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  • Critical Dissonance: The story is the most popular My Hero Academia story on FanFiction.Net after Apotheosis, but many people find it to be okay at best and terrible at worst.
  • Draco in Leather Pants: The quick temper and foul mouth are still there, but fans can agree that this incarnation of Katsuki is a far cry more attractive than his canon counterpart, considering his great relationships with Izuku, Eri, and Momo, not to mention his crusade against perverts, which Izuku wholeheartedly participates in.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • During the Training Camp arc, Hitoshi was brought along because he made an impression and was being given the opportunity to join the hero course. Later in the official manga during the Joint Training Arc, he's getting his chance to join.
    • It's revealed that "All Flare" is actually composed of several fire Quirks with "All For One" as the base, granting Izuku several Quirks to use. Come the Joint Training Arc, it's revealed that "One For All" also stockpiles the Quirks that its previous owners had, so Viridescent!Izuku and Canon!Izuku both have several Quirks to call on.
    • Viridescent!Hisashi's characterization and Character Development arguably mirrors Endeavour's own Hidden Depths and Character Development in canon, who went from being a mere Hate Sink to a flawed yet nuanced character who is trying to become better.
  • It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: A common criticism of the story is that despite all the changes to the setting, the plot is largely the same as canon's. The Field Training Arc was the worst offender, as outside of a few moments of foreshadowing, it was essentially a transcript of what happened in canon.
  • One True Threesome: Readers in the middle of the Midoriya/Uraraka and Midoriya/Toga ships want him to get together with both of them. It helps that Toga is canonically bisexual and is saner here than she was in the manga and anime.
  • So Okay, It's Average: While the story is incredibly popular, many people are less positive about it because of how much it sticks to The Stations of the Canon, among other reasons.
  • Take That, Scrappy!:
    • As punishment for his perverted antics, Bakugo kicks Mineta in the nads across the entire U.A. campus. Never has the sight of a Groin Attack been so beautiful.
    • Heat Viper casually wrecking Endeavor up is pretty satisfying after his horrible treatment of his son and Izuku.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Eri. While there was a lot of focus on both her trauma and her Quirk when she first appeared, after the USJ Arc, both aspects of her character are virtually dropped, and she now seems to only exist to be a Cheerful Child and a little sister to Izuku.
    • The Big Three each had an Adaptational Early Appearance during the USJ Arc, but they contributed nothing to the story, and following that arc, they were barely ever mentioned afterwards (for a frame of reference, the USJ Arc concludes in chapter ten, and the first of the Big Three to appear again is Nejire in chapter thirty-three, twenty-three chapters-and six months in real time-later).
    • The author gave Hitoshi Shinsou more focus by having tag along for the training camp, but he ended up not doing much more during the arc than the other students.

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