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Ever heard of pangolins?

[Just. Take your time with the rest of that, Alberto. It's cool. That's why Katsuki is detouring from it as soon as he drops it on him that he knows. Is that the best tactic? Who the hell knows? He's winging it.]

Edited 2022-06-09 16:32 (UTC)

[ Oh, per mille sardine, this is terribly distressing... he wanted the topic dropped, and now that it has been, he's freaking out maybe more? No closure or explanation or reassurance, just casually outed himself and now can't even confirm whether or not he's actually outed himself or if his weak deflection was strong enough. He's just gotta roll with it. Again, the "..." deliberatively blink off and on a couple times for a long moment, before Alberto's response comes through again, wedding himself to the facade now by just... moving on smoothly. Or not-so-smoothly. Oof. ]

how do you know all the animals?
ccan you talk to them?
i met a kid who talks to animals at the animal park here a while ago.
he told me about tikers and dacks and the big pink seagulls.
and monkies. he said those are jerks tho.
do you know these animals?

Edited 2022-06-10 16:09 (UTC)

[Katsuki is treating this as very much Not A Big Deal right now. It'll maybe come up again later. If Alberto doesn't breach the subject at some point, Katsuki will again. But for now... he's just letting it sit.]

What?
No, I can't talk to animals.
I've never even seen half these things in person.
These aren't my videos or anything.
Anyone can post these things to the internet.
I just find 'em and share 'em.
I guess if you wanted to see 'em in person you could go to the zoo?

yeah thats where i went
where i met that kid

i know theyre not YOUR movies i'm just saying, you know a lot about animals youve never even met before.

i only know about animals ive met before. mostly.
there are some animals i know about that ive never met
like dogs. i seen dogs. ive never MET a dog myself but i know about them.

but i dont know about animals that dont LIVE near me
like PANGOLIANS and eye eyes and stuff... theres probably a million animals in the world!!! you just like knowing about them all?

[ Katsuki's been promoted to "Expert on Every Animal Ever" inadvertently.

But even as Alberto's gaining confidence he's shifted the suspicions away from himself... he goes and drops some bull shit like "I've never met a dog before." Jfc kid grhbjsdf ]

I just looked up 'weirdest animals'.

[What do you mean you've never MET a dog, Alberto? What kind of weird fact is that? But he guesses... dogs aren't exactly plentiful in the ocean so.]

You can learn about anything you want, you know?
Gotta be careful where you learn it since the internet is full of lies too.
But it's pretty useful.
C'mon, pick a topic.
Bet I can find you information on it.

yeah i know its an Every Question Ever Answerer

[ Though this does kind of raise the challenge to try and stump the Internet... There's a slight delay, but Alberto texts back again. ]

OK so the Everything Machine doesnt know EVERYTHING
doesnt know about magic singing lady machines. nothing.
ha.
🤷🏽‍♂️

[ ...Yup... You outsmarted Google, Alberto. Really showed Katsuki, too. He tried to pick the most specific but still commonplace item he'd like to learn more about, but uh. He'd have had better luck looking up "phonograph" or "gramophone" or even just "record player..." Displaced in time, on top of being a fish out of water in human society. There's really so much going on with this kid... ]

Magic singing lady machines?
You have an example of what you're looking for?
Picture, maybe?

[His first thought certainly isn't phonograph. He's thinking maybe a cd player or a radio... and he's already pulling up tabs while he awaits a reply.]

[ The picture attached is... probably not what Katsuki expected. His first glimpse of Alberto's expert artwork, too, wow. ]

this
you put the black music plates on it and it sings

[ He attaches a photo of his hand holding a record of his own in front of its sleeve, for further example. And Katsuki's first glimpse into Alberto's perhaps equally unexpected music tastes, as well... What an extremely informative conversation this has been so far? And still absolutely pointing toward "not-human" somehow... And to think this all came from sharing iCarla videos. ]

Edited 2022-06-16 14:25 (UTC)

[That sure is some artwork there. He's definitely chalking this up to another sea monster thing. But he shifts tracks on his search and--]

Is this what you're looking for?

yes
That’s it.

Try phonograph.

[Every part of him wants to drop a line about how that's what humans call it. He resists. Also he googles that record name while he's at it.]

Gotta say I wouldn't have guessed your music taste at all.
You're full of surprises.

👍🏽

[ Duly noted. And a rare occasion for Alberto to seemingly accept being corrected or having something explained to him that challenges his preconceived notions. But, uh, he's... still probably going to keep calling it a Magic Singing Lady Machine, let's be real. He's keen to talk about music, though, and he's glad to be getting away from anything even peripherally sea monster-related.

However, his next text surely draws new weird suspicions. Full of surprises, indeed. ]

I love all different kinds of music! 🤩🤗😏👌🏼🎶📻🙆🏽‍♂️
when i lived in Portorosso back home, I probably spent like TEN LIRE on the jukebox haha (I was there like 2 weeks and 25 centesimi got you 3songs, you do the math)
the guy who owned the cafe gave me a limit… 😬🤨😂🙄🤌🏼🙅🏽‍♂️
he got mad after I danced on it with some girls one day so after that he was kind of 😒 at me 🤷🏽‍♂️ Ha ha

[ So the Italian Lira has been defunct since 2002, and, uh… jukeboxes haven’t been common for. A really… really long time.

Also he danced on the jukebox?! The kid’s out of control wherever he goes. ]

Edited 2022-06-16 19:30 (UTC)

[It's all starting to add up to... Alberto not just being from another world, but another time. File all that away for later. Suddenly the phonograph thing makes more sense...

But they're shifting into music now. And Alberto is claiming to love all kinds of music sooo... time to throw some stuff out and see what sticks again?]

All kinds, huh?
Try this out and let me know what you think.

[Katsuki’s tastes are faaaaar from opera, that's for sure. Time to introduce Alberto to some J-rock?]

uhm. not my thing. sorry
it's so mad?

i like this
and her dance⛲💃🏼👒🙀

[ He attaches a pop song he'd heard back home on the radio, but since arriving to Kaisou and finding a video for it online, has now fallen in love with the dance, too. What's more, it absolutely points to what time Alberto might be from... very easy clue this time. One he doesn't even think to pay any mind to. Largely because, being a sea monster raised outside society, Alberto has a very vague understanding of what year it was there or here — no one's ever explained how years are counted on the surface, so it's all just numbers to him. He has no concept of just how far back in time he's really come from. ]

Edited 2022-06-16 20:45 (UTC)

[Grandpa music. That's all Katsuki can think, watching this video. The kid is into grandpa music. Definitely from another time period. A very different time period.

And for a while he's kind of stumped because that is so far from his tastes it's ridiculous. But he goes back and listens again. Watches again. Rereads the bit about liking her dance. And... the gears start turning as he goes back to youtube with a thought.

Happy, upbeat, fun dance. It's not really Katsuki's taste buuut...]

How about this one?

[He kind of couldn't escape this song when it blew up. Especially given his choice of username. Anyone who knew what handle he used online everywhere sent him the song when it first exploded...]

[ Katsuki's stirring up all kinds of feelings today, huh... some of which Alberto's not even sure what they are. But he's ecstatic over this. ]

THAT WAS AMAZING!!! 🤩😳‼️🎵🎶🌟

[Okay, so he's onto something! Sadly, Katsuki doesn't really listen to a lot of pop. He likes his music loud and angry. So he doesn't really have anything else to share right now. But, he can at least point Alberto in the right direction?]

The genre you're looking for is pop.
Go to youtube, type in "pop music".
You'll find whole playlists of stuff like this.

[ Some time passes, but another text comes through, with Alberto attaching a link of his own... Who knows how he found it. But he found it on his own, with the help of the words "pop music." And he's pretty sure it's a bop. ]

people say this where i'm from! like when you're upset or shocked or overwhelmed or something. oh mamma mia...!! 🤦🏽‍♂️🙄🤷🏽‍♂️
now I can SING IT too ha ha... 😏🙀😩🎶

[ And someday, unbeknownst to Alberto now, Luca will bear the brunt of this silly coincidental joke with himself... for now, no one has to suffer except maybe Alberto's neighbors. The very first (of many endless others to come) "ABBA Hour" just began. The clock now will strike "ABBA o'clock" twice daily, like any other time, for the rest of... ever, possibly...? Katsuki's opened a Pandora's Box of music for this child with just the word "pop," and it's not even necessarily to his own tastes! The irony. Charity for the troubled youths... ]

Edited 2022-06-29 13:03 (UTC)

[Katsuki is not feeling Abba at all. But the kid seems pretty damn excited about it. So. That's good.

He spends some time kind of clicking around from that video. Just seeing if anything really jumps out at him. He's not expecting anything to, but it kind of feels like a game where victory could be obtained by finding something they both like...

He kind of clicks through, half-listening to and then skipping over some things before something catches his eye. Not for the music but for the video.]

Dunno about the song but this video is pretty cool?

[Not a win, yet. Even if Alberto likes it, the music isn't really doing it for Katsuki but he feels like he's getting somewhere here?]

ha you're right the Video is better then the song. but the song is good too!
thhis is fun ha ha

[ Good recovery from the sea monster scare... He feels pretty confident that that's been dispelled and swept under the mat. They're having a good rapport sharing music now. Alberto's never shared music back and forth with someone before. He's loving it. Doesn't even matter that Katsuki's not vibing with his music recs as much as Alberto is with Katsuki's. The attention alone is validating. ]

OK so I looked up "queen of italian pop" HA HA I was joking BUT it actually had the right answer...... 😏 Mina is very famous back home, always on the radio.
i love this song by her! I listened to it on the jukebox SO MANY TIMES after my friend moved away that the guy at the cafe said I wasn't allowed to play it anymore... 😿😬😅😂

[ That is a deeply dramatic sounding song, even without understanding the lyrics... and entirely sadder than one might expect from Alberto? For it to apparently be one of his favorite songs ever? Full of surprises, indeed. ]

[Katsuki gives it a listen once through and decides even if it's still kind of old-timey and outside his usual taste, he likes her voice? He takes a moment to look up the lyrics out of curiosity. Especially since Alberto is directly connecting it to his friend going away. He's curious what she's singing about.

It's... not what he was expecting? But he decides to disregard the romantic connotation and focus on the core feeling of it. Loss. Loneliness. He can understand that.]

Sucks when a friend moves away.
You think about writing letters?

[Because Katsuki sure didn't. He'd spent a lot of time being unreasonably mad at Izuku for going to America even if it wasn't Izuku's choice. Never considered letters... and that's another little detail there. Another tiny connection. Something as simple as a close friend moving away. And the feelings that brings.

He pulls up his playlists because he's pretty sure he has something that, lyric-wise might be a fit here? He got into the band through their louder stuff. But...]

Try this one.

oh yeah we wrote lots of letters!! all the time! I wrote him new letters even before he wrote me back from the last one a couple times ha 😅
letters, drawings, photographs... ✉️📝🖍📸
my boss Massimo let us talk on the telephone once. My friend's family came up to the kitchen and we all crowded around the telephone together to hear his voice come out of it 👨🏻🧓🏻👩🏼‍🦰😾👨🏻🧑🏽‍🦱📞🧑🏻‍🦱💬
Massimo said it was too expensive to do that everyday because Genova is far from Portorosso so we couldn't talk for LONG... 😔🤌🏼💷 but he let me takl to my friend alone for a little after his family was done. It was nice.☺️👨🏽‍🤝‍👨🏻

[ That... is a way more open and vulnerable and poignant answer than anticipated, more than likely? This bratty wild child from the forest, who's served such fuckin' attitude half the time they've talked, takes a totally different tone talking about his friend. It's bittersweet but that doesn't seem to discourage him at all from talking about it. So, indeed, very different from Katsuki's experience with Izuku. And yet another little "surprise" about Alberto — this certain softness.

And Katsuki's song hits that soft spot dead-on. Oof. He's not gonna admit he cried a little at one point, ahem, but he smiled through most of it. Right on the nose for him and Luca and Katsuki doesn't even realize how much. ~~but his writer surely does lol~~ ]

I like the words to the song. Good Song. 😌👍🏼

Edited 2022-07-08 02:22 (UTC)

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