Ignorance Is Bliss (Marceline & Luna)

The sensitive ears placed atop Luna's head would twitch at the sound of jogging feet approaching her. It was nothing to really draw her attention away from taking a nice long drink out of her water, though. That was, at least, until the sounds of jogging stopped right next to her as another person came right next to Luna to lean against the same wall. This gave the dog-girl a proper enough reason to pause her drinking to acknowledge the person who was there now with a soft "Hmmm?"

Looking the woman up and down for a moment, it wasn't hard to notice that she was a Quirker. Normally it took an activation to tell if someone was one buuuut there was something obvious about this woman that she and Luna had in common. Luna cocked her head to the side for a moment, idly looking at the woman's ears admiring the fact that she was a kitty! Luna didn't have any genetic disposition to them or anything, so this was instead just really cute to look at.

After giving the woman a moment to talk, Luna let out a happy little chuckle before nodding her head happily. "Sure!~" she beamed at the older woman for a moment, her tail swishing back and forth excitedly as she seemingly found a friend on this spur of a moment. Well, maybe a friend was a huge unnecessary jump but the woman sounded quite nice!

With her head in the clouds for a moment, Luna almost forgot to continue the chatting, causing her to look to the woman once again. "I'm the same way honestly, I love doing this sort of stuff with people. Buuuut I haven't found a friend to join me just yet." the girl would giggle despite that actually being a sort of sad thing. But her extreme energy and upbeat personality meant she was still pretty happy and excited despite having no one to go for jogs with.

After a few moments of silence, Luna grinned again as she pointed at her ears. "Mine is a dog mutation. Yours is a cat I presume?" Luna went on to inquire about the woman's quirk a bit, being quite interested in it. A lot of people seemed to have animal-based quirks in her school but that didn't mean she wasn't curious about the random people she met either. She was also about to bring up her name with all of her hyperactive energy but... pulled back a moment later as she realized this woman was still a stranger. She probably shouldn't go around telling people her name or anything on a whim even if this lady seemed quite nice!

As such, Luna sat back against the wall to take another swig out of her water just to take a breather and give the woman another chance to talk.

As soon as the woman said that Luna could consider her a friend, the dog-girl perked right up again with an excited smile on her face. She also couldn't help but giggle as the woman teased with her introduction and said her name. It was fairly fitting, but was still nice and rolled well off the tongue. "Pleasure to meet you too, Ms.Cat~" Luna trailed on for a moment, sinking back into thought as she shook Cat's hand. She didn't know if she was married or not, but she looked quite youthful and was jogging alone, so Luna just assumed she was unattended. Further, while she probably shouldn't mention Yuuei or her full name... a simple first-name basis was probably fine enough. "You can call me Luna~" the girl let out a happy sound to express her joy as they were now officially introduced.

The dog-girl titled her head to look down the street a bit, the sights and sounds of people moving about in a rush catching her attention now that she was no longer focusing on her drink. Their outfits were quite unfit for running. "Wonder what that's all about." Luna would comment before rolling her shoulders and taking another sip of her water.

Luna's attention was caught once again by Cat as she brought attention to her normal human ears, while the ones on top of her head were simply cosmetic, but still a quirk. But Cat still considered them cute, causing Luna to giggle a bit with her tail swishing back and forth a bit faster. "Well I think they have a lot of appeal too, even if they are just cosmetic!" she beamed with a flashy grin once more as she felt like she really was having a casual conversation with a friend all of a sudden. Perhaps this lady was just naturally social like she was which meant they could talk a lot about stuff.

With another swig of her water, Luna listened to what Cat had to say, nodding as she capped the water and stowed it away. "Ah, I understand completely! I actually was planning to head out pretty soon before you showed up, so I delayed a tad so I could talk with you~" the dog-girl gave another grin, her tail flicking around excitedly as she moved back towards the edge of the sidewalk so they would be away from most of the crowded traffic.

"Let's go!~" after taking just a moment to stretch her body again, Luna took off at a relatively controlled pace making sure they weren't just going from zero to one-hundred right off the bat.

With their pace set in, Luna made a quick attempt to glance over her shoulder to make sure Cat wasn't being left behind. With that ensured, Luna went on with the casual chatting of the conversation, being none the wiser of the group of individuals who were heading their way. "So, what got you into jogging anyways, Ms.Cat?" she asked out of curiosity, as it seemed everyone had their own desires when getting into a hobby like this.

With a playful little grin, Luna's ears perked up and her tail swished side to side happily as Cat explained that she didn't mind being called Miss. It meant that the student wasn't exactly far off or anything, and then she was told to never call her ma'am. Honestly, she was right, she looked like she was still in her prime, there was no reason to jump straight into calling her that. As such, she could only offer a very happy nod to reaffirm Cat that she understood.

Luna couldn't help but keep being the happy dog she was when Cat started talking about how appealing Luna's own features were. She let out a cheerful giggle. "Really? I've gotten so used to them I suppose I've stopped noticing all of the little things they do. But I take a lot of pride in my features so I'm glad people find them nice!" Luna gave off another smaller giggle as she finished off her sentence, seeming quite proud of herself for keeping up a cute appearance after everything else she did. Perhaps she could become a Hero that people loved in both charisma, looks, and power! Though that was all just a pipe dream, for the time being, she was still simply in her first year at Yuuei.

As Luna overheard what Cat had to say about her jogging routine, the dog-girl looked down for a moment with a simple "Ohhh" as she hadn't actually thought of that reasoning before. It made a lot of sense though, Luna just didn't have to worry about it for the time being since she was only in her early teens. "Well hey, I don't think it's bad to do whatever you can! Delaying it for as long as possible is still valuable, I think?" Luna chuckled a bit as she pumped her arms in the air. She always tried to do her best to think positively like that, it was nice to see the better half of everything possible.

Then, Cat turned the question back around on Luna causing her to tilt her head to the side in curiosity. Honestly, she didn't know much about other people all too much. It was surprising to hear that it was rare for other people like herself to stay fit these days, but at the same time when Cat brought up career it sort of clicked. Luna's career was one part of why she was keeping up with it, but not the full thing. And even then, leaning into the whole 'I go to Yuuei' thing was probably not too good of an idea. Cat was really nice, but who knew what prying ears would want to listen in to what she had to say out in public, especially with the area they were going through.

Seeing as she had a more proper reason for why she got into it all, rather than why she still was doing it, she may as well lean into the other aspect. "My dad and I like hunting, actually. As it turns out, having a daughter who can work as a hunting dog makes for easy family bonding." Luna would giggle and point to her nose. It was another sensitive part about her, and it meant it was easy to sniff out and track targets in the woods. "But I have to stay fit if I want to actually chase after game and all. I wouldn't want to get out of shape and be unable to go with him anymore~" the girl offered another chuckle as she explained this. Sure, it wasn't the full truth, but it was a healthy part of it.

Thinking back to her father actually made Luna a bit nostalgic. She could go home at any time to go see him but being away was so new, and seeing him so little was such a major change. And it meant she never really had the time to go hunting anymore. She would have to make an effort to change that at some point. Her new life was just... so lonely now to some extent. She certainly had friends but she wasn't actively doing stuff with a ton of people every day just yet. Most of her time was spent doing stuff in a controlled, personal environment.

That train of thought made Luna think back to something Cat said before, causing her to shoot her another little glance. "Uhm, sorry if this is too personal, but... you said you find it easier to exercise with others, right? Do you normally have someone you do this stuff with then? Are they just not available today?" Luna approached this subject with... moderate hesitation that was apparent when she spoke. She had no clue about Cat's life. Who she was, what she did, stuff that happened to her. For all Luna knew, she could have just gone through a terrible accident that took her old workout partner away from her, and now Luna was bringing it up on the spot! But still, the thought burned in her mind as she thought about her dad. Originally he was her biggest motivator, and now it was becoming a hero. Who did Cat do stuff with?

Being the young, relatively innocent teenager that she was, Luna couldn't help but giggle a bit as Cat teased about keeping herself looking good. "That's true, I think you've done a good job so far for sure!" Luna exclaimed as she kept their pace moving forward comfortably. There was no doubt that Cat looked nice still, so she probably didn't have to work as hard as others might. But still, Luna couldn't help but grin at the young lady to show she really did think she was pretty.

When Cat started to delicately ask Luna if she ever landed the killing blow on any animals, the girl rubbed the back of her head for a second with a bit of a chuckle. "Oh no, not at all. I'm more just in it for the outside and terrain. Running on the roads is nice and all, but being able to maneuver the uncaring wilderness is all the more exciting." the girl all of a sudden got quite pumped up, smirking about how she had got the skills of an outdoorsman at this point. It was actually a part of her skillset she wanted to work into her hero side as well, being able to work well in the wilderness could probably be useful if she ever needed to rescue someone out there.

That was when Cat started to crack a couple of holes into Luna's explanation and honestly... it was pretty sound questioning. "About that, we only really started hunting when I embraced my Quirk as apart of myself. I guess he wanted to help me hone my skills, which are that of a Scent-Hound rather than just any general dog. So... he put two and two together and decided that we'd take up hunting as a hobby so I could get ahold of my tracking skills and have a better handle of my speed and agility when chasing down prey. Kill two birds with one stone so to speak... er, well, we didn't actually kill birds with stones. More just a metaphor." Luna felt pretty awkward by the end of that because it was pretty open-ended reasoning as well. Just because she was a dog that embraced her quirk didn't mean she had to hone the skills attached to it. It was ultimately because she wanted to put those skills to some further use that they started doing that. But that was a whole different story.

Luna got a bit quieter as Cat brought up not having the same connection with her father before bringing up getting a bit too personal. This prompted the dog-quirker to nod, not wanting to pry too much more.

Next, was the explanation of what happened to Cat's friend. It seemed that she had someone she liked to do this all with but they had to take a bit of a break due to an incident involving the number one hero. Cat was right though, nobody could have really expected it to happen and ultimately someone could easily get hurt.

Luna had no clue who this person was or what happened to her, but it sounded like they were recovering fine enough. Though the nervous-looking smile on Cat's face made Luna worry that maybe she was trying to keep it more lighthearted for a kid listening to the story. Maybe something a lot worse really did happen, and she simply wanted to keep it away from the conversation.

She had no real way to know if this was true or not, but it still caused Luna to end up looking at the ground with a melancholic look to her face. She had no way to help in that situation, that was before Luna was even a hero school student. And even then she was just a first-year with no jurisdiction.

She didn't really want to talk about Hero stuff too much, but Cat seemed like a real genuine person she could confide in. Luna looked to Cat with a soft smile on her face, pumping her arms with a soft determination. "I want to become a Hero someday. And when I do... I'm going to help to make sure stuff like that doesn't happen anymore. So maybe your friend will be safe and always be able to come with you." she spoke with a resolute determination, completely believing the story of Cat's friend and then painting her own conclusions from the matter. It was probably ultimately meaningless, but Luna felt as if it was important.

Everything came to a firm point as Luna discussed her intentions of becoming a hero. Cat had asked her about where she could put her skills to use outside of hunting but that basically answered it right away. That meant that the entire focus of the conversation was instead looming about that fact, which Cat actually seemed pretty casual about. Maybe it wasn't such a big deal after all and Luna needed to be more relaxed about that aspect. Maybe it wasn't all that weird.

But what Cat had to say about it made Luna perk right up, even if some of it was incorrect. Just the idea of being told that she would fit right in made the girl quite happy and excited all over again. "Do you really think so? I want to make friends with all sorts of people and become a hero alongside all of them." she'd pump her fist into the air, sort of punctuating that point, her excitement burning strong. She was already at Yuuei though, so it was more like she was looking to fit in already. But that didn't make the encouragement of being sure she would fit in any less impactful.

"Ahh, I can't wait till I become one! I don't even know what my pro name will be but I want to make everyone smile when they hear it. I hope my energy and excitement is infectious to others so they can be excited along with me." she'd let out a small giggle after that, a stupid grin plastered on her face as she went on about it. She was kind of trapping herself now. She was so restricted about her desire to be a hero throughout the whole conversation that the moment that it slipped out she immediately started getting excited about every little thing.

It was easy to realize that for herself, though, which made her rub the back of her head with another soft chuckle. "Sorry, I got a bit too happy there. I guess I'm still a kid when it comes to these kinds of things." she would rub at her cheek a bit softly, feeling as if she possibly made things awkward with her overzealous feelings. That couldn't dent her joy though, even if it was what caused the weird outburst of hero talk.

Before Luna had even realized it, they had ran quite a bit already. The casual back and forth of the conversation had led her to lose track of distance and time. She didn't mind too much, though. This was a nice change of pace and she didn't have to be back at school until curfew anyways.

It was easy to be a little happy that Cat was trying to help out with the desired hero name. Bloodhound was actually something on her mind, as it was what her Quirk was called, but maybe it was a little too on the nose. Watch Dog was a good name for sure though, perhaps she would work that in somehow. It would ultimately be a good idea if she sounded reliable.

Luna then let out a bit of a surprised "Woah!" as she felt Cat bump into her with her hip, causing Luna to stumble just a tiny bit. Despite stumbling, the girl let out a soft giggle as she smiled to her jogging partner. "Yeah I know... I shouldn't be sorry but I guess I just worry I'm annoying a bit to some people." she rubbed the back of her head while they ran together.

As they slowed down, Luna took some time to stretch as they relaxed, hearing what Cat had to say causing her to give an understanding nod. "I'll be going home soon. I have some studying to do anyway." it was sad that her time with this new acquaintance was coming to an end, but it wasn't like they could jog forever. "It was nice meeting you, Cat! I run this route quite often so I hope we can see each other again. Or we can meet without a jog, I wouldn't mind hanging out or anything." Luna tried to sound a bit optimistic about this, as it was always sad to meet someone nice and never see them again. But if they never met again it wasn't going to be the end of the world either.

"You be safe on your way back, and I'll make sure to do the same~" Luna let out a soft giggle while offering a wave to Cat to bid her goodbye. If that was to be it, Luna would extend her break just a bit longer before going back to Yuuei, she wasn't in that much of a rush.