The Innocence of a Hero

Chapter 2

At nine years old, Izuku had already known the basics of Bloody Archives. He was still uncomfortable with using his blood as ink but Izuku endured though.

Bloody Archives really did suit Izuku very much. It wasn’t flashy like Kacchan’s explosions but it gave Izuku the treasure that is information. Once he has written the name of a person inside his Bloody Archives while thinking of their face, Izuku’s hand would feel possessed and begin to write all the relevant information about them. Page after page and Izuku wouldn’t be able to stop until all the information has been written. When it first manifested, the general details of his Innocence came flooding in his mind and Izuku only needed trial and error to know the specifics, alternative uses and limits of his Innocence. What he generally knew was that he needed to write a person’s name while thinking of their face for it to work.

Izuku’s first try was ‘All Might’ but he found out that a hero name wasn’t accepted by his Bloody Archives. He also tested it on other Heroes and the results were the same. Next, he tried writing ‘Kacchan’ but nothing happened so nicknames were out. So finally he wrote ‘Katsuki Bakugou’ and Izuku nearly died of blood loss.

He wrote almost twenty pages and he was only on Kacchan’s life from his birth to six years old. Izuku only came out alive by undoing his invocation when he felt like he was going to pass out. However when his Bloody Archives became a glove, Izuku instantly felt better. It was like all the blood he lost was a figment of his imagination. Izuku wasn’t sure of the real reason behind it but he supposed that the Innocence wouldn’t let its host die. However, even when he undid the invocation and avoided the consequences of blood loss, he still felt exhausted and like he was really about to die. In the beginning, Izuku was forced to sleep for six hours after writing, so he resorted to only writing at night before he went to sleep because he didn’t want anyone to have any unnecessary worry towards his health.

After many days of thinking of how he would make his Bloody Archives more effective, Izuku tried having an outline of the specific information he would like to have.

Before writing Kacchan’s name again, Izuku thought of something simple.

QUIRK DESCRIPTION:

STRENGTHS:

WEAKNESSES:

POSSIBLE WAYS FOR IMPROVEMENT:

The quirk description only took one page but the strengths and weaknesses took up three pages in total and the possible ways for improvement was four pages. Izuku felt less tired afterwards so he had the opportunity to read what he had written this time. Izuku wasn’t able to read the Bloody Archives while he was using its powers so he was usually only able to read its contents afters sleeping for six hours. The new method not only saved him energy but also time to study what he had written.

Izuku noticed that even though he wasn’t in control of what he was writing, it was all written from Izuku’s perspective. One line on Weaknesses read that ‘Kacchan seems to hate cooperation and think highly of himself. He’s easily provoked and lets his emotions control him so he would be easy to manipulate with the right words and good acting skills.’