Intro Overflow: May

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Intro Log: May, Overflow

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Then he sounds like a better man than most.

[ And would have to be, if he'd endured so long against all odds. She isn't certain what it stirs more — her admiration, or the sense of loss that mingles with her envy when she thinks back to her own mentor. The way she had felt alone, the way he had resisted every attempt to urge him back to the Resistance.

Her lips purse, contemplative. ]

I don't know how someone would even decide who to hand that responsibility to, though.

[ Maybe it's her own self-projection, the unwillingness to see herself as toting any torch that Luke had left behind, but she doesn't comment on it further. ]

[defendure]

I...don't know how he decided, either. He said it was because a necessary part of being a hero was...moving before you could think about it, helping someone else who no one else was bothering to help...

[ But even so, Izuku doesn't believe that's so rare a trait as All Might made it out to be. ]

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Isn't that just part of being a good person? Helping people who can't help themselves?

[ Rey would prefer to believe so, at the least. Maybe it undermines her own opinions on herself, admiring others for their compassion — but never thinking herself the hero of any tale. Or maybe it's just her experience with Jakku, and the rarity of finding morals there, let alone a selfless scavenger.

Idly, her fingers pick at the threads on her blanket. ]

I hope, for your world's sake, he chose the right person.

[ Because she can't imagine Luke Skywalker refusing to return, handing the mantle elsewhere, when there is no one of that caliber. No one but Ben, and even then —

Turning him back will be its own grueling process. ]

[defendure]

I...hope he did, too.

[ It's definitely a lot to live up to and Izuku looks suddenly a little tired, before smiling. ]

...But it's not like his successor is the only person fighting for the future.

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[ Years without much socialization doesn't make her completely oblivious to the sobering change in his expression. It's a fleeting second, but it's there. Rey registers it, debating whether to comment on it at all, before she decides against it. ]

You're right. [ Her smile is fainter, more of a relaxed, tight-lipped expression than a grin. ] With that many people fighting for your world, it sounds like it's in good hands. It's what I would want for my own galaxy.

[ What she has been working toward, at any rate, but she doesn't know him well enough to share it. Mentioning it aloud to anyone but herself, too, seems to put a heavier weight on it. She settles back into the pile of blankets she's made, shifting on her side as she asks, as an afterthought: ]

What's your name?

[defendure]

Izuku - Izuku Midoriya. What's yours?

[ He'd forgotten it as well, really, as he spreads his single blanket and settles onto the bed. ]

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Rey.

[ Just Rey, she doesn't say. There are too many she's met here with family names to take, titles to boast over, but she swats away the stinging reminder it wants to become. ]

I'll remember you. [ It isn't a grand sentiment, beyond: ] It's important to have allies here.

[ And from all that he has said, he seems a worthwhile one. Trustworthy. Honest. A hero. It's the type of person Rey can place some of her hope in, even so soon. ]

[defendure]

[ Izuku doesn't ask for more of a name, because honestly - it's fine. And not really his business... ]

I'll remember you, too! I really only know, uh, Kacchan here...and he's, er...

[ ... ]

...Well, Kacchan.

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I have someone here from — [ 'Home' feels wrong when she's never had one, when she has always felt overlooked and displaced. She awkwardly finishes with, ] — my galaxy, too. But it's complicated. We don't exactly see the world the same.

[ Yet. Rey's hope hasn't faded in spite of it. ]

Is he that bad? Your ... [ Is friend even the right word? Given how Izuku speaks of it, she has to wonder if this Kacchan is as complicated as Ben. ] Friend?

[defendure]

Oh no! No, no, no...he's not bad! I mean, some people think...well, he's very, er, opinionated and loud - but he's not a bad person at all. He doesn't, um, exactly like me and we don't always get along...

[ An understatement. ]

...but I've always admired him. He's very determined and driven, and he's going to be an absolutely amazing hero someday.

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You should keep him close. He's part of your home, and you'll need each other.

[ Part of Izuku. It's sentimental, but Rey has always clung to what little she has had in her lifetime. ]

Even if some people think he's obnoxious, from the sound of it.

[ She isn't going to pull punches on that, even if it's lightened by the sound of her amusement. ]

[defendure]

I plan to! I mean...we've been together since we were kids. No matter what, he's...

[ A friend? Well, he wants to be again, someday. ]

...someone I can rely on to have my back.

[ However grumpily. ]