I can walk. Don't punish my pride even worse, Midoriya...
[it's one thing to roll up to UA already battered; it'd be another to do it in the arms of someone else or to be floated up the damn stairs, even if his room's on the fifth floor]
But maybe we'll take the elevator.
[for the proximity, well... the brushes don't hurt, but excluding one very liquor-emboldened smashing of mouths, that's just another language he doesn't know. the trust is there that he doesn't pull away and reject it outright, but all of the acceptance of it comes from forced sedation]
[outside the gates, Todoroki stumbles from the van with a hand on the door to hold himself up and stares the dorms down... he likes this challenge more than the one that's been fretting over him for a whole car ride, and begins his slow undertaking tired but willfull]
OH I THOUGHT THEY WERE ALREADY BACK AT UA HYVIBFF too eager for that timeskip
[it's one thing to roll up to UA already battered; it'd be another to do it in the arms of someone else or to be floated up the damn stairs, even if his room's on the fifth floor]
But maybe we'll take the elevator.
[for the proximity, well... the brushes don't hurt, but excluding one very liquor-emboldened smashing of mouths, that's just another language he doesn't know. the trust is there that he doesn't pull away and reject it outright, but all of the acceptance of it comes from forced sedation]
[outside the gates, Todoroki stumbles from the van with a hand on the door to hold himself up and stares the dorms down... he likes this challenge more than the one that's been fretting over him for a whole car ride, and begins his slow undertaking tired but willfull]