[ID: digital drawing of a rowlet popsicle but it’s one of those scuffed ice creams you get from the neighborhood ice cream truck. Its eyes are off-center and horribly askew. Its mouth is above its eyes. Everything about it is melting. ]
Everyone knows that Hizashi has to feed his husband. Shouta CAN cook but finds it too much effort, so he prefers the jelly meal replacements. I HC that (similar to Nedzu) Hizashi has a need to make sure that the people he loves get fed because growing up, he had food issues. Muzzled as a kid in foster care, he didn't have easy access to food, and therefore food became a form of love affirmation. It's why he gives Izuku and Hitoshi snacks whenever he sees them in the halls.
What most don't know is that what Hizashi is with food Shouta is with sleep. His husband works three full jobs, volunteers, and has a slue of commissioned design work he does under a pseudonym. The man is busy with a capital B. Often, Shouta has to force the blond to sleep. Which he does with love, because sleep is a form of trust and safety. This is also why Shouta will not wake up a student that falls asleep in his class. He was once a scared foster kid that could only sleep where he felt safe. It's also a bad kept secret that Shouta will stay up to lul students back to sleep after nightmares.
I'm about to go into full crackpot tinfoil hat theorizing so feel free to tell me I'm being stupid about this but hear me out.
So, the shade that Milo and Sweetheart fought when they first met (because I was one of the probably many that went back and relistened to Milo after that April Fools video) was more intelligent than most shades which was why it was so dangerous, right? And it was at the E&E Games feeding on people, right?
What if that wasn't an accident or some freak phenomenon? What if it was a test? A prototype for a bigger project? Oh say...the Inversion?
Now, I haven't fully listened to Closeknit or Avior's whole story so I am missing a lot of details that would probably help me here but fuck it, we ball.
Do you think the shade was a prototype test subject from Closeknit or the Sovereigns to see what they could do? See how long it would take for someone to notice the shade was there and take it down? To see how much they could get away with? Did they wait for the E&E Games to come back to Dahlia specifically to unleash their full project because of it? Was the Department's lackluster response to the one shade give them the confidence to believe they could pull it off without much interference? Cause I love Sweetheart, don't get me wrong, but they were still a newbie on their first mission being assigned to a shade. Mind you, they wanted to elevate the problem when they figured out it was a shade but still, first impressions.
I dont know what this is, it's 1 AM, my brain is shutting down and I'm 97% sure someone has thought of this and talked about it before but fuck y'all, this is my show.