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[mightdoriya]

[It could have all been a dream, given the way Izuku wakes up in a bed that isn't his own. It could also very well be the hospital- a fact that wouldn't have been surprising- but the stark lack of a sterile atmosphere leads him to believe otherwise even as he sits up with a start. His heart is hammering in his chest and between his ears with such ferocity that believing this is anything but reality would be difficult...

He isn't afforded much time to collect himself, because someone has noticed he's awake and immediately lept up onto his chest to greet him, his fluffy tail wagging excitedly.

Okay, maybe this is a dream after all.

Everything happens pretty quickly after that. Your usual fair of arrival: Izuku's "mom" comes in the room upon hearing his Eevee chirp at him, ushering him up-and-at'em even as he's stammering questions and trying (and failing) to get her to give him a straight answer. She is in fact not even remotely his mother but she doesn't seem to know that or care, and before he's able to get a word in edgewise he's out the door with a bag over his shoulders. Eevee had taken advantage of the chaos to climb up Izuku's back, sitting pretty on his shoulder as if he belongs there. So what does Izuku do? Well...

He starts to walk, hoping he'll be able to come into a town and maybe someplace more familiar than the route ahead of him. ...only for a Pineco to drop from a tree and attack both him and his Eevee pretty much immediately. It's a pretty sudden and surprising introduction to Pokemon battling before he's even finished reading up on it, leaving him to find a tree to sit down under for a while before anything else can happen. He has the PokeGear, so let's just try to contact someone. Anyone.]

Hello? I don't know if anyone can hear me on this, but it's worth a try...

[He pauses as Eevee pushes his head into the screen's view, hello he's here too.]

My name is Midoriya Izuku. I'm not sure what's happened, but I'm really not where I'm supposed to be right now. My only guess is this all is due to the effects of a Quirk, but I don't remember anything that could have lead to that.

[Unless Shigaraki had some tricks up his sleeve he really wasn't prepared for. Doesn't explain how his injuries have ceased to exist, either.]

I've been reading the guidebook, but it's really just giving me more questions than answers. Not only that, the pet the lady had in her house where I woke up followed me outside and I can't get it to go back home to her. She won't answer the door now so I'm not really sure what to do about that.

Comments

[mightdoriya]

I don't mind at all. You can respond again whenever you're able to. Do what you need to do, I'm not going anywhere for a while anyway.

As for Quirks...they are superhuman abilities that everyone is born with. They tend to manifest around the age of four in children and they're usually a combination of whatever Quirks your parents had, or one or the other if one of them happens to manifest more strongly. It's closely tied to genetics from what we understand about it right now.

They don't seem to be able to work at all here, though...I haven't been able to use mine.

Considerably later in the day

[vrdantwind]

They sound pretty fascinating. My understanding of genetics is somewhat limited; as I understand it, modern levels of knowledge about it are vastly more advanced than anything we had in my own world. We didn't even have electricity yet where I'm from, so some of the advancements science has made in this world compared to at home are still unfamiliar to me. And I make a habit of learning everything I can! It's just that there's so much to catch up on...

That said, it seems like a lot of special powers and the like from other worlds aren't relevant here. In fact, species that aren't even human tend to be given human forms here, rather than staying as they are. I've talked to a guy who was something called a robot back home - which is apparently a fully mechanical race, as opposed to being a biological lifeform. I don't know quite how it works...but he's definitely human here.

[mightdoriya]

Oh wow...that's crazy for me to think about. I guess it just goes to show how different a lot of us are, coming not just from different worlds, but completely different sorts of time periods too...

I can't help but wonder how that sort of change can happen. I know Pokemon can be very powerful, both from what I've seen them do and have read about, but being able to change someone's actual physiology and biology is no small feat. And that's not just for one person, but for everyone.

Maybe there's no point in wondering about it, but it's going to be on my mind for a while anyway I think.

[vrdantwind]

Well, there's a pokémon called Arceus that's actually supposed to be some sort of god. Of everything, I get the impression, not just pokémon. I suppose someone - or something - with godly powers could achieve just about anything...although that's such an outright deus ex machina of an explanation that it drives me a little crazy. I hate how many mysterious things there are here that we just have no way of understanding.

[mightdoriya]

[Now there's god Pokemon to worry about? Oh boy.]

It definitely does sound a little too convenient to be true, but there's a lot happening here that should be unbelievable. But I guess believing it and having to just accept it aren't entirely the same thing...

I feel like I'm going to need to be here a lot longer to really understand everything that's going on here.

[vrdantwind]

Yeah. I mean, a lot of stuff here is just too wild to believe, but things are just going to keep being what they are whether we believe in them or not.

That said, I've been here for months now, and a lot of things here really just do seem to be beyond understanding. Like, I'm not even sure where to look. And there are people who've been here for years who haven't figured out much more than we already know. As inquisitive as I am, I've come to feel like maybe there are some things I'm never going to be able to figure out here - I don't have the tools or even the slightest idea where to start, and I think I'd just be ramming my head into a wall. There's a lot of other things that my time and attention are going to be much better spent on.