time to be heroic or something

[willynilly]

Who: Ochako & you!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: Yes!!
When: Now and throughout the week


( starstruck )

[The camera clicks on to Ochako, who is in full costume for once! Sans the helmet, at least for now. It's tucked under her arm. She shuffles from foot to foot, waves, and then bows slightly.]

Hello everyone! I have a request. Would any of the fleet's engineers be able to make something for me? Like, um. Rocket-y? I heard about there being a jetpack a while back... so something like that is what I'm looking for. And if you know anybody who can do that sort of thing, please ask for me! All I know is maintenance, so I'm kinda useless when it comes to making cool gear... I can collect parts, though, if you need anything from the planet!

Oh, and I'm not asking for free! I can pay if you want money... well I don't have a lot but maybe I could pay over time? I can also cook for you and your ship, or bring my little bots over to clean, or... we can work something out!

[She pauses to think for a moment, puzzling over what she might have forgotten, and then-]

Right! The other thing! Is there anybody with super-strength who can help me practice? I want to try a few things that I can't do on my own.

Thanks, everybody!

( iskaulit )

[Ochako's in overdrive today! And all week, really. She's discovered the parkour course and is running through it, over and over, only taking small breaks between to catch her breath and get a drink. She's practicing activating and cancelling her Quirk in quick succession, using her temporary moments of weightlessness to launch herself into higher jumps over the equipment than her small legs would normally allow.

Sure, it means once in a while she loses control and faceplants spectacularly, but that's what practice is for!

When she isn't practicing, she'll be wandering around the Iskaulit, poking her head into rooms less-often visited to see what's changed, or tidying up the art therapy room she likes to visit since it's been mostly abandoned for a while now. She'll be all over at sporadic times.]

Comments

[mucked]

I was joking but -- Steve does actually have some experience on that front. And he makes an excellent punching bag.

[ a beat. ]

What have you got for a physical conditioning routine?

[willynilly]

Well, the usual... stretches, running laps, Quirk practice. I spar with Aizawa-sensei a lot.

[mucked]

What about strength training? Weights?

[willynilly]

I do that sometimes, but it's not all that important for me. What with my Quirk and all.

[What's the point of lifting weights when you can make everything weightless?]

[mucked]

[ almost like a rebuff: ]

My dear, it ought to still be important.

[willynilly]

I didn't say it wasn't, just... y'know, priorities.

[mucked]

Actually, I've never asked. Where does Aizawa stand on developing skills that might compensate for circumstances in which you might find yourself...de-Quirked?

[ GIVEN WHAT SHE KNOWS of the man's own skills, well -- surely it must be a consideration. but rather than play that card, she approaches it from a different angle. ]

[willynilly]

Um, well usually if we can't use our Quirk we should try to avoid combat. We don't have enough training for that sort of thing yet.

Buuuut sensei can cancel out my Quirk whenever he wants, so we cover that a lot in practice.

[mucked]

Picking up a bit of Quirkless training mightn't be such a bad idea. [ ... ] Can you throw a punch?

[willynilly]

Um, yeah- like I said, I train with sensei, and I learned how to fight during my internship...

[mucked]

-- Have you given the punching pag in the cargo bay a thorough pulverizing yet?

[ you know, peggy's punching bag. the one steve isn't allowed to touch. ]

[willynilly]

Nnnno? Isn't it yours?

[SHE KNOWS THE RULES]

[mucked]

Provided there's no Quirk antics involves, I suspect she'll survive you. [ or maybe peggy is softening in recent months. ] It's really only the brutes like Steve who are banned from it.

[ she says brute with a particular kind of irony, understanding that he is anything but. ]

[willynilly]

[She giggles. Yes, what a brute that perfect handsome gentleman of a fiance is.]

Ohhh, I get it! Can't hold up to superstrength. Even if I used my Quirk I couldn't damage it, so don't worry. I don't have that kinda power.

[mucked]

Not to disrupt whatever your current schedule is, of course -- but feel free to use the bag when you don't feel like carting yourself over to the Iskaulit.

[willynilly]

I won't say no. Thank you, really! I can practice my fisticuffs. Maybe I can surprise sensei!