tags: friends to lovers, wholesome fluff, flustered!shoji, bits of jealousy, protective boyfriend!shoji, established relationship
shoji and you were friends for a while before you started dating! he could only fall for a person he trusts afterall, as looks alone aren't enough for him!
he doesn't have any dating experience, but shoji has a good idea about what a relationship is supposed to look like, based on books or movies!
shoji isn’t that good at expressing his feelings. he likes to think he is, but once he has to get out the right words, he often freezes up and needs some time to get across what he feels for you
shoji is usually pretty confident, unless it's about his face. he'd take a while to take off his mask and trust you. and hopefully, you'll still love him, no matter how he looks!
he also blushes a lot, but it's so hard to see because of the mask! shoji always pretends to be tough, but people can't see he's actually a softie because of that mask
he carries you around whenever given the chance! bridal style, piggy back, all of it! he has so many arms and he knows how to use them well!
shoji is more jealous than you'd expect at first. due to his insecurities, he worries you'd leave him for someone else and he can get a bit clingy as a result
he's a really protective and sweet boyfriend. he always makes sure you are safe and he would rather fight your battles
shoji can be quite scary when angry. so once someone hurts you, he goes into protector mode! he's been hurt so many times and the last thing he wants is for you to be hurt as well!
The two of you guys would be cuddling and being all cute with each other, then suddenly Mezo would morph his stubs into an ear and puts it to your against your chest.
“Y/n,, your heart is beating really fast”
“Oh? It just got faster?”
You tell Mezo to stop while hiding into his chest all giggly and he lives for it man. Then you realize this hunk of man also seems to be more effected by your presence and affection after all “bullshit your heart is beating hella fast too!!”
“Oh I’m so hypocritical aren’t I, what a shame”
Groaning in defeat, you just nuzzle into him more, continuing on having a conversation you were having prior. The whole duration of the time that your talking and explaining your opinion about such thing, he cannot stop smirking because he knows all too well it effected him most likely more than you were impacted by the adorable interaction. Mezo loves making you smile in any way, he loves being the reason as to why you seem joyous all the time.
I feel like people forget about how observant he is, he keeps track of everyone’s progress and personality traits so well. Since he quite has literally nothing in his room, he ponders a lot. (This hc was inspired by season 3 ep1, the class is at the pool and he recognized and stated “it looks like you’ve been working out” to ojiro, which is proof that he does care about his peer’s health and wellbeing, obviously cuz he’s super nice and can do nothing wrong but sigh oh well…) this naturally impacts you guys’s relationship, in a positive way, especially since Mezo is super emotionally intelligent/mature.
When you guys go out to eat, if you insist on paying before or during the meal, he excuses himself to go the bathroom but in reality he’s paying for it.
Shoji will quite literally do anything you ask, literally the embodiment of “your wish is my command”. Even if it’s cleaning your toenails, he’ll do for your sake. But this man knows how to establish boundaries, so do not be fooled, merely only because he loves you and will do anything in his power to be your gentleman. Ok now thinking about… cleaning your damn toenails is dedication, Mayhaps at certain points he makes a compromise. Imagine, if you ask him to do a next level, impossible quest/favor, Mezo thinks about it at first and then decides to pivot. Not reluctantly, but warily devoted; loyal/dedicated but he’s also cautious. He decides to make a come back of “Well if I’m doing this, may I get a back massage in return?” his dorky smile comes across his face, in hopes of you accepting the offering with his twist. Stifling back moans to hell and back cuz I jus KNOW that there arms on each side is not for the weak, plus the amount of work he puts in working out and fighting a bunch of people is hard ass work. Majority of the time he’s pretty stiff at times, maybe not sore since he is a hero and I bet he has been taught to properly exercise but regardless of all the precautions before doing such prestigious work, he’s bound to have some semblance of joint pain and overexerted muscle strain. So having that back massage is doing the lord work in shojis eyes, the feeling of your hands going at it through all the knots around his shoulder blades is actually a ticket to see heaven’s gates.
At some point Mezo is gonna take his mask off, when he does he’s pleasantly taken aback when you have a positive reaction. He really appreciates the trueness of your heart and moral, thanking you for the fact that you never judged him by his cover and what’s underneath. Don’t be scared to ask questions or say silly remarks, in fact he encourages you to do so. (This is seen season 7 episode 14 [essentially shoji’s ep] and Mezo was explaining his backstory, he said that he doesn’t want the topic and its controversy of heteromorph abuse to be taboo. He wants an open discussion, as he is also into that stuff, but he has high emotional intelligence to not let get to him too much)
This is lowkey more personal/oddly specific headcanon, so skip it if youd like. Anyhow, Imagine Mezo watching MoistCritikal before going to bed; ready to sleep, on your phone, cuddling and wrapping his arms around you, perhaps your fidgeting with his webs as well. He sometimes comments on what charlie reviews, especially if it’s like criminal and police webcams. Mezo might be the most gentlemanly people ever but he is still so blunt and real, that’s why he also likes Charlie cuz he don’t beat around the bush but also when he analyzes situations, most times his opinion is actually so valid and logical/justifiable. Mezo pretty much 80% of the time agrees with moisty.
When you react to him, and the result of nuzzling into his chest, his arms tighten around while softly chucking as your cuteness. His phrase that he says most of the time is “my silly girl…” Mezo most of the time murmurs into your hair, reaching his hand to your scalp to lightly to give it soft scritches.
His hands are always touching you, physical touch and acts of service is his shit, his jam.
Since Mezo is hella minimalist then he would do more quality time type of things during hangouts of if he plans out a birthday or sum- I’ll dote on this idea in my next hcs (hopefully around Christmas)
If you call Mezo your husband before getting married, composed on the outside but good god if you saw that heart rate number you’d actually would think he’d be dropping like a rag doll on the floor in a minute. He is so attentive with everything that you say, no matter how interesting or boring the subject he’s always having at least one more ear to listen to “your beautiful voice.” As he likes to call it, but the mix between Mellifluous voice of yours and the thought of you guys getting married (assumed to be pretimeskip ig?) makes him ecstatic. Produces more reasons to love you even more than before. Mezo ponders a lot like I’ve mentioned before cuz he quite literally does barely nothing besides eat, sleep, work out, go to school and do homework + hanging out with friends. If you have seen his room IT HAS NOTHING😭😭 but it creates even more of a reason as to why he loves you so much since he is very simple to accommodate and please. So something like “ohhh here comes my beautiful husband walking through the door, what a sight” surprises Mezo cuz quite frankly, everyone has always been scared or thought weird of his appearance (like season 5 ep 8 where Tori was saying how she didn’t like octopuses and shoji responded to the statement with “I’m used to that” like omg noooo🥺🥺 but anyway) Mezo thinks the world of you for the nickname/label, because he really does want to spend the rest of his time with you. He is a very simple man, (this is also seen when shojis dream is just to walk with the person who he saved a whole while ago, that just screams how he’s every simple to please and doesn’t take advantage of anything in a bad sense)
One day you guys would be outside while it’s fairly cold out and you ask your bf Mezo the grand question, how are you not cold? And he responds with “probably because I’m so used to it, these arms really restrict the mobility and ability I have to fit into the basic human measurements” you cry inside because likeee wdym you don’t know how to be snug as a bug. So maybe perhaps you could crochet, knit, or create by sewing fabric into a nice non-poncho accommodating, custom made sweatshirt🥲 he’d be so ecstatic. Mezo is super minimalist obviously but regardless of that regurgitated statement abt his character; Mezo seems like he has a wide range of clothing. All similar types of clothing but they’re different. Like all the class 1-A has pretty much the same like three shirts. For example, katsuki with his skull shirt + Kirishima with his D.J shirt and his god awful combination of summer clothes and during the winter he wears his signature (orangey reddish rusty) hoodie. Which this statement differs from shoji which albeit very much similar, there’s a difference in his colors and certain cuts. I have seen Mezo with a multitude of different colors tank tops as well as different colored shorts and pants; like combat boot pants, sage green pants, and beige pants. Mezo usually wears his combat poncho (or just plain green) which is why he would be really excited since it seems all he’s interested in when it comes to buying stuff, is clothing. (This is mentioned in S3 EP13-14 where theyre moving into the dorms and shoot asks is this what a minimalist is and shoji responds with “I just never understood why a person would want so much junk” so it’s apparent that he is not materialistic. Although it does not say in the show/manga, I think that he cares about clothing more in that way since he has a wider range of clothing compared to other classmates) I have also read this cannon somewhere else where someone said that the reason why he doesn’t like anything is cuz Mezo is so used to not being able to really do much, I mean he was about to be shanked and attempted to be persecuted when he touched that girl- which says enough within itself, so you really think that he’s gonna be waltzing around the shopping area to buy some bs? God no, if he can’t barely even face the public without being beaten half to death then there’s no way in hell he could have a chance to even have a thought process/mindset like that. So essentially he’d be overjoyous if you gave him (especially homemade) clothing
MHA You're Next released on Netflix yesterday, so I, of course, watched it. And let me tell you what, seeing all my babies (relatively) healthy and not being held together by another hero literally sewing them up from the inside (iykyk) was so nice.
The dream scenarios were beautiful and I 100000% cried during all of them. But the Shoto and Shoji ones broke my heart the absolute most.
Seeing the big three students fighting together and being able to work so cohesively made my heart absolutely soar.
I'm so excited for the least season to come out, even though I know I'll be plunged back into the chaos that we were left with, but I am holding out hope that all my babies come out of it (again, relatively) unscathed
