isleofavalon | I'm a lover, not a fighter

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I'm a lover, not a fighter

🧙 WHO: Gokudera Hayato, Naomi Kimishima, Midoriya, Ochako, Emet-Selch, Tsuna, and close CR (basically anyone who spoke to Gokudera about this)
⚔️️ WHAT: Gokudera's collar-removal procedure!
🕒 WHEN: Early November!
🗺️ WHERE: Dr. Kimishima's Clinic
⚠️ WARNINGS: Language, blood, mentions of decapitation (I'll update if there's anything else going on)

The Day Before

Anyone looking to reach out to Gokudera before his procedure can contact him through his IC inbox or in here to wish him luck or... offer any possible last words for him if they suspect he may need them.

Gokudera's pretty certain he isn't going to die, doesn't want to, and will openly say as much with a smile in order to make himself and anyone he talks to feel better. He will spend the day before the procedure keeping to himself, trying not to alert anyone of any possible upset. He'll seem ruminative and fairly aloof and avoidant when it comes to feelings unless anyone calls him on his bullshit.

For those looking to simply talk to him about this, now would be their best chance. Gokudera has only really informed his boss of everything, and even his best friends aren't contacted. Sorry, but he's trying to keep the worrying for everyone to a minimum.

Maybe he needs to be distracted before the big day! Be the one to distract or offer a kind word! Or... not!

The Day of...

The only people allowed to be in the room of the procedure are Emet-Selch, Dr. Kimishima, Midoriya, Ochako, and Gokudera (obviously). There are people Gokudera would like to see directly after, to announce the successful removal of his collar, or if things turn out badly, would like them to know about his death. In an effort to keep the clinic free of a crowd of close friends, that lobby may only be occupied by Tsuna (or Midoriya as well if he can't get his nerves straight). The preparation for this is probably going to take longer than the procedure itself. This is the time for high nerves and lots of anxious sweating about everything.

The Procedure

Here's the plan:

- Ochako uses kinetic magic to keep the collar in place
- Gokudera uses the Mini potion to shrink himself
- Gokudera falls/shrinks out of the collar's range
- Ochako then uses her magic to move the collar into a lock-box (gotta keep other necks, fingers, wrists or whatever safe from the collar)

There's a lot that COULD go wrong but to anyone who knows Gokudera or what he's been through... this is going to go smooth because it's about time something went well for him.

The Freedom! AKA: Gokudera Independence Day (I'll see myself out)

Gokudera is roughly four inches tall and will stay that way for a few hours. He's FREE! Finally! Consider you get a text message saying the procedure was a success! He'll be celebrating later but hasn't actually planned anything out.

If you didn't get a text from him, you could have gotten a text from anyone involved. Maybe you even got sent a picture of a tiny!Gokudera with no collar around his neck. Blow his phone up with congratulation texts! Show up at the clinic (Naomi may not like that), but hey it's good news! React however you want! Just have fun!

Celebration???

Are we throwing a party? Is there something I forgot? Have a blast and I don't care how your character found out. We have fun here.

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Gokudera regularly swings by the cafe. It's usually where he'll meet new people, and provides a sense of normalcy and routine. The boy makes his way to the side of the counter while he waits for a cappuccino order he put in.

While he waits, he leans by the deli case, trying to stay out of the way of other patrons placing orders, or anyone in a hurry to pick up their food.

While he is going through and getting the orders to their respective customers as he usually does, he notices that Gokudera is leaning by the deli case and he seems to be waiting for something while avoiding the other patrons.

Noticing that he has the white-haired teen’s order for a cappuccino in his hands next, he goes right away in making the cappuccino, hardly making a sound, and immediately brings the drink to Gokudera at the deli case.

“Here you go, here’s the cappuccino you’ve ordered,” he informs him while handing him the takeout cup of cappuccino.

"Thanks."

Gokudera accepts the drink and takes a small sip of it before releasing a relaxed sigh. Smoke flows out of his mouth and then he's turning his head away, gently coughing, excusing himself, then going to sit down at a small, unoccupied table.

Well, that’s another customer order fulfilled, though Harry notices that Gokudera is unusually quiet today, but he’s not sure of what’s on his mind right now: he is no cognitive mage, so he couldn’t read his mind at all.

Besides, Harry does have plenty of cafe patrons to deal with and nobody likes a cafe barista who just stands there doing nothing, so he quietly returns to work, though the thought of Gokudera quietly sitting alone didn’t leave him alone while he is busy making brown sugar lattes for some of the customers.

Rose soon wakes up from her nap when she notices Gokudera sitting alone at the table. She gets so worried that she begins to squeak to her master, squeaking (rather loudly, though not in Mandrake levels of loudness) to him that he should try to help the guy out. But he is not in the mood to talk to the cafe patrons right now, he has orders to fulfill.

Gokudera is mid-sip when he hears Rose start frantically squeaking. At first, he ignores it, but when no one tries to quiet the creature, he’s up, standing behind Rose (nearly looming), and asking another barista to get him a pastry from the case.

He looks down at Rose, scoots the party aside on its plate, and gestures a palm, leaving it open.

“Want to share some?”

Oh yes, a yummy treat! Rose loves to eat sweets, pasteries included, that she is more than happy to munch the pastry to her heart’s content. Her now happy squeaks do eventually gain Harry’s attention, causing him to drop whatever he was doing and see Rose now no longer bothering anybody with her loud squeaking.

And that’s when he soon sees that Gokudera had managed to get her to be quiet with the pastry offering. He really does feel sorry that he didn’t immediately try to keep her from squeaking so loud in public.

“Apologies in advance if Rose is a little loud at times, she can get a little frantic sometimes,” Harry apologizes to him.

Gokudera carefully carries Rose and the pastry to the table where his cappuccino is resting.

He gives Harry a curious look, then frowns before clicking his tongue and taking his seat.

The look he’d been wearing fades to gentle affection as Rose seems to enjoy the treat. He sighs and wonders what will happen to his leopard at home should the procedure be unsuccessful.

“I like the company,” he says softly, then to Rose, “Thank you.”

Rose happily squeaks before she digs into the pastry, happily munching on it to her heart’s content. Harry meanwhile just simply watches from afar, not even trying to say a word. At least he’s enjoying some company with Rose, that’s for sure.

He couldn’t help but to smile for his little Pygmy Puff making a friend and having a snack right now. That should keep her very busy until he hands over his shift to the next barista.

Oh well, it’s back to work he goes as he returns to getting food and drink orders to the other cafe patrons once again. He can’t keep the other customers to grow impatient with him not getting their orders done for too long.

It's nice because it seems Rose doesn't talk, and is fairly calm, peaceful company. Gokudera just feels a bit better paying attention to her when he felt the creature was being ignored. He has no idea why she was squeaking so much, but it feels good to help.

"Is this what you were so upset about?" The silver-haired teen asks Rose gently.

Rose is nervous about answering it initially, since she had noticed him being unusually quiet than most days. She can understand why her master didn’t want to bother him (he is pretty busy right now), but at the same time, she does want to do something to help him.

So she quietly squeaks with concern, with the squeaks meaning to say that she is wondering if he is doing alright for the day. Meanwhile Harry is trying to not get distracted by her squeaking while juggling cafe patrons’ orders and running the cashier.

Not knowing the pygmy puff very well, Gokudera can't tell that the squeak is one of concern. The quiet sound he just attributes to agreement, and more satisfied than enthusiastic. He picks a bit of the pastry up and eats it.

"I hope I'll get to see you again some time."

There's something obviously melancholy to his tone.

Well, Rose is pretty sad to hear the tone from the man’s voice. While her master Harry may not pay attention to it as he is in the middle of barista duties, she still persists in her quest to help the guy out.

The pink Pygmy Puff runs up to Gokudera’s free hand and begins to snuggle up to it, wondering if it can help him as she squeaks in a concerned tone. She hates it whenever she sees people being in a gloomy mood for too long and she has seen it with her master sometimes, even with the Fall Equinox disaster.

Gokudera's mood has nothing to do with the Fall Equinox and everything to do with his mortality. His lips quirk into a soft smile as he cups his hand and rubs at the creature.

"Is something wrong?" He asks, wondering if the pygmy puff needs something more than food. Of course he'd think to nurture a familiar over himself. Gokudera struggles regularly to like himself.

Feeling that this poor man might need some help, Rose patiently squeaks while she gets petted on, asking if he is feeling alright and what he is thinking about at the moment.

The little Pygmy Puff might not know the guy very well, but she really wants to help him out in this time. Her wide blue eyes gets larger as she tries to understand the white-haired man’s situation.

He frowns in confusion, not able to understand the squeaking or translate it into questions.

“Ah, I’m sorry. I don’t get it. Jump up once for yes, twice for no? Is that okay?

Are you in trouble?”

Gokudera is very patient with Rose, and he wants to make sure he can help.

Rose knows exactly what her answer is upon Gokudera asking her if she can respond with jumps, so she jumps twice to say that she doesn’t have any problems she is dealing at the moment.

For a little fluffy creature who can’t speak human, she does know how to express her feelings and thoughts very well.

Communicating is important, and Gokudera’s own familiar is nonverbal.

He nods at her jumps. “We’re you squeaking about the food?” This could be some fun cafe charades, if Rose decides to throw more action into her responses.

Rose just simply hops twice to indicate that she isn’t worried about the food before squeaking to him if there is something going on his mind at the moment.

She is no rush to get answers, she is really that patient.

“Were you trying to get my attention?”

He hopes so. She had quieted down when he approached her.

Rose soon jumps twice to say that she didn’t initially intended to catch his attention immediately and that she was just trying to get her master to help him out, but he couldn’t do it as he is very busy with his work as a barista in this establishment.

It is just that she was squeaking at said master very loudly.

“You were trying to get Harry’s attention?”

This line of questions is going to potentially put them off topic.

Rose softly squeaks yes as she jumps once to say so. Yes, she isn’t joking when she jumps once as a way to say that she literally tried to get her master’s attention to get him to check on his current emotional state.

“We can wait until he’s on a break or his shift is over. Do you want me to bring you back to him?”

Gokudera doesn’t know how Harry could help with his emotional state, and isn’t even aware of how obvious it may seem. He’s just been more aloof, not trying to create bonds or deepen any existing relationships should his procedure kill him.

Rose decides that she doesn’t want to annoy her master right now, so she jumps twice to indicate that she will accompany him until her master’s shift is done so he can talk with him in private.

That way, he won’t be distracted away from his barista duties and she will not annoy the other cafe patrons with her constant squeaking.

“No? But if you needed his attention so badly, why don’t you want to be near him?”

He can’t understand her, and that is not a yes or no question. It may as well be rhetorical.

“Do you need him?”

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