god i’m imagining class 1-a noticing that deku doesn’t laugh and trying to make him laugh in random ways, like mina and uraraka try and tell him little puns and jokes but he just lets out hums and smiles at them politely. iida doesn’t really know how to participate but he +

tries to tell deku a joke that sero came up with. deku looks at him confused and takes it seriously for a moment before going “ah!! it was joke! sorry about my mumbling,” and that’s literally it. and that’s when everyone realizes that this is gonna be a lot harder. +

mineta tries telling a dirty joke and deku just kinda looks at him confused with a hint of disgust and goes “that’s... cool. i uh... gotta go” and honestly most of the class is kind of relieved he didn’t find it funny. but the gauntlet is still up. koda and sato ask him to watch+

fail videos together on youtube. koda ends up feeling very sad, sato’s doubled down laughing, and deku ends up just taking notes in certain situations in the videos so he won’t make the same mistakes. so that was a fail. shoji tries next, he shows deku a bunch of his old+

embarrassing childhood videos and deku just coos about how cool shoji must’ve been. but no laugh. tokoyami has dark shadow do a bunch of stupid stuff like juggle and such, and deku asks hi if he’s sick. tokoyami, being very flustered, says that “dark shadow j-just got bored...”+

and deku just goes “ahhh i see! cute,” and pats dark shadow on the head. mission failed but at least they didn’t make him uncomfy. hagakure tries to do makeup on herself and asks deku and aoyama what they think and aoyama literally faints while deku fumbles to try and come up+

with a nice comment. hagakure whines to ojiro while mina and kami try and tend to aoyama who’s still very much light headed. jirou shows him some old music she feels very embarrassed about because she thinks he’ll laugh (nobody would by leave her be she’s insecure) but deku only+

says “wow!! jirou san you’ve gotten so much better, i’m really touched you felt comfortable sharing this with me” that was a nice attempt, jirous v happy he didn’t laugh but she still makes him swear to tell nobody about what he heard and he does. momo makes some weird object to+

try and make him laugh but he just goes “you’ve been improving your quirk a lot, this is super cool!” damn this stupid little himbo. kirishima gets dressed up in a dress with a bunch of the other boys and when deku sees he just gets super nervous cause he thinks he’s gonna have+

to wear a dress as well. ANOTHER FAIL. they call up shinsou and ask him to command deku to laugh. so he does. “hey midoriya” shinsou says in front of everyone “oh! hi shi-“ and dekus immediately under his control. everyone waiting impatiently. “laugh” shinsou says plainly and+

izuku responds with he most devotion and emotionless “ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.” they’ve ever heard. it was kind of scary. todoroki made the hand crusher joke again and deku let out a little amused huff. THAT WAS THE CLOSEST THEYD GOTTEN!!!! everyone was very excited. he was...+

cracking. nope he wasn’t. monoma got in on it and he pinned deku to a wall doing the “hey, you should laugh more~ you always look so upset. come on~” and deku gives the most passive aggressive “haha. thanks. i’ll keep it in mind” theyd ever heard. that’s as also scary.+

finally, they tried one last thing. kaminari and tsuyu snuck up deku and startled to tickle his sides and neck. he shuddered for a moment before turned around confused. “whatre you guys doing?” “are... are you not ticklish??” kaminari asks and deku just smiles confused,+

“ah... no i don’t think so. sorry,” he tries to give them a reassuring smile but everyone kinda died inside. this boy was a monster. now, bakugou tried to stay out of this but seeing all his classmates mope around was getting on his fucking nerves. so, bakugou chose to give them+

what they wanted. he took deku by the hand and dragged him around a corner. everyone was silent for a moment before they heard the purest most sincere laugh, coming from deku! w... what? they all rushed to see what he did but bakugou was already walking away all smug, and+

deku was one the floor still giggling with his face in his hands, the tips of his ears and his cheeks red.