isleofavalon | 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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[Shonen sumo! But not for the first time does Tsuna blame Ryohei for their cover story. But it's what they've got and he's sticking to it. No need to draw the mafia in here.]

Ahaha...I'm not, really. I just kinda got dragged into it.

[Story of his life.]

I hope so. I'm just bad with waiting.

[And not having anything to distract him. Voluntary procedures are a bit new to him.]

It ... It seems like you get dragged into a lot of things, Sawada-kun.

[Bro, are you alright? But Izuku continues to be supportive by patting his shoulder.]

I ... I know this a lot, though. Maybe there's something we could do to help pass the time?

[No, not really.]

Ahaha...yeah, it happens a lot. Reborn's kind of big on getting me out there.

[One could say it has had benefits on his social life but Reborn also uses it as a way to search for Family members. Much to Tsuna's chagrin.]

...any suggestions?

[Someday he's going to let his curiosity get the better of him and just flat out ask more about this Reborn guy. But today is not that day because this is not the time or place for it.]

Ahh... When I need to pass the time sometimes I go over my favorite hero stories... Do you have any stories you like?

Like comic books and manga and stuff like that? I guess I have a few yeah...

[He has to think for a moment though. It feels like it's been a while since he's read any.]

Not like, a specific hero though...

Ah... I guess it doesn't need to be a hero-specific story. Do you have any stories that you like?

[He ponders...]

I read a book on Avalonian fairy tales the other day...

[That could be boring or interesting...]

It's kind of hard to imagine a place like this having fairy tales. What are they like?

[He'll have to think of a story he likes. Maybe a movie or something? He hasn't really thought about it for a while, having been occupied by other things.]

Mostly stories about fae like pixies pulling tricks on humans. Moral of the stories being... to be careful around fae, I think.

[Which is like... a good lesson to teach to young kids in a world like this.]

That one kind of feels like a no-brainer, honestly. Just with everything I've heard.

Though, it's kind of the same back home to. With like, ghost stories and monsters and stuff.

Same here.

[Izuku nods.]

I think... sometimes fairy tales and stories all have the same sort of course.

[The hero's journey-

Anyway... he hopes this is helping keep Tsuna calm.]

Yeah. Maybe I should have paid more attention to them back when I was a kid. But then, I never really expected I'd end up in a place like this either.

[There are a lot of things that he never expected, but ending up in this world would definitely be high up on the list.

But he brights a little, even if his laugh is a little self-depricating.]

[Izuku nearly matches his type of laugh with a nod.]

The unexpected happening is... almost expected now, ne.

[He smiles at Tsuna. These poor protagonists.]

I guess it is. You'd think I'd have figured that out by now.

[And yet he is still constantly surprised.]

[Izuku can relate to that expression on his face...]

I don't think... that ever stops. We just have to keep going and figuring things as we go...?

[He sighs.]

The next thing we know we'll be doing something else entirely crazy.

[Is this comforting???? Who knows.]

Guess it's nice to know there's at least one thing in my life that hasn't changed with coming here.

[Comfort in resignation? One could suppose.]

Though I suppose it's kind of nice knowing it's not all a big training exercise.

I'm a lover, not a fighter

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