Dating to Survive! TogaChako AU
In the webcomic, 'Dating to Survive,' Umin In, a ghost, 'confesses' to Seo-a Shin, a ghost hunter, to avoid getting exorcised by her/save his own life. Because of this, they do end up dating, and growing closer. [And that's as much as I'm willing to spoil because 1. unlike Scorching Romance, DTS isn't finished yet, so I don't know the full story of what goes on, and 2. you really should check it out yourself here.]
While I don't think Ochako would actually ever purposely lead someone on like this, it got me thinking...
What if, instead of the forbidden/likely doomed romance of a ghost and a ghost-hunter, it was a heroine and a villainess? And, what if Umin In was hero-in-training Uraraka Ochako, and Seo-a Shin was teen villainess and LOV member Toga Himiko?
What if, Toga has Ochako cornered against a wall with a knife to the heroine's throat one day after Ochako saves her life, and demands to know why Ochako did such a thing? What if, choosing to 'confess to survive,' Ochako decides to lie about her deep love for Toga, and Toga, surprised and very much delighted at her own feelings being requited, decides to start dating Ochako? And, of course, things would spiral from there as Ochako gets dragged deeper and deeper into the lie with every date and kiss, struggling with both her own guilt over dating someone who's committed so many crimes and hurt so many people (even as Ochako starts to understand Toga beyond this) and her guilt over lying to Toga (along with her friends and teachers at U.A. as she gets more involves with Toga & the LOV)...
Because she's not actually in love with the villainess at all. Right?
[This could either end in a Villain! Ochako or Hero! Toga AU, you decide.]