Soooo…I just reread a few chapters of BNHA when something hit me.

The school trip arc could have ended a lot worse than it did.

I mean, a student and a pro hero were kidnapped, many more students were injured to the point of requiring hospitalization, and a civilian (Kouta) almost got killed as well, but it could have been worse.

Tsuyu and Ochako were completely alone when they fought against Himiko, who is a psychopathic killer, Shouji and Tokoyami escaped from Moonfish by the skin of their goddamned teeth, and Shouji still lost a limb, and it’s nothing less then a miracle that the majority of class B came out of exposure to fucking mustard gas with only falling into a coma.

Think back to when Izuku met Shigaraki in the mall, when it was over we saw Inko, absolutely terrified and in tears because it could have ended so much worse then it did.

The parents of the rest of Class 1-A and B were definitely informed about what happened to the kids on the trip, can you imagine what went through their heads when they did?

After the shock wares off, one of the most common things for people to dwell on after hearing a loved one was in the middle of a disaster is the question, “What if it had been worse?”

Ochako’s parents freaking out, frantically asking for details about their daughter (Ochako’s mom walking back in forth in a panic while her dad is screaming into the phone, ”Is she hurt!? Where is she right now!? I want to talk to my daughter right now!”), and when she gets home they fuss over her and see she’s covered in scrapes and bandages and then they stop dead when they see a puncture wound on her thigh, and rushing her to a doctor despite her protests, ”What if she injected you with something Ochako!? She could have done something with her quirk! She could have kill-!” Her dad can’t finish the last part before all three of them burst into tears and just fall into a desperate pile with Ochako in the middle. 

Tsuyu’s parents getting a call in the middle of work and dropping everything to catch the next plane back home, or alternatively they only find out when they got back because UA couldn’t reach them and they get hit by the thought their daughter could have died and the first people to hear about it would have been their two younger, not even middle school age, children. They cancel  and postpone as many of their upcoming trips as possible as a result, at least until Tsuyu talks them down…or at least tries to. (Christ, can you imagine how her siblings felt when they found out? As a brother to a soldier I can tell you that finding out your sibling was in a fight that could have cost them their lives is not fun.)

Tenya’s parents must have gone through hell. First Tensei nearly gets killed by a crazed murderer, and ends up paralyzed for the rest of his life, then their younger son gets caught in the middle of a villain attack during a school trip. All because they both wanted to carry on the Iida tradition.

Do you think Shouto’s mom heard about it? God I hope not, after everything the poor woman went through, hearing that her son nearly lost his life could have caused her to have another breakdown.

Bakugou was fucking kidnapped, he was held captive for several days,  and if Momo had been just a bit slower and not thought of sticking that tracking device on that Noumu, no one would have known where to look for him. I don’t want to even start to think of what went through his parents heads while they waited for the rescue operation, they could lose their only child, they might never see him again, the villains could just kill him and get rid of his body and no one would ever find it. They’ll have nightmares for years.

And that’s only talking about the parents we know something about, Shouji’s parents seeing his missing limb (if it didn’t grow back already, which I’m guessing it didn’t because the trauma was a bit severe), Tokoyami’s parents finding out he lost control of his shadow and nearly killed somebody, nearly all the parents of Class B flooding a hospital because their kids inhaled poison gas, and on and on and on.

This is what happens when you include parents into this kind of story, you see and can guess at the effect events like these could have on the people closest to the characters. 

I hope every single UA parent gave their kid a huge hug after all this. I won’t be surprised if Inko wasn’t the only one with doubts about letting her kid back to UA.