Notes:

Broke: waiting until October for more of the English fandom to join you on the Rodydeku train and start creating content
Woke: just doing it yourself like you always do for your rarepairs

Ummm a couple points:
- Dunno what Pino's gender is supposed to be, but I'm assuming male.
- I also don't know what the English spelling of "kureido" is meant to be, but there's a Star Wars planet called Crait so I worked off of that. If someone could let me know the actual spelling after the subbed version screens overseas I'd appreciate it!

Aaaalso there are some spoilers for the third movie (mostly pretty vague, of the "you'll get it if you know" variety) but if you're okay with that, I hope you enjoy!

Mutter

Rody knew that Deku had a tendency to mutter. It was sort of hard not to notice after spending days evading capture together—whenever they got a chance to hunker down and regroup, Deku would be poring over a map with brows furrowed, muttering softly as he worked through their next options.

At first Rody thought it might get annoying, but he just let it be, anyway. Sometimes Roro needed some time to focus and work through a particularly difficult homework problem, too, but if Rody gave him time and space the smart little bugger would always get the answer in the end. In that same way, Deku never seemed to steer them wrong, either. (Loath though he was to admit it, the one real misstep on their journey had been Rody's own fault, specifically because he went against Deku's plan.)

Besides, well... after the first day of acclimating to their new companion, Pino seemed to find the muttering relaxing, even nodding off from time to time to the sound of Deku's voice. Rody figured that was as good a sign as any that he didn't mind it either, and he began to consider it a sort of soundtrack to their journey towards Craid.

...And if he let Deku's mumbling lull him to sleep on their second night, too, then he wasn't going to outright admit it.

When Rody heard that familiar muttering in the hospital, though, pulling him out of a painkiller-induced nap, he thought he was probably imagining things, confused by the remnants of a dream. Their adventure was over, there were no maps to ponder over anymore. But as he blinked the sleep from his eyes and looked over at the neighboring cot, he confirmed that Deku was indeed hunched over a notebook, jotting down something rapidly, mumbling in staccatoed Japanese.

"Is Midoriya muttering again?" came a voice from the other side of the room, and Rody turned towards Todoroki's cot against the opposite wall. "Sorry, he has a habit of doing that."

Rody chuckled. "Yeah, I... kind of noticed."

"If he's bothering you, just tell him to shut up," Bakugo grumbled.

Rody cocked an eyebrow at the blond. Tell him to shut up? He'd never even considered—

"Hey! Deku!" Bakugo suddenly shouted, prompting the freckled boy to jump in surprise. "Quit your creepy mumbling, you're bothering your new friend!"

"Be quiet, this is a hospital..."

"Don't order me around, Half-and-Half!"

As Todoroki and Bakugo lobbed a couple more barbed retorts at each other, Deku shot Rody a bashful smile. "Sorry, Rody. Was I bothering you?"

"Eh... well, I mean..." Pino suddenly shot out of his hospital gown pocket with a cheerful chirp, and Rody deftly nabbed the bird out of mid-air and hid him under his pillow before he could ruin his cool façade. "It's no big deal, I've gotten used to it. What are you writing, though?" He craned his neck over the railing of his cot to peek at the notebook. "I'd've thought you'd finally get a chance to relax instead of working your brain even more."

"Oh, I'm analyzing quirks!" Deku held up his notebook, as if the foreign writing on the front cover would mean anything to Rody, then brought it back towards himself to flip through some pages. "I didn't have this with me these past few days, so I've gotta write down as much as I can before I forget. Look, I've even got a page about your quirk!"

"Whoa whoa whoa!" Rody waved his hands so as to obscure the page that was being presented to him; it was all illegible nonsense to him, but the sheer volume of writing there was off-putting and he could already feel his cheeks warming. "What the hell, don't let people see that! Aren't there way better quirks to be analyzing, anyway?!"

Deku laughed. "What are you talking about? I think your quirk is one of the best."

Rody gave a sour pout and laid down with his back to Deku, but his pillow was notably devoid of a certain little pink bird so he knew that his attempt to hide his embarrassment was in vain. "Whatever. I'm going back to sleep."

"Okay. Sleep well, Rody."

The scritch of pencil against paper resumed, accompanied after a few minutes by more muttering. Carefully, not wanting to let his friend think that the sounds actually bothered him, Rody turned over to look at the neighboring cot.

Pino was nested comfortably atop Deku's head, giving a happy, sleepy trill when the hero-in-training idly scratched a finger in his feathers. Soon enough the bird was fast asleep, and Deku paused, unable to see the top of his head but apparently making an educated guess.

He turned to Rody with a soft smile. "I'll just keep muttering, then?" he whispered.

Rody rolled over again, pulling the blankets tightly around him. "Do whatever you want, Hero."

And with the soft mumblings caressing the edge of his consciousness, foreign syllables that sounded like a lullaby, Rody fell back into a comfortable, warm slumber.