[That's an easy question to at least answer and Shoto does answer it timely.]
The other day, when I had time, I went on the subway and rode it from end to end. I'm sure other people would get off and that would be more normal, but I felt like I needed to see all the stops. When I'm more established, I'd like to go shopping or find a gym that's public, not semi-private like at UA or private entirely like at home. I may even see if there are sports teams here. Maybe I will learn to swim better or I can put my running techniques to good use on a track team. I may even go to a bookstore.
[Shoto doesn't think it's the pretty, he's pretty sure it's the scar.]
It's alright, I'm used to it.
Well... when I'm battling a Kaiju, then I won't go to school. Thank you for the recommendation, I will message them to ask when I've made a concrete decision on what I think is normal.
[He's pretty even with the scar, as the girls in their class continue to prove.]
That's not what I fucking said.
Haa?! Ask him about his school experience so you know what you're getting into! None of this shit is normal! We got fucking kidnapped from our own world, as mercenaries!
[Trying to establish a "normal" life here is... well, probably the ideal so you don't end up going mad, but... Ugh. Bakugo refuses to school here because it feels like "replacing" U.A. and he just can't do that.]
Though Bakugo can see exactly zero percent of it, Shoto sighs and a small frown comes to his lips. Bakugo has a point, but Shoto really wants to live in some normal fashion, do normal things that he can't at home with a war every second of the day. Hm...]
What do you think I should do, Bakugo? I could ask a stranger, but I trust you and value your opinion. You may not make my decision for me, but hearing what you have to say isn't a small thing for me.
[Well the guys too, but they can't have that much in canon outside of Kaminari once or twice commenting on Shoto and Shinso being handsome.
He can't see it, but somehow, he gets the feeling Shoto's doing that minor miffed expression he gets when something's bugging him. And really, why shouldn't he? Getting the chance to do something different, to have a normal life here, of sorts, isn't that a good thing? Technically none of this "counts" to their lives back home, which irritates Bakugo for other reasons. Having a "peaceful" chance at life is...
It makes him think once Shoto asks him.]
Do what you want to do.
[There's another pause before he has to come clean.]
This place pisses me off, but I shouldn't take it out on you.
[Yeah, he knows Todoroki enough to figure the other boy's going to be confused at the sudden slam-the-breaks sort of answer he just got. Ugh, he fucking hates having to explain himself. Even worse when it's cause he got pissed and actually feels bad about snapping at someone. A rarity.]
Uh-huh.
[And that's that. Moving on.]
I work as a police officer in the city. It's the closest thing I could get to being a hero, and it won't bore the fuck out of me.
But if you want to go to school normally, you should do that. You're right. We have a chance to try new things here.
[And Bakugo shouldn't be trying to dissuade him from it.]
If you feel like that, you're the only one of the two of us that did. But I won't deny you that it's kind you were willing to remark on it.
[And that's all he's going to say about it. Bakugo never wants to talk about things like this and while Todoroki is open to talking about them, sometimes he'd get his own wall up.]
You did have a point though, Bakugo. It's not like I can't work as I am and then if I decide to go to school I can't go. Or even cut my hours down. I can still do normal things on my days off, otherwise we wouldn't be going out together. If I'm honest, it feels like there's nothing you don't have the answers to. Or at least can give good advice someone can think on.
[He didn't need an insightful statement of the obvious, dammit! That's just fucking awkward now! They can put it behind them and not bring it up again. Fuck.]
Think about it for a while. If you go to school full time, you can work part time, and vice versa.
Don't gush at me. You could've figured that crap out on your own.
What would you go to school for anyways?
[They all went to school to graduate as heroes. The idea of going to school for a "normal" degree is kind of strange to think about. What degree would he even get? Law enforcement, at the moment...]
Yes. But I don't think those count as part time. We did have downtime too.
[Villains and wars aside, yes, indeed.]
Oh... I don't know. I guess it depends on what they'd offer and what I'm good at other than heroics. Maybe paramedic? Something I could still help with.
[He continues on though.]
I'm not trying to lose any roots to my heroism, but as you said, our options are limited here aside patrolling, or starting our own agency?
[Shoto would deserve it for something else, or something in the future, probably.]
Could have?
[Shoto can guess it's the dedication to his already existing job.]
Why don't we ask if we could suggest a task force within the police force. If I can be blunt with you, Bakugo, I'm sure there are people who are just as good as we are. Then we can take on regular duties as well as agency duties when it calls for people who are a little more battle ready. It'd be like working with the police at home, only in their station instead of an agency. I'm sure even Midoriya would come along to help establish it, even if he finds or has found something he enjoys already.
[That's right, because if Bakugo wants to do this agency, 'we', means Shoto would put aside what's going on in his head. Agency is what they're all comfortable in and it's not like he can't learn on the side.]
Yes, and my mother is a mother. That was her job. Before us she wasn't a mother and I don't think she had a job. You already know my father's job, though.
Aa. You can set up a business here. I never thought of it.
[Between the rush of this new place, all the new Outsiders, himself included, the need to have a job for funds and something stable, training in the simulations and learning everything, it just never crossed his mind to start up an agency and invite other hero types to join him.
But perhaps that's for the best... Even among the fighters that rank as his not!friends, many of them, like Shoto wanted to try something different instead of fighting every day.
Hell, Bakugo doesn't battle every day either. Sometimes he just does a boring patrol with Denji and nothing happens.]
Drop it. A lot of Outsiders come from a background where they fought. They should have the chance to do something other than fight while they're here.
[It's because he knows Shoto and Izuku would join him that he strikes the idea down immediately. Other Outsiders he knows might also join up, but likely out of a sense of duty or friendship, and Bakugo can't take them from their "normal" lives when they've had a few months to settle in. Lives that aren't fraught with battles and pain.
Besides, they have enough violence with the kaiju attacks.]
Besides, I got to learn how to drive on the police force.
[He couldn't do that in an agency run by, well... him.]
Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Half-n-Half. Wanna tell me what you do?
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The other day, when I had time, I went on the subway and rode it from end to end. I'm sure other people would get off and that would be more normal, but I felt like I needed to see all the stops. When I'm more established, I'd like to go shopping or find a gym that's public, not semi-private like at UA or private entirely like at home. I may even see if there are sports teams here. Maybe I will learn to swim better or I can put my running techniques to good use on a track team. I may even go to a bookstore.
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You probably got stared at for just riding the subway.
If you want to joint a sports team, you'd be better off looking at the schools. The other teams are already established as pros.
Why do you want a public gym?
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Maybe that, too. We're still school age. Maybe I'll see if they have schools. Isn't it normal to go to school?
I could meet people with fitness interests. Maybe I'll meet someone you'd like, too. You're a likeable person.
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[They stare because you're pretty.]
Of course it's normal, when you're not in a kaiju war! Ask Shashou about the one he went to.
[Bakugo self-schools since he's working another job.]
You wanna get punched?
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It's alright, I'm used to it.
Well... when I'm battling a Kaiju, then I won't go to school. Thank you for the recommendation, I will message them to ask when I've made a concrete decision on what I think is normal.
[Which should be a treat.]
No.
...Should I?
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That's not what I fucking said.
Haa?! Ask him about his school experience so you know what you're getting into! None of this shit is normal! We got fucking kidnapped from our own world, as mercenaries!
[Trying to establish a "normal" life here is... well, probably the ideal so you don't end up going mad, but... Ugh. Bakugo refuses to school here because it feels like "replacing" U.A. and he just can't do that.]
Literal idiot...
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Yes the girls.Though Bakugo can see exactly zero percent of it, Shoto sighs and a small frown comes to his lips. Bakugo has a point, but Shoto really wants to live in some normal fashion, do normal things that he can't at home with a war every second of the day. Hm...]
What do you think I should do, Bakugo? I could ask a stranger, but I trust you and value your opinion. You may not make my decision for me, but hearing what you have to say isn't a small thing for me.
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Well the guys too, but they can't have that much in canon outside of Kaminari once or twice commenting on Shoto and Shinso being handsome.He can't see it, but somehow, he gets the feeling Shoto's doing that minor miffed expression he gets when something's bugging him. And really, why shouldn't he? Getting the chance to do something different, to have a normal life here, of sorts, isn't that a good thing? Technically none of this "counts" to their lives back home, which irritates Bakugo for other reasons. Having a "peaceful" chance at life is...
It makes him think once Shoto asks him.]
Do what you want to do.
[There's another pause before he has to come clean.]
This place pisses me off, but I shouldn't take it out on you.
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IMAGINE.Bakugo definitely isn't wrong and he's doubly confused when it's 'do what he wants to do' as an answer. Triple when...]
Is that what you think you were doing just now? Taking it out on me?
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Uh-huh.
[And that's that. Moving on.]
I work as a police officer in the city. It's the closest thing I could get to being a hero, and it won't bore the fuck out of me.
But if you want to go to school normally, you should do that. You're right. We have a chance to try new things here.
[And Bakugo shouldn't be trying to dissuade him from it.]
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[And that's all he's going to say about it. Bakugo never wants to talk about things like this and while Todoroki is open to talking about them, sometimes he'd get his own wall up.]
You did have a point though, Bakugo. It's not like I can't work as I am and then if I decide to go to school I can't go. Or even cut my hours down. I can still do normal things on my days off, otherwise we wouldn't be going out together. If I'm honest, it feels like there's nothing you don't have the answers to. Or at least can give good advice someone can think on.
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[He didn't need an insightful statement of the obvious, dammit! That's just fucking awkward now! They can put it behind them and not bring it up again. Fuck.]
Think about it for a while. If you go to school full time, you can work part time, and vice versa.
Don't gush at me. You could've figured that crap out on your own.
What would you go to school for anyways?
[They all went to school to graduate as heroes. The idea of going to school for a "normal" degree is kind of strange to think about. What degree would he even get? Law enforcement, at the moment...]
I'm sorry, Bakugo.
[So far behind them that it may as well have time travelled somewhere else.]
I guess that's how it would work, wouldn't it? I've never really thought about it.
[Day to day jobs don't run in his family, even his sister went for a job that keeps her pretty busy aside the house itself. As for his question...]
Probably to attend the classes, likely about eight hours a day if they're even generally standard.
He's rage.
We got to focus on our school and heroics without any distractions.
[For the most part. Villains and wars aside.]
I KNOW HOW SCHOOL WORKS, IDIOT!!
I'm asking what you'd go FOR! You could probably clep your general education by now.
[Not that he would, but the idea's there.]
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[Villains and wars aside, yes, indeed.]
Oh...
I don't know. I guess it depends on what they'd offer and what I'm good at other than heroics. Maybe paramedic? Something I could still help with.
[He continues on though.]
I'm not trying to lose any roots to my heroism, but as you said, our options are limited here aside patrolling, or starting our own agency?
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[Correction, Bakugo. YOUR downtime was used for school or training.]
Paramedic? Isn't your brother going into the medical field?
[Obviously not his really-fucked-up brother.
...
...
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WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?! FUCK!!
[HE REALLY HATES YOU RIGHT NOW, HALF-N-HALF!!]
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Yes, he is. He's training in the medical welfare department.
[But the next message, Shoto can basically hear without even needing to be anywhere near Bakugo in the least.]
Is that what you want to do, then? You want to start an agency?
[Hate him, he won't take credit for it. Totally Bakugo's idea.]
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I could've. Dammit. But it's too late to do that now. Most everyone's set in their jobs.
[And he can't exactly abandon the police force either.]
So your sister's teaching kids and he's going into medical.
[While Shoto is a hero. A nice trio.]
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Could have?
[Shoto can guess it's the dedication to his already existing job.]
Why don't we ask if we could suggest a task force within the police force. If I can be blunt with you, Bakugo, I'm sure there are people who are just as good as we are. Then we can take on regular duties as well as agency duties when it calls for people who are a little more battle ready. It'd be like working with the police at home, only in their station instead of an agency. I'm sure even Midoriya would come along to help establish it, even if he finds or has found something he enjoys already.
[That's right, because if Bakugo wants to do this agency, 'we', means Shoto would put aside what's going on in his head. Agency is what they're all comfortable in and it's not like he can't learn on the side.]
Yes, and my mother is a mother. That was her job. Before us she wasn't a mother and I don't think she had a job. You already know my father's job, though.
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Aa. You can set up a business here. I never thought of it.
[Between the rush of this new place, all the new Outsiders, himself included, the need to have a job for funds and something stable, training in the simulations and learning everything, it just never crossed his mind to start up an agency and invite other hero types to join him.
But perhaps that's for the best... Even among the fighters that rank as his not!friends, many of them, like Shoto wanted to try something different instead of fighting every day.
Hell, Bakugo doesn't battle every day either. Sometimes he just does a boring patrol with Denji and nothing happens.]
Drop it. A lot of Outsiders come from a background where they fought. They should have the chance to do something other than fight while they're here.
[It's because he knows Shoto and Izuku would join him that he strikes the idea down immediately. Other Outsiders he knows might also join up, but likely out of a sense of duty or friendship, and Bakugo can't take them from their "normal" lives when they've had a few months to settle in. Lives that aren't fraught with battles and pain.
Besides, they have enough violence with the kaiju attacks.]
Besides, I got to learn how to drive on the police force.
[He couldn't do that in an agency run by, well... him.]
Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Half-n-Half. Wanna tell me what you do?