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Rat King

Summary:

“Welcome” Shinsou deadpans. “Would you like a rat?”

Notes:

Gift Fic for the eldritch one!!!

Featuring so many nwa inside jokes in a crack fic format!!!

Thanks for inspiring the rats and also the sleep conversation Rat King!
You probably don't remember but I told you I'd use it in a fic one day ^__^

Enjoy :)

((I had to post through rich formatting which is why the paragraph spacing is so weird but I cannot figure out how to fix it so sorry if it makes it hard to read 😅))

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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For their second year cultural festival 1A decided to do a sale. 

Not just any sale though, amateur self made Hero Merch and each member was expected to contribute a minimum of five different designs with multiple pieces of each. 

 

<<Official Dekusquad ™>>

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:12]

What’s everyone doing?

 

Call Me Tsu [11:13]

Trying to sleep

 

Iida go fast [11:13]

Trying to sleep

 

Mido Mido [11:13]

Trying to sleep

 

Okey-dokey Todoroki [11:13]

Trying to sleep

 

Violence [11:14]

Staring at the ceiling and contemplating 

the meaning of life. Why are we here? Is 

the moon made of cheese? Can one 

forgo sleep entirely with enough caffeine 

and energy drinks? 

The world may never know

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:15]

You all suck

I meant like. About the merch.

you ok Shinsou?

 

Violence [11:16]

Define ‘ok’

 

Mido Mido [11:16]

Oh I’m doing posters!

But I’m leaving them as black and white 

sketches to be colored yourself...

 

Call Me Tsu [11:17]

I am doing posters too. My amatuer 

photography is coming in handy and I 

got permission to use teacher photos so

long as i add borders wording and effects

 

Mido Mido [11:18]

Ashido, Aoyama, Hagakure and 

Todoroki are running an iron-on booth. 

Todoroki will be using his quirk to apply 

them and his job now is to order the 

various plain t shirts while the others 

make the actual designs…

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:20]

Waaahhh??? No fair! Let me in Todo!

 

Okey-dokey Todoroki [11:21]

Sorry. 

Aizawa-sensei said we can’t have more 

than four people.

 

Iida go fast [11:21]

I really must protest! We should all be in 

bed!

 

Violence [11:23]

The word bed looks like a bed 🤔

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:22]

I am in bed! 

Just can’t sleep

 

Violence [11:23]

Drop phone on face

That will make sleep

 

Iida go fast [11:23]

NO!

 

Violence [11:24]

Aim for temple

 

Call Me Tsu [11:25]

Ouches

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:25]

😂😂😂

 

Violence [11:26]

What’s a minor concussion when you 

get beautiful dreams?

 

Iida go fast [11:26]

X

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:27]

Ahhdgdgdhshshshshs

!!!!!!!

Shinsou! Your killing me!!! 

😂😂😂

 

Violence [11:28]

Apparently I am being funny

This hurts

My serious advice is being mocked

 

Iida go fast [11:28]

We should all go to sleep posthaste!

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:29]

You heard the man

Go be unconscious everyone 😂😂😂

 

Violence [11:30]

Wham.

Dead.

 

Okey-dokey Todoroki [11:31]

Here lies Shinsou

He shall be miss

Mist

Missed

 

Mido Mido [11:31]

Oh hey! When did you change your 

nickname Shinsou?

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:31]

He lives!!!!

Thought you took Shinsou’s advice 

for a second  😆

 

Violence [11:32]

It was a spur of the moment thing…

 

Mido Mido [11:32]

Oh?

 

Violence [11:33]

Yeah

I was thinking about different names 

for a while...

And then I woke up this morning and 

chose violence >:]

 

Mido Mido [11:34]

Ahsgshsgshaha

 

Okey-dokey Todoroki [11:35]

Clearly

...I don’t understand the significance 

of the evil smiley

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:35]

How long have you been waiting to 

make that joke Shinsou??? 😆 

 

Violence [11:36]

Literal. Hours. -__-

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:36]

We stan a king o7

 

Iida go fast [11:36]

Well. It is fast approaching midnight 

so i beseech you all not to neglect 

your health one last time as I silence 

my phone.

((also i am running a booth with Ojirou, 

Tokoyami and Kouda in which we are 

selling famous hero slogans carved 

artistically into small planks of wood))

Good night

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:37]

Waaahhh??? How did ebbveryon 

pair up so fast???

everyone*

 

Mido Mido [11:37]

You can always make stickers Uraraka

 

Iida go fast [11:38]

((I am already sleeping but Sero, 

Kaminari, Yaoyorozu and Jirou are 

already doing stickers))

((Satou is baking alone if you wish…))

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:39]

Good night Iida -_-

 

Iida go fast [11:39]

((I told you. I’m sleeping))

 

Okey-dokey Todoroki [11:40]

Clearly.

 

Mido Mido [11:40]

You don’t need to join a group if you 

don’t want to

I don’t have one and that just means I 

have less merch to provide...

 

Violence [11:41]

Yeah I’m also on my own

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:41]

Owo? What are you doing? 👀 

 

Violence [11:42]

Rats 

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:43]

Oh sorry, is it a secret?

u don’t have to let me join if u don’t 

want...

 

Violence [11:44]

Oh. 

No. 

I wasn’t saying rats like you caught me. 

I’m literally doing rat merch…

 

Mido Mido [11:45]

Um

 

Iida go fast [11:45]

((?))

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:45]

The fuck is Rat merch?

 

Iida go fast [11:46]

((Language Uraraka!))

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:47]

((You don’t get to lecture me if you’re 

sleeping))

 

Violence [11:48]

I’ve got massive amounts of rat plushies 

at home because the extended family 

thought they were clever and the rents 

made me keep them. Planning to doctor 

them a little into hero costumes and give 

them rat names

 

Mido Mido [11:49]

...there’s no way that’s getting approved

 

Iida go fast [11:50]

((...if I let it slide, will you please stop 

texting on the group chat so we can all 

go to sleep))

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:50]

called an ominous voice from the void.

 

Violence [11:51]

Sounds fair >:]

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:52]

Shinsou said back bravely.

 

Mido Mido [11:52]

...Uraraka are you narrating?

 

Rah Rah Raka [11:53]

>:D

 

Okey-dokey Todoroki [11:55]

If you are serious about this Shinsou I 

should like to talk about a custom order. 

 

Violence [11:56]

Pm me >:]

 

✨Can’t Stop Typing✨ [7:08]

Sacre bleu 99 missed messages??? 

The backread was not sparkling 😟

 

Call Me Tsu [7:20]

Tell me about it.

 

***

 

The actual event goes much better than they’d anticipated.

 

“Welcome” Shinsou deadpans. “Would you like a rat?”

 

More people step up to his table but he can see they’re all warily watching Bakugou and Kirishima demonstrate their trick knives on each other dramatically. They aren’t even showing off the hero themed carvings they made in the handles.

 

 “All the stabbings are affectionate,” he sighs. “would you like a rat?”

 

Iida is making scandalized noises in the background but Shinsou simply hands over an Eratserhead and accepts the payment. 

 

***

 

“Why rats though???” Kaminari wails, pointedly looking away from where Shinsou is packing away his leftover Present Rats and Ratzus. (The All Rats and Best Rattists had sold out in minutes.)

 

“Isn’t it obvious?” Shinsou replies in his dryest tone. “So they can double as cat toys.”

 

“It’s for the meme.” Todoroki puts in randomly from where he’s cradling his newly purchased Rat Bastard.

 

Kaminari wonders what the fuck it’s even supposed to be considering it’s just a red headed rat peeking beady eyes out of a fuzzy trash can that looks like it’s on fire. 

 

‘A custom order’ Shinsou had said. 

 

What a bunch of weirdos.

Notes:

Did I actually count all the messages Aoyama had to backread?

Yes.

Yes I did.

 

Huge thanks to my friends CatLady and Cassiopeia for reading this over for me 💖