There’s an entire library of proper responses for this moment. Katsuki effectively incinerates them all when he laughs like he’s watching a comedian at work. “You wanna go against me? Me?! Come on, at least start with someone less skilled like-”

“Like you.” It comes out so smoothly from Izuku’s mouth. He can’t believe he’s actually said something so scathing. That’s not like him at all, but damnit, all he’d wanted was to spend quality time with his blockhead boyfriend, you know?

AU where the arcade is the place to be, “Plus Ultra” is the hottest fighting game in town, Bakugou’s bad at boyfriending, and Izuku’s ready to KO his ass into the next century

Title: Lights. Camera. Hero! 

Summary: What if “My Hero Academia” was a television series and everyone was an actor/actress playing our favorite characters?

Warnings: AU, eventual smexy times, eventual angst, basically follows canon but ACTING

Pairings: Eventual BakuDeku, maybe more along the way

Snippet (for this chapter): “Izuku Midoriya?”

Well, there goes that lump again. It’s nice and solid, his eyes huge as he mentally tells himself to not sweat the nerves into the pits of his shirt. He steps away from the wall and walks to the door, tries his best to ignore the murmurs and stares from the others in the hallway. He knows he looks nothing like the perceived image of a hero and he’s probably wasting his time, to be honest. He never reached that mythical growth spurt, never really got rid of the baby fat that caresses his cheeks. So many people at the casting feel larger than life, some even reminding Izuku of how insanely muscular Toshinori used to be back at the start of his films. It feels like some kind of cruel joke that he’s here to read for the lead, of all things, even if Toshinori said that they wanted a wide range of people.

But he’s here now.

No turning back.

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Title: Lights. Camera. Hero!

Summary: If there’s one thing Izuku Midoriya’s good at, it’s dreaming big, and dreaming hard. That’s why he’s in Hollywood, of all places, his hometown an entire ocean away along with his graduating high school class and single mother. But he’s gonna be an actor, an international sensation, a superstar like no other.

He just.

Has to convince the rest of the world.

Which is, admittedly, a difficult task.

[AU where “My Hero Academia” is an upcoming television series, everyone’s an actor/actress, and romance happens behind the scenes]

Pairing: BakuDeku, probably future others

Warnings: AU, sexual content (later), re-imagining of the series, angst, acting

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Izuku Midoriya is a top student at a prestigious university who, like many others, listens to music while he studies. While looking for a new CD with his friends, he discovers the lyrical stylings of one Katsuki Bakugou, a rather aggressive musician who definitely earns that “parental advisory” label. It’s not something Midoriya would listen to. No. Certainly not. He’s not buying his CD. He’s not watching his interviews. And he, most definitely, is not crushing on him.

Right?

[Or Bri writes an AU where Bakugou’s a rock star and Midoriya is quickly becoming his number one fan]