#set before chap 430

[nivea-ah]

Post-canon oneshot <3

Izuku's phone rang right after he finished grading the papers and he doesn't even have to check the caller-ID to know who's calling.

"Hello," he said into the speaker as he shuffled around to sort the papers out. "You called just on time."

He heard Shouto hum and he knew that he was pleased. "I am a very punctual man."

Izuku smiled. "You sure are." He stacked all the papers up, finally finishing all his tasks for the day. "Do you not have patrol duties today? I didn't get a notification of your sightings today."

He heard Shouto let out a surprised laugh and Izuku feels proud of himself. "You follow fan pages of me?"

"Yes, of course! How else will I know where you are?"

He heard Shouto laugh again and Izuku can't help but laugh with him. "Just call me," Shouto said. "I'll always answer."

Izuku felt his heart warm at his words. After they'd become adults, it had been hard to get their off-days to coincide with each other. Izuku won't lie and say that that didn't make him a little sad. It was understandable, yes, but there were days where he wished they could all meet up.

"Thank you," he told Shouto with all the sincerity he could muster. He wanted him to know just how much that meant to him. "Call me whenever, too, okay?"

"Okay," Shouto said and Izuku knew that he was smiling that soft smile that made his fans go wild. He would know. He followed those fan pages.

"Also," Shouto continued, "are you heading out now?"

"Oh, yes, I'm heading out now! I just finished grading the papers so I'll be leaving now. Why?"

"Hm, no reason. Just come fast?"

Izuku felt a smile tug his lips and his feet picked up speed. "Are you standing outside right now?" he asked, already feeling his heart swell with happiness.

"Maybe," Shouto replied and that's all it took for Izuku to break into a run (a fast walk, he'd later explain to Aizawa, because 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴.)

He reached the main entrance and, lo behold, there stood Shouto with a phone in his hand, Ochako, Tsuyu and Tenya standing right beside him and Izuku couldn't help the tears that filled his eyes. He was still a crybaby, but he was fine with it because he had friends who made him feel nice about it. He had friends who would make sure to coincide their off-days just to meet him because they were his heroes and maybe he was theirs.

[bnhaobservation]

From your code red post, Chap 431 would have been the PERFECT TIME for Midoriya to reflect on his middle school days as a teacher!! That would have done so much for setting up how he thinks being a teacher really impacts lives just as much as being a hero, especially how All Might impacted his life as a teacher/mentor!!

Now...

...for me chap 430 would have been a good time as well to point this out (for who's reading this and has no idea what the code red post is here it is).

Chapter 430 after all introduces the idea of Midoriya as a teacher but gives as his reason for become one not having been inspired by his own negative experiences but by a conversation Fuwa had with Aizawa in chap 425.

Midoriya Izuku ‘Mukashi Fuwa senpai ga sensei to hanashitete sono toki omottandesu “Mukosei" ni wa modoru kedo keiken o ikashite dareka o hagemaseru nara sore wa totemo kakkoī kamo natte.’ 緑谷出久「昔不和先輩が先生と話しててその時思ったんです“無個性"には戻るけど経験を活かして誰かを励ませるならそれはとてもかっこいいかもなって。」 Midoriya Izuku “A long time ago, when Fuwa-senpai was talking to the teacher, I thought, I'll go back to being quirkless, but if I can use my experience to encourage someone, that would be really cool.” [Chap 430]

Now... it can totally be that Midoriya is planning to use his experience as a Quirkless person who wanted to be a Hero and was bullied for it to encourage others but since he's at U.A. high it feels unlikely his students that managed to pass the extremely hard U.A. high selection were to need that sort of encouragement and, even with Dai, he doesn't share with him how he was Quirkless and yet managed to become a Hero, he just thinks Dai's Quirk could be useful and tell him he can become a Hero.

Long story short it seems he wants to use his experience as a Hero to encourage others and not his experience as a Quirkless bullied person who has to fight hard to become a Hero.

Chapter 431 discussed it further in a way,

Midoriya Izuku ‘ARMOR de no DATA shūshū wa kihon jugyō no nai hi ni yatterushi Aizawa sensei-tachi to onaji kanjida yo. Shōgakkō ya shisetsu no hōmon toka kōen toka shōnen shōjo ni jibun no keiken o chokusetsu tsutaeru kikai mo mainichi no yō ni aru. ĀRMOR wa sugoku ureshīkeredo mae to kimochi wa kawaranai yo. ONE FOR ALL ga nokotteta to shite mo boku wa `sensei tte ī na' tte kangaeta to omou. Sensei mo yarete mukashi mitai ni mina to katsudō mo sa sete moraete sugoku ureshī arigatō Kacchan Kirishima-kun.’ 緑谷出久「アーマーでのデータ収集は基本授業のない日にやってるし相澤先生たちと同じ感じだよ。小学校や施設の訪問とか講演とか少年少女に自分の経験を直接伝える機会も毎日のようにある。アーマーはすごく嬉しいけれど前と気持ちは変わらないよ。OFAが残ってたとしても僕は「先生っていいな」って考えたと思う。先生もやれて昔みたいに皆と活動もさせてもらえてすごく嬉しいありがとうかっちゃん切島くん。」 Midoriya Izuku “I basically collect data for the armor on days when there are no classes, and I feel just like Aizawa-sensei and the others. I also have the opportunity almost every day to visit elementary schools and facilities, give lectures, and share my experiences directly with young boys and girls. I'm very happy about the armor, but my feelings haven't changed since before. Even if One For All had remained, I think I would have thought, "It's great to be a teacher." I'm very happy that I can be a teacher and work with everyone like in the old days. Thank you, Kacchan and Kirishima-kun.” [Chap 430]

Now the idea that Midoriya works as a teacher, then works as a Hero, then also visits other schools to give lectures and collect datas for the armor... well, it feels a bit too much, but whatever, the fact Horikoshi sends him in elementary schools might give him a chance to share his past as a person who was told he couldn't become a Hero and instead managed to become one... but it still seems an afterthough and it hardly impact on bullying in the sense it stops it.

It might impact on the bullied one in the sense it can encourage him but stop the bully? Unlikely.

And maybe it's just me but I still remains with the impression the experiences Midoriya wants to share are his ones as a Hero but this might be just me.

All this is not bad however I would have preferred if Midoriya had decided to become a teacher to at least protect the kids of a class from bullying, to be there for them and encourage them daily, that his wish to become a teacher were to be born by his own negative experiences at school.

Instead Horikoshi preferred to create a parallel between him and All Might who also was a U.A. high teacher who also met him at random before he joined U.A. high and told him 'you can be a Hero'.

It's his own personal preference, he views this as the story coming to full circle even if Dai's situation is nowhere near Midoriya's and it shows.

Hearing All Might saying so Midoriya cried because everyone told him his own was an impossible dream and it made sense it was as he was Quirkless. Dai is just told it would be tough for him to become a Hero, not that it would be impossible.

But the core of the scene is that Midoriya is doing his best to encourage others and he's also telling Dai to do his best and in Japan there's the belief with enough effort you can do everything so this scene might make sense to them, while at the same time keeping a positive atmosphere and not really blaming society... and this is something that doesn't really work for me.

But well, I don't make the rules.

Thank you for your ask!