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Shouto Todoroki | Blue | #57A7C5

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[windeity]

[He floats just out of range, frowning a little as he notices.]

Dude are you sure you're okay? You look sort of freezerburned.

[glaciers]

[He'll make another bit of ice to jump down onto the ground. Again, the creation is much slower than it was before.

But now he'll turn on his fire half, allowing the ice to melt away.]

I need to defrost.

[windeity]

[...SHOUTO!!!]

That was a really bad joke, but that's a pretty cool trick.

[glaciers]

[ Shouto gives a slow blink. ]

... I didn't make a joke.

[windeity]

...it was kind of a joke? Like humor is subjective. [Are they really going to be distracted by this?]

[glaciers]

I didn't think I was making a joke. I was being serious.

[They sure are.]

[windeity]

Shouto...and I mean this in the nicest way possible...do you know what a joke is?

[glaciers]

I've heard of them.

[windeity]

...I feel like we should put a pause on the sparring lessons and get you up to speed with comedy. Like. Immediately.

[glaciers]

Why is it that important?

[windeity]

Because laughing is important, dude. It's how people stay in a good mood and it's stress relief sometimes.

[glaciers]

Being stuck in an abandoned town is stressful.

... Teach me about jokes.

[windeity]

Okay. [...and that seems to be a thing happening.] Like anything, comedy has a few moving parts. You have the joke, the punchline, and most important is comedic timing. Following so far?

[glaciers]

I... think so? How does it work?

[windeity]

[Hmm...] Let's try a different question first. Do you know what pranks are?

[glaciers]

[Squints...]

No.

[windeity]

...you've never put a whoopie cushion in someone's chair or propped a bucket of water over the door so it falls on the next person to walk in the room? Nothing?

[glaciers]

[There's a moment as he thinks about this. He's never done this but... HM.]

I want to.

[His voice goes very dark. There's clearly somebody specific he's thinking about.]

[windeity]

...[Shouto...] Sure dude. We can do that. But uh. Who are you targeting?

[glaciers]

... It doesn't matter he's not here and he won't show up.

[windeity]

...okay, Shouto, that sounds more like revenge and that's not really what pranks should be used for. Like. Just saying.

[glaciers]

I don't want to do any of those things to people I like.

[windeity]

If you do them right, they can actually be pretty funny. [...] My dad and I used to have prank wars all the time. And I've done it to my friends, too.

[glaciers]

... I don't think Midoriya would like them much.

Uraraka might.

[windeity]

Ochako? She seems like she has a good sense of humor, so you could try. [There's another grin.] I promise it's fine. And a very important part of learning about jokes.