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Izuku blinked awake at his alarm beside him beeping loudly. He groggily grabbed his phone off its charger and shut it off. The flashes of yesterday filled his mind before he could even fully open his eyes. Just yesterday he had his dreams crushed by his favorite hero. All Might, and discovered Kacchan was attacked by the Sludge villain that attacked him earlier that day.
He just wanted to shrivel up and die. Kacchan is fine, he just has trouble speaking for a while, that's what the news report covered but it was still his fault!
/Just pray you’ll be born with a quirk in your next life, and take a swan dive off the roof!/
No! He shouldn’t even think about that! He’d break moms heart not to mention also-
“Izuku, Tenko!! Wake up!”
Izuku's mom calls from the kitchen, interrupting his spiral.
Oh right! I'm brothers with a literal Pro-hero. The universe sure loves being cruel.
Izuku thought bitterly in his head before he pulled his blankets off and stumbled into the kitchen. He grabbed a cereal box and poured himself a bowl. Across from him is his adopted older brother Tenko. He had attended UA High and started doing Hero work at 21 years old, he's currently reaching 23. It's a pretty nice accomplishment, he should live every day with pride. If only he didn't have a disappointment for a brother.
“Gee Izuku, did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?”
Tenko deadpan as he shoved a jam covered toast in his mouth.
Izkuku just shoved a spoonful of cereal into his mouth and left that question unanswered.
Since he's giving up on his dreams, he might as well find a different high school to go to.. and a new dream.
Swallowing his cereal with a gulp. He forced the words out that felt off on his tongue.
“Mom? What's the name of that high school you wanted me to go to?”
That caused both Mom and Tenko to look up in surprise.
“Chiaki High school, How come dear?”
Mom stuttered out. I doubted she expected such a question.
“Dont get me wrong! Ua is a wonderful school. Look at Tenko after he graduated! I'm just not sure it's realistic for me.”
I just shove the rest of my cereal down with my gaze to the bowl. Already feeling the pity stares from each side of the table.
The rest of that morning was just silence until Tenko left to do his hero work.
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PRO HERO: GENESIS
SPECIALTY: DEFENSE & RESCUE
QUIRK: PROPULSION RINGS
This quirk allows Tenko Midoriya to create Yellow rings that work as platforms or barriers. He uses these as an defense and to secure a rescue route from high buildings
(Think Gentle Criminal except the platforms aren't bouncy and are visible with a yellow ring)
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Since it was the weekend, Izuku just spent the day doomscrolling through my phone. Even though everything was about the Sludge incident. He occasionally moved to his laptop to try to browse for alternative jobs best suited for quirkless people but seeing the statistics of unemployment amongst quirkless people felt like a punch to the gut. So he just closed that tab.
Maybe he could find a way to burn my hero notebooks, he sure didn't have a use for them and just throwing them away would be a huge waste of paper and trees.
Maybe the Junkyard Beach? People never hang around there since everyone began to dump junk onto the once beautiful beach.
Izuku rolled out of bed to gather his notebooks in a box. He had to pack nearly 3 boxes to fit every single notebook. Maybe he could come back for the other two since he sure wasnt strong enough to hold one for a long time let alone 3.
Izuku grabbed the box that was filled mostly with crayons from preschool all the way to 5th grade..
He threw on a black sweater and held the box up. His mom left earlier for her job as a nurse so he was just alone. Izuku dug in the junk drawer in the kitchen for a lighter and made his way to Junkyard Beach.
It was a bit of a walk but it wasn't too far that he needed a train. Maybe he could become a detective or a doctor? Those jobs help people. No, he’s not smart enough for that, there's a reason he's called a Stupid Deku.
Izuku heard commotion behind him as two people were running down the street towards him..
“RUN! THERE'S NO HEROES PATROLLING HERE!”
Izuku froze with shock as two people ran down the street, most likely purse stealers.
The guy had some sort of shark head quirk as the other had a brown vine quirk coming out of his forearm. They were interesting quirks, Izuku had to resist trying to dig in the box for a notebook and taking notes until he remembered they were stealing.. And they were coming towards him!
Izuku panicked and grabbed a notebook that was covered in All Might stickers and threw it. It had hit the Sharkhead in the eye and caused him to lose his pace, his buddy stopped to check on him.
Izuku was panicking, he should run while he has the chance but his feet felt glued to the ground! If they saw him and his box of notebooks they would for sure beat him up worse than what his bullies normally do.
Yeah it was too late. They had spotted him and ran full speed to him.
Izuku's feet finally moved to stumble a few steps back before his body moved to keep throwing notebooks.
He kept putting distance as he threw notebooks over and over.
The Sharkhead kept shredding them with his teeth.
Well that's one way to get rid of the notebooks.
Izuku finally threw the box once it was empty and bolted to the Junkyard Beach.
Maybe he could find coverage and pray they get bored. Izuku crawled over old refrigerators and leapt to climb a huge pile of old junk, Izuku pressed his feet against the side before lifting them to avoid the vines reaching out, he managed to find some footing and climbed over.
There wasn't anywhere to hide! Everything was too pressed together or would make too much noise. He could hear the two trying to climb the pile same way as he did when Izuku remembered, the pile was extremly unbalanced and wobbly, it was surprising that he managed to climb over it. It mightve been because of his small build but maybe he could..
Taking a deep breath, Izuku pushed the pile and winced as he heard pained gasps from beneath the fallen junk. He saw the few purses that had fallen during the crash. Izuku grabbed the purses before quickly yelping as a piece of junk moved. He scurried out of the junkyard Beach to try to find the bag owners. Before he did that he pulled his phone to call the police.
It was surprisingly easy to find the owners by following the cries.
He honestly felt a sort of pride at hearing them thank him, and at the idea that he was the one who knocked the purse snatchers (even though it was technically the gravity and pure luck)
When he got home, he kicked his shoes off and sat at his computer.
Back to giving up his dreams although..
He couldn't really get the pride out of his chest. He actually gave himself a minute to flail his hands a bit to release the excitement.
He noticed an already opened tab on his computer, he really needs to close his tabs more often. As he was going to check it out, he heard his mom unlocking the door.
“I'm home Izuku!”
Izuku walked out to greet his mother.
“Hey mom!”
“Are you hungry? I'll go get started on dinner.”
Izuku made it his personal mission to help his mom with dinner since she always did it after a long day.
They made Teriyaki Chicken with rice when Tenko came home. The three settled down into a nice family dinner, Izuku obviously kept quiet about the purse stealers. He had to hide his shock when Tenko brought it up.
“Some vigilante took down some purse snatchers this afternoon.”
“Really? Did he get in your way at all?”
Inko had responded.
“No, if anything he used junk to knock them out.”
Izuku tuned the rest out but that word stuck in his head.
Vigilante
No, that would be dangerous.. although, who would care if he were to KIA?
He was even told to kill himself multiple times at school, unemployment rates were high and suicide rates were higher. If anything, if he were killed from vigilantism would be the best option.
Izuku slipped into his room after dinner and quickly opened his laptop. He eyed the unopened tab and let curiosity take over.
It was the suicide rates of quirkless people. Thats when Izuku opened another tab and typed into the search engine
Quirkless Vigilantes
It was a random question that popped in his mind, he ignored the Ai overview and clicked on a reddit post.
‘Could quirkless people legally be vigilantes?’
HMO, in the law it says that vigilantism is when you use your quirk to do unlicensed hero work but quirkless people don’t necessarily have quirks, so could they use this loophole to be a vigilante?
Of course the post comments had lots of negative feedback on why they would even suggest that but there wasn't any comments denying. Izuku pulled up the Japanese law.
Izuku pulled back from his desk as it finally set in..
He could legally be a vigilante..