video | UN: deku | CW: Sleeper Membrane detailed on the canon update page

[wannasmash]

[ The plain young man with freckles is frowning sheepishly, shoulders raised. Today he's freshly showered and wearing one of his usual boring shirts. ]

Um... First-time renter, here... Something happened, and now some furniture the owner lent to me is damaged from... slime. A lot of it. It's gross.

[ Midoriya looks much the same, healthy even. Someone who has recently seen him might notice more freckles on his skin, like he got some spring sun. His hair needs a trim again, even though he just got one last month.

He moves out of view to reveal a plain wooden bedframe. On it is a lost cause, a mattress that looks like it's been slimed on a 90's game show. Bits of the Sleeper Membrane are already drying into peels. In it are... dozens of tiny eyelids? ]

I'll have to replace it, but... Do you think I'll get kicked out?

Comments

[makingthetime]

[A chuckle.] Yeah, I remember conjugation. Bane of my life back in middle school.

[Which, god, is so long ago that Leon feels like it belongs to a completely different person. That kid was a lot more hopeful, wasn’t he?]

Yeah. I saw it happen once, and she first had this splitting headache. Could barely move, she needed to be carried, and then right before she went into a cocoon, the pain got much, much worse. Then she, uh, spontaneously combusted.

[A pause.]

If you’re feeling unseasonably hot? Might want to call that Blood Minister. Otherwise, I think you’re fine.

[wannasmash]

[ He shivers despite wearing a jacket. ]

That... doesn't sound good... I'll give them a call. That should answer my questions. If not, I guess I could try the Archives while I still feel fine. I can't find my way around in there, but I know how to research at least...

[ Nerd. ]

[makingthetime]

It doesn't. Sorry. Does bear repeating that I'm newer here than you probably are, and applying what looks superficially similar from my world. Could be a completely different case.

[As for research:] Let me know what you find? I'd like to be prepared, just in case.

[wannasmash]

Of course. I'll DM anything I learn to you.

[ He will, thankfully, learn that it's a thing that happens to Sleepers sometimes. They wake up with memories from home and bodily changes that match. The Sleeper Membrane is gross, but highly prized. Too bad Midoriya burned it in an abundance of caution. ]