It’s time for the UA Sports Festival. For the hero students, it’s a chance to shine. For the other students, it’s a chance to make the hero student shine… brighter. For you, it’s an opportunity to get into the hero course. After a tragic villain attack three weeks before the entrance exam, you were left orphaned and injured. When exam came, you were unable to participate due to your injury and dealing with the grief of your parents. Instead, you settled for General Studies. But now, healed and determined to make your parents proud, you won’t let anything hold you back from your dreams.
Life at UA High is full of joy and chaos, with the focal point being on the amazing hero course. You, however, work in Support Course. Despite your absolute genius in making support items, you choose to hide your skills after an embarrassing past failure. Unfortunately, your plans of flying under the radar don’t last long. [READ PREMISE FOR MORE DETAILS]
Your adoptive parents, Shota Aizawa and Hizashi Yamada, are picture perfect, providing everything you need and more. There’s only one thing they’re vehemently against— you becoming a hero. They couldn’t bear the thought of you getting hurt or worse. But you’ve decided to choose your own path and go against their wishes. You secretly enter the UA Entrance Exam, determined to follow your own destiny.
A first-year at UA quickly learns that being a hero means more than just facing villains—it means surviving what comes after. Each canon event chips away at the belief that someone will be waiting when it’s over. With distant parents who never show up, even when it matters most, hope becomes harder to hold onto. But when the hospital doors open after everything falls apart, it isn’t the people you’ve been waiting for.
Your parents physically and emotionally abuse you, but you’ve hidden it pretty well. But there’s only so much you can hide. And your teachers Shota Aizawa and Hizashi Yamada are starting to notice some concerning things…