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[dryeye]

[are you serious]

I ran across him during the initial monster attack, but I can't say I've seen him since.

His family doesn't know who he is, am I reading that correctly?


How is that possible

[explodosafe]

[Sup, his handle reads 'Eijirou Kirishima' since Retrospec uses the characters real names, but Cutter sure recognizes his teacher's name.]

Same here. I figured he'd be fine since he's the type who can look out for himself, but...

His family doesn't even know WHO he is!! It's as if he's never existed to them!


This is Cutter btw

[dryeye]

[That name sure does and he sure doesn't know it...but he does know Shouto, so here he is.]

He was setting quite a few monsters on fire just fine last I saw him, at least.

I can't see how that would possibly even work, though. I don't suppose you might have mistakenly gone to the wrong house...

[Wait what--]

Hold on, this is who? [guess who isn't privy to Cutter's cool nickname amongst friends: this guy apparently]

[explodosafe]

[Let's take a moment so he can groan and hide his face in his hand. He really doesn't want to give out his full real name on the this app if he doesn't have to!]

Cutter. You know, the sharp guy whom you helped with the fountain fishing? You also questioned my use of sensei.

[Hint hint, wink nudge, box.]

Impossible. I've visited him before. It was the right house and the right family.

[dryeye]

Oh. Sharpe. Why didn't you just say so in the first place?

[DON'T BLAME HIM FOR NOT KNOWING THE INTRICACIES OF YOUR NAME WOES??]

But that doesn't make any sense...this is ridiculous.

[Everything has been ridiculous lately but you know, just when he thought monsters literally tearing up the streets couldn't possibly be topped, here we are. Having people literally...vanish out of family memory, apparently??

That's stupid. This is stupid.]

I don't like it. When was the last time you saw him yourself?

[explodosafe]

[Too late. He is totally blaming him for it.]

During the con.

I don't like it either, but I doubt whoever is responsible for this cares about that. Seems like a whole list of people suddenly up and vanished





do you think they didn't make it through the black holes?

[dryeye]

[RUDE....and you never answered his first question either, the rudeness continues!! Don't think he's forgetting this anytime soon Cutter >:(

But anyway...]

Well, if we want to take the most grim outlook available, I suppose that's always a possibility. But there's not much to do about it, if that's the case, and besides that I'd like a confirmation more concrete than faulty memories from family members before we start a mourning process or anything.

Has anybody on this app forgotten about the missing people? From what I can see it doesn't appear so...

[explodosafe]

[What was the first question again? Sorry, a girl just asked him out on a Find-my-missing-Shouto date.]

That's a pretty big fault in their memories, though, just saying.

I doubt it. But if they have they wouldn't notice it either, would they? Do you remember anything from when you were tossed through that black hole?

[dryeye]

[JUST BECAUSE YOU GOT A DATE DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE YOUR RUDENESS WOW??]

Yes, but suddenly treating monsters as a perfectly normal occurrence is a big fault too. Maybe the two things are related, maybe they're not. There's not enough information...I'd rather not jump to conclusions until we get more of it.

What, the ones that put people on the beach, you mean? I remember being very irritated after the fact, but it all seemed to go by pretty fast. [...Hm....] Now that you mention those, though...we've got no way to confirm that anyone ending up in those holes actually turned back up on the beach afterwards, do we?

[explodosafe]

They probably are. And you're probably right. Sorry, I get worked up whenever I think of it.

[Who knows what's gonna happen when Shouto happens to people? He has faith in Silver and Karkat, but Shouto is a highly competent wild card.]

Yeah. We'd need a head-count for that, which won't be easy with how many seem to be just gone. But it might be worth a shot?

[dryeye]

[Normally one would be more concerned about what might happen to Shouto, but honestly......yeah. Hopefully he can work with other people alright, wherever he actually is. Goodness knows the kid tries, apparently, but he's just sort of...well. Shouto-ish.

On the bright side, setting himself on fire has seemed like a pretty effective defense versus monsters so far...anyway--]

It might be, yes. I suppose I can ask around as I go...or maybe it's something to bring up to those that might be compiling a list of the missing already. Another factor to keep track of, at least.

[...]

You don't need to apologize about getting worked up over something like this. It's a concerning situation. And you said yourself that Shouto is a friend of yours.

But there's a happy medium to strike between being concerned and being proactive about fixing the problem. We can focus on that first instead of wasting energy imagining worst-case scenarios. So let's do that, alright?

[explodosafe]

Yes.

And I'll try, thank you.

[There is a pause where Aizawa misses Cutter fidgeting for a long time before he finally gives in with a sigh and scrolls up for a moment. There's another long thinking phase before he finally sends another text.]

Cutter has been my nickname since forever. My family - the people who adopted me - are good people. I don't want to risk dragging them into anything just because I said something on the net.

[It's also a pun on both his birth name and the name of his family in his new life, so... He's grown fond of the more delicate in-joke hidden behind the cheesy obvious one.]

[dryeye]

[Aizawa certainly doesn't realize there's any fidgeting going on--if anything, he's half-expecting the conversation to be about over after his last message, as the pause stretches on from Cutter's end. But then there's another text at length, unexpectedly, and...

Huh.

There's a shorter, thoughtful pause on Aizawa's end before the reply comes.]

When you put it that way it makes sense, I suppose. I think most people these days tend to use different names on online forums anyhow or something for similar reasons, right?

[Though that's not exactly doable with this app, since it puts in. Your actual name regardless, apparently. Considering the name over Cutter's texts now, it finally occurs to Aizawa that the name listed there must be...a birth name or something. And with that...the nickname makes sense in another sort of way too.

It's a pretty unexpected detail to be privy to all of a sudden, like this. Here he'd been, assuming there wasn't any particular reasoning behind the nickname, but in the end...]

If you'd prefer I don't address you by your family's name on this app in the future I'd understand, in any case. Is that what you're wondering?

[explodosafe]

Yes.

[Just like that, pretty much. Don't mix RL with online, what happens on the net stays in the net, don't let retrospec weirdness leak any further into his personal life. He isn't a terrible deep person with his wishes.]

If you could just call me Cutter unless asked otherwise that'd be nice. I mean, I know it's not feasible during school, just in -private?

[dryeye]

[HE MIGHT BE OLD BUT HE DOES PAY ATTENTION SOMETIMES...OK......the internet's weird but everybody's using it and now there's this Retrospec app nonsense so, might as well. Learn the bigger trends, kind of....anyway--

Huh.]

In the classroom that definitely wouldn't be doable, no. [...] But if it's on this network, sure. No skin off my nose if that's really your preference for those reasons.

[In person outside school, on the other hand? Well...maybe. Aizawa never really could entirely let go of formalities even after moving to the more verbally casual climate of the States here--he tends to be on last-name basis with pretty much everyone school or not--and 'Cutter' isn't exactly first-name basis but still seems kind of casual too?? Texting it is one thing, saying it out loud is another. Who knows. (Honestly though, everybody's got to start chilling out somewhere, Aizawa....)]

[explodosafe]

It is. Just my parents use my first name, and I know that I'm usually in trouble when somebody goes "Mr.[family name]".

It also makes me feel old.

[He's no mister yet, alright? He's a dude. No, wait, where'd that come from?! He's going to be a Mr., but in the respect-wielding mafia-style way! Dudes are something for beach parties, what the hell!]

[dryeye]

[oh my god, cutter please...why won't you accept your dudeliness into your own heart....

Aizawa, oblivious to Cutter's sudden and intense internal debate over the semantics of mister vs dude, but amused at what he's reading:] Right, goodness forbid you start feeling like that. You're already practically done with high school, isn't that ancient in teen years already? But I guess everyone needs to stave off the reality somehow...

[Maybe this isn't the time to be sarcastic but it's happening anyway, the hook was right there sorry Cutter....]

[explodosafe]

[Thanks for offering distraction, teacher.]

Don't be silly, I'm still well below twenty. It's when people won't side-eye you for having a family that you know that you're old.

[dryeye]

[These are trying times, might as well....]

You say that now, but twenty will happen before you know it, and you won't even notice because it feels exactly the same as nineteen, and eighteen before that.

[LIKE FAIR WARNING OK even if Cutter literally never actually asked for this warning (too bad he's getting it regardless apparently). Anyway.....]

Is that the oldness metric people are using these days? Guess that's fair enough...if anything, people start side-eyeing you for not having a family around that point too.

[explodosafe]

Is that what they told you on your 30th birthday as well?

[The question is out before he can question the wisdom of it and Cutter is left staring at his text with a mixture of 'oh crap' and awe. He's doing it. He's talking back to Mr. Aizawa, one of the school's sharpest hounds, and the chances of him surviving it are actually not that bad!]

I think I'll worry about this mess and how to survive it first before worrying about that. I'm still worried about what's gonna happen once the memories starts stacking up too much.

[dryeye]

[IS THAT SOME SASS HE'S DETECTING HERE YOUNG MAN.......


But it's true, things are weird. And this isn't exactly a classroom conversation or anything, so...]

1: That's awfully rude of you to assume.
2: That may or may not be what I've been told lately, but fortunately for me I don't care about the prospect or their opinions on such matters at all. Maybe someday you'll gain this kind of indifference too. It's very nice.

[Letting you off the hook for that tbh...FOR NOW....especially since, well--]

But that's also fair enough. No need to jump to conclusions yet there, either...ideally all this won't be lasting nearly long enough for a problem like that to happen. I can't see why it would.

Anyhow, let me know if anything else comes up about Shouto, will you? Or if things come up in general...evidently we've got enough radio silence coming from many people as it is, no need to add to it by not communicating about things.

[explodosafe]

[Yeeeeeahhh, he isn't going to abuse his newfound power to stick his neck out any further than that. So dismissal gratefully accepted.]

Will do. Did you remember anything yet?

[dryeye]

[Smart move, Cutter. ...Though now they've veered into this sort of conversation instead. Ah. ...There's a slightly longer pause on Aizawa's end before:]

Remember things I've never experienced before, you mean?


There have been a couple now, yes. Why?

[explodosafe]

Yeah.

Just being curious. There seem to be a lot of loose threads that connect certain groups of people, so sometimes one has the answers another one is needing.

[That sounds innocent enough, right? Cutter isn't exactly keen to just go up and ask Aizawa if he remembers the time he threatened to expel them all on their first day of school just yet.]

[dryeye]

[It probably is innocent enough, fortunately for Cutter....]

So that's a trend, is it? Guess that makes sense... [........Couldn't hurt to mention it, since Cutter seems to know at least Shouto? Shouto already knows too. It'll probably come up eventually either way (assuming Shouto returns to say as much himself, as he should), so in the meantime--] Shouto and Midoriya have both cropped up in a couple of mine so far, now that you mention it. I've been wondering why that might be the case...still not sure I like it, exactly. At this rate I'm wondering if other students I've had are going to start showing up in them too, much as I'd much prefer they didn't. Have you been experiencing the same thing?