[Katsuki is actually out when Izuku calls, having already done his workout and morning patrol way, way earlier in the morning...a little after sunrise, in fact. It's just when he normally wakes up. Right now, he's in the library, reading, and gets the message - which he takes outside, so not to bother other patrons.
I'm not sure yet! I've got to test it all out still. And see what my new limits are! My quirks here aren't as strong as they are back home, so it'll be important to figure that out!
Haah? Then let's test it right now. Where are you, nerd? I can find you, no sweat.
[Because he wants to see what Deku can do now that he has more of One For All back. He hasn't sparred with the young hero in a very long time, not while really going all out, so it'll be a nice thing to come back to.]
[Oh, if that's how this jerk wants to play, then fine by him. The grin that spreads on the blond's face is now wild and toothy, his competitive fire lit and blazing already. He immediate sets the image of the forest in the video to memory, etching in his mind every tiny, miniscule detail to help him better locate the freckled broccoli head.]
Ten minutes, tops.
[Just because he needs at least three to suit up.]
[Oh? Well, shit, this is a pleasant surprise! Something good to hopefully occupy his mind after...all that. Katsuki is glad Essek's finally getting things done with this, and immediately starting thinking about what sort of engagement gift to get the bastard.
RSVP sent back with his confirmation of attendance. Even if he's not the type to do this kind of stuff...hell knows Katsuki needs a goddamn spa day, for real.]
[Alice pulled on her fingers and shifted from foot to foot before taking a deep breath and knocking. Don't cry, don't cry... Katsuki... Well, she's not sure Katsuki would even WANT an apology but if he DID he definitely wouldn't want her crying through it.]
K-Katsuki!
[This was much harder than the other apologies because it was her brother...
Would she even be allowed to call him that anymore?]
[The door opens after a shuffle of feet from the other side. Katsuki isn't expecting company in the slightest, he's sort of been holed up inside after everything died down, or out and about helping to repair the damage the Green Knight's bullshit pulled on Somnius proper. In fact, a part of the clinic was damaged, and he was putting most of his effort into getting the repairs done as soon as possible. Today, though...today he was just trying to step back from everything and everyone.
Though, of course, Alice seems to have other plans. He is taken aback when he sees her, surprised she would even want to. After the fact he had to hurt her, use force against her, practically shove her underwater in the lake to cure her...he assumed she would be afraid of him. It'd make sense, wouldn't it? He's not an admirable Hero like All Might or anything, he's actually very intimidating and threatening. Katsuki puts on those airs on purpose, too. To Villains, it's to scare them into submission, but to a little kid...
He opens his mouth, but no words come out, throat tight and chest sort of aching. It was the same with Uraraka, but that was the opposite sort of deal - he was enthralled and tried to kill her. Actually kill her. The guilt has been eating at him ever since. How can he face these two knowing what he nearly did? What he had to do?]
[She wants to move forward to hug him but stops. She winces at his comment, and the mantra she had been telling herself earlier crumbles immediately, tears welling up and streaming down her cheeks. Does he hate her now?
She swallows thickly around her tears and tries to find her voice. She can only shake her head. Her voice is so small when she speaks, trying desperately to stop crying but she can't.]
P-Please... [She shakes her head vehemently.] PLEASE DON'T HATE ME!
[She sobbed out, because she's just a child. She doesn't understand that it isn't her fault what she was made to do, all she can understand is that she tried to kill Katsuki, against her will, but by her hands nonetheless.]
[That actually takes Katsuki by surprise - her tears, but mostly what Alice says. He freezes up, feeling like he was just struck hard across the face by some invisible force. After a moment of standing there stupidly, he finally comes to his senses enough to walk the few steps forward and shut the door behind him, to give his housemates some peace (though that cannot be said of anyone outside, o-oops). He looks genuinely confused, perplexed, at the outburst, and it weighs heavily on him.]
Wh--...why would I hate you? Alice, I...hurt you. [His throat seems to tighten from the admission, and it gets harder to speak after that, his chest aching as flashes of memories he tried to suppress for days come back to bite him.] You're a fucking kid, and I hurt you. You have every right to...t-to hate me. I...thought--
[He thought she did. He assumed he scared her enough to never want to see him again. Sort of like with Uraraka. The guilt and shame told him so, and he believed it. Believes it still.]
[She's not sure what to do with her hands. She wants to hug Katsuki but it doesn't seem right. Instead, she can only grab and crumple up the hem of her pinafore. It's a cycle: grab, crumple, release, and grab again as she can't stop crying. She hasn't seen Katsuki since the fight, or at least, she can't recall seeing him. Her memory was a haze after the fight.]
I- I tried to kill you! I tried to... [She hiccups and her body is shaking.] I-I was made to... I felt like-like-like I wanted to kill you! And I wanted to hurt others.
I... [Her voice is lost to tears. She can't really speak further as she's overwhelmed. She just wants her brother back, but this thing... it's made a giant canyon between them and she doesn't know how to get to the other side. So, she's left with just one word she can manage to get out.] P-Please.. please... p-please!
[It was a haze probably because he took her to the clinic, where she was put under. He also was looked at, but doesn't remember much of that - just that he definitely fucking threw up from the stress and the guilt, and he might have also passed out, too. Or disassociated hard enough to just block out a whole few hours of his day completely. Gotta love those trauma responses!
He feels so stupid for not reaching out, even when Katsuki sees Alice crumple her dress again and again. He tries to move his arms, to embrace her like he should, but his fingers twitch and then nothing - almost as if he were made of stone, or afraid to even so much as touch her. I tried to kill you.]
I almost did. [The words come out and this time Katsuki feels...dizzy. He grips the frame of the door as he wobbles on his feet a bit and heat burns at the back of his eyelids, gathering at the corners of his eyes.] No one made me, but I almost fucking did. I couldn't hold back against my own damn sister!
[His fist hits the frame of the door in his anger with himself, his lack of control, and the young Hero covers his face with his other hand, turning his face away slightly as he starts to shake and cry, teeth grit together.]
[He looks over the wall a bit more as well, taking a few steps back to get some distance for his shots, and gauge how much output he needs, and holds out his palms. After they begin to heat an glow, he fires off three small bursts in three different spots, the concussive force not exactly blowing through the wall, but forming enough of a hole and cracks to form that she pushing and pulling should free her leg with minimal effort.
He, uh...also punches one of the spots he blasted to knock loose a bit more of the stone, and force more of it to fall away. Massaging his knuckles, Katsuki grunts.]
[Katsuki pauses, hitting send a little early because he just caught sight of the date on his Oracle. Oh shit. Between everything that happened with the Green Knight, getting repairs under way at the clinic, and then the new brand of bullshit with the arcade's mess...Katsuki totally didn't realize the nerd's birthday not only was coming up, but it was HERE. NOW. And he didn't plan anything, cook anything, or even get the guy a gift.
Normally, this wouldn't be an issue, but...Katsuki's trying to do right by Izuku now, make up for everything he's done up until now. The least he can do is celebrate the dork's birthday, and get him something nice. Thinking fast, he shoots off a text and whirls around mid-step on his patrol. He has to haul ass, and has multiple stops to go to before the end of day.]
Nevermind what I said. I'm going to be late coming home. I have a lot of shit to do.
[Not a lie! T-Technically... He does have a lot to do now.]
Okay. Enough was enough. Ochaco had tried to be understanding, had tried to give Bakugou his space. Ever since the Green Knight, things had been awkward between the two of them. Ochaco wasn't angry at him, of course. She was just relieved she'd been able to stop him before he could do too much damage, to her or anyone else. She knew he'd never be able to forgive himself if he had, no matter the reason. Even being placed under magical control wouldn't be an excuse; just a reminder he hadn't been strong enough to resist. So she'd taken him out fast, and got the control broke. She'd give him time to process, and then...then they could start working things out. Things had changed between them. They'd already started to before the Green Knight, that just made it more...difficult.
And now it was August and he was still avoiding her. Their training sessions together had ceased, and he was doing everything he could to duck her despite them living in the same house. Always out on patrol, or busy at the clinic or, or....
Well, too bad, Katsuki. You'd been given time, but it looked like Ochaco was going to have to force the issue if he didn't want to.
She knows his patrol schedule, even with his attempts to duck her. Of course, she also had made a point not to try and approach him on them, knowing how seriously he takes his job. No time for personal shit, he'd say. Or something along those lines. So he probably wouldn't be expecting her to find him today.
And he really wouldn't be expecting her to suddenly drop out of a tree in front of his path and jump him, trying to make use of the physical skills that had served her so well during their fight to toss him to the ground and pin him.
It's true, he was avoiding her. Not just because he came close to hurting her, probably could have killed her if he went that far, but also because he's started to actually feel things about her that are more than the usual physical attraction. Katsuki has no idea what to think about that when it comes to...everything that happened between them. She saved him, he nearly killed her, and now he's developing a crush on her? It's too much, too fast, and Katsuki knows how cowardly it is...what he's doing, but he doesn't know what else to do. He doesn't want to drag the others into it, either, because it's frankly none of their business for one, and...it's also a little mortifying in a multitude of different ways. He doesn't enjoy talking about his shortcomings, never did, and this one is pretty high up there. No one else needs to know how much of a fucking failure he was, and what horrible things he did back then. It wasn't just Uraraka...he hurt people, people close to him, when he was himself. When the green Knight had no hold on his mind.
He failed. In all the worst possible ways, he just completely failed.
He's held onto that since, and though time smoothed the edges, some of them were still...rough, and sharp. He fell into the norm of avoidance like it was just part of his daily schedule, because it became like that. It's early morning, but not the crack of dawn anymore - he's heading back home from his first patrol and short training exercise when she gets the jump on him. Katsuki's not expecting to be ambushed this close to the residential area, so perhaps his guard is down, because even with her hollering, Uraraka still surprises him, as she knocks him hard on his back and pins him, a choked wheeze rasping from his lungs before Katsuki recovers, fast. He's in good form, after all - well rested, healthy, and already warmed up from his morning patrol and training. It takes all his restraint not to blow her back - literally ever part of him a bomb. His palms do spark dangerously though, and he glares up at her, voice hoarse but still loud and furious.
"WHAT THE FUCK, URARAKA?! THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!"
She notices the sparking hands, but doesn't relent. She lets go now, he might run away again, storm off in a huff, and she's not about to let him do that.
"Because it kind of seems like this is the only way to get you to talk to me, Katsuki!" She snaps back in equal frustration. "If you saw me coming, you'd just run away! Again!"
Uraraka is strong, he can no longer deny that, and if it were anyone else but him, they'd probably be in actual trouble. However, Katsuki is a fighter, and though his classmate has boosted her combat skills to a stupidly high level in record time, he is still vastly superior to her when it comes to fighting. His teeth grit together, the anger at being caught off guard roiling into a building surge of fury that he's intending to use to throw her off, mind working fast as he goes through a flurry of various techniques and scenarios in his head to win this.
"KISS MY A--?!"
Katsuki. It's kind of funny, just how much hearing his name from her mouth, so suddenly, throws him for a loop. People mistakenly call him by his first name all the time, and it's weird then, but she knows the implications. She knows better. He stutters in his speech and movement, giving her enough time to probably secure her pin on him, or get a better angle to stress a pressure point and make damn sure he won't move without it being very, very uncomfortable for him to even attempt.
In fact, the opposite happens. Ochaco's grip on him loosens. As Bakugou looks at her, he can see her anger is rapidly giving away to tears.
"I thought you wanted space, so I tried to give it to you! But I thought you'd come around, I thought...I thought you'd want to talk." She begins. "I know what happened was traumatic, and it scared you and I wanted to be there for you, but I was worried if I pushed too much, I'd...but then you kept avoiding me! For a month! We have all this...all this stuff between us and I don't know what to do with it because you keep running!"
She lets go of his arm. For anyone else after the stunt she'd just pulled that would be the end. No way Bakugou would hold back. But she lets go, and sinks to her knees next to him.
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Date: 2024-06-11 12:52 am (UTC)[ Izuku is positively beaming, not an ounce of the stress he's been feeling on his face.
Instead of saying anything else, he points the camera down to show the forest below him.
A LOT farther down below him. There's no whoosh of air that signals he's falling either. He's suspended in the sky! ]
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Date: 2024-06-12 02:27 pm (UTC)What is the--...oh. Oh!]
...Float. You got it all back then?
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Date: 2024-06-17 05:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-18 05:03 pm (UTC)[Because he wants to see what Deku can do now that he has more of One For All back. He hasn't sparred with the young hero in a very long time, not while really going all out, so it'll be a nice thing to come back to.]
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Date: 2024-06-19 09:20 am (UTC)If you can find me no sweat then go ahead!
[ He showed that he's out above the forest over the tree tops but he's not going to make it too easy for him! ]
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Date: 2024-06-20 05:10 pm (UTC)Ten minutes, tops.
[Just because he needs at least three to suit up.]
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Date: 2024-07-02 07:21 am (UTC)[ ooc : open logs will be posted on the 6th and 7th of July, where players can make their own toplevels and tag into others! 🥳 ]
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Date: 2024-07-04 06:22 pm (UTC)RSVP sent back with his confirmation of attendance. Even if he's not the type to do this kind of stuff...hell knows Katsuki needs a goddamn spa day, for real.]
Action; Shortly After the Green Knight
Date: 2024-07-04 03:38 am (UTC)K-Katsuki!
[This was much harder than the other apologies because it was her brother...
Would she even be allowed to call him that anymore?]
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Date: 2024-07-07 02:22 am (UTC)Though, of course, Alice seems to have other plans. He is taken aback when he sees her, surprised she would even want to. After the fact he had to hurt her, use force against her, practically shove her underwater in the lake to cure her...he assumed she would be afraid of him. It'd make sense, wouldn't it? He's not an admirable Hero like All Might or anything, he's actually very intimidating and threatening. Katsuki puts on those airs on purpose, too. To Villains, it's to scare them into submission, but to a little kid...
He opens his mouth, but no words come out, throat tight and chest sort of aching. It was the same with Uraraka, but that was the opposite sort of deal - he was enthralled and tried to kill her. Actually kill her. The guilt has been eating at him ever since. How can he face these two knowing what he nearly did? What he had to do?]
Yeah...it's me. I didn't scare you off?
[What else can he even say?]
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Date: 2024-07-07 11:34 pm (UTC)She swallows thickly around her tears and tries to find her voice. She can only shake her head. Her voice is so small when she speaks, trying desperately to stop crying but she can't.]
P-Please... [She shakes her head vehemently.] PLEASE DON'T HATE ME!
[She sobbed out, because she's just a child. She doesn't understand that it isn't her fault what she was made to do, all she can understand is that she tried to kill Katsuki, against her will, but by her hands nonetheless.]
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Date: 2024-07-10 02:31 pm (UTC)Wh--...why would I hate you? Alice, I...hurt you. [His throat seems to tighten from the admission, and it gets harder to speak after that, his chest aching as flashes of memories he tried to suppress for days come back to bite him.] You're a fucking kid, and I hurt you. You have every right to...t-to hate me. I...thought--
[He thought she did. He assumed he scared her enough to never want to see him again. Sort of like with Uraraka. The guilt and shame told him so, and he believed it. Believes it still.]
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Date: 2024-08-24 09:27 pm (UTC)I- I tried to kill you! I tried to... [She hiccups and her body is shaking.] I-I was made to... I felt like-like-like I wanted to kill you! And I wanted to hurt others.
I... [Her voice is lost to tears. She can't really speak further as she's overwhelmed. She just wants her brother back, but this thing... it's made a giant canyon between them and she doesn't know how to get to the other side. So, she's left with just one word she can manage to get out.] P-Please.. please... p-please!
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Date: 2024-08-28 04:30 pm (UTC)He feels so stupid for not reaching out, even when Katsuki sees Alice crumple her dress again and again. He tries to move his arms, to embrace her like he should, but his fingers twitch and then nothing - almost as if he were made of stone, or afraid to even so much as touch her. I tried to kill you.]
I almost did. [The words come out and this time Katsuki feels...dizzy. He grips the frame of the door as he wobbles on his feet a bit and heat burns at the back of his eyelids, gathering at the corners of his eyes.] No one made me, but I almost fucking did. I couldn't hold back against my own damn sister!
[His fist hits the frame of the door in his anger with himself, his lack of control, and the young Hero covers his face with his other hand, turning his face away slightly as he starts to shake and cry, teeth grit together.]
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Date: 2024-07-13 06:31 pm (UTC)---
Tch, fine, shit! Hold still...
[He looks over the wall a bit more as well, taking a few steps back to get some distance for his shots, and gauge how much output he needs, and holds out his palms. After they begin to heat an glow, he fires off three small bursts in three different spots, the concussive force not exactly blowing through the wall, but forming enough of a hole and cracks to form that she pushing and pulling should free her leg with minimal effort.
He, uh...also punches one of the spots he blasted to knock loose a bit more of the stone, and force more of it to fall away. Massaging his knuckles, Katsuki grunts.]
Push in...then pull, see if it works.
July 15th
Date: 2024-07-19 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-07-21 04:20 am (UTC)Uraraka can have mine.
[Since that Round Face is gaga for that sugary shit.]
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Date: 2024-07-21 05:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-07-21 07:44 pm (UTC)[Katsuki pauses, hitting send a little early because he just caught sight of the date on his Oracle. Oh shit. Between everything that happened with the Green Knight, getting repairs under way at the clinic, and then the new brand of bullshit with the arcade's mess...Katsuki totally didn't realize the nerd's birthday not only was coming up, but it was HERE. NOW. And he didn't plan anything, cook anything, or even get the guy a gift.
Normally, this wouldn't be an issue, but...Katsuki's trying to do right by Izuku now, make up for everything he's done up until now. The least he can do is celebrate the dork's birthday, and get him something nice. Thinking fast, he shoots off a text and whirls around mid-step on his patrol. He has to haul ass, and has multiple stops to go to before the end of day.]
Nevermind what I said. I'm going to be late coming home. I have a lot of shit to do.
[Not a lie! T-Technically... He does have a lot to do now.]
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Date: 2024-07-22 12:20 am (UTC)Does that mean you want me to save you some after all?
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Date: 2024-08-05 04:43 am (UTC)And now it was August and he was still avoiding her. Their training sessions together had ceased, and he was doing everything he could to duck her despite them living in the same house. Always out on patrol, or busy at the clinic or, or....
Well, too bad, Katsuki. You'd been given time, but it looked like Ochaco was going to have to force the issue if he didn't want to.
She knows his patrol schedule, even with his attempts to duck her. Of course, she also had made a point not to try and approach him on them, knowing how seriously he takes his job. No time for personal shit, he'd say. Or something along those lines. So he probably wouldn't be expecting her to find him today.
And he really wouldn't be expecting her to suddenly drop out of a tree in front of his path and jump him, trying to make use of the physical skills that had served her so well during their fight to toss him to the ground and pin him.
"GUNHEAD MARTIAL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARTS!"
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Date: 2024-08-06 02:33 am (UTC)He failed. In all the worst possible ways, he just completely failed.
He's held onto that since, and though time smoothed the edges, some of them were still...rough, and sharp. He fell into the norm of avoidance like it was just part of his daily schedule, because it became like that. It's early morning, but not the crack of dawn anymore - he's heading back home from his first patrol and short training exercise when she gets the jump on him. Katsuki's not expecting to be ambushed this close to the residential area, so perhaps his guard is down, because even with her hollering, Uraraka still surprises him, as she knocks him hard on his back and pins him, a choked wheeze rasping from his lungs before Katsuki recovers, fast. He's in good form, after all - well rested, healthy, and already warmed up from his morning patrol and training. It takes all his restraint not to blow her back - literally ever part of him a bomb. His palms do spark dangerously though, and he glares up at her, voice hoarse but still loud and furious.
"WHAT THE FUCK, URARAKA?! THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!"
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Date: 2024-09-01 02:34 am (UTC)"Because it kind of seems like this is the only way to get you to talk to me, Katsuki!" She snaps back in equal frustration. "If you saw me coming, you'd just run away! Again!"
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Date: 2024-09-01 03:20 am (UTC)"KISS MY A--?!"
Katsuki. It's kind of funny, just how much hearing his name from her mouth, so suddenly, throws him for a loop. People mistakenly call him by his first name all the time, and it's weird then, but she knows the implications. She knows better. He stutters in his speech and movement, giving her enough time to probably secure her pin on him, or get a better angle to stress a pressure point and make damn sure he won't move without it being very, very uncomfortable for him to even attempt.
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Date: 2024-09-01 03:28 am (UTC)"I thought you wanted space, so I tried to give it to you! But I thought you'd come around, I thought...I thought you'd want to talk." She begins. "I know what happened was traumatic, and it scared you and I wanted to be there for you, but I was worried if I pushed too much, I'd...but then you kept avoiding me! For a month! We have all this...all this stuff between us and I don't know what to do with it because you keep running!"
She lets go of his arm. For anyone else after the stunt she'd just pulled that would be the end. No way Bakugou would hold back. But she lets go, and sinks to her knees next to him.
"Why won't you talk to me?"
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