History Fanfic / AnnouncerAU

** Izuku also winds up as this, thanks to receiving dedicated training and support from UA's teachers, including firearms training from Snipe, martial training from Eraserhead, and more analytical practice from Nezu. [[spoiler:He also receives One For All earlier than in canon, and is subsequently able to use it competently by the time the entrance exam rolls around.]]

** Izuku's relationship with Nighteye is a lot better in this story compared to canon, to the point the latter [[spoiler:actually suggests All Might to offer Izuku the chance to inherit One for All... only to learn All Might had independently come to that same conclusion himself]].

** In Chapter 3, Gang Orca emails Nezu requesting Izuku for an internship. It ends with an unexplained keysmash. A few beats later, [=@HeroWatchOfficial=] tweets a video of Gang Orca arresting two villains while "trying to keep his phone unsmashed," accompanied by a content warning for "juggling and swearing." Six chapters later, Hawks blows up Izuku's phone with texts trying to convince Izuku to intern with him, ending in a keysmash. Immediately afterwards, the narrative cuts to a tweet from [=@HeroWatchOfficial=] with an attached video of Hawks and Gang Orca [[WatchWhereYoureGoing colliding]] mid-street. The tweet includes a reminder that people should not walk and text and a content warning for swearing.

* DarkHorseVictory: Izuku manages to get over two-hundred internship offers for his analytical skills. While this is below average compared to the finalists of the Sports Festival, it is most certainly very impressive when not only did Izuku not take part in the third round, he's ''not even old enough to attend UA in the first place''.

** When Mirko, Mt. Lady, Hawks, and Izuku spend some off time together, the former is incredulous when the latter three (a [[CountryMouse country girl]], a ChildSoldier, and a [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer social outcast]]) admit they have no experience with these kinds of social gatherings. Mirko and Izuku then have this exchange:
--->'''Mirko:''' ''(who has been crashing cage matches at 16)'' How the fuck am I the normal one here!?\\

* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: [[spoiler:When trying to teach Izuku control with Stormclad, Lunch Rush came up with the idea of having him cook a meal while keeping it on. It took Izuku an hour and a half and a lot of broken utensils to make lunch that day.]]

* FantasticAbleism: Staff and students at Aldera Middle School are highly bigoted against the Quirkless Izuku. While Bakugo is unable to involve himself due to being restrained by his parents, Bakugo's social group in particular assume Izuku could only gain positive attention from heroes under false pretenses and believe the authorities will remove and arrest Izuku once notified that he's "a Quirkless", and spend the story doing their best to make this happen. [[spoiler: This ends up absolutely blowing up in their faces when the teachers of UA happen to be taking a tour there to find out more about Midoriya, and the principal's (and by proxy, the entire school's) bigotry is exposed in front of them. By the time of the sequel, Izuku's homeroom teacher has been replaced and a substantial chunk of the staff is in danger of losing their jobs permanently once the current school year concludes, much to their terrified dismay.]]

* GilliganCut: While out spending time with his friends (Hawks, Mirko and Mt. Lady), Inko tells Izuku not to get mugged. What do you think happens next scene?

** In ''The UA Analyst Kid,'' All Might is given a work study opportunity at Aldera Middle School as part of his teaching education. When All Might announces this over the staff chat, Nezu is quick to insist that no one tell Izuku ahead of time. Mic in particular replies "LMAO." Little does Mic know that they're pulling the same stunt with him--keeping him in the dark about Izuku inheriting One For All so they can laugh at Mic's face when he hosts the entrance exams.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Downplayed. Bakugo's first impression on much of the class is grilling Izuku with thinly-veiled hostility over the "late" emergence of his quirk. Bakugo clearly thinks Izuku obtained some "unfair" advantage by participating in secret experiments with UA, but to everyone else, Bakugo sounds like he's bullying someone for how their quirk differs from their parents, which--despite being a known and legitimate, if unusual, phenomenon--is immediately understood, per common soap opera plots, to imply unclear parentage and infidelity accusations. To those paying attention, it sounds like Bakugo's trying to publicly humiliate Izuku by implying that [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe his mother committed infidelity and that he's not his father's son]], which upsets onlookers enough that they separate the two and try to comfort Izuku afterwards. It's downplayed because even though the classmates misunderstand what Bakugo is actually trying to imply, they still correctly understand his intent to bully and intimidate Izuku.

* OhNoNotAgain: After Present Mic {{troll}}s the entrance exam participants by telling them to raise their left arms, then their right arms, and then concluding the exam, before laughing and handing out the actual exam papers, a watching Eraserhead groans in frustration.

* SerendipityShock: The first story in the series is tagged "the good luck fairy woke up and realized she owes izuku ten years' worth of luck" and "she's paying it back lump sum with compounding interest," and it shows. Izuku's analysis is praised instead of denigrated by the UA staff, other Pros looking to take him on as an intern, and everyone in between, and by the sequel, he's interning in U.A., getting trained by all of the teachers, and remains in contact with multiple other Pros. Not only that, [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty karma has also caught up]] with Aldera Middle School and Bakugo for how much pain they inflicted on Izuku. More than once, Izuku has gone speechless for how good things are going for him, especially when he reads on social media how much everyone is loving his analysis.

** Several to ''Franchise/StarWars'':

*** The numbers for the 0-pointers, CC-2224, CT-7567, CC-3636, and CT-5555 are the numbers for clone troopers Cody, Rex, Wolfe, and Fives respectively. Additionally, Power Loader cries out "NO, CODY!" when Izuku delivers a Detroit Smash to CC-2224.

* AccidentalCelebrity: The plot starts when Izuku gets separated from his mom while attending the UA Sports Festival as a spectator. While he's trying to find her, a series of accidents lead President Mic, who is announcing the Festival, to offer him a seat in the announcer booth so he can wait out the chaos safely. Of course, Izuku being Izuku, he starts [[CombatCommentator commenting on the students' quirks]]... and then Present Mic points out that [[IsThisThingStillOn the mic is turned on]]. Cue agencies from all over Japan wanting to take Izuku for an internship, and the internet trying to figure out who he is for a long time afterwards.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Downplayed. Bakugo's first impression on much of the class is grilling Izuku with thinly-veiled hostility over the "late" emergence of his quirk. Bakugo clearly thinks Izuku obtained some "unfair" advantage by participating in secret experiments with UA, but to everyone else, Bakugo sounds like he's bullying someone for how their quirk differs from their parents, which--despite being a known and legitimate, if unusual, phenomenon--is immediately understood, per common soap opera plots, to imply unclear parentage and infidelity accusations. To those paying attention, it sounds like Bakugo's trying to publicly humiliate Izuku by implying that his mother committed infidelity and that he's not his father's son, which upsets onlookers enough that they separate the two and try to comfort Izuku afterwards. It's downplayed because even though the classmates misunderstand what Bakugo is actually trying to imply, they still correctly understand his intent to bully and intimidate Izuku.

* {{Irony}}: In a meta sense. [[spoiler:After meeting Izuku, and realizing his great potential, Nighteye gives serious thought to the possibility of making Izuku the next One for All Torchbearer instead of Mirio.]]

* AnswerCut: In their group chat, Bakugou's friends wonder where he is, since he's not replying when they tag him. The story cuts to Bakugou being duct-taped by his parents due to his loud and violent outburst at seeing Izuku on television.

** Bakugou's parents, after witnessing his tantrum over Deku appearing at the UA Sports Festival, manage to make him question his worldview that Izuku looks down on him by asking a series of pointed questions that shows how baseless that belief is.

* BoundAndGagged: Minus the gagging since they ran out of duct tape; a few cutaways to the Bakugou household during the Sports Festival shows that Mitsuki and Masaru had to literally hogtie their son to prevent his tantrum from destroying more than his cup.

* EmbarrassingNickname: While [[spoiler:advising the heroes in how to defeat the Sludge villain and rescue Bakugou]], the various heroes start calling Izuku "Kid". Izuku doesn't exactly think much of it, but follows Snipe's advice: "If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid".

** In ''The Stormclad Kid'', Bakugou takes the facts of Izuku interning at UA for several months, Present Mic's outburst during the entrance examinations, [[spoiler:Izuku somehow getting a new Quirk]], and a few rumors about underground UA facilities from his friends and arrives at the conclusion that [[spoiler:UA experimented on Izuku to give him a Quirk]].

* FantasticAbleism: Staff and students at Aldera Middle School are highly bigoted against the Quirkless Izuku. While Bakugou is unable to involve himself due to being restrained by his parents, Bakugou's social group in particular assume Izuku could only gain positive attention from heroes under false pretenses and believe the authorities will remove and arrest Izuku once notified that he's "a Quirkless", and spend the story doing their best to make this happen. [[spoiler: This ends up absolutely blowing up in their faces when the teachers of UA happen to be taking a tour there to find out more about Midoriya, and the principal's (and by proxy, the entire school's) bigotry is exposed in front of them. By the time of the sequel, Izuku's homeroom teacher has been replaced and a substantial chunk of the staff is in danger of losing their jobs permanently once the current school year concludes, much to their terrified dismay.]]

** Bakugou's parents learn how poorly he's been treating Izuku after the former loses his shit upon seeing Izuku on television.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Downplayed. Bakugou's first impression on much of the class is grilling Izuku with thinly-veiled hostility over the "late" emergence of his quirk. Bakugou clearly thinks Izuku obtained some "unfair" advantage by participating in secret experiments with UA, but to everyone else, Bakugou sounds like he's bullying someone for how their quirk differs from their parents, which--despite being a known and legitimate, if unusual, phenomenon--is immediately understood, per common soap opera plots, to imply unclear parentage and infidelity accusations. To those paying attention, it sounds like Bakugou's trying to publicly humiliate Izuku by implying that his mother committed infidelity and that he's not his father's son, which upsets onlookers enough that they separate the two and try to comfort Izuku afterwards. It's downplayed because even though the classmates misunderstand what Bakugou is actually trying to imply, they still correctly understand his intent to bully and intimidate Izuku.

* OpenMouthInsertFoot: When he finally realizes that the UA staff and the Pro Hero Hawks are asking about the social outcast Midoriya instead of the golden boy Bakugou, Aldera Principal Hayasui blurts out in front of them why they would want someone who's quirkless. The conversation quickly goes downhill for him from there, especially once Nezu gives [[MamaBear Midoriya Inko]] free rein to air her grievances.

* PointOfDivergence: The point of divergence is of course Izuku attending the U.A. Sports Festival a year before canon begins, accidentally getting lost and finding his way into the announcer's booth, [[CombatCommentator commentating on the fight and analyzing the Quirks]], and becoming famous as a result. The real divergences to canon start coming up in ''The UA Analyst Kid''; [[spoiler:during the second Sludge Villain incident where Bakugou is held hostage, Izuku is recognized by the heroes on-scene and comes up with a plan that they ''follow'' to take down the villain]].

* SerendipityShock: The first story in the series is tagged "the good luck fairy woke up and realized she owes izuku ten years' worth of luck" and "she's paying it back lump sum with compounding interest," and it shows. Izuku's analysis is praised instead of denigrated by the UA staff, other Pros looking to take him on as an intern, and everyone in between, and by the sequel, he's interning in U.A., getting trained by all of the teachers, and remains in contact with multiple other Pros. Not only that, [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty karma has also caught up]] with Aldera Middle School and Bakugou for how much pain they inflicted on Izuku. More than once, Izuku has gone speechless for how good things are going for him, especially when he reads on social media how much everyone is loving his analysis.

** When squabbling in the teacher's chat over who gets to be Izuku's mentor, Snipe invokes shotgun. Thirteen brings up that shotgun only applies to car seats. Snipe responds by posting a video file in the chat of him picking up and racking a pump action shotgun, following this up with the message "Hand over the green bean intern and nobody gets hurt."

** When squabbling in the teacher's chat over who gets to be Izuku's mentor, Snipe invokes shotgun. Thirteen brings up that shotgun only applies to car seats. Snipe responds thus:
--->''[=WentTooFarWest=] sent a video file.''
--->''[Video: Snipe picks up and racks a pump action shotgun]''
--->'''[=WentTooFarWest=]''': Hand over the green bean intern and nobody gets hurt.

* LiteralMetaphor: Nezu has the missiles used to keep Hawks (who has shown up unannounced) out of U.A. fitted with an actual boot - so he can be literally kicked in the ass.

-->'''AizawaShota''': So, while we’re still repairing after the round, let me get this straight; you all want to set up a post-Sports Festival deathmatch tournament/battle royale/survival game to decide on who gets to be Midoriya’s internship mentor?

-->'''WentTooFarWest''': yes
-->'''Midnightie''': yes

* NoodleIncident: Hawks comments on how Nezu used him as a target for the school's ''anti-air missile defences'' when he showed up unannounced. A side story showed what happened.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Downplayed. Bakugou's first impression on much of the class is grilling Izuku with thinly-veiled hostility over the "late" emergence of his quirk. Bakugou clearly thinks Izuku got some "unfair" advantage by participating in secret experiments with UA, but to everyone else, Bakugou sounds like he's bullying someone for how their quirk differs from their parents, which--despite being a known and legitimate, if unusual, phenomenon--is immediately understood, per common soap opera plots, to imply unclear parentage and infidelity accusations. To those paying attention, it sounds like Bakugou's trying to publicly humiliate Izuku by implying that his mother committed infidelity and that he's not his father's son, which upsets onlookers enough that they separate the two and try to comfort Izuku afterwards. It's downplayed because even though the classmates misunderstand what Bakugou is actually trying to imply, they still correctly understand his intent to bully and intimidate Izuku.

The ''Announcer AU'' is a ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'' AlternateUniverse created by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/RogueVector/pseuds/RogueVector RogueVector]] where Izuku's parents manage to get tickets to the UA Sports Festival a year previous to canon. Through a series of accidents and events, Izuku ends up helping announce their second year's Sports Festival.

** When Izuku recognizes Shouto's last name, Shouto is prepared for the usual identifier as "Endeavor's son", only to instead be blindsided by Izuku asking if he's related to Todoroki Fuyumi, who last year, became Izuku and Katsuki's homeroom teacher.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: During the Quirk Assessment test, Eraserhead, instead of saying that the student who comes in last will be expelled, instead says that the student that comes in last (along with anyone else he feels isn't giving their all in the test) will have to join in UA's welcoming ceremony (which the class is skipping) as 1-A's representative, late, alone, and in front of everyone.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: On his first day as a heroics student in UA, Izuku initially heads to the offices by the support labs, like he'd been doing for the past year as a UA intern, before remembering where he’s supposed to be going. He hopes to sneak past Snipe again without getting noticed, but no such luck.
--->'''Snipe:''' Don’t get lost on your first day, Midoriya!
* DarkHorseVictory: Izuku manages to get over two-hundred internship offers for his analytical skills. While this is below average compared to the finalists of the Sports Festival, it is most certainly very impressive when not only did Izuku not take part in the third round, he's ''not even a student of UA in the first place''.

** Hawks once crashed into his own closed window, fell into a pool, and panicked and thrashed in the pool before realizing it was shallow enough to stand up in. To his horror, Mirko found the footage and ''put it on social media''.

* MistakenForSuperpowered: Izuku's on-the-spot analysis of two sparring students is so good the general public thinks that he has some sort of analysis Quirk when he is actually Quirkless.

* ShrinkingViolet: Twofold example in one of the Sports Festival matches between Tamaki Amajiki and an original character, the [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectme shield]]-[[SpontaneousWeaponCreation generating]] Mamoru Tate, who's just as shy as the former. Present Mic calls them the "shyguys" in their match introduction, and Aizawa chalks their cautiousness in combat to respect for their opponent (but also due to nerves).

** Izuku's relationship with Nighteye is a lot better in this story compared to canon, to the point the latter [[spoiler:actually suggests All Might to offer Izuku the chance to inherit One for All]].

* AntiNepotism: UA already has enough detractors over their student recommendation system allowing them to pick and choose prominent hero hopefuls, so considering Izuku's internship at UA, they explicitly don't allow him to go through the recommendation exam, instead putting him through the general exams like any other student hopeful (and for Izuku's part, the recommendation exam never even crosses his mind). In ''The Stormclad Kid'', Aizawa's internal monologue also discusses this trope, wondering how to handle a student that has been their intern, trainee and junior colleague for most of last year.

* CantCountBullets: Avoiding this is part of Snipe's gun training to Izuku. When he clicks on an empty magazine, Snipe has him doing laps (without forgetting to safety the gun).

** The author created several characters to fill out the third-year classes (second year in this fic due its time frame), given we only know a few canon names for that year.

** This fic puts more emphasis on Mt. Lady's heroic traits from the outset, expanding on her canon reasoning for her GlorySeeker behavior by making apparent it's a result of trying to make ends meet.[[labelnote:*]][[AllThereInTheManual Her profile in Volume 10]] explains that, due to her Quirk, [[BehemothBattle she's called to fight villains with similar abilities]], so her fights inevitably end up with lots of collateral damage that her payouts are barely able to cover, thus why she takes any opportunity she can to solve her agency's financial troubles.[[/labelnote]] Her competency issues are also discussed and explained in-universe, as Izuku, Aizawa, Midnight, and Nezu voice a shared suspicion that Mt. Lady's small school didn't train her properly, comparing her skill level to that of a second year UA student.

* AntiNepotism: UA already has enough detractors over their student recommendation system allowing them to pick and choose prominent hero hopefuls, so considering Izuku's internship at UA, they explicitly don't allow him to go through the recommendation system, instead putting him through the general exams like any other student hopeful. In ''The Stormclad Kid'', Aizawa's internal monologue also discuss this trope, wondering how to handle a student that has been their intern, trainee and junior colleague for most of last year.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: On his first day as a heroics student in UA, Izuku initially heads to the offices by the support labs before remembering where he’s supposed to be going. He hopes to sneak past Snipe again without getting noticed, but no such luck.

** In ''The Stormclad Kid'', Bakugou takes the facts of Izuku interning at UA for several months, Present Mic's outburst during the entrance examinations, and [[spoiler:Izuku somehow getting a new Quirk]] and arrives at the conclusion that [[spoiler:UA experimented on Izuku to give him a Quirk]].

* ForWantOfANail: Because Izuku is famous and the incident happened later in the year, [[spoiler:the second Sludge Villain incident turns out differently. Izuku comes up with a plan that the heroes present ''follow'' to succeed in taking down the villain]].

** InternalReveal: Izuku's classmates in 1-A find out he was ''not'' a U.A. student when he accidentally got involved in announcing the previous year's Sports Festival on the first day of U.A.

* ReflexiveResponse: Izuku still ends up latching onto All Might's leg, but only because his training with Aizawa has conditioned him to tackle fleeing heroes. A later chapter shows he reflexively tackles anyone who runs away from him.

* SprayingDrinkFromNose: When All Might mentions how he usually activates his quirk "clench your buttcheeks and yell 'SMASH!'", Nezu snorts his tea clean out his nose.

* UnskilledButStrong: Mt. Lady is fairly capable as a hero but it's quickly noted that if not for her giant size, the second-year students would be able to handle her solo, never mind as a group. It's eventually learned she graduated from a school with a very mediocre hero course and she lacks the training most pros have.

** The last chapter of the sequel story starts with Izuku helping test out the video recording software for the acceptance messages, by recording one for Neito Monoma. One of the last scenes is Monoma confused about having his acceptance letter delivered by some unknown green kid, on account of Vlad King creating the holographic message discs while half-asleep and importing the wrong file.

* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: As Izuku's analysis at U.A.'s Sports Festival is blowing up on social media, Nezu takes glee in reading all the posts on social media on his personal phone, while ignoring his five other work phones buzzing with calls about said kid in favor of locking them in a drawer.
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: On his first day as a heroics student, Izuku initially heads to the offices by the support labs before remembering where he’s supposed to be going. He hopes to sneak past Snipe again without getting noticed, but no such luck.

** When Mirko, Mt. Lady, Hawks, and Izuku spend some off time together in the sequel, the former is incredulous when the latter three (a [[CountryMouse country girl]], a ChildSoldier, and a [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer social outcast]]) admit they have no experience with these kinds of social gatherings. Mirko and Izuku then have this exchange:

* DidntSeeThatComing: The Aldera Principal initially thinks that Nezu is coming to talk to him about Bakugo, whom everybody expects to make it to U.A. and be a hero, and is completely floored when they want to talk about ''Izuku'' instead, a boy everybody in the school considers worthless.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Most people assume Izuku is a student when they see him in the UA sports uniform helping Eraserhead and Present Mic announce the Sports Festival. A reasonable assumption, but he's actually a guest who got lost, was found by Midnight, who left him in the announcer's booth, and the uniform is borrowed because someone previously spilled juice on him.

** In the sequel, Izuku suffers a broken arm from the Sludge Villain incident...but it didn't come from the actual villain. Instead, Death Arms, in his cheerful congratulations and thanks to Izuku, accidentally high-fived him too hard when Izuku was already somewhat injured. This revelation causes Snipe to fall down wheezing in laughter, Aizawa to glare in irritation, and Death Arms to say that he already said sorry.

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: The last scene of the sequel fic has the UA staff cackling at Izuku's expression when he sees his [[spoiler:holographic UA acceptance video]] - with spliced-together clips of himself delivering the message.

** There's also Shimakaze, Nezu's secretary. Her dad Taruki is also implied to work for their legal team.

** In the sequel, Izuku has regular sessions with Hound Dog, and whenever he starts falling into a loop of quirkless SelfDeprecation and how he doesn't deserve his good luck, Hound Dog will shoot at him with a nerf gun to remind him to knock it off.

** During the Sludge Villain incident, when Mount Lady claims that the streets are too narrow for her to cross like in canon, Izuku asks why doesn't she just shrink to normal size. She {{face palm}}s for not being able to think something so blindingly obvious.

* BaitAndSwitch: The UA teachers are on the lookout for anyone cheating during the Entrance Exams, and those they do spot are sorted onto a bus ostensibly to take them to their practical exam location, only to be taken instead to Hound Dog who tells them their applications have been terminated.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: On his first day as a heroics student, Izuku initially heads to the offices by the support labs before remembering where he’s supposed to be going.

* FamedInStory: Izuku becomes famous for his part in announcing the second year's Sports Festival final tournament, where his analysis skill is on full display.

** Izuku still takes down the 0-pointer saving Ochaco [[spoiler:with a One for All Smash]], and needs her to use her quirk to save him from falling.

* KarmicJackpot: After Izuku becomes an intern at U.A., all the U.A. students who passed notes to him stating that they will fight to protect him if it turns out Nezu was experimenting on him are rewarded with extra credit.

* RespectedByTheRespected: Izuku's analytical abilities earn him a lot of respect from Pro Heroes. Mt. Lady even asks Izuku if he'd sign her cast after the Sludge Villain incident.

* SpitTake:
** When Sir Nighteye plays a video of Mirko doing an All Might impression, a listening Centipeder spews his coffee across the room.
** When All Might mentions how he usually activates his quirk "clench your buttcheeks and yell 'SMASH!'", Nezu snorts his tea clean out his nose.