🎮 + pokemon! I TRIED TO THINK OF SMTH WELL-KNOWN
Video Game AUs || Accepting
Izuku grows up as a complete klutz in town and none of the other kids want to play with him, well accept for his neighbor, Katsuki, but he does’t think much of him either. Izuku wants nothing more than to be like the current Pokemon Champion All Might, because he’s so cool and he wants to be everything he can, but no one thinks he’ll ever amount to much of anything.
When his was a kid there was a Bidoof that was being bullied by the other kids and Izuku jumped in the middle of it and got his ass handed to him for trying to defend it. No creature deserves to be treated like that, and after seeing him attempt to defend it the Bidoof proceeded to follow him around as a show of friendship. The two were inseparable.
He ends up taking a Chespin as his “starter” Pokemon, but the Bidoof is still at his side, and later on the three of them encounter an Eevee that Izuku goes out of his way for because he finds it with a twisted up leg that got caught in a trap. After taking to the nearest Pokemon center, it too will not leave his side, and ends up saying close to him.
Later, while trying to catch dinner, he ends up pulling a Magikrap out of the river and he just knows there’s something about it that is gunna be great, despite being told it was a ‘weak and useless Pokemon’ just like the rest of his ‘collection of misfits’.
And that’s just the start of his journey because I can ramble for forever about this >.>