Aizawa Family

Aizawa Family is the family ship between Shota Aizawa, Hizashi Yamada. Hitoshi Shinsou, and Eri from the My Hero Academia fandom.

Canon
Shota and Hizashi have been friends since high school, and now work alongside each other as teachers at U.A. High School and as Pro Heroes. With Eri having come to stay at U.A., Shota specifically became her protector and foster father. While waiting for her to eventually be discharged from the hospital after the rescue mission, he bought her a matching set of cat-themed clothes, although the hospital nurses found them too gaudy and ugly. As Eri's caretaker, Shota has been teaching Eri about different holidays, since she was unable to learn about them from her birth parents or while under Overhaul's control. He often brings her around to Class 1-A, allowing her to socialize and hang out with his students on holidays or for special events. Shota is protective of Eri, and attempts to help train her to use her quirk without putting too much pressure on her.

Hizashi also plays a role of caretaker towards Eri, being shown in Light Novels to be helping Shota out in buying gifts for her. Hizashi bought her a small DJ set, and went with Shota to sneak into Eri's room on Christmas Eve to leave the gift for her. Hizashi also notices and watches over Shota's mentoring of Hitoshi. He has told Shota that he thinks he took an interest in Hitoshi because he sees himself in the young boy.

Shota is implied to have taken interesting in Hitoshi after the U.A. Sports Festival, seeing what the General Studies student is capable of. He decides to help Hitoshi join the hero department anyways, even though he was unable to replace any of the hero students in the Sports Festival. Shota begins training Hitoshi to use the same capture weapon he does, seeing as they both do not have flashy quirks, even though they are both powerful. When Hitoshi seems to have trouble with the weapon during the joint training exercise, Shota comforts him and encourages him to use his frustration as motivation. He later on tells Hitoshi not to berate himself, as the other students have all been through a lot of training to get where they are. Shota then gets the okay from Principal Nezu for Hitoshi to move to the hero program.

Fanon
Many fans caught on to the paternal role Shota was taking towards both Hitoshi and Eri, and liked the idea of him adopting them, as neither have canonically been shown to have other caretakers. The popularity of EraserMic, as well as the general closeness Shota and Hizashi have, lead to Hizashi being added into the ship, along with him showing care for both Hitoshi and Eri. Most fan works of the Aizawa Family portray Shota and Hizashi being married or at least dating, and having adopted Hitoshi and Eri. Hitoshi often ends up becoming another big brother figure to Eri, similar to Izuku and Mirio in canon, and is very protective of her. Characters like Nemuri Kayama or Emi Fukukado are also often portrayed as the 'fun aunts' to this family in fan works.

Fandom
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