[open] I speak six languages

[recommendations]

🧙 WHO: Momo Yaoyorozu and YOU!
⚔️️ WHAT: catch all for May
🕒 WHEN: all throughout the month of May
🗺️ WHERE: in and around Camelot
⚠️ WARNINGS: TBD

🥣 Every language easy... Easy as the recipe for making jello [SLICE OF LIFE]

[ Living in the inn hadn't been Momo's idea of an ideal living situation (especially when it started flooding intermittently), but at least it had come along with readily available meals. Momo's had it lucky thus far in life, when it comes to food availability... From her parents' personal kitchen staff, to Lunch Rush's cafeteria food, to the dining room at the inn, Momo has somehow made it to sixteen without really ever learning her way around a kitchen. Now that she's moved into a small house with her female classmates, it's sink or swim!

She heads to the market to pick up some supplies— nonstick pans, spatulas, measuring cups and spoons— though really, she's so far out of her depth; she doesn't know what she might need. She finds herself frozen in indecision looking at different cake pans, trying to debate the merits between a round pan or a square one. She'll turn to whoever is nearby, be they employee or customer, and ask politely, ]

Pardon me, but... Have you ever baked a cake before?

🏅 To excel in athletics is not difficult if one has the temperament (and I have the temperament) [TRAINING]

[ More often than not, Momo finds herself at the training grounds, practicing her magic.

Some days, she focuses on her Elemental magic, strengthening up her skills with the different elements. Her current training regimen focuses on using wind magic to lift herself up in the air and try to fly (or, more realistically, hover). When she gets tired of practicing the brute force of summoning enough lift to take off, she practices her finesse by trying to use lightning magic to power small household appliances. If she's too tired, though, she might just end up frying them beyond repair!

Other days, Momo spends her training time working on her Alchemy. She sits at a table, with a number of different materials and components spread out in front of her, her Yaoyorictionary nearby to look up any specific chemical formulae she might need. She tries the basics, changing the shape of metal, transforming wood into glass, before moving on to more difficult tasks like transmuting precious gemstones and metals, or brewing potions. She might be a bit too overly ambitious with her potion making, however, leading to some concoctions blowing up in her face (literally) in a stinking cloud of green smoke... ]

🎶 And I like the theme from Rocky, though I play Mozart more [QUEST – Party Rock Anthem]

[ How difficult could this quest be? Momo likes to think she could navigate a raucous party well enough to suss out the vessel carrying out the spell and neutralize it. How difficult could it be? It's just a party, after all.

A very loud, intense party... Momo enters and right away finds herself bombarded on all sides by flashing lights, pressing bodies, and thumping bass. She claps her hands over her ears, trying to save herself from lasting hearing damage, and shouts to whoever agreed to help her on this quest, ] IT'S SO LOUD IN HERE!! I CAN HARDLY HEAR MYSELF THINK!

[ Finally, Momo's eyes and ears adjust to the levels of light and sound in the party, and it's a good thing too, because as soon as she stepped inside, the doors disappeared behind them. Focused on her goal, Momo explores the different rooms of the house (aside from the bedrooms with socks on the doorknob) until she finds the spare bedroom that is serving as the coat room. This is as good a place as any, she wagers, to start the search for the vessel. Only, as soon as Momo and her partner start rifling through the pile of coats on the bed, looking for anything out of place or unusual, a party drone enters the room, red solo cup in hand. ]

What are you two doing in here? You're not trying to kill the vibes, are you?

📣 I don't like to brag. And I won't, 'cause I don't have to [WILDCARD]

[ I'll put closed starters for people in the comments as the month progresses. If you want to plot something different, HMU @ millennialfalcon or ©hris#1234! ]

Comments

slice of life

[fullgauntlet]

[Izuku knows the basics of cooking and everything that comes with that (mostly). From helping his mother out in the kitchen when she needs it. But he does tend to burn things still, clumsy as he is sometimes. Eggs are the worst, always getting stuck to the pan, and even if he thinks he's put in enough butter?? Why can't cooking be easier? Like baking, Izuku can understand baking because it's a lot like setting up a science experiment as long as he follows the recipe.

He's out in the market that day too looking for a few shopping items for his own kitchen. He has to keep the kitchen stocked up with fresh food often enough or he'll forget this or that.

When he sees Momo worried over some cooking utensils and pans he waves in greeting and does his best to help.]

Yaoyorozu-san? Do you need some help? I've baked a few cakes before.

[recommendations]

[ Momo would have loved to help her mother in the kitchen... But sadly, her mother doesn't know her way around a kitchen any better than Momo does.

She offers Izuku a shy, tired wave and a smile. ]

Ah, Midoriya-san... I wanted to try to bake the girls something, as a nice surprise, but... I'm afraid I may have gotten in over my head...

[fullgauntlet]

[Cooking is tough and has a lot of components to it. He wouldn't blame her! That's why he kind of leaves the complicated stuff out of his hands.]

I used to help my mom with baking sometimes. And I helped Uraraka-san with one for Kacchan too. Baking isn't too bad once you've got the basics down.

[He likes to help! Hopefully he won't make this too complicated... Then again Izuku has a tendency to over explain things-]

You'll need a cake pan of the size you want. And some tools like measuring and mixing spoons, measuring cups and mixing bowls?

[recommendations]

Oh, that's right... Bakugou-san's birthday was recently, wasn't it?

[ She'd thought about sending some kind of present, but... Figured he's probably the type to prefer his birthday to go unnoticed. ]

Measuring and mixing spoons?

[ Momo's about to pull off a spot-on Izuku impression, by reaching into her purse and withdrawing a small notepad, adding everything Izuku is mentioning to her shopping list. ]

I'd been so fixated on the ingredients I would need, I didn't even stop to consider the instruments I would need as well!

[fullgauntlet]

[He nods. As unnoticed as Ochako could let it be, yes.]

That's right...! I guess the good thing about that is once you have everything you can reuse them for every recipe you try?

[Izuku isn't the best cook but he's learning too...!!]

Is there a certain kind of cake you wanted to try making?

[recommendations]

I was thinking that I should probably start simple, with a basic chocolate cake. I know the girls like sweets, after all.

[ Ochako especially. ]

[fullgauntlet]

[He nods with an encouraging smile. Easy to start is great!]

That's a good idea, Yaoyorozu-san! Let's pick out the bowls and things you'll need first. Then we can pick up the ingredients you need. I think I remember most of that off the top of my head...

[He hopes...]

Erm, maybe picking up a recipe book from the library will be a good idea too. Just in case.

[recommendations]

[ Momo gasps, excited. ]

They have books with recipes at the library?!

[ She should have expected that. After all, a good library will have all kinds of books! But her parents' extensive library at home never had any recipe books in it. She isn't sure her mother had ever owned a single recipe book, actually. ]

Ohhhh, Midoriya-san, thank you so much for your help!

[fullgauntlet]

It's- it's no problem! There should be some recipe books there...!

[He just likes to help out! And he likes picking around at the library for books anyway. Maybe he could pick a few for himself to take home too.]

By the end of the day, we'll have everything you need to make a great chocolate cake!

[Plus ultra!]