[While Jinx is dealing with sensory overload, Izuku is trying his damn best not to completely freak out, here. It's not that stories about merfolk are uncommon or completely unheard of...it's that most people don't put much stock into them actually being real. They're stuff of legends, old wive's tales, the one that got away...
Nobody actually believes they're real. Not unless you're truly not right in the head.
So now Izuku is faced down with something that shouldn't exist, and if he doesn't do more than just sitting there soon...he won't have to worry about it to begin with.
He decides...to throw caution- and his own safety, apparently- to the wind, because he knows a desperate creature when he sees one. He just really hopes she doesn't come after him or shy away too fast when he reaches quickly into his pocket and pulls out a knife, moving forward with it. Not to strike, but to try to quickly saw at the ropes keeping her tail wrapped up.]
OH NO BABY
Nobody actually believes they're real. Not unless you're truly not right in the head.
So now Izuku is faced down with something that shouldn't exist, and if he doesn't do more than just sitting there soon...he won't have to worry about it to begin with.
He decides...to throw caution- and his own safety, apparently- to the wind, because he knows a desperate creature when he sees one. He just really hopes she doesn't come after him or shy away too fast when he reaches quickly into his pocket and pulls out a knife, moving forward with it. Not to strike, but to try to quickly saw at the ropes keeping her tail wrapped up.]