General Fic Update
As promised, the general update for this fic is finished, and all changes have been uploaded. I have been slowly uploading a chapter or two daily since Feb 20th, as doing it all at once would have questioned my sanity. Sorry to those who started reading or re-reading anything in the last month and noticed differences in quality/consistency between the updated and old content.
To summarize, these were the changes made:
- The never-ending battle in fixing errors, despite having two editors, both in grammar and spelling + few timeline foibles. Trust me, almost no chapter was safe pre-40. Things were a lot better in the most recent chapters. I still expect errors cause I am flawed, but PLEASE feel free to point out my errors. I will happily fix them and praise your reading eyes to see things better than whatever mine see.
- Exclusive to Ao3, I added my commissioned art with the text to places they were directly made for/from. You can add art on Wattpad, too, but I decided against it as you can only place it as the header and nowhere else. I never did this before until I did my most recent Kacchako oneshot since I did it as a collab with an artist. Of course, it made sense to include the art. So why not do the same here? They were not added until the day I uploaded this updated chapter.
- Changed the honorific progression between the main couple. I relaxed it and made it much more spaced out to make the progression more natural.
- More character interactions (in two instances) were added for less-used characters.
- Added more backstory/dialogue for Inoue.
Below is every meaningful change per chapter.
- Chapter 5: Izuku and Tooru no longer address each other by their first names; instead, Midoriya starts addressing her as Hagakure-chan. This also means I applied these changes in the three chapters that followed.
- Chapter 7: Moved around stuff in scenes, either ending earlier in one instance and ending later in another.
- Chapter 8: Izuku and Tooru start addressing each other by their first names at the end of the chapter.
- Chapter 11: Once they became a couple, I immediately had them address each other by first name without honorifics. They now continue to use honorifics for their first names. I also applied those changes to the next ten chapters as well as to the other couples as they became a thing.
- Chapter 13: I added Tsuyu to Izuku's interaction with Mina and changed Ojiro's house from a traditional one to an apartment.
- Chapter 15: Fixed an error with Tiger's explanations on how the Pussycats came to be (this was pointed out to me by a reader on Ao3 some time ago). I also added a bit about why Tiger was so helpful to Izuku throughout the entire chapter.
- Chapter 19: I dropped the plot point of Sato having something embarrassing happen if he's alone with a girl. I never really expanded on it; it gets brought up only once later. I instead did something much more grounded to explain why he's afraid of meeting with Kendo-san to pitch the idea of the joint 1A+B activities.
- Chapters 20-21: The couple starts addressing each other by first names without honorifics when alone. Tooru does it first, then Izuku in the next chapter; the explanation is also in 21. Commissioned art was also added to 21 (Ao3 only).
- Chapter 26: During the 3rd term of TAC training, I had everyone addressing everyone by their hero name; this wasn't the case here, so I changed it to be consistent. However, this is the first time Izuku is addressed as Deku by Tooru, so there's a bit of content concerning her thoughts on that.
- Chapter 27: Commissioned art added (Ao3 only).
- Chapter 32: I added a Shoto interaction in the final scene, which reveals just a tad more about Izuku's father. Commissioned art added (Ao3 only).
- Chapter 36: Two commissioned art added (Ao3 only).
- Chapter 38: Added a reason why Landslide and his partner were there in the first place beyond "doing a job."
- Chapter 39: Added a few lines to the Endeavor scene to coincide with the additional stuff in Chapter 32.
- Chapter 40: Greatly expanded on Inoue's past run-in with Aizawa, at the end of the last scene.
- Chapter 41: Added a detailed look at how Inoue works as a vigilante at the start of the last scene.
- Chapter 45: I added some information on why/how Baby Prime got such an upgrade in the last weeks of March.
- Chapter 47: Commissioned art added (Ao3 only).
- Chapter 52: I changed Tooru's attire in the final scene to reflect some comments from female Discord acquaintances that taught me something important I never knew about. This leads to a fun, short interaction between the couple as Izuku does what he does in these types of situations. ;p
You do not need to re-read the entire fic because of this update. This is just to bring things together to a similar quality throughout for new readers and those who wish to go back and re-read a few old chapters for old-time sake. If I recommend any chapter that is a must-read, it's really only the last scene of chapter 32. 40+41 adds much more to Inoue, but it isn't essential.
With this finished, work begins on chapter 53, which will be released in April. KodaJiro 5 can wait until after that. I'll delete this once I upload the next chapter.
