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Touya Todoroki was a cute kid. He was small for his age, but his baby face and small stature only highlighted his cuteness. When he went out with his family back when he was a toddler, people gushed over his cuteness and asked his name. Even his father didn't refute it. Once his training started, sometimes his puppy eyes earned him a break. But only sometimes because his father was a dick.
Not once or twice, people told Touya that he would make an excellent celebrity. Not as a hero but as an actual entertainer.
And quite an entertainer that boy would turned out to be
Here was the thing.
Touya's paternal grandmother, who used to take care of him and his siblings, was ethnically Korean. He learned about it after confronting his mother about why on earth his blood type was O when his father's was AB. It was a dick move of him because he was basically implying his mother cheated on his father. But to be honest, Touya almost hope it was the case if it meant Enji was not his actual father. Maybe that way he won't feel too guilty of wanting the hero to disappear.
It turned out that Endeavor had a rare type of mutation called cis-AB, something that he inherited from his mother's side of family. This mutation apparently most prevalent in Korea than in Japan. While Todoroki Eunha had seem to be a typical Japanese grandmother who lived in Japanese-style house her late Japanese husband passed down to her own son, she was a Korean by heart and blood. Even if the last time she set a foot in her homeland was a trip to attend her twin brother's funeral when Touya was five. She still had two living younger sisters in Seoul and Busan.
Eunha's way to stay in touch with Korean culture was, to no one suprise, by watching soap operas. In between taking care of the sickly Touya, cheerful Fuyumi, and energetic Natsuo (her daughter-in-law took care of the youngest one), she would turned on the TV to watch K-Drama. Since Touya and Natsuo were best friends and both are boys, Fuyumi easily be the one most attached to their grandmother, often accompanying her watching TV and made some Korean cuisine.
Meanwhile, Touya didn't like her that much because she almost never interfere of her son's treatment toward his family, beyond the occasional "Please treat your family more gently, Enji." that sure as hell didn't change a thing. She also tend to overreact whenever Touya did any kind of heavy activities, while the concerns were appreciated, it was just annoying. He did like her cooking, though.
So, Touya wasn't really that close with his grandma, but Fuyumi was, and that changed things.
One time, Fuyumi dragged her brothers to her room and they binged watched a foreign soap opera that they eventually learned were in Korean. They were all pirated copies, since Fuyumi copied it from her friends who copied from another friend, who downloaded it with a torrent link from a quite popular illegal website that kept changing their URL because it kept being taken down. The Japanese subtitle was decent but it took sometimes to get used to, though the plot was juicy. Natsuo excused himself midway, saying "Not interested, sis" while Touya stayed because he was too lazy to get up.
And way too invested in the story than he'd like to admit.
They were better than grandma's old K-Drama CD, so um, Touya kind of like them. Kinda.
That was the start of the Todoroki siblings' immersion to the rabbit hole of Korean entertainment products.
See, Touya and Fuyumi were twelve. They were both practically had to raise themselves plus Natsuo, and maybe Shouto every once in a while, helped by an elderly grandma. They missed their mom badly (even before her hospitalisation, Rei had never been the same for years before that). Their family might as well an embodiment of a Family Drama. They needed stress reliefs. So what if they ended up become a K-drama fans, found themselves entering Kpop fandoms, using their dad's credit card to buy merchs (it was mostly Fuyumi, Touya sometimes bought some albums that come with pictures, well maybe he bought a poster or two as well), and dance to Kpop songs? it wasn't like it was a crime. They even started to learn the language, to their grandmother's delight.
Due to the fact that Touya was a bishonen, it wasn't the first time he got scouted. But this one wasn't a modelling or acting gig. The guy who gave him his business card weren't even Japanese, if his accent and name was anything to went by. His company's name got Touya's attention, though.
Luminous Entertainment, KR.
'Well, that's new.'
In his defense, Touya didn't at all believe he would get in. He wasn't even want to do the audition at first. It was Fuyumi who freaked out and told him to try it out. The moment he shrugged and said fine, his sister already got a bunch of K-pop videos for him to practice. He shrugged, sent his audition video, and didn't think much about it. A few weeks later, when he scrolled through the colossal mess which was his inbox, he found an unread email from a company with fancy looking logo that basically told him he passed the video audition. There was a printable form that he assumed to be a form for walk-in audition.
He checked the date, seeing that it was sent more than a week ago. The last day of the audition happened to be on Sunday this week. He already sense his procrastinating habit tingling.
He almost regretting ever telling his siblings two days later.
He said it so casually in the middle of game, to which Fuyumi gawked and Natsuo was surprised enough that he paused the game to gape at his brother. Shouto was nowhere to be found, like always.
Touya shrugged, "I don't really plan to go through with it anyway."
This time Fuyumi needed to drag him to the audition building. She somehow managed to got Enji's signature by disguising the parental consent section as a school trip permission form. How come someone as sharp as Todoroki Enji could've mistaken it, he had no idea. Touya was so impressed with the fact that his sister would commit to something highkey illegal that he decided to reward her by actually went to the audition. But not without being literally being thrown out of the bed in the freaking sunday morning.
He passed the first audition, and the next. The next thing he knew, Touya was being congratulated and was instructed to bring his parent for signing the parental consent for a trip for the final audition.
The agency accommodated everything including his plan ticket to Seoul, but he needed his parent's signature for that.
Oh that might be difficult
His father was probably get hit with a very strange quirk, or someone with a strange quirk had sprinkled that paper with their strange quirk, because no way Endeavor would willingly sign a form for his son to train overseas for something as unheroic (in Enji Todoroki's standard) as being a Kpop idol.
Maybe Fuyumi didn't fool their father after all, and he was actually fine with him going from the start.
He probably would be happy to get rid of him.
Whatever the case, Touya got his father's permission to do his last audition. If he got lucky, he would train in another country. Away from his dad.
And siblings. God was he really going to leave them?
Fuyumi and Natsuo told him it's okay though, and Shouto, being more distant with him, just wished him good luck and looked down at his tiny feet.
Grabbing his passport (he forgot he had one!) and suitcase, Touya went to the airport to meet a staff member the agency assigned for him for the trip. Fuyumi and Natsuo accompanied him to say their goodbyes. Shouto told him he couldn't go due to the training, and Touya didn't even bother telling Endeavor.
He met the staff along with five other potential Japanese trainees, and broad the plane. It would be the first time he went out of the country in his fifteen years of living.
Touya's audition went smoothly. When he called Fuyumi to tell her that he officially became a trainee at Seoul-based Luminous Entertainment, both of them may cried. A little.
Touya kept telling his family that he only did it for a joke, but Fuyumi pointed out that he wouldn't go as far if he just wanted it for fun. Who knew. Maybe he was in denial so he won't look too pathetic if he didn't got in. Maybe he did want it from the start.
Todoroki Shouto was recognized frequently as Endeavor's son among heroes alike, that U.A student with 'Half and Half' quirk among civilians, and 'BBB's TOYA's little brother' among Japanese K-pop community.
He was also nicknamed 'poor lil shou' by BBB fans themselves, but it was better than Touya who got bullied by his own fans on regular basis and got called as a flaming edgelord.