#yagi kinda dies but not really

[old-castlegachi]

some old sketches for an au I never finished

[villainsandvictimsalliance]

Is the afoquirk gonna kill shiggy?

If you're worried about this post, let me explain better what I meant.

I'm worried about Tomura's body after the quirk is gone, 'cause so far we have no way to know how a body would react to losing the afoquirk. With the other OFA users and AFO himself, well, they died before the quirk could be extracted. With Yagi, he was quirkless so he didn't suffer the strain caused by multiple quirks in a body. The same goes with Izuku, even if he lost the ofaquirk, his body would not react badly to it.

Would the strain of the afoquirk kill Tomura?

Maybe? but I think it is a possibility that won't happen now, more like a long term consequence of the events of the manga. What Tomura is doing has no precedents. The bnha universe has never seen someone go so far.

We know that quirks are evolution and that what happened with Tomura's body is part of that. For me, it's more of a question. If Tomura has gone beyond the state of everyone else on the planet, what does it mean for him once the battle is over? If his body evolved to accommodate the growing of his quirk(s), if he lost his quirk(s), what would it mean to his body? Would Horikoshi allow Tomura to keep the evolution of his body in the end? What would that mean to the story?

Bnha is a manga full of consequences. People lose limbs, they lose their quirks, they get scars and even lose their lives. I'm confident that Deku won't kill Tomura. That is, Tomura won't die during his face with Deku, no matter what. That's part of the condition the story set to turn Deku into the best hero ever.

Now, what will happen to Tomura after?

One option is to rewind Tomura to the time his body hasn't evolved yet. I think he didn't have that during his fight with Stars and Stripes, so it's a matter of rewinding days, maybe even a week, but no more than that. The problem is that Eri is still a kid and only a kid. She has been training, but you know how many out there need a rewind in order to survive? There's a shortage of power that only raises the stakes.

The other option is that the regeneration quirk is enough to deal with the damage, so Tomura can get out of the fight kinda fresh. I'd theorize that Tomura's physical evolution means that he does not need to worry about the strain of multiple quirks in his body, but that's a lie. Most recent chapters have shown the symptoms of the strain in his forehead, similar to the ones we've seen before in the OFA users. This one is not plausible to me. We saw how the rest of the members of the League of Villains ended up: beaten, bloody, full of wounds. I don't see why Tomura would be the exception...

Let's say Tomura ends up really hurt. All his quirks are gone. His body maintains its evolution, it acts like anyone else who has lost their quirks (ex. Iida Tensei, the former pro-hero Ingenium). They can survive, their body moves on.

The most logical thing according to the bnha narrative is that the afoquirk banishes like all the other quirks, nothing special. It's the route with less complications. Sometimes, the easiest way is the correct one lol.

When I said this:

Would the strain of the afoquirk kill Tomura?

Maybe?

I think it is a possibility that won't happen now, more like a long term consequence of the events of the manga.

I'm referring to how Horikoshi keeps the damage of the characters through time. Toshinori Yagi kept the damage of his fights with AFO, right? It's the same for many heroes and villains. They can keep living, but someday in the future they'll have to pay for their hero/villain feats.

I'm sorry if I scared you. It was not my intention.

Sometimes I like to entertain questions that help me understand what the story is trying to achieve or how it'd bend the events of the manga in order to fit the message the author wants to convey.

Bnha is a story about not repeating the mistakes of past generations. I'm sure they'll figure out a way to help all the villains survive, if only because the hero kids are invested in changing things. It's more about their own heroic ideals and less about "do those villains deserve to be saved?"

The answer is yes. Because that's what heroes do. They save as many as they can, if they can. There are no exceptions.

Summarized answer: No, the afoquirk won't kill Tomura Shigaraki in the manga. (At least I don't expect it to).

[ao3feed-toshinko]

When the Rain Washes You Clean, You’ll Know

by Anxious_and_caffeinated

Nobody was expecting a literal flood during their visit to Okinawa Island, but here they were, all huddled in the emergency bunker. What was meant to be a fun community-slash-hero training getaway turned into something dire. Something scary.

Gran Torino is nowhere to be seen after jumping into action to rescue stragglers during a wild storm. Izuku, despite the reassurances from others, is left with dread that something might be wrong. So he takes matters into his own hands, but at what cost?

Words: 1431, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Kayama Nemuri | Midnight, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Uraraka Ochako, Torino Sorahiko | Gran Torino, Class 1-A (My Hero Academia)

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku & Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Midoriya Inko/Yagi Toshinori | All Might

Additional Tags: Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Angry Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Yagi Toshinori | All Might Adopts Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku is a Mess, Dead Midoriya Inko, Hurt/Comfort, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead is So Done, Mentioned Class 1-A (My Hero Academia), Reckless Midoriya Izuku, This is a really obscure au I have so bear with me, Everything is the Same, except Toshinori and Inko are married, but Inko died, Grandparent Torino Sorahiko | Gran Torino, Kinda

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54280510

[ao3feed-tododeku]

I Didn't Mean to Fall in Love with a Hero

I Didn't Mean to Fall In Love With a Hero by Oliver434

After being told he couldn't become a hero by his idol, Midoriya gave up. He learned that the symbol of peace was barley holding it together. He could only imagine what the rest of the pro heroes were like. He took the long way home today only to see Kacchan be attacked. All might wasn't doing anything, he just kinda laugh. Kacchan deserved it anyway, so he just kept walking. Later that day he heard Kacchan survived and was only slightly injured. A disappointment really. It would have been nice to see Bakugo go through some pain, just so he could see what he was doing to him. The villains didn't stop coming that day. There was even one at his house. This villain took his mother's life. No heroes came to save her. That pushed him over the edge, and his father was quite happy about that.AFO loved his son, so much so he didn't want to force him into villainy. The dad he heard Inko had died and he would be in custody of his son, he panicked. What if he loves heroes? What if he hates Tomura? Worst of all, what if he hates him? It was a pleasant surprise when the first words he heard his son say were "I hate heroes. This was the heroes fault" After that he knew every thing would just click, and it did.

Words: 2401, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Characters: Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Midoriya Izuku, Todoroki Shouto, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor, Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Bakugou Katsuki, Kirishima Eijirou, Uraraka Ochako, Asui Tsuyu, Kaminari Denki, Jirou Kyouka, Yaoyorozu Momo, Sensei | All For One, Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Toga Himiko, Bubaigawara Jin | Twice

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto, Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou, Jirou Kyouka/Yaoyorozu Momo

Additional Tags: Quirkless Midoriya Izuku, Doctor Midoriya Izuku, Villain Midoriya Izuku, Protective Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor Being An Asshole, Smart Midoriya Izuku, Pro Hero Bakugou Katsuki, Pro Hero Todoroki Shouto, Pro Hero Kirishima Eijirou, Pro Hero Class 1-A, Midoriya Izuku Does Not Go to U.A. High School, Aged-Up Class 1-A, Slow Burn, Sensei | All For One is Midoriya Hisashi

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45504127

[evelhak]

Reply to @myndless88 who filled this ask, being so wise to know that I wanted to see the KnB version even though I asked for Sailor Moon, because I was getting self-conscious about never asking about anything but KnB! Thank you so much. Here’s my version. <3

My OTP: KagaKuro (duh)

My NOTP: You know what, kinda same: Any other ship involving Kuroko, but also Kagami, and it’s not that I can’t see any potential in other ships, it’s just that I want KagaKuro to be forever. And I guess the Kuroko ships bother me a bit more too, because it’s Kuroko who always gets the harem treatment and there’s just something about it that I dislike. I don’t like the idea that everyone is into Kuroko over anyone else. I guess Momoi, Nash and Hanamiya make my blood boil the most, though.

MY OT3: I don’t think I have one... I have plans to explore polyamory in my fics but that might be happening between characters who all just happen to be my OCs. :’D So, that doesn’t count.

A currently canon ship I’m okay with but don’t prefer: It’s true practically no ship is canon, except Riko and Kiyoshi being exes... or like Tsuchida and his nameless girlfriend. But I do consider Riko x Hyuuga (is there a ship name for that, I’ve never seen one?) and AoMomo being sort of canon because it has been so heavily implied. But they still don’t count for this, because they are my preferred ships. So, really can’t think of anything.

A ship that would only work in an AU but would be awesome: I also can’t think of anything, because my brain just doesn’t work in AUs... if something needs an AU to work, then to me it kind of doesn’t have a point. (My exception is dreamworld fics that contribute to my huge canonverse story. I’m not opposed to reading other people’s AUs though, I’m quite intrigued about yours!) But no, I can’t think of any ship that would be inherently interesting. Not that I couldn’t be convinced.

A ship I’d like to see explored but not stick around: Sometimes when I’m half-asleep, my brain is like... If KagaKuro broke up for a while in adulthood, I could see Kise and Kuroko having a one-night stand... but when I’m all there, I’m like, no, I’m not going to write that. (Everything that it would thematically bring to my story has been explored already, so I’m not going to repeat myself just so Kise can fulfil some teenage fantasy). So, that’s a bad answer, actually. Hmm, well, I kind of see AkaFuri as something that could happen (way in the future) but wouldn’t last. So that’s a better one.

A ship that may as well be canon:  Well, same as you, KagaKuro and MidoTaka. But also Riko x Hyuuga and AoMomo.

The ships I’d give my OTP pair if the other died: I really don’t want to think about this, but if I’m honest, yeah, if both Aomine and Kuroko ended up alone, I feel like they might end up together. Interestingly enough, I feel like the same could happen with Momoi and Kagami. I know that’s a rare pair for sure, but I’ve discovered the potential of their friendship in my fics. Under no other circumstances could I see either of these ships happening, but in these particular cases I think it would eventually happen, because in my headcanon these four keep becoming closer friends as they get older, so the pull of the person who understands your loss would probably be irresistible in the end... dear lord, I don’t want to think about this further.

A crossover ship I’d dig: This is too much for me.

A ship that would work great in a Coffee Shop AU: I don’t think I can do better than your AkaFuri idea. I'm embarrassingly ignorant of popular fanfiction tropes, to be honest.

A ship that would work great in a sitcom AU: I know this doesn’t say much, but I’ve been kind of shipping Yagi with an OC lately, I’m not sure yet, but I do think they would be funny enough together for this.

I'm happy to do this for another fandom too if anyone wants to know.

[ao3feed-izuku-midoriya]

We Almost Died

We Almost Died by TechnicallyAPerson

He'd seen the look on Kacchan's face. It was one he recognized, unfortunately; one he'd seen glaring down at him enough that it was engrained in his memories, featuring in his nightmares more often than not.

The building never stood a chance.

OR: What if the Battle Trials on the second day at UA ended slightly worse for everyone involved? Featuring traumatized!Izuku, good friends!Uraraka and Iida, and an Aizawa that thinks he knows more than he really does.

Words: 3076, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 5 of TechnicallyAPerson's MHA fics

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Uraraka Ochako, Iida Tenya, Bakugou Katsuki, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, mentioned

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku & Uraraka Ochako, Iida Tenya & Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku

Additional Tags: Battle Trial Arc, Bully Bakugou Katsuki, Not really character bashing, but still kinda, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead is a Bad Teacher, Uraraka Ochako is a Good Friend, Iida Tenya is a Good Friend

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46230049

[ao3feed-todoroki]

I Didn't Mean to Fall in Love with a Hero

I Didn't Mean to Fall In Love With a Hero by Oliver434

After being told he couldn't become a hero by his idol, Midoriya gave up. He learned that the symbol of peace was barley holding it together. He could only imagine what the rest of the pro heroes were like. He took the long way home today only to see Kacchan be attacked. All might wasn't doing anything, he just kinda laugh. Kacchan deserved it anyway, so he just kept walking. Later that day he heard Kacchan survived and was only slightly injured. A disappointment really. It would have been nice to see Bakugo go through some pain, just so he could see what he was doing to him. The villains didn't stop coming that day. There was even one at his house. This villain took his mother's life. No heroes came to save her. That pushed him over the edge, and his father was quite happy about that.AFO loved his son, so much so he didn't want to force him into villainy. The dad he heard Inko had died and he would be in custody of his son, he panicked. What if he loves heroes? What if he hates Tomura? Worst of all, what if he hates him? It was a pleasant surprise when the first words he heard his son say were "I hate heroes. This was the heroes fault" After that he knew every thing would just click, and it did.

Words: 2401, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Characters: Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Midoriya Izuku, Todoroki Shouto, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor, Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Bakugou Katsuki, Kirishima Eijirou, Uraraka Ochako, Asui Tsuyu, Kaminari Denki, Jirou Kyouka, Yaoyorozu Momo, Sensei | All For One, Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Toga Himiko, Bubaigawara Jin | Twice

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto, Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou, Jirou Kyouka/Yaoyorozu Momo

Additional Tags: Quirkless Midoriya Izuku, Doctor Midoriya Izuku, Villain Midoriya Izuku, Protective Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor Being An Asshole, Smart Midoriya Izuku, Pro Hero Bakugou Katsuki, Pro Hero Todoroki Shouto, Pro Hero Kirishima Eijirou, Pro Hero Class 1-A, Midoriya Izuku Does Not Go to U.A. High School, Aged-Up Class 1-A, Slow Burn, Sensei | All For One is Midoriya Hisashi

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45504127

[ladysunamireads]

I Didn't Mean to Fall in Love with a Hero

I Didn't Mean to Fall In Love With a Hero by Oliver434

After being told he couldn't become a hero by his idol, Midoriya gave up. He learned that the symbol of peace was barley holding it together. He could only imagine what the rest of the pro heroes were like. He took the long way home today only to see Kacchan be attacked. All might wasn't doing anything, he just kinda laugh. Kacchan deserved it anyway, so he just kept walking. Later that day he heard Kacchan survived and was only slightly injured. A disappointment really. It would have been nice to see Bakugo go through some pain, just so he could see what he was doing to him. The villains didn't stop coming that day. There was even one at his house. This villain took his mother's life. No heroes came to save her. That pushed him over the edge, and his father was quite happy about that.AFO loved his son, so much so he didn't want to force him into villainy. The dad he heard Inko had died and he would be in custody of his son, he panicked. What if he loves heroes? What if he hates Tomura? Worst of all, what if he hates him? It was a pleasant surprise when the first words he heard his son say were "I hate heroes. This was the heroes fault" After that he knew every thing would just click, and it did.

Words: 2401, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Characters: Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Midoriya Izuku, Todoroki Shouto, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor, Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Bakugou Katsuki, Kirishima Eijirou, Uraraka Ochako, Asui Tsuyu, Kaminari Denki, Jirou Kyouka, Yaoyorozu Momo, Sensei | All For One, Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Toga Himiko, Bubaigawara Jin | Twice

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto, Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou, Jirou Kyouka/Yaoyorozu Momo

Additional Tags: Quirkless Midoriya Izuku, Doctor Midoriya Izuku, Villain Midoriya Izuku, Protective Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor Being An Asshole, Smart Midoriya Izuku, Pro Hero Bakugou Katsuki, Pro Hero Todoroki Shouto, Pro Hero Kirishima Eijirou, Pro Hero Class 1-A, Midoriya Izuku Does Not Go to U.A. High School, Aged-Up Class 1-A, Slow Burn, Sensei | All For One is Midoriya Hisashi

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45504127

[ao3feed-bnha-girls]

We Almost Died

We Almost Died by TechnicallyAPerson

He'd seen the look on Kacchan's face. It was one he recognized, unfortunately; one he'd seen glaring down at him enough that it was engrained in his memories, featuring in his nightmares more often than not.

The building never stood a chance.

OR: What if the Battle Trials on the second day at UA ended slightly worse for everyone involved? Featuring traumatized!Izuku, good friends!Uraraka and Iida, and an Aizawa that thinks he knows more than he really does.

Words: 3076, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 5 of TechnicallyAPerson's MHA fics

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Uraraka Ochako, Iida Tenya, Bakugou Katsuki, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, mentioned

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku & Uraraka Ochako, Iida Tenya & Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku

Additional Tags: Battle Trial Arc, Bully Bakugou Katsuki, Not really character bashing, but still kinda, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead is a Bad Teacher, Uraraka Ochako is a Good Friend, Iida Tenya is a Good Friend

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46230049

[pocketramblr]

5+ ask game: An AU where somehow, Izuku got AFO and Tomura got OFA but Izuku is still a hero with All Might and Tomura is still a villain with AFO, please.

1- Izuku has always been a fan of the quirkless hero, All Might, ranked number 8. Probably because for a very long time, he also thought he was quirkless. His quirk didn't manifest until he was fourteen and he was attacked by a villain. All Might arrives, running, and sees the sludge transfer into the boy, who starts melting, and a panicked naked man run off. He keeps going and tries to help the kid, who is panicking, and accidently gives Toshi the sludge quirk. Thirty minutes of trouble later and the sludge quirk is back in the original owner, izuku is shell shocked until he gets to ramble fanboyism at Toshi, who decides this kid is just too earnest he needs help training both with his quirk and without, so he offers it.

2- Meanwhile, Toshi never met Nana. Nana died before she could, cornered with her husband and son by AfO, who said that Nana could decide which of them would keep OfA, and the other two he'd kill. She gave Kotaro OfA, told him to find uncle Sorahiko, and threw him as far as she could. Then AfO,,, ya know. Watched Gran teach Kotaro just enough to not kill him, then hid him and told him to never use it. He hates heroes, and then when AfO kills him later by capsizing the house, gives OfA in his last moments to the person closest to him, Tenko.

3- AfO is so happy about having OfA and keeps trying to take it from Tomura. Tomura keeps trying to give it to him, but the vestiges keep yeeting back into him because a kinda crusty teenage edgelord is better then staying with Big Brother. The other quirks are tightly locked up in the vault though, and they won't let him use them, though they are happy to talk to him in his dreams about how horrible his Sensei is. Tomura hates OfA because it's cursed, keeps breaking him when he tries to use it, won't do what he says, makes Sensei mad, and gives him bad dreams full of lies.

4- Toshi is kinda oblivious when it comes to why all the other heroes get nervous when he asks if his student can practice with their quirk and training. He doesn't have a quirk of his own, and young Midoriya is just such a good kid, why would they go pale at the thought of lending it to help him out? Izuku knows why and tries to explain but it just doesn't work. Thankfully, some heroes really don't mind after getting to know him, and Izuku even gets a few offers of what he can borrow for the entrance exam!

5- less thankfully, the HPSC also heard about the constant thorn in their side, Yagi, taking in a kid who is a mini AfO, the other constant thorn in their side, and try to do everything they can to stop him. Which isn't much, because Nedzu happily admits him, but still. Hawks ends up feeling bad as he spreads nasty rumors to other top heroes to get them to stop helping this kid- at least, he feels bad once he's convinced that Izuku isn't a spy or trap from AfO.

+1- All Might was actually one of the few heroes AfO could stand, since he caused so many problems and seemed like the kind of hero that both AfO and Yoichi would have had fun discussing. He was even pretty content and bemused to fuel Izuku's All Might merch obsession, and never targeted him or his sidekicks specifically. But how does All Might repay him for that??? By stealing his son????? Making him a target??? All Might has earned his wrath and he doesn't even know it, or why.

[gentrychild]

the au ask: uh, not sure how this works, but, let's say an au where the slime incident never happens?

Anon, no! I have about five AUs for that! You could at least tell me if you want it to be angst or crack!

More seriously, it's such a fun prompt because it avoids All Might telling Izuku he can't be a hero without a quirk, which is the start of so many vigilante/villain/quirkless Izukus.

But since I am a benevolent writer, I will not talk about the AU where Tsuyu and Mineta dies, then Iida, then Kota, then Mirio, Eri isn't saved, and so on.

Okay, it got really long so it's under a Read More.

All Might arrests the Slime villain before he gets in the sewers so neither Izuku nor Bakugou are attacked by him. The problem is that it also means that All Might never meets Izuku, never break his little heart, and Izuku never has the chance to prove his worth to All Might so no OFA.

Life goes on. Izuku still wants to become a hero. However, since his homeroom teacher told his entire class that he wanted to go to UA, his entire class, led by Bakugou, has decided to make his life a living hell over it. Constant taunting and people laughing at him.

It takes its toll on him.

He still doesn't doubt that a quirkless hero can exist but the more days, weeks, months pass, the more he keeps thinking of how easier it would be if he had a quirk.

A dangerous thought. One he usually doesn't allow himself to think because why whine about what is impossible to have? But one boy can only take "What a useless quirkless Deku like you do?" before he starts to get haunted by strange thoughts. Cough... urges... Cough.

It also makes him eager to prove himself. Maybe that's why he intervenes that evening when he sees a villain trying to hurt someone. Except that once the civilian he helped is running to call a hero, he is reminded that he is a smol child made of only skin and bones and that the guy in front of him is about to bash his head in.

He tries to protect himself, his hand grabbing the villain by the head and in this moment, as he is sure that he is about to be killed, he thinks the one selfish thought that he ever thought:

"It's unfair... that this quirk belongs to someone like you... instead of me."

And just like that, Izuku takes a quirk for the first time.

The villain runs in terror and Izuku runs (in the other direction) in confusion. Soon, it's pretty clear that he apparently had the ability to take and give quirks (thank you, Mom, who has volunteered to try the villain's quirk. Though it's strange how she keeps trying to call someone on her phone these days. But it's probably not important.) Which is a very cool quirk.

Izuku now has to pass from "No quirk at all" to "Can have whatever quirk he wants", which is quite dizzying.

He is so fired up for the UA exam, five months from then. Ridiculously happy bean.

Meanwhile, Mirio gets OFA because no successor showed the self sacrificial spirit that could have inspired All Might and both GT and Nighteye kinda pressures him into choosing a successor ASAP.

This has disastrous consequences as OFA is way too powerful for Mirio and starts to put an insane strain on his body. One month later, while fighting a villain (he has his hero license), he collapses on the side of the road, black lines all over his body as the quirk is killing him.

Izuku finds him and calls an ambulance ASAP but Mirio is is really bad shape. He asks him what happened and Mirio, half delirious, tells him that his quirk is killing him.

Izuku is very "????" but he can help! He can take the quirk away! But Lemillion would be quirkless! He can't take this decision! But Mirio can so he asks.

Mirio is half conscious. Completely in pain. He didn't even want that quirk. He likes Permeation. So, half delirious as he was, he might have mumbled something like "Take that thing out of me."

Izuku does, realizes that Mirio has two quirks so he leaves him the one that doesn't feel as heavy as a freaking dwarf star. Lemillion immediately starts to stop looking like he will drop dead any moment from now and the ambulance arrives, taking the hero student away.

Since Izuku doesn't have the All Might telling him that OFA is a good quirk, he acts like a sensible person: this quirk doesn't feel normal and it apparently kills its user. So he waits about 20 seconds before getting rid of it. He finds a nice and sturdy lizard, who, unbeknownst to everyone, becomes the 10th user of OFA.

The quirk comes back to Izuku.

Quirks aren't supposed to do that.

The freaking quirk is cursed. Izuku accepted a cursed quirk.

I cannot begin to describe how Izuku doesn't trust OFA in this AU. He doesn't use it. He intensively dislikes it. He tries everything and more to get rid of it but no matter what living organism he selects, the damn thing keeps coming back.

Meanwhile, Mirio wakes up from the hospital alive :) then remembers he gave a host-killing-quirk to a smol child. O.O

Panic ensues.

All Might realizes that whoever took OFA put his hand on Mirio's head, the same way AFO does. So it was probably AFO with a fun new shapeshifting quirk.

More panic ensues.

Meanwhile, AFO, alive indeed and who has been watching Mirio wastes away and enjoying the hell out of it (though he would have preferred it had happened one generation sooner) is furious that Yagi 2.0 isn't dying anymore because it means OFA passed to someone else! And since everyone in the OFAteam is quite panicked, they apparently lost the quirk he gave his little brother!

He gets so upset about it that he somehow misses the hundred of phonecalls from his wife.

So AFO and All Might alike are looking for someone with OFA but since Izuku just isn't using it, they aren't finding it.

Meanwhile, the Vestiges went from "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH, SOMEONE WITH AFO!!!! AHHHHHH!" to "What do you mean: You don't want to use us? We're not good enough for you???"

So OFA is doing the quirk equivalent of a cat purring and showing its belly so it can get some pet.

Izuku: "You know what? I know it's a trap but since I don't want to outright call a quirk evil, I will give you one chance to prove to me you're not a cursed power that wants my death."

Cue two broken legs.

Well, that's it. Izuku gave that nasty quirk the benefit of the doubt. He is never using it again. And since the damn thing is trying to contaminate his other quirks, he is vaulting it forever!

The irony is not lost on First.

The day of the entrance exam arrives and Izuku does quite well with his good, non cursed quirks, thank you very much.

And as he is leaving, he sees Lemillion! He is happy to see him in good health! He waves at him!

Meanwhile, Mirio spent the last five months trying to find that awful quirk he lost. He was half convinced he had given him to the Symbol of Evil and had trouble seeing the problem because if OFA would eat AFO, where was the problem? He is wondering if he condemned a kid to death. He Is Going Through A Lot.

He wants to say so many things, ask so many questions. And the one thing he manages to blurt out is "GET HIM!"

Tamaki and Nejire immediately shoulder slam a small child. They didn't even hesitate.

That's the story of how the Mighty team found OFA again.

Izuku loves hanging out with All Might but not even him can convince him that the quirk isn't cursed.

[darkcircles4lyfe]

Death to All Might, Rebirth to Yagi Toshinori

So about All Might. I’ve been extremely wary of talking about what could happen to him because straight up saying “I don’t think he’s gonna die” is asking the universe to spite me. Plus it also feels like a room full of people turning to stare at me as if I said the Sun isn’t a star. Man has death flags everywhere, I know. 

But, okay, *Bill Nye voice* consider the following:

Mr. Yagi here, if he overheard everything, just received the final nail in the coffin on his career. His time as the symbol of peace is not only over, it was in fact partially responsible for the current state of things, since he once did so much on his own that his absence now makes heroes and civilians alike ill-prepared to cope. I think it was very apt for that one guy to be wearing an All Might shirt--he was acting as a mouthpiece for the latent societal problems embedded in All Might’s legacy. 

We know already that he’s been feeling useless. I love this scene and although I’m not gonna talk about it right this second, remember what Aizawa says about just “being here” being enough:

And we know from conversations with Inko that Toshinori is also reframed his purpose around looking after Izuku. But in the end, Izuku rejected his help, and it was his classmates instead who were able to save him. Now the very progress of humanity is rejecting him too. You may me wondering how on Earth I don’t see the logical conclusion of all this being his death. Hold on. It actually has a lot to do with the fact that we’re all expecting it. Nighteye himself saw it, and despite any contrary convictions anyone might have, the plot doesn’t seem to be veering away from that end. All Might Is Gonna Die, says absolutely everything. 

It’s occurring to me that I have previous experience with this kind of plotline that probably little to no one else in this fandom shares, being that I’ve read a certain book series in which the main character is told in no uncertain terms that he will die (no, I’m not talking about hp). The series in question is T*e Und*rland Chronicl*s (censoring so it doesn’t get put in their side of tumblr) and I’m sorry but I’m about to go on a shameless tangent about it and spoil the ending for you.

So in this series there is a prophecy in every book, each one having something to do with war and conflict, and so far all of them have been right. In the last book [mc] finds out that it’s prophesied that he will be killed. Lots of the things in the prophecies are convoluted and metaphorical, but no, this one literally says “when the [mc’s title] has been killed.” He spends the whole book coming to terms with this, and he gives into it, only to find himself waking up in the hospital instead. “Wow, plot twist. /s” you may be thinking, and yeah sure, the mc in a kids book survived, big shocker. But it doesn't end there. After the war, there are peace talks, but they escalate until the two sides are on the verge of declaring war again. And [mc], bless him, has just been caught in the middle of all of this the entire time. He’s sick as shit of fighting, of watching the suffering and death of people he cares about. He draws his sword against both of them angrily, gives a speech saying he won’t take a side, and then promptly breaks his sword across his knee: “There. [mc’s title in the prophecies] is dead. I killed him.” He’s giving a huge middle finger to everyone there, to the man who wrote the prophecies, to the entire fucked up culture of it all. And so something that was taken literally turns out to be metaphorical. That is, if you still believe in the prophecies at all.

Hopefully you’re catching my drift here. What I’m saying is, even though this other series has nothing to do with bnha, it goes to show sometimes it’s the most absolute certainties that are red herrings, and a “death” can consequently be a symbolic one. In All Might’s case, it could be the death of hero society and a rejection of his own past. In other words, character development for Toshinori himself that reflects on the way the world is changing, too. Also there’s the fact that the mc from that other series I’m trying not to name has an honorary title, and I’m imagining that role he occupied “dying” could correspond to something that amounts to, “All Might is dead. I (Yagi Toshinori) killed him.” 

And here’s another thing: we also have to ask ourselves what good a dead Toshinori is to Izuku, narratively speaking. Yes, Izuku has spent his whole life idolizing even the more toxic parts of All Might, and his idealized vision of his hero does need to “die.” But how about Toshinori as a father figure?  Izuku regretting that his last interaction with Toshinori was to reject his help may drive home the fact that he shouldn’t go off on his own, but at this point it’s kinda redundant. If anything it would negate some of the progress that was just made because it’d make him extra paranoid about losing other people too. To be honest, the whole “Uncle Ben” trope, the mentor/father figure who dies and gives the mc a reason to do better, is so tired. Experiencing the death of a loved one really doesn’t deserve to be romanticized like that. I might as well admit that I’m speaking from experience, and let me tell you, losing someone you love suddenly, when you weren’t around, and with unfinished business--it makes you paranoid as hell that it will happen again. It literally gives me nightmares. Y’all, I cannot stress enough that trauma does not equal character development. Granted, just because I know this doesn’t mean Horikoshi does, but in general he does seem to lead his characters toward healing.

Okay, back to the present. Toshinori is turning away from UA. He likely feels useless and rejected. We can infer that what happens next will involve Stain, and we have a couple of extra clues to go with it: Stain considers All Might a true hero, and has stated that he would let All Might kill him. And since Horikoshi loves his parallels, we also have this fight between Endeavor and this random villain who admires him so much that he wants to die by Endeavor’s hand:

This suggests a confrontation in which Stain challenges All Might to live up to himself as he once was, so that as a hero he can vanquish Stain and symbolically overcome society's perversion of that role. But based on what All Might has learned about the system he upheld, Stain is wrong. All Might is not a “true hero” in the sense that the societal issues Stain witnessed exist not in spite of All Might, but (in part) because of him, because he took too much of the responsibility for himself.

Stain probably had no idea about the personal cost of All Might’s lonely burden until after the fact. Maybe he’s seeing it now. So then perhaps the confrontation would be more about Stain claiming he’s just as fake as the rest. Either way, Toshinori has the opportunity to denounce himself and be rid of “All Might,”  to stop living in his own shadow. Nighteye’s vision has been defied before, and I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the combination of society shifting + Toshinori’s own conviction is enough to do it again and work fate in his favor.

He is not All Might. He is Yagi Toshinori: quirkless, worn down, and directionless except for his dedication to Izuku. If he survives his interaction with Stain, he can resolve his imperfect mentorship by confessing about his shortcomings and simply supporting Izuku as a part of his family, not as his teacher (as Aizawa said, just “being there”). And that’s how you really get character development, for both of them. I mean, shit, imagine Toshinori straight up telling Izuku to stop calling him All Might.

[decadentrot]

It is finally summer so i have the time to pump out a couple AUs out in the open cause they have been taking up too much free real estate in my brain (●'◡'●)

Ok so BKDK Nerd AU right:

Izuku and Katsuki are best buds as kids who live their life to the fullest until tragedy strikes. Izuku’s father gonna divorce his mom and leave his ass but as a parting gift he gives Izuku an All Might plush.

From there on, every traumatic experience Izuku has, Izuku will treat himself to buying a new hero plush and thats his coping mechanism. Basically at the tender age of 5, Izuku has developed the habit of retail therapy.

He finds out he's quirkless, ‘dont worry he has an all might doll to remind him to be strong in tough times.’ Kacchan starts bullying him, ‘ok let me buy that mirko doll to remind me that you always gotta keep going and stay determined.' His mom dies, ‘oh look a ms.joke plush to remind me to always keep smiling no matter what ( totally not b/c the green hair reminds him of his mom.’ Izuku gets sent to an orphanage, ‘ahh ill get a present mic figure. Maybe his confience can rub off on me and I’ll befriend the other orphans…’

At the orphanage he meets his roomie… dun dun dun Shinsou woo and at first they kinda ignore each other until Izuku wakes up at 2 am and feeling scared of this new environment and wants to sneak out to buy a new plush and sees his roomie also awake crouched over a laptop with over 300+ items on his amazon wishlist (hes even more aghast when he sees all of those items are cat related.) Nevertheless, together they enable eachother's bad shopping habits and become the resident disaster duo. Also Izuku decides not to go to the UA and instead decides to follow in his moms footsteps and become a nurse, while Shinsou learns of UAs difficult entrance exam and when inquiring about Izuku's ms joke plush, he decides to attend Ketsubutsu Academy where she works and try to learn to be an underground hero like her (I like to think shes also underground cause shes close to aizawa)

Meanwhile, Katsuki was never really one for plushes or dolls thinking thats soft shit but he always still kept the matching Endeavor keychain he still has when Izuku's father also got them when they were kids so he doesnt feel left out. Anywho he goes to UA, feeling like something is missing but adamantly refusing to admit he misses  certain green bean. He goes on grumpy and frustrated and eventually meet Shoto who sees the Endeavor keychain and gets angry at it to the point where he burns it and Katsuki is angry cause 'hey thats the last reminder of my connection to my childhood best friend' and Shoto gets angry cause 'what the hell he just said he wasnt gonna use his fire ever and he just broke his promise' They become ultimate rivals ™ which eventually turns into friends eventually in their UA years and they all work out their trauma together

Speaking of UA years, in this au I imagine there are a lot of differences but ill probably draw snippets of it later like for one All Might saves the students at the USJ but hurts himself and ends up in the hospital and surprise surprise Izukus there volunteering as a nurse (to get experience yk) and he ends up caring for Yagi-san and blabbers about heroes this and All Might that, unaware of who exactly he is talking to. I also like to imagine that Kota instead of being sent to live with his aunt, they think heroics are too dangerous and send him away to the orphanage for 'his own safety' and he become little brother to Izuku and Shinsou and slowly also becomes a hero plush fanatic ect 

The real meat of the story begins when everyones all graduated and grown up and debuted as heroes and Class 1a is asked to attend a hero con where they answer questions and give out merch to start a fan base and Izuku, Shinsou, and Kota are living their best lives in the crowd buying everything ‘woah look Hito-chan its Red Riot or woah is that Uravity yk they really captured her muscles in this figurine i boug- not that i was ogling her muscles no stop laughing at me Hi- OH MY GOD oooh cool its Creati and shes even using her cool quirk’ Meanwhile Katsuki is in his own personal hell at this convention and when overhearing a conversation, is flabbergasted his his classmates mention that this so called cute MEGA DORKY HERO FANATIC LOSER is going to all their stands and buying all their merch and complimenting them, but dares to IGNORE THE MIGHTY GREAT EXPLOSION MURDER GOD DYNAMIGHT'S MERCH?? I mean damn he may not like this aspect of heroism but he didnt sit through over 10+ hours of trying merch meeting discussing whether he wants ebony black or midnight black to be he color of his figure to be ignored. He didnt get woken up at 3am in the morning by his manger for his opinion on whether he wants to sell a 32 ounce or a 40 ounce hydroflask for this shit. So obviously he has to go and confront the nerd and he almost shits his pants when he realizes this mega loser dweeb is fucking DEKU!

Katsuki talks with him and eventually asks why he doesnt want to buy any of his stuff and Izuku ends up admitting that this merch, all this stuff is basically his therapy, when he sees these dolls he is filled with hope that he future is gonna get bad and he wont be haunted of the past and katsuki is the antithesis of that. Getting a Dynamight figure will just remind him of the past he wants to forget and while he loves Kacchan and believes in him and truly does believe he is destined for great things, he needs to let him go. Please Kacchan, let me let you go...

FUCK YOU DEKU! take my phone number and since you keep associating me with bad memories, well then lets go make new BETTER memories shitty nerd. And suddenly Izuku is hanging out with Kacchan again and Katsuki is giving it his 110% until he slowly but surely builds up Izuku's Dynamight collection.

The End lmao (hopefully i explained it well and you get the premise)

Bonus: RING RING RING "Hey Half and Half remember when you burned that Endeavor keychain... wanna help me burn down some other merch?"

[bloustorm]

Do you have headcannons for Izuku being a dog with a quirk?

i know nothing about dogs so i just had to search them up, after a bit of confusion i decided that he would be like an australian shepherd border collie mix (the brown ones) or like just an australian shepherd? I know nothing but they look cute

of course he is not actually brown but black with greenish undertones, i just thought the brown ones had nice patterns/ that you could see better how i imagine it

he is a small and fast dog, i think he would stay out of sight the most time and like walk up to kids and people that are more alone

i think he would be a very emphatic dog, that loves to help people, he is like an emotional support dog

i just realised that i hc him as a stray dog that runs around the streets, mayhaps he belongs to inko who lets him run free with a collar but idk, no he would be a stray i think

he has seen how horrible humans can be, to animals but also to each others and he wants to help

he is a really intelligent dog, mayhaps his quirk gives him an intelligent boost so he can use it, probably not as intelligent as a full grown adult tho? mayhaps that comes later when he himself grows up

okay now i want him to have like a long lifespan quirk, like he will grow older than most humans old

would be funny if he was like yoichi's dog but nah, mayhaps for something different

nana found him when he was a puppy and when she was still young, he met en once knew gran torino and saw toshinori grow up, toshinori loved his sensei's dog and was really sad when he vanished after nana died

izuku probably tried to track either kotaru down so he wasn’t alone or tried to fight afo, no he did not care he was a dog

toshinori probably did not notice that the dog was aging way to slow, he probably assumed that izuku was just already fully grown or smth

back to the quirk, afo does not know about the dog or that the dog has a quirk, i don’t know if he would be able to take it because it’s an animal quirk? but quirks are quirks so hmm

how funny would it be when toshinori finds the dog at the start of canon again and decides “yes this dog that reminds me of my senseis dog but slightly bigger is now my successor”

izuku dog with ofa would get an intelligence boost because his quirk got boosted,

a dog in ua…. all the people that want to protest would see nedzu smile at them

gran torino probably would laugh a lot when he hears about it the first time because toshinori went and did that what nana was thinking about before she found yagi

poor shigaraki tho, seems like his dog related memories will appear faster

maybe izuku knew him kinda before hand, as a stray you see a lot after all

[ao3feed-izuku-midoriya]

Ode to Eternity

Ode to Eternity by SourGummyWyrm

Izuku Midoriya was twenty two with a quirk that wasn't his and a burden too great. An impossible situation that no one could fix. The people around him beg him to save them.

But he dies instead.

Izuku Midoriya is four years old with no quirk and a heart to big. Except he's not four, he's twenty two, but he's also four and it's really confusing. All he knows is that the future is horrible and he can't let it happen again. But he's only one small, scared, and confused child.

And then, because he can never catch a break, fate starts speaking to him. Joy. … TL;DR: Izuku from a dystopian future get volun-told to go to the past to fix it by Fate, except she tells him nothing and saddles him with a neat video game system to help. Surely, a four year old being told to fix the world will only do good things. Spoiler alert: things don't go to Fate's plan. Then again, we're talking about Midoriya Izuku, she should've expected this.

Words: 4749, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Inko, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Class 1-A, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic

Relationships: Midoriya Inko & Midoriya Izuku, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Midoriya Izuku & Yagi Toshinori | All Might

Additional Tags: Time Travel Fix-It, Kinda, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Quirkless Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku Does Not Have One for All Quirk, Midoriya Izuku Has the Gamer Ability (The Gamer Webcomic) as a Quirk, not really, divine intervention, fate got sad and took pity on him, Aka me, Bullying, Child Neglect, Character Death, Major Character Undeath, They get better, No Beta We Die Like All Might, Alternate Universe - Dystopia, in the future, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46228438

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#5

May I share an opinion on the whole Aizawa critical thing? His philosophy of "expelling to give kids a taste of death" doesn't make a lot of sense, both Bakugou and Izuku were caught and nearly died in a villain attack, Mina and Kirishima diffused an villain attack and is still impacted, but aizawa implicitly treated them like they are all privileged sheltered kids discovering the stakes in heroics for the first time

yes exactly!! I kinda went off on this so I'm putting most of this post under a 'keep reading' but essentially: Aizawa's teaching method (mostly the expulsion part) is incredibly flawed because it was based around his own trauma (Oboro's death), and it doesn't do anything good for his students, instead only working to their detriment no matter how much bnha wants to prove the opposite.

One of Aizawa's biggest character flaws (and honestly I'm not mad about it – it's actually a super interesting/cool flaw of his and I wish people would point it out more) is that he never really believes or acts like anything bad ever happens to anyone until he's explicitly told about it, or he's shown it. I think he genuinely believes that every student at UA has been babied since birth except for him and a select few people because of their quirks (Shinso), and every impulsive thing they do is because they don't believe in the consequences until they're shown them via expulsion. He believes that he is the only one who sees the consequences of being a hero because he's one of the only people who's seen someone die – one of his best friends – on the job, and it’s his job to teach everyone else that single fact.

and in many cases that is true! characters like Bakugo or even Izuku don't really get that the hero world is really dangerous until they attend UA. As All Might himself tells Izuku – heroes are expected to put their lives on the line for people. And as All Might (and Aizawa) knows, All Might, who is responsible for crime going down by at least 2%, is going to retire soon. Crime is going to rise. This means deaths like Oboro’s are going to rise, and Endeavor isn’t anywhere near the level to carry the weight of #1 quite like All Might did.

The problem is, there are generations of people from Aizawa to Izuku who have only known the world that All Might created for them, and that world is going to die very soon with a very unprepared Japan suffering in the fallout. So in Aizawa’s mind, the best way to help these future heroes understand that All Might isn’t going to be around to save them is to give them consequences via expulsion. So at the beginning of the year, he puts them all on the same level (aka everyone is some spoiled kid who doesn’t know the consequences of their own actions) and threatens them via expulsion to make sure they realize that death exists and that their actions have consequences.

Unfortunately for Aizawa and his worldview, not everyone is some spoiled kid who has been babied since birth except for him. We all know Midoriya’s situation is an abnormal one, I don’t think anyone would guess that a formerly quirkless child would be entering into the school with a quirk they just got that day, but as you stated both Bakugo, Kirishima, and Mina alone have been faced with real-world near-death scenarios and have survived. Hell, Bakugo and Midoriya’s Sludge Villain incident had made its way into the news! Midoriya and Bakugo nearly died and it was on the news, yet Aizawa still felt it apt to threaten Midoriya with expulsion (extra death) because he didn’t feel that Midoriya was trying hard enough with his quirk.

Why? He already nearly died once (twice technically but Aizawa doesn’t know that), there’s no need to ‘kill’ him again. Is it because All Might saved him and therefore Aizawa needs to push that All Might won’t always be around to help him by threatening him in a space where All Might has no power? Did Aizawa just not see or forget that Midoriya and Bakugo nearly died? Why does he threaten him here in front of his entire class? What purpose does it serve for Midoirya’s development? (there’s also a case to be made where he’s biased against Midoriya in the beginning simply because All Might likes him, but that’s a whole other discussion)

And of course, that’s just Midoriya. It’s bad enough that a kid who’s always been pushed down by other people up until this point is being threatened by yet another person who doesn’t believe in him, but what about the other kids? What about Todoroki, who has a powerful quirk but has been abused by his father since his quirk developed? What about Uraraka, who would probably do more heroic but illegal things within the series (like saving Bakugo) if her entire family’s well-being and livelihood didn’t hinge on the fact that she stayed in school and didn’t get expelled by the most hard-ass teacher in series. What about students with delicate situations that can’t afford to be expelled because of their circumstances?

Instead of doing or being heroic, they’d be putting all their focus into hopefully not getting expelled, following the rules, keeping their heads down, instead of, y’know, trusting the adults in their life and questioning authority when need be. If they do get expelled, at the very least it’ll keep a black stain on their records that will follow them for the rest of their careers, and they’ll have to explain how they got expelled from the most prestigious hero school in Japan time and time again, annoying at most and career-destroying at the worst. At the very most, it puts these kids in danger from their guardians. That’s terrifying.

For example, if Shoto got expelled, at the very least Endeavor would call in a complaint like a regular old Karen. At the very most (aka Fanon interpretations of Endeavor) Shouto would get his ass beat six ways to Sunday. Or, the more in-canon option, Endeavor would take up Shoto’s training full time, which is also not good and very dangerous for him. Either way, it's trouble for Shoto because Aizawa assumed that Shoto was a spoiled kid and needed to be taught a lesson.

And sure, Aizawa doesn’t expel anyone in 1-A, but that doesn’t change the fact that he has expelled students before, and as a result, a majority of them (re: class 2-A) don’t really like him or respect him. Aside from literally one girl, they think he’s scary. They don’t like him. Being a hardass teacher is one thing, being a hardass teacher who people like and respect despite the no-nonsense bullshit is another thing. And aside from class 1-A (it's important to note that none of them have gotten expelled from his class and have even trauma bonded with him) and that one 2-A girl, they don’t like or respect him. They fear him. And for as funny as that is, that’s not the sign of a good teacher.

It’s not necessarily lazy teaching since he does it with a purpose, but it’s not right. He’s basically giving his students the teaching equivalent of tough parenting, and as most people on the internet know, tough parenting only leads to negative consequences for the victims (the students). And furthermore, it's obvious he only does this because of his trauma with Oboro's death. Expulsion isn't traumatic, like I stated earlier it depends on the situation how serious being expelled would be for a student, but if you think about it this way – that Aizawa purposefully traumatizes/scares/hurts/destroys the trust of students in a completely different way from how he was traumatized to teach them a lesson without 'consequence' – that's not good! That's terrible, even, and incredibly harmful in the long run.

We even see the negative consequences of Aizawa's expulsion method in Aizawa himself! The consequences of Oboro's death (which expulsion is supposed to emulate) on him are detrimental to him – he goes into a very serious depression to the point where he'll only do the bare minimum to pass classes, and he isolates himself from his friends. We're explicitly shown that what he's doing isn't helping him or doing him any favors and it's only through healing from his trauma that he actually starts to get better. And he wants to do this to other students (albeit on a smaller scale) to teach them the same lesson he learned? What the hell! Who thought this was right?

(Nezu bc he authorized it but eh. That guy lives for chaos.)

I love Aizawa, really I do, but this expulsion game really isn't right.

141 notes • Posted 2021-11-08 19:26:01 GMT

#4

additional important information for the quirkless kids club (can’t think of a better name) au

Happens probably uhhhh after the Cultural Festival arc bc thats always a good time for aus

Melissa is visiting from I-Island, getting away from her dad’s current court case while visiting her uncle Might which is why she’s here

While the kids are out on the town with All Might as a chaperone, some guy runs in with his quirk acting up, and miraculously, it only hits All Might, Izuku, Melissa, and Yuuga

cue BABIES

(cue also several panicked students calling Aizawa, crying and screaming, and Aizawa bracing himself for the worst time of his life)

Toshi, as he insists on being called, is 13-14 years old, Yuuga and Izuku are 4-5, Melissa is around 8

VERY early on the kids realize that everyone besides Bakugo fully believes that Toshinori, Izuku, and Yuuga have quirks. Wisely, they decide to not correct this fact. They’re kids, not stupid, and lying beats being bullied any day

Toshinori, in traditional pre teen fashion, is an asshole but only to the quirked older kids/adults. He’s an absolute angel to Izuku, Yuuga, Melissa, and Eri. He’s their big brother AND their father now. Anyone who wants to get to them has to get to HIM first. The only people he allows to get through is Nezu because he thinks Nezu is very cool and gives warm hugs, and Recovery Girl because he vaguely remembers Recovery Girl

An hour in and Toshinori has adopted Izuku as his young babiest prodigy. He holds exactly the same kind of feral energy protective that Toshinori himself holds. Toshinori likes that in a kid. 

Toshi also plans on teaching both Izuku and Yuuga how to be the best quirkless vigilantes the world has ever seen and all the laws they can get away with breaking. And since most laws pertain to quirks, there are plenty of those laws

Melissa keeps wandering into the support department because its the one place where she feels the most comfortable, and people keep kicking her out because keep thinking she’ll fall apart like glass if she stays in there for too long. Naturally, the other three boys help her break into the support department. As a reward, and because she finds it fucking hilarious, Hatsume grants them flamethrowers. Yuuga’s is bedazzled

Hatsume also gifts Yuuga a (mostly harmless) bedazzled gun. Toshi shows him how to use it on people who make fun of him

Every time some weak quirked motherfucker tries to slide in saying shit about the “powerful quirk” they totally have, Toshinori bites them. Literally every time. Except for one time someone tries to insinuate that Toshinori’s spoiled because of his powerful quirk. Then it’s Izuku who does the biting

After it’s revealed that no really, they are all actually quirkless, those same motherfuckers try to slide in saying how they totally get how they must feel. Toshinori still tries to bite them

Hound Dog can smell the distress on the kids CONSTANTLY, even from Toshinori. he’s arranging them all therapy sessions for after they turn back to normal

nezu at this point has realized that yuuga got a quirk from afo and is quickly making plans to get place him under UA’s care while getting his parents to a safe location

Bakugo is torn between guilt and annoyance constantly. he knows that whatever god is out there is giving him karma for the bullshit he pulled in the past, but dealing with these little bastards is a nightmare. also how the fuck is yuuga quirklesss?? is this an afo thing? is this an afo bullshit thing??? did yuuga get a quirk from afo??? what the FUCK–

please ask me more things abt them my brain is empty and i am BEGGING

149 notes • Posted 2021-12-06 21:48:56 GMT

#3

Ok so I was going to put this after my last vague “aizawa critical” post but then my computer fucked around and then I decided that actually I wanted this to be its own post.

So today we’re going to be looking at fics tagged under All Might (or All Might related tags) and Aizawa (or Aizawa related tags).

Let’s also assume that for every Additional Tag being listed here, 1% of what should belong in that tag isn’t – i.e., for every 100 fics tagged with an Additional Tag, there is 1 fic that should be included that wasn’t properly tagged, hence there are actually 101 fics with that additional tag. If there are numbers below 100, I’ll just add 1 to the count. If there are decimals I’ll round them up. 

For simplicity’s sake, we’ll also attempt to account fo fics that overlap between tags by making the lower bound of the total count the highest number of fics in any given tag

I am also aware that some fics that are tagged with Additional Tags are not tagged with the character they mention. I am also aware that some fics tagged with the character they mention don’t actually include that character or that character is in a very minor role (for example there are 1,022 fics that are tagged “Yagi Toshinori | All Might Bashing” but only 670 of those fics are tagged with his character tag). Every fic tagged with an Additional Tag listed here has that character in a prominent/meaningful role. Therefore, let’s assume they all balance each other out

Anyways. Let me lay down some AO3, All Might and Aizawa fic statistics. Gonna put a read more under this bc this post gets long.

Negative tags are under “x bashing” or “x being an asshole”. These are the most popular ‘negative’ fan tags. 

Let’s start with All Might.

There are 33,227 total works under the “Yagi Toshinori | All Might” tag.

1,022 to 1,033 or 3.0 to 3.1% of works that feature All Might as a prominent character are tagged under “Yagi Toshinori | All Might Bashing” 

317 to 321 or 1% of works that feature All Might as a prominent character are tagged under “Yagi Toshinori | All Might Being an Asshole” 

This leads to a total of 1,022 to 1,354 or 3.0 to 4.1% of total fics that are All Might Critical/Bashing, give or take. In easier to understand terms, in every 24 to 32 All Might fics, there is 1 fic that is tagged “Yagi Toshinori | All Might Bashing” and/or “Yagi Toshinori | All Might Being an Asshole”

Seems little, right? I mean, it’s only 4.1% of fics at the very most. And its 24 to 32 regular fics with 1 negative fic. Why am I making a big deal out of this?

Now we turn to Aizawa.

There are 51,759 total works under the “Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead” tag.

33 to 34 or 0.06% of works that feature Aizawa as a prominent character are tagged under “Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead Bashing” 

20 to 21 or 0.038 to 0.04% of works that feature Aizawa as a prominent character are tagged under “Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead Being an Asshole” 

As an added bonus, 57 to 58 or 0.1% of works that feature Aizawa as a prominent character are tagged under “Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead is a Bad Teacher”

This leads to a total of 57 to 113 or 0.12 to 0.24% of total fics that are Aizawa Critical/Bashing, give or take. In easier to understand terms, in every 458 to 908 Aizawa fics, there is 1 fic that is tagged “Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead Bashing” and/or “Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead Being an Asshole”

(I didn’t add Yagi Toshinori | All Might is a Bad Teacher to my All Might calculations because he’s canonically a bad teacher, while Aizawa’s recognized as being a good teacher in canon, so stories about him being a bad teacher aren’t necessarily negative/bashing. If you’d like to know, there are about 350 to 351 works that feature All Might as a prominent character, or about 1%)

This means that literally and percentage-wise in relation to their total amount of fics, All Might has significantly more negative fics about him than Aizawa, despite the fact that there are more existing Aizawa fics. At the very most, all of the negative Aizawa fics INCLUDING the bad teacher fics barely make up 11% of the fics under just the “Yagi Toshinori | All Might Bashing” tag alone. And that’s a generous estimate of Aizawa’s fics not counting the bashing fics that aren’t tagged. 

To put it into perspective, there are 20 fics shown within one AO3 page. That would mean there is at least 1 “Yagi Toshinori | All Might Bashing” and/or “Yagi Toshinori | All Might Being an Asshole” fic every other page. Meanwhile it would take 22 pages at the very LEAST before you could find a fic tagged “Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead Bashing” and/or “Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead Being an Asshole”, and at the very most 46 pages.

Okay but “so what”, you might say. Maybe All Might tags have more positive fics than Aizawa does – if not literally, than maybe percentage-wise. Just because there are a lot of All Might bashing fics doesn’t mean there are less All Might positive fics

This is admittedly harder to research for, as there is no explicit “x is a good person” tag for them, so we’ll go with tags that positively talk about their designated role in the series. Positive tags (for these two particular characters) are under “Parental x” and “x is a Good Teacher”, since those tags are the most popular, and tend to be more completely positive for those two characters and since their main roles in the story are being parental figures and teachers.

3,844 to 4,229 or 11 to 13% of works that feature All Might as a prominent character are tagged under “Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might” 

81 to 82 or 0.24% of works that feature All Might as a prominent character are tagged under “Yagi Toshinori | All Might is a Good Teacher” 

This leads to a total of 3,844 to 4,311 or 11 to 13% of total fics that are All Might positive, give or take. In easier to understand terms, for every 7 to 8 All Might fics, there is 1 fic that is tagged “Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might” and/or “Yagi Toshinori | All Might is a Good Teacher”

Now for Aizawa

10,836 to 11,920 or 21 to 23% of works that feature Aizawa as a prominent character are tagged under “Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead”

447 to 452 or 0.86 to 0.87% of works that feature Aizawa as a prominent character are tagged under “Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead is a Good Teacher”

This leads to a total of 10,836 to 12,372 or 21 to 24% of total fics that are Aizawa positive, give or take. In easier to understand terms, for every 4 Aizawa fics, there is 1 fic that is tagged “Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead” and/or “Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead is a Good Teacher”.

And again, to put it into perspective, that would mean there are 2 “Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might” and/or “Yagi Toshinori | All Might is a Good Teacher” fics in every page. Meanwhile there are 5 “Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead” and/or “Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead is a Good Teacher” fics every page.

This means that the proportion of positive Aizawa fics in the Aizawa tag is significantly greater than the proportion of positive All Might fics in the All Might tag, and it is certainly significantly greater than the amount of negative Aizawa that exist in general (seriously – 58 negative Aizawa fics at the very most to 10,836 positive Aizawa fics at the very least is nothing. That’s 0.05%)

Bonus facts: 

41% of the “Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might” are also tagged “Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead”. That means only 2,270 of those fics are dedicated to “Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might” without them being added to or possibly overshadowed by Aizawa, or for every 2 “Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might” fics there is 1 fic also tagged with “Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead”. 

“Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might” only takes up 14% of the “Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead” tag. 

There are actually more “Parental Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic” fics in the “Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead�� tag than All Might (2,620 or 24%). That’s still proportionally less than the amount of “Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might” fics that share a tag with the“Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead” tag.

In the “Yagi Toshinori | All Might Bashing” tag, the other additional tag with the highest number of fics is the “Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead” tag with 433 fics. That is 42% of all fics in the “Yagi Toshinori | All Might Bashing” tag, meaning 1 out of every 2 All Might bashing fics double as an Aizawa positive fic

In the “Yagi Toshinori | All Might Being an Asshole” tag, the other additional tag with the highest number of fics is the “Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead” tag with 136 fics. That is 43% of all fics in the “Yagi Toshinori | All Might Being an Asshole” tag, meaning 1 out of every 2 All Might asshole fics double as Aizawa positive fic.

If there are 1,354 negative All Might fics, and 4,311 positive All Might fics, that means that for every 4 positive All Might fics, there is 1 negative All Might fic, give or take. 

In the “Yagi Toshinori | All Might” tag, aside from the “Midoriya Izuku & Yagi Toshinori | All Might” relationship tag (which makes sense because they have a canon relationship those two are the main characters with the biggest relationship aside from Midoriya and Bakugo’s relationship), there are 5 relationship tags before the first mentioned relationship tag with All Might (Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yagi Toshinori | All Might). 

Aizawa’s relationships with Yamada and Midoriya are the first two relationship tags, even though Aizawa doesn’t have a romantic relationship with Yamada and Aizawa has much of a relationship with Midoriya as he does the rest of Midoriya’s class.

There are more “Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Midoriya Izuku” (5,918) fics than there are “Midoriya Izuku & Yagi Toshinori | All Might” (4,473) fics even though, again, “Midoriya Izuku & Yagi Toshinori | All Might” is actually canon. That’s a 1,445 fic difference. 

And even accounting for fics that overlap between the positive and negative tags, fics that are joking, fics that aren’t tagged their respective tag, fics tagged with a similar but not the same tag, or fics that are just one-shots put into one large continuous fic doesn’t even matter.

Ultimately this wouldn’t even matter if Aizawa was supposed to be the supportive good dad figure while All Might was supposed to have a minor, slightly antagonistic role. But the fact is, is that it’s the complete opposite in canon. Aizawa has a pretty minor role, his role only upping with the backstory of Kurogiri, while All Might was the third side character introduced and has remained a support for Midoriya (the main fucking character) since the very first volume to now. 

Aizawa was originally very antagonistic towards Midoriya, hell he threatened to expel him on the first day and then plays it off as a joke. Meanwhile, All Might apologizes to Midoriya for underestimating him and looking down at him the first day they meet. 

All Might is flawed, yes, but that’s how his character is written. Yes people acknowledge he is the best and Number 1 hero, but that doesn’t change the fact that multiple characters, including All Might himself, acknowledge that he’s flawed and makes terrible mistakes and then tries to do better.

Meanwhile Aizawa’s thinking and actions have been very flawed this entire story (I mean Bakugo should have been expelled at this point even before Kamino, along with Mineta and maybe Kaminari to give them ‘death’) and he’s never been proven wrong. Even All Might butters him up by calling him nice. 

And again. I love Aizawa as a character. But fanon Aizawa and fanon All Might and how they’re written in fics are very different from their canon counterparts and I wish people would acknowledge it. Or at least acknowledge that All Might is bashed too much and Aizawa is praised too much as well

212 notes • Posted 2021-10-20 19:56:11 GMT

#2

AU WHERE izuku and yuuga get deaged to 5 (after a quirkless diagnosis but before afo gives yuuga the quirk) and maybe melissa gets deaged to 8 and toshi gets deaged to 13 and they (mostly toshi and izuku) spend the entire time deaged trying to defend the four of them from everyone else bc they’re convinced that the quirked users around them will try to bully and hurt them or make fun of them and–

225 notes • Posted 2021-12-06 06:09:12 GMT

#1

Actually the scene where All Might reveals that he’s quirkless to Izuku is probably the best representation of a) how much All Might knows about Izuku specifically, not as an extension of himself but as his (Izuku’s) own person, and b) All Might’s own personality and his way of thinking

All Might at this point has known Izuku for a little more than a year, and has known about his hero note taking skills since the day they first met. He knows that Izuku specifically specializes in quirk analysis. Izuku knows for a fact that OFA’s ability is not only stocking up power, but also the ability to amplify the abilities of any existing quirks that exist within the person. As someone with an interest in quirk usage as well as the next holder of the quirk, naturally Izuku would be curious about the effect it would have on himself, as well as how it would effect any quirk that All Might may have. Therefore he would ask All Might about it, therefore it would give All Might an opening to say straight up “I never had a quirk”. He simply underestimated Izuku’s ability to question him.

Another thing: All Might, while it doesn’t seem like it, is, in fact, a big doofus but most importantly, a big prankster. Like his mentor before him, and as Midoriya observes later on, All Might likes making pranks. But more importantly, All Might likes surprises. He gets excited about surprising class 1-A with an impromptu villain attack so they can show off to their parents. His first introduction to class 1-A professionally was abruptly BURSTING into the door during school. Most of him talking to people is him jumping out of nowhere and surprising them, even in his calm form he just...appears and surprises them. More recently he surprised class 1-A with some cotton candy while making a beautiful dad pun. Its only natural that he’d want his reveal as a quirkless man to be a surprise as well. He knows how much it would mean to Izuku to learn that he was also quirkless, and to make it a surprise by waiting for Izuku to ask him about his quirk, something he knows Izuku would do, would be even better.

However, when he does tell Izuku during the sports festival, Izuku’s at a very low point in his self esteem. He’s heavily doubting himself and expresses that to All Might. He’s already been doing poorly with the quirk, these past few months, and just explicitly stated that he feels unworthy of the quirk as a quirkless person, and he knows All Might could’ve given it to anyone, especially someone with a strong quirk who could do good with it. So instead of letting him stew in his self doubt for the sake of a cool surprise, he acknowledges Izuku’s feelings and says “hey, I was quirkless too”, assuring Izuku that despite him being ‘behind’, it isn’t impossible for him to get a handle on and use the quirk effectively. If All Might could become the number one hero with this quirk, Izuku could learn how to do it too, and assures him that he believes in Izuku. He lets go of the joy of the surprise for the sake of cheering Izuku up in that moment

1207 notes • Posted 2021-09-21 01:44:48 GMT

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