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[defendure]

I'll try my best of course...

[ He never phones in a contest. ]

[blastedass]

You always do.

[Katsuki trusts him completely to do that. Izuku's grown a lot.]

[defendure]

I think we do three songs so...we can each pick one then choose the third together.

[ Maybe the theme song. ]

[blastedass]

Tsk, this machine doesn't have the song I'm best at.

[The three DDR-style games only share a scant handful of the same songs. That can cross them up.]

But that works. You, me, both.

[defendure]

Maybe the theme song for the shared one? You like the show too, right?

[ Or something else...? ]

[blastedass]

Yeah. I've done that one a lot.

[He pulls out his phone and in a minute or so, has the list of songs this machine has on it.]

Here, we can start looking.

[defendure]

[ Izuku leans in against Katsuki to see the phone screen. ]

I'm pretty okay with anything, but...I think this PoP-Rockers one for me.

[blastedass]

[Katsuki tilts it so Izuku has a better view, though not enough he won't have to lean on him. Dork.]

All right. That's one. Here's the theme song for the Gem Knights.

[defendure]

Then which one are you picking for you?

[ Which of them is the dork if Katsuki is enabling the lean? ]

[blastedass]

[He wasn't enabling it! He was looking at his phone! Excuse you, hmph!]

This one.

[Katsuki touches the screen and opens a song by Out with a Bang.]

[defendure]

[ If he didn't want a lean, he'd tilt the screen more! ]

What's it about?

[blastedass]

[He's not tilting shit!]

How there's no such thing as victory without effort. It's a power song.

[defendure]

Well, that's true. I don't know of any victory that doesn't take a ton of time and effort.

[ Nothing memorable, anyway. ]

[blastedass]

Some people get lucky.

[And there are some victories that are more hard-won than others.]

[defendure]

That's not the kind of victory you'd accept, though, right?

[ A random lucky break. ]

[blastedass]

Hell no! It's good to be able to capitalize on luck, but don't fucking rely on it.

[He's not stupid enough to say luck doesn't exist.]

[defendure]

I tend to assume I won't have it, haha.

[ His luck is dramatic in either direction... ]

[blastedass]

You're a weird case. You got a shit ton of bad luck, but you're also one of the fucking luckiest bastards I've ever known.

[Exactly. Dramatic in either direction.]

[defendure]

I don't mind the bad luck when it comes to the good luck I get in exchange...but, uh, I try not to rely on the latter because of the former, yeah.

[ He probably could afford to rely on it a little bit though. ]

[blastedass]

It's stupid to rely on luck. But capitalizing on it when it happens is a skill anyone should know. Especially in a fight.

[Katsuki only treats it as a happenstance that he'll acknowledge when happens, but doesn't count on it at all. Skill trumps luck almost 100% of the time.]

[defendure]

Well, yeah! Take any opening you can, right? I just tend to assume sometimes I might get hit with bad luck too...like getting my legs trapped or something.

[ It's happened multiple times before... ]

[blastedass]

Psh. I can see it now... Deku crouches in preparation for a mighty jump-! Only to almost rip his quads in half thanks to getting his legs stuck in a fucking rope.

[Sniggering at the mental image, he bumps his shoulder into the other boy's, far more a lazy and casual thing than the aggressive and mean-spirited "bumps" he used to give Izuku during their childhood.]

[defendure]

When I was fighting Gentle, I like - he got me stuck in things once or twice...

[ It was mostly an absurd battle but hey. Izuku shakes his head... ]

I think tactics that impair my mobility are really pretty effective. Well, that's true of most people!

[blastedass]

You're pretty good at staying airborne now. Shouldn't be as much a problem.

[Gentle had been one of the final nails in the coffin regarding Izuku's reputation as a danger magnet to unreal degrees.]

No shit. Unless you're a tank and turret, moving's kinda fucking important.

[defendure]

[ He can't even go to the grocery store alone... ]

Oooh, we're up in one more song!