revLynng

As a general rule, this fics happen in the canon universe, or somewhere close enough, so the 118 are still firefighters in LA and all that. If this is not the case, I'll say as much.

Iridescence by songbvrd: Mermaid Buck! It's a one-shot, around 10k and rated E. Buck's parents try to exchange his life for Daniel's, but, as it tends to happen with these things, they don't look at the fine print. Buddie.

devotion, be the death of me by cicelsticks: Uhhhh. Buck kinda gets cursed to make everyone who eats his food to fall in love with him. By a dream demon. This one does deal somewhat with the issues that come with that and how to break the curse. Typical 'nothing changes with a love spell because the spelled one was already in love' situation. One-shot, 7k, rated T. Buddie.

hippity hoppity by staticsilencee: Buck gets turned into a rabbit. Eddie finds out, tries telling the rest of the 118 and things go on from there. One-shot, 5k, rated T. Buddie.

lay right down in my favorite place by kermytheefrog (tardigradeschool): Buck gets turned into a dog this time. Eddie (and everyone else) is a little slower with the realization. Buck is declared dead and there's some angst about it, also I believe Buck kinda started to forget being human before he was transformed back. 2 chapters, complete, 9k, rated T. Buddie.

Penny For Your Th- Oh Shit That's A Lot of Thoughts by znks: Buck gets psychic powers (telepathy) and Eddie freaks out about it. A lot of panic about unsaid feelings. They fuck about it. One-shot, 12k, rated E. Buddie.

Dare to sit and watch what we'll become... by ReallySmartLadyMarieCurie: Buck has prophetic dreams about meeting Eddie long before they end up at the 118. There's a soulmate-esque quality to this one, if that floats your boat. It was pretty well written, if I remember correctly. Don't remember much more, but I liked it. 4 chapters, complete, 22k, rated T. Buddie.

floating in the blue lagoon (now's your moment) by intotheblue: Mermaid Buck again, except not really. He was a merman, then decided he wanted to live on land, so now he has legs and can breathe underwater. Short and sweet, kinda joint NDE except obviously Buck can't drown. One-shot, 2k, rated G. Buddie.

Check the date, darling, fall is almost there by thanatoskull: this one is lockedd, you need an account to read it. Buck dies, then goes back to life because he talked a grim reaper into it. The reaper is Eddie, although his arrangement is a bit complicated. It's more like a job instead of a state of being. 3 chapters, complete, 35k, rated T. Buddie.

to choose a soul by tawaifeddiediaz: Eddie is a fallen ange, Buck is the reason he fell. Reincarnation on Buck's part. Also, he's a dragon shifter. The do still work as firefighters. Soulmates, pretty much. They have monster sex. One-shot, 10k, rated E. Buddie.

Deviant (Savior, Bubble) by RB (BlueflowersandWings): Mostly canon, but Buck doesn't work as a firefighter. He's a merman who saves Chris during the Santa Monica pier tsunami. Short one, but it's interesting. One-shot, 3k, rated T. Buddie.

Also, honorable mentions to Siren song: start the show! and Fluffing things out, both by Revlynng (me). The first one has Siren Buck fighting a sea demon with magic and songs (Mermaid Melody system). Fluffing things out involves magic mascots, dimension travel and one giant squid. Both happen as much in the canon setting as they can.

As soon as the man is out of the room, Nedzu’s face turns more. . . creepy. The mask that had been there whilst talking to his employee disappears. There’s no need for it when Saiki can read his thoughts. They are fast and incomplete, but Saiki is nothing if not an expert at deciphering people’s thoughts. He prefers Nedzu’s thoughts to Nendou’s. . . situation.

Nedzu and Saiki reach an agreement where Saiki stays at UA and agrees to be essentially an adjunct professor until his situation (the transmigration) is solved and Nedzu helps him go back home.

“Why?” Saiki asks.

Nedzu, as it turns out, is worse at stopping his thoughts than Aizawa had been. There are too many things going though his brain for that. He’s good at misdirection, though, which is also annoying.

“We’re a hero school,” Nedzu says. “Helping people is our prerogative.”

How old do you think I am?

“In any case,” the principal continues, “it’s a good deal. You get a house and resources, and I get to observe.”

Figures. I just got rid of one crazy genius obsessed with me and now there’s another. He almost preferred his brother. At least Nedzu wouldn’t make him think there was a bomb in the middle of the city just to let off some fireworks. Or kidnap Toritsuka and brainwash him. Saiki looks at the principal, the way his muscles move and contract without his skin to hide them from view. Maybe.

“I’ve never met someone from another universe before,” Nedzu tells him, and Saiki can tell there is a sliver of thought that doesn’t quite believe him. Even behind the principal’s cheer, Saiki is being evaluated. “I’m sure you will find some way to entertain yourself.”

Don’t talk to me like I’m a snot-nosed brat.

“Shall we?”

Nedzu guides Saiki—more like herd him—to one of the training grounds in the school. It’s a gigantic place, the school, and it’s clear it must take a lot of money to maintain. Saiki knows Nedzu is glad to have the cement guy around. The training grounds he is taken to is a covered space, like a warehouse made entirely of cement, with overhead lights and a few windows without glass. A fully customizable playground. In the centre is a circle made of cement boulders of different sizes. Further away are a series of pillars. Telekinesis and teleportation. He supposes they have already observed his mind reading enough.

Saiki takes it easy—for the first five seconds. He lifts all the boulders at the same time and stares at the cement guy (Cementoss. What kind of name is that? Its almost as bad as Cyborg Cider-man no. 2) and drops the boulders. He knows, from the thoughts of the hero in front of him, that telekinesis quirks are not usually made for heavy things. That is not a problem for Saiki.

“Is there a weight limit to your telekinesis that you know of? Or any other drawback?” Aizawa asks with carefully constructed boredom behind Saiki’s back. “Distance?”

Has he tested that? Saiki is coming up blank on situations where he used his telekinesis over long distances when he couldn’t see what he was doing. Should he say he can’t control things he can’t see? That sounds troublesome to keep track of. Saiki shrugs.

“What’s next?” he asks.

Teleportation gets a different reaction. After all, Saiki does have a limit when it comes to it. A three minute cooldown he rarely wants to mess with. He took out his limiter (a placebo effect, he knows, but it helps him stay focused) and now there’s a rooftop with a crater somewhere in the city. Jumping from one concrete pole to the next at high speeds is what he decides on doing. The thoughts of the heroes are what was to be expected, incredulous and shocked. Saiki jumps down.

Aizawa is a very weird teacher is what Saiki has managed to glean in the five minutes he has been forced (via tricky deal with a talking rodent) to bear witness to his class. There are less students than he has ever had in a class, barely eleven. If Saiki hadn’t already learned why he might have thought it had something to do with being a hero school. Smaller classes are easier to control, and there’s no way Japan need that many new heroes each year. That’s not what happened at all. Aizawa Shouta is a serial expeller. He is famous and feared for that. Half his students are terrified of him. Saiki can’t say he doesn’t agree, but he also thinks a lot of rules regarding heroes are stupid.

‘Who is that?’

‘Is he a sidekick?’

‘Does Mister Aizawa have a sidekick? I thought underground heroes worked alone.’

‘Is that his kid? They don’t look alike at all.’

Because he’s not my father. He’s not even old enough for that. How old do you think I am?

‘Is it a transfer?’ Who are you calling it? ‘UA doesn’t do transfers.’ Then why did you think I was one?

‘What’s with the green glasses? Are they part of his quirk?’

They’re the only thing stopping you from turning to stone.

“This is Saiki Kusuo,” Aizawa introduced him, finally. “He will be accompanying us for a while.”

Saiki bows in greeting and goes to the corner to sit, where a chair had been placed for him. He hates it. It’s not normal at all. Why can’t I even be normal in a school for abnormal people? The announcement doesn’t do anything to quell the agitation. The students’ thoughts propose ideas, each thought more absurd than the previous one. The ‘secret child’ idea is repeated more times than it should have (and it should have not been thought at all).

“Is he a vigilante?” a student—thought either stupid or brave by their peers—asks. “Are you rehabilitating him?”

No, I’m not, Saiki thinks.

‘Yes,’ Aizawa thinks, wrongly.

“Don’t be stupid,” another student says. “Vigilantes break the law, he would be in jail.”

Aizawa thinks a few not-so-nice things about limelight heroes, but he doesn’t correct his student. Saiki guesses he can’t advocate for blatantly breaking the law, Even if Aizawa routinely works with vigilantes himself. Not that it matters to Saiki, because he wasn’t a vigilante.

The quirks of the class Aizawa teaches are. . . interesting. Not all of them. in fact, half of them are your typical superpowers, like the author hadn’t wasted any effort in thinking about it. Super strength, laser eyes, geokinesis, elastic body, etc. The most original quirk is something called ‘soul construct’, and the drawbacks makes it lame. Like Toritsuka’s inability to keep spirits out after letting too many of them use his body. None of it matters, though, because Aizawa hates Saiki. The Hero Training teacher also hates him, there’s no other explanation. Why else would he be forced to participate in this exercise?

The students are playing ‘hunt the flag’, as their thoughts call it. It’s a game normally played in teams, similar to the regular ‘capture the flag’ from American TV shows, except the flag moves. A team of five versus a team of six (teams modified to fit the number of students, which Saiki has also learned from reading thoughts) that must either protect or steal a flag. The student that guards the flag cannot use offensive attacks. The rest of their team has to protect the flag bearer from the opposite team (the larger one, the game is skewed in favour of the hunters) with whatever means they deem necessary. It’s supposed to teach about unfair odds and winning through adversity, or something like that. All this means for Saiki is that he now has to win a skewed game. Not hard, even if he is somewhat restrained by the powers he showed to the principal, Aizawa and Cementoss.

Hero students have loud thoughts. There are hundreds of half-arsed plans running through their heads, strengths and weaknesses of their quirks in plain sight for Saiki to see. Not being able to defend himself is a problem, but he will make due.

There is no way I’m losing to a bunch of kids.

Saiki gets trapped with the sould construct quirk bc his soul is so big. He panics, breaks the construct, and the backlash of braking his own ‘soul’ hits him hard. He uses telekinesis to form a barrier around him ‘cause he kinda panics and gives in to the impulse of keeping himself safe and ends up winning the match since no one manages to get his flags. Later he gets an apology from the student and a theoretic explanation about what happened. It makes Saiki think of Aiura.

Saiki stays as an assistant teacher for a while longer, maybe a week, before they manage t get something that can send him home. Perhaps Kusuke is involved in some way, from Saiki’s own dimension. The thing is: Saiki can go home.