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All Roads Lead to Love? - Chapter II

cw: canon-typical violence. quirk use. oc characters are introduced. reader has a described quirk. Please see additional masterlist warnings! Masterlist

The remainder of the week passes without consequence. This new information about your life doesn’t change anything, because even if you can see the same man on every news channel, you have nothing to discuss and your lives don’t overlap.

Sitting by a couple of teenage girls at a train station and hearing them speculate about Uravity and Deku on your way to work the next day adds particularly to this sentiment. Their longstanding will they won’t they is only part of the reason why you’ve never made your feelings known. Uravity is perfect for him in every way, after all. You just wish they would hurry up and go public, hopefully even get married, so you can stop addressing the niggling feeling that perhaps, just perhaps, all these years you’ve made a mistake.

When you find your way into the clinic, Junko is wide-eyed and excited to hear everything you learned overnight, and you conveniently leave the part where in at least five universes except yours, not only are you not single, you’re romantically involved with Mr. Number One Pro Hero Deku himself.

“Who knocked the first one up? I have to know.”

You eye the Deku bobblehead on her work desk you’d desensitized yourself to, and shrug, pretending you don’t know.

“Any add-ons today?” you ask instead, and disappear into the back room before she can ask you more questions. At least you know what you’d look like if you were pregnant.

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Sorry I can’t make it tonight. Please let me know if you or Iida need anything.

Izuku’s voice to speech has a tendency to make him sound excessively formal, but it’s better than typing in a hurry and having to correct ten individual typos, cursed by clumsy, large hands. He’s rushing to the third out of five meetings today - the unwelcome side effect of being One to Watch (although he wonders at one point he’s simply There given how long it’s been) - and then he’s set for a patrol in a particularly dangerous neighborhood for the evening. He wishes he could trade it, but considering the point of the patrol was less to fight a specific enemy but to show a strong Hero presence, specifically his presence, he’s aware that it must be him.

Ochaco will understand. After all, he’s been with Ochaco at Iida’s bedside most days this week in the evenings given a recent injury, and even if Ochaco won’t say it, perhaps the two do need some time alone. They’d both been reluctant to reveal their affections for each other, given Ochaco’s history with him, but a part of Izuku’s soul understands that this arrangement was probably for the better anyway. While he loved Ochaco dearly, he’d always had the sense something was wrong about them, like momentum having him hurtling in the wrong direction. But there’s not much you can do when one of your best friends proclaims their love for you where everyone can see, and you’re just a high schooler with the weight of the world on your shoulders and then some, and there’s even less you can do when the person you’d long hoped would return your feelings seemed to be preoccupied with someone else.

Either way, years have passed and there are no hard feelings between the trio of friends, and Izuku particularly has simmered down on the prospect of love.

Somewhat.

Just minutes later, a reporter asks him for the third time this month if he and Uravity have considered working as a pair, and he smiles and nods before politely redirecting the question to praising her talent profusely. He understands easily why she’s reluctant to go public with Iida, and wishes desperately he wasn’t in her way.

Perhaps in another universe, if they had ended up loving each other, this aspect of the job would be easier - the media circus would have died out by now; they’d both be able to focus on doing what they chose to do with their lives, which is be Heroes and help as many people as possible.

They’d be able to live quietly.

The reporter then asks if he’s still in contact with most of the people he went to school with. This question takes him aback, and he blinks for a moment as he watches the young woman before him resettle in her seat, eyes hungry for information.

He runs through the list of everyone he’s known. He’s 28 now, and it’s been a decade since he’s graduated from high school. Most of the people he’s known he interfaces with on at least a weekly to monthly basis, save for a select few like Shoto, Katsuki, Iida and Ochaco that he sees almost daily. He admits he hasn’t seen Koda in a while, now that he lives in the forest similar to the Wild Wild Pussycats, nor Jirou who dedicated more of her life to music these days, and then his thoughts settle on you.

He knows what you’re up to, but he hasn’t spoken to you in over a year, despite remembering your last conversation at UA’s 10 year reunion. Brief - you were already slightly tipsy, and you smiled at him, but seemed disinterested in whatever he had to say, almost like you wanted to leave as soon as possible. He’d asked you how your clinic was going, and you’d laughed, the warmth of alcohol deepening the complexion in your cheeks, and said noncommittally, “it’s going,” before turning back to your friends. You’d once been so excited to tell him every thought running through your head, and you’d bounce off ideas for hours, discussing everything from Quirks to biology to society to your hopes and dreams, and after just a few years apart, he received next to nothing.

Leave her alone, Midoriya, is all that ran through his head, after that, and he politely bowed and left.

“Yes, we all help each other out when needed!” he replies. It isn’t a lie. For every one of his classmates, even you. If you called him, he would come to your rescue. Anytime.

When the interview ends, he wishes for a moment that he had the courage to call.

—

The last person you could have expected to call you, calls you on a Thursday afternoon, as you make your way out of work, and from his voice, you can tell he’s surprised you actually sought to answer the phone.

“I… uh… wow. Hey.”

“Hey.”

Your cheeks warm, but it’s not love, it’s the nostalgia of several years coming back, and the fact that your high school boyfriend seems flustered to speak to you despite years of lost contact.

“You never changed your number,” Akira says, and you laugh. You can envision him easily, after all social media makes it such that no one truly becomes a stranger, and you know that he’s crinkled he has the same goofy smile on his face that helped you forget all that you’d been through in the Hero course, reminded you that there was more to life than self-sacrifice.

“You didn’t change yours,” you’re quick to reply.

“Touché.”

You can tell he’s grinning now, and it makes your heart light. You’re walking towards the train station and it’s a spring afternoon; you can see lovers hold hands as they walk past you, and you can’t remember the last time you’ve been on a date.

And as if he knows how you feel, he asks you on one.

“The truth is you’ve been on my mind a lot recently.”

“Are you newly single?” you ask. It’s meant to be a playful jab, but you can tell he’s stung when he replies, “Newly isn’t the word for it, but yes, I am single.”

You blow air through your nose, but Akira is harmless. He makes his way around women easily with a silly sort of charm, and being easy on the eyes, but he’s not the type to break a woman’s heart. If anything, you were the one who broke his by ending things when you decided to focus on graduate school.

“Remember how I really liked enka?”

Evenings in the dorm rooms laid side by side with shared headphones come to mind.

“Yeah. Are you famous now?” you tease. He tuts at you, but adds,

“Come to my open mic night on Friday. I’ll buy you sashimi afterwards and we can go drinking.”

You think for a moment that in 5 separate universes, you’re in love with Izuku and maybe you should figure out what that’s about, but in this one, Izuku is nowhere to be found and perhaps it’s more important for you to hear your ex-boyfriend belt ballads and loosen up over sake and sake don.

You think for a moment, and then say, “Sure.”

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There’s probably a social crime involved in inviting your friends to a date, and you can tell Akira’s a bit annoyed about it from the slight scrunch of his eyebrows when he watches you walk into the bar with two of your closest friends flanking your sides. He’s at the front already, and waves at you enthusiastically, and he’s every bit the cute boy from the support class who helped you with your pageant routine (you didn’t win that year, but you placed thanks to him), just sharper in the face, and with longer wavy dark hair.

You wave back, and your friends push you to the front and take their seats in the back. They’d also both gone to UA, and one was in the hero class with you, while the other was a year ahead, in the support class, and recognizes Akira, even if she hadn’t particularly approved of him in the past. She hadn’t exactly disliked him, but you could tell she was less warm when it came to him. Your other friend doesn’t seem to recognize him immediately, turning immediately to order the two of you drinks.

You slip into the open seat beside Akira and he offers you a drink and a rose. It’s cheesy but it makes you smile.

“I’m going to wow you, just so you know,” he promises as he makes his way on stage. You raise your eyebrow, as if to say ‘prove it’ while he skips onto the stage.

And he’s a hit, all flashing teeth and low notes, and you can feel your face warm every time he sings in your direction. He’s always had a beautiful voice, and easily flustered, you look down at your drink, heart thumping.

And then, in a stroke of misfortune (to you), he slips your name into the song, and when you look up at him, he’s reaching a hand out towards you, bidding you to come on stage.

The very idea feels like hell to you. The rest of the bar’s patrons watch you and cheer and you glance at your friends, both of whom are waving their hands to push you on stage. When you look back at Akira, he’s still smiling, but you can feel the tinge of anxiety at the idea of you rejecting him in public. You wouldn’t, would you?

You can’t.

You slowly rise to take his hand, as people clap around you, but before you can take another step, before you can embarrass yourself in front of a room full of people, there’s a deafening sound that comes from your right side that practically stuns you, and shortly after, a forceful blast of air and shattered concrete follows and nearly knocks you off your feet.

The ringing of your ears mutes the abounding screams in the room. Your fortifying Quirk kicked in just in time, so you weren’t thrown that far, but bodies are strewn across the room. You don’t see Akira, and the right side of the room is practically cleared with tables and chairs tossed haphazardly and people scrambling for cover or already unconscious.

Adrenaline rushes through your veins, but you act first. You are a Hero after all, even if you’ve been out of the fray for years. A quick glance lets you know that your friends are already in action, trying to recover a few people thrown over the bar, and you attempt to push rubble off of you and start rescues.

Your Quirk activates again to fortify yourself as you begin to move, but a second, louder explosion occurs, one that does actually knock you off your feet, destroying part of the foundation of the building. The ceiling starts to cave in just above you - you’ve always had the best luck - and you’re too slow to move before it all comes crashing down.

You put yourself into a protective huddle, hopeful for your Quirk to minimize your damage, but never feel the pain of falling wreckage.

“... Hi.”

Says Izuku Midoriya, hovering over you and shielding your body from harm with a piece of the ceiling held carefully in his hands.

The love of your life in at least five universes and your current savior.

Your eyes meet and hold firmly.

“Hi, I-Izu.. Deku.”

Time seems to slow to a stop for a moment, then comes back up to pace when you let out a breath you didn’t know you were holding, your lungs suddenly burning in demand of oxygen. Izuku watches you carefully for a moment, really takes you in, even if you’re quick to thank him before looking around for someone else to save. You’re okay, just shaken; you’ve noticed him for a fleeting moment and now your attention is gone. You turn and scream your friend’s name, and he throws the large block of concrete to the side, remembering his job has only begun.

He’s happy he could do something for you, despite it all. There are more people to save, you remind him with your quick movements, the activation of your quirk to stabilize the first injured man’s bleeding as you crouch around him. He springs back into action - after all, he was meant to chase the culprits of those blasts, and can’t be sidetracked.

But this time, he has resolved to say more to you when the dust clears.

—

“Rampage, are you hurt? You did a good job back there.”

You can hear your Hero friend, code name Rampage, chat politely with Izuku as they both approach to where you’re huddled in a makeshift rehabilitation corner, a couple of people with the more severe injuries laid out on the ground, rolled up table cloths beneath their heads. No one is gravely injured more than you can heal with your Quirk, but you’ve exhausted enough of your body’s reserves that your head is starting to swim. She’s saying something playful about how Deku stole her thunder, when you turn to both of them and give a report, as Heroes are wont to do naturally.

When he comes over, you remind yourself to remain cordial but businesslike, despite your heart pounding hard in your chest. Nothing happened. Nothing changed. No clones or any lingering delusions can change that.

”I think we’ve accounted for everyone, right? These two -“ you gesture over to the people you’ve slightly sedated to reset a couple of broken limbs, “probably need to get to the hospital just so they have follow-up but it’s not urgent.”

Rampage nods, and Izuku pauses before doing the same. You remember now - the last time you interacted in this capacity was during the earliest parts of the war before things had gotten far out of your realm of ability and you were more helpful taking care of the sick and wounded. It feels like so long ago you’ve been active as a traditional Hero. Rampage on the other hand has kept in contact with Deku cursorily due to her familiarity with other Heroes of a similar level, particularly the noisy one named Dynamight, and while she and Deku are not exactly best friends, they get along well. He glances at her for reassurance before stepping forward to you.

“Thank you for helping out,” Izuku says with a reassuring smile. You try not to look at him when you reply, “Of course.”

In one universe, you have small children that look like some combination of the both of you. In this one, you can barely look each other in the eye.

There is a pause that lasts a little bit too long again, and you don’t notice the smile that forms on Rampage’s face as she steps backwards, hoping not to be noticed by either of you, but the moment dispels when Camilla, your Support friend, calls for all of your attention from across the destroyed hall. She looks absolutely ridiculous, enough that you stifle a laugh, with all manners of cutlery, jewelry, watches, phones, and anything metal, stuck to her from head to toe due to activation of her magnetic quirk.

”Anything you guys are missing?” She asks, stepping over rubble to meet you guys. You’re not sure how she can even see at this point with nearly every inch of her body covered. Close behind her is Akira, whose eyes widen once he spots you.

”You’re okay!” He exclaims running towards you. It’s almost theatrical, as if he hadn’t disappeared to preserve his own safety first, but he wraps you into a tight hug, as though you were long lost lovers. Next to you, Izuku stiffens for a split second, something Rampage and Camilla both notice, and Akira holds you at arms’ length, pretending he can’t see him.

Akira never liked Deku very much in high school.

”I’m so glad you’re okay, everything got so terrifying and…”

Your head is starting to pound, and Akira is gently pulling you away from the rest of the group, you notice, until Izuku speaks up.

”Hey, ___, you don’t look so good.” His voice is a little firmer, and he clears his throat. “Don’t move her so much, I think she needs to sit down.”

Akira flashes him a look that’s slightly poisonous, Camilla notices, then smiles to herself.

“Of course. I’ve just been agitated since our date got ruined, that’s all.” Akira stresses the word and Rampage rolls her eyes.

She never liked him either.

Izuku almost asks ‘what number?’ out loud then realizes it’s an insane question to ask of the thousands he could have reasonably asked. But he’s curious, you don’t seem like you’re particularly smitten enough by him as he tries to help lower you to a sitting position.

The paramedics and other reinforcements are starting to fill in. Izuku keeps an eye on you as he coordinates with Rampage and the rest of the Heroes that now arrive to clean up wreckage and get everyone back in place. Akira’s rubbing your shoulders while you look dazed, too drained in the absence of your energy-conserving Hero suit to shrug him off, and it irks him. Somehow, in just seeing you again for this brief moment, he’s become a high schooler again, thinking of the right words to say, standing in front of your dorm room door before giving up and leaving. He’s seventeen again and watching you poorly conceal a bouquet of flowers he wishes he were the one to give you, avoiding cutting through the grass on the UA campus grounds even though it would get you back faster. He’s eighteen and wondering why even saving the world isn’t enough to make you look at him before you part ways into the adult world that opens before you, and admonishing himself for even having the selfish thought.

He’s shy little Izuku and he wishes you liked him back.

“Deku, do you have a moment to talk with us?” a cheery reporter says, thrusting a microphone in his face. They’re everywhere, he swears, prettier and more persistent every time. He’s polite again, flashing the practiced million-watt-smile.

And just like that he’s Deku, the hero once again.

—

Electrolyte water and rest does its magic, and as you make breakfast the next morning, you wonder if you should consider packing part of your suit with you, or at least perhaps just the gauntlets that you used back in high school. A modified version that is compact and can slip into your purse so that you never find yourself in a similar situation. You’re greeted the next morning by text by an apologetic Akira who promises you sushi another weekend, which you decide to reply to later, and texts from your friends who make sure that you’re okay, and an email notification for an incident report due in the next two weeks.

You sigh.

That’s why you don’t do Hero work.

Scooping eggs onto a slice of toast, you settle onto your couch, snuggling close with a body pillow and wishing your mind would stop racing for a moment. You don’t want to admit it, but all you can think about is Izuku and his stupid handsome face, and the way his mouth seemed to part every time you met each other's eyes, as if he has a million and one things to say to you but has to hold back. You wish he’d go make those cloying eyes at everyone lined up for his interest. There’s no real claim to him after all, at least not in this universe, regardless of what supposedly exists in the multiverse. You don’t even know if that’s real after all; it’s something that absolutely disrespects the laws of physics, but then again, you know many people whose Quirks do. Aizawa’s adopted daughter Eri is the first to come to mind.

You should do some more research, you decide.

After spending a couple hours on databases and online medical journals researching the existence of Quirks that can interact with the multiverse, you come up with nearly nothing, save for a case report of a person whose Quirk kept generating a wormhole for him that handed him whatever tool he needed (most often chopsticks for some reason). Groaning, you decide Kazuo is unique and either way you’ll see him again in 3 months, and reassess how he’s doing, possibly get a (better) case report out of it. You wonder if he’ll generate the same set of clones, or hopefully a new set of clones, ones who aren’t romantically entangled with Izuku Midoriya, ones more like you who never cared much for him at all, or at least knew, like you, to back off when they saw him standing on the edge of a cliff with the girl who was made for him.

Maybe if you look at the narratives your clones wrote to you, crumpled in a drawer in the corner of your desk, you’d find some flaws. Perhaps this was all a big trick the universe was playing on you, and feelings sitting in your subconscious, sleeping for practically a decade, are now flooding back with a vengeance. It must be the power of suggestion. You do not love him. You do not even particularly like or dislike him. You feel neutral. Neutral is good.

The narratives don’t help. What also doesn’t help is the fact that you’ve stored them in the same place as you keep all other sentimental material, including a diary you kept sparingly since you were a kid, in addition to letters from friends and family, and trinkets you’re afraid to lose. Curiosity has killed many cats and you, so you pore through it as well. Everything in that period of adolescence is amplified, and you went through war, so of course you remember a strong feeling of love that might not be real and should not be held on to.

The diary doesn’t help either.

Of course, some entries are silly and whimsical like you’d expect from a young teen. Excerpts about friends, family, teachers that annoy you, celebrities you think are cute. You find remnants of an old crush on Suneater that must have been so short-lived you can’t remember it, and it surprises you.

And then there’s your thoughts about Izuku, sparse but poignant.

Oh yes, you were in love, and your entries end there. With war, with adulthood, with the life you have now.

#izuku x reader #izuku midoriya x reader #mimi's notes #mimi writes: arltl #daydreams: bnha

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bibibbon · 5 months

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UA teachers suck and UA sucks as a school

UA literally just sucks. Honestly this school has failed so many people especially izuku in particular.

Maybe it wouldn't of actually earned this title if we got more academia arcs but from the canon stuff we have so far it sucks!

No bullying policy?

So you see a student outright bullying another student and you decide to do nothing?!?!?! The student then doesn't even get any concequences for his actions?!!!!?!?!

Exposing students to the whole world after a villain attack?

So right after usj you have the sports festival and you don't even decide to delay it because UA's security measures have to look like their on top and apparently that's the logic behind it. Also, reminder that the UA sports festival is MORE POPULAR THAN THE OLYMPICS. So watching 15-18 year olds use their quirks to harm eachother is alright???! Like aren't you basically using minors for other people's entertainment?!?!

I mean realistically speaking you could of tried to delay the festival or just make the first years not do it that year. Just have them do tournaments with only heros present so you actually protect students safety and don't have people and villains watching/witnessing their weakness

Lying to the public about students being psychologically fine?

We never saw the phycological evaluation that the students did after the training camp incident and saying all students were psychologically fine was such A big lie considering you had a GROUP of students go and try and rescue another student because they couldn't trust the teachers enough to handle the situation which idk about you but that says A LOT.

Chaining up bakugo?

Look I hate bakugo I really really do but muzzling a whole student and making him a whole public disgrace has to be illegal? ...Right. like if bakugo wasn't going to cooperate then just disqualify him and make todoroki the winner and save yourself from attracting villains to kidnapping the kid.

Acknowledging that your entrance exams are badly done but then not changing them?

Seriously, we get aizawa talking and talking about how useless and illogical the entrance exams are but then nedzu does nothing... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT IT. aizawa had a point about the exams favouring people with offensive quirks but can he really talk about that when all he does to teach his class is just play sick and twisted logical ruses on them? Also shouldn't the exams focus on different aspects of heroism instead of defeating villains?

Aizawa and his teachings being accepted?

I don't know about you but aizawa being a teacher is wild to me. Like this is the guy who actively does NOTHING to help his students but trains a student that's not even in his OWN CLASS!! He then goes on to not even read his students files which contain some very important information that could explain some or majority of his students behaviours that he isn't bothered to understand!!!! Also the amount of expulsions he has even if they are on paper they are literally a death sentence to students as it permanently destroys their records and ruins their chances in finding any normal job let alone becoming heros. He also only points out the problems with his students and then does nothing to help LITERALLY NOTHING!!

Is therapy a thing in UA?

No like this is actually a serious question because if you're telling me that hound dog is a therapist then I might as well leave because how is he a therapist when he offers nothing and is cannonically seen as threatening by all the students?!?!? Also were 1A or 1B even offered therapy after what they went through?!?! Like some of 1A literally showed some clear trauma responses and UA does nothing about it. Oh and this isn't even mentioning what hound dog done to izuku ( izuku is a gag and so is his pain) oh and what about mirio did he get any support after nighteyes death

Midnight in the anime?

We all have our own problems with midnight but her in the anime is totally different then the midnight in the manga. In the anime she continually flirts with students and you get it she does stuff she isn't supposed to. In the manga its a bit different but there are some scenes like the final exam arc where it's a bit weird

#mha critical #bnha critical #hori is a bad writer #horikoshi critical #mha #ua critical

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aconstantstateofbladerunner · 1 year

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If the ask game is still open, an AU where All Might arrives a little late to saving Izuku from the Sludge villain. Izuku survives but has to be hospitalized and it's there that he meets Mr. Yagi, a nice though a little awkward man who always asks how he is doing.

All Might finally catches up to that slime villain, but the kid he rescued isn’t breathing. He manages to get him to cough up just enough junk to breathe after some CPR, but he needs a hospital stat. His hero form holds up just long enough for him to leap across town, drop the kid off, then leap back to capture the villain. That’s where he finds a certain notebook left behind.

Izuku is devastated that he was unconscious during his All Might encounter. Finally gets to be in the presence of his idol, and he doesn’t even remember it. That alone is almost worse than needing his stomach pumped and two surgeries to repair tears in his lungs. No doubt everyone at school heard about it. Just more proof the quirkless kid can barely survive walking home, let alone be a hero. When he’s alone, the nurses on their rounds elsewhere and his mom gone for work, he cries a lot.

Toshinori can’t visit until the next day, when Izuku is out of the ICU. He poses as All Might’s secretary and brings the standard gift bag for people caught in the crossfire of All Might’s fights, along with the notebook. Surprisingly, Izuku doesn’t look happy to see it. He took losing it as a sign that his dreams were over, but it coming back doesn’t refute that. It feels more like the universe is mocking him. He lightens up a little when Mr. Yagi compliments him, and when he sees the All Might autograph on the inside, but only a little. Toshinori is out of time again anyway, so she stays a while to play cards so the poor sad kid won’t be lonely too.

The week Izuku spends in the hospital, Yagi comes every afternoon to play a game or talk about heroes. He knows a lot, which makes sense since he works for All Might, but he weirdly never wants to talk about him. But Toshinori can tell how much Izuku does, so he lets him as one question about the man at the end of each session. It’s usually clarification on hotly debating topics like how certain unfolded fights went down. Typical fanboy stuff. But then, Izuku asks if Mr. Yagi thinks someone without a quirk could be a hero. He wanted to ask All Might, but he says he probably wouldn’t care. So Toshinori reveals his scars. He says he used to be a hero (though not which one) but had to retire early due to injuries. The rest is basically the canon speech. Izuku just says okay, and Toshinori can’t close the door fast enough not to hear him cry.

Toshinori doesn’t sleep that night. Poor kid thinks his life’s over, and here he is with the solution. But One for All isn’t something you can hand out to just anyone. Young Midoriya’s a good kid, but is he worthy? Yet he can’t stop thinking about the earnest passion, the innocent dream of saving people with a smile, combined with the resilience to still have such a dream after the world has clearly beaten him down. Hardly the grand ideal of changing the world like he had when Nana picked him. But there’s still something to that. So to make sure, Toshinori comes up with a test. If Izuku can clean a massive trash beach in time for the entrance exam, maintain his determination through the grueling slog of training, he’ll consider him for the quirk. Telling him about being All Might can come later.

#answers

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doodlegirl1998 · 4 months

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your response literally made me realize that they need Izuku more than he needs them despite what Hori wants us to think.

Because think about it, nobody ever acknowledges Izuku unless he does something that benefits THEM! And fuck whatever he needs or wants!

They even make fun of his interests as if he’s the inpy one who does that sort of thing! So again, how am I supposed to believe they actually give a shit about him and his wellbeing?

Hi @theloganator101 👋

All of this. 👆

Now I like the idea of Izuku having friends, I like the idea of Izuku having ride or dies (such as Shoto.)

However, canon has left all of Izuku's friendships with the 'DekuSquad' and Class 1A as a whole to rot or actively does it a disservice in the name of 'comedy', for Bakugou's benefit or because Hori gives no care to them.

Class 1A, we know, never stand up for Izuku against Bakugou, so Hori's golden boy doesn't look bad. However, by consequence, it also looks like they don't care for Izuku apart from some key members like Tokoyami who never stand for Bakugou's shit. (Bless you, Tokoyami!)

However, with Izuku's main friendships in the 'Deku Squad', we have:

Izuku & Ochako - a friendship/budding relationship that is left to rot and actively done a disservice for 'comedy' and Bakugou's benefit.

Izuku & Iida - a friendship that is left to rot and actively done a disservice for 'comedy' and Bakugou's benefit.

Izuku & Shoto - a friendship that is actively done a disservice for 'comedy' and for Bakugou's benefit.

Izuku & Tsuyu - left to rot and done a disservice for Bakugou's benefit.

Izuku & Aoyama - left to rot.

How are we meant to buy that Ochako cares for and 'loves' Izuku when she calls him 'plain' and is so set on hiding her feelings?

When she doesn't stand up for him when he's being abused by Bakugou and when she looks freaked out whenever Izuku is shown to enjoy his hobbies?

Or when she 'who loves Izuku' barely spends any time with him?

From what we see in canon, we can't.

How are we meant to buy Iida cares for Izuku when he barely appears with him now?

How are we meant to buy Iida is Izuku's "best friend" yet when he is so quick to call Izuku "Mr House Arrest" and take Aizawa's side without hearing out Izuku?

Or when Iida is so quick to hit him* after Izuku getting out of the hospital?

Logically, we can't. *Yes, Iida apologised for doing this. However, this moment does rub me wrong, and even if this punch is nullified by the apology, the other criticisms still stand.

How are we meant to buy Shoto cares for Izuku when he thinks nothing of Bakugou verbally and physically berating Izuku now*?

*Yes, Shoto is an abuse victim, and some become desensitised to this behaviour as a result - however Shoto did not begin the series acting this way, so what conclusion can we draw?

How are we meant to buy that Shoto is a close friend of Izuku when he is chasing after Bakugou's friendship (Bakugou, who is openly hateful of Izuku?)

It looks like, through Hori trying to glorify Bakugou, that Shoto doesn't care as much for Izuku as we would like to think.

Tsuyu and Aoyama are barely even there anymore, let alone bond with Izuku.

Tsuyu used to stand up to Bakugou and his bullshit openly - now? Not a peep. She's only here to be an accessory to Toga vs. Ochako and Ochako as a whole. Izuku, who?

Aoyama has strong parallels with Izuku due to both starting the series quirkless and being given a quirk by AFO and AM, respectively. Yet this friendship is barely given any focus by Hori. Hori doesn't want Izuku to think about his own past during Aoyama's backstory, so he fails to give Izuku any introspection and fails to deepen their connection and Izuku's character as a result.

Class 1A as a whole are also done a disservice by Hori having them all gang up on Izuku with Bakugou leading the charge.

To conclude - Hori hates Izuku and it is clear looking at just how dirty he does all his connections in 1A and major friendships.

#mha critical #bnha critical #anti bakugou #anti bakugou katsuki #class 1A critical

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deusvervewrites · 2 months

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So, I was thinking, and while we know that Hisashi Midoriya's quirk is fire-breathing, we don't know any actual details about it. Like, does he breathe out a gas that he can ignite with a spark from his mouth/tongue/teeth? Does he need to consume fire first? And what vestigial mutations would he have passed on to Izuku relating to fire-breathing? Any thoughts?

Fire-breathing is always my go-to when I talk about how Emitters and Mutations are not all that far apart as Quirks go.

There's really not much I can say about Hisashi's Quirk since canon tells us only that he can breathe fire. I can't even classify it because, well, the gas-organ-ignite-spark method that's popular nowadays could be considered either.

What I can do is compare it to some other Quirks we've seen.

The obvious first step is the Todoroki Family. Touya, Enji, and Shoto all possess fire Quirks that produce fire from seemingly no organ, but by igniting the air around/on themselves. They also have a inbuilt heat and fire resistance, but with a limit to how much they can take.

It's safe to say that no matter how Hisashi's Quirk works, he would be similarly difficult to burn.

Next up is Tsuburaba, from 1-B. His Quirk lets him breath out air that becomes solid. Emitter Quirk. What's important here is that how much he can use his Quirk is based on his lung capacity. I'm assuming that both Tsuburaba and Hisashi have mutations in their lungs to help their Quirks along. Especially in a Mutation Quirk, though again, I can't prove that a a Mutation necessarily has more mutations than an Emitter. Downsides of making powers all biological.

The last Quirk I think is a notable comparison is Tidal Bore, the Quirk of Big Red Dot in World Heroes' Mission. This Quirk allows him to produce vast quantities of water from his mouth, and even do so at high pressure--high enough that he can use his Quirk to lift a Trigger Bomb from that movie high enough into the air that it wouldn't be able to hurt anyone. And those bombs are fucking big. Interestingly, the wiki classifies his Quirk as Emitter even though Big Red Dot has a lion head and potentially webbed feet, so once again, Quirk Categories are bullshit.

(There's also a Quirk called Ignition from Vigilantes which has fire-breathing applications, but it appears to be similar in function to Hellflame or Burnin's Quirk otherwise)

BRD throws a massive wrinkle in any potential mutations I list--let alone Chimera having fire-breathing in addition to everything else he has going on--because apparently secondary mutations* can be whatever the hell we want them to be.

As for Midoriya inheriting any? I don't personally like the idea of people inheriting vestigial mutations but no Quirk, because at some point it becomes "Quirkless people actually do have Quirks and/or are superhuman by modern standards" which is. Uh. a completely massacre of MHA's themes.

*When discussing Quirks, I refer to Primary Mutations as any changes to the body necessary to make a Quirk function; that is, another term for the Plus Alpha Elements or the Quirk Factor. A Secondary Mutation is a mutation that is unrelated to the function of the Quirk, such as Ashido's horns, the Todoroki hair colors, Shishida's lower teeth, etc.

#asks #meta #quirk analysis #midoriya hisashi

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oshiawaseni · 1 year

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Trails of Love Hori's been paving down in the build up for the series' ending

Part II: Decoding the love story being told through other characters

<- Part One | Part Two -> Gentle & La Brava I will now be talking about the other characters that have helped Hori tell his story. Part II of this meta will be released in multiple posts.

.•° ✿ °•. ❀。II. Intro ❀°。 ೋღ

Now we're going to be taking a deep dive into various moments left behind in Hori's trails. Something that a lot of these moments have in common with each other is how out of place they felt. I think the reason why these things felt out of place at the time is because Hori intentionally inserted a lot of these moments and dialogues into the manga for a very specific hidden agenda. This hidden agenda has always been BKDK and Hori has been doing everything he can to get their romance through to the finish line.

Horikoshi knew he wasn't able to tell BkDk's love story through Izuku and Katsuki's actions and POVs alone... and during his manga's infancy, he couldn't directly spell out the nature of their feelings *just yet*, but he still wanted to lay them on thicker, since BkDk couldn't become canon just out of nowhere. There needed to be an explanation for them. A build up.

And if BkDk couldn't come out and explicitly say how they felt about each other, then Hori's other characters in the manga would simply have to do it for them. That's why the implementation of these moments in the main HeroAca story at times felt a little unnatural.

My intention with this meta is only to show you some of the curious and fascinating moments in the manga, that have the potential to be another moving cogwheel piece of Hori's larger BkDk agenda.

We'll work our way through them one by one until the very final boss BkDk need to defeat for their happy end. (Gentle and La Brava played a huge role in this meta, so look forward to them in the next post!)

.•° ✿ °•. ❀ 1. Compress ❀°。 ೋღ

Up until this very moment with Compress, I didn't even consider the possibility of Izuku being in love with Katsuki. As someone who personally loves displays of possession when it comes to showing love, this one really stuck out to me as an odd insertion in the manga. Because did Compress really need to respond to it? Really?

Sure, by itself, Izuku saying "Give him back." is actually more than fine. They're childhood friends. Despite all of Katsuki's flaws, Izuku is still able to acknowledge all of the amazing things about him and clearly cares. Of course he doesn't want anything bad to happen to him. I could give him a pass for it... if it had been just this alone.

But when we add in this additional input of Compress's reaction, calling out Izuku’s “give him back” with a "He's not yours, you damn egotist," bringing specific attention to what Izuku just said, and him responding by doubling down with yet another impassioned “Give him back!”, things change DRASTICALLY.

We're left wondering what Hori's intentions really were with this interaction that plunged a platonic at best BkDk into the deeper, murkier waters of something a little more vague, at least on Izuku's end.

Pass removed, Izuku.

Next Part -> Gentle & La Brava

#bakudeku #bkdk canon #bnha meta #must read meta #kana writes #hori trails #op #I'll try space posting them out throughout the week #look forward to them!

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epickiya722 · 4 months

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Hello! For the ask game, how about All Might?

My first impression: I'm glad you asked about him because that means I can tell you this. When I first saw All Might, it was through a meme. And not just a meme, it was a YGO meme! I laughed so hard when I saw it and had to know what anime he was from. So everyone thank All Might for getting me into BNHA. (The meme is below with the other pictures.)

My impression now: He has became one of my favorite anime teachers, that's for sure.

Favorite thing about that character: Hard to choose since I find Toshinori very enjoyable. His personality is a plus, but I have to say that laugh he does.

Least favorite thing: I hate that some people labels him as a "bad" teacher. No, the guy is a new one. He has his flaws and he's never actually mentored anyone. Toshinori is still learning himself. Keep in mind, his predecessor died when he was still a teenager and he was left to learn from Gran Torino. Vigilantes also showcases how overworked he is, so by the way we get to the canon story's start, of course that's the All Might we're going to get!

Favorite line/scene: I will forever be salty (not really) that the scene where Toshinori gives the kids cotton candy got cut short. His pun and everything about that scene was too funny and adorable. I also like the "OH MY GOOOOODNESS" line from season 1. From Izuku yelling to Toshinori arriving and that line is glorious!

Favorite interaction that character has with another: Well, duh, Izuku. But in general, all the kids. Also, his interactions with Naomasa are gems. Especially in Vigilantes.

A character that I wish that character would interact with more: I love that we do get him interacting with the students (even naming his mech moves after them) and I want more of that. But I would also love to have seen Toshinori and Inko interact more. Especially, during the Dark Hero Arc. Like, did they ever talk again after the whole "moving into the dorms" situation?

Another character from another fandom that reminds me of that character: Funny enough, he may look like Yugi, but he reminds me of Yugi's grandfather.

A headcanon about that character: That yellow suit will always be iconic and you cannot tell me he doesn't have an abundance of suits like that. Just like Midoriya, you know this man got to have a lot of silly attire.

A song that reminds of that character: I can't think of any! 😭

An unpopular opinion about that character: Panning back to my earlier point, I love that All Might isn't just some mentor dude who has train others before and made them great. No, he's a legend but he also has to learn some things. He still has room to grow. He's a new teacher, not a bad one.

Favorite picture: Another moment I love that one snippet we get of him and his mom. It's so wholesome, but it tickles me because Toshinori looks like a feral child. Other images I think back to is when he has this insanely long neck and that one scene when he's holding a pipe (I think). That one image alone is like "nothing is more dangerous than a teen who will do anything to beat ass and save people". Looking at you to, Izuku!

Send Me a Character...✨️

#kiya answers #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #bnha manga spoilers #bnha spoilers #all might #yagi toshinori #toshinori yagi

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that-spider-fan-over-there · 27 days

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Why don't we talk more about how similar Tenko and Katsuki actually are?

It feels very odd, for me at least, to see Izuku's narrative foils being compared to him, but not to each other. It's so easy to draw their lines, parallels and foils.

Arrogant, childish and unapproachable, with destructive Quirks and a similar hatred of losing the battles they fight. Katsuki's starting line on the same chapter Tenko was introduced. And in a world of various characters with red eyes, they play straight the "Red Eyes, Take Warning" trope.

Look, for the most part, murderous, but one of them was convinced it was what he desired while the other just says that because he couldn't understand his feelings. Indoctrination and Trauma Rationalization vs. Inferiority and Emotional Supression.

The appearance and attitude of bloodthirsty children that covers up their intelligence and strategic leadership abilities.

The keys that brought the Kamino Incident. Making them intrinsically connected as the turning points of Hero Society's starting collapse whether they like it or not.

Neither wanted companionship, wanted to do things their way, alone. Yet both gained friends, and while their goals haven't changed, they don't need to do it alone. Bonus points for befriending a Todoroki when they've started off on the wrong foot.

Tenko, groomed by AFO as a Symbol of Fear. Katsuki, thought by Izuku the Symbol of Victory.

Died, in a physical and spiritual sense. Tenko, physically in 269, spiritually in 238. Katsuki, spiritually in 285, physically in 362. And still, were reborn in defiance of AFO's will.

Tenko unknowingly had expectations for his future from the moment the idea of conceiving him was planted, and was never taught he could be something other than destructive. Katsuki would have support for anything he wanted, yet pushed himself to be perfect. Because otherwise, what was the point?

Speaking of, AFO is their villain. Tenko, who destroyed the original vestige so he could fight Izuku himself, while Katsuki destroyed his physical body in an act of heroism because Izuku couldn't. And despite being taken out for the time being, their role isn't finished yet.

A villain confronts their convictions, their "roles in the story". Calls out their "childish, incomplete" desires. It causes in them a realization, destroys a mental block they didn't know they had, making them more powerful in the process. And for further points, their hands are broken in the process.

Somehow, both are connected to One For All, present in the vestige world. Both could even be considered a "Tenth OFA user", depending on your point of view. Izuku did sacrifice his dreams and gave the Quirk to them, after all.

A hero with the arrogance of a villain, minor antagonist growing to be the protagonist's confidant; vs. a villain with heroic lineage and instincts, a major antagonist who's the hero of his own story.

Tenko hates the role All Might perpetuated in society because of what it means, when no hero helped him. Katsuki, even with the flaws Toshinori shows, remains a fan of All Might to the point he actively decided to honor him with his hero alias.

Tenko was said by Re-Destro he was on the process of a Quirk Awakening, a liberation of sorts. Katsuki, post awakening and revival, was on the process of learning something new about his Quirk that was very similar to Izuku's.

And to top it off, both of them could easily kill a person with their touches, their Quirks. Their hands, seemingly, easily, made for destruction. And Izuku would still reach for them anyways.

This post was brought to you by: someone who would find very funny if post canon Tenko and Katsuki got along with Izuku but hated each other's guts (like someone who hates his younger sibling's boyfriend) + me being annoyed at the discourse surrounding the OP/ED lyrics and who "Izuku" is referring to + me wanting to see AFO's ass getting kicked by the three of them.

Thank you for reading!

#Boku no Hero Academia #Bakugou Katsuki #Shimura Tenko #Shigaraki Tomura #Midoriya Izuku #spider.posts #BNHA meta #sorta. I just wanted to ramble about them for a bit XD #okay can't promise it's my last post today but there you have it #not pictured: me fighting for my mcfuckin' life trying to find pics while on data because INTERNET WENT OUT #AND AFTER I POSTED IT IT FINALLY CAME BACK FFS

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Shinsou stans don't seem to like it if you point out that he 100% believed he was entitled to get into the heroics course purely based on his Quirk alone.

I wrote a one shot where Ojiro and Izuku are talking about that (since Izuku canonically calls him out on it during their fight), Shinsou's own Quirkism against Ojiro, and how it makes him and Aizawa not look good, and I got a shit ton of Shinsou defenders in my comments section - even though it was tagged and marketed in the notes as a not Shinsou friendly fic.

"He was only trying to rile Izuku up!" And why did he repeatedly use Ojiro's mutant status to do so? He referred to him as 'monkey' both out loud and to himself. He could have said literally anything else.

"Izuku also believed he could get into the heroics course without working for it!" And not only does All Might make him face reality, Izuku himself acknowledges that he was "chasing a pipe dream" - his own words.

I don't think I read that one but I would be more than happy to read it if you leave a link to it here!

Yeah like many other antis on here I don't like Shinsou at all. I already made a post about my thoughts on him but all I'm gonna say on what I think is that he IS an entitled brat who thinks he deserves to be in the hero course without the work and effort.

But jeez sorry that happened to you. It feels like sometimes these stans purposefully look for fics talking bad about their favorite characters so they can leave those kinds of comments.

If I happen to come across a fic that talks bad about a character I like, I just scroll by it and look for one I like... something that these stans don't seem to understand.

#bnha critical #mha critical #anti shinso hitoshi

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justatalkingface · 1 year

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The UA Entrance Exam

This was going to be part of a larger post about UA as a whole, but I decided this was probably best to stand alone, because this is more random thought/opinion than a proper critical post. Welcome to what is probably going to be a controversial post: the UA Admissions test isn't bad?

The main argument against it is that it puts those without a combat quirk at a disadvantage, right? And, well, that's true. But... is that wrong?

Here's the thing: the more heroism as a whole is developed in the setting, the more something becomes startling clear, one simple fact that stands above all others.

Heroism is a profession defined by fighting.

You can be a rescue hero, you can spend your time saving people from collapsing building or finding those who are lost, but if you've gotten to the point of being a professional hero? You know how to throw down.

I'm not even talking about UA, here: there's a license exam that everyone has to take, as part of a process of being a hero. Half of it is saving people, yes... but the other half? It's purely about fighting other people. Hell, even part of the saving people portion has combat aspects, since it's focused around, not just saving people, but saving people while under attack.

I'll say it again: if you are a hero, you are a fighter, by definition.

So, what's that have to do with the UA entrance exam? In all honesty, that exam is functionally a simulation of running around a city, beating up random street thugs. It's testing if you can beat people up, one of the most fundamental parts of heroism (deadpan stare).

The follow up point is, what about Quirks that aren't combat focused, but are still useful for heroism? Shinso, for example? If those were actual people, he probably could have beaten them, right? That's unfair!

And, I'll admit, that's right; in the context of that exam, it is unfair, because some people can vomit lava lasers and some can't. Is Brainwash useful? Absolutely. Counterpoint: what is day one Shinso going to do if he meets some guy in an alley with no mouth and a knife?

Die.

Literally, if he didn't run away, all he'd do is die.

Everyone who passed, and quite a few who didn't pass, could take down Wannabe Slenderman, while Shinso would just end up dead in that alley. This is going to sound bad, but life is unfair, and if you're going to go around picking fights with dangerous people and not prepared for that fact, you will pay for it.

Now, let me introduce you to Chad Hagakure.

In the grand scheme of things, while Toru has a useful support power, Shinso's is a lot better than hers, more versatile, more powerful. You can, in the words of Ollivander, do great things with a power like that. While Toru's Quirk gives her some advantages against the robots, it isn't going to beat them for her, either, and the off button idea is fanon with no canon backing.

So how did she get in, with her inferior quirk, when Shinso didn't?

Because Shinso coasted through his life with only his Quirk, and then was helpless when met up with something with the amazing ability to shut up. Everything he did, before Aizawa took him under his wing, revolved around making the other person talk, and absolutely nothing else. Toru, meanwhile, found opponents her invisibility couldn't magically destroy for her, and responded by beating them to death.

You probably think I'm being dramatic or something, but I'm not kidding. You need to stop robots to get points to pass; Izuku is the only person to pass on rescue points only, canonly. She doesn't have a power or tools to let her restrain them like Minoru did, so she had to, had to, break them. She doesn't have laser beams, or fire blasts, or anything to make it easy for her; all Toru had was the ability to ambush things, her muscles, and maybe a rock or a steel plate or something she picked up along the way.

That's all she had... and then she managed to kill her way in the heroism course anyways, past people who probably had Quirks much more compatible with the problem at hand. She went up to robots, probably from behind, and then hit them until they stopped moving.

In other words, Toru went into the Entrance Exam... and then the Doom music kicked in.

At the end of the day, though, I'm saying all these things, and while they're true, I feel like I'm dancing around the fundamental point: being a hero is about more than just a Quirk.

As a setting, MHA is one with a broad set of powers and abilities, by design. It means that there's lots of cool and interesting people to meet, which is the point, but on a practical level, it also means that every Quirk, every Quirk, has something that counters it. For support Quirks especially, there's seemingly always that One Simple Trick to beat them; a pair of thermal goggles, for example, renders Toru Quirkless. If you just don't talk, Brainwash is useless. And when that happens, you can't just say, 'Time out!' and get a new villain; you'll have to fight them anyways.

If you depend on your one special trick and nothing else, one day that will be your downfall.

UA has a lot of questionable decisions in it, about it, around it, but it is good at teaching its students how to beat the living shit out of people; you could even say it specializes in it. It has no illusions about the reality of the job it's preparing them for. And in the same vein, this isn't something that should be a surprise to any applicant; almost every time we see a hero in the media? They've just finished fighting someone. If they're not entering UA with wide open eyes about what they're going to have to do (and probably after signing some liability waivers to boot), then frankly they're idiots.

The Entrance Exam, mostly, tested one simple thing: are you ready to fight someone? Are you ready to walk into that alleyway and beat those thugs into submission? It's easier for people with combat Quirks, yes, because those are Quirks that are good at fighting, but that's not the end all; in another life, if he had worked out before hand, if he was determined to win, even if he was at a disadvantage, Shinso could have walked in, picked up a piece of rebar, and just hit things until he passed.

Like, let's compare Shinso and Bakugou: both of them have a good Quirk, and both of them knew it. (I know fanon and the narrative say otherwise, but Shinso has had nothing but praise from the flashbacks we've seen, with only a few comments that were somewhat negative but still held implicit respect for his Quirk and it's powers. Everyone he talks to says he has a good Quirk. He's happy using his Quirk. He is not the fanon abused little racoon.)

Shinso accepted that as fact and walked into UA without putting any work in, from what we can see (he faced Izuku, who was effectively Quirkless, and the second his Quirk failed he panicked and basiclly flailed more than fought, still only trying to make Izuku talk rather than actually beat him in a fight, even though Izuku was right there, about to beat him in a fight, and prepared to avoid his Quirk) and was smacked down accordingly.

Then we look at Bakugou, and that's the thing with Bakugou: he had an easy road to heroism, and knew it. I've said this somewhere before, but Hori leans on 'Bakugou works hard' as an excuse to not talk about his moral failings, because he does work hard, but not that hard. 'Bakugou working hard', in all honesty, is peak 'Tell not Show', and is repeated so damn often I'm sick of it.

The thing is that the idea of that isn't wrong, just the execution of it. With his muscles, with the way his Quirk is supposed to work, he had to put work into bulking up, staying in shape. He didn't just get his Quirk and say, 'I'm set for life', he fought for it. And while Hori praises him like Rock Lee when we barely see him do shit, the idea of a talented person working hard anyways could have been great. It's something you see in a lot of shonen manga, and is emblematic of heroism itself, and the spirit that UA is supposed to show: you can't just coast into heroism. You need to fight for it, earn it.

...I got a bit off topic there, but the point is the kid didn't just manifest those muscles out of the ether, he has to be training off screen, even if we should be seeing it more on screen.

Bakugou had a good Quirk, but was willing to train himself to achieve his goals.

Toru has a, honestly, medicore Quirk, but still managed to fight her way to her dreams.

Shinso has a good Quirk, but his only strategy when his Quirk failed him was, 'try harder to get them again with my Quirk!'.

Heroism is about power, true, but it's also about attitude, willingness, determination, the ability to perform under pressure and to make good choices and act on them, all the things that got early Izuku through the series before he got Full Cowl, often without using his Quirk at all. Most of that, if not all of it, can be trained over time, true... But if you're not born lucky, and you're not willing or able to work out enough, to think cleverly enough, or to be vicious enough to smash some weak robots, then honestly you're probably not ready for the hero course.

#bnha critical #mha critical #shinsou critical #oddly bakugou less critical #but still critical #the chad hagakure #toru in the entrance exam is when the Doom music kicks in #heroism is about more than just a quirk #this is ironically why shinsou failed

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anjumstar · 9 months

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One day I'll write a post-war bkdk where Katsuki has to confront the idea that he's grown in ways that Izuku has not.

Canonically, Katsuki has sensed that Izuku is a "real" hero of goodness and rightness that All Might noticed, and that has made him the right person to hold One For All. This will inevitably create a bias in Katsuki's mind, especially as he comes, post DvK2, to respect Izuku more and more and, as we interpret it, like him more as a person, equal, and hero. That bias is that Izuku is naturally, inherently, good and right.

Which, you know, he is. It's shonen. He's the protagonist. But post-war, when the conflicts are not merely between good and evil, it'll become a lot more complex for both boys (and everyone).

I think of it manifesting as a Katsuki who does a lot of work on himself emotionally and an Izuku who does not. Because since DvK2, Katsuki has had to reevaluate his beliefs and his opinion of himself and of Izuku. He has to confront the failure of the licensing exam. And we see how abundant his growth is in his newfound ability to work with others, his selfless atonement towards Izuku, and his ability to put himself on the backburner strategically as he sees the bigger picture.

Meanwhile, Izuku's life at UA largely exists as his inherent beliefs being confirmed repeatedly, through his rapid improvement of OFA, how he breaks through with Shouto, his plan to get Katsuki back, etc. Even his moments of irregular growth--going alone in the vigilante phase, his quandary over whether to beat villains or save them--always returns to his core belief set of, essentially, doing good by everyone. His choice to return to UA and to save villains aligns with his original beliefs rather than being growth changes. He doesn't do the same amount of internal investigation that Katsuki does, and I think that post-canon, it'll leave Izuku worse-equipped emotionally than Katsuki.

So when I imagine them in a relationship, it's with a bkdk who expect that they'll be able to communicate well because Katsuki thinks the best of Izuku and because they manage to overcome so much between chapter 1 and wherever the heck this story ends, including working collaboratively in battle.

Obviously, I think they'd be very wrong.

Katsuki may know what he's feeling but not know how to say it. Izuku may not know what he's feeling and not know how to say it. And if Katsuki thinks that he's communicating effectively--whether he is or not, he'll be baffled by Izuku any time that Izuku fails to 1. understand what he's saying 2. communicate back effectively and 3. go along with Katsuki's ideas (depending). I think, honestly, Katsuki would respond similarly to how he did as a kid when Izuku wasn't talented at dribbling or reading or skipping stones, which wasn't with contempt, but with confusion and maybe a little betrayal because his expectations weren't being met. This isn't because Katsuki has regressed that much or because he hasn't grown, but because those reactions came from thinking the best of Izuku (as well as thinking his experiences were universal, which is a wip), and post-DvK2, he still does. And because he's just gotten used to Izuku surpassing him, and the idea of Izuku falling behind in any way would shake the new beliefs that he's built around the idea that Izuku is good and right.

So yeah, idk who else subscribes to that characterization, but it's some of the bkdk that interests me the most and that I'd most like to write given a fic complex enough to pull it off in!

#my current fic has mostly failed to do this hahaha #it's so easy to ideate great characterization and so hard to fit it in fics #i do have big ideas for how to fit it in an upcoming fic but little confidence in pulling it off well #bkdk #headcanon

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pocketramblr · 10 months

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AU where Izuku and Mirio grow up as siblings.

Krakenverse? You want krakenverse? Or the DC au? Or the various apprentice au spinoffs? Or the Deltora au? Or the- nevermind you get a new one here have a canon ish setting

1- Inko remarries Togatadad. Solid step up for both of them I'm sure. Izuku and Mirio are now step siblings and get along like a house on fire yay

2- Mirio is more than happy to let himself be a laughing stock but absolutely no one will bully his little brother. Bakugou learns his lesson and stays away. Izuku mainly hangs around with his older brother and his anxious friend.

3- Aldera's quirk training classes suck even more than Mirio's canon middle school, which is why he's very lucky to have Izuku make up the difference because they HAVE to be heroes together they just have to which means Mirio has to get into UA first! He does by the skin of his teeth. (Izuku's life at middle school after his brother is no longer there sucks and he tries, unsuccessfully, to hide this fact from his family. Before it seemed a given the brothers could be heroes together, but now Izuku has doubts)

4- oh yeah the family's last name is uh Michiya (通谷) now, fun little kanji combo. This is important because when All Might rescues Izuku from the sludge villain and Izuku introduces himself while asking if he can be hero, he says he's Michiya Izuku. And All Might recognizes that surname. It's the one of the kid Sir Nighteye keeps pushing on him. All Might asks if Izuku's got any family in the industry, Izuku says yeah his big brother is interning with- oh my god does Sir Nighteye talk to you?? And he mentioned my brother?? Mirio is doing to flip when he hears that!! All Might awkwardly says he has heard good things indeed but really must go. Ensue sludge villain 2.0, nevermind this is the perfect kid

5- Sir does not think so, and tells Toshinori this at great length over the phone. Toshi does not tell him who the quirkless middle schooler he is insulting is, because he has no idea how accepting of him Mirio is with no family around, and even if he is Toshi was once quirkless himself and doesn't out people like that. (Sir has no clue Mirio's little brother who helped him train is quirkless because Mirio also does not out people.) That all said, Toshi knows this could blow up in Izuku's face and he deserves to know how. He puts off telling Izuku for a week but then the kid says his brother wants to come help him train on Sunday, so Toshinori tells him Saturday that Nighteye knows about OfA and originally asked him to consider Mirio. Izuku says Mirio would be a great candidate on heroism alone... Toshi doesn't care because he picked Izuku, dang it, but Izuku does care. So they tell Mirio about OfA the next day and he says in no uncertain terms that he doesn't want it and is so so so excited for Izuku. Mirio expects Sir Nighteye to echo his excitement the next day at his internship.... Which ends up being Mirio's last day at his internship, ah.

#poor Mirio. kid usually gets to be blissfully ignorant of Nighteye's worse traits #not here!#so he quits #and ends up interning with Fatgum and Tamaki for the rest of the year while helping Izuku train #yeah todoroki's gonna have some theories next year lol #pocket talks to people #ask game #anon

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aconstantstateofbladerunner · 1 year

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For the ask game: maybe an AU where instead of going to high school, hero students need to do an apprenticeship with an established hero. Izuku goes with All Might of course.

This are similar so I’m going to combine them.

Izuku scored the same on the entrance exam as in canon, but this time, Aizawa’s objections were listened to so he wasn’t accepted. Izuku is of course devastated. He goes to see All Might on the beach in tears, believing he’s going to give back One for All. All Might, who was immediately suspicious when he didn’t record an acceptance video for him, is prepared with a bento and a hug. Young Midoriya is his successor and he’s not changing his mind. They just have to figure out something else.

All Might may hate paperwork, but he’s damn good at it when he applies himself. It only takes him a week to find a seldom-used provision for heroes to take on apprentices as a replacement for the high school hero track, then a few days after that to submit the application. Supplementing his education shouldn’t be too difficult, he has the money to hire the best tutors in the country and has himself the teaching license for the rest. There’s only one problem: the law requires All Might to publicly declare that he has an apprentice.

Even with his name and face protected as a minor, Izuku’s life changes drastically. All Might picks him up everyday before dawn and doesn’t take him back until evening. He can’t go out by himself without an escort. His social media goes dark (the 4 bots following him are devastated.) All Might himself can’t take too steps without being bo bared with questions about his secret apprentice. Does this mean he’s retiring soon? Did something happen to make him retire? Why did he suddenly change his mind about working at UA? When will everyone else get to see the new Symbol of Peace? All in good time, he says, quietly tripling his agency’s security.

Like UA, he has normal classes with tutors and online in the morning, then trains with All Might in the afternoon. The Mighty Agency has a private gym built to withstand One for All so they spend most of their time there. Inko, who was let in on the loop, pressures All Might much sooner to fix the bone breaking problem, so he brings in Gran Torino and Izuku figures out Full Cowl in time to watch the Sports Festival. The hardest part for him is seeing all those other kids his age, and suddenly being hit by the loneliness. All Might notices, and comes up with an idea.

Nighteye also has a young apprentice, and it will be good for Izuku to have a sparing partner/friend close in age who can be trusted before he goes out to do field work. Mirio is more than enthused to meet the apprentice everyone has been talking about, and the two are fast friends. Izuku is also excited to work with THE Sir Nighteye. But that enthusiasm doesn’t go both ways. One day, while they are alone in an elevator, Nighteye tells Izuku he finds him unworthy, and if he knows what’s good for the world, he’ll give One for All to Mirio. The doors open before he can react. And from then on, whenever All Might leaves Izuku in Nighteye’s care, he makes him regret everything.

#answers

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doodlegirl1998 · 6 months

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I hope you don't mind me asking but what are your views on inko because as much as hori tries to paint her as this overprotective mother I just never seem to get that vibe. I always get the vibe that sometimes she does more harm them good to izuku . So I would like to know how you think of her character and how you would changed her character to seem more supportive i guess?

Hi @bibibbon 👋,

Midoriya Inko is someone who I feel like loves her son but she is not someone I view as a good parent.

She reads to me as emotionally neglectful of Izuku - a key example of this is letting Izuku stay in Aldera while Bakugou was exploding him and destroying his things his whole childhood. To people who try to defend her and say 'Izuku hid his bullying from her', how well do you think a four year old can hide being exploded or having their things destroyed?

Inko also reads as someone who is overly emotionally dependant on Izuku - *insert the scenes we have of her crying and Izuku comforting her here.* Most of these scenes are because of her worrying because of bad things that have happened TO IZUKU such as news of his quirklessness or when he wakes up from a coma after the War Arc. Parents are meant to provide emotional support and be a pillar of strength to their children - with Izuku he seems to be that for his mum because his Dad is MIA. This is an unhealthy dynamic because he should not be his mum's emotional support.

How would I rewrite Inko?

I would have her be a proactive presence in her son's life like parents should be.

I would have it so as soon as Inko realises her son is being bullied by Bakugou she is shown notifying the teachers / bringing this to Aldera's attention.

I would have it so when Aldera does nothing or if they refuse to do anything she reports them and transfers Izuku into a better school (such as Iida or Todoroki's schools - because Izuku deserves either of them as a childhood friend more than a decade of being abused by Bkg.)

I would show Inko confronting Bakugou's parents about Bakugou's bullying and behavior to bring it to their attention. (None of this "Auntie Inko" nonsense from Bakugou like I see some fics use even if Mitsuki is her friend, and that's not confirmed by canon, I can't see any good mum liking her son's abuser.)

I would keep her emotional nature but have her actively try to hide her upset from Izuku on certain things. I.e the Quirklessness diagnosis, I would have her try to reassure Izuku that she loves him and believes in him quirk or no quirk yet him catch her crying at night when she thinks he's asleep. (This keeps the angst but makes Inko look like a better and more supportive mum.)

I would have her have more of a suspicion of Yagi around Izuku and have her bond with Yagi more. - We know Yagi is All Might. We, as readers, know this is an innocent and wholesome mentorship but to Inko this strange man has just popped out of nowhere and is spending all this time with Izuku. That, if Inko knew of it, should raise Alarm bells to a parent. Plus it would be good for Inko to see over time how good Yagi is for Izuku and have Yagi and Inko bond outside of Izuku.

Have Inko learn of OFA - I am forever salty that BAKUGOU learnt of OFA before anyone else, let alone Izuku's mum. And this version especially has a right to know.

Have Inko have more of a problem with UA - UA doesn't seem to keep the parents well informed plus AM and Aizawa's 'teaching' leaves a lot to be desired. Having Inko have more of a problem with it cements her as looking out for her son's best interests and being a proactive rather than a passive presence in his life.

These are seven improvements I can think of at the top of my head. Inko is a character that could use some rewriting to be a good parent but ultimately loves her son.

#mha critical #bnha critical #anti bakugou #anti bakugou katsuki #Midoriya Inko critical

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candlecoo · 2 years

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For the Wooden Mask au! I had a couple thoughts I hoped you could clarify, just so I could know if the fun little scenario I thought up at the end of this ask could even hold water. Loving this Au more and more with every post!

First off, I know that in a previous post you mentioned that the masks all come with certain instincts so that Izuku can use them, but do those instincts also include behaviors associated with the mask? Like its still Izuku but when he wears the Oni he acts more aggressive, or wearing the Kitsune or Rabbit make him act like a trickster?

Secondly, You've mentioned at least a couple times now that it has to be wood, that paper and other similar items wouldn't work because they're usually made with other stuff, but would a mask made of Bark work? It's still technically wood, just not something that's really sturdy compared to a carved wooden mask?

And lastly, Details for a mask matter because the more details there are (that correlate with the Masks function) the stronger it will supposedly be in comparison to a mask of the same make but with fewer details. Is this because it correlates with Izuku's own perception that a more detailed mask means more power, or was this just a happy little surprise he made when updating the aesthetic look of any given mask that they got more powerful after the change?

So, the reason for all these questions was because of the possibility of a one-shot mask used for an emergency:

The scenario I had in mind for this mask being made, let alone used, was with the summer camp attack being in mind. Let's say that during the test of courage Izuku doesn't have access to his usual masks at the moment because A) in the hero course version Aizawa confiscated them as punishment because he overdid it and was edging dangerously into quirk overuse, or B) in the Vigilante version, Izuku was along for the trip after getting caught because Aizawa wanted(needed) to keep an eye on the problem child and make sure he was actually recovering from overuse and not sneaking out to do vigilante work.

So the attack happens with Izuku in the woods, either on the trail itself or on his way to see Koata, when the alert is sounded that Villains are attacking. He has none of his masks on him, which means he has no means of protecting himself other than the wooden doll transformation technique which, while incredibly useful, would require him to get close enough to the villains to use it which could go incredibly bad depending on what their long-range capabilities were. So desperate times call for desperate measures. Racing to the closest tree that looks like it has loose bark on it, he rips it off with his bare hands, possibly injuring himself then or (My personal Head-canon) with the whittling knife he was carrying with him at the time and proceeds to shape the mask, carving out some rough eyeholes in the mask as well as holes to hold the mask in place with thread or strips of his own shirt.

But this isn't enough.

Izuku Knows that the Masks he uses are more powerful the more detailed they are. He knows this but he doesn't have any of his usual supplies on him to do that, nor does he have the time to carve out any intricate details, especially with the material being so exceptionally brittle compared to his usual masks. He pauses as a thought suddenly flits through his mind. Using a cut on his body he starts uses his own blood to make harsh marks on the bark, while enforcing the idea of a feral, powerful being into his mind whose purpose was to protect his classmates and teachers from the Villains seeking to harm them. A mantra repeated within his mind, yet changing with every reiteration as more details are added:

Protect his classmates, defend against the Villains.

Protect his friends, Rebuff the intruders.

Protect the Innocents within the forest, destroy the interlopers.

He puts on the mask.

And the Bloody Faun begins his hunt.

(Originally I wanted to use Bloody Nymph, but since Nymphs are traditionally always female, I looked for the closest male equivalent in this situation which happened to be... a Satyr. Yeah, no, that wasn't happening, so I looked a little more and found The Romans had a more tasteful version of the Satyr, the Faun, and went with that. And if you look into the mythology behind the Faun, the abilities they seem to have actually works out better in this scenario.)

So, what do you think of this little "what-if" scenario? If nothing else, I hope it was an interesting idea. Once again, Really love this Au and can't wait to see where it goes in the future!

the instincts that come with his masks do influence aspects of Izuku's personality or emotions. not enough to make an all-new personality but enough that it increases the chances of Izuku making different decisions than he normally would. however the decision to act on them is up to Izuku.

instinctually Oni can be more aggressive or Rabbit can be a lil shit, but it's up to Izuku to act on those instincts and behave in that manner.

however makes made or worn in a moment of intense emotion can be more difficult to control and it's easier to act purely on instincts alone without making decisions.

since bark come directly from tree's and aren't altered in any way, then they would work. however the mask itself would be quite fragile and the form slightly unstable but still useable. would probably one be able to hold for one use though.

the details of each mask a very important cause they give an impression of what Izuku envisions for each mask. whether it be the carving or the painting Izuku puts into each, adds an extra layer of life to each mask and hence adds more character to each form. while powers are for a large part a surprise with only slight influences from how he designs them, the forms themselves are heavily influenced by the designs. they do technically get stronger the more detailed they are.

also fun note none of the masks need straps or strings, its very much like in the move the mask(or persona 5) where it attaches itself to his face.

AND YESYESYES!!! I adore this scenario!!! I can absolutely see this happening in this situation, the intense emotions and instability of the material used would make a powerful but uncontrollable form and I am all here for it!!!!

I love this scenario for vigilante au, cause he gets found out not long after Hosu.

this is what I imagine the bloody faun looks like, but maybe I'll make a faun mask that he makes after the summer camp.

#wooden doll au #candle answers #ask the candle #bnha au #bnha #bnha headcannons #digital art #my art #art #fanart #bnha izuku

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