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003 - [Voice/Video; Forward Dated to 12/24]

[Today has been a pretty lucrative day, for Ochako! After waking up and having breakfast, she actually skipped her morning workout and training on the beach for entirely different. Much like a smaller, much cuter version of ye olde Kris Kringle himself, Ochako is out delivering gifts to her friends and teachers. Carrying a big bundle of goodies is no issue with her quirk, either. Tucking each wrapped gift into as large a travel bag as she could find, Ochako give it a little tap with one hand and it becomes light as a feather.

She out for nearly the entire day, if only because so many of her precious U.A. family are in other Gate cities, and even foot traffic during the final day before Christmas is an absolute nightmare, but Ochako finishes just before tea time (about 3pm) and looks tired...but happy. Time to curl up for the rest of the day with some hot tea, a few of her favorite Christmas hymns and carols, and relax a bit.

In fact, she pulls out her communicator as she gets close to her house in Heropa, shedding some of the thicker garments for those colder states she had to visit on her outing, and flicks on the camera to address the network.]

Hello, everyone!! Merry Christmas! Did you all get what you wanted? Ehehe... Anyway, what are some of your favorite caro--...eh?

[Please excuse her, there's something...at her doorstep. It's a large cloth bag that's, hrm...addressed to her? Ochako blinks, looking around curiously as her hair whips about, then goes to pick up the bag--] Ah! Heavy...okay, here we go--up!

[Another quick activation of her quirk, and she's tugging the bag easily along behind her, fumbling with her keys and her communicator.] Sorry...someone left me something. Um...th-thank you to whoever it was, if you're viewing this! That was very kind of you, though there isn't any name or anything...um. Just a minute, I'll open it now...

[Doot doot, she sets everything down then unzips the large clothe bag, turning the note over with a thoughtful hum and furrowed brows. Thanks? Who in the world--] Oh, these are cu--

[The rest of that sentence is cut short by the tearing of gift paper and a very audible gasp. There's silence a good long, long moment after before sudden movement, a box popping open, a squeak of surprise and a barely muffled sob.]

O-Oh my gosh...oh my GOSH!!! I-IT'S SO...IT'S... I CAN'T-- [Ochako flicks on the video, to show off a large box with a picture of a gorgeous telescope on the back, which is open at the top.] WH-WHO...WHO GOT ME THIS?! I-I'M SO...I'M--

[Is she crying? Yes. Ochako has wanted a telescope since she was seven - a few years after her Zero Gravity quirk manifested and she learned to really and truly love space and astronomy. Of course she never got one, because they're expensive, and she's never had that sort of money to spend, but...who in the world? Did she ever even tell anyone about this? She can't remember, Ochako is too fucking emotional right now. She may also be hyperventilating. This is like a dream come true.]

Th-This is...I'm s-so...! I-I...ah...hahaHAHAHA...haaah. [And, like that, she just. Cackles. Having lost her absolute mind before falling over backwards.

K.O.]

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but 4 real do not send anyone here ever

You look at stars so you can shirk your responsibilities on Earth? That's what I'm hearing and I don't believe it. You're a little more responsible than irresponsible. Sometimes.

[He's teasing about the irresponsible part. Tone is hard in text.]

This gamer nerd is your best bet when all you science geeks are wrong and a flood of horde is heading your way down your main lane. Guess who you'll call? It'll be guys like me who know to shoot for the head and feel remorse later when we could've cured everyone. Except I won't. Feel bad that is.

[Oh. Oh no.]

If I was worried I'd go handle it myself. You don't need our help, we're just better at the dirty work than you are.

[Nice save. Good yes.]

[See this? It's statements like this that really gets Ochako's brow raising, and her lip curling up to one side. These little backwards compliments that are both completely weird, but very sweet nonetheless. Should she call him out? ...Yeah.]

awww so much faith in me, shigaraki-san ♥
don't worry, i won't tell any1 tho

since ur right, in case of a zombie invasion...
who better to call than our very own pale, itchy, basement dwelling creature himself??
u even know how to decay, it's so fitting!! lolol

[Welp. THAT WORKED.]

omg shigaraki pls DO NOT do anything.
i'm serious

O. U. C. H.
That's a direct break of our truce. I'll see you at the monkeybars.

Speaking of basement dwelling. I switched my jobs. Don't go to the sweet shop anymore. Or do, I don't care.

You can't tell me what to do, you know. I don't do something because I feel like granting you that request of me. I bet I could find the person faster than you can.

LOLOLOL it's war then
1v1 me shigaraki-san!!! (ง •̀_•́)ง
tho tbh, i wouldn't mind seeing u again... r u busy anytime after the new yr??

wait, rly?? where do u work now?
if ur okay w/ telling me ofc

yea u COULD and that's why i'm worried
and i can't tell u to rly do anything, but i can at least ask
pls don't do anything bad, i'm rly happy rn and i don't think this was anything....weird.
if it becomes that, i will handle it myself, ok??

[Oh. Okay. Joking about beating each other up aside, he didn't expect that.]
War it is. Expect no mercy.
In January I have plans from the seventeenth to the ninteenth of January. Those days are non-negotiable and especially the eighteenth, but otherwise I'm pretty free without work and patrol factored in.

Working testing games for an dev company. It's better than waiting around for that jackass who doesn't have a watch. He left for vacation a while ago though, hasn't been back since.
No, I didn't kill him. If someone else did, not my fault.

You don't think people leaving gifts at your doorstep when you don't know who it is isn't weird?

???
ok, we can try to meet up either b4 or after then
school will make it tuff for me, too, so maybe a friday or a weekend...

[Is she...actually trying to schedule a meet up with Shigaraki? Yes, which is bizarre, but Ochako really would like to hang out with him again. He's not bad company, really, and if they can just chill out and maybe just play video games, it'd be cool. Ochako needs some chill time after just the few months she's been here. It'd be good to be just a regular teenage girl for a change.]

...good to kno ur reading my mind, shigaraki-san =__=
but i'll take ur word for it...tho i better not hear nething on the news abt a gruesome murder or nething
but i AM glad u got a job that sounds better suited to what u like
i...think i may have one myself, but idk if i'll take the offer....

can't be any weirder than having a private conversation with a villain

It's for business, I can't change the dates. Don't ask me what business, you won't want to know. No, it isn't villainy.
If you'd like, both. I don't think we've seen each other since the Christmas dinner.
Haha geek. Get rekt, you have to go to school. I never did. I was homeschooled, I guess you could say ;). I'll come to your school to get you, if you want. You could point the problem teachers out.

If I murder anyone, Uraraka-san, then you won't ever know. Not because I wouldn't admit to it, but because if Dabi or I decide to kill someone, there's nothing to find. It's better not to say much more. Wouldn't want you to feel weird talking to a villain.

...you HAVE to know how suspicious that sounds, right shigaraki-san?

ugh...pls don't bring that up.
i get a headache just thinking abt it...but i would like to see u again, like i said. i'll figure smth out
AND ABSOLUTELY NOT U ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO ANY OF THAT!!!1
jeez, u make me out like i'm a princess or smth!!
it's RLY NICE that ur trying to look out for me, shigaraki-san, but i can handle myself

[...Ouch, there's the tea. There's a long moment before she follows up with a response, because Ochake really, really doesn't like the brazen honesty of those words. It's nice he's laying it all out so openly, but the reality is still...hard to swallow. Sort of like all of this is, and the italicized words sting a little bit, because...well. It's a reminder.]

You don't feel weird talking to a Hero in training?
I meant nothing by what I said other than the truth. This would never happen any other other way, you know.
It's weird, talking to a villain, but...
I don't hate it.

Yes and I don't care.
It was a joke. A feasible joke of course, because I can and will go wherever I want whenever I want. It has nothing to do with your capability. If you're so against me doing it, threaten your teachers on your own then.
Half looking out, half bored. Bored and tired.

[He's rubbing off on her, he knows he is. She just said she didn't hate it and that's what he says to her. Good yes, come to the dark side.]

I'm talking to Ochako. That's all. Whatever else you are doesn't matter.

i'll threaten to punch u in the nose if ur not careful...

[Give her another minute or two. This back and forth is giving Ochako a bit of mood whiplash, and while it's way easier to pretend she's okay over text, her fingers tend to shake and give her away sometimes with her typos. Her eyes scan that last bit of text - again, and again, and again - before Ochako flops on her bed and squeezes one of her pillows tight. The fabric is soft, and warm...but the fabric she feels against her fingertips is different in her mind - a little coarser, and thicker, too - and the warmth doesn't come from her body heat.]

For how long?

[Because she really like talking to Shigaraki Tomura, actually.]

[Normally he would have taken her up on that previous talk, being punched at sounded fun and maybe that desert could be a nice place to actually work out more of his issues. You know, rather than his current line of issue working. Hm.]

For how long?
About fifteen minutes, we've been talking.

[Say it.]

[Jerk, he's doing this on purpose. Is he avoiding the elephant in the room, or just trying not to drag the conversation down? Ochako really and truly doesn't know, but she's too much of a realist to avoid the hard truth for too long. Whatever idealistic fantasy she would love to live - where things can be solved without bloodshed, and she can maintain this unsteady 'friendship' she has - it's just that. A fantasy.]

You know what I mean, Shigaraki-san.
I enjoy spending time with you, I can't deny that, but I also can't deny it feels superficial at times.
...That's is why I like to look at the stars. Because I look, or float up, and leave all those worries behind for a little while.

[Superficial? Says the one who's using-- You know what.]

Tomura.

[Another bout of silence, because that...isn't what Ochako expected. She had never been really bothered by the fact he's called her by her given name, not like she is when it's Toga, but the reasons why never really scratched the surface. Or maybe Ochako was just blind to it, or chose to be.

He's not giving her that luxury anymore. The word, the name, that she reads is both a correction and a permission slip. And that is almost dizzying. It's a level of familiarity Ochako both wants to grasp and also wants to keep at arm's length, because it's dangerous.

And yet.]

Tomura.

[It seems like everyone else is using that where he has a level of familiarity, so why not her?]

Bet that didn't hurt you one bit, did it?

Edited (Shhh) 2020-12-27 06:18 (UTC)

[Not yet, it didn't. But you know what? Fuck it. Ochako's allowed to be happy about things - even this. Especially this. It's Christmas Eve, she just got a gift she's wanted since she was seven, she shouldn't be stressing about the future right now, or wondering about the "what ifs". She should embrace the warm feeling in her chest, and the smile that's tugging at her lips completely, without overthinking it.

So she does. To hell with it. Ochako wants to hold onto this feeling.]

No, it didn't.
I'm happy.
This has been my favorite Christmas yet.
Thank you, Tomura.

I take it back. Let's go back to fighting at the monkeybars and reminding you you're a science geek.

[PFFFT--!! Well, that makes her laugh really hard. Congratulations, Tomura, you managed to break the sappy feels and get her to feel like herself in no time flat.]

HAHAHAA!!!!
u r impossible ♥

but fine gamer nerd
pvp enabled at the monkeybars
how's jan 9, after school sound??
don't chicken out

[That's better. Easier to handle when it isn't something that includes any sort of feelings.]

Loser dies, but also buys.
Bubble tea, I meant. I've rediscovered it lately and I know there's somewhere near the school district in Heropa.

No I'm not stalking you, I patrol that city when I do fill ins.

oh i think i kno that place!!!
i haven't been in but if it's the one i'm thinking of, i've passed it by a few times. looks good!

[...You know. It's probably bad that Ochako doesn't even think about these things while having conversations with Shigaraki, but she just doesn't really think he would do that. Now? She's not so fucking sure.]

....i didn't ask or assume u were
but now i'm def thinking abt it.
thnx

If it isn't, I'm going home with multiple teas.

You're welcome, but I would send someone else to do it for me. Never myself.

what's that saying about counting ur chickens before they hatch? :|a

tbh i'd prefer if it was u
ne1 else and i'd feel more threatened...
also don't be lazy it doesn't suit u

That if you don't, you're not a confident farmer. I'm bringing home multiple anyway.

[Because at least he's not such a bad room mate sometimes.]

They have no reason to threaten you. Toga is in love with you, Dabi doesn't care about this place and Twice wouldn't hurt anyone who doesn't go after us first.

:| :| :|
i'm putting snow down ur shirt next time i see u anywhere but heropa

[Or and ice cu--...OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE. Ochako's face turns sour the moment she reads that next part, about Toga, and she has half a mind to say something about it...but has to bite her tongue. Though she may have gagged loudly and overdramatically at her phone screen. Thank god for text.]

ok...so what's your excuse?
don't want to see me yourself??
💔💔💔

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i saw EVERYTHING

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I wish I could apologize for my husband but I can't.

never apologize for him, he's perfect

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