The Emperor's Dragon

A Different Point of View

Aizawa scowled at the dossier that was under his nose. It was the list of passing students from the hero test. Each name was accompanied by an action shot of them. Accompanying it, was the list of failing students, those who had failed the hero test but had gotten into the General Studies course based on their general exam mark.

Twenty for each class, which included the recommendation students, and, oh, only nine for failed into General Studies. After all, you couldn't get into General Studies if your regular exam result was poor.

However, the hero list displayed, as always, the blatant favouritism given to those with brash, flashy and frankly noisy quirks. There wasn't an ounce of subtlety in there and... The one student he'd noted as having at least some heroic tendencies, with enough destructive power in their quirk was in the failed batch. The others he'd noted with heroic tendencies just hadn't made it, which is exactly what he'd predicted. Though, since he'd checked their regular exam results, he was already aware that they weren't going to make it into General Studies. Not with scores like that.

The picture of the girl wasn't flattering. It showed her under the concrete which was actually quite discriminatory... He huffed softly. Typical but maybe he could do something about it. He'd rescored the exam himself, with his system and the results changed a bit. He could push for that, especially since... Yes, her regular exam results were far higher than some of the others who supposedly passed.

"Are we agreed on the passes and fails?" Nezu asked.

"No," Aizawa murmured amongst the chorus of 'yes'. It was loud enough for the rat to hear.

"Shouta?"

"If you want me to teach a class this year, you are going to have to give me something to work with," he grumbled.

That brought some laughs from those who knew him and who knew of his penchant for expelling students.

Nezu's little black eyes glittered. He loved a good argument. Internally Aizawa groaned, wondering if the rat had deliberately placed those he would have passed into the failing list just for the argument? That would be like him.

"Candidates 1, 3, 6, 7 and 8 on the fail list should be in the passes, and candidates 1, 18, 29, 36 and 38 on the pass should be in the fail list," Aizawa told the faculty before anyone asked. Candidate 1 on the pass list was Explody boy and rewatching the exam, he definitely should fail, no matter how many points he had, though Aizawa knew he'd lose that particular argument, dropping the position might get him one of the others into the hero course. It was all about negotiation.

Of course, Nezu knew that as well and knew that unless you really skewed the weighting on the points, then Explody boy passed, just on the sheer number of villain points he'd racked up. The villain points were called villain points and Aizawa had already lost the argument on that, long before he'd even started at UA.

"Aizawa, I know you want to change the scoring system but even if you halve the villain points and double the rescue points, Candidate 1 still passes," Vlad pointed out reasonably.

"And we honestly think it's a good idea to let someone who has no rescue points in?" Shouta snapped back. Sure, they told the kids the point was to destroy the robots but, shouldn't they be looking at their overall natures as well.

"Are you suggesting the kid's a villain?" Vlad asked.

Vlad knew better than that and Aizawa just glared, though the effect was lessened by the fact he was still in his sleeping bag. At least Vlad caught on though. "He's here, not out joining some gang, so at least he wants to be a hero," Vlad pointed out.

Aizawa looked disgusted. That was about the only point in the kid's favor and it wasn't a great one.

"Since you are so concerned about him, I'll put him in your class," Nezu said.