Fanfic / Queens Dressed in White

Queens Dressed in White is a My Hero Academia fanfic by AWholeLottaTransbians.

Inspired by the Seiai Academy AU by DeusVerve.

Yume Midoriya wants to be a heroine, but U.A. is hit by a scandal after a large-scale expulsion draws controversy. With U.A. under investigation, they are unable to take in any students for the year Yume would have attended. What's a girl to do? Thankfully, she has a childhood friend in Saiko Intelli and decides to join her at Seiai.

It is part of a series that can be found here.

Contains Examples Of:

• Adaptational Context Change: In the original Seiai Academy AU, Aizawa's controversial teaching methods were outed without any connection to the main characters. Here, it turns out the controversy is because Saiko was looking for a reason for her friend to attend Seiai with her instead of going to U.A. and when she found out about Aizawa's methods, she brought it to the attention of the Japanese School Board.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Because of Itsuka giving Yume martial arts advice, she develops Full Cowling before the first official day of school.
• Adaptational Gender Identity:
  • In canon, there is nothing to indicate Izuku was anything besides a cisgender male. Here, she was assigned male at birth but is a transgender female.
  • In canon, Thirteen presumably identifies as a woman. Here, they are non-binary and use any/all pronouns.
  • The following girls who were presumably cisgender girls in canon are revealed to be transgender girls in Chapter 15:
    • Tsuyu Asui.
    • Kinoko Komori.
    • Reiko Yanagi.
    • Kyouka Jirou.
    • Kashiko Sekigai.
    • Setsuna Tokage.
    • Ibara Shiozaki.
• Adaptational Heroism: The circumstances that led to Himiko becoming a villain has been butterflied and she becomes a hero student at Seiai.
• Adaptational Job Change: In canon, Mt Lady mostly stuck to being a pure Pro-Hero with only one guest lecturer appearance. Here, she becomes a homeroom teacher for the First Year Hero Students of Seiai. She also handles their main heroic lessons.
• Adaptational Karma:
  • Aizawa's scare expulsion tactics come under scrutiny, which extends to all of U.A. for letting him do that.
  • Aldera Middle School comes under fire for blatant discriminatory practices against their Quirkless student.
  • The Togas face repercussions for abusing and starving their child for over a decade.
• Adaptational Villainy: In canon, Aldera was by all appearances just a shitty school. Here, they are all but stated to be under the control of the Meta Liberation Army to indoctrinate impressionable kids into their preferred way of thinking.
• Adaptation Deviation: Both Momo and Mei become dual-course Hero and Support students at Seiai instead of sticking to a single course.
• Adaptation Name Change:
  • Because of her trans status, Izuku is her deadname and she goes by Yume instead.
  • As "Deku" is a name no one at Seiai would be aware of, Ochaco had to give Yume a new nickname. In this case "Usagi", after the way her hairstyle looks like rabbit ears.
  • Himiko sheds her previous family name of Toga in favour of Kayama following her adoption.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Yume and Saiko are childhood friends where in canon, they never met.
  • All the Hero Course girls that would have otherwise gone to U.A. are instead at Seiai, which completely rewrites their relationship with each other and makes whatever relationship they would have had with the male Hero Course students in canon nonexistent.
  • In canon, Mt Lady was just another hero to Midoriya. Here, due to Mt Lady being her homeroom teacher, they have a much closer relationship.
  • Midnight and Thirteen were just colleagues and friends in canon. Here, they are dating.
  • In canon, Reiko Yanagi never met Himiko Toga. Here, not only are the two close friends, but the former has a crush on the latter.
  • Kashiko was stated to have an online gaming rivalry with a "DustMaster420", who is implied to be Shigaraki. Such a rivalry does not exist in canon.
• Anti-Nepotism: Hero Teachers cannot recommend students to the schools they work at. This is why Momo, who has a cousin working at Seiai, can be recommended by her to U.A., but not to Seiai.
• Ascended Extra:
  • In canon, Saiko was an anime-only character that only appeared during the Provisional Licence Arc. Here, she has more prominence as Yume's childhood friend and due to the story focusing on Seiai.
  • In canon, the Class 1-B girls weren't very prominent. Habuko Mongoose only appeared in side materials of which some are not considered canon. Chikuchi Togeike and Mawata Fuwa had only brief appearances in canon. Hatsume was only prominent in a few arcs. Kashiko Sekigai only appeared in a single OVA that isn't considered canon. All of these girls now have more prominence by virtue of being Yume's classmates at Seiai's hero course.
• Boarding School: While canon is silent on the matter, in this story, Seiai is a boarding school and students live on campus.
• Class Representative: Kashiko and Mina are voted as the representatives of the First Year Hero Class at Seiai. They got a tie and played rock-paper-scissors to decide who is the Class Representative and who is the Vice. Kashiko wins, making Mina the Vice.
• Commonality Connection: Tiger is one of Yume's favourite heroes because they are both transgender.
• Crazy-Prepared: For their second Hero Training class, Mei brings out a projector so everyone can watch the proceedings of each individual round, even though Yume is sure Mei couldn't have possibly known ahead of time what they were going to do that day.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Defied. The entire reason Momo is a dual-course Hero/Support student is to avoid limiting herself.
• Destructive Saviour: Mt Lady bemoans the fact she was ranked the Number 1 most destructive hero in her debut week.
• Everyone Has Standards: The student body of Aldera may give Yume shit over her being Quirkless but they respect her being trans, unlike their teachers.
• Frame-Up: Mei's parents were framed for stealing Detnerat's designs when in fact it was Detnerat that stole theirs. They were unable to fight back against the claims due to them being small time engineers while Detnerat is a national company.
• Frivolous Lawsuit: Himiko's parents insist on pressing charges against her when the only proof of her being a "monster" was that she has to drink blood due to her Quirk. The judge was not amused and rules in Himiko's favour after only an hour. In fact, the only reason it made it that far was because the Heroes looking into Himiko's case decided to let them dig their own graves.
• Happily Adopted: Himiko is quite happy to be adopted by Midnight and Thirteen.
• Hammerspace: One of Saiko's classmates, Tomoe, has a Quirk that allows her to store a seemingly infinite number of things in a sort of dimensional pocket. Her favourite things to store are actual hammers.
• Hidden Depths: It's implied that, in spite of Mt Lady's more destructive hero behavior, she's a wiz when it comes to paperwork.
• Instant Expert: Yume, because of her analytical skills and in-depth knowledge of heroes, almost instantly masters a hero-themed fighting game, dominating almost everyone else who had been playing longer.
• Internal Reveal: Yume tells Saiko the truth about One for All in Chapter 9.
• It's Personal:
  • Saiko took Aldera's mistreatment of her dear childhood friend Yume personally, and the only reason she delayed bringing the hammer down on them until after Yume graduated is so that her friend doesn't get caught in the media circus.
  • Mei has a grudge against the CEO of Detnerat for ruining her parents' lives with false claims of them stealing Detnerat's designs.
• Kaiju: To help Mt Lady with spatial awareness training, Yume asks Yui for help in making a model city. Yui, at her own initiative, comes dressed in a monster costume so that the training can invoke kaiju aesthetics to make Godzilla proud.
• Light 'em Up: Tooru's Quirk is actually the ability to manipulate light. Invisibility is just one application of it.
• Medal of Dishonor: Mt Lady is extremely upset to be ranked number 1 of a certain list of heroes in her debut week. The one for most destructive heroes.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: It is brought up that both Tsuyu and Habuko have cravings that are influenced by their mutations. Habuko in particular likes raw eggs, and that's apparently not the weirdest craving either of the two had.
• Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: The side story Queen Takes Pawn reveals that Aizawa's controversial teaching tactics were outed due to Saiko wanting to convince Yume to join her at Seiai and looking for reasons why U.A. may not be the best for her. This prompts her to find an oddity of a former student of U.A. having an absurd number of black marks and looking into it.
• Mythology Gag: Out of the posters Ochaco picked for her side of the room, one was for Ryukyu, a hero she did a work study with in canon.
• Notably Quick Deliberation: Himiko's parents' case against their daughter was so blatantly grounded in prejudice the judge ruled in Himiko's favour after only an hour, and most of that was the actual trial. The deliberation itself was much shorter.
• O.C. Stand-in: Saiko's classmates have very little canonical details. All there is are their appearances and some idea of their Quirks. Everything else about them has to be made up by the story, including their names and details of how their Quirks actually work.
• Original Character: The bulk of the story taking place at a completely different school to U.A. necessitates the use of original characters for Seiai's faculty. They are:
  • Wada Mieko, who is the school's guidance counselor.
  • Kato Mayumi, who teaches Mathematics.
  • Iwamoto Kazumi, the head of the Support Department.
  • Shuzenji Masaki, who is the school nurse and the niece of Recovery Girl.
  • Hoshiko Naomi, who is the headmistress of Seiai Academy.
  • Yamauchi Akane, who teaches English.
  • Tomioka Reina, who teaches History.
  • Fujiwara Mari, who teaches Science.
  • Inari Kasari, who teaches Japanese Literature.
  • Yaoyorozu Honey aka Crimson Honey, who is the Second-Year Heroics Homeroom teacher. She is also Momo's cousin.
• Point of Divergence: The biggest point of divergence, from which so many other changes happen, is U.A. being hit by a scandal from Aizawa's expulsion stunt and being unable to take on new students due to internal restructuring. This one change is the catalyst that causes so many other changes as a direct or indirect result of the fallout:
  • All the girls that would have joined their Hero Course as well as some other girls that would have joined their other classes instead go to Seiai.
  • The boys that would have gone to U.A. also go to other Hero Schools. Katsuki ends up going to Shiketsu.
  • The U.A. scandal, mixed with her own insecurities about being a Hero, lead to Mt Lady taking classes to obtain a teaching license.
  • After hearing about the U.A. scandal, Momo did some reflection and decides to not limit herself and branch out to Support, becoming a dual-course Hero/Support student.
• Power Misidentification:
  • Himiko's biological parents registered her Quirk as a minor cat mutation because they didn't consider her real Quirk "normal".
  • Yume once made an offhand comment about how IQ may not actually increase Saiko's intelligence, instead improving her ability to absorb information around her.
  • Hagakure's Invisibility Quirk was classified as a Mutation and she believes it cannot be turned off. The former turns out to be a misclassification and the latter turns out to be a misunderstanding of her own power. Later tests reveal it is an Emitter-type, and is a more general Light Manipulation power.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Shuzenji Masaki was brought in on the secret of One for All by her aunt, Recovery Girl, but Yume did not know about it until Shuzenji herself brought it up.
• Sex Shifter: Tsuyu's Quirk allows her to do whatever a frog can do, including change genders. This is how she managed to do her own transition.
• Shout-Out:
  • Several to DeusVerve works:
    • Chikuchi Togeike's Quirk is based on her portrayal in Haigha.
    • A joke about Endeavor having a permanently active flame beard is a reference to Haigha.
    • One of the Second Year Heroics students has a Quirk that allows her to summon an unbreakable bubble shield around her, in reference to the Hamster Ball AU.
  • The Second Year Heroics teacher is a reference to Cutey Honey.
• So Crazy, It Must Be True: Saiko fully believes the true story of how Yume got her Quirk because it is too unbelievable for it to be intended as a lie.
• Spotting the Thread: Saiko calls bullshit on the cover story Yume tries giving her for her late Quirk Manifestation, citing that Yume previously tried so many different things to force it to activate, none of which worked. It is highly improbable that she could suddenly manifest one of the rarer Quirk-types. Saiko later adds that Yume was doing a lot of blood tests as part of her transition, which should have detected a Quirk if Yume had one to begin with. This causes Yume to realise she needs to work on her cover story for One for All.
• Stating the Simple Solution: Yume tells Momo and Tooru that she always wanted to meet Crimson Honey, who teaches a friend of hers (Saiko). Tooru asks why didn't she ask her friend to introduce them and Yume is shocked to realize it was that simple.
• Trans Tribulations: Setsuna has a cousin who was a bitch about her transgender status.
• Virtual Youtuber: Kashiko became a VTuber under the name "InfraRed" to help pay for her transition.
• Voluntary Vampire Victim: Setsuna lets Himiko drink some of her blood when they realize Himiko is sluggish from forgetting to take her morning intake.
• Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child: While Kinoko's father was supporting of her being trans, her mother wasn't, which drove a wedge between them.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Justified. Mt Lady uses wrestling moves in her fights because her grandmother was a pro-wrestler who taught her all of her moves after she learned Yuu wanted to be a pro-hero.

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