Remake of my nomukacchan inspired by @dragonpunk15 and their AMAZING Au. They are a HUGE inspiration to me and one of the reasons I started posting on twt. These are almost exactly a year apart!
Land ho! Deku’s spotted an island that’s home to the most revered art pieces of all pirate history! Made by the most swashbuckling pirate of all, Drigi!
Deku is a young and promising engineer, he was formed and trained by All Might who also built his mechanic arm. It incorporates one of All Might’s greatest inventions and only he and Deku know about it.
Deku grew up in the lower city with Katsuki, living as little thieves but also learning the basics of mechanics and working under the protection of Aizawa. When they were 13 they got caught in a big clash of two rival groups that caused the explosion of a building. This is where Deku lost his right arm, while trying to get Katsuki to escape and out of the way. On that occasion they part and both believe the other one is dead. All Might rescues him and decides to keep him as his apprentice, seeing great potential in doing work for good.
This is how Deku makes it to the upper city and he starts working in All Might’s mechanic’s shop, where he learns to build ships and other devices and also makes it in UA Academy of Science, thanks to his teacher’s name. He tells people to call him Deku, so no one in the upper city really knows his full name except for All Might and Katsuki.
Katsuki is an engineer too and a pirate.
He was the one finding and rescuing Deku when they were 8 and they stayed side by side until the explosion.
After the explosion he manages to escape and reunite with the gang he and Deku were already part of, but for his safety, Aizawa sends him far from the city with Best Jeanist who teaches him a lot of the job of the engineer and also makes him part of the crew of his pirate ship.
Since the accident Katsuki believes Deku is dead, and grows resentful of who caused this to happen and guilty for the fact that Deku was trying to save him when it all happened.
When he is a bit older, he builds his own ship and forms his little crew with which he flies around and starts to build his own name as a very skilled thief. It’s not his real life goal, he wishes to be the greatest engineer of all time, like All Might, and to change the world with his inventions. But a man has to eat so that’s how he makes money while also creating incredible devices and stuff.
One day he almost gets caught by the authorities. They are flying too close to the upper city and the ship gets targeted and shot down, but they manage to land it safely and temporarily hide it. The repairs are too big for just him and the bunch of non mechanics of his crew, and if they want to take off before it is found by the police they need some others to help. One of Katsuki’s contacts gives him Deku’s name and at first, he is absolutely shocked and has to stop himself from beating the other guy for daring to say that name.
Katsuki is conflicted as it feels like this could be an ambush, even though he can’t understand how anyone might have gathered such personal information about him. Deku is something he has kept very much a secret about his past. Anyway he decides to go see for himself if this guy is legit or if it’s some sort of sick joke.
When he reaches the mechanic’s shop, the person he finds is most definitely not-so-little-anymore Deku. They reunite with a clash, very much grown and different from where they left each other, and absolutely emotionally constipated.
There was a MHA art contest held by Jump and Horikoshi left comments on the top winners.
The one that caught my attention was this. And I’ll explain why!
Horikoshi’s comment for this entry was: “I was surprised because it deviates from the original but then I was so overwhelmed by the sensibility of adding flowers to it. It’s extraordinary.”
I wonder if he looked up the meaning of this flower..
He loves symbolism, has used flowers and tarot before to do this symbolism so I can’t believe he wouldn’t be curious especially since the flowers are in huge focus! He must have looked it up. Shipping art was not allowed for the contest but people found a way to do it through symbolism!
The artwork is called “At the end of negative bonds..” Which is so much stronger with the meaning of the flower.
A relationship that grows, evolves and withstands the rest of time.. you still show the same passion for your partner that you always did..that’s SO BKDK.
A lot of people are also talking about this one.
Basically Hori’s comment for this was:
People started going crazy saying how come he doesn’t know because he was the one who wrote them.
Guys.. have you not learned how big of a troll Horikoshi is? He’s teasing us because he’s preparing childhood fluff flashbacks. The All Might card is setting it up. This art wasn’t picked to be here without a reason.
Horikoshi left comments on others as well but they were only about the art style, coloring and techniques.