Hitoshi Shinsou was 5 when he learned that not all men are created equal.
Shouto Todoroki was 6 when he learned that not all men are created equal.
Katsuki Bakugou was 7 when he learned that not all men are created equal.
Momo Yaoyorozu was 8 when she learned that not all men are created equal.
All children learn it at one point or another, but the Midoriya children are different. This fact of life hit them harder than most, but you know what sets them apart?
They did something about it.
Alternatively: The story of how Inko Midoriya ends up with 16 vigilante children, 3 young kids, 3 older kids, 1 hero son-in-law, a husband that lights things on fire when he sneezes, and a partridge in a pear tree.
No One Left Behind
is a My Hero Academia fanfiction written by CosmicAce, in which Izuku Midoriya adopts everyone and heavy fluff abounds.
No One Left Behind contains examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Most non-Midoriya parents are this.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: No One Left Behind features this in spades.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: Almost every kid in Class 1-A has undergone this due to the premise of this fan work.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: While most of these characters don't appear in canon until Izuku is 16, in NOLB many of them are adopted before he's even out of elementary school.
- Adaptational Heroism: Touya Todoroki sticks with his siblings and helps them escape Endeavor instead of going on to become Dabi.
- Alliterative Name: After being adopted, Momo changes her last name to Midoriya, making her Momo Midoriya.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Averted with Bakugou, whose parents were physically and emotionally abusive until their death in a villain attack.
- Family of Choice: So much of this.
- Fantastic Racism: Mina's parents abandoned her for looking "demonic".
- Good Parents: Inko Midoriya, Hisashi Midoriya, Rei Todoroki
- Happily Adopted: All of the characters who end up joining the Midoriya family are this legally or in spirit.
- Meaningful Rename: Several of the children pick new surnames to mark their changed circumstances.
- The Todoroki siblings become Hisame, breaking off from Endeavor.
- No One Gets Left Behind: In the sense that these kids are going to stick together no matter what.
- Parental Abandonment: Several characters, such as Mei Hatsume and Mina Ashido, were abandoned by one or more parents.
- The Runaway: Several characters, such as the Todoroki siblings and Momo ran away from home to escape their Abusive Parents.
- Took a Level in Cheerfulness: The Todoroki siblings gain this after they get adopted by the Midoriyas.
