Yesterday Upon The Stair

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 2022, it has over 2.4 million hits, 76k kudos, 21k comments, and 18k bookmarks.Found via the Boku no Hero Academia works search and sorting March 2021. Between March and November 2018, it hit 19k kudos and surpassed Play It Again as the most-kudosed Gen fic on AO3.Found via the Wayback Machine. This fic is the most popular work in the Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence tag.Found via the tag search and sorting January 2019.
"Yesterday Upon The Stair" was posted as a WIP and is now a part of a series, Deku Sees Dead People, where the second fic, The Cupboard Underneath, is a collection of related stories set in the YUTS universe.
==The Title==
The title is a reference to William Hughes Mearns' poem Antigonish:
==Summary==
==Development, Narrative Choices and Inspiration==
The plot of "Yesterday Upon The Stair" "has been in flux pretty much since the get-go."PitViperofDoom, . Post 07 May 2018. (Accessed 13 July 2018) About the pace and sometimes "disjointed" nature of the fic, especially early chapters, PitViperofDoom has said that they want to avoid "simply retelling the events of the canon exactly as they happened. So, if I skip or skim over an event or scene without describing it in more detail, just assume that it happens more or less the same as it does in canon."Top author's note, . (Accessed 13 July 2018)
In response to someone asking "are there any parts of this story that you really liked but ultimately couldn't keep? Or any plot points that you decided to change direction on?" Pit said:
About Aizawa expelling Mineta:
 
On main themes for "Yesterday Upon The Stair":
===Inspiration===
As of Chapter 32, Izuku was given tapeta lucida. Chapters retroactively affected by this have been edited to comply with the new canon and the author's notes at the beginning of affected chapters have a noticed saying, "Edit 12/26/17: By popular demand and my own personal desire, I have made a minor aesthetic modification to Izuku in this story; this chapter has been edited to include it." The idea for this change came from by vivi-set-this-on-fire.Bottom author's note, . (Accessed 13 July 2018)
===Author's Comments: Shipping===
When asked if Izuku will be shipped with anyone, PitViperofDoom said, "The closest YUTS has to a ship is QP Tododeku."PitViperofDoom, . Post 23 April 2018. (Accessed 13 July 2018) Pit also said:
===Miscellaneous Trivia===
* Mika the cat is "narratively immortal"., posted 10 December 2017.
* PitViperofDoom has said that, "the character of Rei, while sort-of-kind-of an OC, is largely inspired by the character Erma in the webcomic of the same name by Brandon Santiago." 
* The white eyes that ghosts have is inspired by Homestuck.PitViperofDoom, , Post 07 June 2018.
==Fan Responses and Reviews==
In her video review, origami-kitsune calls "Yesterday Upon The Stair" "an intelligent reworking of the series" and notes that Izuku's darker characterization is very well-done. Because of Izuku's canon association with purity, a common trope in the fandom is to write a villain AU (which PitViperofDoom has said they don't likePitViperofDoom, . (Accessed 13 July 2018)) to make the character darker, and origami-kitsune says PitViperofDoom has done what Villain!Izuku stories often fail at:
origami-kitsune also mentions that the subplots are excellent and the world building detailed without leaning too hard in any one direction: 
There has also been criticism and mixed reception of the fic of the fic, particularly noting its retreading of canon but also bringing up other critiques.
==Fandom==
A great deal of fanart is produced and PitViperofDoom posts links in the author's notes of new chapters; much of it can be viewed in her . There's also a good deal of recursive fanfiction, the post popular of which is probably U.A. Unsolved, a Buzzfeed Unsolved AU.
===Recursive Fanfiction===
* by kabukichou
* by ComposerEgg
* by kazzarole
* by TheRedQueenOfDiamonds
* by ProfoundCranium
* by RogueCommand and TheLadyVanora
* by Ψυχή (Zusanheim)
====Crossover====
* by MathIsMagic, various versions of crossovers with Dreaming of Sunshine by Silver Queen, a Naruto fanfiction.
* , which includes a good deal of YUTS.
* by Terias, a crossover with Natsume Yuujinchou.
===Translations===
All translations are in progress as of 2024
* Italiano available: Yesterday Upon The Stair by Nereisi
* Français available: Yesterday Upon The Stair (Hier en haut de l'escalier) by Mutekiam
* Pусский available: Yesterday Upon The Stair by Alee_of_the_Valley
* suomi available: Yesterday Upon The Stair by Tuisku_procrastinates
===See also===
* Yesterday Upon The Stair TVTropes page
* PitViperofDoom's tumblr and specifically their 
* , a video review by origami-kitsune
==Example Art Gallery==
File:Art of chpt 44.png|art of chpt 44 by eneriables (2018)
File:Yesterday Upon The Stair ch 23 art.jpg|Untitled fancomic by myvividreams, illustrating a scene from chapter 23 of the fic (2017)
==References==
Category:Gen Fanfiction
Category:Boku no Hero Academia Fanfiction
Category:2021 Featured Articles
Category:Recursive Fandom