But I'm a Villain

Playing Along

Ashido sat me down on one of the couches then turned to me with a smile plastered onto her face. "Alright, tell us your name, age, something you enjoy doing, your quirk, and your favorite hero." She said, making the class lock their eyes on me. I haven't been this uncomfortable in a long time.
I put a fake smile on my face and began. "My name's Shinso Hitoshi, I'm 16, uh-" I thought for a moment, trying to figure out something I liked that wasn't against the law, "I like reading? My quirk is called brainwashing and my favorite hero is uh, E-Eraserhead. Yeah." My stomach turned as I said Eraserhead's name. It made me sick to even think about liking a hero, let alone him.
"Your favorite hero's Eraserhead? It has to feel awesome to be in his class then, right? I know how it feels to be taught by your favorite hero." A kid with green hair said to me.
"Y-Yeah, it's a pretty cool feeling I guess." I replied. As I spoke I put a hand on my neck and slowly started to scratch at it. This was a stupid nervous habit I picked up from being around Tomura for so long. Bastard.
"What made you decide to be a hero?" A guy with a tail asked.
I thought for a moment, making me realize how unprepared I was coming into this. "My family, they're all fighters so I took after them. My whole life I've been trained by them so I guess it's only logical." I replied, sticking to the storyline that I was given earlier.
"How does your quirk work?" The green haired kid asked. I noticed he was holding a notebook and had a pencil in his hand.
"Are you writing this stuff down?" I questioned, felling a little weirded out.
"It's a stupid habit that he has, he writes down anything and everything about people. It's creepy." Bakugo replied.
   I nodded, "R-Right. The short version is that if somebody answers my questions I can control them." I said, not wanting to get to into detail about my quirk.
   He looked up at me, "It sounds a lot like what we know about that villain Mind Freak's quirk. Have you heard of him?"
   I panicked, how was he able to put that together from something so vague? "I've heard stories but that's about all." I replied.
   The boy looked through his notebook, stopping on one of the pages. He turned the notebook towards me and I saw a poorly drawn sketch of my costume with my villain name. "Nobody knows what he looks like or his identity outside of his villain name. We know nothing about him except that his quirk allows him to control people and he works with the League of Villains. Mr. Aizawa told us that he almost caught him a couple years back but failed because he was so quick at getting away."  The green haired boy started rambling.
   "Let's change the subject, Shinso looks uncomfortable." Ashido said. I quickly tried to get any indication of discomfort off of my face as more people asked questions.
  I noticed Kaminari had been staring at me for quite a while so I looked over at him, "You've been staring at me, what for?" I asked. There was a little agitation behind the question which seemed to throw everybody off guard.
   Kaminari looked scared, "Sorry! I uh, just noticed you had a lot of scars and stuff on your hands. I didn't mean to stare, sorry!" Kaminari quickly said.
   I shoved my hands into my pant pockets, "It's whatever." I sighed. I was fed up with this and stood up, "I'm going to my room." I scoffed before I walked away. A couple people protested but I ignored them, I was stressed out enough as it is. One of the things I noticed earlier was that the rooms had balconies. I grabbed the cigarettes I brought with me and went onto the balcony, lighting it as soon as I closed the door.
"I haven't even been here a day and this shit is driving me fucking nuts! I thought the league's bullshit was a lot to deal with, this is somehow worse. I can't take it!" I said to myself, quiet enough so that only I could hear it. Once my cigarette was finished I smashed it against the railing and flung it off the side of the balcony. I walked back inside my room and headed to the bathroom to shower.
   After I finished showering I threw on the night clothes I brought and threw myself onto the bed. The bed I had back at base was a lot more comfortable than this, but it would do for when I'm here. I closed my eyes and seconds later heard a knock on my door. I sighed as I got up to answer it, Kaminari was yet again standing on the other side. "What?" I asked.
   Kaminari looked to the ground, "I just um, wanted to come and apologize for earlier. I feel bad" He said while messing with his fingers.
   "I said it's whatever, didn't I? Don't feel bad, it's not a big deal." I replied, crossing my arms as I leaned against the door frame.
    Kaminari nodded, "Right, um, I was also wondering if you wanted to come watch a movie with the class? They all want you to come join us." I sighed, knowing that I had to agree in order to seem like I wanted to get along with them. Was I shit at pretending to do this? Yes, but I still had to accept any invitations to hang out as to seem like I wanted to be included.
   "Yeah, sure." I replied, earning a smile from Kaminari. I followed Kaminari into the living area and took one of the available seats.
"Hey, we all feel a little bad about earlier so we wanted to let you pick the movie." Ashido said as she handed me the remote. I scrolled through and picked one of my favorites, Saw. I guess it's kind of obvious why it's one of my favorites. It's a whole franchise about people going through torture in order to live, what's not to love?
The movie actually went by fairly smoothly, except for the few strange looks I recieved when I couldn't hold back my laughter through a couple of the gore scenes. My bad, I guess. After the movie everybody went to their rooms, except for me. I decided to watch a couple more Saw movies. The night flew by and before I knew it, it was 4am. I turned off the tv and went to my room, hoping I'd actually manage to get some sort of sleep tonight.