[semi-open] 💣 they're gonna clean up your looks

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Who: The PLUS ULTRA! crew & friends.
Status: Semi-open.
Where: The Mighty Explosion God Ship Bomb!! ship that is docked in Eltrut or Elah. Or the small cottage the crew owns in Elah.
What: A catch-all mingle log for March for the PLUS ULTRA! crew and any friends happening by. Some Manta Board quest prompts have been included too.
Warnings: Tba.

⛵ Like the rest of the ships around the docks lately, the explosion of sea slugs has taken over the hero's ship as well. It's covered in what seems like hundreds of playful and colourful sea slugs. They are all over the deck, climbing up the mast and leaving strings of sticky slime all over the place. The slugs will either need to be removed somehow or killed. And the sea slug slime mopped up...

If crewmates and friends are looking for partners to go harvesting underwater pineapples with the ship can also be found in Eltrut waters where the special pineapples can be found. Go swimming or diving to collect as many underwater pineapples for the ship stores as possible.




🌼 If not on the ship, the crew can sometimes be found at their small cottage on the paladin's leviathan, Elah. The cottage is small but happens to be well kept despite four very unruly and busy teenagers living inside it. They have a small garden growing outside as well as various plants and pots all over the terrace.

And they seem to be preparing to build some kind of new addition to the cottage soon too as there is a pile of stone and wood stacked up outside. And an apple-shaped sheep keeps walking around too. Baaah.

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Time is a myth.

[cursedwords]

He smiles cheerfully and steps inside, look Toge knows how to use doors just fine. He's not a total heathen. He enters, lets Shoto get the door and lowers his mask so he can give him a little kiss in greeting.

"Kelp." Toge's tone is a bit different, less total cheer and more warmth.

[heir_conditioned]

Shoto does indeed take that queue, leaning the tiny distance needed to greet him at the door the proper way once it's all shut and taken care of. Shoto returns to his smile and gestures for him to have a seat in their common room. "I'm glad you came." Even if this isn't the first time he's been over. "You know everyone, I think?"

[cursedwords]

"Salmon salmon." Toge agrees. He's fairly certain he has met everyone. Shoto also gets a hug since he's his boyfriend before he finally lets go.

"Takana?" How's Shoto doing today, he has to ask.

[heir_conditioned]

And now Toge has done it, because hug brief or not, he's going to have to settle and keep one arm around him. Shoto has found that he enjoys this closeness. Eventually it makes for his other hand to settle on the comfortable spot just above Toge's hip at his waist. Though it takes him just a few moments to respond, he's certain he understands.

"I'm alright. Midoriya has been wanting to do a few projects, so it's been busy here, but it's otherwise as usual. We have a new crewmate, Ranma Saotome. New in comparison to being here a while I guess."

[cursedwords]

Since their discussion on Valentine's day, Toge has a new response to give Shoto, and so he does since he's pulled to his side.

He places both hands out in front of him in the shape of a heart, with a little smile.

Toge is listening though so he nods along to Shoto's words.

It's fine, I can die. /loveheart

[heir_conditioned]

The heart shape of his hands makes Shoto smile a little wider than maybe he normally does. He likes seeing it and if his hands weren't full of Toge, he would maybe have attempted it himself. It makes his heart flutter and he's not sure that he shouldn't go in for an actual physical to make sure that isn't something he should have looked at. It feels warm deep in his chest.

"I like when you do that." The other conversation is forgotten-- crew who? Meeting who? Only Toge. He's so cute. He has no idea how someone else didn't shoot their shot with him and Shoto is so glad. Being with Toge is great.

It's not the worst way to go

[cursedwords]

He grins, pleased by Shoto's reaction and his words and he smiles. "Salmon. Tuna mayo." Toge likes what they came up with and he likes Shoto, not in that order.

Somehow, relationships should be more complicated he thinks sometimes, but he's glad it's not. At the moment he's just enjoying having a boyfriend and getting the chance to experience something new - something downright normal for a change.

Funny he had to come to another world to do that.

🫶🫶

[heir_conditioned]

What do you mean that he's not going to lean close and press three small, mildly lingering kisses to Toge's cheek. It's a little more daring than his usual with the proximity to his jaw, but he doesn't care if anyone sees, let them. Shoto is almost certain he's starting to feel much more strong for the other teen and the rest of them can deal with the scandal of a cheek kiss. He's not sure what to call what he feels, but the bracelet on his wrist is the testimony of wanting this man in his life any time he can be.

He sets his forehead against Toge's and even if it means he has to move both his head and his hands, he returns the hearthands up over his chest. When the hearthands breaks, the motion of it is set to brushing the back of Shoto's fingers against the spot he had just kissed. "You should stay for dinner, this time you wouldn't have to cook. Bakugo banned most of us from the kitchen, so it'd be done by him. He's really good."

[cursedwords]

Toge has no complaints about the gentle attention, or the kisses. He doesn't think they're that scandalous, but he's not in his world. He's smiling, pleased with everything.

The offer has him nodding. "Salmon." He would like to try Bakugo's cooking. He's not very fussy, despite his skills. He's still a teenage boy after all. He could eat just about anything.

As long as Bakugo doesn't mind.

[heir_conditioned]

Scandal or no, they happened and as far as Shoto is concerned, they'll likely happen again. "Then it's settled." That's the finality of it. "I can ask him if he'll make something with you in mind?" He is already getting his phone out, it's too late. Todoroki is proud of his friends, but also he enjoys the idea of maybe letting his partner get a little spoiled too.

[cursedwords]

"Fish-" Toge starts because he doesn't need to be spoiled or catered to, he really will eat anything Bakugo makes but Shoto's already on his phone.

He sighs and gives up, offering a bit of a shrug. Sure, whatever you want Shoto, his body language seems to say.

[heir_conditioned]

Shoto texts Bakugo, asking him politely and offering to do the dishes in return. But he gestures to the couch for Toge to have a seat. He himself settles in, phone not far away. "One day, I'd like to see if there's a way to see a movie. Did you like movies?"

[cursedwords]

"Salmon." Toge agrees, and nods in Shoto's direction before pulling out his shellphone.

My teacher has used them for training, and sometimes when we have evenings free we watch one. It's fun.

[heir_conditioned]

Shoto looks over to the phone and picks it up after a second or two, watching the line come into view.

"Oh?" He reads it again, "For training? What kind of training do movies do?" This is something he could get behind. Movies for training. Maybe he could finagle a day or two for a movie night if they could find a way to do it.

[cursedwords]

I don't think you could train the same way. We have these puppets that you put cursed energy into and the trick is to keep it stable and balanced no matter your emotional state.

He didn't have to do that training long, he's a master at controlling his emotions, but he did get to watch other people and the movies.

[heir_conditioned]

"I see." Shoto says, still interested in this methodology, but knowing he can't actually use it, or benefit from it... He'd still want to see movies with Toge anyway. Those are classic dates according to actual movies, too. "I wish I could. I'm not the best at controlling my emotions, sometimes."

Shoto pauses in thought. "You'd know if I was cursed, wouldn't you? From your training and work with curses?"

[cursedwords]

He tilts his head to the side a bit, quizzical. "Salmon."

Toge would know, but he's also wordlessly asking why Shoto is asking that question? Although, he'd probably know if he was cursed by now because their initial meeting would've been a lot more hostile.

[heir_conditioned]

"I got curious." Shoto has a lot of reason to be curious, he's been convinced of his ability to curse something for a long time by just existing. "Nothing I need to worry about if you'd know. You would've told me." He pauses, looking up, then over to Toge. "Right? Or is that not something you're allowed to do?" Maybe he's asking him to break an unspoken sorcerer law.

[cursedwords]

"Salmon." Toge nodded his confirmation. He would tell Shoto. He wasn't cursed, but that probably wasn't a good feeling.

He reached for his face, fingers light and gentle and went up on tip toes to kiss his cheek.

They didn't tell people much when they were cursed, that was true, but Shoto is his boyfriend.

[heir_conditioned]

On the contrary. Not being cursed is something he can take into his own two hands and not end up worrying about them being crushed. "Thank you, Toge. I trust you with that."

Voicing more than why isn't happening at that point, but he will at least give voice to how it feels to know. "It's liberating to know that there isn't something out of my control that affects people around me. That means I can change anything that needs changing and it be my own free will."

[cursedwords]

It can be hard to worry about such things and while Toge doesn't know why Shoto would worry about that, he can at least do that much. He gently touches under Shoto's chin and then taps his own chest.

"Tuna tuna." He would keep an eye out if Shoto liked, and he promised to tell him if anything changes.

It's not a difficult promise to make.

[heir_conditioned]

Not difficult, but means a lot to him. Which, speaking of, his mind has meandered on to something else already, obviously excited to be doing everything officially. "If you know everyone, introducing you to them will be really easy. Especially with Bakugo. He already knows we're dating." Everyone with eyes knows. "But introducing you as my partner--" Which pauses his train of thought immediately. Eyebrows coming together. "Maybe not partner. He could misunderstand me."

[cursedwords]

Shoto's really very cute when he's excited and Toge just smiles. He pulls out his phone though, so he can get his thought across more appropriately, sending him a little text.

Partner works, so does boyfriend. I'm not that fussy. Whatever you want to call me is fine.

[heir_conditioned]

Shoto reaches for his own phone and pulls it free just as the text is coming through. There's a tiny smile on his face reading it. It seems surreal every time.

"I like boyfriend..." He starts, very clearly not done his thought but needing a moment with it, "But partner, it means we work well with one another. It means that we're a team and that we're one functioning unit, together." Shoto looks from his phone to the text-sender. "I think that suits us. At least I feel it does. You very much complete parts of me I didn't know were incomplete."

[cursedwords]

He's still an awkward teenager, he's not immune to blushing brightly at such straightforward heartfelt words.

"Tuna mayo." Both of them work, he thinks they work well together, and they are good boyfriends.

Toge hides his embarrassment by rubbing the back of his neck. Yes. He's very smooth and not at all awkward, please don't think otherwise.