Shoto Todoroki (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
numbertwohero) wrote2019-06-22 03:04 pm
numbertwohero) wrote2019-06-22 03:04 pm
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[Please hold while he goes to look at the network he largely ignores.]
...
Yeah. That's my dad.
I didn't even know he had that photo...
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Um
So is it
all right?
I mean
What should I do? Should I do anything?
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It's stupid, though. His words don't mean anything. He's still an ass. I'll never forgive him for what he did to my mom.
Did he say anything to you???
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I mistook it for your account and asked about the picture... because I thought it was wonderful how small and happy you were
And then he said the picture was his wife and son
And then I asked who he was
And then he said you were about 4 when it was taken
And after that I texted you.
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It wasn't all happy back then, but it was better when she was around.
I usually just use my own name for things, so if you see posts from Shoto, that's me
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What happened to her?
If I may ask
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Do you have family back where you're from?
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How old are you now?
[ and now, filed under "questions that should not in any way be this difficult to answer"!!!
it'd be easy to just spout some bullshit... he has a cover story for a reason. but doesn't todoroki deserve more than that? (...but on the other hand, isn't the truth just too bizarre? anyone would be creeped out if titus just dumped all that on them.) (besides, this conversation is about todoroki, not him! what kind of third-rate friend would he be if he suddenly came out with such a ridiculous dramatic story?) (not that it's a terribly interesting one, really.) ]
I do
More or less.
That is
The Alexius family is quite extensive, but I never had occasion to spend much time with any of my relatives.
Aside from my mother, of course.
[ he wonders whether lady scheherazade would approve of his calling her his "mother." he's always thought of her as being like a mother to him... at least, ever since he understood what a mother was... but that doesn't mean she felt the same way. ]
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[Relevant questions! But equally difficult to answer. Sorry, Titus. But hey, at least he's not one to judge a dramatic story. Just look at him and the way he tends to talk about his own family...give him time.]
It's that way with mine, too. I've got two older siblings
Well, three, sort of
But I wasn't really allowed to spend much time with them. I had to focus on training. So it was just me and my dad most of the time.
Do you miss her?
I hit a wrong button and posted too soon!!!
About the same!
In another few months, it will have been exactly sixteen years.
[ what a totally cool and normal way to answer that question. #nailedit
...siblings, huh. titus supposes he's had a few of those, too... other children scheherazade created the way she did him, who must have carried out their missions and then returned to reach the ends of their lives in reim. he doesn't really know anything about any of them, other than that they existed. were they cultivated for a longer or shorter time than he was (and then lived a correspondingly longer or shorter time in the world outside)? where did they go, and what were their names? did they feel the way he does?
better that he doesn't know, maybe. ]
Why "sort of"?
And—you were not "allowed"? That is awful...
Why did you have to train so hard?
I do miss her.
But things had become somewhat complicated between us, and she was not really happy with me...
When I think about talking to her again, I feel very nervous.
You're fine! Happens to me all the time
[Totally cool, totally normal. Listen, maybe it's just part of Titus's slightly more formal and fancy way of speaking! Either way, it's kind of nice to know there's more people his own age around.]
My oldest brother left when I was pretty young. I don't really remember him much
That's...kind of complicated. Short answer is my dad. But it's fine, now. Or it's getting there. I see my brother and sister more often, and I visit my mom, too.
[The less he has to say about his dad, the better.]
I understand. Sometimes it's hard. Talking to them. Or just talking at all.
My dad and I always end up arguing.
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which would it be for him? the day he awoke in the darkness? or the day he, at last, emerged into the light?
...well, it doesn't matter. he actually has an answer for this one. ]
The year is measured very differently in this world, so I could not really say when it would be by this reckoning. I have simply been keeping a tally of the days since I arrived here.
It is hard. I feel terribly guilty about it, but in some ways, it's a relief that I could not contact her now even if I wanted to.
Though there are also times when I feel as though I would give anything to hear her voice, even if imagining what she might say to me is a bit daunting.
Is it bad to argue with him?
I mean
Is it worse than the way things were between you before? Or have you always only argued?
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[Nice save, Titus. But also: time 2 pick a day!!]
Does that mean you're coming up on a year of being here?
Things have always been like this. Although it's...I don't know. Lately he's been trying to talk to me like he thinks he's different, but he's still just the same person. He still thinks he knows best, and acts like I'm just being some dumb rebellious teenager for not just rolling over and accepting whatever shitty apology he's not really offering.
I'm sorry about your mom, though. What happened between you?
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It sounds very frustrating. I am sorry there is no way to avoid it, even here. How bizarre that the two of you, out of everyone on so many different worlds, would both be chosen by the moons, or whomever.
I left Reim to study at the academy in Magnostadt, but she and I kept in daily contact. And she disapproves of many of the choices I have made there... not without reason, since I did cause quite a bit of trouble. But essentially, at this point, she thinks it is about time for me to go back, while I would dearly love to stay.
[ "essentially" is doing a lot of work in this explanation, as are "disapproves" and "choices," but... well! ]
Of course, in the end, I came here instead. Which was not on purpose, of course, but who knows whether she would have accepted that excuse. That is one reason I was so relieved to find out we are on a separate timeline here.
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[After all, friends celebrate with each other, right? Right. He's pretty sure that's what they are, and that's how this works.]
I think I know a little about what you mean. My dad doesn't really approve of a lot of mine, either...and the ones he does, he approves for the wrong reasons. It's really frustrating. But there's a lot of people from my world here. Some of my teachers, and a lot of my classmates. At least I have them, too. Maybe you've met some of them?
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What do you mean? Celebrate?
Ah! I have a classmate from my world here, as well. He arrived not long ago, and he has become much, much taller and older than he was when I knew him, but of course he is still a dear friend.
Other than your father, do you get along well with everyone here from your world? If that many of your teachers and classmates are here, I wonder whether you could simply reestablish the school and continue your studies as normal.
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[Granted, he's never done too much, but Fuyumi had always insisted on something, even if it was incredibly small and quiet.]
That's good. I'm glad. It's like that with some of my classmates, too. Some of them are from months after I am, and some others went to a different world first before coming here...it makes figuring out age really complicated.
I guess I get along okay with most of them. I don't really talk to most of them much. Midoriya and Iida the most, probably. Jiro too. And we could probably do classes, but with how crazy this place gets, I don't know if we could keep to any kind of schedule.
I am training, though, and I'm learning first aid. There's definitely no point in just sitting back and not trying to learn as much as I can about this place, while we're here. I want to be useful.
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Oh! Yes, of course, people often celebrate their birthdays in my world as well!
I simply misunderstood. I thought perhaps you were referring to one of the many festivals they observe here in Lunatia.
But it is a little hard to know exactly when to celebrate it. You mentioned yours is coming up if the calendar is right, but unless the date in your world when you left and the date in this world when you arrived were exactly the same, the normal anniversary date will not really correspond with the date on which you've completed your seventeenth year of life.
[ ... ]
Right?
[ now back to the easy part!!! ]
Midoriya, Iida, and Jiro. I do not recall having met anyone by those names as of yet, but I will keep an eye out for them! After all, you and I get along, and you and those three get along, so there is probably no reason the three of them and I will not get along.
What exactly do you mean when you say you want to be useful?
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[Which, fine. Whatever, no big deal.]
I think you'd like them. They're good people. Midoriya especially--I owe him a lot.
I mean, I want to be able to help people, however I can. Back home, I was training to be a hero. Someone who helps people, or fights villains, or rescues civilians from disaster or accidents. Here I'm sort of having to learn some new skills, too. Chroma makes everything kind of complicated.
[He's still figuring out how this all works, okay, asking a 16-year-old who's never even thought about kissing another person romantically to start kissing people--or more!!--for energy is complicated...]
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Well
I think there is probably a point.
The date itself holds meaning, right? Perhaps you could celebrate them both: the anniversary date, and then whatever date marks the completion of your year.
Ah
Hmm
Certainly I understand wanting to be a hero who helps and protects others, and fights for justice. I think that is very admirable, and that is also the kind of person I wish to be.
Framing it as "being useful," though
I wonder
Is it really all right to think of a person in terms of how "useful" they are? Even if that person is yourself?
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I mean
It's not that I think of anyone as being particularly useless
Mostly
More like...I just want to feel like I'm doing something that matters. Even though I'm still pretty young, and I'm still learning how to be a hero. I don't even have my provisional license yet. So, useful might not be the right word? But it's how I feel.
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I suppose I am
mm
not "projecting"
That thing of where I have a bad association with something, that really does not have anything to do with you, but I cannot help thinking about it and feeling uncomfortable?
But that is neither here nor there!
In any case
I think you are already doing things that matter. But by all means, you should keep moving forward, and do whatever you must to become the version of yourself you are proudest to be!
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Not sure what the word is for it either, but I get it. There's probably a better word for what I mean, anyway
That's sort of what I'm trying to do. Even here, away from home. I've actually thought about joining the Moon Knights, maybe...they take applicants at 16. And I'd feel like I'm helping. But I'm not sure about swearing allegiance to a place I'm not going to stay.
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It does feel strange, though. Even though I have already lived here longer than I did in Magnostadt, it still seems somehow as though I am only a guest. There are many reasons why it is inevitable that the Prismals would see us as a different category of beings from themselves, but nevertheless...
Well
I don't really know what I mean to say.
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I guess I kind of know what you mean. I've been here for months now. Longer than I was even in the dorms at UA. Almost the same amount of time I've even been at UA. But it still feels temporary. Maybe because people I know keep disappearing, and I never know who's going to be next...
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