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draco-kasai · 5 months

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He stared blankly as the skeletal figure of the man walked away from him. His vision blurring, making the man look like a blob as he disappeared from his sight. His footsteps growing distant as the man continued to speak, apologizing and giving him suggestions.

"I know it's painful, but it's best to remain realistic." The man states as he opens a door. The green haired teen's continued silence caused the blonde man to sigh. Without any more words, he closed the door behind him with a soft click.

As though the sound had brought him back to reality, the teen began to tremble. Feeling his legs growing weak under him, he fell to his knees. Sobs wracked his body as he allowed his emotions to overflow.

"Why?" His broken voice croaked out, "Why is it so bad to be quirkless? Why am I considered so weak?" He asked the empty space of the surrounding roof.

The boy could feel the familiar feeling of anger bubble up within him. Instead of holding onto it, he let it out in angry cries that rattled his throat, "I'm human too damn it!! Just because I don't have a quirk doesn't make me less than!!"

The teen took in a deep breath and let out years worth of frustrations and anger out in a loud yell. His throat burning in protest even as he stopped to cough. His tears continuing down his freckled cheeks like streams of a river slowly began to trickle to a stop.

The boy curled into himself, numbly. His eyes itchy and irritated, throat scratchy and dry. He sniffled softly into his arm as he hugged his knees to his chest, "I just wanted to help people... I just wanted to be a hero..." He hid his face from the world, his body shuttering with tearless sobs, "Why can't I just be normal?" he asked himself as he closed his eyes.

Warmth, that's the first thing he was able to register. Warmth that enveloped his body in a comforting hug and beckoned him to fall back into slumber. But wait... wasn't he on a rooftop a few moments ago?

A gasp and a yelp, the teen sat up quickly to look around the room. It was both familiar and not at the same time. He didn't understand. The walls had posters hanging on their walls but none familiar despite the familiar faces. Quick steps rushing towards his room caused the teen to flinch and look up just in time to see the door burst open.

"Izuku, are you okay!?" Inko asked as he looked down at her son with worry in her green eyes. Izuku stared up at his mother with a bewildered look.

"Mom? Where am I?" Izuku asked confused

Inko's eyebrows scrunched up a little in equal confusion, "What do you mean, sweetheart? This is your room, are you alright baby? Did the fever get worse?"

As she spoke, Inko walked closer to place her hand on her son's forehead. A relived smile crossed her lips, her shoulders slumping, "Oh, thank goodness. It seems your fever has gone down. Perhaps you're just a little disoriented."

"A... fever?" Izuku asked, confused as he watched his mother pull his dark green curtains open. He didn't remember having a fever recently. He does, however, remembers being on the rooftop and an explosion. His body had reacted on instinct, and he ran for the stairwell.

Izuku could feel his body stiffen when he remembered tripping over a sidewalk. His eyes becoming blank upon recalling the way tiers screeched on the pavement and people yelled over him.

"Oh my, you must not remember much from the fever. You came home last night and had fallen ill, sweetheart. It was dangerously high last night. I was really worried, especially when I couldn't take you to a hospital because of the sudden storm that happened last night." Inko explained while she tied the curtains to keep them open.

Turning to face her son, she frowned in worry at how pale he looked. Worried he may feel nauseous, she grabbed the trashcan and placed it by his bed as she sat on the edge, "oh, honey, are you feeling any worse?"

"M... Mom I-" Izuku paused as he got a better look at his mother in the morning light. Her once dark forest green hair was as black as charcoal, "Y... your hair...?"

"Hm?" Inko ran a hand through her hair with a confused tilt of her head. Her eyes flickered down to her dark locks in her hand, "Is something wrong with it?"

Izuku stared at his mother for a silent moment before slowly shaking his head, "Ah... no... I just... I thought it was green." he states cautiously.

Inko let's out a soft snort before giggling, "Oh, my. Green?" She ruffled her son's hair, "Oh yeah, you're definitely not going to school today." With those words, she got up to her feet, "Give me a few minutes, and I'll bring you your breakfast, sweetheart."

Izuku watched his mom step out of the room in silence. The moment the door clicked closed behind him, he scrambled out of his bed and to his feet. He quickly rushed to look into the mirror he had on the back of his bedroom door. His eyes instantly landing on his hair.

Black.

Izuku's hair landed on his hair, gently tugging and pulling as he leaned in to stare at himself in the mirror, "What the fuck is happening?" Izuku mumbled to himself as he stared at his reflection. Everything about him was the same except for his hair, just like his mom.

Not to mention that memory... "I was so sure I died..." He murmured to himself as he slowly walked back to his bed. Plopping down to sit against his pillows, "Is this the work of a quirk? But then, why would they change our hair? This makes no sense..."

Green eyes looked up to look around the room once more. The morning light brightening up the room. All of his hero merchandise was gone and replace with something else. It looked like posters and figures of anime, along with bands and artists.

"Code Lyoko? Attack on Titan? Sailor Moon?" Izuku mumbled in confusion as he read out some of the anime posters. Relief flooded the young teen when he saw a familiar face, "The Wild Wild Pussycats... Wait... world Tour?"

Blindly, Izuku reached over for his phone. Once it was in his hand, he quickly turned it on and paused. His All Might background was replaced with a picture of himself and two unknown people. A boy with tired eyes and a girl with dyed pink hair. With growing confusion, Izuku unlocked his phone.

Opening google, he quickly looked up the hero team by name. His mouth falling open at the results, "Musical group...? Pop punk? Huh?!" Clicking one of the videos, Izuku sat on his bed dumbfounded as he watched the music video and listed to the catchy tune.

"Oh my god..." Izuku murmured to himself as he quickly opened google again and quickly looked up all of his favorite heroes.

Hawks - Keigo Takami a male model and singer

Endeavor - Enji Todoroki, a popular wrestler and actor

Best Jeanist - Tsunagu Hakamada a popular designer

Present Mic - Hizashi Yamada a radio talk show host, musical teacher and actor

Eraserhead - Aizawa Shouta a hard rock singer

All Might - Yagi Toshinori a wrestler and actor

Quirk /kwərk/ Noun 1.a peculiar behavioral habit.

Superpower /so͞opərˌpouər/ describes a state or supranational union that-

Izuku quickly shut off his phone and tossed it to the other end of his bed, only to watch it bounce and fall to the floor with a thud. Grabbing his pillow, Izuku let out a muffled scream. He knows the real identity of heroes, and they aren't heroes?! Quirks weren't powers either, and superpowers are things of fiction! What the fuck was happening? Where was he?!

"Izuku, I have your breakfast." Inko called as she carefully opened the door while balancing a bowl on a bed tray. As his mother set the tray on his lap, Izuku couldn't help but wonder if he died and was sent to some alternate version of his world, or if this was all the work of a quirk.

#A dumb idea i had #Izuku basically gets isakaied #to a world that's his without quirks #feel free to add to this if you'd like #i'd love to read it if someone adds to this #Yes Shouta is an Underground musician #Yes Yagi and Enji r wrestlers #I wanted to make the Wild Wild Pussycats like Ladybaby #But pop punk instead #bnha ideas #bnha fic idea #I imagine a world without quirks would be more advanced #like with hover cars and scooters and boards #and Izuku has to adjust cause wow things r advanced asf #omg AFO also a wrestler but is always the 'bad guy' in the stories #Tamura is a pro gamer and Kurogiri is his manager #bnha prompt

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saltyladynightmare · 2 years

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MHA Gamer!/Pit Fighter AU

SO, I’ve been haunted by this Gamer!Izuku idea since I stumbled across one on ao3. Problem is, I already have two fanfics I’m trying to write, as those of you who read my stuff on ao3 know. I did not need a third. And then a knew mha idea came to me, and I loved that one too. Except I had the same problem. Too many books, not enough time, and, well. I’m sure we’ve all been there.

Then I had a brilliant Idea. Merge the Ideas into one!

So, this monstrosity was born.

I hate it.

I will never finish it, much less actually write it, but I think what little I put of Aizawa in here is funny.

I have a new Gamer Idea, but much better (in my mind), and actually plottable, and simple enough I can maybe hopefully feasibly one day write it.

Sooo, here you go. My scrambled attempt at an outline. :)

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Izuku and Katsuki are kidnapped when they are 6 years old. The kidnappers had been after Izuku, as Quirkless sold for a very pretty penny, but Katsuki defended himself (and Izuku a little bit, because that’s what heroes do, but also this was Deku) with his powerful Quirk, so they took him too.

They are sold to a fighting pit first. They planned to keep Katsuki, but sell Izuku on for better money. In the mean time They put both into the ring, against easy opponents who wouldn't kill them.

When properly motivated—such as being dropped into a fighting pit with only each other for a few weeks— Izuku and Katsuki learned very quickly how to work together, and do so well.

The Two very quickly become very good money makers in the ring. The Owners decide not to sell Izuku, as he could easily make more money in the ring every few months than just the one sale.

As they do with every asset they choose to keep, The Owners erase the Two's memories. Katsuki first, then Izuku. Between sessions, Izuku scratches their nicknames into the concrete of their cell, because another fighter had told him the Owners wouldn’t let them keep thier real names. Deku and Kacchan are scored into the rock as deeply as Izuku can get it. He is taken away just as he finishes.

When both boys are put back into the cell, they are unconscious. They wake up, and upon setting eyes on each other, they instantly know they are partners. Except...what is the other called? Another person, also in a cell, tells them Greenie (likely meaning the one with green hair) had scratched something into the concrete before they had been taken.

Thankfully, they remembered how to read.

"Kacchan." Blond tries. He turns to Greenie, and says, "Do we have any water, Kacchan?" They both grimace.

"I don't think I’m Kacchan," Greenie says, and Blond nods.

"That means you're Deku." He says.

Greenie's mouth drops open. "Why would I say that's my name? Doesn't that mean useless?"

Kacchan scowls. "Why would I know? Maybe you're useless."

Deku sputters.

Three fights later, Kacchan stares up at the ceiling, panting. Deku was Quirkless, they had discovered, but he was also very very smart. Kacchan was smarter than most of their opponents, but Deku brought it to the next level. They still lost, but it could have been so much worse, as they had been pitted against the more murderous fighters, or worse-- the smart murderous ones. "I guess you're not useless after all."

Deku sighs. "Then what are we going to call me?"

Kacchan goes quiet. "What about Zuku?" He offers eventually.

Deku thinks about it, then nods. "Zuku it is." Zuku smiles.

They don't remember it, but they have this conversation every time their minds are wiped for over 4 years.

A very long time passes. They get rebooted, as the fighters call it, often. Much more often than anyone else, even the long time fighters. But then, the other Fighters weren't actively finding ways to escape. After the third time the Two, who have since earned the name Demons in the ring (they had no memory of earning this name of course), had managed to escape the pit(s)(they had been moved and wiped several times), they started getting wiped every other week.

They are younger than 10, but probably not by much, when another boy is thrown into their cell. His hair is purple, and he is taller than both of them. He has a fancy muzzle locked around his jaw that prevents him from speaking. It unhinges and pulls the prongs holding his tongue down out of his mouth when they get dropped into the pit. He scratches his name, Shinsou Hitoshi, into the concrete with a shard Zuku hands him.

The Two exchange looks, then Zuku asks what nickname he would like to be called, because he wasn't going to remember that in a few hours, and they probably wouldn't either.

Kacchan calls him Toshi, and Zuku calls him Hichan. He calls them Kats, and Zuku. Zuku quickly scratches the new names into the concrete, as familiar with the pressure it needs as he is with how Kacchan moves. He finishes just as they are wiped.

A little while later, Zuku was not feeling well. It has been five days since he woke up in the cell with Kacchan and Hichan, and he is much more tired than he thinks he should be, even if they had just been through what felt like a particularly harsh fight. They got Overhauled (by Overhaul, who was the on site medic, who, from what they can tell, was just as much a slave as they were, just with prettier chains), then thrown back in their cell.

Zuku tells the others he was going to take a nap, and promptly passes out.

He wakes up about an hour later. He opens his eyes, and comes eye to light with a floating green screen. He swipes at it, and his hand passes right through. When he sits up cautiously, the screen moves with him.

"Zuku?" Kacchan asks. Zuku wordlessly points at the screen, and Kacchan raises an eyebrow before shaking his head minutely. Nothing is wrong. Hichan reports the same.

Well, shoot.

The first quest Zuku gets is the Tutorial Quest Part 1. The second is Escape Imprisonment. The third is Start a Party. He finishes First and Third before Second, but it only takes them four months (they know that now, even with fresh wipes, because Zuku's Quirk (and it must be a Quirk) tells them the passing of time with the Journal) to finally escape for good. It only takes another two weeks to figure out how to sick the Heroes (!!! There are real live superheroes!) on the new pit, via anonymous tip.

The Pit is done, and...they are homeless.

Well, there are worse things. They have each other.

Maybe they can find out who they had been?

In the mean time, they can find out what dungeons are.

They find out, by looking though missing person reports that they are Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki, and Shinso Hitoshi. They have to look through the dead person reports to find Hicchan, but he is Shinso Hitoshi, which they really should have guessed given their nicknames for him. They had been kidnapped, he had been assumed dead after a collapsed building from a bad villain fight.

They look into their parents. Kacchan (Katsuki?)(he doesn't like either of them calling him that, but he doesn't think he'd mind anyone else calling him that) goes first, because his parents are still apparently hounding the police for reports, and even hired a PI.

They find Mitsuki yelling at another woman (the PI) at her house. Katsuki decides he doesn't want to live with that, and they move on.

Izuku (he does like that name, even if he's still glad Kacchan and Hichan call him Zuku still) is next. Midoriya Inko, it turns out, is dead, and his father hasn't been back in Japan for literal years. The last time was to take care of Inko's funeral, and sell off all of their stuff.

Hitoshi (who didn't mind the nicknames, but it was nice having a normal name) had been a faster kid. He had no family to look into, and the system had only put in a token effort to find him.

They decide to do what they have always done. They make do.

It takes a whopping three weeks before they kinda...fall into being Vigilantes.

Earaserhead would like it to be known; he is not amused by the problem children, and that includes the one who avoids him like the plague. Sure, he's made the other two literally glitch when he'd used his Quirk on them, but he had learned his lesson. Don't used his Quirk on the Problem Children who's Quirks he Doesn't Know. Especially not the one the others say he would probably actually kill.

He would also like to know where they keep getting these weapons. What kind or irresponsible scum sells grenades to preteens??? What do you mean you sweat explosives, child?

Todoroki Shouto got hot water poured on his face when he is 5 years old. Touya, who was a whole 8 years older than him, age 13, decides that he was leaving, and he was going to take Shouto with him. They leave in the middle of the night, when Endeavor was away on a mission.

They dye their hair black, and get colored contacts (brown).

They live in a horrible apartment not worth the cash but who wont ask questions, then Touya finally gets a job as a bartender in an admittedly shady bar after 6 months, and Shouto is sent to school. It is cheeper than online schooling. Before that, he was tutored by Touya, or by a neighbor who was homeschooling her kids in exchange for babysitting.

Touya very quickly becomes an informant. He even more quickly gets good at it.

They are found 6 years after they had left. Shouto is 11, Touya is 19. Touya is arrested, and Shouto is sent back to Endeavor.

8 months later, when he is 12, he runs away again, this time on his own.

He meets Zuku, Kats and Toshi after 15 days on the streets. Zuku saves him from a mugging. It wasn't really necessary, but good so Shouto didn't expose himself.

Three days later, Zuku invites him to the Party. He accepts.

His scar fades within two weeks. They don't know why, but...he finds he's okay with it...even if he finds its weird to look at himself in the mirror and for it to not be there.

Still. He definitely didn't regret it. It also helped separate him from Todoroki Shouto, so that was nice. They call him Sho, or Shochan, or Icyhot (in private, or over the chat function)

Shouta would like to know where they keep finding more kids like themselves. There used to be three, but now there are four, and he doesn't know how to feel about that, even if the newest showed very clear signs of recently escaping abuse. You would think finding a black haired blue-grey eyed boy with a water and steam Quirk would be easy, but you would be wrong.

Fumikage had been out past dark, on his way home from the corner store. Dark Shadow wanted an apple for lunch the next day, and they were fresh out. He clutches his phone with its flashlight, and walks quickly.

Something whistles as he passes a dark ally, and he whips around only for something to jab into his arm. He whacks at it, and something small and metalic falls to the ground.

Something burns through his veins, and Dark Shadow swells.

Fumikage does not regain control for weeks.

Zuku kept finding these fascinating feathers. They were dark as night, and soft like silk (or so he assumed. He's never actually touched silk...). His Quirk called them Feathers of Dark Shadow. He gathered them up, and started experimenting with them. He eventually made this really awesome dark bombs, which were like smoke pellets, but instead of smoke, the released pure darkness. Very cool. Very useful.

He follows a trail of feathers, a few weeks after he found the first one. It leads him into a newly abandoned underground villain lair. The hole torn into the floor of the building looked like it had been done in a rush by something very large with claws. A Quirk?

Zuku finds Dark Shadow seething, filling a room. Zuku ends up fighting him, winning when he pulls out the flares he had finally perfected made from string and clay and Kacchan's sweat (the glycerin stuff, not the nitroglycerin-like sweat from his palms)

He finds Fumikage passed out in a corner, looking awful. Zuku brings Fumi, as Dark Shadow calls him, back to the base, and they nurse him back to health.

When they look into it, his mother had been killed in a villain attack, apparently looking for Fumikage, just like his father several years previous. He had no siblings, and he knew his father's brother was not fond of Dark Shadow and by extension himself, so...he didn't know what to do.

The four, Zuku, Kats, Toshi, and Sho, as they had introduced themselves, invited him to join them.

He accepts.

It is amusing for everyone when Dark Shadow is labeled as a Familiar. Mostly because, if Zuku's Quirk assigned classes, that meant Fumi (as he decided would be fine for a nickname, or Fuchan for Zuku, because he has a theme now, and would die on this hill) would be a druid.

Seriously, where are they all coming from? Who is letting children run around at night? Shouta just wants to talk, really. At least this one was possible to identify. Tokoyami Fumikage had been missing for over two months by the time Shouta met him, and now both his parents are dead, and after a bit of pressure, the preteen admitted his uncle would have been at the very least emotionally abusive if he had gone to live with him.

Shouta dropped the topic, because the kid's Quirk would definitely be labeled 'villainous' if he was put in the system, not to mention the horrors that came with having such an obvious mutation, and Shouta wouldn't wish that life on his worst enemy, much less a kid who was genuinely trying his best.

Now if only they would let him feed them. Just to make sure they were actually eating a balanced meal every once in a while.

The first time Shouta meets Player 1 (Zuku's codename), the preteen is taking on 5 full grown adults. And, while the kid was clearly skilled, and was faster than was entirely normal, he was also not obviously using a Quirk. Didn't Chem (Katsuki's code name(supposed to be KEM, for King explosion murder, but the acronym sounds like chem, and now he's stuck with it) hint that Player 1's Quirk was powerful two way telepathy, and something to do with using tech to do it? How does that translate to glitching? Does Shouta's Quirk Erasure short out whatever tech the kids have in their bodies from Player 1?

Shouta jumps in and is very careful to keep his Quirk off Player 1.

The kid runs off after, babbling something about how cool Eraserhead-san was, and it was nice to meet him, but he (Player 1) really needed to go bye, before Shouta can so much as open his mouth.

Time passes. Shouta spends a truly illogical amount of time trying to figure out how to get these kids to let him at least teach them how to fight like they don't have death wishes.

#my hero academia #izuku midoriya #bakugou katsuki #hitoshi shinsou #todoroki shouto #tokoyami fukimage #unfinished #suffer #aizawa shouta #eraserhead #vigilantes #pit fighter au #quirk trafficing #gamer!izuku au #pre canon #i hate this and now it is your problem

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