Since people seem to like my really dumb timeline, here’s part the second of @cyber-phobia‘s Manic Hero Deku’s journey towards heroics (and giving everyone else heart attacks in the process):
-Toshinori and Aizawa are both involved in getting Izuku prepared for UA and heroics courses
-Which is first getting Izuku to actually settle into a house and accept the regular meals (and maybe stop hoarding the non-perishables in corners and under the bed)
-(eventually they give up and let him have his stashes after the fourth time Toshinori got bitten on the hand for going near them)
-plus getting him caught up on his vaccinations
-(and let me tell you THAT was an adventure in and of itself)
-And Toshinori has a plan! Izuku’s got the wiry muscle and raw brawling skills, but for One For All, he’s gonna need to put on some muscle, and the kid needs nutrients and overall body weight anyways, so it’s beneficial!
-He even comes up with the idea of cleaning up the beach as community service and training away from prying eyes
-(Unofficially it’s because he’s a little worried about Izuku’s lack of social skills outside of kids under double digits in age + Toshi and Aizawa so this lets Izuku feel more comfortable talking and acting normally instead of defensively)
-Aizawa checks in semi-regularly because while All Might is a great hero and all that, he’s highly skeptical of his ability to raise and train a kid, especially one that’s half-feral
-He does also prod into why Toshinori’s training for pure muscle over Izuku’s current lithe hit and run form, especially since he’s quirkless and so agility and timing will be his biggest strengths, not trying to out-muscle strength quirks
-Izuku probably just blithely tells Aizawa about One For All because a) he has no fucks, b) the man brings him treats and toys so he’s Izuku’s other favorite person/hero, and c) the man works at UA, he’s gonna learn about his shiny new quirk anyway, might as well do it now instead of later, right?
-Once Aizawa is done reaming into Toshinori for giving a reckless kid a quirk like that, he does try to bring over more snacks and food for Izuku, since he’s going into a high-calorie diet in order to power a high-calorie-burning quirk
-(which might lead to him also bullying Toshi a bit into eating because seriously? What sort of example are you setting for the kid when you don’t eat for the same quirk you expect him to take on!?)
-(The only other guy in the know is Tsukauchi, since he’s dealt with Izuku cases before plus is friends with All Might, and he is lowkey in awe that someone has finally bullied Toshinori into taking care of himself)
-All adults involved do find out quickly enough that Izuku is not much for physical contact of most kinds - hugs he always slips out of, any sort of grip he’ll fight to escape up to and including using teeth, and so on
-like once he’s been washed down for lice (and other stuff) and gotten his frayed ends trimmed, his hair is like a cloud of green poof
-(which shocks everyone because they were so used to seeing the matted muck black he had before then)
-it’s literally impossible to resist ruffling or running hands through it
-which makes it a very good thing that Izuku likes it too
-It basically becomes the adult’s go-to reward system for good behavior and doing well
-take regular baths? Head pats
-get a good grade on the catch-up school work? Head pats
-scare off a shady guy bothering some kids with a glare alone? Head pats and ice cream
-It’s a very effective system for everyone involved
-All Might also likes spoiling the kid with soft things like blankets and dolls that Izuku makes a huge-ass fluffy nest out of on the bed to sleep in half the time. (there are many pictures in people’s phones.)
-(the other half of the time he naps in sunny spots with one (1) blanket and one (1) bunny plush. Toshinori and Aizawa have several hundred photos because it’s sickeningly adorable.)
-I’m tempted to have Izuku and Hotishi meet somewhere in this time period
-because Izuku hasn’t entirely gotten over his ‘wandering around the area and sniffing out trouble’ habits and Toshinori and Aizawa have given up after making sure Izuku knows to be home for dinner and to avoid getting seriously injured in the interim
-ergo he runs into Hitoshi being bothered by some people and just scares the shit out of the bullies by walking up and glaring
-Hitoshi’s like ‘you didn’t have to do that’ and Izuku’s like ‘but I wanted to’
-‘you know they could come after you’ ‘lol sure let them try’ ‘their parents could get you in trouble’ ‘bitch i know the police at the ten nearest stations by name and coffee preferences’ ‘are you going to keep following me?’ ‘yeah you’re interesting and i’m bored’ ‘you know i can brainwash you into leaving right?’ ‘but you haven’t so you won’t’ ‘don’t start tempting me’
-Izuku comes home that day pleased with himself and tells Toshinori he has acquired one (1) new friend, Toshinori is very proud and also a bit worried
-Aizawa learns about this friend later and does a bit of snooping, and finds out Hitoshi is a) actually Izuku’s friend and b) probably in need of removal from his current ‘residence’
-he also learns from Hitoshi that c) Izuku apparently caught Hitoshi bringing cat toys to a local feral colony and perhaps spent more time than normal playing with the jingly balls himself and d) catnip does not work on Izuku despite the boy throwing some in his mouth and swallowing
-(Izuku never, ever lives this down, and glares at Hitoshi for the rest of the week because now Aizawa won’t stop laughing)
-But don’t mistake his attitude for not being the same smart bean he is in canon, because once he has access to internet and education and all that again he is r e a d y
-I’m thinking he did still have notebooks (possibly taken from the trash or reluctantly stolen from shops with jerk owners) while he was on the streets even if he had to hide them and they’re a bit…… gross…. And damaged………..
-But they aren’t bad! Aizawa and Toshinori figure it might be good to get him fresh ones to copy stuff over to and continue working on his analysis since it seems to keep him busy and happy
-And overall he does catch up to where he should be in his schooling and education fairly fast, even if there’s some weird holes in his history knowledge
-(He also does strangely well in a lot of foreign languages since he’s picked them up in bits and pieces from foreigners or foreign-descended people in the slums and whatnot, though a lot of it is… somewhat crude)
-(Toshinori sweats the first time he swears in English and Izuku promptly responds with a few choice words of his own.)
-Aizawa and Toshinori do discuss doing the recommendation exam versus the regular exam, since Izuku will still be new to the quirk either way and mostly reliant on his own quirkless training anyway, and it’s not like Izuku can’t get through the obstacle course
-the main issue is that he probably wouldn’t be fast enough to get one of the four spots, and besides, Izuku’s creative enough to handle some robots with or without his new quirk, everything will be fine
-(narrator’s voice: everything was not fine)
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