History Fanfic / BetterLuckNextTime

As he falls, he lets himself think about it. He lets himself think that if he wakes up, if things go back again, it means that he does have a quirk. It means he really can take a swan dive off a roof and hope for better luck in his next life. It means that all along, he's been useless and worthless because he hasn't died yet.

He hits the ground.

And then he opens his eyes.

* ASharedSuffering: [[spoiler: Izuku and Monoma become close friends after Monoma copies Izuku’s quirk during the fight with Muscular at the training camp in which they both die painful deaths.]]

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Bakugou is noticeably nicer here than in canon. Although he retains his jerkish persona, early in the story, he apologizes to Izuku for his actions in middle school and becomes a genuine friend.

** [[spoiler: This is also the case for Nighteye. Because Mirio became All Might’s successor instead of Izuku, and that Nighteye doesn’t know that Izuku is Ace, Nighteye has no reason to be rude to Ace upon meeting him for the first time, unlike in canon.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Izuku joins the Gekkeiju, but only so he can rescue Mouse and Avenging Angel.]]

* BewareTheMindReader: Izuku feels uneasy around Haruta because he’s afraid of him figuring out what Izuku’s quirk is. [[spoiler: He later learns that Haruta is the UA traitor and is working with the Gekkeiju.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Maiko Sasaki, the leader of the Gekkeiju. She's immensely powerful and is the main villain of the story.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Mouse. She's a little girl who is horribly abused by the Gekkeiju who only keep her around for her useful quirk.]]
* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler: Later in the story, Todoroki becomes pretty sure that Izuku can see the future, but his friends don’t believe him.]]
* CoolShades: [[spoiler: Fury can't turn his quirk off, so he wears sunglasses when he doesn't want to use it.]]
* CryIntoChest: When Izuku [[spoiler: calls for help after being released by the Gekkeiju after being kidnapped, Aizawa immediately goes to rescue him and comforts Izuku while he cries.]]
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler: Izuku swears to save Mouse and Avenging Angel from the Gekkeiju.]]
** [[spoiler: He later adds Haruta to that list.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Almost all members of the Gekkeiju had this in one way or another.]]

* DeathByDepower: [[spoiler: Aizawa temporarily disabling Izuku’s quirk causes him to be afraid of actually dying for real.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: [[spoiler: Sasaki's sister.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Sasaki's dead sister.]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler: Sasaki was originally a hero, but later turned into a villain, with the death of her sister being heavily implied to be the main cause.]]

* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Nighteye is startled when he uses his quirk on Ace for the first time and sees that Ace plans to kill himself right after their conversation ends.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Aizawa immediately knows something is wrong when [[spoiler: Monoma, who is normally composed and confident, suddenly has a panic attack in the middle of one of the remedial classes seemingly for no reason.[[note]]Monoma had just copied Izuku's quirk for the first time.[[/note]]]]

* PosthumousSibling: [[spoiler: Sasaki had a sister that died long before the events of the fic.]]

* SiblingsInCrime: [[spoiler: Fury and Manami are siblings.]]

* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[spoiler: Averted - After Izuku is kidnapped, Hound Dog acts as his therapist.]]
* TimeLoopFatigue: Izuku faces negative physical effects when he uses his quirk too much, and [[spoiler: the story suggests that using his quirk has affected him mentally by causing him to grow tendencies of self-harm.]]

* TragicVillain: [[spoiler: Miura. She has killed countless people, including children, for the Gekkeiju, but she says that she has no way out of her situation and that she’s accepted that she’s only getting out of the Gekkeiju dead or in handcuffs.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler: Haruta. His parents die in a car crash when he’s a child, leaving only him and his sister, Ema, then he learns that he can’t pursue his career of choice because of his mind-reading quirk. Then, after following Ema to UA, he gets captured with nobody noticing by the Gekkeiju, who then threatened Ema with death if he didn’t comply with their demands. By the time he tells Izuku all of this, he’s so emotionally broken that he wants to die once Ema is safe.]]

* YouRemindMeOfX: [[spoiler: Izuku panics when meeting Nighteye for the first time because he reminds him of Fury.]]

* KnifeNut: Izuku takes a liking to knives due to their practicality for suicide, and they become his weapon of choice.

* AdultFear: For Aizawa and Inko; [[spoiler: Izuku gets kidnapped, then after he comes back, he won't tell anyone what happened and he keeps showing up after the weekends with horrific unexplained injuries.]]

* GoodCopBadCop: [[spoiler: Rivera and Koizumi, respectively.]]