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The "Dekusquad"

Izuku Midoriya

Quirk: Psychokinesis + One For All + Boric Pyre

11th-Hour Superpower: Izuku awakens Boric Pyre when he sees Ochako about to be killed by the flying Nomu.
Abusive Parents: His father is one of the neglectful kind.
Adaptational Badass: He has a Quirk here, Psychokinesis. And then not only does he get One for All, but he also ends up developing a more powerful version of his father's Fire Breath.
Amazon Chaser: He makes little effort to hide the fact that he finds Ochako’s muscles attractive, and thinks she’s at her hottest when she’s using them.
Berserk Button: Insulting or harming Ochako in any way, shape, or form. Even more so after they finally get together.
Magnetic Hero: Played with. Izuku spent most of his life having no friends, with Ochako being his Only Friend during the last year of Middle School. However, he does manage to make quite a lot of friends in his first week in U.A., much to his surprise. Shinso does mention that Izuku has a tendency to make friends by helping people who are in danger, as it happened with him, Iida, Toga, and Tsuyu.
Morality Chain: He is the main reason behind Toga wanting to be a hero and become a better person. He also serves as this to his own mother, who ultimately gave up her life in the Meta Liberation Army and devoted herself to raising him, even willing to go to war with whoever may dare hurt her son.
Oblivious to Love: He's so naïve (or, more likely, so pessimistic that he doesn't believe in the possibility that anyone (apart from his mother) may love him) that he doesn't realize Ochako and Toga are in love with him.
Official Couple: He and Ochako finally become a couple during their trip to I-Island.
Ping Pong Naïveté: If it is about the academical or heroes, he's going to be able to go quite in-depth. If it is about girls or social interaction, prepare yourself to see a very oblivious person.
Psychic Nosebleed: Happens if he overuses his Quirk, or pushes it to lift something heavier than his current limits.
Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: Psychokinesis is a very powerful Quirk, but when he was young Izuku kept getting bullied by Bakugou (who constantly claimed it was weak) while his father constantly pressured him to get stronger. This caused him to falter and lose strength, which was not helped at all when Hisashi declared it was useless and left a few days later. It takes All Might tricking him to use his power on heavy objects that look lighter in order to break this mental block.
Rage Breaking Point: After Recovery Girl tells Izuku, All Might, and Gran Torino her canon warning that she won't heal Izuku anymore due to him repeatedly injuring himself, Izuku goes on a rant on how tired he is that people keep telling him that he made the wrong choices when the situations kept demanding him to go all out to keep people from harm.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Combining Psychokinesis with One for All makes his eyes shine red. The first time this happens is when he's about to rip an entire street apart and throw it at Stain.
Secret-Keeper: He becomes one to Melissa during the I-Island trip, after accidentally discovering that Melissa is really Star and Stripe.
Shipper on Deck: For Tsuyu/Himiko, giving Tsuyu genuine advise on how to court Himiko and informing her of how to gain her attention.
Skilled, but Naive: He has a very strong power that he knows how to use really well, but his lack of social contact outside of his mother for a decade has left him really unaware of how to read other people.

Ochako Uraraka

Quirk: Zero Gravity

Adaptational Badass: Thanks to training with All Might along with Izuku, she's much tougher and stronger than she was in canon. And scarier.
Adaptational Early Appearance: The second divergence is her moving to Musutafu and meeting Izuku a year before the U.A. Entrance Exam.
Ambiguously Bi: Her reaction when Himiko kisses her does indicate some level of attraction. As of the I-Island arc, she tells Melissa that the relationship between her and Himiko is 'complicated', and through a slip of the tongue admits that she finds Melissa attractive as well.
Beware the Nice Ones: You do not want to make her angry at all. At one point, Tsuyu was shocked by the murderous aura that came from her when Bakugou showed up while the Dekusquad were waiting for Izuku's recovery.
Not So Above It All: For all that she's saner than Izuku, she has her own moments.
- She baited the Zero Pointer to save a bunch of students, something Izuku learns after she berates him for doing the same thing.
- She's just as prone to get into fighting as Izuku.
- She cheats when playing Monopoly.
Official Couple: She and Izuku finally become a couple during their trip to I-Island.
Only Sane Man: Tends to be the one that's most in tune with Izuku's nature and the one most likely to stop him doing stupid things.
Secret-Keeper: She becomes one to Melissa during the I-Island trip, after accidentally discovering that Melissa is really Star and Stripe.
True Companions: She ends up becoming this to both Izuku and Himiko.
Tsundere: Sweet variant. She retains her bubbly and upbeat personality from canon but is also constantly angered by Izuku's self-sacrificing, clueless, and/or reckless actions, which she wastes no time to criticize. She's also highly protective of him.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: The easiest way to get on her bad side is by insulting or hurting Izuku, which is why she ends up hating Bakugou outright.

Tenya Iida

Quirk: Engine

The Comically Serious: Much of the humor surrounding him is how seriously he takes everything.

Himiko Toga

Quirk: Trans form

Adaptational Early Appearance: She appears for the first time in a chance encounter with Izuku in Musutafu when he helps her against a group of teens threatening to rape her. She later confessed that she was luring them in to feed off them.
Adaptational Heroism: Meeting Izuku pushes her into the path of heroism, and while her motives are somewhat selfish she begins to open up to the idea of genuine heroism.
Bloodlust: Like in canon, her Quirk causes her to become fixated on the blood of other people. Unlike in canon, she actually finds people who are willing to support her, giving her more healthy options to deal with it.
Create Your Own Villain: Her initial lack of control over her Quirk led her to attack Saito, traumatizing him for life. When he sees that his attacker has become a U.A. student, he snaps and becomes a member of the League of Villains.
Dark Is Not Evil: Her initial hero outfit is a hybrid of her canon outfit and Stain's, except all black and with a lot of blades to go with it. While Toga is more amoral and pragmatic than her friends, she is trying her best to become a true hero and win over Izuku.
Determinator: Even after losing one eye, she still keeps fighting.
Eye Scream: She loses an eye during the fight against Stain. Snippets of the future indicate she eventually gets an electronic eye.
Hero-Worshipper: She has this towards Stain, to the point that she calls him Mr. Stain. Doesn't stop her from fighting him to save Tenya during the Hero Killer Arc, and then go all out when Izuku is in danger.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Calls herself a monster.
Legacy Character: Variation; when the fic cuts back to the present in Chapter 16, one of Eri's comments shows that she inherited the "R-Rated Heroine" moniker from Midnight.
Second Love: Flashforwards indicate she eventually moves on from Izuku and Ochako to Tsuyu.
Token Evil Teammate: Ends up fulfilling this role within Izuku's circle, though she actively works to overcome the "evil" part and enter more into pragmatic heroism territory.

Hitoshi Shinso

Quirk: Brainwashing

Ascended Extra: From only playing a big role in three arcs (with big gaps between them) to be a regular cast member and part of Izuku's circle of friends.
Adaptational Early Appearance: He made his first appearance during the Sports Festival arc. Here, he shows up as early as the Entrance Exam.

Tsuyu Asui

Quirk: Frog

Adaptational Sexuality: While her preferences in canon are not yet known, here she is at the very least attracted to women, as evidenced by her gaining feelings for Himiko.
Brutal Honesty: She tends to be very blunt when speaking her mind.
Not So Stoic: She proves to be this a number of times, such as when she is left reeling at all the dramatic revelations in Chapter 59.
Relationship Upgrade: Tsuyu and Himiko enter a relationship with each other in Chapter 57.

Mei Hatsume (Unmarked Spoilers)

Mei Hatsume

Quirk: Rifle

Adaptation Dye-Job: Unlike canon, it's revealed that her true hair color is pink with purple spiraling patterns around her locks.
Adaptational Early Appearance: She made her debut in canon during the 2nd round of the Sports Festival. Here, she ends up making her introduction (among other things) sometime before the festival even begins.
Adaptational Superpower Change: "Zoom" is just the cover of her real Quirk, which is the same Quirk as her mother Lady Nagant.
Ascended Extra: Like Shinso, she has way more focus on this fic than in canon, being a member of Izuku's circle of friends and his main provider of support items.
Gadgeteer Genius: She becomes the Dekusquad's main support item provider. Among other things, she crafts Izuku's gear.
Mad Scientist: She ticks quite a few checks on the list.
Related in the Adaptation: Chapter 59 reveals that she is the daughter of Kaina Tsutsumi/Lady Nagant, while they have no such relationship in canon.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: She soon finds herself in this relationship with Melissa after the latter joins the Dekusquad, with the two of them trading verbal jabs and fighting for the right to be the one who provides Izuku's support gear.
Spotting the Thread: A repeat offender:
- She and the entire Support Department quickly figured out Toga has killed people, and even have a betting pool on how many. They never said anything before the situation was dragged out in the open because it was obvious and thought the other students knew.
- Thanks to her readings on Izuku's Quirk she figures out Izuku's strength doesn't come from "Tactile Telekinesis" but that he has a third Quirk.
- Before having her suspicions confirmed though, she was already skeptical of Izuku's explanation of his power increase.
  Mei: And what about that other thing? That Tactile Psychokinesis?
  Izuku: My Tactile Psychokinesis? What about it?
  Ochako: Why so curious?
  Mei: I’m making Midoriya’s support gear. I do need to know what’s going on with his training. Especially when it comes to Quirks. Making babies that can handle the effects of a Quirks is tricky. Multiple Quirks is a whole new challenge. Like the crest I made, it helps with his Psychokinesis but I'm going to have to make sure it can also hold up to whatever heat Midoriya’s Boric Pyre is going to put off. Both from the fire, and how it heats his body. So, when it comes to Quirks, I need to know.
Walking Spoiler: She's this by virtue of being Lady Nagant's daughter.

Shoto Todoroki

Quirk: Half Cold Half Hot

Broken Ace: He's 1-A's strongest student (or tied up with Izuku), but this was to the cost of having No Social Skills.
Defrosting Ice King: Prone to staying apart from everyone else, curt, The Stoic. In the aftermath of the Sports Festival, he approaches Izuku to thank him for his help, and Izuku answers by bringing him into his friend group.

Melissa Shield (Unmarked Spoilers)

Melissa Shield/Star and Stripe

Quirk: Quirkless (publicly) New Order (officially)

Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In canon, Melissa only really became close friends with Izuku, while here she also befriends Ochako alongside him.
- In canon, Melissa and All Might share a close bond but are otherwise unrelated. Here, it's revealed that All Might is Melissa's real father.]]
Amazonian Beauty: As Star and Stripe, she's a tall, well-muscled beautiful young woman.
Ascended Extra: Goes from only appearing in the Two Heroes movie to being one of the major characters in the Dekusquad.
Berserk Button: Implying her technology is bad will set her off like few things can.
Composite Character: In this universe, she is combined with her canon self and Cathleen Bate/Star and Stripe. Like the canon Melissa, she's the daughter of David Shield and a genius inventor; here, however, she also has the Quirk "New Order", which allows her to affect reality itself and act as America's number one hero.
Even the Girls Want Her: Melissa is a beautiful and capable young woman, and Ochako mentions that she considers her an utter bombshell. Melissa's casual flirt with Izuku during the I-Island's last chapter also extends to Ochako, which flusters her.
Hour of Power: Inverted; Melissa can only stay "normal" for a limited period of time before her powers kick in and she becomes Star and Stripe, in a reverse to All Might's issues following his injury. They do share the problem that their time is shrinking, so just as All Might will eventually lose all of One for All and become scrawny permanently, Melissa will eventually be overwhelmed by New Order and be mode locked as Star and Stripe.
I Just Want to Have Friends: Her double life as Star and Stripe has left her with little relationships outside of her squad, her parents and All Might, so meeting Izuku and Ochako and becoming good friends with them has a profound impact on Melissa. It's to the point that she breaks down in tears at the thought of them returning to Japan, and is more than happy to stay in contact with them both, whether it be through their group chat or going to see them personally.
Related in the Adaptation: She is revealed to be All Might's illegitimate daughter in this story, whereas in canon he's more of an honorary uncle to her.
Secret Identity: Very few people are aware of the fact that Melissa is the true identity of Star and Stripe, and she'd prefer to keep it that way.
Ship Tease: Downplayed, but Melissa grows close enough to Izuku and Ochako that she throws a teasing flirt their way, which ends up flustering them both.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: She develops this sort of relationship with Mei after moving to U.A., with the two fighting regularly over their tech and who provides Izuku with support gear.
Your Days Are Numbered: A non-fatal variant. Like All Might, she is able to change her appearance in order to hide that she and the hero Star and Stripe are the same person. However, the time where she can stay in her public identity as Melissa is slowly getting shorter and shorter, meaning sooner or later she will no longer be able to keep up the charade.
Walking Spoiler: It's impossible to talk about her without mentioning her being both Star and Stripe's alter ego and All Might's illegitimate daughter.

Other Students

Katsuki Bakugo

Katsuki Bakugou

Quirk: Explosion

The Bully: He has been bullying Izuku for most of their lives, and Ochako from the moment she becomes friends with Izuku.
Compensating for Something: Discussed, with Mei wondering if the reason for his Hair-Trigger Temper is this.
Hair-Trigger Temper: He's prone to explode (literally and figuratively) if someone says something mildly unflattering to him. Or if he thinks someone is looking down on him.
Jerkass: Let's say that seeing him doing something nice for someone else is rarer than hen's teeth.
Jerkass Has a Point: He's right in pointing out to Izuku that he shouldn't think Hisashi is anything less than an asshole - after all, the man has already broken Izuku's hopes twice. Also, he had assumed Mei knew about One for All because not telling the person who made Izuku's tech was extremely stupid, and chewed him out for not doing so.
Spotting the Thread: Eventually figures out enough of One for All that Izuku has to tell him.

Kyoka Jiro

Quirk: Earphone Jacks

Everyone Can See It: Even Izuku can tell she has a thing for Momo, and that's saying something.
Ship Tease: Has a bit of this with Momo during the Final Exams arc.

Momo Yaoyorozu

Quirk: Creation

Ship Tease: Has a bit of this with Jiro during the Final Exams arc.

Minoru Mineta

Quirk: Pop Off

Berserk Button: Being told to 'grow up'. He physically can't get taller than he is now, and has gotten plenty of ridicule and pity as a result.
Freudian Excuse: His cowardly nature and tendency to perv over girls stems from him being constantly ridiculed and pitied for his height and inability to ever get taller, and thus respected. This lead him to decide that if he's never gonna get any respect, why even bother trying to be a better person? Ochako ends up pushing him to start trying to think outside of this mentality.
Future Badass: Downplayed, but as the flash-forwards show, he's become a successful pro-hero and gained a lot of confidence in himself. Not only that, but he has become popular enough that he's able to get together with girls, even mentioning that he's got a date with Saiko Intelli planned.
Height Angst: Played for Drama. His openly perverted and cowardly behavior is a result of him believing he will never be treated as anything other than a joke because he physically can't get taller.

UA Faculty

Nemuri Kayama - Midnight

Nemuri Kayama

Quirk: Sonambulist

Parental Substitute: She ends up becoming one for Himiko Toga while she resides at U.A., acting as a therapist and a mother figure for her.

Civilians

Inko Midoriya

Inko Midoriya (briefly Nenshouki)

Quirk: Attraction of Small Objects + Fa Jin

Adaptational Badass: While not getting up to much fighting in the present, in the past she was a skilled guerrilla fighter before she reached her 20s. And she was given a second Quirk in an encounter with All For One.
Adaptational Sexuality: Unlike in canon where she's straight, here it is highly suggested that Inko is bisexual, due to her past with Hisashi and the fact that she oogled Mitsuki's cleavage in the past and was left a blushing mess when Chitose flirted with her.
All for Nothing: All her fighting against the corporation that destroyed her island and the yakuza that poisoned her friends ends up being for naught; all of her friends save Hisashi are murdered by Lady Nagant, and Bespin Island is destroyed by a super-storm (having been weakened from all the earlier mining).
Almighty Mom: All Might mentions that there are very few people he finds more terrifying than Inko Midoriya. She also stuns Endeavor during the parents-teachers conference when she explodes with rage at Himiko's parents.
All Might: Young Midoriya, are you sure your mother wasn't a professional hero? I've been in rooms with trained interrogators that didn't scare me as much as that woman!
Anti-Hero: Make no mistake, what she did on Bespin Island was for the benefit of the people living there, but Inko had utterly no problems getting her hands dirty, making deals with All For One to get more power, and outright murder.
Been There, Shaped History: Downplayed compared to most examples, but when she and her team intercepted a group of rogue yakuza agents trying to steal a package they were supposed to deliver, she inadvertently helps All For One acquire Hypertrophy. He'd have reclaimed it himself anyway, but he did find their involvement amusing enough to not kill them.
Beware the Nice Ones: Inko is a total sweetheart and caring woman. Unless you mistreat her son, or one of his friends. Then you might as well have your business settled and prepare to leave this world. When Endeavor attempts to gal Shoto's superiority before his fight with Izuku, Inko snaps back at him that Izuku will win and he should not force his own wills to his son. During the parent conference following the Saito incident, she cows Endeavor back again and destroys the TV set where Toga's parents were speaking after they suggest sending her to Tartarus. Then comes The Reveal that she was once the leader of an independent branch of the Meta Liberation Army (having taken the name after Inko found Destro's manifesto). She personally toppled a corrupt mining operation, and led her home island's population to drive out Yakuza drug runners that tried to move in afterwards. The Hero Commission sent Lady Nagant to kill her, and Inko only survived an intense gunfight because she managed to fake her death.
Break the Haughty: By the time she takes control of Bespin Island, Inko becomes increasingly self-confident and bordering on arrogant, believing that her small island has enough firepower and fortification that she can intimidate the Hero Public Safety Commission and force them to leave her island. Nagant killing her remaining friends save Hisashi, the rest of the survivors who wanted to stay behind, and the storm destroying Bespin utterly breaks Inko's arrogance, and she becomes far more mellow. The same, however, could not be said of Hisashi...
Death by Adaptation: Subverted. Inko ends up dying at Shigaraki's hands after his Quirk tore out a chunk of her neck, right after she used one of Himiko's knives to stab him in the gut to protect Izuku - but then Eri instinctively uses her Quirk on Inko, healing her injuries and bringing her back to life..
Doomed Hometown: After everything it went through, Bespin Island is swept away by a large storm. Only a small blot of it (containing her friend's graves) survives.
Dramatic Irony: She is convinced that Hisashi is attempting to try and get Rikiya Yotsubashi to adopt the teachings of Destro, due to her and Hisashi's history as leaders of their own Meta Liberation Army cell when they were younger. While a valid concern, she is completely in the dark about the fact that Rikiya is already the leader of his own much larger faction of the MLA (as Destro's direct successor), and that Hisashi is an underling of his.
Everyone Has Standards: She is absolutely disgusted with Himiko's birth parents forcing their daughter to undergo archaic and inhumane Quirk Suppression Therapy to try and make her "normal", as such an action only hurt Himiko and was only done to protect themselves from social embarrassment.
From Nobody to Nightmare: She was once an orphan living in a small island away from the Japanese Home Islands. Then a mining corporation came and caused untold destruction to the island and its people. That turned her into the leader of a group that turned to sabotage to stop the corporation's work. By the time she was nineteen, she'd become the leader of an independent branch of the Meta Liberation Army, driven away the corporation and a Yakuza drug ring, and became leader of the island. It took a cataclysmic hurricane and an assassination attempt from Lady Nagant to drive her away.
Heroic BSoD: She goes through a year-long one in the aftermath of Bespin's destruction and her friends' death. Meeting Mitsuki helped pull her out of it.
Heroic Sacrifice: When Shigaraki tells her he won't stop trying to kill Izuku, Inko grabs one of Himiko's knives with her Quirk and stabs Shigaraki in the gut, at the cost of getting herself hit by Shigaraki's Decay in the neck.
Like Father, Like Son: Given everything that happened to her in her youth, it's obvious where Izuku got his Magnetic Hero skill.
The Leader: Of her resistance group/branch of the Meta Liberation Army (with no knowledge or relation to Re-Destro's organization), and later of Bespin Island.
Locked Out of the Loop: Due to the prophetic Quirk of a resident of her old home of Bespin Island, Inko is terrified of the idea of All for One returning to go after Izuku. She is misled by All Might (who himself is missing the context for her concerns) into thinking All for One is dead, and is similarly kept out of the loop as to why All for One is targeting her son to begin with.
Mama Bear: She may not look like it, but she is willing to do a lot of things to protect her son, including gutting Shigaraki when he threatens to kill Izuku, even though he is holding her hostage.
Retired Badass: Back in the day, she was a tough as nails guerilla leader who overthrew a corrupt mining company and the yakuza that moved in afterwards on her home island of Bespin. The Hero Organization setting Nagant on her and all of her friends save Hisashi dying as a result led her to give up that past and become the easily flustered housewife she is today.
Together in Death: The prophecy of Pemphredo indicates that after her death, she will be reunited with her friends in the afterlife.
Walking Spoiler: Put simply, her backstory is much more eventful than it likely was in canon.

Eri

Quirk: Rewind

A young girl that Izuku and Ochako encounter early in their first year.

Adaptational Early Appearance: She crashes into Izuku during his "not-a-date" with Ochako after the USJ Incident, months before her canon appearance in the Internship Arc.
Future Badass: Not too badass yet, but during the flashforwards she's already training to attend U.A., and is more than capable of winning fights at school.
Happily Adopted: By Inko after being rescued, and later on by Izuku and Ochako.
Protectorate: Izuku makes it clear that anyone trying to do anything to her will have to answer to him.
Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Seeing Inko dying at the mall causes her to overcharge her Quirk, bringing Inko back to life.

Villains

League of Villains

All for One

Quirk: All for One

Adaptational Badass: Downplayed. Here, he possesses Fa Jin, Blackwhip, and Float, but they're suggested to not be as powerful as they are in canon thanks to not being made stronger by One for All. Time will tell if he shows the other One for All quirks.
Big Bad: The villain behind the League of Villains, and Izuku and Ochako's future Arch-Enemy thanks to the young man being a torchbearer for One for All.
The Dreaded: The mere mention of his name causes Himiko to drop her happy-go-happy persona and become deadly serious, and both Izuku and Ochako are utterly terrified of the man once they hear about him.
Greater-Scope Villain: As the main backer of the League of Villains and All Might's Arch-Enemy.
Man Behind the Man: So far, he's only acted through Tomura or behind the scenes, but he's still responsible for several behind the scenes events, such as freeing Nagant from Tartarus and arranging for Beros to kill Wolfram, as well as bestowing upon them both quirks.
Small Role, Big Impact:
- He only briefly appears during Inko's story arc, but he not only provides Inko with the information to drive the Yakuza off her island (and attracting attention from the Commission in the process), but he gives her the Quirk Fa Jin.
- His giving Inko Fa Jin is what allows Inko to take control of Bespin Island from the yakuza, attracting the attention of Lady Nagant and the Hero Commission, and ultimately sends them to Musutafu to have Izuku. It's also heavily implied that All For One giving Inko the Fa Jin Quirk is the reason why Izuku's Psychokinesis is a powered-up mutation of Inko's original Quirk.
Villain Takes an Interest: He starts to gain an interest in Izuku after learning from Shigaraki and Kurogiri that the young hero has become the new bearer of One for All.

Tomura Shigaraki

Quirk: Decay

Early-Bird Cameo: Izuku runs into him the day before the USJ. Tomura tricks him into silence by claiming to be a T.A.
Hero Killer: Subverted. He attempts to murder Inko when she attempts to kill him with a slash to the gut, taking a chunk out of her neck with his Quirk. But thanks to Eri activating her own Quirk to heal her, Inko manages to survive this.
It's Personal: Starts to gain this toward Izuku after the USJ and Hosu City. He ultimately confirms to Inko while holding her hostage that he's not going to stop until he kills Izuku.

Shuuichi Iguchi - Spinner

Shuuichi Iguchi

Quirk: Gecko

Villainous Friendship: He seems to be friends with Mustard, being the only person who is willing to talk to him after his public breakdown and assassination attempt. It is unknown if it is fully genuine or if he used it to recruit him into the League, though.

Mustard (Spoilers)

Saito - Mustard

Quirk: Gas

Adaptational Villainy: Due to strictly being a flashback character, there is not much about Saito that indicates that he was genuinely a bad person, but in this story, he is now villain partially due to being a Composite Character with Mustard.
Arch-Enemy: He's being built up as one for Himiko Toga.
Composite Character: Saito and Mustard were two different characters in canon.
Sanity Slippage: Seeing the woman who attacked and nearly killed him on TV as a student of U.A., the gag order place on him and his family by the HPSC, and seeing Izuku & Ochaco stand by Himiko (due to knowing about her past and accepting her) all took a toll on Saito's sanity, causing him to snap and attempt to kill her himself. The aftermath saw him becoming a pariah, and was given the chance for revenge by joining the League of Villains.
Tragic Villain: He was a normal middle school student. Then the trauma of Toga's attack and the way it was handled afterwards drove him to villainy.

Chimera

Choujuurou Kon - Chimera

Quirk: Chimera

Guest-Star Party Member: All For One hired him to help train Shigaraki. He agreed, but made it clear he intends to go back to his real master (Nine) afterwards.

Lady Nagant

Kaina Tsutsumi - Lady Nagant

Quirk: Rifle, Blackwhip

Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- Rather than just being one of All For One's hired guns to use against Izuku, here she is made into a member of the League of Villains.
Adaptational Early Appearance: She ends up getting sprung from Tartarus long before her canonical appearance thanks to All For One.
Adaptational Superpower Change: Like in canon, she gains an additional Quirk from All For One. Unlike canon, instead of Air Walk, she gets Blackwhip.
Adaptational Villainy: Becomes a full member of the League of Villains rather than a mercenary for All For One.
Cold Sniper: Just like in canon, she becomes dead serious when assigned to kill her targets, as shown when she killed the inner circle of Inko's Meta Liberation Army cell, and nearly killed Inko herself.
Fallen Hero: Like in canon, she was once a pro hero and a hitwoman for the HPSC. In the present, she is a villain incarcerated in Tartarus for killing the previous HPSC president before she is broken out by All for One.
It's Personal with the Dragon: She's simply the HPSC's hitwoman at the time, and only a supporting member of the League of Villains in present time, but she's arguably Inko's Arch-Enemy after the callous and ruthless murder of her remaining friends and the rest of Bespin's townsfolk.
Notorious Parent: Revealed at the end of Chapter 56, when she sends her daughter a post card letting her know she's escaped Tartarus, promising to see her soon. Chapter 59 reveals she's the mother of Mei Hatsume.
Related in the Adaptation: Chapter 59 reveals that she is the mother of Mei Hatsume, while in canon the two have no such relationship.
Team Member in the Adaptation: She's a full-on member of the League of Villains in this fic rather than a simple mercenary hired by All For One.

Beros

Quirk: Longbow, Float

Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Rather than being an agent of Humarise, Beros ends up joining the League of Villains out of a sense of self-preservation due to Humarise's goal of wiping out all Quirk wielders.
Adaptational Superpower Change: In addition to her Longbow Quirk, she is given Float by All For One.
Cold Sniper: Just like in canon, as shown when she assassinated the captured Wolfram to keep him from being interrogated and spilling any info on Humarise.
Team Member in the Adaptation: She decides to throw her lot in with the League of Villains rather than Humarise in this story.

Humarise

Wolfram

Quirk: Metal Manipulation

Adaptational Context Change: Unlike in canon where he wanted to steal David's device for his own personal gain, here he wished to see it destroyed because he and his superiors saw it as a weapon that could be used against Humarise.
Adaptational Job Change: Rather than just be a mercenary, he and his team are agents of Humarise.
Death by Adaptation: Alive in canon, he ends up being assassinated by Beros soon after his capture to prevent him from being interrogated.
Team Member in the Adaptation: He's an agent of Humarise in this story, unlike in canon where he is a simple mercenary.

Meta Liberation Army

In General

Adaptational Early Appearance: While they didn't appear in canon until after the Joint Training arc, here they show up almost as soon as the Stain arc concludes.
Ascended Extra: In conjunction to the above, they also play a big role in every arc after their introduction. The fact that one of their members is Izuku's father certainly helps.
Fantastic Racism: They believe that a person's worth is tied to how powerful their Quirk is.

Rikiya Yotsubashi - Re-Destro

Rikiya Yotsubashi

Quirk: Stress

The leader of the Meta Liberation Army.

Shadow Archetype: Like Izuku, Re-Destro is obsessed with Quirks/Meta Abilities and what they can do. His interest, however, is much darker than Izuku's, as it is applied to how they can help the Meta Liberation Army.
Villain Takes an Interest: After the Sports Festival and Izuku's unlocking of Boric Pyre, he starts to gain an interest in the young hero, especially after learning he is close to All Might. This interest only grows after meeting him in person and talking with him over a company dinner, intending to watch his career with great interest.

Chitose Kizuki - Curious

Chitose Kizuki

Quirk: Landmine

Ambiguously Gay: She starts to seduce Inko as a means of trying to bring the former MLA cell leader back into the fold after the Sports Festival. It is unknown if she is genuinely attracted to women, or if this is a case of Pragmatic Pansexuality.
Even the Girls Want Her: Chitose successfully seduced Inko Midoriya despite the latter claiming to be heterosexual.
Gone Horribly Wrong: She orchestrated a meeting between Saito and Himiko to try and expose the HPSC covering up her crimes, as well as the incident with Lady Nagant. Saito losing his temper and attacking a U.A. student with his Quirk completely turns the reporters against him, and the Nagant story gets buried in all the confusion.
Villain Takes an Interest: After reading up on Inko Midoriya's history as the former leader of her own home-grown Meta Liberation Army cell, Chitose gains an interest in her and starts her own attempts to get close to her and bring her into Re-Destro's group independent of Hisashi's attempts.

The Recruiter (Unmarked Spoilers)

Hisashi Midoriya (né Nenshouki)

Quirk: Fire Breath

Izuku's father, working overseas.

Abusive Parent: Of the neglectful kind. The only time he really took an interest in Izuku was after he got his Quirk, and when Izuku was unable to show great improvement in its use he just dropped any interest. A few weeks later, he left for his overseas job and has barely come back. Now, all he cares about is how what Izuku may do affects his image: he was surprised when he learned Izuku got into the Hero Course, told Inko to make sure Izuku would not do anything that would reflect badly on him, and when he calls after the USJ incident, it is only to ask if he got his injuries interfering with the heroes' rescue and threatening to pull him out of U.A. if he does something that embarrasses him. When learning this, Ochako realizes that now she hates someone even more than Bakugou.
- He's such a terrible father that he's genuinely shocked when Re-Destro tells him he needs to call Izuku and check if he's alright.
Adaptational Jerkass: As detailed in Abusive Parents above, he gets this treatment here, and made even more apparent in chapter 23, where he mentally refers to Inko as both a bitch and a "worthless sow".
Adaptational Villainy: Hisashi here is depicted as an Abusive Parent/husband towards Izuku and Inko and is a member of the MLA.
Ascended Extra: Unlike canon, he is not The Ghost and has a more active role thanks to his ties to the MLA.
Big Bad Wannabe: He likes to consider himself on even footing as the rest of the MLA's top brass, but Hisashi is so comically inept at manipulating his son (to the point that he's surprised to be reminded that he has to actually call Izuku after he nearly died in a villain fight) that Curious completely fails to take him seriously.
Early Personality Signs: Even long before becoming a minion of Re-Destro, Hisashi had the habit of judging a person's worth solely by the power or usefulness of their Quirk, something Inko tried and failed to break.
Entitled Bastard: When Re-Destro tells him he needs to reconcile with Izuku in order to bring the latter into the MLA, Hisashi doesn't see the point of it, because, as far as he's concerned, Izuku being his son means the latter will do as he commands.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He's unable to see relationships in terms other than connections to further your own career. He thinks Izuku befriended Iida and Todoroki because of their ties to rich and popular Pro Heroes, and can't understand why would he waste his time befriending a girl from a blue-collar family like Ochako.
Face–Heel Turn: When he was a teenager, he was a Nice Guy who liked to spend time with his girlfriend and eventually married her. However, the taste of power he got as Inko's lieutenant gave him an ambition that grew into a desire to gain power at any cost, until he became the Jerkass Hate Sink he is currently.
Hate Sink: He only had a single appearance by the time Izuku explains to Ochako why he doesn't live with him and Inko anymore, yet those two scenes were enough to cement him as the most hated character of the fic. And he only gets worse with every subsequent appearance.
Insult of Endearment: Inko used to call him "Bark Head".
It's All About Me: He will do anything to improve his standing in the world at the expense of Izuku and Inko.
- When Izuku found his Quirk, his only concern was that it could become strong enough that he could later boast about it.
- When Inko informed him about Izuku enrolling in U.A., he only cared about how anything Izuku could do would reflect on him.
- The only concern he had for Izuku after USJ was whether or not his injuries interfered with the pro heroes' rescue operations, and thus reflected badly on Hisashi.
- When he finds out about Izuku's progress in the Sports Festival, his first thought is that Inko hid Izuku's power from him to humiliate him to the Meta Liberation Army.
Jerkass: Being a neglectful parent would be bad enough, but his internal monologue reveals he thinks little of Izuku beyond his Quirk and he's rather hateful towards Inko as well, calling her a "fat sow" who dared to go behind his back and hide Izuku's potential.
- His reaction when he sees Inko dying due to Shigaraki is... to state he will immediately begin to work on getting custody of Izuku and transferring him out of U.A., not giving a damn about how Izuku will take such a traumatic event nor about the friends he'd leave behind.
Like Father, Like Son: Much like Izuku would be, Hisashi was also called by a nickname meaning "worthless" by other children.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: However, while Izuku is an All-Loving Hero who seeks to save everyone no matter who, Hisashi is incredibly self-centered and Quirkist.
Never My Fault: Hisashi effectively abandoned his wife and child after presuming Izuku's Quirk to be weak and useless. When his superiors at the MLA question him on why he didn't inform them of his powerful son, he blames Inko for not informing him and goes on an internal blue streak about how she's ugly, stupid, and has "humiliated" him, holding her entirely responsible for his lack of familiarity with their son despite the fact that it's his own fault he knows next to nothing about his family anymore.
Parental Abandonment: Unlike the rest of Bespin's orphan population in his generation, his parents didn't die; they took a boat and left without him in the middle of the night. The rest of the island (especially other children) looked down on him for that.
Start of Darkness: The "Inko Midoriya Origin" four parter shows how he became the kind of person he's today. Being abandoned at a young age, and shunned and bullied by every other inhabitant from his island home of Bespin except Inko and their few close friends (also fellow orphans), Hisashi became Inko's right hand man after the latter was able to become Bespin's mayor, which gave him a taste of power as the townspeople began to respect him. After moving to mainland Japan and being forced to start over, Hisashi became fixated on regaining the power and respect he briefly had and focused on his job at the expense of everything else, including his relationship with Inko, which deteriorated to the point that they're only a married couple in name only.
Strong Family Resemblance: As seen in the official art, he looks like an adult version of Izuku, freckles and all. The biggest difference is that while Izuku's hair is messy, his is shorter and slicked back.
Took the Wife's Name: He's mentioned as having taken his wife's family name because his previous one had too much baggage. His original surname was Nenshouki, which Inko had also adopted, but in the aftermath of the HPSC ordering the massacre of Bespin Island's inhabitants, they were forced to take Inko's family name to avoid being found out and killed.
Underestimating Badassery: It’s subtle, but one of his biggest flaws is that Hisashi tends to rely too strongly of his first impression of people and their Quirks. After a young Izuku didn’t immediately start to show noticeable improvement with his newly-discovered Quirk, Hisashi was all too quick to wash his hands of the boy and dismiss him as useless, leaving him completely blindsided when Izuku not only got into U.A, but the Hero Course at that (which he wrote off as the school lowering its standards), and then went on to win the Sports Festival. It’s even something that his superiors in the MLA criticize him for, as he’s too quick to dismiss potential recruits as worthless, when they possess Quirks that could become truly potent with proper effort.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Inko's origin arc shows he used to be a decent person who actually cared for Inko. Going from one of his island's leaders to stuck in a dead-end job on the mainland clearly didn't do him any favors, even before Re-Destro got to him.
Walking Spoiler: It's impossible to talk about him without spoiling a good chunk of the plot and the Midoriya family's background.

Bespin Island

A small island off the Japanese coast, home to a poor fishing village with only one Pro Hero. It was destroyed in a massive hurricane years ago. It was also Inko's childhood home, as well as the location of her self-made branch of the MLA.

Inko's Friends

Three of Inko's closest friends (alongside Hisashi) among the island's orphan population, regarded with superstition from the rest of the village (especially the fishermen). They, along with Inko and Hisashi, formed a separate branch of the Meta Liberation Army after Inko read Destro's memoir and started protest Alderaan Mining.

Musen

One of Inko's childhood friends. Her Quirk, Radio, let her send and receive radio transmissions through an antenna in her head.

Together in Death: Buried with the rest of Inko's friends on Bespin. Their gravesite is the only section to remain above water.

Biruda

One of Inko's childhood friends. His Quirk, Nail Gun, helps him in building an assortment of items.

Together in Death: Buried with the rest of Inko's friends on Bespin. Their gravesite is the only section to remain above water.

Sakura

One of Inko's childhood friends.

Descent into Addiction: Unable to cope with nearly dying to Sytsevich, she turned to harder and harder drugs and alcohol to sleep well.
Drugs Are Bad: Accidentally overdoses on drugs.

Island Residents

Sea Beard

The one Pro Hero on Bespin Island, and already long past retirement age. His Quirk allows him to turn himself into sea foam, and he specializes in ocean rescues.

Cruel and Unusual Death: He loses too much of himself saving Inko in the hurricane. When he reforms, he's a torn-apart mess that bleeds out after some parting words.
Dirty Coward: A self-diagnosed one. He admits the reason he avoided Inko and the rest of the orphans was he couldn't bear being constantly reminded of how he'd failed to save their parents whenever he saw them.
Heroic Sacrifice: He ended up sacrificing his own life (and suffering a Cruel and Unusual Death because of it) to save Inko from being killed by Lady Nagant.

Pemphredo

The oldest woman on Bespin Island.

Seers: Her Quirk allows her to see the future as Inko experienced firsthand, twice.

Alderaan Mining and Refining Corporation

A corrupt mining business that extracts rare materials from Bespin Island. Utterly unconcerned with the ecological damage done in the process.

Kill It with Water:The entire crew is drowned when an explosion destroys the sea wall, flooding the main mining base.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The extensive mining damages the core of the island, leading to its complete destruction in the hurricane.

Sytsevich

A man with a Quirk that makes him look like a rhino, and head of the mining operations on Bespin.

Asshole Victim: A vicious mining head that's destroying Bespin Island and someone who tries to kill Inko and his friends when they push him into his Villainous Breakdown, few tears are shed for Sytsevich when Inko blows his brains out with a shotgun.
Boom, Headshot!: Inko kills him by shoving a shotgun in his mouth and blowing his brains up from the inside.
Shotguns Are Just Better: He wields a shotgun as he tries to murder Inko.
Starter Villain: He's Inko's first real victim, and her murder of him somewhat jumpstarts Inko's Start of Darkness.
Would Hurt a Child: He's willing to murder Inko and her friends for interfering with his mining operations while making it look like an accident.
Villainous Breakdown: After the sea wall is destroyed and the resulting flood kills his men, he goes on a feral and bloody rampage as he tries to kill Inko.

Yakuza

A criminal group that sets up shop after Alderaan clears out.

Rojiya Yonenaga/Manhole

An enforcer for the Yakuza on the island.

Saved by Canon: Considering his canonical fate of being killed by Stain back when he started out as a vigilante, it is safe to say that he was going to get away from Bespin with his life after his boss and comrades were killed.
Young Future Famous People: He goes on to become the head of the Abegawa Tenchu gang before dying to Stain in his vigilante days.

The Dealer

A drug dealer on Bespin. He was secretly working as an informant for the feds.

The Mole: He was a deep-cover HPSC mole in the yakuza.
Small Role, Big Impact: Him selling the mayor's son drugs and Sakura dying from them kicks off Inko's Roaring Rampage of Revenge that ultimately drives the Yakuza off the island. The informant doesn't even show up until after the leaders have escaped. Likewise, his murder at Inko's hands put her Meta Liberation Army cell right in the crosshairs of the HPSC, leading to the death of the majority of its members by Lady Nagant years later.

Characters / Green Tea Rescue

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