wingstosee | ic inbox (duplicity)

[ huh. that looks kind of like when you start typing a message, and cut it off, and it saves to your outbox anyway.

not that venus would put that together. ]

just what?
i think i'm doing ok
but it's nice of you to check in anyway. :)

also is that your cat?
they're super cute!
give them a pet from me

as long as they like that i mean

sorry. you actually weren't supposed to get any of that.

the cat's name is eri, though, and she loves any kind of attention

oh.

OH this is that. weird network thing right
where your stuff gets sent to random numbers?
sorry about that. this must be awkward

i'm glad eri likes pets though??

it's fine

i actually had been wondering how you were getting along

been a while.

Edited 2019-01-24 23:44 (UTC)

it really has huh. wow.
time sure flies when you're in bdsmville i guess?

anyway
you're... sleepy guy, right?
the one that was on the cruise.
i think kirishima called you izawasempi or something?

[as far as descriptions of him go, 'sleepy guy' is pretty inoffensive, he supposes.]

yeah, that's right.

you're probably thinking of 'aizawa-sensei'. i'm his homeroom teacher.

oh! aizawa-sensei. got it.
so i guess when he said pro he meant like
professor?? and not. you know. professional

not to say professors aren't professional. they have to train a lot right

no, he meant professional. i'm a pro hero. he's a candidate. just like the other students of mine i've got running around here.

oh. a pro hero huh
so like...
you beat up the bad guys and make them see the error of their ways? that kind of thing

haha

not so much on that second part, usually

but it's our job to intervene during a crime, that's true. i'm also training them to aid in disaster relief and rescue operations.

that's good of you.
and your students too.
you sound like a good person

do people really not give up on it where you're from?

the kids are good.

[he's not gonna make any judgments about himself. he's just doing what he needs to do, as far as he's concerned.]

i don't mean to say that reform is impossible. it's the ideal, right? but i don't see it happen that often. especially not these days.

that sure sounds like something a good person would say. haha

[ and she could leave it at that. but that niggling anger in her, the bile rising at the back of her throat, are still burning away like acid. she crosses her arms, and she tries to think about something else, and when she can't - when the idea of reform is so stuck in her head that she can't see anything else - she smiles and types a few quick words. ]

they talked about this back at camp, you know
"spare the rod and spoil the child." i'm pretty sure that's proverbs, right?
if it's not working then maybe you're just not getting them early enough
or hard enough

[uhm]

everyone receives counseling for their quirks in grade school. but sometimes people still don't know what to do with themselves or their powers.

never read proverbs. not sure what you're getting at in general, actually. what camp are you talking about?

[ okay. he's never read the bible. that's... good, right? that's probably good. it's a little weird how she's dealing with simultaneous relief and irritation - because some small part of her wonders how can you be a hero without reading the bible??, despite everything about that being clearly and obviously awful - but she's got no reason to take it out on him.

this sucks. she sucks. ]

the summer scouts. i got sent there before coming here.
it's sort of a bible and training camp for shitty kids?
anyway.
it doesn't really have anything to do with you or the heroes where you're from.
sorry for bringing it up

do people just really have powers where you're from?
like you can just fly when you're in third grade?

[like he's gonna let that slide!]

sounds like maybe it does, though

quirks usually manifest by age four, but it can happen earlier. at birth, even. about eighty percent of the population has some kind of ability.

ugh. fine
maybe? i don't know

look.
the summer scouts are for the kids who weren't any good at being heroes
no transformation sequence, no radio upgrades, and we got really good at knowing who the next monster of the week would be
because you can always tell, right?
the girl that doesn't fit in starts getting upset, and tries to change who she is
or the boy that wants to lay with man as woman
or the girl that kissed the pastor's daughter at a party last year
but not the pastor's daughter, because SHE'S a good person, she was just tempted by the sinner

and you look at her
and you know the devil's gotten under her skin
so you wait until the pain's so bad she can't help but let it show it through, and then you beat the devil out of her
everyone learns what it means to be a good person, we all get our new moral
and if she makes it she knows never to believe in the devil's lies again

only they're NOT lies
or they're only lies because the good guys make them that way
because the alternative is that the devil's right, and god is wrong, and if god is everything that's right and good that CAN'T be true
it's impossible, right?
it's a paradox. oxymoron. i don't know what to call it

there's no room for the devil's truth in god's perfect world
and if heroes are god's beloved children then maybe there's no room for me in their world either

[OK. there's a lot going on here. so much so that he doesn't answer immediately.

first he has to make sure he has a handle on this.]

from these examples, it sounds like being a hero as you understand it has nothing to do with being a hero as i understand it

but i don't know much about god and the devil.

[he's an agnostic.]

a hero is just someone who's decided to use their abilities to help others. to save and protect them. that desire is the only one that matters

if you've lived something different, then i'd have to say you got told nonsense. and not by anyone i'd call 'good'. at least from my perspective

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christ sorry for this one

LMAO

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