[ ah. hm. not much clarification there, but that's her sign to let the subject drop and move on, so she just nods. ]
Yep! Isn't that normal for boarding schools? We live at school, but we still have do our own cooking if we want anything outside of normal cafeteria hours, or after curfew.
No, no, that's different! Sure, heroes work with the police and firefighters sometimes, but our work is supposed to be, like, fighting villains and helping with search and rescue. Haven't you ever heard of heroes before?
Not everyone is bad. There are a lot of people who are good, you know? Not just heroes, but regular people, too.
[ she doesn't like the implication that people as a whole are just... bad. it doesn't sit well. ]
Um... Techniques for fighting villains, strategies to get in and out of situations safely, how to safely rescue bystanders, ways to work together with other heroes... [ she shrugs. ] Normal hero stuff, I guess.
[ clem generally believes that people as a whole are bad. but what she really means, and can't quite articulate, is that bad people are a constant in every world. good people might not be.
well. in the end those might just be the same idea, anyway. ]
I don't really get what 'normal hero stuff' means. So what do villains do, then?
Break laws, mostly. Steal stuff, hurt people… kill them, sometimes. Sometimes their quirks are geared toward it, like it’s something destructive, or they can teleport, things like that.
[ it's. embarrassing. but she won't lie about it. ]
They have a construction business, but work's been dwindling for years, so it's hard for them to make ends meet. I wanted to help them, but my dad told me to follow my dreams instead, so... I decided to become a hero, so I could make enough money to let them live an easier life.
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Sure. Then... If you get any, let me know.
Not like we have to worry that much about scarcity here.
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Yeah, we don't even have to go and buy our own groceries or anything. It's nice, isn't it?
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[ because she's used to having to forage and hunt. ]
But grocery shopping kind of sounds nice, too. [ for the nostalgia of it, if nothing else. ]
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[ it's just a reminder of how much she needs the money from a good job, really. ]
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[ she was too young to really think about money and then it kind of stopped mattering. ]
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...What happened to them? If you don't mind talking about it, I mean - you don't have to.
[ she can guess, but. ochako also doesn't want to force her own assumptions on anyone. ]
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[ is what she's used to saying, so she doesn't even really think about how ochako doesn't have the context to make that... mean anything.
anyway, she feels bad about dominating conversation so ]
You have to do your own shopping? [ hm. maybe that's still a rude thing to ask. oh well. ]
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Yep! Isn't that normal for boarding schools? We live at school, but we still have do our own cooking if we want anything outside of normal cafeteria hours, or after curfew.
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I've only been to one boarding school, and it's... Not exactly running anymore. Cool building, though.
[ but she gives Ochako a once-over... ]
Yours probably isn't a school for "troubled youth," right?
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[ uh ]
It's just a regular hero school. We weren't even staying on school grounds until recently.
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[ so hero schools are? normal? huh??? ]
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[ what isn't normal about this ]
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Like... Learning to be a firefighter or something?
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No, no, that's different! Sure, heroes work with the police and firefighters sometimes, but our work is supposed to be, like, fighting villains and helping with search and rescue. Haven't you ever heard of heroes before?
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... The villains part makes sense, though. [ man is the real monster etc etc ]
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[ what a funny world clem lives in! ]
We have comic books too, but heroes are pretty real outside of them. Sometimes my class is even taught by the number one hero in Japan!
...Well, the former number one, I guess. He had to retire this year.
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[ she's pretty sure. anyway. ]
... Huh. So what do you learn in hero school?
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[ she doesn't like the implication that people as a whole are just... bad. it doesn't sit well. ]
Um... Techniques for fighting villains, strategies to get in and out of situations safely, how to safely rescue bystanders, ways to work together with other heroes... [ she shrugs. ] Normal hero stuff, I guess.
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well. in the end those might just be the same idea, anyway. ]
I don't really get what 'normal hero stuff' means. So what do villains do, then?
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Well that's... Pretty cool, I guess. Wanting to go out and do justice or whatever.
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Yeah, I guess so. It didn’t start out that way for me, but I’ll be glad to help people, if I can.
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[ it's. embarrassing. but she won't lie about it. ]
They have a construction business, but work's been dwindling for years, so it's hard for them to make ends meet. I wanted to help them, but my dad told me to follow my dreams instead, so... I decided to become a hero, so I could make enough money to let them live an easier life.
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