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Rei sat at the desk, sliding the headphones over her ears. A deep breath. God this always made her nervous, but she’d gotten more used to it over the past year.
She clicked the button, and the stream went live. The visuals went from ‘starting soon’ to the intro setup, a cozy background with a cartoon angel taking up most of the screen.
“Good evening, everyone, IceAngel is back!” Rei said. “How are you doing, MightyMama?”
“A hectic morning, but good nonetheless!” Inko’s voice replied. “Did give me a few ideas for that Minecraft world.”
“And here I was wondering if you’d give into chat and let me play Undert-” she paused, looking at the screen. “Oh wow the chat is going wild today.”
She didn’t hear Inko’s response. Busy trying to read the flying messages. It was going too fast to keep up. Everyone talking at once. She caught a few words. Something about Enji?
“What’s going on?” Rei asked. “Seriously some of you should stop typing so the others can get a word in.”
There was the ping alert saying someone had donated. Followed by a few more. She couldn’t read them all, but hopefully one would explain.
“Thanks for the donation!” Rei said, keeping some semblance of normality. “Astrohaunt says: the chat’s going nuts because of some stupid theory. You mentioned your sort-of ex was being pressured to change his uniform and then Pro Hero Endeavor……”
She trailed off reading the rest of that. Inko was already snickering, her VTuber model hiding her face in her hands.
Oh no. No fucking way.
“I have to see this!” Rei laughed.
She switched stream setups, putting her model in the corner and pulling up the internet search window. Snickering so hard she could barely search it up.
Oh god the first result was a video from this afternoon.
Scrambling for the mouse she clicked the link and had to pause for a moment. The video clearly showed Endeavor, having been pulled aside for an interview while out on patrol. Rei was trying to rein in her emotions long enough to get through the video.
“So,” the reporter asked from off camera. “Care to tell us about the… changes you’ve made to your Hero Costume today? The motivation behind it, perhaps?”
“In short, I lost a bet,” Endeavor answered, completely exasperated. “It’s a temporary change and it will not impact my work. Though I would appreciate it if you at least pretended to be pointing your camera at my face.”
The camera had, in fact, sunk lower while he had been talking. Showing that his costume was nearly identical, except for the cut out panel right on his chest.
He actually added a-
Rei absolutely lost it. Squealing with delight and cackling so hard she fell out of her chair.
“That was a loud thunk, are you okay?” Inko asked, clearly still chuckling herself.
“I-I’m fine!” Rei replied, absolutely breathless. “Just- just. Fuck! Enji get in here!”
She recovered enough to not look like she was probably dying. Which was mostly pulling herself up to the desk, but still being down on the floor. Mostly because she was sure that if she got into the chair, she’d fall right back out laughing.
From here she could see the screen again. And the chat was going even faster than before.
Rei absolutely did not manage to keep a straight face when Enji opened the door. And he immediately clocked that something was Up™.
“Please tell me I’m not getting dragged into another dating sim,” Enji said.
“Out of all-,” Rei stopped to snort with laughter. “Out of all the weirdly specific personal nonsense I’ve said on the channel. The thing- the one thing that manages to get people to finally connect the dots on who you are is you installing a GODDAMN TITTY WINDOW.”
She lost it once more, and this time she could hear Inko give up and start cackling as well. Enji, on the other hand, just sighed.
“I’m going to walk into the goddamn ocean,” Enji said, doing his best not to slam the door.
“Say hi to Kaito for me!” Rei called after him.
The screen was going wild. Messages in chat so fast that it was loading in chunks. And even that stuttered faster and faster.
Then went dark. An error message popping up on screen. That made her giggles trail off, clicking buttons to see what happened. Her connection was fine, the Discord call still going. What happened.
“Oh dear,” Inko said. “I think the website crashed.”
“Oh my god,” Rei said, in too much of a gleeful shock to even give more than a strangled noise. “Oh my GOD.”
“Hopefully the site managers manage to get it fixed soon,” she said. “Although. I wonder how quick they’ll crash it again when they connect even more dots and realize they’ve spent the past year referring to All Might as ‘MightyMama’s Boytoy’.”
And just like that, with a snort of laughter, Rei was on the floor again.
“I am going to kill you.”
Rei could see the exact moment of heartbreak in Enji’s eyes. Finally, after all these years, all four of their kids had threatened to kill him.
She honestly never expected Fuyumi to do it. Though right now she looked about second to Toya in terms of the scale between ‘annoyed’ and ‘actually going to try’.
“Understandable, but what’d I do this time?” Enji asked.
“I was fine, with mom doing the vtuber thing,” Fuyumi said. “It’s. It’s fine! I work at a school and kids love vtubers! I was fine with hearing ‘Ice Angel’ come up in conversations between kids! I was fine hearing weird inside jokes that I know came from you! Or tidbits of family lore getting mentioned to the public! I was fine when you started up ‘monthly dilf night’ because god it’s not the first time someone has said that sort of thing in my presence!”
Oh no. Rei tried not to laugh this time. Enji was at least finding a bit of humor in it, though she did note there was a new burn mark on the table.
“But I draw a line in the fucking sand!” Fuyumi said, her voice breaking with rage. “At having to hear students shout the sentence “Oh my god! Endeavor’s tits crashed the Twitch servers!!”!!”