History Fanfic / IAmRedacted

A story of secrets, mystery and love.

* AdaptationalBadass: As this story starts six years after canon, all of Class 1-A are now heroes, meaning they are infinitely stronger than their canon-selves. Of particular note is Izuku, who has fully mastered One For All [[spoiler:(including the Quirks of his predecessors)]].

* AlwaysSecondBest: Katsuki, to Nimbus. Katsuki became the Number Two hero in less than a year, something that should've been a historical feat -- had Nimbus not beat him to the Number One spot in even less time.

* BattleCouple: After Izuku unmasks himself as Nimbus and then goes public with his relationship with Ochako, he takes her up on her offer to become her sidekick and the two become official partners.

** All For One and All Might still had their fight which resulted the former being permanently defeated and being imprisoned to Tartarus and the latter permanently being DePowered and forced into retirement.
** One of those things is Mirio losing his Quirk while rescuing Eri, though by the present storyline Eri has learned to control her Quirk enough to help him regain it by de-aging him.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: How Izuku describes his relationship with Melissa. They're best friends and partners, but have no romantic interest in one another.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Izuku both subverts this and plays it straight. By keeping a SecretIdentity, he's able to remain close with his parents, which was his primary motivation for adopting one in the first place. His social life, on the other hand, has suffered greatly; he was forced to cut off contact with all his friends in America after moving back to Japan because they could compromise his identity, and has been unable to allow anyone else close to him in the three years since for the same reason. It wasn't until Ochako came into his life that Izuku was willing to bend this rule for someone, helped by All Might's encouragement.

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Izuku point blank tells Katsuki that he refuses to be his punching bag again, and that he could either rejoin his old classmates and act as a normal person, or just leave his family's bakery and never come back. Katsuki opts to leave.
* ParentsAsPeople: Hisashi is described as this. According to Inko, he honestly does love his family, but lives and works in America so his wife and son can live comfortably. A chance to reconnect with Hisashi helped cement Izuku's decision to go to America for high school, and by the time the main story starts, the family is closer than ever.

* SecretIdentity: Izuku, natch. It's especially notable in the world of ''My Hero Academia'' because almost no other pro hero has a secret identity in this day and age; Izuku had to make a deal with the Japanese government in order to have real name and personal information blacked out in public documents. It's actually how his nickname, Redacted, came about -- whenever someone tried to research him using public records, the word [REDACTED] would take the place of wherever his real name would appear, and eventually people started calling him that instead of Nimbus.
* SecretKeeper: Inko, Hisashi, and Melissa know about One For All in this story.
** Ochako is the first person out of his close knit circle to learn Izuku's secret identity as Nimbus.

* WholePlotReference: The story is essentially a homage of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' set in the world of ''My Hero Academia'', with Izuku as the titular hero and Ochako as Lois Lane.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Since this is technically a post-canon story, Izuku has full control over One For All and is All Might's successor as the Symbol of Peace and the strongest hero in the world.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Izuku isn’t acquainted with the members of 1-A outside Bakugo at the start of the story due to [[ForWantOfANail his decision to study in the States instead of U.A]].

* ForWantOfANail: Izuku's decision to attend hero school in America instead of Japan changes things for all of U.A., not just him.
** Because Izuku is his successor, All Might followed him to America and became a teacher at the private hero institution Izuku attended. It's implied that the League of Villains shifted their base of operations to America as a result of that.
*** Because the League of Villains based themselves in a different country, many of the events of canon that they were involved in never happened, such as the USJ incident and Katsuki's kidnapping. However, the final clash between All Might and All For One a la Kamino Ward still occurred, just in America; though the exact circumstances that led to that confrontation are still unknown.
** Tenya now has a prosthetic arm. It's implied he got this after his confrontation with Stain, and Izuku's absence from said situation led to the loss of his real arm.
** Shoto never makes an appearance, but when mentioned, he is described as "cold", suggesting that without Izuku, nobody else managed to get him to defrost and he continued to remain aloof with the rest of Class 1-A during their three years at U.A. It's also not clarified if he's using his left side, though there is a high likelihood that he isn't.

* DarkSecret: Played for Laughs when, after Izuku reveals he's Nimbus to Ochako, she says her own secret is that she covers up her KansaiRegionalAccent.

** Shoto has yet to make an appearance, but when mentioned, he is described as "cold", suggesting that without Izuku, nobody else managed to get him to defrost and he continued to remain aloof with the rest of Class 1-A during their three years U.A. It's also not clarified if he's using his left side, though there is a high likelihood that he isn't.

* RealityEnsues: After spending a few years in an environment where people are actually supportive of his dreams and genuinely cared to make sure that said dreams became a reality, Izuku grew out of his respect for Bakugo and realizes that their relationship after the blonde awakened his [[HavingABlast quirk]] was highly toxic.

* InsistentAppellation: At the start of his hero career, Izuku had to keep on reminding reporters and fans that his official hero name was ''Nimbus'', not Redacted. Nobody listened, and he eventually gave up correcting them.

* WorldsStrongestMan: Since this is technically a post-canon story, Izuku has full control over One For All and is All Might's successor as the Symbol Peace and the strongest hero in the world.

*** As the Ninth holder of One For All, Izuku managed to awaken [[spoiler:Black Whip and presumably the other quirks that the previous OFA holders had]].

* SecretIdentity: Izuku, natch. It's especially notable in the world of ''My Hero Academia'' because almost no other pro hero has a secret identity in this day and age; Izuku had to make a deal with the Japanese government in order to have real name and personal information blacked out in public documents. It's actually how his nickname, Redacted, came about -- whenever someone tried to research him using public records, the word[REDACTED] would take the place of wherever his real name would appear, and eventually people started calling him that instead of Nimbus.

* SecretIdentity: Izuku, natch. It's especially notable in the world of ''My Hero Academia'' because almost no other pro hero has a secret identity in this day and age; Izuku had to make a deal with the Japanese government in order to have real name and personal information blacked out in public documents. It's actually how his nickname, Redacted, came about -- whenever someone tried to research him using public records, the word [[AC:[REDACTED[=]=]]] would take the place of wherever his real name would appear, and eventually people started calling him that instead of Nimbus.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Izuku gives a huge one to Katsuki after the meet again for the first time in seven years, barely allowing the other man to get a word in edgewise. It was presumably effective, seeing as Katsuki left after he was done without bothering to argue back.

* RealityEnsues: After spending a few years in an environment where people are actually supportive of his dreams and genuinely cared to make sure that said dreams became a reality, Izuku grew out of his respect for Bakugo and realizes that their relationship after he awakened his [[HavingABlast quirk]] was highly toxic.

** There is an implication that the Stain incident still happened leading up to Iida confronting him, but one of the big changes due to Izuku’s absence is having an artificial arm.

* GenerationXerox: As lampshaded by Izuku, he and Katsuki are the All Might and Endeavor of their generation. Katsuki is an absolutely amazing hero, but can't hold a candle to Izuku no matter how hard he tries thanks to the StoryBreakerPower that is One For All. And, just like Endeavor, Katsuki ''[[BeserkButton hates]]'' that he is AlwaysSecondBest to Nimbus/Redacted.

* GenerationXerox: As lampshaded by Izuku, he and Katsuki are the All Might and Endeavor of their generation. Katsuki is an absolutely amazing hero, but can't hold a candle to Izuku no matter how hard he tries thanks to the StoryBreakerPower that is One For All. And, just like Endeavor, [[BeserkButton Katsuki ''hates'' that he is]] AlwaysSecondBest to Nimbus/Redacted.

* GenerationXerox: As lampshaded by Izuku, he and Katsuki are the All Might and Endeavor of their generation. Katsuki is an absolutely amazing hero, but can't hold a candle to Izuku no matter how hard he tries thanks to the StoryBreakerPower that is One For All. And, just like Endeavor, [[BeseriButton Katsuki ''hates'' that he is]] AlwaysSecondBest to Nimbus/Redacted.

* GenerationXerox: As lampshaded by Izuku, he and Katsuki are the All Might and Endeavor of their generation. Katsuki is an absolutely amazing hero, but can't hold a candle to Izuku no matter how hard he tries thanks to the StoryBreakerPower that is One For All. And, just like Endeavor, Katsuki ''hates'' that he is AlwaysSecondBest to Nimbus/Redacted.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Izuku isn’t acquainted with the members of 1-A outside Bakugo due to [[ForWantOfANail his decision to study in the States instead of U.A]].