VILLAINS open post

[dryeyes]

(fanart source here)

Doesn't it feel good being bad? The age of heroes is over, let's act like it. ... in a single open post where it can't contaminate the pure threads. Sorry, villains, I don't make the rules.

For all of your:
• Kidnapping, hatemance, revenge and dark threads.
• Well-thought-out, planned, serious Villain AU threads OR what-plot, trashy, sexy, Villain AU threads.
• "I'm the U.A. Traitor" threads in either and all directions.
• Villain-hero roleswaps with varying degrees of effort put into it.
• "well yeah shigaraki is a villain and i hate him but he has a very entertaining speedrunning stream that i watch at 3am when i can't sleep" AUs
• or anything else we goddamn want

Comments

[retrievearms]

[Eyes widen when Aizawa tells Eri that Shigaraki would help her and while he doesn't protest, it's clear that his anxiety has spiked up in that moment. He's still cautious and shy around Eri, more so than she is around him. The words of the escorts from the day he arrived at U.A. still rang pretty loudly in his ears- about being a fuck up and trying not to burden U.A. Somehow that twisted into not scaring or harming the poor girl.]

She's smart... [He says, as if that means she doesn't need his help. It's a weird compliment and Shigaraki definitely means it. Eri is pretty smart. But being around her made him fully aware of what kind of person he could have been. If only he'd been rescued by heroes. Shifting uncomfortably in his seat at the thought, he looks at Eri with a small nod. One hand reaches for the back of his neck, fingers smoothing over the old scars but not quite scratching. Not yet.]

[dryeyes]

She's six.

[Aizawa was a painfully independent child. Still, asking a child to do something particularly complex by themselves... they'd learn, sure, but nowhere near as easily as when another person helped them along. That went doubly when the child was probably more interested in the person helping than the task.]

[Either way, Aizawa flips to one of the easier pages that he had skipped entirely and offers the book to Eri. She takes it, grasping the pages firmly and setting it down on her lap. It's almost like she can sense Shigaraki's hesitation because she just stares intently down at the puzzle, determined to try on her own, first.]

[And Aizawa sighs, because he doesn't know what to do with two tiny versions of himself and no tiny Hizashi.]

If you get stuck, it's fine to ask. How about that? [and he glances over at Shigaraki as he says it, implying he's asking there as well.]

[retrievearms]

[Shigaraki clams up, embarrassed that maybe he'd fucked up at what Aizawa was triyng to accomplish with him here. He stares hard at the puzzle too, avoiding Aizawa's gaze out of shame until he hears the next bit that comes out of Aizawa.

He looks up, notices that Aizawa is looking at him too, and nods in agreement.]

Yeah. You can ask me. [Maybe that would have corrected his mistake earlier.] I just... don't want to assume y'know?

[dryeyes]

[Aizawa does wonder, belatedly, if Shigaraki has ever had any experience with children. FRom the files the police had put together, he was hardly given an opportunity to be a child, much less interact with them.]

[It's a chance to learn. While Aizawa won't apologize for his brusqueness, he does realize where the conflict was coming from.]

Even smart people ask for help. It's good that you don't want to deny her the opportunity to learn, at least.

[Although Eri looks a bit hesitant at the whole exchange, now sort of unsure if she should ask for help or not. Great job, gentlemen.]

[retrievearms]

[He's a manchild groomed for villainy. Of course he never had any experience with children or socializing normally with people his age. Hell, he had a hard time making friends even in the League or with people who had similar goals like Stain. Always demanding that they go "die immediately" when they didn't match the descriptor he'd gotten about them or picking fights.

But it didn't have to be that way forever. The simple fact that Shigaraki came out of his room because Eri was in the common area was a big leap forward. But it didn't exactly teach him how to behave around others or that it's ok to have relationships that didn't hinge on him being the center of the universe.

Shigaraki doesn't go back to his room even though Aizawa had been firm with him. Instead he peers over at the easy puzzle Eri was opened to and pointed at one of the numbers.]

You want to have one in each row and column without repeating. There's only two more threes that can fit, do you see them?

[Unsure if he's doing a good job helping, his other hand sneaks to the back of his neck, picking at it relentlessly. He avoids looking at Aizawa, certain that the guardian knows what's going on. He doesn't want to get called out for his bad behavior so he chooses to hyper fixate on Eri's puzzle.]