video; un: shouto

[swellter]

My name's Shouto Todoroki. I'm a student from UA and a recent arrival to Trench. I wasn't in the other place, Deerington, I think they call it, but I'm supposed to be a Sleeper like them. 

[ Not that he understands what that means exactly. Too many questions brew in his head. Too  many new experiences, including waking up as a squid in the ocean which disturbs him less than what he's found out about this place. Blood magic. At least that's what it seems to him. He's still grappling with all the information thrown at him and there's conflict in his eyes, not obvious but visible. Unwilling to reveal anymore he leaves it there. He needed to make himself visible in case someone from his world was here and with that accomplished, he falls back to something more mundane and easy to grasp. Besides, he needs a place to sleep. ]

The abandon homes. Someone said we can claim one for our own. Is that true? 

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[justoscar]

Someone else said that Maine is just weird, and that all the weird stuff that happened in Deerington was probably normal.

[Oscar shrugged. He wasn't from America... Or even Earth.]

I wouldn't know. The small farm town I lived in before Deerington wasn't haunted by anything but the occasional bad luck.

What questions do you have? I was only there for about a year, but I can try to answer them.

[swellter]

[ Maine? It's not the first time he's heard that name. He hasn't placed it yet, but it sounds familiar. Not a country but a city maybe? ]

From what I've heard, that place - Deerington - wasn't normal at all.

[ It's not much that he's come across, he's only been here a handful of days, but it's enough to paint a grim picture of the town. It's left him with many questions, some of which he hasn't quite fully formed. ]

The deers. I heard they helped people in that place too. Can we trust them?

[justoscar]

[The question was met with an instant smile.]

Oh, definitely! I'd even say they're one of the few beings that are completely on our side.

[Having spent the better part of the last year giving them gifts of food, and having witnessed them appear in a Sleeper's defense without even a summons, Oscar was willing to make a solid bet that the same was true in Trench.

He wasn't a betting kind of guy.]

We don't have our Antler tattoos anymore, but I think they'll take care of us the way they did before. They've never been aggressive unless they're protecting a Sleeper, and they were among the last to leave the Dream.

... Why do you ask? Have you seen them yet?

[swellter]

Not yet, but the few people I’ve spoken to who were here before mentioned them.

[ It was odd and something Todoroki didn’t realize was a commonality until after a few encounters. But this is the first time he’s heard of the tattoos. ]

You had antler tattoos?

[justoscar]

Yeah. All of us did.

[Emphasis on the past tense. Oscar didn't quite know the significance, but he suspected it had something to do with the multitude of deer that seemed to watch over them.]

They've faded for a lot of us, but not everyone. A friend of mine even has scars where his tattoo used to be!