King Kindred

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

Provided we have the city's blessing, @Daxam has my go ahead to drop our long-awaited post. Sorry for the delay. Life has been a grind and I've been neglecting things outside of work as a result.

@IAmTheIsland

It's okay! Life happens and we're unable to control it. What you need to do is more important than what you want to do, but I'm glad you're still here and ready to continue!

I'm working on a collab with CF that'll clear things up on Lucian and Morgan's end so I'd say it's up to @Crimson Flame and @Sadu if the post should be dropped before or after that's done.

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@Eviledd1984 Cool. Also, by Cids description, i'm guessing our ship looks like this?

@mattmanganon

I don't know if the link is taking me to the right pic, but if it's the Millenium Falcon that's the ship I gave PJ and Max.

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POSTED.

@Eviledd1984

I just want to be clear. The world Taivas landed on is Deep Jungle and not actually Olympus, right?

My Hero Academia: Just Another Hero, Act 2

The Todoroki Siblings

The ever-observant Naito actually did notice Misha's predatorial glaze. He felt a feeling he hadn't felt since he was back in the bowels of Kessel. The feeling of the hunter being hunted. He chuckled to himself when she clapped her cheeks to help herself refocus. Maybe this was going to be a fun year after all. He refocused when Yui turned to them and suggested that they win. As if they had any plans on losing, but it did do the job of motivating him. He was interested in seeing just exactly why they paired the five of them against one student.

Hinata smiled at Yui in return. "I didn't come here to lose in these clothes." She said before turning to the others. "So what's everyone's quirk? You already know mine and Naito's."

As they were discussing their quirks the class was introduced to Spiderman's Amazing Girlfriends and Class 1-A. Both groups were... a colorful bunch. Hinata wasn't impressed by the girlfriend who thought she was an actual cat, but she had to admit that the silver badass was pretty cool. She was disappointed in her cousin, Mei. She was killing herself to be a hero. Her tactics wouldn't work against a real villain who wouldn't care about her life or the life of others. Hell, some don't even care about their own lives as long as they get to break a hero. She'd have to talk to Fuyumi about this. She didn't want to crush her cousin's dreams, but she didn't want to see her take out innocent civilians along with herself.

The speedster of class 1-A made up for the previous loss, but wasted energy to do it and ended up losing to the Silver Femme Fatale. Though she couldn't fault Erza for that. Teleporters were seriously annoying to fight, but their confidence tended to make them less creative with their patterns. But most of their opponents weren't level-headed enough to figure that out. Hinata sure as hell wasn't, but Naito was. The last match was disappointing. It wasn't even a match.

Naito was contemplating ways he would've beaten the hostage test had he been paired up against Spiderman when Kagari approached him with a request. He actually considered going through with it, but his psychologist brain took over. "I'm not sure that's allowed, but either way I don't think I should. Maybe some pervert did want us to wear these tight ass fits, but the principle remains. You need to be ready for anything, even when you don't have your gear." Naito unhooked his utility belt and pulled it up in between them. "Whether or not you have your support items, you have your quirk. This belt, my mind, and my indomitable spirit are my quirks. I go nowhere without them, not even the shower. Use this training to see what you can do on a whim. Here." He opened a pouch on his utility belt to take out two custom shuriken. One was explosive, the other was regular. "Since we're on the same team this should still be allowed. See what you can do with these." After handing them to her Naito put his utility belt back on and watched the other groups as they got ready to start their tests.

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@Remram@ERode@Aku the Samurai@Paingodsson@Megatron

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@mattmanganon No objections front me.

For everyone: NPCs are NPCs. Use and play them as you see fit when your characters interact with them. Just don't use them to cheat.

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Okay. Or maybe Little Bird could play him again, if there okay with that.

@Eviledd1984

Little Bird's busy at the moment. Check Daxam's post on page 5 for reference.

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@King Kindred

Hi King do you mind playing Cid or maybe I should play him?

@Eviledd1984

You can play him. But keep him similar to how the others played him.

My Hero Academia: Just Another Hero, Act 2

The Todoroki Siblings

Haru made Hinata feel welcomed. She wasn't sure how people would react to her and her brother or her introduction. She didn't want to come off as conceited or thinking she was better than them simply because she was ranked back in America. She believed her ranking was due more to her popularity with the people, especially the kids as a girl who could light up. When it came to heroics she was essentially Star's first officer, but Star rarely ever needed her help. Here she wanted to make her own name for herself. Maybe today's joint training exercise would help start that. "I am. It's nice to meet you, Ueno Haru. You can call me Hinata or Hina. Victorious Sun does have a great ring to it. Maybe we'll end up making a name for ourselves as the Sol Dyad. Let's shine bright!" She exclaimed for the entire class to hear while sticking her fist out to Haru.

Naito was impressed to find out that Haru's mom was quirkless as well. He was worried that he ruined his future kids' chances of gaining a quirk, but this gave him hope. He wouldn't be a blight on them. They'd have the potential to be as strong as anyone else. "Nice to meet you as well. I'll be happy to show everyone around, but I advise staying clear of Kessel's undercity. Not everyone has the stomach for what goes on down there. It's a lawless zone of chaos."

As more students entered and the holographic professor reappeared Hina and Naito wondered if they were assigned to the right class after all. For one, their teacher was a pervert who had her yaoi posters behind her computer and they were being tasked to fight against a short pervert who liked doing Kami knows what with chains and cages. Naito attributed the cages to him being an avian heteromorph, but the ch---Oh no. That caged bird was singing of freedom. Curse his detective mind. He did not need to know his senpai's strange and problematic kinks. He returned his focus to his official assignment as tour guide. He volunteered, but as an official guide he'd be expected to spend more time with the group. He needed to finish what he started with the undercity's Dark Princess of Crime.

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Hinata was excited, but also a bit nervous. She wasn't sure how five people were expected to fight one person when they didn't have any chemistry as a team. But the fact that they needed five in the first place to go against one fighter was what excited her. They had to be strong. If they were to win here that would set the pace of the year and their path overall. To overcome the strongest of the Furious Five. They'd probably replace the Five right off this feat alone. Hina smashed her right fist into her left palm with a large grin on her face as she walked into the Sigma Training Ground. "I'm fired up!" She wasn't wearing her shades, figuring that she needed to train without it as well.

Naito on the other hand was completely nervous. He felt naked without the Dark Paladin costume, specifically the helmet. But he didn't want to look weird by putting on the helmet while in his gym clothes. He also didn't want to expose his new classmates to that side of him yet. Paladin wasn't always the friendliest, especially when it came to battle. Instead Naito just wore his utility belt around his waist with his side pouch. He also wore his gloves. The benefit of being Quirkless was that he was allowed certain advantages in exercises like these to balance things out.

Hina tried to contain her fangirl excitement when Spiderman arrived. She couldn't believe he was here to watch their Joint Training Exercise. Then he approached her and she was unable to contain what she was feeling. He was a fan of her? She couldn't believe it. The #1 Hero in Japan was a fan of her. "You... No, I'm a fan of you! Thank you, Spiderman." Maybe that Japan ranked spot was in reach after all.

@El Gato Naranja@Megatron[@everyone]

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@mattmanganon I'm fine with that. I see no issue with it.

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@mattmanganon

I'll probably use that, but edit it slightly. The direction I think it should go, is that magic born of music is the purest magic imaginable (But not necessarily the most powerful). But, music from the heart, creates magic in the alignment of that heart. Music sang from malice, from a dark heart, would create magic of the purest darkness, while magic from a heart of light, would create magic of the purest light.

This gives weight to villains having their own musical numbers, and why, for example, in Anastasia, Rasputin does his most powerful magic while singing, it's because his music from a heart of darkness, creates magic of pure darkness.

Also the idea that it binds hearts of likeness together... which is why many villain songs seem to rally followers (Be Prepared, Savages, The Mob Song). The idea is that when sung from the heart, a song can resonate with that same part of people's hearts. Everyone has darkness and light in them, so when a villain sings a song, it resonates with the darkness in people's hearts, allowing villains like Gaston or Ratcliffe to rally people to do their bidding, when in all fairness, they are just normal people being manipulated to do something bad.

Not that you specifically said music from the heart was purely light, but I want to make the distinction.

Maybe Morgan will get her own song at some point... if I ever found one I liked... that's probably be dark, or depressing, or both.

@Sadu

I officially declare this canon. It works with the whole idea of the villains gaining the power to alter the reality of their stories to make them the protagonists.