What Are Popular Fan Ships Involving Natsuo MHA Characters?

Honestly, I barely see Natsuo shipped with anyone canon. Most fans use him as a tool for Endeavor's atonement arc—the son who refuses to forgive is a powerful narrative device. When he is shipped, it tends to be super introspective. I remember one amazing fan comic exploring a potential past relationship with a civilian classmate that fell apart because he couldn't open up about his family. That felt true to his character. He's not a romantic lead; he's a portrait of the collateral damage the hero world creates.

Oh man, shipping Natsuo is niche city, but I'm here for it. My favorite has to be Natsuo/Hawks. Think about it! Hawks is all about speed and freedom and performing this perfect, carefree persona. Natsuo is grounded, blunt, and carries this heavy, slow-burning resentment for the hero system that failed his family. The tension writes itself—Hawks trying to charm or deflect, Natsuo seeing right through it and calling him on his crap. It's angst with the potential for so much mutual understanding, given their messed-up relationships with older hero figures.

It's definitely not a common pair, but the fics that do exist are usually super character-study heavy, focusing on recovery and deconstructing hero society from an outsider's perspective. You won't find a ton of fluffy coffee-shop AUs for this one; it's all about the late-night conversations on rooftops and challenging each other's worldviews.

So the thing about shipping Natsuo is it always seems to kind of circle back to Fuyumi. Like, I know some people think that's wild, but hear me out. It's not really about the familial thing for them—it's more that their dynamic is this quiet, stable foundation in the Todoroki chaos. She's the one trying to hold everything together, he's the one who walked away but clearly still cares. There's a shared trauma and a shared desire for something... normal? It's a ship built on melancholy and what could have been if their family wasn't so messed up, which is a pretty compelling space for fanworks to explore.

You also see him with, like, random background characters from UA or other hero families sometimes. I saw a fic once that paired him with Kendo from Class B, which was actually kind of sweet? Big, strong, straightforward girl with the quiet, burned-out Todoroki brother. But honestly, most of the content I stumble across is either Fuyumi or he's a side character in bigger Endeavor redemption fics, often as a potential love interest for a civilian OC who helps him heal. He's a blank slate emotionally, which makes him weirdly flexible for writers.