video: un; midoriya

[procedere]

[So. Here's that green-haired, freckled teen that his loud bff was going on about. Izuku sits cross-legged on the bed in his bedroom of his newly provided apartment that he has yet to decorate or anything to personalize the space. He looks a little sheepish as he checks if it seems to be working. He's used to something similar, having this sort of technology back home, at least.]

Um. Hi? I'm Midoriya. That is, uh, Midoriya Izuku. I guess a lot of you already kind of know of me from Kacchan earlier...

[He's sorry. Really. It isn't like he asked Bakugo to go off like that.]

I was just trying to get my bearings, I guess. I heard there's school, or at least classes, here. To learn about our new abilities? I think I'd like that. I want to learn to use mine. To at least learn how to control it. If not to help out with it, and my Quirk. Plus, I want to look into prosthetics to help Kacchan. Maybe learn more about music....? I'm sure there's probably a library or something I can check! And I want to be useful and help out, maybe figure out a part-time job?

[......Yeah. That talk that he had with Bakugo about not overdoing it. Izuku might already be wanting to do more than he might realistically be able to manage. Because he's a Nerd and actually wants to Learn about this place and the abilities, and wants to help out as much as he can. This kid is just not used to the idea of not keeping busy, not being useful. Still in that habit of feeling like he has to prove himself.]

Comments

[lyingheart]

Safer than otherwise. You're each other's back-up that way.

... I'll be honest. I don't really know any fairy-tales, so maybe some of them are nice stories. But if it's anything like the stories we got told, things usually don't go well.

[procedere]

i can ask if one of my friends want to go with me.

i guess it would depend on the story? some aren't so bad. but some might be more dangerous. there's also different versions of fairytales. some are more violent, and some more recent versions are shorter, more tame for children.

[lyingheart]

Good plan.

I wonder why make it tamer for children when stories are used to attempt to scare children into behaving one way or another. Or is that less common in other worlds?

[procedere]

maybe it was like that before. back with the original versions. but not so much now. the versions that tend to be told now are more censored, i guess.

[lyingheart]

Interesting if they just censored them without also changing messages to be closer to whatever the current societal values were... but I'm used to propaganda. That tends to bleed into everything with enough insistence.

[procedere]

i'm not sure why. i just know i heard and read fairytales and when i grew up i found out there were different versions that were a lot darker. more violent.

[lyingheart]

Changing times, maybe? Could have lived in a less violent time so the stories didn't need to carry the same warnings anymore.

[procedere]

i guess so. things are quite different now to back when these sort of fairytales were originally told and written.

[lyingheart]

Stories frame how the world is taught to us, so it makes sense they change when times change.

Hopefully if the book story thing happens again people get all the nicer versions of everything.

[procedere]

yeah. nicer versions sound better to get stuck in like that.

[lyingheart]

Do you know of any stories where the people in them get a nice nap?

[procedere]

sleeping beauty? she sleeps after pricking her finger on the spinning wheel. snow white is cursed to sleep after eating a poisoned apple. i'm not sure if those would count as a nice nap, though......

[lyingheart]

Do either of them wake up easily on their own or is it one of those trapped until someone finds a way to let them out stories?

[procedere]

uh. no. they had to be woken up by someone else. their prince. it's been a while since i read those fairytales but i do remember that much.