History Fanfic / WhenReasonFails

* DeathIsCheap: Whatever Ochako is, she has an unexplained ability to come back from death.

* TheReveal: Chapter 19 reveals that [[spoiler:Ochako was the one who tried to break into Izuku's house soon after his Initiation]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ochako tells Izuku they went to the same school, but neither Izuku nor Katsuki remember her. [[spoiler:Foreshadows the fact that Ochako was Izuku's and Katsuki's childhood friend, but something (implied to be the Censor Veil) caused the latter two to forget her.]]

* AmbiguouslyHuman: There are huge question marks on Izuku's humanity. Yagi speculates that he is mostly human based on what they uncovered about his mother and that his humanity comes from his father. [[spoiler: However, further oddities casts doubt on whether his father is himself even human, which just muddles the question further for Izuku's own humanity]].

* TheDreaded: Nightmares are individuals at UA who are responsible for numerous deaths of Black Course Candidates and even full Black Course Students. Himiko is the Nightmare of Blood and Izuku's association with her protects him from most other students, and she's on the ''lower-end'' of the power spectrum for Nightmares.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Izuku.

* FamedInStory: Among UA, Izuku is well-known due to something about him causing Himiko, a known killer, to not kill ''him'' like her other victims.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ochako tells Izuku they went to the same school, but Izuku doesn't remember her. [[spoiler:Foreshadows the fact that Ochako was Izuku's and Katsuki's childhood friend, but something (implied to be the Censor Veil) caused the latter two to forget her.]]

* ItAmusedMe: Shouto hangs around Izuku's Cabal because their antics entertain him.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Katsuki has a marked fear of spiders. For their first combat assignment, Izuku doesn't tell him that the creatures they have to kill are hand-sized mimic spiders [[ItAmusedMe for the lulz]].
* WolfInSheepsClothing: Ochako is a gentle girl when Izuku is nearby. If he isn't, she turns into a first-degree {{Yandere}}.

** Delving too deep into a certain field of magic can push people into self-destructing behavior. For example, the magic from the Archon of Mercy is HealingHands, but overuse will make it so its wielder will think nothing of offering themselves as food to a hungry ghoul.

* DarwinistDesire: More established Initiate Families constantly look for talented unattached Initiates to join their family trees. [[spoiler:Shouto asks Katsuki to give dating a try for his sister Fuyumi and distant cousin Kamiji because he realizes Katsuki is highly talented like Izuku and has no yanderes pining for him unlike Izuku, and thinks Katsuki will be a good fit for his family]].

* CreepyLaugh: Todoroki has a mechanical laugh that everyone finds super-creepy.

** Magisters are this as well, because they are not so much people as forces of nature. [[spoiler:Decay (formerly known as Tomura) is one of them.]]

* PassThePopcorn: Todoroki is prone to bringing out the popcorn when he turns to his favorite pastime - watching Izuku and his friends.

* BrokenMasquerade: From Izuku's perspective, the Censor that acts to hide the supernatural from {{Muggles}} like him simply stops working for him, so he is thrust into the deep end almost right away before he gets a much needed orientation on the basics.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ochako tells Izuku they went to the same school, but Izuku doesn't remember her. [[spoiler:Foreshadows the fact that Ochako was Izuku's and Katsuki's childhood friend, but something (implied to be the Censor Veil) caused the latter to forget her.]]

* ARareSentence: When Katsuki clarifies with Izuku that the latter wants the former to "mobile pile of nightmare fuel and childhood trauma all the way to the UA, just so you can feed the Frog Face with them and get free frog gacha rolls?", Izuku can only be stunned at the absurdity of the sentence before confirming he wants Katsuki to do that.

* BrutalHonesty: When Izuku questions Ibara if she has a long term plan to get impregnated by him, she bluntly answers "yes".

* DarwinistDesire: More established Initiate Families constantly look for talented unattached Initiates to join their family trees. [[spoiler:Shouto asks Katsuki to give dating a try for his sister Fuyumi and distant cousin Kamiji because he realises Katsuki is highly talented like Izuku and has no yanderes pining for him unlike Izuku and thinks Katsuki will be a good fit for his family]].

* DidNotSeeThatComing: Shouto expected Himiko to kills Izuku after she takes him to her lair. Izuku not dying is something no one expected.

** Ibara's manipulations of her Cabal involves getting them to do what they want to do anyway, just with slight adjustments to their exact methods so that she gets protected, and that they don't realise she's a Dryad.

* NoSell: Mind-controllers should themselves be resistant to mind-control due to certain evolutionary pressures, which is why Yagi is surprised that Izuku's ability to get demihuman women attracted to him affects even Ibara who as a Dryad can control minds through spores and should herself be resistant.

* PlayingWithFire: Izuku's first spell is a Fire-Based one called Ignition.

** Himiko's modus operandi is to lure unsuspecting Student Initiates to her lair where she kills them. Anyone who actually lets her do that is deemed idiotic and deserving of their deaths by everybody else. When Izuku subverts expectations by ''not'' getting killed when ''he'' got lured, it draws attention to him as sparing any prey she catches is highly unusual on Himiko's part.
* {{Tradesnark}}: Yagi vocalises the TM when he mentions Aizawa has a traumatic backstory to his personality and overall performance as a teacher.

* Tradesnark: Yagi vocalises the TM when he mentions Aizawa has a traumatic backstory to his personality and overall performance as a teacher.

* BluntHonesty: When Izuku questions Ibara if she has a long term plan to get impregnated by him, she bluntly answers "yes".

* TooDumbToLive: Himiko's modus operandi is to lure unsuspecting Student Initiates to her lair where she kills them. Anyone who actually lets her do that is deemed idiotic and deserving of their deaths by everybody else. When Izuku subverts expectations by ''not'' getting killed when ''he'' got lured, it draws attention to him as sparing any prey she catches is highly unusual on Himiko's part.

* ParentalAbandonment: Izuku's father, for unexplained reason, leaves him alone while he goes to another dimension to do who knows what. He's left behind enough cash to support Izuku financially, but Izuku is still understandably upset.

* TooDumbToLive: Himiko's modus operandi is to lure unsuspecting Student Initiates to her lair where she kills them. Anyone who actually lets her do that is deemed idiotic and deserving of their deaths by everybody else. When Izuku subverts expectations by ''not'' getting killed when ''he'' got lured is highly unusual on Himiko's part and draws attention to him.

** Ibara's manipulations of her Cabal involves getting them to do what they want to do anyway, just with slight adjustments to their exact methods so that she gets protected, and that they don't realise she's a Dryad]].