Class 1-A

by ArtisticNarwhal66

A collection of short stories in which Class 1-A has problems. And that's okay. • WARNING: mentions of mental illness/health, abuse, self-harm, etc. Don't read if you're not comfortable with that. TWs at beginning of each chapter. • Hurt, no comfort. • Pre-Sports Festival Arc • Cross-posted on Wattpad and Ao3. • Updates Saturdays.

20. Minoru Mineta

last student of 1-A. if you need me, you can catch me crying in the club lol. sorry for not updating last week, i don't even have an excuse again. i'm sorry again, haha.

so, without further ado, the last chapter, (excluding the possibility of All Might and Aizawa as honorary chapters (they're the two most important 1-A teachers)):

[tws: oh there's actually not that many today. (past/mentioned) transphobia, (past/mentioned) bullying, gender dysphoria (i think???? correct me if i'm wrong)]

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Minoru Mineta. The smallest member of Class 1-A, he is not one to put up a fight against intimidating foes. However, when he is desperately needed, when his peers are in true danger, he will give it his all to protect them. He is not the purest of souls, or the most courageous, or the most charming, but when push comes to shove, he will be there for his friends. He may not be the greatest hero, but he is a hero nonetheless.

Unfortunately, he has a fatal flaw: his lust. He can often be found leering at his female classmates, drooling over attractive women, and/or talking about his preferences in a romantic partner. He can't help it though— girls are just so pretty! Their soft hair and soft hands and gentle smiles make him feel ways he can't accurately describe with words.

He knew he wasn't the most popular kid. He may not be strong or brave, but he is fairly smart and self-aware. His short stature and unattractive looks make his chances at being such drop drastically. His personality wasn't the greatest either, a fact that did not escape him. He'd lie awake in bed sometimes just thinking about the fact that probably everyone hated him. He couldn't blame them, not really. Then he'd just be a hypocrite.

Sometimes he could forget about all that when he looked at girls. Their pretty eyes and slender legs and tinkling laughter. Their big chests and long eyelashes and shiny hair. Girls truly were a blessing, as though Heaven found a place on Earth. Even when they had small chests, or were heavier in weight, or were generally unattractive in society's eyes, he still found himself drawn to them (though the pretty ones were always the best).

His favorite pastime, aside from staring at women, was daydreaming about them. Sometimes he even thought about what it'd be like to be a girl. He liked to imagine a world where he had soft hair and soft hands and a pretty smile, and all the traits he found attractive in them. He liked to dream about wearing short skirts and flowing dresses, and what it'd all be like. Those were always the best daydreams, until he'd be snapped out of them by an outside force.

He always kept these thoughts to himself, though. If someone ever asked what he was thinking about, he'd always give a half-truth. Girls. Miniskirts. Boobs. Whatever worked, he would take it. He remembered a short time before entering U.A., in junior high, he'd once told a close friend of his that he was imagining being a girl.

He'd received a disgusted look and a shove to the ground and months of bullying, and a promise to himself to never tell anyone again.

Minoru Mineta was a boy, but sometimes he'd let himself imagine a world where he was born a girl, a world where he could be himself, a world where he wore pretty clothes and jewelry and had a girl's name, a girl's body. He didn't know what this all meant, but he knew not to tell anyone ever again, because he was Minoru Mineta and he was a boy and that was all he'd ever be. A boy. A pervert. A coward.

(A girl.)

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mineta's a transgender lesbian who doesn't know what transgender is. that's it that's the chapter.

I actually never thought of trans!Mineta (if I did, it was only very briefly) until I received a comment that, paraphrased, said "I hope you do a chapter of someone in Class 1-A being trans!". I didn't know who I was going to do until I saw Mineta on the class roster and went "oh. oh? oh. oH. OH.", haha. I've never been the biggest fan of the grape child, like most of you guys, but now that I've written this I'm kind of feeling for Mineta, lol.

So, as I said in the opening A/N, I'll probably have an honorary chapter for both All Might and Aizawa, since they're both important teachers to 1-A and have lots of angst potential. So yeah, stay tuned for that!

Thanks for reading, as always, and have a great day/night!! I hope you enjoyed the last student of Class 1-A!!

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