( between her heavy breathing- panic now, rather than the adjustment from water to land- and the overwhelming din of everything, izuku's a brave boy to approach. at one point she digs her nails into the wood, clawing it slightly with a loud, slow scratch as she tries to process everything--
jinx almost doesn't notice him- not until the ropes shift and pull at her tail and there's a glint of a blade, when she almost recoils violently... except. except the metal never touches her skin, and the bindings break one by one. she watches him intensely, before slowly shifting to help brush the free ropes away, holding ropes away from her more delicate fins.
everything is loud and everything hurts and she hates this.
but. maybe this human isn't. entirely bad? she doesn't say anything for a long while, but she never looks away either. )
my computer force-crashed/updated mid this tag and for some reason my backup thing DIDNT SAVE IT </3
jinx almost doesn't notice him- not until the ropes shift and pull at her tail and there's a glint of a blade, when she almost recoils violently... except. except the metal never touches her skin, and the bindings break one by one. she watches him intensely, before slowly shifting to help brush the free ropes away, holding ropes away from her more delicate fins.
everything is loud and everything hurts and she hates this.
but. maybe this human isn't. entirely bad? she doesn't say anything for a long while, but she never looks away either. )