i don't really engage with tsh fanon i'll be honest. not because i have some antipathy for the tsh fandom specifically, i'm just not that fandom-engaged in general nowadays. overall i hate when characters get bent and twisted OOC to fit a Ship Formula & i think a lot of fanon content does fall into that trap.

of course maintaining characterisation is not easy! my richard / my francis certainly deviate from canon and im sure reflect my own preferences for the characters in a lot of ways. but a lot of what i like about them as characters is their very particular idiosyncracies and flaws so i hope that specificity translates in my fic and gives them a degree of recognisability.

i think francis probably gets the worst of it because 2 me he's probably the Most defined character in tsh apart from maybe henry. and yet in fan works oftentimes he gets treated like an anxious manic pixie twink with none of the neuroses, meanness, intelligence, wit, nuance etc of the original. richard is a more malleable guy anyway as our unreliable narrator but he also gets turned into either a sad softboi or someone wayyy too comfortable in his own skin. real richard is such an asshole but also very endearing to me. esp when he's backed into a corner by the insanity around him.

this is one of the rare aus where it gains in potency the EARLIER in canon you place it.

i think the only time ive brought up a 'todoroki dating bakugou to piss off his dad' thing was specifically when talking about a fem todoroki scenario where you don't also have fem bakugou and shouto just clocks the potential of having a Shitty Boyfriend to drive enji to an early grave. yes it's ridiculous but the nuance in having enji + misogyny => his horrendous treatment of shouto gives it a non-zero degree of plausibility that enji is Also overly invested in like. shouto's "respectability" and "image" as a young woman. & shouto is like ok so you want to be funny well i'm going to be hilarious.

the biggest question mark here really is how on earth you would get early UA katsuki to agree to this. but then i suppose conversely you could pretty much just be like 'i bet you're too pussy to do this' and he'd acrobatically tantrum himself into agreeing bc of his ego. so.

also i agree that (post relationship) when shouto says jump katsuki says how high because he already listens to him most of the time even in their reluctant friendship era (with extra grumbling of course)

yep! very important to me that shouto is a Top Dog in any scenario. he's just got a different kind of personality and (post initial chara dvp) is stunningly good at not letting his ego drive. do not mistake his cooperativeness for passivity. if he disagrees with you i actively think you will have an easier time changing katsuki's mind than you will shouto's.

i think it's pretty much canon that shouto basically never takes katsuki's bossiness seriously. think that would keep being the case post them getting together. as you say shouto doesn't obey orders he doesn't agree with and he's (unfortunately...) developed a very high tolerance for not reacting to people making aggressive demands of him.

it's not that he doesn't listen to katsuki though. esp post relationship development (and by that i actually mean them becoming friends) more often than not he'll run with katsuki's 'suggestions', bc katsuki's actually pretty good at making calls about stuff. but he does it in a placid way where esp early on katsuki is somehow about as angry with his compliance as he would have been if shouto told him he was an idiot.

in terms of what he thinks about it, i think originally he finds it mildly annoying but he's kind of an idgafer so it truly matters little to him. the more friendly they get the more he finds it cute. especially cause katsuki's bossiness extends to such unserious things as per canon- outside of villain fights he's also bossy in training exercises, and at the school festival, and in the kitchen, etc etc. katsuki has a Strong Opinion about every single thing under the sun and while shouto is certainly opinionated he's a lot more mellow so there's a lot of stuff where he's perfectly happy for katsuki to vehemently inform him what the Correct move is.

brutal stuff. bakugou obviously feels career coded but i think todoroki is actually the clear career kid here with enji being a previous winner. bakugou i suppose could be a career anyway but the bakudeku origin story demands that they be more normie so i don't think that makes sense really...

anyway in-game i think bakugou does have a career type setup. he definitely sticks around for the initial bloodbath and claims a melee weapon like an axe. shouto on the other hand plays a lone wolf game. if they're in the same game they're both making it close to the end but i don't know who dies. it's not like a 1:1 sports fest situation i think actually shouto probably takes it if i'm honest.

Plus I'd like to know more about the new gen, they seem an hilarious nightmare bunch of parental issues.

Great work, as always.

i love a niche question!!

in vignette 35 francis is definitely excluding richard from the count lol- i know, harsh! but it's also just slightly incorrect speech where like because he's speaking to richard he's referring to the rest of the group as us, even though obviously richard is in there too. i just like to torture richard via subconscious othering. given the context of the conversation francis isn't doing it on purpose.

as to illusion of a greek necessity i actually don't remember but logically i think probably i meant bunny because i think depending on what he's thinking about richard kind falls into an Us and Bunny thing due to. yknow. plot.

LOVEE to discuss the next gen. there are 3 of them in my mind. not all of them necessarily exist in the same universe but let's say they do. for funsies. as follows:

cecilia/celia/cece: everyone cheer for cece, who has in fact appeared in my fic before bc i like the idea of her so much. francis and priscilla's only child. very Over It rich socialite teen of the early aughts who is working very hard on making herself teflon despite her insecurities. pretty difficult relationship with both of her parents but they're not not close and the dysfunction goes mostly unacknowledged / she gets a lot of money thrown at her whims. she looks a lot like priscilla and everyone takes her to be much more her child than francis', but she shares a lot of neuroses (and a sharp tongue) with her dad. sees blair waldorf as aspirational. probably nicer than she would like to let on but not exactly nice. i think she has sort of a vintage gemma ward or amanda seyfried look going.

mateo/matty: judy poovey's intensely LA kid. his parents split when he was very young so he's grown up as a 2-home child volleying back and forth between them. also very spoilt and 2 cool 4 school but in a different vein to cece. he's like a little skater boy who grew up around hollywood people so he's very blasé. judy's not necessarily a great Parent (she is very much making her career happen and also still a party girl) but she is a pretty decent mom and is, unfortunately, a total boymom. the dad is fine but very hollywood (he's like a middling actor or maybe a tv presenter or something) and probably has a second family. mateo's more withdrawn and less of an extrovert than either of his parents & listens basically exclusively to rap music whilst feeling like eminem Gets him. he's not a teen rebel though bc he can't be bothered and also judy is pretty lax with a lot of stuff.

?george: charles' son with his post timeskip girlfriend who he owns the bar with. he's named after the twins' father but i've not decided what that name will be. unfortunately for him both of his parents are Serious alcoholics rather than Fun addicts like the entire rest of the cast and we know charles is violently abusive so Not Great for him. depending on the universe i think he actually is raised by camilla for some time. i try not to demonize charles excessively though so i think he definitely has better periods and particularly when george is little both of his parents are trying very hard to keep it together so they have some good aspects to their relationship. but unfortunately overall i think he has the worst time of it. they're also not very financially stable so he doesn't even get the gilded cage of the other 2. he's a very timid, sickly sort of guy and probably kind of à la andy in goldfinch but without the ego. early 2000s shonen anime is huge for him.