Tododeku Truman Show AU
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sunkellesI often write up little (or, in this case, 3K) "textpost" aus that are like, half baked aus that are half summary half dialog, a lot of times after seeing a tv show or movie that gives me inspiration for another fandom. Since I have this DW account now, which is far superior for long posts and stuff that I want to save than my tumblr is, here! Have the first of many textpost aus!
Please please PLEASE if you have not seen the movie do not read this. I just watched this movie for the first time a few nights ago and it kind of changed my. Everything. You do not want to be spoiled for one of the best movies I've ever seen to read my tododeku textpost au right now. Please watch the movie first
Todoroki Shouto is born with half red hair, half white, and heterochromia. Endeavor thinks he must be the child that he’s been waiting on, but when Shouto turns three he does not manifest a quirk. Concerned, Endeavor takes the boy to the doctor where he’s found to be a quirkless child who just happens to have strange coloring.
Endeavor is furious. He has to try again for that perfect child and he has nothing to show for it except for three normal failures and one that makes him the laughing stock of the hero world. Endeavor’s brightly colored quirkless son. It makes him sick to think about.
Enter Kristoff, an American developing a revolutionary television program that will star a child living their life in a world that is entirely fabricated. Fake parents, fake school, scripted life, all taking place in a simulation down to setting, day and night and even weather, broadcast 24\7 around the world. He had been planning on a baby, but after watching the shit show that comes with Endeavor finding out that his toddler is quirkless, Kristoff gets another idea.
He offers Endeavor money to give the child up for the experiment. Endeavor just wants the child gone.
They spin the show as a great experimental journey. Sociologists will have so much to study! An isolated experience in humanity! A life fully documented! Kristoff spins the choice of Endeavor’s son as a way to give him a “normal” life, instead of just a life as Endeavor’s quirkless son. The public, already fascinated by both the show pitch and Endeavor’s youngest child, eat it up.
Shouto grows up in a fabricated island “off the coast of Tokyo” but really, in the middle of the desert near Hollywood. It’s normal in all the worst ways. He’s unspectacular and all of the people around him assure him of that.
He dreams of a woman with bright white hair and an angry, bitter man with a beard made of flames and icy eyes. Sometimes there are other children, but their faces are hazier. He tries to just ignore them. None of these dreams are happy.
His life isn’t happy, per say, but it’s happier than his dreams. At least there’s not that cold hearted man with fire on his face.
In “real life” his mother is overbearing and his father is easy going. They’re not happy or warm, but she’s not scarred and he’s not scary. That’s probably better.
Then, his father is dead. And it’s his fault, Shouto knows it’s his fault.
At least, that’s the way that Kristoff stages it. A shipwreck in a stormy sea, right after Shouto had urged his father to take him out on a ride. Kristoff shuffled the father off the set and wrote him off the show, and it served its purpose.
It added drama to the show, and ensured that Shouto was less likely to try to leave.
Life is uneventful. Then, Shouto meets Akitani Mikumo.
For once in his life, something feels right. When he talks to Akitani, things feel real. They’re both quirkless. They both love heroes. They both want to do something but don’t know how. Middle school is a confusing time, but Shouto knows that he’s less confused during his second year of middle school, getting to know Akitani, than he’s ever been in his life.
“Akitani?” Shouto asks, looking at him with wide eyes, “what’s wrong?”
“Please,” Akitani says, glancing over his shoulder, “we need to leave. If we don’t, you might never see me again.” Shouto is concerned, but he lets Akatani drag him out of school and across town and all the way out to the beach. They sit down on the sand and Akitani asks him to pick up s handful and feel it in his fingers. It’s soft and fluffy and a little bit oily, like always.
“Sand is supposed to feel rocky,” Akatani says, “not soft and fluffy and oily. .” Akatani looks off into the sea.
“That's not the ocean. We’re not even looking at the sky. It’s all fake.”
“What?” Shouto asks.
“This is a set. They’re- they’re” Akitani looks away, out to sea, “they faked your life and they’re filming it for shits and giggles.” He throws his into his hands and looks down at the ground. His next words are almost whispered.
“I’m fake too. Akitani’s not even my name.”
“Then what is it?”
“Midoriya.” Shouto busts up laughing. The boy with the green hair and green eyes and green freckles is named green?
“Your name is green?” Atikani? Midoriya? Whoever he is takes his head out of his hands crosses his arms over his chest.
“I didn't choose my name,” he says self-consciously. Shouto thinks that he might actually be telling the truth- at least- at least about the green thing. Why would he make that up? But the other part- it’s too-
“It’s not funny, Shouto. I need you to listen to me.” He hears a car engine revving in the distance. Midoriya’s eyes widen.
“They’re coming for me,” Midoriya says, and he sounds terrified. He thinks this is happening. Who knows, maybe it is?
“Can I do something?” Shouto asks. Midoriya answers by kissing him firmly on the mouth.
But Akitani feels real. And kissing him feels real, and for a moment- that’s all there is.
But then a car comes crashing down the sand dune, some big man who looks nothing like Midoriya come to drag him off. He says something about Akitani taking all his boyfriends here and being crazy and moving- and Midoriya’s shouting about how it’s take the whole time.
That’s not my dad- I’ve never seen him before in my life. The man shoves Midoriya in the backseat and helooks at him in horror.
“Please, Shouto, believe me-”
“I- I don't-” The man shakes his head ruefully.
“Kids, ya know? Never have em. They’re too much work.” Shouto doesn't know what to say to that.
“When can I see him again?” Shouto asks.
“You won't, kid. We’re moving to Kansas,” whoever that beautiful green haired boy’s dad is says. Then, he rolls up the window and drives away. Shouto is left confused and scared on the beach. He never sees that boy again.
“Atitani Mikumi” is fired and written off of The Shouto Show. Midoriya Izuku never gets that lady paycheck he was hoping to apply to high school tuition, but it’s alright. He gets what he wants in the end.
Midoriya Izuku gets a quirk. He goes to UA. He becomes the number one hero. He also becomes the Number One “Free Shouto” activist on the planet. He’d done the show for a quick paycheck and ended up with a passion about human rights abuses and a crush that he can't quell.
Sadly, the public doesn't even listen to the number one hero where their favorite zoo animal is concerned.
Shouto researches Kansas. There’s the Wizard of Oz, and Superman and sunflowers and wheat. That’s about it, but a Midoriya is there, and honestly, that makes it the most beautiful place in the whole world.
Shouto wants to go.
But the world is big, and scary, and full of water, and no one wants him to leave. They all discourage him at every turn, and Shouto thinks that maybe it’s wiser to just stay here where he knows what’s going on.
So he doesn’t leave. Not when he finishes his degree, or gets a boring dead end job, or after the seventy fifth time that his mother tells him he needs to find a nice girl and settle down and have kids already. He doesn’t do anything.
Shouto is twenty five and he’s never done anything meaningful with his life. He wants to see Midoriya in Kansas, but he’s been trying so long and been crushed down so many times. He thinks it will never happen in the monotony of his routine.
Then that’s broken when a homeless looking woman with white hair grabs onto him on his way to work.
“Shouto,” she tells his with wide eyes, “Shouto, it’s you!” And it’s her. She looks just like the woman in his dreams.
She tells him that she’s his mother and that it’s a tv show and all those same crazy things Midoriya said years ago. Then a set of two security guards descend on him immediately.
“This isn’t real!” She screams, thrashing in the arms of a security guard, “it’s not real!” He feels dread settle in his stomach. He thinks that’s true.
Every single person tries to get him to forget the incident, write it off as something crazy that never happened, but Shouto knows that it. happened. He knows that he’s seen this woman in his dreams, and most of all, he cane tell how much she cares about him. He felt more concern and love from her than he’s felt from his “mother” in twenty something years.
Something about his life isn’t right, and he thinks that maybe, just maybe… this woman and Midoriya were telling the truth.
“I want to go Kansas,” he says. The lady at the airport assures him they have no flights for months. The man at the bus station tells him all the buses have broken down. At the ferry station they have all stopped providing services. The routes out of town are all filled to the brim with traffic.
He sets out on foot and is arrested for trespassing and dragged back home. The dread in his gut grows and grows and grows. People are watching him and they don't want him to leave.
He sets out on a boat. It’s the scariest thing he’s ever done, and the storm almost tosses him into the ocean to die the same way that his dad did. But it doesn't. And eventually he reaches the end of the world.
He reaches out and touches the sky. The sky is a plaster blue, with wisps of white that look like clouds. But they aren’t clouds. It’s just more wall around him, like the whole damn world he lives in is inside a giant dome.
It is, he knows deep down that it his.
Midoriya was right. His mother was right. This is fake and it always has been. He’s been a zoo animal locked in a cage for people to gawk at, and every single person he’s ever met has been in on the joke. He walks along the wall of the world, stomach churning in fear.
This is really happening. His entire understanding of the world has shattered.
“Exit” the door says. He opens the door. Exit he does.
The man who created his world (habitat, bubble, prison) tries to scare Shouto into staying.
“What do you say, Shouto? The whole world is watching.”
“Fuck off,” Shouto says and he steps throw the door. He wonders if they’ll bleep that out for television.
Dealing with the aftermath is almost harder than getting out was. Midoriya was not, apparently, in Kansas. He was in Japan while Shouto was not. That takes some getting used to. Everything takes some getting used to.
He reconnects with his mother and his siblings, and Midoriya helps as much as he can, but. Starting over is hard. Shouto doesn’t have any practical skills. He didn’t do a real job in his dome and the public knows it. The public knows everything about him. His life has always been a public spectacle and getting out of that situation and immediately reconnecting with the number one pro hero? Does nothing to quell their desire to keep knowing everything.
He and Midoriya have a fight about the quirk because Shouto thinks he deceived him just like everyone else, but Midoriya explains how and when he got the quirk and things get better.
But things are better now. There are people that care about him, for real. He can build relationships based on love and trust and tell the paparazzi to fuck off. He’s not a specimen in a zoo anymore, no matter how much people treat him that way. He has a family and a boy that cares about him and a father that gave him away to piss off.
Hell, maybe he can even be a hero?anything is possible now that he’s out of that bubble. The world is scary, but while this one doesn't revolve around him, it’s a world he has some choice in. That’s got to be better than what he had.
Please please PLEASE if you have not seen the movie do not read this. I just watched this movie for the first time a few nights ago and it kind of changed my. Everything. You do not want to be spoiled for one of the best movies I've ever seen to read my tododeku textpost au right now. Please watch the movie first
Todoroki Shouto is born with half red hair, half white, and heterochromia. Endeavor thinks he must be the child that he’s been waiting on, but when Shouto turns three he does not manifest a quirk. Concerned, Endeavor takes the boy to the doctor where he’s found to be a quirkless child who just happens to have strange coloring.
Endeavor is furious. He has to try again for that perfect child and he has nothing to show for it except for three normal failures and one that makes him the laughing stock of the hero world. Endeavor’s brightly colored quirkless son. It makes him sick to think about.
Enter Kristoff, an American developing a revolutionary television program that will star a child living their life in a world that is entirely fabricated. Fake parents, fake school, scripted life, all taking place in a simulation down to setting, day and night and even weather, broadcast 24\7 around the world. He had been planning on a baby, but after watching the shit show that comes with Endeavor finding out that his toddler is quirkless, Kristoff gets another idea.
He offers Endeavor money to give the child up for the experiment. Endeavor just wants the child gone.
They spin the show as a great experimental journey. Sociologists will have so much to study! An isolated experience in humanity! A life fully documented! Kristoff spins the choice of Endeavor’s son as a way to give him a “normal” life, instead of just a life as Endeavor’s quirkless son. The public, already fascinated by both the show pitch and Endeavor’s youngest child, eat it up.
Shouto grows up in a fabricated island “off the coast of Tokyo” but really, in the middle of the desert near Hollywood. It’s normal in all the worst ways. He’s unspectacular and all of the people around him assure him of that.
He dreams of a woman with bright white hair and an angry, bitter man with a beard made of flames and icy eyes. Sometimes there are other children, but their faces are hazier. He tries to just ignore them. None of these dreams are happy.
His life isn’t happy, per say, but it’s happier than his dreams. At least there’s not that cold hearted man with fire on his face.
In “real life” his mother is overbearing and his father is easy going. They’re not happy or warm, but she’s not scarred and he’s not scary. That’s probably better.
Then, his father is dead. And it’s his fault, Shouto knows it’s his fault.
At least, that’s the way that Kristoff stages it. A shipwreck in a stormy sea, right after Shouto had urged his father to take him out on a ride. Kristoff shuffled the father off the set and wrote him off the show, and it served its purpose.
It added drama to the show, and ensured that Shouto was less likely to try to leave.
Life is uneventful. Then, Shouto meets Akitani Mikumo.
For once in his life, something feels right. When he talks to Akitani, things feel real. They’re both quirkless. They both love heroes. They both want to do something but don’t know how. Middle school is a confusing time, but Shouto knows that he’s less confused during his second year of middle school, getting to know Akitani, than he’s ever been in his life.
“Akitani?” Shouto asks, looking at him with wide eyes, “what’s wrong?”
“Please,” Akitani says, glancing over his shoulder, “we need to leave. If we don’t, you might never see me again.” Shouto is concerned, but he lets Akatani drag him out of school and across town and all the way out to the beach. They sit down on the sand and Akitani asks him to pick up s handful and feel it in his fingers. It’s soft and fluffy and a little bit oily, like always.
“Sand is supposed to feel rocky,” Akatani says, “not soft and fluffy and oily. .” Akatani looks off into the sea.
“That's not the ocean. We’re not even looking at the sky. It’s all fake.”
“What?” Shouto asks.
“This is a set. They’re- they’re” Akitani looks away, out to sea, “they faked your life and they’re filming it for shits and giggles.” He throws his into his hands and looks down at the ground. His next words are almost whispered.
“I’m fake too. Akitani’s not even my name.”
“Then what is it?”
“Midoriya.” Shouto busts up laughing. The boy with the green hair and green eyes and green freckles is named green?
“Your name is green?” Atikani? Midoriya? Whoever he is takes his head out of his hands crosses his arms over his chest.
“I didn't choose my name,” he says self-consciously. Shouto thinks that he might actually be telling the truth- at least- at least about the green thing. Why would he make that up? But the other part- it’s too-
“It’s not funny, Shouto. I need you to listen to me.” He hears a car engine revving in the distance. Midoriya’s eyes widen.
“They’re coming for me,” Midoriya says, and he sounds terrified. He thinks this is happening. Who knows, maybe it is?
“Can I do something?” Shouto asks. Midoriya answers by kissing him firmly on the mouth.
But Akitani feels real. And kissing him feels real, and for a moment- that’s all there is.
But then a car comes crashing down the sand dune, some big man who looks nothing like Midoriya come to drag him off. He says something about Akitani taking all his boyfriends here and being crazy and moving- and Midoriya’s shouting about how it’s take the whole time.
That’s not my dad- I’ve never seen him before in my life. The man shoves Midoriya in the backseat and helooks at him in horror.
“Please, Shouto, believe me-”
“I- I don't-” The man shakes his head ruefully.
“Kids, ya know? Never have em. They’re too much work.” Shouto doesn't know what to say to that.
“When can I see him again?” Shouto asks.
“You won't, kid. We’re moving to Kansas,” whoever that beautiful green haired boy’s dad is says. Then, he rolls up the window and drives away. Shouto is left confused and scared on the beach. He never sees that boy again.
“Atitani Mikumi” is fired and written off of The Shouto Show. Midoriya Izuku never gets that lady paycheck he was hoping to apply to high school tuition, but it’s alright. He gets what he wants in the end.
Midoriya Izuku gets a quirk. He goes to UA. He becomes the number one hero. He also becomes the Number One “Free Shouto” activist on the planet. He’d done the show for a quick paycheck and ended up with a passion about human rights abuses and a crush that he can't quell.
Sadly, the public doesn't even listen to the number one hero where their favorite zoo animal is concerned.
Shouto researches Kansas. There’s the Wizard of Oz, and Superman and sunflowers and wheat. That’s about it, but a Midoriya is there, and honestly, that makes it the most beautiful place in the whole world.
Shouto wants to go.
But the world is big, and scary, and full of water, and no one wants him to leave. They all discourage him at every turn, and Shouto thinks that maybe it’s wiser to just stay here where he knows what’s going on.
So he doesn’t leave. Not when he finishes his degree, or gets a boring dead end job, or after the seventy fifth time that his mother tells him he needs to find a nice girl and settle down and have kids already. He doesn’t do anything.
Shouto is twenty five and he’s never done anything meaningful with his life. He wants to see Midoriya in Kansas, but he’s been trying so long and been crushed down so many times. He thinks it will never happen in the monotony of his routine.
Then that’s broken when a homeless looking woman with white hair grabs onto him on his way to work.
“Shouto,” she tells his with wide eyes, “Shouto, it’s you!” And it’s her. She looks just like the woman in his dreams.
She tells him that she’s his mother and that it’s a tv show and all those same crazy things Midoriya said years ago. Then a set of two security guards descend on him immediately.
“This isn’t real!” She screams, thrashing in the arms of a security guard, “it’s not real!” He feels dread settle in his stomach. He thinks that’s true.
Every single person tries to get him to forget the incident, write it off as something crazy that never happened, but Shouto knows that it. happened. He knows that he’s seen this woman in his dreams, and most of all, he cane tell how much she cares about him. He felt more concern and love from her than he’s felt from his “mother” in twenty something years.
Something about his life isn’t right, and he thinks that maybe, just maybe… this woman and Midoriya were telling the truth.
“I want to go Kansas,” he says. The lady at the airport assures him they have no flights for months. The man at the bus station tells him all the buses have broken down. At the ferry station they have all stopped providing services. The routes out of town are all filled to the brim with traffic.
He sets out on foot and is arrested for trespassing and dragged back home. The dread in his gut grows and grows and grows. People are watching him and they don't want him to leave.
He sets out on a boat. It’s the scariest thing he’s ever done, and the storm almost tosses him into the ocean to die the same way that his dad did. But it doesn't. And eventually he reaches the end of the world.
He reaches out and touches the sky. The sky is a plaster blue, with wisps of white that look like clouds. But they aren’t clouds. It’s just more wall around him, like the whole damn world he lives in is inside a giant dome.
It is, he knows deep down that it his.
Midoriya was right. His mother was right. This is fake and it always has been. He’s been a zoo animal locked in a cage for people to gawk at, and every single person he’s ever met has been in on the joke. He walks along the wall of the world, stomach churning in fear.
This is really happening. His entire understanding of the world has shattered.
“Exit” the door says. He opens the door. Exit he does.
The man who created his world (habitat, bubble, prison) tries to scare Shouto into staying.
“What do you say, Shouto? The whole world is watching.”
“Fuck off,” Shouto says and he steps throw the door. He wonders if they’ll bleep that out for television.
Dealing with the aftermath is almost harder than getting out was. Midoriya was not, apparently, in Kansas. He was in Japan while Shouto was not. That takes some getting used to. Everything takes some getting used to.
He reconnects with his mother and his siblings, and Midoriya helps as much as he can, but. Starting over is hard. Shouto doesn’t have any practical skills. He didn’t do a real job in his dome and the public knows it. The public knows everything about him. His life has always been a public spectacle and getting out of that situation and immediately reconnecting with the number one pro hero? Does nothing to quell their desire to keep knowing everything.
He and Midoriya have a fight about the quirk because Shouto thinks he deceived him just like everyone else, but Midoriya explains how and when he got the quirk and things get better.
But things are better now. There are people that care about him, for real. He can build relationships based on love and trust and tell the paparazzi to fuck off. He’s not a specimen in a zoo anymore, no matter how much people treat him that way. He has a family and a boy that cares about him and a father that gave him away to piss off.
Hell, maybe he can even be a hero?anything is possible now that he’s out of that bubble. The world is scary, but while this one doesn't revolve around him, it’s a world he has some choice in. That’s got to be better than what he had.
