i want to be the real thing.

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don’t know much about the definitely not earth bender (may flesh them out eventually, we’ll see), but they manage to land a solid hit on Dabs which tears one of his grafts open pretty badly.

the way this scene plays out in my head, rain had been on the horizon during the fight, but the storm only starts once Hawks is here cleaning and disinfecting the wound, and I imagine it comes on pretty abruptly, rain tattering against the warehouse roof, and Kei pauses briefly to look up, listening as thunder rolls and lightning flashes in the windows, before returning his attention to the task at hand. y’know?

He doesn't dream, but he doesn't yearn either. Hawks falls into place, the mundane life of having time on his hands, but it's nothing like what he expected.  

His house is quiet and cold. It is discernably bare and never feels quite like a home, but he wouldn't know how to change it to begin with. How could he, when he's never known what a home should look like or had time to be at home to begin with? 

But one day, Dabi walks in. He leaves the television playing in the background, he leaves a bar stool skewed by the counter tops. There's cookware in the sink, a pot of stew on the stovetops simmering away and when Hawks comes back, he's just... there. 

Waiting like a hearth built at the center of his kitchen, two warm cups brewed against his table and bread baking in his oven giving more semblance of life than he's ever known to his home. 

It feels not clinical and impersonable, but lived in as Dabi's blue raises to meet his and it's almost like blinking back into the sky for the very first time. 

"Did you think I wouldn't come home?" 

Home, Dabi says.

It's never been an if. It was always a when. 

Hawks' heart beats audibly in his chest, rings in his ears and when he murmurs back a greeting before he even rushes to join him, it sounds real to him this time too. 

Basically, Keigo, from America, and Touya, from Japan, both go to study Korean and the only way they can talk to each other is through very elementary, often broken, Korean sentences. But that doesn’t stop them from competing/teasing/flirting all throughout their ten weeks of studying. Sure, they can use an app to help translate. But an app has nothing on the way Touya growls the words “daisuki” and the way Keigo huskily says the words “I want you”.

And secretly, they also begin trying to learn the others’ main language too on top of Korean.

Where college-student Keigo, on his way to his new summer internship, is told by his friend Rumi that he can stay at her beach house while he’s in the area. How does he get into this fancy beach house? “Just go in through the window! We always leave it open a little to air the place out! It’s fine!”

Ignoring how extremely dangerous that is (and having an internal “These damn rich people” moment) Keigo, after taking two planes, a train, and a very expensive Uber ride, shimmies through the open window and passes out, exhausted, on the couch.

He wakes up to the smell of frying bacon, a blanket over his body, and a very attractive man reading a book in front of him.

Turns out Keigo, in his very tired state, accidentally crawled through the wrong window and instead of the Usagiyama’s residence, he ended up in their neighbor’s ultra luxury, super fancy beach house. Worse, the entire Todoroki family is there. Even more worse, the hot, attractive goth man took one look at Keigo’s awakened-panicking face and immediately began laughing.

Luckily, thanks to the Todoroki’s being friends with the Usagiyama’s, the misunderstanding is quickly cleared up. Unluckily, the Usagiyama’s actually ended up closing their window before they left. Even more unluckily, the internship Keigo came to do decided to “hire interns internally” (cough offer positions to those related to the people already working at the company COUGH) so now Keigo’s homeless, jobless, and has a whole summer to somehow gather both money and experience.

The solution? Rei invites him to spend the summer at the Todoroki residence working as a “pool attendant/tutor/chauffeur”. His housing will be provided for of course and, not to sound too pretentious, “The Todoroki name does have a habit of… standing out on a resume.”