History Fanfic / TheHeartOfAHero

* Yandere: Toga, as in canon. Taken UpToEleven during her fight with Setsuna, as Toga's BloodLust gets kicked into overdrive when she realizes that due to Setsuna's HealingFactor, Toga can slice and cut her opponent up as much as she wants and Setsuna won't die. [[NightmareFuel This leads to Toga referring to Setsuna as an "endless friend" and describing how she wants to put her in a cage and keep her as a pet (after cutting out her tongue so she can't talk back to her).]]

* Yandere: Toga, as in canon. Taken UpToEleven during her fight with Setsuna, as Toga's BloodLust gets kicked into overdrive when she realizes that due to Setsuna's HealingFactor, Toga can slice and cut her opponent up as much as she wants and Setsuna won't die. [[NightmareFuel This to Toga to refer to Setsuna as an "endless friend" and describing how she wants to put her in a cage and keep her as a pet.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Nearly everyone to Monoma after [[spoiler: he nearly kills himself trying to pass the Final Exam (he uses ''his own blood'' as a weapon while copying Vlad King's quirk in order to cover Pony's escape from the test area, and would have likely died if Vlad hadn't ''immediately'' put his blood back inside him and rushed Monoma to Recovery Girl)]], although this is partially due to them interpreting his actions through the lens of his apparent obsession with surpassing 1A instead of being motivated by his InferioritySuperiorityComplex.

** Setsuna and Rin hit it off initially due to both of their quirks being reptilian in nature (Setsuna can regrow her limbs like a lizard can regrow it's tail, Rin can cover himself in reptilian scales).

* CrazyPrepared: Kurioro in the Final Arc. As a rescue hero, he serves as the de facto [[TheMedic Medic]] for the class when they [[spoiler: go to rescue Kendo]], and he apparently takes this position very seriously. [[spoiler: He didn't just bring medical supplies, he packed a ''defibrillator'' on the off chance that he might need one, which allowed him to revive Rin after the latter's DisneyDeath.]]

* HeroicRROD: A major factor in [[spoiler: Rin's]] DisneyDeath: he pushes his Quirk ''way'' to far while fighting Dabi, which allows Dabi's last attack to stop his heart due to it hitting [[spoiler: Rin]] in the chest.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: [[TakingTheBullet Rin]] ]] comes within an inch of doing this for Setsuna, but [[spoiler: Kurioro is [[DisneyDeath able to revive him.]] ]]

** Rin's [[EleventhHourSuperpower full dragon form]] may be pretty awesome, but it can only be accessed by pushing his Quirk ''far'' past its usual limits and puts an ''immense'' amount of strain on his body. As a result, [[spoiler: when he [[TakingTheBullet throws himself between Setsuna and Dabi's final, overcharged attack]], the ensuing stress results in his heart stopping]].

* Determinator: By the time of the Final Arc, everyone in the class is this one way or another.

* FunnyForeigner: Downplayed with Pony, but her occasional poor grasp of Japanese still lends itself to hilarity at times, like when she tells Vlad King that [[CrowningMomentofFunny Togata 'got naked and showed her a good time']] (she meant to say that he accidentally lost his clothes due to his phasing quirk while acting as a substitute teacher for 1-B).

* FunnyForeigner: Downplayed with Pony, but her occasional poor grasp of Japanese still lends itself to hilarity at times, like when she tells Vlad King that Togata 'got naked and showed her a good time' (she meant to say that he accidentally lost his clothes due to his phasing quirk while acting as a substitute teacher for 1-B).

** Setsuna's Quirk may have strengthened to the point where she can pretty much regenerate, but the original limitation of her Quirk (she loses blood every time she uses it) still exists. [[Spoiler: In her fight with Toga, Setsuna is subject to DeathByAThousandCuts ''despite'' her HealingFactor, because she can't regenerate her ''blood'', and Toga is able to bleed her until she's too exhausted to fight back.]]

** Setsuna's Quirk may have strengthened to the point where she can pretty much regenerate, but the original limitation of her Quirk (she loses blood every time she uses it) still exists. [[Spoiler: In her fight with Toga, Setsuna is subject to DeathByAThousandCuts ''despite'' her HealingFactor, because she can't regenerate her ''blood'', and Toga is able to bleed her until she's too exhausted to fight back.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14922164/chapters/34567475 The Heart of a Hero]]'' is a [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia My Hero Academia]] fanfic by DrZenkai that follows [[HeroOfAnotherStory Class 1B]] as they forge their own path to becoming Heroes, facing all sorts of trials and tribulations along the way.

Starts off as more-or-less canon compliant (the majority of the fic was written before 1B had received much development in canon, so their are certain divergences present from the beginning), showing off what 1B was up to during the main plot, before eventually diverging.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Most of this fic was written well before Class 1B had been given any substantial development in canon. As a result, the author based the Quirks of Class 1B off of the then-scant information that was available, resulting in several of the class members receiving different powers than they have in canon.

* ChristmasEpisode: Heroes on Holiday, a slice-of-life chapter showing 1B's Christmas Party (which eventually grows to include the entire UA teaching staff, 1A, and roughly a dozen pro heroes).

* CoolTeacher: Vlad King is interpreted as one, especially in the immediate aftermath of 1B's [[CurbstompBattle sound thrashing in the Sports Festival]], first helping them rebuild their all but shattered confidence by telling them about his own failures in the Festival as a student and later spending the leadup to the Internship Arc using every connection and favor he had in the Hero community to get his students good interships.

** [[spoiler: Kendo]] becomes a BadassInDistress in the final arc of the story, being kidnapped in order to draw the rest of 1B into a deadly trap.
* DayInTheLimelight: The entire purpose of the fic is to do this for [[HeroOfAnotherStory Class 1B]], who had in canon received very little development at the time of the fic's writing (with the arguable exceptions of Monoma, Kendo, Tetsutetsu and Ibara). It also does this for [[CoolTeacher Vlad King]].

* EarlyBirdCameo: Head Games, a villain group specializing in Black Market Support Equipment, first appears during the Internship Arc. [[spoiler: They're the final villains of the fic, kidnapping Kendo and forcing the rest of 1B into a killing game in order to rescue her in a bid to supplant the League of Villains by wiping out an entire UA class.]]

* FireForgedFriends: 1B as a whole with classes from Gaikoko and to a lesser extent Isamu High Schools, who they went up against during the first phase of the Provisional License Test.
* FunnyForeigner: Downplayed with Pony, but her occasional poor grasp of japanese still lends itself to hilarity at times, like when she tells Vlad King that Togata 'got naked and showed her a good time' (she meant to say that he accidently lost his clothes due to his phasing quirk while acting as a substitute teacher for 1B).
** Monoma also technically counts, given his anti-1A antics and the fact that he was born in Belgium.

* LoveableSexManiac: '''SETSUNA.''' Every other line out of her mouth is either flirting with something or an innuendo. When having a sleepover with the rest of the 1B girls, ''every'' suggestion she made for an activity was something sexual, and she made them all dead seriously. [[DownplayedTrope Suprisingly, she's in a committed, apparently exclusive relationship with Rin.]]

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Class 1B as a whole by Class 1A. This is canon, but it's especially emphasized here: It turns out that during the Hero Killer Arc, Monoma, Ibara and Reiko were helping arrest a major villain of their own, Overdrive. The media barely covers the Overdrive story (despite Overdrive being a villain that was incredibly dangerous, taking on All Might himself on relatively even terms several years before, having escaped prison and currently being deeply involved in the Black Market for villainous support equipment) and focuses all of its attention on Stain.

* RecycledPremise: The Rescue OVA from canon is reused with 1B substituted for 1A. The in-universe explanation is that the UA teachers, having seen 1A in action against a villainous force they hadn't been prepared for, wanted to see how 1B would react to a similar situation.
* TheRival: Gaikoko High School to UA, and more specifically Victoria Hope to Kendo. It's revealed that this is due to [[spoiler: UA being the ones to bring down Stain. Stain was a former Gaikoko student who went rogue, and Victoria tried to catch him before he could destroy Gaikoko's reputation. She failed, losing an eye in the process. Victoria then trained obsessively for another shot a Stain, which she felt robbed of when Midoriya, Iida and Todoroki were the ones to bring him in. She ensuingly took her rage out on the first people from UA that she came across, which happened to be Class 1B, and she manages to press Kendo's berserk button in the process]].
* ShoutOut: In-universe, to Dragonball: nearly everyone notes that Shoda's quirk pretty much allows him to go Super Saiyan.

* TrueCompanions: The primary strength of 1B is that they are practically ''unstoppable'' when acting as a unit. For instance, they took down [[spoiler: ''All Might'']] while almost completely unprepared and with less than a week's experience (granted, [[spoiler: All Might]] was holding back, but he still admits that it was a rather tough fight), predominantly by using a series of devastating combination attacks that combine their various strengths to amazing effect. Brought up in-story: when comparing the ability of 1B and 1A, All Might muses that while 1-A is driven by rivals trying to surpass each other, 1-B is a more cohesive ''team'' that is driven to work together to surpass anyone that challenges them.

** Chapter 104. Just... Chapter 104. [[spoiler:Long story short, Monoma is nearly beaten to death, and we learn what Kashiko's Quirk is: [[TheAssimilator Absorption]], which allows her to absorb other people into her body and gain some of their physical traits and Quirks, a la [[Characters/DragonBallMajinBuu Majin Buu]], which is what she does with Kendo.]]

* TrueCompanions: The primary strength of 1B is that they are practically ''unstoppable'' when acting as a unit. For instance, they took down [[spoiler: ''All Might'']] while almost completely unprepared and with less than a week's experience (granted, [[spoiler: All Might]] was holding back, but he still admits that it was a rather tough fight), predominantly by using a series of devastating combination attacks that combine their various strengths to amazing effect. Brought up in-story: when comparing the ability of 1B and 1A, All Might muses that while 1A is driven by rivals trying to surpass each other, 1B is a more cohesive ''team'' that is driven to work together to surpass anyone that challenges them.
* WackyHomeroom: You thought 1A was crazy? 1B is just as nuts. Highlights include: Ibara trying to perform an exorcism on Bakugo, Setsuna flirting on anything with a pulse, Hatsume trying to turn Awase into a cyborg, Kendo being the single mom of 19 toddlers and the most screwed up game of D&D ever played.
* WhamEpisode: As mentioned above, Chapter 87: [[spoiler: Kendo is kidnapped by an up-and-coming gang of villains trying to upstage the League of Villians by doing what they never could: wiping out an entire class worth of UA students. Using Kendo as bait, they hope to draw in and slaughter the entirety of 1B]].

* OvershadowedByAwesome: This is canon, but it's especially emphasized here. It turns out that during the Hero Killer Arc, Monoma, Ibara and Reiko were helping arrest a major villain of their own, Overdrive. The media barely covers the Overdrive story (despite Overdrive being a villain that was incredibly dangerous, taking on All Might himself on relatively even terms several years before, having escaped prison and currently being deeply involved in the Black Market for villainous support equipment) and focuses all of its attention on Stain.

* TheRival: Gaikoko High School to UA, and more specifically Victoria Hope to Kendo. It's revealed that this is due to [[spoiler: UA being the ones to bring down Stain. Stain was a former Gaikoko student who went rogue, and Victoria tried to catch him before he could destroy Gaikoko's reputation. She failed, [[Eye Scream losing an eye in the process]]. Victoria then trained obsessively for another shot a Stain, which she felt robbed of when Midoriya, Iida and Todoroki were the ones to bring him in. She ensuingly took her rage out on the first people from UA that she came across, which happened to be Class 1B, and she manages to press Kendo's berserk button in the process]].

* AdaptationSuperpowerChange: Most of this fic was written well before Class 1B had been given any substantial development in canon. As a result, the author based the Quirks of Class 1B off of the then-scant information that was available, resulting in several of the class members receiving different powers than they have in canon.

Starts off as more-or-less canon compliant (the majority of the fic was written before 1B had received much development in canon, so their are certain divergences present from the beginning), showing off what 1B was up to during the main plot.

* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 87. After half-a-dozen chapters of fluff and slice-of-life comedy, this chapter comes along and kicks the reader between the legs before threatening to murder their entire family.

* TheRival: Gaikoko High School to UA, and more specifically Victoria Hope to Kendo. It's revealed that this is due to [[spoiler: UA being the ones to bring down Stain. Stain was a former Gaikoko student who went rogue, and Victoria tried to catch him before he could destroy Gaikoko's reputation. [[ForgoneConclusion She failed,]] [[Eye Scream losing an eye in the process]]. Victoria then trained obsessively for another shot a Stain, which she felt robbed of when Midoriya, Iida and Todoroki were the ones to bring him in. She ensuingly took her rage out on the first people from UA that she came across, which happened to be Class 1B, and she manages to press Kendo's berserk button in the process]].

* FunnyForeigner: Downplayed with Pony, but her occasional poor grasp of japanese still lends itself to hilarity at times, like when [[CrowningMomentofFunny she tells Vlad King that Togata 'got naked and showed her a good time']] (she meant to say that he accidently lost his clothes due to his phasing quirk while acting as a substitute teacher for 1B).

* BeserkButton: According to Monoma, Kendo has three of these: people who think that they're better than everyone else, people insulting her friends and people bringing up her femininity. [[TheRival Victoria Hope]] ''mashes'' all three within minutes of being introduced during the Provisional License Arc.

* BreatherEpisode: Six of them in a row right before [[WhamEpisode Chapter 87]], in which everything goes to hell and the final arc of the story kicks off. t

* Moodwhiplash: Chapter 87. After half-a-dozen chapters of fluff and slice-of-life comedy, this chapter comes along and kicks the reader between the legs before threatening to murder their entire family.

* TrueCompanions: The primary strength of 1B is that they are practically ''unstoppable'' when acting as a unit. For instance, they took down [[spoiler: ''All Might'']] with less than a week's experience (granted, [[spoiler: All Might]] was holding back, but he still admits that it was a rather tough fight), predominantly by using a series of devastating combination attacks that combine their various strengths to amazing effect. Brought up in-story: when comparing the ability of 1B and 1A, All Might muses that while 1A is driven by rivals trying to surpass each other, 1B is a more cohesive ''team'' that is driven to work together to surpass anyone that challenges them.

* LoveableSexManiac: '''SETSUNA.''' Every other line out of her mouth is either flirting with something or an innuendo. When having a sleepover with the rest of the 1B girls, ''every'' suggestion she made for an activity was something sexual. [[DownplayedTrope Suprisingly, she's in a committed, apparently exclusive relationship with Rin.]]

* WhamEpisode: As mentioned above, Chapter 87: [[spoiler: Kendo is kidnapped by an up-and-coming gang of villains trying to upstage the League of Villians by doing what they never could: wiping out an entire class worth of UA students. Using Kendo as bait, they hope to draw in and slaughter the entirety of 1B]].

* BodyHorror: Setsuna's quirk allows her to eject her own limbs and regrow them from the stumps, which in turn causes the originals to decay into dust in a matter of moments (this is downplayed from canon due to fic!Setsuna being introduced ''years'' before her canon self had received more than barebones characterization, forcing the author to write her based on what little information was then available).

* AdaptionOriginConnection: Kuroiro is a cousin of 13 here, explaining their similar quirks.

* AdaptionalOriginConnection: Kuroiro is a cousin of 13 here, explaining their similar quirks.

* BreatherEpisode: Six of them in a row right before [[WhamEpisode Chapter 87]], in which everything goes to hell and the final arc of the story kicks off.

* ShrinkingViolet: Kimori and Yui start out here, the former simply being shy and the later lacking in emotions in general. They start growing out of this with the help of their classmates as the story progresses.

* OppositesAttract: Tetsutetsu (loud, goofy, and forwards) and Ibara (quiet, serious and reserved).

* WhamEpisode: As mentioned above, Chapter 87: [[spoiler: Kendo is kidnapped by an up-and-coming gang of villans trying to upstage the League of Villians by doing what they never could: wiping out an entire class worth of UA students. Using Kendo as bait, they hope to draw in and slaughter the entirety of 1B]].

* LoveableSexManiac: '''SETSUNA.''' Every other line out of her mouth is flirting with something or an innuendo. [[DownplayedTrope Suprisingly, she's in a committed, apparently exclusive relationship with Rin.]]

* TrueCompanions: The primary strength of 1B is that they are practically ''unstoppable'' when acting as a unit. Brought up in-story: when comparing the ability of 1B and 1A, All Might muses that while 1A is driven by rivals trying to surpass each other, 1B is a more cohesive ''team'' that is driven to work together to surpass anyone that challenges them.

* TeamMom: Kendo.

* ChildhoodFriends: Monoma and Kendo are these[[spoiler: the they eventually bloom into an outright ChildhoodFriendRomance]].

* ChildhoodFriends: Monoma and Kendo are these[[spoilers: the they eventually bloom into an outright ChildhoodFriendRomance]].

* FunnyForeigner: Downplayed with Pony, but her occasional poor grasp of japanese still lends itself to hilarity at times, like when [[CrowningMomentofFunny she tells Vlad King that Togata 'got naked and showed her a good time']] (she meant to say that he accidently lost his clothes due to his phasing quirk while acting as a substitute teacher for 1B).