Full disclosure. I hate Batman. I hate "Badass" normal heroes, and I hate the "Bat-wank" that they get that has them punching leagues above their weight class because the author wants to wank.
Yes indeed...this is one of THOSE fics. You know, the kind that completely miss the entire point of MHA and proceed to suck all the fun out of the entire setting.
However, rather than going the full Batman route, and having 14 year old Izuku use his "cleverness" "skills" and "quick and nimble" to break the setting in half because Batman. This fic decides to grab the incredibly overused in Fanon Mei to make a point by proving that it's point is wrong.
The point being: You don't need a quirk to be a top notch hero.
Riiiight. Of course you don't. Oh you don't NEED superpowers. You just need a suit of armor that gives you SEVERAL superpowers. You are literally wearing a quirk with extra steps.
You aren't proving that "Quirkless people can be heroes too!". You are proving that "Quirkless people who wear things that give them quirks can be heroes too!"
The other problem with this fic, and so many other quirkless Izuku fics, both in universe and out of universe. Is that the story is more concerned with making its point then being a good story, and Izuku is more concerned with making his point, than being a good hero.
Then it comes. All Might offers Izuku One for All....annnd of course Izuku turns it down, basically insulted All Might would slap him in the face like that.
And in the moment, any enjoyment one could get out of the fic is gone.
Because at that moment, Izuku is transformed from something of an arrogant bloodknight jerk, into a completely brain dead, UNBELIEVABLY arrogant, thoroughly unlikable fool.
No one is that dumb. No one turns down that level of useful power. All it does is serve to glaringly highly highlight what I said before. That Izuku cares more about his point, then he does about actually being a hero and saving lives.
Why should I care about this character now? Because I don't. If anything, I want him to fail, just to have his nose rubbed into the fact that he HAD a chance to gain useful power...and he turned it down...and now it's too late.
I can't judge what happens after that, because quite frankly, I closed the fic then and there. It had completely lost me, and I had a friend to yell at for using a bet to get me to read this thing (Kiss my ass Brian!)
Beyond that, the writing is serviceable from a technical standpoint I suppose. I'm trying to think of positives for this fic....but I'm just too damn annoyed with it.
Fanfic Proving that you don't need superpowers to be a hero by giving you superpowered clothing
Full disclosure. I hate Batman. I hate "Badass" normal heroes, and I hate the "Bat-wank" that they get that has them punching leagues above their weight class because the author wants to wank.
Yes indeed...this is one of THOSE fics. You know, the kind that completely miss the entire point of MHA and proceed to suck all the fun out of the entire setting.
However, rather than going the full Batman route, and having 14 year old Izuku use his "cleverness" "skills" and "quick and nimble" to break the setting in half because Batman. This fic decides to grab the incredibly overused in Fanon Mei to make a point by proving that it's point is wrong.
The point being: You don't need a quirk to be a top notch hero.
Riiiight. Of course you don't. Oh you don't NEED superpowers. You just need a suit of armor that gives you SEVERAL superpowers. You are literally wearing a quirk with extra steps.
You aren't proving that "Quirkless people can be heroes too!". You are proving that "Quirkless people who wear things that give them quirks can be heroes too!"
The other problem with this fic, and so many other quirkless Izuku fics, both in universe and out of universe. Is that the story is more concerned with making its point then being a good story, and Izuku is more concerned with making his point, than being a good hero.
Then it comes. All Might offers Izuku One for All....annnd of course Izuku turns it down, basically insulted All Might would slap him in the face like that.
And in the moment, any enjoyment one could get out of the fic is gone.
Because at that moment, Izuku is transformed from something of an arrogant bloodknight jerk, into a completely brain dead, UNBELIEVABLY arrogant, thoroughly unlikable fool.
No one is that dumb. No one turns down that level of useful power. All it does is serve to glaringly highly highlight what I said before. That Izuku cares more about his point, then he does about actually being a hero and saving lives.
Why should I care about this character now? Because I don't. If anything, I want him to fail, just to have his nose rubbed into the fact that he HAD a chance to gain useful power...and he turned it down...and now it's too late.
I can't judge what happens after that, because quite frankly, I closed the fic then and there. It had completely lost me, and I had a friend to yell at for using a bet to get me to read this thing (Kiss my ass Brian!)
Beyond that, the writing is serviceable from a technical standpoint I suppose. I'm trying to think of positives for this fic....but I'm just too damn annoyed with it.