[ open ] Every day, I'll fight to be....

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🧙 WHO: Bakugou Katsuki + OPEN
⚔️️ WHAT: Quests, TDM Prompts, Catch-All
🕒 WHEN: October!
🗺️ WHERE: Various
⚠️ WARNINGS: TBD - but count on Baku's mouth



( Not Quite A Puppy Parade )

[ Bakugou isn't interested in getting a pet. It's not that he isn't responsible enough for one or that he wouldn't do a good job. Katsuki just doesn't think that his personality really works for a furry ( or scaly ) companion. He doesn't want the responsibility. Now that doesn't mean that once he sees one of those winged hamsters run by, he isn't curious.

So initially he's out there trying to track down the critters ( because um that can't be sanitary? ). Ruby, his phoenix, is actually pretty great at helping find them. She flies about the area, giving Katsuki a signal when she catches one.

Though there's going to be one problem. For the most part, he can keep anything from approaching him or getting too friendly. Katsuki doesn't have the best personality. However that doesn't seem to work with the capybara! Maybe Bakugou has something that they are interested in, but either way... The capybara are surrounding Bakugou trying to bump up against him. They want to make friends and he looks like he's about ready to lose his mind! ]


( River Rapid Rumba )

[ Given the opportunity to get out of the city? Bakugou's going to take it. It's getting a little too crowded for him. Honestly that's no one's fault, really, but he doesn't like feeling smothered. There's just a little too many people around for him and instead of just letting lose, he's going to put that energy into something different.

Though the naiads are not what he had thought. Rather, he's standing there. Blinking. ]

You're saying I have to what?

[ How the fuck does one make friends with a naiad!? There's no way in hell he is seducing one! No fucking way! ]


( Pumpkin Mayhem )

GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!

[ Because there's definitely a pumpkin flying overhead. Breathing fire down upon anyone that is in its path. Some kid thought that it would be fun to decorate the thing like a dragon. Now Katsuki is trying to chase it down before it actually burns something down.

But that's not the only problem here. The kid made several of them. It's an entire patch of pumpkin dragons! A flying fire hazard! ]

MOVE!


( Don't Lose Your Head )

[ As someone who aspires to be a professional hero, the moment that Bakugou had heard about people needing protection from losing their heads - literally - he had packed up some stuff and left. People can say what they want about his personality, but he isn't going to sit around while those that are just trying to help and pay respects be terrorized.

So count on Bakugou tackling people to the ground as the Horsemen attempt to liberate heads from shoulders. Or maybe it's Bakugou that needs saving as he gets distracting trying to fight/get people to safety. ]


( Wildcard )

[ Or just throw me something and I'll respond. Not really picky and I welcome all! If you'd like to plot something, just hit me up at jardaan

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Pumpkin Mayhem

[floatsaway]

[They really can't catch a break for one fucking minute, can they?

Ochako didn't really intend to do any quests at the farmlands today - she was just out and about making use of the harvest season, really. Fresh vegetables, apples, and farm raised eggs...she wanted to try her hand at making a bunch of new recipes for the coming colder months, so the farm's markets were her one-stop shop for all things fresh and organic!

But of course there's mayhem in the pumpkin patch. Of course there is... At least she has half a mind to stow her things away in the grocer's before racing outside to try and help.]

What in the--YEEEK!!

[At least the one that just nails Ochako in the chin is a small pumpkin, painted to look like a baseball, but OW?? Has Bakugou ever heard this girl curse? He's about to. Because Ochako just dropped the f-bomb pretty loudly.]

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[ On the plus side, some of the farmhands seem to know what they are doing with the dragon-like pumpkin. Bakugou sees Ochako get pelt in the face with that smaller one and...

Kind of holds back a snort. But he's jogging over anyway. He picks up the smaller pumpkin and says - ]

Hey look at that. Your round face knocked the thing out cold.

Don't lose your head - but definitely keep your brackets LOL

[facepalmchampion]

It hadn't been his idea to come help, not entirely, but if he was serious about it then she was right. She was the disfigured ghost that settled right into the setting as Shigaraki moved through the rubble itself. Cleaning up the dead wasn't his responsibility, but he had busied himself trying to save this god damned city and so it pissed him off that he wasted his time. Enough that if he helped here or there, it was mostly because idiots couldn't get out of his way fast enough, not because he had stopped to do a thing to actually help.

Being among volunteers dragging out the dead wasn't for philanthropy reasons but to perhaps find more people who were fed up with this sort of construct. A few people had been and he had made note of them. At least, not entirely. Some of the faces among the dead were people that he had met while he had been here and it just pissed him off all the more. Idiots if they couldn't get out of the god damn way fast enough or do what they needed to do to get out. That wasn't on him.

Nor was the idea that darker entities than the one that followed him in her hollow, mournful sighs and shifts of horror in to any one of the forms of death that she never seemed to solidify. In fact, after a while and almost having been hit himself, Shigaraki had begun to hunt it. A challenge was more than acceptable and he needed that release. It lead him to where he saw a very familiar shock of blond hair and a smirk rose from his lips. Quietly he waited, having no problem using the to-be-hero as bait. Bakugo's reflexes were great enough to dodge it, Shigaraki knew this. Even still, he sent out the Onryo to keep an eye out, likely a literal eye out and make certain that i didn't go wrong.

Almost on queue to the tightening anticipation that he felt when the air shifted and changed at the approach of the horseman from the whirling shadows, Shigaraki used the long range capabilities of his sub magic to call on his own shadow through Bakugo's communicator to grab him by the hair and pull him downward so that Shigaraki's familiar could pull him away just in time for a secondary, large, shadowy hand to reach out and try to grab the horse's leg, narrowly missing.

"Shit." Maybe he shouldn't have cared about getting Bakugo out of the equation and it wouldn't have cost him those precious seconds. If Bakugo stayed in the disfigured arms of his familiar that was his problem and Shigaraki approached as the shadows disappeared. "How many times has he been here?" Not 'are you okay' either he has the information or not.

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[ Oh no, it works. It definitely all works. One moment Bakugou is feeling himself being yanked around by the hair and then something is grabbing him and pulling him out of the fire.

He sees the hand shoot out to the horse, but so does the one riding it. It can really "see" anything with eyes, but seems to know what three on one are not favorable odds. So the horse trots back, out of reach.

All the while Katsuki is cussing and struggling so that he'll be set the fuck down! ]

Almost every fucking night! What d'you care!?

Don't Lose Your Head

[angelolatry]

[Colette is still learning about Halloween. It was not a thing back home for Sylvarant. So for all she knows this is normal? She has no idea. But well, of course she wants to try and help, even if her Light and Green magic might be debatable in a fighting sense to some degree in comparison to other magics. She gasps, yelping as Bakugou tackles her to the ground to avoid the Horseman. She was probably about to trip up anyway because it's Colette, but still. She hits the ground and there's a soft thud as she attempts to catch herself with her hands some.]

Ah?!

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Pay attention! You almost got caught up in this shit!

[ But the Horseman isn't really deterred just yet. Its taking another swing, this time a downward strike. Bakugou rolls quickly to the side. He throws up his hands to create a barrier of light. ]

C'mon!

Pumpkin Mayhem

[itsmypower]

[Is that a pumpkin...? The shout barely registers, and then he's moving reflexively, taking steps back. Countering with frost-wind. A little shield's stretched above him—an arching glass between boy now and "dragon". Despite the show, he sounds startled.] Bakugou?! [Wide-eyed and frazzled. Twisting circles a moment. Searching for the other. But where to move when they're surrounded?]

Can we attack them?!

[He'll turn to winter if he's made to. Cut loose, here.]

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[ Wow. He's not sure which is more of an annoyance - Icyhot or the pumpkins in general. They sure make him frown about the same amount. But whatever, because - ]

We need to bring them back to the patch. Just put the fuckers on ice or something!

[ Because that's really the only way that he can think to do it when they're breathing fire. ]

Pumpkin Mayhem

[peninhand]

[ Would anyone be surprised that the person Bakugou was screaming at was Monika? Because she most certainly was not surprised to hear him ask her to move out of the way. What did surprise her though was the flying, fire-breathing pumpkin that was headed her way. She hadn't come for the quest in particular...

Noticeably, Monika was wielding a weird staff. A pink, pen-shaped staff with a heart-shaped jewel on its tip. And unfortunately, she didn't move out of the way. Right as the pumpkin was getting in firing range... It froze on the spot. Monika moved her staff up high, and the pumpkin followed, as if she was dictating its movements. Then she made a sudden movement down— And the pumpkin went crashing on the ground, exploding in orange bits.

She looked incredibly satisfied. ]

Hi there Bakugou! [It had been a while since they had last spoken, huh. That incident with the mandragoras... Well, she was intent on showing she was no damsel in distress! October was the month of revival.] Need help with those pumpkins?

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[ Yeah, actually seeing her standing there looking confident is something. She just continues to stand instead of move too. Bakugou's about to shoot a gust of wind her way when she starts to bring up that pen-staff thing. So maybe she got some sort of medium to control her magic better?

He doesn't know but that would be his guess seeing her use one of her magics to move the thing around. Then smash it... Right in front of his feet. ]

Augh... What a fucking mess.

[ Thankfully none got on him or he'd have been pissed. ]

There's a lot of them. If you're up for it.

river rapid rumba

[fullgauntlet]

[The destruction of Celliwig and Lestari weigh pretty heavily on Izuku. They had done their best but even with that it just wasn't successful. And that left Izuku feeling a certain sort of failure. He is sure that many people are feeling the same way. Like they failed. Izuku takes it as hard as everyone else.

Getting out of the city to help clean up the Forest of the Felled is only part of the work that needs to get done. That's why Izuku goes with Katsuki not only for his chance to do his part but also to go with him to get that- break.

Crossing that river and seeing the naiads there? That's going to be a problem. They seem to wiggle curiously in the water while making big eyes at Katsuki.]

Aha... Kacchan, I think you need to tell them something nice.

[Like that will happen... Or will he be surprised?]

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[ It kind of feels like the Spring operation all over again. So much destruction. Too many lives lost. It's not really a good feeling - failure when one's all had been given. However, Bakugou also knows the importance of not dwelling on it. The only thing that they can do is be better. There's still a lot of things that need to be done so they'll step up to deal with them.

Now as for the Naiads, Katsuki's looking back at them in return. ]

I barely tell you anything nice, Deku...

[ But a pretty personality isn't the only thing that will get Bakugou on their good side, hmm? The Naiads themselves seem to be making a motion towards Katsuki's chest. ]

Not Quite a Puppy Parade

[tantailizing]

Hey, those are some cute new friends ya got there!

[At least Zidane had appeared this time and wasn't totally bailing on him... yet. He was carrying some rope and lumber with a destination in mind, but with the furry critters canting about did maybe give him cause to detour and check out what's really going on. Something about seeing Bakugou sitting there trying not to explode on living fuzzy potato sacks brightens his mood up even more.]

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[ Yeah... They are headbutting against his legs. Wanting pets or something of the like. They are certainly not deterred by his prickly exterior in the least. ]

O-oi! Get over here and take care of 'em! I'm working!

[ As if... Zidane hadn't been himself? ]

[blackabyss]

[Tokoyami is not looking to get a pet either; the initial rivalry between his familiar and Dark Shadow was enough for him to go through, so he's not wanting to add a new addition to the mix on top of that. But given he's got some skill in handling animals thanks to his Animal Magic, he doesn't mind helping out with the pet fair!]

[Fumikage is here with Dark Shadow, the latter currently peeking out of a backpack on Tokoyami's back, and the two are busy rounding up some chickens when they notice a familiar face among the capybaras. Tokoyami pauses and nods to his classmate.]

They seem to have grown a liking to you.

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[ Yeah Bird Brain would be here, wouldn't he? Bakugou knows that animal magic would really come in handy right about now. He's not the sort of guy that would want it, but definitely have a party member have it.

He looks up at Tokoyami and Dark Shadow peeking out there and huffs.]

Fuckers like anyone. Now get them away from me.

Don't lose your head

[wherethewindtakesme]

[Gaius has also reconsidered his position over the last few weeks, wanting to become much more active in helping out the people of this kingdom. Protecting against Horsemen seems to be just the thing.

It's not hard to track one person in particular who's cursing a blue streak to get someone to safety. And also attracting unwanted attention. Gaius is a tall drink of water and he wouldn't be able to get the speed needed to protect Bakugo's back.

But he's learned a few tricks with Elemental magic.]

ARCUS ACTIVATE!

[His ARCUS unit doesn't work but he never lost the habit of calling out for it to have his powers work. In this case, he gets a gust of wind at his back that sends him wooshing past Bakugo and wrenching a sword from a Horseman.]

Be careful!

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[ Unwanted attention... yeah that's probably true too. It's not intentional, really, but how does one get an innocent to pay attention if not to yell? At least Bakugou is dashing and grabbing instead of kicking or blasting the person out of the way. The gust to his back at least gives him that last push that he needs - it's harder to navigate with flames from his hands instead of explosions, but he has but he's adjusting.

At least they narrowly miss that sword coming down upon the both of them. Katsuki goes rolling, but of course keeps his would-be rescue tucked against him. Less damage to the bystander this way. But when he stops, he's already pushing them out and yelling at them to just run.

Then he's getting back to his feet, looking around for the guy that clearly helped them out there. ]

I ALREADY KNOW! NOW MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL!

Not Quite a Puppy Parade

[icastsword]

[He's been eyeing the fae frogs at the pet fair with some serious consideration, but before he makes any serious commitments, he has to consult Daisy. It wouldn't do to pick one at random and bring it home only to find out there's a personality conflict. So he's actually heading back to the forge to pick up his best girl when he spots the gathering of capybara and the guy they're fawning over. The capybara are adorable, and their object of affection looks like he's about to explode. He's seen that expression on his buddy Shane's face too many times to count, so he knows what it means.]

Hey, man, d'you need some help?

[Griffin is a tall, broad-shouldered tiefling man who stands at just a hair under six feet if you don't count the horns. The twin horns growing from his forehead and sweeping back in mirrored arcs over his crown push him well over that height threshold, but that's only if you count them. The tip of his long, heavy tail curls loosely forward around his left ankle, a force of habit to keep it out of the way of passersby while he stops walking.

He wears a pair of black glasses that don't appear to have any lenses, and his bright red eyes are observing Bakugou through them curiously.]

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[ Thankfully, the guy's looks aren't really going to get second glances from Bakugou. His principal is a rodent, after all. So appearances really mean little to him.

Instead his glaring is because of the fact that he's being asked if he needs help. ]

I got it.

[ With the critter trying to lick him now? He certainly does NOT have it. ]

Puppy Parade

[emet_sulk]

A shadow falls over Bakugou. Someone bends down and lifts away one of the capybaras, hefting it in their arms and carefully petting it.

"You didn't strike me as an animal person," comments a familiar, vaguely amused voice.

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[ Yeah. Thanks for picking up the most annoying one. Because now Bakugou can get to his knees at least. Of course Bakugou isn't going to say thank you. He's just going to scowl - doesn't matter who it is. ]

Yeah? Apparently to them it doesn't fucking matter.

[ He's... Actually surprised? That this old man would even bother? ]

pumpkin mayhem

[sos_pilot]

WOOOOOOW! That's so cool! Is it breathing REAL fire?!

[ Pause. Oh, right. Not a good thing. Focus, Della. ]

I mean, oh no! We gotta get those suckers down!

[ Yes, we, as in US BEST FRIENDS.

With a wiggle of her fingers, Della begins using her kinetic magic to try and lift some small rocks to throw at the dragons - if she can't burst them open, she can at least distract them so they don't BBQ anyone else! ]

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NO! IT'S JUST BREATHING FAKE FIRE!

[ It's very much real fire! With... Some pumpkin seeds. So maybe people are also being pelted with roasted pumpkin seeds if they miss the fire. Hard to tell.

One of the rocks definitely does hit the pumpkin. Down it goes with a splat! But you see - ]

Oi! We gotta catch them!

wildcard

[fullgauntlet]

[Izuku is notorious for being a night bird. He tends to stay up until odd hours in the night when he has his nose in something. Be it studying or indulging in books or comics or anything else he tends to lose hours quickly to the night. It's not unusual for Izuku to finally head to sleep well past midnight.

Which is a far cry opposite to what Katsuki is like. A morning bird. Who gets up incredibly early every single day and goes to bed early every single night...

So- It leaves the two of them with different sleeping schedules sometimes. This time, Izuku is shuffling off to the bedroom well past the midnight hour. He stifles a soft yawn before he quietly patters into the room. The shape of Katsuki's sleeping form is already there. Izuku slips off his slippers and gently pulls the covers back to slip inside the sheets next to him at Katsuki's back. He looks sleepily at the back of Katsuki's head.]

Ne...

[Is Katsuki asleep?]

Kaccha...

[He scoots slightly closer to Katsuki's warmth. His nose close to the back of Katsuki's blond hair and neck.]

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[ Meanwhile, Katsuki is the complete opposite. He doesn't stay up late at all. The blonde goes to bed pretty early in comparison to others his age. Between 8 and 9 and that's it. Rarely is he up later than that. So by the time that Izuku is stumbling into the bedroom, Katsuki is pretty well into sleep.

For as long as they've been sharing a place to sleep, that's all that it really is. Bakugou and Deku have this arrangement because of nightmares more than anything else. It just makes some of the things that they've had to deal with easier.

Though tired and half asleep Katsuki is easier to deal with than awake or just waking up Katsuki. So when Izuku calls his name, there's just a little groan.

Not even the nose at his neck will cause him to stir. For now. ]

Don't Lose Your Head

[usedforcepalm]

[Though it probably hadn't been advisable to go alone for this quest, Hanabi felt a sense of obligation to the people burying their dead. After all, she'd been on one of the missions that failed.

Thankfully, it looked like there was someone else on this quest. The situation all unfolds quite abruptly - the horseman appears and closes in on a target, and a quick acting teen boy tackles said target to the ground, out of harm's way.

Unfortunately for him, it puts himself right in the path of an incoming blade. Hanabi charges in, intercepting the headless horseman's blade with her kunai. Focusing her elemental magic, lightning crackles around her, and right up her blade to the point where it connect's with the horseman's.]

Are you all right?

[She's careful not to take her eyes off of the horseman as she asks.]

[apshot]

[ He might have had a plan to get out of there before this creature lands any sort of blow. However, Bakugou doesn't have to. Apparently, from out of nowhere, this girl is coming to the rescue.

Katsuki fucking hates being saved. However, he had been in the process of saving another. So he'll call it an assist. ]

Perfectly fucking peachy. I had this handled.

[ Getting to his feet and the person he had shoved out of the way seems to be fine. Bakugou tells them to get the fuck out of here. ]

Get lost, brat.

Not quite a puppy parade

[enkidoh]

[Enkidu is getting along really well with all these flying creatures. But then again, they always had been able to understand animals quite well. And when they stumble upon the situation Bakugou is in, it does seem like absolutely the opposite of a dangerous situation. Apparently the larger animals want to befriend the rather stressed out young man.]

Perhaps you should calm down. They do not mean any harm.

[They stand outside the circle, their feet dirty, their face a little messy and their long hair all tangled up. On their shoulder sits a tiny green clay blob without a face but with 2 twigs sticking from its head.]

[apshot]

[ "Rather stressed out young man" is putting it rather lightly. Bakugou just... Has issues being embarrassed. What's more embarrassing than being suffocated and licked to death by some large furry rats? Honestly!

He's trying to shove one of them licking his face off and away, but it just plans itself on his chest and nearly knocks the wind out of him. ]

Don't care! I'm not some kind of lickable treat!