The Emerald Prince

Chapter 71: Copy cat to Scaredy cat

Sorta a redraw of my illustration for Chapter 26.
Happy bisexuality visibility day everyone!

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During breakfast, Aizawa quietly explained Mandalay's suspicions and that Izuku and his three musketeers were to train with the rest of the class for safety.
More vocally, he repeated the stance on PDA during the camp, leading to Ojiro and Hagakure disentangling and Ojiro at least looking sheepish.

This time during training, they were joined by 1B which was an interesting experience. Primarily because they'd been separated by quirk type... meaning Izuku and Shinsou were working with Monoma and his red headed caretaker was not present to restrain him.

Aizawa was observing them, whilst Tiger was with the more physically orientated such as Kendo, Iida, Satou and Kirishima. Pixie-Bob took on the more traditional emitters such as Todoroki, Ibara, Bakugou, Kaminari, Aoyama and Sero. Ragdoll and Mandalay kept an eye on everyone, their quirks an ideal pairing since the the former could monitor injuries developing in students, and the latter could notify the teachers when students were struggling, slacking, or in danger of injuries.

Aizawa's group contained quite a few interesting characters, whose quirks did not give direct offensive advantage or needed convoluted methods to be useful:

Class 1A:
Aizawa Izuku: Anti-quirk - ability to activate, erase or manipulate an opponent's quirk.
Shinsou Hitoshi: Brainwashing - ability to brainwash an opponent who answers a question posed by the user.
Uraraka Ochako: Zero Gravity - ability to nullify the effects of gravity on solid targets.
Kouda Kouji: Anivoice - ability to command any creature in the animal kingdom by speaking to them.
Jirou Kyouka: Earphone Jack - has earphone jacks hanging from her earlobes, giving her sensitive hearing and the ability to amplify the sound of her heart to create a strong vibration attack. The jacks can be controlled and moved by her.
Hagakure Tōru: Invisibility - ability manipulates light enabling her to appear completely invisible. Unable to deactivate.

Class 1B
Komori Kinoko: Mushroom - ability to spread various types of fungus spores from her body, which grow rapidly once they make contact with a solid surface.
Kuroiro Shihai: Black - able to merge his body with anything that is dark in colour.
Awase Yosetsu: Weld - ability to fuse two objects (living or non-living) together at an atomic level.
Kodai Yui: Size - ability to alter the size of nonliving objects that she has had contact with.
Fukidashi Manga: Comic - allows him to materialise onomatopoeic words in midair by speaking them, which manifest the effects that the sound suggests. (This was done kinda humorously in canon (he is a joke), but imagine what he could do with SPLAT...)

They'd been sparring, and though Izuku and Kuroiro were paired, Monoma didn't care about making his words quiet, and hadn't learned his goddamn lesson from last time. Every insult hit slightly closer to home than the last... and it really hurt. He'd never show it, Izuku had more pride than that, but it hit at quite a few - for he had many - of his insecurities and dredged up a fair few traumatic memories while he was at it.

Izuku gave as good as he got, but Monoma didn't have the same fragility. Insecurities, sure if he felt the need to harass and insult Izuku to feel big, but no trauma that Izuku could register in his behaviour.

"LAY OFF HIM YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

Izuku jumped when Shinsou had finally had enough and broke. He turned and was surprised to see every member of his class present glaring at the blond. There were Uraraka, Jirou, Shinsou, Kouda and Hagakure (gloves balled in fists), all there on the verge of attacking this blond git to defend his honour. It made him feel all warm inside.