fear of interpersonal relations
[Kill Your Heroes]
"Do not kiss me," Rin rejected Recovery Girl, violently holding a syringe to keep her at an elbow's length. She'd only just waken up, taken off an oxygen mask herself and moved in record time to defend herself. "Pain is a lesson, and I also have to get rid of an infection. One my stamina-- for one-- cannot naturally heal."
"Did you come here to complain? Stop it, I stopped your hyperventilation," Recovery Girl scolded.
"I could have done that--"
"You using your quirk, which initiated the hyperventilation and swelling of your lungs in the first place, would make it worse," Recovery Girl snapped. "No more quirk, not for another day. You cannot control the power separate from your body yet, it's dangerous."
"It's not like I've ever been able to. It has to do with my stamina too, I'm not strong," Rin urged.
"It's nothing to do with stamina, if you watch Tempest. Even in his younger years it was like breathing a hurricane to him, and it didn't hurt him because he knew how to properly control his lungs," Recovery Girl said, "Give me the syringe."
"No," Rin said.
"Give me the syringe before I knock you out with anesthesia."
"I hate nurse rooms, doctors offices, hospitals, hero-nurses who threaten to knock me out with anesthesia instead of let me go because I'm perfectly fine," she listed off. "Who also take my hood, cause that's rude-- AH!"
Rin shrieked the moment Recovery Girl swabbed rubbing alcohol over the burn, surprised so much that she dropped the syringe. She forcefully grabbed the girl, despite being a woman with frail touch, kissing her so the wound would heal.
Rin looked bitterly at the skin before looking back at Recovery Girl with a sour face. "You'll never see me here again," Rin proclaimed, getting up and snatching her hood.
Outside waited Midoriya-san, looking a little freakishly at her.
"What?" She intimidatingly pecked inches before his face before walking ahead of him, her self-assured stride taking quick integration in her steps.
She went to her locker, telling him she was going straight home as he headed back to an ended class. She grabbed her bag and left at that.
"How is All Might as a teacher?" A reporter demanded, shoving a mic in Rin's face.
Rin frowned, pulling her hood further down her head, ignoring the woman and walking on into school. She got yelled at, but she didn't really care. She just headed to class and sat down.
"I took the courtesy of going over your marks and evaluations from yesterday," Aizawa-sensei said once they'd all seated in class. He lectured Bakugo on working like a seven year old, Midoriya on being reckless. "And Koda-kun, I don't care if Hinata-chan could take those two down with restraint plus injury, you need to support your team, partner, or whatever it comes down to."
Rin raised her head at this, looking at Koda. It's not like she had the chance to get mad at him, because he never got in the way nor was she in real trouble, but all he did for the battle was tell location, which didn't help in advance. She would have done fine with or without him. Not that she was hating on him, but he was not a fighting hero and she knew that. All it did was make her a little frustrated if he could have helped her avoid burns and hyperventilation. The nurse's office, too.
"Sorry for the late notice," Aizawa-sensei said, putting everyone on the edge of their seats. Another test? No. "I'll have you choose a class representative today."
There was a chorus of 'pick mes!" among the students, not of which Rin joined in. She folded her arms, sinking low in her chair. She was still really ebbed on about having no sick burn scar left. She thought maybe to apologize for her rude behaviour later, but realized if she ended up hurt and in there again she might go ballistic. Those perfect places claiming to help you were the only things that threw her off her edge.
"This a very important task!" Iida-san stood, demanding a silence among everyone. "It's a serious job of leading others and holding a lot of responsibilities. Just because you want to do it doesn't mean you can! Only a worthy leader will emerge from the choice of the people."
So they took a poll. Rin voted for Iida, mostly cause it was clear he wanted it and was the only one humble enough to suggest a poll in the first place. So it showed he was not completely self-centered on the matter, or arrogant, like the majority of the class. Also, he was one of the few people she'd talked to.
It ended up being Midoriya-san and Yaoyorozu-san, Midoriya being the main rep and Yaoyorozu the deputy. Midoriya was shaking like he'd just made it out of an ice lake.
That was that.
Lunch time came around after their morning general classes. Uraraka offered a spot to Rin, but she kindly declined. There was a nervousness when Rin thought of associating with other people-- it had to do with her hood, which was to avoid association with Tempest. Being burdened, and being a burdened were all related to relationships and ties.
She usually sat alone at her lunches, save for the one time Ijda, Uraraka, and Midoriya came to her but she didn't talk, so she was surprised when Bakugo-san slammed his tray down in front of her. Not in the slick way the bad boy of the male harem anime would, but it was just the annoying tsundere coming to annoy her. So she looked up to see his angry face, contorted in a ways a fifteen year old probably shouldn't. He'd wrinkle bad. Besides that, what manners did his parents teach him?
"I'm going to beat you, you shady loser!" He declared. "I don't care if you're a girl either!
"Yeah, you probably can," Rin said, dropping her head again.
"I'm going to eat here," He added.
She didn't flinch, freak out, or dismiss him. She just went back to eating her rice. She noted that he and Kishirima got along, so didn't even understand why he sat here, nor did she really appreciate it. If he was trying to make allies, he came to the wrong person because while she was not above making friends, she did not enjoy it. He and Todoroki may be the strongest, but she was not interested in ever having them at her back, nor be her enemy during a battle. To avoid being an enemy was useless, he said he would beat her. She knew he wasn't an idiot either, it wasn't like messing with her was easy or fun, because for the most part you just couldn't. But he was either declaring war here, or respecting something she couldn't name for herself.
She couldn't help but be wary, knowing he was dangerous no matter the situation-- as she thought most people were. She was just uncomfortable.
The bell rang before Rin could narrow down his motives, signalling a level three security breech. "All students, please evacuate outdoors promptly," a woman said over the speakers.
Rin set her bowl down, seeing the clamour of students begin to rush out of the cafeteria and clog the hallways. They're fast, sure, but it was more of a panic than orderly fashion. Did the school not have proper procedures for this?
She looked out the window, which wasn't too far from her seat, to see what was going on. She frowned in annoyance, seeing it was the media from the earlier morning. The seniors should at least know what to do, and also assess the situation in the absence of the teachers. This complete chaos was impractical, and hard to quell. She wasn't exactly the most bold voice, nor could she use her quirk to fly above the crowd for a moment. She could only watch from behind, watching Bakugo straight up walk back to class through another hallway.
Suddenly, a boy she recognized flew high above the students, and in the next instant was using engines from the back of his calves to go flying into a wall above the exit sign. "Calm down, everyone! It is just the media, so we have nothing to worry about!" Iida yelled, instantly silencing the crowd.
Well he took control of the situation awfully fast.
Classes re-commenced after the choas ended. Now it was the time for Midoriya and Yaoyorozu-san to commence the rest of the order of events for their class student body.
"Now it's time to choose our student officers. B-but first, I must say something," Midoriya nervously said. "I actually think that Iida Tenya-kun should be the class representative! He took control of the situation during lunch so... that's why I think he is better suited to lead."
[ Anthropophobia ]
"For today's class, it has become a class with three instructors. Me, All Might, and one more person," Aizawa-sensei said.
"What will we be doing?" A boy asked, known to Rin as Seto. The tape guy.
Aizawa pulled out a card reading 'rescue'. "We will be doing shipwrecks, disasters, and everything in between. You can decide if you want to change into your costume or not this time, because some will limit your abilities too. Once you've changed, meet outside because we will be taking a bus to an off-campus site. That's all."
Rin stood, changing and heading out load the bus. Though Iida-san stood in her way, bellowing orders to get into the bus by their assigned numbers. She tapped him on the shoulder, grabbing his attention, him looking down at the short stuff. "It's not even a proper school bus-- it's a trip kind, so it's the same as transit," she said.
Iida looked inside. "Oh, you're right, Hinata-san," Iida said with a very vacant expression. He just seemed a tad defeated, but at least he was trying. He received a pat on the back from Rin.
The class filed into the bus, Rin, although being the first, ended up being the last of the crowd since she'd have to sit beside someone, she might as well pick. It was dumb, but she was methodical about people she sat by too just to avoid conversation. There was a seat by Koda, but she felt slightly stingy after becoming aware of the fact he'd basically abstained from the fight the moment it began. She just didn't like those coming to a school to be a certain something, and not moving towards that. Since all he seemed to do now was message, the best thing to do was orient his abilities to rescue or battle but he didn't look too pleased about either.
Rin bit her lip, almost ready to slap herself at her constant judgmental habits. Not like she ever bullied, but the thoughts in her head were just as toxic. Koda was going to be a hero-- she knew it, she knew what he did to get in involved battle and he did well in that, and also that he was good at using his quirk. She knew he was going to be a good hero, probably one that'd put her to shame. The only thing was that he did not co-operate well, and neither she. She thought this way because of her constant state of petrification when it came to being friends-- she would refuse association in any form. A profile is your own, having any other name with it wasn't right.
She looked at Todoroki, who also had an open seat. He himself looked ready to doze off, or at least wouldn't talk as he was focused on... whatever was going inside of his head.
She sat beside him, pulling her knees up so they were against the seat and she could lean back, almost to the perfect sleeping point. She drew her hood down as far as it would go, trying to ignore the irritable arguing of Bakugo in front of her with the rest of the students.
"Stop messing around. We're here," Aizawa said, standing as the bus came to a halt. He ushered the students to file out and stand in front of a dome-shaped building. There, a woman in a full space suit waiting. Thirteen, the space hero.
"Hello, everyone. I've been waiting for you," She said. "These are the practical training grounds I designed, the U. S. J.!" Thirteen proudly announced. "Here we will be going through simulations to train your ability to rescue people. After all, it is one of the most important parts of being a hero."
Rin looked over the indoors of the dome. There were large simulated mountains— landslides in particular. There were city-scapes, with fires, storms, and broken buildings. Then there was the shipwreck Aizawa-sensei had previously spoken about.
She just hoped she didn't have to head to the fires.
"Before we begin, I must tell you a few things," Thirteen said. Slowly adding fingers to increase that 'few'. "I'm sure you're already aware, but my quirk is called black hole. No matter the material that gets sucked in, it turns into dust. Easily can save people, but is also a power that can easily kill, the same as all your quirks. This is why they are strictly regulated, so you must be careful. One wrong step and things can go awry. So let's get to studying how quirks can save human life!"
The air changed drastically— not in the way a tornado would heat or chill air, but the fact that there was something unnatural to the world around Rin suddenly. She stared past Aizawa-sensei, down to the fountain area, a hand peaking out from a swirling, dark vortex.
A villain.