[ FIFTEEN ] for sender to carry a fatigued receiver away after a battle.
(perhaps a first meeting?)
The metallic scent of blood was thick in the air as a barely conscious Arkyn stumbled away from the scene. He knew not what the creatures were, nor how they had taken human form to deceive him. They had introduced themselves as travelers, and had promised to guide him towards the Placidum. While friendly at first, once Arkyn was isolated, the travelers quickly shed their human form and changed into something else entirely.
In the wake of the battle, Arkyn understood that he had grown complacent. Modern Runeterra had seemed quite peaceful to him. He had become comfortable in a world where the power of his blood made Arkyn stronger any run-of-the-mill soldier. But there is always a bigger fish, always someone stronger. If the monsters had known the extent of his abilities before the battle, he would have surely fallen.
As the iceborn man picked up his heavy feet, trying to distance himself from the gruesome sight of the conflict, Arkyn felt his vision darken at the edges, the noise of the birds and bugs of the woods replaced with only a sharp ringing and the sound of his beating heart. In the distance, Arkyn barely made out the image of a white-haired stranger. While he knew in the back of his mind that it could be another of these shapeshifters, a part of him couldn't help but hope otherwise.
"Friend!" He choked out in the common tongue, coughing with pain at the exertion of raising his voice. "Please, I need aid."
Arkyn only managed to stumble a few more feet before he had to steady himself against a tree, the world spinning around him. Focusing on the ground to keep his balance, it was only then that Arkyn notices the knife in his side. He had felt the red hot sting of a wound during battle, but his adrenaline had caused him to ignore it until now.
The sound of footsteps approaching reached his ears, supposedly from the individual he had called out to in the distance. Arkyn looked up just in time to make out a blurry visage before unconsciousness claimed him. As he fell into the stranger's arms, a single name escaped his lips.
"... Aethin?"
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alright I’m bored so here’s my extremely optimistic crack theory: assuming katsuki seeing a vestige means we’ll see him in the vestige realm, when kudo sorted through izuku’s memories he put his forehead on the wall right??
what if izuku is having a crisis about being left quirkless again and vestige katsuki needs to touch foreheads with izuku to show him all his memories of izuku being heroic without a quirk and he tells him “you never needed a quirk. you were always a hero” or something like that because it’s what izuku always needed to hear
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