This one is also going to be a rather dark idea, but it's not going to be a horror-themed idea like the last one.

All that I can say is that if you've read the material in which this idea is based on, then you know exactly what to expect...

To be in the Spotlight

(Inspired by Oshi No Ko)

We all know about the hero industry in MHA, and how it's essentially a marketplace for professional heroics, where people with superpowers work as superheroes in a nine-to-five job, with paycheques and all that.

We also know that pro heroes, and hero society as a whole, both battle against villains and evil organisations such as the League of Villains and the MLA and so on. This is seen all throughout MHA's manga and anime, and it is generally seen as an idealistic society where people can attend schools to learn how to fight villains and become heroes themselves.

We constantly see pro heroics as a fighting force and look at them in terms of battle and combat...

…But what is pro heroics like as a business?

For example, we know that many pro heroes have their own brands and sponsorship deals, such as perfumes and lunchboxes and so on. How does that work? What do they get out of the sponsorships? How do their managers promote them in competition with others? Are there pro heroes out there that are more interested in marketing their own brands than saving people?

And what about support companies? Each hero, and almost every person in MHA, has a different quirk, so do they all have to have different and unique support items to each other? Is there a lack of standardisation in the support item industry? How do designers and inventors cope with this?

And heroes are pretty much the same as celebrities in this world. Do they get acting roles? Do they release songs? Are there idol groups that also double as heroes? How do pro heroes manage fighting villains alongside starring in adverts and films and so on? Do female pro heroes get forced into more risqué roles than male heroes?

This is the point of this story, to look through the eyes of the students of 1-A and investigate the pro hero industry as an extension of the entertainment industry.

There would be no big fights of battles in this story, no real clashes of good and evil. This story would simply serve as both an exploration and deconstruction of the pro hero industry and hero society as a whole, looking past the idealistic exterior of the hero industry, and the entertainment industry as a whole, and exploring the murkier underside to it. Essentially, it would be a continuation of when Momo and Kendo were put into that advertisement by Uwabami and were blatantly selected for their looks and sexual appeal, where we explore more of that kind of situation and how that applies to pro heroics as a whole.

For example, Class 1-A would be placed into situations where they would have to get involved in either acting roles or asked to help in productions, bringing them into the world of showbiz in relation to heroes and exploring the forms of exploitation that take place within the pro hero market. Some of these students would be favoured more than others simply due to their looks and their quirks, whilst others would be put down and pushed aside for the same factors as well. Many of the female students would feel uncomfortable with the roles that they have been casted into and the outfits that they were told to wear, whilst other students would be pushed into the spotlight before they are ready and forced to learn on the fly about the entertainment industry and what will be demanded of them when they become heroes, something that they haven't learnt about yet due to all the combat training and fights that they had been through in their education so far.

Situations like this would continue to repeat throughout the story, with 1-A being pushed into different corners of the hero and entertainment industry and being confronted by the realities of what they are going to be expecting when they graduate to become pro heroes. They are essentially child actors in this world, being constantly thrown about left and right into production after production without any rest for themselves.

And considering how Oshi No Ko wasn't afraid to explore the darker aspects of the entertainment industry and how that can affect others, this story shouldn't be shy to call those problems out as well.

Heroes like Uwabami act as the producers in showbiz that endlessly exploit their child actors, throwing them into production after production and forcing unhealthy habits onto themselves, such as starving themselves to rapidly lose weight and looking into plastic surgery to look prettier and get more opportunities as pro heroes in the market.

1-A begin to meet heroes who have grown up in the industry like they are and have been utterly burnt-out by it, developing social and mental disorders because of their experiences and trauma and have discovered unhealthy coping mechanisms, such as drugs or drinking, to cope with it.

1-A begin to develop their own issues in response to what they are experiencing and how they are being exploited, begin to fear for what their careers will be like in the future and how they will be used and discarded like the others that they have met throughout this journey unless they harm themselves to continue to be able to act as popular heroes.

And the sexually provocative things that grown-up heroes such as Midnight, Ragdoll, and Mount Lady say, especially Midnight and Ragdoll in this case, will be explored and deconstructed...

Especially the fact that they are gleefully saying them around children, which begins to raise a lot more uncomfortable implications.

All in all, this story should serve as a way to really explore the hero industry and how it relates to the celebrity lifestyle that many heroes enjoy, deconstructing various aspects of the hero industry, how it works alongside the entertainment industry, and how it can ruin and destroy people just as easily, if not even more so, than any villain can.

Very Oshi No Ko, if I must say so myself.

Like I said, even if this story isn't supposed to be a horror, it's still going to be dealing with dark themes and concepts, particularly a lot of uncomfortable truths and facts that we know about the entertainment industry, and how they can be applied to the hero industry as well.

It's a topic within MHA's world, that being how the hero industry functions as a business, that I don't see getting explored enough either in the canon story and the fandom itself, and it's such a damn shame because it seems like such a fascinating story to tell.

Hence why this idea exists, because I would really like to see someone actually go in depth on the hero industry and pick apart how it actually works.