QUESTION ZERO (This isn't a question on the questionnaire, but more a prompt for the students):
How would your build introduce themselves to the class? What would they say? What would be going through their mind as they introduce them to their new classmates?
Being one of the last students to go up, Kiko has had time to prepare her intro, as well as recover from certain other introductions. She picks up a small stack of papers from her desk and steps up to the front of the class.
"Good morning, everyone! I'm Taiho Kiko, but you can call me Kiko! It's been a pleasure to meet you all!" Only a tiny bit of a lie in there, as some of the other intros haven't been all that pleasurable.
The papers from her hands to fly out, surrounding her in a ring of paper that each have a single character of her name, written in Japanese and in English. The papers rotate around her as she continues on, much like rolling text from a news station.
"Like Mitarai-san from earlier, I also skipped a grade and have my provisional license. I haven't done anything like a real patrol yet, though," she laughs a little. "But if anyone would want to form a study group or something like that, I'm in room 236!"
She gives them a polite bow, and shoots the papers orbiting her into the trash before taking her packet and returning to her seat. She then scrambles out of her seat to write her name on the chalkboard and hurries back with a red face.
QUESTION ONE:
What is a hero to you? What drives you to be a hero? Are there any heroes that you look up to? If not, what are your criticisms of the world of heroes?
"When I was younger, I wanted to be a hero just like how my father was: fighting villains and being the coolest person on the planet. Now, I want to be a hero like how my father is now: an inspiration and a shining example for me to do my best and strive for making the world better. I think that heroes are the ones who not only make the world safer, but do it in a way that makes the next generation want to follow in their footsteps."
QUESTION TWO:
How do you feel about certain homeroom teachers taking five minute smoke breaks?
This question gives her pause, and she can't help but look up towards the teacher smoking out the window just in front of her. It's obvious that the question is about him. He isn't exactly setting a good example like a hero should. Wait, is it different since he's an underground hero? Wait, no, he's a teacher now, so he's responsible for them. Oh! Maybe he's trying to quit now that he's a teacher? She had heard that this was his first time doing this. Kiko has been told many times about the dangers of addiction, so she assumes that kicking it must be agonizing. Knowing about his quirk, it might even be a compulsion, which would make it even worse! With a feeling of sympathy for her teacher, Kiko looks up something for her answer on her phone while wishing that her teacher could at least do this somewhere where she wouldn't have to smell it.
"I understand if you need your smoke breaks, Sugiyama-sensei."
In the corner of the answer space, Kiko writes down the phone numbers of some quit lines to help people stop smoking as well as a few brands of some smoking alternatives with an offer to buy them for him.
QUESTION THREE:
Which of your fellow classmates do you think you'll get along with the best, and which do you think the worst? Don't forget why! This will not change your seating arrangement.
This should be the kind of question she would be able to answer immediately, but the "worst" part makes her hesitate. Ryusei did tell them to answer honestly, so she does so reluctantly.
"I think that it would be amazing if I could get along with Mitarai Atsuko. I was feeling kind of nervous about coming to Shiketsu, but it makes me feel a lot better knowing that there's someone else here who is in the same situation that I am. We talked for a while before you came in, and I think we're friends now! I hope we are. Of course, I'd also like to get along with Sanizawa-san next to me. I'd much rather have her join in on Mitarai and my conversation than have to talk around her. And hopefully I can get to know Agnelli-san behind me too. She's pretty intimidating, but that's probably just her having first day jitters, right? And I definitely want to get along well with my dormmate, Hanasaki-san! I haven't been able to talk to her much yet, but her side of the dorm room has the most beautiful flowers. Really, I hope I can get on good terms with everyone in the class, even you, sensei!
I don't like writing these kinds of things, but some of the class are really scary. Maborineko-san said she'll try to turn it down a notch, so that will work out in the end, I'm sure. I don't know why I'm afraid of Aquila-san, but his introduction didn't help much. Is it a me thing? There's gotta be some reason for it, right? I'm not sure what to think on that. But most of all, I was terrified when Yun-san was doing his introduction. I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I missed most of it because of how scared I was of the bug Screech. Yun-san seems nice, and it's obvious he cares for her very much, but I don't know how to go about trying to be his friend if I can't stand being so close to Screech. Can you give me some advice, Sugiyama-sensei?"
QUESTION FOUR:
How do you feel about your quirk? Do you enjoy using it? Do you dislike it? Is there anything about it you would change? What about fighting? How do you feel about fighting? With or without your quirk? How does it make you feel to engage in fisticuffs with another being?
"I like my quirk a lot! I loved to play around with it a lot when I was younger, having the neighborhood cats float around me was my favorite. It's also really useful for moving stuff that is heavy or awkward to carry normally.
On the topic of fighting, I've gotten some experience when training with my father, so I shouldn't be freezing up if it comes down to it. I'd much rather incapacitate than fight, though, which my quirk is pretty handy for. Without my quirk? I haven't gotten much training on fighting without it; my father's accident happened before he could get me up to speed on those lessons. So I hope you can help me with that!"
QUESTION FIVE:
If you were to schedule your perfect day tomorrow, what would it look like?
"My perfect day would include a lot of snow and being back at home, but I don't expect a sudden snowstorm to hit us at this time of year. Instead, I wake up and talk to Hanasaki-san, and we bond over some hobbies and shared likes, and we share stories until it's time to go. Then we go out to the common room and meet up with the rest of the class. We all walk to class together, talking, making jokes, and becoming fast friends."
Kiko gets through a few more lines of this before she reads it over to herself. Seeing her really unrealistic and flowery scenario gets her overly flustered. It's like weird bad fanfic about real people, and it makes her feel very self conscious about it. She scribbles over the last couple lines intensely, making sure not a single character is left visible. She then puts one last thing at the bottom of the answer space.
"Sugiyama-sensei, this is getting really embarrassing to write about, please excuse me."
FINAL QUESTION:
What is your most cherished memory? Did you share it with others? Or was it in a moment of quiet introspection? How did it affect you as a person? Is it painful to look back on now?
"It's pretty recent, but it's when I got my provisional license. My family was so proud of me, and I was the coolest girl in my junior high the next day. My friends told me that they planned on trying out for the hero courses too seeing what I did. It made me feel like I was really on the right track, that I was to them how my dad was for me. Do not tell anyone, but I had teared up a lot during then."
Kiko flips her questionnaire over, sees that there are no more questions, and sets down her pencil. She looks around to see that there are still a lot of people still writing, so that means that all that's left to do is chat with people. Atsuko was already done, but she didn't want to disturb Ichigo by talking around her while she was still writing. She turns around in her seat to look around the classroom more, and her eyes can't help but glance to the girl in the seat behind her, Tsuyoi. She was still writing, and Kiko wasn't sure how much longer it would take her. Thinking back to what she wrote on the questionnaire, she decides to wait for the Italian bird girl to finish writing before trying to strike up a conversation. She wasn't going to make friends if she didn't try!