so i guess Im Into This

Examples include smelling so much like bleach that he has to wear scent patches 24/7 or else he’ll stink up the room, not having enough fangs or venom for a proper claiming bite (and if he does bite, he has to do frequent re-bites to re-establish the claim), not being able to build the typical alpha strength (Keigo prides himself on the muscles he was able to build), having a weakened sense of smell, not having a typical ‘spring season’ (okay, he doesn’t really mind that) and not having a typical package/knot (okay, he kinda minds that one a lot).

Etc. and etc.

Luckily, Keigo was able to leave the Commission program and sue for medical malpractice so he has a nice bit of money. But Keigo knows that money won’t last forever and, as a messed up Alpha, he has very low chances of getting hired in typical jobs.

So instead, Keigo becomes a writer. What kind of writer? Why, the kind who publishes monthly harlequin romance novels about omegas who pridefully (and seductively) dominate meek, submissive alphas. Yes, Keigo is publishing his own secret fantasies but hey, he’s the meekest alpha he knows so might as well make a pretty yen out of his dreams.

Meanwhile, omega Touya is so so so curious about the handsome, confident yet laid-back, blond alpha who goes to the same laundromat as he does. Why does he have so many scent patches on? Why does it take him a second to notice Touya, even though they’re in the same room? Why can’t Touya see his fangs when he talks? Why does he not notice that Touya is ultra, mega, super flirting with him? And why did he say that the lingerie he was washing was for him and not for his omega?!

Thus begins Touya’s journey of trying to get Keigo’s attention while Keigo (who thinks real love is impossible for him because he can’t give his partner a “real” alpha), is like “Huh, that omega’s here again. Even though he has no laundry to do. Weird. Anyway, I wonder what I should have for dinner tonight?”

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.”

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 the Takami couple, as punishment for their crimes (stealing, murder, etc) are sent to a hostile alien planet instead of earth jail. After all, humanity has made space travel possible and are now dead set on exploring (cough conquering COUGH) the stars.

However, Little Keigo Takami is accidentally sent with his criminal parents too. And once they land on the alien planet well, the inhabitants waste no time ‘taking care’ of Keigo’s parents. Yet somehow, Keigo survives and bonds with the fauna and fowl of the planet, who accept him as one of their own.

Fast forward 20 years and Touya Todoroki, the son of the space explorer/‘planet conquerer’ Endeavor, is yanked from his comfortable life as a greenhouse nursery manager and forced to become the main botanist for the next space expedition. Their goal? To see if Planet 1227 can be used for habitation by the human race. Sure, they previously sent prisoners to that planet to well, y’know. But! The planet has oxygen! And water! And people are getting bored living on earth and want to explore a safe, ‘fun’, alien planet!

Touya is, of course, disgusted that he’s being forced to ‘pave paradise and put up a parking lot’ (or in this case, a five star luxury space hotel) and is disgusted that he has to work with the Overhaul team (seriously, they are totally suspicious AF) and hates that he has to leave his friends and his family behind. But, he can’t deny that he always wanted to go off world and explore, to see the stars and different planets.

Yet all those thoughts fly out the window when, during a nature walk, a plant Touya was sketching decided hey, I want that picture, and proceeded to send an army of vines after Touya. But just before the plants can tear him limb from limb and/or eat him, he’s saved.

By a man. By a fucking bird man.

Hawks, meanwhile, is practically vibrating with excitement. His memories of his childhood are pretty cloudy ever since he bonded with his wings, yet he is well aware that he is different from everybody else. And despite his nest-sister Kaina telling him that the planet loves him, Hawks always feels like an outsider because of his less-than avian looks and the way that his feathers were ‘gifted’ to him rather than him being born with them. (In actuality, a feather-like parasite attached itself to young Keigo’s back, thus giving him wings, telekenetic feathers, and a gap in his memories.)

So, Hawks saves Touya from plant death. Touya is freaked out and does the whole “I’m in a tree with a man who is talking to fucking plants and who is chirping like a bird”. But then, the two of them share a moment that makes Touya’s heart beat faster than it ever has in his entire life.

(Side note america rn? UGHHHHHHHHH😭) anyway…

Is Paul Revere the horse girl or is Paul Revere the name of the trainer who sent the horse on the midnight ride?

“What the fuck is he doing?”

Keigo looks to his left and sees that Touya has taken up a very similar position to himself; head tilted, eyes squinting, and creasing his forehead in a way that will have Touya’s future self cursing his current self for having prematurely brought about “old people wrinkles”.

“I think…” Keigo pauses and turns back to the trainwreck playing on the monitor, “he’s pretending to be a kangaroo.”

Or, Olympic Breaking is introduced then immediately canceled before the athletes can even take the stage. Team Japan has one shot at winning and that shot’s name is Keigo Takami.

Basically, and i’m playing with the timeline here, during training for the newly introduced Olympic Breaking everyone finds out that Breaking won’t be returning for the next summer Olympics. And former J-pop idol Keigo (whose short-lived career was akin to an incredible firework exploding when Keigo’s signature high tenor voice became wrecked from hitting one too many high notes) thinks that Team Japan will send Touya as their representative, as his passion is something that everyone will be captivated by (which Keigo 100% agrees with).

But Touya surprises the team by nominating Keigo, as Keigo’s more technical side will surely wow the crowd and the judges. “Plus, I’ll probably piss off the entire committee by just being there. Because, well, this is stupid and I think this is stupid. Trust me, they’ll sense my hate through my dance.”

Keigo is, of course, against this and insists that anyone can learn techniques but it’s Touya’s passion in performance that will make Japan shine because, “You can’t teach that kind of shit.”

“Yes you can.”

“No, Touya, you can’t. You can’t teach passion.”

“Yes, Keigo, you definitely can. And I’ll do it. I’ll teach you how to make everyone stop, stare, and never forget you.”

Thus begins Keigo’s training arc on how to learn Breaking performance ‘passion’ through many of Touya’s ‘passionate’ lessons. (Spoiler alert: they end up kissing A LOT)

Although Hawks has the Speed, Stamina, Power, Guts, and Wits to back up his running, he always gets second place. Whether it’s a Pre-Op or a G1, Hawks gets second. And the weirdest thing is, Hawks is completely fine with getting second. He actually revels in it and is always seen laughing and celebrating whenever he gets second place.

Which makes one racer extremely suspicious.

Dabi, formerly known as the racer ‘Touya Todoroki’ before he switched trainers, either wins all his races or loses spectacularly. But no matter what, he goes all in. Which is why it infuriates him to see Hawks settle for second place. And that anger soon leads to Dabi constantly bothering Hawks and challenging him.

At first, Hawks laughs off Dabi’s challenges with a smile. But then, he notices that Dabi has changed his strategy and is now aiming for Hawks’ second place. Not only that, Dabi goes from an End Closer to a Front Runner just to mess with Hawks and actually make him compete for his second place.

It worries Hawks and, for the first time, he begins stressing out over races. He gets all the negative attributes: Night Owl, Skin Outbreak, Slow Metabolism, etc.

And one day, Hawks is having an Awful Mood day, has a late start, and ends up in seventh to Dabi’s first. For the first time since his Debut, Hawks didn’t win second.

And he’s so ashamed that he ends up practically a statue right before the Winning Live concert. Which Dabi notices because of course he does.

So, Dabi sabotages his own concert (which involves switching the music to what is essentially the Bakushin song) and drags Hawks to the river so the poor guy Uma can calm down.

And there, Hawks finally confesses why he always gets second place—It’s because he has to.

Turns out, Hawks came from a pretty shitty home-life situation before joining Tracen and his trainers (who are NOT a part of Tracen Staff and are visiting trainers) told Hawks that the best way to become noticeable/marketable/memorable is to become the “Happy-Go-Lucky Underdog” who never wins a race, never loses terribly, never breaks a sweat, and is always smiling. Hence, why Hawks always wins second place without trying too hard.

But now, Dabi has completely thrown a wrench in his trainers’ plans and Hawks has forever lost his perfect second place streak, thus making Hawks a “Big, stupid loser.”

Dabi’s response? “Bullshit.”

Hawks’ trainers’ stupid plan was never going to work in the long run because… Forever coming in second place? There was no way Hawks was ever going to complete that stupid request. And Hawks thinks himself a loser now? After coming in second place for countless races?

Newsflash: Hawks has always been the loser.

“But, looks like that streak’s broken, Birdie,” Dabi says, the sunset setting his white hair aflame. “So, what now? You gonna try to cling to your former glory? Or are you gonna break free and let yourself go wild? Because personally, I wanna see the real Hawks. I wanna see the racer who puts his pride on the line just to pass the finish line first. I don’t want Hawks, the marketable figurine. I want Hawks, the rival.”

Needless to say, Dabi’s words have a real impact on Hawks and, after a season hiatus, the next time Dabi sees Hawks is at the Arima Kinen. But this time, Dabi’s not racing ‘Hawks’. He’s racing ‘Takami Keigo’.

They're both forced to do 'fight to the death' matches against people that they know, hate, trust, and despise in a place where the 'safe area' is forever shrinking. Worse, these 'people' don't listen to them and will do whatever they can to take them out. And both Dabi and Hawks agree that getting taken out hurts like hell.

Eventually, they figure out that the other is not an NPC (after they KO'd each other over a dozen times) and begin to argue about whether or not they should KO the other NPCs or if they should hide (Hawks wants to avoid them because he's not taking out NPCs that look like UA students and Dabi just wants to burn as many Endeavors and heroes as he can before time runs out) but one day, they end up getting tired of fighting/running away from fighting and decide to... hang out as long as they can. It becomes a game to them: grab a bunch of green potions and try to outlive the pink circle of hell. It's morbid. But it's fun in a morbid way.

They explore the different maps, spend a long time in front of Hawks' childhood home, and take a dip in the PLF mansion's baths.

My pitch to the strowill community (i think that’s what they’re called) is just good old fashioned body swapping and the troubles that come with it. Will suddenly being too tall. Strohl wondering why the hell Will is so tiny. Will feeling his insides grounded and “heavy” in a good way. Strohl feeling lighter than air and his skin buzzing with magla. The different ways they get treated when walking around town. Will literally having to hold Strohl back so he won’t go kicking assholes in the face after they insulted “Will”.

Also due to magic stuff, when Will and Strohl swap bodies they’re respective emotions are somehow still connected to their original bodies. So Strohl feels Will’s calmness and introspectiveness and need to blend into the background while Will feels Strohl’s anger and his pride and his confidence when it comes to social situations.

But also, there’s a sense of confusion whenever the two look at each other because they are like “Wtf, why am I so attracted to myself?”

He has to take daily medication or his eyes will start watering and he’ll start coughing and he’ll break out into hives. Definitely not a good look for the number two hero.

Which makes it all the more embarrassing when he’s on a stakeout mission with Pro Hero Dabi and forgets his meds. It’s a full two days of Hawks sneezing and taking long showers and applying aloe vera to his sensitive skin. But on the third day, Hawks is surprised to find that his symptoms aren’t as bad and he can actually talk to Dabi without turning into a big sick mess.

Touya x Fem!Keigo (who is wearing a bikini)? More likely than you think!