Sincere Affection (Various!My Hero Academia x Reader)

No Calm Before the Storm

(Y/N)'s P.O.V.

"Now, what have we learned?"

My eyes followed (F/N) as he paced in front of me, while I was sitting on my bed. "Look at them."

"Good."

I placed a smile on my face, my best friend's comically serious expression making it easy. "Make sure to smile."

"Yes, and most importantly?"

"Compliments!" I exclaimed, before sitting up straight as my hands gripped my bed's blanket, "You're a good teacher!"

"Thank you! Anyway-!" (F/N) came to a stop in front of me, using his foot to gently nudge my own as he checked if he was standing too far to the left or right of me, a smile coming to his face when he found himself to nearly be right in front of me. "-now that you know the basics of social interaction, and you've displayed the ability to use said-basics in everyday interaction, I think you're ready!"

I nodded, letting out a small hum. "Great! ...uh, ready for what, exactly?"

"...I dunno." (F/N) shrugged, an unsure frown on his face. "I didn't think we'd get this far."

A small moment of silence passed as I looked at (F/N), with him tilting his head down to face me. What does he mean that he didn't think we'd get this far...? Hey, wait a minute-

"(F/N)!"

"I'm just kidding," (F/N) said, waving one of his hands to the side as he let out a small laugh, "But, seriously, I think that you're ready to really show your stuff at the sports festival! Both from the normal training, and all this social training! There is also how you've been attempting to better control your Quirk's output too..."

I felt another smile to come to my face at the mention of my Quirk training; due to Charm always affecting the people around me, I thought it would be a good idea to use it and try to measure it during my social training, especially since both things had a lot of things in common, mostly to due Charm being a social defense mechanism. And, maybe I'll be able to, like, come up with a system to determine how much Charm I'm giving out at a time, instead of just guessing...

There was also the case with the different types, and the emotional and mental manipulation part of it, but I found it to be easier to focus on what I had already knew from the very beginning: making people like me and making them happy.

Of course, most of my actual Quirk training was greeting and complimenting random students in the hallways.

I did try to use a heavier dose on some of my classmates during their Quirk training, to boost their determination and confidence, though that didn't last long when I noticed the teachers commenting on my classmates'... strange behavior.

It was also hard to deal with the attention given to me by the classmates who had Charm-induced trances.

While some of them seemed less-inclined to engage with conversation with me, probably due to them not being social normally, a couple of my classmates who seemed to be much more comfortable in social situations appeared to feel the need to try and have a conversation with me, and even show off in a few instances. I'm pretty sure I didn't intend for them to feel like they needed to impress me, but... I remember wanting to know a little more about their Quirks, and, so, that must be why that got into their heads... but, uh, at least I got to practice complimenting others...?

There was even an incident where Mineta wouldn't leave me alone, but I wasn't sure on how much of that was because of my Quirk, and how much of that was just caused by himself.