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Better Circumstances AU (RodyDeku)

For @numberoneredriotfan

In Better Circumstances AU, Humanrise never existed and Soul siblings grew up happily with their father. Bakugou, Shoto and Izuku travel to Otheon for regular work studies instead of their black-ops mission in the movie. Eddie and Rody Soul are their tour guides.

Fic ramble below ⬇️

In this AU, Eddie’s popularity only grew over time and is associated with Endeavors agency or with heroes in general. Rody, his eldest son, is expected to become an engineer like his infamous father so Eddie wanted his son to gain some experience. However, Rody is extremely uninterested in both the tour and his guests.

Upon meeting, Rody instantly starts making sarcastic remarks and backhanded compliments at his guests. While Endeavor makes no show of response (for the sake of keeping up good spirits with Otheon’s best engineer), Bakugou instantly gets riled up over the smallest comments while many fly over Shoto’s head. (“But I don’t have a candy cane quirk. I apologize if my hair makes you think otherwise.”)

Eddie apologizes on his son’s behalf, knowing how much Rody doesn’t like heroes, but Rody can’t help himself from riling up the heroes he’s forced to attend to, especially Izuku.

Rody immediately turns up the charm and charisma, practically flirting with Izuku just to see him flustered. (And if he found the Japanese hero attractive that’s between him, god and pino) Izuku eventually associates his charm with his personality and tries to ignore him and his “jokes”.

Eddie and Rody shows the heroes around the city. They stop at a few hero monuments and Rody, ever the hero critic, makes a snarky remark at every stop which just leads to Izuku, the heroics nerd, arguing otherwise. They continue this cycle the entire tour with Rody and Izuku going back and forth about hero ethics.

Izuku and Rody don’t see each other again until he saves him from a bank robbery, swinging around with his black whip while carrying the stolen jewelry. The chase gets them lost in a place that not even Rody recognizes so Izuku insists walking Rody home. After some more arguing and some awkward silence, Rody asks why would he save someone so anti-hero (not mention a jerk since meeting) and Izuku simply responds that he’s willing to save anyone when he can.

While walking, Izuku reveals about the pressures and grievances of being a hero when Rody talks about how lucky Izuku’s life is. This realization leads to Rody empathizing, revealings that he wants to be a pilot instead of an engineer.

The two take a few detours within the city, subconsciously exploring Otheon like tourists. Izuku never had or will have the chance to truly explore Otheon and Rody, living in a lesser known area and busy with studying, never actually explored his capital city as much as he wanted to.

Izuku writes down on his notes on every place they go to as Rody gives a bit of a history lesson on the way. They even stop at a few heroic places for Izuku’s sake. (It actually didn’t take that much convincing) When they notice they’re nearby an airport, they sit on a roof for an hour Izuku quizzing Rody on the plane models that fly over them.

On their way home, Rody spotted an abandoned RV and felt it had a strange magnetism to it, like it was familiar to him in another world. Out of pure curiosity, they decided to stop by. They sit on the roof and watch the sunset as the boys open up to each other, realizing that they don’t have much time left together. Rody reveals his quirk and his dream to be a pilot and Izuku admits how his quirk came in late and the pressure to keep up with his classmates.

As promised, they return a couple of hours later but they both get scolded for getting lost and taking too long.

Rody has the confidence to tell his dad about his dream thanks to Izuku pushing him and giving him encouragement. Izuku tells Endeavor and Aizawa that he's a "late bloomer" and they provide accommodations that best suit this new information.

Much to Rody and Izuku’s relief, no one suspects their skip day (except for Eddie, who noticed that Pino has been comfortably sitting on Izuku’s head since they came back). Although, many are concerned about the lack of arguing replaced by friendly banter, Izuku’s sudden interest in Otheon agencies and Rody frequently “passing by” the agency just to flirt with Izuku on his breaks.

When the heroes leave, they exchange numbers with the promise to talk and see each other again, Rody promising to fly for him one day. They hug and struggle to let each other go until Bakugou yells at them to leave. Izuku lets go first but quickly gives Rody a peck on the cheek before he uses his quirk to run to the gate.

“I thought you didn’t like heroes.”

“Sh-shut up dad!”