A small headcannon i have in my hero academia (basically the only headcannon I have) is that Mitsuki Bakugou grew up quirkless because everyone thought her as a false positive. Like I know in the mha world there's no doubt tests that would test basically everything about a child to check for quirks as long as they have a quirked body. But I like thinking that she got to like her twenties without realizing she had a quirk.
And obviously getting bullied and developing a bitter and jadded attitude, exploding at everything around her. Before she meets Inko. A shy girl who can barely raise her voice about a whisper. But she stands up to bullies for Mitsuki. (Their first meeting being Inko threatening to use her quirk on a person's eyes if they don't leave Mitsuki alone.) And the two become friends, with Inko seeing past the walls Mitsuki had built up by being bullied.
When stores would kick Mitsuki out due to being quirkless, Inko simply found other stores they could both go to, the ones that support quirkless people. She was the first one Mitsuki called after being arrested one day, having never actually committed a crime, just loosing her temper after being kicked out of a store because they recognized her as quirkless. And Inko immediately bailed her out of jail and helped her find a lawyer to defend her in court. Eventually Inko decides to become a lawyer, because she sees the injustice that Mitsuki faces day to day, and she wants to try her best to stop that. Especially as lawyer after lawyer refuse to defend Mitsuki due to her quirk status. When Mitsuki is denied all her applications to higher education, all of the spots going to quirked applicants, even if they got worse test scores then her, Inko helped Mitsuki find a job with her other friend Masaru as a model. When Mitsuki went to the doctor, as she realized that her sweat was unusual, Inko went with her. The last time she had gone being when she was diagnosed as a false positive and feeling anxious.
Mitsuki absolutely adoring Inko, having been the first person who never cared she was quirkless and was her only place of safety in the world.
Mitsuki being absolutely devastated when she hears the news that Izuku was quirkless. Knowing first hand what he will face in his life. But also feeling hopeful for Katsuki and Izuku. Beleiving that Katsuki would be Izuku's Inko. Protecting Izuku, standing up for Izuku, defending people like Izuku and Mitsuki as a hero.
Being absolutely horrified and disgusted when she realizes how wrong she was.
Idk, I just like this headcannon, but I dont have anyone fics to insert it into :(
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Tbh, I've never understood people saying "because Quirklessness is rare, people don't discriminate against it." This is Japan, a country that enforces conformity. If anything, they WOULD discriminate against the Quirkless because it's different.
I agree with you that the heroes (at least in good consciousness) wouldn't go as far as leaving Quirkless people to the wolves, but you'd definitely see it in the attitudes people have towards their supposed usefulness. Izuku and All Might believed they were useless without a Quirk, and Aoyama's parents went as far as to go to All For One of all people, because they knew how Aoyama would be treated for being Quirkless. That clearly didn't come out of nowhere.
If Hori had the foresight to develop Izuku and the world of MHA more in depth, we most likely would have seen it in action.
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I personally do think that quirkless discrimination exists but I do see people who say that it's just there to belittle Izuku or that its not there in the narrative because let's be real we see the effects of quirkless discrimination but not how, where or who or why it exists!
The story is literally about how people aren't born equal yet society limits them into one little box that they must try to fit into and conform into. We see many characters struggle to do this and either feel useless or be labeled as villains or outcasts of the story.
The problem is we see the supposed effects of quirkless discrimination and that's it. We see Izuku and all might have a huge feeling of uselessness, we see yugas parents do anything for their son to be normal and have a quirk even if it hurts him, we see bakugo say that he thought that he (someone with a superior quirk) should be on top of a quirkless being, we see ochako comment to izuku in disbelief that he is going to fight quirkless, we see nighteye's reaction to all might making a quirkless child his successor, we see inko's reaction to izuku being diagnosed quirkless and so on and on.
Like you said reactions like these don't come from anywhere there must be something that causes them. Heck Iam not saying that quirkless discrimination is quirkless people being experimented on or anything like that but they are literally people who don't have an "individuality or quirk" they by society would be seen as people who aren't special and who can't do anything.
I wish we got to see make of quirkless discrimination and in all honesty it made sense if we did since 1) izuku is the main character 2) it would be crucial worldbuiling and 3) it was already something hinted at the beginning of the series.
Heck it's stated that quirkless are shunned away from society but we don't get any more development or Intel other than that
Maybe it’s just me but I can’t imagine quirkless discrimination being as bad as it was for Izuku on a widespread level. I’m not saying there aren’t actual struggles but I keep imagining him trying to relate to other quirkless people like “haha the bullying amiright? The suicide baiting? The way literally everybody treats you like the scum of the earth?” And the other person looking at them like what the fuck are you talking about.
Been dreaming up a MHA AU recently centering a Quirkless FMC. I’ve been in the fandom for a few years now, joined when the anime got a jump in popularity back in 2020-2021, though it’s been on and off admittedly.
I say this because one of my biggest annoyances when it comes to some AUs with Quirkless characters (especially when they’re female and/or a girl) is that…they’re written as weak even when the story is clearly trying to showcase that they’re not. Another thing that annoyed me in general was how the presence of Quirkless people worldwide is very small too. It never made sense to me personally, like okay we got a whole bunch of people suddenly gain powers out of nowhere and now every generation after has powers.
(ATP I’m doing a big ass rant surrounding rant about genetics and culture and stuff, which I do to explain my story idea better but you can skip past it and hit section Meet the OFMC, which is a mess unfortunately bc i am very tired now but yeah hope you enjoy.)
Genetics:
Like bruh, genetics don’t work like that??? And cultures definitely don’t either. Which seems like an odd thing to connect to that but let me explain. When people suddenly gained powers, it was small percentage initially. You’re really going to tell me that in hyper-religious and/or very discriminatory regions these people weren’t killed before they could even be reported? Societies have killed people for FAR less before. Which is one way that this should have culled the rise of quirk users in the population. Only way for it have spread this far this fast is if a massive selective breeding mentality was adopted by the world.
The international community simultaneously agreeing on something AND that something is breeding? Yeah, fuck off. These assholes can’t even agree to fucking, like, be anti-femicide and do effective work to end it. Yeah, absolutely not.
The other is genetics. First off, I refuse to believe that this was a “mark of evolution”. Both the evolution theory and the disease theory are just dripping in eugenics-type shit. Besides, with what we know about human genetics, mental-based powers, elemental-based powers, and inorganic mutations are just a flat out no. I can see super speed, strength, hearing, vision, etc. because that can be excused by abnormal genetic mutation that’s likely the result of radiation. Which is still pushing it tbh.
And yeah I understand that it’s sci-fi but these are my thoughts so leave me alone lol. Like, genetics don’t work like that.
Especially because it’s presumed that the time between the first emergence of quirks and Midoriya’s story is about 100-120 years.
80% of the population…in just or a little over a century…riiiight, right.
Now you know what this does smell like to me as someone who does enjoy fantasy shit? Magic.
Magic, Myths, and Spiritualism
Now I’m a spiritual person, so my theory that I like to play around with is that a lot of these powers is an intersection of magic and biology. So while genuine magic users of the past wouldn’t have many limits in what they could do (and I’m talking a LONG time ago) and the backlash they’d receive from doing so, quirk users absolutely do. And I think it’d be fun if what powers specifically spawned dominantly in certain regions were tied to the ancient and present myths and such. For example, I feel like there would be a lot more mutation based quirks in East Asia because they have dominant myths regarding humans turning into different entities (which, I will fully admit my knlowedge of myths and folklore in African and Asian regions is MUCH more limited than my knowledge of the stuff in European and American (the whole continent) regions).
Europe and Africa I think would have a lot more mental based and elemental based powers. And the Americas? That shit is a complete mixed bag. First off, the continent in terms of how much of the land is populated before and after colonialism is huge. Like, yes Asia is the biggest continent, but its land is nowhere close to populated as the Americas. Which don’t get it confused. I am not saying that the Americas has a larger population or land area, they don’t. But if you look at how much of the land was populated in the Americas vs Asia pre- and post-European colonialism, the Americas was and is being utilized much more in comparison due to how much of its land is habitable.
So why is it a mixed bag? Firstly, before European colonialism the civilizations there already had a varied belief system with people having mental powers, elemental powers, and mutations/humans turning into something else. After European colonialism, the continent gained very strong European and African influences in its myths and absolutely impacted and created new spiritual practices throughout the entire continent (which, yes, this does include the Caribbean, Hawai’i, and other surround islands).
Establishing a (Literal) Timeline:
Now for a general timeline for the story. First off, the dawn of quirks happens about 25 years after the 2020s, so around the mid 2040s. Following canons time jump, that places the story around mid 2140s to 2160s. There’s expected to be 3-4 generations in the 21st century (smaller compared to previous centuries which would have 4-5). Assume that, although living standards improve globally (though in varied ways and successes), people keep with the trend of waiting to have children till their late 20s-early 30s, then the 22nd century should see a similar 3-4 generations. So between the 2020s and 2160s, there’s about 4-6 generations: the 21st likely will only have 3 and we’re only halfway the 22nd in the story so that really only adds 1-1.5, thus 4-6.
Mind you I’m talking biological generations. Theres about 2-3 social generations (millennials, gen z, boomers, etc.) in each biological generation. So for 4 bio gens, that’s about 8-12 social gens. For 6 bio gens, that’ll be 12-18 social gens. Though due to how societies would likely react to (and did react tbh) to the dawn of quirks, it’s like between 8-12 as there was likely a lag in people willing to have children and such. And most likely, most of those gens have a higher Quirkless population than Quirked.
Population Numbers
And now we get to the Quirkless vs Quirked population numbers. So I’m flat out ignoring the statement that 80% of the human population has a quirk while only 20% are Quirkless. Its genuinely not believable to me, and I refuse to project it as something like a highly infectious disease because that's just a fucking pipeline to eugenics and shit and just--no.
So, a compromise: Japan's Quirked vs Quirkless population numbers is 80:20 (simplified its 4:1, so for every 1 Quirkless Japanese citizen, there's 4 Quirked Japanese citizens).
Population on a global scale: between 40:60 and 50:50 Quirked to Quirkless. Significantly lower than canon, but still more plausible if you consider the quirk genetic mutation to be magic+bio-based rather than just bio-based.
"But this will change all the dynamics we see presently in the show with different types of quirks and quirked vs quirkless!"
Well yes, but also no.
Q vs Q: Yes, Japan is Still Quirkist as Fuck
Listen, globalization has been around for a very long time but its only become as pronounced as it has very recently. And most of it has not been peaceful (unfortunately). Now I can give you a bunch of made up scenarios of different countries and what their societies would look like and their social norms and so on, but I'm going to focus on the two main locations in the story I'm thinking up: Japan and the United States.
Specifically South Florida, but we'll get there in a bit.
Thanks to social media, access to communication with and knowledge of other countries, cultures, and communities has expanded and improved dramatically.
And yes, I'm talking about our world.
That said there seems to be this idea that now that all these cultures have access to one another and are able to express their ideas and stuff with each other with ease, that we are all very impressionable and easily influenced by one another and as such our established cultures can and do fluctuate. This idea I think is very strong in developed countries in particular, but most of them I think have a limit as to how much they think their own country and culture can influence other countries and cultures and be influenced in turn.
Except, the US.
I'll be very honest, as an American I am very aware of the American ego, okay. That said, I do believe that the States do have a very strong cultural (meaning fashion, music, trends, etc.) influence internationally (especially with Western countries) (and different types of influences can be debated as well such as economic and political influences, but again that's much more up to debate).
This statement is not implying that the US is better than anyone or the best at anything. I am not claiming superiority in any way. But despite popular belief, something or someone does not need to be superior, better, or the best at anything in order to be influential.
And before anyone tries to argue about this, I'm going to need you to take a very hard look into the massive global influences the Black-American and Latin communities have been while being very unpopular in the eyes of the many.
In turn, however, I personally feel like the US is indeed extremely impressionable and easily influenced culturally by other countries. The most notable examples of this is the influence of Latin American (yes, including the Caribbean, the CaribbEAN IS PART OF LATIN AMERICA OH MY GOD) culture in the US and most recently the rise of Asian cultural influences as well. Not to say they're the only ones but they're the most predominant ones in my opinion.
So why do I say all this? Because the dynamic we see in canon Japan will be the same in this story. Just because most of the world has mostly balanced Quirked to Quirkless population numbers, and likely have their own social norms and dilemmas surrounding their own stuff, does not mean that Japan's current dynamic wouldn't exist as it is. Let's be clear, the US is not the standard in regards to healthy work-like, school-life, and relationship balances but Japan is worse.
At least, that's what I've read thus far.
From what I've read, Japan puts a heavy emphasis on social harmony, respect of the hierarchy (like respecting your elders, teachers, bosses ,etc.), and conformity. Listen, none of this is bad in and of itself. I do genuinely see how these things are beneficial in keeping things smoothly going. But any social norm and traditions can become harmful when they're taken to their extremes.
So let's tie this back to why AU-Japan would be the same with canon-Japan despite the change in global population stats.
Because Japan still has a significantly higher Quirked to Quirkless ratio thus making having a Quirk the social norm and being Quirkless a deviancy. Add onto the fact that, although All Might is very much an international figure, he is still first and foremost a Japanese hero and a very strong cultural influence on his home country, in both intentional and unintentional ways. In fact, thanks to how influential All Might is, and being a representative of Japan as a whole, I wouldn't be surprised if a strong(er) patriotic ego was developed, lessening any impact other countries would have on them.
So: Japan is still going to have huge Quirkist discriminatory issues.
The US, of course, will have them too but, honestly? At a far lesser extent.
Treatment of Different Categories of Quirked People and the Quirkless + Some Extra Stuff (Generally, Because This Post is Getting Way Too Long)
Now that I've gotten all of that out of the way, I feel like I can honestly just bullet point this part since I'd hope that anyone reading this (you) will have a general understanding as to why I'm saying what I'm saying.
Mutations are fetishized to hell and back on a global scale.
While I will be including racial issues, gender issues, LGBTQIA+ issues and the like in this story because they do, to an extent, have an impact on the characters and different storylines, the actual presence of these issues in the societies of this AU is significantly diminished because I don't see the necessity in its continued dominant presence in this world. It existed and still exists, but nowhere near how it was and its existence will vary depending on what location we're in.
Quirkless people are also fetishized to hell on a global scale.
There's a large market in the underground for quirkless and mutations, specifically in the sex trade.
Quirkless people are discriminated against in both Japan and the States, however, the discrimination in Japan is significantly more violent (in every way violence presents) in comparison to the US.
Highly volatile quirks (bright and powerful ones) are very well liked in Japan but are looked at more warily in the States.
In addition to that, people with quirks like these (think Endeavor and All Might, anything that can potentially cause significant damage to property and/or people, even the ones they're fighting) are expected to have very good control over their powers and know how to properly minimize any damage they cause if they're in a career that requires them to use it extensively (like hero work) in the States. It's highly frowned upon to not have that control. In Japan, while no one likes excessive damage, heroism is significantly more performative in the sense that people enjoy "watching a good fight", so big, powerful, flashy quirks are very liked and not as much emphasis is put in control over them.
Mental quirks are very well liked, or at the very least fearfully-respected, in the States but are villainized in Japan.
Mutations is discriminated in both the States and Japan, but how they're discriminated against and how much is a toss up depending on what it is and where they are (some places in the US is far more accepting than others)
In South Florida (one of the main locations), there's a slightly higher percentage of quirkless to quirked but its relatively even. It also remains very diverse racially & ethnically. Both of these will be important.
The presence of dominant gangs reappeared across the US, including South Florida, however the behaviors of most of these gangs is radically different to how they used to be. They act more so like vigilante groups rather than organized criminals. Not to say those don't exist or that different gangs don't have issues with one another, but they're not harassing their communities and causing needless violence either. This is also important.
Meet the OFMC
Valeria Chavez.
She's Latina (of course, what with how much I've put a focus on the community in this post) of Central American origin and lives in South Miami, born and raised. Leo Sun, Virgo Moon, and Libra Rising :3. Bday is Aug 15. Parents are loving and lovely but distant since they're out of the country more often than not so she lives with her Tia Juana.
She's best (virtual) friends with Izuku initially. They met on one of the forums for a specific hero. Let's call the hero VI. VI, a Latin-American hero, had partnered up with All Might in a case. Valeria was a fan of hers and Izuku is a giant her nerd that is obsessed with All Might, and he found a pretty popular forum for her online. While scrolling through the comments, he starts to see discourse regarding some quirkist statements some douchebag made (because of course someone like that is doing something like that) and was going to ignore it initially because he saw that they had insulted quirkless people; however, he comes across 12 year old Valeria's response to the idiot.
She cusses him out and starts to go off, finishing it off with some statement about how anyone can be a hero, quirk or no quirk (because somehow the conversation got there). Izuku, dewy eyed message her privately to ask if she was actually serious about her statement to which she responds "yeah, and?". Boom, the rest is history. They begin to chat, she introduces him to some US based quirkless and anti-quirkist servers and they begin to chat back and forth.
Listen, 11 year old Izuku is very aware of internet safety rules and such, but it's been a long day, Kacchan and co. were dicks, his wounds hurt, and he was feeling soul-crushingly lonely. He'll take what he can get even if it ends up being fools gold. Eventually, they both build up the nerve to video chat. Both wanted to see who exactly they were dealing with and lo and behold they were who they implied they were! No creeps! Yay!
It's during the same video chat that Valeria introduces her friend group (because no way was she doing this shit alone). Next thing you know they have a regular groupchat and they're facetiming, and Izuku is helping them learn Japanese while they in turn help him with Englissh and Spanish, and Izuku introduces them to his mom and Inko is crying because my baby has finally made healthy friendships after which she introduces them to her Tia and look at that! Inko has made a new friend! And then Valeria is asking, "Hey Zuzu," which oh my god, I have friends! and we have nicknames! "what do you think about coming over to Miami for your break? Meet up in person?" and Izuku is like omgomgomgomgomg and when he asks his mom she doesn't even hesitate to say yes. Now they're on their way to Miami and they finally meet at the airport and when Valeria sees Izuku for real in person she breaks into a sprint with a giant grin on her face, screeching "Zuzu!" and tackling him into a bear hug which her responds to in kind. And, oh Inko is crying again.
Now we're taking regular trips and then the it happened when Valeria was 13 and now she's 14 and oh my god, make it stop it hurts what's happening and now Izuku is spending his whole break in the States which, where this money is coming from who knows (let's be for real now, Inko is absolutely making fucking bank in order to buy Izuku all the All Might stuff that he wants) and he flies over as much as he can afterwards.
Its okay though she went to therapy and has self-help books (which therapy only works if you're ready and willing to be completely honest in the first place which considering what happened--) and she's honestly doing so much better now! She's going to parties and having fun and now she's 15 and she's dating this really sweet guy now too.
Now Izuku is 14 and he's suddenly talking about how actually, quirkless people can't be heroes, he almost died trying to save Kacchan and actually made things worse (he didn't) and "what he told me on the roof---" "Roof?! What roof?! Who's he?! What did he tell you???" And now ohshitohshit I wasn't supposed to telland now Valeria is glaring at him through the camera and he panics and tells him that he got saved by some guy from his first fight with the sludge villain "The FIRST time!!???" and he recognized him as a heroe and he asked him if someone quirkless could be a hero and he said no. Now Valeria's pissed demanding to know who the ever loving fuck is telling him these bullshit lies and Izuku is avoiding the question until he eventually caves and tells her that she met All Might in his civilian form.
"...Fuck All Might. Who cares what this asshole says? With his fake ass." Queue Izuku losing his mind. She prods at him some more, but he's really not budging now and now seems to firm in his belief that quirkless people can't be heroes so she takes a minute and she says "You know what. I'm going to prove you wrong. I'm going to become a hero just to show you that we can be. In fact...I'll go to Japan and join UA." "...WHAT?!"
He can't talk her out of it, she's dead set on this now.
Valeria, his quirkless pseudo-older sister, has decided to become a hero.
Valeria, who has never shown any interest in the career outside of being a fan of a handful of heroes and only really if they're a part-time artist of some kind or an activist.
Valeria, who enjoys spending her time dancing and partying and painting and cooking and singing and laying out in the sun at the beach.
Valeria, who will never say otherwise but those closest to her know that she is terrified of going too far from her home, her safe haven.
Valeria, who, yeah, she knows how to fight, took it upon herself to learn after what happened and does so well but not because she wanted to do it long term.
Valeria, who despite their long-term friendship has never ventured to Japan due to the discrimination levels there, has decided she is moving to Japan and joining UA.
Valeria, who is wrapping up the 9th grade soon and has decided to pause going to school so she can apply to UA and join Izuku there ("How do you know I'm going to UA?" "Izuku, come on. One, you're 100% doing this with me and two, even if you weren't going for the heroes course you would totally be applying for the support, business, or general course." ..."You know you're doing this with me right? I figured this was implied." "...Yeah, I'm doing it with you. Always will."). Inko is ecstatic to host the girl she's come to view as a niece if not a daughter. And Valeria goes.
Then again, maybe this shouldn't be that much of a surprise either. Because this is still her.
Valeria, who is an absolute crash out when it comes to racists, misogynists, and quirkists.
Valeria, who endeared herself to some dangerous people.
Valeria, who has fought off several creeps and made that pain last.
Valeria, who takes absolute no shit from fucking anyone.
Valeria, who slaps the living shit out Yagi Toshinori upon meeting him because they dumbass revealed himself to be All MIght.
("Valeria! What are you doing!?" "Teaching a lesson. Are you insane!? Telling a young boy that he could never be a hero due to his quirk status and the leaving him on a fucking roof!? And then you back out of that for whatever reason and decide to train him? Did you even apologize for what you said? Do you realize the impact of your words? Do you even care!?")
Valeria, who, after slapping him and then slapping him again after finding out that he intended to give Izuku a quirk and told this random kid his backstory which is "so fucking dumb, are you out of your mind?! You have no idea who we are, for all you know we could be trying to kill you or something.", and then getting into an argument with him yelling at him about how "since you've decided to take on the role of mentor and train Izuku to fight, then you need to teach him how not to die. And maybe you're just really out of fucking touch with reality but news. flash. that's not exclusive to quirked people only. How is it that you can come to the conclusion that even the most powerful, perfect quirk can't stop you from dying. That it doesn't change your status as a mortal, human being, and not be able to connect it to the fact that in the end it doesn't. fucking. matter. That the only thing that's going to be able to determine your ability to survive is to know how to not die. Quirks are a tool, they are not an all deciding factor for life! I'm not saying that we wouldn't be at a disadvantage, but its not the end of the fucking world either." and ending it with slapping some sense into him and offering him an ultimatum, "How about this, hm? You wanna train Izuku? You're gonna have to train me too."
Valeria, who after all that, endeared herself to the man she slapped thrice and became his pseudo daughter/really annoying little sister (trolling and rage baiting is sibling behavior, sorry not sorry). And listen, he had a plan for Izuku: make him gain muscle and then give him his quirk. But now that Valeria is part of this, he realizes he's going to need to go further than this. He's gonna have to channel what he's learned from his mentors but is worried about becoming too harsh...up until Valeria tells him that "I know now that you're training us like this because you're genuinely like this, but we really need you to toughen it up. Normally I would never suggest that, especially because this is exhausting as is but I'm in this now and if I want to succeed, then I need you to push me, push the both of us, to our absolute limits. Especially in combat."
So now we have Toshinori, who is very good at hand to hand combat actually and, in the face of his fear of either of these two kids dying, is an absolute drill sergeant when he's teaching them hand to hand. School is back in session again for Izuku, he needs to finish up the 9th grade, so now he can prioritize training Valeria during the week and prioritize Izuku during the weekend. Which is good because although both of them need to learn combat and keep up with strength training, Valeria will be the one who is gonna remain quirkless and is going to need as much training as she can get.
But hand to hand combat can only go so far, and really, Valeria already has a pretty solid grasp on it. They have about half a year before admission exams begin, so he begins to look around to find her a weapons instructor. Valeria mentions that she's had some training with knives, street fighting stuff and knows how to wield a gun. Toshinori blanches at that and firmly shuts down the guns. And knives are good but she should learn something that she can use to fight long distance ("No, guns are not an option. They're not even legal here, the licensing and paperwork to get one is extremely difficult to get through and approved, and they're definitely not going to allow one to be in the hands of a minor").
Turns out, there is someone that can teach her but they're back in the states. Valeria glares, getting defensive at the idea that he's trying to send her away in order to get her to stop from applying, but her firmly shuts that down and tells her that he simply didn't know how to teach her weapons combat because he didn't wield any. Besides, ("I thought you liked VI?" ... "I GET TO TRAIN WITH VI!?"). Turns out VI and him kept in touch after that last case, or rather she and Yagi kept in touch. He mentioned that he had a protege that he was training but needed someone to teach her something with weapons and thought she'd be the best for it (or at least finding someone who can).
So Valeria goes home for the time being, and trains. She develops a love for blades and, surprisingly, the rope dart. She already had a basis with knife fighting and she wanted something flexible that she could move around with, like a whip. It was fun, felt kinda similar to ribbon dancing. But while VI allowed her to keep those as her favorites, she made it a point to make sure that she knows how to use a variety of other weapons and how to turn rubble into weapons ("You'd be surprised by how similar a pipe is to a bo staff. Similarly effective too.") It helps that Izuku, Toshinori, and occasionally Inko visit during breaks too. She turns 16 as she trains and prepares for entrance exams.
I feel like if we weren't gonna start with it, we at the very least could have gotten Deku being a quirkless hero. Now hold on let me explain before you write this off as stupid.
I believe during maybe season 3/4 when MHA was actually still good and not in a rushed state, I think we get Deku losing his powers and has a mental crisis on how he'll be a hero again. Some of his friends and especially Ochako motivates him and tells him he can still be a hero but he just doesn't see it.
It's been drilled in his mind society that you need a quirk, you need some special ability or capability to really thrive in this world. A mere regular human could never do the great things they sought out, they'll just be killed before they know it. Deku at some point in his depression of losing his OFA(not sure how but I'll come back to that pinky swear) and once again giving up his goal, his dream to be a hero.
Deku probably gets put in a zero avoidance situation and steps up voluntarily to save whomever from the conflict and fights some badass villain criminal with a hand sword quirk. He realizes he has no chance fighting him head on without a quirk, his internal conflict rising back up to drag him back down so he runs but not giving up on helping the poor people in danger. No hero could make in time to save them
He HAD to step in because he used to be a hero, he had the necessary experience and knowledge on how to stop situations like this. He's...done that before without using OFA. That's it! Newly found confidence stored in him he stops hiding and faces the villain head on(err kinda🤏) using his wits and surroundings.
It's a good thing the villain has the average speed of a regular human. Were the same be believed for a second, slow your role sport. Deku led the villain near a alley with a nearby dumpster and trashcan. He quickly snagged the lid while the villain was in the middle of his Syndrome like monologue. Deku doesn't care to hear it, his only goal in this very moment is to stop this criminal abusing a gift for his own gain. Deku once had a gift and selfishly abused it till he lost it.
He's prepared and smacks the villain head first with the lid by leaping considerably high dazzling the villain before they recover and penetrate through the lid. Deku wisely let's go before it punctured his aorta killing him, the villain is distracted trying to get the lid off. The lack of fingers making it difficult in the moment, he probably can withdraw them with ease but the moment of conflict persist them to stay shown. Deku takes advantage and grips the criminal's waist and then grabs arm lifting him over his head and slams him into the open dumpster ribs first against the edge.
Deku did it. He beat the notsopowerfulbutstrongenoughforquirklessdekutobeathimforplotandconfidencereasons villain!
That was my hypothesis how I would jumpstart a quirkless hero!Deku because the whole point of MHA's supposed message is anybody can be a hero...but you need a quirk. We were robbed of Deku rejecting that rule and still pursuing his goal. Why give up the goal if you don't have the 1 thing you need to be it? I don't give a shit if it's realistic or not. You can make excuses and sad justifications like:
Absent father
Overprotective mother(she gets too much blame for that)
Over-dependence with heroes
Obsession with All Might
Society's stigma with heroes, quirks and etc. If you quirkless BEAT IT garbage.
Batman copycat(because Spiderman copycat is better. I love this fandom's hypocrisy)
He had no confidence
He was just a kid give him a break
All are not enough to justify Deku giving up his dream. I'm not saying NEVER give him a quirk but Jesus christ, I noticed the over-dependence of needing a quirk for this and that as a problem all the way back in season 1. I'm not convinced by Deku as this great protagonist that I can be inspired by. Frankly he just insults my confidence and tells me "You can be whatever you want...long as you have the credentials and skills" gee thanks.
Overall to wrap up my rabble, if we weren't gonna start the series with Deku understanding he doesn't need a quirk through himself and not forced by the plot. We deserved it half way in the series for him to have this realization he can still do good things for society and help. He has the capabilities just refused to put the work in. He only did the beach shit because he knew there was a reward at the end of it. He never trained, never went to the gym. He could have been a perfect Rock Lee of My Hero Academia, he's a insult to that character with raw hard work, talent and passion for his dreams. Deku is a sad quitter that cried when he found out he was never getting a quirk and became a hero through sheer plot convenience. I'm so sick and tired of people refusing to admit that Deku's "journey" is a terrible one and the weakest of any shounen.
Tl;dr Deku going quirkless for a bit wouldn't have killed anyone and been way better than the garbage v*gilante arc.
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*glides by on roller-skates* Bakugo calls Kirishima shitty-hair because redheads make up 1-2% of the global population, compared to Quirkless 20%, and Bakugo is afraid of minorities
What if Aldera is still a shit school and the teachers pretty much do nothing to stop the blatant bullying and quirk use, but. And this is where it is awful: They don't encourage it, they don't stop it, but they DO tell Izuku, tolerate it. You NEED to get used to this, because this is how people will treat a Quirkless out there. And on top of that, the teachers are constantly push-push-pushing Izuku
They don't help him or tutor him but they push him to get good grades, they give him more work, more challenging work, and they push-push-push him to do WELL to be the BEST to be EXCELLENT because it's the only way a Quirkless can compete with the Quirked
\Aldera is a shit school, they produced two excellent students, but they onl really believe that the one with the strong flashy quirk will get anywhere, but they PUSHED the quirkless one too, just Push-Push-Push to strive to the top to be the best, because their JOB is to TEACH, and come hell or highwater, they WILL TEACHyes the Quirkless one too, even if he'll die in the next few years and render all that effort wasted.
Like, imagine how that would fuck up Izuku, because while those teachers won't say it to his face, he's probably overheard a few times, that he's wasted effort, but goddamn it, these teachers are being paid to teach so they will teach, but WTF, that stupid, ungrateful, WORTHLESS quirkless boy is going to die in the next few years anyway and all that effort will have been for nothing.
Okay. Idea. You know how I’m some cities Paramedics are stationed in firehouses? What if in MHA there are paramedics stationed in Hero Agencies?
So like, Izuku doesn’t get OFA. He still applied to Hero Schools, but only UA even lets him try. He still saves Uraraka, bc he’s Izuku, but it’s much less flashy and dramatic so he only get like 25 Rescue Points. He gets put in Gen Ed. He fights his ass off at the Sports Festival, but is beaten by Todoroki. 2nd year, again makes it to the final round of the Sports Festival and puts up a good fight, but is beaten by a Hero Course student bc no matter how hard he trains, it’s not the same as being trained by Pro-Heroes for the job.
It’s around that time the Teachers realize that Izuku isn’t going to have his dreams crushed and settle into a mediocre desk job like most. And Izuku is angry, especially at Shinso, bc Shinso failed just like Izuku did but he still gets a chance.
It’s Aizawa who eventually points out that there are no Quirk requirements to be a Paramedic like there are for Fire Fighters, Police, Doctors, etc. and that Izuku doesn’t have to be a Pro Hero to save people with a smile (WHICH WAS HIS TRUE DREAM).
He graduates. Goes to the Paramedic academy. Deals with discrimination from his mentors and peers. Is assigned the worst areas. Is pushed into failing. But rises above every time. Eventually working his way to the coveted position of Hero Agency Paramedic just as Class 1-A is finishing their sidekick years.
When Izuku is assigned to a new Agency as one of their paramedics, he expects it to be another attempt to break him and force him out. Of course, that was their intention, but the new agency is one all of 1-A started. They expected Izuku to crack under the pressure of being the medic for 20 new heroes and any civilian casualties they cause (typically higher with new heroes). Instead they put him in the perfect environment to thrive bc some of 1-A remember him and are PUMPED to have him working with them.
