Fanfic / Deku the Warcrafted

Deku stumbles across The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday... but you and I know it as the Lost Workshop..

From Ralph Hayes, Jr., Deku The Warcrafted is a crossover story between My Hero Academia and World of Warcraft (actually The Warcrafter, another of Ralph's stories) that focuses on Izuku after he discovers a very strange shop, even by the standards of a Quirk-governed world, that sees fit to help him on his way to becoming a hero...

Can be read here: Deku the Warcrafted

Deku The Warcrafted provides examples of:

• Adaptational Badass: Izuku winds up becoming a paladin before he joins U.A., with his abilities allowing him to easily trump Bakugo in a fight.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Mineta sprays himself with what he thinks is cologne named What Women Want at the Lost Workshop and is forced to spend the next 3 days hearing random thoughts from every female he walks past; he's less than pleased with what he hears from his classmates and overhearing a girl on the train fretting about her Evil Uncle molesting her full on makes him snap. The end of Chapter 4 reveals that Tsuyu sprayed herself with the counterpart, leading her to hear all the boys' thoughts.
• The Atoner: After realizing how he makes girls feel and seeing what he could have become if he didn't have standards, Mineta sets out to apologize to all the girls at school; fortunately, they're willing to give him a chance.
• Atrocious Alias: Bayleaf considers "Grape Juice" one, saying “It says ‘I’m something little and purple that just got squished.’” He convinces Mineta to change it to "Grape Shot".
• Awesome, but Impractical: At one point, Izuku puts on his metal suit of armor by magically equipping it all at once. He immediately notes it is pinching him in uncomfortable places because he isn't wearing the cloth under-suit or even a shirt.
• Badass Cape: Hagakure gets one. Doctor Strange's Cloak of Levitation, in fact.
• Battle Ballgown: Hagakure's new costume from the Lost Workshop is one of these.
• Beneath the Mask: As hostile as she got over Izuku's Innocently Insensitive criticisms, Hagakure makes it clear that she finds her Quirk massively impractical on a good day. She also has some deep self-esteem issues stemming from the fact that she can't even see her own face in the mirror because she can't turn her Quirk off.
• Beware the Mind Reader: Subverted. Mineta gains the ability to read the minds of females. He learns it is really boring because girls mostly think about things like whether they turned something off, fed a pet, or other everyday things. Or it is depressing when they are thinking hurtful things about him or worrying about the hardships in their lives. When he does find a girl whose thoughts are what he thinks he wants to hear in Midnight, he finds it more disturbing than arousing.
• Bigger on the Inside: The Lost Workshop's "backroom" is a courtyard full of displays and doors that go to several other workshops. Izuku lampshades it.
  • The Handy Haversack looks like a normal backpack, but is big enough to hold Izuku's armor and weapons, all his notebooks, all his collectibles and all his blacksmithing gear - including an anvil.
• Blessed with Suck: Hagakure's invisibility makes her the perfect spy but she has never been able to see what she looks like and risks getting run over anytime she crosses the street.
  • Mineta muses that while being able to read girls' minds sounds awesome for perverts in theory, in practice, it ranges from boring to depressing.
• The Cameo: Lisa Wilborn, Greg Veder, and Bayleaf from the author's other work The Warcrafter, indicating that this is a distant sequel to it. Grue, Aisha, Shar'din/Sparky and Parian appear in Chapter 3, and Hemlokk does the same in Chapter 4.
• Car Fu: Thirteen directs Ochako to do this on Kurogiri.
• Comically Small Demand: In exchange for both summer and winter versions of Stylish Protection Gear that will go invisible when she's wearing it and visible when she's not, an entire wardrobe and a visibility ring that would finally allow her to see herself, all Hagakure has to pay for it is to drink a temporary hair growth potion so the tailors can harvest her temporarily long hair and eat an entire tub of yogurt. Then again, an invisible girl's hair, which is also invisible, makes for a very useful material if properly studied and used- Invisibility Cloaks from the Harry Potter universe are in fact woven from invisible hair, and some artifacts from that universe are present in the story.
• Condescending Compassion: Izuku tries to forfeit the mock battle when he realizes his partner Hagakure isn't wearing anything. He means well and has several valid points about how dangerous it is, especially with Bakugo being their opponent, but she and their classmates see it as poorly applied chivalry at best. Izuku then makes the mistake of saying she was basically helpless, which sets Hagakure off and unwittingly triggers her insecurities about her quirk. He does realize his error and makes amends by pointing her towards the Lost Workshop.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The USJ attack turns into this... and the villains are the ones on the stomped side.
• Death by Adaptation: Shigaraki is beheaded by Izuku during the USJ attack, when the former attempts to kill Ochako.
• Dirty Mind-Reading: This is what happens when Mineta overhears Midnight's thoughts; he eventually just nopes the hell out of the room.
• Doing It for the Art: In-Universe, Shar'Din and Parian didn't have to make Tooru an entire wardrobe to go along with the support gear they're making for her. But they do it anyways for the challenge of making comfortable and stylish clothing for an invisible girl.
• Eating the Eye Candy: Most of the crowd watching Izuku work in the smithy in the support class are girls.
  • Mineta briefly takes enjoyment in how pretty Hemlokk is as she's fleeing the room post-the below mentioned Interrupted Intimacy.
• Everyone Has Standards: While he hasn't learned his lesson at the point it happens, Mineta is pissed when he realizes the girl whose thoughts he's reading on the train is being molested by her uncle, and beats the crap out of him.
  • He was also disturbed by the extremely inappropriate thoughts Midnight was having during her class and isn't very fond of hentai anime (see Freudian Excuse for why).
• Freudian Excuse: You want to know why Mineta was the worst? His mother cheated on his dad then divorced him. She rung him out and got everything she wanted in the divorce, which didn't include their son. The moment she found out she didn't have to have custody of Mineta to get alimony from her ex she threw him out of her life without a second thought. Mineta's dad used to be a respected and famous manga artist, but his wife cheating on and leaving him along with the excessive payments to his ex-wife (that she doesn't even need since her boy toy is rich; she just likes making her old husband miserable) have forced him to lower himself to writing and drawing hentai. While he makes more writing smut than the manga, doing so depresses him so much that he drinks to forget how he earns a living for a while, forcing his son to watch his dad just in case he gets too depressed. His dad tried dating after the split but they either ended up being bimbos or would, just as his wife, leave him for a more conventionally attractive man. All this led his son to believe that women were all shallow hypocrites and the only way women would love someone like him would be if he was a rich and famous hero.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • Izuku gives Aizawa a +5 CON and +5 STA (Stamina) rings so he can fight the villains attacking the USJ on better conditions. Aizawa notes that it feels like he took fifty double espresso cups.
  • When Izuku realizes Shigaraki is trying to kill Ochako, he deactivates the "no lethal damage" part of his sword and decapitates the villain.
• Heel Realization: After spritzing the "What Women Want" potion on himself, Mineta notices the depth of the hatred girls have him for how he pervs on them. Then, he finds a girl whose uncle molests her every day, and he attacks the man - not only to stop him, but because he realizes that the girl's reaction is very similar to that of the girls at school, and begins to crack in self-loathing.
• Hidden Depths: Mineta and Tsuyu learn this of each other during the two days the "What Women Want"/"What Men Are Thinking" effect lasts. Tsuyu, beneath her stoic exterior, is a girl who has to work hard to keep house and take care of her younger siblings since her parents are almost always away, as well as quite insecure about her looks, while Mineta's mother divorced his father (after cuckolding him) and not only took him for all that he was worth, he now has to pay her alimony she clearly doesn't need (since Mineta lives with his father and she lives with her rich boyfriend) forcing the man to work on hentai when he was once a well-known manga artist, making Mineta the one who takes care of him whenever the man gets too close to the Despair Event Horizon.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: When Bayleaf suggests to Mineta to pick "Modular Man" as his hero name, the latter mentions there's a hero in Germany with that name, because he can pop his arms and legs off. Bayleaf says that's really lame - and Mineta fires back with "So's he when both his legs detach".
• Interrupted Intimacy: Mineta's first visit to the Workshop has him walking in on Bayleaf and Hemlokk starting to get frisky on the front desk.
• Jedi Mind Trick: The Lost Workshop business cards have this effect on anyone they do not want to really know about them.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While Izuku wasn't trying to be a jerk about it, Hagakure reluctantly admits that he was right about the downsides of her quirk. Making full use of her quirk means she has to fight naked. She can't have support items, she can't have any form of protection because her quirk only makes 'her' invisible, and as is later pointed out, she risks getting hit by a car every time she crosses the street.
• Laugh Themselves Sick: Ochako nearly pees herself laughing when Izuku shows his Bag of Holding's powers to the exam proctors.
• Living Clothes: Hagakure winds up with the Cloak of Levitation as part of her new support gear. It takes as much of a liking to her as it did to its old master.
• Mindlink Mates: The intended function of the "What Women Want" potion. The man takes a spritz of "What Women Want", the woman takes a spritz of "What Men Are Thinking", and they spend the next three days able to hear each other's thoughts and feelings. Unfortunately for Mineta, if you take one of the potions without someone of the opposite gender taking the complementary potion, you end up hearing everyone of the opposite gender until the effects wear off.
• Not Hyperbole: After asking Hatsume Mei if she was "planning on making babies" with Izuku after watching the shirtless and muscular boy work in the smithy, Power Loader asks what sort of machines she could make with the help of a blacksmith. She replies she wasn't talking about making machines.
• Not What It Looks Like: In Chapter Two, Izuku gives Uraraka a ring to help her with her quirk. The girls of Class 1-A see this and mistake it for a proposal, much to the two's embarrassment.
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging: After Mineta beats up a molester on a train and gets him arrested, the media starts gushing about him being a model of what a hero-in-training should look like; Mineta feels he's anything but and the reports make him feel sick.
• Rage Breaking Point: After spending a whole day hearing exactly what his female classmates think of him, Mineta gets on a train and overhears a girl thinking about her Evil Uncle molesting her; Mineta snaps and unleashes a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on the guy.
• Shirtless Scene: Izuku while working on his new armor. Nearly every girl in the Support Class ends up Eating the Eye Candy.
• Shout-Out: The Lost Workshop crew from The Warcrafter has been going between different universes, and this allows for some of them, as events that happen to them In-Universe.
  • Harry Potter:
    • Izuku sees Harry's wand sealed in a jar.
    • Hagakure's invisible battle armor gets Muffliato, disillusionment and notice-me-not charms on it.
    • Among the potions in the shop is Felix Felicis.
  • The potion Mineta tries, thinking it is cologne, that allows him to read women's thoughts, is called What Women Want.
  • One of the items Shar'din and Parian give to Hagakure is the Cloak of Levitation.
• Tender Tears: Hagakure's reaction when she sees her face for the first time in more than a decade.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • After getting screwed over by her Quirk and having to be an Invisible Streaker, Hagakure finally has a costume that can protect her and finally can see her own reflection.
  • Though he has to go through a bit of hell beforehand, Mineta is given the chance to better himself and earn forgiveness from his female peers, on top of having a massive boost to the usefulness of his sticky orbs that enables him to change their form and purpose at will.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Mineta may be a pervert, but even he thinks the way Midnight's level of innuendo is creepy. And the dose of "What Women Want" only makes it worse: it turns out that she's apparently narrating what sounds like a porn novel in her head even while she teaches.
• Trick Bomb: With some help from Bayleaf and an attuned magic ring, Mineta becomes able to alter the qualities of his hairballs at will. A mental flex allows him to turn them into web-net, glue or oil bombs, make them super-bouncy or as hard as tire-rubber, or even reshape them into whips or rings.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Hagakure is seen to have a lot of hang ups over her Quirk because of how useless she finds it to be. It only turns her invisible and nothing else, she can't have support items or even basic protection because it would compromise the one advantage she has, and getting any real mileage out of it requires her to an Invisible Streaker more often than not. There's also the fact that it doesn't have an "off-switch" so she's stuck with those problems no matter what.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Midoriya tells Mineta this when he claims the molester he beat up on the train is what he'll be in 20 years, pointing out that when Mineta realized the kind of person the man was, he got angry and protected the girl instead of ignoring it - and, unlike the man, Mineta can make the effort to change and become a better person.