MHA/BNHA react to For The Want of A Nail by Clouds part 1

V:TGG 13 Problem child

He turned to glare at Amplifier, who smiled sheepishly at him, "Sorry..."

Dabi: Oh come on he was so close!

"What do you guys have?" Tsukauchi asked as he walked up with paperwork and coffee.

"Viridian's got a new calling card!" Amplifier grinned and dug around in her pockets before triumphantly showing Tsukauchi a green marble identical to the one Shouta had almost dropped. "He's started throwing these instead of rocks so that we know it's him."

Kamui: Eraserhead should still be able to figure out Viridian's suicidality right?

Tsukauchi: He's smart. He should.

Tsukauchi frowned at the marble, then turned to Shouta, "And you have one too?"

Shouta sighed and showed Tsukauchi his marble. Honestly, he wouldn't be surprised if the marbles became a badge of honor among the local heroes. He could see them turning into a sort of membership card for an exclusive club of heroes Viridian trusted even though Viridian went to heroes based on availability, not trust or competence. Still, he wouldn't put it beyond his colleagues to start collecting them.

Joke: Honestly yeah we probably would make it a whole thing.

"It seems he's embracing his popularity then." Tsukauchi said bitterly. "If he's putting in the extra effort to have a signature."

Hagakure: He's not though.

"I don't think that's what he had in mind." Shouta said as he put his marble away. "I don't know if you've heard, but Viridian somehow got his hands on a slingshot, and the marbles are his primary ammo. As far as I know, he wasn't actually planning on them being a calling card."

"He has a slingshot!?" Amplifier bounced up and down in her seat. "Have you seen him use it? Is his aim any good?"

Shouta nodded, "He hasn't mastered it by any means, but he's good enough to get the job done. He led me to a group earlier and kept pelting them with marbles to distract them and make them easier for me to take down, and he didn't hit me once. He'll probably get better with it the longer he trains, but for now, he seems to be more comfortable with close range combat. He has some dual wielding pipes that he uses as bludgeoning weapons."

Toga(thinking): If he sharpens the pipes-

Spinner: Toga we are not giving him more things to stab with.

Toga: Aw!

"Pipes?" Tsukauchi asked. "Aren't they considered an improvised weapon? Why didn't he invest in something better, like tonfa? There are more than enough illegal weapons dealers that he wouldn't have a problem finding something."

Mei: Because that would be illegal support weapons and he's stuck in the loopholes of legality!

"And yet the problem child chooses to use something that can be bought at literally any hardware store." Shouta said. "It does make him harder to track."

All Might: And he's not even doing it on purpose...

Recovery Girl: It's literally just because it's convenient.

Kurogiri: How is Midoriya such a problem child without even trying?

Aizawa: Beats me.

"Not that we're going to bother." Amplifier piped up. "He's not hurting anyone."

"He's a vigilante." Tsukauchi said sternly. "And we need to be prepared to capture him if he ever crosses the line into villainy. You both know how common that is."

Endeavor: At least someone gets it.

They were all silent for a moment as they remembered Stendal and the other vigilantes who had turned. Vigilantes tended to make extremely frightening villains.