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[Open] 🚬 June Flames
Who: Dabi & others
What: June Catch-All
When: Various
Where: June
Content Warnings: Potential mentions of domestic/child abuse, potential mentions of murder, violence, adult language or subjects
Notes: General and specific starters will be below. More to come, including event prompts. Contact under cut.
If you want to hit me up for ideas on prompts or plots, feel free to comment on Dabi's CR plotting post or his Event plotting post (tbd), hit me up on my contacts – Plurk (![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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NOTE: I'll be with limited computer access the first week of June, and will get event prompts up when I return.
What: June Catch-All
When: Various
Where: June
Content Warnings: Potential mentions of domestic/child abuse, potential mentions of murder, violence, adult language or subjects
Notes: General and specific starters will be below. More to come, including event prompts. Contact under cut.
If you want to hit me up for ideas on prompts or plots, feel free to comment on Dabi's CR plotting post or his Event plotting post (tbd), hit me up on my contacts – Plurk (
NOTE: I'll be with limited computer access the first week of June, and will get event prompts up when I return.
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(... what are you looking at him for? he barely grew weeds.)
snow leopard = big cat. he's surprised the pair across from him doesn't understand that. wolf itself is indifferent to these three idiots.
"he", but dabi still doesn't refer to his omen as a living creature... yet.]Uh-huh. And yet Wolf bein a dog and a wolf trips ya up?
[considering how long shouto's be under a certain bus, it's a forgivable offense. touya never thought his brother stupid academically. so either he's missed a lesson... or his little shit brother's being a pain in the ass on purpose.]
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(You're the broker, don't you have some miracle grow?)
She's a wildcat, not some domesticated version of the alleycats Shouto feeds during some of his patrols. Maybe he's not fully formed because you won't even acknowledge his existence... just a thought. Kizu on the other hand was always by his side with a personality larger than his for most of their time here. Shouto is slowly beginning to match her and take the reigns, but he's not there yet, so his omen doesn't fully listen to him. The opposite problem of Touya's omen. ]
But your omen's name is Wolf, doesn't that make them a wolf?
[ He looks at the shadowy form behind him. Turquoise eyes just like theirs, cloaked in flames of black. ]
Why is your omen on fire?
[ Kizu was always as she is, bold and present, with no ostentation. It's the first time he's seen an omen on display like this. ]
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(do they sell plant food in convenience stores? he might have some...)
okay, but there's still that "cat" root after the "wild" part. and maybe that's so. dabi treats wolf more as an extension of his power rather than a separate entity, though the omen hasn't yet made any real effort to differentiate between the "tool" idea and the "partner" reality. then again, with touya's distrust and self-centered focus, it's probably not surprising he values his omen based on its usefulness to him rather than having any real bond of trust or friendship with it.]
It is a wolf.
[ugh, this is getting ridiculous. dabi pushes forward with his leg and steps right off the ledge he's been perched on. falls forward in a quick flip before blue fire erupts from his soles, cushioning his fall like reverse rocket thrusts. lights up the entire cavern area as well as fills it with a burst of heat. he alights on his feet and the fire drops away, some of it still chewing on some rocks nearby from the splash damage.
wolf follows him, this time clearly visible in the dwindling light. yeah, it's definitely a large black wolf, head higher than dabi's waist, a few patches of silver fur amid the black, ebony flames licking off its shoulders and along its back and tail. the same turquoise eyes match touya's, glowing softly in the darkening room.]
No clue. First time it showed up, it was only half there. Rest was fire.
[just like how touya and dabi are cobbled-together from his life experiences, stapled and scars, wolf also bears similar elements of being a revenant, traces of ghostly other-worldliness lingering on it. it's not meant to be a very comforting image, but then again, neither's dabi.]
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(Depends, really. Watch him start to look for plant food and get very seedy info from the streets and ends up at his front door looking hilariously out of place with a flower pot in hand looking for a bit of soil and mulch.)
The wild part is important. His omen was independent from the start. A reflection of his deepest desires from a time when he felt completely suffocated by all that lay ahead of him. Back then, he felt defeated, his failures on display to the world after Dabi released his tapes. Kizu reflected his innermost feelings refusing to listen to anyone or let anyone see her. For half a year, she never showed herself to anyone, dwelling within him. It took Shouto a long time to slowly let go of those feelings, and with his acknowledgment of his inadequacies, he changed. His Paleblood powers began to manifest and Kizu began to change her ways. She still doesn't come except when they're home away from prying eyes, but when he's in danger, she turns corporeal ready to defend. She lingers now only because of his curiosity regarding his brother's omen. His intrigue becomes hers.
Dabi rises and Kizu steps closer to her Sleeper who raises a hand to stave off the blue that lights up the cavern embellishing his entrance. His eyes adjust to the new lighting, finding Kizu at his side matching the size of Dabi's omen. ]
When did they show up?
[ There's interest in his tone, his eyes shifting down to the black specter. He has an urge to touch it, see if those flames would hurt him, but he knows other Sleepers don't generally touch each other's omens and so refrains.
Kizu doesn't and steps forward to examine her 'polar' opposite. ]
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(hah, the idea of some shadow-bound ruffian selling out secretive information about some bloke with special potting soil. a league of shade gardeners, who plant and flower in the privacy of their cult. while dabi's left with shouto turning up to ask for some. ugh, won't even go through the proper channels...)
in contrast, touya knew nothing about omens for his first week or so here. even when he read about it in that information booklet, he dismissed it due to needing to deal with more pressing matters. like getting a place located and set up so he could finish treating his injuries. but by the end of his second week, he'd at least began working on the summoning. sure, the actual summoning part was easy enough (strange as it was) but keeping it manifested and not knowing why the omen looked like the front half of a wolf sticking out of an invisible furnace was... frustrating. especially since he really only had kizu to compare it to. but perhaps he shouldn't have been surprised that his omen was a failure at the start... it's a reflection of himself after all. touya didn't put too much effort into bonding with or perfecting his omen, but rather lingered on what it could do and how to use it.
wasn't until almost a month in before he found himself lounging on the couch one day and suddenly found a big furry head flopped on his lap. so sometimes he's sit with wolf, hand resting on its head while his eyes went nowhere as his thoughts ran wild.]
About the end of my second week here.
[dabi slips his hands into his pockets. probably should be telling wolf is not as bulky as kizu. it'd likely go down in a physical brawl, if that actually meant anything between omens. but when the leopard steps forward, wolf's lips curl backwards, revealing white teeth that are probably a bit longer and more menacing than a normal wolf's. the telltale growl also rumbles in its throat.]
Had other things to focus on.
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Was that before we met at the Lumenarium or after?
[ Kizu keeps moving untroubled by the show of teeth and aggression. Shouto has felt a great many things for his brother - anguish, defeat, frustration, guilt, longing, regret, surprise, uncertainty, sympathy, and hope - but he's never been frightened of him. Even when he tried to burn him alive, shock is what hit him the hardest. ]
What things?
[ Shouto looks to his brother, no longer focused on his omen which deters Kizu's attention too, her head turning away from the wolf to watch its Sleeper. ]
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After.
[shouto hadn't given him even a week's worth of time before latching onto him and wanting to know if he could help. taking the tour around the largest medical center wasn't a negative thing, but it certainly gave dabi more things to think about than "setting up" some kind of spirit animal intrinsic to everyone here.
wolf's aggressive hackles towards kizu remain and it doesn't back down from its stance. dabi feels no real threat from the snow leopard now, knowing that despite her independent autonomy, she still is a reflection of shouto's feelings. particularly parts he's probably not willing to acknowledge just yet.
still, once kizu's attention turns back to dabi, wolf vanishes, no longer needed for scouting or interest. a few lingering black flames fade out in the air after it's disappearance.]
Survival. Gettin settled. The kinda things anyone thrown into this shithole should do.
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Midoriya's arrival sparked a return to form. A longing for home he'd forgotten about which only grew inside him when Bakugou and Uraraka arrived. The three of them were a taste of home he'd forgotten. Touya's arrival cemented that feeling causing him to pull away from the ideals he'd built in Trench. He was changing, but not yet fully formed. He's not the Shouto Touya remembers from their last encounter. He's grown. His world expanded. He was forced to live on his own all over again, and now there's a distance between his classmates and him that wasn't there when they all lived together in the dorms. That's why he latched onto Touya so readily when he first arrived. A touch of home that he was no longer afraid to reach for.
Maybe this is part of growing up or maybe it's just him. Either way, Touya may have found it odd that with all the free real estate available, he chose to live off the grid away from his friends, preferring the peace of the forest and the company of the koi fish that he diligently feeds every morning with the rising of the dawn.
Kizu shimmers gold and disappears returning to her perch inside her Sleeper. She stretches within his ribcage lulled by the beating of his heart. So long as it beats, she's unafraid. Shouto is used to her disappearance and when he feels the strange weight on his chest, he knows she's gone.
Speaking of getting settled. ]
Did you get the jams?
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death was easy for touya to deliver. the first time he witnessed it had gutted him... horrified at seeing the life of another human being ended in front of him. only then did he realize what he had done when he escaped from that daycare/jail of all for one's. he'd left it burning to the ground as he ran. who knows how many of those kids escaped, who knows how many of them died in his fire. the first time he'd consciously killed someone else... it'd thrilled him, knowing he had that kind of power. knowing his father could never accomplish that sort of action. one more way he followed endeavor's design for him and surpassed enji todoroki.
it's easy to tell that shouto's different from the last time he saw him back home. leaving the kid in a burned heap on the floor, unwilling to kill him since endeavor had passed out. touya knew he'd see him again on the battlefield of the upcoming war. which is now on hold since he's in this stupid place. but shouto here is changed from all of that. his experiences in trench and beyond have molded him in ways touya can easily see and ways he can't fathom at the moment. one might consider this an opportune time to "get to know" his little brother. well, he certainly hasn't tried to kill the kid so far, so that counts for something, right?
still doesn't give shouto free passage to latch onto him. gross.
whatever. it's both odd and understandable that shouto would live where and how he does. touya gets the idea that shouto had been here before any of his classmates, so of course he'd end up living on his own. no point in leaving a house he'd obviously put effort into making his own just because some of those other shits appeared in the world. while he won't say it, shouto's house is a designated safe place in touya's mental map. should he ever want to make use of it that way.]
Yeah. Must've taken ya a lotta time to do all that. [probably the only person in trench who doesn't know cooking enough to realize that shouto's gifts are abominations to the culinary world. they are from the same breed after all.] Didja sample your own work?
[once he gets some bread, he'll try a few. probably gonna start with the raspberry jar.]
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He's not entirely selfless. He wants things like anyone else. Familial bonds. Bonds of friendship. They're important to him. He's managed to navigate the latter forming friendships outside of Class-A here in Trench. But familial bonds... they'll always matter to him. No matter what Touya says or does, he won't ever stop caring for him. It's too much a part of his make-up, a feeling that can only be changed by ripping away every memory of him with a scalpel. ]
Two weeks. I made a batch a day.
[ One new flavor every night until he had his even dozen.
He shakes his head. Why would he taste it? He's not corrupted anymore. ]
No, but I kept some so I could incorporate them into my med kit, for corruption cases.
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so far he hasn't found anything to fill that void. asides from the stubborn refusal to let something like trench kill him.
what familial bonds had once been with touya had long since been ripped away and thrown off. his family left him behind, buried him with the dead, and moved on as if nothing had ever happened. the same abuse, the same beaten down figures, his death didn't move a single one of them to do anything different. his purpose, his existence, meant nothing. alone. bonds are only useful for manipulating. to make any, to have any, is a foolish decision. pretense is the only method to go about it.]
Didn't even know ya could cook.
[not that touya's any better in the kitchen. unless someone needs him to burn something, but even that runs the risk o him losing control of the more fine-tuned uses of his flames. daddy never taught him that skill...]
Ya sure you weren't tryin to make some kinda medicine?
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[ You know it's bad when a novice tries to fuse foods from different cultures, and that novice title is really stretching it too. The problem is that the less you know about a subject, the easier it is to think you've nailed it.
Shouto put everything Endeavor taught him into his ice and learned a depth of control he couldn't ever reach in such a short amount of time. Now, he's started to apply that same knowledge to his fire, using what he learned in his internship - concentrate, build, and release - to bolster his control. He still can't control his fire precisely as his ice, but he's getting there. ]
It is medicine, but you can eat it too.
[ Never a good sentence. Also, don't touch the raspberry! ]
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[not that dabi's one to talk, but usually when starting a new skill, you start with first steps, not jumping to... whatever fusions are. but here he is, giving shouto a flat look and wondering why he didn't make simple raspberry jam.
as far as quirks go... touya was only taught to stomp on the proverbial gas. concentrate, build, release, yes, but none of that was based on any kind of control or precision. endeavor wanted hotter, stronger, faster, racing to overwhelm all might. that's all touya ever knew. certainly nothing about cooling down or stopping was put into his impressionable head.
endeavor once told him he would be the brightest star. and now he is. burning himself out forever.]
So ya made medicine but called it jam...
[but raspberry is the one he wants to try first.]
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[ Better than the jam they could buy at the food market. That's why he stubbornly stuck to his even-dozen even if he wasn't sure if lemon jam would actually taste all that good.
The thing is, Shouto refused to use his fire after a time and there was nothing Endeavor could do to force him to comply. With no spare to replace him, he switched tactics, letting him hit continue with his rebellion knowing he'd hit that proverbial wall of what he could accomplish with only half of his quirk. When Shouto finally came around, he didn't need to teach him how to cool down or stop, he learned to do that on his own thanks to his mother's quirk, it was getting him to become hotter that was the problem. ]
It's both. [ He says stubbornly. ] It's jam, but it's also good for you.
[ If you can keep it down and dear god, there are 12 different flavors! Try ANY OTHER ONE! ]
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[why is he giving cooking advice to his little brother? dabi doesn't really know any cooking advice in the first place, but even he knows you should make the original recipe once before starting to screw round with it. (lemon marmalade is awesome, so long as shouto's not making it...)
you'd think endeavor would've reconsidered encouraging his son to become hotter when his first one burned himself to cinders doing the very same thing. but no, touya was nothing in endeavor's eyes. only an experiment that failed, something he could easily crush the remaining dust of his charred corpse underfoot and brush it away to forget it ever existed. in the end, touya's death amounted to nothing in his family's life. a realization that killed him a second time in front of his own shrine, when he left touya in the grave and dabi was born anew as he walked out of his old life forever.]
Uh-huh. [the idea of a bunch of hunters carrying emergency vials of shouto's jam into battle is... ridiculous. but if it works as he says, hey, he's seen worse tools used.] Guess I got somethin to look forward to.
[nah. raspberry looks good. he'll try some tonight.]
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Must you be logical?!His head tilts slightly. He's not wrong, but he still doesn't see the issue. Wasn't it better to give away an elevated dish than a basic one? ]No. I didn't have time to make both, so I chose the better one.
[ He will gladly take cooking advice from him just don't blame him when they end up burning down the kitchen.
As it stands Shouto doesn't know yet that Endeavor trained Touya. By the time he came around, Endeavor had already stopped training him and by the time Shouto was started on his training, Touya was already gone.
It wouldn't be a bunch of Hunters, since they don't exactly get along. Shouto works with a handful of them, but mostly, he's assigned to solo patrol that way there's no clashes among them.
He looks across the cavern to an opening in the rock that seemed to lead to the rest of the cave system, and smiles quietly to himself, pleased by his suggestion. He didn't throw it away. Somehow, he didn't expect that. He'd worried that someone else would find it or that he'd see his signature and burn it, so to hear that he kept it and planned to try it... it validates every hour he spent making each jam. ]
... If you like one [ he scratches at his cheek, looking almost timid ] I have more.
[ Don't even dare choose the raspberry one!!! ]
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yes.touya sighs, though the exhale barely shows leaving his mouth. this isn't something he should be wasting his time on. explaining this concept. didn't the little puppet have friends to talk to him about it?]Guess you'll find out soon enough.
[if word gets around of some kind of infamous jam poisoning. makes him speculate of the ones he's got in his own place. maybe he'll scan the network and wait a few days to listen. see if anyone's saying something.
like burning down the kitchen's gonna be a problem for him...
depends on if the jam actually works or not. taste aside, if it proves to be a strong anti-corruption tool, he might get some orders for more. and who knows where they'll go once they've been sold...
dabi's only just started working as a hunter, though he's kept some attention on the whole sanctuary thing and the growing rift in the two hunting philosophies. what a surprise. save versus kill. kinda got shades of the war back home, huh.
noting shouto looking towards the cavern wall, the opening nearby, touya moves forward, tired of standing around and being pleasant with his little brother. he's got something he wants to do in here and a conversation while still is not one of them.]
I'll keep that in mind.
[once again, wolf reappears, melting out of the shadows beside touya's leg. its glowing eyes cast a faint turquoise light in the dark. almost akin to two candles. mostly so touya doesn't have to keep his own fires activated.
choose the raspberry? well if you insist.]
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When Touya looks to the opening, Shouto follows his gaze and remembers what he's doing down here in the first place. Kizu jumps back into his chest, curling around his heart as Shouto secures his equipment and walks behind his brother. His gait is faster, legs just a little longer, so he soon catches up with him, looking like he's following him like a not so subtle stalker. For once his eyes aren't on Touya but on his omen, black against black. It melds into the background making it difficult to see if it wasn't for the glowing eyes that reveal some of its features.
Shouto keeps quiet, following five steps behind the duo, perfectly content to follow him wherever he leads when the ground starts rumbling beneath them. Cracks form all around them and he activates his fire to take him airborne when the earth collapses beneath its own weight revealing another tunnel below. Dust rises obscuring what lies below but soon enough, it settles revealing a blue, luminous glow in the dark. Switching sides, he forms a ledge of ice that leads down into the newly revealed tunnel whose walls are filled with blue algae that glow quietly in the dark. A small shallower river flows through the center, no more than three feet deep. Shouto lands on the ledge of the bank of the river that's a good four feet wide giving him ample room to walk. He looks behind him and sees the tunnel turn a corner and disappear leaving only darkness. Shifts his shoulders forward and watches the river run a few hundred feet before it too turns a corner and disappears from view. ]
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ducking into the opening, he lets his omen walk between his legs and push into the darkened tunnel. the blue glow kicks up a notch when the lupine spirit ignites two glowing balls of flame around itself, like twin hitodama drifting about ghostly in the darkness. this reveals a lot more of its features, though if shouto's seen a picture of a wolf, then it's really not much different. however, through the black fur, a few patches of white stand out, something dabi was mildly annoyed about when wolf manifested completely the first time. almost a throw back to the reality of his hair's dyed nature. whatever. those silver streaks, along with it's glowing blue eyes, are likely wolf's most defining features. (when it's not looking like a salivating hell hound.)
touya tenses up, hand pressing against the wall when the ground quakes. shit, this is the only part he hates about being in the caves. but when the ground starts to break, he instantly ignites his flames and hovers, wolf vanishing immediately to avoid getting bothered by the collapsing floor. he jerks his arm up, shoving his face into his sleeve above the cuff to block out the dust and avoid coughing or choking on the cloud. shuts his eyes for the same reason, weathering the rising implosion. once it's died down, he lowers his arms and narrows in on the new path poured open beneath them. well shit...
dropping down, dabi gets a secure footing on the floor and then pulls out a note book. flips a few pages to count before making some lines and a circle on the pad. before turning to look behind him and then back to the blue-glazed cavern in front of them. ominous in a weird way... while shouto scouts out the river, touya takes the time to lift a hand and pour out flames against the wall above where the floor had collapsed. ultimately creates an <-- arrow to indicate they came (and faced) this way. that should help retracing their route back.]
We followin that?
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There's no fish in the river.
[ He calls out before using his ice to reach the glowing ceiling and get a better look at the-- ]
Oh. They're worms.
[ Bioluminescent glow worms. He reaches out to touch one of the long threads hanging down, not realizing that they're made of urine the glow-worm vomited out. ]
The threads are sticky but they don't seem dangerous. Some bugs are stuck in some of them. Probably the food source for the worms.
[ He lowers himself down on the ice, touching down and setting a left hand to melt it. In the process, he removes any of the sticky material still on his hand. When he's done, the ice reduced to nothing, he turns back to Touya. ]
Are you coming too?
[ Meaning, he's most definitely coming down this way. Touya can join him if he wants. ]
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None you can see. [don't make generic statements, shouto. especially when looking at one patch of a river they don't even see the ends of. dabi tilts his head back to watch his brother escalate himself to the ceiling. worms?]
... gross.
[here he thought it was moss along needle-like stalactites. (and no, he doesn't know what shouto's poking either.) now he's less inclined to stand under them when he notices the drippy threads move with the poke. at least it doesn't seem to be melting the younger man's flesh off his finger.]
I'm right here.
[indicating his own presence. the question is, which direction to go? the river goes and comes different routes. the continuation of the river is far more well lit than the potential origination point...]
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I'm going to follow the river his way. [ He points out. ] It's better lit and there's enough room to walk alongside the current.
[ With that, he secures the backpack with the breathing gear once more, before heading down the trail of blue lights that remind of the Milkyway at night. ]
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If it empties into an underground lake, we're fucked.
[trapped to some degree. as well as suggesting a very dangerous foundation for whatever land might be above that lake. then again, it could merely wind itself out to the ocean and spill out there.
he follows after his brother, dismissing wolf for the time being.]
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[ Since he brought extras because he's a good little hero who always tries to be prepared. And down the river they go! Shouto's pace is slower than normal probably because he keeps looking up, fascinated by the glowing worms that manage to carve out an epic scene that rivals the cathedrals of Rome. Every once in a while, he'll take out his glow stick and mark the wall of the cave with an 'x'. He'll mostly stay quiet, not one to start up conversations, only speaking up when there's a new feature to point out. ]
Oh. The river is wider here.
The ceiling is getting higher.
I think I see an open space up ahead.
[ His steps never hurry. He walks with a purpose following the diminishing bank of the river, only three feet wide now, until it opens up into a large open cavern. The entrance they take is one of many. From their vantage point, more openings can be seen leading to this cavern leading one to believe it might be significant, at least enough to explore a little, so Shouto crosses through the shallow river that's only a few feet deep, and starts exploring. ]
I'm going to check the top of the hill.
[ ooc; making things up as i go along, feel free to add anything you'd like too! ]
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[spelunking is one thing. swimming around in an underwater lake? that's going a bit too far for his exploratory wants. self-preservation is a thing and dabi doesn't like to take too many risks unless he's assured success. in most cases...
once he realizes the worms aren't going to be dripping on them like some kind of disgusting slime rain, he's more at ease walking down the tunnel the river's carved away over who knows how long a time. when shouto stops to mark the walls, touya likewise draws further on the little notebook, a rudimentary mapping system that consists little more than circles and lines to indicate branches and routes taken. plus burning marks on the wall opposite shouto's glowsticks.
he keeps his silence, noting the decreasing size of the river. somewhere in his mind, he wrangles up lessons from his childhood about nature and stuff. smaller rivers mean less time it's been here. probably carving its way through the rocks. but that stops when the large cavern shows up and he frowns at the severe number of paths.
shit.]
Ya see anything move, send up a flare.
[touya heads to the opposite side of the room, opting to walk past all the different entrances that lead out of the chamber. looking for any signs people have been here. he knows they're not the only ones exploring these caves, especially since there are things in here to find and keep.
case in point, a pile of rocks beside one mouth that obviously was not naturally made (though certainly more respectful to nature than you two idiots painting and burning the walls...)]
Someone's been down this one. They left a marker.
[ooc: got it! i shall unleash some plans~]
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