[Kaida Ikarashi]

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Kaida could write a list of all the things wrong with her and watch it roll down the road and the corner and never hope to see the end of it, in her lifetime at least. This month alone she might even manage to go past that. And that didn't even amount to how it had gone wrong- whether it was her social life, life outside school, her relationship with her family, and past events... but nothing quite amounted to being wrong. If she hadn't done the wrong thing for once in her godforsaken life, then maybe, just maybe, she could have a chance at being in a real family.[break][break]

The incident at Mikurajima was only a month ago, but it feels like it's been plaguing her for the last year. The night terrors since then? She doesn't know if much in her childhood compares to that.[break][break]

But she knows better than to think that they'll go away- the only way around this is to numb herself to the demons in her sleep by sleeping in the very form that gave them to her in the first place.[break][break]

Anyone who knows Kaida well enough knows that she doesn't fancy her quirk much, to put it lightly. Her dragon was a beast rarely seen by the public eye out of fear of attention, and mostly out of fear of losing control. Her chance at U.A was a singular one, a final option for redemption- losing that would mean having to face the outside world, and very likely perish at the hands of her family. However, hatred was an old friend of hers and was not something she was afraid of.[break][break]

Using her quirk outside of campus comes with heavy penalties, and considering her situation, there are some rules she doesn't ignore. Dozing off in a forest far away from civilisation was something she would have much preferred to do, but the university grounds are surprisingly quiet on a weekday evening, and is something Kaida can find a silver lining in despite hating the leering public eye no matter the headcount. The dragoness drew her wings close to her body as she lay upon the cooling sand of the physical education grounds, a heavy sigh escaping her nostrils, her breath flinging up a significant dust cloud. Eyelids closing, she waited for sleep to cuddle her in its dark embrace, or perhaps the inevitable presence of onlookers to disturb her.[break][break]

The more hesitant part of her hoped for the latter.

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[Kei Hada]

It's worse.

It's worse.

It's actually gotten worse.

How could this have happened? It wasn't like he was training his Quirk as the hero students did. His didn't need to get stronger- he was even so bold as to say it was too strong already. He could duplicate any liquid and fine grain he could touch for crying out loud! But now? As every seasoning on the spice rack continued to pour down the counter unto the floor without him even being near any of them, he came to a sickening realization.

Touching what he wanted to duplicate was no longer necessary. His hands could be laying flat on a table and he could sense everything he could use his Quirk on some distance away from him.

This was a fucking nightmare.

Kei was outside the dorms in an instant, opting to escape the stuffy building and the many bodies within in order to get some fresh air. Except it wasn't working because nothing ever does for him to no one's surprise. But he was walking regardless because at least there was nothing he could easily put his hands on other than the ground beneath him. He can stand for a while. This was fine.

His feet eventually took him to the physical education grounds, because the higher powers that he didn't believe in was against him and wanted to remind him of training once again. The only silver lining was that no one was around at this hour other than the dragon lazing in the sand.

Wait a minute.

Focusing more on the mound, he realized he actually recognized who it was and set aside the initial panic of oh God there's a dragon on campus. So instead of giving the creature a wide berth like any normal person would, he walked towards her instead. After also putting aside the hesitation of not wanting to bother her with something like this. She did say he could go to her if he needed someone to talk to.

Kei whispered to her once he was close enough. "Kaida?" He crouched to be more eye level with her, hands clamped tightly together so he didn't risk touching her or the floor under him. "You awake?"

Kaida Ikarashi

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It wasn't working. Ultimately not surprising, but the non-confrontational, anxiety-ridden voice in her head told her it was for the best, which she knew it wasn't. Sleep never came easy for her in the first place, waiting for it to happen in her dragon form was like asking for rain in the form of liquid gold- nigh impossible, even in the world of quirks. Still, if she could hold one of any trait to her name it would be stubbornness, so she kept her eyes tightly shut, breathy light snores racking her giant body.[break][break]

Eventually she did hear footsteps, and ones that didn't seem to certain in their approach. Initially she thought an uncertain university newspaper reporter hesitant but eager to hear of her recent endeavors had come to talk to her, and at that possible notion she was already baring her teeth, growling, readying her ice breath, and lifting her head all at once to glare down at whoever had approached her, but immediately laxed upon recognising the familiar face beside her. Kei.[break][break]

Ultimately she hadn't talked much with him since their last so-called excitement out in the forest with that fox spirit in the event that they both relived perhaps the most traumatic parts of their lives. She still needed to talk him through that... and clear up some misconceptions herself.[break][break]

Resting her chin upon the sand once more to become at eye-level with him, Kaida stared at her friend with a gaze that beckoned a question as to why he was here, slitted pupils dilating welcomingly, not unlike a cat who didn't really know what to do with itself. Why are you here?

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[Kei Hada]

Kaida was sleeping so peacefully, at least from his perspective. Just laying in the sand with her wings tucked in and her eyes closed. Come to think of it didn't something happen to her? An attack on a ship where her and her brother fought. Where a man's still under a coma while Jun was electrocuted. God, and he was over here caring only about himself. He was about to turn around from the guilt when there was movement from the dragon, and he looked to her just as she loomed over him with her mouth agape.

The panic was immediate. Kei shut his eyes and braced himself for the oncoming ice, hands still turned away from her despite the danger he was in. He remained in that position for a few seconds before confusion set in on why he didn't turn into a popsicle.

Blinking his eyes open, the sophomore peered passed his arms to see a head level with his own again. He gave a hesitant wave. "Hiiii Kaida..." Then he proceeded to clutch his chest and take a deep breath. "God, you nearly gave me a heart attack! You can't let that be your reaction to people walkin' towards you!"

Once the panic subsided and Kei realized what he said, he brought his hands to his face and dragged them down. "Sorry. I'm sorry. I don't even know why I'm here." That was a lie, he did. He just thought he shouldn't be, as per usual when it came to bottling up all his troubles.

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If it was possible, Kei seemed even more fidgety and nervous than usual. Her usual reaction to people she didn't know was to glare, growl, and warn them off, and they responded in kind if they weren't the usual stuttering mess because they had fallen subject to the rumours surrounding her; but she thought Kei might have at least braced himself for whatever she might have done next had she not recognised him. But he didn't. He didn't do anything.[break][break]

So he's still like he was, then. Or perhaps... Kaida pondered. Maybe it's gotten worse.[break][break]

The dragoness gave an apologetic rumble, her ears drooping somewhat. She felt as though Kei did know why he was here, but simply wasn't confident enough to admit his misfortunes to Kaida out of concern for her, or rather, 'trauma dumping' as some people liked to call it. Kaida could relate. She didn't much like talking to people about what was wrong with her, either. Anything that had happened recently she very much so did not want to talk about, at the risk of dredging up bad memories in her current draconic form. However, out of heartfelt consideration, Kaida felt as though she needed to break past that boundary with him.[break][break]

She lifted a talon upon her wing to reach around Kei and sunk it into the sand, making precise movements. Kei would soon come to realise she was actually drawing- no, writing in the sand to communicate to him. [break][break]

You lie. The text was plain and simple. Tell the truth.

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[Kei Hada]

Sometimes Kei would forget someone's- humanness? When they undergo a transformation. When one saw a cat, their first instinct was to pet it, even though that cat could switch between feline and person. In the same vein, when a dragon lowers their ears, Kei couldn't help but compare the action to a dog's when it gets scolded for eating something it shouldn't. It's with that thought that he sighed and spoke as if he was guessing her thoughts. "Yeah, I know you didn't mean it. Sorry for surprisin' ya."

It's when a claw started moving to form characters in the sand that he realized right this is still Kaida. Who was perceptive as always once he read what she wrote. Not that he was any good at hiding his emotions either. He let out another breath. "Right, sorry." It would also be cool if he could just stop apologizing.

He dug his fingers into his hair, pulling at it in an attempt to clear his head enough for him to actually explain. "My Quirk, it- it got stronger somehow?" Kei looked around them, afraid that someone else may be listening in. "It's so much worse now and I don't know what to do."

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Kaida stared at him a moment longer after he apologised, thinking. She then drew more lines in the sand.[break][break]

Unnecessary.[break][break]

Perhaps it wasn't obvious; it wasn't just her talking, but two personalities mended into one. Both her dragon's, and Kaida's own, in which made her text more blunt and honest than she usually was, with a hint of formality. Almost as though one were talking to an A.I, or a robot. With the way that her lip curled in slight annoyance as the younger male said "sorry" once more, she was clearly irritated and frankly, saddened that he felt the need to act this way. She couldn't imagine a life so intolerable that you felt the need to seek other's forgiveness for no apparent reason.[break][break]

The dragoness' ears perked for a moment as she mimicked his movements to look around, still for a moment before gazing at him comfortingly. There wasn't anyone else around— it seemed she was wrong in presuming that other people would want to approach her. Good.[break][break]

Kaida thought back to their escapade in the forest where they had both been forced to face their darkest memories. She had seen what had haunted him, and return he saw what had taunted her. They were both haunted by death, but one was used to it, and one was not. She lifted her talon again.[break][break]

You say you are afraid of destruction, yet you do it to yourself every day. Have you not thought of ways to solve this, or do you think you are entitled to more unnecessary misery?

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[Kei Hada]

Hearing more scrapes in the sand, Kei honed in on the writing, his grip on his hair loosening as he said what the dragon wrote out loud. "Unnecessary?" With how expressive he was, he couldn't hide how much it stung. She thought his totally legitimate fear was trivial; like something he shouldn't even consider in his day to day.

He shook his head, his own annoyance evident in the way he sighed through his nose. "Kaida- it's not like I like bein' constantly afraid of what I can do, y'know? But you saw what I did. You know what I'm capable of." Even now he wished she didn't witness what he'd done to that monster. Apparition or not, it showed the senior a true event; a time he was so afraid that he thought there was only one way to deal with the beast. And what did he get for having her witness that display? A glimpse into her own past, with a woman on the ground as her father stepped forward to give her the same fate. She was forced to reveal that part of her life too.

God he hated that fox so much.

He let go of his hair and crossed his arms before sitting on the ground in what could only be described as a petulant manner. "But no. It just came up while I was cookin' so I left the dorm and ended up here."

Kaida Ikarashi

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The dragoness blinked, before raising her claw to write once more.[break][break]

It is unnecessary to apologise, she reinstated. For there is nothing to be apologetic about. The only one you should be apologising to is you for being so harsh on yourself.[break][break]

Kaida's eyes watched the sand carefully as her talons drag slowly over the grain that shimmered in the dying sunlight, a thoughful look on her mostly placid appearance, her other wing tucking it to her side for comfort. She hardly appeared to be fearful in Kei's presence— if anything, it should have been clear to him that she felt no apprehension when being around him. She paused to think once more, grumbling with uncertainty as her tail swished from side to side for a long moment, before wiping out whatever text she had before and starting over.[break][break]

I have seen what you are capable of. You have seen what I am capable of. A demon lives inside my head, but I do not let my fear consume me. You are allowed to feel fear. But it should not stop you from being able to help yourself. I am in this form because whilst my fear is there, I can become it, and overcome it. Then it is no more. She lowers her talon.[break][break]

Fear can become you, in both good ways and bad. Fear is hurting you more than your quirk will hurt anyone else. It is hurting me to see you do this more than it will harm me physically. She lifts the talons on her wingtips, and points at his chest. Trust you.[break][break]

She then flips it upside down to reveal the inside of her palm, whilst she wrote with her other wing, and presented it to him.[break][break] Trust me.

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[Kei Hada]

Kei blinked back. "Oh." He was so focused on his problem that he didn't think the word referred to something else. "I-" A hum stretched out as he clamped his mouth shut instead, cutting off his apology before he could finish it. He was this close to just slapping himself to discourage the apologies but he figured that would just make her more concerned over his mental state.

So instead, the support student focused on her next words, making sure he couldn't misconstrue them again. As he read on his face relaxed, finding inspiration in her bravery over the form she took on. She didn't let the voice in her head control her. Here she was, conquering her fear by spending time in her dragon form resting instead of fighting.

Yet despite this, he couldn't help but tense up again at the offered hand. Kaida wanted him to hold it, even with the knowledge she had of what his Quirk could do to her. To him, she was risking her life with the gesture. But she wanted him to trust him. And he wanted to believe her- he really did.

Slowly he uncrossed his arms and reached out a trembling hand towards hers. It only grew worse as it got closer despite his deep breathing, his mind already coming up with questions. How far beyond her hand could his Quirk go? Up her arm? Down her back? What if it could reach her head? The mind was just- so easy to ruin.

He blinked.

The dragon was replaced with a different beast, laying still on cobblestone, surrounded by its blood and brain matter. Both continued to leak from the hole on the back of its head, as that's where they decided to exit the skull when it could no longer contain them. There was so much screaming.

Kei blinked again and he was back in the present, their hands only inches apart. He looked up at her face. She was calm. She was so patient with him and yet-

He can't. He can't.

With a minute shake of his head, he withdrew his hand, his eyes watering before some of it escaped and streaked down his face. He clamped his hands together over his head, and right then, that's when he broke down. His body shook as he curled himself up completely, to hide his crying from her. The fact he couldn't even look at her anymore just made him sob harder. He couldn't trust her. He failed.

He was such a fucking coward.

Kaida Ikarashi

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Kaida inhaled, holding her breath, almost afraid to breathe in case it would scare him away. It was like watching raindrops falter in their fall, like witnessing droplets pause midair— so agonisingly slow, but she would wait if it meant that Kei would move forwards. But to her hitched breath and frozen demeanor, as soon as it seemed like he was about to touch her, it was one step forward, two steps back. But she does not show any disappointment in his actions, only another sad rumble as she inched forwards to be in front of him.[break][break]

She pressed her nose into him, taking care to avoid his hands with a few careful shoves as she attempted to get his attention, tried to get him to look up at her, and at her writing on the sand. You tried. That's enough for today, and we'll try again when the time comes, says the writing. You're feeling these emotions for a reason. Cry. Allow yourself to.[break][break]

Kaida made subtle, careful movements to lay her gigantic body around him, tail swishing to touch her nose, but ultimately as a comforting presence despite whatever she might have been capable of. He was free to leave anytime. But the sun warmed by the sand heightened her usually cold temperature, as though her thick black fur was a throw blanket. Kaida made no move to write anymore, simply laying her head on the sand by him, closing her eyes once more. She didn't mind.[break][break]

She didn't mind the company at all.

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[Kei Hada]

Kei didn't know how long he'd been in that position. Minutes? Hours? Definitely not hours- distraught as he was, he doubt he could spend that long crying as the tears would run out eventually. Right? Actually, now he wasn't sure. It had been a while since he'd been this much of a failure.

He eventually felt himself shift as something cold nudged into him. It was only when the pressure went away that he opened his eyes, wiping them with an arm before they caught movement on the ground. Kaida was writing again. He squinted at the words, and he could already feel his eyes water by the time he reached the last sentence.

Kei tensed at her movement then, watching as she curled herself up more before settling into her new position. She... encircled him? Almost protectively if one looked at them from the outside in. Tears rolled down his face again as he let himself lie on the dragon's side, taking in the warmth for what it was. He shouldn't be - he didn't deserve her forgiveness, her patience - but he was also so so tired and selfish. The panic was exhausting him.

Eventually, the crying stopped, and snores could be heard from the sophomore instead as he fell asleep, his hands tucked into his arms. The position was uncomfortable but it's a safety measure he's willing to tolerate. He just didn't want to hurt anyone.

His Quirk needed to be dealt with, that much was certain. He'll figure something out in the morning.

Kaida Ikarashi

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✓ They're both hurting, but it's so sweet to see them comfort each other, beautiful thread you two!! [break][break]

+ 5.000 EXP!

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Kaida - 9.750 // 14.750 [break]
Kei - 10.250 // 15.250

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