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The screen fades in from black to see a young boy with large green eyes and short curly green hair adjusting the camera's leveling. When the view is focused and level, the boy takes a moment to be sure the camera won't fall. Behind him, the sand and ocean. Just from this angle, it's clear to see that the beach is covered in trash. How much trash however, was less clear.
"Ok, let's just do this." He says, turning from the camera and walking off to the left of the screen. He walks from the left to the right, holding a pile of trash.
There's a small cut as he goes from the left to the right of the screen once more, a different pile of trash in his arms.
It cuts again, this time he travels pushing a large tire across the sand on its side. The boy attempts to pull the tire upright and roll it towards the right. However, despite his attempts, the tire refused to stay standing and the boy had to continue pushing it on its side. Eventually he gets to the other side.
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The boy now behind the camera, draws a long horizontal line into the sand with a rugged medium sized stick. Then another one, and another. Making three. Each was different in quality sitting next to each other, only roughly the same.
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A black screen with one word was shown. The word was in a scribbly looking white font.
"Learning"
Is what it said.
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Two boys stood in the center of the screen on the beach. Behind them an extremely steep hill, railing at the top, a sidewalk beyond that, and a city that's just barely in view. To the right behind the two, a set of stairs. There was the boy with curly green hair, and a boy with silky half split red and white hair. Red on the left, white on the right. There was a scar over his left eye. The green haired boy makes a couple of vague hand gestures as he speaks. "You know, you kind of just have to let the wind guide your movements…" He begins to chew on his finger a bit, mumbling something. The silky haired boy turned his head off somewhere roughly towards the right of the screen.
"There's no wind here." He deadpans. The boy with green hair turns to the other, chuckling awkwardly.
"Well, that's because this is just practice! We aren't doing it yet...!"
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Another black screen, scribbly font title card.
This time it said,
"Failing"
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It's raining. Pouring even. Yet in the same shot as the previous, two boys stood next to one another. The boy with green hair is swaying in the wind and rain, moving gracefully. Left, then right, then back, and so on. The other boy watched tentatively, before trying it himself. He slipped in the wet sand.
There are several cuts of the boy falling. He falls over, and over, and over, and over.
The boy lies in the sand as the sky begins to clear. The green haired boy leans over the boy, extending a hand out with a small laugh.
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It's a nice day out. It's the same kind of shot as the first one, except this time there's no green haired boy. A brown wooden dresser slowly emerged from the left of the screen. Then it stopped. After just a short moment, it slowly continued. The dresser is now fully in frame. At the base of it, there was a boy with curly green hair. He continued to push the dresser with all his might, all the way until both were off somewhere to the right of the screen.
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The boy behind the camera makes a fourth line in the sand, similar to the others. He steps back over to the first line he made. He makes a horizontal line at the top of it. The line was now in the shape of a "T".
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There's a fourth black screen.
The scribbly white font now says,
"Singing"
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The boy with half split hair walks down the stairs, towards the other boy who is sitting in the sand facing the ocean. The green haired boy turns, quickly standing himself up. The video cuts, and the boy with the scar rubs the left side of his face with a small frown on his face. "... I guess I scare most people away, since I have this… Ugly scar on my face…" He says the last part more quietly. The boy with green hair made a sympathetic face.
After a moment he speaks softly. "Todoroki, that's not true! You are a bit intimidating probably, but not ugly… Quite the opposite actually!" Todoroki seems slightly shocked by this but eventually he responds.
"You think so..?" He asks, confusion starting to form on his face. The other boy nods his head with a large smile plastered on his face.
The was a small cut, now as the green haired boy looked up in thought as he began to speak. "Actually, that kind of reminds me of a song…"
The other boy looked on curiously.
"What?"
"You know that song by… Those people….? The one that's like… Uhm…"
The boy pinches his lip as he wracked his brain for something. "Oh! I got it! The one that's like," He puts his hand in fists, as he started to sing 'What Makes You Beautiful' by 'One Direction'. As the boy sings the first verse and dances happily, Todoroki's face contorts from curious to confused. Then he looks slightly appalled. As the boy continues onto the chorus, Todoroki's face softens until it eventually changes again. He smiles ever so slightly as he watches.
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The scribbly font now says.
"Acting"
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The camera was in a similar position to its initial angle, only different. It's not in the same area type of different. This part had started with the voice of the scarred boy saying, "Well, I don't really know what I want to do. My dad wants me to become an actor but…" After a short pause, the other boy speaks.
"Your dad's Enji, right? That director guy? Show me something." he says eagerly.
"I'm not that good, really… I… I can't…" Todoroki responds. From behind the camera, the green haired boy emerges, turning and looking somewhere over behind the camera.
"C'mon! You're probably great! Look, we can do it together!" He says with a large smile on his face, itching for the other to join him in his antics. "Oh! I know! You can be Ankoku, and I can be Hiroshi!" He said excitedly, almost jumping up and down. He pumps a fist into the air as the other boy sighs, walking over. "I wanna be a hero!" The first boy says enthusiastically.
Todoroki crosses his arms, making a mean face before he starts speaking. "I didn't come here to make frie-" He brings a hand up covering his mouth as he stifles his laughter. The other boy on the other hand bursts into a fit of giggles.
The camera cuts. The two are now in fighting positions facing one another. "It's your power Todoroki!!" The green haired boy shouts.
The other grips his chest as he speaks, closing his eyes tight. "Ah! The power of the optimistic protagonist sidekick is changing me for the better!" He says dramatically. The two begin to laugh some more.
There's another cut. Todoroki stood, while the other was on his hands and knees to the left of him. "You need to send less vague messages when you're in trouble, you made me late." Todoroki says.
The other boy looks up at him, a large smile on his face. "Ah!! Todoroki, you came! You're so cool and awesome, and handsome might I add!" At the last part his smile turns into a bit of a teasing smirk as Todoroki quickly turns his head to face the other, looking quite embarrassed.
"That's not what he said!"
The boy laughs some more, Todoroki sighs a bit at his antics.
The video cuts again, the two behind the camera, sitting on the bench once more. It's silent for a while, except for the sounds of seagulls, and the ocean crashing against the shore. Then, Todoroki's voice is heard.
"Midoriya?" He speaks softly.
"Yeah?" The other boy responds.
"It really is my power, Isn't it?"
"Mhm."
The sky is orange, the clouds are clear, the ocean is dark, yet the sun still hangs high.
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The sky is blue and empty. No clouds, no birds. A different day. The ocean still moves constantly back and forth. A large dirty white fridge moves into frame from the left.
A cut, and Midoriya is now in front of the fridge, pulling it towards the other side of the screen. It moves, but barely
Another cut, and now he has a rope. He ties the rope around the fridge before he attempts to pull it by the remaining bit of rope. He tries pulling it from over his shoulder.
Then he tries pulling by the end of the rope, walking backwards. The fridge moves again slightly, but eventually the boy's hands slip, and he falls flat onto his back.
He breathes heavily, only having gotten the fridge a quarter of the way across the screen. "I give up! I give up!!" He shouts.
Yet there are several cuts afterwards of the boy continuing to push the fridge from all different angles until he gets all the way to the other side.
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Midoriya is once again behind the camera, drawing in the sand with a stick. A "T" and three lines. He moves over to the last line making two diagonal lines from the right of it. One line went up, the other down. It made a "K" Shape. He then moved to the third line, putting his stick at the top of it.
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Title card.
"Us."
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The camera shows a full image of what was put in the sand. First a T, last a K, and in between, two D's. Written in large letters just barely above where the sea stops at the sand. The green haired boy calls the other boy over. "What?" Todoroki asks. Midoriya points at the letters.
"Look!" He says happily.
The camera moves away from the letters to a view at the silky haired boy's pants. He wore light blue sneakers. "Well, that's pretty lame." He says quietly. Midoriya doesn't respond, seemingly taken aback by the others reaction, but Todoroki speaks again. "Won't it just get washed away?"
Midoriya lets out a small breath. "Well, that's sort of the beauty in it! When you like something a lot you want to experience it a lot, right? So this should be the same! We could write it a hundred times over!" He says, fondness seeping through his voice.
Todoroki seems to just look at it for a while, but eventually he speaks again. "You're so corny, you know that?" He says, teasingly. Midoriya gasps dramatically. The camera turns back to the letters engraved in the sand. After a moment The green haired boy speaks again. "Wanna draw animals around it?" He asks.
"Yeah, I'm going to draw a cat." The other responds, grabbing a stick and starting to etch small lines over the K.
"Cool, I'm gonna draw a sheep… or a bunny… Oh! Or a dog!" The green haired boy says enthusiastically. The other sighs heavily, causing Midoriya to chuckle a bit.
There's a cut to a new day. It's raining, and the two boys wind.
As the rain starts to clear, the two simultaneously let out deep breaths. After a short moment, the scarred boy looks to the camera and says, "And remember, Breathing is the most important part." Midoriya rolls his eyes a bit, turning himself to the camera.
"Yes, because if you don't breathe you'll die!" He says, with a smile. Todoroki put a hand to the other boy's face.
"You know what I meant!" He huffs. Midoriya lets a laugh escape him, and eventually they're both giggling.
It cuts to a different shot. The view is focused on the ocean. The sun slowly lowered towards the ocean.
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A black screen.
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It's raining. Pouring even. Yet in this shot, A boy still stands. However, he doesn't sway. He doesn't move. He stands alone, staring towards the ground. There was no rain sounds though. The sound of seagulls squacking, the sound of the ocean lapping over itself. That was the sound that played through the screen. Midoriya turns his head back, over the railing, his voice calling to the other boy. "Todoroki?"
On a different day, the green haired boy sits by the shore, rubbing his figer back and forth through the sand. He watches the ocean. The sun sits high over the clouds. The sky is bright blue.
"Hm?" The sound of Todoroki plays over the scene.
There's a pause. A long one.
The scene is then back to the one of the sun setting over the ocean, slowly, finally, dipping itself into the water as the orange sky follows the sun down, bringing a deep blue into frame. "Do you think we'll be friends for a long time?" Midoriya asks.
Again the rain pours, and the sound of a clear skied beach continues. After a short moment The green eyed boy in the rain slowly sits onto the wet sand. "I… Don't know…" Todoroki responds. Midoriya sits in the rain and pulls his knees to his chest. Another short moment passes.
"Do you want to be friends for a long time?" Midoriya asks. There's a quick response as the boy in the video burries his face into the pit of his elbow.
"Yes."
Midoriya laughs as the video cuts. The same shot as the one that's been cut to throughout the video. The same shot as the first. Midoriya stands there triumphantly, pumping fists into the air. "What? You don't?" Todoroki asks. The beach is cleaner now, and Midoriya looks older, he looks a little less thin at least. The boy in the video seems to let out a breath. "No, I do! I do! You just responded so quickly!" The boy looks toward the city, behind the camera. He slowly lowers his arms.
The other boy lets out a small, "oh". As the boy's face shifts from triumph to a sort of sadness as he begins to catch his breathe.
The sun now halfway down into the ocean, a hand comes from the left side. Its open for someone else to hold. "Let's be friends for a long time." Midoriya says softly.
The hand is took by someone with slightly paler skin. Slightly smaller hands.
"Yeah… Let's." Todoroki says.
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"Goodbye, Rain dancer."
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"I'm sorry."
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The words leave the screen, black screen stays for a while.
There was only white noise now.
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The video ends.