IidaOcha

IidaOcha is the het ship between Tenya Iida and Ochako Uraraka from the My Hero Academia fandom.

Canon
Iida and Uraraka met during the U.A. Entrance Exam and became good friends partially thanks to Izuku. Tenya and Ochako have different personalities, yet they get along very well despite that. They both care about each other and when one of them gets harmed, their thoughts are preoccupied by that. They trust each other and work together very well, having each other's back in battles. Ochako often laughs at Tenya's serious and rigid personality and that he takes everything so seriously.

The first major interaction between them is in the battle trials, where Tenya and Ochako have to face off, while he and Katsuki Bakugou have to play the role of Villain. While Izuku was facing off against Katsuki, Ochako went to Tenya's location to find the bomb he had to grab to win, however, she couldn't help but laugh out loud as she saw him trying to have the mentality of a villain, lowering our guard. This makes Tenya realize that Ochako is in the room and tells her that he was waiting for her. In their combat, the ground is destroyed by Izuku's Detroit Smash and Ochako takes the opportunity to launch his Home Run Comet attack towards Tenya, distracting him long enough for Ochako to grab the bomb, causing Tenya and Katsuki to lose the battle.

After the two voted Izuku to become their class's president and were having lunch together, Ochako could tell from their shared conversation that Tenya is from a wealthy family and asks him if it is so. Even though Tenya tries to hide that part of himself, he does confirm Ochako's question as he explains his family's heroic reputation and how it was his brother who inspired him to become a hero. Just as the love Ochako has for her family inspired her to become one as well. Soon after the school's students were informed that there has been a security breech, Tenya notice that the said breech were the press corps and asks Ochako to help him float in order to clam the large number of panicked students. Tenya and Ochako's combined teamwork later led to Tenya becoming their class's president.

The next day, Tenya, Ochako and the rest of their class were brought to the Unforeseen Simulation Join for field experience training, but their class gets interrupted by an army of supervillains. Tenya and Ochako were able to stay together with Thirteen next to the exit, while the rest of their classmates were scattered all around the simulation, along with a supervillain making sure that their group doesn't escape. Because Iida's Quirk makes him the fastest in their small group, Ochako gives Iida her support for when Thirteen creates a window for him to fetch help from. Even though Iida's role as class president had him not wanting to leave Ochako and the others to the villains, he agrees to do it when Ochako remind him of his actions at the cafeteria. As Iida made his way to the exit, Ochako helped to ensure that the shadow villain doesn't stop her friend from leaving. Iida later returned with the teachers as promised and even though they got the villains to retreat, Iida, Ochako and the rest of class 1-A were still shaken from the incident.

Before the Sports Festival starts, Tenya and Izuku are surprised to see that Ochako is the most excited about the event and she decides to tell them her motivations for being a hero. Ochako points out that his reasons are selfish but both Tenya and Izuku believe that Ochako's goal is noble and Tenya immediately told Ochako that he need not feel ashamed in his search for money, even before discovering it was only due to Ochako's wish to improve her parent's lives. Izuku and Tenya point out that Ochako's Quirk could drastically reduce business expenses if she got licensed, and her family could sell their construction equipment as well. Ochako agrees completely, but remembers that her father encouraged her as a child to follow her own dreams instead. Izuku and Tenya are genuinely inspired by Ochako's noble ambition. Ochako looks a bit depressed when Tenya doesn't want to be on the same team as her and Izuku in the cavalry battle during the Festival, but when the battle ends, Ochako is not annoyed ​at him for competing against she and was shocked by Tenya's Recipro Burst and playfully annoyed him for hiding his abilities, causing Tenya to apologize profusely.

They both watch each other's fights at the Festival and when Ochako has to fight Katsuki, Tenya and Izuku go to see her in the waiting room before the match and are shocked when she rejects Izuku's notes on a strategy against Katsuki. Tenya watches Ochako's combat along with some of her companions, worrying when Katsuki's explosions hit her repeatedly and asks Izuki if he had a strategy before the fight. Ochaco cheers on Tenya during his fight against Shoto Todoroki and is disappointed when he defeats him. A few days after the Festival ends, Ochako is worried about him when he looked sad before the practices with Heroes because of what happened to his brother and she, along with Izuku, told him that they would give him their support when he needed it.

Fanon
IidaOcha is relatively small compared to other ships, such as IzuOcha or Kacchako. Yet, it's still one of the most popular ships for Iida. It is often liked by those who ship TodoDeku, as they are both part of the Dekusquad. Works of these two often portray them as friends to lovers, spending so much time together both with and without Izuku that they end up developing romantic feelings for each other.

Fandom
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Variations

 * Dekusquad refers to the ship between Izuku Midoriya, Tenya Iida, Ochako Uraraka, Tsuyu Asui and Shoto Todoroki
 * IiTsuChako refers to the ship between Tenya Iida, Tsuyu Asui and Ochako Uraraka

Trivia

 * Although potentially a translation error, Ochako is the only student to call Tenya by his first name in the English dub, doing so frequently. Similarly, Tenya refers to Ochako as 'Uraraka-kun' in Japanese, instead of the more respectful 'Uraraka-san' used by others like Izuku, both of these showcasing their closeness to each other.