Fanfic / Disco Academia

Encyclopedia [Critical Fail: ???]: Plus Ultra? What the hell does that mean? It’s nonsense.
Heroic Spirit [Critical Success: Impossible]: It’s NOT Nonsense.

Waking up in the middle of Dagobah beach with no memory of how he got there, Izuku is sent on his way to the UA entrance exam by a tall, muscular, blond man in order to become a hero. Along the way, Izuku must find out who he is and where these voices in his head have come from.

Disco Academia is a crossover quest of Disco Elysium and My Hero Academia written by Tokoz, and can be read on SpaceBattles here.

Disco Academia contains examples of:

• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul
  • Izuku's friendships with Team November (Tsuyu, Shinso, Jirou, and Komori) are much closer compared to canon. Conversely, his friendships with Uraraka and Iida, while still extant, take a backseat.
  • As a result of his amnesia, Izuku has completely forgotten Bakugou, and is confused as to why this explosive blond is so obsessed with him.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Instead of Super-Strength, Izuku's One for All manifests in the form of Blackwhip, and about two dozen extra voices in his head.
• Amnesiac Hero: Izuku, as a direct result of obtaining One for All.
• Cast of Personifications: As in Disco Elysium, Izuku's Skills take this form, though with some differences: Visual Calculus is replaced by Action Analysis, allowing Izuku to analyze combat scenarios and Quirks, Esprit de Corps is replaced by Heroic Spirit, focusing on going Plus Ultra and allowing sideflashes to other Heroes, and Electrochemistry is replaced by Springtime of Youth, which focuses less on drugs and alcohol and more on flirting and partying.
  • Shigaraki is shown to have his own collection of headmates when he is introduced, although with an appropriately villainous twist with Shivers being replaced with Urban Decay and Heroic Spirit with Dark Impulse.
• Evil Counterpart: Shigaraki is All for One's counterpart to Izuku as in canon, with his own personalized Cast of Personifications contrasting Izuku's.
• Fusion Fic: While the story takes place in the Earth of My Hero Academia, several key elements of Disco Elysium are prominent:
  • Izuku finds his thought processes taking the form of around 24 separate voices not unlike the Skills of Disco Elysium. So do All Might and Tenko.
  • The Pale has formed a barrier around Japan that no-one can cross. As only the Quirkless can actually perceive the Pale, the Japanese government has covered it up by reintroducing Sakoku.
• Genius Loci: Izuku can communicate with the cities of Japan using Shivers. This is remarkably helpful in directing him to places where his help is needed.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Bakugou realises that the last thing he said to Izuku before he became an Amnesiac Hero was his infamous Suicide Dare, and the fact that Izuku acts so differently to his pre-amnesia self means the old Izuku is effectively as good as dead. The thought that he might have indirectly killed Izuku causes him to lose his lunch, violently.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Jirou's question to Izuku of what exactly they're going to do on their hang-out causes his Skills to enter choice paralysis, as it could very easily be interpreted as a date. His response?
    Izuku: I want to make date with you.^note This was Invoked by the players, though the original suggestion was "I want to have date with you", which Tokoz felt could still be interpreted as a sensible answer.
  • Several characters with a high net worth, such as Yaoyorozu, are mentioned to have a light-warping effect around them, much like Roustame Diodore.
• Perception Filter: Izuku is able to do this mentally to see Hagakure, though his subsequent Logic failure renders her in a clown costume. He also mentally Unpersons Mineta out of sheer disbelief that "a tiny goblin in a yellow cape, breastplate, and metal diaper" could possibly be a hero student. This indirectly leads to Mineta being kidnapped by Tenko.
• Power Incontinence: Quirk Fractures are a situation when a person's Quirk mutates and becomes much more difficult to control due to exposure to the Pale, requiring them to be separated from society for their own and other people's safety. Unfortunately, Inko was a victim of this phenomenon due to her attempt to cross the Pale barrier surrounding Japan to reach America in order to find Hisashi, causing her "Attraction of Small Objects" Quirk to begin attracting the smallest objects available: atoms, causing her to emit uncontrollable bursts of radiation (though thankfully her mutation made her immune to the new effects of her Quirk).
• Related in the Adaptation: Inko reveals to Izuku that his father was a detective from the US who came to Japan on a work trip, met her, and promptly fell in love. He eventually returned to America for work, and then the Sakoku law was enforced, separating him from his family. His name? Harrier "Hisashi" Du Bois.
• Wham Episode: Week 3 sees Team November drawn into a hostage situation: a group of Stained have taken a group of 5 civilians and a corrupt Pro Hero hostage, and demand they choose which of them gets to live. When November manage to defuse the situation, one of the civilians reveals himself to have very much not been a hostage, and promptly kills one of the Stained with a power Izuku recognizes:
  Shivers: You feel a chill run down your spine as you recognize the feeling, the gray mist that seems to curl off the woman. With one touch, he reduced her stomach to a chalky dust. You’ve seen that mist before, off the coast.
  "Hostage": I said cut the chatter! Seriously, why are you narrating? You sound like...
  Jirou: What the fuck are you on about? You’re the only one talking!
  Logic: He's been responding to you. To us.
  Heroic Spirit: Oh.
  Half-Light: Oh no.
  Dark Resolve: Oh Yes.