OPERATION: YOUTHFUL DISOBEDIENCE

[stresstokens]

WHO: Members of the grand curfew-breaking plan!
WHEN: During the Moorecroft event.
WHERE: Various Moorecroft locales.
WHAT: A bunch of youths have gotten together to break curfew in tandem to get to the bottom of the mystery at heart of this place -- but what they find leads to more questions than answers.
NOTES\WARNINGS: Probable violence, death, emotional trauma, cursing. All the fun stuff! I'll be putting the log headers for pre/during/post-curfew breaking logs in the comments, so just hang tight while I do that, though all members are of course more than welcome to post their own logs if that suits their tagging style better.

Comments

[maximumlegend]

Izuku really is proving that nerd credit more with every single thing he says. Not that a cool and popular student like Fabian is necessarily all for dunking on teachers - he thinks his own teachers are pretty good too, though he would still credit himself more than said teachers for his accomplishments.

It's just what happens when you're raised to think you're the best person ever.

"Of course I am!" He easily answers Izuku's question, even scoffing a little bit. Like the idea of him not being a top student is crazy. "I get top notch grades, I'm the captain of our Bloodrush team, the most popular student at school and my adventure party has saved the world no less than three times already!"

.. Is he--

Is he just ignoring Izuku's own accomplishments? Fabian, boy, surely you can take a moment off from boasting about yourself, my dude.. Give this cute bright-eyed nerd some credit.. But no, Fabian is apparently too busy proudly puffing out his own chest. Like an idiot.

[wannasmash]

Izuku blinks a little in the wake of this steamroller. How very like Bakugo. Pride cometh before a fall. Izuku thinks being popular is a very subjective thing, and surely Fabian can't be the most popular at every single activity...

"What's Bloodrush...?"

Izuku decides to stick to one question about the thing he might know least about, for his sanity.

[maximumlegend]

In the early days of being in this place Fabian would have found that a simply ridiculous question.

At this point he's kind of used to it though - mostly since it seems like Bloodrush really is something reserved for just his world, and he's kind of getting the hang of having to explain something that feels so obvious to him.

"It's a team sport, of course! You have to get the ball to the other side of the field, and you are allowed to do anything to get it there. And I am amazing at getting it there, mind you."

[wannasmash]

"Wait, what, anything? Are weapons allowed? Powers?"

Trust a Hero Course student to ask a question like that. It's from experience: The spring sports tournament features standard activities like an obstacle course or a race, but... their Quirks are involved, and sometimes there are combat robots in the mix. Izuku didn't have a good handle on his Quirk back then, so he competed using a combination of wits, grit, and careful release of One For All (injuring himself).

[maximumlegend]

Rather than giving poor Izuku a direct answer, Fabian instead replies with: "What? Are you saying you'd want to play a sport where you can do that?"

It's not like Fabian can tell whether or not the other looks that way because he has experience with it and knows how wild it gets or because he's excited about the idea, really. It's clear that there is some emotion about Izuku as the other speaks, Fabian just really isn't sure of what it is.

[wannasmash]

He rubs the back of his head, surprised expression quickly fading.

"Well uh... more like it would be a challenge thrown at me with little to no warning. That's UA High for you... But even then, there are rules, like no stepping out of the arena or something."

Bakugo would look a little more bloodthirsty about it, that's for sure. Even so, Izuku isn't complaining per se. He's mild-mannered by default. He just expects to be challenged... and to rise to the occasion.

[maximumlegend]

"Your school sounds fairly normal to me, you know."

...

You know, the alarming part is probably that Fabian says that so casually. Challenges being thrown at you out of nowhere? Lethal danger? Powers being used? That's all totally normal school stuff to Fabian, and he says it about as casually as two normal teenagers would while agreeing on math class being a common thing across both their schools.

[wannasmash]

He chuckles. "You're the first person to say so when they hear about it. Normally people here say, 'But that's so dangerous!' We do have precautions in place..."

It's still so dangerous.

"So after adventuring school, what's next?"

[maximumlegend]

He shrugs a little bit.

"Who knows? I still have about a year and a half to get through. We'll see what happens after."

It's.. perhaps a little too casual. For some people it's rather important to have their life charted out a little bit more, if not for the sake of their livelihood.. And yet Fabian seems like he isn't worried about the thought whatsoever. Like he truly believes he can just figure it out at the last moment.

"Besides, we could still be stuck in this dumb place for gods know how long. It's not exactly the sort of place where you want to think of school on top of everything else." Please don't be a jerd about this and say you are thinking about school here, Izuku!

[wannasmash]

Izuku stares at him, an effect his large eyes cannot hide. He is absolutely being a jerd and thinking about school here. He can't slack on his studies, and that includes working out so he can be the best Hero he can be!

"Why did you go to adventuring school?" he asks as politely as he can. What plans does Fabian have for the future?!

[maximumlegend]

"To become the most famous person alive."

There's no audible duh behind it, but considering the tone Fabian is using over here, there might as well have been. He's answering the question like Izuku just asked him something that's so obvious that the other - even from another world! - should have known it.

"Because I am going to carve my name on the world! That is not a thing you can just pre-plan!"

[wannasmash]

With a very broad dream like that, Izuku understands that there isn't a set plan. But one must still lay their path, even if it's one brick at a time.

"...Best of luck to you then!"

He beams at him anyway. It's his nature to be encouraging.

"Not many people believed I could make a good Hero in the beginning, so the support from the few who did means a lot to me now."