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[h3][color=ffff99]Kasuke Mina[/color][/h3][/center]


Jett was talking to her in a friendlier tone now, and offering her get her some ice for her eye, as well as offering her some good advice. She did need to stop beating herself up. This setback would only make her stronger. These mistakes were just more lessons. She hadn't fallen down the ladder to become the best. She'd climbed it. Dulga arrived at that moment, robbing her of the experience of having Jett tenderly apply ice to her face. Her initial reaction was disappointment, but then she thought about it and was actually glad of being spared of that embarrassing situation. There was no way she could have avoided blushing like a radish.

[color=ffff99]"Hello, Tatara-san. I'm fine, really. How're you? Is your foot okay?"[/color] Mina asked in a friendly, pleasant and respectable yet impassive tone, more appropriate for asking your friend about the weather than asking someone who gave you a black eye about the condition of the hole you lasered into their foot.

Jett hen asked Mina if Adrianne asked anything weird, and she shook her head, despite the blush forming on her cheeks. It seemed that no matter which route she went down with Jett, she couldn't remain cool and impassive. [color=ffff99]"She didn't actually say much to me at all. Your grandfather was there, too, though, and he did. He was treating me like family. I'm assuming it's because he was so close with my mother."[/color]


[@Norschtalen][@Aerandir]


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[h3][color=ffdd99]Maeda Hitomi[/color][/h3][/center]


Hitomi gestured behind her, to her own bed. [color=ffdd99]"Why are there two beds if this was a one person room? I'm Tomoe's friend and roommate. You really think those posters are hers? Or that training equipment? And I didn't choose these horns or ears. They're my quirk, just as you're Tomoe's quirk. I didn't choose my chest size either. That's just genetics, I guess. Honestly, I wish they were smaller..."[/color]

Just then, Hitomi's phone buzzed, and she pulled it from her pocket and opened it. It was a flip phone with a little fluffy sheep charm dangling from it. She read the text, texted back [b]'We'll be there in a few minutes'[/b], then closed the phone.

[color=ffdd99]"It's time. Tomoe and I promised we'd help Asahi-San. I'm not sure how your quirk works. Whether I should wake her, or you wake her, or if that's even a good idea. Another option is that you come with me."[/color]

[@liferusher][@Lucius Cypher]

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[h3][color=844E7A]Mako Akane[/color][/h3][/center]


[color=844E7A]"You didn't miss much at all, miss Akasha!"[/color] Mako replied to Mamoru's question. [color=844E7A]"Come and sit down!"[/color]

Mako then turned to watch the fight. They were currently circling around each other and sizing each other up. Then the fight started, though at this point, it was still the preliminary sizing up of each other. Amane charged, Ruby played defensively. Amane charged again, and feinted, but Ruby's efficiency was stunning. She only moved when she needed to, and was so calm and observant that Mako wondered if those cat ears were just for show, or if she actually had some feline physiology in her too in addition to her actual quirk.

There was a lot of trash talking in this fight. Mako could appreciate that. Trash talking was an important part of fighting, in Mako's opinion. It's what separates Heroes and Villains from vigilantes and brutes; personality. Mako believed that Heroes should wisecrack and drop one-liners and catchphrases, and Villains should taunt and insult and call out weaknesses and hypocrisy.

As the fight went on, it became clear that Ruby's reflexes were no match for Amane's skill, experience and training. It was only natural. She was a promising General Studies student, but was starting from square one when it came to being taught by the academy how to fight. Then more trash talking. Mako saw that though Amane was rough with words, he meant well with them. When he said 'stay down if you know what's good for you' it came from a place of concern, and when he said 'If that's all you've got, quit', he was urging his opponent to push themselves. Mako was starting to think that he wasn't such a hopeless case after all.


[@pkken][@Melpaws][@Lucius Cypher]