Watashi no Hero Academia!
is a My Hero Academia fanfic by Josie_Lynn on Archive of Our Own. It's an alternate telling of the story told from Ochako Uraraka's point of view, making it a Shoujo story.
A spinoff, The Big OT3, focuses on the Big Three (Amajiki Tamaki, Hadou Nejire, and Toogata Mirio) during their first year at U.A.
Watashi no Hero Academia! features the following tropes:
- Abled in the Adaptation:
- Since they never faced off, Chizome never cut off his nose after being defeated by Knuckleduster.
- Pop☆Step never fell victim of Queen Bee's brainwashing, so she did not lose her left eye.
- Since Stendhal never became Stain, Tensei Iida is not maimed before the Internships week.
- Absurdly Youthful Mother: Gura Kirishima. Upon meeting her, Mina genuinely believes that she is Ejiro's younger sister, something that woman finds amusing.
- Abusive Parents:
- Mina's are the emotional kind, being transphobic and homophobic while constantly criticizing her life choices. She openly admits she feels they don't so much love her more that they love who they want her to be.
- While not her actual parent, Stendhal is the closest thing Himiko has to a guardian, and can be very rough during "training" whenever she angers him, even leaving scars on her body. After Himiko returns from failing to recruit Ochako, he subjects Himiko to a "training session" where he drives into her how pissed at her he is, and demands she forget any emotional attachment she has to Ochako in favor of devoting herself to their mission.
- Adaptational Gender Identity:
- Both Thirteen/Kurose and Kyoka are Non-Binary, the latter realizing this about themselves after hearing Kurose admit such and finally having a word to use.
- Kirishima is female-to-male Transgender, born "Eiko", now "Eijiro".
- Adaptational Heroism: An Anti-Hero example.
- Chizome Akaguro still goes by his vigilante alias, Stendhal, and not his villain alias, Stain, the Hero Killer. Although he is still just as brutal in handling villains as he was in early canon, and just as brutal on his followers.
- In the same vein, Himiko Toga, Tenko Shimura, Twice, Mr. Compress, and Mustard are part of Stendhal's Anti-Hero Team.
- Kendo Rappa/The Rapper, is not a member of the Yakuza, but a Pro Hero, one of O'Clock's sidekicks alongside Mirko.
- Adaptational Name Change:
- Mina succeeds in convincing Midnight to let her keep "Alien Queen", instead of "Pinky".
- Since Tensei wasn't maimed, he doesn't ask for Tenya to take the mantle of Ingenium, Tenya picks "Roadster Hero: Dauntless".
- Downplayed. Bakugo still goes with "Dynamight" as his Hero Name, but he picks it right from the start rather than his initial choices of "King Explosion Murder" or "Lord Explosion Murder". He also shortens it, going for just "Explosive Hero: Dynamight" rather than his mouthful of a canon name "Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight".
- Adaptational Nationality: Canonically, Mina is purely Japanese. Here, she's half Japanese on her dad's side, half Filipino on her mom's side. When she shows an older picture of her family to Ochako, she's shown to have had light brownish skin as an infant like her mother, Mina explaining her pink skin came in over time in a manner similar to vitiligo due to her dad's genes.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Thanks to Ochako, Bakugou apologizes to Izuku after the Sports Festival, much earlier in canon where it only came as a result of seeing Izuku mentally breakdown and Bakugo, already The Atoner over what he did, apologized to him in the hopes of reaching out to him.
- Adaptational Sexuality:
- Bakugo's orientation in canon is unknown. Here, he is openly gay, and says such to Jiro when he mistakenly thinks they're flirting with him and was unaware they were Non-Binary.
- While his sexuality in canon is unexplored, Todoroki is confirmed asexual here when he's the only one of Midnight's class to be immune to her Somnambulist Quirk.
- Adaptational Villainy: Downplayed. Shinso Hitoshi is successfully recruited into Stendhal's Anti-Hero Team, whereas in canon they were firmly heroic, even becoming Aizawa's personal student.
- Ascended Extra:
- Played With regarding Ochako. She is undoubtedly one of the most important characters of the main story, but depending on the arc, she is either in or Out of Focus, only firmly taking a main character role in the final two arcs. Here, she is the main character from the outset.
- Kenshi and Hanako Uraraka, Ochako's parents, are recurring cast members.
- Midnight is Class 1-A's homeroom teacher instead of Eraserhead.
- Born in the Wrong Century: The Ashido parents hold rather dated views on gender and sexual identity, and make that regularly clear when talking to Mina. They think her being interested in girls is a "phase" kids her age go through and blame it on her going to an all-girls school before UA, that her fashion choices make her look like a floozy and are bad for her image, treat asexuality and homosexuality as simply "confusing thoughts", and don't recognize that "Eiko" is trans and called "Eijiro" now. It reaches a boiling point for Mina when they ask her about having a boyfriend and start criticizing all of her life choices, causing her to lash out at them and stay at Eijiro's instead, confiding in his mothers how she wished her parents would love her for her and not just who they want her to be.
- Canon Character All Along: Mori Kiku, the first friend Ochako makes in Mustufu, is revealed to actually be Himiko Toga.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Ochako feels betrayed when her friend Kiko reveals she's Himiko Toga and attacks her.
- For Want Of A Nail:
- The main nail of the story is that Aizawa was present during All Might's fight against All for One six years prior. With him erasing the villain's Quirks, this allows All Might deliver a killing blow against his nemesis, putting an end to the monster's reign of terror. This leads to a cascade of changes in the timeline.
- First of all, Eraserhead captures Kurogiri. Which leads to him finding out that the warper is Oboro Shirakumo, and for the next five years, he tries to work on a way to rerverse his nomufication.
- O'Clock never loses his Quirk, which means he never becomes the vigilante Knuckleduster.
- Without Knuckleduster, Crawler and Pop☆Step are mentored by Stendhal instead. Eventually, they are saved from the vigilante's toxic influnce and become Eraserhead's sideckicks.
- At some point Kendo Rappa became O'Clock's sideckick alongside Mirko.
- Without All for One around, Tenko Shimura never becomes Tomura Shigaraki and starts to work as a vigilante alongside Stendhal.
- Midnight is Class 1-A’s homeroom teach instead of Aizawa. Because of that several things change.
- Midoriya manages to get a better handle of his Quirk.
- Bakugo is warned early on about controlling his temper and not antagonizing Midoriya.
- The USJ is completely different, with no League of Villains involved at all. Chapter 25 reveals that it was actually a Secret Test of Character caused by Stendhal in order to find out who in Class 1-A is worthy of being called a true hero.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: Invoked by Mineta when he finds out Yaoyorozu and Jiro are dating. The majority of the rest of the class are just disgusted at his openly objectifying their relationship and acting like nothing was wrong with it, and Jiro is livid since Mineta misgendered them in the process, sending them into enough of a frenzy that they stabbed Shoji with their jacks when he tried restraining them before they could kill Mineta.
- Hanlon's Razor: Something many of the guys realize about Mineta is that it's less he's an asshole, and more he's a perverted idiot with absolutely no filter. To this end, Kaminari and Sero regularly try to reign him in so he doesn't offend people like he did when he misgendered Kyoka, and Izuku considers asking Eijiro to help him sit down with Mineta and talk to him. So while the girls and Kyoka understandably dislike him, the guys at least are willing to try and help him see how his actions are wrong and help him improve.
- Meaningful Name:
- Himiko's vigilante name, "Carmilla, The Vampire Queen" is a reference to the novel of same name.
- Tenko's name, "Din Mak, The Touch of Death" is reference to the fake martial art attack of same name.
- Tenya's hero name, Dauntless, has two meanings: In English, it means 'fearlessness' and 'determination'. The Dauntless V6 was also a General Motors engine made for Jeep, a reference to his speedster Quirk.
- Polyamory:
- The tags on AO3 reveal that the girls of 1-A, Midoriya, and Himiko Toga will be in this kind of relationship.
- Midnight, Eraserhead and Present Mic have been in a polyamorous relationship since high school. They used to have a fourth member, all but said to be Oboro Shirakumo.
- Koichi Haimawari/Crawler, Kazuho Haneyama/Pop☆Step and Makoto Tsukauchi are revealed to be polyamorous in chapter 33.
- Tamaki, Nejire, and Mirio are part of a threesome.
- Rage Breaking Point: Jiro already didn't like Mineta, but after he finds out that they and Yaoyorozu are dating and misgenders them when he invokes Girl on Girl Is Hot, Jiro goes into enough of a rage that Shoji had to restrain them before they try to actually kill Mineta, with Jiro even stabbing Shoji with their jacks in order to free themselves. Not even Midnight coming in and demanding to know what happened calmed them down, forcing her to use Somnambulist on them alongside the rest of the class.
- Shout-Out: Several, specially to the fics that inspired the story:
- The Thirteen rescue scene from chapter 2 was inspired by a similar one in Ignited Spark.
- Himiko's vigilante identity, Carmilla, The Vampire Queen, is her hero name in A Hero Rises.
- Chapter 30's title is Float With Me, a reference to a fic with the same name. And much like there, Izuku unlocks Float before Blackwhip.
- Chapter 41 is titled "Thank You for the Fish", and chapter 42 is titled "The Answer", both are references to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
