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[thantagonist]

Attention Fellow People of Etraya,

I am Doctor Daniil Dankovsky, Bachelor of Medicine. As I understand it, few of you have seen a doctor lately. That simply won’t do! Please, don’t wait to get sick to establish care. I am situated in the hospital, ready to take consent forms and make updated medical histories. At least a few of you have unaddressed concerns, I just know it. The average person comes to see the doctor when it’s too late! Though we cannot die here, there is no reason to suffer unduly.

And if you are otherwise healthy, perhaps think of it as helping me out. In the event of an outbreak, it is far more helpful to have complete clinical pictures of the inhabitants. Especially, as I understand it, there are many biological differences in this population.

Please come visit me during my clinic hours, every day from 10am to 6pm.


[What Daniil really wants is to meet more of the unusual inhabitants of Etraya more quickly as well as conduct casual interviews of the sort of people who are slated to save the universe. But he can’t just say that completely outright.]

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[thantagonist]

Daniil appreciates precision and enjoys foreign language a great deal. The world of kanji is not within his grasp, but the translator beams meaning into his mind.

But still. The more interesting thing was the way this boy’s hands seem to have repeatedly imploded.

“I’ve never seen anything like it in all my time. Do they hurt right now? Have you lost sensation or motor control?”

[wannasmash]

His family name means "green valley," and he has the verdant hair to match. His first name is impossible for automatic translation to parse without more context: "from a certain place, one's turn to go on" and "long ago, old story." With a large stretch, his first name could mean something poetic like "origin." As for "Deku," it could mean anything since it's written in katakana.

"No, they don't hurt. Only when I overexert myself. Movement is fine."

He flexes his fingers, wrist, and then the whole of his right arm. His scars wrinkle when their elasticity is tested against the rest of his skin as scars normally do, but they've healed over as well as can be. He has a large nasty one on his upper right arm, another surgical scar near his elbow, and numerous smaller ones on his hand and other arm.

"I had to do a lot of work to rehabilitate them back to normal. There's no more numbness or tingling." He seems quietly proud of the fact that he's no longer a bag of broken bones. Small steps...

[thantagonist]

Daniil Dankovsky is basically Dan son of Dan. But all of that is very beautiful and everything. Daniil will still refer to his own notes, and inevitably mix up calling him by his given name.

“That is surprising. Even with rehabilitation and intervention, wounds like that would certainly end in permanent nerve damage. Or amputation. At least in my time. Is that it? Or are you littered with them?”

[wannasmash]

He shivers. Amputation... yeah... the doctors did warn him that if he kept injuring himself, he'd lose the use of his arms. He had to figure out a more sustainable way to fight or say goodbye to his Hero dream.

"I had some help from Recovery Girl's healing Quirk, though it's not like it can reverse anything, just speed up the natural healing process. Come to think of it, my hand does get kind of stiff in the cold. And I can touch a hot mug easier... Anyway, that's pretty much it."

He hopes that suffices for Dr. Dan son of Dan.