Deer 2 // IC Contact

[comecatchthesehands]

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[swellter]

It should still be open then.

[ Which means, yes, he will be out there searching for it; you can bet on that.

... Shouto doesn't comment on Bakugou and Uraraka's departure. He woke up from a coma with them gone, and he's having that discussion with Midoriya, who is mildly better at talking about it this time around. He's just glad he's speaking with him at this point. ]

We wouldn't go into hiding.

[ And Shouto wouldn't disappear without letting Touya know. ]

I'm accounting for everyone. I was in a cocoon for the last month.

[ And a five year old the month before that, not that he'll bring that up. ]

[comecatchthesehands]

How should I know? I'm vacationing.

[They weren't just Shouto and Midoriya's friends. Shigaraki felt that familiar sting he's getting used to all over again.]

You wouldn't go into hiding? Nice to know you're an easy find. If I ever get too cold, or too hot, I'll come over.

[Which begs the question.]

So you were checking up. We're all in the party finder still?

[swellter]

No, you won’t.

[ Putting his foot down here, he’s got people to protect, fish and eggs, and despite the fact that he may be cooperative, he also doesn’t trust you. ]

If you need to contact me with the Omni.

[comecatchthesehands]

Aren't we friends? Wouldn't friends message out of the blue to talk?

[On second thought, teasing a Todoroki is fun. He'll take that up.]

Contact you and you'll come right over?

[swellter]

We haven’t had enough association to be friends.

[ He has time standards for friendships, don’t you know. ]

Contact me and I will evaluate your request. I’m still a hunter with duties.

[comecatchthesehands]

Oh? Does that mean you'd rather be my enemy? We've had those associations.

[He should have standards, his brother has terrible taste in people he associates with.]

A hunter. What do hunters do?

[swellter]

That means we're not friends.

[ Whatever he wants to be, Shigaraki will have to earn that title. Good or bad. ]

We protect people from beasts and beasts from people.

[comecatchthesehands]

Sometimes, you're smarter than you look. Alright, I'm interested. How do we start being friends?

[He's not intere-- well. It's morbid curiosity at its best where Shigaraki is concerned.]

So you don't kill them? You ... what? Hunt them and then...?

[swellter]

[ More like, he's got no emotional attachment to him and therefore not easily swayed by him. You are a figurehead to him. Nothing but a reputation and a face, which means Shouto has no reason to be anything but civil. ]

We need to spend more time together.

[ Please like SHouto knows the nuisances of Shigaraki's train of thoughts. ]

It's a capture-and-release system. We capture them, take them to someone who can remove the corruption, and release them. If they're a person, we return them to their friends and loved ones.

[comecatchthesehands]

[Imagine a hero not seeing someone as a person, how quaint and in line. All the same, still he finds this all interesting in that aforementioned method of curiosity.]

Then we'll spend time hunting, but I don't think "Hunters" is a good term for you if you're not going to go actually hunting. Why not put them out of their misery?

[swellter]

[ You are a stranger and Shouto is distant and blunt with strangers. Unless, he's injured or in need of help, there's no reason for him to treat him in any other way. He's not a bleeding heart like Midoriya, not unless it's someone he already cares about. ]

I'm part of the hunters who don't believe in hurting someone who can't control their actions. It's harder to capture them but it's the right thing to do.

[comecatchthesehands]

[Still sounds fun.]

What do you mean can't control their actions? Aren't our actions directly tied in to beasthood? Capturing it's easy, killing it is merciful.

[swellter]

It corrupts the mind too.

[ Their actions may be directly tied to beasthood but that state is itself a corruption of the mind. ]

You can't hold them accountable for that they do in that state.

[comecatchthesehands]

No, I mean before that. How many times have you been a mindless creature? My number ranges in the zero category. Karma, right? That's what this mindless circle is about?

[swellter]

[ His eyes narrow on the message. ]

What do you mean?

[comecatchthesehands]

Every step we take, we're one step closer to being beasts if we don't make the right decisions. Right? Or wrong?

[swellter]

How you feel isn't something you can control.

[ It wasn't just blood that was the issue, many cases of corruption stemmed from someone's feelings deteriorating making them more susceptible to corruption. ]

[comecatchthesehands]

It is, but I'm not going to argue it with you. I know you won't understand.

Take me with you the next time you go hunting, we'll start spending time together.

[Because this amuses him greatly.]

No killing, scout's honour.

[swellter]

[ He, who barely emotes, understands better than most how difficult it is to control what you feel. You might be able to mask it, but that didn't stop the feelings. ]

You can't hurt them unnecessarily, either.

[ Hurting them was cruel too. ]

[comecatchthesehands]

[Shouto is a good boy.]

What does unnecessarily look like? I can't pin them in place safely? What?

[swellter]

It means if they don't attack you, you can't attack them. If they don't make you bleed, you can't make them bleed.