Turning tragedy into hope-Let him lose those arms
I’ve tried making this post three times so let’s hope that third times the charm y’all.
I’m just gonna come out and say it but when I saw that panel where Izuku doesn’t have any hands I literally got so excited.
AND ITS NOT BECAUSE I LIKE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER GETTING BRUTALIZED (well? I do think it’s a little funny but shhh)
But it’s because this has been foreshadowed almost as much as the handhold itself between Izuku and Katsuki. And it’s wonderfully tragic in the best of ways. Literally half of the commentary surrounding it when it came out in the leaks was “omg I thought of that!” Because literally everyone and their mother KNEW this was coming in some form. Izuku was going to lose an arm, and that would be the case.
Hell, even outside of the story the amount of official art and AU’s Horikoshi drew that had Izuku without an arm is astounding. Like it’s so painfully obvious that this was coming, and so he upped the shock when he made Izuku lose them both.
Izuku is even doing his white eye thing, he isn’t shocked, he’s angry. My dude is pissed. Clearly, to me at least, the loss of his hands is less of a shock to him and more so that he’s angry that afo took away the reason he lost them in the first place—Tenko.
Y’all gotta remember who Izuku is, he’s the stubborn motherfucker that refused time and time again to give up on his dreams, he’s the one that illegally saved Iida and Katsuki, he’s the one that refused to let go of Tenko’s hands because when he was in his time of need, it comforted him.
Izuku has been told by his doctors for over a year atp that he was going to eventually either lose his hands, or lose the function within them. He’s accepted that. He can try to stop it, hold it off through equipment and treatment, but at the end of the day, everything breaks eventually. He knows that. We know that.
So if he was going to lose his arms in some way, it’d be through this: saving someone, holding their hands, never letting go, comforting them.
It’s tragic and sacrificial, but Aizawa’s the same. Did we make theories about how Eri is gonna heal him from being an amputee? Did the story say “actually due to this cool magical illusion/quirk it was all a mirage/eri could heal it”? No, it didn’t. Did Mirko somehow get her arms and legs back because they’re tied to how she views her strength? No, she didn’t.
And there’s a reason they didn’t. Multiple reasons they didn’t. They’re heroes, their scars tell their stories.
Not even mentioning how that’s such a trope (“everyone else keeps their long term injuries except for the main character because he’s special and gets main character powers, like not getting a disability from a dangerous job! :)”), but why should eri, a little girl, be responsible for everyone’s injuries? She doesn’t even have full control yet, she’s playing it by day. (People LOVE to talk about how all the 1-A kids are just kids fighting in a war, except when it comes to a little girl being responsible for everyone’s injuries, somehow)
The reason eri was shown wasn’t because she was going to somehow save the day, but because she wasn’t. It was supposed to stop those theories from having actual merit, because eri doesn’t actually have the built up strength to help.
So, with that out of the way, I wanted to say how this is so fucking beautiful. It’s tragic yes, Izuku and Katsuki never got to hold hands, not properly, but maybe the measure of their trust is beyond that. Maybe, an embrace could suffice—this would go back to Izuku’s vigilante arc. Where, instead of holding hands, Katsuki caught him when he needed to. And he’s going to do it, again and again.
Maybe holding a robot or silicone arm won’t feel the same, but it’s the feelings surrounding it that matters, not the act itself. The hand hold is still there, the hands still haunt the narrative like a mouse within the walls. It bites at cords like their own emotional walls.
Katsuki missed his chance, over and over again, and he’s going to have to come to terms with that. But that’s not to say that the story won’t let this aspect haunt the narrative like it always has. It’s still THERE, and I believe in Horikoshi to continue to write a story about hands while the main character doesn’t even have them.
Izuku’s hands are tied to his strength, physically and emotionally. He views them has the glue that ties his heroics to himself. His hands have always reached out to others, his hands have always punched those who were wrong, and even when he had to switch fighting styles he still saw them as the reason he was able to fight at all. They represent OFA, his love, his anger, his weakness, his strength. They represent his sense of self, and yet he’s more outraged than hurt that he lost them for Tenko to be free—only for AFO to take away that freedom all over again.
THATS why the loss had to happen. THIS. He lost something so incredibly valuable to himself, but he lost them of his own accord. He could have let go of Tenko at any moment, yet he didn’t because he wanted Tenko to know comfort and freedom. He wanted him to be free.
You could say that Tenko was telling Izuku to let go because he was breaking down his emotional resolve, and I believe you could also say that he was telling Izuku to let go so he doesn’t hurt someone who tried to help him all over again. You could say it’s both. It’s selfish and selfless, like everything in this story is. But Izuku refused to, and that was a choice Tenko could never take away from him.
So, that’s how I’ll turn this tragedy to hope, because this was done out of Izuku’s love, why take away that meaning?
Why put them back?
Why take away those scars?
Scars tell stories, they tell you how we became the greatest heroes.
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Ok look—
Queen Alicent gives birth to a alpha child that is born with dark hair, and when she first saw him she cried because she had finally a child that look like her, BUT, her father was not happy about this, he claimed that the child would be considered a bastard, and that the king would kill her and the child. Otto wanted to kill him, but Alicent managed to convince him to send him to a convent in the north.
And there, Aemond Targaryen was created as Osferth Snow. He was raised sweet, loving, and when he achieved eighteen he decided to leave the north and travel the world, but he had no money nor prospects, so he decided to make some money before traveling through seas, and he ended up in Dragonstone, taking care of the dragons (for some reason that idk.) And he took really good care of them, principally after Rhaenyra whent live there. He had a great personality and people in general loved him. He was good fighting, telling histories, and in general almost everything. Jace for exemple thought that Osferth was a excellent company for camping and hunting.
But you know how things are, and in a small mount of time the greens decided that the alpha son of the late king, Daeron, should be the heir, and it was monstrous the amount of people that agreed with them. In this time Lucerys came back from Driftmark, the only omega son of Rhaenyra, that was raised for long seven years with his grandparents, as a child of their on. He came back with his grandsire to get ready for war.
The blacks decided that they should have more dragonriders, and started to collecting bastards all over Westeros, and as a dragonkepper, Osferth went out with Jace and Lucerys to try collect some wild dragons for riders. Lucerys teached some bastards high valyrian, so they could communicate with the dragons, and Osferth and Jace made sure that none of them turn into a dragon's dinner.
Osferth himself I only knew a few words in high valyrian, actually, he did not know how to read nor wright, even then, every night he sat next to the fire to hear Lucerys teaching the other ones. One day before Lucerys sat by the fire to teach the Targaryen bastards, and when he passed by Osferth (that was taking care of the dragons) he asked if the dragonkeeper would not listen the lesson today. After that day, they grew close, so close that when Jace trapped Cannibal so one of the bastards could get to tame him and the beast went mad and try to attack the first person he saw, (that was Lucerys) thankfully Osferth stepped in front of Lucerys, so with some high valyrian words that he learned, and a lot of courage, he not just calmed down Cannibal, but created some type of weird bond with the creature.
After that a lot of things happened and the blacks win, unfortunately the queen died, and Jacaerys took the throne but that's another story.
But the truth is that I like Osferth and I wanted him to be the first ML and that is only possible if he is Aemond himself. So someone please write a fic like this. <3
Oh, I forgot to say that here, Jace and Luke (just the two of them) are Leonor and Rhaenyra's legitimate children.
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