History Fanfic / HeroesByChoice

-->What makes a hero? What makes a villain? Is it their quirk? Or is it a choice? How will Izuku and his friends move forward when it seems that there is so much against them?\\
Synopsis of ''Heroes by Choice''

And then, when waiting to take the exams, he meets with Ochako, who turns out to have a Quirk that makes her similar to a Succubus, along with her other best friend, a girl called Himiko whose Quirk compels her to drink blood. And soon, the three become friends, and allies, in a quest to prove that their powers may be derided as villain-like, but they are Heroes to the core, by their own choice...

** Himiko never met Izuku and Ochako until some time after the Hosu Arc (and was a villain trying to kill them), but here he knows the latter since middle school and Izuku before the Entrance Exam. She also met All Might once when she was a child.

** Most of the U.A. teachers know Izuku since he was a kid, thanks to Vlad King bringing him to U.A. when he didn't have to go to school.

** Ochako's Quirk is not Zero Gravity. Instead, it makes her a [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubus]], meaning she's a MsFanservice with SuperStrength, a PrehensileTail and [[SmellsSexy pheromones]].
* AdultsAreUseless: Downplayed with Vlad King. When he learned about Izuku being bullied, he initially thought Izuku would toughen up like he did, but he realized too late that Izuku was too different to change that way. He still tried to help him by trying to get him to another school or speaking to the school, but when Izuku rejected the idea he instead did his best to teach Izuku to fight and find the means to stay away from his bullies.

* BadPowersGoodPeople: Izuku can control blood at a distance, Ochako is pretty much a Succubus and Himiko can drink blood to transform into the person whose blood she drinks. The three are good people who want to become heroes.
* BirdsOfAFeather: One of the reasons Izuku, Ochako and Toga hit it off so well is that the three of them are damaged in different ways, but are still willing to follow their dreams to become heroes.
* BloodierAndGorier: The USJ Incident. [[spoiler:While Midnight avoids Aizawa's fate, three students (Monoma, Izuku and Ochako) nearly die when the Noumu attacks them, the former surviving because he managed to copy its regeneration Quirk just as he got punched, and the latter two thanks to Ochako tanking most of the attack, although they are still heavily injured in the aftermath and have to be put in a Quirk-induced coma while they are healed.]]

* CommonalityConnection: Part of the reason why Izuku hits it off with Himiko is that they have fangs and that their powers are blood-based and looked down by certain people.

** Being bullied for more than a decade and socially isolated from others is not something one can bounce back from easily. Unlike his canon counterpart, here Izuku is a NervousWreck who HatesBeingTouched, is surprised whenever someone treats him nicely and expects the other shoe to drop down if anything goes well for him.

* ForWantOfANail:
** U.A. is an university instead of a high school, and the students live in dormitories within.
** Having a Quirk of his own (Blood Control) allows Izuku to fight in the Entrance Exam and earn his place without risking his health.
** Midnight becomes 1-B's homeroom teacher, instead of Vlad King.
** Classes 1-A and 1-B meet during the Heroes vs Villains class, playing against each other.
** Himiko Toga becomes heroic because of a chance meeting with All Might.
** During the USJ attack, Toga warns Thirteen about Kurogiri's Quirk, preventing the warp gate villain from turning Thirteen's Black Hole on the students.
* ForeShadowing: Even though Ochako has brown hair, several characters mention her having blue or blonde hair and how they like that - setting up Ochako's reveal that her pheromones make people think she looks like their ideal woman.

* GodzillaThreshold: When he, Ochako and Himiko are starting to suffer from having to hold back multiple enemies on their own, Izuku busts out his super-move, Blood Rush - which requires him to flay his back and pull out a lot of blood so he can use it as a large scale weapon. Considering that he does not have his father's ability to reabsorb the blood he emits, this naturally weakens him.

* HatesBeingTouched: Due to the bullying he suffered for almost fourteen years, Izuku has an instinctive fear of being touched by people he does not trust. The fact that he not only lets Ochako and Himiko touch him from the get go, but that it actually calms him down, is quite telling.

* JerkAss: Bakugou, by spades, and even worse than his canon counterpart. He is introduced bullying a kid and being willing to beat someone who was his friend until recently just because he is there, and in the aftermath of their encounter turns all the kids against him on the basis of Izuku's Quirk being "villainous".
* KidsAreCruel: Bakugou was even worse than his canon version, not only painting Izuku as a villain in training and then getting others to follow on through, but also making it so Izuku would believe him using his power hurt other people, making him subconciously fear his own power.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Himiko, Izuku and Ochako soon become this to each other, drawing strength from each other. [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed|Trope}} when Izuku and Ochako nearly die fighting the Nomu, as Himiko's dependence on the two of them leaves her in a deep depression born from SurvivorsGuilt.]]
* MilhollandRelationshipMoment: Ochako tells Izuku that the pheromones she emits make people think she looks like their ideal woman. When Izuku asks how she really looks like, Himiko shows him a photo - and Izuku asks if they are playing a joke on him, because he cannot see the difference.

* NightmareFace: When furious, Ochaco's usually beatiful face morphs into something terrifying.

* NoodleIncident: Izuku mentions that, twice in his past, he was saved by a villain, one of them being Stain.

* {{Polyamory}}: The fic tags indicate Izuku, Ochako and Himiko will be in a relationship. [[spoiler:Begins to become a reality after they learn that Ochako's Quirk cannot affect Izuku nor Himiko, and the three admit their feelings for each other.]]

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Himiko's Quirk makes her immune to STD, preventing the main trouble of it being powered by consuming other people's blood. Similarly, Vlad King's Quirk neutralizes all the foreign bodies that may be found in his blood, something Izuku inherited.

* TakingTheBullet: Ochako tanks the Noumu's MegatonPunch when it attacks Izuku. Both of them are sent flying away, but fortunately they survive.
* TenderTears: Izuku breaks down crying in Ochako's arms when he realizes that his biggest fear about his Quirk - that it would hurt people when he used it - was not real.
** Ochako breaks down crying as she finally acknowledges that Himiko had never been affected by her pheromones, so all those times where Himiko claimed to love her were for real.

* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Ochako is really beautiful, and the pheromones she emits make people think she is their version of this.

* BoobsOfSteel: Ochako. The girl's ''stacked'' and is one of the strongest students in U.A.

** Ochako's Quirk is not Zero Gravity. Instead, it makes her a [[HornyDevils Succubus]], meaning she's a MsFanservice with SuperStrength, a PrehensileTail and [[SmellsSexy pheromones]].

* ChildrenAreCruel: Bakugou was even worse than his canon version, not only painting Izuku as a villain in training and then getting others to follow on through, but also making it so Izuku would believe him using his power hurt other people, making him subconciously fear his own power.

* KidsAreCruel: It takes quite some cruelty to tell a kid they are going to be a villain just for something they cannot control (though it is canonical - Shinsou encountered the same from his mind control quirk).

* SkunkStripe: Izuku's hair turns white at his hackles, courtesy of Vlad King being his father here.

* RealityEnsues:
** Being bullied for more than a decade and socially isolated from others is not something one can bounce back from easily. Unlike his canon counterpart, here Izuku is a NervousWreck who HatesBeingTouched, is surprised whenever someone treats him nicely and expects the other shoe to drop down if anything goes well for him.
** Also, years of not using his Quirk on people because he instinctively fears he's hurting them makes it harder to use it later when he ''really'' needs it.
** Ochako knows that she's attractive - and that makes her fearful that any potential male friend may just be trying to get into her pants.
*** Also, knowing of the effect her pheromones have, she fears that she may have subconciously affected any friends she has made into becoming so.
** During the Hero Battle Class, Hagakure tries to make good use of her InvisibleStreaker power - but she's then unable to get through Ibara's thorny vines without getting seriously cut or captured.
** In the aftermath of USJ, Izuku and Ochako have to be put in a coma because their injuries are too extensive to be easily healed, and several of the other students need psychological support.
** After being for a week in a coma, Izuku and Ochako are too weakened to do sustained exercise, which keeps them both out of the Sports Festival since they wouldn't be able to recover in time.

* {{Polyamory}}: The fic tags indicate Izuku, Ochako and Himiko will be in a relationship.

* BloodierAndGorier: The USJ Incident. [[spoiler:While Midnight avoids Aizawa's fate, three students (Monoma, Izuku and Ochako) nearly die when the Noumu attacks them, the former by copying its regeneration Quirk just as he gets punched, and the latter two thanks to Ochako tanking most of the attack, although they are still heavily injured in the aftermath.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Himiko has one when Kurogiri mentions her as "Giran's pet project". [[spoiler:Again when she thinks that the Noumu has killed Izuku and Ochako.]]

* BloodierAndGorier: The USJ Incident. [[spoiler:While Midnight avoids Aizawa's fate, three students (Monoma, Izuku and Ochako) nearly die when the Noumu attacks them, the former by copying its regeneration Quirk just as he gets punched, and the latter two thanks to Ochako tanking most of the attack, although they are still heavily injured in the aftermath.]]

* {{Shapeshifter}}: Himiko's Quirk, which allows her to transform into people whose blood she drinks. During the Hero Battle Class, she uses Sato's blood to get through Momo and Kaminari's defenses and captures them.

** Even though he has an obvious Quirk, Izuku is still nicknamed "Deku" by Bakugou. And he still lets Ochako call her that way.

* HeroicBSOD: Himiko has one when Kurogiri mentions her as "Giran's pet project".

* BiTheWay: Ochako and Himiko are both clearly attracted to Izuku and each other.

* ChildrenAreCruel: Bakugou was even worse than his canon version, not only painting Izuku as a villain in training and then getting others to follow on through, but also making it so Izuku would believe him using his power hurt other people, making him suconciously fear his own power.

** In canon, Vlad King is only the teacher of Class 1-B, and his path rarely crosses Izuku's. Here, they are father and son.

* HatesBeingTouched: Due to the bullying he suffered for almost fourteen years, Izuku has an instinctive fear of being touched by people he does not trust. The fact that he not only lets Ochako and Himiko touch him, but that it actually calms him down, is quite telling.

* NoodleIncident: Izuku mentions that, twice in his past, he was saved by a villain.

* MsFanservice: Ochako, by virtue of her Quirk making her into a Succubus-like girl. The {{Pheromones}} she emits make it even more intense, as they warp people's perception of her so she looks like that person's idealized version of a woman.

* KidsAreCruel: It takes quite some cruelty to tell a kid they are going to be a villain just for something they cannot control (though it is canonical- Shinsou encountered the same from his mind control quirk).

* MrFanservice: Izuku. Ochako and Himiko note that, somehow, he is both a hunk and a cutie.

** Himiko never met Izuku and Ochako until some time after the Sports Festival, but here he knows the latter since middle school and Izuku before the Entrance Exam. She also met All Might once when she was a child.

* KidsAreCruel: It takes quite some cruelty to tell a kid they are going to be a villain just for something they cannot control.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19728424/chapters/46691347 Heroes by Choice]]'' is a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfic by [=Titus621=] (also author of ''Fanfic/IAmRedacted'') in which the consequences of certain characters (namely, Izuku and Ochako) having different powers are explored, and they are not always good.

* BigDamnVillains: Izuku has been saved twice by villains, one of them being Stain. Unfortunately, this only gave Bakugou more fuel to make his classmates think Izuku was a villain as well.

* SupremeChef: Izuku.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19728424/chapters/46691347 Heroes by Choice]]'' is a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfic in which the consequences of certain characters (namely, Izuku and Ochako) having different powers are explored, and they are not always good.

* AdaptedOut:
** Manga Fukidashi never joins U.A., with Himiko Toga being his replacement.

** Ochako's Quirk is not Zero Gravity. Instead, it makes her a [[HornyDevils Succubus]], meaning she's a MsFanservice with SuperStrength, a PrehensileTail and [[SmellsLikeSexy pheromones]].