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Bakugo was the only one who knew I identified as a boy for the longest time. Our relationship didn’t really change much outside of that, though. The only difference it made was that he was very adamant about beating the shit out of people who were transphobic around me, but he never outed me to anyone.

I didn’t fully come out as trans until after junior high. Bakugo had gone off to U.A. while I gave up on trying to get in because by that point I was truly hopeless that I would be able to without a Quirk. I tested the waters by coming out to some friends I made in a different high school because the dysphoria was getting super bad and I realized that people knowing about it made me feel better about myself. I ran into some rough patches, of course, but for the most part it made me happier.

The reason for giving up on my dreams of being a hero was because, during the sludge villain incident, I couldn’t bring myself to do anything to try to save Bakugo. When I encountered All Might prior to that, his discouraging words and the reveal of his “true form”, so to speak, were enough to crush any hope I had left. I was frozen in place while I watched the villain nearly consume Bakugo, completely oblivious to All Might’s presence, but at the last second, Bakugo came through with a burst of what could only be described as raw willpower. He shook off the sludge villain enough to start gaining the upper hand and it was later revealed that his show of determination was what made All Might spring into action to help him finish off the villain. Watching that with my own two eyes only made me realize that I could never hold a candle to either of them with the way I was.

I eventually enlisted in the police academy once I graduated high school and became a uniformed officer. I worked under my mentor, Sansa, and he became something of a father figure/best friend to me (a dad friend, if you will).

All Might ultimately chose Mirio to inherit One for All and inevitably succumbed to the effects of his injury shortly after the generation of heroes from Bakugo's class graduated and gained their hero licenses.

Bakugo quickly climbed the ranks to being the #2 Pro Hero, Mirio being #1, and Tamaki as #3. Kirishima was Katsuki’s primary sidekick in his own agency.

Shinso was also publicly trans as a Top Ten Pro Hero and I looked up to him a lot as an idol. He was a great inspiration to me, though it did make me regret never taking the entrance exam to U.A. so that I could have had the opportunity to work alongside him.

I’m still trying to figure out the details on how it happened, but I ended up dating both Katsuki and Kirishima.

Todoroki turned out to be a villain. He had joined his brother Dabi in the League of Villains, brought together by their mutual hatred of Endeavor. They were the ones who killed Endeavor and began the domino effect that led to most of the former Top Ten Pro Heroes dying. The League worked meticulously to bring down each Pro Hero in order, but they were quickly replaced by Katsuki and the others despite their best efforts to destroy the hierarchy of heroes.

Althought he League was eventually dismantled when its core members were apprehended, there was another group of villains waiting in the shadows for their turn to shine. They called themselves a different name that I can't remember, and when they inevitably began targeting the new Top Ten, starting with Bakugo, he put his best efforts toward ensuring that I was safe. He assigned his agency’s best equipment specialist, Mei Hatsume, the duty of developing anything that would increase my safety. She quickly developed a device disguised as a watch that kept track of my location at all times and sent distress signals to the companion device at the Ground Zero Headquarters if it detected any traces of danger in my surroundings. As invasive as it was, I agreed to wear it.

Our fears were realized when the new villain group kidnapped me in an attempt to draw out Bakugo. It was while being held captive that I learned the Todoroki brothers were once again at large. They met with me personally to torture out any information I had on Bakugo. In the process I learned about their childhoods and I couldn’t help but sympathize with them despite the circumstances. I did my best to convince them to turn over a new leaf, to put an end to their villainy and live out normal lives now that the source of their trauma was dead. It was a lost cause at the time, but it frustrated Shoto enough to storm out before he could kill me. Dabi stayed to talk with me for a while, asking if I really thought that they could abandon their villainous paths. I gave him my answer and then he left me locked up without replying.