Peace Week

[mockmods]

[So, with introductions made, you're all left to your own devices for the time being. Explore, make friends, try not to go insane in your new surroundings. Maybe organize a game of that Trailseeker thing? Your time is your own.]

[You are woken every day at 7:30 AM by the same robotic voice that woke you on day one. At 11pm each night, a similar message plays reminding everyone about the start of quiet hours and dimming the lights.]

[If you want to talk to Penny, she can be found in the Security Office if she's not anywhere else in the Facility. Office hours appear to be whenever.]

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

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Comments

[hyaku]

He was.. h-he was killed just for that..?

[That's. Alarming as shit.]

I thought.... didn't they say that this place was supposed to be safe?

[42%]

[mightdoriya]

...I'm sorry, Kageyama-kun. [That's all he can think to say, right now. It was never safe here, Izuku knew that. It wasn't going to be safe. It just took until now for that to fully become a reality.]

[hyaku]

[The fact that that's all Izuku has to say doesn't settle well. He really did think they'd be fine here after talking to Penny, that this was totally different from his past experience where he and his friends and brother almost died but.. now it seems like it's worse.

Back then he had his powers. Back then he could protect everyone. Back then he had his master to protect everyone too but here... there's nothing. He's as easy to break as an egg.

And it's scary.]

...

[He doesn't say anything in response. He just stares at the ground with wide eyes, shaking as he tries to keep it together.

60%... 67%....]

[mightdoriya]

[Izuku recognizes a mental breakdown when he sees one, or at least someone on the verge of being Very much not okay. And...sort of out of the instinctual urge to protect, he takes a step closer to Shigeo and holds out a hand across where he's standing him, as if to guard him from the hard truth as much as the scene before him.] Nothing like that is going to happen to you, Kageyama-kun. I'm not going to let it.

[hyaku]

[68%........ 64%.. 56%...

Shigeo looks up slowly at Izuku, standing in front of him protectively, trying to shield him from the grizzly scene in front of them. It.. reminds him of when his master stood up and took the mantle during that fight that almost got them all killed. He was reminded that sometimes, it's okay to run away. It's okay to be scared, and to let someone else fight the bad guys for once. And Izuku's words have confidence to them, as if he was 100% certain that nothing was going to happen as long as he was around to stop it.

It's that confidence that ultimately calms Shigeo down, and he quietly nods his head, thankful to have made a reliable friend in all of this mess.]

[mightdoriya]

You don't have to stay here. It's okay. [He's careful not to tell him to leave, though. Again, they're the same age- he respects him enough not to try to order him around even if he technically might could have the authority to back home. Shigeo had powers too, even if it wasn't quite the same as a Quirk. Izuku could imagine him being able to handle his own if he needed to.]

[hyaku]

[There's another nod from Shigeo, but he can't quite get his feet to actually move just yet. The image of that body... well. It's burned to his mind, no pun intended.]

...thank you, Midoriya-kun. You don't have to look after me, but...

[Sometimes life Be Like That and you need it.]

[mightdoriya]

[Now it's Izuku's turn to nod. He keeps looking over to Shigeo, but he doesn't keep his gaze there for long. Mostly, he's keeping his attention on the site of the blast, wanting to make sure nothing else is going to happen.] I know. It's just...a lot. [A Lot.]

[hyaku]

...yeah. A lot.

[That's a good way to put it.]

I think I'm going to go to bed early.

[mightdoriya]

That sounds like a good idea, yeah. [Honestly...he'll probably end up doing the same, eventually. Once he's less wound up and is 100% sure that things are safe, at least for the time being.]

[hyaku]

Goodnight, Midoriya-kun.

[There's a smile there, but it doesn't have a lot of spirit behind it. But at least he's trying.. for the most part.]