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[nitropowered]

[The last thing Katsuki is used to is being uncertain - about himself, about anything he does, about the world around him and how it works. But this whole reset thing turned everything on its head. Sure, Izuku had explained about it probably being a simulation and all, but it was tough to quantify and really believe until he experienced the reset. Fought to make sure the reset happened, even though he didn't really know what that meant. So he has a few questions.]

if this is a simulation, what does that mean? for the people back home, I mean.

what does it mean for us?

["Is anything we do here real?" hangs in the air unspoken. That just feels a little too vulnerable to say out loud. All of this is a little too vulnerable, but he asks anyway. It's been weighing on him.]

Comments

[nitropowered]

fuck if I know, I've been here a couple months

so it's on us to get ourselves out of here then, huh

[nightwild]

same
i got here during bon

yeah
i mean obviously
whod help us

[nitropowered]

bon?

dunno, maybe people from home, if we've disappeared from there, I know my mom will be losing her shit and demanding they look for me

[nightwild]

obon
big ghost festival
you know

how would that help

[nitropowered]

oh yeah, so just a couple months ago?

if they're looking for us, that's something! not that I've got any objection to getting myself out of here

[nightwild]

yeah
still not entirely convinced that im not dead and this place isnt hell

if other people could get us out of here rin already wouldve
the fact that were still here means were on our own

[nitropowered]

you're not the first to say that could be it. I don't remember dying though, do you?

who's rin?

[nightwild]

i dont
but that doesnt mean it didnt happen
lots of people like sneak attacks

someone i know
a hero
a real hero

[nitropowered]

the last thing I remember is going to sleep in my dorm after bringing my idiot classmate back to the school. I guess you think someone assassinated me in my sleep? no way.

a real hero huh? we've got a lot of those back home. tell me about 'em?

[nightwild]

assassination
gas leak
explosion
poison
heart attack
theres a million ways

whats to say
elemental knight is a real hero
saves people from the monsters i made
fights in the darkness
wears a helmet
doesnt fight for a reward or glory
just to help people

[nitropowered]

guess so.

sounds like a real hero, yeah.

wait, you made monsters? on purpose?

[nightwild]

yeah
well
its a little complicated
but basically
i did what the goddess commanded
never found anyone else who could control the power
everyone ended up monsters

[nitropowered]

[A lot of this isn't computing. He stares blankly at the device for a moment trying to figure out if she's a villain or not.]

wait, let me clear this up. there's a power that can turn people into monsters that only you can control and some goddess told you to use it?

[nightwild]

me and a few others
elemental knight is the only one who was a hero with that power
the rest of us were
well
villains i guess
or i used to be
its complicated

[nitropowered]

[Why does he keep meeting villains he gets along with so well??? Oh well, at least this one's maybe reformed?]

if you're reformed now, you're not a villain anymore, I don't think. did you pay for your crimes?

[nightwild]

how am i supposed to know
im helping elemental knight now
but this place clearly doesnt think thats enough

what does paying for it even mean
what crimes am i paying for
does doing enough good just cancel out everything i did before
does the bad that happened to me cancel out the bad i did
its all stupid

[sorry bakugo

it's philosophy hour now]

[nitropowered]

yeah. I apologized for my crime already but that's not enough for this place either. I guess I don't really think it's enough either. I've got to prove that I've really changed.

nothing cancels out the stuff you did before, but doing good can atone for it
back home I'd say that you paid for it if you went to prison for your crimes, but it doesn't sound like it's that simple for you

for what it's worth, I think it says something that elemental knight forgave you

[nightwild]

like hell id ever go to prison
other than this place i guess
theres no justice in that shit
the pigs just want to lock people up because thats how they get paid
they dont care
they just want to wave their power around on anyone who doesnt fit in
ive seen the shit theyll pull

but thanks
im doing my best to be like her

[nitropowered]

where I come from, you get caught by heroes and given to the cops to put in jail. maybe it's different where I come from.

[Or he's just young, and hasn't seen that side of the police yet. It's a sobering thought.]

that's good. I guess, without jail, proving that you've changed is the important part. that's how I'm trying to handle it

[nightwild]

yeah that sounds different
but theres only the one hero
and its not like she fights criminals or anything

i dunno
have i changed
even when i was fighting for the goddess
i was trying to make a just world

[nitropowered]

where I come from there's a lot of heroes. that's what I'm gonna be when I finish school. maybe I already am. a hero.

she fights what? monsters?

how the hell would I know if you've changed, we just met

[nightwild]

what the hell do you need a lot of heroes for
of course she fights monsters
you dont need a hero to fight people

yeah im just thinking

[nitropowered]

you need a hero to fight people where I come from. 80% of people have some kind of superhuman ability, they're called Quirks. so yeah, we need heroes for the kind of villains we have.

oh. yeah. okay

[nightwild]

[That many heroes and villains... That many people with powers...]

thats fucked up

[what else can she even say.]

[nitropowered]

fucked up? why? I have a Quirk.