#ALL things that get touched on in hch4 and elaborated on in hvhdhc

[breadandbees]

Snippet from hch4 ch. 10: “From Shouto to ‘Hero’”

According to the U.A. student handbook and policy, there was one loophole to Quirk use in non-designated areas: a special exception.

Exceptions were granted on a case-by-case basis but, in practice, rarely honored unless your parent or guardian was willing to put up a fight. The recent inclusion of exceptions into the handbooks and policies and procedures of Japanese schools was primarily due to health and funding concerns rather than a strict compliance with School Education Laws that the Japanese government had only adopted sometime after the United States and other countries did. Everything detailed within the exception was only valid if the student was on-campus, so school-sanctioned trips were exempt and U.A. would not be liable in case of a miscommunication.

Usually, a doctor’s note and diagnosis was part of the process, as well as a meeting with a parent or legal guardian to confirm the student’s unique situation and the necessity of Quirk use. There were other things, too, but Shouto didn’t remember what else would be relevant enough to warrant wanting to be singled-out more in a school environment.

And then there were all the addendums to that clause Mutant classifications had to adhere to.

Of course, Iida probably read through the whole thing and committed parts to memory that could be reasonably relevant. Maybe he read it because taking instructions seriously—even when it was to read through things no one should ask a student to read through and reasonably expect every single student read through everything and recite it on command—was his thing. But, after Hosu, Shouto was certain there’s more to Tensei’s younger brother than a rule-abiding student.

On the other hand, Shouto himself had read through the whole thing for two reasons: 1) to know which rules he could reasonably get away with ignoring, and 2) because Endeavor's reputation paid the price as his associates fought the battle on his behalf. It only felt right to know what that was about.

So far, U.A. had honored it. He’d been skateboarding to-and-fro without causing an incident that makes Daily Hero News and any of those other news blog sites he didn’t subscribe to.

Shouto was under the belief that it was because his father held the mantle of number two, Endeavor was an alumnus, and Endeavor’s associates—his legal and public relations teams—were the top of their respective professions in the nation. At the very least, Shouto hadn’t done anything worth fighting over, which would only tank alumni funding, further corrode faith in the future of Hero society, and jeopardize their position as best Hero school in the nation.

U.A. had survived tough times. They might not survive Todoroki Shouto.