Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2021: Week 10
Yesterday Upon The Stair is a Boku no Hero Academia fanfiction by PitViperOfDoom.
It is an alternate universe fusion with the premise of the film The Sixth Sense. The fic is an example of the popular genre of BNHA works in which Midoriya Izuku has a Quirk since birth - in this case, his Quirk is that he can see ghosts.
The fic is tagged with platonic relationships for Izuku with Yagi Toshinori, Todoroki Shouto, Uraraka Ochako, and Iida Tenya. Todoroki and Izuku are tagged as having a queerplatonic relationship. Izuku also has a close relationship with his mother, Midoriya Inko, and Rei, an OC who is a ghost who only Izuku can see.
On Archive of Our Own, "Yesterday Upon The Stair" is the most popular BNHA fanwork by all metrics – kudos, hit counts, comments, and bookmarks; as of 2021, it has over 1.6 million hits, 58k kudos, 19k comments, and 13k bookmarks. Between March and November 2018, it hit 19k kudos and surpassed Play It Again as the most-kudosed Gen fic on AO3.