[Haru Tachibana]

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haru

this world will stop[break]to turn around with me

time marches on

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deep in her mind, the image of a lion-faced man remains imprinted into the folds of her brain. what he is to her now is an image of what being a hero should mean, everything she's aspired to for the last few years of her life, the very ideal she saw illustrated in the annals of her own history, during the time she feared most for her own existence. she still remembers the fire and flames, the old seer trapped beneath the building, the friendly face of a hero coming to her rescue but failing to save the elder woman. it haunts her still, but serves as a prescient reminder that she is not alone in the world, and likely never has been. she's the product of the kindness of an entire village, of the people who dared to feed her when mother refused to do the same. perhaps even leonid is the product of someone else's kindness. she wonders, she does.[break][break]

maybe she wonders too much. as she walks the campus, she can feel her palms sweating as she slowly comes to the realization that she's looking for leonid in particular, that she has found herself in a position of dire fascination. she has to know more about him, she needs to. it's so dire in her mind that it feels as if her legs are walking on their own, as if her wings have sprouted from her back once more and are eager to lead her in the direction of a man she now idolizes beyond a doubt in the world. questions simply rush into her mind. she has to know everything about him![break][break]

what haru simply doesn't realize is that, as usual, her sweat is as sticky as honey, and they inch closer and closer to the long floral skirt she's chosen to wear to campus on this specific day. her favorite skirt. and her hands inch closer and closer and...

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march of time
Raiomaru Toshigawa

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[Raiomaru Toshigawa]

I got something deep inside of me
Courage is the thing that keeps us free     Haru Tachibana

Well, that orientation had gone about as well as it could have, Leonid reckoned. Considering he hadn't exactly done one of those to a new student body before... Well, when it came down to it, it wasn't really that different to an interview, or a talkshow, or a press conference, or a podcast... He had done things like it before, was the point, and as far as he was concerned he had done fine. Now was just the matter of preparing the course material for this newest generation, perhaps he ought to coordinate something with the rest of hero studies...

Striding through the campus and on his way to his next assignment for the day, Leonid almost misses the much shorter girl slowly approaching him entirely, only stopping when he notices that he is in fact being approached and, even more so, that it is by one of those very freshmen that he had just introduced to the university. Turning her way, it only took Leonid a second to snap into his dependable persona, the strong, admirable figure that he had become whenever the public eyes were on him back in the day. Even now, over a decade later, this was a character he could adopt at the drop of a hat, so he found the shorter girl's gaze and he spoke with a deep, yet welcoming rumble.

"Ah, miss Tachibana." Once again, he thanked himself for the decision of making sure to drill himself on the new students' names and faces before hosting this orientation. "Is there anything I can help you with?"

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