Fanfic / I Don't Run An Orphanage!

I Don't Run An Orphanage is a My Hero Academia fanfic by Kyodon, first published in 2020.

After Izuku Midoriya was made to abandon his dream of becoming a hero, he coincidentally saves a little girl from villains by hiding her, and she starts living with him and his mother afterward. Then he coincidentally saves another child from a villain. Then a couple of abandoned kids from the streets. And so on.

Seeing how willing he is to care for children that others don't want to care for because of their troublesome and powerful Quirks, an agent for the Overly Powerful Children Care and Containment government branch makes him the de-facto caretaker for any such new cases of orphaned or abandoned children in Japan, and sets up a new mansion-like property for Izuku to care for the children full time, with many of them seeing him as their adopted father.

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Beware of spoilers!

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I Don't Run An Orphanage contains examples of:

• Achievements in Ignorance: When he hides Eri from Overhaul, Izuku covers her in his dirty clothes - unknowingly preying on Overhaul's germ phobia.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Some of the League of Villains members are watching Kiba's stream, while the readers can guess who's who through their Screen Name.
• Adaptational Explanation:
  • Nobody knows the origins of Quirks more than that it originally came from the Golden Baby in Canon. Here, Mairu and Uchi theorize that Quirks came from genetics being altered by Chaos Energy.
  • Vestiges, which are an exclusive trait of One for All in canon, are discovered to be an important part of a person in this fanfic, where it stores their memories, feelings, and personality and can be considered as a person's lesser soul.
  • Kyoshi Shiji's first class is about the historical events between Quirk's first emergence and the present time, including a World War III which is also called "The Quirk War".
• Adaptational Karma: Bakugo. hoo boy.
  • Fatgum and All Might's investigation on Aldera exposed his history of bullying, causing his record to be labeled with a black mark.
  • U.A. students & faculty find out his black mark and why, rendering him friendless & putting him under scrutiny in the first half of his first year at U.A., plus banning him from participating in the first year's sports festival.
  • Due to concern about how the OPCs would react around Izuku's former bully, he was left out of going to the Midoriya Mansion and assigned to 1B until his classmates returned.
  • Due to constantly belittling and beating 1B in combat and academy, Neito tricked him into receiving his own gauntlet-amplified explosion by using Reiko's Telekinesis to re-aim his gauntlet and pull the pin.
  • After getting his arm severed from fighting The Foot, Izuku pettily forces him to accept Midoriya Foundation's cybernetic arm prosthetic designed to mimic his real arm while Izuku keeps his real arm, preserving it as a memento to himself.
• Adaptational Timespan Change:
  • While Canon took 12 chapters to reach USJ Arc, this story took, from the beginning to its version of USJ Arc, 121 chapters (including the Shorts).
  • While Canon took 9 chapters to go from USJ to Sports Festival, this story took 35 chapters.
• A Day in the Limelight: Whenever a new OPC is adopted into the Midoriya Foundation, the next chapter will be focused on them adapting and getting to know the other kids.
• Applied Phlebotinum: Chaos Energy. Not only it is responsible for the existence of Quirks, but it's also the energy that fuels various other inventions.
• Big Bad Duumvirate:
  • The MLA making an alliance with League of Villains to destroy Midoriya Foundation.
  • During Under Attack, it is revealed that Shie Hassaikai was absorbed by League of Villains after they killed Overhaul.
  • The alliance grows bigger when The Foot joins the two, after learning that Giza had taken their experimented turtles with him into Midoriya Foundation's protection.
• Big Bad Ensemble: The MLA is stated to be the major antagonists of the story, but it's also made clear that All For One is just as involved.
• Bio-Augmentation: Through a Super Breeding Program, the Nekonanako Foundation streamlined multiple different cat-themed Quirks into stronger natural-born Quirks.
• Captain's Log: Chapters that focus on the Research Division's scientists are usually written in the form of said scientists' log of their research.
• Central Theme: Helping the good and innocent over punishing the guilty. Except for Overhaul and Tsuma, the parents of the kids are never really addressed or punished on-screen afterward, with the focus remaining on helping the children.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: When some of the kids eat human flesh and blood, the others can do untold damages, and one kid can live through Gorn and Ludicrous Gibs, most of the kids, people who interact with them and Kiba's audience are used to things that make most adult faints or stunned.
  Random Stream Comment: "Hooray to the desensitization of violence!"
• Dark and Troubled Past: All the kids Izuku takes care of (as well as himself) have gone through some terrible things. The fact that the one that had it best is probably Shiruku (who spent several years in a OPCCC facility with just a television for company) says a lot.
• Didn't Think This Through: Lady Kyu of the MLA thought she could convince Kiba to change sides just by speaking with her. All she does is trigger Kiba's Rage Breaking Point.
• Dropping the Bombshell:
  • Kioku learns about "One For All" when she Dope Slaps All Might and tells Izuku later that night.
  • All Might receives a call from his phone that sounds urgent. He later explains to Izuku that the Bates family, of Star and Stripe fame, is seeking his help.
  • Izuku told Chloe, and later his mom, that his Dissapeared Dad just called him the previous night, wanting to drop his daughters (from another woman beside Inko) at the Foundation because he no longer wanted to take care of them.
• Enemy Exchange Program:
  • Kyosei Midoriya's Quirk, Symbiote, is a mix of this and Brainwashed and Crazy. The baby boy needs a host to survive since he's made of black goo. Once he has entered someone's body, Kyosei starts eating his host's internal organs in exchange for a boost in the person's Quirk and physical capabilities. The problem is, eventually the host's body decays too much, causing them to go berserk. It's a little bit zigzagged because Kyosei's first host was his mother, who didn't know what her son's Quirk could do. Therefore, she isn't exactly Kyosei's enemy. His second host is willing and his adoptive brother Fu, so, an ally.
  • Aka Midoriya's Quirk is called Assimilation. She can rip pieces of her body off and then insert them into a person's bloodstream via a cut. Once in there, she completely takes over her victim's body — they are not brainwashed, Aka's conscience controls them like puppets. During villain attacks, she uses her Quirk to turn the tides in her family's favor by assimilating the most powerful Nomus and villains.
  • Saber's Quirk is a mental Hyperspace Arsenal of imaginary copies of swords named Infinite Blade Works. This means that, as long as she has seen a sword (or a sword-shaped object) in real life, she can add it to her mindscape, from where she can summon it. This is exploited to circumvent her Quirk's limitation, as she can copy cool swords that can explode or are made of special materials.
  • The Sky Pirates debut the criminal scene by infiltrating the Midoriya Foundation to steal a Chaos energy-fueled, flying ship from the facility's labs. Other than serving as the villain team's namesake, the purpose is to obtain a base of operations that cannot be reached by Quirks and is undetectable by radars. In truth, this is a subversion because the Sky Pirates were created and funded by none other than Izuku Midoriya, so the villain team and the Midoriya Foundation are only enemies in the eyes of the public. This move is meant to thwart any suspicion about the two organizations being related.
  • Also concerning the Sky Pirates, their main goal is to raid some specific criminal organizations' bases. They steal their weapons, money, and whatever special equipment they might possess. As a result, the targeted villain groups get severely weakened.
  • Engineer Rorou Con's Quirk is called Ownership and grants him the ability to "own" any nonliving object. In other words, Rorou gains complete control of the object's properties and functions. This gets especially useful when the Sky Pirates are raiding some rival criminal organization's base.
• Fantastic Ableism: The members of the MLA really don't like the fact that Quirkless Izuku Midoriya is the caretaker of several children with very powerful Quirks.
• Floating Continent: Angel Island is an artificially made one by Midoriya Foundation as a place where people can conduct research on Chaos Energy and any other dangerous experiments away from the public, on the caveat that those who volunteer to conduct their research there have to accept that they may not come back alive if a project goes awry.
  Mai: If you volunteer to go to Angel Island, you are doing so with the full knowledge that you are probably going to die. You will be killed by either your own research or the research of your peers. We will have top-of-the-line security there to try and protect the scientist, but even then we fully expect most of the people going there to die.
• For Want Of A Nail:
  • After his encounter with All Might and being told that he cannot be a hero without Quirk, Izuku Midoriya did not walk towards the second Slime Villain attack when heading home.
  • Izuku saves Eri from Overhaul and adopts her.
  • All Might ends up encountering Ochako Uraraka and convinced that she is the right person to be his successor, and passing One For All to her.
  • After their encounter with Izuku, both Fatgum and All Might ended up investigating Aldera for student mistreatment, causing the imprisonment of the principal and most of the teachers, and Bakugo received a black mark on his record for his bullying and being banned from participating in the first year's sports festival.
• Gone Horribly Right: Izuku was expecting some unrest and turmoil when he planned to stage an information leak that countries outside Japan have rejected his effort to export Curonous, but he did not expect worldwide riot and America to have a second Civil War in all but name over healthcare reformation!
• Green Rocks: Fractals are shard of crystal that is created to contain Chaos Energy, and each has random effects when held, including various kinds of powers. It has become downplayed after Midoriya Foundation found a way to specifically develop Fractals based on a person's Quirk.
• Heroic RRoD: This happens multiple times, to the point Izuku sadly lampshades how this has almost become the Midoriya's shared quirk.
  Izuku: I swear, overwork is the curse of the Midoriya family.
• Human Resources: On the purchasing side, some of the kids drink blood and eat human flesh, while on the producing side, Shiruku has her spider silks, Fu has his body parts for people that need to eat human flesh, and there's Eri's blood that is so important for Q.R. branch that Izuku can mark its price a lot.
• In Spite of a Nail: The Attack On USJ is still happening, only in different location and in larger numbers thanks to Big Bad Ensemble...
• Irony: Izuku Midoriya was bullied for being Quirkless. Now, the name Midoriya is synonymous with "powerful Quirks" thanks to the Midoriya Foundation Izuku built to house and raise OPCs, and most of these Happily Adopted OPCs are willing to change their surname into his.
• Living Clothes: Aegis Robe is a Black Cloak that is made by Yami and Shiruku from a Grimm, complete with plate armor in various parts that can automatically grow larger to cover its user in response to incoming danger.
• Necessary Fail: Nezu believes that Izuku needs to collapse from over-exhaustion to realize that he cannot do everything by himself.
• Power Crystal: Chaos Emerald, Fractal's Super Prototype. It can fuel engines for an absurd lifespan and can amplify the Quirk of those who carry it.
• Recap Episode: An Overdue Talk, Interview, Midoriya News and R/Midoriya works as one.
• Screen Name: Characters have this when commenting on Kiba's stream, while most of the Class 1-A use their Hero name.
  • Izuku Midoriya: AllMightfan2033
  • Himiko Toga: QueenCrimson
  • Principal Nezu: TheBrain
  • Kioku: Brainworm
  • Fukunoko: Piranhaplantpete
  • Ashido Mina: AlienQueen
  • Tomura Shigaraki: DustToDust
  • Stain: Bloodcurdle
• Ship Tease:
  • Izuku Midoriya and Ochako Uraraka.
  • Kaminari and Jirou.
  • Yonda mentions that someone in class 1-A has a crush on Mina.
• Shipper on Deck: Several of the adopted children (Shiruku especially) and Mina never miss an opportunity to bring up the idea of Izuku and Ochako getting together, even in front of either one or both of them, no matter how much both of them protest that "they're only friends".
• Stealing the Credit: Villain Trade is a business that exploited this. Vigilantes can trade villains they caught for cash, and Pro Heroes can buy the recognition of catching said villains for hefty sums.
• Villains Out Shopping: Stain and some League of Villains members are watching Kiba's stream and typing in their comments.
• Weak Boss, Strong Underlings: Exaggerated. Izuku Midoriya is a Quirkless, non-athletic fifteen-year-old boy who runs a foundation meant to house and contain children with overpowered Quirks. Most of the younger kids view him as their father figure, while the older ones regard him as some sort of older brother. They are all extremely loyal to Izuku because he adopted them after their progenitors abandoned them out of fear of their Quirks. As a result, while Izuku is the one to provide for and look after them, the children tend to be the ones actually protecting themselves and Izuku when a villain attack occurs. For example, Yami's Grimm monsters are a Quirk-made Red Shirt Army tasked with protecting and surveilling the house. Later on, Izuku starts hiring help for his numerous tasks — first off, the UA 1-A class, comprised of some of the most talented heroes in training in Japan. Then, Izuku gets a pair of bodyguards — Saber, a former pro-hero who summons infinite swords from a pocket dimension and was a Child Soldier, and Sori, who was bred the be the strongest Cat Quirk fighter. Any of the people who are under Izuku's charge or call him boss range from easily taking him out in a fight to outright killing him if they lost control of their Quirk. The only people in Izuku's care who do not outmatch him physically are Kioku and Yonda due to having mental-based Quirks.
• Wham Line:
  • Kioku asks Izuku why he still defends All Might after he disagrees with his dream of becoming a Hero.
    Izuku: Being a hero is dangerous after all and well…
    Kioku: He didn't think a Quirkless person could do it.
    Izuku: *Winces* Well...yes. But it's not like he could have done anything about it. He can't just give me a quirk.
    Kioku: But he could though!
    Izuku: W-What do you mean?
  • A mysterious woman was found sneaking into Midoriya Foundation's forest. Izuku asked what does she want.
    "Mysterious Woman": My name is Tsuma Dorama. I'm looking for my daughter... I think she ended up here. Her name is Eri.
  • All Might receive a phone call from the United States about someone wanting to talk to Izuku.
    All Might: Have you ever heard of Chole Bate?
    Izuku: I… don't think so, but that last name does sound familiar.
    All Might: Well, you're probably more familiar with her older sister, Cathleen Bate. [...] Or as she's more well known with, Star and Stripe.
  • Karai and Re-Destro ask for All for One's help in attacking the U.A. Stadium. He believes he has the right tool for it.
    All for One: I can't think of a better time to use Starro.
• Wham Shot:
  • In the latter half of Aegis, Yotsubashi and Re-Destro watch the news about his failed assassination attempt on Izuku at the conference, which also reveals that the MLA were the ones who sent Nise to assassinate him at the Mansion.
  • At the end of Insecurity, just as class 1-A is about to return to U.A after assisting Izuku in running the Foundation as he recovers, a huge black-purple portal appears at the Foundation's front gate, with an entire army of villains walking out of it, led by Tomura Shigaraki.
  • Izuku receives a phone call from Hisashi in the last parts of The Fun Never Ends.

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