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One spring when Aizawa Shouta was twenty-nine years old, he made the mistake of rescuing a young up-and-coming journalist named Hamada Tetsu.
Hamada Tetsu wasn’t on the clock at the time. He was just out getting groceries, also known as instant ramen cups, and made his own mistake: he took a shortcut through a shady alleyway on his way to the slightly-less-shady apartment he spent every month trying to scrape together rent for.
Near the other end of the alley, from which Hamada Tetsu vainly hoped to emerge with all his grocery bags intact, there was a tall pile of overstuffed trash bags heaped against the wall. Some might call it excessively tall, as it was big enough to hide a grown man behind with room to spare. This pile had been flourishing for several weeks now as the neighborhood folk continued adding bags to it, and while a few had considered doing something to mitigate the problem, something about this great garbage heap gave them a bad feeling.
So the trash pile was now abandoned.
What these people didn’t realize was that it was not, in fact, the trash pile that was giving off the ominous vibes, but rather the criminal hiding behind it. One might generously call him a villain, but it would be more accurate to say he was a thug.
The thug was waiting behind the trash pile with plans to use his minor telekinesis quirk to threaten and steal from passersby. This evening he was considering giving up entirely on this spot, because in the week since he had taken up waiting here he hadn’t had a single catch. For some reason people always stopped, considered, and turned around to leave within a few feet of his range.
Today should have been his lucky day, because Hamada Tetsu, being a desperate young journalist, was used to ignoring bad feelings. Bad feelings meant a story, and Hamada Tetsu needed stories if he didn’t want to move back in with his parents. Hamada Tetsu wasn’t looking for a story tonight, of course—he just wanted to get home quickly and eat cup noodles on his couch. But a story he would receive.
Hamada Tetsu had barely drawn level with the trash pile when the thug jumped out at him, eyes alight with the fervor of a man with only one five hundred yen coin left in his pocket who had just spotted a five thousand yen bill abandoned on the sidewalk.
Hamada Tetsu cowered in fear, knowing it was unlikely that any hero would arrive to save him in a little back alley like this, and braced himself for the inevitability of death.
The thug levitated a trash bag containing several empty beer bottles over his hand, raising it above his head to seem more threatening. This simple action took all his strength, but he wasn’t about to let his victim know that. “Give me—” he began, but was abruptly cut off as the trash bag above him slammed into the top of his skull. He toppled sideways and hit the ground with a thud that rattled every bone in his body.
He stared at the young man he was mugging with dazed confusion, wondering what just happened. Then he realized there was something long and gray constricted around his body, covering even his mouth. His first horrified thought was that it was some kind of trash snake that had been biding its time for the past seven days and had finally chosen this moment to strike. But even with a brain as rattled by beer bottle trash bags as his, he was smart enough to realize that this was likely not the case.
Hamada Tetsu had witnessed something different. For Hamada Tetsu, a guardian angel had descended from above, cloaked in black, with eyes glowing red and hair floating unaffected by gravity. In two seconds the angel had the thug knocked to the ground, wrapped in some kind of thin gray cloth. Hamada Tetsu was able to blink the stars out of his eyes with the danger passed, though, and he realized the angel was not an angel, but something arguably just as wonderful—he was a pro hero.
Hamada Tetsu liked heroes as much as the next guy. He wouldn’t call himself a huge fan, but he appreciated the work they did for society in the age of superpowers. He appreciated it even more now that that work had saved him directly.
“You all right?” the hero grunted.
Hamada Tetsu blinked. The hero was scanning him up and down for injuries that didn’t exist, waiting for a response. Hamada Tetsu pulled himself together. “Yes—yes, I’m fine.” One of his grocery bags had split, but at least it wasn’t his head.
“Good.” The hero pulled a cracked flip phone out of his pocket, one hand still clenched around the end of his glorious scarf. He dialed a number and gave whoever was on the other end of the line the rundown on the situation and the address. Then he hung up—dare Hamada Tetsu say it—efficiently. “Police are on their way. We’ll have to wait for them here.”
“Mm-hm,” Hamada Tetsu said. “I can’t thank you enough. You saved my life.”
The hero cast a disdainful eye at the horrible villain lying between them on the alley floor. “I wouldn’t go that far.”
So humble! “You’re a true hero, sir,” Hamada Tetsu said. “Please, what should I call you?”
The hero sighed. No doubt the pressure of upholding a peaceful society weighed heavy on his shoulders. “Eraserhead.”
“Eraserhead.” Hamada Tetsu nodded to himself. It wasn’t a name he would soon forget. “I haven’t heard of you before. Are you a new hero?”
“No. I work underground.”
“I see.” Hamada Tetsu nodded again. From what little he understood of the hero world, “underground” was a term used for heroes who didn’t get much media attention. It was a shame, because Eraserhead seemed like an amazing hero deserving of recognition. “It must be difficult, being a hero without much media attention.”
“No. I don’t need it.”
Hamada Tetsu continued to nod, humming in acknowledgement, but he was only half listening. All he heard from Eraserhead’s words was evidence of further humility. Already the gears were turning in his head. By the time the police had taken his statement and he was sent on his way home, a semblance of a plan had been formed.
Hamada Tetsu didn’t look like a journalist this evening. He was wearing baggy sweatpants and a raggedy hoodie which he’d owned for six years and wore one to seven times a week. He did not for any inexplicable reason have a press badge hanging around his neck when he popped down to the convenience store for noodles. If there had been anything about him to indicate that he was a member of the press, Aizawa Shouta would never have made the mistake of giving Hamada Tetsu his hero name.
The guardian angel of Musutafu: an unsung hero
by Hamada Tetsu
A great deal is known about the heroes who stand in the spotlight. We sing their praises like they are modern gods, with their flashy clothing and awe-inspiring quirks.
But what about those heroes who don’t fulfill that criteria? Those who are forced into the shadows by their very nature, ignored by society for the simple reason that their quirks are not bold enough to shine through the masses?
As much as we worship such heroes as those in the top 100, they are not the only ones upholding the peace. Others heroes roam the streets, protecting the citizens of our world, as is their sacred duty. Their worth is undefined by constructs as petty as the Hero Billboard Chart Rankings. Some don’t make it onto the chart at all, and yet they persist in their work with the same diligence as any of their colleagues.
This past month, one such hero saved me from certain death when I was attacked by a villain on my way home from grocery shopping. That could have been the end for me. It could happen to any of us, and does happen every day.
But there he was, arriving at the scene just in time: the Erasure Hero: Eraserhead. A seasoned pro who has roamed our streets for over a decade, capturing the evil villains and saving innocent lives.
And what does he have to show for it? Where is his Citizen Approval Rating? According to public records, Eraserhead has been involved in the resolution of several major incidents, including Naruhata Town’s Instant Villain outbreaks, the Tokyo Sky Egg incident, and the Naruhata Lockdown.
These should certainly factor into his Contribution to Society Rating, yet despite his success as a pro hero, Eraserhead is nowhere to be found on the Hero Billboard Chart. He is as anonymous as you or I.
It’s a well known fact that a hero’s reputation plays a significant role in the suppression of villains. The most obvious example can’t be anyone other than All Might, the Symbol of Peace. His mere presence in the hero world has reduced crime rates by a whopping 72% since the beginning of his career. The more villains learned of him, the less active they became. It’s not uncommon for them to simply give up as soon as he arrives at the scene—that is, if he even gives them time to do so. All Might is known, feared, and respected.
Eraserhead is not known. He is feared only by the villains he has defeated, and respected only by the civilians whose lives he has saved. And yet, he doesn’t complain. He accepts what little he has received as his lot in life, and continues on for the selfless benefit of all of us.
Eraserhead is a humble and admirable hero, and he has my deepest respects. Readers, I urge you now as members of the community he serves to recognize him, and give him your thanks. We must show our support to this honorable servant of peace.
From: [email protected]
Re: Your article on Eraserhead
Dear Chief Editor Takahashi,
Good morning! Am I a mouse? Am I a dog? Am I a bear? All you need to know is that I’m the Principal of UA High School!
I noticed that you recently published an article about the hero Eraserhead. We are honored by the appreciation shown for Eraserhead, however, it is his own wish that his actions not be made public. Please respect his decision and refrain from publishing any future articles about him. Thank you.
Signed,
Nedzu
Mr. Principal
Principal of UA High School
“From Principal Nedzu?” Hamada Tetsu frowned at the email, chewing on his thumbnail. “Why would it come from him?” With rapid fingers, he typed the UA website URL into his browser’s search bar and clicked the tab on the navigation bar that read Gallery.
He scrolled through class pictures, Sports Festival photos, last year’s Cultural Festival—and there. Eraserhead, shoulders still slumped by the heavy burden of the world, speaking to a pair of second year students. Hamada Tetsu went back to the year before that and found Eraserhead again, standing at the edge of the Sports Festival stadium. And again, walking through the halls of UA in the background of a class selfie.
Another fact that, had he known it, would have incited Eraserhead to avoid giving Hamada Tetsu his hero name was that before becoming a journalist, Hamada Tetsu had been considering becoming a cybersecurity tester. His hacking prowess wasn’t enough to truly pursue that career, but it was enough. And now he had a reason to dust off the old skills.
UA High School’s secret faculty member
by Hamada Tetsu
The faculty of UA High School is composed of a number of heroes well-known to the public. Members range from the Homing Hero: Snipe to the R-Rated Hero: Midnight, all the way to the famous Youthful Heroine: Recovery Girl. There isn’t a single hero on staff who isn’t well publicized in the media…or so it was thought.
After receiving a tip this past week, this reporter decided to take a closer look at the heroes of UA High, and found something surprising: The teacher of Class 1-A, who is personally charged with introducing so many fine future heroes to the world of heroics, is the Erasure Hero: Eraserhead, whose students know him as Aizawa-sensei.
Eraserhead’s position as a teacher for UA may come as a surprise at first, but after diving into his history, things begin to make more sense.
As it turns out, Eraserhead graduated from UA himself in 2XXX, and immediately jumped into the hero scene. He kept busy as a full-time hero for several years, working closely with the police, until in 2XXY he took up the position of Homeroom teacher for Class 1-A. His time has been divided between teaching and heroics ever since.
So what brought him to make this decision? Your reporter went down to UA High on Tuesday to find out just that, and managed to snag the attention of a UA Heroics student.
“I haven’t been in [Eraserhead’s] classes for a couple years, but you pick up a lot from the teachers’ conversations,” said the hero student, who wishes to remain anonymous. “He’s friends with Midnight and Present Mic, and I know they’ve been teaching a little longer than he has, so I’m pretty sure they’re the ones who convinced him.”
Which leads one to wonder, what is Eraserhead like as a teacher?
“Pretty scary,” our source says. “But really good too. He really pushes you to your limits, you know? You feel like you always have to try your best, and he won’t take anything less than that. Like, seriously. He probably wouldn’t want me to tell you how he deals with people who don’t take things super seriously, though. It’s gotta be a surprise for any new students in 1-A.”
Eraserhead trained young up-and-coming heroes Flashflood and Kasui; Rouge, a sidekick at the Molotov Hero Office; and others, many of whom are still in training.
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Has anyone heard of Eraserhead?
posted by mybloodispurple52
I havn’t really heard about this guy till recently, bur his name is kinda familiar? HGN has been reporting on him. Apparently he teaches at UA. I still don’t feel like I know much about him though…
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uwabamifan_201
right?? who is this guy fr. I’ve been looking for pics for days now and i can’t find any
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mybloodispurple52
Yeah, same here. It’s like he doesn’ exist.
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55whereismyheart55
The articles implied that less than getting bad publicity, Eraserhead gets no publicity at all. And I can see what they mean. I’ve searched back through years on hero sites, and I basically found nothing on him. There are brief mentions of him in some articles, but his name is mostly mixed up with a whole bunch of other heroes. I can’t even look out for him in the pictures on the articles, because HGN never described him. I also found his name in some public police reports. It seems like he does a lot, but no one talks about him. I wonder why.
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mybloodispurple52
That;s so weird. Could you link some of the articles?
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55wherismyheart55
Sure. It’s mostly on NHA. [link] [link] [link] [link]
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themostmegaherofan
I think Eraserhad savd me once. I’ll mak my own post though.
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staysecretstaysilentxx
Have NONE of you heard of underground heroes?
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Eraserhead saved me once
posted by themostmegaherofan
I’m sorry in advanc for the typos. The “E” ky on my keyboard only works half the tim, and I don’t have th energy to copy and past that many “”s.
So, raserhad saved me. This was yars ago, but I still think about it a lot. Near-dath expriences do that to you. It was evening and I was running an errand when a villain robbd the convenience stor I was at. It all wnt pretty fast. Th villain had a knif quirk and was threatning me to make th cashir cooprat. Erasrhead burst in with no warning at all and took th guy down in two seconds flat. He wrappd the villain up in a captur wapon that looked like a long thin scarf. Then h said the polic were already on thir way, and askd if me and the cashier wer okay. He was kind of quiet and didn’t say much aftr that, but he was still nic and did a grat job.
I know a lot of peopl have ben wanting to know what h looks like, since thre aren’t any pictures or descriptions onlin, so her’s what I remmber: He wore a loose black jumpsuit. His captur weapon is a long thin light gray scarf. H has long black hair which seemd like it floated a bit, but that could hav ben my imagination. He had yellow goggls and his eys glowed red. I don’t know why. I don’t know what his quirk is eithr. He looks kinda cool, but also scruffy and tired. I wonder if he’s deprssed?
Anyway, that’s it. I’d lov to hear anyone else’s experinces.
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mybloodispurple52
Wow, that sounds scary. It’s cool that you got to meet Eraserhead thogh. I hope he isn’t depressed, that would be sad. Maybe it’s because the media pays him so little attention. Hero life must be really hard without ratings to boost ihs success.
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themostmegaherofan
Yah, but considering a bunch of us ar learning about him now, I bet w could help with that! #BoostEraserheadRatings
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mybloodispurple52
Hell yeah! #BoostEraserheadRatings
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hero_kissa
i wasn’t saved by him, but i totally saw him one time based on your description. he was jumping rooftops across the street from my apartment and i wasn’t sure if he was a hero or a villain. he was sooo cool though, but i could never figure out who he was.
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uwabamifan_201
lucky!! I wish he’d run by outside my window……
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55wherismyheart55
Damn, what is his quirk, anyway? There don’t seem to be many obvious clues so far. His hero name is Eraserhead, his eyes glow red, and his hair might float. What does “Eraserhead” refer to exactly? Memories? A more physical or complex concept? Are the glowing eyes a natural feature, or is it a sign that his quirk is active? There’s too little information to make any concrete guesses.
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themostmegaherofan
I don’t know. It really was unclar. I theorized telekinsis, but that was mostly becaus I didn’t hav any good ideas.
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herotheorieswithaki
Let’s make a separate topic for this discussion. That way it’ll be easier for people to find and add info.
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55whereismyheart55
Good idea.
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staysecretstaysilentxx
Seriously, Eraserhead’s an UNDERGROUND HERO. You guys need to do some research.
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Yamada Hizashi, also known as Present Mic, had an occasional habit of scrolling through hero forums.
He tried to avoid it for the most part. It could be equally ego-inflating and confidence-destroying. For every ten people praising heroes, there was someone else saying something discouraging, hurtful, insulting.
But sometimes he simply couldn’t resist the desire to go see what people were saying about himself and his friends. Hints about where they’d land on the next Hero Billboard Chart, thoughts on recent major events they were involved in. This fine Sunday he was searching for thoughts on one of his old classmates from UA, and happened to find thoughts on a completely different old classmate from UA: Eraserhead.
He stopped and stared for several seconds, trying to comprehend what he was seeing. Eraserhead discussion only happened approximately once every green moon, which was never.
His finger tapped on Said-it’s “Eraserhead” sub-forum, zombie-like, with no input from his brain.
There were only four topics, so clearly not many people were participating. The first had been posted yesterday morning, asking if anyone knew who Eraserhead was. Another detailed an encounter with Eraserhead, and the final two were respectively theorizing about his quirk and compiling newspaper appearances.
Hizashi read all of them, down to the comments from the same user on every post poking the other users to look into underground heroes. Then he called Shouta.
“What,” Shouta’s voice grumbled from the other end of the line.
Hizashi recalled that Shouta had taken a late-night patrol yesterday. “Whoops, were you sleeping?”
“Yes.”
“Oh well, you’re gonna want to see this. You ever use Said-it?”
“No.”
“Of course not. Well, some people are posting about you.”
“...Huh?”
Hizashi snickered. “Yeah, there’s a little sub-forum dedicated to you now. They’re talking about some news articles about you?”
Shouta didn’t say anything, but sleeping baggish rustling came from the other end of the line. There was a long moment of silence, and then, “Send me a link.”
The link Hizashi sent him led to a sub-forum titled simply “Eraserhead.”
Shouta stared at the four topics. The four topics stared back. “Why,” he muttered.
“Guess you’ll just have to find out!” Hizashi’s voice chirped from the phone, which was now on speaker, lying next to Shouta on the floor while he gazed at the screen of his laptop.
He clicked on what he ascertained to be the first topic and kept his grumbling to himself. He’d been in the middle of a perfectly good nap, but Hizashi had been right to think he’d want to investigate this matter.
The post and the comment beneath mentioned articles by HGN, so he took the hint and visited the news website. It was average, with slightly outdated graphic design and a lot of gloom-and-doom headlines about politics, the economy, and villains. He clicked on a link labeled “heroes,” and almost immediately found himself staring at a very uncomfortable article titled “UA High School’s secret faculty member” by Hamada Tetsu.
A quick skim revealed half of everything he feared. He almost expressed his… supreme irritation when he saw that one of his students who had since moved up to third year had given an interview. He knew exactly which one. Fujiwara Kanna. At least she hadn’t given away his expulsion scheme.
Still, he’d have to give her a talking to later.
“Some Hamada Tetsu guy wrote an article about me being a teacher at UA,” Shouta mumbled to the phone.
“He finally speaks!” Hizashi shouted back. “Good thing, too. I was starting to think you were dead.”
“Mic.”
“Right, right. Gonna do anything about the article?”
Shouta thought about it. On the one hand, he wouldn’t want this to continue. On the other…
“It’s just one article. Interest will probably die down within a couple weeks. Worst scenario, I have a few new fans.” And besides, getting the article taken down would be a pain.
“You sure about that? Fans can be really tenacious.”
Shouta closed his laptop and began wiggling back into his sleeping bag. “It’s not like I’ve done anything fame-worthy recently. Anyway, they’ll probably notice the comments about underground heroes and figure it out.”
“Well, whatever works for you, buddy. But don’t say I didn’t warn you if this doesn’t go away!”
Shouta rolled his eyes and hung up.
It would turn out fine. No one really cared about the hero Eraserhead.
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Caught footage of our guardian angel last night 🥷😇
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[Video: Eraserhead is fighting a small-time villain in the opening of an alleyway. The villain tries to attack Eraserhead with a colorful mist sprayed from his hands, but the mist suddenly dissipates, and the villain looks confused and alarmed for about half a second before Eraserhead quickly wraps him up in his capture scarf, immobilizing him. Eraserhead then picks a sparkly purse up off the ground and hands it to a frightened-looking older woman standing nearby.]
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けいこ🌌 @keiko_yamamoto · 2h
Eraserhead seems more like an avenging angel than a guardian angel, doesn’t he?
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火 @fireherowannabe · 2h
why not both :)
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✋☣️🧹 @dustsyou5 · 5h
eraserhead really is so cool…
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Everyone shut up about Eraserhead before I lose my mind.
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[Image: Picture of Edgeshot glaring at the camera. Top and bottom of image are captioned “SILENCE HATER”]
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From: [email protected]
Re: Reminder about Eraserhead
Dear Chief Editor Takahashi,
Good morning! Am I a mouse? Am I a dog? Am I a bear? All you need to know is that I’m the Principal of UA High School!
Per my last email, I would like to firmly request that you cease to write any more articles about Eraserhead. He is a man who values his privacy and prefers to keep a low profile to avoid attention.
If you publish another article about Eraserhead, I’m afraid I may be forced to contact the Hero Commission regarding this matter. Please respect Eraserhead’s wishes.
Signed,
Nedzu
Mr. Principal
Principal of UA High School
It wasn’t fair, in Hamada Tetsu’s opinion. Eraserhead worked so hard, but it seemed almost as if Nedzu was holding him back for some reason. The fact that it was Eraserhead’s boss sending these emails, and not Eraserhead himself, was really telling.
He’d seemed tired when Hamada Tetsu met him. He wondered how much Eraserhead worked—he wondered if Eraserhead felt that spending every piece of himself saving people and building the next generation, day in and day out, was the only way he could live without feeling in free moments that he wasn’t doing enough.
But surely with enough media attention the public would see how much Eraserhead did for them, and maybe then he would be able to take it easy, to ease some of the burden off his shoulders, to be strengthened by the hope people had in him.
“What should we do?” he asked Chief Editor Takahashi.
“Feh, ignore it,” Takahashi said, and Hamada Tetsu could see him deleting the email in the reflection on his glasses. “Heroes and the Commission don’t have the right to suppress the media. And this story is growing too big to just drop it. People want to know about this successful hero who’s been running around under their noses for years, and we’re their number one source of information on him. We can’t let another company get ahead of us this early in the game.”
He looked Hamada Tetsu in the eye. “I want you to write another article. Dig up whatever you can find.”
Who is Eraserhead? Origin of a hero
by Hamada Tetsu
[Image: Slightly blurry screenshot of Eraserhead taken from a recent video.]
Eraserhead in combat. Photo by Cheeper user @casualhirowatcher.
In recent weeks, society has been stirred by news of a hero operating beneath our notice. A UA teacher who has been involved in major events from the past decade, but never received media coverage. So who is Eraserhead?
The Erasure Hero: Eraserhead. Civilian name: Aizawa Shouta. Age: 29.
Aizawa Shouta’s journey into heroism began when he failed the UA Hero Course entrance exam and was instead sorted into the General Studies Course. An unexpected start to be certain, but there remained a thread of hope for him to grasp: Students from other courses have a chance to transfer into the Hero Course based on their performance in the UA Sports Festival.
In the first two events of the First Year stage of the Sports Festival, Aizawa Shouta went almost completely unnoticed. He did not go out of his way to appear remarkable—a habit he keeps even to this day. It was only during the third stage, in the one-on-one battles, that the student who would become Eraserhead truly began to stand out.
What no one, from the teachers to his fellow students, had noticed about Aizawa Shouta was that he has a remarkably useful quirk for combat against emitter types: the ability to temporarily erase any non-heteromorphic quirk. The duration for which this erasure lasts is a trade secret, but in that time, any fighter who relies on an emitter type quirk is useless in a fight against Aizawa Shouta—something that his opponents in the Sports Festival experienced first-hand.
Eraserhead tied for 3rd place in the tournament, beaten out of second and first only by Hero Course students who had more training and experience. The Hero Course welcomed him into Class 1-A the very next term.
He continued to work steadily through his hero education, until tragedy struck in the middle of his second year of high school. Eraserhead’s close friend Shirakumo Oboro, who was with him on a work-study internship, died in the line of duty while saving civilians. Eraserhead succeeded in taking down the villain responsible, but could not save the life of his comrade.
Following that day, Aizawa Shouta moved forward, more determined than ever to become a great hero and working day and night to achieve his goals. By the time he graduated he was already an undeniable pro, and he immediately leaped onto the scene as a solo hero, with no regard for the low wages he received as a result.
Eraserhead kept working as hard as ever, mainly patrolling in Naruhata Ward, and eventually came to civilian and hero aid during multiple major incidents, including the Tokyo Sky Egg incident and the Naruhata Lockdown.
He has worked alongside many popular heroes, including Ingenium, Midnight, Present Mic, and Best Jeanist—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
In 2XXY he joined the UA High School staff as a teacher for the Heroics Department, where he has helped to cultivate many great young heroes, and continues to do so.
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Who is Eraserhead? Origin of a hero
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Yuko @origami_eater · Apr 12
New hero alert! Well not new exactly… He looks super cool!
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Toshiyuki Sam :) @samkakkoi · Apr 13
hey this guy totally saved me during Naruhata lockdown! I would have been a goner if he hadn’t shown up. those hat guys were freaky…
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sooo coooooooolll!!
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Eraserhead’s quirk revealed!
posted by mybloodispurple52
We finally know Eraserhead’s quirk! Accorsing to this HGN article, he has the a;bility to temporarily erase quirks. It fits his name, but I never woul’ve hguessed! The article doesn’t really say the quirk parameters, though. No idea how it works.
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hero_kissa
awesome!! and the article has a lot more than that too 👀
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herotheorieswithaki
Fascinating! That’s a really strong quirk. It’s a wonder he’s never made it into the hero spotlight. Honestly, it’s almost like someone is sabotaging him deliberately…
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55whereismyheart55
Whoa wait… I sure hope that isn’t the case…
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themostmegaherofan
Yikes! If this is th case, we need a #BoostEraserheadRatings revival ASAP
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uwabamifan_201
#BoostEraserheadRatings
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frosthero31113
#BoostEraserheadRatings
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staysecretstaysilentxx
OH MY GOD ALL OF YOU SHUT UP
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[Video: Shaky footage, clearly taken by a civilian on their phone. Eraserhead is single-handedly taking down an enormous Naruhata instant villain.]
ERASERHEAD VS. INSTANT VILLAIN!! | Naruhata 2XXX
mitsuoherovideos✓ 👍139k 👎919
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700,021 views 6 days ago
Originally didn’t post this footage because I had no idea who this was, but now I know it’s Eraserhead! I captured this video a few years ago during the Naruhata instant villain outbreaks. For more info on Eraserhead check out this article HGN published last week…more
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TakeshiReacts✓ 6 days ago
Great video Mitsuo! It’s always cool to see new heroes you’ve never heard of.
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坂本 愛 6 days ago
TAKESHI!!! ♥️💞♥️
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mewmew（⊙ｏ⊙）6 days ago
you should react to hawks vs crackpot!
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mitsuoherovideos✓ 6 days ago
@TakeshiReacts Thanks Takeshi! I know I was excited to see this guy come out of the woodwork.
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dustsyou5 5 days ago
so cool…
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Eraserhead Hero Billboard Chart Ranking estimation
posted by 55whereismyheart55
All right Eraser Fans, good work out there! Eraserhead has been trending on Cheeper for weeks now, and there’s a popular video of him going around on HeroTube right now. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s called “ERASERHEAD VS. INSTANT VILLAIN!! | Naruhata 2XXX” and it was posted by mitsuoherovideos.
So, back to the subject at hand: Eraserhead’s Billboard Chart ranking. We’ve got over two months left till the official rankings are announced, but for the moment, I’ve taken the liberty of calculating it for all of us to see.
His Citizen Approval Rating has shot up since his name started gaining traction online, and his Incident Resolution and Contribution to Society Ratings have always been quite high. (You can find those here.) I’ve calculated his score with comparison to other lower-ranked heroes, and deduced that he lands approximately around the 800th place.
Not very high, I know, and I certainly agree that it should be way higher—especially taking into account his Incident Resolution Rating. But consider the sheer thousands of active heroes in the field, and the fact that before last month he didn’t have a place on the chart at all, and it becomes quite an impressive number.
And he can still rise too! His ratings have only just started going up in the past week, which shows that he still has quite a ways to go. Keep putting his name out there, and someday soon he’ll make it into the top 100 for sure! #BoostEraserheadRatings
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mybloodispurple52
Wow, thanks so much for this estimate! This is really excieting news. I can’t wait to see where Eraserhead gets to by the end of June.
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hero_kissa
#BoostEraserheadRatings #BoostEraserheadRatings #BoostEraserheadRatings #BoostEraserheadRatings #BoostEraserheadRatings
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hellspider23
I’m mainly a fan of Endeavor but Eraserheads cool too #BoostEraserheadRatings
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staysecretstaysilentxx
Guys seriously, you need to stop posting so much about Eraserhead before you cause him trouble.
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notkarin
they’re seriously making me lose my mind 😭😭😭 guys he’s an underground hero he doesn’t want attention
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moonbunnyfan1
Oh shit I didn’t know that :( I’ll stop posting about him
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notkarin
it’s okay, just be careful about stuff like this in the future 👍
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Eraserhead Antis
posted by uwabamifan_201
has anyone else noticed all these anti eraserhead trolls in this sub-forum? they keep leaving comments trying to get people to ignore him and downvoting all the positive posts. i’m worried they’re trying to undermine his popularity. are they jealous or something?
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herotheorieswithaki
They’re just trying to stir up trouble. Don’t bother responding to them. Block them when you see them, report them when they leave rude comments. They’ll lose interest and go away eventually.
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frosthero31113
worried eraserheads gonna surpass their faves lol
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staysecretstaysilentxx
AN UNDERGROUND HERO IS SOMEONE WHO WORKS UNDER THE RADAR OF THE MEDIA. THEY DON’T WANT ATTENTION. SOMETIMES IT’S EVEN BETTER THAT THEY DON’T GET IT SO THE VILLAINS NEVER SEE THEM COMING AND DON’T KNOW THEIR QUIRKS. THAT’S WHAT ERASERHEAD IS. SO LEAVE HIM ALONE.
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Shouta was in the staff room reviewing the schedule for the Sports Festival, which was a week and a half away. He was having a perfectly lovely time. The room was quiet and peaceful. Everyone else was just as focused on their work as he was.
Then Hizashi flung the door open and shouted, “Eraser! They’re saying you’re at 800.”
He sighed and turned in his chair while everyone glanced over. “800 what?”
Mic grinned and waggled his phone. “800 on the Hero Billboard Chart!”
Horror.
Silence, like a doctor in the moment before delivering terrible news. Or perhaps after.
Snipe’s voice pierced the quiet like a gunshot. “Well now, not too shabby, Eraser. But I thought you preferred to keep a low profile.”
“Wait, I think I saw something about this on Cheeper!” Thirteen exclaimed. “Eraserhead was trending. But I thought they were talking about actual erasers, ‘cause, well… Why would anyone be talking about Aizawa, y’know?”
Shouta’s daze left him in a rush. “That’s a good question. Why are people talking about me?”
Mic looked caught off guard. “I dunno, I thought you’d be keeping track of that stuff after last time. The forum post mentioned a HeroTube video of you fighting instant villains a few years back, but other than that I got nothing.”
“Gimme your phone.”
“What? No, get your own.”
“It’s dead, and I’m not using my work computer for this. Don’t make me come over there and take it by force.”
Mic grumbled, but conceded. Shouta ignored him, focused on paging through the forum in search of clues. The others went back to their work, sending him occasional glances. Mic flumped into the chair next to him with a great flopping of limbs and booted up his computer.
There were a lot more topics now. Definitely less than he would find on a sub-forum for Present Mic, but far more than was comfortable. Far, far more. The forum users seemed to be trying to compile every sighting and mention of him that they could possibly find. Disturbing.
At last he found a post from just over a week ago gushing about his quirk, which had apparently been revealed in yet another article.
That was a problem. It wasn’t like he and his quirk weren’t quietly known in heroic and some criminal circles, but the fact that someone was announcing it on a public website where just anyone could see it… It didn’t seem like the forum users knew much, but he clicked on the article just to see what was there.
By the time he finished reading it, he was smoldering with outrage.
He threw the phone down on Hizashi’s desk, heedless of his friend’s protesting squawk, and shoved himself out of his chair.
“I’m going to talk to Nedzu.”
“I see.” Nedzu’s perpetually cheerful face gave the faintest impression of a frown. “I was hoping it wouldn’t escalate to this point.”
Shouta’s eyes narrowed. “What do you mean?”
“Well, I had planned to suppress the issue before it became big enough for you to notice it. After the first article I sent the company an email, and the second as well, but your popularity really seems to be booming after the latest.”
“Are you saying there have been three articles?”
“Well, yes.” Nedzu beady black eyes were incapable of adequately expressing human emotion, but his voice was enough to convey his surprise. “Seeing as you came to my office in such a terrible mood, I thought you knew.”
Shouta sucked in a lungful of air through his nose and blew it out through his teeth. The apparently-third article had been a stinging reminder of Shirakumo’s death, and insulting in the way it used the incident as a stepping stone to show how great the writer thought Shouta was.
Well, Shouta didn’t think this Hamada Tetsu was great at all.
And while Shouta wouldn’t deny that he was skilled—he’d lost a good third of his lifetime’s sleep getting to this point—he didn’t deserve or want the praise. He dreaded reading the first article, but he needed to know what it said, and it would be nice to know how this all started.
Nedzu pulled it up on his tablet and watched quietly as Shouta skimmed through it.
His face wrinkled in disgust with every line. The article was a load of pretentious garbage, a long-winded way for Hamada Tetsu to express he wanted Eraserhead to get more attention. It didn’t tell him much either, because the two short paragraphs where Hamada Tetsu talked about Eraserhead saving him were so vague, it could have been practically anyone he’d saved that week.
He slid the tablet back across the table and, for lack of any better ideas of what to do next, slapped a hand on his face.
“I suggest you send HGN’s editor an email,” Nedzu said. “I’ll forward you his information, as well as Hamada Tetsu’s. While you take care of that, I’ll contact the HPSC.”
From: [email protected]
Re:
Dear Chief Editor Takahashi,
I warned you.
Signed,
Nedzu
Mr. Principal
Principal of UA High School
“Ignore it,” Chief Takahashi told Hamada Tetsu. “He’s just trying to intimidate us.”
From: [email protected]
Re:
Stop writing about me. You’re interfering with my work.
Aizawa Shouta
Pro Hero Eraserhead
For the first time since that fateful day in March, Hamada Tetsu began to have second thoughts.
From: [email protected]
Re: Cease and desist
To Chief Editor Takahashi,
It has come to the attention of the Hero Public Safety Commission (HPSC) that you have been publishing articles containing highly personal information about the pro hero Eraserhead. As an underground hero, Eraserhead’s privacy is of the utmost importance to his safety and performance in the field.
The HPSC is responsible both for the safety of the public and the safety of the heroes we oversee. Consequently, you and your journalist Hamada Tetsu are requested at a meeting with the HPSC Department of Privacy, where this matter will be discussed with the Department Head and Eraserhead, as well as a court representative. Further details can be found in the attached document.
Signed,
Kobayashi Junpei
Secretary
HPSC Department of Privacy
[ Attachment ]
Hamada Tetsu sat ramrod straight in the chair across from Shouta’s, almost trembling with nerves. He was an incredibly average-looking young man—scrawny, average height, baby-faced and in his twenties. He had black hair that reached his chin and dark eyes which flicked rapidly to and from every point in the room that wasn’t Shouta’s face.
Shouta was unimpressed.
Almost as unimpressed as Hamada Tetsu’s boss was trying to be, but it seemed the Eraserhead propaganda Hamada Tetsu had been writing had gotten into Takahashi Seidou’s head. That, or he was trying to hide how nervous this official reprimand was making him. HGN wasn’t a big company, not compared to the likes of NHA, and if this meeting went badly, Takahashi had a lot to lose. Fortunately for him, it wouldn’t come to that. Shouta saw no reason to tell him that, though.
“Really, Hamada Tetsu, I have half a mind to fire you for all this trouble you’re causing,” Takahashi was saying, voice low, but clearly only pretending to hide his words from the others in the room. Trying to save face by the most indiscreet method possible.
Shouta sighed. “Mr. Takahashi, you’re the one who allowed him to keep writing these articles. If you’re going to reprimand him, take responsibility for your own actions too.”
Takahashi spluttered. His ears, which were long and curled back in spirals behind his head, turned bright pink. “Are you trying to tell me I should resign?”
“No, no, Mr. Takahashi, nothing like that,” the court representative said, though if Shouta was being frank, he wouldn’t mind Takahashi resigning at all. “But we do need to discuss what sort of information you’re not allowed to reveal about Eraserhead going forward.”
The meeting was short and tedious from there. The HPSC made sure HGN wouldn’t go revealing Shouta’s address or start digging into his patrol routes—which was apparently a thing that happened to certain popular heroes—or publish anything about Shouta’s family, who he didn’t speak with anyway.
He wished Nedzu hadn’t convinced him to go to this meeting. For the most part, the entire thing was a sham designed to intimidate HGN into falling silent. Ensuring that they couldn’t reveal certain personal information about him was important, but the HPSC couldn’t actually do anything to keep them from publishing articles.
Underground heroism wasn’t an official category, more of a choice to avoid the media. If Shouta failed to avoid media attention, that was entirely on him, and the HPSC neither needed nor wanted to do anything about it. The only reason this meeting was happening at all was that Nedzu had pushed for it.
Shouta sat by in near-silence the entire time, watching as the HPSC Department of Privacy Head and the court representative succeeded in getting Takahashi and Hamada Tetsu to sign a few non-disclosure agreements. When the meeting came to a close, he followed Hamada Tetsu out the door and pulled him aside.
“E-E-Eraserhead,” Hamada Tetsu said. He looked like he was preparing to faint. Shouta sincerely hoped he wouldn’t. “I-I’m so sorry, I didn’t realize there were certain things you didn’t want known to the public—”
As Hamada Tetsu rambled on, Shouta suddenly recognized him. He remembered rescuing this pathetic guy from a two-bit thug in a grimy alley that no one in their right mind should have been walking down in the middle of the night.
He held up a hand to stop the apologies, and Hamada Tetsu fell silent, gazing up at him nervously.
“By now you’re aware that I prefer to keep a low profile, right?”
Hamada Tetsu nodded vigorously.
“Good. From here on, I don’t want you to write any more articles about me.”
Hamada Tetsu looked appalled. “At all?”
“At all. Legally, it’s not like I can do anything about it if you do write more articles. Which is why I’m asking you personally.”
A look entered Hamada Tetsu’s eye, one that Shouta wasn’t quite sure how to interpret. “Personally? Eraserhead, asking me personally…” He muttered. Then he pulled in a deep breath and straightened up, looking Shouta square in the eye. “Very well. I will carry this duty out to the best of my ability.”
To the best of his ability? How hard could it be to not spend hours researching, writing, and editing an article? Whatever. “Good,” Shouta said. “And if your boss pressures you, stand firm.”
“Stand firm,” Hamada Tetsu repeated with Shouta’s exact same intonation, nodding his head.
“Okay. Bye,” Shouta said, and he left.
A most unfortunate fact about this situation at its current stage was that it was far too late to stop the ball rolling. Even if Hamada Tetsu wouldn’t be publishing any more Eraserhead articles, those he’d already written had drawn the attention of other news companies as well as the public.
It started a week after the meeting at the HPSC with a TV interview, led by the popular talk show hostess Suzumura Aoi. She was a beautiful woman with pale, yellowish-green skin. Her large, leaf-colored eyes and soft voice gave her a certain innocent charm, which was most of the reason why the public liked her so much.
If you went behind closed doors and asked any hero she’d talked about, though, they would probably tell you that she was full of shit.
“So I heard from your Cheeper account that you were rescued by Eraserhead once,” said Aoi-chan—that was what she liked her fans to call her. “I’m not totally sure on the details, though. Would you mind giving us all a refresher?”
Kugimiya Satomi affected a solemn, reverent air, and clasped her hands in her lap. “Yes, of course. It was just a few months ago. A strong villain attacked during my morning commute and caused a lot of damage to the surrounding buildings. One of them started collapsing right over me.”
Aoi-chan gasped and held a hand to her mouth. “That sounds so scary. What happened then?”
“Well, you don’t have to worry, because that’s exactly when Eraserhead showed up. He was mainly there to fight the villain, I think, but he still spared a moment to pull me out of the way and make sure I got to safety. I’m very grateful to him.”
“He’s as kind as the rumors say, then!” Aoi-chan said cheerfully. “What was your impression of him? We’re all dying to know about this rising celebrity.”
“Well,” Kugimiya said, sounding thoughtful even though most of her lines were scripted, “he was very dedicated to the job. After saving me, he got right back to fighting the villain and saving people as quickly as possible. Heroic, I’d say. And quiet. I wonder if he’s a bit shy.”
“A shy hero? I guess he wouldn’t be the first. It would explain why he’s gotten so little media attention despite being a highly successful hero for over a decade.”
Kugimiya bobbed her head. “I thought so too.”
“It really shows when you go looking for pictures of him online,” Aoi-chan continued. “He’s very camera-shy. It’s pretty much impossible to find a clear picture. But you saw him up close and personal. What did he look like?”
“Uh, rugged, I guess? And tall. He had a kind of dark and mysterious vibe.”
“Ooh, was he good-looking?”
“I mean, I suppose so.” Kugimiya’s hands rose to her cheeks to cover up a non-existent blush. “It could have just been the heat of the moment—the adrenaline was pumping, you know—but yeah, I guess he was kinda handsome.”
“Oh my.” Aoi-chan grinned at the camera. “Let’s hope the rest of us have a chance to get a good look sometime soon.”
Shouta buried his face further into his sleeping bag and tried to will away the existence of the interview on Hizashi’s phone screen. “Why would you show me this.”
“If you’re about to be popular with the ladies, you have a right to know!” Hizashi replied way too loudly.
“Shut up.”
The interviews and testimonies became something of a trend for the next few weeks, and suddenly they were playing on TVs in store windows. Sometimes while at UA he would catch random students staring at him for far longer than necessary, and he was sure to glare at them every time.
“Come on, Eraser, they think you’re cool!” Midnight cajoled.
“Only because of what the media’s saying,” Shouta grumbled back. “They saw me all the time even before.”
“Yeah, and you’re way more interesting now.”
“Whatever. I’m going to class.” Whereupon reaching, he made short work of the morning announcements and crawled into his sleeping bag to ignore the world.
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Never-before-seen Eraserhead pics
posted by pompompuffs
[Image: Eraserhead slumped against classroom wall, asleep in his sleeping bag. His face is covered by his hair.]
[Image: Eraserhead lying on the floor behind the teachers’ podium, asleep in his sleeping bag. His back is to the audience.]
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uwabamifan_201
OH MY GOD. SOMEONE GET THIS MAN SOME SLEEP
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frosthero31113
hes literally sleeping in the pics lol
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hero_kissa
WTF LMAOOOO
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heroanalyisiswithaki
SKDJFLSKDJG Okay this is actually kind of precious though??? In a way.
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sakuramai
ikr???
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mybloodispurple52
Wait so he just does this in class? are you a UA student?
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55whereismyheart55
Okay, so the implication I’m getting here is that he patrols all night and catches sleep whenever he can at school. That’s… some dedication, I’ll just say.
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hero_kissa
SERIOUSLY WTF
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hellspider23
My god this man is insane. I think I just like him more now (though ofc Endeavor will always be my fave)
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themostmegaherofan
Very impressiv… but also concerning…
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staysecretstaysilentxx
Taking pictures of him when he’s sleeping and can’t stop you isn’t cool.
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Rugged sleeping bag man my beloved #SleepingBagMan #BoostEraserheadRatings
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Eraserhead… he really is unique 😭
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i wish my teacher would spend the whole class sleeping…..
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Eraserhead Billboard Ranking update!
posted by 55whereismyheart55
Amazing news, guys! I just recalculated Eraserhead’s probable Billboard ranking, and it looks like he’s at around 400-300! It’s been less than a month since he hit 800, so this is really incredible.
Approval/cases resolved/contribution ratings found here.
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uwabamifan_201
HOLY CRAP. AAAAAAAA
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mybloodispurple52
Oh my god!! That’s amazing!
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themostmegaherofan
This is incrdible. You guys hav no idea how much this means to m. I’m so happy he’s getting the ranking he deserves.
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staysecretstaysilentxx
I’m going to fucking explode.
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Eraserhead is an inspiration
posted by kimaru
I’m really impressed by Eraserhead. It seems to me less like he simply didn’t get media attention, and more like he didn’t even try for it. He’s completely dedicated to hero work, with no regards to accolades or fans. He’s done so much amazing stuff that he didn’t get any publicity for, and he’s still a successful hero. I dunno where I’m going with this exactly, I just think he’s really amazing, and all this is proof that he deserves a high spot on the charts more than anyone.
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herotheorieswithaki
You know, there’s a theory that someone was actively hiding Eraserhead’s existence for some reason…
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kimaru
I’ve heard.
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mybloodispurple52
Do you think he deserves a top spot more than All Might does?
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kimaru
I guess it depends on how you look at things. Eraserhead has done a lot for everyday citizens and doesn’t actively seek attention, which means he cares more about the safety of the public than he cares about ratings. On the other hand, All Might has done an unimaginable amount of service by bringing down crime rates to where they are today and saving countless people. He’s also been a hero for longer than Eraserhead’s been alive. So Eraserhead is deserving of attention because he’s not likely to abuse it, but we already know All Might doesn’t abuse his power. They both deserve the amount of attention they get equally, but All Might has really earned his place as the top hero. If that makes sense.
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mybloodispurple52
That makes perfect sense. I think it’s a very reasonable way of looking at things.
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Friday night, 9 PM, as he was suspending a minor villain from a streetlight using his capture scarf, Shouta became aware that someone was staring at him. Still gripping the end of his scarf to keep the villain bound, he turned and scanned the street for any new threats.
There were no villains. Just a kid, about eleven years old, staring at him from a few yards away with awe and wonder.
“You’re Eraserhead,” the kid said.
Shouta briefly considered lying and saying that no, he was Penciltip, or something like that. But it would probably be useless, so he just nodded.
The kid held up his backpack. “Would you sign my bag?”
“No,” Shouta said.
The kid wilted, and Shouta floundered for a more diplomatic wording.
“Er. It’s nothing personal, kid. I just don’t give out my autograph to people. And I’m a little occupied with this guy.” He gave the end of his scarf a tug, and the villain grunted. “You can tell all your friends you met me, though. Get home safe.”
The kid nodded sullenly and shambled away.
Shouta resisted the urge to bash his face against the nearby brick wall. He could hear the villain suspended above him sniggering through his capture weapon.
There was a staff meeting after school on Monday, just to check how everyone and their students were getting on. Nedzu also invited All Might, who would be teaching next year, so he could get a feel for how things worked at UA.
And somehow, he ended up sitting next to Shouta.
“So, Eraserhead,” All Might coughed. He was in his stick figure form, and apparently had no problem coughing his blood all over the place. “I noticed you’ve been getting a lot of publicity lately.”
“Hn,” Shouta grunted. He actually preferred not to think about all the attention he’d been getting.
“Uh… yes, well, I know in the past you’ve never been one for dealing with the public or news media. I thought I’d ask if you wanted any advice.”
“Advice.”
All Might nodded. “You’d be surprised how easy it is to say something that gets misunderstood or misquoted.”
Shouta sighed. “I know all I need to about dealing with the media. Be polite, don’t irritate the reporters, say as little as possible.”
All Might laughed, though much more quietly than he would have in his muscle form. “Well, that’s certainly part of it. But sometimes it’s difficult to avoid talking to them, and in that case, you need to be prepared. You had an easy time avoiding them back when they didn’t know you existed, but things have changed.”
Shouta had never had to suffer any extended interaction with the press, and it had been over a decade since he’d covered it in school. Still, he’d rather not admit that All Might had a point, so he just said, “Hn,” again.
All Might seemed to take this as a sign to continue, and Shouta couldn’t decide whether that was a good thing or a bad one.
“Okay, where to start… you should always make sure you know exactly what the reporter’s asking you before you respond…”
He went on until Present Mic came swinging into the room a couple minutes before the meeting was due to start. “Hey hey hey! What’s happening? All Might! Great to see you, pal.”
“Present Mic,” All Might chuckled. “You’re as chipper as ever. I was just giving Eraserhead some advice for dealing with the media.”
“Oh? Have you told him how buy time to think, other than just staring creepily at them?”
“Hey.”
Shouta was ignored.
“He should know how to smoothly change the subject when the questions are going in a bad direction,” Midnight chimed in.
As if they’d been waiting for a cue, the rest of the present staff members started adding their two cents, and even Nedzu joined in when he entered the room.
Shouta sighed and buried his face in his scarf.
“What are you thinking about, my boy? You’re muttering an awful lot.”
Young Midoriya fumbled the old toaster he was lugging toward the stairs, gaze snapping to Toshinori’s. “What? I was mumbling?” He readjusted his grip on the toaster and continued his path. “Nothing important, really, I was just thinking about a hero.”
Toshinori followed behind him to keep the conversation going. “Oh? Which one?”
“Eraserhead.”
“Ah, I see. He has been on the news a lot recently.”
“Yeah. But it’s just—I don’t think it’s right. Eraserhead’s an underground hero, he’s not meant to be in the spotlight like you or Endeavor, or Hawks. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t want it either, but the news is still reporting on him.”
Toshinori chuckled, though he couldn’t say he was feeling amused. “You’re not wrong. I had the opportunity to talk to him recently. He seemed pretty annoyed about the whole situation.”
“I think anyone who knows anything about Eraserhead is.” Midoriya dropped the toaster on the pile of trash growing at the top of the stairs, took a deep breath, and started down again, Toshinori still trailing behind. “I’m in one chatroom with a few others who knew about him before—just because I wanted to see what they thought of the situation—and everyone’s pissed about it. A few of them have been posting on the new Eraserhead fan forums about it, but it’s not really doing anything.”
“Have you been posting on the fan forums?”
Young Midoriya shook his head. “No. It’s not really helping at all, on the, uh, grander scale, so… Anyway, I don’t want to end up in a big fight on the internet.” He stood an enormous tire in the sand and started rolling it toward the stairs with difficulty. “At this point, I’m not sure he can get un-noticed anymore.”
“That does seem to be the way things go these days.” Toshinori couldn’t say he wasn’t partially at fault for that. He’d made sure All Might’s face was everywhere and on everything so criminals and villains would always know he was there… but it had backfired on some people. Eraserhead was bound to be contacted about merch deals any day now. “Were you an Eraserhead fan? Back before all this started, that is.”
“Me? Well, I guess.” The tire rolled over a random piece of garbage embedded in the sand, and Midoriya cursed as it fell on its side again. “I mean,” he grunted as he hefted it up, “I’m a fan of most heroes I’ve heard of, and I do have a page for him in one of my notebooks, but I never knew much, so I didn’t really think about him most of the time.”
“I’m sure he’d be glad to hear that.”
“Yeah…” Midoriya seemed to contemplate something, then asked, “What’s he like?”
“Hm… He’s scary.”
“Just like the interview said,” Midoriya mumbled.
“So you’ve read all the articles then?”
“What? Of course not, I mean, that would be disrespectful, so I shouldn’t have—” He cut himself off, face turning red, and began wheeling the tire more quickly toward the stairs. “I should get back to training! This tire isn’t gonna roll itself!”
Kayama Nemuri, better known as Midnight, had just finished fighting a villain—just a little fun for the weekend—and was now taking a few minutes to chat with fans, take pictures, and sign people’s foreheads. As usual her presence had attracted a sizeable crowd, and in this case an unofficial line had formed so that everyone who wanted got a turn with her.
A furiously blushing young lady came sidling up after Nemuri rejected some guy’s offer of a date, fidgeting with the cuffs of her sleeves. “Hello Miss Midnight,” the girl squeaked, eyes focused somewhere beyond Nemuri’s left ear.
“Hello yourself, young miss. What can I do for you this morning?”
“I just had a question.”
Not uncommon, but coming from Midnight’s fans, the question was usually, “Will you go out with me?!” The man she’d just rejected was still slinking away, slowly (probably as an excuse to ogle her), so she hoped that wasn’t the question this time.
“Sure, shoot,” she said.
“So… you and Eraserhead both work at UA, right? So are you like… together?”
Several other civilians leaned in to hear the answer, and Nemuri tried to sort the question into something that made sense. She’d never been asked anything about Eraserhead by a civilian. Let alone…
She stifled the burst of laughter that welled up in her throat, successfully reducing it to a tiny, composed chuckle. “Eraserhead and me? No, I don’t think he sees me that way. I knew him back in high school, and he never gave me a second glance—or at least, not like that.” She winked.
“O-oh,” the girl stuttered. “Okay then. That was all. Sorry.”
Midnight bid the rest of the crowd goodbye and sauntered away, still laughing.
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Another Eraserhead ranking update!
posted by 55whereismyheart55
Hey guys! Anyone who’s been keeping an eye on Eraserhead’s stats (and my last few updates!) probably knows what we’re celebrating in this post, so without further ado: Eraserhead has reached approximately No. 100 on the Billboard Chart!
It’s been two and a half months since HGN first published an article about Eraserhead, and I’ve never seen a jump this incredible. It really goes to show that if Eraserhead had been able to get publicity before now, he would be a very high-ranking hero.
Thanks to mybloodispurple52 and heroanalysiswithaki for helping me calculate and review Eraserhead’s placing!
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themostmegaherofan
Amazing! He’s com so far in such a short time. I’m honestly rally proud of him.
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uwabamifan_201
speaking of hgn articles, what happened to those? they just dropped off suddenly after the third one.
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mybloodispurple52
Oh I noticed that to! They wre all written by Hamada Tetsu, and he seemed really into it, but he stopped writing them right after Eraserhead hit 800. Maybe his boss decided it wasn’t that profitable anymore after the other media companies caught on to the hype. I don’t know if that makes sense though…
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hero_kissa
eraserhead for no.1!!
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staysecretstaysilentxx
I certainly fucking hope not.
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Takeyama Yu, better known as the gigantic and beautiful Mt. Lady, glared at her phone screen. “Who the heck is this Eraserhead guy, anyway?”
Two months past her debut she was already around place 200. She’d done her best to make a big entrance and get all eyes on her. She was going to climb the ranks faster than you could say “Endeavor.” But somehow this Eraserhead guy, who had only been noticed a couple weeks before her, was getting way more coverage.
What was he doing that made people notice him this much? They both took out villains. They both saved civilians. She did way more to grab media attention than he did, but all he had to do to make the front page was fall asleep in a UA classroom.
Was it because he was a man? Or perhaps after ten years in the field he’d picked up some covert publicity strategy she didn’t know about yet.
“Oh, right,” said Kamui Woods, who she had somehow become friends with after stealing his spotlight two months ago. “You’re new around here, so you don’t know him. Eraserhead is actually an underground hero. He’s pretty well-known in the local hero community, mostly a combat hero.”
“What? Why is he getting this huge popularity boost, then? It’s not fair!”
“I’m sure he’d agree with you.”
Yu groaned and slumped in her chair. “How am I ever gonna get to the top when people care more about some guy who doesn’t even want it?”
Shouta had a problem.
The problem began when he was patrolling yesterday, Saturday, and noticed a group of people watching him. College-aged youths pointing at him and smiling and giggling. The situation was clear, so he quickly ducked down an alleyway to avoid them.
It wasn’t enough, though. He emerged from the other end of the alley and a couple gasped in delight and pointed at him. Then a group a school children saw him and started chattering with glee. A gaggle of teenagers started shuffling toward him, whispering and shoving each other’s shoulders and grinning like idiots.
Shouta ducked down another alleyway.
How was he ever going to have a productive patrol like this? With people watching his every move and crowding him, it would be more difficult to spot suspicious figures. How was he supposed to know who was a fan and who was keeping an eye on him for more nefarious reasons? Usually he preferred to go unnoticed during patrol so that villains would unknowingly expose themselves to him, but now they would all know who he was, and that made him just another spotlight hero for them to slink away from.
He couldn’t concentrate with so many people watching him. It was like he’d become a circus monkey. How could everyone else stand this?
He ducked down another alleyway and took a few winding turns until he founds himself in an empty backstreet, quiet and free of people. The only other living thing in sight was a calico cat crouched on top of a low wall, staring at him with impassive eyes.
A surprisingly friendly cat, he found when he reached out to let it sniff his hand. He stroked its head and it turned to rub its face against his palm. Accustomed to human interaction, then.
“You’re better than people,” he muttered to it.
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[Image: Eraserhead standing on the edge of a mildly grimy street, petting a very happy-looking cat and almost smiling.]
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Fukukado Emi, AKA, the Smile Hero: Ms. Joke, was torn between laughter and sympathy for Eraserhead, who apparently could no longer so much as pet a cat in the street without going viral.
She chose laughter.
“Isn’t he the guy you have a huge crush on, Sensei?” one of her students called.
“Wow, I kinda get it now,” said another.
Later, when she called his cell, (despite how he tried, her number never stayed blocked for long,) he spent half an hour grumbling in her ear about the unfairness of it all, though that wasn’t quite how he worded it, before abruptly hanging up. She tried calling back and found her number had been blocked again.
“Do you guys think it’s kinda weird to be fangirling over our own teacher?” Maki said, a whisper that Eraserhead couldn’t hear from the front of the room.
“I’m actually fanboying,” said Takeda for the fifth time in the last three days.
“We know, shut up. Anyway, he’s right up there at the front of the classroom every morning. He expelled us all on the first day of school. He’s scary. This is weird.”
“It adds to the charm!” Naomi insisted. “He’s a rugged tough dude who will go to any lengths to make sure his students are prepared to face villains in the future. And he’s scary to villains too, not just us. That’s cool. He’s cool.”
“You know what would be weird?” Takeda cut in again. “If any of you had a crush on him. Teacher-student relationships are not cool.”
“That would be weird,” Maki agreed.
“Yeah,” said Misako.
Naomi scrolled through her phone, oddly silent. The other three’s gazes slowly turned toward her and they stared for a long moment, but before they could draw any solid conclusions she cried, “Oh my God, merch!”
Takeda lunged for the phone, mouth emitting an unintelligible series of whisper-screams. Naomi jerked back with a squeak, chair rolling into the aisle and hitting Watanabe’s desk with a loud crack of plastic on wood.
Watanabe jolted, phone clattering to the desktop, and turned to glare at them. “Watch it!”
A rustling of plastic-based fabric reached their collective ears as Aizawa turned over in his sleeping bag, gaze radiating disgruntled irritation. “Do you all have something you’d like to announce to the class?”
Everyone was staring now.
“No, sir,” Maki whispered.
“Then keep quiet.” He rolled back over to face the wall. Misako snapped a picture.
Naomi rolled her chair back behind her desk and went back to looking at her phone. It wasn’t two moments before her face wrinkled in abject disappointment. “No merch. Nothing official, anyway.”
“Then what was all the fuss about?” Takeda groaned.
“Rumor has it he was offered a deal and turned it down.”
Takeda silently shook his fist at Aizawa’s immobile yellow sleeping bag.
“Well, worst comes to worst, if we really want official merch…” Naomi shrugged. “We can always just steal one of his empty jelly pouches.’
“WHAT?”
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Eraserhead ranking update!
posted by 55whereismyheart55
Where does the time go? I’m practically having to recalculate this every day, any I’ve got great new, everybody—as of today’s calculations, Eraserhead is now at No. 50. Do I even need to say anything else?
Thanks again to mybloodispurple52 and heroanalysiswithaki for helping me calculate and review Eraserhead’s placing! I cannot begin to tell you what our faces looked like when we found the result.
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kanedaaa_tetsuo
KING SHIT
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kore_wa_neko
hopping on board the eraserfan train late let’s goooooooo Eraserhead for no. 49
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uwabamifan_201
come on, we can do better than that! Eraserhead for no. 40
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themostmegaherofan
Pessimists, let’s shoot for no. 35
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frosthero31113
oh he’s really getting up there lol
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staysecretstaysilentxx
Fuck you all.
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Shouta had come up with an idea. A brilliant idea. A marvelous idea. A genius idea.
His unpleasant surge in popularity had started as a result of Hamada Tetsu’s thoughtless hero worship, but it had continued because people actually liked him, for whatever reason. So, he reasoned, if he just started acting even more rude and belligerent to his fans, maybe they would go away.
His new PR team, more widely known as the teaching staff of UA High School, disagreed vehemently.
“You can’t do that!” Mic screeched when he mumbled the idea into the surface of his desk. “You’ve gotten so high, you can’t afford to lose face now! We’re practically the same rank, man!”
“But I want to lose face. I don’t want to be on your level. It’s embarrassing.”
Mic gasped loudly. Because he was taking breath in instead of pushing it out, the sound was not as loud as it could have been. But it was enough to make Shouta worry about what might come next.
“He’s right, you know,” Midnight said, saving everyone in the staff room from a severe case of tinnitus. “If you start doing things people don’t like now, you’ll just get even more attention. Then people will start yelling at you in the street instead of trying to get your autograph.”
“Then how?” Shouta demanded. “How do I get this to stop?”
“Ya don’t,” said Snipe.
“It’s too late,” Thirteen agreed.
“Sorry, Aizawa, but there’s really nothing left for you to do at this point but tough it out and avoid doing anything controversial,” Vlad said.
Shouta sighed miserably. “You make a terrible PR team.”
The media caught him on patrol. They knew his route. Perhaps someone had been staking out this spot for days now, watching him go by and plotting their dastardly questions. Well, Shouta did not appreciate it.
“Eraserhead!” the woman called, holding out her microphone as the cameraman pointed the camera lens at Shouta’s face. “What are your thoughts on your recent rise in popularity?”
I hate it, I hate all of you, and if you don’t get that mic out of my face I’m going to break your hand, Shouta thought. But Midnight’s voice echoed through his mind— you’ll just get even more attention —and out loud he said, “It was very surprising.” Then he looped his scarf around a lamp post and swung himself away.
After three months of what to new fans was joy and to old fans plus Eraserhead was a tragedy, the time came at last for the Hero Billboard Chart Rankings announcement. Most of the country flipped their televisions to the news and sat back to watch. Eraserhead did not do this because he was sleeping, but that was nobody’s business.
An HPSC representative dressed in a tasteful gray business suit stood onstage in front of a mic stand. In her hand was an envelope. She cleared her throat as the lights dimmed in the auditorium and the crowd settled down, and spoke into the microphone.
“Welcome, everyone, to the biannual Hero Billboard Chart Rankings announcement. We have seen many changes in the landscape of things these past six months, and we at the Hero Public Safety Commission are pleased to say that it is for the better. The crime rate has continued to decline, as it has been for the past three decades…”
She went on for a few minutes about the state of things, and then finally, “And now for the Billboard Rankings announcement.” The room hushed further as she opened the envelope and unfolded the piece of paper inside. “Coming in at number ten, we have the Dragon Hero: Ryukyu.” She waited for the applause to rise and fall, then continued, “Landing at number nine is the Rabbit Hero: Mirko.”
She continued down the list, Hawks at number eight, Edgeshot at number seven, Best Jeanist at number four… “At number three…” She paused, eyes flicking over the crowd. “We have the Flame Hero: Endeavor.”
A hush fell, not only across the auditorium, but across the whole nation. Then there was a faint rumble, like the sensation of someone very far away screaming in rage, and everyone still dwelling in the Todoroki house had to cover their ears.
Then chatter rose as watchers across the country wondered, who could have surpassed Endeavor after two decades in second-best place?
The HPSC representative only allowed a minute of discussion before plowing forward. “Making an enormous jump from his previously non-existent placement, our number two hero is the Erasure Hero: Eraserhead.”
Present Mic’s yell could be heard all the way from UA to the apartment living room where Midoriya Izuku was gaping at the TV screen in simultaneous horror and adulation. Most of the staff of UA was in Nedzu’s office having a watch party, though Eraserhead had declined the half-hearted invitation that had been extended to him. Possibly because of a deep-set sense of dreadful anticipation.
“WE HAVE TO CALL HIM,” Mic shouted.
“I GOT IT,” yelled Midnight, fumbling her phone out of her corset.
“NO, I MEANT I HAVE TO CALL HIM.”
“Be quiet,” Cementoss grumbled.
No one really paid attention to All Might being declared number one, since that had been happening since before most of them were alive. All Might, huddled up with a blanket on his couch in a private room in Might Tower, shook his head ruefully at the TV screen. “I wonder if this is my fault, in a roundabout way,” he muttered to himself.
In the Todoroki household, Endeavor was hunched on the living room floor, smashing away at the keys on his laptop in a desperate search for Eraserhead’s hero stats. “Impossible,” he snarled. “Eraserhead’s incident resolution rate is less than half of mine!”
Sitting criss-cross on the couch behind him, Shouto was fighting the desire to burst into hysterical, possibly demonic laughter. Instead he grinned with all his teeth, directly at the back of his father’s head. Next to him Natsuo did the same, while behind the couch Fuyumi stood staring blankly at the television, frost creeping over the tray of fresh tea in her hands.
Shouto couldn’t spare a single thought to All Might. In this exact moment, his favorite hero was Eraserhead.
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RUGGED SLEEPING BAG MAN NO.2????
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EXPECTATIONS: SMASHED. SURPASSED. PLUS ULTRA.
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FUCK. I don’t know how to feel about this
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SUCK IT ENDEAVOR ERASERHEADS WAY COOLER
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Talk about a show! Congrats to Eraserhead for taking the No.2 spot!
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ERASERHEAD OFFICIAL BILLBOARD RANKING
posted by 55whereismyheart55
I don’t even know where to begin. This is unprecedented. Eraserhead has claimed the Number 2 spot, surpassing Endeavor, who has held the position for over two decades. Congratulations Eraserhead!
According to his stats, Eraserhead made it this high because his Public Approval Rating skyrocketed in the last few months. In other words, he would not have made it to Number 2 without help from all of you. AMAZING work! This really goes to show that when a lot of people share a common goal, they can achieve near-impossible things.
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mybloodispurple52
as the person who started the Eraserhead forum topic I a mabsolutely amazed. I never could have imagined hw would get this far in just three months. He went from being almost completely unknown to this.
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uwabamifan_201
THANK YOU FOR STARTING THIS TOPIC BLOOD
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hero_kissa
forget heroes, i stan mybloodispurple52
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staysecretstaysilentxx
I hate you.
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hellspider23
Ah hm. Hmmmmm. What the hell Eraserhead does good work maybe he deserves it. Ofc I want Endeavor to hit no.1 but maybe Eraserhead can have a turn at no.2. just don’t stay too long haha…
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staysecretstaysilentxx
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE. YOU RUINED A PERFECTLY GOOD UNDERGROUND HERO. NUMBER 2?? IT WOULD BE BETTER IF NO ONE EVER HEARD OF HIM
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frosthero31113
stfu hater. lol
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Eraserhead at No.2
posted by themostmegaherofan
Thing one: I finally got my E key fixed! E e E e E e E e E e E e
Thing two: Eraserhead hit No.2 on the Hero Billboard Chart! I am so thrilled I can barely speak. No offense to Endeavor, but I personally feel that if anyone deserves the spot, it’s Eraserhead. Maybe if Endeavor had ever saved me I would feel differently, but Eraserhead is the one who saved me, so this is just the way it is. I’m so proud of him. He earned this. Fair and square.
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Y’all should have shut the fuck up when you had the chance
posted by staysecretstaysilentxx
I don’t even know what to say anymore. No one has listened to me this whole time except maybe two people. I don’t understand why none of you can get it through your thick skulls that Eraserhead doesn’t want this. And I can only hope that some of you realize the truth and regret your contributions to this disaster.
I’ve been in enough flame wars during this whole situation. I’m sick of it. I give up.
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uwabamifan_201
how were you never banned
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Shouta’s ringtone woke him up. It was a very annoying ringtone, the opening theme song of an equally annoying children’s cartoon which had haunted Shouta ever since the incident where Mic had somehow convinced him to babysit his second cousin’s three-year-old daughter. After that experience was over, he’d deemed it logical to make the theme song his ringtone in order to motivate himself to answer calls as quickly as possible.
“Ne, ne, ne—” His phone sang, and he snatched it off the floor and pressed it to his ear. “Hello?”
“ERASERRRRRR!” Mic screamed, and Shouta barely resisted the impulse to throw the device across the room. “YOU’RE IN THE BIG LEAGUES, PAL!”
“What do you mean?” Shouta said, even as liquid dread pooled in his stomach.
“YOU’RE—”
“NUMBER TWO!” Midnight’s voice cut through.
Shouta pulled the phone away from his ear—he figured he didn’t need it there to hear at this point—and stared at the screen, though really he was more staring into a distant void. He brought the phone back. “A hilarious joke. I’m going back to sleep.”
“WAIT—”
He hung up before whoever was saying that could finish and let the phone flump out of his hand and onto the floor. A few seconds of blissful silence and denial.
“Ne, ne, n—”
“What?” he growled into the receiver.
“Hello, Aizawa,” Nedzu said brightly. “I am very sorry for your loss.”
Shouta breathed a long, slow breath, and let it out as an explosive sigh. “What happened.”
“Endeavor took third place, and you took second. Congratulations! Please also be on the lookout for any rapidly approaching fires.”
“I’m sorry Eraser, but this is amazing!” Mic’s voice shouted distantly. “I’m so proud of you!”
“Nedzu, do you know where Hamada Tetsu lives?”
Only static came over the line for a long few seconds. Perhaps Nedzu was analyzing the wisest course of action. “I’m afraid I have no idea, Aizawa. But please come to me if you need any advice. I understand this is a trying time for you.”
“Will do,” Shouta gritted out, and jabbed his thumb into the end call button.
It would not be the heroic thing to do, but he very much wanted to make Hamada Tetsu’s life a living hell.
“He made it,” Hamada Tetsu whispered reverently, curled up in bed with the livestream of the Billboard Chart announcement playing on his laptop. “He actually made it.”
Now, factually Hamada Tetsu understood that this was the opposite of what Eraserhead wanted—but who deserved fame and power more than those who didn’t strive to reach it? In this way, Endeavor didn’t deserve his position. And perhaps… Hamada Tetsu narrowed his eyes. Perhaps All Might didn’t deserve the number one spot either. Perhaps it would be better if the humble, modest Eraserhead could claim that spot.
But even Hamada Tetsu understood that this was likely impossible. And besides, Eraserhead had told him to stand strong.
So, for now, Hamada Tetsu would stand strong.