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Midoriya Izuku was born biologically quirkless. This lack of a gene has attributed to evolutions in odd spaces, keeping useful and useless parts of his biology.
My god is he glad that his classmates know jack-shit about the quirkless now. And he’s even gladder that he has people willing to help him explain them away, because he can’t lie for shit most of the time.
Unfortunately, secrets can’t be hidden forever, despite how much he wants them to be. (Or the multiple times that someone witnessed a quirkless aspect of Izuku’s life).
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1 – Goosebumps.
Goosebumps are the bumps on a person's skin at the base of body hairs which may involuntarily develop when a person is tickled, cold or experiencing strong emotions such as fear, euphoria or sexual arousal.
Quirked people lost the ability to thermoregulate this way during their evolution. Because even though they still have body hair, this instinctive reaction of goosebumps no longer exists given the fact that (apart from certain quirks) quirked people can stand a higher range of temperature than a quirkless body can (which contributes to the quirkless being seen as weak as they need more so specific conditions to survive than a quirked person).
This all started because of an incident on Izuku’s end anyways.
It was a frosty Thursday morning, and Izuku had just returned to the dormitories from his morning run and workout. It was freezing outside, colder than Izuku had thought it would end up anyways. And Izuku had been shivering when he got back into the heated building.
And as he was about to rush past his classmates to go and take a beloved warm shower, his classmates – that were up earlier than usual – stopped him. “Hey Midobro!” Kirishima hollered from where he sat at one of the tables in the dining area. Izuku looked back at him, waved, and tried to quickly shuffle past the now crowd of people looking at him, greeting him, before they noticed his arms so that he could get rid of the problem, at least momentarily that is. Until Kaminari, arguably one of the least observant people in the class spotted it.
“Yo, Mido… what’s up with your arms?” the blond asked, gathering the entire cackle of students’ attention turning onto him, “It’s all bumpy.” He concluded. Izuku, by now was halfway up the steps and could theoretically continue walking like he hadn’t heard Kaminari… but considering the fact that he had heard Kirishima and the fact that he stopped, it would just seem as though he was ignoring Kaminari or being rude, and he didn’t want to seem that way to any of his classmates. So instead of continuing about his day as though he hadn’t been called out, Izuku turns to look at Kaminari, back down to his arms and back to the blond before saying, “Quirk-related, don’t worry ‘bout it.” (he wasn’t technically wrong considering that it was a quirk-related issue, a quirkless issue to be precise, but that’s besides’ the point) And scurried off past the overbearing eyes, slightly aware of the fact that Todoroki had mumbled something to Iida and Uraraka before pushing his plate to the side and followed him up.
When Izuku got to his room… or more accurately, when he got into his hot ass shower that was actively filling the room with steam as each second past that he wiped himself of the beading sweat that cultivated on the cold morning, he felt nothing but bliss relaxation as the searing hot water rushed down his body, his cramps and phantom pains are numbed for the time being as he gets himself clean.
After he is done and whilst he’s changing, he gets a knock on his door. He calls through to the other side, “Hello? Who is it?” whilst his brain overanalyses the way the person on the other side knocked to figure it out who it is. Which is why he isn’t as surprised as he would normally be when he hears Todoroki’s voice from the other side, “Midoriya-Kun. It’s me… can we talk?” the peppermint haired boy asks in a cool tone. As Izuku looked at himself in the mirror over his vanity area, grabbing some of the skincare and makeup products from their respective drawers he answered, “Of course Todoroki-Kun, what’s up?” and as he was hiding the low purple bags under his eyes with his favourite concealer, a bomb shell of a question was dropped on him.
“What was going on with your arms actually? Is it really quirk related or apart of your natural body?” Todoroki didn’t mean the question in bad faith, which he was glad about. When the dorms had been implemented over the summer break, with the permission of All Might after the blond had retired, Izuku had brought over all of his friends – the designated Izu Crew – to his empty apartment (his mum having been working) and had explained the truth behind his quirk to them, as it was obvious to all of them that he needed an emotional support system. And thankfully, they had all been in good faith about it, and even more so supportive about his previous quirklessness. So, him having been so caught off guard about being called out caused him to pause. Yet, him pausing to process what his friend had said hadn’t stopped Todoroki, “After you told us your past, and your quirklessness, I went and researched all there was to know about quirkless biology and how it differs from a quirked persons biology, and what was on your arms looked like something called goosebumps… am I right?”
Izuku sighed as he walked out of his bathroom and sat next to Todoroki, where the boy had navigated to part way through their conversation. “Yep, your right.” He answered smoothly, too tired to really care. “The internet had a… worrisome lack of information about each difference I was able to uncover but I know that they’re caused as an effort to keep the body warm by-” where Izuku cut him off, “Trapping warm air, yeah. It also happens when were afraid or feeling other intense emotions… or being watched, and that’s probably the one that the quirkless appreciate the most.” Todoroki watches him with a mostly neutral expression yet sadness in his eyes. He doesn’t have to say why it’s most appreciated.
Izuku had brought everyone over that day months ago to not only explain his truth, but to also teach all his friends everything about the quirkless that should’ve been taught in schools but wasn’t, like statistics or personal things like signs of a quirkless person or the languages (spoken, written and signed) of the quirkless community. And as it turns out, after that session, his friends searched and looked up differences between the different stages of evolution of homo-sapiens and homo-sapien-vafris’ [vafri is Latin for quirk, which is why I’m using it].
Todoroki nodded his head in understanding, and nothing more was said as they continued about their day.
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2 – Wisdom / Lovers teeth / third Molars. (why tf do these teeth have so many names!!!)
Wisdom teeth, also known as the third molars, are the last set of adult teeth to grow in.
The quirked no longer have this third molar set of teeth due to their inability for them to fit in a person’s mouth from the way that they grow before evolution, this way, the body deemed them unimportant and stopped producing them as a person’s jaw got smaller. Yet, whilst quirkless people also got smaller jaws (not as much so as the quirked, which allows their jaws to also be stronger), they still have to deal with this invasive set of teeth, and always need to have them removed instead of having the off chance of being able to fit because the universe hated quirkless people as well.
Thankfully, this time it was easier.
The week earlier, Izuku had felt the most incredible pain in his jaw, on some levels it compared to being sucker punched in the jaw so hard to cause teeth to fall out. So, like any predominantly sane person, he called his mum in a panic during one of her shifts whilst his best friends (Iida and Uraraka) did research on the potential reasons for his pain. Then, he was told over the phone – as well as with the help of one of the staff members who had a quirkless little brother – that he was having unnecessary teeth grow in, whilst his mum made an appointment to a quirkless-safe dentist to get them removed.
And now, he was standing with Iida, who Aizawa was promised would look after his ‘trouble magnet of a problem child’ whilst they went out. Sure, neither specified the reason for going out, just that Izuku’s mother needed to take Izuku to the dentist and that Iida had promised to accompany him. And the man had believed it.
Then his mother had arrived in her car, picked the both of them up – with a promise to Aizawa that Izuku would be back on campus grounds before sundown, if not a little after if they got caught up in traffic. And he was glad his foresight had made sure that Iida was coming with him, if it was Uraraka instead, who’d fought and fought hard to go with, she’d have teased him immensely for their teacher’s overprotective behaviour regarding Izuku.
But with that aside, Izuku was now walking with Tenya’s hand in his as a comforter and grounder whilst they waited for his name to be called… they didn’t have to wait long… he’s unsure if he’s happy about that or not.
After the operation, an icepack was place into his mouth over the numb spots in his now bleeding gums, whilst he and Tenya were sitting in the car, his mum was still in the building and making another appointment to get excess the baby teeth that hadn’t fallen out be removed as it made the operation more complicated than it should’ve been… Izuku really just wanted to be normal! What the hell universe.
Arriving back to the dorms, Iida carried him to his room for a nap, to sleep away the drugs used in the operation. The rest of the Izu Crew was also there; with books on the small coffee table in Izuku’s large dorm room, most likely going to spend the time he takes napping to hang out… why they would do it with his unconscious body in the room he has no clue, but it’s their life and decision so it’s not like he can judge.
A few moments later, Uraraka walked in with a bowl of raspberry sorbet and chocolate moose with chocolate covered strawberries and marshmallows on top. She handed him the bowl, she was bribing him to stay conscious with food he realised as he removed the ice pack from his no longer bleeding mouth… he paused as they talked, before picking up the spoon and starting to eat the sorbet… it was as delicious as he remembered it being. That didn’t vindicate him when Iida started showing everyone in the IzuCrew how he acted coming off of the ‘laughing gas’ that numbed him.
Later that day, he was brought to the living room by the Bakusquad. “Hey Midobae!” Mina asked as she dragged him into sitting next to her. He looked at her incredulously as the other IzuCrew members watched, humoured by what’s inevitably about to go down. “Yeah Mina?” he answered back, acting oblivious to what she was about to say next. “What was up earlier, you left just fine but returned with a bloody icepack in your mouth.”
Others added in their own incredulous thoughts into the conversation, but Izuku didn’t answer until everything calmed down. “Don’t worry, I just had to go to the dentist, he just removed my wisdom teeth.” Unknowingly he had just exposed himself. And everyone who didn’t already know had a huge reaction of, “WHAT!”
However, these reactions didn’t even match up to Aizawa’s, who was in the room when he’d said that “Problem child… what do you mean a dentist removed teeth. Dentists don’t do that.” Izuku paused hearing his sensei’s voice, as did everyone else in the room. thinking fast on his feet though he responded, “Don’t worry Aizawa-sensei, they needed to go because they were trying to move other teeth away from their positions. To have them would’ve just caused more trouble.” The man looked slightly paler than before but nodded his head, it most likely wasn’t the first time that a student had to have teeth removed from their mouths. And thankfully, the IzuCrew backed him up, ensuring that it was for the better.
No one really touched on the fact that Izuku had to have another operation in two weeks’ time to remove more teeth.
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3 – Baby / Milk Teeth.
Milk teeth are the temporary set of teeth in a human child’s mouth that hold multiple purposes such as: for proper chewing of foods, proper development of the jaw bones in the face, to guide the permanent teeth into the right position, speech development and they serve as place holders.
Quirked peoples evolved to have all of those jobs be done by the regular adult teeth that come in when baby teeth should for convenience – as well as getting rid of the extra unnecessary toe joint in the pinkie toe for more calcium to go to the other bones. However, quirkless people still have this extra set of teeth – which actually makes things easier for them, speech and eating wise and most don’t need braces whilst almost all quirked people need braces at least once in their lives.
The following week after the first incident regarding teeth had Izuku facing off against his number one tormentor and bully: Bakugou Katsuki in a sparing match. He would’ve paired up with one of the IzuCrew members if not for All Might insisting that he train with someone of similar strength… and since only he and Shouto can go head-to-head with Bakugou, and Shouto had already been paired up with Kaminari against the white- and red-haired boy’s permission, Izuku was stuck with the explosive blond as his sparring partner.
Earlier that day, Izuku had notice that one of the teeth that he had been meaning to get removed later that week was loose. He was planning to ignore the wobbling tooth until he got to the dentist once more.
However, as always, fate hated him and had different plans from the smooth ones he laid out in hopes of them being followed. And like majority of the time, fate used Bakugou Katsuki as the sledgehammer that would shatter his plans like glass.
What he means by this is that whilst sparing with Bakugou, the blond disregarded the ‘don’t attack the face’ rules that All Might had told to them and sucker punched him in the face with his signature right hook. And the only reason Izuku had noticed this, is because his tooth, that he had been waiting until he was in the safe domain of the nice quirkless dentist – Takashi-Sensei’s – office to be removed, instead, his tooth was being lodged out of his gums with the force of a speeding bullet and into the top of his mouth, where he pried it from moments later when he stepped off of the mat.
Momo, who was sparing with Tsu at the time, stepped off of her mat as well to check on him when he went to take a swag of water. “Izuku-Kun?” she called out from slightly behind him. Izuku paused what he was doing, before he looked up at Momo with his baby tooth in his hand and blood gushing out from around the rim of his water bottle. She looked at the small tooth in his hand before looking back at him, “Oh dear, that wasn’t one of the adult teeth, was it?” she asked sincerely. Izuku swallowed the mouthful of water he was holding, as well as the blood that was mixed into it, before responding, “Nah, one of the babies that needed to fall.” And as she responded with a relieved, “Thank Goodness.” Jirou walked up behind her, followed swiftly behind her sparring partner: Uraraka.
The goth girl – that was a secret member of the IzuCrew – looked at Izuku before asking, “How’d that happen?” and looking at Izuku expectantly. Izuku, holding now quarrels for throwing his bully under the bus, responded as brutally honest as possible, “Bakugou sucker punched me in the jaw, and it fell out, it was already loose, so it was bound to fall out.” He didn’t bother calling Bakugou ‘Kacchan’ when with his squad because of the fact that he didn’t act innocent around them, despite how much the blond threw a fit whenever he didn’t call him by that childish nickname.
“Bakugou What!” Uraraka yelled, garnering the attention of sparing partners nearby, as well as the teachers. The blond seemed as unremorseful as ever when they looked over, so Uraraka shouted over to the teachers, “Aizawa-sensei, All Might-sensei! Bakugou punched Izuku in the mouth!” and immediately the entire class stopped sparring.
Aizawa walked over to Izuku whilst All Might went to ‘scold’ the now scowling teen. The ravenette man kneeled down to Izuku’s level and asked a serious, “What happened?” and Izuku, unable to lie to his teacher with his friends fully planning to get Bakugou into trouble mumbled out, “Kacchan sucker punched me in the jaw with his right hook, it was completely premeditated, and now my tooth has been knocked out.” Aizawa took one look at the baby tooth in Izuku’s hand before he looked at Bakugou and said loud and clear – with zero room for argument, “Bakugou, detention for a week for breaking sparring rules and seriously injuring a classmate.” Whilst the blond huffed and slouched away back to the changing rooms along with everyone else.
A week later Izuku was once again off campus for a dental operation. And once again returned back on campus with a bleeding gum that was missing teeth… and whilst the missing teeth was odd to see, the promise that they would grow back from Izuku, his dentist and recovery girl – who knew about Izuku’s quirklessness from his file – left everyone feeling sure.
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4 – Hiccups.
Hiccups are known as the rapid contractions of the diaphragm during or after multiple conditions: stress, strong emotions, eating large meals or drinking caffeinated drinks, or in rare cases that last over 48 hours: medicine or a medical condition.
Quirked people no longer suffer from this incidental bodily function as their bodies evolved to get rid of this accidental evolutionary mishap, yet quirkless people still have to deal with this annoyance.
Like any of Izuku’s instances, it all started with a calm atmosphere that slowly delved into the chaos they were known for. The class had worked together to make a large meal for everyone to enjoy and Izuku had been starving from missing both breakfast and lunch due to training. So, he had manged to wolf down his mean incredibly quickly, his friends snickered behind their cutler when they thought he wasn’t looking at their table, but he didn’t really care because the class was about to watch a movie that they had all agreed upon. The class had decided upon watching Frozen and its sequel after Shouto had nonchalantly mentioned around the entire IzuCrew that he had never seen a Disney movie before, Izuku wasn’t entirely surprised having known Shouto’s upbringing but apparently it was blasphemy that the boy hadn’t to the others.
So, for any future reference, Izuku entirely blames his excitement and his bad eating habits as the reason for his classmate’s panic. Or at least… he would’ve, had Bakugou not made their panic worse before he could explain it away.
He was sitting down on the couch, surrounded by the main members of the IzuCrew, Jirou acting as a blocker between his group and the Bakusquad with Momo whilst the rest of the class was spread out between and around them. Izuku was sat in the centre of his group, flanked by Shinsou and Todoroki, with Uraraka sitting in front of him, Iida in front of Todoroki and Tsu in front of Shinsou. Then he felt a little tight in his chest, and as Elsa started singing her signature song ‘Let It Go!’ with Mina, Kaminari and Kirishima making awful impressions of her song. Izuku was laughing until a sudden ‘hic’ cut him off and turned the room silent as everyone turned to look at him. His ears burned as he hid his face in his hands.
“Mido… what the fuck was that?” Sero asked from his seat on the couch the Bakusquad claimed. Iida went on to scold Sero for his use of profanity as though he doesn’t use it almost as much. Which is when Bakugou decides to fuck over his life even more by making a snarky remark which was, “Don’t worry tape face, useless Deku’s lungs just fail him sometimes.” He snickered as everyone’s face turns to panic, “Makes him sound like a fucking dog toy”
The panic was clearly a way to get back at him for the tooth incident, but the class didn’t care that he had said it sarcastically, Kirishima had immediately jumped the gun by screaming, “He’s chocking!” to Bakugou, who didn’t offer a reaction before the red head ran over to Midoriya as Ojiro offered the Heimlich manoeuvre whilst majority of the class tried to stop or support Kirishima. Said boy had also hardened his skin which was made apparent when Izuku tried to elbow him in the gut.
This action of trying to fight against Kirishima’s hold was fought until Aizawa was rushing through the common room to see him, followed by an anxious Sero. The adult took one look at him before responding, “He’s not chocking?” which caused other to try an argue against it until Izuku let another ‘hic’ loose from his lips as he explained, “Yeah, I can ‘hic’ talk.”, the class gave incredulous looks to prove it as Aizawa paused to process what he had heard. He sighed and responded, “I don’t know what that is, but it’s not chocking.” Which finally got Kirishima to let go and the rest of the class to back off.
“But what was that then?” Mina asked as she looked at Izuku, “Another quirk related thing?” she asked in an accusatory tone. Izuku, tired from the chaos and half asleep in Todoroki’s arms responded a quiet, “Sure.” Before the red- and white-haired boy carried him off to his room whilst the rest of the IzuCrew accompanied him. Content to watch the movie in there without any interruptions.
Aizawa tired from having been dragged out of his room whilst he was busy asked, “Why did you all panic. He could talk, why didn’t you just ask him?” To which everyone looked pointedly at Bakugou as Kirishima said, “Bakugou said his lungs were failing. What were we supposed to think?” Aizawa sighed heavily as the blond rolled his eyes before heading back to the teacher’s dorms.
Meanwhile, in Izuku’s dorm. Aoyama also started hiccupping along with Izuku, and the entire group laughed at the chain reaction whilst the blond and greenette hid in their embarrassment.
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5 – Spice.
Spice is not a function of the body; however, it was effected by the biological evolution that occurred when gaining quirks.
Quirked people (that didn’t have a heat based or bird-based quirk) evolved to have a lower spice tolerance than a quirkless person’s spice tolerance, unless they train their spice tolerance or are introduced to spicy food from a young age. Spicy food is known as a delicacy only the rich can have and has been known to cause death to those unprepared and is like eating a pufferfish that hasn’t been prepared properly, even the smell could be a weapon on its own.
After saving I-island, Melissa and Izuku became great friends. So, when she told Izuku that she was visiting, he was ecstatic for her arrival. The IzuCrew had met Melissa before, so they also knew that she was quirkless like Izuku (and Aoyama – but we don’t talk about it).
When the blond girl arrived in the dorms, followed by Hawks who had ridden with her there from the airport as security. She was immediately welcomed by her friend (who was practically her brother at this point). He led her to the kitchen, followed by Tokoyami, Aoyama, Todoroki and Hawks as she had promised to bring over some spicy food for them to try (because even though spicy food is attainable in Japan, if rare, only those with a quirk can by it).
She brought out the biohazard bag from her jacket – she had somehow smuggled it past security and it was unknown how – as well as a second, heavier bag she handed to Izuku for the greenette to hide in his minifridge later that day. Momo had made a second Microwave just for the occasion, and after the meal was finished heating up, Izuku had been given the right to slice it 6 ways, giving a piece to each of the people who’d followed him and keeping one for himself.
However, when Bakugou walked downstairs, followed by the rest of the class who’d smelt the strong smell, seeing 6 people, sharing a meal together, some crying from the spice, others – like Izuku and Tokoyami – adding more spices such as hot sauce and Carolina reapers or ghost peppers he may or may not have bugged his aunt into buying with him and Todoroki just eating the new food happily. The entire class was repulsed from the strong smell whilst Izuku gladly took a bit into a ghost pepper as though it were a carrot in the curry.
The blond was pissed though, “No. we agreed those are cheating you piece of shit!” he complained as he stormed over to Izuku, the greenette not even caring as he enjoyed his meal. Todoroki icing Bakugou’s feet to prevent the blond from taking away the heavenly meal made from hell. Izuku giggled as he turned to look at the blond, “What? Salty you’ll never beat me in a spice off because of the fact that I can have the hottest spices in the world whilst you’d end up crying before the first bit.”
The blond wiped his eyes of the tears peeking through when Izuku waved the peppers in his face before popping them into his mouth. “Your such a freak Deku.” The blond mumbled before stalking away, Izuku didn’t care, he just kept shoving spice into his mouth, not crying one bit. “Thanks Mel.” He said after finishing. She swallowed her mouthful, “Your welcome. I know that Japan doesn’t allow you to buy them here without an id stating that your able to eat spice so yeah.” Izuku laughed a bit as the rest of the class evacuated the area for the time being.
Needless to say, the smell was absolutely awful, and everyone avoided the kitchen and dining hall until all the plates had been decontaminated thoroughly.
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6 – Cracking / Popping joints.
People crack or pop their joints for a multitude of reasons. These reasons include but are not limited to enjoying the sound it makes, relieving tension, increasing mobility, a way to occupy the hands when nervous, as a habit or the most common one, to relieve pressure build-up. This sound comes from – what most people believe as – the popping of nitrogen bubbles in the joints yet isn’t entirely understood.
During the evolution of quirks, the build up of pressure of the nitrogen bubbles was lost, nitrogen no longer built up in the joints, even after long periods of not moving. Yet, the quirkless got to keep this fun little ability, and it’s very fun to scare people by acting as though you just broke your own fingers or bones.
It was History class with Ishiyama-sensei and the class had been asked to write an essay on the quirk wars. Izuku had been writing page after page until the time limit was up.
Finally able to relieve his tense back and cramped hands, he cracked his knuckles, neck, back and arms as he stood. The entire class was stunned into silence, including their teacher. With majority of them looking a little pale or green and sick. He let out a sigh of relieve however as Shouto placed a cold hand on his neck. With majority of the class wincing in pain as he did so.
The class had already been dismissed and their teacher had rushed out of the room once he had gotten a hold of himself. “What on earth was that Midoriya?” Ojiro asked, followed by a timid, “Are you okay?” from a gagging Sato. Izuku, confused beyond his belief answered, “Yeah! In fact, I’d say that I felt great. Popping my joints is always good after I’ve sat in place for too long.”
“What do you mean popping your joints?! I swear you just broke every damn bone in your body! You need to go and see recovery girl.” Kaminari stated whilst trying to not throw up.
Izuku and the rest of the IzuCrew just laughed at the accusation before walking out, ignoring the shuddering of their classmates’. And they went off to lunch, ignoring the fact the Cementoss was most likely going off to talk to both Aizawa and recovery girl who were both done with his shit and focusing on Aoyama making the entirety of class 1-B shudder when he cracker her knuckles before digging into their meal.
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7 – Tail bones and Toe joints = Balance.
The coccyx (often also called the tail bone) is the last bone at the bottom (base) of your spine. It’s a small, curved bone that’s made of between three and five vertebrae fused together. Most people know the coccyx as the tailbone. It supports your weight and helps you keep your balance when you’re sitting down. Tailbone pain and injuries are common, especially after falls. It is also the remnants of the tail from when the body had one.
The quirked, as like all evolutions from before it, slowly got rid of the tailbone until there was nothing left, the coccyx has now become a thing of the past, no longer apart of the body as it was absorbed into another bone. Meanwhile, the quirkless bodies have kept the vestige bone (which can be uncomfortable when sitting in chairs unfortunately).
As well as this, the infamous toe joint that was gotten rid of to make room for the quirk gene, the quirkless have also kept this joint. And both of these things have become very useful in the maintenance of balance in quirkless bodies.
Aizawa had the day off from school because of an injury sustained in patrol and therefore, Midnight-sensei had stepped up to take their heroics lesson for the day. So, when the class was instructed to get their regular gym uniforms on – apart from their shoes – and to meet their substitute in gym epsilon they were all in for a surprise. A surprise that in tailed their art teacher standing in front of a bunch of pre-quirk gymnastics equipment and handing them all heels in their own sizes, whilst giving a lecture on how you could find yourself facing off against a villain in unpredictable situations, including unpredictable clothing such as heels.
Then, she explained their lesson, “Okay, so. Your lesson for today is to practice walking around in heels, and if you can do that we’ll move onto gymnastics before putting both together.” Izuku and Aoyama looked at one another and smiled, they both had the extra built-in support to be able to do this easily and were both naturally flexible. Not to mention the fact that they naturally wear heels in their every day.
So, they both got their assigned heels and started strutting. Midnight complimented them as well as Momo, Mina, Hagakure, Uraraka and surprisingly for everyone but Izuku, Bakugou. The blond had done modelling for his parent’s company so it’s not a surprise that he knew how to wear heels.
Then the class got to take a break and watch as those 7 did gymnastics for around 10 minutes before Bakugou fell from his beam and sat down with his group, swiftly joined by Uraraka who opted to sit out. Which left Izuku, Yuga, Toru, Momo and Mina as the last in a competition that had only now been revealed to them. The three girls and two boys were given an opportunity to make a routine of some kind, using any of the equipment and to perform it.
So, all of the students left in the competition were given half an hour to make a decent routine in the heels. And after that half an hour they were pushed to perform. Toru went first, her performance was pretty bland, a couple cartwheels and a few other moves but nothing too wild. Aoyama’s performance was next, and he was definitely better, shinning under the spotlight and doing amazing moves all without falling off the beam until he slipped near the end, he didn’t fall though. Momo performed next, hers was a mix of Hagakure’s and Aoyama’s yet was longer than those two’s as well. Mina opted to go next, and she did incredibly well, which was expected as a dancer, she did many different moves as possible yet ended up twisting her ankle in an attempt to do a backhand spring to finish off her routine. Izuku was last, and as someone who’d been practicing gymnastics whenever he was alone his entire life from Yotube and some girls in a gymnastics class and their coach who didn’t care about his quirklessness. He did as many moves as he could remember them doing, some that even got them the winning position on competitions before ending it with a back handspring that transitioned into a backflip, all in heels and all on the beam.
The class was stunned silent, and he was thankfully not questioned for his ability to do gymnastics as the class was excused soon after.
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8 - The Appendix.
The appendix is a small, finger-shaped organ that is part of the gastrointestinal tract. It is located in the lower right section of the abdomen and is attached to the cecum, a pouch situated at the junction of the small intestine and large intestine. The appendix is a vestigial hollow tube that is closed at one end. It is a non-essential organ that can be removed without causing harm to the body.
Following the evolution of quirks, the human population apart from the quirkless evolved to no longer have this organ (like with all vestigial points in the body).the quirkless however, kept the vestigial organ as apart of their system, and had an increased chance of gaining appendicitis as the body recognises that it’s not supposed to be there.
As you can tell by this point what’s next on the agenda; Izuku’s appendix (an organ infamous for being useless and exploding when it felt like it) decided to explode during his homeroom class.
He had just been sitting there, in class despite having been sick and throwing up everything he ate – he’d chalked it up to his quirkless body have a harsher reaction to the everyday illnesses than the quirked since no one else had gotten sick. Then, he felt a blinding pain in his abdomen. He didn’t speak, he just paused and held a hand over his gut as he felt something rupture in him. He shakily walked over to Aizawa-sensei’s sleeping bag and barely managed to croak out, “Can I go see recovery girl?”
The tired man took one look at him, paler than before (he had been told by Iida that Izuku was sick, but it wasn’t contagious) and just said, take someone with you so that you don’t pass out. So, Izuku shakily headed for the door, Aoyama getting up from their seat to help him wobble his way out of class and to the nurse’s office.
“Appendicitis?” she asked worried. Izuku mumbled out an, “I think so.” As his rapid breathing increased, and he lost his footing. “Yeah, I’m kind of glad I don’t have to experience that, but I thought your symptoms matched up.” She agreed as they reached the medical wing.
“What do you mean, you don’t have to deal with that?” he signed to Aoyama using the quirkless language. The blond smiled back before responding in the same language, “My parents had my appendix removed just before I got my quirk because it wouldn’t cause damage to have it gone.” And as they finished, recovery girl walked in.
“Alright deary, what seems to be the problem.” The woman asked in her grandmotherly tone she used for when people when they weren’t fuck ups. Aoyama looked at recovery girl, before Izuku tried to wheeze out what he thought was wrong, yet appeared unable to speak so she answered instead, “We think it’s appendicitis. All the symptoms leading up to this so far have matched up.” The hero looked slightly shocked that Aoyama knew Izuku was quirkless before pushing it passed her and moving to set up a surgery room. making sure everything was done properly to prevent any form of septic shock.
Later on, when he returned to the dorms with Aoyama at his side and Todoroki carrying him, he made the excuse of his sickness being more serious than they thought before asking Todoroki to take him to bed, the entire IzuCrew had been texted by Aoyama in their chat that Izuku had been suffering from appendicitis these past few days and his appendix burst in class whilst the greenette was in surgery so it was fine.
He had a speedy recovery and was back to his normal self sooner than expected anyways. No one really worried to much.
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9 - Caffeine.
Caffeine, like spices is a consumable product that was effected by the evolution of quirks.
Quirked individuals cannot have large amounts of caffeine. When quirks evolved, humans required more sleep to be able to use those quirks, however caffeine became toxic in the doses that people took it in when eating or drinking the regular foods. The quirkless however, (as well as some people with mental quirks) weren’t effected by this change with the stronger caffeine actually being beneficial to them.
It was a Tuesday morning, Izuku hadn’t slept for almost a week, and he was exhausted, yet couldn’t go to sleep. So, when Aoyama and Shinsou both came downstairs also unable to sleep and cursing insomnia as the devil. Izuku popped upstairs to his caffeine cupboard (and minifridge), grabbing his coffee grounds, and any other caffeinated drinks he could find from Melissa’s recent stockpile she supplies him with.
He brings them down and offers them both to Shinsou and Aoyama. Shinsou takes the offer of black coffee whilst Aoyama takes the offer of black tea. And Izuku takes out his favourite travel mug that has the words ‘Poison Cocktail’ inscribed on the side, next to the handle and pours in a can of Monster energy, coca cola, Pepsi max, Alani, red bull, bang as well as a cup of highly caffeinated black coffee and black chai. Both Shinsou and Aoyama wince when they see him take a huge chug out of it but don’t ay anything, a tired, un-caffeinated Izuku is something they never want to be on the other side of after the coffee shop incident. They’re just glad Izuku isn’t dependant on those kinds of drinks.
Later on, when the rest of the class get downstairs, Izuku has finished his cup and is visibly shaking whilst he waits to be carted off to class. That is when they can hear both Shouji and Jirou talking in the hall, “No, I know… his heartbeat is far too fast to be healthy.” And they continue their conversation until the pair reach the common room and see the mug on the coffee table. They had heard (had been warned) about that mug from the other members of the IzuCrew when they joined and smartly shut their mouth about Izuku’s fast heart.
During training, Izuku is bouncing around like a rabbit on steroids around Hitoshi until he suddenly stopped and flopped to the floor. Bakugou barked out a laugh from where he was, sparring with Todoroki and Aizawa came over.
“What on earth happened?” he asked with an incredulous expression on his face. “He had too much caffeine and crashed he’ll be fine.” Shinsou promises his mentor. “What do you mean caffeine?!” the man asks with surprise.
When Izuku wakes up, it’s in the nurse’s office with Aizawa peering over him and a guilty Shinsou by his side. “What’s going on?” he asks confused. “You drink high doses of caffeine in your drinks.” The man accuses. Izuku looks to Shinsou, who conveniently isn’t looking at him, “You’re interrogating me.” He accuses back. Aizawa raises an eyebrow, “So it’s true. And I’d say less interrogation, more so intervention.”
Izuku scoffs slightly, “Yes I drink caffeine, my alertness practically depends upon it if I haven’t had enough sleep, and I last sleep over a week ago.” He admits easily, it isn’t like he’s owning up to some crime, so he doesn’t care. Aizawa look baffled at the truth on his tongue, which like, rude. However, the man turns the conversation into, “Right so you’re going to stop doing that.” Not even asking how he’s getting the caffeine and Izuku just responds, voice as clear as day,
“No.”