USER: #DC143C - QUESTION FOR EVERYONE

[lonered]

[ USER: #DC143C ]

Hey. So...

...

Question for anyone. Or for everyone I guess.

How sure are you that you're still alive? Back where you're from I mean.

Like on a scale from 1 to 10. Where 1 is "I definitely died" and 10 is "I'm definitely still alive" and everything in between.

Thanks in advance. I know it's a weird question. I just... I gotta know.



[He's asked some folks, but the results so far are mixed. And Keith needs to figure out one way or another if this is just some weird unexpected afterlife, and he's at a solid 2.5 on his own scale so he's wondering.]

Comments

[explodosafe]

Your universe... Hehe, that still sounds so strange to me!

Yep, I'm from the place with all the Quirks, if that's what you mean! And it'd be nice if I really had an ability like that! ☆=(ゝω･)

All I can do is turn hard. Like, really hard, the one time somebody tried to shoot me the bullet bouncedc right off my head. Not the other thing! (Trust me, I've heard all the jokes)

[lonered]

Yeah, I think it sounds strange to most people. It makes me feel weird to say I'm almost used to it.

That's what I meant, yeah.

Huh. You can actually be bulletproof? That's impressive. But not all the time? Only when you choose to be?

[explodosafe]

Aw, thanks! Yeah, that's it, more or less. I can control it consciously, but it'll also work on instinct if thinking about it would take too much time - sort of like a kneejerk reaction. It's a really simple quirk, but it tends to get most jobs done. It also increases my strength a bit, since I don't have to worry about the usual drawbacks like hurting my hands when I hit something with them.

Do you have something like that too?

[lonered]

That really is interesting. Sounds like it would come in handy.

And me? Nah. Not at all. I'm just a regular old huma--

Well, that's not true either. But I don't have any special powers, at least.

[It would seem the only thing he inherited from his maternal alien side is his attitude problems so.]

[explodosafe]

I see. So that means you're more or less quirkless? That makes you helping this Voltron all the more impressive! You must be crazy strong and spirited to do something like that! I honestly don't know if I'd have the guts if I were in your place!

I'm just an ordinary human too, by the way. It's just the way humanity has evolved for us. Go some decades ago and there weren't any quirks either.

[Tell him about attitude problems after you met his best friend or the upperclassman he works with during his internship. Kirishima basically lives and breathes dealing with 'tricky' cases.]

[lonered]

I just kind of got swept up into it. And it wouldn't have been right not to help if I could.

I suppose what we see as normal or ordinary depends on where we're coming from.

[explodosafe]

/nodnod

Still, you could have turned or run away. It takes especially guts when you're suddenly faced with something that's bigger than you and you don't have any powers to do anything against it. I salute you and that manly spirit of yours! ^_^b

Haha, for sure! I gave somebody half a heart attack when I climbed out of that well we all seem to have arrived at, just because I had my quirk activated and using it look like a mutant one... |D;; Its one thing worrying that you might end up scaring somebody with your looks and ending up actually doing it, that's for sure!

Wait, when you said you're going to space and if you don't have any quirks then are you doing it all with nothing but technology??

[lonered]

Your quirk changes how you look? Physically? That's really interesting.

Yeah. Human technology has gotten people as far as the edge of Earth's solar system. My friends and I got swept up in some alien conflict though, and alien tech is so far beyond what humans have managed it's crazy.

[explodosafe]

Yeah, but only a bit. I can turn it on and off, unlike the mutant types.

Ahh, that sounds amazing! I wish I could see it! Back home most tech is quirk-support oriented nowadays, I bet what you work with is far better than ours!

[lonered]

Huh. All of this kind of goes over my head I think.

The tech the Blade uses and that the Alteans use is really amazing. They can travel distances that take us months in seconds. And farther than that through wormholes in no time at all. But even earth technology has made some pretty impressive leaps of its own.

[explodosafe]

It's not really that complicated, but that might be because I've grown up with it. The short version is that there are three main types of quirks and that you can tell them apart by whether they affect yourself or others and if they are on all the time or if they can be switched off. Mine is like-

like the bristly tail of a cat! You know cats, right? When they get scared or mad their tails get all floofy and bristle up, my quirk's like that! I can bristle up for self-defense or to fight, but I don't have to! Does that make more sense?

And that sounds awesome! Did you travel through a wormhole before?

[lonered]

That... is actually really helpful analogy. Thank you.

Yeah, pretty often. Still don't really understand the physics of it, but they're incredible. And a little disorienting the first time or two.

[explodosafe]

I'm glad it is!

And that sounds so exciting! The only comparable thing I ever did was to go through a black hole and that wasn't as much traveling than falling through it because the owner of the warp gate skill was a pretty big ass. I and my friend also didn't end up all that far away, we were even still in the same building.