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expiationlogs2023-04-12 10:00 pm
heroondecku) wrote in expiationlogs2023-04-12 10:00 pm
[Open Log]
Who: Izuku and you (OPEN)
Where: Around Aldrip
What: April catch-all - Izuku's trying to get on his feet and handle the disappearances (only one is working out for him)
Warnings: Nothing immediate, but Izuku's not in a great headspace at the moment so I'll warn if/when a thread starts digging into that.
1) Old (Fitness) Habits
[Izuku is very, very bad at sitting around doing nothing when there is something wrong. Too easy to get trapped in thinking about what-ifs and worst-cases, of ways he could help if he was just smarter or stronger or better. Not really being able to personally do anything about it at the moment just makes it even worse.
So he falls back on the one thing he can do to prepare for the moment he gets an opportunity to finally do something useful: hone One For All's vessel.
...it's exercise. He's throwing himself into exercise.
He can't really properly recreate his usual routine - no weights or other exercise equipment readily at hand makes that hard to do - but he's already got practice in a fairly decent replacement. Namely, he spends a good chunk of his day helping with manual labor around Aldrip. No OFA, just pure, raw muscle power. It's no Dagoba Beach, but the principle is the same, embracing the heroic spirit inherent in unglamorous volunteer work while doing many different physically demanding tasks that require working different sets of muscles to do properly. He doesn't even ask for or expect payment for any of it, though he can be made to accept rewards of money or food with enough persistence, and he knows better than to turn down hydration when it's offered during or after the work.
If there's none to be had, or at least nothing he can do without using his Quirk or that doesn't require specific knowledge or skills he lacks, he spends the time doing regular exercise instead. Most of it he does in his room at the inn (so any attempt to drop by may result in sweaty teen boy, sorry about that) but he does also develop a jogging route around town, and can be found running it in the mornings almost every day. You're welcome to join him.]
2) Out and About
[Of course, Izuku can't work out constantly. Overworking does more harm than good and, as he learned the hard way, could easily result in him putting himself in danger of passing out in the middle of a task. But he still can't just sit around doing nothing during his rest periods. So when he's not doing fitness volunteer labor, he can very likely be found doing ordinary odd jobs and random acts of kindness. Lending people a hand with their laundry, offering to help someone he spots sweeping or cleaning, getting things down from rooftops or out of trees, even being a comforting presence for an upset child; if he sees it needing doing, he's going to at least try to help out. He won't force it on anyone who doesn't want it, though. That'd be rude.
Izuku won't turn down offers to help out with his helping out either, unless it's genuinely unnecessarily. That would also be rude. Feel free to meddle in his meddling!]
3) Knowledge is Power
[When there's nothing else to do, or bad weather gets in the way of his usual (very outdoors-focused) daily plans, Izuku's almost guaranteed to be at the library. He's an analyzer, a tactician, a planner - he knows the importance of learning everything you can about whatever situation you end up in, and there's no better place to start than with what Expiation's populace records about their own home.
Also he just...really likes learning new things. He's most likely to be found reading up on books or computer entries of local history and folklore, but there's even odds he can be found flipping through cookbooks, or looking up something that someone he knows is passionate about, or trying to book-learn a foundation for some new skill that would broaden his options for fitness labor. He, uh, may also be making a mild nuisance of himself; he's not particularly loud when he gets to mumbling his thoughts aloud to himself, but he does go on for a while once he gets going. Sometimes a long while.
...man, he really misses his notebooks.]
Where: Around Aldrip
What: April catch-all - Izuku's trying to get on his feet and handle the disappearances (only one is working out for him)
Warnings: Nothing immediate, but Izuku's not in a great headspace at the moment so I'll warn if/when a thread starts digging into that.
1) Old (Fitness) Habits
[Izuku is very, very bad at sitting around doing nothing when there is something wrong. Too easy to get trapped in thinking about what-ifs and worst-cases, of ways he could help if he was just smarter or stronger or better. Not really being able to personally do anything about it at the moment just makes it even worse.
So he falls back on the one thing he can do to prepare for the moment he gets an opportunity to finally do something useful: hone One For All's vessel.
...it's exercise. He's throwing himself into exercise.
He can't really properly recreate his usual routine - no weights or other exercise equipment readily at hand makes that hard to do - but he's already got practice in a fairly decent replacement. Namely, he spends a good chunk of his day helping with manual labor around Aldrip. No OFA, just pure, raw muscle power. It's no Dagoba Beach, but the principle is the same, embracing the heroic spirit inherent in unglamorous volunteer work while doing many different physically demanding tasks that require working different sets of muscles to do properly. He doesn't even ask for or expect payment for any of it, though he can be made to accept rewards of money or food with enough persistence, and he knows better than to turn down hydration when it's offered during or after the work.
If there's none to be had, or at least nothing he can do without using his Quirk or that doesn't require specific knowledge or skills he lacks, he spends the time doing regular exercise instead. Most of it he does in his room at the inn (so any attempt to drop by may result in sweaty teen boy, sorry about that) but he does also develop a jogging route around town, and can be found running it in the mornings almost every day. You're welcome to join him.]
2) Out and About
[Of course, Izuku can't work out constantly. Overworking does more harm than good and, as he learned the hard way, could easily result in him putting himself in danger of passing out in the middle of a task. But he still can't just sit around doing nothing during his rest periods. So when he's not doing fitness volunteer labor, he can very likely be found doing ordinary odd jobs and random acts of kindness. Lending people a hand with their laundry, offering to help someone he spots sweeping or cleaning, getting things down from rooftops or out of trees, even being a comforting presence for an upset child; if he sees it needing doing, he's going to at least try to help out. He won't force it on anyone who doesn't want it, though. That'd be rude.
Izuku won't turn down offers to help out with his helping out either, unless it's genuinely unnecessarily. That would also be rude. Feel free to meddle in his meddling!]
3) Knowledge is Power
[When there's nothing else to do, or bad weather gets in the way of his usual (very outdoors-focused) daily plans, Izuku's almost guaranteed to be at the library. He's an analyzer, a tactician, a planner - he knows the importance of learning everything you can about whatever situation you end up in, and there's no better place to start than with what Expiation's populace records about their own home.
Also he just...really likes learning new things. He's most likely to be found reading up on books or computer entries of local history and folklore, but there's even odds he can be found flipping through cookbooks, or looking up something that someone he knows is passionate about, or trying to book-learn a foundation for some new skill that would broaden his options for fitness labor. He, uh, may also be making a mild nuisance of himself; he's not particularly loud when he gets to mumbling his thoughts aloud to himself, but he does go on for a while once he gets going. Sometimes a long while.
...man, he really misses his notebooks.]
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....Something of his?
He knows about the way items sometimes just appear- Kotone's picture, Mizuki's bike, surely plenty more- but why would anything of his be in the library? Actually, what does he even own that he didn't wake up here with in his pockets besides his old axe, which is decidedly not a library item...
Alright. Okay. He doesn't reply immediately; instead, he heads for the library, and fires off a reply when he gets there:]
It's Shinjiro. I'm at the entrance. Where are you?
[Don't make him wander the whole library, please.]
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I'll come meet you there, it shouldn't take too long.
[And yes, he's already heading for the front as he sends that, it's too late to stop him.
When they do finally meet up he greets the other boy with a sheepish wave. He's carrying the cookbook with the same gentleness and respect he gives his own notebooks, if not more. He knows how much it hurts when someone ruins your belongings.]
Hi. I'm sorry for bothering you [child you literally are trying to return something to its owner] but I found a book with your name written in it, so I figured you should see it.
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Ah, but there's Izuku's reply - and this one he doesn't reply to again, simply loitering by the entrance with one hand in his pocket and the other idly thumbing at a pile of some free bookmarks for little kids on the front counter. No one has politely asked him to stop doing this yet, but he quits it on his own when Izuku arrives, giving him a scrutinizing-and-curious look, and—]
Yeah, that's mine.
[He knows his own cookbook on sight, not only for the little sticky note tabs sticking out all over it, but the precise way the cover is just a little beat up and a bit scuffed up in one corner, that's— that's definitely his goddamn cookbook, what the hell. Why put it in the library, where people can look at it?]
You just found it here? [A beat, and then more, uh, dark...ly...?] Did you look inside?
[It's a cookbook. It is literally just a cookbook, but he's written some truly humiliating sentimental stuff about steaks in there, so Did You Look Inside.]
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[The moment Shinji confirms that it’s his, Izuku just smiles and holds it out for him to take. Property return successful! Well, assuming there’s no complications actually taking it out of the library…he can vouch for the older teen if need be, it’ll probably be fine.
He’s a little baffled by that second question, though, and it shows.]
Um, a little? I stopped to check if it had an owner’s name when I noticed the markers and handwriting, so I didn’t really get too far…
[He doesn’t Know, but he still kinda partially knows. Have fun with that, Shinji!]