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In canon, between the slime villain incident and the U.A. entrance exam, Bakugou ignores Izuku.
In this AU, he doesn’t.
Bakugou is frustrated by his own helplessness when Slime attacked and he takes it out on Izuku.
Izuku is worried that someone else would be a better successor and constantly goes back and forth between thinking, “All Might chose me,” and “He chose me on a whim.”
He keeps thinking he should give All Might the chance to back out but he’s too terrified to actually do it and it makes feel like a coward. He puts himself down a lot and his classmates and teachers do the same.
It’s pretty obvious to Toshinori that Izuku is being badly bullied when he shows up to training with burns on his skin in the shape of a hand.
Toshinori realizes how bad Izuku has it but he doesn’t know what to do about it so he invites Naomasa to meet Izuku. Since Naomasa is a detective, he ought to know what can be done about the bullying.
But on the way to meet Toshinori, Naomasa passes by the school where Izuku is being severely bullied. Toshinori goes to the police station where Izuku is being patched up and Bakugou is facing assault charges.
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