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[willynilly]

Who: Uraraka Ochako | OTA
Broadcast: Video
Action: SS Starstruck, Iskaulit
When: Today, after the fleet leaves the system


[Cue Ochako setting the communicator up and bouncing back, waving like it's some kind of peppy vlog. Cheers, everyone!]

Back to space we go! I don't know about everybody else, but I'll be glad that I don't have to keep wringing my clothes out all the time.

Anyway! That's not the point of this! While we're here, I was thinking... we've got a lot of kids with special abilities around here now, don't we? Or even just kids who wanna get stronger. The fleet is mostly safe, but sometimes things happen, and... well! Everyone benefits when we know what we're doing, right? Right!

Okay, so for everybody who doesn't know him, my teacher, Aizawa-sensei, is here! He's kind of a recluse so you probably wouldn't think it but he's really strong, and his teaching skills are top-notch! Back home, he's my homeroom teacher at the best heroics school in the world! He knows what's what. I bet he could teach anyone.

I was thinking, wouldn't it be nice to have a school here? Not just for superpowers, though I think that sort of thing is important... but I've never been out of school this long in my life. I feel like I'm getting dumber by the day. And it could be fun! We could make a classroom on the Iskaulit, we could get books and put together a real class and- oh, uniforms! We could get uniforms if we wanted!

Anyone interested!?

( Wandering )

[Ochako starts off on the Starstruck, taking care of her various chores while she covers responses, but at some point she'll venture over to the Iskaulit, poking around some of the rooms - both existing and unclaimed - to scout out what space is free in the vicinity of the library. She's humming to herself some upbeat song, visibly and very obviously in a good mood.]

Comments

[passingthrough]

Sure. You have options. [Just another reason this place is better than her home.] You took one.

It'll be extra work with the organizing of it though.

[willynilly]

Haha, I know. But I'm not afraid of hard work! I'm from a hard-workin' family!

[passingthrough]

Yeah? What do your parents do?

[willynilly]

Construction! It's hard labour, all day every day.

[passingthrough]

Do you know how to build things?

[willynilly]

Well... some things, I guess. Nothing huge like buildings and stuff, but I helped out when I could, lifting parts while they were put together. Dad didn't want me to get buried in the family business, though, so...

[passingthrough]

[She nods.] I was just thinking it would be a useful skill here.

[willynilly]

Oh! Yeah, probably! If you need any materials lifted or parts put together, just let me know and I'll be glad to help out.

[passingthrough]

When you say lifted...

Do you mean stolen? [Or elevated? Because her mind goes to stolen, but she wasn't expecting that.]

[willynilly]

[Well that's just mortifying.]

Stealing!? Oh my gosh, no! I meant- actually lifting! Like, off the air!

[passingthrough]

[Someone who says "oh my gosh" can't be a thief, right?] Telekinetic?

[willynilly]

[Not this one, at least.]

Not exactly- it's called Zero Gravity. I can remove the field of gravity around whatever I touch.

[passingthrough]

For how long?

[willynilly]

No time limit as far as I know. My limit is weight- three tonnes at a time.

[passingthrough]

Must have been fun testing the limits of that. Just three tonnes of random, previously weighed things in the air.

[willynilly]

It was fun sometimes! Buuuut I also get sick and pass out if I lift too much, so I can't go overboard.

[passingthrough]

Yeah, that would be frowned on. Does it get easier when you practice or harder? [She used to train young mutants (who were not much younger than herself really) so it's practically programmed in her to investigate.]

[willynilly]

Well, easier over time... I mean, when I was really little, I could barely lift a dinner plate without getting kinda woozy. But it's tough to push my current limits without going too far, so I'm still working through it.

[passingthrough]

Do you have goals in mind for it or is it just an overachiever kind of thing? [She could relate to either.]

[willynilly]

Definitely! I mean, a bit of both, I guess. I want to be a great and famous super hero one day!

[passingthrough]

Yeah? [She has an uneasy alliance with the term "superhero". She'll grant she has powers and if that's all it takes to be super, sure. It's really the hero part that trips her up. Superhero imposter syndrome is real.] Cape or no cape?

[willynilly]

No cape for me. I think it would just get in the way...

[passingthrough]

I tried a cape once. Kept getting fused into walls.

[willynilly]

Fused to walls!?

[passingthrough]

They don't have wardrobe malfunctions in your world? [Little smirk.]