On tumblr, there was an ask game that said: SEND ME A MADE-UP FIC TITLE AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I WOULD WRITE TO GO WITH IT

While none of the following stories are complete enough to stand by themselves, I figured you guys will appreciate seeing them. Some are quite short, some have way more detailed AU notes attached to them.

Please don't ask for more. They are as complete as they're going to get.

Knowledge is power

Midoriya Izuku was Quirkless.

This did not mean he was powerless.

If there was one thing Izuku had in spades it is guts, determination, and sheer stubbornness. He wanted to be a Pro-Hero and a lack of a Quirk wasn't going to stop him. At all.

So the first thing he did was borrow a book. And another. And another. And another, until he had compiled everything he could. He had lists, knew what he had to do to help strengthen his body without putting it under too much strain before puberty.

He consumed knowledge, taught himself all the skills that would be useful to become a Pro-Hero from first aid, computer hacking, lockpicking to negotiating.

When he was seven, he convinced his mother to enroll him in several different martial classes, trying to find a style that would best suit him and his needs. Izuku absorbed everything, taking it apart and restructuring it.

When the entrance exam for UA finally rolled around, Izuku marched up to the examiners who looked very concerned and confused, but ultimately allowed him to participate.

If Izuku managed to bring along one of his mini-EMP to disable Glimmer, organized his fellow competitors into a semblance of a working unit and provided tactical planning, well all that meant was that he entered UA with the highest score seen in history.

AU Notes

badass bookworm trope. All I'm saying is that if Batman can regularly keep up aliens, gods and other superpowered heroes, I don't know why Izuku can't.

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