["As always" he says. Katsuki scowls at the report on the screen. He can hear Izuku muttering like he was right there in the room with him. Ugh. What a talent...]
What the fuck?!
Have you ever been kidnapped before? It's not a fucking fun feeling, Deku!
I don't give a shit what their reason is for doing it, they still did it! You can talk to them all you want; AFTER I make sure they can't steal anyone else from their home again!
Kacchan, we don't even know that we were brought here deliberately by anyone rather than by some sort of accident or phenomena. I don't think we're going to agree on this, because it's one of those things you're going to jump to one sort of action about.
Don't act like you aren't emotionally compromised right now - which you would give me shit about if it were the other way around.
Did your brain break, Deku? You think an "accident" or phenomena is going to deliberately offer people a wish if they pass certain trials? Someone set this up on purpose and targeted people to bring here.
What?! Who's emotionally compromised?! I'm talking about a future plan!
[Maybe shouldn't be talking about it on Izuku's birthday chatter, but...]
Well, considering that it's just a rumor among players and not something someone is dangling in front of us, I wouldn't call it "deliberate".
That's another reason I'm saying you're not thinking clearly here. You've decided that one thing happened and that a gaming rumor is a malicious act and proof of what you decided happened, but the truth is we don't know what exactly is going on, or the truth of anything.
You can keep insulting me if you want, but you're not thinking calmly or logically and you're insisting on making a plan for just one scenario and refusing to consider other ones. That's always been one of your biggest weaknesses.
[It takes a minute. Being called out on a "biggest weakness" pisses him off, but Katsuki's had a year of experiences to deal with. He's not the same person he was at the start of U.A. And though he doesn't LIKE getting called out...]
It's one plan, if it turns out to be what I suspect it is.
But we can't stumble around doing nothing just because no one's revealed the "truth" yet. If we're not being given answers, we should be prepared to go looking for them.
I think I'd rather we did investigative work to celebrate? I don't want to look back on things later on and say we weren't doing enough. There will be time in the future for relaxing once we're home maybe, but you're right that we've been too lax here.
I can't just forget that kind of thing. I don't agree with everything you said, but it is true we haven't learned much and can't really afford to be relaxing.
[ Specifically it's the "I don't want you to think we wasted that time" part. Izuku definitely is thinking Katsuki might think that or bring it out later given they segued from discussions of birthday celebrations to stumbling around doing nothing, in Katsuki's own words. He's spent plenty of birthdays in the real world with low key two person celebrations. He has memories here of doing more exciting stuff, but... ]
It isn't a matter of "important". How I spend my birthday isn't too big a deal to me. I know I remember big stuff here, but in actuality it's usually just dinner with mom. I've never needed anything big.
[Katsuki's aware of the answer to his question. He's the reason for it in the first place. But he's also not a fan of Izuku assuming he knows everything going through Katsuki's damn mind. People change. It's high time Izuku start trying to kick this fucking insane thought process. It goes beyond just low self-esteem issues...]
just because there are bigger things going on outside you doesn't mean you're not important.
Then why do you want to suddenly skip your birthday?
And don't give me that bullshit about "we could be using that time better". At the start of this conversation, you deliberately asked me if I had time to spend with you on your birthday.
It was important enough to you, you were important enough to you, to want that time for you.
I didn't ask you to celebrate my birthday because I wanted to celebrate my birthday. The main thing I wanted coming into this has always been the same even now.
The nature of how I spend that time may look different but that doesn't make one form any less important than the other to me.
I didn't say that or think that...how I spend my birthday hasn't been that important to me since I was like five years old. That doesn't mean I don't care that I was born or that I think of myself as unimportant.
If it did, I could be here asking you about how important you think you are.
I AM important, dammit! If I didn't think that, I wouldn't be where I am today!
[Kidnapped in a strange world notwithstanding.]
I train, work, improve, everything I do is so I can become the greatest hero in the world! You think you can do that while thinking you're unimportant?
Even All Might considered himself important! Otherwise he wouldn't have wanted to become the Symbol of Peace to keep everyone's hopes alive!
[Technically the Symbol was the important part, but... All Might still had to be confident he could become that Symbol.]
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Date: 7/4/23 04:39 (UTC)What the fuck?!
Have you ever been kidnapped before? It's not a fucking fun feeling, Deku!
I don't give a shit what their reason is for doing it, they still did it! You can talk to them all you want; AFTER I make sure they can't steal anyone else from their home again!
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Date: 7/4/23 04:48 (UTC)Don't act like you aren't emotionally compromised right now - which you would give me shit about if it were the other way around.
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Date: 7/4/23 21:48 (UTC)What?! Who's emotionally compromised?! I'm talking about a future plan!
[Maybe shouldn't be talking about it on Izuku's birthday chatter, but...]
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Date: 7/4/23 22:11 (UTC)That's another reason I'm saying you're not thinking clearly here. You've decided that one thing happened and that a gaming rumor is a malicious act and proof of what you decided happened, but the truth is we don't know what exactly is going on, or the truth of anything.
You can keep insulting me if you want, but you're not thinking calmly or logically and you're insisting on making a plan for just one scenario and refusing to consider other ones. That's always been one of your biggest weaknesses.
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Date: 7/4/23 23:23 (UTC)It's one plan, if it turns out to be what I suspect it is.
But we can't stumble around doing nothing just because no one's revealed the "truth" yet. If we're not being given answers, we should be prepared to go looking for them.
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Date: 7/4/23 23:26 (UTC)Let's forget about the celebratory stuff for next month and just focus on exploration & discovery.
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Date: 7/5/23 01:37 (UTC)Why the fuck do you DO that?!
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Date: 7/6/23 02:51 (UTC)[Major backpedaling regret. This is what he gets for trying to extend a conversation beyond a good ending!]
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Date: 7/6/23 03:02 (UTC)You made candy apples for a little girl instead of working on your control of One for All.
You helped Earphones with her notes instead of reviewing your own.
You talk to your mom on the phone every day.
It's called having a fucking life. And you're allowed to do that. Even if it means something you technically "should" be doing, doesn't get done.
You're not worthless. Stop being so ready to treat yourself like you are.
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Date: 7/6/23 03:05 (UTC)I don't think it means I think I'm worthless to acknowledge that we need to work harder. I don't want you to think we wasted that time later on.
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Date: 7/6/23 03:42 (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/6/23 03:47 (UTC)It isn't a matter of "important". How I spend my birthday isn't too big a deal to me. I know I remember big stuff here, but in actuality it's usually just dinner with mom. I've never needed anything big.
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Date: 7/6/23 03:57 (UTC)just because there are bigger things going on outside you doesn't mean you're not important.
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Date: 7/6/23 03:59 (UTC)[ Izuku isn't the only one who has a problem with assuming. ]
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Date: 7/6/23 04:02 (UTC)And don't give me that bullshit about "we could be using that time better". At the start of this conversation, you deliberately asked me if I had time to spend with you on your birthday.
It was important enough to you, you were important enough to you, to want that time for you.
So what's different?
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Date: 7/6/23 04:16 (UTC)The nature of how I spend that time may look different but that doesn't make one form any less important than the other to me.
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Date: 7/6/23 04:36 (UTC)Do you not care that you were even born?!
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Date: 7/6/23 04:43 (UTC)If it did, I could be here asking you about how important you think you are.
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Date: 7/6/23 04:56 (UTC)[Kidnapped in a strange world notwithstanding.]
I train, work, improve, everything I do is so I can become the greatest hero in the world! You think you can do that while thinking you're unimportant?
Even All Might considered himself important! Otherwise he wouldn't have wanted to become the Symbol of Peace to keep everyone's hopes alive!
[Technically the Symbol was the important part, but... All Might still had to be confident he could become that Symbol.]
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