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Posted May X, XXXX, 10:32AM by UAsFirst (Verified Acct.)
Reply to: who’s watching the ua sports fest? bc we have our free badass in there?
It’s break time in between round one and two so I can actually confirm some things [winking emoji] First of all, yep, I am indeed the ‘little green badass’. I figured my identity would get out with this, but this is my second shot at the hero course, along with my friend, who is in fact, purple. You guys all know my name and purple’s name by now, but we’ll all keep not saying it to skirt around the rules of the forum, I think. [laughing emoji]

Notes:

right, so the sports festival literally took a month and a half to post and so for those of you who need a recap and don't want to reread something almost 30k long i present a forum fic. for those of you who don't want to read social media fics, this is totally just a recap, you can skip it and lose nothing if you want, but i mean, i thought it was fun so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

if you thought this was the end of the sports festival arc, yes but also no. there are some loose ends to tie up, after all. but they are much more fun to write than the actual sports fest, so unless i get lucky with my job hunt (which dear god please, i'm desperate) i should hopefully keep on with the planned schedule. if anything changes, you can keep up with that through my socials which are linked on my carrd or you can get info through the series discord server. things are really, really bad so i can't make guarantees.

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Posted May X, XXXX, 9:07 AM by swagfree (Verified Acct.)

who’s watching the ua sports fest? bc we have our free badass in there?

yooo uasfirst is clearly competing, and he’s kinda outed himself to us as a little green badass cause he’s wearing the shoes but round one man... teamed up with endeavor’s son, running on ice...

dude, i just realized

his shoes must be modified

they said in the commentary he made his own support gear and that’s so badass, and the fact that they wont make different shoes for us and uasfirst just modified his? it’s like a big fuck you, what a fucking guy

and the fucking gloves and robots just stopped whenever he came near too, that’s so op

it was so cool

then he fought that one golden quirked asshole with his alliance at the end, oh that was great to see him knock that dude bloody. ngl ive always wanted to wallop some of these bastards in the head and i was totally living vicariously through uasfirst

it was so beautiful to watch that blond asshole to fall into the pit in the first round, you know he was probably a favorite to win the whole thing and i dont know what they did, purple is probably uasfirsts friend with the mental quirk and honestly hes probably the cause and i love and respect him for it

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Posted May X, XXXX, 10:32AM by UAsFirst (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: who’s watching the ua sports fest? bc we have our free badass in there?

It’s break time in between round one and two so I can actually confirm some things [winking emoji] First of all, yep, I am indeed the ‘little green badass’. I figured my identity would get out with this, but this is my second shot at the hero course, along with my friend, who is in fact, purple. You guys all know my name and purple’s name by now, but we’ll all keep not saying it to skirt around the rules of the forum, I think. [laughing emoji]

My shoes are modified — but not too much. Red and White, who I’m going to avoid calling Endeavor’s son since their relationship is terrible (as you know in a previous post, Endeavor is not Free friendly, nor is he a very nice person in general), is a close friend as well, and we knew we would be working together at points, so the shoes were modified to be cold insulated, grip on the ice, and then I made them steel toed as well as insulated against electricity because one of the hero kids has an electric Quirk.

I’ve done my research where I can [winking emoji]

As for that Golden Quirked blond asshole? That was sweet Kacchan. Finally got to put him in his place, if only for a moment. And yes, Purple did do something to him and it was what took him out. [winking emoji] It was glorious, and seeing him fall was one of the highlights of my life; I can’t deny it. I am, in fact, a little bitter.

That asshole is the reason I’m partially deaf in one ear, and he never got punished at all for that. What kind of bullshit is that?

Yeah, having my friends go after him every time he came for me, kneeing him in the face, knocking him out in the first round after he made a speech about how he was going to beat everyone?

It felt fucking great. I’ll say it. I hope it’s immortalized on HeroTube so I can watch it again and again.

Posted May X, XXXX, 10:43AM by AngryBees (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: who’s watching the ua sports fest? bc we have our free badass in there?

Firstie finally got to beat Kacchan’s ass? Yessss, my dreams have come true! I’m so glad I was recording the Festival. (I knew you were gonna kick ass when you kicked ass against robots. I mean, I feel like actual people have to be easier to beat up?) I’ll personally put Kacchan’s ass kicking on HeroTube for you [winking kissing emoji]

Posted May X, XXXX, 10:46AM by UAsFirst (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: who’s watching the ua sports fest? bc we have our free badass in there?

You’re my personal hero, Bees.

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Posted May X, XXXX, 11:14 AM by AlwaysLURKING (Verified Acct.)

The Tower OMG! (LIVEBLOGGING)

okay, first of all, can we talk about uasfirst’s team? firsties got purple, who’s a badass with those batons, red/white who’s golden quirked to hell and back, like that’s a one in a million quirk, and then he’s got another golden quirked heiress on top of that.

and firstie’s no slouch either; we saw him in the first round with his own gear he built himself and he had some moves, he knows parkour, which means he can move. he hit that kacchan hard enough to have him spitting blood and knock him to the ground, and kacchan was ripping — firstie knows how to fight.

but goddamn the team he’s got built put him in fifth place right away without even trying. if they avoid combat, they could in theory just climb floors and probably get into the third round.

Posted May X, XXXX, 11:16 AM by quirkedout (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: The Tower OMG! (LIVEBLOGGING)

they’re only one minute into this and i’m so excited! i never thought i’d see a free on tv kicking ass like this! he talked about this all these years, about being inspiration for us, and i feel so bad, because honestly i never thought he could get anywhere. i thought all the doors would be slammed in his face, you know?

but here he is, and wow. it really does mean everything, doesn’t it? it really does feel good.

i can’t wait to see him do more.

firstie, i’m so sorry i doubted you. i believe in you now and i know you’re gonna do us proud! you already are!

Posted May X, XXXX, 11:18 AM by AlwaysLURKING (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: The Tower OMG! (LIVEBLOGGING)

so team firstie jumps straight through four floors without battle! look at them go! it’s a great start for them, and boosts their score right away. clearly though it looks like the first floors are meant to be easy with each floor getting harder; the first floor was totally blank, but there were a few walls by floor three and four! makes sense, though; higher floors are worth more points, so they should be more work

then they get in battle with the bug team and they all work together great! it’s obvious they’ve not fought with ponytail before but they still do a great job together, they’re all very intuitive. it takes some real talent and smarts to do that.

it’s also obvious purple, firstie and red/white have practiced together [eyes emoji]

the way they snatched those three tags and had that team running to stay in the game [sparkling heart] them jumping into fourth then third place... that fight backfired big time for bug team lol

and purple TASING bug boy!! that was beautiful! he did not hesitate... love that for him

Posted May X, XXXX, 11:21 AM by AlwaysLURKING (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: The Tower OMG! (LIVEBLOGGING)

team firstie’s back in a fight with bug team and it’s looking more serious this time!!

the hairy guy is HUGE now, like holy shit. even red/white is struggling with him, and it doesn’t help that horn girl is trying her best to toss him across the room. ponytail, firstie and purple are having a hard go of it with the other three. it’s not a great matchup; none of them have good weapons for this.

not sure why ponytail doesn’t make a better weapon but there must be a reason. maybe it takes time or something.

Posted May X, XXXX, 11:24 AM by AlwaysLURKING (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: The Tower OMG! (LIVEBLOGGING)

i’ll talk about the rest of what’s happened in a minute! let’s talk about what’s most important first! beast man threw firstie and he’s not getting up!!!!!! [sob emoji] i’m so worried about him! he was doing so good! i hope he’s okay! it can’t end here for him!!

oh i’m so nervous!!!

ahhhhh, i just want firstie to be okay. i want him to win. i think he’ll get up, he’s awake, so he has to. he’s just taking a minute to regroup, right?

firstie!! you’re worrying me...

ahhh!!

okay. okay! but the rest of what’s happened! it’s been an epic fight. red/white was doing a great job keeping beast man off everyone’s ass until horn girl managed to get one past everyone and toss him across the room, poor thing. that’s gonna smart later for sure.

firstie dropped scale boy’s ass and stole his tag, meaning they could take the team’s elimination necklaces. (he snagged that bitch too.) it looks like scale boy injured him but i’m not certain on that one. red/white got beast man’s necklace, then horn girl got him

Posted May X, XXXX, 11:24 AM by quirkyquirkyno (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: The Tower OMG! (LIVEBLOGGING)

firsty no!! omg this is so scary! get up! you can do it!

i hope he’s okay!

firsty we’re cheering for you!

Posted May X, XXXX, 11:25 AM by freefresh (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: The Tower OMG! (LIVEBLOGGING)

Firstie, you can’t go down here! You have to get back up! You’re so strong; you’re not done yet! We’re all rooting for you!

Posted May X, XXXX, 11:27 AM by AlwaysLURKING (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: The Tower OMG! (LIVEBLOGGING)

FIRSTIE’S BACK UP! the way he went straight after horn girl and gave purple the opportunity to steal her necklace [heart emoji] and while firstie was down we had a couple things happen: red/white going for revenge on beast man... he was pissed. their friendship is legit. he threw beast man into a wall and it was blatant that it was an attack for firstie. ponytail snatched the necklace off bug boy too.

so bug team is officially out after giving firstie’s team enough points to be in second place [smirking face]

Posted May X, XXXX, 11:29 AM by flipflop (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: The Tower OMG! (LIVEBLOGGING)

Team Firstie is climbing floors like no one’s business! It’s hard to keep up, haha; Always’ speed typing is crazy. I’m jealous of how they can do this lol

Posted May X, XXXX, 11:29 AM by AlwaysLURKING (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: The Tower OMG! (LIVEBLOGGING)

i’m actually trained and work in an office copying down everything people say; that’s my secret [winking emoji]

but anyways, firstie and his team is GOING! i am so proud of them! wouldn’t it be killer if they made it to the top? and the way they keep blocking off floors as they go... god, these teenagers are cleverer than i could ever hope to be!

Posted May X, XXXX, 11:31 AM by AlwaysLURKING (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: The Tower OMG! (LIVEBLOGGING)

they did it! right at the last minute, they made it to the top! sure, they didn’t need to to move on to the next round, but it’s about the show they put on, isn’t it? i mean, we all know what the sports festival is about, it’s just a tv show for all of japan, lol!

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Posted May X, XXXX, 12:41 PM by UAsFirst (Verified Acct.)

Kacchan Strikes Again.

I’m tired, like you cannot believe. Kacchan tried to drag me off after the tower. I’m done with him officially. Part of me always hoped we would recover our friendship, but now? Now I’m done. No more cutesy nickname rights for him (except for here, of course, because I’ll always follow the no personal info rule, even if we all know all my secrets now, haha. But we would have one day anyway.), no more believing in the goodness in him, no more hoping he’ll come back.

He’s not coming back and even if he were to, I wouldn’t want him to.

I’m done, and I’m never going back. I mean it.

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Posted May X, XXXX, 12:47 PM by UAsFirst (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: The Tower OMG! (LIVEBLOGGING)

Alright, it’s me, back again to answer a few questions!

First, I am okay after that throw! I have a few minor injuries, and a minor concussion, and I’m definitely going to feel it tomorrow but who’s going to care about a few aches and pains when there’s a fat, shiny golden medal hanging on his neck, right?

Second, yes, ponytail can’t just instantly summon, so whatever she had in the middle of battle is what she was stuck with if things were too hectic for her to make something new. She still handled herself great! I couldn’t have wished for a better fourth member to our team. Purple and red/white are my best friends but ponytail is super smart, and the nicest person I’ve ever met. Once she becomes a hero, she’s definitely going to be a safe one for us, guys.

Lastly, thank you to bug team for fighting us. It was a pleasure to beat you! Thanks for the points!

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Posted May X, XXXX, 1:58 PM by CanYouSeeMe (Verified Acct.)

I’m only here for Firstie, and I’ll say it shamelessly.

So I’m straight up not even really paying attention to most of the other rounds, to be honest. I mean, I glanced at Purple’s since he’s friends with Firstie and it was a pretty good round. It looked like he fought the pink girl either without a Quirk or whatever his Quirk is he’s doing a good job of hiding it on international TV, so kudos to him, I guess, and Red/White’s fight (and seriously, when can we start calling him Strawberry Swirl? It would be so much better than just calling him two colors.) was about what everyone expected of him, right?

Other than that, like who cares about anyone that’s not Firstie, right? I mean, I wouldn’t even bother watching those two or this whole thing at all if Firstie wasn’t a UA first year. I’m sure not going to watch the other years, LOL.

But Firstie’s first round... it was all Quirkless fighting, or at least, I’m guessing Quirkless fighting, and Firstie was honestly mocking that smug looking blond kid. I loved that fight, LOL. I know some of the crowd was bitter but haha he probably deserved a little mocking, to be honest. I mean, he sure looked like he did. I’m not sure why they took the microphones out, so we don’t know what they said to each other but I mean, just look at blond kid’s face.

He seems like he’s a bit of a brat. Firstie toying with him during a fight is harmless anyway. He should’ve dragged it out a little longer, LOL.

Posted May X, XXXX, 2:02 PM by AngryBees (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: I’m only here for Firstie, and I’ll say it shamelessly.

I mean, who else would most of us cheer for? If Firstie gets knocked out, I’ll probably keep watching to cheer for Purple and Strawberry Swirl (that’s so fucking adorable, and I’m stealing it, sorry [laughing emoji]) because I just know it’s what Firstie would want — no one stans his friends more than him; he definitely wants more people cheering for them, but like... the sports fest is not for people like us. Or at least it wasn’t until this year.

I want to hope this is the start of something better for us.

Posted May X, XXXX, 2:05 PM by WhatsUpDoc (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: I’m only here for Firstie, and I’ll say it shamelessly.

It really feels like the start of something new. I think it means it’s time for me to stop running away from things. Firstie’s the same age as my younger brother and he’s out on international television despite what it could mean for him. I want to be as bold as that.

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Posted May X, XXXX, 2:52 PM by AngryBees (Verified Acct.)

Hey, The Trio is doing pretty damn great!

Purple pulled some pretty slick moves with the pointy red boy, didn’t he? I don’t know what the hell his Quirk is, but that moment of stillness then the body toss? Pretty slick. How can anyone not be impressed by that? It takes some real strength to throw a person at all, and pointy boy was bigger than Purple by a lot. It’s pretty cool.

Strawberry Swirl (haha, thanks, @CanYouSeeMe) had that giant glacier, and sure, it was overkill but damn son. That’s some serious firepower. If he does that for the rest of the tournament, he’ll be pretty hard to beat. I mean, how the fuck do you fight that?

And Firstie had another good (mostly) Quirkless fight. Ponytail only summoned a weapon with her Quirk and then it was down to their skills in fighting and their brains. It was a cool fight to watch. Both of them really knew their stuff and while Firstie’s first fight was fun because Firstie was putting a brat in his place but this one was fun because it was a battle of skilled combatants.

Anyways, yeah, they were all pretty cool and good to watch. [thumbs up emoji]

Posted May X, XXXX, 3:43 PM by AngryBees (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: Hey, The Trio is doing pretty damn great!

So it came down to Purple against Strawberry Swirl. I thought Strawberry Swirl would come out with another glacier and just shut it down fast but it was a real fight and it was honestly badass. The moves on Purple’s part to dodge... the Quirk use on Strawberry Swirl’s side... There was totally a moment when it looked like Purple was out and what a badass; I mean, he straight up just smashed his way out and kept going and he definitely had a limp after. And we still don’t know what Purple’s Quirk is but I definitely have my theories after this fight, and damn he used it well.

And then...

Firstie’s battle. Goddamn. There’s Shield boy, and he makes these shields that must be pretty damn strong because they can hold an entire person and Firstie looks at that and decides to just fucking punch that shit? I mean first of all, what the fuck was he thinking? Second of all, the fact that he could punch through that?

What the fuck are they feeding him at UA?

We already knew Firstie was feral when he said he just went to the UA Hero Course exam and ripped apart robots with his bare hands but he continues to prove being feral on international TV. I mean, his expression, that brutal punch, tasing the kid after smashing his shield.

Firstie is scary. Villains better fear him. I mean, imagine when he debuts as a hero... damn. Crime will just be cancelled.

Also, like... you can totally like... see up in the stands in the backgrounds and Firstie... you keep saying best friends on here and then cuddling in the stands... what is the truth? (Good for you, though.)

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Posted May X, XXXX, 4:12 PM by AlwaysLURKING (Verified Acct.)

the final battle arrives [eye emoji]

okay okay okay it’s finally here no one panic!!!!1!

so. it’s down to purple versus firstie. an epic showdown with no big flashy quirks. and i love that there are no hero students in this round. that never happens. it’s cool. i can’t wait to see what they’re going to do.

Posted May X, XXXX, 4:16 PM by AlwaysLURKING (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: the final battle arrives [eye emoji]

okay, so the first thing firstie does is gag himself? i think that’s what he’s doing, anyway. it really seemed to mess with purple’s mind, so it must stop purple from using his quirk somehow lol. firstie’s always known for clever plans and here he is doing it again...

Posted May X, XXXX, 4:18 PM by AlwaysLURKING (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: the final battle arrives [eye emoji]

purple embarrassed the shit out of firstie, lol. firstie’s so red. maybe he teased him about some girl or something, haha. either way, it looks like purple might... not have an edge, spoke too soon. that roundhouse looks like it could take someone’s head off, damn.

Posted May X, XXXX, 4:20 PM by quirkedout (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: the final battle arrives [eye emoji]

lol lurking, teased him about a girl? purple 100% flirted with him. you’re telling me you took one look at purple and thought that wasn’t the face of a devious gay? he flirted and firstie is definitely easy to fluster, of course he responded.

Posted May X, XXXX, 4:22 PM by AlwaysLURKING (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: the final battle arrives [eye emoji]

there’s merit to your argument but that’s not the point. anyway, they’ve been going at it for a bit. it almost seems a little practiced. they seem to have fallen a bit into their normal. aaaaand there it is. purple’s been tossed. a good kick by firstie, but i’m sure purple feels differently.

ooh, whatever purple said to firstie has firstie so red he looks like he could pass out from the blood flow to his head. poor thing. it gave purple a good opening, but he’s been a little off this whole fight, so will he actually take full advantage?

nnnnope, and it looks like firstie’s going to go into full ass kicking mode now haha, guess he doesn’t want to be embarrassed again lol.

Posted May X, XXXX, 4:24 PM by AlwaysLURKING (Verified Acct.)

Reply to: the final battle arrives [eye emoji]

based on how red both of them are when firstie pinned purple, you might be right about the flirting after all, quirked! haha, teenagers.

but it’s great to know there’s gonna be a free on the top of the podium. sure, no one will know since firstie’s still keeping hush about it but we know and any quirkless kid that sees the sports festival or sees the news will know. and firstie always wanted to be a beacon of hope like that. i’m proud of the kid.

he’s finally doing it.

good for him.

Notes:

formatting the forum always makes me hate everything and regret all my choices but i love you guys so i did it for you anyways

also remember the characters don't know everything so there were spots where info was missing on purpose

lastly there was a canon character in here besides izuku. i've mentioned them once in the series already so bonus points if you can guess who they are and their username 😌

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