[muffled spooky scary skeletons playing in the distance]

[geonomy]

Who: You! Me! Everybody!
Broadcast: idk but we've sure got a pretty broad cast of folks eh, eh
Action: HECK YEAH PLANET MINGLE
When: 10/7 until plot update or recaptcha

It's a deep, deep forest filled to the brim with fungi, mysterious life forms, and pitch black darkness. Explore if you dare and discover all these things and more! Just don't get lost...

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[monolike]

Uraraka! [Here comes that someone, bounding over with all the energy of a preschooler. He's excited. He's going exploring.] Hi! Wow, isn't it wonderful out here? Feel that breeze!

[willynilly]

Ah- Sorey!

[Her whole face lights up like a the friggin' sun, congrats.]

Yeah! It's a perfect day for adventure! Did you decide where we ought to go?

[monolike]

I have no idea! [AND HE'S JAZZED ABOUT IT

But before that-] Oh, hang on, hang on. Okay, so. [Sorey rests his hands on his shoulders.] I have something incredible to tell you. Do you remember that friend I told you about, who had turned into a dragon? He's alive again. And not a dragon.

[willynilly]

[...!

!!!!]

That's- that's wonderful!

[No wonder he'd been so much more chipper when he contacted her earlier.

Screw shoulder-holding, she's giving him the biggest hug her little body can offer! In fact, she's so delighted she's lifting him right off the ground and spinning him around! Please enjoy your moment of weightlessness, Sorey.]

I'm so happy for you!

[monolike]

Gah-! Ohmygosh! [Sorey grabs onto Uraraka when she hefts him up, his laugh a little wild and incredulous. Good lords he hasn't been picked up like this in years- She's so tiny!!!!] Was that your floating thing?! What- quirk, right? Your quirk?!

[willynilly]

[She giggles happily, setting him back down after the second spin and pressing her fingertips together to release him.]

Uh-huh! Zero gravity, at your service!

[monolike]

Whoa...haha, my stomach swooped when you picked me up. [Sorey smooths down his hair, tapping the toes of a boot against the ground. That had been weird. Even flying around while armatized hadn't felt like that.] And you can do that up to three tons? You're amazing, Uraraka.

[willynilly]

Eh-heh-heh...

[ She quietly shies away from the praise - he's not the first to say that here, but she can't help thinking back to all the classmates who are worlds ahead of her, not to mention the pros. It's weird to hear it in light of that.

You felt it, too? I'm usually okay if I'm lifting other stuff, or people, but when I try to lift myself I get so sick! I have a whole costume back home designed to decrease the vertigo.

[monolike]

Oh wow, really? I wonder why that is... [Sorey rubs his chin.] I didn't feel sick, really, just weightless. Which I guess is how it's supposed to work.

Still, whether or not you can use it on yourself, you can still do something incredible! I think it's really neat! [claps her on the back!!!]

[willynilly]

[She reddens at once, hunching her shoulders a bit. His enthusiasm is so genuine, it's impossible to object. And hey, she can accept the compliment graciously.]

U-um, thank you! I'm sure you've got cool things you can do, too.

[She still doesn't know much about him or his world, but... well, he has friends who can turn into dragons, so that's unusual, right!?]

[monolike]

Well...I guess they're more like skills? Stuff that I taught myself, or somehow acquired; not really anything I was born with. Are Quirks like that? [Sorey got the impression they were specific powers, but he's never really asked.

C'mon let's go exploring while we chat tho, INTO THE WILD GREEN YONDER]

[willynilly]

[Ochako follows him without hesitation, eyes bright as she takes in their surroundings. Everything's so pretty...]

No, Quirks are like... powers just suddenly developed in people, and over the years it happened more and more, until now it's more rare to not have powers. It's kind of random, though- we don't know why it started happening or why a certain person gets a certain power.

[monolike]

Huh, that sounds really mysterious. But you know, there's actually a lot of origin legends and creation stories that are like that. [Climbs up over a mossy log and crouches, offering her a hand up.]

[willynilly]

[She accepts his hand with a smile, letting him pull her the rest of the way up.]

Yeah... people argue all the time back home about that sort of thing. Everybody has their own ideas about why anything happens.

[monolike]

That's the kind of stuff I like to think about! Especially when talking about ancient history, because there's usually so few records, so you have to fill in the blanks a lot. [The foliage around them gets bigger and darker, and that pawing feeling comes back but Sorey's experienced it so often by now that it's easy to ignore.]

[willynilly]

[On the flipside, this is all pretty new to Ochako, and as they get deeper into the woods - and start to become more and more smothered by the massive trees - she can't help but creep a bit closer to Sorey as they walk. It's so she doesn't end up losing sight of him! ...Mostly.]

Well... it's definitely not ancient history yet, but it's been several generations since it all started.

[monolike]

[yeah lets buddy system this shit, this planet is being weird af. c'mere, link arms with him when he offers one out] Oh yeah, I think you mentioned that. Something about how now it's weird to not have a quirk.

[willynilly]

[She accepts his offer with barely a moment to consider it, gently latching on and cautiously glancing around at their surroundings now that she doesn't have to keep her eyes glued on him.]

Yeah, and it's been getting more and more rare every year! I can't remember the last time I met somebody without one.

[monolike]

That's kind of like the opposite of how it happened in my world. [The trees around them start looking pretty gnarly. Also there's giant mushrooms now.] People started lising resonance. Though it's something that people who have a natural affinity for it can redevelop with enough exposure! Can people develop a quirk?

[willynilly]

Not exactly, nope. If you're gonna have a quirk, then it's something you're born with. It might not show up right away, and sometimes they change a bit as you get better at using 'em, so I guess they can sorta develop over time? But if you don't have one by like, age 4, you won't ever get one. That's what all the studies say.

[It's just sort of become common knowledge, hahahaha NO ONE WOULD EVER DEVELOP ONE LATER right]

[monolike]

I guess that makes sense, if it's like a part of your body- whoa, did you see that?! [JERKS TO A STOP AND POINTS!!!] There's a chipmunk up there and it's like the size of a cat!

[willynilly]

[Good thing they were going slow, or she'd have crashed right into him. Instead she stops alongside him and follows his finger, her grip on his arm tightening.]

...Ah! It's so big! I've never seen one that big before! Amazing!!

[It's kind of terrifying but also omg c u t e]

Is everything here gonna be that big!?

[monolike]

Oh man, I hope so. [REMOVES PACK] I'm gonna go climb that tree and see if it'll let me pet it. [this guy is like the fucking crocodile dundee]

[willynilly]

[Hey, she's not gonna question it, maybe he's some kind of animal-whisperer like Kouda.

She lifts her hands up, smiling brightly.]

Want me to send you up there?

[monolike]

Oh boy, yeah I do! [GIVES HER A DOUBLE HIGH-FIVE!!] Launch me, right that way! [oh man he's already floating, heheheheh this is so fun]