Fanfic / Dreamer

Izumi's dreams don't belong to her.

They belong to the lights, the people who are in pain. She helps them, every night, trying to forget the color of her mother's blood and the light of her fathers flame.

She helps, even though she herself is shattered.

Dreamer is a My Hero Academia fanfic written by AlyaKtheDorkLord, holding notoriety for being one of the most popular female Deku stories on Archive of our Own.

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This story has examples of:

• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Accidental version. All for One tries to steal Midoriya's quirk only for her to use her power to pull it back to her at the last minute and then unknowingly steal a few of All for One's quirks for good measure.
• Accidental Pervert: How Mirio and Tamaki met Midoriya. They were practicing their quirks in the hallway and Mirio fell through the wall into the room Midoriya was writing in. Tamaki took awhile to find the right room to take Mirio's clothes to and by then Mirio had a concussion from being beaten over the head by Midoriya, who had grabbed the nearest chair when the naked stranger stumbled through the wall.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Aizawa and Present Mic are married in this fic while in canon, as far as we know, they're just good friends.
  • Hawks and Endeavor have at least had one off-screen romantic encounter, as Midoriya noticed Hawks had a hickey with a burn mark that correlated with Endeavor's flame facial hair.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Instead of being Quirkless, Midoriya has a Quirk that lets her hop between dreams.
• Adaptational Villainy: Hisashi Midoriya is a villain in this story.
• Alternate Self: The dreams are populated by Dream People that act as this to their real-life counterparts.
• Animorphism: Was one of All for One's stolen quirks, until Midoriya accidentally stole it from him
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Todoroki and Shinso. They are more confused by their feelings than is usually the case since they also both love Midoriya.
• Berserk Button: Hurting Midoriya is this for a lot of the cast.
• Big Brother Instinct: Dabi asks Midoriya to continue to look after his younger brother, as he can't be in his life to do it himself.
• Big Damn Heroes: Like in canon, All Might shows up at the USJ just in time.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Dragon's response to Bakugou screaming he was going to kill him for what he did to them.
  Dragon: You'll have to be a bit more specific.
• Crash-Into Hello: Not their first meeting, but the first time they realize their attraction to each other. Todoroki tackles Shinso out of the way of a villain's attack. They're in the middle of a fight but just lay there staring at each other until Bakugou yells at them to stop flirting.
• Debt Detester: Implied with Dabi, as he claims he and Midoriya are even after he fakes being unconscious during the Kamino Ward Battle instead of interfering in her and Bakugou's escape.
• Dies Wide Open: Bakugou's dream flashback of the day Dragon attacked the Midoriyas shows the reader that he saw Midoriya being carried out of the burning building by Aizawa with her eyes open but otherwise unresponsive, leading Bakugou to believe this trope was in play.
• Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female: Averted, hard. While the assault didn't get a chance to progress past kissing, it is shown to have been traumatizing for the Modoriya and everyone who has found out about it, heroes and villains, unanimously condemns the attacker.
• Domestic Abuse: Hisashi to Inko upon finding out that she was the one to turn him in.
• Dream Land: Midoriya can enter one of these realms when she uses her Quirk, though instead of taking the form of a specific dream, it takes more the form of a cluster of lights representing dreams, which Midoriya can enter and leave whenever she pleases.
• Dream People: These, naturally, populate the dreams that Midoriya visits. They highly resemble their real life counterparts.
• Dream Sequence: As if the story's name didn't clue you in, Midoriya's Quirk allows her to live through several of these.
• Dream Walker: This is Midoriya's Quirk in a nutshell: she can enter a Dream Land that houses multiple spheres that represent dreams, which she can enter and leave through with relative ease.
• Early-Bird Cameo: A dream version of Shouto Todoroki appears in chapter 1 before he makes his proper debut. Likewise, she also meets All Might in a dream.
  • During the Sports Festival, Midoriya mentions that one of her third-year friends, whose quirk allows her to enhance other people's quirks to the point of instability, made some guy drop a mile into the ground before shooting back out again. Mirio shows up in person 20+ chapters later.
• Everyone Has Standards: Endeavor fires his PR guy, Don Trumpet, when he finds out Trumpet's quirk is effectively mind-control and he has been misusing it to convince people Midoriya was lying about Endeavor's abuse of his kids.
• For Want Of A Nail:
  • Midoriya meets Todoroki in his dream before they properly meet in real life. The same goes for All Might and All for One.
  • Since All for One is interested in Midoriya's quirk, she is taken from the training camp along with Bakugou.
• Forced to Watch: Shigaraki is aware that Midoriya is present when he tries to kill Aizawa. He even specifically says out loud that Aizawa will die under the eyes of his daughter, letting Aizawa know that she's still there, seeing all of this. Particularly cruel since this is the second parent Midoriya would have to watch die, and Aizawa knows it.
  • Lesser example, but Midoriya has to watch the press conference after the attack on the training camp, and is distressed to see her father being questioned like he was a villain.
• Gender Lift: Midoriya's a girl in this story.
• Groin Attack: Midoriya to All for One much to Bakugou's amusement.
• Happily Adopted: Aizawa and Present Mic adopt Midoriya together and form a loving and supportive family.
• Heroic RRoD: After her first encounter with Dragon, Midoriya's quirk has a tendency to result in this. She frequently needs Aizawa to erase her quirk or Shinsho to mind control her to shut it off.
• Innocently Insensitive: Endeavor asks why the High End was messing with Midoriya if it wanted to fight the strongest. With their history it could have been meant as a genuine insult, but Midoriya actually agrees with his assessment since her power is mostly mental and she's not used to going into combat conscious.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite having a Quirk in this story, Midoriya still gets bullied by Bakugou, who still considers her a "Deku" since her Quirk doesn't have obvious combat capabilities.
  • Todoroki still interns with Endeavor after getting his provisional license, despite his restraining order against his father. Somewhat justified in that Endeavor is the best person to teach him how to use his fire side. Also, Midoriya's quirk allows her to see that Endeavor is genuine in trying to be a better person.
• It's All My Fault: Midoriya feels this way about Inko's death since she was the one who caught All For One's attention.
  • Bakugou also feels this way about Midoriya's perceived death, since he had promised to protect her in his own Jerkass way.
• Just Following Orders: Averted. Midoriya flat out refuses what she considers to be an immoral order from the President of the Safety Commission.
• Killed Off for Real: Inko dies early on.
• Mercy Kill: During the USJ incident, Shigaraki claims that killing Aizawa would be this since what Hisashi would do to him would be far worse. Luckily All Might shows up before he can go through with it.
• One-Steve Limit: Defied, with Hisashi and Hizashi. These are their canonical names but in the show, Hisashi is firmly The Ghost and Hizashi is referred to by his hero name making their similar names a non-issue. However, in this story, Hisashi is one of the main villains and Hizashi is Midoriya's adoptive father along with Aizawa. It was actually an early plot point that Aizawa had to refer to Hizashi, his husband, by his surname for the first year or so to avoid triggering Midoriya's PTSD.
• Orphan's Ordeal: Midoriya has to live with the grief of losing the only parent she had ever known, and the guilt that her mistake in telling All For One her name is what got her mother killed
• Papa Wolf: Aizawa and Present Mic toward Midoriya, as she is their adopted daughter.
  • Dragon, also towards Midoriya. Midoriya is less enthused but admits to being happy to see him when he comes to her rescue after Toga pins and forcefully kisses her.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: When a naked Mirio walks into the classroom Izuku was writing in, her first reaction is to grab a chair and beat up the pervert.
• Poor Communication Kills: Nobody ever told Bakugou that Midoriya survived Dragon's attack, so he's been operating under the assumption that his childhood friend had been murdered for the last five years in-universe. And considering Dragon's reputation, Bakugou knew that death would have been excruciating. It's not surprising that his first and only reaction to meeting Dragon— a villain that gave All Might trouble— in person is to attack him.
• Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Dragon thinks he's been doing this, however his daughter would rather not be "rescued".
• Sacred First Kiss: Midoriya loses her's to Toga, much to her horror.
• Talking in Your Dreams: Midoriya is capable of doing this with the people she encounters in the dreams she enters, though she's not talking with real people, but rather dream versions of them.
• Teeth Clenched Team Work: Played with. Midoriya and Endeavor have to work together when the High-End Nomu attacks. However, aside from some awkwardness, it goes well, to the point that a civilian comments that he thought they were supposed to hate each other. Later played more straight when Todoroki takes an internship with Endeavor and Midoriya comes along to ensure his good treatment. While Endeavor is showing his canonical character development, members of his agency aren't so kind to Midoriya.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Endeavor seems to be experiencing his canonical Character Development, and is generally less of an ass than he was during the Sports Festival arc.
• Weaker in the Real World: Midoriya can easily manipulate the environment in the dreams she visits, but is effectively no stronger than a Quirkless person in the real world.
• Would Hit a Girl: Aizawa has no problem breaking Toga's nose after she gushes about what she did to Midoriya.