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Tomura never knew he would be doing something as ridiculous as this, but here they were.
He re-read the post one time to check if it was even coherent and finally pressed post, immediately leaving the app and promising himself he's not going back until at least one week passes.
Tomura thought about it for a couple of minutes, turned in his bed a couple of times and stood up with a groan at last. The jitters weren't going anywhere so he left his phone at home and went outside for a breather, wondering the streets slowly to think before, hopefully, getting input from other people.
He should pick up smoking so people wouldn't look at him weird. Kurogiri probably wouldn't let him buy cigarettes though.
r/AskReddit• u/sicsseveeeeeen09 • 4d
my (20m) online acquaintance (26f) wants to meet me irl. what the fuck do I do.
this shit is embarrassing. i know. shut up. i have nowhere else to ask.
i've been playing a lot of online games lately and got to the point in rankings that people talk to me in chat because they assume i know everything.
recently the game i play the most nowadays got an update (i know some of you just flinched back from your screen). now when you make a new account you can pay money for a certain amount of levels to be added.
in short: it's balanced, but still sucks
you, as that player, get to play more challenges right away, more stuff is open, some skins too, but you're still a noob. your teammates get a bonus for having a weaker link in every match but te more you play the smaller that bonus is. annoying, but there's a cap for only one of player like that per team.
one of those players messaged me a bit less that half a year ago. she (now that I know it's a 'she') was annoyed at something stupid and asked me how to fix her character's stats. then she friended me and we played at least 3 out of 7 week days one or two matches in the mornings when she woke up for work before was getting ready and i hadn't gone to sleep yet.
at first i did if for the bonus because i didn't care we were one man down, then we both just started to whine at each other in our chat about every stupid and particularly infuriating thing we came across the day before.
last month she asked what my name was. i was tempted, but i said i couldn't tell her because i had a bad feeling about it. she laughed st me and said it was probably a smart choice.
last week i called her a dude and i guess she got comfortable enough with me to corrected me.
but that's all on her side: she's the one being friendly and open and frustrated with dumb people from her job. i mostly kept to myself and said yeah-yeah sure when she accidentally revealed too much. what actually made me write this post happened a couple of days ago to both of us i guess
because i play that game s lot i see news and general stuff about it online very quickly. i nearly skipped this part of a recent post, but apparently a very popular celebrity from my country has been playing this game a lot.
you can probably see where this is going
i looked into it purely because i didn't think a person with that kind of moving schedule can play that kind of game and the very first search i got was her own video on her public account.
she was cussing, recording her computer screen from her phone, jabbing with nails loudly onto her open account and saying that yes she does play and yes she's been for a while and everyone should stop questioning her and insinuating that she just wants to look cool.
the video wasn't popular or anything, no one decent was actually interesting in her proving the fact that she plays some stupid game, but im sure you can guess which @ i saw on the video and had to kinda sit there for a couple of hours thinking.
i came back to the game a few days later and after two matches i kinda learned that she's not gonna stick around to say goodbye or anything, so i kinda expected her to leave, but she actually sent me a message
>> so you know
and nothing else.
i didn't know what to answer so i just said yeah and after some time she said something like well you have nothing to worry about now. i asked what she meant and she asked if i have time to meet up again and i said I'll think about it. she said let me know the time and left
i think because i didn't outright say no as usual she now thinks it's a yes. what do i do?
i know im not giving a lot of info right now, but im genuinely confused as to what am i supposed to do.
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Tomura was lying on his back.
Staring at the ceiling and trying to make sense of the situation.
It's been more than a week since Miruko outed herself.
He would've thought it was a trap if not for her message.
>> so you know
Tomura closed his eyes and read it on the back of his eyelids over and over again.
He did know, yes, Why bring attention to it? Why point out she's a hero if it was an operation to jump him in the end? How could they sniff him out already, He barely started talking to Giran and researching people?
After hours of just thinking about this mess there was only one conclusion to be drawn.
Miruko was genuine.
It was terrifying.
Maybe it was only Tomura, but it felt like he couldn't feel whatever energy Miruko caught and wanted to be friends with him.
Why was she so determined if he was an asshole rando that spoke to her two minutes a day at most?
Was she really that desperate? Maybe this was her first give-or-take long acquaintanceship with someone without it going into "Oh, you're a hero, so cool!" territory.
Doesn't matter. She'll see him and run anyway.
There could be no other outcome, but at least Tomura wouldn't feel guilty about it.
He doesn't like lingering on emotions, so he'll do this once to make sure all heroes are bigots and go home satisfied and alone again as always.
r/AskReddit • u/sicsseveeeeeen09 • 3d
UPDATE my online acquaintance wants to meet me irl. what do I do.
alright fuck all of you
im going
i asked the post to be closed by a mod myself because people started asking too many questions. I look like a ball of bellybutton dust I don't know what you want me to say about why i don't want to go and meet up, shut up.i'm awkward and dumb and a hundred other different things.
i have no idea what to tell her about myself and how to behave overall, that's my main problem right now, i don't care about how i look, even though she'd probably see me briefly on the street and go about her day, blocking me immediately.
im assuming she doesn't have many friends because her job is very demanding and stuff, so I'm pretty sure if i fuck this up im going to let her down and waste both of out time and that's not my intention at all.
it'll suck no matter what i'll try, so now I'm mostly asking if there's anything i can do to undo years and years of me being completely alone before agreeing to meet? is there a video I can watch that quickly explains human interactions as a concept? is there a way to change any subject into oh my the weather is so nice isn't it at any point of the conversation? I fucking hate taking?
tl;dr: what do I do to not be awkward while meeting someone for the first time when I was isolated for all of my life
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Tomura didn't know what emotion his body was trying to convey to his brain all day today by shaking frantically, but it probably wasn't anticipation nor general nervousness, nor anything of that sort at all.
Everyone online called him a loser who needed human contact and actually had to go meet the girl ASAP even if it costs him his life.
It might as well be that kind of situation, honestly.
The first time he saw the video Miruko posted he was in such a denial he briefly joined all the people who thought she was outright lying about playing anything at all to seem cool and relatable and ponder to lonely incels who play all these games because she needs a bigger audience and and and, and a thousand more and.
Then a couple of days passed, he watched it again, sighed and accepted reality, because what else was he supposed to do in this situation?
He rewrote the text with agreement a couple of times, sitting there like an idiot in the middle of the day at his computer, then erased everything and went outside after thoroughly convincing himself he should tell Miruko yes while she's online so they could talk.
She was at work right now, and it would be stupid of him to message her and wait like a dog 24/7 until she has ten minutes before work for a match.
"You'll make an extrovert out of me yet," he mumbled as the last goodbye to the bar while checking his pockets. (Kurogiri was nowhere to be found.)
Tomura really should find other ways to calm down eventually, he won't be able to walk his emotions off when he's more popular.
But again, when he's popular he'd probably be able to just dust anything or anyone that's bothering him.
Low profile for now.
Eventually he found himself a snack, sat on the steps of a random fire escape at a mall to re-read a couple of new comments and the ones that caught his eye immediately a few days ago. Everything smelled like wet dust and those ridiculously thin spiders, but he needed to think so he didn't care.
This was his last chance to chicken out before actually sending confirmation.
Sensei rambled about All Might at him a lot. Tomura assumes that's what it would be like.
One second passed, another. He leaned his hooded head onto the railing and stared forward, just about zoning out, but still thinking.
Ultimately, if he can handle Doctor's lectures and Sensei's hateful speeches and not get caught tuning them out — he can handle Miruko and her rapid fire stories.
Not that he ever seen an interview of hers, but from how she talked in private this was going to be mildly hard.
u/chickenstripsmybelov35
okay let's unpack that last sentence right there. i did not like that. "ha-ha, I'm gonna write tl;dr for people who were too lazy to read", *proceeds to write the most important piece of information and posts like it's nothing*
Tomura rolled his eyes and crunched louder. No, let's not.
He deleted the sentence from his post and moved on.
u/gummybearsnot
Wear something baggy and a mask if you're uncomfortable. Be careful to not spook her away with your whole costume, but mainly focus on yourself and on feeling right. This is not going to go well if you keep fidgeting and trying to hide in your clothes.
He already did that.
u/kyourshelf
Address how you feel about her being famous on your date. You seem to be uncomfortable with it.
These people were insane. Why in the fuck would she care about how he feels if he already agreed to meeting up?
Also he's not even going to go into that word, Tomura doesn't know what Mr Killyourself inhaled to ever call this clusterfuck of a situation a date.
u/isaacmain6767
As you said she's popular, I'm pretty sure you can find out pretty easily if she's a bigot and if she'd judge you on your looks. Maybe research if she had any scandals about that?
Miruko? Scandals? Who would even think such a thing.
Tomura rolled his eyes again and scrolled. If he tries to find something about Miruko it'll be like searching for a needle in a knifestack.
u/fr000ggermaam
noone said it yet: bring her something. she's clearly expecting something great out of you if she's so determined to meet, you should try to impress her even if a little bit.
Tomura was so tempted to answer, but his account would be gone immediately and he hadn't read all the comments yet.
u/looxxsmmmaxerr
Please remember it's a random person from the internet.
Don't take pictures with her and you should be fine on the account she'd even ever mention you to anyone. Don't be scared and don't be intimidated. Try to remember all of a personal stuff she told you and forget anything you saw online.
u/ncihbsujflfs
About behaviour: There's a lot of good articles about it.
Try to pick only two or three (The ones that don't infuriate you with "try to calm down") and read them a couple of times.
It also helps to have a clear list of stuff you need to do like brush your teeth, because even though You're not very interested in meeting up — It's still polite to make a good impression and generally not embarrass the other person. Try practicing keeping a calm face before a mirror or watch a vlog about a happy couple to follow their body language or teach yourself to automatically breathe out and relax your shoulders the moment you feel tense or search up and suggest a quiet place to go to.
Look at other people and try to play everything off cool like you're one of them, read the room when you get there, basically. Be direct and change anything you don't like. Remember: as long as you don't have a reservation you can leave freely and without feeling guilty.
Always slow down and the moment you catch yourself overthinking just ask. I feel like I said something wrong, did I say something wrong? I don't think phrased it right, let me try again, I didn't meet it like that.
We're all human and we need human contact to function properly, I wish you best of luck.
u/ddfrmipnma
thought everyone in the comments would be screaming for you to get away, but then saw genuine advice and had to read the story itself. damn you've got yourself into a pickle, good luck dude
Tomura would honestly prefer this to be that kind of situation. Instead he was actually kinda risking his life — now that he's thinking about it.
He didn't have his rebellious teenage phase, though, so... Better later than never, he guesses.
Kurogiri didn't let him sneak around to do stuff when he was a teen, so that's what he gets.
And Sensei... Sensei can think Tomura is slowly recruiting and trying out getting heroes to trust him.
Also Sensei can go fuck himself with how he hadn't payed attention to Tomura in months now.
'Well, my boy, you're old enough to start out yourself now', Tomura angrily bit into his KitKat (it kinda hurt to swallow and he quickly realised it was very cold on the staircase).
Where was his guidance?
Where was the Sensei from his childhood?
The one that told him stories about his brother and princesses and dragons and treasures and so much more.
Tomura clicked his phone off, not wanting to eat anymore. He wasn't even in the mood to read at this point.
Where was Sensei that let Tomura sleep on his lap?
How did he change so rapidly?
Was that really All Might's fault?
u/flig0689
17 points • 4d
She sounds like a blabbermouth. You said you you had to hear a lot about her job and stuff, so I'm pretty sure you don't have to worry about keeping the convo going. Just be engaging (nod, ask questions, follow the story) and you'll be fine.
Also remember you already were fine, if she has to work with many people everyday or travel frequently as you said she'll probably just see you as another person that has been her online friend for a while.