In a Superhuman Society

by Stonecreek

A world with quirks means its people are wind up rather quirky. Whether heroes, villains, or somewhere in-between, every BnHA character deserves to have their story told. These are but tiny 100-word snippets of their lives, told one a day, every day, in 2023. Newest chapter: Mina Ashido is a vivacious hero in training. She's equally enthusiastic about her classmates' love lives.

208. Gori

A.N. — Looking back at the previous chapter, I overdid it on the hyphenated words in both the drabble and the author's note. So today I will try to not use a single one (oops, I failed). Tomorrow starts a nearly two week stretch of alternating bigger name/bit player chapters. Today, then, is another relative nobody. It also marks the final named police force member.

208. Gori

Nobody was willing to talk back to a gorilla.

Gori was actually fair and level-headed, a valuable asset for a member of the force. But the implicit threat of bulging muscles under dress clothes could not be ignored, especially by prisoners. Even the unspoken insinuation of being roughed up by the planet's most physically imposing primate loosened tongues quite effectively.

That Gori was equally efficient at getting confessions out of repentant detainees like Gentle Criminal and recalcitrant reprobates like Kyudai Garaki spoke to his deftness at splashing his weight around only when necessary. Gori truly was the department's silverback.