I want to stick with our plan A, BUT we can handwave they've briefly met here? This could facilitate easier CR during Sanctuary things after my player plots and your post-death fallout dies down. I'm also not sure yet if Deku is having a thread with Todoroki regarding that before this party, so I can't really thread about it here if that's the case.

Perhaps they started to chat but then Deku had to run off to tend to some explosions... Safety first...