isleofavalon | May catch-all

🧙 WHO: Gokudera and absolutely anyone
⚔️️ WHAT: Mid-May catch all (training and other stuff that comes up)
🕒 WHEN: Mid... May? Before the event
🗺️ WHERE: Multiple places
⚠️ WARNINGS: violence, mentions of past sexual slavery, language

A. Training Grounds

Larry is sitting out in the middle of the training field, blowing bubbles to contain lit sticks of dynamite Gokudera is throwing into the air. Gokudera has discovered he has elemental magic and is working on what he can with wind, trying to push the bubble back towards his familiar, or up safely away from them both. He’s not successfully done either, and has just been creating useless gusts. The dynamite explodes in the bubble, the bubble pops, and knocks him down. This is getting very very tiresome, and his gusts don’t seem to be getting any stronger or going where he thinks he’s aiming them.

“Fuck... why isn’t it working?” He glares and pushes himself back up.

B. The Red Spring

No new arrivals from Namimori, it seems. Gokudera had spent the day watching new arrivals climb the cliff, wondering if he’d see someone from home. The journey back had been familiar and helped somewhat to clear his mind. But he’s been looking forward to bathing in the Red Spring. He feels partially new to Avalon after his reawakening, gone for years, and his body aged and scarred, when he’d apparently never left Camelot. Anyone who recognizes Gokudera from last month or any time prior will see the difference. Those who responded to his network post will already understand. But for those who have never met him, he’s acting very much like a new arrival.

The teenager lowers into the spring, the trunks he’s wearing keep him decent, but there is nothing to hide the vivid burn scars and long tally-marks down his back. There’s a black leather half-choke collar about his neck, and occasionally, there is a glow from beneath it, against the skin of his neck that looks like it’s burned many times over. Despite the fact that there is electricity attached to his neck, he fully submerges for a moment, then surfaces and decides he’ll play with the more illusory side of his light magic.

If you are unlucky enough to be anywhere near him, he’ll walk right up and offer you his entire left arm. It’s not real. It’s a smoke bomb, a prank, but hey, as far as your character should be able to tell, he just took off his arm and is handing it to you.

“Hey can you watch this for me? Thanks.” And then he’ll be getting out of the water so his familiar can be amused.

C. Wildcard! Seriously. Do whatever.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

A bomb is still a bomb! [She huffs, putting her hands on her hips. Honestly, what the heck is with this guy?!] It's not something you bring to a place where tons of people are!! Honestly, you'll cause people to freak out, and you could get in huge trouble if I reported you! Which I should, but...

[But the bomb's probably reached the stratosphere by now, really.]

I don't care if you use bombs, my good friend literally is one, but be more mindful about how you use them!!

Oh, I'm littered with them. I don't go anywhere without them, regardless of how many people are around. You're actually the first person to freak out.

[He waves a hand dismissively as he walks past her. Oh, this isn't much fun. The boy's got some very nasty, vivid burn scars all over his bare back, tally marks carved into skin, and he isn't going to humor her listening to her lecture on the dangers of explosives. He knows probably better than most.]

For someone who doesn't care, it sure sounds like you do.

[Ochako scowls after this goddamn weirdo, opening her mouth to chastise him even more, but then pauses when she sees all those burns and scars over his back. ...Hm. Maybe she jumped the shark a bit there, but she was pretty startled from the prank, and got pretty heated because of it.

She sighs, looking partially defeated, following after with a more sympathetic look this time around.]

I don't care if you have them - like I said before, I know someone who pretty much is one. He can create them from his body. What I do care about is making sure people stay safe - it's part of what I do for a living. I can tell you know what you're doing now, so I'm sorry I scolded you, but that wasn't a nice prank to pull on someone. Th-The arm was horrifying enough with...w-without the bomb.

[Seriously, that actually scared Ochako a whole lot more.]

[Gokudera can feel her eyes on him and he isn’t intentionally showing off the scars, but can’t help them. He won’t blame her for being upset by the prank, but he’s dealt with explosives... makes them himself, even.]

I won’t endanger anyone around me. Also, if you want to do your job, that’s your business. [He dismisses her apology with a shrug and takes a seat on the bank of the spring before looking a bit excited at the mention of his arm freaking her out.]

Ah, it’s just magic. See? What’s that behind your ear?

[He reaches and definitely doesn’t even come close to touching her, then looks down, shocked as if something fell. There is her ear... on the ground between them.]

You dropped this. [He offers her... her own ear?]

[But Ochako doesn't know that, or him, though the conviction in that sentence does enough to persuade her a bit. Still, it's not a good prank to pull in a place where there's a lot of people. Accidents happen, and she has to be mindful of things like that. It's just how she was taught - always put the people first. That's the duty of a Hero.

Also why are boys like this? Why?? Why do they derive pleasure from making gross-out pranks and scaring people? Ochako expects another prank, she does, but her shoulders still jump when she sees him holding an ear and her face scrunches up like she drank some overly bitter tea.]

Haaah...haha... [I DON'T TAKE THE EAR, IT'S ICKY. :(] Y-You're really good at that.

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