Chapters: 3/?Fandom: | Boku No Hero Academia | My Hero AcademiaRating: Not RatedWarnings: Creator Chose

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Midoriya Izuku/Uraraka Ochako, Midoriya Izuku & Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Midoriya Izuku & Original Character(s), Midoriya Izuku & Sensei | All For One, Dabi & Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku & Toga Himiko, Garaki Kyuudai | Ujiko Daruma & Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku & Noumu, Akatani "Yamikumo" Mikumo & Class 1-A, Akatani "Yamikumo" Mikumo & Original Character(s), Akatani "Yamikumo" Mikumo & Bakugou Katsuki Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Sensei | All For One, Dabi (My Hero Academia), Toga Himiko, Garaki Kyuudai | Ujiko Daruma, Uraraka Ochako, Bakugou Katsuki, Kirishima Eijirou, Original Characters, Akatani "Yamikumo" Mikumo, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, League of Villains (My Hero Academia), Nedzu (My Hero Academia) Additional Tags: Quirkless Midoriya Izuku, Villain Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku Does Not Have One for All Quirk, Midoriya Izuku is Akatani “Yamikumo” Mikumo, Protective Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Protective Midoriya Izuku, One-Sided Midoriya Izuku/Uraraka Ochako, Sensei | All For One Being an Asshole, Manipulative Sensei | All For One, Yagi Toshinori | All Might Bashing, Bakugou Katsuki Bashing, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:

"If you come with me I'll help you become a hero." He held out his hand for the boy to reach.

He took hold of Sensei's hand that dwarfed his in comparison. He wiped his tears, and with a determined look said.

"Let's go"

Join Izuku and his new found family as they create a better hero society.

I hope you enjoy my very first fic!

Cross-posted on Wattpad.

I must clarify I adore All Might as a human because he represents how the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

He did want to make something good and save the world and at a great extend it's not his fault what happened with the hero society.

To society to end up like that it took millions of person to avoid confilt and hide the truth because they wanted peace. It took hundreds of corrupted corporations and institutions who made heroes the equivalent of celebrities mixed with cops or the army. It took many decisions and a lot of social manipulation and All Might was too busy fighting people to properly understand the extend of what was happening around him and how the corporations and institutions were using his image.

Every martyr and every symbol and every man in the front is a mask controlled by a million threads. The people with money and power and pushing those threads and the people like All Might, who were poor once and wanted to truly change the world, make it better, make dreams come truth, protect the children, etc... They are the toys that can be given to the multitude to destroy when things start going bad.

Like I said, the real villains and enemies here were the big figures with money and power hiding in the shadows, safe at home, not even sweating.

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Like wtf is All Might supposed to do? Kill himself? Will that make you happy? I mean. How dare he be alive and work in a school. What a fucking cunt he is. Honestly should just let the villains kill the kids and boom. Problem solved. I mean. It’s not like he saved the world countless times. But fuck him eh

Okay but chill. You're going to have a heart attack. Really. Breath and chill.

He can be the big All Might but he didn't have the proper studies to teach to kids at the UA. Don't go mad about it, it's the truth. He wanted to retire? NICE. Everyone has the right to do so.

But he shouldn't have hided in a school. Why he didn't talk with other heroes to help him and why he didn't make a plan to protect Japan of what was coming? Oh right, because the hero society and hero system don't work like that.

So the hero 1# didn't have anywhere else to go but to a school. And in result, the kids realized they couldn't trust only the adult pro-heroes to protect them, so they started pushing themselves in order to protect his families, his friends and also the professional pro-heroes.

My problem here has always been the safety of the kids. They were 15-16 years old at the beginning of the manga. The became child soldiers. And in the current arc of the manga they are the ones carrying the weight of society because the adults are unable to do so.

And this all started with All Might, even if you doesn't like it.

He saved the world because HE WANTED to save the world, no one pushed him to do so. And even when people should be grateful, he's not a god. He's very mortal. With flaws and mistakes. And All Might is another victim of the hero system, but that doesn't excuse how he pushed the UA kids into a war. By sharing the responsibility with Izuku, immediately class 1-A passed to bear that responsibility too. And class 1-B suffered from the consequences too. And the whole new generations.

You're over simplifying all of this. Stop seeing things in black and white and learn that humans are complex and have many aspects. Humans are like Shrek, like onions, they have layers lol.

Remember that.

Things that hit different after Touya's backstory reveal

I gotta give credit where credit is due. MVA is one of the best and most well written arcs of the series not because it's villain focused but because Horikoshi truly built it well. There's a lot of foiling going on and each League member gets a turn at being confronted by their shadow, or in other words, by a certain narrative they're trying to reject. For Toga, it's the idea that she's a deviant, someone whose "normal" isn't normal for everyone else. For Spinner, it's the fact that he's weak on his own and can only lend support to others. And for Dabi, it's the desperation to prove the worth of his quirk to someone who wants to exploit it for their own gain. But this scene in particular really hits different now:

when you have the full context for it. Before the reveal, the most commonly accepted theory concerning Touya's "death" was a training accident. Basically, the result of Endvr pushing him too hard. So the foiling with Geten worked, but not 100%. You saw Geten's desperation to prove his worth to an army that just considers him a pawn and thought: well, for Dabi the training had to be a duty. Surely, there was never a point in time where Touya decided to train on his own in order to satisfy his abuser's wishes and make him proud.

Right?

Well, Hori says. Think again.

And the foiling doesn't even stop there, but it's also told in the small details. For example, it's the fact that Geten had enough of an emotional attachment to Redestro to unlock a power up of his quirk in order to be helpful, to be of assistance to Redestro in times of need.

… In a fashion that's not too dissimilar to how Touya unlocked the blue flames in a highly emotional situation where he just wanted to prove useful to his father.

Another prominent aspect of the foiling between those two is the pressure to achieve perfection and how much it shaped their whole life. Those who get to sit at the top of the Liberation Army are held to a standard of “worthiness” and strength that's frankly inhumane. And they're asked to keep it up to avoid "disappointing" their boss, because, hint hint nudge nudge, they'd be replaced. We can infer this from a number of hints:

It's the fact that Skeptic frenetically insists that he only ever failed once, and then promptly tries to turn his shortcoming into a chance to succeed and make Redestro proud again.

This insane standard of perfection is also shown in Geten's words:

If you don't have a strong enough superpower to be of use to the cause, then your existence is as good as meaningless. Sounds familiar, yet?

To Touya, his life lost all its purpose when he was tossed away, because Endvr held all his children to the impossible standard of carrying his ambition without any “imperfections”:

And being unable to meet it meant being worthless. Cause again, for pre-atonement Endvr and the Meta Liberation Army, “a person's only worth lies in the strength of their superpowers.” As further emphasized by the way Geten's words directly parallel Endvr's mindset.

So when Dabi reacts with homicidal rage to Geten's taunts, he's not just reacting to the umpteenth reminder of his status as a “failed masterpiece”. He's also rejecting the naivety of his past self, and of that boyish wish to please his father that never quite got fully overwritten

So basically... chapeau, Hori. You got me there. Well done foreshadowing only hits you at your second reread, and I have to admit that mva really delivers on that front

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Me in 60 years, long after Bnha has ended: