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scary-grace · 2 months

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blind date (shigaraki x reader)

After endless failed attempts to help Tomura up his game, his friends have settled on their last resort: A blind date. Even before you show up, it's not going well. No quirks AU, 2k words.

this was originally in the x reader lovers community, but I figured I'd release it into the wild as well!

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Part 1

Tomura gets being a little late. “A little late” is practically his middle name. He waits until the last minute to do almost everything, and that means any complications mean he’s running behind. Hypocrisy pisses him off so much that he tries to avoid it all costs, so that means he has to put up with it without bitching when somebody else is a little late, too.

Except half an hour isn’t a just a little late for anything, let alone a blind date Tomura didn’t want to go on in the first place. He’s been waiting outside the bar you were supposed to meet at for half an hour, and he’s pissed.

“That’s it,” he says after the eighteenth time a woman his age has walked past and hasn’t been you, whatever the hell you look like. “I’m out of here.”

“Just a little longer, honey,” Magne says. She’s smiling, but she’s also got her arm around Tomura’s shoulders, and if she squeezes any harder, Tomura’s going to pop like a balloon. “She’ll be here.”

“No, she won’t.” Tomura crosses his arms over his chest, tucking his hands in so nothing will bite them. They’re on the waterfront, in the summer, and there are insects everywhere. Whose dumb idea was this? “You showed her a photo of me and she changed her mind.”

“It’s a blind date,” Magne says. Like Tomura’s supposed to know what that means. “She doesn’t know what you look like, either. That’s why you have to stay right here and keep wearing that baseball hat. Otherwise she won’t know it’s you.”

Tomura hates the hat. Right now he hates everything. “So she got here on time, saw me, and left. Can I go?”

Magne shakes her head. “You promised you’d try.”

“I showed up. I waited for fucking half an hour. I’ve tried.” Tomura finally shoves Magne’s arm off his shoulders. “I’m done.”

Tomura wishes he could say he didn’t know how he got here, except he does. One of his friends is getting married, and there’s supposed to be a wild bachelor weekend in Vegas, one last blast of stupid before settling down. Most of the groomsmen are planning to hook up with as many people as possible, and that’s where the problems start. According to his friends, Tomura has no game. Zero game. Negative one hundred game. If he was rolling for his game stat, it would be a critical failure – and none of his friends want to babysit him when they could be getting laid.

Tomura wouldn’t want to babysit when he could be getting laid, either. His solution was to skip the bachelor weekend and just show up for the wedding in his stupid rented suit. But apparently his friends really want him to come to the party, and they decided that what he needed was to get some practice in before the trip. Which means that for the last month, Tomura’s spent every Friday night and weekend getting dragged through his own personal hell.

They made him try dating apps, which were a disaster, even though Tomura let Toga set up his profile and make the first move. Then they tried traditional online dating, which also sucked, because Tomura’s too picky and other people have standards. Hanging out in bars and clubs worked exactly how it’s always worked – it doesn’t – and when Dabi pulled out the big guns and dragged Tomura to the sex club where he met his fiancé, the only people who talked to Tomura were guys. Tomura thought that was sort of a good sign, even though he’s not into men, until he remembered that guys will fuck anything with a hole in it. He’s not high on himself on his best day, but that was a really shitty night.

He thought they were going to quit after that, but his friends had one last ace up their sleeve – a blind date, Magne’s idea, which Toga enthusiastically signed off on when she saw a picture of the woman Magne wanted to set Tomura up with. Toga’s type and Tomura’s type line up, sort of, and Spinner giving the photo two thumbs way up sealed the deal.

It’s not like Tomura was hopeful or anything. He just wanted to get his friends off his back. Still, rejection sucks, and ghosting sucks worse. He’d rather have you show up and tell him to his face that you weren’t interested than stand him up.

Magne collars Tomura again, but her phone starts ringing at the same time, Toga’s contact info popping up. “Don’t go anywhere,” she warns Tomura as she raises the phone to her ear. “We’re here. She’s not here yet. Can you tell him –”

Tomura ducks out from under her arm and books it into the crowd of people on the waterfront, figuring he can make it to the metro stop before Magne figures out which way he’s going. But even that can’t go his way today, because he runs into somebody who’s moving at warp speed in the opposite direction, colliding at the shoulder hard enough to make him stagger. Tomura’s not confrontational, but it’s the wrong fucking day. “Can you watch where you’re going? It’s not like you matter to whoever you’re going to –”

“Are you Tomura?”

Tomura’s heart lurches. He stares hard at you as you right yourself, picking up the backpack you dropped in the collision. There’s no way this is happening. There’s no universe in which his blind date would be someone like you.

He can see right away why Toga and Spinner approved of you, but he thought you’d be someone in his league, not somebody who’s several kilometers above it. Maybe Tomura’s too excited that you actually showed up to evaluate what you actually look like. He looks away, then looks back. Nope – you’re still pretty, even though your face is flushed and you’re breathing hard like you’ve just been running. Did you run here to meet him? Only one way to find out. “I’m Tomura.”

“I’m so sorry,” you say. “My boss held me back at work, and I missed my train –”

You’re wearing some kind of work uniform. Scrubs, maybe. Are you a nurse? “And then I couldn’t decide whether to wait for another train or just run, so I ran – but I don’t really run, so it took even longer –”

Tomura doesn’t run, either. When he was doing the stupid online dating thing, he sorted out everybody who said more than one sentence about working out. You pause to suck down a breath, then keep talking. “I know everything I just said sounds like an excuse, and I know you’re leaving,” you say, “but I was hoping I could catch you so I could say I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to stand you up. I get it if you want to call it off.”

Before Tomura can answer or even think about what he’s going to say, Magne bursts out of the crowd. “I told you not to run off,” she scolds, collaring Tomura again. “If you don’t stay put, there’s no way she’s going to – oh! You’re here!”

You nod. Magne looks you up and down. “I told you to dress cute,” she scolds. “And to get here on time. I practically had to chain him to a streetlight so he wouldn’t escape.”

“I’m sorry,” you say. “My boss –”

“Of course,” Magne says, scowling. “He’s never met a good time he doesn’t want to ruin.”

Magne knows who your boss is? “How do you to know each other?”

“She’s a pharmacy tech at the place I go to pick up my E,” Magne says. “She’s the only one who works there who isn’t an asshole, and her boss is the biggest asshole of them all. I only go in there when she’s on and he’s off. But let me introduce you the right way. Shigaraki, this is – ”

Tomura misses your name the first time Magne says it, catches it the second time, but it barely registers except as something he probably shouldn’t forget. You’re pretty. You’re not an asshole, or at least you’re the same kind of asshole as Magne and everybody else Magne’s friends with, including Tomura. Your boss is the wrong kind of asshole, which means you probably didn’t blow Tomura off on purpose. And you ran here so you could meet him even when you knew you were really late. You must have really wanted to meet Tomura. What did Magne tell you about him?

Tomura can ask you about that later. “So?” Magne is saying expectantly. “Can I leave you two alone, or are you going to run away again?”

“No,” Tomura says. “You can go.”

You look surprised. “Um –”

“Now.”

Magne cackles. She snatches the hat off Tomura’s head, ruffles his hair, and slaps him on the back hard enough that he staggers. “Have fun! I want all the details later!”

“Sure,” you say, bewildered, as she kisses you on the cheek. Tomura’s going to have to talk to you about that – any details you share with Magne will be fair game for the rest of Tomura’s friends, and he’s not sure how much he wants them to know. “Um, bye.”

Magne waves and vanishes into the crowd. Now it’s just you and Tomura standing on the sidewalk. You shuffle off to one side, out of the way, and Tomura follows you. “Are you sure you still want to do this?” you ask once you’re both leaning against the railing. “I get it if you’re not in the mood. When I’ve gotten stood up, I haven’t wanted to –”

“You’ve never been stood up in your life,” Tomura says, and your expression changes from confused to offended. “Look at you.”

You look down at yourself, then back up at him. “What does that mean?”

“I didn’t know anything about you and I got here on time. If I knew what you looked like beforehand I’d have been two hours early.” It sounded like a compliment in Tomura’s head, but he can’t tell if you’re taking it that way. “People like you don’t get stood up for dates.”

“I wish that were true,” you say. You look away. “I know how it feels. I get it if you don’t want to go out anymore.”

Tomura pretends he’s thinking about it. “How far did you run to get here?”

“Sixteen blocks.”

“You ran sixteen blocks to meet me. That cancels out being late,” Tomura says. You look up, surprised for a second or two before the relief kicks in. “I still want to go out.”

“Me, too,” you say. You smile at him. Women don’t usually smile at Tomura. People don’t usually smile at Tomura. He doesn’t know what to do with it. “Thanks, Tomura. For giving me a chance.”

“Yeah,” Tomura says. “What do we do now?”

“I don’t really know,” you admit. “It’s been a while since I went on a date.”

“Same,” Tomura says. ‘Never’ counts as a while in his book. “I don’t know – grab drinks or something?”

You nod. “Can we find somewhere to sit down for a second first? I don’t usually run that much, and I don’t want to pass out on you.”

“You can pass out on me if you want,” Tomura says. You blink. Tomura facepalms even though you’re looking right at him. “There are benches back there.”

The crowd on the sidewalk is only getting denser. Tomura doesn’t want to get separated from you, so he tells you to hold onto the back of his shirt. You grab his hand instead, and you’re still holding it when the two of you find a place to sit down. Still holding it once you’re both settled, searching for something to talk about. Tomura’s not optimistic about this. You’re too good to be true – the kind of woman who’d run sixteen blocks to meet him and hold his hand is a kind of woman who doesn’t exist. Even so, it’s – nice. Tomura laces his fingers with yours and decides to enjoy it while it lasts.

#shigaraki x reader #shigaraki tomura x reader #tomura shigaraki x reader #shigaraki x you #x reader #reader insert #man door hand hook car door #a bisquared production

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haine-kleine · 2 months

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dunno if I should call this a headcanon or a theory and I know Horikoshi just went with what looked cool but the more I think about Dabi's initial design when he came to the League in the context of what we learned about him and what we saw happen to him during the second war, the less sense it makes that his body was already in that state.

according to the anime, he was learning by watching Endeavor's videos online. before Sekoto, he wasn't learning from any source at all and went about his training intuitively, but after Sekoto I strongly doubt he would be actively practicing his quirk, for a multitude of reasons. his body was still healing from the skin transplantation, the trauma associated with accidentally burning himself to death, plainly not having a place to train a fire quirk, which tend to be flashy and to use your quirk in public, having a provisional license is required, otherwise he risks getting arrested. he did a very good job staying out of the public's eye for the 7 years since he escaped AFO, who was also implied to be unaware of Touya surviving for so long.

so as far as we know, all he did for those 7 years is lay low and be very online. which makes his remark to Spinner hilarious ngl, at least Spinner sprung up to action as soon as he saw something that had inspired him, while Dabi had spent 7 whole years sitting on his very personal trauma and not going to therapy.

when Giran brings him to Shigaraki, he doesn't share any information about Dabi save for him being very invested in Stain's ideology. no criminal records, maybe, but not even a word of his absurdly strong quirk? no mentions of arson at all? they did discuss Toga making it to the news, so Dabi being left out like that was a bit weird in the context of the conversation, like him seeking out Stain's contacts was enough reason to let him join the League. he won't be useful to you, Shigaraki, but he's got the spirit. please take him in, he has nowhere else to go?

if you really look at the way Dabi uses his quirk until MVA, it's noticeable how he seems to have no idea what he is doing. there's no technique, no finesse to his moves, just throwing out huge blasts of fire with his hands and hoping for the threat to leave him alone.

when Shigaraki attacked him (fully provoked) his reaction was too slow to summon any flames at all, and if it weren't for Kurogiri, that would have been it for Dabi.

When he is fighting Geten and starts going beyond his limit, he scares himself with the increased fire output. because, yup, overusing his quirk by accident was the source of his trauma.

the databook puts his technique as the weakest of his stats. his power is huge and eventually allowed him to become the strongest fire quirk user in the BNHA universe, but his technique was extremely lacking.

all of the above just doesn't paint the picture of someone who has been consistently mastering his quirk for 7 years. rather, it gives the picture of someone who had just started using his quirk for the first time in years, having background training from his childhood.

it's not even that Dabi isn't hardworking as hell or doesn't have the potential to be trained, because he's a complete opposite. continuously going beyond his limit, despite his own body getting in his way, mastering Enji and Shouto's complicated techniques they have worked for weeks/months/years on in a matter of minutes after just observing it. surely, he has been watching Enji and learning the way his father uses his quirk for years, but putting theory to practice? i doubt he even had the chance, before joining LOV.

he had to wait, because starting to actively use his quirk sets the clock into motion, counting down the time he has left. he is like a candle, destroying himself with his fire, until nothing is left at all. he had to make sure his plan of revenge will have a chance to succeed before fully committing to the 'Dabi' route, a slow and agonizing process of cremating himself by continuously using his quirk. because when he really starts using his quirk for long stretches of time? this is what happens to him.

to conclude this post, I know why the final design was chosen (because it's cool as fuck) but after analyzing the crucial points of Touya's story and his relationship with his quirk, I really think him joining the League with post-coma design would have made more sense. once he had started really using his quirk, his body would slowly degrade to the state Dabi's was in, because his fire literally melts his skin. but his body already having 40% surface third degree burns, when he didn't even use his quirk the entire time, perfectly holding up up until the first war arc and then quickly starting to burn down? idk, seems a bit inconsistent?..

anyway, i love the concept of Dabi's skin slowly and inevitably burning down after he had joined the League. him losing more and more skin until there's barely anything left, when he reveals himself to his father and is bitter at the lack of recognition, because burning himself to the point of being unrecognizable was one of the many sacrifices he had made to be finally seen by Endeavor.

also, more of this. because this was bittersweet as hell

#bnha #boku no hero academia #dabi #todoroki touya #bnha spoilers #bnha theory #maybe #?#long post

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todomitoukei · 1 month

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I'm gagged to see the current pole in Europe has Dabi in top 3, I hope he doesn't come down until the end

Ohhh you're right!! Good job fellow Europeans

I just checked all the current top 20 stats and he is in the top 10 (lowest being #8) in every single region, top 3 being the highest currently.

So keep voting for Touya guys, let's get him to Number One as he deserves<3

#i feel like the french must love him #ask #lov #dabi

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satancopilotsmytardis · 1 month

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Shiggy making Dabi play a video game with him and relating his fireflies stats or how many levels he beats to rewards and punishments. It's always the same game every time thought so Dabi is very very slowly getting better at it

Okay, I know this is horny and fun, but I can't help but see Dabi's personality in this situation. Tomura starts him on this, and Dabi gets really cranky about it, like 20 minutes into the planned session, and absolutely wracks up punishments like nobody's business. He is the brattiest that he's been in months, and even though the sex after is really good, Dabi doesn't stop being a brat afterward. Tomura thinks that maybe he just genuinely had a bad time with it and says if Dabi doesn't want to play like that again, then they don't have to. Which causes Dabi to throw another fit and push to do it again. They do, but Tomura has absolutely caught on that something is up. He says they can't scene with this until they can talk, and Dabi just says fine and goes back to normal.

And then Spinner comes to talk to Shig a few days later saying that Dabi has been hanging out with him trying to get to 100% completion on that game, and he is weirdly obsessive over it. Did Tomura say something about it being his favorite game??? Cause Dabi is smoking almost the whole time he's playing, even if it's going well.

Tomura corners Dabi and challenges him to a pvp in the game and he decimates Dabi, and then waits for him to stop being furious and yelling, and when he does, Dabi admits that he never played games as a kid. What he did was train constantly trying to be good at everything and never being good enough at anything to actually have it make a difference. He just wants to be good enough for Tomura now, and Shig abruptly realizes that they accidentally walked right into a trigger for Dabi's trauma that neither of them were expecting.

They talk, and eventually Dabi tells him he does still want Tomura to be able to share the things he loves wirh him, but they decide to not make it a part of play that has an element of punishment for failure. They take the gaming out of sex and Tomura shows Dabi Animal Crossing or some other game he likes that doesn't have obvious markers of success or failure so Dabi can just enjoy playing and existing without strings attached.

#tanco speaks #ask #asks

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arvandus · 2 months

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Mmm thought you would appricate this dabi thread as much as I do https://x.com/revvenven/status/1815609675385393394?t=1SbW9xM-6vvPFLLRcGo96Q&s=19

Link for those who want it quick and easy.

but YES to all of this! The differences in his hair color is especially intriguing. White is it's natural state now, but he dyed it black and it felt like such an intentional opposite selection, clearly to reject that "weak" (ice quirk) side of himself. Also the fact that he chose to dye it black instead of red also tells me that I think he sees himself as 'tainted' rather than the perfect version of his father that he wanted to be when he was younger.

Also, the thing about his intelligence! He's SO SO SMART which is wild because I think in his official (?) character stats his intelligence was rated a C?? Like, what?? Nahhhhh. I'm wondering if the intelligence was representative of how he was earlier on in the series (maybe the depths of his character were still being fleshed out by Horikoshi). Or maybe we could theorize that the rating is nerfed due to the impact his emotions has on his ability to think rationally. BUT, Dabi is fucking smart. Facts. Straight up prodigy with his quirk, despite how incompatible it physically is for him. The way he mastered Shouto's technique in an instant? Freakin' wild.

I also love his eyes and smile because of how much variation we get with them. It really does add to his complexity, making him feel more multidimensional than a lot of the other characters in BNHA (at least to me). Granted, that variation is because he's so sooo unstable, lol. But it's more than just insanity; it's his capacity for kindness that shows us a genuinely good part of him, and drives home the tragedy of his downfall. Because not only is it that he had that ability for kindness as a child (as all children do), but he maintained that kindness through all of the hell he went through, and yet it wasn't enough to save him (*cough*debatable*cough*) because his hurt and anger were soooo strong by the time his family was aware he was still alive.

Also, the staples, the hands, the scars... ugh, all of it.

Yes, Dabi. 💙

#arvandus answers #anon #thank you for the link!#he's still sooo important to me...#dabi #touya todoroki

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hiraishua · 1 month

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someone recommend denki, aizawa, deku, bakugo, shoto, dabi, and hawks fics STAT🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

#my hero academia

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leviiackrman · 1 year

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RIN KYUTOKU + DABI (TOYA TODOROKI) - “run, and when you come back... burn this place to the ground”

template by my beloved @marivenah

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beybuniki · 6 months

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what do you think is fem!dabi and fem!hawks heights?

I don’t change the body stats when I play with a character’s gender tbh (verh slightly), that being said, I actually love fem!dabihawks with a bigger height difference :-) I think dabi should be 6’0 I love tall women 🧍🏻‍♀️

#I did. draw dabi pretty talll in these sketches IDGAF #beybunaski

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flamingtouya · 1 year

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i stole bought the official guide book just to check dabi's stats and they gave my boy a D- on technique and C on intelligence

have we been reading the same manga

#toga got an A on intelligence btw #dabi #touya todoroki #hera screams into the void

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deusvervewrites · 9 months

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Challenge the Game AU: How would you handled the dangers of a dungeon system of the quirk because when I see it in stories it kinda breaks my immersion because I always feel like the semi-omniscience of a gamer quirk would make it so that Izuku wouldn’t be in any actual real danger

So there's a problem with threatening the protagonist in any work, and that's the fact that if you kill the protagonist the story ends, so they can't actually die. This is generally referred to as Plot Armor in cases where it starts to affect the Willing Suspension of Disbelief, but as OSP Red noted earlier today, it can appear in other, subtler ways as well.

More specifically for Challenge The Game AU, I deliberately haven't quantified HP as a stat. This is important because that means that not only will any fights deal actual damage instead of numbers damage (that is to say, like, breaking limbs since that's MHA's go-to), but also there aren't healing items because there's no HP to restore. Any Dungeon Run would have to be an endurance challenge because each fight would wear Midoriya down and his injuries would to some extent linger, even if just scratches.

Additionally, we know that Quirks can exhaust, hurt, or even kill their own holder if the user misuses the Quirk too much, especially in cases like Dabi, so the CTG Quirk wouldn't be holding back against Midoriya. The Dungeon would have a level range to it of course but the Quirk wouldn't stop him at all from getting in over his head.

#asks #challenge the game au

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teamdesertflower · 9 days

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OC Info: Rockstar and Carmine

THANK YOU FOR @tokkiyuni FOR MAKING THIS!!!!

Rockstar (Rikiya Iwautsu)

Age: 22

Birthday: July 17

Height: 5"10 (177cm)

Favorite Things: sand, 80's rock bands, bad puns, hiking, Carmine

Quirk: Seismosound (When he makes a loud enough sound, he can control pieces of the earth. He can create sandstorms or fissure the earth to cause earthquakes)

Equipment: electric guitar, microphone

Facts:

His father is a Buddhist priest who didn't approve of his appreciation for rock music and hanging out in Japan's criminal underworld. Despite this tension, Rockstar loves his dad, yet he is unaware that Rockstar is a member of the most notorious gangs in the country.

He still visits his dad regularly. Rockstar still had one of his ceremonial robes when he was working to become a priest. It's comfortable.

He joined the League around when the Stain craze was popular.

Besides his best friend Carmine, he has a close relationship with Spinner and Twice. Twice has been begging him and Carmine to join their band: Desert Flower on the piano.

There are a lot of videos of Rockstar playing the guitar, doing covers of various bands. They're not very good. Carmine has all of the recordings, as leverage against her friend.

His voice is really *gravelly* (heh) from all the screaming. His singing voice is still very decent.

He tried to put a skull insignia on his super big tie, because skulls are evil, I guess.

His guitar is actually a Guitar Hero controller Giran modified to be an actual deadly weapon

He has a pseudo catchphrase, "That's just my style!"

Stats:

Power: A

Speed: C

Technique: A

Intelligence: C

Voice: S

Carmine (Haru Hosekibara)

Age: 22

Height: 5"8 (172 cm)

Birthday: November 3rd

Quirk: Flower Power (She can create different types of flowers to use for offensive purposes (i.e. she can make a large thorny whip out of a rose, or she can use dandelion pedals to disorient and blind her enemies)

Favorite Things: singing and making songs, 80's bands, ballroom gowns, bouquets, Rockstar, money, money and money!

Equipment: hand fan shaped like a poinsettia, super sharp gloves, sunflower parasol

Facts:

She grew up extremely poor on the streets, her parents died in a villain attack, so she grew a distaste for the government.

She is a kleptomaniac, stealing the most expensive stuff she can get her hands on. She enjoys this lifestyle and doesn't plan on stopping.

She has a ton of different stage costumes (i.e. ballgowns) she has when she wants to do something different. Her favorite and usual villain costume is modeled after a rose.

She wears vintage sneakers under her dress. No way does she fight in heels!

She and Rockstar have spent time slow dancing to classical music. Carmine can't count the number of times Rockstar stepped on her skirt by accident when they danced.

You know that laugh super snobby girls in anime do? Carmine does this laugh, and it's near perfection! When she's drunk she has a "queen complex" on top of that.

She's deathly afraid of Dabi, mostly because she's worried he might burn her or her clothes.

She has lent Toga a few of her super expensive dresses at times.

Stats

Power: C

Speed: D

Technique: S

Intelligence: B

Fashion Sense: S

#mha ocs #rockstar mha #carmine mha #rock n roll #headcanons #desert flower

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