The Slime Villain Incident, and the events leading up to it happen one year earlier. Izuku, broken and lost in the face of All Might's words, decides to take Kacchan's advice. But a familiar Underground Hero won't let a young life end so quickly. How will a simple right-place-right time scenario change things?
Swan Dive is a My Hero Academia fanfic by SilvermistAnimeLover
, who is also known for writing Viridian and A Robin's Nest. It can be read on Archive of Our Own here and on FanFiction.Net here.
This fanfic provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Midoriya Hisashi of this fic is one as he is heavily quirkist and tried to make Izuku to obey him and his quirkist beliefs.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: The Sludge Villain event happens one year earlier than in canon.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Instead of inheriting One For All, here Izuku remains quirkless, training under Aizawa to become the very first quirkless hero.
- Death by Adaptation: Midoriya Inko died under the hands of Izuku's abusive biological father.
- Interrupted Suicide: The story starts with Izuku jumping off a building, with Aizawa fortunately finding him while patrolling and uses his capture scarf to save him before he could hit the ground.
