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Post by cmd1095 on Apr 15, 2023 13:50:51 GMT
OOC: www.coloholicsanonymous.com/index/viewtopic.php?t=8047 this thread is carried over from old colo, link here for as long as that still works Shizo fidgeted awkwardly as Atsuro heaped praise on him for his plush creations, saying how he could make a living off those even without his hero work, or even just make it a full on side-gig. He wasn't used to praise like this, whenever he performed well at home it was regarded as just what was expected of him. He only ever got negative feedback whenever he fell short... all of this was really quite new to him. The fact it was also coming from a cute boy he had a crush on wasn't making this easier... And then the suggestion of staying at Atsuro's place during the summers absolutely fried his brain, with Flynn adding his own little provocation into it Shizo's face blushed as bright as it could go and he briefly sat in complete overwhelmed silence... sparks jumping between strands of his hair as he both figuratively and almost literally short circuited for a moment Eventually Shizo would recover enough to actually respond "Uh, right, those options all sound nice... and yeah I do intend to stand up to my parents eventually... once I'm sure I can get by on my own. They're not stupid though, I'm sure they suspect I might rebel against them someday and have contingency plans to punish me. I wanna be careful, pissing off the two narcissistic sociopaths who've banked their entire future on me being an obedient little money maker for them is bound to have unforeseen consequences."Shizo fidgeted a bit more "but uh, thanks for all the nice words. It's good to know I've got people in my corner and all that..." |
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Post by ghostmytoast on Apr 17, 2023 1:18:22 GMT
"If they try anything along those lines they'll be labelled villains in a heartbeat and thrown in prison. I'll ensure it myself if I have to."
Atsuro noted, taking his dates hand from across the table and giving it a reassuring squeeze. "I'm here for you. Tanzo is here for you. Flynn is hopefully not here anymore, but will stand up for you if I ask." He laughed. There was then a protesting squeek from ontop of his head and the little creature slide down his arm and put his little hands on Atsuro's and Shizo's. "Right, these little guys are here for you too. So don't worry so much. Do what you have to. But do what you have to for yourself and your happiness. You don't have to worry so much anymore."
With a soft smile, and without moving his hand he also mentioned, "And seriously, if you do plan on staying with them a bit longer, give the idea of telling them its a side hussle to make your name bigger some consideration. At least that way you can have an outlet for you creativity and artistic side. They'd have a hard time arguing with you about doing something that could just make you more famous."
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Post by cmd1095 on Apr 17, 2023 1:31:46 GMT
Shizo smiled at Atsuro's reassurance, but the thought nagged at him. All these people here for him... his parents might go after them too. It was bad enough to risk his own well being defying them... but what about the others? They'd gladly accept the consequences and never blame him... but he'd blame himself. It wasn't a thought he liked... but it was also one he couldn't shake.
Atsuro said if they tried anything they'd be labeled villains... but if being heroes or the parents of a hero didn't pan out for them... would they maybe consider sinking that low? Who was he kidding of course they would. They WANTED to be loved and respected, but they were selfish and greedy at heart. They'd settle for wealth and power through violence and fear if it came to it. They'd definitely try something to come at him, and that meant they wouldn't be above hurting those around him either. It wasn't a matter of if they would, but when and how. He'd need to be ready for that fallout... for now though it wasn't anyone's concern but his own.
"I'll definitely consider that pitch. But at least until summertime I don't have to worry about them much." Shizo said "who knows though maybe I'll become a fabric themed hero. Name myself like... Best Seams... Seamist? Might need some workshopping"
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Post by ghostmytoast on Apr 17, 2023 12:20:10 GMT
"Seam Spark!" Atsuro added, laughing at the idea of Shizo dressed like a plush doll. Seemed the date was back on target now that the mirror menace was gone.
Finally, the waiter came around and collected their empty plates, leaving the check for them whenever they were ready for it. The artists picked his little helper off the table and placed him on his head before looking to Shizo. "So, I believe the agreement was this is on you today?" He smirked, though was honestly ready to pay for it if Shizo needed him to.
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Post by cmd1095 on Apr 19, 2023 1:57:29 GMT
"Yeah I can cover it this time, or rather my parents will because THEY think I'm studying with an upperclassman and making connections and stuff... I totally could've just paid for it with the money I got paid to make those life size plushies recently... but they deserve me scamming them out of money here and there" Shizo said with a grin
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Post by ghostmytoast on Apr 20, 2023 22:31:29 GMT
"My oh my. Shizo Fullget is... rebelling!?" Atsuro let out a gasp of feigned suprised. "I hardly recognize you." As he spoke he got up from his chair and walked over to Shizo's side, leaning onto the corner of the table look down at him. "But I like what I'm hearing. You should do that more often. Fighting against corrupt authority figures and stealing their money is SO hot." The artist laughed before stepping back and giving a wide smile. "But seriously, if you ever need anything, you have fall back plans. Tanzo and I won't let anything happen to you so easily. Don't forget, he's a third year at UA and I graduated. I may not be a hero, but I technically have the credentials of one, and he's well on his way." Atsuro noted, giving a nod to Tanzo at the other table as well. "Now, pay the bill and lets get going. I'd... love for you to come see my place. It isn't much, but I've made it my own."
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Post by cmd1095 on Apr 20, 2023 23:02:59 GMT
"Well... we have a chaperone, so I don't think seeing your place is a bad idea, and Tanzo can escort me back to campus when we're done." Shizo said, trying his hardest not to blush while he paid the bill
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Post by ghostmytoast on Apr 24, 2023 0:58:36 GMT
"Well then, allow me to lead the way." The artist chimed, opening the door for his date and holding it for his friend as well. After a bit of walking he found himself eyeing Shizo's hand next to him every so often, but then looking away and shaking the thought. That was... until Tomo rolled his eyes, slid down his arm like a firefigher pole, grabbed Shizo's hand and yanked it over into Atsuro's. The graduate quickly found himself pulling away in shock, his face flushing the brightest red possible.
"O-o-ohmygodI'msosorry!" He stammered out, then looked around to see where he had accidently flung Tomo who had been on his wrist when he pulled his arm back. Spotting him under a tree that the little creature had flown into, Atsuro jogged over and picked him up by the back of the shirt with a glaring pout. "Now listen here you little shit." He began, only to notice his summon's gaze pointed upwards into the branches. "What are you star...ing.... at...." His eyes widened and his heart raced. Slowly he started backing up from the tree, but tripped over himself and fell onto his ass as his gaze never broke contact with the lifeless eyes of the wooden doll staring back at him from the branch. He started to sweat and his breath became jagged. Looking around slowly, he started spotting more of them in all the trees sorrounding them. He was here.... but where.... where!? He began looking around franticly trying to spot where the man was hiding. He had to be there! But... he couldn't keep focused. He couldn't even breath! His felt his throat tightening and his grip on his body fading. Shizo and Tanzo would have to act quick.
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Post by cmd1095 on Apr 24, 2023 23:37:53 GMT
Shizo was laughing at the awkward efforts of Tomo and the subsequent flinging of the little summon away, he hadn't minded at all... but his laughter stopped when he saw Atsuro begin to panic. He rushed over and looked up in the tree, seeing wooden mannequins...? He simply looked around in confusion, not understanding the implications.
Tanzo understood though, the moment he got in close and saw inside the tree his vents flared red as his forge cranked up to full heat. Without missing a beat, he shot molten metal out to form a bulletproof wall around Atsuro for him and Shizo to take cover behind. He'd heard all about Atsuro's dad and his quirk, he had to in order to know what to look for as the escort and bodyguard after all. This was a dangerous situation. He didn't know where the puppetmaster was, he might not even be in position to attack yet... but those dolls weren't up in the trees for no reason.
Seeing Tanzo act, Shizo put the dots together and wrapped his arms protectively around Atsuro, trying to ground him in reality "Hey, it's ok. We're here, he's not gonna get to lay a single finger on you." Shizo said
"Shizo's right, you're not in any danger while I'm here." Tanzo said "If your father thinks he's ready for me based on what he's seen on the news, he's sorely mistaken... I don't have to hold back against wooden dolls like I do people. You're going to be fine. Him on the other hand..."
Tanzo's forearms were soon covered in metal armor plating, he knew Atsuro's father sometimes used dolls wielding weapons, so the extra armor would come in handy... and he wasn't pulling his punches today either. His expression didn't betray much... but his tone said it all. For possibly the only time since Atsuro had known him, Tanzo was letting himself become angry.
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Post by ghostmytoast on Apr 24, 2023 23:54:23 GMT
Tomo climbed onto Atsuro's lap and took his grounding position, cooing at him and pushing against his face to keep him focused. It wasn't working. Everywhere Atsuro's eyes darted he spotted more of them. They were everywhere, just like back in the closet. He was surrounded by the dolls staring back at him with lifeless eyes.
Then... the first moved were made. Gunfire came from the front, back, and both sides. Right as the shots ended, four dolls came flying forward and top speed with knifes slashing from both arms at Shizo, trying to get him away from Atsuro. A few feet away the branches of a tree russled roughly as something shook it on it's way to a new location with a better view, something much too big to be another marionette. But the barrage of gunfire and knife attacks towards Shizo didn't let up enough for him to follow. Tanzo, meanwhile, would get caught between two dolls that opened their mouths to reveal small metal tubes. Sparks came out for a split second, followed by shooting flames. Clearly, Atsuro wasn't his first target. No, he wanted the boy to watch his friends go first.
As the battle started Atsuro fully lost himself. The world melted. He could feel the flames rising. His mother's screams rang in his ears as he sat in a broom closet, curdled up and covered his ears. "Stop. Please. Stop. Stop hurting her. Please." He muttered desprately to himself through shaking and shattered breaths. Tears streamed from his eyes staring out into nothing as the scene only worsened in his mind. Try as Tomo might, there was no bringing Atsuro back from this. Not until the man was dealt with.
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Post by cmd1095 on Apr 25, 2023 0:10:02 GMT
The assault was quick and efficient, Shizo raised his arms to fend off the incoming dolls, and then they weren't there anymore. Each doll reduced to splinters by a large ball and chain swung by Tanzo to tear through them, then the ball hurtled towards the tree the larger figure had revealed himself in, smashing into it and felling the tree as well to force him out into the open and rough him up a bit during the fall. Tanzo had completely ignored the dolls attacking him with flames, the fire burning away his shirt but otherwise not harming his metal body in the slightest. Instead having focused on forging a weapon and smashing the ones going after the more vulnerable people here.
"Quit the cowards tactics of going after the defenseless ones" Tanzo said "you can't afford to ignore me, so dust yourself off and come at me. Go after those two again and next time I'll just hit you instead. You might live, but I guarantee you won't be walking again afterwards. I'm fine with that but I'd much rather take my time beating you into the dirt rather than ending it all at once."
Tanzo pulled the ball and chain back, swinging it around to wind up for another throw. The chain alone had to weigh a hell of a lot, but Tanzo swung it around like it was nothing, a direct hit from the ball would definitely mean a trip to the hospital. In truth Tanzo didn't really intend to hit Atsuro's father directly with it, he didn't want to kill the man... but crowd control over many mannequins would be easy with a wide sweeping weapon like this... and it was a threat that couldn't be safely ignored.
"Shizo, stay behind that cover and don't come out until I say. I can keep the dolls away from you two physically but I can't intercept every bullet." Tanzo said "stay down and keep Atsuro down with you."
Shizo nodded and hugged Atsuro tightly to keep him from moving around too much and maybe getting hit.
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Post by ghostmytoast on Apr 25, 2023 0:30:49 GMT
As the tree went down, a man could be seen for just a moment as he he rolled and ducked into some bushes. From the bits that could be seen, it looked like an older, beat up Atsuro with stubble, long hair, and ragged clothes. He was staying low and quiet, eerily similar to his sons fighting style in a way. Atsuro was the type to stay in the back and give orders to his summons, only coming out with his shield when someone needed a quick block. This man was Atsuro if Atsuro didn't care who got hurt.
The puppets wouldn't relent just because of Tanzo's warning. More and more were coming at Shizo and Atsuro, going in for painful hits with knives and guns but not kills, not yet. Goro was trying to make it long and painful for everyone involved.
Speaking of painful, Tanzo would suddenly feel a hard stab in the neck from behind from a thicker knife than what the other puppets were using. A bigger doll was being used for this attack. Seemed he took note of Tanzo's threat and brought out the big guns instead.
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Post by cmd1095 on Apr 25, 2023 0:44:43 GMT
"Ngh, not a bad knife if it can get that deep... I might keep it for myself later, but for now... scram!" Tanzo grunted as he grabbed the larger doll by the torso and threw it to crash into two more going after Shizo, then following up to take down several more gunners with the ball and chain, but he couldn't quite get all the knife wielders in one swing. "gunners down for the moment, Shizo!"
Shizo took the cue, allowing himself to pop up to fend off the melee attackers. He was only a first year, and not as brutally efficient or powerful as the big metal man was being, but he'd been drilled on this stuff by his parents enough to hold his own. He'd take a few shallow cuts, but deflected the worst of it. With each defection Shizo would strike the doll back with an open palm and unleash a concentrated blast of his lightning, blowing the doll apart into chunks of charred wood. He'd never use this much voltage against a human, but much like Tanzo he realized right now he wasn't fighting people, he could get away with being more violent than usual... and so long as he wasn't projecting his voltage at range his phobia wouldn't flare up.
Tanzo would then hurl the ball at the bush Goro had ducked into, he held the chain in a way where he'd be able to stop it's momentum short on a dime so he'd be able to land the hit and prevent it from crushing the man entirely. Meanwhile he began creating more armor for himself from nozzles around his body. His hand nozzles were his most used because they were always exposed and not buried under his clothes, but with his torso fully exposed now he had no reason not to emit his metal from all over.
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Post by ghostmytoast on Apr 25, 2023 1:02:18 GMT
As Tanzo flung the larger puppet he would feel that it was human sized, and... warm? And slightly damp? Which didn't make sense until he caught a glimps of what he threw. Flying through the air... was Flynn. Blood trickled from wires wrapped around the other third-years neck, mouth, waist, wrist, fingers, and ankles that only seemed to stream more as the deaf boy struggled against them. Just as Tanzo went to throw his hit at the bush, the deaf teen was swung over to take the hit instead straight to the stomach. It was a good thing Flynn had spared with Tanzo before and learned to flex is abs and tank a hit from him at least. Still, more blood could be seen spewing through the wires around his mouth as he took it. Then, like clock-work, he was thrown back towards the walking furnace with his ninja dagger branded and ready for another stike at him. The streams of red on his body spilled faster as he struggled in a deprate attempt to pull back and his eyes scream at Tanzo to dodge.
Shizo wouldn't get a break either. As dolls went down, more came up. There was no end in sight and Atsuro's state wasn't making it any easier. He has started to struggle and try to run away in his panic induced flashback to the night of the fire. Mentally flug back to his ten-year-old self he wanted nothing more than to do just as he did back then and run to the police. However, if he got up and out now he would be dead meat. On top of that, the front and back fire breathers no came for Shizo instead of Tanzo, the man in hiding opting to make the large man fight his own friend instead.
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Post by cmd1095 on Apr 25, 2023 1:19:04 GMT
Tanzo's eyes widened as he saw Flynn tied up in the wires... if there had been a chance he would show mercy to Goro before, it was gone now. He yanked back on the chain as the ball hit Flynn, stopping the momentum and sparing Flynn the worst of the hit.
As Flynn came flying back in, Tanzo didn't move out of the way, instead simply finishing his armor and letting the knife glance harmlessly off it, then grabbing Flynn so he couldn't be yanked back again and looking for where the wires controlling him were, grabbing those and chomping down on them with his jaws to sever them. This was a more time consuming process though, leaving Shizo to fend for himself for the moment.
Shizo dodged and weaved, taking down doll after doll, but he was inexperienced in live combat, and there were so many. And he had to keep any of them from getting near Atsuro. He was getting overwhelmed, his eyes darted around from enemy to enemy frantically, unsure how to handle this. He couldn't keep up, taking them out one at a time wasn't... he couldn't...
Shizo's body began to spark with more electricity as he began to get stressed out and use his quirk more freely, he didn't notice it yet, so focused on the barrage of attacks, each cut pushing him further. Then he saw the two flamethrower dolls aiming at him and time seemed to slow. He was surrounded by fallen wooden mannequins. Even if he dodged those flamethrowers were going to set everything alight and he and Astsuro would burn to death. He couldn't close the gap in time either... he had to... to...
Shizo let out a gutteral cry of rage and fear as his body lit up like a lightbulb with electricity, actually making Tanzo flinch a bit from the surge of light and crackling energy. Shizo's heartrate was racing out of control as his phobia kicked into full gear, but there wasn't time for fear. He had to take these dolls down here and now!
"RAIJIN NO MAI" Shizo shouted as he unleashed his supermove, bolts of lightning danced off his body striking first the flamethrower dolls, then bouncing from target to target and blasting dozens of them apart. It only lasted an instant, but the horde of mannequins surrounding him and Atsuro was quickly reduced to smoldering wood chunks as tears of terror streamed down Shizo's face. The energy faded and he fell to his knees and vomited, clutching his arms and trembling. He was going to be indisposed for a moment, but he'd done enough damage to buy some breathing room.
"Holy shit... maybe not so defenseless after all..." Tanzo thought to himself, then looked to Goro with a murderous glare as he worked to free Flynn the rest of the way. "Now then, you stay right there, I'm going to make you look a lot like your mannequins in a moment."
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