'If I was in a story, I'd want to be the main character. Most main characters are somewhat relatable, right? It would be cool to be an inspiration to people.

Although...being a side character wouldn't hurt, or perhaps the antagonist? It would be awesome, really. People love the side characters, the villains!

Maybe I shouldn't say it like that, it's probably not a good idea to say I want to be a villain. Society would definitely take offense to that- evil dude who wants to blow up the earth, I mean. Wait, that's a villain, oops.'

"Hellooooo-!" F/n waved her hands in front of my face, "Are you doing your weird book thinking again?"

"This is my interior monologue, damn it!" I quoted as I copied her waving. She burst into giggles, causing me to follow after her.

'Or I could just be that one dude who just casually walked past the threatening in that one show; he's plenty memorable if you remember him.'

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"I'm assuming you all want to be heros, but I know there are some of you who won't. That's perfectly alright! Just write down what you want, and I'll grab a sheet from the career jobs I've already printed. If I don't have a ready list of recommended schools for what you want to do, I'll create one afterschool with the other teachers." Mrs. Garcia looked around the room to check whether anyone had their hand raised. No one did.

"It's perfectly alright to have questions. If you have any or are unsure of what you want to do, feel free to talk with me after class, during tutorials, or with email. That's what I'm here for."

With her words, people seemed to relax a bit more- she was definitely a great teacher, pretty much an ideal one as well.

'Shame this is just a middle school, what I wouldn't give to have her as my teacher next year. Although I wouldn't stay here if it wasn't a hero course.'

I dropped out of my thoughts to see several sheets of paper on my desk. Realizing I was supposed to pass it back, I did so with all but one of them, leaving me staring at it.

I wrote my name on it first, but then I realized how tough being a hero, a protagonist would be. Physical education wasn't my favorite subject, one of my least favorite, really. Probably my least favorite, actually.

'And I'm definitely gonna need a lot of PE for the hero course...I'm totally gonna die.'

My other subjects were actually pretty good for the fact that I rarely studied. My Math, English, Japanese, and Social Studies were all honors classes, and I usually kept my overall grades in the 80s and above. Of course there were the occasion five question daily grade that I'd get a 20 on because of dumb mistakes, but those had almost no effect on it.

'So I can study, maybe, if I remember...But running and stuff? Actually, running isn't too bad, as long as it's not for too long.'

I looked at the piece of paper, noticing the header- "HERO SCHOOLS". I was hesitant to look below the lines, but eventually did so. Schizodia, Husan, UA, Raedin...They all had such fancy names, besides UA.

'A protagonist would either go to UA and have adventures there or go to one of those fancy name schools and probably have the story about proving that where you go isn't how good of a hero you could be, maybe.

Honestly, I don't want to wait another three years for a maybe possible chance to be a protagonist, to inspire people.

...And to have a nice, snazzy love interest..- wait, did I really just say snazzy to describe a person?'

"Oh, you want to go to UA? Train hard then, and do well on the exam. I suggest applying for several schools as well, so you can pick which one you want to go to if you don't make it in." that was Mrs. Garcia, offering her normal, helpful advice. I smiled, thanked her, (with a nod I wasn't sure if she noticed- does anyone notice nods that are made to them?) and went back into my thoughts.

'Ok, so I'm gonna be a hero course student person. And I'm going to die in PE, but it's got to be more fun while beating people up, right? And that's what we'll be doing as grown, totally mature adults, so we'll be doing it as not grown, totally not mature teenagers.

And it's going to most likely be entertaining, which means it will most likely be a show or something. But what if life is a lie, and I don't exist?

Meh, I'll probably be the main character of some random fanfic, hah. Maybe some random person in another universe will watch an anime and think 'hey, I want to read a story about a person who's self aware but can't be bothered to find it on my other dimensional Whattpad, why don't I write it?''