MiriEri

MiriEri is the friendship between Mirio Togata and Eri from the My Hero Academia fandom.

Canon
Mirio met Eri when he was patrolling with Deku and they come across Kai Chisaki behind her. Mirio lets her go back to Chisaki upon noticing a murderous aura on Chisaki and tells Deku to respect Sir Nighteye's orders. A few days later, Mirio attends the meeting about Shie Hassaikai at Sir Nighteye's offices. When Sir Nighteye mentions Kai's Quirk along with the bullets that can destroy Quirks, he and Izuku understand what Kai was really doing to Eri and are terrified. Mirio and Izuku are devastated knowing that they could have saved Eri when they met her and immediately blame themselves for letting her return to the villains. Izuku and Mirio get up from their chairs and vow to protect her. Mirio felt terrible for not saving Eri when he should have and was determined to rectify his mistake by rescuing her from Overhaul's grasps, and as the rescue mission day had came, Mirio along with the other heroes were already starting doing their movement. When Mirio managed to reach Eri first, Mirio was able to get her in his arms and then Togata smiles to Eri saying that he would be her hero. Mirio was doing his best to prevent Chisaki from hurt her with walls that he was controlling, as he dodged them while grabbing Eri, he later lends her part of his ripped cape as he said "A hero's cape...! Is for bundling up a young girl who's in terrible pain!". Then, one of Chisaki's assistants had shot a bullet that was going directly to Eri, and before it could reach her, Mirio intervenes and when the bullet had hit him, he inmediately lose his quirk as Eri contemplated the scene. Mirio though wasn't going to back off, and he could get some strength and energies for dealing with Chisaki, as he said for himself that all he did hasn't gone to waste while he was being stabbed by the walls that were under Chisaki's control.

Right before Chisaki could kill Mirio, Deku managed on arriving on time as he dealt with Chisaki in Mirio's place. Mirio and Eri are seen then with Nighteye while he told them that it was fine, since he along with Deku and Aizawa had arrived for saving them. As Nighteye took Deku's place for a bit of time, Izuku guided Mirio and Eri to a safe place so they would escape, but then Nighteye gets stabbed, and then Midoriya went back to his place while Togata was trying to take Eri to a safe place while he was gravely injured, but then he gives up and tells Eri that she had to escape, and then Mirio faints on the floor. After Chizaki was defeated, they were dragged to the hospital where time later would be fine, but Mirio would stay quirkless. Despite this, Mirio has faith that Eri would one day be able to restore his quirk.

As Mirio visits Eri in the hospital to see if she is already, he learns that she feels bad for Mirio getting hurt for her sake but reassures her that he is fine. Mirio tries to get Eri to smile, but she has forgotten how to. After Eri was well enough to leave the hospital, Mirio took responsibility for her since she feels comfortable around him. When U.A planned a cultural festival, Mirio decides to invited Eri to it, in hopes that she'll have fun there. Izuku joins the two has Mirio show Eri around the school, while the other students are preparing for the said event. When Class 1-A were finally ready to do their performance, Mirio is seen carrying Eri on his shoulder as she gave a big and bright smile when she saw Izuku dancing, and Mirio cried at this, since Eri hadn't smiled for a long time since Chisaki's incident. Because Eri has no where else to go, the school takes her in and since Mirio now has a lot of free time, he helps the teachers to look after her. Mirio's friend, Nejire Hadou and Tamaki Amajiki, also believe that Eri will one day be able to help Mirio to restore his quirk once she masters hers, and help Mirio to look after Eri when they can.

In the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, Mirio sees that Eri has gotten better at controlling her quirk and believes that she is finally ready to restore his; so he can join in the war with the Paranormal Liberation Front. Mirio feels bad for using Eri for that reason and apologized for it when he voiced his belief to her, but Eri smiles as she reassures him that she has wanted to so all this time. As Mirio is the reason she has been training so hard, before she successfully restores Mirio's quirk.

Quotes
"Don't worry! I'll be your Hero!"

- Episode 74

"A hero's cape...! Is for bundling up a young girl who's in terrible pain!"

- Mirio to Eri in Episode 74

"I'll never let anyone hurt you again."

- Episode 74

Fanon
Because of Eri's young age, fans prefer to ship them as friends or as a family, but there have been those who have shipped them romantically, by making Eri older and more around Mirio's age. Fans tend to focus on the family-like bond they share as Mirio is shown to be a big brother figure to Eri, the same with Izuku as he helps Mirio with her, while Shota Aizawa is viewed as Eri's father figure. Some like to compare MiriEri with KotaIzu, when they aren't rivalling it with IzuEri.

On AO3, the ship 140 friendship/family fanfics and only one het fic, while FanFiction.Net has 23 fanfics with only one placed in pairing in its My Hero Academia category. Along with both Tumblr and Deviantart having a lot of fanart images of Mirio spending time with Eri.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Mirio/Eri tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Mirio/Eri tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Mirio/Eri tag on FanFiction.Net

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Variations

 * IzuMiriEri refers to the ship between Izuku Midoriya, Mirio Togata and Eri