Down With The World

She'll Know My Crazy (Soothe Me Daily)

More weeks passed, and more League antics took place as the now former villains got comfortable in their new home. One of these antics happened one morning, during a pretty common occurrence in Fowle Manor.

"What are you doing?", Tenko asked from the bathroom doorway as he waited for it to be freed up so he could use it. Arachne was in there, getting ready for her day at work doing... Well, none of them really knew what she did for a living. She never brought it up, and they never asked. All the League knew was that she made a lot of money, had a lot of clients, and traveled for work occasionally. Arachne turned away from the sink mirror to look at Tenko in bewilderment, her hair pushed back by a headband and her face covered in a thick white substance.

"Uh, skin care?", Arachne responded, not sure why he was asking such questions. Everyone knew what skin care was... right? Tenko's confused expression told her otherwise.

"What the hell is a 'skin care'?", the red eyed man asked, and Arachne became mildly horrified.

"You mean you seriously don't know what skin care is?", the woman asked, purple eyes wide in disbelief. Tenko shook his head.

"This explains so much about you.", Arachne said breathlessly, before marching over to Tenko and grabbing him by the wrist. She then sat him down and pinned him with an intense look.

"Stay still. We are going to find a skincare routine that helps with your dry, cracked skin, even if it kills us both.", Arachne vowed, and Tenko gulped. He was suddenly more intimidated by her than he had ever been by All For One.

"Y-yes ma'am.", he stammered, knowing there was no other appropriate response.

The two of them spent the next two hours in the bathroom before they finally found a skin care routine and a chapstick brand that didn't make him want to rip all his skin off. And that was how Tenko finally started to look like a normal person and not an under-moisturized hobgoblin.

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"Himiko sweetie, could you please not hoard all the knives? Kurogiri and I need them for cooking.", Arachne politely requested as she peeked her head into the bedroom Toga had claimed as hers within the manor, which had been completely redecorated from how it used to be. Now the whole place was painted red, with posters of cute boys and girls, and well as various knives mounted on the wall. Toga, who was watching some k-drama on her bed covered with bat stuffies, sighed and picked up her recent steals from the knife set in the kitchen.

"Oh alright.", she relented, before throwing the knives blade-first at Arachne. Arachne caught them all, one by one, before they hit her and without hurting herself. Once she had them all, she smiled at Toga softly.

"Thank you honey, see you at dinner.", she said like a loving mother, before closing the door behind her as if that was a perfectly normal exchange. Toga blinked at the place where her host once was, before laying back in bed and staring up at the ceiling.

"Huh, so this is what it feels like to be adopted and semi-normal.", she mused, before returning to her k-drama.

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"Jin, I'm going to be perfectly honest with you; I haven't known you for long, but I can see that you have been through something that's made you the way you are. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the way you are... but I can see you're suffering because of it, and as your friend, I don't want that for you. Have you considered therapy?", Arachne asked as she sipped her berry and ginseng tea. She was having breakfast outside with only Jin and Constantine that morning, since everyone else was busy doing their own things, and she wanted to take the opportunity to talk with him in private about something important. Jin blinked at her and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.