I'm not gonna ride around on your bike today. [Yeah no thanks.] If there aren't go karts or bumper cars here... You said there was rock climbing, right?
Oh! Oh, yeah, that happens. I actually never had a bike back home, but I've rented them before.
[ Not often, but enough that he had fun and knows what he's doing. Bike travel is a lot more common here. At home, Izuku mostly walked or took the subway. ]
Didn't you borrow one a few times? I saw you riding a few times.
[Katsuki thought Izuku had one for a while, figuring they weren't that expensive. But then again, his parents bought him his bike and Katsuki didn't use it all that much, since he liked walking places with his friends. Sometimes, however...]
Mm, yeah, I did. Not a lot, but sometimes. [ For his family it was more a sense of space - Izuku didn't have a yard or anything, and what space he had in his room went to merchandise. If he'd made room his mom would have bought him a bike but otherwise since his friends as a kid only went riding occasionally it made more sense to rent or borrow. ]
But, here I had one all my own since I bike a lot I guess...? I'm also on the track team?
You knew how to ride it enough to crash. [Requiring Katsuki to have to teach him. But there was only one or two lessons before the rift happened and Izuku had to learn via the scant basics and himself. He's pretty sure Izuku had no problem with a bike in this place. Growing up in a much better environment with Katsuki teaching him all about how to ride without any pride problems.
Well, okay so he still laughed when Izuku managed to hit the mailbox instead of any other area in that wide open space of road, sidewalk, and lawn all around them. Damn mailbox bike gravity.]
You always had good legs for running. [He couldn't even tease that Izuku was good at "running away" because Izuku never ran the fuck away. Always ran towards trouble.]
Ahaha...I like it, though. I mean, I could quit, but...it's kinda fun to keep up with?
[ It's not like he can do hero training to the same degree in school now since it's a normal school. But Izuku still attends for the academic reasons. Though school will be out for summer soon. ]
You can't "quit" riding a bike. It sticks with you for life.
[That's why there's that saying about bicycle riding... Katsuki's doing amazing in school, getting top marks unless Iida and Yaoyorozu are somehow in this version of their world.
Still has time for sports and some hobbies at least. He's partial to basketball for now.]
[Sheesh. Though the same argument still applies! You never forget how to run, hurdle, jump, and the rest of those track variations either. Hmph! Katsuki keeps up with his own sports and stuff, because he needs shit to do and isn't always dicking around in the VR world.
[ Well, of course he wouldn't forget, but he definitely could quit the team. Izuku shrugs. He's following Katsuki, by the way. figuring he knows where he's going. ]
[Katsuki would growl at him if he did. Izuku should keep the sport going and not bail on the team that has likely come to rely on him as a teammate. And yeah, the sound of wheels and motors is coming into audible "view" as they move down the street.]
We-ell. I'm technically in both cross country and track, and mostly do the running for track. I do some long jump though? I mostly prefer the running parts though!
[Not really, since one's more on endurance than the other, but still... running. Katsuki looks up as they round the corner and the sign for HotWheels shows up with a flaming wheel and all. (Oh yeah, I went there. Sue me.)
[Well good thing the there are two inside tracks and some of the outside tracks are covered... but rain's rain, so they might be waiting longer with some tracks closed due to weather.
There is laser tag though...]
Stamina for running isn't the same as stamina for other activities.
[ He'd love to offer to run together in the mornings, but Izuku gets the feeling Katsuki treasures that alone time when he gets up and prepared. Of the two of them, Katsuki isn't an extrovert despite being louder - he tends to have much lower limits for tolerating socializing than Izuku does. ]
Hm! I train a bunch of different ways, but, as someone who was always in the going home club...I'm really enjoying being part of a sports club.
[Does Izuku really wanna get up at 5:30 in the morning to go for a run? Katsuki does appreciate the alone time, but if he's honest, that alone time is a lot more treasured when he was living with 19 other noisy nosy teenagers. Here, when it's "just" him and Izuku from their worlds, he finds the other boy's presence far more comforting than annoying.
If he's quiet. Mostly.
And doesn't start inviting other people because that'll have Katsuki ditching the lot of them in an instant.]
[Like getting a new life "downloaded" into his brain. He's there, felt it, experienced it, but knows the attached feelings and memories aren't exactly real. It's strange.]
Probably soccer. Once you remembered you actually had fucking legs.
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Date: 5/29/23 04:48 (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/29/23 04:56 (UTC)[ After all, it's his day. ]
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Date: 5/29/23 05:19 (UTC)[Katsuki frowns and thinks back to the conversation. Memories from home versus memories from this place. Which one... was the go karts in?
... this ... one. Right.]
No it was in this world. [He growls at the slip.] Damn memory overlay.
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Date: 5/29/23 05:23 (UTC)[ Not often, but enough that he had fun and knows what he's doing. Bike travel is a lot more common here. At home, Izuku mostly walked or took the subway. ]
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Date: 5/29/23 05:32 (UTC)[Katsuki thought Izuku had one for a while, figuring they weren't that expensive. But then again, his parents bought him his bike and Katsuki didn't use it all that much, since he liked walking places with his friends. Sometimes, however...]
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Date: 5/29/23 05:48 (UTC)But, here I had one all my own since I bike a lot I guess...? I'm also on the track team?
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Date: 5/29/23 23:06 (UTC)Well, okay so he still laughed when Izuku managed to hit the mailbox instead of any other area in that wide open space of road, sidewalk, and lawn all around them. Damn mailbox bike gravity.]
You always had good legs for running. [He couldn't even tease that Izuku was good at "running away" because Izuku never ran the fuck away. Always ran towards trouble.]
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Date: 5/30/23 00:11 (UTC)[ It's not like he can do hero training to the same degree in school now since it's a normal school. But Izuku still attends for the academic reasons. Though school will be out for summer soon. ]
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Date: 5/30/23 00:18 (UTC)[That's why there's that saying about bicycle riding... Katsuki's doing amazing in school, getting top marks unless Iida and Yaoyorozu are somehow in this version of their world.
Still has time for sports and some hobbies at least. He's partial to basketball for now.]
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Date: 5/30/23 00:22 (UTC)[ Of course he can't quit riding a bike! Well, knowing how anyway. Izuku just means he's keeping up several of his fake life hobbies because...
...well. He needs SOMETHING to do. ]
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Date: 5/30/23 00:34 (UTC)[Sheesh. Though the same argument still applies! You never forget how to run, hurdle, jump, and the rest of those track variations either. Hmph! Katsuki keeps up with his own sports and stuff, because he needs shit to do and isn't always dicking around in the VR world.
Responsible.]
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Date: 5/30/23 00:36 (UTC)Either way, I'm having fun doing it.
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Date: 5/30/23 00:39 (UTC)Do you just do the running or all the events?
[Hurdle, long jump, etc.]
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Date: 5/30/23 00:51 (UTC)[ He has a lot of stamina if nothing else. ]
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Date: 5/30/23 01:52 (UTC)[Not really, since one's more on endurance than the other, but still... running. Katsuki looks up as they round the corner and the sign for HotWheels shows up with a flaming wheel and all.
(Oh yeah, I went there. Sue me.)Close.]
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Date: 5/30/23 02:59 (UTC)[ Joking business names are always acceptable. ]
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Date: 5/30/23 03:25 (UTC)[At least the place doesn't look extremely busy, likely due to the constant threat of rain.]
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Date: 5/30/23 03:33 (UTC)[ Also, yes. Most people are inside. ]
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Date: 5/30/23 04:07 (UTC)There is laser tag though...]
Stamina for running isn't the same as stamina for other activities.
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Date: 5/30/23 04:44 (UTC)No, but it's nice to train for, don't you think?
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Date: 5/30/23 04:54 (UTC)I'll keep my training to other activities. I run in the mornings.
[Sure, he could do a race or marathon if he wanted to, but it's not his focus.]
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Date: 5/30/23 05:01 (UTC)Hm! I train a bunch of different ways, but, as someone who was always in the going home club...I'm really enjoying being part of a sports club.
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Date: 5/30/23 05:25 (UTC)If he's quiet. Mostly.
And doesn't start inviting other people because that'll have Katsuki ditching the lot of them in an instant.]
You weren't in the going home club here...
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Date: 5/30/23 05:32 (UTC)[ Izuku isn't sure how to explain it but figures Katsuki gets it. It's just how things are here. ]
Though, I honestly am not sure what sport I would have done back home if I'd been welcome...I always thought kyudo was kinda cool.
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Date: 5/30/23 05:59 (UTC)[Like getting a new life "downloaded" into his brain. He's there, felt it, experienced it, but knows the attached feelings and memories aren't exactly real. It's strange.]
Probably soccer. Once you remembered you actually had fucking legs.
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