Children are naturally good. They're pure hearted, kind and lovely. They don't know what is evil, so they can't be evil. It's such a simple truth not many can understand. Children, so young and innocent, are incapable of being vile and horrible. It's adults and even some teens who can corrupt them. Children learn by watching older people. And that means they learn how to be naughty. Corrupted. And evil. So, what do you have to do to protect them from such a cruel fate?
Easy! You get rid of evil! Such an easy plan!
But how is it the heroes haven't achieved such an objective yet? Why are there too many villains lurking about, waiting to rob, steal and kill? Well, they aren't doing their job properly, are they?
But that just means you need a hero who's really pure and innocent. Someone who wants to protect little ones from corruption. And this is a story of such one boy. A boy, who has become the Symbol of Innocence.
Izuku's Playtime
is a crossover between My Hero Academia and Poppy Playtime, made by Ameretto1. When Izuku was six, he had ran away from home after his father attempted to beat him to death. Beaten, hungry and near death, he stumbled into an old, abandoned factory. He would find himself a loving and caring family.
Even if they are a bunch of sentient and aware toys.
On April 1st, 2024, the author has listed a note to tell the fans of the fanfic that he is not dead and that the fic will continue after he has recovered from the clusterfuck that happened from the last update of his fic to now.
Izuku's Playtime contains Tropes of the Following:
- Abusive Parents: Hisashi was verbally and physically abusive to both Izuku and Inko due to Izuku's Quirkless status. Eventually culminating in the attempted murder of Izuku and Inko's death.
- Adaptational Heroism: All the toys are nowhere near as evil as they are in the home game.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Instead of One for All, Izuku's Quirk is called Playtime, allowing him to summon members of his family to help in any situation. It's also to hide that Izuku lives in an abandoned toy factory containing living toys.
- Adapted Out: The author has decided to discontinue the Eikyo arc due to severe internal issues, ranging from losing his car to being scammed.
- An Arm and a Leg: More like a hand and a leg, but during the Training Camp attack, one of Bunzo's cymbals cuts off Spinner's blade hand, casuing the lizardman to scream. Garaki was able to put it back.
- A more dark example is when Izuku has his arm ripped off during his fight with Eikyo. The toys don't like that. At all. At least they were able to reattach his arm.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: Said word for word by Overhaul at the end of Chapter 18.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Izuku is a lovely, stuffy and cuddly toy. Piss him off, and he becomes a ruthless, bloodthirsty monster that can eat swords and viciously put down an S-rank serial killer with ruthless ease. Izuku is also aware if he goes too deep into that side, he will become a monster that will do nothing but rip his opponents to shreds and eat them.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: When the toys fight against All for One after the training camp, it was less of a fight, and more of a one-sided beatdown, leaving the Quirk Boogeyman completely mangled, crying and begging for death.
- Cuteness Overload: Izuku. Miruko notes that the adorableness Izuku radiates could potentially cause diabetes in anyone not exposed to so much cuteness.
- Death by Adaptation: Inko is killed by her husband when he was in a drunken rage.
- To save Izuku, Mommy Long Legs destroys the Prototype and uses his parts to make Izuku part human, part toy.
- Didn't See That Coming: Kurogiri is surprised when seeing what looks like a cat with a long tongue restrain him. Everyone else, hero, hero student and villain alike, are left either dumbstruck or pulverized when seeing living toys come out of nowhere.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Instead of his canon fate of Death by De-aging, it’s mentioned that, after his defeat, All for One was taken into custody and executed.
- Friend to All Children: Izuku is this to all the kids. Given he's a sentient toy whose main goal is to make children happy, he is quite friendly.
- Gilded Cage: Eikyo's childhood was nothing short of vapid and stifling since her parents never gave her the affection she needed growing up despite living in luxury, causing her to snap after she was married off to a corporate heir she had zero feelings for.
- Happily Adopted: Izuku to the Playtime Co. Toys. Mandalay notes how creepy it is that Izuku's family is a bunch of sentient toys.
- Internal Reveal: Ochako finds out Izuku lives in an abandoned toy factory full of sentient toys.
- The rest of Class 1A, bar Bakugou and Todoroki, also find out as well.
- All Might and Eraserhead visit there to implement the dorm idea with Mommy Long Legs.
- Killer Bear Hug: Naturally, Huggy does this quite a bit. He even does it to All for One.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: When brought back as a sentient toy, Izuku had no memories of his past life as a human. Given all his past memories were of injury, pain and suffering, would he really want those memories back?
- Living Toys: The Playtime Co. Toys and Izuku.
- Locked Out of the Loop: The recruits were pissed that Shigaraki didn't tell them that they would be facing some nightmarish monsters. Spinner and Magne were very infuriated given Spinner had his hand cut off and Magne got a Killer Bear Hug.
- Mook Horror Show: The USJ thugs end up being beaten and pulverized by Izuku's family, excluding the ones the hero students took down already.
- Point of Divergence:
- Before canon began, Izuku stumbled his way into Playtime, dreary and near death. He is rescued by Mommy Long Legs and becomes part of the family, the Prototype's sacrifice making Izuku part human, part toy.
- Iida calls Izuku out for mumbling, like in canon. Unlike Canon, others view him as bullying a fluffy rabbit boy, which isn't good in heroics.
- The USJ incident ends a lot differently, with the toys effortlessly dispatching the USJ thugs and the anti-All Might Nomu, forcing Shigaraki and Kurogiri to flee before All Might shows up.
- Izuku takes Miruko for the internships, rather than Gran Torino in canon.
- The hideout raid plays out a lot differently than canon. With Kissy Missy, Bunzo Bunny and Cat Bee destroying all the Nomus and incapacitating Garaki, before arriving alongside Kissy, Huggy and Mommy to brutalize and incapacitate All for One, putting Shigaraki's group even further on the backfoot.
