History Fanfic / HorizonStarDriven

* AGlassOfChianti: Izuku joins in a toast at dinner with the Bakugous at a fancy restaurant when he receives word from Hijack, his assistant VI, that Feel Good Inc, one of the biggest supporters of the Support Registration Act, just engaged in a series of terrible microtrading operations in his favor.
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Happens multiple times:
** First, All Might tries to arrest Izuku while the latter is testing out his HoverBoard, refusing to believe the boy made it himself. As All Might has already crushed one of Izuku's dreams, his actions cause the boy to accuse him of trying to make him suicidal.
** Second, when Izuku is testing his new HoverBoard, Kamui Woods and Mt. Lady are given the go-ahead to approach, but attack Izuku without giving him a chance to explain, which is made worse by the fact everything he was doing was perfectly legal. Nedzu notes the two will likely be hearing all about it from their lawyers, especially since Izuku has video evidence.
** Shaping up for a third time, when the HPSC sends Hawks to arrest Horizon, without bothering to codify charges more specific than "He's a threat to the SRA, and thus to our power." Even Hawks himself can see clearly that this isn't going to end well.

* ForWantOfANail:
** When All Might saves Izuku from the Sludge Villain, he is able to ask All Might if he could be a hero without having to latch onto his leg to do it. Because of this, the Sludge Villain doesn't escape, Izuku never learns All Might's secret, he doesn't get the validation from All Might from trying to save Bakugo and therefore gives up on his dreams of being a pro-hero for good and he never receives One For All.
** Since Izuku never gets One For All, All Might takes Sir Nighteye's recommendation and gives it to Mirio shortly before Izuku ''would'' have gotten it.
** Because Mirio is All Might's successor, it's his class that's attacked by villains at the USJ instead of Class 1-A. Shigaraki specifically targets Mirio and comes very close to killing him.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Studied and discussed by Izuku, who notes that most Quirks have built-in secondary mutations and that make them easier to adapt to. For example, Bakugo has stronger muscles in his arms and shoulders to better tolerate the recoil from his explosions.

** The company Izuku gets funds from is [[spoiler: Feel Good Inc named after a song by ''Music/{{Gorillaz}}''.]]

* BioAugmentation: Izuku, with the help of Epislon's research and [[HealingHands quirk]], finds a way to induce several [[RequiredSecondaryPowers secondary mutations]] that quirked people hold on himself to better prepare his body for space travel.

** The company Izuku gets funds from is [[spoiler: Feel Good Inc named after a song by Music/{{Gorillaz]].]]

** Second, when Izuku is testing his new HoverBoard, Kamui Woods and Mt. Lady are given the go ahead to approach, but attack Izuku without giving him a chance to explain, which is made worse by the fact everything he was doing was perfectly legal. Nedzu notes the two will likely be hearing all about it from their lawyers, especially since Izuku has video evidence.

** Izuku now despises the hell out of All Might, for (a) crushing his dream to become a hero and (b) attempting to arrest him when he's testing his HoverBoard. To a lesser degree, he now holds most heroes in contempt.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: While Izuku was no IdiotHero in canon, here he is a GadgeteerGenius with a firm grasp on (literal) rocket science (and the wit and adaptive skills needed to achieve such things with his limited resources), law and the various loopholes he can exploit.
--> '''Power Loader''': The kid, and it ''is'' a kid, is fucking insane. I saw the tech video too. The shit he's pulling off? The designs he's making? They should be ''College Thesis'' projects. For the top of the class at Tokyo Tech. He should be being ''scouted by goddamn everyone''. God, I've been trying to work out the basics of what the fuck his tech is. Ion Engines? I've been cracking open textbooks that have been sitting on my shelf for almost a decade. No one, and I mean ''no one'' I've ever seen with the possible exception of Midoriya on I-Island has energy work like this.

--> [[PyrrhicVictory He's won. So why doesn't it feel like it?]]

* BrokenPedestal: The first thing Izuku does after All Might tells him he cannot be a Hero is to take down many of his hero posters and figurines from his room, leaving only the support and science-oriented ones up. When they meet again a year later (after Izuku has started to build up for his dream to get humanity back into space), All Might claims Izuku has broken the law with his hoverboard (not believing him about building it himself) - and Izuku has [[ClusterFBomb quite a few choice words]] for his former idol. All Might is surprised at how venomous Izuku gets as he accuses him of trying to make him suicidal.

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Hisashi [[spoiler:has been more or less imprisoned on I-Island for a decade. Security has routinely refused to send his care packages to his family, and only recently has one gotten through. He also saw this coming and left messages for both Izuku and Inko at his now abandoned company]].

* NightmareFace: When Izuku tells Bakugo that he is dropping his hero dream (after the n-th beating), he's smiling widely, shaking and his teeth are getting stained with the blood from a split lip. The narration notes that the face becomes burned in Bakugo's mind.

* ShoddyShindig: To celebrate Mitsuki's new job, the Bakugous decide to have dinner at a fancy restaurant, and invite Inko and Izuku, who's deeply annoyed at being forced to have dinner with his abuser, but goes along with it in consideration to his mother and godmother.

** The company Izuku gets funds from is [[spoiler: Feel Good Inc named after a song by the Gorrilaz.]]

* HealingHands: Epsilon's Quirk straddles the line between this and HarmfulHealing, in that she can heal one injury [[EquivalentExchange while inflicting others]]. Izuku, in need to modify his body to better survive in space, develops a plan to get a very large tattoo and use the combination of the injuries and pain to allow Epsilon to develop his body in the direction he needs, giving himself the RequiredSecondaryPowers to use his technology to the utmost limit.

** The company Izuku gets funds from is [[spoiler:[[music/{{Gorillaz}}Feel Good Inc]]named after a song by the Gorrilaz.]]

* ExtraOreDinary:
** Tetsu's Quirk lets him feel magnetic fields, something he uses in his everyday swordsmithing.
** [[spoiler:Hisashi sends Izuku a pair of gloves that let him feel and manipulate electromagnetic fields.]]

* MamaBear: When Inko learns from Izuku about how All Might told him he could not be a hero, she makes the resolution to have ''words'' with All Might, Number One Hero status be damned.

* ShoutOut: When testing [[spoiler:the electromagnetic field control gloves his father sent him]], Izuku makes a "[[Franchise/StarWars Use the force, Izuku]]" joke.

* WhamShot: Izuku's doing his apparently routine "fly through Musutafu while dodging heroes" when [[spoiler:a portal made of black smoke appears in front of him at every turn he makes.]]

* AGlassOfChianti: Izuku joins in a toast at dinner with the Bakugous at a fancy restaurant when he receives word from Hijack, his assistant VI, that Feel Good Inc, one of the biggest supporters of the SRA, just engaged in a series of terrible microtrading operations in his favor.
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Happens twice:

** Second, when Izuku is testing his new HoverBoard, Kamui Woods and Mt. Lady are given the go ahead to approach but attack Izuku without giving him a chance to explain, made worse by the fact everything he was doing was perfectly legal. Nedzu notes the two will likely be hearing all about it from their lawyers, especially since Izuku has video evidence.

** Izuku now despises the hell out of All Might, for (a) crushing his dream to become a hero and (b) attempting to arrest him when he's testing his HoverBoard. In a lesser degree, he now holds most heroes in contempt.
** As Izuku never goes to U.A., he does not meet his would-be classmates, including Ochako - who instead begins to crush on Shinsou.

* BotheringByTheBook: One of the various ways Izuku gets away with the various arguably illegal things is that he registers for every license he thinks he would need.
** Various restrictions have been placed in the advancement in technology that could fall under the definition of "Support Gear" since villains acquiring it can spell massive disaster... but ''sports gear'' doesn't count, so Izuku files his HoverBoard as a form of sports gear, a fact that he can get away with after he applies for an Experimental Testing License.
** Since "violation of airspace" is considered a crime, Izuku went and registered himself into the Musutafu Airspace Ministry so that he could test his hoverboard legally.
** From what we see of Hisashi, he does the same thing – he sends incredibly powerful tech to Izuku by making it without lab resources or lab time, navigating every loophole to send things back to his family.

** Played even more straight with [[spoiler: Detnerat (a.k.a. [[FantasticTerrorists the Meta Liberation Army]])]], whom Hawks notes has been all-but openly abusing the SRA to take over other support companies through less-than-ethical means.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Hisashi [[spoiler:has been more or less imprisoned on I-Island for a decade. Security has routinely refused to send his care packages to his family, and only recently has one gotten through. He also saw this coming and left messages for both Izuku and Inko at his now abandoned company.]]
* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler: Hisashi is finally able to send a gift to his son, an advanced hero costume that will enable the Quirkless Izuku to fight while attending U.A. Unfortunately, thanks to Hisashi's lack of contact with his family, he has no idea that Izuku has given up on his dream of being a hero nor realizes that his son was following in his footsteps. Izuku breaks down when he receives it - and he also notes the irony of getting it ''after'' the U.A. entrance exam.]]
* TheDreaded: [[HealingHands Epsilon]] is not a woman you want to cross off.

** Hisashi sends Izuku a pair of gloves that let him feel and manipulate magnetic fields.

** Because Mirio is All Might's successor, it's his class that's attacked by villains instead of Class 1-A. Shigaraki specifically targets Mirio and comes very close to killing him.
* InSpiteOfANail: Izuku still ends up Dagobah Beach like in canon, though his motive is to use the scrap for his projects rather than to train his body - although it still helps him train his body.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Izuku inherited his GadgeteerGenius aptitude from his father Hisashi, [[spoiler:a man so intelligent and renowned in the scientific community that he is practically a prisoner on I-Island because he is too important to risk endangering.]]

** When Izuku begins to draw the attention of pro-heroes who try to arrest him when he is testing his hover tech, Izuku points out that pro-heroes can't ''legally'' arrest people. They can "detain" people (and even then it's sketchy to call it "legal" detainment) for police officers to arrest, but since Pro-Heroes go through a completely different form of training than the police and are less associated with the procedural side of law-enforcement, a compromise was reached. Izuku doesn't even have to let them catch him since they can't charge him with "resisting arrest".

%% * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Doing a 180º turn at high speeds is not healthy. When Izuku returns to his lab after doing so, he has multiple painful bruises from the sudden acceleration he underwent, and his board also has minor ruptures. %%Not enough context. If Izuku was using a gadget of his to go this fast, it's not realistic and should be removed.

* ShoutOut: When testing the electromagnetic field control gloves his father sent him, Izuku makes a "[[Franchise/StarWars Use the force, Izuku]]" joke.

When Izuku Midoriya was eight years old, he learned one of his first "truths" of the world: not all men are equal.

When he was nine, he had a crisis of faith.

When he was ten, he found a second passion.

He found the stars.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** After humans hit TheSingularity and [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent they all began manifesting superpowers]], culture and technology stagnated for well-over a century because mankind was too busy trying to adjust to this sudden change. By the time Izuku decides to go into space-travel, the entire aerospace engineering branch of science has completely atrophied due to heavy regulations on new forms of technology, extensive budget cuts and lack of interest.
** Technology is highly regulated due to the kind of threat the support gear industry could pose, since villains could very well become an even bigger threat to society at large if they ever get ahold of the right kind of support gear.
** Since rocket science like Izuku's HoverBoard is so advanced and Izuku is so young, everyone assumes that either he stole "illegal technology" or that Izuku is guilty of illegal public quirk usage.
** While Pro-Heroes are technically a legal form of law enforcement, they aren't the same as police officers. While police officers aren't legally allowed to use their quirks in the line of duty and Pro-Heroes can, the latter aren't legally able to "arrest" any of the villains, vigilantes and law-breakers that they detain. When Izuku becomes targeted by Pro-Heroes when he is flying his HoverBoard, they legally have no ground to arrest him for any perceived crime, let alone "resisting arrest".
** Doing a 180º turn at high speeds is not healthy. When Izuku returns to his lab after doing so, he has multiple painful bruises from the sudden acceleration he underwent, and his board also has minor ruptures.
** Considering how public his stunts are and how he's proving to be a GadgeteerGenius beyond the skill of most people, [[spoiler:it was a matter of time before All for One tried to have him kidnapped to take advantage of it.]]
** Nezu notes the difficulty of trying to find Horizon through school records, since (a) they have very few clues to his identity, and (b) in a school system based on rote memorization, technical geniuses are very hard to detect.
** Izuku quickly realizes that a project of which magnitude he's trying to accomplish needs funding - funding which he doesn't have, so he needs to come up with ways to make money.
** Even if he's BotheringByTheBook and making sure that everything he does is legal, the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive HPSC]] is going to want him arrested or otherwise out of the picture since he's a threat to their control over Japan, and would send their fastest hero as their enforcer.

** Various restrictions have been placed in the advancement in technology that could fall under the definition of "Support Gear", since villains acquiring it can spell massive disaster... but ''sports gear'' doesn't count, so Izuku files his HoverBoard as a form of sports gear, a fact that he can get away with after he applies for an Experimental Testing License.

* BrokenPedestal: The first thing Izuku does after All Might tells him he cannot be a Hero is to take down many of his hero posters and figurines from his room, leaving only the support and science oriented ones up. When they meet again a year later (after Izuku has started to build up for his dream to get humanity back into space), All Might claims Izuku has broken the law with his hoverboard (not believing him about building it himself) - and Izuku has [[ClusterFBomb quite a few choice words]] for his former idol. All Might is surprised at how venomous Izuku gets as he accuses him of trying to make him suicidal.

* RealityEnsues:

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The president of the Hero Public Safety Commission doesn't give a damn about legality – she wants Horizon arrested, solely for the threat his existence poses to the Support Restriction Act.
** Played even more straight with [[spoiler: Detnerat (a.k.a. the Meta Liberation Army)]], whom Hawks notes has been all-but openly abusing the SRA to take over other companies through less-than-ethical means.

** When Izuku begins to draw the attention of pro-heroes who try to arrest him when he is testing his hover tech, Izuku points out that pro-heroes can't ''legally'' arrest people. They can "detain" people (and even then it's sketchy to call it "legal" detainment) for police officers to arrest, but since pro-heroes go through a completely different form of training than the police and are less associated with the procedural side of law-enforcement, a compromise was reached. Izuku doesn't even have to let them catch him since they can't charge him with "resisting arrest."
---> '''Byte''': Oh my god. You can't be charged. At all.\\
'''Izuku''': Nope.

** After humans hit TheSingularity and [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent they all began manifesting superpowers]], culture and technology stagnated well-over a century because mankind was too busy trying to adjust to this sudden change. By the time Izuku decides to go into space-travel, the entire aerospace engineering branch of science has completely atrophied due to heavy regulations on new forms of technology, extensive budget cuts and lack of interest.

** Since rocket science like Izuku's HoverBoard is so advanced and Izuku is so young, everyone assumes that either he stole "Illegal Technology" or that Izuku is guilty of illegal public quirk usage.

** Various restrictions have been placed in the advancement in technology that could fall under the definition of "Support Gear" since villains acquiring it can spell massive disaster... but ''sports gear'' doesn't count, so Izuku files his HoverBoard as a form of sports gear, a fact that he can get away with after he applies for an Experimental Testing License.

** From what we see of Hisashi, he does the same thing- he sends incredibly powerful tech to Izuku by making it without lab resources or lab time, navigating every loophole to send things back to his family.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The President of the Hero Public Safety Commission doesn't give a damn about legality - she wants Horizon arrested, solely for the threat his existence poses to the Support Restriction Act.
** Played even more straight with Detnerat (a.k.a. the Meta Liberation Army), whom Hawks notes has been all-but openly abusing the SRA to take over other companies through less-than-legal means.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The President of the Hero Public Safety Commission doesn't give a damn that everything Horizon has done is 100% legal; she wants him arrested, explicitly because of the threat he poses to the Support Restriction Act.
** Played even more straight with Detnerat (a.k.a. the Meta Liberation Army), who has been all but openly abusing the SRA to take over other companies through less-than-legal means.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The President of the Hero Public Safety Commission doesn't give a damn that everything Horizon has done is 100% legal; she wants him arrested, explicitly because of the threat he poses to the SRA.
** Played even more straight with Detnerat, (a.k.a. the Meta Liberation Army), who has been all but openly abusing the SRA to take over other companies through less-than-legal means.

* CorruptCoporateExecutive: The President of the Hero Public Safety Commission doesn't give a damn that everything Horizon has done is 100% legal; she wants him arrested, explicitly because of the threat he poses to the SRA.