with lights turned up, it's hard to hide

[blindfoldcode]

Who: Tsubomi Kido and Open
What: She got a power back
When: Whatever day today is ICly
Where: Around? Seriously a bunch of places.
Warnings: a panicking teenager

The snake in her room a few days ago had troubled her. At first she wondered if it was an ayakashi, wondered if she should tell Deku, wondered if she should've done anything.

But then everything had gone to shit and for the most part she forgot it. She spent most of her time inside since then. Who she had interacted with, she had been comfortable with, or they'd just been a part of the Near Shore so like really, it's not like it surprised her when people didn't notice her.

So this is all pretty darn new to her. Because Tsubomi Kido is disappearing.

A - The Near Shore

Did you think you were alone today? Did you maybe, somehow, think that there was no one around you? Because it really seemed like no one was around you. Maybe you were on your way to get groceries or check out a book from the library or on the way home from your part time job.

Until a girl with headphones in her ears and grocery bags in her hands literally appeared just as she walked right into you. Red eyed and startled, Tsubomi Kido seems to have gone more ghost than normal. She blinks up, stupidly for a second, not realizing she literally just appeared out of thin air.

"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention."

Literally right out of thin air what the hell.

B - The Far Shore v.2

You know, again, you probably thought you were all alone.

Until a hand is grabbing your arm and there wasn't anyone there until right now and there's a very concerned looking Tsubomi Kido with glowing red eyes holding onto you and you just started hearing her right in the middle of a sentence, in the middle of a word, has she been talking this whole time???

"--n you see me?"

Well now you can, anyway. Not so much before she grabbed you....

C - Closed to Deku

Invisible or not, Kido can make enough of a racket to get attention when she slams the apartment door open. But, sorry, Izuku, it might seem like a breeze at first.

Kido takes a deep breath and tries to be calm. She doesn't want to sting Deku. And that's the only reason she comes into view, standing in the doorway, clutching her bags so tightly her knuckles are white. One earbud has fallen loose and her eyes have finally dimmed back to grey and she's breathing heavily. Her shoulders are shaking a little.

"You can see me, right? I'm not invisible. I'm home and you can see me."

Comments

C

[fullcowl]

He doesn't think that his apartment could be blown open by the wind- but here it is, slammed open. Izuku immediately rises from reading his superhero comics to check what just happened.

"You're here, I can see you." He looks so worried for her. But he has no idea what she's talking about. "What happened? Are you okay?"

[blindfoldcode]

Oh thank goodness. She relaxes a little more, letting her breathing calm. "I don't know. You know how it's hard for people who are alive to see us? It's been like that for me with everybody today.

"I feel like a ghost." You are a ghost.

[fullcowl]

He looks more confused. Technically yes, the Far Shore residents are basically ghosts to people in the Near Shore.

"Everyone's had a hard time seeing you?" That sounds... kind of like a quirk to him. Though if she doesn't remember having it, then it's reasonable to assume she doesn't remember how to control it. Especially if it's not a genetic kind of quirk like most people at home have.

"I can still see you just fine. Has it just started happening?"

[blindfoldcode]

"Yeah, just this morning. I'm used to it from normal people, but it's everyone now..." That red is fading back into her eyes, and her hands, uh...

Her hands are starting to disappear, the groceries along with them.

[fullcowl]

It's like a quirk she really doesn't know how to use.

"Kido? How are you feeling right now?" Maybe it's tied into her emotions? He thinks Todoroki's works somewhat similar to this, but he has far better control over it.

[blindfoldcode]

She had such better control back when she was alive...

"I don't--" She looks away from him again, and disappears to her elbows. "I don't know. I don't get it. What's happening to me?"

She was just starting to feel better about being here. Does disappearing like this mean her time is up? Is she going to disappear for good? That would mean she'll never see Deku or Hajime again. It would mean losing music and cooking and the things she's learned that she likes to do. And she doesn't want to. People have been going missing. She doesn't want to.

[fullcowl]

He'll go to her and grab her hands, guessing where they are.

"You're still here. I think its a quirk? I have a classmate that's invisible all the time, but you seem to be able to turn it off and on."

That's the frame of reference he has. It's like Hagakure, isn't it? Except she's always invisible unlike Kido.

[blindfoldcode]

"But I can't stop it." She can see her hands. She doesn't realize they're gone. She also hasn't made the connection to her shinki power...

She looks at his hands where he's holding onto her. "I don't want to disappear. Not like this." Sure she doesn't want to be seen sometimes but. This is excessive.

[fullcowl]

"Hey, hey... Breathe, take a deep breath. You're here, you're right here." He can tell she's already worried, and this is almost as much as he can do.

"You're not going anywhere, you're just turning invisible. Concentrate on being visible."

[blindfoldcode]

Breathe? Okay. She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. It doesn't do much for her hands but it does at least start to calm her down. Another deep breath and her head drops and her shoulders hunch.

"I like it here. I-I like the stuff we've been doing when we're not fighting and I like being here. I don't want to disappear."

[fullcowl]

At least she's starting to calm down, that's much better than she was a few moments ago. He thinks of his power like a switch, but he's not sure how tied up in her emotions Kido's are. That makes it way harder for him to figure out a plan of action to get her visible again.

"I like having you here, I like being your friend. You're still here. I can still feel you." He squeezes her hands.

[blindfoldcode]

"Nobody could see me. Nobody could hear me." Not unless she literally threw herself into them.

But Deku could and that's a start. Her eyes dim to grey again and her hands come back into sight. "... did getting cracked mess me up?" Deku's arms still aren't 100% right? Maybe something got screwed with inside of her...

[fullcowl]

Izuku's arms are still bandaged up- at worst they'll take a few more days to heal up.

"Do... you think your shinki power is bleeding through to your normal body?" He's not sure that's even possible. But he also doesn't know enough about shinki to be entirely certain. Then that's his fault.

"You're completely visible now."

B

[birdstheword]

It's not often someone gets the surprise on Hajime. But the second she feels something grab onto her arm and seeing nothing in her peripheral vision, it makes her jump. Hajime blinks slowly as she stops and looks over, clearly startled by the sudden grab and sudden appearance of Kido. She wasn't one to usually over look people and Kido is one of said people she would surely notice almost instantly. How did she just now spot her, mid sentience no less? A small confused frown plays on Hajime's lips as she touches her own forehead. She didn't feel tired or sick...

"K-kido-chan? When did....Is everything okay? I see you." She says slowly, though those bright flowing ruby red eyes are getting more of her attention. Hajime reaches out to gently cup her face with both hands to get a better look. She's not seeing things, Kido's eyes are red!

"Hey Kido-chan...when did you get red eyes?"

[blindfoldcode]

She snaps her eyes shut. They're not red? Her eyes are grey. They've always been grey, as long as she can remember. Which is only a few days, but they haven't been red at all whenever she's looked at herself.

Of course she hasn't looked at herself in a while so, yeah, they are red. And glowing. That'd be cool except for the fact that it isn't cool. At all.

"I don't know. I don't know what's going on. Nobody can see me." Except for, incidentally, Hajime now. And thank goodness Hajime can.

[birdstheword]

"Relax, Kido-chan. I see you. I'm looking right at you, see? I hear you loud and clear too."

Now she can anyway. Kido did sort of spook her, but she is standing right there. It is weird that she hadn't noticed her before but she's trying not to dwell on that. Hajime is trying to get her to settle down more then anything. Hajime reaches to her face, gently brushing the hair out of Kido's face.

"Start from this morning maybe? What happened?"

[blindfoldcode]

"I went out. And even when I was shouting, nobody noticed me." Kido trying to get attention is already weird enough. "And when I ran into somebody, they thought I was a ghost." Kido you are a ghost.

"But it wasn't like normal. My eyes feel like they're burning. Even people here can't see me."

[birdstheword]

That is strange. She would understand it happening if they were in the Near Shore, but everyone in the Far Shore should be able to see each other. It doesn't make sense.

"Maybe...its a power you have? You just don't remember? I don't really get what's happening but I bet that's it! You just gotta figure out how its happening." Hajime gives her a small reassuring smile.

[blindfoldcode]

"Why would a power like this start now?" It doesn't make sense.

She's afraid to let go of Hajime. If she does she might vanish again.

[birdstheword]

"It could have triggered some how. Lots of things could be it! I can turn invisible too but I don't know really how you're doing it....we'll figure it out though okay?"

She's not letting go of Kido either.

[blindfoldcode]

"You can?" That actually does make her feel a little bit better. At least she's not alone.

[birdstheword]

"Mm-hmm! I don't think it's exactly the same as yours though." As far as Hajime knows, Kido isn't a Gatchaman so her ability much be different. She reaches into her pocket and produces her NOTE and holds it up.

"It's a power I have. I think...yours is a power you have too! We just gotta figure out how it works."

[blindfoldcode]

She's just a dead kid.

She wishes, a little, that she could remember something. But she knows she can't. She knows she shouldn't. She just feels... lost.

"How do you even do something like that?" She's worrying more and her uh, her hands are disappearing.

[birdstheword]

"Ah--"

That grabs Hajime's attention and she instinctively reaches out and grabs Kido's hands in her own. She really is disappearing right in front of her. That would be really amazing if it wasn't scaring the poor girl.

"Kido-chan, you need to relax. Getting upset is going to make things worse. Breath~! I'm never going to let you go, okay?" She gives her hands a reassuring squeeze.

[blindfoldcode]

At least she's still solid. She takes a breath. At least it's a reassurance she's not completely gone.

"Am I more of a ghost or something? Or a demon? My eyes aren't normally red..." Is she like dying 2.0???