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it's not as hard as it sounds, thankfully. i'm just glad pebbles doesn't want to be a lap pokémon, or i'd be in trouble.

i guess being the only adult from our world here just makes me feel like i oughta be taking on more responsibility for you kids than i am. but at the same time, you're all licensed provisional heroes, aren't you? well, except for eri, obviously. it'd be condescending to treat you all as helpless kids when you're not. plus this world's not all that dangerous most of the time. so i do feel like i have some kind of obligation to you guys, but damned if i know what it is i should be doing to fulfill that obligation. it's a weird situation with no real precedent.

the best i can figure is to be available if you guys need me, for whatever you might need me for.

glad you think my help will be useful, though! even though it sounds like you've got no more idea what form that help could take than i do.

You could call it weight training.

I hope it's alright to be blunt, Hawks. You're right. We're proficient fighters and UA has trained us well. Being here and willing to help us is more than enough, someone who cares is invaluable. Having my friends here when I first got here was good, but I was glad we had a pro hero too. Just like I know having you check up on Uraraka will be incredibly helpful.

[There's indication he's typing, and deleting it by the disappearance, and typing then deleting, before just sending the damn thing.]

There are times I feel insecure without my quirk. I know I could call on my pokemon to help. Or Bakugo, or Kirishima, or Midoriya, even Uraraka. Having someone as dedicated as you are is a comfort in itself that I don't ever think it'd get to that point. Knowing you, you'd already know if there was any danger we had to look out for.

i could, if i was capable of lifting weights with my lap.

and hey, you probably saw me on tv during the ranking ceremony awhile back, right? with your dad? i think it's safe to say that i'm a blunt kind of guy myself. i can take it just as well as i dish it out.

but yeah, i'm guessing we all feel a little naked here without our quirks. i don't think it's pulling back the curtain too much to say that i've never had to be a hero without my wings before this, so i can only hope to live up that faith you've got in me. i do have skills that aren't tied to those wings of mine, though, and i'll use all of them as best i can to keep an ear to the ground.

[Okay yeah that was dumb. Super dumb. It's fine, it's fiiiiine. Thankfully, Hawks wants to remind him that he has a father. That's a nice way to kill any worry he has and make him focus on something else.]

I saw you in the ranking ceremony with other heroes, yes.

At the expense of sounding like I'm going to ask for your autograph and home address next, it's not just your wings and speed that made you a hero. I'd be surprised if you let us down.

[Hmm. Hawks is an observant guy, and it's almost impossible to miss Shouto's side-stepping of acknowledging the mention of his father. Hawks won't pry - family matters can be quite private, after all, especially with Japanese families, and Hawks himself has no room to talk in that area - but he'll take a cue from that, at least. Shouto doesn't want to talk about Endeavor, for whatever reason. Hawks can oblige him in that.]

hah, didn't i already give you my autograph? although you're welcome to another one if you want it. but relax, there's nothing weird about that. if anything, i'm touched by your confidence in me! gonna have to live up to that.

and trust me, hero to hero? you could never be as weird as my weirdest fans. you'll learn once you go pro. handsome guys like us attract some wacky attention sometimes. although it only really gets noticeable in the higher rankings - more visibility means more fans, which means a bigger lunatic fringe.

[Shoto isn't subtle in some ways, even when he's trying to be, regarding Enji Todoroki. He's also thankful to see that the conversation isn't swerving back to his father, too.

~~Oh. Okay, that's a really cool offer.~~]

Having it here would be nice, too. My Sinistea enjoys collecting things and I think that would be great for his and my joint collection. I have no doubt in your capabilities. If I did, I wouldn't contact you.

[But no give him a second again. HERO TO HERO? HANDSOME? That one's definitely just for show, but he'll take it. In fact, Shoto will take that hero to hero compliment and let it bowl him over while he's being otherwise as relaxed as he can about it.]

I think that's a challenge I won't try to meet, being the weirdest fan. Even still, I'm sure that they're mostly harmless. If not, then there is appropriate ways to de-escalate most situations.

then i'll make sure to give you two, so you guys don't have to share. [Old PR habits die hard, and it's hard for Hawks not to use his most ingratiating persona here. He supposes it's not really fake, per se - doing something as simple as giving a couple autographs to a kid he likes, who's obviously a fan of his, is an easy way to make someone happy, and he's happy to do it. He just can't shut off the part of him that was trained to present a positive hero image to the world, so he feels faintly phony somehow. Sometimes it's hard for him to tell his personal feelings apart from his programming, and he hates the blurred lines.

Also, that line about Shouto being handsome was simply a model - and a man well-educated in the area of public images - recognizing someone who's got the makings of a teen idol when he sees one. He's sure Shouto probably has fans of his looks already, especially with all the publicity he got at the sports festival.]

considering we're trained to handle villains, any hero worth their salt is going to be able to handle even the weirdest of fans. even the worst of them can't be more dangerous than our normal line of work, after all.

[Normally Hojicha and Shoto share most things, but there's no way someone here or anywhere should be stupid enough to say no on that matter.]

Thank you, I know you must be a busy person here still as well and it's appreciated.

Hopefully neither of those things ever cross one another. It was enough that someone tried to use my brother to get to my father. I can't imagine a fanatic that isn't just out to cause mayhem.

hey, it's not like two autographs are going to take me any kind of time at all. just make sure to pick something good for me to sign!

i wouldn't worry too much about that. someone who's overly idolizing heroes is rarely going to be heavily into the villain line of work, after all.

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It's 220lbs. Take that hackerman.

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