a good look at just how impressive the muscles were.

Bakugo couldn’t even feel mad about Midoriya’s muscles because it was clear Midoriya worked incredibly hard to get to this point. Still, Bakugo would find a way to poke fun at Midoriya.

When Midoriya racked the barbell, Bakugo stalked forward with a smile.

Midoriya noticed Bakugo and quickly slipped off his headphones. “Kacchan!”

“So the rumors are true. You are a meathead,” remarked Bakugo, smirking as he crossed his arms.

Midoriya sat down his headphones and grabbed his water. It was nearing the end of his workout so a break was greatly appreciated. “Rumors?”

Bakugo stopped a couple feet before Midoriya and rolled his eyes. “The extras were showing everyone videos of you lifting them and the grip strength shit.”

Midoriya’s hand rose to cover his face as his heart began pounding in his chest. “Oh god. They recorded that?”

“They sure as hell did Nerd.”

“This is so embarrassing. I don’t want people knowing I work out,” cried Midoriya, throwing his head back.

Bakugo raised a brow, crossing his arms. “The fuck… why not?”

Midoriya swallowed hard before sitting down on a bench. “It’s stupid. You’d make fun of me.”

“Probably, but I still want to know,” admitted Bakugo, walking to stand before Midoriya again.

“I’m insecure of my body. I always felt too skinny and that clothes fit me weird. So I started training to gain weight. I guess I’m still not satisfied and I’m worried everyone will start making assumptions or begin to have an opinion on my body,” rambled Midoriya, struggling to explain what exactly he was feeling and thinking.

Bakugo rolled his eyes before kicking Midoriya’s leg. “You’re an idiot.”

“Waa-chan!” yelped Midoriya as he threw his legs away from Bakugo’s direction.

“Why does anyone's opinion of your body matter? You’re already smarter than all those losers so you should be more worried about them taking advantage of your mind,” commented Bakugo, trying to process the fact Midoriya didn’t like his body.

Midoriya wilted where he was sitting, bowing his head as he rocked his feet back and forth on the heels before he sighed, “You’re right.”

Bakugo was quiet for a moment, already regretting what he was about to say. “Your body is fine the way it is and anyone would be jealous of your legs.”

“You think so? I always try to hide them,” confessed Midoriya, looking down at his muscular thighs.

“You shouldn’t. If I had a body like yours I’d show it off. If anyone has a problem with your body, that's a personal problem and has nothing to do with you,” argued Bakugo, getting irritated at the mere thought of someone picking on Midoriya for his body.

“That’s… really nice of you to say. Thank you, Kacchan. It means a lot, truly,” thanked Midoriya with a small, flattered smile as he stared up at Bakugo through his eyelashes.

Bakugo felt his cheeks heat up and he was quick to have another explosive outburst as he barked, “Shut it Deku! If you keep spending all your time training you’ll never be number one.”

Midoriya suddenly felt a little bold and teased Bakugo back. “It wouldn’t matter anyways, you’ll always be the best.”

“Damn right!” shouted Bakugo, quickly turning on his heel and leaving the gym. As he made his way to the door, his mind was racing.

No way in hell am I going to stay here and get all soft and cheesy for Deku of all people. Not a fucking chance.

Bakugo thought this to himself as he saved the pictures and videos he just took of Midoriya working out to his hidden folder. The groupchat could starve for once.

Bakugo may have gotten the privilege of stalking Midoriya in the gym, but everyone in class 1-A got the blessing of seeing Midoriya’s muscles. After Bakugo complimented Midoriya, Midoriya was given the confidence to wear shorts around the dorms.

Besides, he happily lifted Todoroki, Uraraka, and Kirishima outside all at once. The entire class was able to watch him activate a large portion of his impressive muscles without even seeming a bit overwhelmed by carrying three people. Many pictures were taken.

Uraraka, Todoroki, and Kirishima may or may not have set one of the pictures taken as their phone background.

“Wow, Midoriya’s legs are impressive,” commented Jiro one afternoon as she was eating yogurt.

“Your welcome,” grumbled Bakugo, before stuffing his face with curry.

Everyone in the kitchen shot their gaze to Bakugo before looking to where Midoriya was standing. Suddenly the kitchen was filled with countless Midoriya lovers shouting. “What!”

Midoriya smiled bashfully while Bakugo laughed at the rest of the group's frustration. Midoriya walked away, no longer hiding his smirk. He’ll never let a soul know he set the entire situation up.

That’s how you remain humble while establishing dominance.

[pinkykats-place]

BakuDeku AU ft. Quirkless Support Department Mido

AO3 SFW Fic Recommendations

Disclaimers!

None of the stories linked below are mine.

All are SFW, still check tags.

Art work by @olldolldraws & @tunafishprincess

Note: If you read any of these stories and like them please let the author know with a kudos and/or comment!

making it right (for real this time) by ladyofsnails

Summary: Deku, who he’d dreamed of being a hero with when they were kids. Deku, who was quirkless and crushed that dream. Deku, who was told he was useless every day of his life and yet never gave up. Deku, who always strove to achieve his dreams despite the fact that Katsuki was so sure he couldn’t, and who pissed Katsuki off because of it.

Deku, who he’d only stopped being mad at after he gave up on that dream. After the world and Katsuki broke him down.

Deku, who forgave him even before he apologized. Who he didn’t deserve.

Deku, who was probably more heroic than Katsuki ever was.

Fuck. What had he done?

 

— — —

Izuku is a support course student at UA, and Katsuki's neighbor, best friend, and former bullying victim. After Izuku's performance at the sports festival, Katsuki realizes something. He has to make things right.

One Shot | SFW

Loud Obscurity by Cynical_Love

Summary: Bakugo Katsuki and Midoriya Izuku never met as children. They're strangers at UA not knowing each other, until one fateful day in the Library, the two begin to talk.

One Shot | SFW

The Perfect Girl's Plan to Woo Bakugou Katsuki and how it Was Ruined by a Nerd by TurtleExplodes

Summary: The most popular girl in UA has her eyes on the most popular boy in UA, Bakugou Katsuki, and she will do anything to get him. She has the perfect plan to sweep him off his feet, but will it work, or will it be interrupted by a freckled nerd?

One Shot | SFW | Third Years

Colors and Shapes by MochiUs

Summary: A story told through soul marks.

One Shot | Soulmate AU

Rated - Teen & Up

Do You Know Midoriya, From The Support Course? by theamandarogers

Summary: “Looks like you got hit with Cupid’s arrow,” Sero chimes from his seat.

“You could say that,” Kirishima says with a sheepish smile.

“SPILL!” Mina and Denki shout at the same time, lunging forward to place their hands on his desk, getting in his personal space to urge him on.

“Hmm, ok well.. do you know Midoriya, from the Support Course?”

That seems to get everyone’s attention, even if it was said in a slightly hushed tone to his friends directly in front of him.

He suddenly feels like a piece of meat, floating in the middle of a school of piranhas. All eyes and attention suddenly focused on the spiky red head.

{One Shot}

Rated - Teen & Up

Gimmie A Chance by denkischoker

Summary: Underground Alpha Hero Eraserhead has never really cared about much in his life. At least until he found a small Omega child left in a box while on patrol. Izuku is Aizawa’s main source of joy. He would do absolutely anything to protect his child. And if that means having to keep Alpha hero student Katsuki Bakugou from courting his son… so be it

Complete | 12 Chapters

OmegaVerse | Rated Mature

Fuck, but he's hot though by Gruffgami

Summary: Izuku was ready for just about anything. He was prepared - emotionally, physically, spiritually, All Mightily - for just about anything but a brash, aggressive, annoying, thoughtful, kind and sometimes...flustered Bakugo Katsuki.

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“Icyhot got you first?” Katsuki gaped at him, “Fucking hipster edge-lord has had you working on his costume – of course, you made those temperature bombs? Sharing his quirk is genius, so of course it wasn’t his idea. I can’t believe he didn’t-“

“Kacchan,” Izuku scolded, voice close to fond. And then it all halted abruptly. He hadn’t meant to – thought he had better control, thought he was going to be able to keep the past out of it all, “…uh.”

And it was only when his eyes flicked back to Katsuki that he realised the other man was blushing again.

They both half-started sentences, fumbling.

Thankfully, Katsuki got his shit together faster than Izuku.

Complete | 4 Chapters | SFW

Aged Up | BakuDeku + Todoroki

obligation, friendship, love by myheartslikepaper

Summary: Katsuki and Izuku are best friends, coworkers, and secretly in love with one another. But they're too afraid of losing their friendship to confess. On Valentine's Day Katsuki witnesses an abundance of people happy and in love, and decides that enough is enough. He takes Izuku out to a fancy Valentine's Day dinner, but there's one issue - Izuku doesn't get the memo that it's a date. Will Katsuki’s true intentions come to light?

One Shot | Quirkless Deku x PH Baku

Rated - General Audiences

Support class by silverynight

Summary: Izuku is quite happy in support class; when he was a child and found out he was quirkless he thought he wasn't going to be able to enter UA. Now he's in support class and if he's being honest, he absolutely loves it; he's really excited whenever someone comes to him or sends their suits to the lab for Izuku to repair them or improve them.

The only problem is that his childhood friend, Bakugo Katsuki, goes to that school too (he's in a hero course) and they didn't part on good terms. Katsuki started to be mean to Izuku in front of his other friends, but at the same time got upset when Izuku decided not to speak to him anymore.

However, Bakugo doesn't visit the lab often and when he does, Izuku is conveniently elsewhere. Besides, they say he usually goes there to complain about his suit.

One Shot | SFW

Series: I’m your mechanic & you’re my hero by taleeia

Summary: AU where Midoriya never got his quirk and managed to get into UA as a support hero.

Complete | 3 Works | SFW

Series: Genius Support Course Izuku by PhantomKetchup

Summary: Midoriya Izuku is a quirkless genius with his heart set on creating support equipment and a hobby for picking apart quirks with frightening accuracy, only his best friend and sworn husband to-be (he called dibs when they were five and extras better know their place) understands that God himself had to nerf Izu or he'd literally be too powerful. He's still a little too powerful but that's just his genius leaking out.

11 Works | SFW

Series: Support course Izuku by fallingbutnotforyou

2 Works | SFW

Reunited At Last (But Not Alone) by momkeyy

Summary: A fic in which Pro Hero Bakugou Katsuki starts crushing on Support Gear Technician Izuku Midoriya. Badly. *But he's not the only one, as he'll soon find out.

Incomplete | 13/? Chapters

Last updated Jan. 2023