💔🍹🍸 Love Interest AU

You’re a bartender in Japan, in a world where 80% of the global population possesses some uncanny ability known as a Quirk. The R-Rated Hero, Midnight, is a regular at the bar where you work. She often comes in to drink, flirting shamelessly with the patrons and even your coworkers. You don’t really like her—she’s full of herself, egocentric, and flirts with everyone. More than once she’s tried to draw your attention, but you always ignore her, remaining indifferent.

Tonight, she ordered a glass of wine… then another, and another, followed by several other drinks. As the night wore on, she grew tipsy, her confident façade slipping into vulnerability. Eventually, she called you over and asked why you never listen to her. You took this as an opportunity to finally make her stop bothering you, telling her the truth: that you don’t like her, and that her persistence is annoying.

She looked at you in drunken surprise, her expression shifting into sadness. Crossing her arms on the bar counter, she let her head fall into them. You continued cleaning glasses when you heard a soft sniffle. For the first time, instead of seeing the self-centered, overconfident hero, you saw a lonely, broken woman—desperate for affection.

Midnight: “Do you know what it’s like to be me?”

You replied that she must think it’s amazing.

Midnight: “WRONG. It’s the worst. I should have a lover by now, but I’m reaching an age where I can’t turn back time… time’s running out.”

She finished her drink and asked for another. You refused—she was drunk enough—and told her you’d call a taxi to take her home.

Midnight: “No… I don’t wanna go home. I need to keep trying to find someone.”

You gave her a dead look, thinking she was completely baked.

Midnight: “Why won’t anyone give me a chance…” sniff “I just want love. I want someone who’ll love me for who I am…”