[Takanashi Misaki]

346 words Samaritan Training Outfit

The Sports Festival was a great place to make connections and Misaki hadn't hesitated for a even a second to sign up to a bunch of events. She'd saved some spots for her besties of course but for the majority of the games Misaki went by herself to meet new people. After all, this competition here may last minutes but the people they could team up with might just be their colleagues for the rest of their lifetime.

"Yahallo! My name's Takanashi Misaki or Soundwave if you'd prefer. I'm a second year. It's nice to meet you!" Misaki said with one hand on her hip and her other extended for a handshake. She'd memorized the class rosters beforehand of course so she already knew who Michael was but Misaki had found that you could tell a lot about a person by the way they introduced themselves. 

"What do you say, do we go for one or all three flags?" She asked with a wink and a mischievous smile right as the final seconds of the countdown before the starting signal ticked away. 

The first obstacle seemed easy enough at a glance but a great way to filter out those who couldn't cooperate. A large square board held up by a rotating beam in the center making it so they'd have to match their paces not to flip it over followed by two such beams by themselves running parallel to each other, the start of each aligned with a corner of the board, and finally another square board. All of it was suspended over a pool of water with but a single ladder out of it. One that led right back to their starting platform.

If one of them outsped the other at any time they were both getting soaked. Idly Misaki wondered how a team of three was supposed to clear this challenge but she supposed each one was tailored to the numbers on the team. 

"Hmm, do you know any marching songs for us to keep pace?"

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by Pinn @ THQ

[Samaritan]

Michael Faraday

Come Together

Michael had been signed up for many of the events, activities and student run booths. While some of them Michael had been requested to participate in he had signed up or volunteered for most of them, especially the competitions. He didn't really like the competitive side to it, especially when things like the Armor Wars event from a few months ago had proved dangerous, but he saw most of them were pretty much just games. Fun with balloons, races, and the one he was participating in today: Capture the Flag.

Michael had been looking forward to this event because he innocently believed that there wasn't going to be much cause for violence. It would let him capitalize on speed, reach and avoidance, three factors that he focused in to keep out of conflict. And all the more fun, he was a part of a team, a cooperative game of capture the flag sounded like a perfect opportunity to make some new friends.

Michael was thrilled that his teammate seemed to be as friendly and outgoing as he was. "Hi, Takanashi-senpai! I'm Michael! I've been going by Samaritan lately, but these are just some games, so Michael is fine." Michael was embarrassed by the idea of being called by his hero name when he wasn't doing anything heroic. He was happy to call her by her hero name, but Michael was still struggling with feeling like a hero after some less than ideal interactions with mentors that felt his pacifistic manners were going to hinder more than help him. He was still trying to disprove them but he felt he had to train much more before he could prove a hero to himself.

Soundwave's energy was intoxicating, such a bright and bubbly personality all projecting such confidence. She seemed exactly the demeanor for a hero that Michael wanted to be. A brave and sure face that was ready to stand up to any challenge and make everyone else feel safe. Michael was exceptionally envious of her smile. It was something that he likely would never be able to pull of, but he hoped to some day be seen in such an inspiring light. "Let's focus in on one flag for now. If we try to snatch up all of them, it only makes it more likely to antagonize the other teams. We can win this without needing to create conflict." Michael said emphatically, his own friendly nature spurred on by her confidence.

Their first obstacle seemed rather easy to slip up at. So when Misaki suggested a marching song, Michael knew she was on the right track. The only problem was, Michael couldn't think of any off the top of his head at that moment. He for some reason could only think of Beatles songs, likely thanks to his father's influence. Still enough of them had easy enough to follow beats... so...

"Do you know Come Together by the Beatles?" Michael asked as they got into position. To help establish the beat, he went ahead and started to sing the first line. "Here come old flat-top, he come grooving up slowly, he got ju-ju eyeball, he one holy roller, he got hair down to his knee, got to be a joker, he just do what he please." The funky old English band song had a steady 4/4 time signature. Michael didn't think to be embarrassed about his odd choice for a marching tune, he couldn't think of more obvious songs at the moment and the steady cadence of it would do the job.

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TLDR: Michael is happy to meet Misaki, inspired by her bright and confident nature. Michael starts to sing "Come Together" by the Beatles for their marching song.

[Takanashi Misaki]

370 words Samaritan training outfit

"Okey-dokey Michael! You can call me Misaki too," Soundwave responded with a friendly smile. Reading body language was incredibly important in her line of work so despite his featureless visage Misaki could tell that he was being entirely genuine.

"Aww, but it'd light such a fire under them if we swiped all three," Misaki laughed. "I jest, I jest. Being greedy's never a good thing. I don't think we'd be able to provide a good challenge to everyone else at the same time."

Her profession gave her plenty of time to practice her quirk while working but there was far more to combat than just quirk usage. Even within her own friend group she was falling behind in spars. She was confident of holding her own against several of the other students she'd spotted in this event provided it was a one on one but multiple at the same time? Confidence was one thing, arrogance another.

"I'll take the right, you take the left. If your quirk doesn't alter your weight I'll stick a bit closer to the center to account for the difference, if it does we'll do it the other way around," she added while checking out the track ahead at the same time, all the while without making it look like she wasn't losing focus on the conversation for even a second. 

"Oh, a real classic! I haven't heard that one in cages."

Nodding while closing her eyes Misaki snapped her fingers along with the beat until she got it in her head. Humming in tune to the first line when she opened her eyes she got into position and set off.

Used as she was to matching people's pace from her job as an idol they crossed the board with ease and as they reached the two rotating beams Misaki added her voice into the mix.

"He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football, he got monkey finger, he shoot coca-cola, he say, "I know you, you know me", one thing I can tell you is you got to be free."

Making sure to match the timing of Michael's own jump she landed deftly onto the rotating beam, her pace kept steady to ensure smooth cooperation but ready to slow down or speed up at any moment should it be necessary. 

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by Pinn @ THQ