Neat!!! Tell me more about your reverse selfship w Koro-Sensei!!! What kind of media would you be from? How would the general fandom feel about your character?

Anon I love you mwah mwah this is all I was thinking about while at the eye doctor today and lemme tell you. I still have nothing.

Like Koro-Sensei's the easiest to do a reverse Self Ship for because he is a self shipper, especially with cool characters from anime and manga which is what my default media is buuut

I don't think I'd be his type in a fictional setting. Koro-Sensei has a very prominently big titty girl that could beat your ass type when it comes to anime. He likes Shonen and action and cool main characters with super neat powers. I.. don't and probably wouldn't fit into or be from an anime like that (a sweet slice of life maybe, one of the side characters to the main romance?)

I just don't think I as a character would fall into his range. I mean maybe, we all have our outta left field F/Os here and there. It's just unlikely.

Taking into consideration this Highschool or maybe Office Job Slice of Life Comedy Romance setting, I'd probably be a side character, implied canon queer rep in 2015 manga that got censored for the Anime, or even fully cut because I'm just one of the friend group who didn't get a real episode to himself till book 7 or so, and didn't end up with anyone in the end. The manga readers (like Koro-Sensei) are die hard fans, the Anime Onlys have no idea what they're talking about. I have no official merch and the Mangaka only draws me in the big promotional group images sometimes.

I could see Koro-Sensei being really upset about the lack of content about his favorite character and setting out to make it all on his own. He write the X Readers and draws all the fanart and makes a whole Stan blog and everything. Goes really hard about it for two weeks or so, and ends up burning himself out on it. Then he'd switch hyper focus onto something else and leave it all to rot in the bowels of A03.

That's about all I have for it right now, and probably eve will have? At least for Koro-Sensei. I have some other ideas for other Reverse Self Ships thanks to the Discord bouncing the idea around this morning a lot.

I dunno if I'll continue these into anything but they're fun thought experiments! Thankyou for indulging me!

Ok that’s a relief, I probably shouldn’t be too mean because I myself am a writer and have Favourite Guys, don’t want to be a hypocrite. I’ve just read stories before where the writer had an Obvious Favourite that I didn’t care for and I was worried Starlighter would be going down the same path.

Anyways, I kinda like BobaFlint as a ship name, it sounds like Boba Fett and that’s funny. If I had to suggest a proper name it would probably be something like PopRock.

On a different note, isn’t it kinda funny how so far, Everston’s classes include history, potions, cryptidology, dark magic and fighting? Like imagine going to highschool and your classes include history, chemistry, biology, crime and karate lol. Where is math and English? Are these kids not gonna learn to spell because they’re too busy learning spells?

(Of course they could be in My Heartstopper, I just haven’t watched it yet)

POPROCKS IS A SUCH GOOD NAME FOR THEM YOURE SO GIGANTIC BRAINED FOR THAT

LOOK ABOUT THE CLASSES- there probably ARE some like. Normal classes but those aren't ✨️interesting to write about✨️ also Everston is said to be a highly prestigious and specialized school, so Magiclicas probably don't have as many Normal classes and they're focused on more magical things? Vs ciphers have their own curriculum that maybe teaches more of our world's fundamental stuff while also twisting it to be "You are subordinate to Magiclicas" propaganda shoved down their throats.

LOL ALSO DARK MAGIC ISNT CRIMINAL HERE CLEARLY!! (At least not for Magiclicas... [redacted])

This is also me getting into "I don't fully remember the lore but I'm going off vibes of what I remember" but I believe that since the creation of Magiclicas, they've often been having to defend themselves- from those wanting to steal their power, probably putting down uprisings in places that magic oppresses the non-magic, other Magiclicas fighting for other things, and dealing with magical creatures that were created the same way Magiclicas were. Everston definitely isn't the only place in the Starlighter world! (Even if I don't know if or when we're going to get around to talking about them at this rate.) Displays of magic and combat may be one of the few ways that these different places all can relate too.

But because of this history of using magic in defensive and combat situations, I'm assuming that Everston's magic classes are probably based off of a (Possibly outdated) need for students to learn it. Whether it's outdated or not, they ARE arguably still useful in just teaching students to practice and hone their magic skills, to get them thinking how to solve problems with their special skills and teaching more generic magics that all Magiclicas can use but most people don't if they can use their special abilities. Most Magiclicas probably are trained to some extent in magic combat, but not all as extensively as Everston students are by the time they graduate.

Also, students are currently 15-17 as first year students at Everston (Thea is 16 in her entrance exam.) They DO know how to spell and read and write and do math stuff! Just that no one here is probably taking AP lit classes LOL