[Not just shinobi. People from all over that come here from other worlds. The first few weeks Ochao came to Avalon, there was a raid on a campsite and...so many people were just killing the raiders left and right. Ochako was among the very few who never struck to kill, just to disarm and knock unconscious. Hell, she tried very hard to keep other people from killing, if she could! It just...didn't sit right with her at all. They were just looters, thieves, pillagers and raiders. No one really died unless they engaged or fought back, or were seen as a 'threat'. It didn't...f-feel right to kill them. Whatever. It's not like Ochako's not used to being looked down on for who she is.]
You're right. I'm only in my first year at my Hero Academy and already...so much has happened that my class has been involved with. I-I... [No. She's not exactly ready to admit she held a dying man in her arms. Or the many other things like the USJ, the training camp fiasco, Kamino...] It's been a lot, and I know that's just how it is being a Hero. Maybe I wasn't really prepared for it then, sort of, I...I-I don't really know. But I can't hesitate. I can't let difficult things stop me, and I won't. I'm not the only one who could suffer for it, after all.
[Heroes save people. If for whatever reason, she flinches, someone could die. Someone who can't protect themselves like she or Homura could. An innocent person, who just wants to live their lives happily. If Ochako can't face that what she does is hard, and that she will have to risk her life and limb, literally, then she has no business pursuing this sort of future.]
...I know sometimes there won't be an option. I'm learning that, and deep in my heart I know I may have to, someday, but...I just can't right now. If I can avoid it, I will. It's how I was taught, and I just don't think I can change how I think. Maybe at some point, when I'm older, but--...eh?
[Ochako pauses, looking at the trapdoor by their feet that people can use to come up and ring the bell of the belfry tower. It's glowing, softly at first, but then brighter, slowly until the trapdoor isn't so much a trapdoor anymore, but a sort of opening of bright light. Ochako blinks, then her eyes sort of widen a little, as she looks around and the, well...everything around her and Homura starts to get hazy, blurred...like it were starting to fade.
Seems it's time to go now. The trial was completed, after all...though whether or not they passed will be left to time.]
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Date: 2021-07-16 01:29 am (UTC)[Not just shinobi. People from all over that come here from other worlds. The first few weeks Ochao came to Avalon, there was a raid on a campsite and...so many people were just killing the raiders left and right. Ochako was among the very few who never struck to kill, just to disarm and knock unconscious. Hell, she tried very hard to keep other people from killing, if she could! It just...didn't sit right with her at all. They were just looters, thieves, pillagers and raiders. No one really died unless they engaged or fought back, or were seen as a 'threat'. It didn't...f-feel right to kill them. Whatever. It's not like Ochako's not used to being looked down on for who she is.]
You're right. I'm only in my first year at my Hero Academy and already...so much has happened that my class has been involved with. I-I... [No. She's not exactly ready to admit she held a dying man in her arms. Or the many other things like the USJ, the training camp fiasco, Kamino...] It's been a lot, and I know that's just how it is being a Hero. Maybe I wasn't really prepared for it then, sort of, I...I-I don't really know. But I can't hesitate. I can't let difficult things stop me, and I won't. I'm not the only one who could suffer for it, after all.
[Heroes save people. If for whatever reason, she flinches, someone could die. Someone who can't protect themselves like she or Homura could. An innocent person, who just wants to live their lives happily. If Ochako can't face that what she does is hard, and that she will have to risk her life and limb, literally, then she has no business pursuing this sort of future.]
...I know sometimes there won't be an option. I'm learning that, and deep in my heart I know I may have to, someday, but...I just can't right now. If I can avoid it, I will. It's how I was taught, and I just don't think I can change how I think. Maybe at some point, when I'm older, but--...eh?
[Ochako pauses, looking at the trapdoor by their feet that people can use to come up and ring the bell of the belfry tower. It's glowing, softly at first, but then brighter, slowly until the trapdoor isn't so much a trapdoor anymore, but a sort of opening of bright light. Ochako blinks, then her eyes sort of widen a little, as she looks around and the, well...everything around her and Homura starts to get hazy, blurred...like it were starting to fade.
Seems it's time to go now. The trial was completed, after all...though whether or not they passed will be left to time.]