Summary: Back to class! It's time to deal with Internship offers! As well as an unexpected absence. (See the A/N's at the bottom before you buy your torches and pitchforks. I will explain my reasoning there, even if you don't like it.
Chapter 26: Internship Offers
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After the long weekend, Group A finally found themselves back in class on Wednesday morning. Midnight had strolled in right on time, and quickly gathered the attention of the class by thumping down a set of thick binders on her desk. The loud noise drew all attention, the few remaining side conversations trailing off as the students involved realized their professor was present.
"Internships!" Midnight leveled an old-fashioned wooden pointer stick straight at Izumi. "Overly well-informed minion, explain them!"
Izumi blinked, making a 'who me' gesture even as several snickers were heard around the room. When Midnight just made a 'get on with it' motion in return, Izumi nervously tugged at a bit of her hair. She instinctively entered hyper-cognition mode for just a few moments to muster her thoughts, then dropped back out to obey Midnight's...order?
"Ah...internships are a Heroics Course student's first exposure to acting in our capacity as heroes. We aren't even provisionally licensed yet, so they are more ride-along equivalents than they are proper hero work. Essentially, they combined a chance for heroics students to get an up-close look at day-to-day Pro-Hero operations, with continuing to show us off to the General Public for future recognition. Additionally, ideally, we will get offers from heroes that may have something additional to teach us. Sometimes due to similar Quirk, other times a useful fighting style, or even something like public relations for those that aren't good at that sort of thing."
Izumi trailed off as Midnight flicked the pointer away with a nod, apparently satisfied with the explanation.
"An excellent summary, minion! Of course, it's only a summary. What each student gets out of their internship tends to vary not just by the student, but by the hero they intern with. Veteran heroes will often let their interns get involved in minor ways with actual operations, comfortable that they can protect them if something goes wrong. Whereas newer heroes might focus more on offering training, instead. Each case is at least somewhat unique. Which is why UA is very careful about who it lets make requests."
Midnight stopped to tap one binder, differently colored than the others. Unlike the ones she'd carried in it, and several copies of it that appeared identical, had already been on her desk before she arrived.
"Our University has ongoing deals with a handful of agencies, roughly two dozen in fact, that will always take interns from among our First Years. Most are our alumni, and all have run multiple successful internships before being added to that list. Each of you have the option to go to any one of them and be assured it would be a good experience for you."
Her tapping finger moved to the pile of other binders, far more varied in size.
"These, however, are the specific offers for those who have earned them. I'll display everyone's total offers in a moment. Note, however, that the actual numbers of received offers were higher than what you will see. These are simply the ones that got through UA's filtering process. Meaning they we do not believe the internship would be a case of our students being taken advantage of."
Midnight produced the remote for the room's projector, activating it to display a list of each student and the number of offers they had received.
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