Izuku was excited. Today was the first day they would start filming with the full cast present and that meant no more early mornings! Izuku wasn't much of a morning person and he was happy that he'd have more of a chance to sleep in. He still arrived at the studio fairly early, but now he had the chance to go back to sleep in his dressing room.

The rest of the staff would be busy. There were a lot of people that would need to be taken to makeup, some voice over that needed to be recorded, and probably other stuff that Izuku wasn't really interested in. Reiko would be having a busy morning, that was for sure.

There was coffee waiting for him when he woke up. He probably had Takeyama to thank for it. She always made coffee runs, since she was pretty much useless in the mornings without it. He silently thanked her, but he was pretty sure that he would forget by the time he actually saw her. He put on his costume, but he didn't bother to worry about his hair. Someone would want to drag him back into makeup later anyway.

He avoided the break room for a while, wandering around the studio to watch as everyone scurried about and made preparations. Things would be more organized after this, he was sure, once everyone got used to the new filming schedule, but for now it left him bored and wandering. That was how he ended up talking with some of the staff members, one of which was Itsuka Kendo.

Kendo was more in charge of tech effects, as opposed to the practical effects that Mei seemed to do. She ended up showing some of her work to Izuku as she explained what she did.

"Wait, you mean the principal is entirely CGI?" Izuku asked.

Itsuka laughed. "Here, let me show you." She gestured to the laptop in front of her. "I'm not entirely sure what he's supposed to be, I didn't come up with the design, but he's not human and it was decided that makeup wouldn't really do it justice." She displayed the image of the principal and showed a few minutes of where he'd been inserted into the show.

"What about the scenes where he's supposed to be with us?" he asked.

"They'll probably have markers for where you should look and he probably won't have too much of a screen presence," Itsuka explained. "The principal's not even the only one! Someone in your class is supposed to be green screened to be invisible."

"Really?" Izuku should probably start reading ahead in the script a little more.

The door to the room suddenly burst open, startling them both. "Oh? You didn't know such a simple thing as that? How self centered can you be?" Monoma yelled out.

Itsuka glared at him. "How many times do I have to tell you to stop barging into rooms?"

"Don't explain things to this simpleton?" Monoma went on. "He's clearly too self absorbed to pay attention to his other cast members!"

"Stop yelling, you idiot."

"You would think the star of the show would show more consideration-" Itsuka lunged out of her seat and grabbed Monoma, cutting him off.

"Stop doing this every time!" she demanded, shaking him in frustration. "I swear to god, I'll put you and Hatsume on a leash!"

As amusing as it was to watch, Izuku decided that he should attempt to grab something from the break room before filming started. "I'll see you around, Itsuka."

She briefly waved at him before continuing to scold Monoma. Izuku snickered as he left the room and closed the door behind him. Might as well leave them their privacy.

Ochako had a mission when she arrived at the studio. She dumped her things in her dressing room before marching to the main makeup room and bursting inside. "Reiko, I need you!"

Several people looked up, both those in chairs and those working on others. Ochako ignored all of them as looked around for Reiko. She spotted the silver haired girl styling some blonde's hair and immediately approached. She grabbed Reiko's hand and turned her around.

"Reiko! What are you doing? I need you! This is an emergency?" she insisted.

Reiko looked taken aback and resisted her pull. "Huh? But I'm already..."

"Someone else can do it," Ochako told her. "This is really important and you're the only one that I trust to do such an important thing."

"Seriously?" One of the other makeup artist said. "Can't you wait?"

"I can't!" Ochako answered without looking away from Reiko. Her gaze was imploring and after a moment Reiko sighed.

"Can someone take over for me?" Reiko asked softed. "I'm sorry to be a burden, but-"

"Don't worry Reiko!" A blonde wearing fake horns waved her off. She was working on turning some girl entirely pink. "I'll cover for you."

"You don't have time to take anyone else's work, Tsunotori," one of the other's said.

"I can do it!" The blonde turned to the girl in her chair. "Tell them I can do it!"

"She can totally do it!" the pink girl cheered. "Give her a chance."

"Don't just..."

"Great!" Ochako smiled. She took hold of Reiko's shoulders and lead her out of the room. "I knew that I could count on you."

"Huh? You...you did?" Reiko questioned.

"Of course. You're the best makeup artist that I know." Ochako didn't bother pointing out that Reiko was the only makeup artist on set that she had worked with. That would be completely beside the point.

When they got inside her dressing room, Reiko went straight to the makeup table. "If you give me a moment I can start-"

"No, no, not that stuff yet." Ochako dumped the contents of her bag on the table, letting the makeup she'd brought from home spill out. Various lipsticks, eye shadows, foundation, blush, everything she had was spread out before her. She turned a determined look to Reiko. "I need you to make me look irresistible."

"But... the shoot," Reiko objected softly.

"We can worry about that later," Ochako said. "We've got tons of time, but I need to be as attractive as possible to catch Izuku's attention."

Reiko's eyes widened. "What?"

Ochako looked Reiko in her eyes as she stated, "Izuku and I shared a moment."

"A...moment?"

She nodded. "After we were finished the last episode. We stared deep into each other's eyes and I know that something sparked between us, but someone interrupted. He told me that you do the best work, too."

"He...he did?" Reiko questioned softly.

"Yes." Ochako clasped her hands together and closed her eyes as she remembered. They had shared so many moments together last time that just thinking about it made her heartbeat. "So I just know that if you make me look good, he'll fall all over himself for me."

"I... I don't think..."

Ochako looked at her with a smile. "So you'll do it, right?" She moved closer to Reiko and took her hands. "Please?"

"I... suppose," Reiko agreed.

"Yes!" Ochako clapped her hands together. "Thank you so much! I knew that I could count on you!"

When Izuku went to the break room, he was surprised to find that the tables were piled with boxes of doughnuts. There were quite a few people already lingering around the room. Someone was sleeping under one of the tables and Takeyama waved at him as she shoved a sweet into her mouth. She muffled a good morning to him, he thought she did at least, and he waved back.

"Oh good morning." A boy with red and white hair greeted him. "I'm Shouto Todoroki. It's nice to meet you."

"Oh, it's nice to meet you, too," Izuku answered. "I'm Izuku Midoriya."

"Would you like a doughnut?" he asked. "I bought them for everyone to celebrate. Let's all work hard today."

"You bought all these?" Izuku asked. He reached out to take a few, since there were so many, and sat down at a nearby table.

Todoroki moved to sit across from him. "Yeah. My father is also part of the cast. He's playing one of the pro heroes."

"Cool," Izuku said between bites of food. "My dad's the director."

Todoroki was really friendly and talkative. Izuku was pretty sure he was the most normal and sane cast member that he'd met so far, which was a relief. He shouldn't be so surprised that so many eclectic people ended up as actors, but was it too much to ask that a few more be normal?

"Good morning, Izuku," Ochako called out as she entered the room.

Apparently it was.

Izuku gave her a halfhearted wave. "Hey."

He didn't expect her to sit right next to him, or even at his table really, but she did just that, smiling at him brightly. It was a little off putting and Izuku moved away from her subtly. "What are you doing?" she asked him.

"I would have thought that'd be obvious," he replied, taking another bite of his doughnut.

"Good morning," Todoroki greeted her with a smile. "I'm Shouto Todoroki."

"Oh, hi." Ochako barely glanced at him. Izuku shoved the rest of his doughnut in his mouth, contemplating making an excuse to bow out of the conversation.

"You there!" Choppy Arms entered the room with a loud exclamation, stiffly marching towards one of the other tables. "Think of your other coworkers and leave some for them." He was threatening Takeyama with his Kung Fu grip, chopping the air over and over in front of her.

Takeyama was entirely unimpressed. She looked him in his eye as she slowly lifted another doughnut, taking one from the box despite having one already on her plate, and taking a large bite.

Karate Chop looked so taken aback that Izuku nearly burst out laughing.

"Something funny, Midoriya?" Todoroki questioned. He tried to follow Izuku's gaze, but he didn't know what was so funny about watching his cousin- Katsuki's cousin!- refuse manners from a robot.

Izuku tried to contain his laughter so that he could explain. "So, that guy," he gestured to Choppy. "That guy is a robot."

"Huh?"

"What?" Ochako's voice was louder than Todoroki's, but seeing the surprise on her face was very satisfying. "No way!"

"Do you have proof otherwise?" Izuku asked.

"Who is that?" Todoroki asked.

Izuku shrugged. "I don't know. I've been calling him Choppy Arms. Or Karate Chop. Or... well, it doesn't matter. Look at how he moves, though! Tell me you don't think he's a robot."

"This is entirely inappropriate behavior," Choppy Arms was still attempting to scold Takeyama. She'd moved into a reclining position with her legs thrown over the table's edge and was giving him a lazy smile.

"He does sound pretty robotic," Ochako admitted.

"I'm almost positive that they gave his part to a robot to help it evolve far enough to learn sentience or something," Izuku told them.

"That can't be right," Todoroki said. The three of them were all watching the spectacle that Kung Fu Grip was making. "Where would the studio get a robot?"

"Someone had to build it," Ochako said. "Maybe one of the special effects crew?"

"Mei didn't do it, but I haven't asked anyone else," Izuku told them.

"Hmm. Can we test it?" she wondered out loud.

"Hold on," Todoki said. He stood up, picking up an empty plate and putting a doughnut on it before moving toward Choppy. "Hello, I'm Shouto Todoroki. I'm the one that bought all of these doughnuts today and I wanted to offer you one in greeting."

"Ah. I am Tenya Iida. It is good to meet such a considerate coworker. I am very grateful for your offering." Karate Chop bowed at the waste, very formal, very stiff. He accepted the plate. Both Izuku and Ochako leaned forward in interest. Todoroki's expectant smile went a long way toward encouraging the Action Figure to pick up the treat.

"Think he'll really do it?" Ochako asked.

"He has to if he wants to prove he's human," Izuku replied.

"What's this?" A loud voice from the doorway stole everyone's attention. Present Mic and All Might entered the room. "Whoa! Who brought all these doughnut?"

"This looks like a job for All Might!" The man announced as he strode toward one of the tables.

"Shut up," Toshinori scolded. He was walking in All Might's shadow, a space that he seemed to occupy often and Izuku wondered if it was done on purpose or not. "You're too loud. It's giving me a headache."

"You two!" Action Figure put down his plate and marched toward the new arrivals. "You are causing too much of a disruption." It would be unfair to say that his shouting was a loud as theirs, nothing was as loud as Present Mic or All Might, but the fact remained that he was yelling. Someone should adjust his voice modulator. "You should be ashamed of yourselves. As responsible adults I demand that you show more consideration for to the rest of us."

Todoroki wandered back over to them as the loudest people in the room continued their back and forth. "He didn't eat it," Todoroki reported. Not that such a report was needed. Both Izuku and Ochako had already sagged in defeat.

"Damn, I wanted to know what would happen," Ochako sighed.

"Do you think he would have malfunctioned?" Izuku asked. "Or would he have just mashed it into his face because he doesn't understand eating protocols?"

"Hmm. You really think he's robotic?" Todoki wondered.

"I become more convinced all the time," Izuku admitted.

"Why all this noise?" The person that had been sleeping under the table sat up, staring at everyone with beary eyed displeasure. He was wrapped up in a sleeping bag, looking cozy and ridiculous in equal measures.

"It's Shota!" Present Mic announced, pointing at the man with both hands.

"Of course it's you," The human caterpillar groaned. "Who else would be this loud."

"I am here!" All Might added, as if in answer.

"Don't remind me." He looked up to see Toshinori and nodded at him. "Toshinori."

"Aizawa," Toshinori nodded back. "You still sleeping around all over the place."

Izuku saw Takeyama's head turn in their direction, suddenly interested in their conversation. He tried very hard to ignore the implication and pretend that she was reacting to something other than the obvious.

"Don't make it sound like that," Aizawa replied.

"How else should it sound?"

"Alright," Izuku said as he pushed himself out of his seat. "I'm gonna get out of here before I get a headache."

"It was nice to talk with you," Todoroki said. "I look forward to working with you,"

Izuku nodded. "Yeah, you too. I'm glad to have you around."

He was on his way out when he heard Ochako exclaim, "Oh no! My plan totally failed!"

Izuku didn't bother to wonder what plan she was talking about. He would probably be due on set soon and he should find Katsuki to tell him what he'd missed. He needed to know how close they'd come to learning the truth.

"Good work, young Midoriya!" All Might praised Izuku loudly when they finished filming their scene, patting him on the back hard enough to make him stumble.

"Watch your strength," Izuku complained. "You almost knocked me over."

All Might turned instantly repentant. "I'm sorry, are you okay? I don't know my own strength sometimes, I didn't mean to-"

"You're acting like Reiko," Izuku said.

"Young Reiko is fine lass!"

"That's... not really the point here." Izuku sighed. He walked off set, taking a water bottle offered by his dad.

Mei popped up next to him and asked excited, "Do you wanna see some blood?"

Izuku choked on his water. Hisashi pat his back as he coughed.

"I'm sure she means fake blood," Hisashi said in an attempt to soothe him. "Though I do not know why she would make such an offer anyway."

"It's a prop for All Might and Toshinori," Mei explained. "It was just used in the scene you just filmed."

"Mei, please do not corrupt my son with your rampant energy," Hisashi said.

"What does that mean?" she responded with a pout.

"Why would I want to look at fake blood?" Izuku asked once he'd stopped coughing.

"Because it's cool!"

"It's not." Izuku looked over his shoulder and called out, "Hey All Might! Hatsume wants to show you something."

All Might rushed to their side quickly, ending on a pose as dramatic as something his character would perform. Izuku suddenly wondered if All Might was written to be as dramatic as he was or if the character was made by the performance. "What is it, young Hatsume?"

"Wanna see some blood?"

Watching someone that big falter was pretty amusing. "B-blood?"

"Yeah!" She grabbed his arm. "You're done filming for now, right? Come on, I'll tell you how we get the texture right."

"I-I don't think this is the best idea..." All Might argued softly.

Mei had already launched into an explanation and wasn't hearing anything that All Might had to say.

"That was pretty devious of you," Katsuki said.

"It's fine. She's not gonna break him," he replied.

"You sure?" Katsuki questioned. "He doesn't look like he'll be okay."

"He will be."

Filming with a full cast was more difficult than Izuku had expected. There were a lot of re-shoots, since any one of them could do something wrong that caused the whole seen to be useless.

"Aizawa, stop going to sleep on set," Hisashi scolded.

They all looked to their "teacher" but he showed no signs of moving.

"Get your feet off of the desk!" Karate Chop scolded Katsuki.

Katsuki looked at him with confusion. "Huh?"

"There's no reason to stay in that position when we're not currently filming."

"Seriously?" The exasperation in Katsuki's voice was clear, but he still obeyed the ridiculous request and put his feet back on the floor.

Ochako raised her hand as she looked at the director, likely to assure that she got his attention. "Um, I don't think he's waking up."

"I'll do it! I'll do it!" A girl that Izuku had mentally dubbed Green Screen jumped up and down, waving her hand. She was wearing a green screen suit beneath a school because her character was supposed to be invisible. She had very expressive body language and that would probably help her character, though Izuku had a hard time picturing what it would look like in the finished project. "Someone toss me a bottle of water!"

"I've got one!" Another energetic girl, this one dipped in pink, approached Green Screen happily, offering the water bottle in triumph.

Their joy was doused quickly by Hisashi saying, "Do not pour water on him."

"Aww," both girls were audibly and visibly disappointed.

Karate Chop used his Kung Fu to wake their sleeping coworker. "This kind of behavior is very unprofessional of you! To fall asleep on the job is utterly unfathomable!"

It was probably the repeated chopping and not the long winded lecture that woke Aizawa, but the man didn't make any acknowledging gestures. Instead, once his eyes opened, he quietly lifted a juice box from his sleeping bag and sipped on it.

"Don't ignore me!" Choppy objected, doubling down on his Kung Fu action as his scolding increased. Izuku couldn't actually tell if there was any impact, since the blows rained down so quickly and Aizawa didn't react to them in the slightest.

"Is it really okay for you to be hitting him like that?" A spiky red head asked. Izuku was disappointed in the lack of apparent nicknaming fodder, but he did vaguely remember this guy. Izuku was fairly certain they talked when they filmed the opening credits, but that was so long ago, it almost didn't factor. Was it worth it to remember someone he couldn't give a nickname to?

Watching Karate Chop back pedal so readily was pretty humorous though. He spit apologies rapidly and loudly, doing more of those stiff bows that made Izuku wonder if his joints were calibrated correctly.

"Alright, back to your places everyone," Hisashi told them. "Aizawa, please do not fall asleep and miss your cue this time."

Aizawa just grunted in acknowledgement.

That was only the first of many interventions from the director. Izuku went from being annoyed by all the interruptions to amused by his crew mates antics.

"Aoyama, stop looking directly at the camera."

"This stunt is rather dangerous, don't you think? Maybe I should have my stunt double doing this," he winked at the camera. Or the cameraman. Izuku still couldn't tell. Was it even the same cameraman? Was there an illicit affair secretly going on right before his eyes?

"All you have to do is jump backwards." Hisashi sounded exhausted and Izuku didn't envy him.

"I don't want to hurt my tooshie." Izuku was pretty sure they all felt the same amount of disgust with him as a person in that moment.

"Oh? Something like that is too much for you? How pathetic can you be?" Monoma appeared out of nowhere to mock them, laughing madly. He was wearing contacts and a wig to look like his fellow narcissist, and he quickly took the belt from around his waist.

"Monoma, just... do the stunt," Hisashi said in exasperation.

"He's a stunt double?" Katsuki questioned quietly. Apparently not quietly enough, since Monoma responded.

"I do all the heavy lifting around here!"

If Izuku was honest though, filming with Monoma was not worse than having to deal with a dandy.

...

"Tooru, did you just throw your shoes across the finish line?" Hisashi's voice bordered on incredulous.

"No, I ran!"

"Tooru... you're not actually invisible... I can see you."

"You can't prove that to me."

Hisashi rubbed at his temples and Izuku felt for his dad.

...

"Mic, don't ad lib your narration."

"I was trying to add some spice to the scene!"

"You already recorded your lines for this scene!"

"Ack!"

...

Then there were the times when everyone else started to complain about each other's performance, too. It started with Aizawa ad libbing a few lines and Choppy taking offense to it. Then someone made a comment about "the main character" being lame and Katsuki took offense to that. Then before Izuku knew what was happening, Ochako was chasing the others around and yelling about them "picking on" him, and Katsuki had wrapped him in a hug, telling him over and over that he could be a hero.

Izuku just sighed and let it happen. He wondered if the rest of the cast would be surprised when they found out how different he was from his character. He wondered if they were surprised to see how different Katsuki was from his character.

"Take it easy, Kacchan," Izuku said, just to poke at his best friend a little.

Katsuki looked at him like he'd been betrayed.

Once they'd finished filming, Izuku waited for Katsuki. One of the guys that Ochako had chased around for joking about his character had slung an arm over Katsuki's shoulder. The guy was blond and wearing a repentant look that lead Izuku to think that he was apologizing. Either way, Katsuki didn't look much more than confused as he approached.

"Hey, Katsuki. Did you aquire a new growth?" Izuku asked with a smile.

"Yeah, this guy wanted to apologize for earlier," Katsuki explained.

"Hey. I'm Denki Kaminari," The guy raised two fingers to his head in a salute and winked.

"And I'm Mina Ashido!" The pink girl announced, suddenly pouncing on Katsuki from the other side.

"Wha?" Katsuki muttered in confusion before cutting himself off in surprise as Green Screen jumped up in front of them.

"And I'm Tooru Hagakure!"

"Mina, why do you always try to move in on my territory," Kaminari asked. He was giving her a teasing smile.

Mina returned the smile with a wink. "I'm just here to give you a hard time."

"You two are friends, huh?" Izuku asked, pointing between them. He would admit that if Katsuki was going to start hanging out with other cast members, having some of the most interesting ones would be the best choice. Izuku could already see amusing possibilities.

"Yep! We've been friends for years," Mina answered.

"Unfortunately," Kaminari added.

Green Screen jumped on Mina and gave her a hug. "And I'm friends with her!"

"We auditioned together," Mina explained.

"Why are you all crowding me?" Katsuki asked. His confusion was kinda priceless.

Green screen moved closer to poke him in cheek. "Because you're cool!" she said.

"How so?" Katsuki asked with a frown. "My character is a bully."

"An egostical asshole in fact," Kaminari added..

Green Screen posed dramatically with a hand over her heart. "Because you're sensative."

"What?" Katsuki looked entirely confused.

"Probably because you insist on hugging me whenever your character hurts your feelings," Izuku said teasingly. "He and I auditioned together, too. I was trying out for the asshole and he wanted to be the main character, but they thought that he looked more intimidating."

"Is that so? Hmm..." Mina placed her hand on her chin and studied them both closely.

Kaminari placed a hand on her forehead and pushed her face away. "Don't crowd him like that."

"You're one to talk," Green Screen said in a sing song tone.

Mina just giggled.

Izuku decided it would be cruel not to rescue his best friend at this point. He reached out for Katsuki's hand and pulled him from Kaminari's arms. Izuku made a show of dusting him off and petting Katsuki's head just so that Katsuki would get mad and tell him to knock it off. Katsuki could be a pushover sometimes, but he was comfortable enough with Izuku to express himself and Izuku wanted to make him look good in front of his potential new friends. That meant making him look like someone that couldn't be easily taken advantage of.

"Come on, Izuku, help me find my cousin so I can get out of here," Katsuki said.

"You have family on set?" Mina asked.

The five of them continued talking as they wandered around the studio. They ended up finding Takeyama in the break room chatting with Toshinori, which resulted in their group sitting down to listen to their friendly banter. At some point Todoroki showed up and started talking to everyone, then Choppy arrived and that sparked a conversation about his robotic origins. It was a lively way to end the day, but Izuku was sure he would be exhausted if this was how every shoot ended.