Fanfic / That time Quirks turned reality into a video game

It all happened in an instant.
223 years and 3 months, to the day, since the discovery of the glowing baby in Qin-Qin city every human being on Earth disappeared in a worldwide cacophony of shouts and golden motes of light.

That time Quirks turned reality into a video game is a Trapped in Another World story featuring the characters of My Hero Academia by Plasma_Assassin. What makes this story stand out is that everyone is transported and it is permanent. Everyone is stuck and has to adapt to a fantasy world with monsters and magic without their Quirks. Luckily for Izuku, he has an advantage compared to most others of Earth. Being Quirkless in a world full of Quirks, he already has experience dealing with being powerless and soon becomes one of the fastest adapters to Lechageía.

It can be read here on Archive of Our Own.

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The story has the following tropes:

• Abled in the Adaptation: All for One is cured of all of his injuries by a mage with healing magic.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Nejire and Lady Nagant become Izuku's companions instead of an acquaintance in the case of the former or an enemy in the case of the latter.
  • Izuku loses any admiration he had for All Might since the latter never took back his words that Izuku couldn't become a hero.
• Adaptational Early Appearance:
  • Nejire and Lady Nagant appear and join Izuku's party in Chapter 1 compared to canon where they did not appear until way later.
  • Inko finds Eri and takes her in in Chapter 2 compared to canon where Eri does not appear until the Shie Hassakai arc.
  • The previous holders of OFA appear in Chapter 1 compared to canon where they did not appear until after the Cultural Festival.
• Adaptational Name Change:
  • Izuku changes his status name to Emerald and refers to it from then on.
  • Lady Nagant's original name was Kyoko Chinmaika. This is because when the fic released, her real name was not revealed. Later though she changes her public name of "Nagant" to her canon Kaina name as a disguise, and chooses to keep it.
• Anti-Grinding: Levelling-up too fast results in an individual losing out on stat gains they may otherwise get. Focusing more on training then levelling is what's needed to maximise stat gains.
• Back from the Dead: The vestiges in One for All all come back to life after All Might is transported to Lechageía.
• Blatant Lies: The Hero Public Safety Commission claim that the natives of the starting city are Villains in disguise and that a Villain constructed the entire place with a Quirk to get the people of their world to attack them.
• Bottomless Magazines: Discussed. Nagant laments that she doesn't have unlimited arrows like when she had unlimited bullets with her Quirk in the old world.
• Broken Pedestal: All Might telling Izuku he couldn't be a Hero was so damaging that not only did Izuku lose faith in All Might, he stopped looking at Pro-Heroes as a whole with rose-tinted goggles.
• Chick Magnet. Discussed. Nagant is worried women would all come after Izuku if they have any taste.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Izuku retains his heroic nature. When he sees a fire, his first instinct is to run towards it to help the people caught in it.
• Combination Attack: Nejire accidentally discovers she can combine magic attacks with her dragon companion to form more powerful magic attacks with additional effects.
• Cursed Item: Nejire is tricked into wearing the Fairy Dancer Armour set, which is skimpy, offers absolutely no protection whatsoever, and is cursed to be unable to be taken off. To the shock of the fae that tricked her, Nejire actually likes the look. Later, it becomes subverted when a powerful Fae is impressed with Nejire, purifies the curse, and makes it actually useful.
• Dash Attack: Izuku manages to create a Charge Attack in Chapter 9 after making an important insight into how Lechageía grants skills.
• De-power: All Quirks are permanently lost after everyone is transported to Lechageía. It's part of the reason Izuku is one of the fastest adapters. Being Quirkless to begin with, it makes no difference to him.
• Death Is Cheap: A single death is not the end of the line. A person has to die ten times in a twenty-four hour period before it actually sticks.
• Description Cut: In Chapter 2, Nagant thinks the starting city is still all doom and gloom. Cue a scene change where it is actually in the middle of a HPSC-induced riot.
• Dramatic Irony: Nagant and Nejire assure Inko that she will reunite with her son Izuku, not realising their party leader Emerald is Izuku.
• Dynamic Entry: Nejire meets Izuku and Nagant by crash-landing on the latter two from the sky after being pushed into a portal.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Izuku believes he died and went to the afterlife, which is understandable, but what actually happened is that everyone got trapped in another world.
• "Eureka!" Moment: Izuku realises in Chapter 9 that the skills the world grants are not done at random. The recipient has to demonstrate they can do it independently of the system to be granted the first level of it.
• Extradimensional Emergency Exit: Tartarus prisoners, including Nagant, find themselves free after being transported into another world. The HPSC only succeed in recapturing a fifth of them. The other four-fifths remain free, including Nagant who urges Izuku and Nejire to travel as far away from the starting city as possible.
• Famed In-Story: Izuku and his party becomes famous for becoming high-levelled in a relatively short time-frame and for being Earthlings who are not on the HPSC's side. Even the King and Queen of the kingdom they're in have heard of them.
• Familiar: Upon reaching level 10, an adventurer can get an animal companion that is bonded to them.
  • Izuku gets a western-style dragon he names Fluffy.
  • Nagant gets an owl she names Deadeye.
  • Nejire gets an eastern-style dragon she names Lapis.
  • Tokoyami reunites with Dark Shadow when he obtains her as a familiar.
  • Shouji's is a stone golem with four arms he names Aegis.
  • Tomura's is a blue snake he names Shadowripper. Although it later dies from abuse and neglect from him.
• Fantastic Racism: The actions of the HPSC has resulted in a significant portion of the Lechageía natives to discriminate against Earthlings. This is causing a lot of counter-racism from the Earthlings towards the natives.
• For Want Of A Nail: The nail is that the actions of a certain Villain organisation caused everyone to be transported to another world. The canon of My Hero Academia goes completely Off the Rails from there.
• Gullible Lemmings: A lot of the people from the world of My Hero Academia fall for the HPSC's lies when they convince them to try and take over the starting city, with Bakugou being one of the more fervent patsies. Inko is one of the few to recognise the claims for the Blatant Lies they are.
• Gut Feeling: Individuals with honed instincts can develop the Instinct skill, which boosts their intuition of feeling something is wrong.
• Happily Adopted: Eri is happy to be taken in by Inko.
• Horrible Judge of Character: All Might thinks the HPSC are a pillar of righteousness. His predecessor Nana is quick to correct him and stops him from helping the HPSC or their supporters.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Nagant gains the skill Sharpshooter's Eye, which improves her already good accuracy to great. Coordinating with Deadeye enhances this even further, as she can see what Deadeye does to shoot around obstacles with precision.
• Innocently Insensitive: Nagant calls Izuku weird but quickly regrets it after he flinches badly from it even though she didn't mean anything bad by it.
• Internal Reveal:
  • The wielders of One for All find out All for One is alive in Chapter 4.
  • Izuku finds out that the entire population of his world was transported during the Reincarnation in Chapter 6.
  • In Chapter 11, Hisashi informs Yoichi that All Might is the one who broke his nephew Izuku's faith in heroes, not he All for One, All Might.
• The Leader: Nejire names Izuku as their party's leader since he's both the most knowledgeable of how the world works as well as the strongest of their group. She and Kaina hold fast to calling him their leader even as their party grows.
• Level Grinding: Izuku and Shigaraki are racking as many levels as they can in as little time as possible. However it is later pointed out to Izuku that doing this too quickly can actually be detrimental.
• Like a Duck Takes to Water: Izuku and Shigaraki are the fastest adapters to Lechageía due to playing lots of videogames, the former to stave off loneliness, the latter because he is just plain obsessed. Izuku also has the advantage of not needing to adapt to suddenly losing his Quirk since he did not have one to lose.
• Meaningful Rename:
  • Recognising the opportunity to start afresh in Lechageía, Izuku renames himself Emerald to shed the pain of his past.
  • Nagant comes to embrace her new name of Kaina despite it originally being an alias. Nejire's enthusiasm for it helping.
• Missed Him by That Much: Barely subverted. Aizawa and Kurogiri who was formerly Aizawa's friend Shirakumo pass right by each other and while Kurogiri does not recognise his friend from his previous life, Aizawa just managed to catch that he passed by his thought-dead friend.
• Money Dumb: Nejire is prone to making frivolous purchases if unsupervised, which is why Nagant makes sure to follow her when she goes shopping to make sure she doesn't blow their money.
• Ms. Fanservice: Nejire is travelling around in skimpy armour. Izuku tries his darned best to ignore this fact. Unfortunately for him, Nejire can and will take advantage of her hotness to force him to take a break from grinding.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Invoked. Nagant takes up archery knowing it's the closest available replacement to her lost rifle-Quirk that can actually make use of the skillset she developed for her Quirk.
  • To lay low after they resurrect in Kyakorok, Nagant changes her name to Kaina Tsutsumi, her canon name which was revealed after this story gave her a different one.
• New Life in Another World Bonus: Inverted. Izuku is one of the few who does not suffer the penalty of suddenly losing their Quirk upon being transported to Lechageía.
• No Badass to His Valet: All Might may be the Symbol of Peace and Number 1 Hero of Japan, but to his predecessors, he is just a peer at best. Heck, All Might acts deferential to them.
• Not So Above It All: Even Nagant finds Fluffy cute, but she doesn't want to admit it.
• Off the Rails: The canon of My Hero Academia is completely destroyed after everyone is transported to another world. Only the characters and their prior personal histories and relationships remain. Everything else is completely changed.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Nagant and Nejire only know Izuku as Emerald.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The party of Izuku, Nagant and Nejire is a party of a bullied boy who's trying to move beyond his past, a jaded former-hero wronged by the corrupt Hero Commision, and a hero-in-training that is so bubbly she managed to drive a fae to near-madness out of sheer annoyance. Later, Tokoyami, whom Izuku describes as a hardcore roleplayer joins the party to Dark Shadow's exasperation, and with him comes Shouji who is stoic and reliable but with six arms.
• Reality Warper: Several children with Quirks that let them warp reality were kidnapped and doped on Trigger by a Villain organisation. What the Villains' actual goals were with this is never discovered, but the result is the transporting of the entire world to a new one.
• Related in the Adaptation: The tags reveal All For One is Izuku's father.
• Riches to Rags: All transported people lose whatever wealth and resources they had unless they were physically carrying them, which means the rich people of Earth lose most of their fortunes. Some families like the Yaoyorozus are doing what they can to build themselves back up.
• RPG Mechanics 'Verse: Lechageía is video game-like with video game mechanics. There's levels, character stats, and menus, among other things.
• Savage Wolves: Izuku and his party have to save a village from a pack of wolves. It turns out to be a wider issue when not only are there a huge amount of wolves with increasing average levels, it is revealed the wolves are led by a Wolf Pack Alpha that evolves into a Blood Wolf Boss, which causes normal wolves to evolve into Blood Wolves. It was strong enough to temporarily kill Nejire and Kaina, but Izuku returned the favor.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: When Izuku gets new clothes, he looks much better and Tokoyami sends a picture to Nejire knowing she'd enjoy it. He's right and Nejire blushes, gets a nosebleed, and faints.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Izuku denies Nagant and Nejire are his girlfriends when the villagers they save call them as such. Kaina makes clear she has no interest in him, but knows Nejire does.
• Sleep Aesop: Izuku's party tells him that rest is important and that his excessive training is actually counterproductive to the goal of getting stronger.
• Starting a New Life: The Earthlings that accept they are never getting back to Earth start new lives in Lechageía with varying degrees of enthusiasm. For example, Nagant is glad to escape her wrongful imprisonment and adapts to being an adventurer, being given pretty much a clean slate, while Inko uses her professional skills to help the local government prosecute cases against the HPSC forces.
• Too Kinky to Torture: When the fae tricks Nejire into wearing cursed armour that's skimpy, it gets baffled and despondent Nejire actually likes it.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Nejire manages to drive a fae to near-madness with her constant pestering, that lasted for nine-and-a-half hours based on the given timeline.
• Trapped in Another World: The entire world of My Hero Academia is transported to another world, and according to the narration, this is permanent.
• Undying Loyalty: All for One has many subordinates who are so loyal they don't care about everyone losing their Quirks. They will stick by him regardless. This includes Gigantomachia.
• Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Tomura mistreating his familiar has resulted in the familiar hating him, which results in him losing said familiar to permanent death.
• Wham Episode:
  • Chapter 11
    • Has Izuku's party fighting the Blood Wolf Boss which kills Nagant and Nejire, forcing them to resurrect in a different city. This devastates Izuku and after he kills the Blood Wolf Boss in retaliation, he asks Shouji and Tokoyami if they would help him reunite with them, and in doing so, accidentally sends them a Guild Invite.
    • AFO reveals he is Izuku's father to Yoichi, and the existence of Inko as well.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Nana calls out All Might for telling Izuku he couldn't be a hero.
  • Present Mic calls out Aizawa for his inability to adapt to their new world and trying to cling to the way their old world work, just like the HPSC, who incited riots in a power-grab.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: All For One simply abandons Dr. Garaki to his fate due to the fact his knowlege of quirks is no longer needed because quirks are no longer a thing.

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