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[comecatchthesehands]

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[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.

[swellter]

[ Ice crackles inside him and Kizu looks up at him while he stares at the message in silence. ]

We were broken.

[ The little snow leopard presses her nose against his leg in silent comfort; still for once. ]

That's not how family is supposed to be.

[comecatchthesehands]

Were? Does he look fixed by the power of love?

[swellter]

Touya isn't my only family.

[ For modern standards, the Todoroki's are a large family. ]

[comecatchthesehands]

I don't know them, or care about them.

[Which may belie that he does in fact care about Dabi.]

I'm asking you about Dabi.

[swellter]

[ The cold dismissal of those entrenched so deeply in his heart brings his thoughts back to the present, and he's reminded of who exactly he's speaking to and grows cold in turn. ]

I don't want to fix him. I want to get to know him.

[comecatchthesehands]

For what? Why?

[Just as much as it is Shoto's want, it is Shigaraki's to not see this dumb little bastard just piss off someone without a need to do it.]

[swellter]

Because he's my brother.

[ What other reason does he need? ]

[comecatchthesehands]

You already know about him. You just don't want to admit you've been given the NCP Info "because he's your brother".

[swellter]

Knowing about him isn't the same as knowing him.

[ As for the rest, it makes no sense to him, so he ignores it entirely. He's not a video game person. ]

What if Shigaraki was a nice guy for once? No? okay.

[comecatchthesehands]

[That he shares with his brother.]

You know. You're just looking for things you know aren't going to be there, that's what you're doing. That's what this conversation is about, that's what any conversation is about. Isn't it? Looking for that hint?

Ha! As if he gets that he's being mean!

[swellter]

What hint?

Probably not

[comecatchthesehands]

That he's still there, under the charred remains of whomever the monster is that hides him, hm?

[swellter]

I never knew him.

Endeavor kept us apart, so there's nothing to compare to.

[comecatchthesehands]

Isn't that nice of him. Father of the year.

[Alright, time to see where he can take this. He's had a bet with Dabi for a while.]

You've seen my father before, you know.

[swellter]

[ What?! ]

I have?

[ Throw him for a loop why don't you! ]

[comecatchthesehands]

[He's here for the lööps, bröther.]

Part of him. You saw him when I invaded your school, right in front of my face. My mother, my sister, my grandparents. Even the first two men who tried to beat me. Don't you think when I tell you that family doesn't cure all, I'm talking from experience?

i am dying here hahahahaha not!sorry!

[swellter]

[ How do you see a part of someone?

Wait-- When they invaded the school? He's talking about the U.S.J. incident. Was one of those villains his dad?

Wait a minute... A part of him? He starts connecting the dots and his eyes widen at the realization. ]

Kurogiri is your father?!

lmao it's all good! Poor Shoto's brain.

[comecatchthesehands]

[Christ, no. Even if there hadn't been an admission at home and an admission here, Shigaraki would've believed these two were brothers anyway. They're both as fucking dumb as each other.]

...

[Okay well technically he isn't wrong. Kurogiri did have a hand in raising him for quite a number of his years.]

No. He isn't.
Out of unrelated curiosity, when you breathe out, what comes after?

You don't want to know what other dots he's connected.... >_>

[swellter]

[ What... but it makes so much sense. Why else would he risk life and limb to save him all the time with his warp gate? Kurogiri was always the lynchpin in all their plans. The one they couldn't get around. ]

Then who is?

[ He's coming up blank trying to figure out else who else it could be. Maybe that's why he doesn't pay attention to his next question, answering without much thought. ]

Steam sometimes or frost.

Or do I

[comecatchthesehands]

The hand on my face.

[Except the hand that's on his face right now is his own. Jesus Christ please let both of these men get kicked hard enough in the balls they never procreate. Never mind he's going to destroy the world just to make sure this doesn't happen.]

That's what I thought.

... I mean, if you don't mind brain bleach, go ahead.

[swellter]

[ The hand on his face... He would stare if he wasn't blind and this wasn't audio. Still, why did he cover his face with his father's hand? ]

Why do you blind yourself with his hand?

Hit me with it!

[comecatchthesehands]

They were gifts. Reminders that no one could treat me like he did, or like your "Father" did. like I said, family doesn't make you entitled to anything.

[swellter]

[ He never cared how he was treated but how his mother was mistreated. Maybe that’s why Shigaraki’s statement has little chance of landing with him, who had spent the last year navigating the hurt and pain that clung to his family like a ghost of old to better understand them. Be with them. And although, he hadn’t forgiven Enji Todoroki, he also didn’t hate him, not anymore. ]

I know that already.

[ Born the golden child of the Todoroki estate, all he had to show for it was a lifetime of isolation, kept separate from the only thing he ever wanted - his family. ]

[comecatchthesehands]

[Time to find out how much of a 'do the opposite' person Shoto is, too.]

Good. Then take the L and leave him alone before you gain aggro that your friends might have to pick up the DPS check for. Do you understand me?