Bishop Mingle!

[everydayhero]

Who: Everyone on the Bishop!
Broadcast: none!
Action: Bishop!
When: Anywhere from 3/15 til the end of the month!

[Welcome to the Bishop. We have rave lights.]

Comments

[ino]

[ She flicks it on and off out of habit, before nudging him back -- this time, with a bigger smile. She's okay, promise! ]

Or, my teammates. I think you would get along with them.

[everydayhero]

What are they like?

[hopefully not dead!]

[ino]

They're both friends of mine since -- well, forever. Our families have been tied together for generations, actually. [ She reaches up to point to the earring in her ear ] Traditionally, once the three of us come of age, we wear our parent's earrings to show that we're now the official heirs of our clans.

[ Anyways. ]

Shikamaru is incredibly smart, not unlike you. [ She nudges him again with a half-grin ] He's our tactician, I guess you could say. But good luck getting him to do anything once he's off the clock. I swear, he could probably nap for 24 hours straight if nobody nagged him to get up.

And -- Chouji is the sweetest, kindest person you'll ever meet. I don't think there's a single person in the village he's met who didn't like him. Oh, and he loves food, he's always eating something. I don't know how many times I've caught him asleep with some half-eaten chips in his mouth, or something.

[everydayhero]

[that mental image gets him laughing, just a little bit.]

They sound like the perfect pair to offset you.

[ino]

That's the idea. Teams get picked to be the perfect balance. And our specialties end up working well together, so our combo moves are deadly.

[ So proud of her team ;; ]

[everydayhero]

[god this starry-eyed look your world is so cool]

What kind of people do you think I'd have ended up with?

[ino]

[ Hmm ... she has to think about it for a moment ]

It's hard to say. We already knew by the time we went to school what we would be good at, since a lot of my more powerful skills are -- well, famous, in a way, thanks to my family's use of them. So my teachers already had a good idea of what I'd bring to the team ...

I can see you being a battle plan kind of guy, though. So they'd probably put you with someone whose specialty is brute force, like Chouji, and someone whose specialty is defense and reconnaissance, like me.

[everydayhero]

... Huh.

[He's thinking over his team back home, and yeah, that's... pretty much it.]

I wonder what it would have been like to grow up in your world...

[ino]

[ A little wry smile ]

Probably not very fun. Our village has been destroyed or invaded about four times in the seventeen years I was there.

whoops i thought i responded to this

[everydayhero]

... Thaaaat's a lot of danger. No wonder you're so strong.

RUDE ...

[ino]

I've been lucky.

[ There have been a lot of times where she probably would have been killed, had it not been for someone else ]

Like I said, -- I'm not really on the offensive, most of the time. I learned those skills later, but -- they're not what I'm best at. For the most part I've been out of the line of fire thanks to how my family's powers work.

[everydayhero]

How do those work, anyway?

[he's just asking away, you can tell him to stop if he's getting too personal]

[ino]

[ It's not too personal for Hiro. But ... she looks at him with a sly smile ]

I don't know. You might not be able to handle it.

[everydayhero]

--oh, come on, I wanna know!

[ino]

[ She snickers at his response a little. Fine, fine, Hiro ... ]

Well ...

[ She very clearly shuts her mouth after that, but in his mind, he will still hear her speak very clearly: It works a little bit like this. ]

[everydayhero]

[the face he makes is probably the most priceless thing next to the one he made when he realized she was in the room earlier]

[ino]

[ His face certainly makes her giggle, anyways ]

[everydayhero]

... Can you hear what I'm thinking, too, or is it just...

[He's so focused on what just happen it's like he didn't even notice her laughing.]

[ino]

I can if I touch your head. And only if I choose to, which I generally don't. But sending it over a distance is limited to only my family.

[everydayhero]

... So I guess I'd better just start blasting music in my brain every time you ruffle my hair.

[ino]

[ A good-natured eyeroll]

I haven't and wouldn't look without your permission. Promise. It's a skill meant for interrogation, not for messing with your friends.

[everydayhero]

Don't worry, I trust you.

[nudge]

Besides, I'm not really hiding much.

[ino]

[ Lmao ... this is true ]

Still, I wouldn't blame you if you thought it was ... [ What is the word she wants, here? ] A little creepy.

[everydayhero]

Eh. [he shrugs]

Sounds useful to me. If I could do it, this whole tiptoeing thing would a lot easier.

[ino]

[ ... Yeah ... ]

How is that going, by the way?