Katsuki stepped onto the podium with practiced ease. He was ready. All that practice hadn't been for shit. Goddammit, why were his hands and knees shaking? Katsuki wasn't some dainty maiden in need of saving, he was a goddamn hero in training. He didn't get saved, he did the saving. Take a deep breath, lock his knees, shove his left hand into his pant's pocket, have his right death grip the mic, and just think of this as a battle. Winning meant getting his voice, his story out there. The reason for his endless drive, his burning will. Losing meant the world would never understand Katsuki, would always look down on Quirkless people. All people in general. Losing this speech, losing the Sports Festival, was not a fucking option.

"80% of the world's population has Quirks, 20% does not. Quirklessness is not a big deal. That's 1,488,400,000* people who're Quirkless. I reiterate. Not a big deal." Mumbles drift through the air. Yeah, yeah, you impatient bitches. This is relevant, so listen up. But Katsuki's getting to his main point soon anyway.

"Now, I don't want anyone to take this shit the wrong way," Katsuki began slowly, "But I fucking despise Quirkless people." That had grabbed everyone's attention. Ballsy, right? Admitting you're a discriminative bastard on live, national television. The audience seemed to think so. Though the students down below started whispering judgmentally with no end in sight. Yeah, they could judge him all they wanted, but Katsuki was far from done. He had a point to make and bullshitters to call out and verbally slaughter. "I don't hate the people themselves, but their shitty mentality. They just accept their weakness and don't push their boundaries. They- I hate Quirkless people because they let themselves be pushed around and beat down without a fight."

Katsuki switched to a whiny voice for his "I'm a prissy, overrated, asshole!" character, "'You're Quirkless? Great! You must now be totally and completely defenseless! If a bunch of Pros don't even try to save you from a predicament, too bad! Don't even attempt to save yourself, you'll end up dead either way! Oh yeah. Give up on all ambitious hopes and dreams, too! No matter what you do, it'll always end in death and despair!' And the worse part? No one fights the Quirkless persona. They just accept the shitty little cookiecutter stereotypes society hands them.

"Don't fucking lie, I know there's a shit ton people who look down on Quirkless bastards, and you think you're superior because you have something they don't? Bullshit. Pure and utter bullshit! You think that Quirkless bastards are a waste of time, space, and energy? Go fuck yourself, you insecure asswipe!

"Quirks are made from genetics, no? So tell me, why are people who just happen to have bad genes worse than you?! If someone doesn't have a Quirk, does that mean they should be the helpless victim ?! 'Oh no, I have no Quirk, that means I can't be anything above a useless shitstain!' It pisses me off! It's because people believe that they'll never be anything fucking badass, they aren't! It's not their Quirklessness that's holding them back, they believe that no matter what happens, no matter how hard they struggle, no matter what they do, they'll never surmount to anything more than a piece of shit! If you get kicked down, get back up, you useless loser! We all struggle sometimes, it's human! You can't just blame it on your Quirklessness and move on! Learn from your mistakes, dammit! If the world were that simple, humanity would have never gotten where it is today.

"As a subset of Quirkless discrimination: Judging people based on their Quirks? Really? That's just judging by their fucking genetics, isn't it? Something people get by chance and can't change? At this rate, just fucking call people with more melatonin in their skin 'niggas' and set them in chains! That's basically what you're doing now, right? Prejudice by the genes you're born with? Just a little prettier, isn't it? Why the hell are you calling some Quirks "heroic" or "villainous" Just because they're scary or flashy? Has no one ever heard that famous quote… I don't remember it exactly either. But it had something to do with weapons, and how the weapon itself is not the evil one, but the hand which wields it. This is especially true for Quirks. And holy shit, stop damning people who have- quote-unquote, villainous Quirks." Fuck it, Katsuki made air-quotes. How could he resist? Katsuki's bad-boy persona was getting chipped and worn thin by the sheer amount of bullshit.

"Do you know how many people have told me to jump off a fucking cliff just because I don't have a Quirk ?!" What kind of idiot extra would think that Katsuki couldn't make it into UA's hero course? Katsuki didn't have a Quirk and he was still the best in this damn school. Eat shit, you fuckers. He proved every one of those extras wrong, didn't he? The last statement effectively cut off all noise from the students below. Oh yeah. The fucking first years were standing at attention. Their focus all on him. Hmph! That shows them, teach thing a fucking thing or two about with Katsuki.

When did his voice get so loud? When did Katsuki's fire and determination and anger and exasperation with the world bleed through? "So far, I've counted 76 different fuckers. And some of those extras told me multiple times! Guess what, bitches? Imagine if I held grudges against them like I do with fucker who matters (you'll see what I mean when I get on with the actual Sports Festival)? Let's just say, be glad I'm choosing to be better than those sonovabitches and become a hero, not a Villain! But for people who do have these " villainous" Quirks? I can't say the same for them. Who's to say they weren't told to fucking hang themselves and get saved by some Villains? Villains, who accept them for who they are? Then good-fucking-luck, because those extras are screwed over for life.

"And, I, myself, have three things to say to those fuckers. 1) There are no cliffs in Musatafu, we're in a valley, so I have no fucking clue what you want me to do. I sure as hell ain't hauling my ass to Tokyo just to jump off Mt Fuji. 2) Fuck you. I'm not going to be listening to some extra who couldn't even make it into UA, you bastards. And 3) By your logic, people who have a genetic disadvantage should go kill themselves? Well then. Everybody who's deaf, blind, mute, born with disorders and syndromes, missing several limbs from birth, and other people who just want to kill themselves, I don't judge, it's a shitty world out there, step right up! Because these sonovabitches say you should all be executed! I'm partial towards eating a dragon's breath pepper*, thank you. How about you?"

Okay. He can do this. The toughest- no, the most intense part of the speech. By now, even the birds are dead silent. Big breath and calm down. This is the most important part of the speech. Can't fuck this up. While the rest of the speech was pretty good, this was Katsuki's main point. His magma opus. The selling point. "Okay, enough with the kinda joking. The second thing I said here was that I hate Quirkless people because they let themselves be pushed around and beat down without a fight. But I'm not ignorant to the fact that it's society in general who fucking kicks us when we're down. That's why I'm here to be the goddamn best. I'm setting the precedent for future generations. I'll become the Number 1 Hero, and show the whole damn world that Quirkless people can dream, too! We're not helpless wannabes, and we sure as hell can be the next hero and villain just around the corner. You can't treat us like how you are now, it'll just end in pain and suffering. I'm going to break this fucking cycle of helpless victim and abused villain. So…

"I just wanna say… I'm gonna win."