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Izuku Midoriya. Even if you don't know him by his first name, you'll definitely recognise his last name. Son of billionaire Hisashi Midoriya. Nineteen years old and raised in the states. Very tall, and built as fuck. Handsome as hell, and with mommy issues. Yup that's Izuku Midoriya.
Izuku is currently a university student with absolutely no time for external affairs. He's also a pitiful bisexual disaster, with a messy love life.
It's not as if he's never dated, you know, he definitely has, both guys and girls, but none of it lasted, thus earning him the nickname of Rizzuku Midoriya.
Most of his former flames were either after his body, his money, his connections or his image. So, he'd already decided over an year ago that serious relationships were not something he could commit himself to. He was painfully self-aware and frighteningly observant, with the ability to figure out someone's intentions (which were mostly evil, to be honest) with just one look.
And then there was the fact that Izuku was down bad for a certain blonde Japanese hero-in-training with the sexiest ruby eyes and the most challenging smirk. He searched for the boy in all of his flames. And no matter what he did, he just couldn't stop thinking about him, even if he'd only met him a few times when he was younger, due to Hisashi, Mitsuki and Masaru being friends. The only reason Izuku felt even a little bit same was because they lived 6,740 miles away from each other.
Nevertheless, he knew (or tried to make himself believe) it was pure attraction to a very very beautiful individual, and while he did have a small crush on the blonde when he was really, really young (yeah, no. Even he knows he bullshitting), he definitely didn't have a crush on the boy (who was 2 years younger than him) anymore.
So! When his dad (love him, he's the best but this is just plain fucking annoying) decides to send him to a country he hasn't been to since he was like 11, which was only for a few days, with culture and language he has absolutely no idea of (except he does know some Foreigner-level Japanese) for god knows how long, (probably more than a month) to oversee a project that's basically babysitting the entirety of the hero course of UA, he doesn't know what to think.
He tried to look on the bright side, like, atleast he'll get to meet some heroes he liked. There was the sexiest hero of Japan, Hawks (Izuku especially wanted to meet him). Then there was Mirko who was one of his most favourite heroes because she was just so strong. Then there was All Might, his favourite hero of all time.
But still, Izuku could meet them all at any time if he wanted.
The whole idea of this trip felt annoying and unnecessary until his father said that his little brother, who he'd never really seen before aside from a single baby photo that his father managed to obtain, would be in Japan. Now, Izuku has always wanted a younger sibling. His dad told him everything that happened with the female villain, who's supposed to be his little brother's mother, and all. He doesn't excuse the villain's actions, getting his dad drunk when he was vulnerable, and whatever happened after, but Izuku is not going to miss out on this chance to find his little brother. Even if it takes an year in that country that discriminates on every single thing and worships hero society like a fucking cult, he WILL find his little brother.
His dad already lost Izuku's mother, Inko, at the ripe age of 20, because she chose to give birth to Izuku instead of saving her own life (Izuku's never admitted it, but he thinks it was a foolish decision. I mean, Izuku's life wasn't worth the price of her life, right?) he doesn't need to lose a child of his too. Izuku isn't there to keep his father company all the time anymore anyway and he knew his dad was getting lonelier and lonelier each day. He'd convinced his dad to have a few lovers but none of them worked out, because like father, like son, their wealth made it impossible for them to commit to a real relationship.
So he agreed to go to Japan (though he didn't have much of a choice anyway). His dad could manage him taking some time off of college, and it didn't hurt anyone, right? Who knows, maybe he might find his lil bro at UA (though he seriously doubted that judging from how discriminative the country could be, especially over kids with villainous backgrounds).
Now you must be wondering why he's so bitter about the country, especially when he's born from a japanese mother and an american father with japanese heritage, and Izuku stans All Might? Simple, about 13 years ago, when his father took him to Japan, where he first met Katsuki Bakugo, the boy who's photo Izuku kept staring at, in person, they encountered a little girl, about 5 or 6, around the same age as Izuku or maybe younger, her name was Himiko Toga. The Toga family were influencial in Japan, but through a series of events, Hisashi and Izuku found out that Himiko's parents had deemed her quirk to be 'disgusting' and 'villainous' just because Himiko's quirk gave her bloodlust as a result of not getting the proper filtered blood supply she needed in order to live and function normally. Himiko was a sweet and innocent child, a kid who yearned to love and be loved. Izuku was a kid himself but it still infuriated him. No one deserved to be treated like that and especially not by their own birth-givers. The incident changed Izuku's view of Japan.
Of course, Hisashi ruined the Togas after finding out horribly they treated the barely 5 to 6 year old child and they look Himiko back with them to America.
Hisashi would've adopted her, even had the papers ready but one of his closest childhood friends, Alden De Raina, adopted her before him. Turns out while Hisashi was destroying the people who made the child feel abnormal, he had left Alden to take care of Himiko, and Himiko and Alden having similar experiences, ended up bonding, with Alden being more of a father to the child than her biological one ever was. So Izuku kind of grew up being friends with Himiko To- no, Himiko De Raina. He wouldn't call her his best friend (wouldn't call anyone his best friend, personal issues.) but they were close enough to it.
Anyways so yeah, he's bitter, because he knows how the citizens treat people they don't consider 'normal'. He's seen the forums, the posts, the open discrimination that reporters, journalists, teachers, doctors etc show to those that don't fit in their definition of a normally functioning human being.
But whatever. He just found out that apparently Himiko is tagging along on this trip (thank goodness for that, he didn't know what he would've done alone) too because apparently 'wants to find cuties like Izuku to date' in Japan, and because she wants to see the cherry blossoms. Sheesh, this girl dated around more than he ever did and he was going to ignore the fact that Alden was so doting (Just like Hisashi, his own father, courtesy of each other) that he was letting Himiko skip college for a while to go and play Sherlock Holmes in Japan.
Well, atleast it'll be fun since he'll have her with him. Plus, Himiko could be really, like really REALLY fucking smart if she wanted to, even if she loved to act all cutesy most of the time (which was both annoying and adorable.
Having Himiko would also mean he would have someone to rant too freely. Now, Izuku didn't have many friends, he was actually quite introverted if you ask anybody. Izuku couldn't truly be himself around anybody, always having to stay on guard as the sole Midoriya heir (he wondered if that would change once he brought his little brother back?). And Himiko, well, she knew what it's like to hide your true self from others but not really wanting to the best.
Izuku had... issues with some sides of himself. The darker ones, the rational ones, where he didn't have to be the social happy go lucky wonder boy who was just 'shy' all the time.
Himiko accepted the darker sides of him. The angry side of him, the sides he didn't want to show, and his inner child. He was a kid once too you know.
Izuku hated always being misunderstood. He hated politicians, he hated the other socialites who knew how to do nothing but point fingers and gossip behind each other's back.
His fatal flaw, as his father, Uncle Alden, Himiko and even Melissa, another one of his friends, said was that he was kind, yes, but his kindness had turned into more of a front, because he didn't know how to accept the fact that he could be cruel too. He didn't know when to stop watering wilted flowers, didn't know when to prioritise himself, didn't know when to stop expecting. Most of all, he wasn't entirely in tune with himself. He refused his anger, so his kindness kept transforming into a disguise.
This was something he had to work on. But he didn't know how. A part of him suspected that was one of the reasons why Hisashi was sending Izuku too, because he knew how the boy felt about Japan, about discrimination. So he probably thought that Izuku could accept himself a little more after seeing that some people actually deserve it. And that even those pro heroes and hero students were only human, just like Izuku.