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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]

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.]

[willynilly]

O-oh, for sure! I've just never seen that one before.

[passingthrough]

Hazard of my powers.

[willynilly]

Oh! What are your powers?

[passingthrough]

Intangibility. [And that's the whole list unless you get into various uses.] So, there was some brief, accidental solidifying of capes in walls and such.

[willynilly]

[She can't help giggling.]

Oh gosh, I bet! Is that when you were still learning, or was it just bad timing?

[passingthrough]

I was still learning, but I don't need a cape slowing me down now that I could deal with it either.

[willynilly]

That makes sense! Capes don't really do anything for most people. It just looks more dramatic when you show up to save the day.

[passingthrough]

I did like drama. I might have also had some shiny, reflective uniforms and roller skates once. I was young. [Says the old lady in her early 20s.]

[willynilly]

...That sounds like an amazing costume.

[Envisioning the adult version in such an outfit is kind of extra amazing, though.]

[passingthrough]

Yes, thank you. Tell Kurt that if you run into him. He's blue. Can't miss him.

[willynilly]

You mean his costume is blue?

[That's not very descriptive, lots of people have blue costumes!!]

[passingthrough]

No, his fur is blue. No one with powers in your world looks different too?

[willynilly]

Ohhh! No, we have lots of people like that. I just wasn't sure what you meant.

[passingthrough]

Well, blue fur and a tail. Can't miss him unless someone else with blue fur and tail shows up. [Which honestly doesn't even sound far fetched to her considering Beast was here before. No tail, but close, right? And there were two Kurts for awhile.]

Is it common back home? Not being able to pass as human?

[willynilly]

Not pass as... huh? I mean, they're all still human, of course. Everybody knows that.

[discrimination what discrimination]

[passingthrough]

You call yourself human? Right. I don't call myself that anymore. [So in her mind she only passes as human.]

[willynilly]

What do you call yourself, then?

[passingthrough]

A mutant. That's what we were called.

[willynilly]

Mutant...

[Nngh. Not sure she likes the sound of that.]

Are you okay with a name like that?

[passingthrough]

Yeah. I mean, I didn't get a ton of choice in it at first, but they do have some worse versions of it. But I'm not going to be ashamed of what I am.

[willynilly]

...Oh! So you're, like, reclaiming it for good! My friend did that with his codename.

[passingthrough]

That's right. What's his codename?