The New Abnormal (My Hero Academia/Celestial Mutation)

[Andre Chaos]

People might decide there was some kind of resurrection quirk used. They can be weird sometimes and probably are default explanation for all strange phenomena. Maybe someone's whole deal was bringing back dead. But the cost was too great making it only happen once. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[King Yama]

People might decide there was some kind of resurrection quirk used. They can be weird sometimes and probably are default explanation for all strange phenomena. Maybe someone's whole deal was bringing back dead. But the cost was too great making it only happen once. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Do You mean Toji being the reincarnated brother of the big bad cause I don't think anyone would belive that coming out of All For One mouth lol but then again people do be stupid sometimes

 

[Andre Chaos]

Toji

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I meant literally casting resurrection with their quirk and accidentally bringing back a random person, who died a few hundred years ago, and never doing anything similiar again because the cost was too great for this miracle.

 

[CosmicBigfoot]

Toru Hagakure


Despite what some people thought, Toru wasn't stupid. Her pattern recognition was still in mint condition, thank you very much! She didn't need a weather vane to know which way the wind's blowing.

And currently, the wind was blowing over the barren field that was her DM's with Toji. The fields were lean, the crops fragile. Not all her emojis were gonna survive the winter. What was she supposed to tell Woozy Face's family when he starved?!

Something happened to Toji a couple weeks ago. One week he was lounging around, acting like the bastardized neko-nepo hybrid he was totally born to be. And then suddenly, blam! He's fritzed, his doctors are frazzled, and his mom was-

Well, Toru was trying to cut back on those kinds of comments.

The actual point was that Toji's entire schedule suddenly went from "forever available" to "working the double night shift at the pain emporium", and considering the fact that he was a jobless no-schooler… that was kinda weird!

Something was up with Toji, and Toru was… well, she was starting to get kinda spooked for her friend.

She couldn't even visit him for the first week after what happened because he was busy all weekend with "testing", and she couldn't really get much out of him online or in person the second week besides the fact that it had something to do with his quirk changing?

He kinda refused to elaborate on whatever the frig that meant, and that frig got upgraded into a fuck when Toru moogled quirks changing and found out what quirk awakenings were.

Was Toji dying?! He looked like he was getting better by the day, and she was pretty sure he had even started working out, which was probably the last thing Toru would do if she was the one dying. But if he was getting trauma-responses while chilling in a hospital… she didn't really know what else to think.

She really wanted to press the issue with him, but she was trying not to smother this friendship while it was still in the cradle, so she grew some restraint and decided to wait.

Toru wasn't sure how long she needed to be friends with someone to justify trampling personal boundaries like a pansexual elephant in a gay bar full of mice, but she was pretty sure about a month wasn't long enough.

But hey! Apparently her parents, the internet, and that random hobo at the bus stop must've all been right on they money when they told her to stop freaking out, because Toji eventually texted her on his own and asked if she could meet up with him… while she was in the middle of class.

Did Toru get any enjoyment from flipping the wait game on Toji by telling him to sit tight for a few hours? Nope! Instead she was enjoying a luxury import called… schadenfreude.

Too bad schadenfreude apparently has the same shelf life as unrefrigerated deli meat, because several hours later the only emotion Toru felt while looking at Toji as they sat together in the same park they met up at the first time was pure distilled bafflement.

"What the heck do you mean this is your last week at the hospital?!"

Toji had the balls to just shrug at that, as if him whittling an adoption down to a week was light work. "You know how I was telling you about that uh… quirk situation a while back?"

She just batted her giant feather duster eyelashes at that. "I remember you saying your quirk had a situation." So basically, she remembers him saying absolutely nothing of value.

He at least had the decency to look a little embarrassed at that. "Yeah, that. I uh... kinda had another situation a few days back so everyone thought it was best to rush it? By Saturday I'll be living with Nemuri."

Toru played that sentence in her head, flipped the vinyl, and rolled it back twice. "Your condition changed drastically, so you're… leaving the hospital?" She was pretty sure that wasn't how it was supposed to work.

Unfortunately for her expectations, Toji just cranked his head bobble style and failed to see what was so upsetting about that piece of information. "Yup. It's honestly a super nice place. It's one of those "I'm rich enough to buy a house but lazy enough to not want to upkeep" places you see rich e-celebs film apology videos in while hugging their do-"

Yeah, nah. Toru wasn't gonna let him go off on a spiel right after dropping that bomb. Reaching over to slap her hand over his mouth, she just cut right to the chase. "Are you dying? Because you keep saying you're better than ever but you keep giving me symptoms for sad dying orphan syndrome."

Toji just blew a puff of air at that. "Been there, done that. I don't plan on relapsing." If Toji dropped any more boxes on her she was gonna go postal. "But no, I'm not dying. I'm-"

Smushing her hands into Toji's cheeks like he was a misbehaving cat, Toru slowly turned his head until they were making direct eye contact. "If you say you're better than ever I'll shove my whole foot up your ass, sandals be damned."

That just earned her several confused blinks from him. "… Why the hell are you wearing sandals in November?"

Dear God, give her strength. "Toji! I'm being totally serious right now! You keep dropping all these sadboy death flags! I'm starting to get really spooked!"

Toji just ineffectively batted at her hands until she graciously showed mercy and let him go and then flopped back onto his side of the bench with a groan.

"Damn, I totally fumbled this interaction. I probably should've started with what's up with me instead of leading into it. I wasn't really planning on telling you about this since it was so weird, but since it keeps happening I thought… fuck it, might as well."

Well now Toru was feeling like a bit of a dick. "You don't need to, like, tell me the specifics of what's going on." Even if she's totally chomping at the bit to know what's up. "I just want to hear that you're doing good. Actually good, not that sarcastic "better than ever" nonsense!"

Letting out a nervous laugh, Toji started to rub the back of his neck at that. "Well that's the thing. I wasn't being sarcastic, I was being smarmy. I am literally better than ever."

Toji must've noticed what shade her face was turning because he didn't waste a second to continue talking. "So what's wrong with me is apparently kind of bullshit by thi- the world's standards, so you might need to preemptively accept that I'm a medical outlier."

Toru let out a hiss as she sucked some air in through her teeth. "Oof, that's a 50/50 statement right there. Everyone knows medical outliers are either absolutely awesome or absolutely terrible… but sure!"

That just earned her a shrug from Toji. "Good enough for me. Alright, so check this out. I have… a second quirk!" And then he hit her with the saddest pair of jazz hands she had ever had ever seen with her own eyes. In fact, she would bump that all the way up to "saddest jazz hands ever."

Was this his way of saying he just got screened for the big A? Because if so then call Toru impressed, because he just managed to say about ten thousand words and a medical diagnosis in three silent gestures.

Thankfully for the both of them, Toru instantly forgot that entire string of consciousness the moment she saw light purple smoke begin to drift out of Toji's arms and hands. Was that…?

"I got more than one quirk. Apparently they're separate quirks and not just one big bundle, which I don't really get if I'm being honest…" It was! She'd recognize that quirk anywhere!

"It's kinda funny. The first new quirk I got after waking up is this one. It's called somnambulist, and it's also Nemuri's-"

"You have Midnight's quirk?! How did you get Midnight's quirk?!" Wait a second, didn't he just say-? "Your mom is Midnight?!"

Toji threw his hands into the air in exasperation at that, scattering the clouds of all natural non GMO Midnight stank-musk into the atmosphere. How will this affect the trout population?

"Seriously? Toru, you've met her before. She doesn't even wear a mask or a different hairdo while in her hero costume. How did you not recognize her?"

She looks different with clothes on, Toru very intelligently did not say. Toji just shook his head and reached into his pocket for his glasses. Was he seriously about to filter her IRL?!

Grabbing Toji's arm before he could pull them out, Toru let out a mournful wail as she ineffectively tugged at his arm in faux-concern. "Nooooooo! Don't banish me back to invisibility!"

Toji just continued to stare down at her in disgust like a cat that just sniffed a citrus. "Whatever, we're getting off topic. What I wanna know is how are you not freaking out over this? Everyone else that's found this out acted like I just pulled a rabbit out of a hat."

"I am freaking out…. about you having Midnight for a mom! That seems way more important than you having two quirks." Yeah, sure. She gets why that's probably a freaking massive deal. But also… momma Midnight!

He just clicked his tongue at that. "First off, you're horrendous. Not down bad horrendous, just regular horrendous." Yeah, that's fair. "Second off… I kinda have three now?" Well that's a little bit weirder than just getting two. Coincidences versus patterns, and all that.

"Ooh yeah, you did say the entire reason I was super worried about you for over half a month was because you got some Midnight musk and didn't want to share. I'm still super pissed about that, by the way."

Toji just cupped his face in his hands at that before slowly dragging his fingers down his face. "Yeah, I probably should've at least given you a better answer than just "I'm better than ever". If you want we can swing by someplace for some food and I'll pay. If you don't have any ideas there's an American yogurt place I found a few days back that's pretty great. I swear it's just like a Menchie's… not that the comparison means anything now."

She had to rub her chin for extra concentration as she thought that one over. On one hand, she was kinda actually upset with Toji and she'd be setting a bad standard if she let him just buy her over with ice cream affiliated treats. On the other hand, she was already skipping a gym day so she might as well double down and make it a cheat day.

"What makes American yogurt different from regular yogurt?" Toji just hit her with a short shrug.

"I dunno. Diabetes?" Toru wasn't gonna lie, that sounded pretty good. And Toji did have an instinctive ability to find decent places to eat from his American scavenger instincts. Hmmm….

"Sure! But later though. I wanna talk more about the whole quirk thing you have going on. How many do you even have at the moment?" Reaching into his hoodie pocket, Toji pulled out his shades while staring off into space.

"I have three, and not all of them are created equal. The first one is… bleh." Bleh must be how Americans describe things that fast track them into being millionaires by their mid-20s. "The second one is pretty alright since it's helping rush the adoption, but I can't really see any time I'll ever use it so it's probably useless. But the third one? Goldilocks was right. I hit the jackpot!"

Toru scooted a bit closer at that. "And what's the jackpot? Super speed? All Might strength? Spacial warping?!" Toji just closed his eyes, clapped his hands together, and then unfolded both palms towards her.

"My ultimate quirk… is Programming!" Eh? She wasn't really expecting that of all things to be his ace in the hole.

"You mean like… wacky hackerman programming?" Both of his hands snapped their fingers before shooting her a double thumbs up.

"Hell yeah. At first the doctors kept saying those quirks were sci-fi nonsense and intelligence quirks just made your neurons hyper-plastic, or whatever. It was way harder than it should've been to prove I wasn't just some sort of savant."

She basically had to laugh at that at least a little. "Aww, don't worry Toji, you don't need to prove you're not a savant to me!" Ducking underneath his casual side swing towards her head, Toru kept on giggling as she thought about his "jackpot" quirk.

"So! What have you been working on the past few days? I'm guessing you at least have something cool if you convinced a bunch of doctors to admit they were wrong." For some reason Toji ended up looking a bit sheepish at that, instead of bragging about his awesome quirk like he was supposed to.

Oh come on, his projects can't be that bad, can they?

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Apparently Toji's little pet project was a game of all things, and it wasn't bad. It was horrible! It started being bad when he said the name out loud, and the quality never really made a comeback after that.

Pit Bull Prison Daycare Simulator. Toru wasn't really sure about the "prison daycare simulator" part of the name because she was still in the demo tutorial, but she had at least confirmed the "pit bull" part of the name was legit. Kinda.

Either pit bulls all looked like irradiated chihuahuas that hit the gym, or Toji desperately needed some art skills. Or an art quirk, since he was apparently just totally bullshit like that. For some reason all of her starting pit bulls had red haired twin drills and were called "Teto Bulls", which was a wild name to call something that looked like it just crawled out of hell.

Toru wasn't really sure what she was expecting his big project to be before he showed it to her. Maybe something cool and amazing like an earthquake detection system or an AI doctor that can perform heart surgery? Ya know… something useful.

Whether or not Pit Bull Prison Daycare was useful kinda hinged on if you thought hell was real and the game was a decent interpretation for it. She had never really imagined what the inside of Tartarus would be like because she was a good little girl that ate her veggies, but now that she had played about five minutes of the game she was starting to get an idea.

Everything about the game Toji had made was an absolute trash fire! She knew that the game was still brand spanking new, but… come on?! Who thought a black screen with a slowly oscillating dog wearing a bright red twin drill wig was a good idea for a start menu?

Toji, that's who! And the start menu didn't even have any options, it was just a single "Start" button that vibrated in place right underneath the "Teto Bull". Why did he even have a start menu if it didn't do anything?!

She asked him that with about three extra swears wedged between the words, and he just hit her with a sideways shrug from his spot on the bed next to her. He had tried dragging the mandatory hospital cuck chair near the bed for her to sit on, but it'd be a cold day in hell when she willingly filled in that seat.

Anyways! After pressing start, she was immediately shunted into a "make your tribe" section of the game. If the text boxes that stuck around for three seconds were to be believed, she was the god-ruler of the Teto-Pibble tribe and she had to guide thirty villager pibbles to… she didn't know! The fucking text boxes disappeared before she could read them!

She could handle being a single fairy dog-mother to thirty tribal pibbles. What she couldn't handle was raising them in an abandoned federal prison in the middle of a desert. Weren't child services supposed to get babies out of these environments?

Also, holy shit were those pibbles loud! If Toru played this game with headphones on she would bet actual money she'd get tinnitus within an hour.

For some reason they all kept speaking random gibberish, but because they all had the same timer this just meant that every three seconds she got blasted by a cacophony of vocaloids screaming out their favorite household objects.

Should she even bother asking why the pibbles all decided their best use of free will was staring at a wall and screaming "bagel" loud enough to crack the cement? No. There was no point in questioning the mindset of someone that cooked this up. Nah, the better question was-

"Where are all the babies?! Toji, the game promised me pit bulls, prisons, and daycares! And so far all I've gotten are a lot of pit bulls and a single prison. Do I have to go find them myself or what?"

Toji's eyes lit up at that, and between one blink and the next he already had his phone in his hands and was click clacking away at it. "That's an awesome idea for a mid-game mechanic." No it wasn't!

She was gonna pop a blood vessel at this rate. "Toji. Where. Are. The babies?!" That at least got him to finally look up from his phone for about half a second.

"Oh, the storks will show up in about seven days with some starter toddlers. You gotta use your starting villagers to build a daycare for them and get some supplies set up before they arrive so they don't starve or get carried away by the vultures."

Right, that was all reasonable information. One problem. "How do I build a daycare?"

That of all things made Toji look up at her in confusion, as if her not being able to absorb the game's controls from a single text box and a spinning dog was a personal failing on her part.

"Uh… press P to assign a stockpile, chop down some trees by click-dragging across some wooded areas with L, and then dig for some stone by doing the same thing over a hill with M."

Oh dear God, this was purely an English keyboard. She was gonna have to manually look at the keyboard to know where they were! Bleeeeh! Alright so P was under zero… so all she had to do was- wait a fucking second.

Shoving her laptop into Toji's face, Toru gestured her blocky fingers across the monitor. "What trees? What stone?! The game takes place in the middle of the freaking Sahara!"

Toji just let out a little laugh and patted her on the shoulder as he looked at the laptop. "Ah, woops. Looks like you spawned in a desert biome. I guess you're playing a challenge run now."

If someone handed her a plate of drywall she would have eaten them like rice crackers and then taken a bite out of the plate for dessert.

"I don't wanna do a challenge run! I want to raise a tribe of pibbles in a resource-rich environment while taking care of a peaceful daycare prison!" Toji just laughed at that and ran his hand through his air, accidentally bumping his elbow into her meaty ribcage in the process. Oof.

"Listen Toru, Pit Bull Prison Daycare Simulator is an immersive storytelling game. Half the fun comes from seeing completely new scenarios and how they play out. You gotta accept the cards you were dealt and make the most of them. Also, one of your Teto bulls just died."

What?! Looking back down at the laptop and saw a single shriveled up pibble lying in the sun, it's legs curled inwards like a spider. WHAT?!

"What the fuck happened?! They were fine a second ago!" Leaning closer to get a better look at the screen, Toji idly headbutted her aside like a baby goat trying to move an iceberg as he stared at the game.

"Ah, I think I know what happened. I set the pibbles to have high thirst at spawn an an incentive for players to build a well, and since the desert gives a dehydration bonus they must've died from being in the sun too long."

Toru looked between the laptop and his goofy smiling face. "Toji, dude… come on! This is such bullshit! How am I supposed to even survive long enough to get the babies if everyone dies from water and sunlight? These are like… anti-plants!"

Toji just closed his eyes and did a really shitty job at trying not to laugh at her. "Remember, Toru. Dying is fun! ….Or was the saying losing is fun?" Yeah, they were gonna have one hell of a conversation at the yogurt place later.

Glancing at the laptop from the corner of her eye, Toru felt her eyes widen as she looked back at the screen before letting out a scream. "Ahhhh! Toji! Why are the Tetos eating each other?!"

She couldn't even bring herself to blink as she watched all of her Teto bulls slowly slammed their grooved skulls against one another like bighorn rams, their broadside ramming slowly causing each and every one to burst into a cloud of… blue raspberry jam? What the fuck?!

He just shrugged at that, as if he wasn't the one that made the entire game."I dunno, that kinda keeps happening no matter what I do. I think they're doing it this time because they're all starving and one just learned the cannibalism perk from eating the dead one?"

"How do I cancel it?! They're freaking team-wiping me!" Instead of telling her how to save the herd of starving murder-puppies Toji instead just placed his hand on her shoulder, closed his eyes, and smiled off into the distance.

"Come on Toru, you know you shouldn't interfere with nature. Wild animals such as the pibbles are completely unburdened by human concerns like morality and ethics. They're free, Toru. Completely unburdened by the chains of society. Can you really bring yourself to get in the way of that?"

As Toru watched the final members of the Teto tribe finish each other off in bursts of blue blooded glory, she decided that living in a laissez faire ancap society wasn't all that it was cracked up to be.

Within seconds of the conflict starting only one tribal pibble remained from the original herd, the victor absolutely spoiled on their choice of prey (their loved ones!). What was once thirty Teto bulls was now a single bloodied up fattie absolutely splattered in not-cherry jelly.

"Oh, cool. The last one got enough XP to evolve into a Teto-Chonker. Huh. Do you think I should make this a part of the tutorial to help explain the evolution mechanic?" Toru just ignored his insane ramblings as she deadpan starred down at the laptop for several moments before telling the… Teto-Chonker to take five steps to the left.

Unfortunately for her, either the next step in evolution stayed a concept for a reason or her Teto-Chonker was a bit of a rebel, because instead of doing that it settled on muttering out "butternut squash" in a low drone, took two steps, and then swiftly dropped dead from cardiac arrest.

"Nooooooooooo!" Letting out a soul wrenching wail, Toru quickly placed his laptop Toji's lap so she'd have free real estate to impotently punch his lower mattress before rolling onto that entire section and throw a grade-C classy bitch fit. "What the hell even happened?!"

Staring up at Toji from her upside down spot at the foot of the bed, she watched as he completely gave up on not laughing at her anguish. "They got fat and died, dude. That's the circle of life for ya."

Toru just let out a death rattle at that and slowly sank into the mattress like a corpse in a bog. "That wasn't the story I wanted to tell."

Toji must've been part-villain, because he just continued to laugh at her anguish. "What were you expecting from a game made in less than a week. The game's code is all over the place. That blue gel splatter they turned into when they got munched? Yeah, that's the only liquid asset and viscosity in the game. You should be glad you spawned in a desert instead of a bog."

Wait a minute, he was totally right! The game is still fresh, which means there's time to fix this absolute instant slop mush he just served her.

Punching both of her arms up towards the ceiling, Toru let out a low woop. "You say the game sucks, but all I'm hearing is every change past this point is just an improvement! First order of business is making it so the Teto bulls won't die just from existing near an open window within five minutes of spawning."

Toji just rubbed his face and let out a groan. "Toru, come on. I wasn't actually planning on making a full game. This entire build is literally just cobbled together assets I ripped from actual games so I could play around with a software framework meant for-"

Already tired of the excuses, Toru decided to move this conversation along by roly poly'ing into Toji's knees so he'd cut himself off with a pained grunt. Good! She didn't want to hear any more excuses fall out of his mouth.

"Hey now! If you're gonna bring monsters into this world, the least you can do is take care of them. And by take care of them I mean making sure they survive longer than a Mongolian invasion in typhoon season."

Drumming his fingers against his chin, Toji eventually let out a sigh as he stared down at her. "You know what? Sure. Getting the prototype set up was pretty fun, so I might as well keep adding to it. It's gonna be a bit before it's actually playable for real, though. You didn't get to see the babies, but the code around them is mad fucked up. They kept drowning in their water bowls so I had to give them big hamster bottles."

She'll consider that an absolute win, even if that last bit tripped a few lose-signals in her mind. "As long as the pibbles don't eat the babies they should be good."

Toji's face went a little stiff at that, and he just kept staring off into space with a smile. Toru couldn't see her own face, but she could guess what it looked like as she stared up at him. "Toji. Tell me the pibbles don't eat the babies."

"…. Alright, so listen. I needed a gameplay incentive to balance your resources." The hell he did! "At first I thought about making it so the babies would explode like atomic bombs if they weren't taken care of, but they kept reaching super-criticality before the storks delivered them which just meant the pibbles got carpet bombed by atomic babies on the seventh day."

Toru just stared at Toji. "Does the game spawn the babies and storks at the start of the game or does it spawn them right before the seventh day hits?"

Pausing in place for a moment, Toji slowly let out a nervous chuckle before scratching at his forehead with his knuckles like a fat macaque that was offered a fistful of sunflower seeds. "Eheh… I might've forgotten to space out some of the scripts in the prototype."

Uhh… "How did the atomic babies survive a week if nothing but storks were taking care of them?"

Toji just continued scratching at his noggin like a picky beggar before he suddenly snapped his fingers together and let out a laugh. "The babies kept drowning from the storks flying through rain clouds so I just made it so their survival meters were locked in place until they arrived. Now that I think about it, that's probably how they survived being super-critical for over a day."

This fucking guy. "Alright, executive decision! You clearly need a second opinion at all times. And a beta tester. And more social time. So I volun-tell you to lemme mess around with the game while you make it!"

Twisting some of his snow white hair between his fingers, Toji slowly curled them into ringlets around his grabbers as he stared out the bedside window. "You sure you wanna waste your time messing around with whatever digital mess I'd churn out? I know you're busy training to get into U.A."

God forbid a girl try sharing a hobby with her nerdy best friend. "Dude, you're kinda overestimating my training schedule. I only work out about five or six hours a day with a few break days in-between. Between that, school, and sleep I still have about… 50 hours of free time every week?"

Toji looked like he was about to go the way of the Teto-Chonker as he tried not to keel over from heart failure. "Jeez Toru, are you sure you wanna waste so much time just bumming around with me? I'm starting to feel a bit bad that you're always getting dragged into my stuff but I'm never getting dragged into your stuff."

Swinging herself upright on the bed, Toru reached over and grabbed both of Toji's cheeks before scrunching his face together again for the second time that day. "Dummy, didn't you just listen to my schedule? My stuff is working out and public loitering, and that kinda sucks to do this late in the year."

Reaching up and placing his hand between the two of hers smushing his face, Toji quickly batted both of them back with a huff before rubbing at his own cheeks. "You know, that's actually a pretty good idea." Huh?

Toji must've realized she wasn't picking up what he was putting down, because he kept talking after taking one look at her face. "I meant me and you working out. I'd love to get shredded like you are. You're over here built like a waterlogged chimp and I'm stuck looking like the fuckin' Onceler."

Well damn, she guessed that qualified for a compliment. Eh, she'll take what she can get. "How buff do you actually want to get? Because I get wanting to look buff, but I'm only this jacked because I'm training for U.A. If you just want to get in shape and fill out a little I can show you how to do some compound freeweight exercises and bring you to the gym?"

"What's an exercise that'll let me walk off a car crash?" Toru had to admit, she felt like a bit of a dumbass for not immediately piecing together why Toji's asking her for work-out advice instead of his mom.

"Welllllll, I'd probably start you off with the same body conditioning routines my parents showed me when I was about twelve and work our way up from there. Uh, good choice by the way. Body conditioning is one of the more useful workouts."

Toji just nodded at that. "Yeah, I can imagine." Holy shit, just put her head between two cinder blocks right now. She must've not been the only one to notice how awkward the conversation had gotten, because Toji was already halfway to their shoes by the door before she could get the idea herself.

"Any chance you wanna swing this conversation over to that yogurt place I mentioned earlier?" Toru was already past him and at her shoes before he could even turn around.

"Sure! But fair warning, I'll probably need to get a feel for your baseline before I figure out a workout schedule for you."

Slipping his shades back over his face with a soft grin, Toji held the door open for her before leading the way to the elevators. "Hey, that's fine by me. Gives me more time to code up a personal fitness app that won't sell my bio's to China."

Should she even bother asking what the actual fuck was Toji babbling about? "Just so we're clear, you do know that your coding quirk is kinda insane, right? I don't really know a whole lot about coding but I'm pretty sure going from zero to "3D simulation game" is probably a bit excessive."

Toji just huffed out a laugh and lightly bumped his elbow into her shoulder as they got onto the elevator. "Of friggin' course I know how busted it is. I called it my jackpot for a reason. If I play my cards right I could become the next… uh… fuck. I don't wanna compare myself to any of the recent tech bros…"

Toru let out a confused hum at that. "What's wrong with David Shield?"

That got her a side-eye from Toji, his radioactive eyes peeking at her from the corner of his glasses. "Freaking… who?" Oh right, she forgot Toji lived under a rock!

Eh, she didn't really care about the guy so she could just give the cliff notes. "Smart inventor guy, is known for making support gear, lives on I-Island, and won a Nobel quirk prize."

Toji just grimaced the moment she mentioned I-Island, and that grimace upgraded itself into a frown when she got to the Nobel quirk prize. "Oh yeah, that guy. I definitely don't want to be anything like him. It'll be a cold day in hell when I join the black box brigade or devote my life to making nothing capeshit tech."

She just let out a quiet whistle at that. "Damn, Toji. I would've thought I-Island is exactly your kinda place. It's basically Nerdtopia."

He just let out a mirthless laugh at that one. "Sorry, but even I have some limits on what I'm willing to give up in exchange for not getting atomized by Captain Crackhead robbing a seven-eleven. I'd rather hide in the woods and hope for the best than sell my soul to that societal bottleneck." Damn, she'd have to remember to never invite Toji onto a cruise ship.

The conversation naturally faded away after that… for about three seconds before Toru busted out the next question.

"So, your mom's Midnight." Toji just let out a despondent groan at that, at Toru chuckled behind him all the way out the front of the hospital doors.

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Programming and Computer Science

Supercomputers are your bread and butter, and Artificial Intelligence is your idea of a PDA. Data, programs, and digital devices are your playthings, not to mention that your understanding of such systems mean you can hack anything that could possibly be hacked. There isn't really any limit on the extent you could push computing hardware, and any kind of software you can imagine is within your grasp. Please do note that flaunting this is likely to attract some attention from a few major players in particular. Then again that might not be a bad thing depending on your disposition and plans.​

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AN: This wasn't supposed to be almost 6k words of pure Toru POV, but that's what I ended up with. This was kind of me attempting alternate ways of introducing powers into the fic besides the mantra of "get power, drop power card, wake up, react to fallout of getting power." It feels a bit weird putting it at the absolute end of the fic but I've seen other authors do this in similar fics so hopefully it doesn't read oddly.

 

[Jagganoth]

ladies. gentlemen. pibbles have landed.

also what a descriptor of how PBBDC functions as a game. its like cruelty squad if it wasn't on purpose.

edit: WAIT! does an evolution mechanic mean we can finally get the noble pacifist path of the pitbull? the SMASHED FLAT TOAD?

 

[SiegfriedisPower]

Bleh must be how Americans describe things that fast track them into being millionaires by their mid-20s

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I have harsher words for scams and crypto(scams), and certain influencers(they do scams). But bleh works.

Pit Bull Prison Daycare Simulator.

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Bagel.

"At first I thought about making it so the babies would explode like atomic bombs if they weren't taken care of, but they kept reaching super-criticality before the storks delivered them which just meant the pibbles got carpet bombed by atomic babies on the seventh day."

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The Hydrogen Baby

 

[Jkript]

i would actually play that game sounds fun , like a stardrew valley frostpunk fusion with pitbulls

 

[CosmicBigfoot]

edit: WAIT! does an evolution mechanic mean we can finally get the noble pacifist path of the pitbull? the SMASHED FLAT TOAD?

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I can't even imagine what you'd need to accomplish to evolve some base pibbles into Habsburg Toadies.

Bagel.

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Edited "Scunchie!" to bagel to fix the bagel-less oversight in the chapter.

i would actually play that game sounds fun , like a stardrew valley frostpunk fusion with pitbulls

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I'm glad it at least reads as an actual game now, because the first version of the joke was kinda so batshit that it read as fully intentionally bad, which took a bit of the impact out of the gag.

 

[CornCorn]

Honestly? Didn't really like this part, it is 90% nonsense. It doesn't even feel like it moves the story anywhere, just random nonsense for the sake of nonsense because it is mildly humorous. Overall, hope things get back on track soon for some actual plot.

 

[UndeadLord22]

Either Rimworld or TF2 shooter. Idk how the gaming industry is in MHA, but them two games bussin'

 

[Phantom Thief Of Hearts]

He just let out a mirthless laugh at that one. "Sorry, but even I have some limits on what I'm willing to give up in exchange for not getting atomized by Captain Crackhead robbing a seven-eleven. I'd rather hide in the woods and hope for the best than sell my soul to that societal bottleneck." Damn, she'd have to remember to never invite Toji onto a cruise ship.

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Reading this cracked me up .

Would the MC really be willing to live in the woods, far from modern comforts?...I highly doubt it .

 

[You can get stronger]

Pit Bull Prison Daycare Simulator Is finally here!!!

 

[CosmicBigfoot]

Would the MC really be willing to live in the woods, far from modern comforts?...I highly doubt it .

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Fun fact about I-Island, it's actually the Hotel California. And by that I mean they don't let you leave once you become a member. Also it's basically a megacorp that talent scouts from across the planet and conscripts them into building quirk support gear. Forever.

I have no idea what Horikoshi was cooking up in the kitchen, but he blew up the microwave. Funnily enough it also explains why the tech in MHA is all over the place. All the great minds got taken to Nerd Neverland.

 

[attercop]

Nobody here plays Dwarf Fortress. It shows.

Shame on you.

 

[Phantom Thief Of Hearts]

I have no idea what Horikoshi was cooking up in the kitchen

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Japanese mentality on the working life of wage slaves.

Funnily enough it also explains why the tech in MHA is all over the place. All the great minds got taken to Nerd Neverland.

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I hope it's part of the plot.

The MC being hunted by those criminals who want him to go to their "wonderful" Nerd Neverland ...The MC just wants to make video games, not to dedicate himself to manufacturing sex toys for those degenerates .

 

[edk]

Fun fact about I-Island, it's actually the Hotel California. And by that I mean they don't let you leave once you become a member. Also it's basically a megacorp that talent scouts from across the planet and conscripts them into building quirk support gear. Forever.

I have no idea what Horikoshi was cooking up in the kitchen, but he blew up the microwave. Funnily enough it also explains why the tech in MHA is all over the place. All the great minds got taken to Nerd Neverland.

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I guarantee it started as some sort of 'oasis' started by the MHA version of tech bros during the rise of quirks. Unfortunately, as reality has taught us, true tech bros are absolute sociopaths who see people as resources and gladly manipulate the masses if it makes their corporations even slightly more profitable.

Add a hundred years onto that and you almost get the absolute monster that is the island in modern MHA: a corporate slave state connected to every major government.

 

[Jagganoth]

Nobody here plays Dwarf Fortress. It shows.

Shame on you.

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Tetobull has entered a tantrum!
Baby #42 grips tetobull by the left leg
Baby #42 crushes tetobulls throat
Baby #42 is a legendary wrestler

 

[Keinname]

Pfff-hahahaha!!!
So this time, it's less prison architect, and more "Gnorf Fortressomoria" - which just adds to the potential insanity. The game also being just the MC messing around with his coding quirk without trying to make a serious game just makes so much more sense - and with invisi-girl (i keep confusing their near-identical names, [don't] sue me!) egging him on to continue development, well.. if i was him, i'd work on an actual game first, in order to establish a reputation of actually being able to make decent games, and then release the current build of PBPDS on April Fool's for 666 Yen, with the main screenshot just being a wall of hazard tape and various warning signs, and the description basically being "the result of me messing around with my coding quirk for practice. you have been warned", and then watch the chaos unfold in the reviews.

 

[TheDanny]

I'm rich enough to buy a house but lazy enough to not want to upkeep" places you see rich e-celebs film apology videos in while hugging their do-"

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Hugging their what?

Was this his way of saying he just got screened for the big A? Because if so then call Toru impressed, because he just managed to say about ten thousand words and a medical diagnosis in three silent gestures.

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Ah yes, the 'tism can lead to many abilities that others would consider.... unnatural. Mostly relating to trains.....entirely related to trains actually.

 

[TheManWithoutAPlan]

Toji must've realized she wasn't picking up what he was putting down, because he kept talking after taking one look at her face. "I meant me and you working out. I'd love to get shredded like you are. You're over here built like a waterlogged chimp and I'm stuck looking like the fuckin' Onceler."

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Ooh! Amazon Toru? I hope she ends up big and strong given how she isn't biased against getting absurdly muscular for 'aesthetics' with her invisibility like every other MHA girl.

Toji not minding might even egg her on to get stronger (I love tomboys and amazons if it was not immediately obvious.)

In more important news for the game, I love how you can hear the coding process that was went through second hand with all the weird Minimal Viable Product quirks that ended up coming out. Hopefully it will end up getting a cult fan base like others of its kind once polished and published.

 

[Lumiere_DB]

Thank you for the chapter.

 

[BloodFartMoon]

He just let out a mirthless laugh at that one. "Sorry, but even I have some limits on what I'm willing to give up in exchange for not getting atomized by Captain Crackhead robbing a seven-eleven. I'd rather hide in the woods and hope for the best than sell my soul to that societal bottleneck." Damn, she'd have to remember to never invite Toji onto a cruise ship.

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Captain Crackhead and his band of lunatics...

Anyway whats his particular issue with I-island/David Shield? I mean besides the whole Discount Magneto fiasco?

 

[CosmicBigfoot]

Anyway whats his particular issue with I-island/David Shield? I mean besides the whole Discount Magneto fiasco?

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Scientists aren't allowed to leave I-Island (so they can't spread their knowledge, for "safety concerns"), they recruit the smartest people from across the planet, and the entire island-sized facility is focused entirely on making gimmick inventions for quirks and studying quirks. Also, the place is funded by just about every country with skin in the game. I'm pretty sure the simplest comparison would be "Noveria from Mass Effect if it was only an island and everything they researched was purely for biotics". If Toji was recruited by them he would unironically become a black-bagged corpo slave, Night City style. Between the fact that the world's tech is absolutely all over the place and nobody has any idea what quirks even are besides a mentally insane bald guy living under a morgue, I'm sure that I-Island was totally a worthwhile global investment for the wider MHA world.

David Shield is basically Tony Stark if instead of making clean energy and magic super suits he... researched gimmick quirks in a private water castle. Based, but somehow also cringe.

 

[ton459]

Toji is going to regret not making a different kinda game once momma Midnight discovers that her little snowy is making a "puppy daycare simulator" game which is both technically accurate and is how Midnight will definitely be calling/describing it whenever she brings up her new son's "adorable" new project.

 

[swarm]

Nobody here plays Dwarf Fortress. It shows.

Shame on you.

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Seen the debate on mermaid farming them for there bones as they have the same value as dragon bones and that babies provide the same amount of bones instead of waiting 12 years for them to mature to breed? Discussions on trap designs and wild vs domestic caught mermaids?

 

[Lagoon12002]

Seen the debate on mermaid farming them for there bones as they have the same value as dragon bones and that babies provide the same amount of bones instead of waiting 12 years for them to mature to breed? Discussions on trap designs and wild vs domestic caught mermaids?

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I thought that got nerfed this year?

There's also some madman who's managed to set up a sea serpent breeding farm. There is a video on it.

 

[bambache]

The Hydrogen Baby

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"Atom Bomb Baby."

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oWiUVaBt2wU

 

[orith]

A bit sad that the situation with the game having no plausible path towards AfO and/or Tomura having to pretend to enjoy it; the series of events in Everlong which could have led to that may have been implausible, but here it doesn't seem possible for the joke to land, on the grounds of it being an actual game that a human could conceivably unironically enjoy and play.

 

[Jagganoth]

Tomura is too much of a crashout to ever play PBBDCS. he'd disintegrate his keyboard the moment his fourth pibble got killed in a coyote raid.