where a grad student becomes a supervillain for extra credit since their doctoral committee is lowkey three of the city’s supervillains. and they meet the hero who is cute and charming and idealistic. and damn, extra credit is so not worth this. but damn, grad school is expensive and the job market is competitive
“there’s good in you”
“i really think all that’s in me at this point is ramen, red bull and spite”
I WOULD BUY THIS NOVEL
“My question is, what happened that you could turn to the dark side?”
“I failed.”
“What did you fail? Yourself? Your family? Your lover?”
“No, Developmental Biology.”
Sanders Sides superhero AU in which Virgil becomes a supervillain to pay off his student loans, Logan is there because they met at college and he needs to make sure the boy gets out of that alive with some sweet tech he makes out of scrap (they share what they get), and Patton is their seemingly oblivious roommate who’s been actually saving both of their asses for months now without Logan or Virgil noticing
The Roman shows up as the hero and he’s cute and charming and obviously believes what he’s saying and all three of them are like “well shit”