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pikahlua · 2 years

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Second Life: Oh my god this theory is not immediately dismissable and I don’t know how to feel about that

Hey, remember this asshole?

We sure let him fly under the radar, didn’t we? Yeah, no, I’m not letting him get away that easily.

Okay, so, for literal years this dude’s face was kept secret from us. We barely had a fuzzy outline of him, then suddenly he was one of two weird ghosts we weren’t allowed to see, then that outline started getting more and more defined, and EVERYONE IMMEDIATELY NOTICED that iconic hairstyle. And then the theories went wild. For the longest time, the reigning theory was time travel, which was a very controversial idea that Katsuki someday goes back in time to become the second user of OFA.

So the fandom gnawed its fingers off waiting for a face reveal, and then LO AND BEHOLD, he is almost identical to Katsuki after all. And since the resemblance at that point became undeniable, everyone did whatever they could to explain away the time travel theory (because it’s controversial for a reason) as quickly as possible, and now we have three theories floating around that everyone has just settled on.

Katsuki time travels to become the Second

The Second is some distant ancestor of Katsuki

Horikoshi’s establishing a visual parallel between the Second and Katsuki because he looooooves him some parallels

Theory #3 seems to be the widely accepted explanation in the fandom at this time.

And I hate it.

Don’t get me wrong; I prefer theory #3 to the other two by far. But this reminds me of how for the longest time everyone assumed All Might’s OFA vestige was golden and weird because he’s still alive, even though the canon never said anything like that (and as it turns out, his vestige is like that because it’s a completely different kind of vestige, so the assumption was faulty). And it reminds me of the fandom war over Katsuki’s hero name having only two options: Ground Zero or Kacchan. And just look how that turned out.

So I’ve got another theory for y’all. BakuDekus, hold out your plates.

Theory: Katsuki Bakugou is the reincarnation of the Second OFA User

Table of Contents I. Why other theories don’t cut it II. Reincarnation references in the MHA canon III. Precedence and anime tropes IV. Mysterious Second (or why this theory works) V. The nature of quirks VI. Duality: Okay, but can we make it shippy? VII. And just who is THIS motherfucker??? VIII. tl;dr

I. Why other theories don’t cut it

As I’ve already explained, the other theories just don’t satisfy. I never like making assumptions the canon doesn’t confirm (because that’s how they get you). So, what’s wrong with the other popular theories?

Time travel: Hurk. Ugh. It’s so messy. Time travel is almost never a good thing to add to a story. It just convolutes everything and leaves plot holes in its wake. But that’s not a reason why it doesn’t work here. No, the reason it doesn’t work here is due to the lack of foreshadowing. If you’re gonna throw in a big plot twist at the very end like time travel, you have to have hints of it in the story-proper to make the reveal meaningful. And MHA doesn’t have that (at best it has Nighteye’s Foresight and Eri’s Rewind quirks, but they don’t get us anywhere close to what we need for time travel to be a good twist).

Ancestry: Innocuous at first glance, but then what was with all that narrative build-up of the Second’s silhouette culminating in the reveal that he resembles Katsuki exactly (minus hair color and maybe eye color). OoOoOOooOooh Katsuki is related to the Second! ...so what? What does that get us? Basically nothing. That’s a lot of mystery for a reveal that ultimately has no meaningful consequences to the story.

Thematic parallels: Okay, sure, this explanation works just fine. It’s just kind of a lot of effort for something totally unnecessary? Like, there are plenty of characters who parallel each other thematically in this series and they don’t look like recolored clones of each other. Horikoshi has managed to pull this off with so many parallel pairs, so I don’t think he needs to make the parallels between these two THIS obvious (not with those gauntlets, anyways; we could all make THAT connection ourselves). It’s a bit ingenious actually, because we’re so USED to parallel pairs that we just automatically default to that assumption here, allowing Horikoshi to sneak past us with another big reveal on the horizon. But again, why all the mystery??? We could tell he probably looked like Katsuki based on his outline for a loooong time before the face reveal. Seems like a lot of build-up for Izuku, the Kacchan fanboy of all fanboys, to not even flinch about the resemblance.

So if these explanations don’t work, what other possibilities are even available to us? What explains uncanny resemblances like this?

Coincidence? Plastic surgery? Horikoshi fanboying his design for Katsuki a little too hard while we all cringe?

Only one seems possible.

Reincarnation.

II. Reincarnation references in the MHA canon

Well, if time travel is out for the lack of foreshadowing, is reincarnation out for the same reason?

Nah, fam. The hints are there.

Resurrection. Rebirth. Reincarnation.

The phoenix born from the ashes.

You just have to look for the imagery and you’ll find it.

III. Precedence and anime tropes

If this theory holds, MHA would not be the first anime that dips into reincarnation territory. And it’s not a wild concept to consider in the first place; one of the primary religions effecting aspects of Japanese culture is Zen Buddhism, which isn’t so heavily focused on reincarnation as other sects but still contains the concept of it. And there are other Buddhism references in MHA, such as to the Ame ni mo makezu poem.

I ain’t never seen Naruto, but I have it on good authority that there are some wonky reincarnation shenanigans happening in it. And I hear MHA kind of maybe sort of almost borrows a tiny bit here and there from Naruto. Something about the two main characters being reincarnations of divine brothers? Said main characters being obvious points of reference for Izuku and Katsuki in MHA?

And there are many other manga and anime that have reincarnation. I’ll show my cards and say yeah, I’m caught up on the D.Gray-man manga. That one used to be a big Weekly Shounen Jump serialization. And if you know anything about the reincarnation in that, particularly anything to do with the main protagonist and antagonist, then, well, look forward to section VI.

All I’m sayin’ is: Horikoshi loves to play with his generic overused shounen tropes.

IV. Mysterious Second (or why this theory works)

Quirks. Quirks make anything possible.

We don’t heckin’ know what the Second’s quirk is! And that’s important, because it could be a reincarnation quirk (but also there are other potential ways this could come about and I’ll get to those momentarily). But what’s even more important is that we don’t know how Yoichi figured out he had a quirk that could pass on quirks in the first place! So how do you accidentally pass on a quirk???

Maybe the Second thought he was just using his own quirk at the time. Or maybe it was someone else’s reincarnation quirk. And maybe the activation conditions are similar to OFA’s.

But beyond just the mechanics, reincarnation does actually tie into the story (and not just symbolically, like through the above screenshots or through the idea of “atonement” like with Endeavor’s phoenix imagery).

Reincarnation is about life and death. Those terms have extra meaning in MHA, especially when it comes to Katsuki.

And while a reincarnation quirk is about as straightforward as it gets, it’s actually not necessary for this theory to work...

V. The nature of quirks

There’s like a little mini meta here for me to write. I just haven’t found a way to bring up these points before.

Quirks have an awful lot in common with kokoro (heart).

Kokoro refers to the essence of a person. It’s their thoughts, emotions, will, personality, etc. And the canon has often tied quirks in with personality.

The kanji for quirk is kosei 個性, which translates as “individuality” (or “personality” or “idiosyncrasy”).

And losing one’s quirk is depicted as traumatizing, leaving the victim in a catatonic noumu-like state.

But eventually those victims seem to recover. The only question is whether or not they have a personality change as a result of losing their quirk.

It’s almost a chicken-and-egg paradox.

But what’s most interesting about this depiction is how quirks are the greatest form of power in the MHA world. Many people tie in strong quirks with the hero profession. It’s just that people have different ideas about what that power looks like.

You have people who think power means combat strength. But then you also have the power of heart, the power to connect with others. Winning and saving.

And if a quirk is essentially the same as kokoro, then quirks literally are hearts.

I can only write so many metas about how One For All is linked with emotions. The point is, quirks moving around, quirks being manipulated by OFA and AFO, emotions moving around with quirks, quirks being hearts?

That’s a recipe for all kinds of variants of reincarnation.

VI. Duality: Okay, but can we make it shippy?

I could just leave it there. I could just say “Katsuki = Second’s reincarnation” and be done.

But I won’t. Let’s go a step further. For funsies.

What about Izuku? Is Izuku a reincarnation?

Maybe. He doesn’t have to be. But WHY NOT THINK ABOUT IT?

Well, who would he be a reincarnation of? Yoichi? The Third? Someone not in the OFA line?

Or...what about...also the Second?

If this doesn’t pan out I hereby invite all fanfic authors to take this and run

See, I thought about it, and my brain noticed something funny about the use of phoenix imagery for Endeavor. Mainly because he has a son, Shouto, who looks like two halves of different people shoved together into one person.

And then my brain was like, WAIT, CAN WE MAKE THAT LITERAL?

Fuck yeah, we can!

There are only so many ways I can talk about the winning and saving combo philosophy represented by Izuku and Katsuki without getting too repetitive. I’m not gonna go find you everything I’ve written about it (because that’s like half my posts). If you don’t already know, MHA is the story of Izuku learning to win and Katsuki learning to save. And they both start from level 0 when they set out on this journey.

As a consequence of this, they are often depicted as extremely imbalanced people in the early chapters. And to correct the imbalance, they need to learn from each other.

The degree to which the canon and fanon collectively talk about these two like they’re two halves of a whole is on an order of magnitude equivalent to that of the sun’s relative size to the earth. It’s astronomical.

But if quirks are hearts, can they even be split in half?

Well, they certainly can be smooshed together.

[side-eyes the firecracker line]

And it’s not like if the Second was reincarnated into two people his quirk got split in half. Katsuki got a powerful as fuck quirk, and Izuku got no quirk. Or, in fact, one got combat power and the other got rescue power, those two facets of the power of “heart” we discussed earlier.

It doesn’t have to be that they are literally two halves of a whole person, but gosh darn it does it WORK, given the themes of them as childhood friends, lacking what the other has, chasing after each other, complementing each other (yes, that’s what the Second actually said Katsuki was to Izuku in chapter 318).

It works because the Second had both the philosophy of winning = life and losing = death and the heart of a savior.

...but I also can’t discount the possibility of Izuku being Yoichi’s reincarnation just because I’m a sucker for parallels and Yoichi has his “The villain always loses!” line that parallels Katsuki’s “The hero always wins!” admiration of All Might.

Cross-parallels for DAYS!

VII. And just who is THIS motherfucker???

Uh, should we just...ignore the third OFA user though? That seems dangerous...

Is it just me, or do the details on his shoulders and belt seem...familiar?

Hmmmm...

waitwaitwaitwaitwait-

WHAT THE SHIT

Uhh...maybe in this case the ancestry theory...does work??

VIII. tl;dr

Katsuki could be a reincarnation of the Second through quirk shenanigans but also he could be one half of a reincarnation of the Second with Izuku being the other half and the weirdest part is I can’t discount this theory and also OH MY GOD IIDA WHAT THE FUCK?

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jaideite · 4 years

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Main 1-A (shoto, izuku, bakuhoe, and Iida) boys playing Minecraft with their s/o

*cries in ender pearls* I’m such a loser cause I don’t even remember most of everything that goes on in minecraft. Don’t @ me if something is wrong. Debating if I should buy Minecraft on my phone and play it

i felt bad bc i haven’t posted any good content so heres an old request ima shoot out the inbox for y’all I’m probably so rusty KWKD :(( <3

first time writing for Iida let’s see how well we do hMM ;))

TODOROKI, BAKUGOU, MIDORIYA AND IIDA PLAYING MINECRAFT WITH THEIR S/O (PLUS MIRIO TOGATA)

SHOTO TODOROKI

— doesn’t understand a single thing but still plays because you do

— he spawned into the world and moved two spaces

— he fell into a cave and survived

— then died because a cave spider attacked him

— “That’s rough buddy.”

— He’s one of those people who mines straight down and finds a whole bunch of diamonds

— “What are these light blue things in the stones?”

— “It’s an ore for a gem. You mine them and you get diamonds or emeralds. Is it like a really light blue?”

— you’re on like the other side of the cave you both went into so you can’t go over and mine them with a certain pickaxe you made specifically for mining

— you’re pissed because you always struggle to find them and here he is breaking the first rule of Minecraft and finding them

— jerk

— “So I should just get rid of them?”

— “Well I mean—“

— he throws them in lava and they make that burning “sss” sound and you just slowly look up at him from your screen

— “Shoto...what did you do with the diamonds?”

— he kinda just “oops” from his side of the room and you just rub your hands over your face and sigh

— “Oh god I’m in for a rude awakening.”

— he makes an underground farm and house and has collected sea lanterns as lights

— has collected all the diamonds in the world I’m not even kidding he just followed your rule of mining them with the gem pickaxe and diddly doo went off

— “This world sucks there are no diamonds.”

— “Oh I have some in the chest by my crafting table.”

— it’s literally a large chest and it’s full of diamonds

— like STACKS 64 DIAMONDS ALL TOGETHER

— you are just shook

— “sHOTO HOW—“

— lives in the side of a mountain too it’s actually kinda cute cause he used like stairs as chairs and stuff

— unless y’all are playing with some type of mod that allows chairs then other than that pfft your little “house” is decked out just like his bedroom

— your Minecraft beds are right next to each other too

— he thinks it’s romantic

— kinda looks more like an apartment lmaoo

— he’s more of a peaceful Minecraft player but he can survive survival mode if being asked to play

KATSUKI BAKUGOU

— blows everything up

— but not with TNT and flint and steel oh no that’s too easy for him

— the easy way is not for him

— he’s going to learn how to set redstone traps so you walk into them and don’t know

— you walk into your house and you hear the click

— “What just—“

— next thing you know your getting eaten by endermites that have been spawned in

— or your screen just freezes because of all the explosions that go off

— “No No No my stuff—“

— you just watch from the ‘respawn’ screen while he moves into your house to steal your stuff

— “Haha, I knew you had some good shit in here—fucking taking these— what the hell is hitting me—OH SHIT! NO FUCK OFF STUPID RAT LOOKING FUCKS NO DON’T FUCKING KILL ME—“

— your rolling on the floor at the situation of him raging cause the endermites killed him

— katsuki works hard but karma works harder bitch

— raids your stuff when all else fails

— “YOU TOOK ALL MY DIAMONDS?!”

— “They’re mine now bitch.”

— he is a survival mode player only

— no exceptions

— plays it at the hardest level and rages when he dies but manages to get the hang of it after a while

— the meanest and worst minecraft player to ever play with

— and on top of it all he only plays so he has your attention

— what a clown i swear

IZUKU MIDORIYA

— best one to play with tbh only second to mirio

— knows the basics and a little more

— if he made his own world he could survive pretty decently

— he keeps a notebook on the world you guys share with all the weapons and stuff you could need

— has memorized the most important potions needed like invisibility, etc.

— when you first made the world you had an icon that looked like you so you were looking for a little green haired character amongst the grass (assuming that’s where y’all spawned)

— and you are just so confused cause where is he

— “Izuku where the heck are you?”

— “By the flowers and grass.”

— “Oh no wonder I didn’t see you your hair probably—“

— and like once you finally get to the flowers you see him (or his character) and you just stop in your tracks

— cause there’s a tall, buff pixelated All Might staring back at you

— “Izuku—you know what? I ain’t even surprised.“

— “Haha...sorry.”

— you had to turn away because oh god the face on that thing was going to give you nightmares

— the armour—oh goodness the armour

— of course it’s customized to look like All Mights hero costume

— other than that—he’s a decent Minecraft player

— he has a secret world where he has built the city and all might fighting the villains

— it’s a huge flat world and it’s dedicated to all might

— he can survive pretty well at going off mining on his own but he won’t go without you just in case he dies and loses his stuff

— gets excited when he finds ores especially diamonds

— you get excited when you find emeralds because

— “Oh my god Izuku the emeralds look like your eyes.”

— all_mights_1_fan has left the game

— “Oh wow.”

TENYA IIDA

— y’all know those Minecraft books that they used to have that used to help you with like enchantments and stuff?

— Thats Iida

— he plays by the books

— has the complete handbook collection

— I do too lmaooo

— you ask him does he want to play and he just ??

— two days later he’s knocking at your door with the books in hand ready to play

— “I would suggest you go over these should we play!”

— “...Tenya—“

— when you guys play he immediately wants the rules

— “Theres only one.”

— “One—“

— “Don’t dig straight down.”

— he just stares at you mouth agape before he just starts going oFF

— “That rule is absurd! Surely there are more—“

— “NOpe that’s how you play.”

— he’s just ??

— no wonder you’re so chaotic you play games with oNE RULE

— what kind of g a m e has o n e r u l e ?

— so you guys are playing and yknow Iida isn’t having the best of luck

— he’s fallen into caves, burned by lava, and been buried alive by gravel and sand

— lowkey kinda feel bad for him lmaoo

— “This game is chaotic! At least these strange green fellows are coming to greet me.”

— “Strange green fellows?”

— “Yes! Some have no clothing on, but that’s alright!”

— you’re confused for a bit until it just it’s you

— “IIDA, NO, RUN, NO OH GOD DONT—“

— when the first creeper explodes and he goes flying and he starts scolding it for doing that you know you’re in for a ride

MIRIO TOGATA

— also best person to play with

— a combination of everyone lmaoo

— he’s like midoriya except no notebooks

— can also survive on his own but like not in hard mode like katsuki that demon

— you guys play mini games like bedwars and are definitely a couples teams just like in real life

— you guys are like pros at playing

— “Get that blue bed guy over there.”

— “You have a yellow bed behind you, watch out!”

— wholesome is what it is

— if you are like me and just chaotic at Minecraft and life

— which includes missing almost everything, forgetting the names of stuff, and building a little house on the side of a mountain for the next seven days and being scared of everything

— “Babe where are you?”

— “Uh...I’m... I’m in a cave.”

— “We are in the jungle how are you—“

— “I saw a pig and I wanted to kill it and on the way I just dropped into a hole in the ground.”

— poor mirio is just exasperated

— oh boy y’all are in for a ride

— best therapy for him if he gets depressed about the losing his quirk

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queenlittleduck · 3 years

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Siren's call

Chapter 3 - First Day in UA

Fuck, fuckity fuck! The first day and Athena was already late. She swore to god she was going to get kicked out of UA before she could even flunk her first exam. Her feet slammed against the floor and her head swung frantically from side to side as she continue my search. 1A?! Where the fuck was 1A, she was going to ki- There! She comes to a screeching halt as a huge door loomed before her with a sign above reading “1A”. The corners of her mouth pull up in glee as she reached for the handle. At last! She let it swing open and—THUNK!! Oops. Still gripping the door she leaned to peek past it. A kid was on the ground rubbing his forehead with one hand. Did this idiot just run into the door?

She stepped towards him and reached her hand out. “You okay there, bud?”

He slowly opened an eye but shot up to his feet as soon as he saw her. He seemed to have forgotten he was in pain as he beams at her. “Whoa! I didn’t know the girls here would be so cute! I don’t mind you “hitting” on me like that, ha-ha! If you get what I mean!”

She stilled. Her eyes slid down towards his finger-guns. Back up. She blinked.

Laughter threatened to bubble up her throat at the situation. This kid! She hit him with a door and the first thing he says is a bad pickup line. Priceless! The boy still stood there with his finger-guns up but his eyebrows drawn together in a confused look.

She leaned forward and squinted at him; that thunderbolt in his hair... She’d seen it before. “I remember you! You were in the practical entrance exam with me. Electricity, right? Nice to meet you. I’m Athena. Sorry about the door.”

His eyes widened in recognition. He leans forward excitedly as his confused look is replaced by a smile once more. “No way! You were that bird chick, right? Your quirk is so cool! You look different without all the... feathers.”

Her smile dropped.

“Bird? The fuck do you-” She stopped herself. She had to be friendlier to the little heroes. “Yes, I am indeed the bird chick, as you so eloquently put it.” She leaned back against the door. “What’s your name, sweetie? Actually, never mind. Can you tell me later? We should go sit down; I think we’re late.” She looked into the classroom. Most of the seats were already taken.

As soon they walked in an argument erupted. Some kid with glasses was pointing very pointedly at a blondie who has his feet propped up on the desk. Something about respect for the furniture. Damn, some stick he must’ve had up his ass.

Athena’s eyes fell to the blondie again. The blondie from the attack, the one who bought a cake in Sweet Heaven. She couldn’t believe this, what a coincidence! She should- no, she should not. It was a sensitive subject. Instead of walking up to him she headed to the back of the class and took one of the seats there. Thunderbolt kid sat down next to her, albeit slowly, as if unsure she’d let him sit there.

“I’m Kaminari Denki, by the way.” His eyes shifted slowly towards her chair. She grimaced. She made him nervous, of course. She needed to be less aggressive if she wanted to make any money as a friendly little superhero.

She smiled as nicely as she could and looked him straight in the eyes. “Nice to meet you, Kaminari. I hope we can be friends.” She forced her smile to widen. That was normal to say right? Or was it too straight forward? Man, she really wasn’t used to this type of crowd. He was just staring at her. Had she been smiling too long? Fuck. Her smile dropped and she turned to look towards the front. Where was the teacher anyway?

“If you’re just here to make friends you can just pack up your stuff now,” someone declared from beyond the door. A worn-out looking man stepped out of his sleeping bag and declared himself as the teacher, “Shota Aizawa,” but not before criticizing how loud the students were being and something else Athena didn’t hear. The man didn’t look like a teacher to her, bur rather a homeless person with insomnia but, hey, looks can be deceiving. He was kind of hot for a teacher, she thought. But never mind that. After his surprising declaration he instructed them to put on gym outfits and head outside. Let’s get to work on becoming a hero.

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She transformed into her‘bird form’ in the changing rooms where she got a couple “oohs” and “ahs” from her peers. To be expected, she knew she was pretty fucking cool. A girl with horns and pink skin comes up to her and complimented on her wings as well. the pink-haired girl then introduced herself as Mina Ashido really excitedly. She was pretty cute and Athena was a sucker for compliments so she figured if she needed to make friends, this Mina would probably be one of the most tolerable. They continued to chat on the way outside where Athena bumped into another someone with a familiar face. She was surprised by how many faces she recognized in the group considering she didn’t typically fraternize with wannabe heroes.

“Yo, no way. Aren’t you Kirishima from the entrance exam? Did you change up your hair? It looks rad!” She gave him a thumbs-up accompanied with a smile. Way to go, Athena, that was super likable and hopefully not coming off as fake. The former shocked face he donned turned into a bright grin as realization fell upon his face. His eyes scrunched up from his bright smile and, yeah, he was still as cute as he was in the exam.

“Yeah. Athena, right? I can’t believe you recognized me!” he almost exclaimed with a growing smile. “I was trying to start fresh with the new look so I’m sort of bummed you saw how I looked back then, but thanks I thought it was super manly!” Sadly, their conversation got cut short as they arrive to the quirk assessment area.

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Oh, boy, did she regret this decision already. Of course, she ended up with an impossible fucking teacher. Of course there would be no orientation in the hero course and they’d just jump straight into a quirk assessment test. Dude was going to expel whoever ended up last! That’s mean, not even letting them improve. She wasn’t worried about being expelled, she had no doubt over her abilities. But she felt bad for the sucker who was going to lose.

Aizawa, the teacher, called up Bakugo, the blondie, because he got the highest score in the entrance exam to start. They were going to be doing a standardized gym test but Aizawa was encouraging, nay, demanding quirk usage. Bakugo stepped up to throw the softball to see if he could beat the 67 meters from middle school he had without using his quirk. He prepared to throw the ball but when he released it, he let out an explosion and a very loud “DIE!” to accompany it. Lo and behold, he got a whopping 705.2 meters, a big jump from his previous score.

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The 50 meter run camefirst. Athena used this opportunity to get a good look at her future classmates and start to figure out their quirks (and hopefully how to use beat them) as well as test her own limits. They had the engine calves, Tenya Iida. Ochaco Uraraka, a bubbly girl who could nullify gravitational pull. I’m sure you know them all so I won’t bother listing them, but I will comment on those Athena recognized. Bakugo pulled up with his explosions next to a boy with green, curly hair. The same green, curly haired boy as from the library who jumped in to save blondie. Athena wondered what his quirk was, he didn’t seem to be using it to run at least. Or maybe he’s just shy, he looks the type.

Soon it became her turn. She readied herself and when Aizawa blew the whistle, she dug her feet down and used her wings to propel herself forward. She didn’t have much time to build up speed since it was only 50 meters so she ended up with a solid 3.58 seconds. Not too shabby.

Next was the grip test where Athena did only slightly above average since her arms strengthened only slightly when they turned into wings. The tests continued; long jump, running rounds, ball throw etc. She continue to do well since this is what she had been training for, either average if she couldn’t use her quirk much or extremely well, like in the long jump. The long, exhausting hours in the gym and training her quirk weren’t for nothing. She’d been training for this since Mother got sick. She was going to be the best no matter what and become a hero, for Mother.

The green-haired boy, on the other hand, didn’t seem to have been working as hard. Or he simply had a terrible quirk since he wasn’t visibly using it at all. He looked determined enough but determination did nothing in a test if he hadn’t prepared for it. He stepped up to the ring, preparing the ball. His eyes steeled as he decided on something. He raised his arm to let the ball fly, but once again, it turned out to be a measly attempt that amounted to nothing. Green-haired boy looked down disappointed and slightly confused before turning to the teacher.

Whoa there! Mr. Aizawa no longer looked as much like a homeless person but rather a sexy hero/homeless-person/insomniac. He had activated his quirk and his scarf flowed freely around him. This wasn’t just any hero/homeless-person/insomniac, but Eraserhead, a hero who could erase anyone’s quirk by just looking at them and look sexy while doing it (if Athena were in an acceptable age range for him, that is).

“You’re not ready. You don’t have control over your power.” He told the green-haired kid. He continued to berate him but stepped closer so the boy was the only one who heared him. And Athena, of course. Because of her bird hearing thing. The green-haired kid, Aizawa mentioned his name was Midoriya, looked scared at first. But again, his eyes steeled in determination as he readied himself to throw the ball. Seemed like Aizawa’s words were futile and the kid was done for before he even started.

Midoriya raised his arm again to propel the ball forward but the ball actually shot forward with greater speed than before. Midoriya stood there proudly with a broken finger. Was his body not used to his quirk? Did he not have any control over it or something? The boy looked so determined and Aizawa allowed him to continue at school because he had potential apparently for only breaking a finger and not his entire arm. Athena didn’t really think he’d be much a hero if he couldn’t even handle throwing a ball but maybe he’d grow crazy control in a short amount of time and all of a sudden get used to his quirk.

When Midoriya threw the ball, revealing his quirk, Bakugo was sent into a rage. Athena could only imagine what caused it by drawing conclusions from him yelling about how Midoriya was a quirkless loser but she couldn’t fathom how not knowing about a peer’s quirk is enough to cause someone to have an outburst like this. He meant to attack Midoriya as he rushed forward but Aizawa catches him and subdues him with his scarf. Damn, some anger issues this blondie had.

The first day was soon over and Athena headed to the bus station alone. Despite it being the first day she really felt like she’d gotten a glimpse into a lot of her classmates’ personalities. Definitely gave her an idea of how hot-headed Bakugo was, how shy and determined Midoriya was, Denki’s very bad flirting, Mina’s friendliness and she even ended up in the same class as Kirishima, the cute guy from the entrance exam. She didn’t think she’d be as good at socializing with these kinds of people since she usually ran with a different crowd but it seemed to her that being surface-level friendly really went a long way here. She didn’t plan on making friends but getting to know her classmates would help her in many ways, if not only to find out their weaknesses to beat them in the future.

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