Aizawa Shouta
| Character | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Aizawa Shouta, Eraser Head |
| Occupation: | U.A. High School Teacher |
| Relationships: | Class 1-A (Students) |
| Fandom: | Boku no Hero Academia |
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Aizawa Shouta, also known as the hero Eraser Head, is a supporting character of the shounen manga and anime series Boku no Hero Academia by Kōhei Horikoshi.
Canon
Aizawa is Pro Hero and the homeroom teacher of Class 1-A at U.A. High School. As an underground hero, he prefers to avoid media attention and the spotlight.
Aizawa attended U.A. High School and was in the same class as Yamada Hizashi.
Quirk
Erasure: Aizawa's quirk gives him the ability to nullify anyone's quirk by looking at them. While powerful, this ability has some drawbacks, such as giving him dry eye.
Equipment
Capturing Weapon: As Aizawa's quirk is not an offensive one, he developed a style of fighting that utilizes a long, scarf-like capturing weapon, which he uses to subdue and ensnare opponents.
Fandom
Aizawa is sometimes called "Dadzawa" by fandom to describe his mentor/parental relationship with his students. The tag "Dadzawa" is synned with Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead on AO3.
Aizawa is often depicted in fanworks as the adoptive father of Shinsou Hitoshi. This dynamic is often known as Dadzawa and Shinson, a play on the two's names. Aizawa is also often depicted as the adoptive father of Eri. When combined with Aizawa being married to Yamada Hizashi (Present Mic), this family is referred to as the "Erasermic family".
He appears often as a supporting character in fanworks, as he is the teacher of the series' main cast. Fanworks that feature him and his life outside of teaching are also fairly popular.
Aizawa has a documented love of cats, which is often featured in fluffy fanworks.
Aizawa, Yamada Hizashi, Kayama Nemuri (Midnight), and Iida Tensei (Ingenium) are often headcanoned to have attended U.A. at the same time and been friends.
Aizawa is sometimes headcanoned to have transferred from U.A.'s General Education department to the Heroics department, as his quirk has little offensive potential and he has expressed distaste for the practical portion of the entrance exam.[1][2] This headcanon also draws further parallels between Aizawa and Shinsou Hitoshi, who is his mentee in canon and often depicted as his son in fanwork.
Adoptions
- Eri: Aizawa is often portrayed as having adopted Eri after the Overhaul arc; this is widely-accepted fanon and shows up as a background detail in stories about other characters. This is common whether or not Aizawa is married to Yamada.
- Shinsou Hitoshi: Because of their close relationship in canon, and Shinsou's history of being bullied, many fics have Aizawa adopting him after discovering he has abusive parents or foster-parents.
- Midoriya Izuku: In fics where Inko is abusive or dead, Aizawa sometimes adopts him. In many others, he becomes a strong parental figure even if there is no formal adoption.
- Cats. Many cats. Several Erasermic fics show Aizawa with more cats than Yamada Hizashi really wants, and attempting to adopt more of them.
Relationships
- Yamada Hizashi/Aizawa, aka Erasermic: Hizashi and Aizawa were in the same class while attending U.A. High School and it was Hizashi who came up with Aizawa's hero name.
- Yagi Toshinori/Aizawa, aka Erasermight
- Shirakumo Oboro/Aizawa, aka Erasercloud
- Shinsou Hitoshi//Aizawa, aka Shinzawa
- Shinsou/Yamada/Aizawa, aka Shinzawamic
- Midoriya Izuku/Aizawa, aka Dekuzawa or AiDeku
- Bakugou Katsuki/Aizawa - considerably more rare
- Fukukado Emi (Ms. Joke) /Aizawa and Kayama Nemuri (Midnight)/Aizawa are the most commonhet pairings with this character, though considerably more rare than most of the slash pairings
- Aizawa & Class 1-A, gen relationship
- Aizawa & Eri, Aizawa & Shinsou, Aizawa & Deku, and other Aizawa one-on-one parental or mentor relationships are also popular
- Aizawa Shouta & Kayama Nemuri & Shirakumo Oboro & Yamada Hizashi, aka Rooftop Gang. This relationship gained popularity after the revelation the characters knew each other and hung out in high school.
Example Fanworks
Fanfiction
- Surprises, Archived version by MikeWritesThings: Moving into the dorms, the students get to witness a side of their teacher they didn’t even know had existed--a side much softer, and, dare they say, human, than any of them had ever expected to see. (Or, 5 things class 1-A never expected from Aizawa, and 1 thing he never expected from them.)
- throw me a goddamn rope - just enough to hang myself with, Archived version by mutalune -- Aizawa time travel AU in which he ends up being kind of adopted by the Midoriyas and acts an older brother/dad to Izuku
- strong, Archived version by PitViperOfDoom -- AU/pre-series fic in which Aizawa interns at Nighteye's agency during his second year of high school.
- Late Night Comedy Hour, Archived version by Domoz -- pre-series AU in which Aizawa discovers a pre-teen Shinsou during his patrols and takes the kid under his wing.
- Solidarity, Archived version by DarklingMoon -- fake dating AU in which Aizawa and Ms. Joke pretend to be each other's beards, eventual EraserMic and Ms. Joke/Midnight
Fanart
- Aizawa lets All Might help foster his kittens, pt 2, Archived version by haptronym
- do y’all think Aizawa is ever on his day off, wearing a normal ass scarf ... by thellmanfan and corndogpatrol -- a headcanon with accompanying fanart about Aizawa mistaking a normal scarf for his capture weapon
- Cat's Outta the Bag, Archived version by camgirlkaminari -- fan comic with parental Erasermic raising Shinsou and Eri
Zines
- Dadzawa: A zine about Aizawa being a dad. Completed in 2019.
- Sleep Deprived: an 18+ kink-focused zine
- Silver Linings: An Erasercloud Zine, being produced in 2022
- Teamwork, an adult EraserMic mafia AU graphic novel with a sfw free preview chapter
Resources
- Shota Aizawa at the My Hero Academia Wiki
- Shouta Aizawa at myanimelist