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deercountry2022-07-09 02:47 pm
burnitblack) wrote in deercountry2022-07-09 02:47 pm
[Open] 🚬 July Flames
Who: Dabi & others
What: July Catch-All
When: July
Where: Various
Content Warnings: Potential mentions of domestic/child abuse, potential mentions of murder, violence, adult language/subjects
Notes: General and specific starters and event prompts are found below. Contact under cut.
If you want to hit me up for ideas on prompts or plots, feel free to comment on Dabi's CR meme post or his Event plotting post, hit me up on my contacts – Plurk (![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
StarSeed69) / Discord (StarSeed#3572) – shoot me a PM, or drop an ooc comment down below, and we’ll hash it out. I'm down to write a unique starter for our threads if you prefer.
What: July Catch-All
When: July
Where: Various
Content Warnings: Potential mentions of domestic/child abuse, potential mentions of murder, violence, adult language/subjects
Notes: General and specific starters and event prompts are found below. Contact under cut.
If you want to hit me up for ideas on prompts or plots, feel free to comment on Dabi's CR meme post or his Event plotting post, hit me up on my contacts – Plurk (
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like someone fighting for their life. like someone with an explosion quirk. like someone who moves too quickly for most of her classmates to stop during drills and spars, someone that she's sure she stands no chance against face-to-face. what good would it even do for her to show up? he doesn't want to see her. none of them do. he can handle himself-
-not that that matters, right now. another explosion echoes out, louder and more furious than ever, and himiko starts running. it doesn't matter if he wants to see her. it doesn't matter if he needs help. right now, something bad's going down, and she's got to do something to help stop it.
each step she gets closer, she realizes a little bit more just what a terrible decision it is she's made. the explosions just keep growing louder and louder; they start to differ, too, through sound first and then scent and then that terrible pressure before she's even close enough to see any of it. shockwaves, burning heat, smoke and ash all overwhelming her senses. she should turn around. she shouldn't be here. what's someone with a quirk like hers even going to do?
she's not sure yet, but she has to do something. so she ducks through alleyways, forcing herself to keep running even as the terrible scent on the air starts to get thicker. one explosion, then another - and then one so powerful she feels it, has to cover her face from the blast wave as she shrieks. and then... nothing more. no explosions, no fighting, no quirks - just the sound of a burning city block ahead, and a sickeningly sweet, bloody smell. it's the scariest single moment of her life. she breaks into a full sprint, ducking through one more alleyway and turning out onto the street, and then-
she sees the bodies.
whatever thoughts she might have had of saving lives fly out the window. there's not much left of the corpses - pinned under rubble, charred and burnt, stinking of burnt hair and flesh. it's the smell of a burning human body, some part of her manages to put together - that sweet smell like a trash back that's started to ferment, the smell of tanned leather and iron deposits and human fat all torched together. she has to look for survivors - has to do something. it can't just end like this, can it? she sees a corpse trapped under rubble. she sees a body on the street, crackling and twitching as flesh shrinks and the water content of their body evaporates away. she sees-
she sees katsuki-kun. ]
Katsuki-kun!
[ she starts running before she's even taken in the whole scene. she doesn't have time to think about it - she has to reach him. she needs to make sure someone gets out of this alive. she takes one step, and then another, and it's halfway through her third that she finally takes in his appearance - the blood streaming from an impact wound on his head, the glass cut on his arm, the sheer and utter fury in his visage as he looks down at someone she can't quite see.
did he do this? ]
Katsuki-kun...
[ for a moment, she almost falters. her pace slows; she stumbles on one foot. and then she grits her teeth, clenches her fist, and yells out as she keeps sprinting towards him- ]
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, DYNAMIGHT?!
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This time it's his hero name, and it's getting fucking screamed at him. A voice he... knows, but not in an incredibly familiar way. It's distant, in his mind, but he knows it. What the fuck. Pushing at Dabi's face to push off and straighten up and out, Katsuki's head cocks at an angle to turn it, baring his teeth as his voice cuts through the air in a loud, threatening rasp.] Haahh--fuck's sake--What?! [Typical bothered teenager response, eh? Only that's something used for getting interrupted in one's social media scrolling or what not, not being interrupted in the middle of a murder attempt. If Katsuki is surprised by who he sees when he focuses and it clicks, it doesn't show. No, his nose just curls up in complete fucking distaste and he brings his hand up to let it crackle. That's a silent 'duh' kind of explanation that pairs just as much as a threat.
It's just fucking Toga. Probably the one who's so annoyingly insistent that she's a fucking hero, since she used his hero name. Whatever.] The hell's it look like 'm doing?! I'm gonna paint the fuckin' floor with this asshole's brains! [His boot grinds down a little as if to emphasis how much of an asshole he thinks that Dabi is.] Now fuck off!
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YOU fuck off!!!
[ instead, she finds herself getting pissed. ]
So what, you're just gonna kill someone? What kind of villain do you think you are?! [ months of anger churn and roil inside her, eating and eroding away trivial things as fear and survival instinct and leaving a core of righteous fury in its place. even as he lifts his hand in warning, she keeps approaching - though she does at least slow to a jog once he's facing her. ] Heroes don't do that! You don't just kill someone when you've got them on the ground!
[ she doesn't bring up the bodies. maybe they weren't katsuki-kun's fault. maybe they weren't entirely katsuki-kun's fault.
but right now, if katsuki had set off that detonation? as far as she's concerned, he wouldn't be a hero. he'd be a murderer, plain and simple. ]
Ugh, I can't believe I ever thought you were cool!!
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He looks wholly unimpressed, from start to finish. At one point when, when she's questioning him, the blond just rolls his fucking eyes and brings let's the usage of his quirk die out in favor of bringing his hand up to try to clean his ear out with his pinky. Maybe it's blood in there thats making everything slightly muffled... or maybe it's just that his poor fucking eardrum has finally started to cave under the intensely loud burden of his quirk. Either way...]
Fuck you're annoying! You done yet?? [It's rhetorical. He doesn't care if she is done or not. This fucking dumbass is going to get one warning, and one warning only. Why?? He doesn't know, it ain't like he actually gives a fuck about anything, if the entire razed town square around him doesn't make that crystal clear. Something about the expression on her face, her words.. that they're coming from Toga of all people... it strikes something else deep inside of him, something far far away from the person he's let himself become. Relating. Understanding, even through doubts. Something. Whatever is, it's just enough to let him feel generous enough to give her an out.
Last chance. Katsuki's eyes suddenly narrow dangerously very suddenly, that expression going dark and serious.] I know. I know exactly what I'm fucking doing. He-[That gloved hand points down at Dabi, and his teeth start to show again as his temper starts to rise all over again.]-has this coming from me. Now get outta my goddamn face with your useless fucking hero speech, or you're gonna be next!
[Annnd he's back to it. Turning away from her to lean back in, reaching down all over again. Time's gotta be running out. He never checked for a pulse, but he can feel the movement of his chest underfoot when he inhales and exhales. Dabi is alive, and he can not be allowed to get back up again. It took almost everything he had to get him down like this. ]
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and then he turns away, reaching for the villain's face, and himiko knows time is running out - for her, not just the guy on the ground. she doesn't know what'll stick, she doesn't know what'll convince him, and she doesn't even know if she can distract him much longer without dying herself.
so she yells out the first thing that comes to mind- ]
So what happened to the guy that took care of Ochako-chan for her birthday, huh?!
[ it's a desperate move. she doesn't know what to do or say, so she just says what's on her mind. it's gotten her in trouble before - a lot of trouble, even. but at least it's something. ]
Hey, hey, you remember when I brought you Ochako-chan's present? I thought- [ -a cough, dragged out by the sweltering heat, the smoke and ash around them- ] -I thought that was the coolest you'd ever looked. Looking out for someone like that, paying attention to all those little details without them having to ask... All I could think was how lucky she was to have friends like that. Like you.
[ friends that look out for each other. friends that remember each others' birthdays. friends that meet people they think are murderers because it's the best way to keep them safe. ]
You all keep saying I'm the one putting on an act, right? But I'm just me. Himiko Toga, same as I've always been. [ her hands balls into fists at her sides. ] And unless everything you did for her was a lie, you're the only one acting weird here!