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Monodeku au that takes place in a world where quirks are only a thing in comic books. Midoriya has a ton of hero merch still but then reads about batman and is like "I can do that" and sells his hero merch and becomes a vigilante. Monoma is the "villain" of the story but then its "enemies" to reluctant teammates to friends to lovers.
some excerpts/ideas from this au because I can't write but this au is all I think about so here are some small little bits about it :). ALSO! Mei and Shinsou would be there too because they are best friends.
-after becoming a vigilante Midoriya slowly becomes BEST FRIENDS with a few members of the police force (cough cough Eraserhead and Tsukauchi cough cough).
-Midoriya is absolutely LOADDDED which is how he gets away with everything and it's how he safely is a vigilante.
-Midoriya, before selling all of his comic merch, was a known collector in multiple groups. He had so much expensive and limited edition stuff. So, when he started to sell everything all the other collectors were like "dude??"
-How Mei met Midoriya: Midoriya was looking for places to buy body armor and commission custom pieces and such when he comes across some really sketch ad. He basically goes "fuck it we ball" and it turns out to be such a good idea and he makes one of his best friends.
-Midoriya and Shinsou introduction is:
Midoriya: [chilling on a roof looking over city]
Shinsou: Come here often?
Midoriya: OH SHIT [jumps off the roof like a startled cat]
Shinsou for the next few minutes: Oh fuck I just killed someone oh fuck oh fuck
Midoriya, climbing back up the building: IM ALIVE
then they become best friends because of the absurdity.
-the way Monoma gets introduced is: he puts on a silly little villain persona on Twitter to add some spice to the new vigilante's life. What he doesn't expect is the vigilante to start tweeting back at him. They argue back and forth for a bit. Obviously very joking on Midoriyas side, Monoma doesn't know that though. Then they meet up for a bit when they both have to run from the cops together because who knew being a public menace and vigilante was illegal.
The running from the cops really jumpstarts their friendship, which continues via Twitter and occasional meet-ups. Then they start subtly flirting on Twitter and everyone gets pissed at them for it.
-There would be no angst in this au because I cannot write it for the life of me. It's just Midoriyas silly little hijinks as a make-shift rich-ass vigilante with his newfound friends and father figures.
I have been thinking about this au for over three years I needed to get it out of my brain SOMEWHERE.