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

[Hearing 'work with the police' is not comforting, but... this is not either of their home worlds. So... it's alright so long as the Vongola doesn't get too much power in Avalon. Honestly, it's easy to lay low without Reborn and all of his fame and his push over the Tenth. Gokudera merely hums in his acknowledgment and seeming agreement with Midoriya's explanation.]

Seems like that power could be used poorly. Or maybe it's just too political... I've had enough of that. I'll side with my boss over the King any day.

[There's nothing wrong with being loyal elsewhere. So long as Gokudera isn't hurting anyone.]

Politics are one thing, but yeah. I think that's fair.

[The little fairy in his hair has started to make tiny braids out of his short green hair. Izuki doesn't notice this.]

I just think that most worlds need something like that. Someone to help.

[He only hurts people as an act of defense. More often than most, he ends up hurting himself and pushing more people away with his bad attitude than actually hurting them.]

I'm not saying the King is bad or anything...

[He starts to braid some long grass, following what the fairy is doing and glancing up on occasion to see if there is some trick to it.]

But if has power over his knights and uses that for some gain that ultimately puts us in a dangerous position... I can't say I'd side with that. I agree with an organization made of the off-worlders to protect them. There are knights that are his after all. [So he wonders how much power they have and just how loyal to the King they are. Gokudera isn't loyal to him, but then... he's never really got along with authority figures.]

I think an organization of off-worlders is a good idea. But at the same time, I've met one of the knights and they did talk about protecting the people that are here. From what I know of the king in the books I've read he's always been the type of leader to think of his people first.

[But Izuku nods.]

... I know it might not be the same as the books I've read. And that there's still more that we should all learn about this world and that we should be careful what we're doing and who we're trusting. But I still think that becoming a knight would be a good idea for me. I want to make my own judgments but I want to be able to protect people with a smile, if the title helps me get there, then I want to be able to do it.

[He really is lawful good.]

[Gokudera offers an accepting hum and looks on at the fairy before he starts to make a new daisy chain. He worries that the mafia might get in the way of this friendship, but at the same time... they aren't a bad family. They aren't entirely good, either, but... they're far from lawful.

Tsuna would keep it just, though.]

That's admirable. I wonder if my boss would be interested in a title like that...

[The morally gray area... Sometimes that's just how it is. And Izuki believes in putting so much justice and right in the world. Izuku wouldn't know how to feel.]

What's your boss like?

He's very kind and has a lot of charisma. But he's the kind of humble person you wouldn't know if you saw him how strong or important he is.

[Gokudera sounds so so proud. He adores his boss.]

[The sun is starting to set... And the little fairy on Izuku's head yawns softly. It's probably time to head back soon.]

Ahah... That sounds like one of my teachers. He was the same way, you'd never know how strong he is at a first glance.

[He looks up.]

Maybe we should head back soon?

I think he's around my age. Maybe a bit younger, if you consider all the time-travel I've done.

[Gokudera gets up and puts the chain about his neck, right against his collar. He offers a hand up to the other teenager and gives an agreeing hum.]

Yeah. I shouldn't make him worry.

[Because Tsuna is absolutely the type, and with good reason. Gokudera regularly gets himself in trouble.]

[He smiles and takes the hand, standing up! He pats some of the grass from his pants and nods.]

Yeah, maybe you could tell me about that sometime.

[A younger boss! And putting two and two together about Gokudera and Tsuna. For now, time to head back!]

Alright, let's get back to the city.

[With that, they set off!]

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