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mira--mira · 3 years

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One obvious for the ask game. The main protagonist; Naruto Uzumaki and Izuku Midoriya.

@shiryusamarkanda it’s so nice to hear from you again! <3

I totally didn’t forget to post this and had it fully finished in my drafts for days...totally.

Naruto

What I love about them:

Naruto's a bratty kid who’s not afraid to speak up and challenge something he thinks is "wrong". This, of course, is part 1 Naruto. I actually like when he's a bit insensitive without being explicitly malicious bc its very fitting for his background/how he grew up but also gives him a clear path forward as he learns how to work as a team/starts to grow. It wasn’t exactly a smart move, but I really liked how he continued to challenge Zabuza in the Wave Arc saying “he’s still my enemy” after Kakashi told him to back off. This is all good and strong characterization that, to me, was more often endearing than it wasn’t. Naruto had goals and a purpose and in early Naruto that was still clear.

What I hate about them:

Part 2 (Shippuden) Naruto. There’s a lot that goes into this but the core deviation is getting away from the underdog story. In Shippuden Naruto is the son of the 4th, the Child of Prophecy, a reincarnation of the Sage of Six Path’s kid, makes friends with Kurama, and has the most OP power of the them all: Talk no Jutsu. What makes all of this even worse is Naruto went from a loveable bratty kid to an insufferable messiah figure. To be “perfect” his natural personality is shorn down until he’s only allowed occasional “stupid” mistakes rather than mistakes that emerge from his characterization. This also makes his ideological “wins” with villains...completely meaningless. Shippuden Naruto doesn’t really...have beliefs. He wants to be hokage and bring Sasuke back to the village. “Being hokage” was fine as a kid but I expected the progression into shippuden to be “what kind of hokage do I want to be?” This seemed natural bc we get in the Wave arc Naruto pushing against “what a shinobi is supposed to be: a tool” from Haku and declaring he’d make his own ninja way. Flashforward to the chunin arcs: hates Orochimaru for messing with Sasuke (esp when he eventually leaves to join him) and Neji for treating Hinata the way he did until he learned more about the Hyuga before declaring it wasn’t fair and you had to fight against fate and destiny. Tsunade’s arc was more about reemphasizing the village was something worth protecting and the Sasuke retrieval arc, while focused on Sasuke, at least kept up this theme. But these moments of growth are only alluded to in shippuden and by the time the war arc and ending come around...nothing changes. Naruto didn’t upset the status quo, he only maintained it. And once that ending was established it was a lot easier to go back and pick out exactly when his characterization started to fall through and the weird messiah figure took over instead. Part of this, imo, is the focus of his ultimate goal being “bring Sasuke back to the village” rather than understand what Sasuke is doing/why he’s doing it and then deciding to help him or stop him.

Favorite Moment/Quote:

“You’re cute when you’re chubby” [in reference to the frog purse]

I really love the quiet moments Naruto has and watching him live out his daily life. The frog purse is absolutely adorable and I love seeing it crop up time and time again. A close second is when Gai kicks Jiraiya in the face and, a short time later, offers Naruto the green tracksuit which he’s appreciative of.

What I would like to see more focus on:

In Part 2 Naruto having a long-term goal alongside bringing Sasuke back to the village or trying to seriously think about why Sasuke does what he does and how that would potentially affect the plot. If I could go back to the very start, keeping the actual heart and intent of an underdog ninja story rather than everything turning into superpowered mecha/kaiju battles and aliens from space this is the big point that I’d want to address. In general, I really like fics that focus on training and give him a range of jutsu besides spamming shadow clones and rasengan variants. I’ve said this before, but if Naruto really wants to keep the “number 1 unpredictable ninja” moniker, learning a variety of small, diverse jutsu and using them in interesting/creative ways would be the way to go rather than spamming the aforementioned two. I also really like fics that buckle down and just go ham and create their own variety of jutsu, especially if it’s small practical jutsu rather than the latest and greatest OP Power #839281 kind of jutsu.

What I would like to see less focus on:

The messiah figure. Talk no Jutsu. The obsession with having a morally pure hero in a world that routinely employed child soldiers and put them in war. I understand Naruto was a shonen manga first and foremost but like...this was the setting/world Kishimoto decided on having. However, I will say some fics take it to far on the other extreme for my taste, creating a edgy nihilistic Naruto that hates everyone and everything.

Favorite pairing with:

Uhh...I don’t actually have a strong feeling for this one LOL. The most I’ve read has been SasuNaru (Sasuke x Naruto) because I’ve found really interesting set-ups. I like the ship and it does have a decent amount of backing in canon but it’s the little moments (or my ability to see possible little moments) that really make or break a ship for me. SasuNaru is all Big Declarations and I struggle to see how they’d actually settle down post Shippuden time into something sustainable. My favorite iterations of the ship is focused when they’re genin age and have a better relationship...but then I recognize that this is getting closer and closer to Hashimada. The other big things I run into with shipping Naruto with Sasuke is 1. Sasuke needs a shit ton of therapy/willingness to process his family related trauma and 2. Naruto needs a good support network/family outside of a romantic partner because it personally makes me uncomfortable to read ‘you’re my one and only’ (here being: I have no other friends, family, loved ones outside of you). It’s a ship that can work but it’s not my personal OTP.

Favorite friendship:

Canon/OoT - Naruto & Sakura

I do have a softspot for fics where Naruto realizes his crush on Sakura is actually a desire to have friends/someone to care about him and then they do become close. In canon Sasuke was clearly the favorite of Kakashi (if chunin arc is kept the same/similar and he takes him away for the month to train) I really like Naruto and Sakura sticking together and trying to help each other. They’re both loud and can wind each other up but Naruto can help Sakura relax a bit from her rigid view of herself and she can help keep him on track/encourage him.

NOTP:

Again, no real strong opinions here. Probably harems? I remember seeing a lot of those a couple years ago and I fundamentally dislike the harem so it will never be ‘done well’ to my personal taste.

Favorite headcanon:

Naruto is smart, he just needs things to be explained in a way he can understand.

I’m not a fan of ‘he’s the smartest person in the entire world’ trope but Naruto is creative, he created the oiroke jutsu before he graduated to genin and has a lot of stubborn determination. He’s just really bad at typical ‘book learning’ and traditional testing and he’s not a genius/prodigy like Sasuke or Neji.

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Izuku

What I love about them:

He’s such a smart kid and while he’s unsure/insecure about himself he still does his best. Honestly the premise of BNHA is amazing and I was so excited to watch this little quirky (heh) boy do his best and outthink heroes, utilizing his intelligence and knowledge of quirks. I really love early Izuku and how he has to approach situations from a different angle bc he grew up quirkless/can’t properly handle OFA. The sports festival arc remains one of my personal favorites and really showed his ingenuity. I also really love that Izuku is openly emotional, he cries, he gets super happy about things, he’s angry, he’s sad, etc.

What I hate about them:

Why do stories insist on calling themselves “underdogs” when for a majority of the time, they’re not? Or not as much as they would be from the original premise? Look, TDP came about exactly bc BNHA was billed as ‘quirkless boy becomes number 1 hero’ it changed rapidly into ‘Izuku gets the strongest quirk but can’t control it’ and while I was...disappointed with that, it happened so quickly I wasn’t really upset. Fast forward to apparently OFA has...what seven(?) quirks inside it and I just...it’s frustrating. Even more the longer we go the more Izuku strays away from a character that is forced to use his intelligence and creatively outthink his opponents and instead becomes...I just have to hit him harder! The Muscular fight already inched towards this but the Overhaul fight just felt like Super Shonen Smack-down 728329. Which, isn’t an inherent problem, it just doesn’t match up to the expectations I had about BNHA I had at the start and how I hoped the series would go. For a character trait that I hate: Izuku is stupidly self-sacrificing. It makes sense with his character but he shoots beyond what is safe and reasonable and I wish there would be more internal emphasis on the question “is it better to save one person today if it meant I couldn’t save ten people tomorrow?” I think he’d choose the former or forsake the question altogether (we touched briefly on this during the overhaul arc with Eri) but I think it’s a serious question needs to be touched on (or I just need to go back and rewatch things again LOL)

Favorite Moment/Quote:

See entire sports festival arc. I don’t really have a favorite moment because I love the entire arc and we get so much out of it.

What I would like to see more focus on:

Quirkless Izuku. There’s already a lot of fics, but I really do love them. It deviates a bit, but I do like the creativity of giving Izuku his own unique quirk and then exploring what he can do with that/how it changes canon. Really I want Izuku to keep his original characterization and not trade his smarts for more punching power or deus ex machinas for quirks hidden inside of OFA. If OFA!Izuku is kept, I like story ideas where he still has to rely on means outside of his quirk. Preferably this is isn’t because he injuries himself so much, but I like toying with the idea that Izuku never gets OFA to All Might’s level so he really does have to make the quirk his own and still rely heavily on his intelligence and quirk journals to become the number 1.

What I would like to see less focus on:

Quirks hidden inside OFA. Strength should have been enough, it was already billed as the most powerful quirk of all. I know this is a common theme for shonen stories, and I don’t mean to harp specifically on Izuku, but again the premise of BNHA was an underdog story.

Favorite pairing with:

Tododeku (Todoroki Shouto x Midoriya Izuku)

Friends to lover and battle couples lads, I am weak to them. I like the contrast between their personalities as well as origins (Shouto being the number 2′s (now 1) kid and Izuku from a quiet civilian background). At the end of the sports festival arc both of them are extremely well characterized and it’s easy for me to imagine how their relationship progresses from there and how they can support each other and help each other grow. It’s a very sweet and wholesome ship the way I write and read it and it’s v cute.

Favorite friendship:

Canon- Midoriya Izuku & Uraraka Ochaco & Iida Tenya

I really like the core trio and think their interactions are really sweet. They balance each other out well and their friendship was immediately believable to me. I also like later when Tsuyu and Shouto start to get included in the group and out of the “main” core friends I’m endlessly entertained whenever Izuku and Tokoyami interact with one another. (This is also because I love my bird son, but you know.)

TDP - Midoriya Izuku & Ashido Mina or Midoriya Izuku & Hatsume Mei

Really, I love all of TDP’s kiddos interactions. Their chemistry is one of my favorite things about the fic and all the villain school kiddos meshed really well and had hilarious interactions. Mina and Mei are my faves but just barely. Mina came out of left field for the fic but she plays a similar role that Ochaco does in canon as a usual source of positivity (but unlike Ochaco with additional chaos). She’s Izuku’s first real friend even before starting HIVVE and wouldn’t hesitate to call Izuku her cousin as she views him as family. In return, Mina’s someone Izuku can completely count and depend on if necessary. Mei is...Mei. Izuku is her best “useful customer” and it’s actually terrifying how similar their thoughts are, just Mei has an (un)healthy dose of Hazmat’s insanity and her own business acumen added into the mix. They have slightly different fields of interest but are intellectual equals that work well together and that’s something new to both of them.

NOTP:

Bakudeku (Bakugo Katsuki x Midoriya Izuku)

It’s unhealthy. Unless it’s an AU that changes what the start of their relationship is like, Bakugo and Izuku will always have a toxic friendship to me and I can’t ever see them in a healthy relationship. Both of them have a lot to learn and I am of the opinion that Bakugo should get the opportunity to grow and become a good person and leave behind his past as a bully. However, I’m also of the opinion that no matter how good of a person a bully becomes their victim is never required to absolve them of past wrongdoings. Izuku and Bakugo were friends once, their relationship turned toxic, and now it’s in the interest of both of them to grow apart from one another. I even hesitate to really say they’ll be friends again because the early characterization of their relationship was so imbalanced to me, but for the right author and the right work I may see them being on good terms. It’s still a romantic relationship that I dislike.

Favorite headcanon:

Crack headcanon? Izuku does have a natural quirk, the force of his tears is clearly superpowered 😂 Regular headcanon, (that is canon in TDP and kindaaa in regular canon(?)) when Izuku gets really engrossed in a super stressful fight he focuses on what will work rather than what is moral. It has...mixed results.

For the ask game.

#shiryusamarkanda #naruto #bnha #mha #naruto uzumaki #izuku midoriya #my fics #the diverging path #out of time #spoliers #bnha manga spoliers #asks

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spockvarietyhour · 4 years

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Seven months ago I made a list of what I was watching. Since then I’ve finished my DS9 Rewatch as well as completed Deutschland 86, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Star Wars: Resistance and Another Life. I’m up to date on Letterkenny and doing eps that @kiranerys didn’t see, and we’ve done the first 4 seasons of B5 (rewatch for me, new for her) and S5 is probably coming soon, Charlie Jade is is short sputters and on hold till we finish The Terror (new to her). We haven’t watched the latest Red Dwarf special yet either.

I’m also watching A Series of Unfortunate events, one I haven’t seen but she has.

Up to date on Walking Dead and did Clone Wars as it aired, Mando, Picard, etc.

SG1 Rewatch remains on pause at S8.

I’ve abandoned Jessica Jones S3 about 3-4 episodes in, same with Lost in Space (didn’t care which is a shame). But I did finish Ash vs Evil Dead, S3 of the Man in the High Castle (s4 probably after Into the Badlands)

Young Indy remains a background show, an ep here or there every month. Still during The War Years.

Also occasionally doing a Electric Dreams ep, I had gotten stuck on the first two eps for so long but now it’s worthwhile.

Currently wrapping up S1 of Defiance and about halfway thru S3 of Into the Badlands. I’ve sprung on myself a New Who Rewatch, including Torchwood and Sarah Jane (I’ve never watched them except I think for the pilot and the Doctor eps). So probs no return to SG1 until after that bulk is done.

There is a sort of shadow Enterprise rewatch, nothing as detailed as TNG/DS9, but I’ve been rewatching them occasionally doing a cap or gif.

Haven’t touched anything in the maybe a rewatch category so that remains the same.

The near future and far off in the distance categories are condensed into one for now bc I don’t know what the mood will strike me, except that likely the final season of The Man in the High Castle will be after Into the Badlands. I’ll probably do the entire Defiance series before tackling anything else.

So Here’s stuff I’m planning on eventually in no particular order:

Russian Doll Dark SS-GB Planet of the Apes (which is a sorta rewatch but I never saw every episode) Titanic: Blood and Steel Fargo The Pacific BSG 78 (never saw the whole thing) Fringe (mostly rewatch there’s a few eps I never saw) Falling Skies The OA S2 The Crown S3 One Punch Man S2 Love Death and Robots Castlevania S3 Tales from the Loop Twilight Zone 2019 (tho I hear it takes a dive after the first 3 eps) Amazing Stories 2020 Black Summer For All Mankind See The Dead Lands The Purge S2 the 2 War of the Worlds series that came out last year The Rain

Potentially: Catch 22 The Night Manager Cromartie High School Black Sails Boardwalk Empire Horatio Hornblower Sharpe’s Stuff The Plot Against America (I’d read it when it came out) Dystopia

#that's....a lot #Danny watches #some vague planning noises

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darling-in-the-fandom · 7 years

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question tag

so the lovely @project-look-after-even tagged the honkettes so i figured i’d give these questions a go

THE LAST

1. Drink: coke

2. Phone Call: my dad

3. Text Message: my best bud via skype

4. Song You Listened To: VI ER THE PENETRATORS

5. Time You Cried: like a couple hours ago

6. Dated Someone Twice: lol haven’t even dated someone once

7. Kissed Someone and Regretted It: haven’t snogged anyone either

8. Been Cheated On: nope

9. Lost Someone Special: oh yeah

10. Been Depressed: mhm it’s coming up to two weeks now it’s been real shitty

11. Gotten Drunk and Thrown Up: haven’t thrown up but did get smashed last weekend for my bday

3 FAVOURITE COLOURS

12. black

13. purple

14. red

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU

15. Made New Friends: hell yeah #honkettes are a lovely sometimes wild bunch and im so happy to have them as pals

16. Fallen Out of Love: fuck yeah :D

17. Laughed Until You Cried: yeppers

18. Found Out Someone Was Talking About You: nup

19. Met Someone Who Changed You: yep

20. Found Out Who Your Friends Are: definitely

21. Kissed Someone on Your Facebook List: nah

GENERAL

22. How Many of Your Facebook Friends Do You Know in Real Life: all of them bc they’re schoolmates except the 1 dude who i know from wow

23. Do You Have Any Pets: an Italian greyhound pupper called texas who is the cutest lil mofo – all legs and has a hecking long neck

24. Do You Want to Change Your Name: hell naw

25. What Did You Do For Your Last Birthday: 2 weeks ago for my 18th i was stressing to the point of tears over a speech i had to do for a school assessment and then that night watched skam s3 with my dad while we drank champagne and that was fun as

26. What Time Did You Wake Up: 6:30

27. What Were You Doing at Midnight Last Night: reading fanfiction and jamming out to the high school musical soundtrack :D

28. Name Something You Can’t Wait For: STRANGER THINGS SEASON TWO I AM SO HECKING HYPED ASAHSDHASHDA and also for my aunt to come n visit in december

29. When Was the Last Time You Saw Your Mum: like 20 minutes ago, just got home from being out in bumfuck nowhere all day

30. What Are You Listening To Right Now: now i’m listening to all the linkin park songs and jamming out

31. Have You Ever Talked to a Person Named Tom: yeah my uncle

32. Something That is Getting on Your Nerves: school and what the fuck comes after i finish year 12

33. Most Visited Website: tumblr, youtube, and imgur – good times

34. Hair Colour: Brown

35. Long or Short Hair: Long

36. Do You Have a Crush on Someone: kinda

37. What Do You Like About Yourself: that i’m always there for my friends when they need me, when they need a shoulder to cry on or just someone to talk to so they can get their mind off shit even if i’m depressed

38. Piercings: don’t have any nor do i really want any

39. Blood Type: dunno materino

40. Nickname: oh boy i have a lot. most common ones are sass/sassy, supersassy, sasquatch, sassy sausage, and specialfred

41. Relationship Status: single doesn’t want to mingle

42. Zodiac: cancer

43. Pronouns: she/her

44. Favourite TV Show: Angel, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gossip Girl (before it went to shit), SKAM, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Stranger Things, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries (until elena just got way too unbearable)

45. Tattoos: none

46. Right or Left Handed: right

47. Surgery: haven’t had any

48. Sport: i don’t do sport

49. Vacation: i really wanna do a trip around america and europe

50. Pair of Trainers: …idk the brand but they’re bright orange and pretty snazzy

51. Eating: i had sausage roll and a vanilla slice today n that’s it

52. Drinking: still drinking my coke

53. I’m About To: either take a nap, read some fanfic, write my fic, or do my homework (leaning toward a nap more than anything but i’m so gonna end up reading fanfic)

54. Waiting For: OCTOBER 27

55. Want: EVEN FOR SEASON 5

56. Get Married: no thanks

57. Career: i want to be an actress, that’s been my goal for several years, but i also feel like pursuing writing.

WHICH IS BETTER

58. Hugs or Kisses: hugs

59. Lips or Eyes: eyes – they’re so pretty

60. Shorter or Taller: both

61. Older or Younger: both

62. Nice Arms or Nice Stomach: idk

63. Hookup or Relationship: hook-up

64. Troublemaker or Hesitant: hesitant

HAVE YOU EVER

65. Kissed a Stranger: nah

66. Drank Hard Liquor: oh yeah

67. Lost Glasses/Contact Lenses: …not yet

68. Turned Someone Down: no

69. Sex on the First Date: no

70. Had Your Heart Broken: yeppers

71. Been Arrested: no

72. Cried When Someone Died: yes

73. Fallen For a Friend: sorta

DO YOU BELIEVE IN

74. Yourself: i’m starting to

75. Miracles: uh no

76. Love at First Sight: nope

77. Santa Claus: no

78. Kiss on the First Date: not really

79. Angels: hell yeah i believe in even bech naesheim

OTHER

80. Eye Colour: hazel

81. Favourite Movie: warm bodies, the breakfast club, ferris bueller’s day off, jurassic park, moana, star wars, rogue one, alien, aliens, terminator, terminator 2: judgement day are some of my favourites

as for who to tag, idk, so anyone who wants to anwer some q’s <3

#about me

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