[Open Log]

[heroondecku]

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.]

Comments

Closed to Shinji

[heroondecku]

[The charms' translation capabilities are incredibly useful, Izuku can more than admit to that. But reading something actually written in Japanese still feels different, somehow; the sense of familiarity, perhaps? Either way, it's enough to draw his attention to the oddity of a Japanese cookbook stocked away in amid the local ones in the library. And...yeah, it's just as much homesickness as curiosity that makes him decide to flip through it. He misses his mom's home cooking, and Lunch Rush's gourmet school meals, and the group prepared food at class parties. If he can at least find a recipe for katsudon, maybe he'll feel a little less--


Hold on. There's already handwritten notes in this cookbook. Which are also in Japanese. Huh...?

The realization that this might actually belong to someone has him switching gears immediately. Because it's Izuku, of course his first thought is to see if this is someone's missing property so he can return it. And yes, he finds a name inside the cover - and one he recognizes, at that. So, while he can't be entirely certain it's not just a coincidence (it's not like he knows what characters Aragaki's name actually uses) he still sends off a quick message:

Hi, this is Izuku. Um, could you come meet me at the library? I think I found something of yours.

After all, if it is a coincidence, it's a heck of a big one. Better safe than sorry!]

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[generaltraitor]

[ It isn't really that the boy running errands around town reminds her of Gau. Besides the green hair, they couldn't look more different. (As much as she'd like to see a familiar face, Celes sincerely hopes she'll never turn a corner someday and find the wild child here. Of all people who don't need to have some faceless god pass judgement on him and be stolen off to this island colony...) ]

[ It's just that... once one gets on that line of thought, there's the inevitable question: What could a kid this age have done, to get spirited here? ]

[ Celes isn't graceless enough to ask that question outright. But the next time she sees Izuku passing by the inn working up a sweat, she steps out to flag him down, a glass and a water pitcher in hand: ]

Hey -- whoever you're working for, it won't get done any faster if you give yourself heatstroke. Take a break.

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[oracledriven]

[Izuku isn't the only one helping out. There are some things you just don't really talk about -- for instance, how shaken Noel has been after the last few weeks. How much everything really got to him. Food scarcity is something he knows like the back of his hand, like a companion he grew up with. Guess it goes hand-in-hand with the end of the world. So, now that the dust has settled and things are slowly sliding back into some weird definition of normal, he deals with his feelings on the subject the same way he's dealt with every other feeling for the past few centuries: he doesn't. Instead, he leans on helping others. Looks like the Shadow Hunter is at it again. (Minus the edgy nom de plume. For now.)

He's been delivering packages for various people for most of the afternoon and he's finally on his last one, examining the slip of paper that has the delivery instructions written on it, when a gust of wind knocks it out of his hands and up to the roof of a building. He curses under his breath and starts to put the box down when he spots someone up on the roof already.]

Wh... Deku? [...But the wind threatens to pick up again, so he gestures wildly at the paper currently stuck between two roof tiles.] Hey! Grab that paper!

3!

[orphne]

[Kotone used to work in the school library, kind of (though that had mostly been to talk to Saori instead of any interest in books). Still, it means she kind of likes to wander among the shelves in the library here with her music playing in her headphones, just kind of poking around in case anything catches her interest. Not that she really reads much herself, unless it's studying. And it seems like a good idea to maybe brush up on the geography of this place in case they need to travel again!

It's with a thick encyclopedia in her arms that she spots Deku muttering to himself at one of the tables and brightens, taking off one eof her headphones and letting it drop to her chest. That's right, she has something for him! This is the perfect opportunity to give it to him!

But she doesn't want to interrupt. So she takes her book and scoots into a seat beside him to start reading, waiting for a break in his personal monologue to speak up.