Its May, Springtime! And love is in the air, along with pollen!
Anyway I've just really wanted to recreate ‘The Gala’ forever. And I finally figured out a way to do so without making it exactly the same thing lol. So here we are!
Everyone is aged up(Curse being 20 years old now!)and are Pro-Heros and such.
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| (Credit: https://twitter.com/yogireji/status/1294623686557720576 ) |
(Also for my own outfit in the following story, I imagined this dress but a slight more silky and add a bit more glam to it)
TW:
- Ableism
- R-Slur
- Fat Shaming
- Cyberbullying
- Endeavor (He's a warning in and of himself lol)
- OOC for the better and worse
OK LETS GOOOOO!
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Tenya Iida, also known at #6 ProHero Ingenium 2.0, was of course attending. However this year he brought a date, his girlfriend of one year.
Molly was a civilian cosmetologist, and Tenya Iida had met her when a villain fight ended up crashing into her salon. She had defended her patrons by burning the villain with a curling iron when they got too close. It ended up defeating the Vilian, as it pained them enough for Tenya Iida to finally tackle and incapacitate them. From then on, Iida would find himself in her salon for his hair/barber appointments. And soon enough he found himself in her heart too.
Previously their relationship was kept away from the public eye. Until tonight...
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Tenya Iida took a deep breath, and knocked on Molly's front door. Molly lived in a townhome in a quaint neighborhood. The Limo stood out from the other mini-vans and SUV's in the driveways.
This was Tenya's first time attending such a large public event with a date, and he was very nervous. What if Molly didn't have a good time? What if she got overwhelmed? What if she decided she didn't want to date a ProHero, didn't want to keep dating Tenya! Before he could freak out anymore, the door slowly opened to reveal his girlfriend.
She looked beautiful; with her golden hair done all fancy, and light makeup bringing out her already rosy cheeks and shiny brown eyes.
"Tenya! You're here!" she smiled.
"Good evening dear," he bowed his head. "Are you ready to leave for the gala?"
"Yup!" she grinned, and closed the door behind her. "Let's go! Let's go!"
Tenya Iida chickled, and led her into the limo.
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The Limo drove smoothlt through th bust streets of Japan, on its way to the biggest event of the year.
"I'm so excited!" Molly flapped her hands happily.
"As am I," Tenya Iida said. "However I am also nervous."
"Why?" Molly asked.
"This is the first time I've brought you to an event like this. The public will now know of our relationship."
"O-Oh..." Molly looked down sadly. "I don't want to embarrass you or anything."
"No, No!" Tenya Iida said quickly. "That is not what I was referring to! I could never be ashamed of you, no matter what the public could say."
"Then what is it?"
"I am worried that you won't enjoy yourself." Tenya Iida hung his head. There are so many strangers and uncertainties, and I fear that you may get overwhelmed or be completly miserable."
"Oh Tenya," Molly said soflty, and held his hand. "Thats so kind of you to be concerned for me. That means a lot to me."
Tenya Iida nodded.
"Well, you don't have to be worried about me getting overwhelmed! Check this out," Molly grinned, and dug into her purse.
Tenya Iida watched as Molly pulled out a pair of noise-cancelling earmuffs. But they were not like her usual ones. These ones were bedazzled with colorful rhinestones-stickers, which made them look very glamours.
"What do you think?" Molly slipped them on. "I made them just for tonight!"
"They look just as beautiful as you do," Tenya Iida smiled and kissed her on the cheek.
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The limo pulled up to the red carpet. Cameras were already flashing, and they didn't even know who was in the car yet.
Tenya Iida warned Molly about the noise and flashing lights, and she nodded. She agreed to tell Iida when they needed to leave the red carpet away from the cameras and go into the gala.
Tenya Iida left the car first to the cheering fans and paparazzi. He gave a polite wave, before reaching into the Limo to help Molly out. The paparazzi went wild over the new face.
Molly was by no means wealthy, let alone as rich as a ProHero. So of course she wasn't wearing any designer dress or fancy suit or whatever crazy fashion would normally be found on the red carpet. However she did her best to find something extra special looking. She wore a silk-like Yellow Dress, which hung off her shoulders. She wore a shiny silver necklace with a blue jewel on the locket, which matched the fake silver diamonds weaved in her hair. She had done her hair in a fancy way, she was a cosmetologist after-all! The dress would show bits of her yellow tennis shoes she wore underneath, because she tried but she just couldn't find it in herself to wear heels. Luckily the dress hid them mostly from the rest of the outfit.
Tenya Iida wore a dark blue suit, which matched the shade of Molly's necklace. He wore a tie that matched the yellow of Molly's dress. She happy flapped when Tenya wrapped his arm around her waist and smiled at her. Tenya loved that Molly wasn't too afraid of attention, as she waved happily to the cameras and did fun little poses with her hands.
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However they did eventually find their way inside the Gala. It was giant, with hundreds of heros, sidekicks, media reporters, and event staff. Present Mic was acting as DJ, because of course even at a party for ProHeros like him you couldn't keep him away from the aux. Many ProHeros were on the dancefloor, and many others were scattered around, drinking and chatting.
"Iida," ProHero Shouto Todoroki approached them.
"Hello Todoroki, it is wonderful to see you!" Tenya smiled. "Have I introduced you to my date this evening?"
"No you have not," Todoroki said. "However I do remember her coming up in conversation quite often."
"Aw, baby you talk about me?" Molly grinned.
"O-Of course," Tenya Iida blushed. "It ius only natural to speak of you from time to time."
"All the time," Todoroki corrected.
"This is Molly!" Tenya quickly introduced Molly, in order to avoid anymore panic.
"Hi, its nice to meet you!" Molly held out her hand. "Tenya talks about you and Mr. Deku a lot too, don't worry!"
Todoroki blushed this time, and shook Molly's hand. "I suppose that's karma." he said. "Speaking of Midoryia, I see him at the bar by Bakugou. I am going to go say hello before they break out in a fight. It was wonderfuk to meet you Molly."
Molly giggled again, and Tenya Iida sighed.
"He was nice!" Molly smiled. "I'm really excited to finally meet all the people you talk about!"
Tenya Iida nodded.
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Molly was having a wonderful evening. She had met the ProHeros Tenya Iida worked with, and talked with Tenya's best friends since U.A. She even got Mina's--ProHero Alien Queen's--number, as they had really clicked and Mina wanted to spend more time together. The food was absolutely delicuous, and while she avoided drinking she had had at least 5 of the gourme lemonades. She had dragged Tenya Iida onto the Dancefloor, despite both of them being horrible dancers.
It was around this time where Molly was getting a little tired, and overwhelmed. She decided to take a quick break by the quieter orderves table and put her nosie-cancelling headphones on. Tenya Iida promised to check on her in a bit, ad gave her a little kiss on the cheek. Molly was now snacking on the deserts while watching the crowd.
Suddenly a large shadow fell over her, and Molly looked up to see #1 Hero Endeavor. She gasped in awe and slight fear. Endeavor stared down at her, inspecting her almost.
"Who are you." he demanded.
Unfortunatley Molly hadn't taken her headphones off yet, and she didn't hear him. "S-Sorry, what was that?" she asked, as she slipped them off.
"Give me those!" Endeavor snatched earmuffs out of her hands. He tossed them against the wall and they fell apart completely, shiny rhinestones scattering on the floor.
"Hey!" Molly cried out.
"Those are tacky and disrespectful," Endeavor scolded. "Who do you think you are, coming to an event such as this wearing those eyesores? Especially if they hinder your hearing?"
"Th-They're my noise cancelling earmuffs!" Molly said. "They're supposed to muffle my hearing! I have Autism--"
"Ridicuolus!" the ProHero scoffed. "You don't act autistic. Besides, if you were why would they even let someone like you in?"
Molly gasped in shock and offence: "Excuse me?!"
"I'll ask again: Who are you?"
"I am Autistic! And my name is Molly."
"I've never heard of you. You can't possibly he a hero--"
"I'm not. I'm here with my boyfriend."
"What kind of ProHero would bring someone like you here?" Endeavor looked down at her with distaste.
"Whats that supposed to mean?" Molly asked, confused and distressed.
"Well, you're not much to look at thats for sure. Afterall other than FatGum people who look like you don't belong here. And you claim to be disabled too, what kind of ProHero would go so low as to assoisiate with you?"
Molly was shaking. "H-How dare you!" she shouted. "I'll have you know Tenya Iida loves me very much! And he said I look beautiful!"
"Ingenium 2.0?" Endeavor laughed. "Now this truly is sad. He has quite the legacy to uphold, and associating with you is surly going to destroy it. I'll have to have a talk with him,"
"You are being ableist, Body shaming me, and--"
"I think its time you left."
"What?!"
"I'm the #1 Hero, and I like to believe my advice is of very high value. And my advice ro you, is to leave as you are clearly not meant to be here."
Molly was crying at this point. And she did want to leave. Not because Endeavor was right about anything, but because she was hurt and upset. She knew she should go to Tenya right now, tell him everything. But hindsight is a bitch, and she ended up leaving in tears instead.
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Tenya approached the table where Molly said she would be, but she wasn't there. Only Endeavor stood there, which worried Tenya.
"Ah, Iida!" Endeavor greeted which a hearty chuckle.
"Hello Mr. Todoroki." Tenya bowed his head. "Did you happen to a women in yellow? I last saw her here."
"Oh, that women." the Flame Hero scoffed. "Don't worry, I look care of her."
"What?"
"Iida, you deserve so much better!" Endeavor put a hand on Tenya's shoulder. "Look around, there are hundreds of sidekicks and heros that could aid you in building your legacy! Why would you ever limit yourself to a stupid-in-the-head pig like that girl?"
Tenya Iida had felt rage once. He's felt upset, determained, and angry more times than he could count. But he had only ever felt rage once, and it was when he was fighting the Hero Killer Stain. And now he felt rage once again, this time aimed at the #1 Pro Hero Endeavor.
"How dare you!" he screamed.
"Oh c'mon little Iida, you don't have to defend her!"
"What did you say to her?! What did you do to Molly?!"
"I simply sent her away, she didn't belong at an event such as this anyway. She was wearing trash in her head afterall!" Endeavor gestured to the wall, where the remains of Molly's headphones still remained.
"You destroyed her earmuffs?!" Tenya shouted.
By now the entire Gala was watching them, along with reporters.
"Iida!" Mina ran up to the fight. "Iida look at this." Mina handed him her phone, which was open to multiple social media websites.
A photo of Molly on the red carpet was trending, the one where she smiled brightly and held up a peace-sign with her fingers. The posts, the comments, they were all awful.
Ingenium3.0: what kinda contest did she win to go with inegnium to the gala?
HeroN3rd7075: she's flapping like a r***** lol
Ingenium2.0_is_my_husband_327: she so ugly Inegnium 2.0 can do so much better
And now after what Endeavor had said and done to her...Molly could not OK at all.
"Fuck." Tenya cursed. "Mina, have you seen her?"
"No, Endeavor is right she must have left!" Mina said. "We'll take care of this flaming pile of trash Iida, you go and find your girlfriend!"
Tenya nodded, and used his quirk to rush out of the gala.
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Molly slammed her front door close, and immediately tore off her dress. She stomped up the stairs naked to her room, where she immediately put on a sweater and jeans. She went back down and picked up the dress before throwing it into the trashcan. She screamed and shouted out in rage and sadness, before collasping onto her kicthen floor in tears.
She was having such a good time, and now she was back at home crying like a baby, She felt so helpless. She tried to distract herself on her phone, but only kept seeing photos and posts of the gala which just made her feel left out. And it only got worse when she discovered the hate she was getting online. She threw her phone across the room and it landed far away on her living room couch. She shouted and screamed in rage until her voice was gone and her throat hurt.
She knew Endeavor was wrong, she knew. But it still felt horrible to be called dumb, ugly, fat, and invalidated. She was sure Tenya Iida knew she was missing by now, and she should text him she was back home so he wouldn't worry too much. But just as she was about to stand from the floor, Tenya Iida burst through her front door.
"Molly!" he cried out and ran to her. "Oh My God, I'm so glad your ok!"
Molly cried into his shoulder. "I-I was just about to text you. I'm sorry I left without saying anything--"
"You have nothing to be sorry for," Tenya Iida squeezed her tightly. "I know everything."
Molly let out another sob. "En-Endeavor...h-he said--"
"Shhh...." Tenya cooed. "He was wrong, Nothing he said is true."
"I-I know! B-But--"
"But it still hurts." Tenya finsihed.
Molly nodded. "A-And the people online--"
"Are creeps who don't know anything."
Molly stayed silent.
After Molly was calmer, he went to her trashcan and took out the dress.
"You look beautiful," he told her. "You are beautiful in this dress, You're beautiful in those jeans. You're beautiful when you cry, and you're beautiful when you're happy stimming. I love you in every way you're you."
THE END
(I'm glad I was finally able to rewrite this. But I'm tired and got bored k byyyyyeeeeeee)
