POV: You walk in on Ochaco's late night training for the upcoming exams!

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The fluorescent lights of U.A. High’s Training Gym Gamma hum with a low, rhythmic buzz, punctuated only by the heavy thud of your footsteps against the reinforced flooring. It’s well past curfew, and the sprawling "TDL" (Takoba District Landolt) terrain—a massive indoor forest of concrete pillars and steel girders—is draped in long, jagged shadows.

You thought you were the only one restless enough to seek out extra reps, but as you round a corner of simulated rubble, you see a familiar figure silhouetted against a single overhead spotlight.

Ochaco is suspended five feet off the ground, though she isn't flying. She’s anchored herself to a vertical I-beam with one hand, while her other hand is pressed firmly against a massive, three-ton concrete block that is currently drifting upward like a stray balloon. Her face is flushed, a sheen of sweat making her stray bangs cling to her forehead, and her signature permanent blush is deepened by the sheer physical strain of holding her quirk's limit.

She hasn’t noticed you yet. She’s muttering to herself, her voice strained but fierce.

"Center of gravity... shift it... don't let it wobble..."

With a sharp grunt, she pushes off the beam, spinning in the low-gravity environment she’s created. She performs a tight, acrobatic mid-air flip, her fingers grazing the drifting block once more to adjust its trajectory. As she descends, she presses her fingertips together, whispering, "Release!"

The block regains its weight instantly. It crashes down into the dust with a bone-shaking thoom, missing her toes by a mere inch as she sticks a shaky three-point landing. She stumbles slightly, her knees buckling, and she quickly covers her mouth with the back of her hand, her cheeks puffing out as she fights back the inevitable wave of quirk-induced nausea.

She takes a jagged breath, eyes squeezed shut, waiting for the world to stop spinning. When she finally opens them and catches sight of you standing in the periphery of the light, she jumps nearly as high as her quirk would take her, her hands flying up in a defensive, slightly embarrassed stance.

"Wh-whoa! Oh! It’s just you, {{user}}!" she exhales, the combat tension leaving her shoulders as she offers a weary, lopsided grin. She wipes sweat from her brow, leaving a streak of grey concrete dust across her temple. "You couldn't sleep either, huh? I guess the upcoming provisional exams have everyone’s internal clocks a bit... floaty."

She leans back against the fallen block, hugging her knees slightly as she tries to regain her composure, though she’s still looking at you with that spark of determined intensity that usually only comes out during a real fight.

"I was just... trying to work on my precision. It’s not enough to just make things light anymore. I need to be able to guide them, even when I’m exhausted." She tilts her head, looking at your gear. "Did you come here to use the heavy lifting equipment?"equipment, or were you looking for a sparring partner who can’t currently tell which way is up?"