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INBOX Text / Voice / Video / Action "Hello and how do you do? This is Alice Liddell! I'm terribly sorry, but I'm afraid you just missed me. Please leave your message and I'll be as quick as I can, even as quick as a white rabbit, to get back to you!" code credit

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No, you won't. [She shot back immediately and with quite a bit of assured confidence.] I can even beat daddy, he stopped letting me win when I was five, and he's been playing me properly ever since. When his colleagues give him gruff [She means guff.] or don't believe him, they play me too, they're quick to get their tongues caught by my cats. If you do beat me, I promise it won't be easy, Mr. Bakugou.

[She took the basket with her good arm and put it on the windowsill, lifting up the cloth to look inside.]

Edited 2023-03-05 03:43 (UTC)

[Oh? Did he just light a competitive fuse in this little brat? Good, those types are always more fun to be around, because Katsuki himself is extremely competitive, and he feeds off that energy. Besides, he wants to see if that confidence is misplaced or not - kids are smart, and especially when it comes to young kids with a certain skill. He wants to give her a run for her money.

Or at least a challenge against someone tough, once he figures out the game himself.]

Haah? That right? Well, if the best of the best is teaching me...wouldn't it make sense I'd be able to beat the master some day? Your days are numbered, brat.

[He grins, folding his arms over his chest and patiently waiting for Alice to unwrap her little gift. Inside is a plastic baggy of teddybear butter cookies, some chocolate truffles make to also look like bears and piggies from the month's chocolate craze, and...a new night gown, folded neatly to the side.]

That is right. [She responded with ease. She paused as she contemplated the rest of what he said and then grinned, spinning around to face him again.] So then, you're going to be my chess partner? Only daddy will be my chess partner anymore, Lizzie gave up ages ago and mother won't play. It's been a very long time since I've had a chess partner outside of daddy, I've learned all of his tricks and opening moves.

[How terribly exciting! To have a new chess partner! Someone she didn't know and didn't know her! She pulled him to stand beside her, wanting to remain close to Katsuki and her eyes widened as she looked at everything in the basket. They... they were adorable!

She hugged Katsuki again with her good arm.]

You really are a hero. [She whispered.] You're my hero.

[Hah, cute... Katsuki had to admit the little brat has grown on him, and seeing her in better spirits is a small relief. He had hoped she wouldn't internalize the trauma too much and while he knows this is just a slight distraction from the horrors that happened to her...well. He's willing to be that distraction.]

Aa, if it means being the best at something else, then I'll give it a shot. Knock down the the little braggart on her throne and take the crown. That's what it means to be number o--

[You're my hero.]

[HRRRRRNBNGHJGHJCHJHF--gross.

His chest feels tight and Katsuki knows his ears are burning with embarrassment from those heartfelt and extremely cheesy words. He normally takes praise like that with a grain of salt - he's amazing, of course he is! He can do whatever he sets his mind to and has always overcome all obstacles in his path. People have been hanging off his accomplishments since he was five. It got to his head, because any kid treated like hot shit would twist that, and he's only now learning to control that ugly part of him that has to always be the best at everything - that inferiority/superiority complex he does still have, though far less awful than what it used to be... He soaked up the praise until it was all white noise, but now?

Now he's learning what it's like to be, well...on the receiving end of something a bit more profound than just a pat on the ass. It's weird. Hot. Itchy. Uncomfortable. But not unpleasant, either. Katsuki just doesn't do this sort of thing, has no idea how to dissect it, and his embarrassment makes him feel weird, like it shouldn't be a thing. Scratching his nose, he scoffs loudly and tries to play it off.]

Tch!! You think I was making that up?! B-Brat... Just wait until I get my gear back, I'll be even stronger.

[And it won't get as bad as it did. He will be stronger. Better.]

No, I know you're a hero, but you're my hero.

[She smiled up at him and then, without realizing the impact she had made, carefully put everything away, well, she put everything away except one teddybear cookie, nibbling on her treat as she linked her fingers with Katsuki's fingers and pulled him over to the chessboard.]

Let me show you how to play, so then I can fairly, soundly, and properly beat you. [She giggled.]

Edited 2023-03-12 01:33 (UTC)

[HE FEELS ITCHY AND HE DOESN'T WIKE IT!!!

With a hushed grumble and an obnoxious heat to his ears, Katsuki's brows pinch together and he's led to where she's set up the game board. He isn't...very good with holding hands, it's a bit of a thing, but he allows it for just that moment before shaking her off a little bit and taking a long look at each piece and the board itself. He's seen them all before - like he said, his dad used to play - but he's never really cared to learn.

His mouth quirks up at the corners and he crosses his legs, squaring his shoulders. He likes this brat's confidence.]

Can't wait to make you eat those words. Let's get started then, sensei.

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1/3 - SHE'S SO CUTE, JAX, HOW DARE YOU HURT ME THIS WAY.

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we can probably wrap here, for this one!! ♥♥