"Akahoshi Hitomi
Mobile"
Aka [This is a test text. Have you received this, Uraraka?]
Ura [(o'u'o\) Roger Roger! Text received! Hello again, Hitomi!]
Aka [Oh, do we refer to each other informally via text? Should I call you 'Ochaco'?]
Ura [*(ouo)* You're as cute as ever, Hitomi! Yes, yes, call me Ochaco!]
Aka [Thank you for the compliment. You are cuter than when we first met, Ochaco.]
Ura [(/#'o'#\) Oh my. Thank you.]
Aka [I meant that more as an observation than as a compliment. Though it can be taken as a compliment as well.]
Ura [( 'u') Eh? Observation? Am I texting weirder than I used to?]
Aka [No, your texting is curiously the same as before. I meant your overall looks and personality.]
Ura [(#'-'#) EHH? ME? Cuter than when I was 18?! You're joking!]
- [No wait, I was 17 when we met! No way!]
Aka [I am not joking. You are definitely cuter than when we met. You are more cheerful and friendlier.]
Ura [(/'A'\) You just made a third sentence!]
Aka [.-. ?]
Ura [(/*O*\) You use emotes!]
Aka [.-. ? Yes, I do?]
Ura [(#^u^;) Eheh, forgive me. I know you do. It's just been forever since we've texted.]
Aka [Three years. Five months. Six days. Nine hours.]
Ura [('n') You've been counting? Aww, now I feel awful.]
Aka [No. I just have your old phone number's text still on my phone. I saw the date and time on it. We were talking about getting me a boyfriend. Then you stopped texting me after I asked if you had one.]
Ura [n(_ _)n I'm SO SORRY! I remember that! … I was just having a rough day that day…]
- [WAIT. YOU HAVEN'T UPGRADED YOUR PHONE IN THREE YEARS?!]
Aka [This phone works as it should.]
Ura [What about your apps? Do they still work?]
Aka [I don't use apps. They are a distraction.]
Ura [(;;^u^) Practical as always, Hitomi.]
Aka [Have I not changed much?]
Ura [The way you talk definitely has changed. But you're still the same ol' Hitomi I know and love~]
Aka [I see]
Ura [('n') Did I say something upsetting?]
Aka [You can still tell when I get upset? I must really not have changed much.]
(10:42 AM)
Ura [There's nothing wrong with staying the same, Hitomi. It means you have strong character and firm beliefs. As long as you're not hurting yourself or other people by doing so – staying the same can only be a positive thing.]
Aka [What if staying the same keeps you from improving? It's nice to be called strong by you, teacher. But I still want to be stronger than I used to be.]
Ura [You're plenty stronger! Even after all the stuff you made yesterday, you still remembered my name! AND yesterday's date. You even remembered that we used to text each other! That's so much better than when we first met.]
Aka [I am not speaking of Quirks, teacher. 'Character' and 'beliefs'. I feel like I haven't improved in either.]
Ura [Hmm. What makes you say that? Measuring the improvement of character and beliefs is really difficult, you know?]
Aka [Measurement is made easier through comparison. Compared to you, I have not changed at all.]
Ura [Eh? I haven't changed much at all, Hitomi. At least, I don't think so.]
Aka [No, it is very clear that you have changed. Cuter, friendlier, happier, more confident, more sure of yourself, more beautiful, stronger, tougher, sharper, greater. It's as if the Ochaco I trained under was someone completely different than the one I supervised yesterday.]
Ura [Time and experience changes us all, you know?]
Aka [If that is all it takes to change us, then what was it that made you leap further than the rest of us? Ms. Yaoyorozu, my coworkers, my old classmates, myself… Compared to you, it feels as if the rest of us are trapped in the past.]
(10:59 AM)
Ura [('n') I'm sorry, Hitomi. This subject is really over my head. I'm not sure how to correctly analyze myself or others. I can't really say what makes me different from other people. All I can say is that I'm doing my best to live honestly and genuinely – and that everyone should too.]
Aka [Is it Deku?]
Ura [Is what Deku?]
Aka [Is he the reason why you've changed so much?]
Ura [(##/u\##) OH IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN?! (##/V\##) AAAAAAAAAAAH]
Aka [o_o Why are you yelling?]
Ura [(##^U^##) EHEH SORRY!]
- [(#'u') If I can be honest with that question: Yes. Yes, he's the reason why I've 'changed.']
Aka [What did he do to you?]
Ura [(####3##) PFF DON'T SAY IT THAT WAY, HITOMI]
Aka [What way?]
(11:05 AM)
Ura [(#'U';) Nothing, nothing. He didn't do anything *to* me… He only opened up for me. I fell in love with him, he let me, he started to love me back, and well, that's when I started to 'change' – I think. I don't know *how* I've changed, or anything like that. But I do know that after that stuff, things in my life started to look a lot brighter – and better – and AAAAAAAAAAH]
Aka [._. I'm sorry if this seems rude, Ochaco, but… how can you love a man who's already married?]
Ura [I can gush about all the things I love about him, but that won't really answer your question, will it?]
- [I guess a really plain way of putting it is: Do you stop liking a flavor of ice cream just because someone else likes it too?]
Aka [Teacher, you can't compare it to something like that. It's too simple. Love is more complicated, isn't it?]
(11:10 AM)
Ura [Sorry, I'm kind of awful with metaphors. I don't really know how to satisfy a question like that. I just know that I love him, despite him being married, because he's married… I just love him. And I can't see it the same way other people see it, because no one else seems to see him the way I do.]
Aka [Except his wife. She loved him first.]
Ura [Not… *fully* true, Hitomi. It's a bit more complicated than that.]
Aka [Then what about: he loved her first.]
Ura [That's not… *quite* true either. I mean, it is, but it isn't. Ahh, it's so complicated.]
(11:15 AM)
Aka [How can you feel safe in your relationship, knowing that he didn't choose you first? I listened to the interviews you were in. All of them. Unless there's more to it than what you've said in them: I'm really confused as to why you stayed by his side, as his friend, and especially as something more than that.]
Ura [No, there wasn't more to it than what I said. Well, not until later. Except… Er, wow, our story is a lot more complicated than I thought it was! I can understand why you're confused.]
Aka [It feels like you're avoiding my question, teacher…]
Ura [Sorry. It just feels like you're asking three questions at once. I'm not sure what my answer should be.]
Aka [Then forget my previous questions. I'll just ask one question this time. If it's okay with you. I realize I'm being rather rude and intrusive…]
Ura [I don't feel as if you're intruding. You're genuinely curious over something I've caused confusion over, because of how poorly I handled those interviews. If anything, I'm clearing up my mistakes by talking it out with you. So please, ask your question.]
Aka [How can you be happy beside Deku, knowing that you're not the only one on his mind?]
Ura [I think… Aside from being happy beside him *separate* from the idea that he has someone else on his mind – because that is the case most times: I'm not always thinking that he belongs to someone else. I just think about *my* relationship with him when I'm beside him. Aside from that…]
(11:21 AM)
Ura [I think there's two other reasons… The first is that I think Tsuyu is perfect for him. She's such an amazing and smart woman. Her common sense is more like 'superb sense', or 'rare sense'. It's such a comfort knowing that Izuku is with someone like her. She looks after him and pays attention to him in ways I can't even imagine. It's almost like she's always thinking about their future together, so that their present is always safe. Or something like that.]
(11:26 AM)
Ura [She understands his thoughts and feelings so naturally, you'd think they shared the same brain and heart! And the way the two of them spend time together is so sweet in how peaceful it is… It's like how an old couple live out their retirement together, except it looks sweeter because of how young they still are. And, well, I can keep gushing about how perfect I think she is for him. But an easy way to see how perfect they are together: is seeing the two of them fight villains together. Have you?]
Aka [Yes. It's like watching a fencer with their rapier. Or like a skating pair on the ice rink. It's as if they're not fighting the villains at all – but simply dancing between themselves.]
Ura [I KNOW! They're so awesome together! Needless to say, I'm a total fan of them.]
Aka [Your second reason?]
Ura [Oh right. Um. The first reason was to show that I don't really see Tsuyu as a threat, because I can only see her as a positive for Izuku. If she's on his mind: I totally get why! If anything, I feel really envious for what they have… But! For the second reason…]
(11:33 AM)
Ura [The second reason is that: I'm confident that Izuku loves me. Even if he loves Tsuyu, even if he loved her first, even if he married her, even if he chose her before me, even if he accepted her feelings before accepting mine… I know that none of those things affect what he feels for me now, how he cherishes me now. His feelings for me are genuine and true. And when he has Tsuyu on his mind, I know for a fact that I'm on his mind too.]
(11:39 AM)
Ura [Hold on, still typing.]
(11:46 AM)
Ura [The fact that I'm not the only one on his mind, and yet he does his absolute best to show that he loves me – even to the point of staying up super late at night and early into the morning just to talk with me… When he goes out of his way to take me out on dates and spoil me… When he makes my lunch and adds my favorite snacks… And remembers the little off-hand remarks I make every day… All those things, and *so* much more, just show me how much he loves me.]
-[I don't feel like a second wife, or a lover on the side. I just feel like his wife. And that he loves me. With the bonus that my best friend Tsuyu is always with us too, and that she cares for him as much as I do.]
-[OK, I'm done typing.]
Aka [Knowing that he chose her first doesn't hurt you at all?]
(11:53 AM)
Ura [Of course it hurts. If I think about it. But that's if I think about that idea separate from everything else. It's like a sad memory: it's only really sad if you don't remember what came before it and what comes after. Your memories aren't separate: they're all pieces that make a picture whole.]
-[AAAH! I just realized how insensitive that example was! I'm sorry!]
Aka [.-. ?]
Ura [You know, memories… Because you lose them. Right? You still forget them because of your Quirk?]
Aka [Oh. Yes. I still forget. I can't use my Quirk without losing a few.]
Ura [(#n#) Sorry for being so insensitive.]
Aka [I'm not hurt by it. It's a fact of my life, and I'm no longer ashamed of it.]
Ura [( ^u^) And here you were saying that you haven't changed much. You've changed *so* much!]
Aka [Again, not in comparison to you. You have changed beyond comparison to when I met you. My old teacher would not have admitted any of the things you previously mentioned.]
Ura [(##^u^#) No, I guess not.]
(11:57 AM)
Aka [My old teacher would have stayed jealous, and distanced herself. She would not have been fine with 'sharing' her affections with another lover. She would have jealously fought over him or given up on him entirely. 'If you can't win a competition – try harder, or join another event!' is what she taught me.]
Ura [(##^u^;;) Yeah…]
Aka [What happened?]
Ura [( ^u^;) In what way do you mean that question?]
(11:59 AM)
Aka [I'm not sure… I'm still very confused as to your decision to be a secondary wife… But as you explain it: you are not treated as a secondary. But I can't imagine how that can be unless his original wife is being treated as his secondary. It makes little sense to me. No human can have two masters. No person can share the same affections for two people.]
Ura [Well… Does a parent have to have a favorite child?]
Aka [You're not his child.]
Ura [I'm not his master. And he doesn't have the same affections for me as he does for Tsuyu.]
Aka [How can you be sure?]
Ura [Didn't you just say that those two things were impossible?]
Aka [Inferring that he cannot love the two of you equally. He has to favor one over the other.]
Ura [Why is that the only conclusion?]
(12:09 PM)
Aka [I am not sure.]
Ura [Is there something you want to talk about Hitomi?]
Aka [?]
Ura [The Hitomi I know wouldn't press so much with a question after already being given an answer. Unless something was wrong.]
Aka [Nothing is wrong. I apologize for complicating this exchange of texts.]
Ura [I'm coming over to visit, OK?]
Aka [You are extremely injured. Remain in bed.]
Ura [Well, I would… But a really nice person made me this really nifty automatic wheelchair for me. It really makes it easy for me to get out of bed, and it can even go up stairways.]
Aka [I did not create it for you so that you can inconvenience yourself. Please rest.]
Ura [Thirtieth floor, right? A6?]
Aka [Yes, that is where I am. And it is not where you should be going.]
Ura [Whoops, someone's already knocking on your door. Better answer it.]
Aka [? How?]
Ura [I must've not changed too much, because I remember doing this exact same thing before.]
Aka [I'm not letting you in.]
Ura [And look at that, you still keep a spare key attached to the bottom of your welcome mat! Just like old times.]
Aka [I beg of you, please don't!]
(12:25 PM)