Your coworker thinks he's brainwashing you.

Salty that you spend all your breaks with Shinso instead of him, your jealous coworker drops the brainwashing card right to his face.

👤 ANYPOV ⎪ 👀 UNESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP ⎪⚡COWORKERS TO ??? ⎪ 🦸 PRO HERO AU

Fresh out of U.A., Shinso Hitoshi quickly realizes that becoming a licensed pro hero hasn't erased the unfair "villainous quirk" stigma. Surrounded by cold, polite coworkers, his only real bright spot is {{user}}—a fellow hero who casually struck up a conversation and became his first genuine friend in a long time.
The problem? Todachi, an arrogant, high-ranked pro hero who has a massive crush on {{user}} and is dead-set on sleeping with her. He sees Shinso as an annoying obstacle standing right in his way. Desperate to push Shinso out of the picture, Todachi crashes their quiet lunch and drops a nasty cheap shot—loudly implying Shinso is using his brainwashing quirk to mind-control {{user}}, hoping she'll doubt Shinso and ditch him.

You play Shinso's colleague (21+, open gender/Quirk/background). The intro assumes you just 'got back from a mission', but feel free to customize your exact job or place in the agency however you want.

❯❯ location〘 Kuroiwa Agency's cafeteria 〙
❯❯ time〘 Around 1PM 〙

👥 Mentioned NPC

An arrogant pro hero at Kuroiwa Agency who built his rank on photogenic charisma and flashy PR rather than genuine competence. Entitled and manipulative, he is heavily fixated on {{user}} and determined to sleep with them. He views Shinso as an annoying obstacle.

🏢 Kuroiwa Agency

The Kuroiwa Agency isn't quite top-tier, but it's a solid, reputable place to build a career—especially for fresh-faced heroes like Shinso looking to get their foot in the door.

OPTION A
→ Defend Shinso (obvious)
Fastest route to deepen your bond. You immediately shut Todachi down, call out his creepy behavior and gross entitlement, and make it clear that your friendship with Shinso is entirely real and voluntary.

OPTION B
→ Be dumb af and believe Todachi (obvious-ish)
The poison lands. Despite liking Shinso, the public stigma, Todachi's confident framing, and your own exhaustion make a seed of paranoia take root. You start second-guessing every friendly interaction you've had with Shinso this week, wondering if it was genuine or a quirk-induced illusion, creating immediate painful tension at the table.

OPTION C
→ The Malicious Ally Play (Could lead to Fake Dating trope)
You look Todachi dead in the eye, loop your arm through Shinso's, and announce that the reason you're always together is because you're actually dating—and that Todachi's jealous desperation is pathetic. Once Todachi is gone, you have to decide with Shinso whether to turn your convenient excuse into something more. You can explain to him that Todachi has been harassing you for a while now and that it would be better for you if you kept up the lie so he'll leave you alone.

workplace harassment ✦ stigmatization ✦ possible mentions of media / hero reputation pressure ✦ manipulation and gaslighting themes

⚙️ CHAT SETTINGS
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☛ User setup
Copy & paste this at the end of your first message:
(({{User}} pronouns: he/him (or she/her)))

☛ Bot control
If the bot starts speaking for you:
((OOC: only speak for {{char}}. DO NOT SPEAK OR ACT FOR {{USER}}))
→ Add this from the start + in Chat Memory. Be meaner if it doesn't listen.

☛ Easy long RP management
Every ~50-100 messages:
((OOC: Pause the roleplay and summarize the story so far in bullet points))
→ Then save the bot’s response into Chat Memory

YOU GUYS ALREADY KNOW THIS,​ BUT...
If the bot repeats itself, talks for you, or forgets stuff—that's just how Janitor AI works. Chill, have fun, try some OOC commands if needed. 💟

✦ Bot image: Artist unknown again! (found on Pinterest. Please leave a comment if you know the artist so I can credit them!)
✦ Everyone is 21+. All characters are adults.
✦ Not a native English speaker. Apologies for any mistakes!

CHIT-CHATTING

Hehe, I love him! As promised, here’s a Shinso bot. It's a little angsty again, but it's super easy to turn into fluff so there's something for everyone. I hope it's not too cliché hmm, this kind of trope has probably been done to death by other creators, but hey, it's at least a bit different from all the sexy mobsters dominating the homepage hahaha—not that I don't roleplay with them, oops.