I was just four years old when I got my first warning;

"I'm sorry Mrs. Midoriya, your son appears to have an extra toe joint. Indicating that he won't ever be able to have to manifest a quirk"

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At the time, I felt my dreams shattering all across the room. Itsy bitsy bits of shattered dreams all roomed my vision, mocking me on what I wouldn't have nor experience. Making me feel an everlasting pang of envy…

Hearing that hit me hard, to say the least.

Hearing that you won't ever have a quirk isn't something a 4-year-old obsessed with All Might want to hear.

It isn't what an aspiring hero wanted to hear.

Mama at that point was a sobbing mess, crying her eyes out, apologizing to me for not being able to give a quirk. (That's didn't help me, now did it)

After that, when it got around that I don't have a quirk, Kacchan, my childhood friend, stopped being my friend and instead started teasing me. Progressively calling me "Deku", which means useless. (Fitting, right?)

No one wanted to be my friend, or have any relation with me at all. Unless they wanted to be blasted and picked on by Kacchan and his friends. Or perhaps be labeled weak and useless, like I was. (Quirkless, useless Deku")

Bullies saw this as an opportunity, as I was a weak target, not able to defend myself or get help. (I hadn't proved them wrong either) So, I was the local punching bag to get their frustration out. Teachers that witnessed hadn't even moved one finger to help me. They didn't report the actions to the parents either. This furthered the actions and encouraged them to continue. I know what you're thinking while reading this, shouldn't the teachers help and discourage the actions? I suppose, that's a perk for being quirkless.

Bullies, teachers, Kacchan and even Mama alike told me that I won't be able to be a hero. I know mama is trying and is just worried for me, but shouldn't she be supportive of me? For ONCE MAYBE.

(Maybe I wasn't worth it in her eyes. Maybe she saw me as Useless Deku, but was too polite to call me that. Maybe she was ashamed of me…..will she leave me too? Will she leave me too? Willsheleavemetoo? Willsheleavemetoo? Willsheleavemetoo?Willsheleavemetoo?Willsheleavemetoo? Willsheleavemetoo?Willsheleavemetoo?Willsheleavemetoo?Willsheleavemetoo?Willsheleavemetoo? Willsheleavemetoo Willsheleavemetoo Willsheleavemetoo?Willsheleavemetoo?Willsheleavemetoo?..)

My self-worth hit a huge block. Continuously hearing that you are useless, a nobody, weak, really throws a wrench in your self-worth, heh…

With my concerning decline of self-worth, my will to live followed. No friends, a mother who's overworked and always anxious, and bullies. I didn't seem to have a break to be rehabbed. So, I did the next best thing, I started studying Heroics.

I later on became obsessive with the idea of the "Hero", so to speak, clinging to the shards that remained of my dreams. Naively believing that even with no quirk, I could be a 'Hero'. (And look where that ended me up…)

When I was growing up, my fixation with hero related topics earned me another favorite nickname from the ever so loving Kacchan and his friends, nerd. I didn't mind this one too much, but I favor not being called that. Yet, they did. Multiple times. Not just with calling me nerd, oh no. That's far from all what they did. Kacchan would burn me all over, pinning me by my neck for me to go limp and then beating me up. He also would destroy a lot of my items, not caring if that was destruction of property or not. With that, he would actively try to put me down, which he succeeded with. Living at that time was horrible, each day was worse than the next. I kept telling myself "Don't worry Izuku, you'll get through this, just keep smiling". Keep smiling, I said. You'll get through it, I said. I didn't go through it. It was hard. I faked all those smiles. The nervous, and the anxious were the only true ones. If my smiles didn't show my despair, then it would be my eyes. My dull, dull eyes. Slowly losing the lights in them.

Mama at first noticed, asking me what happened with her eyes threatening to spill a river. I said nothing, smiling vacantly at her. She didn't push me to answer however, changing the subject right after. She kept asking, asking, and asking till she stopped one day. Maybe she couldn't handle it?

Who knows.

She used to go to speak with the teachers about this, the teachers said nothing as well. She stopped as well with this. I don't know why she did, maybe it wasn't worth her timeany more.

After a while, I devoted my time fully to analyzing heroes. I would go to villain fights and observe. At first, I was very happy and excited to do that. But I started noticing little signs and hints that the fights…. weren't as heroic as one was meant to believe. Like, there was a hero, let's call him King, King had the villain close to him. He could've easily knocked him out by his neck. But oh-fucking -no, he just had to show how "difficult" It is, how utterly 'brave' he is.

How utterly disgusting.

He risked both the civilians and himself in the process. A hero isn't a warrior, he is a savior. He's a person who invites himself to people's problems without any announcement, and still is there for them to help! He's a person who cares for the civilians and unifies us!

And yet, there was even more fabrications. Which brings us to the other acts the 'Heroes' did, for example, choreographing the fights, which means dragging it out and out for the media, forgoing the easier route, advertising their quirks, and leaving the civilians alone.

Let's start with the advertising, okay? So, Heroes typically had flashy and showy quirks, right? Not always, but mostly. The ones who do, they advertise it. By advertising it, they gain more fame, more fans, more interviews and most importantly, more sponsors. By gaining more sponsors, they gain more financial gain. By that, they also gain more of a presence. It depends on how much of a presence they are to determine how much of a political force they are. Let's take Endeavor as an example: he, as many are, was a hero. But a hero in what sense? He climbed the ladder of popularity, and power. With his admittedly powerful fire quirk, he gained more sponsors quite quickly. He was the no.2 hero in the world. And yet, he wasn't satisfied. He wanted to be no.1, but that spot was taken by Toshinori Yagi, a.k.a. Heiwa no Shōchō, a.k.a. All Might. So what do you think he did after that? What do you expect a power hungry shitbag would do, huh? I'll leave that for a bit, I want to explain something else now.

Now then, how many of you know what a quirk marriage is? If you haven't been informed, a quirk marriage is when two families that have powerful quirks marry to create a more powerful heir. The more influential the family is, the more quirk marriages were in high demand. Thankfully, that act has stopped now. As the byproducts of that were at times an unhappy marriage, one of the spouses turning insane, children getting trained as robots as soon as they could walk, and much more. As the cons outweighed the pros by far, it had been declared illegal to have quirk marriages anymore. Some families were outraged and upset with this new rule, but they were the minority.

Now, let's get back to Endeavor, shall we? What did Endeavor do when he was unable to reach the number one spot? Well…he arranged a quirk marriage. I know, I hear you saying that quirk marriages are illegal, right? Right, but Endeavor wasn't going to stop trying to take the number one spot without a fight. He would do anything, and I mean anything to gain that spot. He would go as far as using his presence and influence to arrange it. No matter what the means were, the ends justified the means in the end of it all. So he married Rei, who had a powerful ice quirk that impressed Endeavor enough that he wanted to have a child of both of their combinations. They had four children, three whom were failures in his eyes, and one which was the successful by product. And you know what he did with them? Endeavor didn't treat his wife nor children right, leading to one running away, two of them to forever have trauma, and his wife to go to the psychiatric ward because of her unstable mentality caused by the non-stop abuse from Endeavor. His youngest was scarred permanently by his mother, as she poured hot boiling water on his face. She hadn't done it out of hatred, she had done it as the result of her unstable mentality. She loved all her children; she tried and tried to let them escape the hellish training from Endeavor.

His youngest child, Shouto, repressed his left side after that, vowing to never to use it again.

Do you see what happens when a hero gets famous and lets it go into their head? They use it to get their way, never thinking of anyone but themselves. They abuse their power and quirks. …This isn't how a hero is supposed to act like at all…

At first, when I noticed it, I thought of it as a coincidence. I mean, how could heroes be anything but heroic? Right….? Then I saw it happen more and more, how Heroes used their influence, how they caused civilians to get injured. It was just so surreal to me, seeing this. I tried clinging to my beliefs for so long, yet I couldn't deny it….

This didn't just tilt my world upside, oh no, it also made me doubt if the heroes are any better than the villains. If the heroes are threatening people and using them, then how does that justify them from being the villains they try to arrest? How does it!? If they plan to be a hero to only use it for personal gain, then how does it prove that we are better human beings then the villains?!...It doesn't…..

Society doesn't care if you're a good human being or not. Humans will always find little things to look down at. Labeling that as "bad", or any other bullshit like it. If you do something good, then some will bitch at you on why you are advertising it or praise you as some saint. If you do something bad, then you either find yourself very much loved or hated. It depends on society's mood really. You'll never know what happens with the unpredictably of human nature.

(Humans are like parasites, they latch at things they find humanly good, and look heavily down on acts they find wrong. They don't notice that they themselves are doing it. They are the very villains that they try to banish. They are the ones that create them too, never letting one be themselves.)

With every shred of evidence I found, it fed and fed that tiny spark of doubt, like fire feeds from the oxygen from the air. I tried my hardest to find heroes that weren't hypocritical, and I did. I found the underground heroes. They are the ones that do things quietly and fast. Not ones to grab the media's attention, and that works well with them. They are much like silent assassins. Now those, are truly heroes.

I found other types of heroes too, I found the ones that are underappreciated, the ones that don't wear capes and the vigilantes. Vigilantes, truly, caught my eye. It's fascinating how they are hated by the heroes. Not admitting that they are helping them, calling them villains. To be fair, there are some vigilantes that only want attention and cause more harm than good. Like some heroes. But there are also some genuine vigilantes. That truly want to help. That weren't able to gain a hero license, so they do the very next good thing.

That had showed me that even if you weren't a hero, you could still help. From the smallest things to the biggest. And you don't need a quirk for that. No matter what they tell you, quirkless people are as strong or even stronger than some "Heroes". Quirk or quirkless, if you slice your palm, what do you see? Blood, red blood, dripping from both. There isn't any remote difference from each other. But of course, people didn't think that, they saw the quirkless as lower than them. They tried erasing them from history, for fucks sake! Even from laws!... But what they didn't know was that they were creating loopholes for them to use.

Let's take this as an example "Vigilante: Someone who illegally uses their quirk to fight villains without a hero license.". This, my friends, is the meaning of a vigilante. This is only for quirked people, stating that if you illegally use your quirk to fight villains with no hero license, then you would be imprisoned. They didn't even mention the quirkless. Not bothering with them, but what they don't know is that they gave the green light for them to fight even if they don't have a license. I can see the gears turning in your heads my friends, do you understand what that implies? That they have no legal ground to imprison you at all!

What a happy, itsy, bitsy, information, heh.

My younger self found out of this, and used it very wisely. As he was kept being told he couldn't be a hero, so you know what he did? He became a vigilant.

He became the Yūgana Usagi!