I love my OC x Canon

I love self-inserts! it's super fun to image myself as part of a show I like and like any other cringe young teen during the late 2010s and early 2020s there was a time period in my life where I got really attached to a fictional character and started shipping my self-inster with them, recently I found a document with all of my OC's information I made back in 2022/2023 (don't remember the exact date) and I got super nostalgic about so I wanted to make a remastered version of my silly little OC x Canon couple for old time's sake

By reading that previous paragraph you might be wondering which fictional character I'm talking about and to answer your question it's Tokoyami from My Hero Academia! back when the show trended in the pandemic I watched because I was bored and it looked fun and for the first season I thought it was decent, I wasn't that big of a fan mainly because I found Bakugo completely unbearable (and I kind of still do..) and since he was such an important character it was hard to just ignore him but the world building was interesting enough to stay for another season and I decided that if the show didn't fully capture me by season 2 then I would drop it and it was as if god himself heard me say that because a few episodes into season 2 they introduce this super cool goth raven that speaks in a really poetic and dramatic way, is really smart and has the most creative quirk seen so far?! holy fuck, I feel in love the second he appeared on screen

All about my OC

Personality

He's a mix between a self-insert and a completely original character since a lot of his character is based on myself but I still believe he's distintic enough from me to be considered his own thing entirely

Hikaru is a very chill and laid-back guy whose #1 priority in life is to have fun! at first glance he could look apathetic since he's not super expressive (he does show emotions but they're less intense than you would expect) and has a tendency to underreact but that couldn't be further from the truth, he's very loyal and optimistic and always tries his hardest to be a good friend

And as it was stated by Toga's backstory, quirks affect the user's personality so due to his quirk being related to technology he's OBSSESED with videogames, everytime he's on the background of a scene there's a 95% chance he's holding a portable console, he consistently compares almost every situation in his life to something that happened on a game he likes and the only way to convince him to do something he doesn't want to do is to say "it would be just like _____"

Backstory

Character ribbons

Trivia

Some facts that I didn't knew where else to put but they are too fun not to include

• Despite being a coward who's terrified of horror movies he LOVES Sadako (the girl from "The Ring" with hair covering her entire face) and sometimes likes to crawl out of TVs while imitating her (specially during Halloween season)
• Rats are his favorite animals, when asked why he says they "bonded over a shared hatred of cats" (get it? because dogs VS cats & rats VS cats are really common tropes in cartoons), Aizawa doesn't find this joke amusing in the slightest...

The actual shipping stuff

Their relationship through the course of the show

Season 1: At first they're just classmates that don't really interact that much but are still friendly to each other however during the USJ attack they get grouped together in the storm area and after seeing Tokoyami defeat all the villains so effortlessly Hoshi inmediatly thinks "wow this guy is so cool! we HAVE to be friends"

Season 2: During the sport festival

Their dates

Game night:

DnD:

Musical dates:

Halloween:

Art gallery

I can't draw for the life of me so all of the art here was made by wonderful artists that I either commisioned or were generous enough to send these to me as gifts