History Fanfic / ThinkBeforeYouSpeakMHA

** Tensei semi-impulsively abuses his fame to doxx and spread negative press about a previously publicly unknown child in an interview. This act is seen as such a severe incident of misconduct that ''he's'' the one who ends up dragged in the press, and his statements motivate both the governent and highly respected icons like All Might and Endeavor to publicly refute his allergations and condemn his behavior. He's subsequently put on a probationary license, which removes him from leadership of his family's agency as he's no longer qualified. This also wrecks his relationship with the brother Tensei thought he was avenging.

** Aizawa's intent is to make the training accident into a public scandal, ideally one that will generate enough pressure to push Izuku out of the Hero Course. He doesn't consider what a public scandal will mean for UA beyond the effect he hopes it will have on Izuku.

** Bakugou views his month of detention and removal from this year's Sports Festival as this, since he doesn't see using lethal force against Izuku as wrong. The [=HPSC=] sees this as an inversion, and UA barely got them to agree to such a light punishment based on the fact that it was Bakugou's [[DramaticIrony first offense]].

** As heavily implied in the story and confirmed by WordOfGod, Aizawa's entire scheme banked on the people who know the truth allowing Izuku to become TheScapegoat in order to protect Bakugou, whom Aizawa judged to be a far more valuable student with far greater potential than Izuku. In actuality, the HPSC judges Bakugou to have so ''little'' potential that the main reason they let UA give him detention instead of expulsion is because they believe he's going to tank UA's reputation further, opening the door for even more HPSC oversight.

* EpicFail: One of the few outright hilarious moments of the story is [[spoiler:the League of Villains' utterly FailedAttemptAtDrama when they attack the USJ facility without knowing that UA cancelled the excursion.]] It does lead to a more dramatic plot point when [[spoiler:the League looks into why the excursion was cancelled and [[VillainTakesAnInterest become interested in recruiting Bakugou]] much earlier than in canon.]]

* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: Bakugou hates Izuku enough for having the gall of entering UA to attack him with deadly force in a field exercise and [[NeverMyFault is completely unable to understand that]], no, "it's because Deku was pissing me off" is not a viable defense for his actions.
* FiredTeacher: [[spoiler:Aizawa, predictably. It isn't enough to spare UA the negative PR and investigations that result from having employed him.]]

** {{Discussed}} by Chitose and Rikiya; the latter points out that Tensei's judgment was clouded by concern over his younger brother's condition. However, Chitose counters that it's still a PR nightmare and that he brought it up while she was asking him about a completely unrelated topic.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Aizawa's excuses for his MaliciousSlander BatmanGambit. He argues that Heroics doesn't need someone as self-sacrificing as Izuku. It's pointed out that being willing to put oneself at risk to save others is a valid and necessary aspect of Heroics as well as a major aspect of the UA entrance exam, while the student Aizawa favored demonstrates a pattern of violence and no instinct to help anyone. Aizawa argues Bakugou can change, but denies that Izuku can. When questioned why, he gives as evidence that Izuku hasn't even bothered to learn quirk control in the ten years he's had his strength, whereas every other student had better control. Upon learning how wrong ''that'' assumption is, he doubles down on insisting that Izuku isn't fit for UA because he'll need copious resources to learn quirk control... despite the fact that he's at a school designed, in part, for exactly that, and it's pointed out within the story that individuals not given a Heroics Education typically ''don't'' get the chance to learn much of quirk control, so Aizawa's argument is basically that Izuku should be deprived of proper training because he needs the training ''too much.'' After making this statement, Aizawa goes silent, refusing to back down or respond to any more questions.

** UA and its staff are much more politically vulnerable, having lost too much public trust to maintain complete autonomy and protect themselves from outside pressure and power plays.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Aizawa's plan to ruin Izuku's reputation in the field of Pro Heroics actually ends up ruining a lot of things for himself. However, it has the additional side effect of forcing more people in UA to recognize that Izuku's circumstances require more support than UA was initially set to give him. Bakugou offhandedly mentions that Izuku is now getting additional personalized lessons with All Might's old teacher, which implies Aizawa's actions have moved up the timeline of Izuku's lessons with Gran Torino, presumably altering the events of the Sports Festival and beyond.
* NoSocialSkills: Tenya, played for drama. Due to his rigid personality, Tenya really struggled to form positive relationships with his peers prior to UA. It makes the fallout of Tensei's actions terrifying for him, as he fears his peers will blame him for Tensei's misinformation and he'll lose the chance he had for friends.

* OhCrap: Aizawa has a {{Downplayed}} one when he recognizes that both the ''president'' of the Commission and Endeavor are getting ''personally'' involved in the investigation into his actions. Followed by a more serious one when Saito asks if he actually ''reads his student's files'', and drops the bombshell of how Izuku's Quirk had only recently come in, causing him to realize he'd unintentionally trapped himself.

** As heavily implied in the story and confirmed by WordOfGod, Aizawa's entire scheme banked on the people who know the truth allowing Izuku to become TheScapegoat in order protect Bakugou, whom Aizawa judged to be a far more valuable student with far greater potential than Izuku. In actuality, the HPSC judges Bakugou to have so ''little'' potential that the main reason they let UA give him detention instead of expulsion is because they believe he's going to tank UA's reputation further, opening the door for even more HPSC oversight.

** As heavily implied in the story and confirmed by WordOfGod, Aizawa's entire scheme banked on the people who know the truth allowing Izuku to become TheScapegoat in order protect Bakugou, whom Aizawa judged to be a far more valuable student with far greater potential than Izuku. Meanwhile, the HPSC judges Bakugou to have so ''little'' potential that the main reason they let UA give him detention instead of expulsion is because they believe he's going to tank UA's reputation further, opening the door for even more HPSC oversight.

* DramaticIrony: In "Implosion", the first installment of ''Words May Hurt'', it's noted that the sole reason Katsuki isn't being outright expelled is due to this being his 'first strike'. This unintentionally reveals that Nedzu and U.A. are not only unaware of Katsuki's history at Aldera, but that he brazenly attacked Izuku during the Quirk Assessment Test as well.

** Itaden's reputation is damaged by association and vulnerable to litigation, with Tensei's father forced out of retirement to head the agency in Tensei's stead.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Aizawa receives this following his decision to lie about the circumstances of Tenya's injury and Tensei's decision to speak to the media. For instance, since Aizawa signed an incident report that contained a truthful account of what happened, then lied to Tensei with malicious intentions towards one of his own students, he's immediately suspended, with Midnight noting that he's likely to be fired from his teaching job. Both he and Tensei are put on probationary licenses as well.

* FailedAttemptAtDrama: [[spoiler:The League of Villains dramatically busts into USJ, only to find that nobody is there because the training excersise was cancelled in light of Bakugou's attack on Izuku. All they can do is shuffle off impotently.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Thanks to Aizawa and Tensei's poor decisions:
** Itaden's reputation is damaged by association and Tensei's father is forced out of retirement to head the agency in Tensei's stead.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Thanks to Aizawa and Tensei's poor decisions, the HSPC has gained more leverage to start forcing their way into U.A.'s affairs. President Saito even thinks to herself that if not for their actions, she likely would have had to leave U.A. alone in order to ensure Bakugou's 'inevitable failure' was shackled firmly and completely to the school's neck.