Deer 2 // IC Contact

[comecatchthesehands]

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[comecatchthesehands]

[Nah it was the jumbotron that he got the replay of. That everyone had. No more family secrets for the skeevy lot of them.]

What have I got to hide? Why would I hide? From who?

[swellter]

[ He’s going to ignore those rhetorical questions not because they’re rhetorical but because they’re not conducive to the reason why he contacted him, so he gets right to the point, cutting off his momentum. ]

It made it easy to find you.

[ Which is good because — ]

I want to talk to you.

Text > Voice

[comecatchthesehands]

Good.

[If someone finds him, he doesn't really mind. For the most part he can figure out where people are with their quirks. Anyone else he's not sure, but he's confident in protecting himself.

The reason is a little bit redundant, they're talking. But he supposes it's polite conversation. He switches to voice, if they're going to talk, he'll talk.]

Alright, you have my ear. You caught me bored so make it good.

Private | Voice

[swellter]

[ He has Kizu lock the conversation and gets right to the point. ]

You know about Touya.

[comecatchthesehands]

[Private hm? How fun. He likes fun nowadays.]

I know all about Dabi. Everyone does. Your dirty little family secrets are smeared all over. What about him?

[swellter]

[ Everyone does... Then it clicks. ]

You're from after the battle.

[ After Dabi's video was released. ]

[comecatchthesehands]

I thought we were here to talk about your father's abandoned sidequest. Ask your question, I'm not a god damn guidebook. Unless all you wanted to know is if I knew Dabi.

[Which he's betting isn't the conversation here. He's willing to talk about whatever it is being as bored as he has been lately, but, he'll keep it on a track he enjoys instead.]

[swellter]

[ Fine. He'll get to the point. ]

Are you friends?

[comecatchthesehands]

[Oop. Shouto said the F word and asked the question the wrong way, but he gets an answer none the less.]

Friends? With a freak who burns himself because of his Daddy issues? A crispy moron who's gonna get himself killed because he can't get over his tragic backstory? Puh-lease. I don't need friends. He doesn't need friends.

[swellter]

[ A freak who burns himself...

Was this really someone Touya trusted?!

The answer churns the lava pools into a roiling mass of heat that spills over leaving licking through ihs hair. ]

Then what are you to him.

[comecatchthesehands]

What am I to him?

[There's a scoff, an amused sound.]

Ask him.

If you want to ask me, then ask me. If you want to ask shit about his feelings, ask him. He'll tell you the same things about me.

[In other words, Dabi is one of his only true friends.]

What is it that you're worried about? That I'm going to hurt your poor li'l nii-san? Is that how weak and senseless you think he is? That he would let himself be mistreated yet again by anyone?

[Shigaraki, frankly, is insulted by the idea of that being a possibility.]

[swellter]

[ Let him rephrase that: ]

What is he to you?

[ He'll be asking Touya the same question of Shigaraki real soon. ]

[comecatchthesehands]

[Now Shoto is understanding how to ask a question to him and Shigaraki 'hmm's softly.]

He is my comrade and a pain in my ass.

[However.]

Someone I trust won't DC just because the DPS check is hard and our healers are down. Which is good enough for me.

[Trust isn't an easy word, either.]

Then again, who knows. He's his own man. Were you looking to hope that we were best friends, holding hands and skipping? Hm?

[swellter]

[ A comrade.. Someone I trust.

The rest means little to him, so he ignores it. ]

I wanted to know if you were using him.

I have my answer.

[ Now it was time to check with Touya to get the full picture. ]

[comecatchthesehands]

You should've just asked that. I could've summarized all that shit into 'yes'. Just like he's using us. Now are we good or do you want to know about anything else? Hm? Done practicing your third degree?

[There'll never not be teasing when Shigaraki is involved.]

[swellter]

How is he using you?

[comecatchthesehands]

[Shigaraki chuckles a soft laugh, the smile left on his face heard through his voice.]

How do you think your brother and I met? Villain convention? Convenience, Thermostat. Convenience.

[swellter]

[ He zeroes in on that first line and ignores the rest. ]

How did you meet?

[comecatchthesehands]

Someone brought him to my home. The place your kind of people destroyed. My turn.

What's any of this your business?

[swellter]

I want to get to know him.

me dying inside saying these things to our son

[comecatchthesehands]

[Yeah there's another chuckle, this is funny.]

Does he want to get to know you? That's the question isn't it?

how could you be so mean to him ;_; he just wants to get to know his brother ;_;

[swellter]

[ He hesitates. ]

I don't know.

[comecatchthesehands]

Exactly.

[Shigaraki has no clue if this is true, their talks about Shoto are pretty tame, actually. Mostly figuring out if he's the weakest link of them all.]

What have you done for him except for remind him of all the things he hates the most? Since you and I are bonding tell me what you regret the most out of anything you've ever done.

[swellter]

That's not how family works.

[comecatchthesehands]

Oh? How does family work? Your father tortures you and your mother looks the other way until she can't anymore and can't do a thing about it when she doesn't?

[Is he talking about Shoto's family, or his? Who knows.]

Enlighten me on how "family" works that would drive the eldest son to do what he does.