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[pinkxeno]

I'm one of the new meta-arrivals, Pinky! Nice to meet you all!! [ Mina spreads out her arms and winks, however, she eventually pulls down her white mask before she shakes her head a little ] Name's Mina Ashido.

Ehehe, I figured I should try using this thing. I know a bunch of us are new like I am, so I wanna meet everyone. I came from Tokyo in Japan, my world has superpowers - [ quirks. But nobody seems to be familiar with that term ] - and a superhero society and all that. I'm studying to be a Hero myself at U.A.! [ not that... anyone knows what that is ] I'm going to school here now, instead, though I don't think I will be able to pass any of those classes... [ she mutters that last part, before she grins wide again. NO MATTER! ]

I wanna help this place out, so I guess I will be joining the Guardian Alliance. Plus I dun' wanna be without money. [ she is a kid and never had a job, a normal job is also not what she wants either. So to her, it was a no-brainer]

Anyway, let's all be friends!! [ she waves one last time at the camera before the video is cut off ]

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[highborn]

[ wow talk about coming on strong, this kid is a NERD. but there is at least one thing she can be saved from, hopefully: ]

School? As in courses and lessons? [ She makes a face. ] Why in the name of the gods would you bother here?

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[pinkxeno]

Ehh, why you ask... [ WHY INDEED ]

Even though it's not a hero school, I still should learn the basic stuff other kids my age learn, right? Math, history, science, all those things. They are important for the future. [ she says that very slowly, as if reciting what her teachers tell her all the time because Mina's grades are absolutely awful ]

[highborn]

[ A dismissive wave of her hand. ]

They're really not. Are your tutors paid well? They must be keen on keeping their jobs, if they're telling you such things.

[pinkxeno]

They are Pro-Heroes, they know what they are talking about. [ to put it bluntly, she believes them over a lady telling her not to bother with school ]

But I can also make friends at school, and I can learn how this place works, too. I never been to America after all.

[highborn]

Oh. Are lessons not private?

[pinkxeno]

No, no. [ she waves her hand ]

It's a school, with a classroom. Back home, it's 20 of us in total.

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[tough_love]

...what's a school?

[Yep that's Looma, asking the hard questions. Which is something that probably shouldn't surprise anyone.]

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[pinkxeno]

[ that's actually easy to answer ]

It's a place where people teach you things!

[tough_love]

[This still sounds weird but she'll roll with it, tiny excitable pink one]

I assume this is something unique to you Earthlings. How would one register for this school? So long as I am here, I may as well learn how to most effectively weild the weapons used by you humans.

[pinkxeno]

Yeah! Everyone goes to school.

I just went to the school they told me to go to when I arrived, but I think you can ask to join too. Do you want me to help you with that?

[tough_love]

I didn't. If I needed to know something, daddy saw to it himself! Or hired someone, if it was important enough. Though he usually left martial training to the captain of the guard, at least until I was old enough to gain more practical experience.

[But, now there's a problem. On the one hand, she's definitely curious about this "school" thing.

On the other hand, she doesn't do "asking for help," even though she has absolutely no idea what she's doing.]

...if you wanted to sign me up, I suppose I have no reason to refuse. I'm certainly curious to see if the earthlings have anything of value to share.

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[sunmon]

[ alina's video starts in a cafe outdoors. she's in line for coffee. ]

You're having a hard time with the classes, too? I thought I was the only one.

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[pinkxeno]

Y-yeah... I'm just not used to this curriculum, ahaha... [ actually, she is just terrible at school]

Is this school very different from what you are used to?

[sunmon]

That's an understatement.

[ school is for rich people in tsarist russia. ]

If you need any help in art or map-reading, let me know. But this is the first I've learned of algebra, and I already regret hearing the word.

[pinkxeno]

Algebra sucks, I know. [ it's... so HARD. Mina sighs a little but she quickly moves on to focus on something else:]

I dunno about map reading but... Do you draw? What do you draw? I wanna see!

[sunmon]

A little. Here.

[ she struggles with how to angle the video, and it's obvious. her room is a bit of a mess, and it swings into view while she works on lining up the camera with her notebook. then she flips it open.

the marginalia contain water bottles, water fountains, birds, cellphones, half-sketched faces of classmates. the style is realistic, if sketchy. ]

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[survivalrate]

[ video is a little too much for a socially anxious shut-in... who has just been told that no, reincarnating as a spider does not exempt her from going to school. wasn't it bad enough that she'd been ugly, had no friends, and died in school the first go round? now she had to do it all over again as a something people screamed at when they saw her!

ugh ugh ugh not fair not fair not fair.

talking through text isn't so bad. so long as she doesn't look at the other girl, it's fine. ]

i never want to go to school again

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[pinkxeno]

[ Actually yeah, that doesn't sound... Fair.

Still!]

Aww why not? You can make tons of friends there!

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[survivalrate]

i don't think so

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[pinkxeno]

well u can learn stuff there at least?

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[tinglesense]

Whoa, you had a school for superhero stuff where you're from? That's amazing! While we're here, if you're having trouble with the regular kind of school subjects like math or science, I might be able to help you out. I'm pretty strong in those areas.

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[pinkxeno]

Yeah! It was suuuper hard to get into, though. [ she laughs a bit. Mina had to cram so hard the summer before the entrance exams, it was really hard.

But the offer is one she will immediately take]

Woah, really?! Can you help me, then?! Everything is so hard and confusing...!

[tinglesense]

But you got in! That's really cool!

[ She looks...pretty out there to Peter, who isn't used to people just looking like this every day like nbd??? Okay, fine, don't be weird, roll with it. ]

What powers do you have?

[ Is this a normal thing to ask people? She was pretty open about it, so it seems like he's Allowed. Navigating this is so strange. ]

Uh...yeah, I can try. Maybe not with everything, but the science and the math stuff I definitely got you.

[pinkxeno]

I can make acid from my skin. [ she bounces a little in her seat ] It's pretty cool - what about you? [ everyone who got here has powers, right? So he has one for sure.

But she nods quick, excited ] Ah, thank you, thank you! I will work hard, I promise! And... I guess if you want, I can teach you the stuff I've been learning at hero School? If you want.

[tinglesense]

Acid? Like the kind that burns through things? Whoa. Is that all the time, or you can control it? I mean, can you touch people without it hurting them? It seems like it would get lonely otherwise.

[ Oh, right, there it is. He hates this part, the whole having to lie thing, but he knew it would come up. At least he rehearsed some of this type of questions in the mirror like a totally normal person. ]

I actually...am not entirely sure. I think it has something to do with computers but I haven't totally figured it out yet. It's not something I could do at home, so...I guess that's what I'm supposed to learn in school. At least I didn't have something go wild and cause a lotta problems. Yet?

[ He laughs, nervously. He hopes whatever the computers thing is doesn't have the potential to do that like some terrible old 80s movie Skynet thing but he won't discount that possibility. ]

So I dunno that I'll be much in the hero department or anything like that, but I'd still be interested in knowing what you learned back in your world.