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🌻Jaded🌻

🌻Jaded by FoxyPuff 🌻

Genre: BNHA Fanfiction, Fiction, Coming-of-Age

Chapters Reviewed: 10 Chapters

Summary: Takara Juba loves heroes and is determined to become one. She's confident in her abilities, but she soon finds herself in a whole new league.

Her classmates are the top of the top, and she finds herself a step behind. Without a flashy enough quirk, she begins to think her family is right; how can she really hope to become a hero?

Reviewed as of 10/16/2024.

Link to Story: https://www.wattpad.com/story/271758739-jaded-a-mha-oc-fanfic

Review Type: Advance Review, Spoilers

Review: Note, this will be spoiler filled up until chapter 10 (as that was the last chapter I read)

When asked what three words described her book, FoxyPuff claimed it was dramatic, new-age, and fun, and honestly, and I can see why. This isn't your typical BNHA fanfic. It takes place a few years after the series, where we get to see Takara fangirling over the Pro Hero, Suneater, and training under Uravity at Unforeseen Simulation Joint (USJ). It's so neat seeing what has happened to these characters in the lens of the next generation of heroes, but not overshadowing them. Personally, I love stories like these. There is so much lore that has yet been discovered in the BNHA realm, so focusing on characters outside of that is very refreshing.

Because there are so many new characters being introduced, I feel like this story is still in the exposition part of it. Ten chapters of mere exposition may sound like a lot, but I think it's needed. We're introduced to the 10 main classmates of 1-A by chapter 6, but it's not character overload, all at once. Instead, they're scattered throughout the first 6 chapters fairly evenly that it makes it easier to memorize who everyone is. I love that we see Morita and Takara work together flawlessly in the entrance exams. In the following chapter, once Takara gets accepted into U.A., the two then meet the Pixie Twins as well as meet a few of the teachers.

Which is another thing I want to pause to talk about. I love when writers put twins in their stories, but it peeves me to no end when I cannot differentiate them. It's such a cliche so many authors use, whether in fanfiction or in published works. Luckily, that doesn't happen in this story. We can clearly see Aiya is the shyer of the two twins while Kaede seems to do all the talking for the two. This can be seen when they're introducing themselves and discussing their Quirks as Kaede said "'Our quirk is called Pixie,"' almost speaking for Aiya. Maybe that's just how they are, especially since Aiya has this quiet personality, but a couple chapters later, Aiya is calling Kaede a control freak. Honestly, I can see it. Kaede wasn't a horrible control freak in the beginning, but there's definitely subtle hints that I can see why Aiya would be so frustrated with her.

This tension between the two sisters really does a great job showcasing not just those two characters, but those around them. As I've said before, we're introduced to them gradually. Araya, for example, is another character that is named after the first test Sensei McCaffery (the 1-A teacher) throws at the students. He seems to look forward to meeting the twins and is disheartened when they leave because of Aiya's shyness. Later, when we see the fight between the twins, he's very patient, wanting to learn more about what's going on between Aiya and her sister.

Now that I'm writing this all out, I think I know why I'm enjoying this story so much. It reminds me of the classic novel by F. Scott Fizgerald, The Great Gatsby. Even though Takara is the main character, so far, the story has been focusing more on the twins, kind of like how in The Great Gatsby, the main characters are Jay Gastby and Daisy Buchanan, but it's from Nick's point of view. Maybe that'll change, but I like that it's not taking the "I'm the main character, so I'm going to fix everything!" approach. Instead, Takara is there to support Aiya and help out, but she seems to know her boundaries, not interfering too much. She still has her own problems that she needs to navigate through—like worrying about getting into U.A. (she ranked 36/40 students during the entrance exam) and witnessing all the fantastic Quirks the others have—but once the twins are introduced, it seems to focus more on their problems more so than Takara's.