Neither ever, nor never

[wannasmash]

Who: Midoriya and: Luz, Ruby, Todoroki, Lance, Riz, Snow White, Makoto Kino + YOU? Plot with me here
What: October, including event stuff. Ugly crying. Making friends with Cloverfield lol. Black Parade. Corpse shadow Loneliness thing. Learning to cook with a bear.
When: October
Where: Black Parade. Farther Shores. Cellar Door. Grocery market.

Content Warnings: My Hero Academia spoilers, grieving behavior, intoxicating craving for meat (thanks Beastars), intoxication due to this month's vileblood effects, minimizing one's own feelings.
Cloverfield's event effects, which can include: psychological-based curse, feelings of intense loneliness, mental health.
Mention of: capital punishment, child abuse, underground drug war, harvesting of human flesh and blood without consent.

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[wannasmash]

"Yeah... it's us..." he croaked awkwardly, reminded of how he'd sworn off calamari when he found out Sleepers were squids. Thanks Trench, thanks for that!

"Oh, amazing! Yeah, let's do that one."

He haggled (badly) with the kite seller and did his gallant best to carry the kite without knocking into other people or Snow's animals on the way to the huge square. It was easy to tell what the wind was doing by the other kites in the air. He held out the spool of the butterfly kite to Snow first before pointing at the sky with a scarred hand.

"We want to face this way, so the wind leads it away from us. This crank controls the height... When I give the kite a boost, let it take the string. Ready?"

[onebadapple]

Snow has never had calamari, so she wouldn't know to swear it off regardless. Snow White watched Izuku speak with the seller before they made their way to a place to fly the kite.

She took the spool in her hand, examining it for a bit before holding it with both hands. Her animal's friends doing much the same with their own, much smaller spool. They seemed to be listening to Izuku as well, several of them chittering to each other as it was decided to give the kite to a squirrel who then climbed up Faramund, her omen, onto his antlers. Several birds are rolling their eyes at the whole thing since there had been an argument about just letting them carry the kite up to the wind but the other animals had insisted they try it properly.

Snow, for her part, was ignoring the whole argument and focusing on Izuku.

"Oh yes! I'm ready! This is so exciting!"

[wannasmash]

He smiled, watching the mini argument between the winged and flightless of her retinue, and waited until everyone was ready. He gathered some string for slack. He started a countdown to get their attention.

"3... 2... 1... Go!!"

The wind was perfect--a bit too enthusiastic at times, actually. He only had to jog a few steps before the air filled the wings of the colorful butterfly. He let it soar out of his hands towards the sky. Watching it, he backtracked to Snow.

"That should be high enough!"

[onebadapple]

Snow had done as Izuku instructed, watching the kite go higher and higher, several of her bird friends taking off to join it in the air, swooping up and around it to let the butterfly dip and dive. She let out a soft gasp, watching as it moved in the wind.

"Oh... Oh, this is... it's so beautiful," she whispered, mesmerized as another one of her birds swirled around the butterfly kite and make it dip and dive before coming back up again.

"Look at it, look at how it moves. This is amazing."

[wannasmash]

The colors were a loud and bright splash against the sky. Midoriya wanted Snow to experience everything that was the opposite of how she was raised, the infinite possibilities life had to offer outside of a castle with no one to really talk to. In a way, doing something like this for someone else healed his heart too. To think, he had almost not come out today. He was so glad he could almost cry, but he won't spoil the mood by doing so.

"Don't forget to stop the string," he said with a small laugh to dispel the ache in his throat.

[onebadapple]

Snow White looks down and tries to figure out how to do just that. Does she hold the string? Snow attempts that and while the kite string doesn't like the sudden jolt, it does oblige without yanking out of her hand.

"It's like I have a real giant butterfly!" She came over to Izuku, holding it out to him. "Here, you try it!"

[wannasmash]

Caught by surprise, he awkwardly took the kite. Unlike a real butterfly, it fluttered loudly, wings snapping against the wind. But it was strong.

"You can wind it, like this, so the string doesn't slip. But here, you're the one who hasn't done this before. If... if the only places you've been are that castle, and then this place... You should fly it more."

She had been very candid about her upbringing, or else he would have not alluded to it at all today.

[onebadapple]

Snow White stood right next to him, watching it fly around. It was truly magnificent. How long have people been able to fly kites like this? Was it something she could have done back home? She knew about flags, but this was so very different. She looked back over to him.

"I want to share this moment with you, my friend. And I can't share it if I'm the only one doing it. I can take it back in a bit."