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.]

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[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?

[everydayhero]

... [shrug, voice dropping]

Honey's not telling him. I think he's having enough trouble processing things.

[Aaaaand then a big sigh.]

I really don't like watching him go through this.

[ino]

Yeah. He was pretty upset when I talked to him the other day.

Doing better than most, though.

[everydayhero]

... You think so?

[he still messes with hiro, but hiro notices when there's a distance between what tadashi is doing and what he's thinking sometimes. if there ever was in their past, back home, hiro had never been able to tell.]

I mean... I don't expect things to ever be... the same. Even if he got back to 100%, I'm different than I was before. But... I want him to be okay. I want to make the best of this chance.

[ino]

[ She puts a reassuring hand on his shoulder ]

I'm sure that's what he wants, too. But it's a lot to process. Normally, something like this shouldn't be possible at all.

But, you know, he still has to be your older brother. It's probably tough for him to talk about it and still feel like he has that place, you know?

[everydayhero]

... Yeah.

[He looks down at his hands in his lap, lining his fingers up together.]

... It's probably kind of awkward to ask, but... he might feel best talking to someone outside of the people he knew back home. Can you keep an eye on him for us..?

["us", because he can't just admit this is him being selfish and needs to drag honey lemon in.]