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PLANSBreakdown of things I hope to accomplish at various points in the year:
✖ I'm hoping to use this timeskip to develop Hiro's CR and also have him get involved in the Unseelie aspect of the Drabwurld, specifically trying to get involved with the R&D department that Saber's setting up. Update - post-timeskip: busy with R&D stuff from April until about Yule, then disappeared to fulfill the task given by Black Shuck.
✖ I want him to help with the spire projects (specifically spire 10 thanks to his quest) and also spend a lot of time at the Station, building technology that will work outside of the station that he can sell for profit/possibly be building things for Lumina's chocobo ranch. (Also building cat toys for Shijima. This is important.) Update - post-timeskip: the team of natives and sorcerers Hiro recruited during his quest helped finish Spire 10 and he spent very little time at the Station during timeskip. He built a few things for Lumina and Shijima.
✖ He'll also be building up his magical ability by acting as Lemina's Junior Premier, learning how to control his magic and also recruiting for her. He's going to spend a lot of time to effectively wield his magic. Going to learn how to use his crossbow too. Also depending, he may be learning some mild sorcery from Loki. One of his boons will be healing magic so he'll be attempting to be Tadashi be Baymax help that way. Update - post-timeskip: After their fight in June, Hiro hung back on the Guild and just acted as Junior Premier whenever Lemina needed him. He had a few students he checked in with but was largely hands-off while also learning how to control his fire magic and his wind magic. Learned to use a dagger instead. Has mastered level 1 illusion spellwork from Loki and will be looking into runic magic.
✖ If he behaves and proves himself, he will be playing a very large part in the R&D that Saber's setting up in Spire 10 acting as the Head of Project. Once that starts he will begin questioning how to make off-locket communication devices and teaming up with Rin, most likely. Update - post-timeskip: Saber named him head of project at the end of March 2701. When Rin didn't teach him right away, he circumvented her and learned to make the devices himself (accomplished by June 2701.) He's been working and will continue to work with Rin to further develop their partnership and create more tech to sell.
✖ Notable dates include a certain unhappy anniversary in the spring (sometime in the first part of April) that will cause him to basically shut down, along with his 15th birthday (headcanoned August 22nd) Update - post-timeskip: Both of these were acknowledged.
✖ CR-wise he'll be going to extreme lengths to keep in contact with Jason Todd and Loki until the three go their separate ways over the timeskip (possibly developing a friendship with Billy Kaplan via Loki as well?) Around April he'll most likely meet Joshua Kiryu and learn some very important things about him and gain a troll-guardian. Around March most likely he'll also meet Leo Valdez while unfreezing people via fire magic (tentative?) and also he will officially meet Nico di Angelo and soothe the tensions between him and Lumina, who he will also occasionally pop in and visit. In July he'll take a month off to go explore the northlands with Thrall. He'll be in contact with various people he's assisted so far and just let them know he's available if necessary but otherwise he'll be mostly exploring on his own. I want to also use this time to send him to some of the neutral territory (maybe Redgate) and also maybe make some Seelie CR since right now he kinda hates all of them. Update - post-timeskip: Jason and Hiro have had a turbulent year that ended with them splitting up for good until Hiro gathers the nerve to crawl back and apologize. He's developed very close friendships with Loki, Billy, Shijima, Eren, Lumina, Lemina, Thrall, and Howard. He's developed an extremely close friendship with Nico di Angelo as well and has since realized he has romantic feelings for him that he's yet to act on. Joshua Kiryu continues to act as a guardian angel and one person Hiro can be about 95% open and honest with and receive real answers. He developed a friendship with Leo Valdez as he assisted him thawing the Station in March and they spoke of developing secret meeting places during Samhain, along with talks of Leo's apprenticeship. In July he explored the northlands with Thrall to heal the earth and during Yule Thrall made him a member of the Frostwolf Clan. During Samhain, the Black Shuck sent Hiro on a mission with Nico to lay the dead to rest so January-April has been spent traveling.
✖ Other people to meet/build CR with: Rin, Eren, Sakura, Katsa, Shijima, Vol'jin, Saber, Sakura, Merida, Ellie, Colette. Update - post-timeskip: Has built better CR with Rin, Eren, Shijima, Saber, Merida, Ariadne, Colette, Prince Edgar and Katsa. Has met Sakura, and Ellie. Has also met and built decent with Grell Sutcliffe, Wan, Johnny Storm, Teresa, Clarke Griffin, and Lia de Beaumont.
SUMMARY OF KNOWN DETAILS
So far Hiro's only participated in the battle and also tried to play with the jabberwock. Also will soon discover he cannot, in fact, rebuild a special robot friend and will be very upset about that. Otherwise whatever! Update - post-timeskip: Haaaaaaaaaa.
SPRING 2701
SPRING IN 2,701 (Mar, Apr, May)
- MARCH - The new King of Birds, the Roc, brings late snowstorms across the drabwurld; shardbearers must combat its magic to un-freeze each other, natives, and whole areas. Monarchs are still around and boons still occur.
- HIRO'S MARCH PLANS - Hiro will be using his newly learned fire magic to help unfreeze people (team up and meet Leo? Also team up with Merida at some point.) He will also be spending time between Spire 10 and the Station, most likely trying to set up residence in both places. He will also be recruiting for Lemina's magic guild and attempting to learn more about the R&D sanction of the Unseelie that will be housed in Spire 10. Update - post-timeskip: All true save for teaming up with Merida. Hiro worked with several people this month during the freeze (Leo, Johnny, Howard, Wan, Lemina, Katsa, etc.)
- APRIL - Shardbearers shall be struck at various moments by the sound of harp-playing which inspires distractingly, disablingly intense and wild emotions, but be unable to determine the source! Shardbearers will discover that they can follow the sound only in their dreams to the dream-image of a harp which magically plays itself. Smashing the harp in their dreams will disable the spell which affects their waking moments. This is the last month monarchs will be visibly around and which boons will occur.
- HIRO'S APRIL PLANS - Hiro will be hearing the harp and stuck struggling with keeping said-emotions under wraps and will probably explode on someone. Once he figures out how to smash the harp it will be done so. Update - post-timeskip: Had a near panic-attack about his harp and had a loooong talk with Joshua about how the harps worked and also a long talk about death and morality after Hiro smashed the harp. Spent the entire month of April locked away doing research and hiding from everyone/ignoring his CR.
- MAY - Golden swans will migrate to the mainland from the southern coast, devouring newly-planted crops and seeds; slaying them turns them into solid gold swan figurines. (also the Monarchs will be gone, lockets stop working, people opting out go to sleep.)
- HIRO'S PLANS FOR MAY - Once he finds out that the swan figures can become money, he'll most likely be taking his newly-booned cat and chasing/terrorizing the swans to get money. When Mochi won't have any of it, Hiro will team up with Shijima to kill swans and get money. Update - post-timeskip: The first of May was spent hunting down Jason Todd. Afterwards he made his way to Lumina's farm and started building automatic feeding stations for her chocobos. He also hunted swans with Shijima without Mochi (did not boon the cat.) Also researched in the background and worked on his communication devices. Worked with the Guild when he could.
SUMMER 2701
SUMMER IN 2,701 (Jun, Jul, Aug)
- JUNE - It becomes clear that the areas the Jabberwock spent too much time in will grow nothing and have become barren; includes areas around Caer Glaem, the Cothromach, the Station, other parts of the map. Shardbearers may attempt to heal these areas.
Treun holds its famous summer tourney! The purse is 5,000 gold marks for each of these competitions: Magical Duelling, Mounted Joust, and the Melee! The competitions go over the day, featuring many famed individuals participating in secret, and the revels continue over nights. A mod post will go up for this event.
- HIRO'S JUNE PLANS- He's not going to participate in the tourney but he IS going to set up a giant betting pool for non-participants to get involved. Since a lot of his friends are also competing he will most likely spread a few rumors about the stats of the fighters to mess with the odds. His healing plans will take place in July instead. Update - post-timeskip: Betting pool still happened and he almost got his ass kicked for it. Nico di Angelo saved him and his friendship with the boy started. Also handed out communicators to his very close CR. And also found out Lemina was offering the Guild to Seelie shardbearers, got pissed, and stopped talking to her. Hiro's work with the Guild went on pause.
- JULY - Violent anti-shardbearer demonstration in Daonna results in the hanging of a dozen Seelie and Unseelie shardbearers in the city square. Whispers insist that ancient shardbearer Martin Maskmaker is behind the clever fox-masks which magically hide the identities of the killers and help them leave no trace.
- HIRO'S JULY PLANS-If Hiro gets IC word he's going to start trying to work on solving the mystery despite not having clues about the killers. However he will be spending the entire month of July traveling with Thrall into the northlands to assess the damage of the area and start trying to heal them on their own. Update - post-timeskip: Did not do anything about the anti-shardbearer demonstrations but instead spent the whole month with Thrall traveling to the northlands to heal the destruction from the jabberwock.
- AUGUST - Leathann's Festival of Lights is the second week in August, a curious local celebration timed to the arrival of fireflies which will this year mark the induction of the new Oracle; overnight the boats which comprise the Water Market all seem to have vanished, and natives float candles on the river out to sea and let paper lanterns fly, while in the distance the Tower of the Oracle glows golden through day and night.
- HIRO'S AUGUST PLANS- Depending on if he can get there, he might go down and check it out because pretty lights and fireflies and stuff. Around the 19th or so, he'll be organizing a beach trip with friends as a guise to celebrate not only his birthday (August 22nd) but also Jason Todd's (August 16th.) Update - post-timeskip: Came back from his journey with Thrall and immediately was whisked away by Nico to Leathann for the Festival of Lights. Celebrated his/Jason's birthday on August 20th. Background research. He apologized to Lemina this month as well. Guild work is still less but he's helping where he can. R&D research goes back into full-swing at the end of August.
AUTUMN 2701
FALL IN 2,701 (Sept, Oct, Nov)
- SEPTEMBER - The magical power which allows shardbearers to understand Drabbish and each other goes haywire; affected characters will be heard speaking their native tongue! All their writing, however, will still be seen as Drabbish. The annual Treun wreath festival! Harvests are very poor, but the spectacle and scope of the dancing, grain-giving, and public drunkenness are as riotously whole-hearted as ever. The festival ends in drunken bread-riots, however, and fires set in the garden district. The public calls for Fortuna to abdicate his position
- HIRO'S SEPTEMBER PLANS- Language shenanigans! Let's see how many people he no longer understands. Hiro speaks and understands English and Japanese fluently. No other plans thus-far. Update - post-timeskip: He pantomimed stuff with Wan to learn meditation methods better! He also started learning how to write and translate things in Ancient Greek for a certain present for a certain demigod. Month was spent heavily doing research and development and mostly stuck to the Spire save for his time with Wan at the Station near the end of September.
- OCTOBER - 25-30 - SAMHAIN! Sun does not rise; characters can go wherever they please; Black Shuck makes another appearance; giant party on the Cathraon. Mods will post logs for this.
- HIRO'S OCTOBER PLANS- - Samhain! Hiro's going to attend Samhain and probably get into a lot of trouble because it's a giant party. He's going to try to approach Black Shuck with Nico di Angelo and force Eren Yeager into a suit because it's hilarious. He'll probably also be easier to trick into dancing with his CR and he'll be mingling around to meet new people as well. October otherwise is completely open and planless. Update - post-timeskip: Early October he researched blood granite with Edgar, but otherwise pretty much nothing about this has changed other than the fact that approaching Shuck was a Bad Idea and he and Nico were tasked with traveling the Drabwurld to lay the dead to rest. Hiro's secrets about Nico were revealed to Loki after he stopped the fight between Nico and Lumina. Loki also gave him his first kiss to prove it was no big deal. Hiro pushed him in the face a lot. Also began planning secret clubs/safehouses with Leo Valdez and made a lot of new connections.
- NOVEMBER - Inmates from a magical island prison-colony of Leathann have escaped, and some manage to reach the mainland and begin causing havoc! The government of Leathann posts rewards for the return of these criminals, dead or alive. Many are legitimately dangerous mages and sorcerers; others are simply individuals who are debtors to the state and couldn't pay their taxes!
- HIRO'S NOVEMBER PLANS- He may try to team up with some people to go after some of the criminals but for the most part he'll be using the month of November to research High Queen Morla and complete a quest for Ariadne. Update - post-timeskip: First two weeks of November alternated between working on the quest for Ariadne and researching stuff for R&D. The end of November was spent with Lumina traveling to Spire 9's city to work with the vampires to make copies of her chocobo books.
WINTER 2701
WINTER IN 2,701/2,702 (Dec, Jan, Feb)
- DECEMBER - YULE! Giant hunting party with both courts trying to catch the White Hart! Mods will post logs for this.
- HIRO'S DECEMBER PLANS- He's going to wind up building an army of snowmen and one very special Snowmax at the Station if he can get there. Otherwise no real plans. He'll be celebrating Yule/Christmas and provide presents to a lot of his close CR. Update - post-timeskip: Haha he basically exchanged presents with people, argued with Nico until Nico agreed to take him on Shuck's task, ventured on an overnight trip with Thrall to become a tiny Frostwolf, argued with Jason about Nico and cut their ties temporarily and ditched the spire to head out. Last month he researched stuff for R&D. Last month he actively worked with the Guild.
- JANUARY - Caer Scima is at last entirely rebuilt, and grander than ever!
- HIRO'S JANUARY PLANS- Definitely going to return to CS to see how it's been rebuilt. Otherwise he's pretty quiet this month. Update - post-timeskip: Definitely did not return to CS and definitely did not remain quiet this month. Spent the month traveling and training with Nico.
- FEBRUARY -Parrais holds its Ostara Feast! A local celebration of and competition in the arts, chalks harvested from the coast are all dyed and given to local children the full week before, and the whole city is mostly covered in their murals. By the feast's end, several famous elven artisans and musicians are found with their throats slashed.
- HIRO'S FEBRUARY PLANS- He's going to end up bouncing off to Redgate with Billy Kaplan to crash in Loki's dorm and also try to break into the fancy-schmancy library. May also end up meeting a handful of the Seelie in Redgate. Update - post-timeskip: Went to Redgate with Billy to research more/bond with Billy/crash in on Loki. Billy and Loki figured out his romantic feelings toward a certain son of Hades that Hiro adamantly denied. Hiro gained access to the Redgate library for research. In addition, he traveled to Mair and met Grell who spoke with him of death, magic, and runes as she helped him with the next leg of his task for Shuck.
SPRING 2702
SPRING IN 2,702 (Mar, Apr)
- MARCH - The skeletons of unburied soldiers killed in battle begin to rise, devouring whatever living beasts or people they come upon until their skulls are struck off.
- HIRO'S MARCH PLANS- Gonna double-check that this isn't Nico's work and then use a combination of magic and other skills to kill the skeletons. Update - post-timeskip: Rejoined Nico! This probably was tied into their initial task anyway. Also met Jason again at the end of the month and it went as poorly as one would expect. Jason told Hiro how to fix it ("come home", basically) and Hiro shied away from the idea.
- APRIL - Great numbers of imps and fairies begin to go missing in both castles, to the point where many everyday tasks go unfinished!
- HIRO'S APRIL PLANS- Start devising ways to accomplish the daily tasks with inventions while hunting for the missing imps. Update - post-timeskip: He's lost Jason and it's that time of year again. During Yule he set up a meeting with Joshua on the anniversary of the harp-smashing so they could chat and review everything wrong with the world. He also had a friend-date with Merida where the same sort of things were discussed. Lastly, he received a quest from the Unseelie monarchs just as he was getting ready to go find Jason to apologize one last time.
- MAY - End of timeskip.
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Definitely. I just started learning a few months ago, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. [So said because if she'd met him months ago said-tree would have burned to the ground by now. When she lets go of his hand he draws up a slightly awkward grin as he watches her. The name's unfamiliar to him, but hey. That's what Samhain's about, right?]
Hiro. Nice to meet you. [He tilts his head a bit, trying to determine which court she's from. (He's developed a system by now...it works maybe 75% of the time.] First time at this thing?
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It's a little strange- [a beat.] I mean, magic isn't strange-- but that everyone here knows it's real. That's different! [ She gives Hiro a sheepish look. ] I always hated keeping secrets.
[ Back home, Sakura can't even tell her father about her powers. ]
Hiro-san. [She tilts her head, and then smiles even brighter. ] You're Japanese! [a pause, as she tries to shift to her native language. Even though Sakura pronounces the words right, they come out all wrong. The magic of Drabwurld in action. ] Nice to meet you!
I've been to the welcome feast and the tourney, but never anything this spooky! Is this supposed to be like Halloween?
[ Meanwhile, Sakura doesn't even care about courts. Friends can be made anywhere, and what reason is there to encourage a rivalry when they're all the same in the end. Strangers in a strange place, taken from their homes and brought into a new world. They should all be working together! ]
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[He's just staring for a moment because...well. She's kind of adorable, and he's mostly a little stunned because he hasn't really met anybody who's actually younger than he is. The addition of "san" to his name, though never used in the Drabwurld, doesn't seem out of place to him. He's heard the suffix applied to others in San Fransokyo but never to himself.] Uh, yeah! Sort of? I'm actually only half...[There's his own sheepish look, hand coming up to rub at the back of his neck. He tilts his head, noticing that she seems to be struggling and he can only guess what she's doing.] I haven't figured out the magic behind the language thing either.
I think so. Halloween's based off of Samhain in the first place but in worlds like ours it's a thing of the past so it's pretty different for us. [Oh man she's just like Colette. That's it. Bubbly Seelie girls are going to be the death of him.] Plus this one lasts for five days and it's a lot harder to tell who's who.
[Courts still matter to Hiro, but not as much as they used to if he's being honest with himself. Samhain's a great excuse not to care and start to meet more people.]
Sounds like you showed up to this world around the same time I did.
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[ That's the way it should be, really. Ideally. But then Sakura only knows people who do just and good things with her magic. After talking to Cullen, she's realized that that may not be the case everywhere.
But Sakura catches that sheepish gesture, though she doesn't understand why he needs to be embarrassed! ] You're half? That's really neat! Do you live in Japan?
[ And then a short nod. ]
Back during that last big feast. [ A beat. There's a bit of gloom sinking into her words. ] It's been... months.
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[Hiro may or may not be wary of what certain people back home would do with magic if it existed but...his type of science is a little like magic. It's enough to freak him out a tiny bit. Her enthusiasm's still contagious though and even though he's not sure how to handle it when it's coming from someone not Honey Lemon, he's trying.] Nope. America, but Japan's on my list of places to visit.
[You know. If they ever get out of here...] Yeah, that's when I showed up, too. [He shakes his head then.] Eight and a half months. But some people have been here years...kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?
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[ Part of what's so wonderful about the world is the possibility of something more. There's always a chance for magic, and for people to use magic to do the good and right thing. Now, if Sakura knew about Hiro's world... ] Amerca! Where? New York? California?
[ She worries her lip, as she casts a glance to the ground.]
I have to go home. [A shake of her head.] I can't stay that long.
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[There's a lot he can guess, but it's better to let Sakura explain everything. Though now he's really starting to wonder if maybe he truly did miss something back home. Magic and science are so closely tied together...and there are other people in this world like Dave who have tied together the two. It's funny to think about.] California. Just outside of San Francisco in a place called San Fransokyo. I've lived there pretty much my whole life.
[And on a more solemn note.] You've got important things to do back there too, huh?
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U-um. Well, I found a magical book in my father's basement? [ Her cheeks grow red, as it so often does when she talks about the clumsy events that commenced her interaction with the magical. ] And I sort of... accidentally released a bunch of magical cards?
[ She lets out an awkward laugh, continuing to blush. ]
San Fransokyo. [ There's a quirked eyebrow, as Sakura ponders the strange amalgamation of cities. ] Like Francisco and Tokyo put together!
[ A nod. ]
My friends and family-- they need my help.
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As Sakura explains her story, he's giving her what can only be described as an incredibly incredulous stare, eyebrows lifting higher and higher as he tries to picture it.] Sooo...these cards are just sort of floating around in the world now? [And why did your father have a magical book in the first place? Jeeze.
He brightens a bit as she picks up on the combination easily and accepting it. Most people just sort of stare at him like he's crazy.] Yup, just like that! The city was founded by a bunch of people from Japan decades ago, so it only made sense.
[Annnnd back to being a little more solemn. He's thought about it, of course. He's acknowledged it and everything but some days are better than others when it comes to remembering what truly matters.] My friends need my help, too. We were just getting started back home. They can't work as a team without me.
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Oh, no, no, no! [ Sakura slips out one of the cards from her pocket as proof: The Fly ] I found them all and the sealed them away. They didn't cause too much trouble! [ Okay, maybe they did.]
[ And well, she's only left Japan once, and if there's a place called New England, then, well, why can't there be a San Fransokyo? Logic! ] We have a Chinatown in Yokohama! Is it like that?
[ Drabwurld is good at distractions. Tourneys, Jabberwhelps, magic ice storms, and now Samhain. It's like their intent is to keep people's thoughts away from home. Why else would they bring people here if they didn't want them to stay? ]
What were you working on? [ She tilts her head to the side, totally assuming Hiro's going to talk about some kind of sports team. You know, not robots and saving his city or anything. ]
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and at least he hasn't set any buildings on fire.The moment she pulls out the card, his hand's already darting forward but stopping just short of taking it from her. He's restraining himself but actively reminding himself that no, it's generally not okay just to take things from people. No matter how curious he is. His fingers curl into his palm and his hand hovers a bit as if debating what to do.] Magic cards floating around the city that you had to track down and seal didn't cause too much trouble? [There's a teasing grin. Sure, he totally believes that...it's okay, Sakura, he's caused his fair share of trouble, too.
Excellent logic!] Sorta, maybe, but a place like that is probably a lot smaller. We have hundreds and hundreds of people living in San Fransokyo, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people that live in San Francisco. I think Chinatowns are just shopping districts.
[It's a good and a bad thing, isn't it? He's been running around playing hero here in the best and worst ways possible, only occasionally fighting off his small bouts of homesickness that showed up. He has to go home, but at the same time if he doesn't fight the war here there might not be a home to go back to. It's all complicated.
And he's so glad she asked. He stands up a little taller (though honestly he's probably not even that much taller than she is...) and he waits for a moment before casually shrugging like it's really not a big deal.] We're superheroes. We're the ones who're helping to protect the city now.
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J- just a little bit! [ Another nervous laugh. ] I mean, they made everyone fall asleep, and there was a snowstorm, and a day that repeated over and over again... but nobody got hurt! Promise!
[ After hesitating, she presents the card to Hiro for him to examine. It resembles a tarot card made out of heavy cardboard paper, but it's strangely warm to the touch. It won't bend or tear either, but besides that, it doesn't seem very magical. ]
I'd like to visit one day! I've never been to America.
[ But what's happening at home while they're all here? What if time's passing and leaving them behind?
And yeah... Hiro may be only a year or so younger than her brother, but he doesn't seem as mean and imposing as Touya. Or maybe that's more of an older brother thing, than a matter of age.] A superhero?! [ She gapes, not hiding her enthusiasm in the least. ] What are you protecting it from? Are there bad guys? Monsters?
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That's...pretty impressive. [How can tiny cards do stuff like that? He takes the card from her hand, bringing it up close to examine it, flicking it with his fingers, turning it this way and that to see how it really works. It's baffling mostly.]
I think you'd like it, but I'm sure people would say the same about Japan, too.
[He's questioned that, too, and he has an answer as far as he knows thanks to Joshua but he doesn't think to bring it up yet. He probably should though, let's be real. Don't let him fool you, sometimes he can be a huge jerk but if he's been struggling to get his footing in a place like this, he can only imagine how Sakura's been getting by. Then again, she has her magic.] Yup! [That's the reaction he was looking for, though he hums in thought.] We took down a bad guy right before I came here...but we're just going to give the city an extra boost to keep people safe from everyday stuff. [Runaway trolleys, fires, whatever.] I'm sorta new to the whole thing.
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[Magic must defy the very system of logic that allows Hiro to imagine and engineer. Science works because of laws, technology because of programming and circuits, but magic? The very idea defies natural law. It must drive Hiro up the wall? ]
My best friend, Tomoyo, told me that toys from Japan are super popular in America. Is it true?
[ Sakura may have magic, but magic can't fix everything, and it certainly can't fix her biggest problem of returning home. In fact, it's admittedly the source of many worrying issues.
But her question in regards to the nature of time versus the magic of Drabwurld, it's a question Sakura's been longing to have answered. Perhaps if she gets to know him better... ]
So you're a superhero! [ Totally not trying to flatter you, Hiro. It's just Sakura being Sakura. ] You're new, but you're not alone. That's the most important thing. Stay together, and I'm sure you and your friends will save the day!
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[It drives him absolutely crazy and he's still taking a lot of his time to try and pick apart the art of magic and apply it to logic and science, but after a while he's sort of just given up and started working to create it into something better. It doesn't hurt that he's been using technological analogies to truly understand what he's working with. He understands parts of it better...but that still doesn't explain the cards. Her question renders a laugh though.]
Definitely still true, but I think that depends on what parts of America you're looking in. I know they are where I'm from. [In the end he passes the card back to her. He's willing to give some answers if she asks the right questions. Everybody could use with that knowledge.]
That's what they're calling us. ['I think.'] We're gonna be fine when I get home and put one of our friends back together...but I gotta get home first. [A tilt of the head.] It's the same for you though, isn't it? Your adventure can't be over yet just because the cards are all caught.
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Do you have a team name? [ She takes the card back, gingerly slipping it back into her pocket with the rest of her deck. Or what's left of that deck.] You've got to have one if you're superheroes!
[ A beat. ]
[ Sakura lets out a little exhausted sigh, a confirmation of just how true Hiro's statement is-- her adventure is far from over, it seems. Magic attracts magic, and when said magic appears to cause pandemonium, it's Sakura self-declared responsibility to settle it down. ]
That's why I have to get home. There's some kind of magic that's made everyone disappear! [ She's already starting to get teary. Oh, she's not going to cry about it! Not in front of someone she's just met. ] I have to go back home and get them back.
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I think…we're going to be calling ourself "Big Hero 6." [If he ever goes home again, he'll see that's exactly what happens.] It's pretty straight-forward, but why overcomplicate it?
[He lifts an eyebrow, not sure where this is going…and immediately shifting to something a little more subtle when she gets worked up. Oh god Sakura don't cry, he doesn't know how to handle that.]
Whoa, what do you mean people are disappearing? How do you know it's magic?
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[ She clenches a fist. ]
I have to fix this. That's why I have to go home. [ And if just to reassure Hiro that she isn't going to cry... she smiles weakly. ] I'm sorry! I- I didn't mean to talk about it...
[ A beat, as Sakura tries to switch the topic. ]
But what's your superhero name?
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[He shakes his head.] You'll get home soon. We all will. [Soon, of course, is relevant.
The question causes him to pause. That's...huh. He's always sort of acknowledged that the rest of his team has nicknames and he doesn't, but it never came up before.] I don't think I have one. Think I should?
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[ There's a pause before she nods in agreement, finding it reassuring to hear Hiro say it. ]
We will.
[ And a superhero name? Now, that's important. What's a superhero without a name! Even Sakura's "Card Captor Sakura!" Tapping her chin, Sakura quietly ponders the possibilities until it suddenly hits her. ]
I got it! Superhiro!
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[He doesn't know that, but it sounds good. He waits patiently to see what she's going to say next...before there's a groan and a hand dragging down his face.]
You're not the first to make the pun. Trust me. Doesn't that seem kind of...["lame?"]
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What? I think it's cute! Suuuupa Hiro! [ ... which she finally manages to say in Japanese-accented English. She tacks on a giggle. ] But I can't help you come up with a name, if I don't know what you do.
[ She taps her chin. ]
How about-- Firestorm?
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And how many super heroes do you know choose their names because they sound cute? [Silly Sakura. Think about his reputation.] That just makes me sound like I'm related to Johnny. [Hiro, she has no idea who Johnny is. Probably.]
I think we have time to think on that one for a little while. Maybe come up with something even better later during the rest of Samhain.