hero's shadow // mha

15) testing

(ahh I love this!! this scene is from chap 12, and it's by @seyalore on twitter!)

UA is enormous.

Izuku finds this out the second he steps onto the school's street. Sitting atop of a forested hill that looks out over Musutafu, UA is huge.

Which is unsurprising given the fact that it's the number one ranked high school for heroics in Japan and, in Izuku's opinion, the world. It has an alumni of famous and successful pro heroes, including that of All Might himself, Endeavor, and even Best Jeanist.

Most of the top heroes all graduated from the same place; that in itself speaks volumes on the credibility of UA's teaching. That's why it's near impossible to even get in.

So, to put it simply, Izuku is nervous.

The campus itself is usually gated and protected from criminals and reporters, but now it stands open for the hundreds of examinees going in. Guests would normally have to have a special ID card to be allowed in—at least, that's what All Might told him, but now isn't the case.

He really shouldn't be here. Nope. The open gate in front of him isn't welcoming at all; it's like the UA Barrier is jeering at him from where it arcs high above him. Like it's just daring him to go through with this.

To be honest, Izuku is surprised his application was even accepted. He does have a criminal record, after all, even if it's not that bad. It's not like he could lie about those specific records either; they most likely would've done a security check and disqualified him immediately for falsifying documents.

UA is very serious about legalities, as the principal and staff can get into a lot of trouble if something were to go wrong regarding students or training.

Izuku had taken pictures of the many pages of the application and emailed them to the principal a few minutes before twelve last night. There must've been a filtering system attached, as he received the verification email less than a minute afterwards. He'd spent a good twenty minutes before that trying to figure out what he could lie about, however. UA asked for a lot of things: his parent's name and occupation, phone number and address, medical records, a birth certificate, and so on.

It's not like he could put down abandoned building a couple miles away from the bank as his address, so he did end up lying about that, among other things. He just had to make sure that his lies were believable, and also foolproof. Again, he couldn't lie about his criminal record, as that's easy to look up. He just hopes that everything he put down won't be looked into too much.

But anyways. UA is much larger than he expected.

It has to be, he guesses, seeing as the school offers a wide variety of courses to take besides heroics. They have a range of classes, too, like most other schools: A—K. For every letter there's two more of the same class, which means there's thirty three classes always active there. To accommodate all of their students, UA has to be large.

Izuku takes a deep breath and forces himself to move forward. He's only a few minutes early; if he wants to be on time for the written exam he has to get going.

I can do this. They all believe in me. Eraserhead gave me that application directly, I can't disappoint him or—

He trips on air, having been too focused on not chickening out to remember how to walk correctly.

Or I'll just embarrass myself here and become one with the sidewalk. I wonder if UA will let me become their doormat. That's honorable.

His face is hovering over the ground a couple feet, and when he looks down he notices that so are his legs. Huh.