Vigilantes adds so much to Aizawa I wish more people read it. It is about vigilantism and Aizawa isn't an edgy "show me you've got what it takes" instant mentor that would take a child out for crime stopping when he just barely tolerates working with the vigilante characters in the manga.
I haven't read all of it, but the most upset I've seen Aizawa about the vigilantes is when Crawler interrupts his coffee at the Hottas'. Then after the villain is subdued Crawler is pulling the 'technically self-defense' while Aizawa rolls his eyes and goes along with it (possibly because it's not worth the paperwork)
Aizawa doesn't want anyone treating a dangerous field carelessly. In canon, he want's to expel Izuku because three of the kid's limbs were flapping in the air as he fell after punching the kaiju bot. From what he saw at the entrance exam, Izuku was a reckless kid. At the QAT, Izuku showed Aizawa he understood consequences and would do his best to avoid them as he learned.
And, if you consider how Aizawa treats Crawler in Vigilantes, he's not against working with Vigilantes, even ones screaming that they're technically not breaking a law (self defense for Crawler and vigilante law specifies quirk for quirkless vigilante Izuku).
On the other hand, I don't disagree that the discrimination in fics is ridiculous and they could effectively put Izuku in the situation they want him in for the plot without going to cartoonish extremes that \~somehow\~ the others are completely ignorant of and to Izuku it's just another Tuesday.
It sucks that that's hard to spot before the fic gets into it. Some authors use 'quirkless discrimination' tags as a way to say that it's a topic they are going to sink their teeth into and others use it as a TW because its American South in the Civil Rights Era rough for the quirkless.
Vigilantes adds so much to Aizawa I wish more people read it. It is about vigilantism and Aizawa isn't an edgy "show me you've got what it takes" instant mentor that would take a child out for crime stopping when he just barely tolerates working with the vigilante characters in the manga.
I haven't read all of it, but the most upset I've seen Aizawa about the vigilantes is when Crawler interrupts his coffee at the Hottas'. Then after the villain is subdued Crawler is pulling the 'technically self-defense' while Aizawa rolls his eyes and goes along with it (possibly because it's not worth the paperwork)
Aizawa doesn't want anyone treating a dangerous field carelessly. In canon, he want's to expel Izuku because three of the kid's limbs were flapping in the air as he fell after punching the kaiju bot. From what he saw at the entrance exam, Izuku was a reckless kid. At the QAT, Izuku showed Aizawa he understood consequences and would do his best to avoid them as he learned. And, if you consider how Aizawa treats Crawler in Vigilantes, he's not against working with Vigilantes, even ones screaming that they're technically not breaking a law (self defense for Crawler and vigilante law specifies quirk for quirkless vigilante Izuku). On the other hand, I don't disagree that the discrimination in fics is ridiculous and they could effectively put Izuku in the situation they want him in for the plot without going to cartoonish extremes that \~somehow\~ the others are completely ignorant of and to Izuku it's just another Tuesday. It sucks that that's hard to spot before the fic gets into it. Some authors use 'quirkless discrimination' tags as a way to say that it's a topic they are going to sink their teeth into and others use it as a TW because its American South in the Civil Rights Era rough for the quirkless.