#they all *love* this child broadcaster who just gets heroes
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a/n: i am so proud of the boys and what they accomplished after everyone counted them out 💙🧡 can’t wait for next year when they’ve had a full training camp with patrick and they come back better than ever 🤍
tw: child goes “missing” for a brief moment, mild innuendo
word count: 2.9k
summary: the msg broadcast gets double the barzal men for a little bit
Offering to take the girls to the arena for a game seems like it’s a great idea until you’ve got Talia, both Martin girls, and Tulsa Horvat begging for pretzels mid-way through the second. Normally you’d have at least one of Syd or Holly with you, but since the outing is for Talia’s birthday, you’d thought it would be fine to just take the girls yourself. That you’d be a good friend, letting Syd and Holly have their Thursday night free, since all of your husbands are retired now and they don’t have to come to the arena if they don’t want to.
But Max is getting antsy and Talia is yapping your ear off - much like her father - begging for snacks.
“Mom, please, I’m starving,” she pokes her lip out at you in a pout and widens her hazel eyes. She looks unfairly like Mat when she makes that expression even though her general looks had shifted to favor yours as she got older. You’ve never really been able to say no to either kid anyway.
“Can you at least watch your brother while I go get snacks?” You ask, lifting your eyebrow and twisting your hair back into a slightly sloppy ponytail. Max swings his legs in his seat next to you, grinning at his big sister. His hat dips over his eyes and you make a mental note to adjust the strap.
Talia looks at you as if you just asked her to swallow a cup of live spiders. “Mom, please no! I don’t even know why we brought him, today was supposed to be for my birthday,” she whines a little, those pre-teen hormones working overtime. Two weeks from turning eleven, and you find yourself missing your baby girl more and more each day. She’s usually a pretty polite and delightful kid, but something about that upcoming eleventh birthday is creating that familiar teenage whine you’d been so good at back in the day. You should really call and apologize to your mother.
Max pipes up without taking his eyes off the action on the ice, “your birthday’s not even today!”
“Thank you, Max,” you hold a hand out in front of his face, covering his mouth, as Talia shoots him a glare. Max wiggles away from your hand, his head bobbing in every direction as he tries to see the players. “I should’ve known this would happen.” You pinch the bridge of your nose with your free hand.
The only reason Talia had picked this game for her birthday is because of Jack Cizikas’s last minute call up from the AHL. Her puppy crush on him is something you and Kristy like to joke about, but right now you’re not laughing. Casey, Kristy, Reese, and Cole are up in a suite with the grandparents for the moment and you should’ve just sent Max up there to join them, but your five-year-old is still a little clingy. He loves the Cizikas family, hero-worships ten-year-old Cole, but when you’d suggested it, his face had crumpled and he’d said, “I wanna stay with you, Mama!”
Who were you to argue with that?
“Okay, I’ll take Max with me, but Win,” you raise your voice and look down a few seats at Winnie Martin, the oldest of your babysitting charges at fifteen, “do not leave these seats until I get back, okay?”
Winnie grins at you, Matt’s smile copy and pasted onto her face. She gives you a little salute and nods, “you got it.”
Talia turns back to the girls, completely ignoring you, and you roll your eyes a little before holding out your hand to Max. “Come on, buddy. Let’s go get some snacks,” you say, savoring the feeling of his little hand in yours. You never know when he’ll start thinking he’s too cool for his mom, so you’ll enjoy it while it lasts.
“Can I get ice cream?” He asks, skipping along next to you. He gives Sparky a high five when you pass the mascot at the top of the stairs.
You laugh a little and point Sparky and his handler in the direction of the girls. “I’m sure Winnie will love to see you,” you say, nostalgia washing over you as you think about the early years of your relationship with Mat and Winnie’s love for the dragon. Sparky nods and gives you an enthusiastic thumbs up, before bounding down the stairs. It’s a different person in the costume now, obviously, but you all had made sure to keep Winnie humbled by making sure each iteration of the Sparky knew to stop and see her at a game. The teen plays along gamely, her mother’s daughter.
Max tugs on your hand, drawing your attention. “Mama! Can I get ice cream?” He repeats his request and you shake your head.
“Nope, sorry, kid. It’s past your sugar cutoff,” you shake his arm when he pouts and kicks his Nike against the floor, nearly tripping himself as he tries to keep walking. “I’ll split a pretzel with you though.”
“I don’t wanna pretzel,” he whines, dragging his feet as he traipses behind you. You dodge a few people, tugging Max along. He keeps whining a little, complaining under his breath, and you pinch at the bridge of your nose before squatting down so you’re at his eye level.
Max goes quiet, but his whole face scrunches up in annoyance and you smile softly. “If you have ice cream now, you’re not going to be able to sleep. And remember that Daddy’s coming on your field trip tomorrow so don’t you want to be well rested for that?” You raise an eyebrow at him while Max considers your explanation.
The line shifts forward while Max is considering and you smile awkwardly up at the family in line behind you, silently apologizing for not moving. The mother waves you off with a polite smile too. Solidarity.
“Can I have ice cream tomorrow then?” Max finally asks and negotiating with the tiny terrorist wasn’t on your to do list today, but you nod anyway, knowing it’ll bite you in the ass tomorrow.
“Yes, after your field trip you can have a little ice cream,” you stand up, knees creaking a bit, and move forward on the line. Matter settled, you hook your fingers in the back collar of Max’s Horvat jersey, worn because ‘Uncle Bo is the coolest!’ much to Mat’s annoyance and your amusement. At the self-serve counter, you grab five pretzels - even if Max doesn’t want to share, you still want a snack - and a Diet Coke, hoping for a quick burst of energy. You let go of Max’s jersey to fish your phone out of your back pocket and tap it against the reader.
“Okay, Max, back to -“ you cut yourself off, looking down at your side and not seeing Max. “Max? Oh, fuck. Where did he go?”
Your heart hammers in your chest, slight panic rising when you scan the concourse and don’t spot your kindergartener. “Fuck,” you mutter under your breath, the only thing keeping your panic at a reasonable level is the fact that Max was quite literally almost born in the arena and knows it better than anyone. Of course that also means he could be hiding literally anywhere and never be found.
“I…okay, think like Max,” you step off to the side, against the wall, so you can figure out what to do. “Where the hell is he going to go?”
The muffled cheers of the crowd filter through the arena, signifying that the Islanders have added to their lead late in the second. You smile faintly and, like a lightning bolt to the head, realize where Max wandered off to. Or where you hope he wandered off to.
You book it towards the Lab and the MSG broadcast set up, trying to see around the crowds of people that are leaving their seats now that the second period is over. Obviously, you can’t see anything around all the people and the closer you get to the main stairs, the more panic you’re starting to feel, thinking about the girls back at the seats and what you’ll do if Max isn’t with Mat.
Once the cameras and desk come into view, your entire body unclenches, Max is happily perched on Mat’s hip, chattering away with Shannon while Mat and Thomas discuss the second period’s play. The cameras are on and your son is broadcasting live on MSG. You wiggle your way through the little crowd of people around the set and get to the front, by the retractable belt barriers, and try to catch Mat’s eye.
The second he spots you, his entire expression changes, a delighted smile stretching across his face and his eyes crinkling up at the corners. He looks like a twenty-something again, not the nearly forty-year-old he actually is.
“Max!” You hiss, trying not to be heard. “Send him over here!” You wave your free hand at the duo, Diet Coke wedged under your arm and pretzels getting squished in your hand.
Mat shakes his head at you and Thomas and Shannon look over too, all three of them laughing. Mat turns back to the camera, Max smiling like the cat that got the canary. “My wife’s trying to get our broadcast sidekick back,” he says, laughing. Mat bounces Max in his arms. “But I think we’ll keep him around for his color commentary.”
“No, oh my god,” you shake your head and gesture for Max to come back to you. “Mat, stop it.”
“Max,” Mat turns to look at your son, totally ignoring you, “what did you think of the game so far?”
Embracing the fact that Mat’s going to let Max join them for a while at least, you sigh and relax into the moment, watching Max perk up as he gets to discuss his favorite thing.
“I missed Matt’s goal,” he complains, Matt Maggio must’ve been the one to score when you noticed Max was missing. “But I like Jack the best ‘cause he’s funny and plays mini sticks. And also he gave me a piggy-back all day at Easter.”
Shannon laughs and chimes in, “we like Jack around here too. But hey, Max, I can show you Matt’s goal while your dad and Thomas discuss some of the finer points of the game.”
Max wiggles out of Mat’s arms and darts around Thomas’s back so he can stand with Shannon and watch the goal he missed. You snap a picture of Max’s head poking over the desk, heart melting at the sheer excitement on his face. You also notice the dozen texts littering your phone’s screen - a multitude of laughing emojis sent from the girls while they watch at home.
The fans around you are clearly eating up Max’s presence and you feel a little spike of anxiety thinking about how exposed he is to the public now, after keeping his and Talia’s faces mostly hidden on your social media pages. It’s always a little inevitable that the kids are seen with Mat out in public, but you almost wish you could snatch up all the phones recording video and taking pictures of Max as he points something out to Shannon on the iPad.
You take a nervous bite out of your pretzel and try to just enjoy the moment until they go to commercial when you can duck under the belt barrier. Mat grins boyishly at you, grabbing your waist to pull you in for a quick kiss. “Well, this is fun,” he says, pulling back from the kiss. “Family broadcast.”
“He is so stupid sneaky,” you shake your head, offering Mat the pretzel that you’d taken a bite out of. He accepts it and tears off a piece of his own. “And fast.”
Thomas laughs, leaning his forearms on the desk. “That’ll be helpful when he’s zipping around defensemen and scoring goals,” he teases before going to say hi to the fans and take selfies.
“Mom, look!” Max pops up at your side, holding a puck. Where did he get that?
“Pretty cool,” you smile down at him and let Mat lift him back up onto his hip. Max’s long legs kick at Mat’s thighs. “Where’d you get that, bud?”
“From Dad when I got here,” Max chirps. “Can I stay? Cause I don’t wanna be with the girls.”
He cuddles up against Mat’s shoulder, the father-son duo wearing matching hangdog, pleading expressions on their faces. The day Mat taught both kids the look was the worst day of your life, weakening your already minimal willpower. This time you have to say no, interrupting Mat while he’s working is only cute for so long.
“Sorry, Maxy,” you reply sympathetically. “We have to get back to the girls, but we’ll see Dad right after the game.”
Max whines loudly, reminding you that he’s still only five, and you chew on the inside of your lip. Mat pats Max on the back and whispers something in his ear, the extra lighting catching on the few greys that are starting to form in Mat’s dark hair. You wait while Mat talks quietly to your son, trying not to worry about coming back from commercial while you’re all standing in the middle of everything. Eventually, Max huffs an exasperated sigh and wiggles out of Mat’s grip again, slumping his way over to your side.
You smirk a little, “gee, don’t look so thrilled to come hang with your mom.”
Mat laughs and you roll your eyes at him.
“I wanted to stay with Dad,” Max pouts, little fingers gripping tightly onto the puck. “But he said that he’d take me to the locker room if I go with you.”
“Bribery,” Mat winks at you. “A dad’s best weapon.”
The ten second warning that the commercial is ending blinks and you grab Max’s hand, “okay, time to go back to the girls. We’ll see Dad later, okay?”
Max waves at Mat as you guide him away from the set. “Bye, Dad! Don’t forget I wanna see Jack and the locker room,” he shouts and you can hear Mat’s laughter boom over the noise of the crowd.
“I won’t forget Max, be good for Mom,” Mat calls out.
You hurry back to your seats, Max hopping along and waving to people as you go. He gives big, cheerful greetings to the ushers and security guards he recognizes, forcing you to stop when Sparky passes by so he can give the mascot a high-five and a hug around the legs.
“Max, baby, please. We can see Sparky later,” you sigh, a little worried about leaving the girls alone for so long. You know they’ll listen and not leave the seats, but you feel vaguely like a terribly mother/babysitter since they’ve been sitting by themselves for nearly twenty minutes.
Max pouts, but takes a hold of the hand you’re holding out for him and dutifully follows you back to the seats. He clambers over the couple at the end of the row and you apologize quickly for him, making another mental note to work on the kid’s manners.
“Where did you go?” Talia pops up in her seat like a meerkat, wrinkling her face at you in confusion. “We thought you, like, got kidnapped!”
“We didn’t get kidnapped,” you huff, passing around the pretzels. The girls thank you and turn back to the on-ice intermission action. Max reaches for your half eaten one too and you’re glad you at least got a bite in earlier. “Max ran off to see Dad.”
Max grins at his sister, mouth full of chewed pretzel. “Dad gave me a puck and I got to be on TV with him,” he manages to sound smug and excited all at the same time, waving the gifted puck in one hand.
Talia pouts a little, still childish despite how she tries to mimic the older girls.
“Eat your pretzel,” you twirl your finger to get her to look back at the ice. “There are a thousand pucks at home. Oh,” you add, “we’re going to head down to the locker room after the game. Dad promised Max.”
That gets the girls going, chattering about how they get to see Jack and the rest of the players, giggling like crazy while huddled together. You lean back in your seat, smiling softly at how cute they all are. Max is on his feet, dancing along to the arena music, waving both hands in the air - your little party animal. You send Mat a video of him dancing, teasing that father and son have the same moves.
He shoots back a gif of himself dancing at the Martins’ wedding more than fifteen years ago, making you laugh out loud, drawing the attention of all five kids. “Ignore me,” you laugh, waving a hand at them.
Another message from Mat vibrates your phone: leave the kids with marts and syd when you drop the girls off after the game, i wanna show you more of my moves 👀
Giggling like a high schooler with a crush, you take a minute to appreciate that Mat still makes you feel floaty and dizzy with love. Over ten years together and he still makes your heart skip a beat.
“Mom,” Talia’s voice slices through your thoughts, “what’s Dad saying? Because you look so weird.”
Schooling your features into a more neutral expression, you lean forward over the seat and ask, “how do you guys feel about a sleepover at Aunt Syd and Uncle Matt’s?”
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Pilot, I know you primarily bully Jaune. But would you mind having a go at Papa Arc talking to the Vacuo mural?
Orion Arc is not a hero, even though his son always thought he was. He’s just a man who loves his family and tries his best to do right by them.
So it’s more than a little strange standing there, in front of a mural of his own son’s face. His boy immortalized and honored in ways Orion could never dream of.
His son looks like a stranger.
“Mr. Branwen thought it might help to talk to ya.” Orion’s hand brushes over the palm prints of countless children, all paying their respect to his boy. “Don’t see much point, ain’t gonna bring you back.”
His son watches him, all quiet confidence and bravery. A true warrior, a hero. Where is his brash anxious son who begged to join the Huntsman Academies? How much of his son did he lose when Jaune finally left home? Somewhere along the way his boy grew into a man and he wasn’t there to help him.
“Your uh…” He clears his throat. “Your mother misses you.” And it sounds pathetic even as he says it. Even in front of a facsimile of his son he can’t say what he needs to.
“She was beside herself when you didn’t come back from Haven.” So was he, even more so than his wife. Orion paced the house for days, worry driving him to throw himself into work, into anything that would take his mind off the attack and the fate of his boy. “We were so relieved to hear from Saph about you and your friends.”
His friends. A group of seven that from all accounts Jaune grew closer to than even his sisters. Orion glances up at the others in the mural. Four of which fell alongside his boy, and the other three were left grieving.
Ren, Nora, and Oscar, he remembers them being called. He never thought he’d see his grief echoed in faces so young.
“As soon as we saw the broadcast, your mother was packin’ our bags.” Orion chuckles. “You shoulda seen her, she was fixin’ to march up to the General herself and teach him a lesson. If I ever wondered where you got your fire, I got my answer.”
His face falls, crumpling like paper. “And I triedta douse that fire.” How many times did he tell Jaune it was okay if he failed? How many times did he refuse to train him? How many times did he let his fear guide him to crush his son’s dreams?
“When you walked into the livin’ room with your transcripts in hand sayin’ you were gonna be a Huntsman whether I wanted it or not, why…” His eyes are stinging. If there’s anything his son inherited from him, it’s his tendency for emotions to live near the surface. “Why that was the proudest day of my life.”
He’d never been more proud. Never. His boy standing there with those papers clutched in his fist, and a defiant look on his face. “I won’t let you down.” Jaune had said.
You could never let me down. It’s what he should’ve said. Why didn’t he just say it?
Orion scrubs the heel of his hand into his eyes. It does nothing to stop the flow of tears. “Did I ever once tell ya how proud I am of you?” His voice is cracking and hitching, but if he stops talking now Orion knows he’ll never start again.
“You’re so brave and you don’t quit when things get tough. I saw how hurt you were after the Fall of Beacon, but you just got right back on that horse.” His baby boy, the most caring and most stubborn of all his children. Strapping the family sword back onto his hip because “Somebody has to, dad.”
Letters where it’s clear his boy isn’t saying half the trouble, but he’s saying enough that they know what trouble is. Hearing about the attack on Haven, a week and a half of terror. Saphron sending word that Jaune made it to Argus.
And then nothing. Nothing until the broadcast from Miss Rose.
Packing in a whirlwind, sending the girls to stay with Saphron. Renting the first available airship to Vacuo and contending with his wife’s motion sickness. By the time they got there, they were met halfway by a near armada.
But no Jaune.
Orion’s hand rests on Jaune’s painted cheek. A child’s hand against the larger-than-life hero his boy grew into when he wasn’t there.
Did he ever tell his son how much he loves him?
“Come back to us,” Orion begs, no longer trying to stem the flow of tears. Why bother? His son isn’t here to see them.
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Anti-Endhawks takes to debunk
"Endeavor is 46, and Hawks is 23; why do you ship them?"
That's all on personal preference, tbh. It's cool if you find the age gap to be uncomfortable. It's important to point out that both characters met when Hawks was a pro-hero (meaning he was already an adult when they first started working together as a duo). Endeavor himself did not know of Hawks when he was younger. If Endeavor knew Hawks as a child and the relationship was formed due to that, then I would also have an issue with the ship itself and understand this saying for argument purposes.
There is already a canon age gap between Gentle and La Brava, and no one talks about how the age gap is bothersome for them, with Gentle being in his early 30s and La Brava in her early 20s. I think from what I've been seeing that people just don't like Endeavor as a character (which is fair if that's the case. You don't have to love his character or anything). Still, it would be good if some antis were honest about using this take as a reason to shun the ship in general.
"Endeavor is still married to Rei; therefore, he is still connected to his family that they had."
Yes, Endeavor is a part of the Todoroki storyline since his perspective alongside Touya and Shoto's is very important for readers to pay attention to. His relationship with Rei Horikoshi has shown that it quickly changed despite their relationship starting out as wholesome and healthy in the early stages. We see very fast that the love that Rei and Endeavor once had turned sour once they began having children, and Endeavor tried to push his goal of having that perfect child with the ideal quirk. Now, whether the two reconcile and come back together is anyone's guess; I'm assuming that Horikoshi won't have Rei and Endeavor get back together, and they will most likely separate due to everything that has happened in their relationship and family in general.
This reasoning, out of all the anti-endhawk ones, is probably the most reasonable if I'm being honest, since the Todorokis are shown still having some connection back to each other. We are still determining how the aftermath of it all will play out.
For story purposes, he is very much connected to Rei since they both are responsible for saving Touya. But it's good to note that when it comes to Endhawk's relationship, they don't display the typical power imbalance that most people would expect from out-of-age gap ships. In fact, when it comes to their overall dynamic, both characters respect each other as equals and have this bickering/bantering dynamic, especially during their early interactions; they both care for one another, as seen in the panels below.
"Hawks would hate Endeavor if he knew his past."
This take has been a common argument circling around the fandom before Dabi broadcasts his reveal to the world. I have to say, I was curious what Hawk's thoughts would have been if he found out Endeavor's past, but after he explained that despite the wrongs Endeavor has done in his life, he still would support him and do his best to help him out whenever he needed him. To me, it showed how much he trusted him; he views Endeavor as the person who is trying to atone for everything he has done to those around him rather than the person he once was; and this trust that the two of them have extends into the final arc as well.
If there are other takes I should probably tackle; I'll make a separate thread for those. But I am also working on a Bakudeku version of this as well (so look forward to that one 😊❤️)
#bnha#my hero academia#mha#boku no hero academia#boku no hero#endhawks#endho#enji x keigo#enji todoroki#keigo takami#endeavor x hawks#scftizuku meta#endeavor#hawks
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Hello again 😊 I wanted to make a separate alphabet request for I,M,N,&U for Bakugo and iida? (Why am I giggling like a child at my ask letters?? 😂)
Because you knew what the hell you were doing when you put those letters together 😂
dividers by @/hitobaby. pro-hero characters.
❥Katsuki Bakugou:
❥⋱I - I Love You: When did he first say ‘I love you?’
It was during your third year at UA, let's say a month before graduation. The two of you had dated off and on since your first year. Katsuki had had a hard time deciphering his feelings for you; he knew he loved you aa a friend and wanted to protect you, but he couldn't shake the nagging feeling of wanting more.
His pride often held him back from expressing himself - not wanting to be seen as 'weak' or allowing anyone to have anything to hold over his head or tease him about.
It's a wonder what time will do though, because as the year drew to a close, Katsuki saw himself fighting a losing battle with his heart. His heart wanted you. You and him together.
"Y/N."
You stop as the buffed-up blonde calls out your name as you leave the training grounds after practice.
He strolls up to you and grabs hold of your waist, pulling your plush body flush against his hard, muscled one. His large arms are on display in a black muscle tank and his UA training pants sag below his waistline, revealing a sinful little peek of his V-line.
"I love you." He said simply, those devil-red eyes scouring your face for any hint of disapproval.
In turn, your eyes crinkle and you laugh at him.
"I know, Katsuki."
"HAHH?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU KNOW?!" Bakugou booms out a retort, about to fly into a mini rampage when you bring your hands up to rest on his biceps.
"You make it so painfully obvious with your actions, but it's okay. I know you suck at expressing yourself. I love you, too."
His cheeks flush red - whether from frustration or embarassment, who knows - but they only darken further when you lean up to press a sweet kiss to his nose.
❥⋱M - Marry: How does he feel about marriage?
Bakugou absolutely wants to get married. This man grew up in a two-parent household and got a front row seat to how a man is supposed to treat his wife (Although his mama might be a lil cray cray. Papa Bakugou, blink twice if you need help.)
The entire hero and civillian worlds are going to know when he proposes, because it’s going to be broadcast on every major news station, at his request.
This man is possessive; he wants all those Extras out there to know that you’re his woman and that they have no chance in hell at getting you to look their way.
Especially when he slips that big ass ruby ring on your finger.
He’ll grab your hand and wave it in the camera saying,
“You see this?! Try to fuck with her now and see don’t I blow your damn heads off!”
I know his PR team be stressed the hell out dealing with his shenanigans.
❥⋱N - Naughty: One thing he’d like to try in the bedroom.
He’s another one that has likely tried just about everything in the bedroom, but yet he still somehow manages to come up with some shit you’ve never heard of for the two of you to try.
“Katsuki, what the hell is Katoptronophilia??"
You looked over the screen of his phone that he'd shoved in your face and up into his vermillion-colored eyes.
"Sex in front of the mirror, baby. I think that's one that we really haven't explored to its fullest potential yet."
And by fullest potential, he means he hasn't fucked you with you staring up at the mirror above your bed yet.
"Fuck, princess, that looks so fucking good, doesn't it? Look at how my cock just stretches your tiny hole open so well. You can't look away, can you?"
He's jackhammering you from below while holding you underneath your armpits in a firm grip. Your smaller body bounces on top of his, tits swaying, and you're so embarrassed at the completely fucked-out look on your face.
He removes one arm and reaches down to circle a finger over your clit.
"Neither can I."
❥⋱U - Underwear: Does what you have under your clothes turn him on?
Bakugou is a connoisseur of sexy underwear and lingerie. He always buys you the prettiest sets and they’re usually in one of these three colors - black, green, or orange. If they ever put out a lingerie collection based on Pro Heroes, he would opt to design the Dynamight set himself LMAO. With you serving as his model and inspiration of course.
❥Tenya Iida:
❥⋱I - I Love You: When did he first say ‘I love you?’
It likely came at a time when he was questioning if he was really cut out to become a hero or not.
Despite his outward displays of leadership and confidence, he has his moments of insecurity just like anyone else.
"Why do you think that you won't make a great hero, Tenya? You exude all of the qualities that are desirable in a hero: intelligence, courage, and selflessness. You're an amazing man and you will become an amazing hero!"
His dark eyes widened behind his glasses and a rosy tint stretched across the bridge of his nose.
The two of you have been dating for about six months now, just enjoying being together and letting things happen naturally.
Taking your tiny hand into his, he entwines your fingers together and presses his forehead to your cheek. His soft, dark hair falls across your skin, making you let out a hum of pleasure.
"Thank you, Y/N. I-I love you. I won't hold back my true feelings any longer. I love you and I need you to stay by my side."
❥⋱M - Marry: How does he feel about marriage?
Iida would want to get married as well. He too came from a close knit family and after dealing with his brother’s hospitalization, he definitely wants to grow and cultivate his own legacy one day to continue to pass down the family’s hero heritage. Tenya is not the type of man to play games or wait around, either, leaving you guessing about where your relationship is headed.
He is going to propose and do it properly. He will ask for your parent's blessing before going out to buy you the biggest rock he can find and afford.
He’s less…outgoing than Bakugou and would rather settle to make the big announcement over a private dinner with only his family and close friends in attendance.
❥⋱N - Naughty: One thing he’d like to try in the bedroom.
For Iida, he's pretty vanilla when it comes to sex. He's not the type to try any super wild or outlandish kinks in the bedroom, but that doesn't mean he's a boring lover.
Positions vary, but his favorites are the ones where he can hold you close and stare down into your face. He loves to encage you with his much larger body, so he definitely has a size kink.
Iida is apprehensive about bringing this up to you, but he'd really like to do some dom/sub roleplay in the bedroom. He knows that his natural personality can be a bit overbearing, thus making this dynamic seem undesirable, but he can't help the blush that forms on his cheeks when he thinks of you kneeling in front of him or bent over with your ass presented for him to spank with his belt.
❥⋱U - Underwear: Does what you have under your clothes turn him on?
Iida is more of a simple, traditional man when it comes to underclothes/bedroom wear. He likes it when you wear those floor-length, silk nightgowns to bed. The ones with the high slits that reveal your soft, smooth thighs and the waistband of your panties.
Not very picky is he; he likes just about anything that you wear to bed, but those are absolutely his favorite. He likes the feeling of the soft material on his hands as he caresses you before undressing you while you lay beneath him.
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Wait, is it true the writers said Marinette and Gabriel are meant to represent individual creative spirit versus corporate greed?
Taken from the writer's commentary on the final two episodes
In the next scene, we can see Marinette taking the miraculous that have been standardised and industrialised by Gabriel and putting them back in shape. The writers specify that this is a parabole about craftsmanship vs industrial production. The miraculous will now be adapted to every person, but we can’t see what they look like just yet! In this new world, the powers are all shared, among people who they trust and know will work for the common good. They joke that the "Avengers" shot at the end with all the heroes is something they’d been dreaming of.
There's also that bit from her confrontation with Gabriel where he randomly acts like he's The God of Fashion (taken from S5E20):
Gabriel: I don't think you understand, child, so let me put things differently. Life is like fashion. You think you have a choice, but all you have is the illusion of choice. And I decide what choices are given to you.
Marinette: You're wrong! (Shows Gabriel her sketchbook.) Fashion is about listening to people, it's about understanding who they are, what excites them and creating the clothes that will help them express their inner world. Help them connect with others and make their dreams come true.
Gabriel:(Laughs and takes her sketchbook, then browses its pages.) No, that's not fashion. That's making dresses for your dolls. Fashion is a product, a marketing strategy, an industry that relies on uninterrupted trend renewal that forces you to either throw away everything you have and buy more or, worse, to be out of fashion. Thanks to the clothes I create, the celebrities who wear them, the advertisements I design and the Alliance rings that broadcast them, I create an idyllic vision. A perfection that everyone aspires to achieve, while keeping it just out of their grasp. You finally understand the difference, don't you? You listen to people's desires and create what they want. Somehow, people make you. Whereas I create people's desires. They buy what I decide to buy. They think what I want them to think. I'm the one who makes people. You think you love Adrien, but you're just under the spell of this world I've created. A world where Adrien is the star, shining high above. A world where you're just part of the crowd below looking up at him. (Shuts the sketchbook.) That is why nothing can ever happen between you two.
So, yeah, this is apparently supposed to be them talking about some kind of central theme of individual creators vs mass production? The problem is that it basically comes out of nowhere. If the writers really wanted to have this be some sort of message, then they needed to establish this a lot sooner because Marinette has had no issues with his fashion company nor has anyone else.
An example of a way to do this would be to have Marinette win the hat competition in season one, Adrien models it in season two, and then give us a series of episodes where Marinette gets to learn about the production process for her hat. She gets to see it mass produced and then gets to learn how fast fashion works and, by the end, she's no longer a fan of the fashion industry even though she still loves fashion. It would be a much better environmental message then the nonsense we've been given, too.
But the show didn't give us anything like that. We've never seen a single Gabriel brand product save for the stuff Adrien wears and the alliance rings, which are phones more than fashion accessories, so it makes sense that they'd have a uniform look. Even if phones were made to order, you wouldn't see much variety in the base product save for color. The customization on a phone is the background and the alliance lets you customize your "background" (aka your Adrien, Lila, or Kagami) as we saw in Jubilation when Socqueline was showing off her alliance.
Side note: I realized that Jubilation takes place before I started writing mini episode reviews, so I wanted to make a quick note of how creepy it is that you can customize your alliance avatar given who the avatars are. Gabriel and Tomoe seriously took their 14-year-olds and told people of all ages to treat them like dolls, which is extra creepy given how many fans Adrien has. That has some messed up in-universe implications that make me shudder. What were the writers thinking?
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but I DO MY MAKEUP IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S CAR and we order DIFFERENT drinks at the SAME BAR and I hear SOUNDS in my MIND, BRAND NEW SOUNDS in my mind and honey I'll be seeing you down 'EVER I go, yes honey I'll be seeing you down EVERY road and I'll come get my things but I CAN'T LET GO and I'm acting like I don't see every ribbon that used to tie yourself to me and WILL YOU SWAY WITH ME? go astray with me? and I'm gonna dream with a FEVER and jack and jill get FUCKED UP AND POSSESSIVE when it gets DARK and in the morning, you'll be DANCING with all the HEARTACHE and the TREASON, THE FANTASIES OF LEAVING, in the morning, you'll be dancing WITH US and i think that you might be the same as me, behave abnormally? and we'll end up PAINTED on the road, RED and CHROME and i am your SWEETHEART, PSYCHOPATHIC crush and CAN YOU HEAR THE VIOLENCE? megaphone to my chest, broadcast the BOOM BOOM BOOM and make em all dance to it and BLOW ALL MY FRIENDSHIPS TO SIT IN HELL WITH YOU and BABY REALLY HURT ME and CRYING in a TAXI and GO BACK into the arms of the girl I LOVE and all that a STRANGER would see is one girl swaying ALONE, stroking her cheek and you're a LITTLE much for me and EVERY PERFECT SUMMER'S EATING ME ALIVE and you're all gonna WATCH ME DISAPPEAR into the SUN and PLEASE could be tender? and i will sit close to you, let's give it a MINUTE before we admit that we're THROUGH and it's LATE and this song is for YOU and now we sit in your car and OUR LIVE IS A GHOST, well I guess I should go, yeah I guess I SHOULD go and i care for myself the way I used to care about you and why even TRY to get it right and IT'S TIME TO LET GO OF THIS ENDLESS SUMMER AFTERNOON and three years loved you EVERY single week, IT WAS REAL FOR ME, yup, real for me and now I'll fake it EVERY SINGLE DAY 'till I don't need FANTASY 'till I FEEL YOU LEAVE and BUT I STILL REMEMBER EVERYTHING!! HOW we'd DRIFT buying GROCERIES, how you'd dance for me and I'm gonna let go of LITTLE things 'till I'm far away from you SO FAR AWAY FROM YOU and gonna wanna TAPE MY MOUTH SHUT and LOOK OUT, lovers and lights are on and they've all gone home BUT WHO AM I? and we TOLD you this was MELODRAMA and the TERROR and the HORROR, GOD, I WONDER WHY WE BOTHER and all the GUNFIGHTS and the LIMELIGHTS and the HOLY SICK DIVINE nights and SORRY I WAS NEVER GOOD LIKE YOU and DID MY BEST to exist JUST FOR YOU and I am my MOTHER'S child, I'll LOVE you 'till my breathing stops, I'll LOVE you 'till you call the COPS on me and BET YOU RUE THE DAY YOU KISSED A WRITER IN THE DARK and in my DARKEST hours I stumbled on a SECRET power, I'll FIND a way to be without you, babe, and i ride the subway, read the signs, I LET THE SEASONS CHANGE MY MIND, I LOVE IT HERE SINCE I STOPPED NEEDING YOU and IN MY HEAD I DO EVERYTHING RIGHT!!! and COME HOME TO MY HEART!!!! and in your car the radio UP and maybe we just do it VIOLENTLY and every night I LIVE AND DIE and I HATE the headlines and the weather and SPILL MY GUTS underneath the OUTDOOR LIGHT and I'M 19 AND I'M ON FIRE and ALL of our heroes FADING and ALL the nights spent OFF our faces TRYING TO FIND THESE PERFECT PLACES and WHAT THE FUCK are perfect places ANYWAY and
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!!: death, little gore, villain reader
Soulmate AU where you're Bakugou's fated one and you meet while you're both 17. He, wanting nothing to do with a soulmate or predetermined anything at that point in his life, rebukes you. He spends the whole summer once he meets you making it very clear that he wants nothing to do with you - to the point of being cruel. Long story short, he makes your life a living hell and no one helps you even though they see what's happening.
And starting the final year of high school, you're never heard from again. Some rumors say that you moved away, up north, where no one would know who you were or why you and your family moved. Others say that you signed a contract overseas for the rights to your story as a rejected soulmate and there's a book and show in the works. And a couple hushed rumors that float very low around school that year say you died.
All Bakugou cares about is that he's left alone.
Fast forward to 25 year old Pro Hero Dynamight. He's got it all: the job, the house, the wife, and the child. You haven't crossed his mind in years. You're a distant memory from an angsty teenage summer.
Dynamight, not able to crack the Top 10, is sure that this case he's assigned to will propel him higher in the ranks, and he's so close to taking down a group of villains who have been terrorizing the city. Bodies left with their hearts ripped out. It started out slow; one every three months, then that became one every two months, and now there's nearly one every two weeks.
Evidence was scarce. No one had any idea how many people were involved, what the connection between victims was, anything.
But the villains who did it slipped up - a nearly botched job that left clues. Bakugou's gunning for them, and he's going to make sure that no one is their victim again.
So imagine his surprise when he gets an email from the tiplines set up that only contains a link. It's a countdown with ten seconds remaining. They're broadcasting the crimes now.
It starts. Bakugou's blood runs cold as a masked face comes into frame.
"Hello my sweetness," your sugary sweet voice flows easily through his computer speakers. "Remember me?"
He remembers. Oh how he wished you really had died.
"I hear you're looking for me," you pout and step back and walk beside a chair where your next victim sits strapped to a chair, bag over their head. "So I went by your place, and who did I find? None other than..." With a flourish, you rip the bag off the person's head. Bakugou watches his wife struggle against the restraints.
And he's helpless to watch as you plunge a knife into his wife's chest and carve out her heart, her silent screams and thrashing coming to an abrupt end.
"It would've been easy to kill you, my love," you cackle, "but I wanted to make sure that you get to experience the pain that I felt." You squeeze the organ in your hand before dropping it to the floor. "To put it simply, my dear: if I can't have you, no one can. We were made for each other."
In the end, you don't even put up a fight. You walk up to his front door and ring his doorbell. No outfit, no weapons, just someone who looks like the girl next door from eight years ago. You hold out your wrists and wait for him.
Bakugou got what he wanted. He achieved his life long dream, and with the help of his soulmate too. Destiny sure has a cruel sense of humor.
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Narumi Osone VS Himiko Toga [Danganronpa Survivor VS My Hero Academia]
Hifumi: Narumi Osone; the firecracking enforcer of Organization Zetsubou.
Leona: Himiko Toga; the bloodthirsty lieutenant of the League of Villains...!
Hifumi: The greatest heroes are often defined by their worst enemy. A title that these two crazy little girls are willing to take the mantle of, even if it drives them to the brink of madness...Only destruction and death will be left in their wake when these two come to town...!
Leona: He's Hifumi and I'm Leona!
Hifumi: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, talents and skills, to see who will win a DEATH BATTLE!
Leona: Oh my god, we're 6 parts in and we FINALLY get a character who's NOT an Ultimate!
Hifumi: Well, in other realities, yes, but in ours, Narumi Osone never became the Ultimate Gourmet that everyone originally knew her as.
Leona: Aw, just look at her! She's so adorable! I love her little hair buns and her cute little face and...
Cut to Narumi slaughtering the members of the UUV and blowing up the drone lab.
Leona: ...the psychotic killing...Oh jeez...
Hifumi: Looks can indeed be very deceiving, and those words have never rung truer for this undelightful devilish darling...Despite this, Narumi Osone comes from humble origins. She was born as one of the daughters of Taizo Osone, the former Ultimate Chef and graduate of Hope's Peak Academy.
Leona: Born as a typical middle-child, Narumi was one of the few Osone children who remained true to their culinary roots, even though many of the other children left to follow other passions. What a dedicated little girl. Where did it all go so wrong!?
Hifumi: From a young age, Narumi's parents would always tell her stories of what happened during the early years of her life when she was too young to remember it. She learned about the ventures of the Killing Game that was publicly broadcasted, as well as the tragic happenings of the Demon Hunting game in Towa City, and so on, so forth. A young, easily influenced Narumi fell in love with these stories, and the heroes of them, so much so that she strove to one day be just like them, fighting for Hope and making sure justice prevailed.
Leona: And...in a roundabout and rather twisted way, that's kind of what she became! Though, as any great hero does, she suffered a bit first...
Hifumi: In the aftermath of the Tragedy, with Hope's Peak and many other schools reopening and Ultimate students still being marginalized in society, Mr Osone got more deeply involved in the Rights for Ultimate's movement. He became a member and rather important spokesperson of the RFU, having previously been an Ultimate himself. However, a policeman accidentally shot and killed him during a riot that had broken out at an RFU protest.
Leona: However, this story unfortunately doesn't proceed with the kid donning a cape and cowl and fighting the corruption and crime that took her father from her. Taizo's death turned Narumi's disdain for the government into outright rage. As a result of her desire for vengeance against the system that murdered her father, her mental health suffered. She was left alone, her emotional state unchecked, and only the stories her father told her about the power of Hope pushing through the deepest, darkest despairs to guide her.
Hifumi: However, it became apparently clear that Narumi's ambitions of Hope weren't quite as simple as wanting to push on and strive for a better tomorrow. Narumi believed that the despair she felt immediately following Taizo's death was crucial in sparking a revolution. She didn't seek grand ideals like world dominance, but rather a society that accepted people as they did "back in the day."
Leona: And so the little gourmet decided...she would BECOME that Despair...!
Hifumi: By striving to become, in her own words "the villain of her own story," Narumi Osone hoped to infect Japanese society with this despair, destruction, and carnage, so that the government would be too preoccupied with dealing with the despair crisis to deal with the Ultimates' antagonism. Then she planned for her hero, Makoto Naegi, and the Future Foundation to arrive in a short time to restore society to normal, with the exception of praising Ultimates in the way that was done before Junko.
Leona: And if casualties had to be made in order to make it happen...Who gives a crap!? Anything goes as long as it creates change! Unfortunately, the more Narumi delved in evil, the more she came to sink herself deep in it. She learned that she loved the feeling of watching people struggle to survive, pulled forward by their hope, and that she loved throwing hands with tough customers, even with her small size.
Hifumi: Osone met and teamed up with Akira Tsuchiya, a young man in a similar state as her also seeking societal collapse. After causing some chaos with him, like an average day of blowing up a bank or slaughtering some unpleasent customers, the dynamic duo was put on the radar of the terrorist organization, Organization Zetsubou, and it's tyrannical leaders, Tsumugi Shirogane and Yukari Koime.
Leona: Akira's internet life got him brought on as the team's resident expert hacker, while Narumi became a combat tactician and lead enforcer after expressing her love for battle. However, unfortunately for Zetsubou, Narumi and her shut-in partner proved to be a pair of...putting it nicely...loose cannons. Though it could be dumbed down to her not believing in the same cause as her teammates, Narumi had a tendency to jeopardize the organizations big missions if it suited her interest more. Like how she set up a plan to chip everybody in Towa City using drones, but then destroyed the drones herself, as the prospect of getting to meet her heroes was more exciting to her.
Hifumi: However, Narumi's strength and the assets she provided the Organization made it so that in spite of this, it would be hard to let her go once they had her. At some point down the line while working with these villains, the gourmet girl gained what would become her most powerful and deadliest weapon; her repulsion gauntlets! Which she first showed off after she made her presence known to the Future Foundation, by taking over Towa City's underground, killing off Akeru Yozora's resistance group with a brainwashed Gonta Gokuhara, and using them to combat the Ultra Despair Girls, Komaru and Toko, in a final confrontation with Akeru's safety on the line!
Leona: These gauntlets are nobody's fool! Even with her tiny size and stature, Narumi is capable of near superhuman feats with these babies! They're sturdy and made of a hard metal, so a punch from them will hurt a hell of a lot! Besides that, the gauntlets shoot out bursts of energy that Narumi can use to attain pseudo-flight, propelling herself through the air at a supersonic speed! She can also use them to set off combustion explosions, like being blasted point-blank with a fiery shotgun, or blow holes in even the toughest surfaces and people!
Hifumi: Like how she used them to completely brutalize Mitsunari Koga; blowing holes through him and prior to that, completely blasting his arm off his body. You'll find that compared to us at the Future Foundation, Organization Zetsubou's members, Osone especially, are much more averse to slaughtering people and desecrating their bodies. The gauntlets have also been shown to be so sturdy, they're resistant to sharp objects like Genocide Jack's scissors, which are stated to be much sharper and more deadly than your average knife.
Leona: However, what is arguably more impressive than the gauntlets themselves is how adept Narumi is at using them. Ordinarily, blasting yourself around like that would cause, at best, some serious whiplash, or at worst, break apart your limbs with the way they're snapping all over the place, blasted around by the combustion. And for someone as small as her, it's amazing how she manages to deal with all of that!
Hifumi: On top of that, when Narumi once took a bullet to the shoulder and was unable to use her gauntlets, Celestia Ludenburg donned them and tried to blast Kyoko Kirigiri with them while they were riding a train. The recoil force of firing off even a small blast with the gauntlets at her, was almost enough to BREAK Ludenburg's arm!
Leona: And Narumi is not only firing these concussion blasts off constantly, but RAPIDLY! During her fight with Nagito Komaeda, she onslaughted him with hundreds of combustion shots point blank over span of about 4 seconds before he counterattacked! And she was fine!
Hifumi: Time and time again, Narumi Osone has proven that despite her small stature and realistically weak body, she's one of the deadliest and most powerful enemies that we've faced. And the interesting thing is she's also one of the few enemies we've faced who bares us no malice.
Leona: As said before, Narumi believes in the power of hope, and overcoming your trials. So in her eyes, those in the Future Foundation are worthy of being held in high regard.
Hifumi: And if you can't do that, congratulations! You're useless, and should die!
Leona: Such was the fate of the UUV, who Narumi battled all by herself, with only some slight assistance from Akira that she arguably didn't even need. And what's more, even though she used her gauntlets to propel herself around at sound speed, she didn't even use them for the kill most of the time! Though she may seem like a straightforward action girl, Narumi is surprisingly clever and creative with her approaches to things, like how she killed Aruma Todoroki by strangling her with her own whip, or dropping a shitton of rubble on Mikoto Itsuki!
Hifumi: And it wasn't just the UUV who suffered at the hands of this walking rocket launcher. Narumi, as we mentioned, was also able to go toe to toe with Komaru Naegi and Toko Fukawa, keeping pace with both of them and even being able to survive being caved in on by some falling elevator shaft parts. As a reminder, this is the same Toko and Komaru who battled and defeated Big Bang Monokuma together, a Godzilla-level monster
Leona: She also battled against all of Class 78, including Sakura Ogami, and was able to outpace and outmaneuver them with her gauntlets, using the constantly moving environment around her. And her most recent feat of accomplishment; battling against Nagito Komaeda in his Ultimate Hope state.
Hifumi: While Narumi did lose that fight, it was rather hard fought for both sides. Komaeda admitted afterwards that he wasn't holding back that much, and at her personal request, was out to kill her. If we assume that Komaeda is about half to three-quarters the power of Izuru Kamukura, that's an incredible feat!
Leona: As is the 60 Megaton explosion she let out that enveloped basically the entire tram system where they fought! Again, the gauntlets have recoil tantamount to the explosions they fire, and Narumi was TOTALLY fine in the wake of it. Her limbs remained intact and she wasn't even enveloped or scarred by her own explosion!
Hifumi: And yet, even in the wake of all this destruction, chaos, and anguish, people will still rise up to fight against the Despair this pint-sized enforcer brings, just as she plans. The world is Narumi Osone's game, and everyone is playing it. This girl was born to cause both drama and damage.
Leona: And that's really the one-track mind that she possesses. While Narumi has shown she's handy with tech and careful with the plans that matter to her, she's not very intelligent compared to the other masterminds of Organization Zetsubou. She's not stupid either obviously, but she's not someone who rivals her partner Akira in intelligence. She instead chooses to act more on instinct and is also mentally unstable, even by Zetsubou standards.
Hifumi: Putting that aside, Narumi Osone has demonstrated that she poses a threat to both the villains and the heroes in her universe. Despite being a noticeable white spot on a black background of death and despair, she manages to blend in with the chaos, and a source of chaos that is not to be underestimated.
Leona: Sundowner was right...Kids really ARE cruel...!
Leona: In the world of My Hero Academia, 80% of the population is born with cool superpowers, also known as Quirks.
Hifumi: That world became a very different place the day that Himiko Toga was born. At first, everything seemed pretty normal. The Toga family was just...normal...Nothing outlandish about them at all...At least as far as a superpowered society could be.
Leona: But the flow of fate had other plans for them, most notably their little girl.
Hifumi: Whether the reason may have been because of her unique Quirk or not, Himiko Toga had a strange obsession with blood even as a child. Even in a world wrought with people who get more powerful by being naked, or have invisibility that works by being naked, or losing your clothes by phasing through the ground, this was still very disturbing...Huh...I'm starting to notice a pattern...
Leona: Everyone realized this when a young Toga killed a bird to drink its blood and then showed the same bird to her parents. Now...I love a good chicken or duck for dinner, but...girl, you gotta prepare it first. You can't just eat a raw bird. You crazy fo' real...
Hifumi: To a more professional extent, that was what Toga's parents thought too. They were openly disgusted and attempted to repress it by placing a great deal of pressure on her to be "normal," sending her to Quirk counseling in an effort to reform her, and trying to find a solution to her "deviant behavior." From that point on, Himiko Toga had to hold back, even though she was still itching to drink blood, while keeping a different face. It was certainly "normal" but it wasn't "her."
Leona: But as they say, you can't keep a tiger caged forever. One day, it will break right out of it's chains and when it does? It'll be hungry...!
Hifumi: While I'm unfamiliar with that specific expression, it's indeed rather accurate to our situation.
Leona: Her repression of her emotions and feelings resulted in the development of social problems and a significant impact on her mental health. But it all came to a head when she saw a boy named Saito at her school fighting and getting covered in bruises and blood. Toga experienced what she thought was a crush on him, after having repressed her "abnormal" feelings and tendencies for so long. Toga later appeared to have succumbed to this obsession and attacked him with a box cutter, and, according to a passing classmate who witnessed the assault, stuck a straw into his wound and began sucking his blood while crying with an ecstatic look on her face. Capital Y YIKES!
Hifumi: She vanished shortly after the attack and fled from Pro Heroes and the police, as she was now a wanted suspect. Later, she was identified as the main suspect in multiple bloodletting-related murders. Up until the time of Stain, the Hero Killer.
Leona: Alongside the mysterious Dabi, Himiko Toga was inspired by the cause of the Hero Killer, but also really wanted to commit more carnage and have fun, so she joined up with Tomura Shigaraki and the League of Villains. She looked up to Stain and saw him as her role model; declaring a desire to kill and "become" him. And she herself quickly became one of the League's most well-known members, and deadliest assets in espionage and assassination.
Hifumi: Though she may be but a young girl in her late teens, Toga's child-like appearance hides away her incredible feats of strength and skill. In the Paranormal Liberation War, for example, she used her strength to kill multiple heroes and subdue others, including Eraserhead.
Leona: Even before this during her time with the Shie Hassaikai, Toga was pretty easily able to handle pro heroes like Rock Lock, and again, Eraserhead. She's also fought multiple times with Ochaco Uraraka, and deceived her easily, showing that she's at least on par with her too. To kinda clarify that, Ochaco using her quirk is capable of lifting and throwing things like stone pillars or a small hill sized pile of boulders.
Hifumi: She had even managed to stave off Deku once, and now that she had trained with Gigantomachia, that part of her strength would be stronger.
Leona: And this is without any real notable superpowers of her own. Speaking of which, we should probably get into that, right?
Hifumi: Toga's quirk is called "Transform." By drinking someone's blood, it gives her the power to change into a physical replica of that person and mimic their voice. She can access that person's form for a longer period of time the more blood she drinks. For instance, she can change for a total of eighteen hours with just one cup of blood. If she drinks the blood of more than one person, she can alternate between their appearances. She can even mimic someone else's attire, but doing so would require her to undress beforehand because her own clothes would cover the transformation. Huh...
Leona: Yeah, get used to that schtick. It happens to both men and women, so we can't really complain. Toga's villain outfit plays to her strengths in this regard. She possesses a machine connected to a utility belt. Using the wires, she can either throw the needles from a distance or stab her opponents directly. In either case, the machine will begin draining the victim's blood as soon as the needle connects.
Hifumi: The machine saves the blood in tubes so that it can be used at a later time. She can, however, drink the blood as it is being drawn out thanks to the mask on her face, that is also connected to the machine. Sometime prior to the Final War, Toga's device underwent an upgrade that allowed her to freely control jet-powered needles instead of needing to throw them.
Leona: Aside from this device, Toga typically carries a number of knives on hand. These are tiny knives with a longer black handle than the blade itself, about the size of her hand, but are still very deadly when used in her hands, and very combat-effective. She can even throw them with pin-point accuracy from a distance. Though she's not got a very wide arsenal of tools outside of these.
Hifumi: It doesn't stop her from being just as deadly in terms of combat. Toga's strength is incredible for someone who doesn't possess a combat quirk. At least...not at first...
Leona: Quirks are part of a person's DNA, and are just as capable of adaptation and evolution as any other bodily function. And for Himiko Toga, that happened in what was the worst possible way for our heroes. Which all happened as a result of Toga's battle with Curious; a member of the Meta Liberation Army.
Hifumi: Curious's Quirk is called "Landmine." and it gives the user the ability to give anything they touch explosive qualities.
Leona: And this applies to almost ANYTHING, including the blood that Toga sucks up with her gear, and the people that she was fighting with at close range. Which means that during this fight, Toga was able to tank explosions that were happening not only point-black, but INSIDE of her! That's CRAZY!
Hifumi: What made the situation even more crazy is when Toga was pushed to the brink, her quirk EVOLVED, enabling her to do something she was previously unable to do: using the quirks of the people she has transformed into!
Leona: Although, Toga can only use another person's Quirk if she is fascinated by them and holds them close to her heart, and she must be well-versed in their power. Still, even just a few more quirks under her belt gives her WAY more options in battle!
Hifumi: For example, she can copy Ochaco Uraraka's Zero Gravity, negating an object's gravitational pull, then releasing the effect on it, causing it to barrel toward the ground. Which she eventually used to end Curious and her army.
Leona: Or using her own version of Twice's signature Sad Man's Parade move: Sad Man's Death Parade, where she endlessly clones versions of herself transformed as Twice with the express intent of killing anything in her path!
Hifumi: Quirk feats aside, Himiko Toga is a phenomenal combatant and DEADLY opponent. As mentioned already, she was able to survive explosions that were happening even inside her, which puts her strength and stamina on a whole other level. What may very well be her deadliest asset however, are her stealth and speed prowess.
Leona: By the final chapters of My Hero Academia, Toga's ability to blend in with her surroundings and hide with her stealth prowess so powerful, Deku's Danger Sense, which kinda works like Spider-Sense, was useless against it! Not only that, but during situations like her fight against Ochaco and Tsuyu, she moved so fast, that merely BLINKING and taking your attention off her for a second would be more than enough time for her to get behind you and shove a blade right up your ass!
Hifumi: And this is the main way Toga fights. Since she lacks the proper strength to go hand-to-hand with a lot of heroes in MHA, despite her unbelievable physical capabilities, her main tactic in combat is to is to outrun her opponent, dodging their attacks and wearing them down until they tire, then exploit an opening.
Leona: The kind of strategy you'd expect from a deranged little girl who hides in the shadows, but the truth is that Himiko Toga is not as clear cut as she seems. Toga is obviously mentally unstable and has a very twisted perception of love and friendship, but it's shown that despite her twisted behavior when infatuated, her affection for Deku, Ochaco, and her PLA friends is completely genuine and without any inherent malevolence. In stark contrast to her maniacal nature, she has demonstrated a very supportive side, comforting a distraught Twice and crying in sadness and rage after his death.
Hifumi: Perhaps that merely means that even after everything, if she had just been accepted for who she is or understood morally, there may still be hope for this deranged little schoolgirl...Who can say for sure?
Hifumi: Alright, the combatants are set! Let's see which of our fighters comes out on top this time!
Leona: IT'S TIME FOR A DEEAAATH BAAATTLLLLLLEEE!
A close-up of a knitted doll of Makoto Naegi being held in the little girl's arms opens the scene. The girl squeezes the doll affectionately and rubs her face against its. It's none other than Narumi Osone. She holds the doll in one hand and reaching up to her ear with the other, speaking through a communicator which starts buzzing.
Akira Tsuchiya [Over Comm]: I still can't believe you took a detour on the job just to get a new teddy bear.
Narumi: Oh give it a rest! The shop does custom made dolls! I had to put an order in while I had the chance! No way was I ever gonna let this darling wait out on me, hehehehe!
Akira [Over Comm]: Look, I really don't care either way, but if I end up getting heat from the Boss Lady for this...Look, you'd better not screw it up...
Narumi: Oh RELAX big bro! It's literally just a collection job I'm doing in place of Yuka! What's the worst that could...
She trails off as she suddenly hears a familiar noise of metal meeting flesh. She looks down the alleyway where she's headed and sees a silhouette down it of something unpleasant.
Narumi: ...happen...Uh, sorry Akira, gonna have to call you back...
Narumi hangs up her comm and strides down the alleyway. As she draws closer to the subject, she sees Himiko Toga, knife in hand, running it repeatedly through the chest of a sketchy looking info broker.
Toga: Heeheeheeheeheehee...
Narumi: Um...
Toga: ...!
*SHUNK!*
Narumi: AH!
Narumi tries to engage in conversation, but Toga responds by spinning and throwing a knife at her. Narumi dodges this, but her new teddie isn't so lucky. The knife plants straight into the Makoto dolls head and falls into a wed muddy puddle.
Toga: Oops! Sorry about that!
Narumi: MY DOLL! Also, I'm pretty sure that was the guy I was supposed to meet...but more importantly, MY CUSTOM MADE DOLL!
Toga: Hey, I'm sorry! I can get you a new one as soon as I get this back to Tomura-chan! Don't know why I had to go on this mission or anything but he seemed to think this laptop was important to the army...So I'll get in contact when-
*BOOOM!* *SMASH!*
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Toga plucks a laptop, presumably filled with information, out of a carrier bag. She's about to head off with it, but the laptop then explodes in her hand, shatters to pieces and crumbles onto the floor. Astonished, she turns her head back towards Narumi, now donning her explosive gauntlets, lowering her aim and pulling on her eye, mockingly!
Narumi: OOPS!
Toga: Hmph...
Toga's expression darkens and she pouts, furious at this little punk for having the nerve to confront her. She strikes first, hurling a variety of sharp knives at the living rocket, but Narumi sees her move and deftly sidesteps to avoid the attack, then responds with a powerful burst of combustion.
*KABOOOM!*
The explosion blows apart the alley, and Toga is seen flying out of it, backflipping away from the epicenter of the blast. Narumi flies out after her, and as she lands, Toga launches out her rocket-boosted needles, which close in on the young firecracker! Even after Narumi blasts down to the ground and avoids this attack, the needles still home in on her like missiles! She propels herself towards the people in the crowd around her and grabs one terrified looking man in a suit!
Narumi: Hello, mister, would you mind helping a girl out for a sec? K, thanks!
Man: WHA-GAAGH!
Narumi uses the innocent man as a meat-shield against the needles, which run him through and start sucking up his blood. This commotion is enough to get anyone who didn't already run away, to do so.
Toga: Hmph...!
Narumi: OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
*SMAAASSH!*
Toga: GAHAGCK!
The man's corpse is yanked forward by the bloodsucking psycho girl, who shoves it off her needles. Unexpectedly, Narumi takes advantage of this distraction by throwing herself forward and delivering a powerful blow to her, sending her flying through a building.
Narumi: Haha! Suck it! Hm?
A figure emerges from the debris, and Narumi gives it a cursory eyebrow raise. When it comes out of the thick, grey liquid covering it, she finds herself staring at a petite girl with a curvy figure and fair skin, auburn hair, and round, matching eyes.
Narumi: Okay wuuuuh?
Uraraka: Heeeheeheeheehee! KEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! RELEASE!
Narumi: What? Release wha...Oh...Oooooooh...Oooooh shiiiiit...
While still struggling to figure out what's going on, Narumi only now looks around, seeing that she's surrounded by floating wreckage as a result of earlier sending Toga hurtling through the building. Toga imitates the behavior of Ochaco Uraraka's quirk by releasing her hold and causing a hail of rocks, chunks, and slabs to fall upon Narumi.
Narumi: Well...this sucks...HYAGH!
*BOOM!* *BOOM!* *KABOOM!*
Narumi: SUCK ON THIS! HOOWAAGH!
*KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!*
Narumi quickly and effectively uses her gauntlets to propel herself in all directions, outmaneuvering and dodging the falling debris. When she's in a good enough position, she brings both of her arms together and lets off a massive explosion that engulfs and disintegrates every incoming projectile.
Her clothes and uniform are all that remain of Himiko Toga as Narumi safely crashes back down to face the enemy that put her in such trouble. After picking them up and giving them a quick examination, Narumi takes off, glancing out over a sea of terrified bystanders.
They all blend in with the throng, but one man in a suit draws her attention.
Narumi: Wait...Didn't I kill you earlie-?
Man?: HAHA!
Narumi: WOAH!?
Narumi is just barely able to avoid an incoming knife that grazes her face, thrown by the man! She flies back down towards him as he starts to melt into a grey, viscous liquid, a pale arm shooting out and grinding against Narumi's arm, which she clutches in pain, sucking air through her teeth. She doesn't react in time for the needles to piece her shoulder and yank her towards the pile, with another arm bursting out and grabbing her by the throat. Toga's evil, smiling face emerges from the liquid, her body now mostly naked, and she leans in and licks Narumi's face, much to the gourmet girl's disgust.
Toga: I'm curious to see how YOU taste...
Narumi: That's gross dude...On like...SO many levels...!
Then, with a kick that sends her rolling down the road, Toga throws her stunned opponent into the air before jumping up and kicking her into the concrete. Narumi looks back a moment later to confront her again in spite of this blow, but Toga has vanished.
Narumi: What!? Where did she?
Toga: Heeheehee...
Narumi: GAGH!?
*BOOM!*
Toga: OOOF! HAH!
*WHA-BOOM!*
At random, Toga (who is now wearing her clothes again) appears behind Narumi and attempts to stab her in the back. Narumi is quick to respond, seizing Toga's arm with one hand while firing an explosive blast at her with the other. Toga is propelled backwards, but before she can even stand up, she practically teleports behind Narumi and tries to pierce her lower back with a needle in order to draw blood. But Narumi fires upward, avoids this, and turns around to face Toga with a furious look.
Narumi & Toga: JUST STAND STILL AND DIE!
Both girls shout this at one another, then Toga throws more knives at Narumi. Narumi casually blasts away the knives, but the light from the blast gives Toga enough cover to transform again, this time into the form of Jin Bubaigawara, AKA Twice.
Toga: Sad Man's...DEATH PARADE!
Narumi looks around in a panic as several complete carbon copies of Twice suddenly rise from the ground like zombies, all cackling maniacally.
Narumi: Tch...! GAGH!?
Toga & Twice's: KEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! DIE, little one!
Narumi clenches her fist and gets ready to blast the copies to kingdom come, but as the unprepared girl is kicked by Toga in their direction, the doppelgangers all launch a barrage of blows at her. At that moment, the enforcer sees that she is falling toward Toga, who is preparing to cut her down with her blade!
Narumi: HOOYAGH!
*BOOOSH!*
Toga: ...
Narumi: ...
Toga: You're gonna blast me again, aren't you?
Narumi: Uh-huh!
*KABOOM!*
Toga: AGGH!
Twice's: WOAH, WOAH, WOAH, O-HO!
After a brief exchange of banter, Narumi swiftly propels herself over Toga's attack and uses her gauntlets to blast her in the back, precisely at point blank range. For a brief moment, Toga topples and Narumi turns to face the Twice clones, glaring daggers at them.
She strikes the first one squarely through with a heavy fist that feels like a rocket. Another laser blast at point blank range renders the other completely destroyed. She catches the third by the face and crushes him completely in the palms of her strong, metal hands. Narumi kills the fourth by flying at him and slicing his body in half while spinning like a deadly spinning top.
Unfortunately, Narumi is too distracted by killing the Twice clones that she's only barely able to catch Toga's hand as she flies back down towards her, grazing her face with the needle and piercing her skin, slowly sucking up samples of Narumi's blood.
Toga: You reek of blood and carnage...That's pretty cute, you know~?
Narumi: HRRGH!
*BOOOM!*
Toga: GUAGHCK!
*BOOOM!* *BOOOM!* *BOOOM!* *BOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOMBOOOM!!!!!!*
Narumi: I'd say the same thing if you WEREN'T SO ANNOYING!
Narumi gathers enough strength in her arms to lift Toga up and throw her forward, blasting her a millisecond later. Then, she charges forward, punching and blasting her repeatedly, destroying the surrounding cityscape and cratering them in the ground!
Toga: HYAAAGH!
Narumi: Ooph!
Toga: HEEHAHAHAHA!
*SHUNK!* *SHUNK!* *SHU-SHUNK!*
Narumi: A-Agh!?
Toga pushes past the explosions that keep popping up in her face, lifting her leg and kicking Narumi in the stomach with immense force. Toga throws her blood-sucking machine's needles forward before Narumi has a chance to recover, and she SKEWERS her! The needles pierce through Narumi's limbs, and Toga, her face ecstatic, slowly starts slurping her blood as it flows into her mask. Toga leans in to offer some playful taunts as Narumi falls to her knees and starts coughing up blood.
Toga: You look a little tired and thirsty, little one...Can I get you something to drink?
Narumi: Ahh...Hah...hahahaha...! Nah...I'm good...Victory tastes better than ANYTHING!
Toga: HUH!?
Toga is shocked as Narumi raises her arms, grabs them, and with an explosive aid with her gauntlets, yanks on them so hard, they become disconnected from Toga's sucking machine! Toga spits out Narumi's blood that's already in her mouth and struggles to recover as the collected samples of everyone's blood flies everywhere! Narumi seizes this opening, grabs Toga's leg, spins and throws her up into the air!
Narumi: This little piggy went to market!
*SHUNK!*
Narumi: This little piggy stayed at home!
*SHUNK!*
Toga: Agh...Gaagh...!
Narumi: This little piggy had roast beef!
*SHUNK!*
Narumi: And THIS little piggy had NONE!
*KER-SHUNK!*
Toga: ...!
Narumi: And THIS little piggy went... WeeweeweeweeWEEWEEWEEWEEWEEWEE! ALL THE WAY HOOOOOOOOOOOOOMME!
*CRAASH!* *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!*
While Toga is airborne, Narumi recalls a child's nursery rhyme as she grabs hold of the former's needles and begins darting about at the speed of sound around her in the air! Bit by bit, she she starts to run the needles through Toga's vital body parts, first her knife hand, then her chest, then her throat, then her forehead! And to finish her combo off, Narumi grabs Toga's arm, spins her around at hypersonic speed, causing her barely alive, if not dead, body to spray blood everywhere and uses all of the momentum she built to throw her opponent back down the earth! She then follows this throw up with a powerful blast of energy to strength the impact!
A nuclear level explosion is set off by the impact, engulfing the city and all of its inhabitants except for Narumi, who floats above the mayhem, grinning at her grubby work but winking in agony.
*BZZT!* *BZZT!*
Narumi: Oh boy...
She hears her intercom ringing, and after landing safely in the middle of the hellscape, clutching her wounds, she answers it.
Narumi: Hello-
Akira [Over Comm]: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!?
Narumi: Uh...well...I had to squash a mosquito? Now, listen, let the record say that this is ABSOLUTELY NOT my fault!
Akira [Over Comm]: What! The Hell! Happened!?
Narumi: Eh...Ok, so the good news is I took care of the problem...The BAD news is that I didn't get our info and there's probably a...1 in 5 chance that we might have to fight an army of superpowered monsters in a couple years...
Akira [Over Comm]: ...
Narumi: ...
Akira [Over Comm]: Did you at least have fun?
Narumi: Eh...Could take or leave...
Leona: I don't think we've ever seen such wanton destruction since we started this show...Who's idea was it to bring Osone into this again?
Hifumi: To be perfectly frank, this was BY FAR the most DIFFICULT matchup to figure out, and the debate was fascinating! However, we eventually came to the conclusion that in a no-holds barred fight, Narumi Osone just BARELY had the edge.
Leona: Emphasis on "barely!" While it may seem that Narumi's destructive prowess completely overpowered anything that Toga could dish out, that really wasn't the case! Especially considering Toga's speed and wider range of superpowers and abilities compared to Narumi's very limited pool.
Hifumi: Toga's arsenal wasn't very impressive on it's own, but her tools and weapons combined with the assets her quirk offered her were very challenging for not just Narumi Osone, but for anyone to counter. And while Osone can launch herself around like a rocket, Toga's ability to move so fast into an opponent's blind spot is another thing entirely.
Leona: On top of that, Toga was literally able to survive explosions that happened INSIDE her body, when she drank blood that had been affected by Curious's quirk! Simply put, Narumi's explosions and blasts of energy weren't NEARLY enough to put the blood-sucking banshee down!
Hifumi: However, the reverse was true as well! Osone's gauntlets were resistant to Genocide Jack's scissors, which are undoubtedly sharper than Toga's knives. And even if Toga was able to find an opening to cut her, which WAS very likely thanks to her incredible speed and stealth feats, cutting or piercing Osone's body would barely do anything in terms of slowing her down. Simply because Osone's body is already durable enough to withstand the recoil effect that firing her gauntlets off triggers, whereas with mostly anyone else, using the devices would be enough to completely shatter their ulna.
Leona: Also, while Toga may have been hella fast, being able to keep up with those like Eraserhead, Deku, Uraraka and Tsuyu, Narumi has kept up with the likes of Nagito Komaeda and Toko Fukawa, both of whom possess relativistic levels of reactionary feats that Narumi is more than capable of matching. If Toga was to use her speed to her advantage, in the very least, she would need to try harder than normal to get around Narumi's keen battle senses.
Hifumi: However, what ironically did put Toga in a rock and hard place here were the limitations of her own quirk. Toga has the ability to use the Quirks of people that she mimics, but ONLY if she deeply cares for that person or has an emotional connection with them, as well as an in-depth understanding of their power.
Leona: This is why Toga was only really able to utilize the quirks of Ochaco and Twice in combat. Using a quirk like Deku's "All For One" or Rock Lock's "Lock Down" would almost certainly have countered Narumi and given Toga a clear victory, but it was basically impossible, because she doesn't care enough about the latter and wouldn't have a good understanding of how either's quirk worked.
Hifumi: To make matters worse, the two quirks she COULD take advantage of were practically useless against Osone. For one, applying Zero Gravity to Osone would mean nothing since Osone can already fly and propel herself around the air. And even if she could replicate Uraraka's meteor shower move using the debris around her, this move was easily countered by Katsuki Bakugo, using a similar feat to Osone's giant combustion against Komaeda.
Leona: Sad Man's Death Parade might have allowed Toga an easy opening if the Twice clones could subdue Narumi, but based on the way Twice's quirk works, they probably couldn't. Copies created by "Double" are less durable and powerful than the real thing, dissolving into basically mud after receiving enough damage. According to Twice himself, physical injury equivalent to a broken bone is usually enough to extinguish a clone.
Hifumi: And yet Narumi Osone is out here, very capable of blowing holes through people like it's nothing. It's safe to say that she could probably take out Twice's clones with just one good punch each, and that's the least amount of power she could exhibit on them.
Leona: And it's that potential for creative strategies in combat that give Narumi Osone the ultimate victory here. Even if her explosions alone weren't enough to take Toga out, Narumi has shown she's got more than just a few simple ways of smoking a person! She could easily just turn Toga's own blades and needles against her, like she did with Aruma Todoroki and her whip. And while both are practically useless without their weapons and powers, because of the very nature of Osone's weaponry, it's much more likely that Osone would find a way to either disarm or destroy Toga's gear before Toga could do the same to Osone.
Hifumi: Thanks to their own skills and prowess, this fight came down to the wire, but because of her superior strength, lust for battle and overall counters to kit, Narumi Osone blasted her way through the competition!
Leona: Guess you can say Toga really "BLEW" her chances at winning?
THE WINNER IS NARUMI OSONE!
Next Time:
Kindness is compassion and love in perfect harmony. It is loving yourself enough to love those around you. But despite their power, it seems these two clumsy, skittish, yet sweethearted companions are gonna need a little help with that.
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bye cause imagine touya having to watch his childhood sweetheart and one and only love, marry and have a son with hawks </3 that would be man’s last straw. it came to me in a dream, and i remember a lot more happened but i don’t recall the details but when i tell u i woke up IN TEARS. poor touya has lost everything atp
oh ouch 😭🥺 this hurts, but I do love me some angst and honestly my self ship with Touya includes something similar bc I love to torment him, so I wanna explore this a little. but no he really does deserve the world and I hate that all he ever gets is pain :( so let's fix that while we’re at it sdjasd
warnings: allusions to child abuse & bodily injury, some very complicated emotions, infidelity,angsty
You and Touya fell in love when you were very young. You were his best friend and the only solace that he had in the world, aside from his younger brother. You were the only one who knew what really went on in that house and you wanted to scream it from the rooftops after Touya's accident, but it wouldn't have done you any good. No one would believe you.
They still wouldn't, even now that you were married to the Number 2 hero. He reminds you a lot of Touya, in a way. He'll never be him, but you can't spend your whole life mourning a boy you loved as a child. You're happy, especially now that you have your son, who looks similar to his father in that he has his wings and the markings around his eyes, but those eyes are yours. He has your face too. Touya wants to hate the child, but he can't. Not when he makes you so happy. Not when he looks just like you. He's only a child after all. Children shouldn't bear the burden of an adult's regrets.
He wants to tell you that he survived. He's always wanted to tell you, but he knew it was for the best if he stayed away. He tried to ignore you. Tried and tried to convince himself not to check up on you, but of course he failed. In a world full of social media, it wasn't hard to keep tabs on you. He's always cheered you on from a distance. Shared in your pain from afar. He's been the every step of the way, wishing that he could truly experience life side by side with you, the way that he was supposed to, but he can't. He knows.
Still, he checks in on you. It's even easier now that you're basically famous. Being married to the most popular hero around will do that. He can't open his phone without seeing a picture of you and your happy little family. He should be happy for you, but he isn't. He's too miserable. He's too enraged. It makes him sick.
It hurts.
He's thinking of you when he makes his big reveal and exposes his father for what he truly is. He wonders if you'll see him. He wonders if you'll remember. If you'll even care.
You're sitting at home, playing with your son. It's a normal day until it isn't. Word has only just gotten back to you about how Keigo was horribly wounded by the villain Dabi. You put the tv on to keep your son occupied while you anxiously pace about the house, desperate for more word on your husband.
Then you see Touya's broadcast and your heart stops. It has to be a cruel joke. It can't be real. He's been gone for so long. How did he even survive? Is this actually happening? Is it wrong that you know deep down that you still love him, even now? Even after everything he's done? To innocents? To your husband?
You don't know what it says about you that you seek him out after the smoke has cleared. Maybe you don't want to. Hawks is back at home and you're grateful that he's safe, but you can't believe that he still idolizes Endeavor the way that he does. Even after everything that he's learned and especially considering what he went through as a child. Your head is in turmoil and your heart isn't fairing any better, so you do what you can to track Touya down.
You think that maybe if you can just find him, you can start to make sense of things, but when you finally come face to face with him, it only makes things harder.
He's standing right there. He'd still been watching you and he'd caught on to you trying to track him down, so he let you. Like a fool.
Now the both of you are standing here, staring into the eyes of the one person you never thought that you could live without for the first time in over a decade and everything feels the same, but you're both painfully aware of just how different things are now. You're terrified to speak and petrified by thr thought of letting him slip through your fingers again. You don't know what to say and neither does he, so you don't speak.
You close the distance, slowly at first, but when he takes his first hesitant step forward, you run into his arms and you embrace for what feels like forever, though you know it'll never last long enough.
You finally work up the nerve to say something, so you pull away before you lose it, only to have your breath stolen away when he kisses you.
And to both of your surprise, you kiss him back.
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MHA 2.3 - In Their Own Quirky Ways - part 3
I can’t believe I am saying this, but after so long without posting I have got to be honest. I missed this rage-filled face.
I feel like Pissy McWrath is about to be disappointed by the outcome of this race.
But more than missing the rage monster, boy, have I missed Mic’s shady commentary. I aspire to deliver snark on this man’s level.
This screencap is just funny. Try showing this to someone who has never seen the show and explaining what is happening in this picture.
Art. Frame this and put it in my local museum immediately.
The best teaching. When you do nothing.
No, but the way Aizawa gives the credit to the students is lovely. Just stepping back and letting the kids shine.
I get that watching your child fly over a mine field is stressful, but how has she not drowned yet?
Of course Chap-lips is watching. Is broadcasting the future generation of heroes fighting abilities to the world a bad idea? Duh.
I am surprised Shigi took a long enough break from playing Elden Ring to watch a sports event. Fake gamer alert.
So he says, as we just saw villains watching from the shadows. Nothing to worry about. Absolutely nothing, nope, no chance for a backfire here.
What a boomer thing to say. I guess he is in his 50′s? Back in his day emotional constipation was all the rage.
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Thelreads, MHA 284, Replies Part 2
1) “Why Bakugo? You think would suspect that there’s something wrong with the kid that didn’t had a quirk for 15 years then suddenly has super-strength, then less than a year before has energy tentacles and is training to be able to fly? I don’t see aaaaaaanything wrong here, it makes perfect sense his quirk would allow him to do that.”- If the other powers are as flashy and obvious in use as Black Whip, and can’t be subtly used in a fight, like for instance, using Float to get some extra air time mid-leap, then it’s gonna become really obvious really quickly that Izuku actually has multiple powers instead of just a weird singular ability, like everyone else does. And then people are gonna start wondering about him, about how this random powerless kid suddenly got multiple powers out of nowehere.
Because the public does have a widespread perception of beings with multiple Quirks, but it’s not that of a hero, but that of the Black servants of villainy, the Nomu. And then people are gonna notice the coincidental timing of how everything started going to shit, starting with the League’s first appearance, right around when Izuku first joined UA. And then people are gonna be thinking “what’s this kid’s connection to the Nomu? Is he secretly a villain spy? Say, wasn’t there talk of a UA traitor some months back…”
2) “Honestly, I would love to see a floating power exploding, can just imagine Midoriya being yeet’s into the sky at mach 5 while people just stare at him getting smaller and smaller at the distance, until finally disappearing like Team Rocket.”- Coincidentally, Izuku’s new ringtone for his phone is “Rocketman”.
No, but seriously, they need to be on edge for whenever the laser eyes Quirk starts manifesting, that power can go wrong very fast.
3) “And there ain’t no rest for them, like the songs always warned us about”- All Might never broadcast the information about OFA even after he seemingly killed the man whom the power had been cultivated to defeat. One reason was how personal the whole situation was, but the other, as he somewhat outlined to Izuku during the beginning chapters, is that his condition left him needing to pass his power on, but he didn’t know who to pass it onto. Taking the teaching job at UA wasn’t just to sort out which young student was worthy of the power, it was because only a young, innocent and idealistic child could be trusted to use it in a heroic manner at first.
The adults of hero society are too cynical and in many ways concerned with the materialistic over the substance of the job. Even Stain, who shares All Might’s fervour, took that in the opposite direction to become a killer of those he deemed corrupt, showing just how easily those same convictions can be twisted and abused. And if the sheer power of OFA was backing those twisted convictions, then it’s be the second coming of AFO all over again. In many ways, in a world where it doesn’t have the enormous might of AFO to contend against and focus on fighting, OFA is actually a great liability and danger to the wielder than it is an asset. And even if Izuku does eventually overcome Tomura, he’ll still be struggling with the fact that he’s now a marked man for both Villains and heroes who might be hoping for their chance to take OFA for themselves, if they can convince Izuku it’s a good idea. It’s just like Spiderman: Far From Home, really.
4) “Oh, you’re gonna accuse All Might of hiding something? I hope that’s not the case All Might, because we’re way past the point where you should keep secrets.”- Well, in this case, he’s not exactly keeping it a secret, especially since he left evidence that Bakugo picked up on and is fine discussing it with him – it’s specifically Izuku he’s keeping in the dark about it, and that’s because he judges that, quite rightly, Izuku’s simply got so much on his plate that whatever concerns he’s got can wait a while longer until Izuku can better master the powers he does possess. It’s not keeping these secrets hidden forever, it’s merely delaying telling them to Izuku until he’s in a better position to cope with more burdens.
5) “All Might… I can’t believe you’re still doing this shit.
Yeah Yeah sure I bet you’re just ashamed about how Nana died, it probably was your fault and yadda yadda JUST TELL YOUR BOY ABOUT EVERYTHING ALREADY GODDAMMIT”- Well, you’ve had 19+ asks about this, so I won’t add more to the pile. I will just say that, this is the first concrete piece of information we’ve had on the 4th and prior users besides the 1st, as the ones prior to Banjo are those who are right in the Dark Age of Quirks, when AFO’s power was strongest and record keeping was at its worst, meaning there’s arguably very little to find out about them until Izuku can converse with the other vestiges more freely. And the only information we’ve learned is, that the 4th’s death was somehow special than the others’, and it may somehow still have an impact on Izuku himself, despite the gaps between them, which is All Might’s greatest concern.
(MHA ch 257)
6) “Oh? Well, I mean, if it was a bit less than 200 years, and there was like, 8 people before Midoriya… Alright, okay, I think now the counting is starting to make sense… But alright, what`s the next quirk on the list? Do tell us, oh venerable All Might, holder of all the knowledge.”- And the minor hint here that there might be more to the deaths of the previous holders than meets the eyes, with All Might’s slight hesitancy about confirming the deaths of every one of the previous holders and the shadowed eyes. The number 4 is traditionally associated with death in Japan, and for some reason, the 4th wielder’s passing was especially noticeable compared to the others…
7) “I can hear the “tsc” of disgusted being uttered by this fucking tsundere. But yet, he didn’t deny it.”- This time, the disgust is aimed at himself, for his inability to fully swallow his pride yet and just apologise to Izuku outright, like some part of him knows he has to, in order to fully atone for his transgressions against him. They made up, but some things still need to be said for the healing to truly begin.
8) “OH HOLY SHIT WE ARE HAVING A MOMENT OF REALIZATION HERE?!
OH MY GOD FINALLY
Alright Bakugo, you’re good on my books. I still hold a grudge for the “jump out of the roof” thing, but I can let bygones be bygones considering you’re finally admitting that you were an asshole.
holy shit this chapter is a goldmine after tall.”- Bakugo always knew that Izuku was naturally more heroic than him, capable of doing the selfless saving deal on instinct that Bakugo had to put effort into, and that rubbed him the wrong way. Not only because it made him feel inferior to Izuku, but also because it’s just not natural for somebody to be that selfless. People are inherently selfish in some manner, for bad and for good reasons, and Izuku being so willing to give of himself without really thinking of the consequences is actually a really bad thing, something that Izuku is naturally blind to, but Bakugo always knew on some level that if he became he hero, he'd not only outshine him, but he’d quickly burn himself out doing it.
Perhaps, underneath all the complex and layered emotions in their relationship, some deeply-buried part of Bakugo wanted to protect Izuku from himself when he wanted to make him give up on becoming a hero. As it stands, now Izuku has both the immense power and partial training to enforce his maniac “save everything” willpower into reality, he’s running the risk of eventually turning out like the legend of the Giving Tree, a Tree that gave and gave of itself selflessly for other’s needs until it was naught but a dead and desolate stump.
9) “Of course he doesn’t, it’s Midoriya, he never held that against Bakugo, he always wanted them to go back to being friends, it was I that was the one saying “No! Bad boy! Bad!” and spraying him with a water bottle every time he mentioned something along those lines”- And to fit further into the “endlessly giving” themes, Izuku would freely give out his forgiveness of Bakugo’s past transgressions at any point if it was brought up, whether or not Bakugo had done anything to really earn that forgiveness himself, which is why he’s kept quiet about it all this time, Bakugo doesn’t want Izuku to just plainly accept his apology, he wants to do something for him, that’d make him earn Izuku’s forgiveness for real. It’s refreshing that Bakugo’s stubborn pride is for once being used to justify why he and Izuku haven’t really made up for the right reasons – he won’t let himself be forgiven unless it’s preceded by him actually earning that forgiveness, in order to do it “properly”.
10) “A lot of people online would be mad at you making that comparison All Might, but I think it is quite fitting. Both did some fucked up stuff, hurt people they loved because of their obsession with being the best, and both realized their mistakes and are trying to atone for it, Endeavor by leaving his family and Bakugo by helping Midoriya.
That is the sort of character development I love, that is a redemption arc there. It’s not a goal, it’s a journey.”- A lot of people were comparing them even before this chapter, what with their spiky hair, flame powers, rivalry with the main hero/holder of OFA- losts of people were noting how Bakugo is basically Endeavour 2.0, but being given his own realisation and redemption moment whilst he’s still young and hasn’t made the kind of mistake you can’t take back yet. In a way, learning from the missteps of the past to do better in the future, especially since he also overheard the whole traumatic backstory from Shoto at the same time as Izuku and it probably resonated a lot more with him and his victory-obsessed streak than he was comfortable with.
11) “And you better say something before Shigaraki sees you and remembers when you didn’t want to join his League of Legends team back at kamino ward. He has never forgiven, and he has never forgotten.”- Somewhat Ironic to put it there, because presently Bakugo is faced with the very real fear that he won’t get the chance to actually apologise to Izuku like he wants to, and in trying to save him from himself and his mortal enemy he may wind up losing that chance and his lease on life at the same time.
12) “Oh, are both of them gonna jump in the fray to help Midoriya? Hide your roads, the big guy is stepping in once again!”- Bakugo doesn’t yet have his own Quirk’s firepower honed to the level of destruction that the experienced Endeavour can pull off, but he’s in much better shape than him. If he can make an opening for Endeavour to land a big damaging hit when Tomura’s injuries are slowly stacking, then there’s a chance they might actually be able to pull this off without Izuku having to finish his Farewell to Arms moment.
13) “OH HOLY SHIT SO MIDORIYA WAS HITTING HIM WITH 100% MOVES ALL THIS TIME?! AND HIS ARM IS STILL HOLDING ON
JESUS THIS BOY IS FUCKING PISSED FOR REAL”- The downside to Float is that, lacking self-population to help ground his attack attack in mid-air, Izuku’s higher-level attacks actually blow him backwards from his own inertia. It’s useful to “fly” with in a certain direction, as he showcased in the training with Uraraka, but when actually hitting somebody he’s gonna go flying backwards just as fast as they do. However, with Black Whip, Izuku’s ensnared Tomura and is using the tether to reel him back in for another blow again and again, no matter how far apart they’re knocked back.
In essence, he’s turned Tomura into a human paddleball.
14) “MIDORIYA IS READY TO COMMIT MURDER HOLY SHIT WE DO BE IN THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER AFTER ALL”- Mercy is a privilege afforded to those you can best with ease. Tomura’s made himself too strong for Izuku to do anything less than land the killing blow on him as many times as it takes to make him stay down.
15) “Midoriya that’s not the unexpected speech that you think it is, we saw you pretty much blow up every single bone in your body getting here, you really think we were expecting anything but you self-sacrificing in the name of protecting others? Pssht, my boy, what I am surprised is about is how there’s still solid bones on your arms after those last few minutes of fighting”- It’s not just that he’s sacrificing his well-being and potentially his life to stop Tomura. The doctor warned him that overdoing the ligament damage like he did against Muscular would permanently paralyse his limbs afterwards, leaving him crippled for life and incapable of being a hero, in much the same way that him being Quirkless handicapped him from getting the profession in the first place.
Midoria going this far may have already done too much damage to his body to recover from. At this point, the worse outcome for Izuku isn’t that he dies fighting Tomura, it’s that he survives, but has to deal with the rest of his life stuck helpless to save others in danger around him. Izuku may very well be killing his hero career with every single blow he unleashes on Tomura, and it still might not be enough.
16) “And this was everything I ever hoped for him. I said a lot how even though I despised Bakugo as person, I always liked him as character because I could see the pride being carefully chipped away chapter after chapter, and in some cases that chipping was with a sledgehammer, but even so, it was a slow process until he actually changed.”-
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Miraculous Decendent Chapter 56: Time to Level Up
Previous Chapter
When Adrien and Nino see the pyramid heading toward them, they start running to get out of sight.
"Why does this always happen when we try to hang out more? First Dark Cupid, then Simon Says, and now whatever that is. I'm starting to think we're cursed, dude." Nino groans as they run toward an alley.
"Don't forget what happened at the hotel. Hawkmoth loves ruining our fun." Adrien tries to joke with him.
"True that. So, do we just stay back here until the heroes take it down or wait for it to be out of sight?" Nino asks his friend.
"We should probably leave once it's out of sight and head back to our houses," Adrien tells him so he can have the chance to transform.
"Alright. I'm glad I looked into all the shortcuts between the school and my house. I haven't been late to school since Ivan turned into Stoneheart." Nino tells his friend with a joking grin.
Adrien smiles, and the two wait for the pyramid to pass.
In said Pyramid, Gamer laughs as he collects more experience points for the mech thanks to the people and objects he turned into green orbs.
"At this rate, I'll level up before even seeing the heroes," Gamer says as he turns another car into experience points.
Max's Akuma form, like Evillustrator, changed his clothes while giving him purple-tinted skin. His new outfit consisted of a full-body black jumpsuit with a green circle on his chest. There are also three curved green stripes on the waist and each of his forearms and lower legs. He has a matching neck cover with a large black helmet that curves at the top. Over his face are green-tinted butterfly-shaped glasses.
"I'm glad to hear you're progressing well, Gamer. But stay on guard. I will not be giving you a player two today. You'll be fighting on your own." Hawkmoth warns the excited teen villain.
"Worry not, Hawkmoth. I'll not need a player two who will only steal my experience. I am the master of games and can easily handle anything the heroes throw at me. They won't even be able to reach me while I'm within this mech. My victory is all but guaranteed at this point." Gamer confidently tells Hawkmoth.
"Do not get arrogant with me, child. If it were so easy to defeat the heroes, my other Akumas would have done it already. Don't forget that Cat Noir's power is destruction. He can turn your mech to ash in an instant. If you're not careful, you will lose." Hawkmoth reprimands the Akuma, not willing to allow arrogance this time.
Gamer scowls at the sudden order but doesn't say anything against it since he does see Hawkmoth's point. Instead, he decides to take his annoyance out on the area around him by firing more lasers to collect more experience points. His mech soon passes Adrien and Nino's hiding spot, and the two escape.
"Stay safe, Nino," Adrien tells his friend before they split off.
"I'll be alright, dude. You keep safe, too!" Nino shouts back to him, not seeing Adrien duck behind a car.
"I can't guarantee that. Since I'm going to have to fight against that thing." Adrien mutters as Plagg appears, and he transforms into Cat Noir.
He's not the only one transforming. In her room at home, Sabrina has her TV on while she's doing homework when her show is interrupted by an emergency news broadcast.
"This is Nadja Chamack coming to you with an emergency Akuma alert. Hawkmoth has created a flying pyramid that's turning anyone and anything it sees into green orbs before collecting them downtown." Nadja says as she flies in a helicopter behind Gamer's mech.
Sabrina's attention quickly shifts to the urgent way Nadja is talking, and she sees the news broadcast.
"Looks like it's time for your second appearance. Let's do this, pup." Barkk says with a smile as she flies next to Sabrina.
"Right. Barkk, let the hunt begin." Sabrina announces before Barkk flies into her collar.
She quickly exits her family's apartment through a window and rushes toward downtown to stop Gamer. It takes her a few minutes of roof jumping, but she finally arrives. When she does, she sees Cat Noir jumping around the mech as it tries to shoot him with a green beam.
Seeing her opportunity to attack, Canine pulls out her rubber ball and throws it at the mech while Cat Noir distracts Gamer. The attack slams into the side of the mech and causes it to hit the ground while shocking both hero and villain. When it does, the beam it shot misses Cat Noir and hits a flock of pigeons.
Taking this chance, Canine and Cat Noir meet up while the rubber ball bounces around until it lands in Canine's hand.
"Man, that is a cool weapon. I know you told me about how it'll bounce, but still. That's so cool." Cat Noir says excitedly as he looks at her item.
"Thanks. But we should focus on getting the butterfly. Do you know where it could be?" Canine smiles toward him.
"Nope. It could be in the eye or inside." Cat Noir suggests before the two close in on the mech.
In his mech, Gamer is shaking his head while trying to recover from the shock of the attack. When he does, he sees the heroes carefully inching toward him with their weapons ready. Unfortunately, they put him in this position too late, as that last bit of experience from the pigeons was just enough for a 'Level Up' icon to appear in front of him.
"Hahaha, too late, heroes. Because I've already leveled up!" Gamer announces as he presses the icon.
As he does, the heroes recognize his voice from his laugh due to the mech amplifying his voice to let them hear it.
"Max!" The two shout in shock before turning to each other in surprise.
"Max isn't my gamer tag anymore. It's the Gamer now." Gamer announces as his mech glows before growing. It now has a small but long rectangular body under the pyramid head with tall black tentacle-like limbs with horizontal green stripes along it and yellow clamps for hands that make the mech as tall as the buildings around it.
The heroes' jaws drop in shock at the sudden evolution of Max's mech before having to jump out of the way of a laser blast.
Regaining his bearings, Cat Noir raises his palm while preparing to activate one of his powers.
"Cata-" He starts before getting slammed through a building by one of the mech's new tentacle-like limbs.
"I won't let you use that ability!" Gamer shouts toward Cat Noir before getting hit by Canine's rubber ball again and slightly losing his balance from the force.
Gamer glares at the dog heroine before swinging his arm at her. Canine jumps out of the way and is about to go for another attack. Before she can, Gamer puts the arm he swung on the ground and uses the other to attempt to stomp on her to capture her with the mech's clamp hand.
Canine quickly rolls out of the way of the second attack, but Gamer follows it up by sweeping that arm to the side and slamming her into a pole.
"Ow." Canine groans from her position on the ground before the now bent pole.
"Hahaha. I'm sure you heroes will be worth a lot of experience." Gamer grins as he aims his mech's laser at the downed heroine and is about to fire on her.
Before he can, though, Cat Noir lengthens his baton and jams it into the mech's mechanical eye. This causes the baton to be turned into experience but also has the laser to hit the mech. Using this opportunity now that the mech and Gamer are disoriented, Cat Noir runs over to Canine and helps her up.
"You okay?" He asks her while helping her.
"Yeah. But what are we going to do?" Canine asks before they notice Gamer starting to recover.
"I think we should run." He tells her before the two do just that as Gamer recovers.
"You're not getting away!" He shouts at the heroes as he chases after them while trying to hit them with his laser.
With Marinette. She's in her room, looking into a mirror as she's practicing what she plans to say to her parents during their meeting with Ladybug.
"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Dupain. I've heard about Marinette's situation from her. Does that sound good?" She asks herself after her introduction.
"It's nice to meet you, Mr. and Mrs. Dupain. I'm here to talk to you about Marinette's punishment and her working with me. That's pretty formal and right to the point." Marinette mutters as she puts a hand to her chin.
After a few more tries, Marinette groans as she puts her head into her hands.
"This is impossible. How am I supposed to do this? What if they want Ladybug and Marinette at the same time?" As Marinette panics with the what-ifs, she notices something outside her window.
Walking toward it, she sees Gamer's mech chasing after something and panics.
"Of course, Hawkmoth does this when I'm trying to plan how to talk to my parents." She groans as Tikki appears.
"The path of life is always a busy one. Shall we take care of one of your problems?" Tikki asks with a smile.
"Let's do it. Maybe beating Hawkmoth again will help me clear my head." Marinette nods before she transforms into Ladybug.
Peaking her head out her balcony window, Ladybus sees no one else and jumps out before zipping toward Gamer.
Back on the ground, Gamer is taking every opportunity while chasing the two heroes to gather more experience to level up while they're trying to figure out what to do. Each time Cat Noir tries to use his powers, Gamer would focus on him, ignoring Canine. Eventually, the two heroes led Gamer into a sports stadium.
"Any ideas how to beat this guy before he levels up again?" Cat Noir panics as he jumps over another swing from Gamer.
"I could try seeing if Fetch would separate him from the robot." She responds.
Cat Noir is unsure if that's a good idea since it may end up causing Canine to waste her power. Gamer takes advantage of that moment of uncertainty and pins Cat Noir to the ground.
"Got you!" He shouts gleefully, causing Canine to panic.
"Cat Noir!" she shouts worriedly before she prepares to throw her rubber ball at Gamer again but is instead sent into a building wall.
"I'll be collecting the rest of your experience and your Miraculous now," Gamer tells him confidently as he prepares to fire at the trapped hero.
However, his vision is suddenly blocked slightly by a yo-yo wrapping around the head of the mech before Ladybug comes in and slams her feet into its eye. The shock from her sudden appearance causes Gamer to instinctively pull back on the controls and make his mech release Cat Noir.
At the same time, Cat Noir sees his opportunity and chases after the mech while shouting.
"Cataclysm!"
He chases after the retracting arm and manages to hit it. The mech's body turns to ash until only Gamer is left, and he falls toward the ground. Gamer crashes into the concrete as the heroes recover and group up.
"Are you two okay?" Ladybug asks them worriedly.
"I'm fine. The suit protected me from everything he threw at us." Cat Noir says while pointing at himself.
"Yeah. I'm also fine. Thank you." Canine nods.
Ladybug looks relieved to hear they're okay before giving them an apologetic look.
"Sorry, I wasn't here sooner. I didn't know there was an Akuma until I looked out my window." She tells them.
"It's fine." Cat Noir tells her while Canine silently nods.
After that, the group turns toward a groaning Gamer as he's getting up. However, something else is with them besides the Akuma. It's a floating orb similar to the ones Gamer made with his lasers. But large and red.
"Is this normal?" Canine asks as she looks at the orb.
"No. That's never happened before. It must have to do with the Akuma." Ladybug tells her as the group approaches Gamer.
"It's probably loot. When you defeat something in a video game, they usually drop something. Since this guy is based on video games, it's probably the same thing." Cat Noir suggests with a smile as he inches closer toward the orb excitedly.
While he does that, Ladybug and Canine walk toward Gamer.
"Looks like your system just crashed, Gamer," Ladybug tells him with a confident smirk.
However, Gamer has a smirk of his own as he pulls himself off the ground.
"You're forgetting the rules of the game Ladybug. That was only round one. And I saved my last level." Gamer tells her with a grin as he taps the corner of his glasses.
Suddenly, the mech Cat Noir destroyed reforms.
"Ah, the old spawn point glitch again." Cat Noir groans before the group hears Gamer's voice.
"Not only that, but I also collected enough experience to level up again. Let's see how you deal with this." He tells them as he has the mech level up again.
The mech now has a bulky humanoid body, and the clamps break apart to make fingers.
The heroes' eyes widen when they see Gamer's new form, but Ladybug quickly takes charge of the situation.
"Did you see him tap the corner of his glasses? The Akuma must be in there. We have to get those off him." She tells the other two in an authoritative tone.
"How are we supposed to do that?" Canine asks anxiously as she backs away from the newly upgraded mech.
"By leveling up, too," Ladybug tells her before looking toward Cat Noir and the loot they got.
Realizing what she's thinking, Cat Noir gains an excited grin before slamming his hand on the loot. When he does, it materializes a giant mech of equal stature to Gamer's newly upgraded one.
The humanoid mech looks like a mix of all three heroes. It has a red and black spotted upper body, a black lower body with silver kneecaps, a black mechanical tail, and silver paw-like feet. Atop its head are stubby black ears, and on its shoulders are red black-dotted shields. On the face of the mech is an orange-tinted V-shaped visor. In the middle of its chest is a dog-head symbol similar to the one on Canine's vest. Around the silver stubs on the kneecaps of the mech are orange outlines.
Upon the materialization of the mech, the heroes found themselves automatically put into the controls of it. The control room has three seats, each surrounded by buttons and levers. When the three heroes enter the mech, Ladybug ends up in the middle seat, Canine on her right, and Cat Noir on her left. Ladybug quickly notices she's in charge of the mech's movements.
"Ah. I want to be the one to control the mech. I play Ultimate Mecha Strike III all the time." Cat Noir complains when he realizes what Ladybug is in charge of.
"You may play it, but I'm the master of it," Ladybug tells him with a playful smirk as she takes the controls and performs several impressive feats of acrobatics to prove her point and get used to the controls.
"...Okay. That tracks." Cat Noir nods after seeing what she did.
Ladybug smiles as, in her mind, she's screaming in excitement at the chance to control a mech from her favorite game in real life.
"Careful. He's coming!" Canine shouts to get her fellow heroes' attention.
Ladybug shakes off her excitement and sees Gamer charging at them with his fist reeled back for a punch. Acting quickly, Ladybug pulls the controls back and causes Miraculous Mech to dodge to the side. She then follows it up with a swift kick into Gamer's back that causes him to slam into the stands.
Gamer growls as he recovers from the impact and notices Miraculous Mech charging at him. Instead of panicking, Gamer smirks.
"Not smart. You're forgetting that, in this game, the robots can do more than punch and kick. Rocket Barrage!" Gamer shouts as compartments on the back of his mech open and rockets launch at the charging Miraculous Mech.
The rockets hit dead on, and Miraculous Mech crashes atop the green. Gamer quickly takes advantage of this by getting up and jumping on the downed mech.
"Drill Fist!" Gamer shouts as his arm spins like a drill, and he uses it to try and tear into Miraculous Mech.
The heroes panic as Ladybug tries to get them out of this situation, but Gamer keeps them under his mech while using the attack.
"A little help! What do we have?" Ladybug shouts toward her teammates as she continues her desperate attempts to escape.
Cat Noir and Canine look at their panels for something that can help them in this situation before Cat Noir spots something.
"Rocket Punch!" He shouts before pressing a button.
Thrusters suddenly appear behind the Miraculous Mech's forearm and launch their fist into Gamer with enough force to get him off Miraculous Mech. Ladybug then takes this chance to spin them off the ground and back into a fighting stance. While she does this, Canine finds something to use and presses it while saying.
"Miracle Blast."
The dog symbol on Miraculous Mech opens and fires a red beam at the downed Gamer, dragging him across the ground and crashing into the stand wall.
"Alright!" The heroes happily exclaim at their successful attacks before Gamer stands up.
"Not bad. But let's see how you handle this!" He shouts as the top of his bulky shoulders open and more missiles launch out toward them.
Acting quickly, Canine hits a button she saw before while looking for a weapon.
"Miracle Shield!" She shouts as one of the shoulder shields emits a red light, and a red energy shield appears on that side's forearm.
Ladybug quickly turns the mech so the energy shield blocks the missiles' paths, and they blow up, sending Miraculous Mech skidding back slightly from the force behind them.
"Nice. My turn. When you have a shield, you need a Cat Saber!" Cat Noir shouts while grinning like he's having the time of his life as he slams his fist onto another button.
The mechanical tail on Miraculous Mech suddenly goes rigid, and Ladybug pulls it off. The tail is enveloped with pink and red energy as Miraculous Mech wields it like a sword. When Cat Noir sees this, he grins like a kid in a candy store.
"Today is making so many of my dreams come true right now." He tells the girls as they all prepare to charge at Gamer again.
"Is this the time to be having fun?" Canine asks him as Miraculous Mech charges toward Gamer with the Cat Saber raised to strike.
However, Gamer rolls to the side of the downward strike before quickly getting to his feet and launching himself high in the air.
"Uh oh!" Cat Noir screams in a panic as he sees Gamer in the air.
"What?" Canine asks worriedly.
"Power move!" Ladybug tells her in equal panic to Cat Noir as Gamer raises his hand, and the area above him glows green.
"Drill Crush!" Gamer announces with a smirk as he launches himself downward with a giant drill, easily dwarfing the mech itself in place of its hand.
Ladybug quickly raises her shield to block the incoming attack. However, the continuous force from the drill, combined with the weight of both it and the mech, pushes Miraculous Mech back. After a few seconds, both mechs are blown away from each other, with Miraculous Mech crashing onto its butt while Gamer lands on his feet.
In Miraculous Mech, the heroes groan as they try to recover from the shock while Gamer laughs.
"How do you like that, heroes? I am the best player in the world! After I bring your Miraculous to Hawkmoth, I'll show Chloe that, too." Gamer announces, causing Canine's eyes to widen.
"As if we'll let that happen! You won't beat us or harm any more innocent people!" Canine shouts toward Gamer, shaking her teammates out of their stupor simultaneously.
Ladybug quickly takes back the controls and nods to Canine's words.
"She's right! You haven't beaten us yet! Because now, it's my turn! Lady Bombs!" Ladybug announces as she hits a button.
As Miraculous Mech gets up, the black spots on the shields open, and ladybug-themed rockets fire from them toward Gamer. But Gamer isn't intimidated. Instead, he has a confident and competitive smirk as his mech glows green, and an energy dome forms around him to block the missiles.
"Laser Wall!" He says while doing so.
Ladybug grits her teeth when she sees this and
"Ladybug Helix!" Ladybug shouts as the two shields fly off Miraculous Mech toward Gamer.
But they don't work as Gamer grabs one of the shields while blocking the other with his other arm, making Ladybug angrier.
"Double Rocket Punch!" Cat Noir suddenly announces as he presses a button, and Miraculous Mech lifts their arms before they launch toward Gamer.
However, instead of blocking the attacks, Gamer's mech breaks apart to avoid the attack.
"Oh, come on! That's not fair!" Cat Noir complains while Canine presses another button.
"Ear Thunder!" She says as Miraculous Mech's ears glow and fires a beam of electricity at Gamer.
"Gamer Lightning!" Gamer shouts as he raises his arms and fires his own lightning to neutralize the attack.
This surprises the heroes, and Gamer takes the chance to charge toward them. Ladybug acts quickly, and the two robots enter a close combat match.
"Sweep his legs!" Canine suggests as Ladybug ducks under a punch.
However, Gamer jumps over the attack and fires one of his own.
"Gamer Fire," Gamer says as an orb of green energy fires from the face of his robot and hits Miraculous Mech, causing it to be lifted in the air while bent over and continuously taking damage.
Gamer slams his foot into Miraculous Mech before teleporting behind them to deliver another attack. However, Canine acts quickly and presses another button.
"Canine Eye!"
Suddenly, a laser beam fires from Miraculous Mech's visor and stops Gamer. This gives Miraculous Mech enough time to recover.
"Nice Canine." Ladybug compliments her with a smile.
Canine nods before frowning.
"What are we going to do, though? At this rate, we're going to lose. We can't match him." She tells the two.
"We need to somehow get into his mech or pin him," Ladybug tells them as Gamer recovers from the attack and Cat Noir presses another button.
"Catouken!" He shouts as Miraculous Mech crouches while forming an orb of pink energy.
It then launches it at the stunned Gamer and causes them to fall to the ground. Ladybug quickly follows this with one of her moves and piledrives Gamer's mech.
"How do we do that?" Cat Noir asks.
Ladybug thinks about it before turning toward Cat Noir.
"Take the controls. Try to keep Gamer pinned while I use Seamstress to get in." Ladybug tells him.
Cat Noir nods, and Ladybug gets up before climbing out of the control room to be on Miraculous Mech's shoulder.
"Will she be okay?" Canine asks worriedly as she watches the hatch close.
"Oh yeah. She can handle it. She always does." Cat Noir tells Canine confidently.
Canine still doesn't look happy, not liking that Ladybug is out there alone.
"Now, how will we hold him down for her?" Cat Noir asks.
"You need to trip him up and put him to the ground. Put our leg behind his and push him. Then we'll have a good angle atop him to control his movements." Canine quickly tells him.
"Alright." Cat Noir nods and charges toward the recovering robot.
"No, you don't." Gamer glares as he throws a punch, but Miraculous Mech sidesteps it.
Cat Noir follows Canine's suggestion and places Miraculous Mech's leg between Gamer's and behind one of them before hitting Gamer with Miraculous Mech's shoulder. At the same time, Ladybug holds onto Miraculous Mech tightly until she sees her chance.
"Seamstress!" She shouts as her outfit changes.
Her new outfit gives her a full-body red cloak with black edges and a hood over her head.
With this outfit, she jumps off Miraculous Mech and phases through Gamer's mech into the controls.
"What?" Gamer asks in shock before getting punched in the face, breaking his glasses, and releasing the butterfly.
Ladybug doesn't waste time capturing the butterfly and activating Miraculous Ladybug from within the mech, getting rid of it, Miraculous Mech, and any damage Gamer did. This, unfortunately, has the side effect of causing Cat Noir and Canine to fall toward the field.
"Ahh." They scream before hitting the ground.
"Are you two okay!" Ladybug calls to them in worry.
They groan for a second before signaling their fine as Max looks around in confusion.
"What happened?" He asks.
"Let's just say Hawkmoth made you into a boss," Ladybug tells him with a winch.
Next Chapter
#miraculous descendent#miraculous ladybug#marinette dupain cheng#adrien agreste#nino lahiffe#sabrina raincomprix#dog!sabrina#miraculous ladybug rewrite#ml gamer#max cante
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⟨ bill hader. demi-man. he/they. forty-five. ⟩ We just saw finley ‘finn’ blythe entering the broadcasting house. I heard through the grapevine that they are radio show host. Although they are [ with the media ], they can sometimes be hostile,stubborn, or even aloof but I’ve also heard some people say that they were curious, firm in their beliefs and quite perceptive.
full name: finley blyth
enickname(s): finn, finny ( thanks to his brother ), blythe
name meaning: finley: fair-haired hero, courageous one. blythe: cheerful
age: fourty-five
date of birth: september 9th
star sign: virgo
place of birth: doolin, ireland
current location: london
gender: demi-man
pronouns: he/they
sexual orientation: homosexual
religion: agnostic
occupation: radio show host, conspiracist, writer
family: riordan blythe ( father ), talulla cagney-blythe ( mother ), devlin blythe ( brother ), maeve blythe ( daughter )
education level: you would not believe this, but he does have a journalism degree, english literature degree
living arrangements: small flat with his daughter
financial status: could be better
spoken languages: english, some irish ( re: his mother )
talulla kept the family together when her husband was away at his cabin, being ‘away’ meant he was on the line for writing the next great novel. he was famous amongst fellow conspiracist about aliens, the government, and every odditie in between. his words were spoken with passion and wit and it was hard to be close to him if you didn’t understand. on the outside it shouldn’t have worked, talulla and riordan, but they loved each other deeply even if one parent had their head in the clouds and the other had both feet planted on the ground.
they used to say that finley was the cost of having a second child, devlin was the older brother and was the golden boy, or so they used to say. he did everything right and was going to be a doctor someday. he wanted to go into the medical field like his mother who was a nurse, he believed in science and factual proof. sometimes that would lead to the kind of arguments with his father where no one spoke to each other for a couple of days.
but where they grew up everyone knew everyone – people loved tallula but could never quite stomach riordan who was english, riordan who corrupted tallula, riordan who often embarrassed his entire family with his questions, his theories.
by the time that finn could speak he was already a little pariah. someone had to stick up for those that weren’t brave enough to. finn used to be loud enough to get in trouble, but at least he stood up for something. often times, it was because he was defending his father. he wondered why that was so hard for devlin to do.
being gay was a fucking walk in the park in comparison to who his dad was and the kind of books he wrote about. he wouldn’t begin to understand his father’s loneliness until much later.
he’s in his second year of university when his father dies. ,
after his dad dies, he sits in the shadows and eventually gets his degrees, he writes for the media but it’s all bullshit. but things change after his mother decides to finally move house into something smaller, his dad used to keep clips of things he was passionate about, it’s then that fin hears about the secret underbelly of london. and then, he finally has a purpose again.
he knows that his father wasn’t the crazy old man that people called him, in the same way that they say that finley is crazy. they know that they’re not – if only people would listen.
when he’s thirty-five him and his best friend hook up, on a whim, finley thought that he was past his identity crisis but that night solidifies what he already knew. the kicker with consequences is that it eventually bites them in the ass, and he ends up having a daughter with his best friend. it worked out for them, both gay, but wanting children. he swore when she was born that she would be raised differently than how he grew up. bullies will always be bullies but finley would always protect his child in the way that his parents didn’t.
bonus stuff:
his brother did end up becoming a doctor, even becoming maeve’s doctor. they’re very cordial with each other and maeve is very protective of her dad so there’s always a going to be a bit of a riff between the family. they keep it together for their mother’s sake.
finley has a ‘small’ radio show that people can tune into about what he thinks is going on with their government etc etc etc, he does have a loyal following, but it also gets brought up a lot when it’s turn to get ridiculed again asodkfjaos hes simply tired !!!
believes in aliens but hopes that the aliens believe in themselves <3 ( maeve cosigns this message as well )
been writing a book for a while now, it’s his second baby, but whomst knows if it will ever see the light of day
he’s always fair game but if you talk about his kid… well i pity the person !!
#lf.intro#━━ ❛❛ // FINLEY BLYTHE ! ¦ i’m not afraid to disappear i know the end is near . 「 about ! 」
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we can't fix each other but we sure as hell can enable each other instead || twelve: the both of you are definitely at least a little unhinged
pairing: dabi x disabled!gn!reader
overview: you meet dabi pre-canon because your cat, nugget, literally won’t leave the guy alone. friendship, fluff and (eventual) angst ensue.
chapter summary: because you were incredibly bored, you tag along with dabi during his little outing with the high-end nomu. the two of you have fun and bicker like an old married couple. the usual.
content: fluff
word count: 2659
taglist: @iincandescenttt
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“Hey, doll.” Dabi leaned against your bedroom doorframe, crossing his arms. “Got a moment to talk?”
You snorted, shifting Nugget off your lap. “No, can’t you see I’m totally swamped petting my questionably gay cat?” You joked. “‘course I have a moment. Especially since everyone’s off doin’ their own thing right now.”
He stepped in and shut the door, then strode across the room to sit next to you. “Y’know the Wing Hero, Hawks?”
“The one that looks like a playboy and talks so cockily it makes me want to shove barbed wire into my ears? Yeah, I know him. How come?”
“He approached me. Wants to join the League.”
You scoffed, “The number two hero wants to join the League of Villains, huh? Sounds like a load of bullshit.”
“Oh, it gets better, mouse.” Dabi drawled. “Obviously, I was suspicious—I might be insane, but I’m not stupid—so I found out where he lives and sent some thugs to scope out the place. Wanted to see if I could get any information. Lucky for us, his mother was there.” An unhinged grin spread across his face and pulled at his staples, a manic gleam in his eyes. “With a few threats, we were given everything and more.”
You sat up with a look of glee that rivalled Dabi’s. “Oooh, do tell! I love secrets.”
“Gladly.” Dabi looked down as Nugget climbed into his lap, making biscuits on his thigh. “You too, huh, ya lil stink? Makes sense, you nosy shit.” He chuckled at your scowl, “Just kiddin’, doll. Anyways, here’s the deal…���
You let out a hum once Dabi finished talking. “So, let me get this straight. You’re telling me that this abused little boy, who basically idolised Endeavour, was recruited by the HPSC and trained to be… what, a child soldier? After Endeavour arrested his father? And that’s Hawks? Sheesh, wonder how he’s gonna feel when he finds out what a massive shitlord Endeavour really is…” You snorted and straightened, interlocking your fingers and stretching your arms over your head. “Anyways, you’re telling me this now for a reason, right? We agreed that you didn’t need to tell me all of your little villainous escapades that I don’t accompany you on if it’s not anything super important, so I figure something’s come up now?”
“Bingo.” Dabi smirked. “I decided to humour Hawks—information of the ongoings in the HPSC is valuable to us, and since I already know he’s a double-crosser, it’ll be easy to filter our information well enough. He’s in the… initiation period, so to speak. Y’know Ujiko, the fuckin’ weird doctor guy you and I met? He gave me a new toy to play with—a High-End Nomu. The potential is incredible.” His tone took on an excited edge. “I want to send it up against Endeavour as a test.”
“Okay… and this has to do with Hawks… how, exactly? Not followin’ ya here, pretty boy.”
“I told Hawks I would let loose a Nomu at a warehouse by the coast to test its strength against some random hero. Which was initially the plan! But after seeing Hawks interacting with Endeavour this morning during the broadcast of the Hero Billboard Chart, I had a better idea. Why not have it fight Endeavour?”
You laughed, “I like the sound of that. I wanna watch shit go down, can I come with? Please let me come with, it’s so fucking boring around here I need to do something or I’ll die.”
“I wasn’t tellin’ you all this just to leave ya behind, doll. Of course I’m dragging you along. We should probably head out now, so we have plenty of time—Ujiko said he’d use that gross fuckin’ method to get us around, so we can just have him send us to the warehouse.” Dabi brushed off his pants and stood up.
“The one that makes you throw up to warp away? Eugh, it’s so disgusting. I hate that one!” You whined, but got up nonetheless.
“Yeah, yeah. But without Kurogiri we’ve got no other option. You ready to go?” Once you confirmed, Dabi reached up to his collar and pressed down on the communicator he had fixed into it. “Ujiko, send Y/N and I to the warehouse.”
You immediately made your displeasure known as soon as the black liquid burst out of your mouth and enveloped your body.
Once the warp had finished and you were both in front of the warehouse where the Nomu was stored, you made exaggerated gagging sounds. “I fuckin’ hate that. Why can’t it be more pleasant…”
“Sorry, doll.” Dabi shrugged, an amused smirk on his face. “You wanted to come with.”
“He should get a better goddamn way to warp…” you grumbled, rubbing the back of your neck with a scowl.
He gave you a pat on the shoulder, then pulled open the door to the warehouse. Dabi shoved his hands in his pockets, walking in slowly with you right behind. “The ones before didn’t really understand, but I expect more this time, High-End.”
The High-End Nomu was in a hunched over position. Its head turned towards the two of you and pupils appeared in its glowing eyes once Dabi spoke. “W-W-Won’t… l-let… won’t let you down…”
“Oh, it can talk?” You tilted your head, leaning to the side slightly. “Is it a High-End thing? Will it follow directions better?”
“Probably. I sure fuckin’ hope so, at least.” Dabi crouched down, resting his elbows on his knees. “You know your job?”
“F-Find… the stron-gest… and attack…”
“Go on then.” Dabi grinned lopsidedly. He stood back up and watched as the Nomu took off from the warehouse to find Endeavour. He then looked at you. “Didja bring your phone?”
“Mmhm.” You pulled your phone out of your pocket and held it out to him. “Do your thing.”
Dabi hummed and pulled up the news pages for any updates. Once one came through, he tapped on it to watch the live footage of Endeavour fighting the Nomu. “Oh, it’s strong.”
“Looks like it, yeah.” You set your chin on his shoulder as you watched with him. “Bodes well for us, at least. And watching Endeavour get his ass beat is pretty damn satisfying.”
The amusement faded once Endeavour started to actually make a dent in the Nomu. When he used his Prominence Burn move, Dabi swore under his breath. He handed you your phone back, then pressed on the communicator again.
“Ujiko. We need to get closer to Endeavour.”
You groaned a quiet ‘not again,’ but tucked your phone into your back pocket. You glared at Dabi as the black liquid poured out of your mouth and wrapped around your body. Once you were dropped near Endeavour, you lightly shoved him. “Asshole,” you grumbled, pouting.
“You wanted to come.” Dabi simply winked and gave you a lazy smile.
“Startin’ to regret it right about now, pretty boy,” you teased gently. “Let’s go bully an old man, yeah?” You raised an eyebrow when he took your chin in his hand.
“When we get over there, stay by my side, follow my lead. I don’t want you getting hurt, doll. I’m serious. Do you understand?” He only dropped his hand when you gave him a soft ‘yes.’ “Good. C’mon.”
As you made your way out of the alley you were deposited into, Dabi placed his palm on the small of your back. He kept it there until you stopped in front of Endeavour and Hawks, at which point he curled it around your waist.
“Just a minute now,” Dabi drawled. “None of this is how we planned it, but that’s fine.” He gave a menacing smile when the heroes startled. “Well, Endeavour… should I say nice to meet you?”
You grinned and waved from next to him. “We didn’t think you’d be here. You’re really not lookin’ too good there, Number One!” You taunted.
Endeavour’s face contorted in anger as his eyes fixated on Dabi. “It’s you! The one who murdered Snatch!”
“Sna—? Who?” As Dabi spoke, he tapped your hip twice. You took two steps forward and to the side so he could create a barrier of flames without burning you. “More importantly, let’s chat while we have the chance.”
“Take it easy, I’ll handle them,” Hawks said quickly as Endeavour tried and failed to get up. “I only have my tiny feathers left… but I can at least buy us some time.”
Dabi rolled his eyes and walked forwards. “C’mon, we’re only here to collect the Nomu. There’s no way we could actually win, right? Against the top two dudes, already beat up and bloodied?!” When he finished speaking, a feral grin pulled taut at his staples and he lunged forwards, igniting his forearms.
You caught sight of something moving in the sky, and immediately reached out towards his back. “Dabi, get back!” You shrieked.
Dabi extinguished his arms and jumped back beside you just in time to dodge the hero slamming into the ground in front of you. “Thanks, mouse.”
“Don’t mention it,” you breathed out, relief palpable in your voice. The two of you watched the new arrival carefully, unsure of your next moves.
“I saw the news and came hopping! Endeavour! Hawks! You boys don’t get to have all the fun! And you two—you’re with the League? Your butts’re about to get kicked!” The hero grinned, looking at you.
Dabi groaned. “Fuckin’ Mirko? Too bad… right when things were heating up, too.” He pressed the communicator. “Ujiko, get us out of here. Bye for now, Mr. Number One Hero. I’m sure we’ll get another chance to talk, but until then…” That feral grin made its way back onto Dabi’s face, this time splitting his skin as he shouted, “Just keep doing your thing and don’t go dying on me, ‘kay, Todoroki Enji?!”
Once you were safely back at the warehouse, you raised your hand to Dabi’s cheek, healing where his skin split. “You got a little too excited there, pretty boy.” Despite your unhappiness with the fact he hurt himself, your scolding was gentle. You shook your head with a fond smile and decided to let him off easy. “Why’d we come back here instead of going home?”
“Sorry, doll.” To his credit, Dabi did sound at least a little apologetic. He then shrugged, leaning against a support beam. “I had Ujiko plop us back here since I figured Hawks would come lookin’ for me after things didn’t go the way I initially said.”
“Ahh, I see. How long d’you think it’ll take the birdbrain to get over here?” You pulled out your phone, waving it. “We could play a game or some shit while we wait.”
“Who fuckin’ knows, so why the hell not. What kinda stupid games you got on here?” Dabi swiped your phone out of your hands, ignoring your brief indignant protest. You grumbled when you realised he wasn’t gonna give it back.
“Asshole…” you huffed, pouting as you rested your chin on his shoulder. “Let’s see… I downloaded that one game where one player holds the phone up to their forehead and has to guess the word as the other players give hints by acting it out—ah, yeah, that one right there! Charades! Toga wanted to play it one night with Twice and I. It wasn’t terrible, if not a little silly. Probably not your style.”
“Definitely not my style, doll,” Dabi snorted. “What else ya got?”
“Hell if I know. Toga’s always the one stealing my phone to download games. I don’t know why you people can’t use your own damn phones.”
“You charge your phone.”
“Well, start charging yours!” You reached around his arm for your phone, whining when Dabi held it out of reach. “Don’t be a brat, it’s not my fault you don’t remember to charge your phone! Gimmie!”
“Sorry, mouse. You’re the one who suggested to play a game,” Dabi drawled, grinning lazily.
“I didn’t think you would just take my phone!” You smacked him lightly on his shoulder, returning to pouting. “Can’t believe I love an overgrown child.”
“You’re the one pouting because you’re not getting your way.”
“I’m pouting because you took my phone and won’t give it back!”
Dabi chuckled and moved beside you, holding out your phone. “Fine, here ya go.”
You stuck your tongue out at him and shoved it into your back pocket. You opened your mouth to respond, but immediately stopped when Hawks walked in. Your grip on your cane tightened.
“None of that was according to plan,” Hawks spoke after he stopped in front of Dabi with an unamused expression.
“That so?” Dabi quipped back, raising an eyebrow.
A feather blade was held up to his neck faster than either of you could blink. You immediately bristled, but Dabi shook his head. “It’s alright, mouse,” he said, keeping his voice steady. You reluctantly settled down, glaring at the hero instead.
“How about some actual cooperation, Dabi?” Hawks narrowed his eyes, disregarding you for the moment.
“Hey, I thought you only had those baby feathers left?” Dabi tilted his head, taunting ever so slightly.
“You think I’d meet with a liar like you unarmed? It was supposed to be tomorrow. And not downtown, but at the factory by the water. You never mentioned bringing your little friend here, either.” Hawks’s expression darkened. “Plus, this Nomu was clearly a cut above the rest. You could’ve mentioned that beforehand.”
“That ‘friend’ is my partner, Y/N. You’d do well to remember their name, or I’ll brand it into you,” Dabi warned, then settled back into his laid back demeanour. “And I guess I just changed my mind. Didn’t I tell you I’d be testing the Nomu’s capabilities? But we’re both a little guilty. I asked you for someone kinda strong, but you brought the top dog himself! It wasn’t that much of a test.”
“I didn’t mean any offence, Dabi. No need to threaten me.” Hawks glanced at you, then turned his attention back to Dabi. “But I thought you’d be thrilled to inflict that kind of pain on him. Besides, you’re the one who broke our agreement.”
Dabi scoffed, “I’m s’posed to believe the number two hero, just like that? This was me testing how much I can trust you. And tell me, why zero casualties today?” He shifted his body sideways away from the blade. “Do you really sympathise with us? You came looking to cooperate, but you sure don’t act like it.”
You watched as Hawks’s face contorted in irritation, amusement bubbling up at his frustration.
“I gotta keep up appearances. A hero can’t go losing the public’s trust. The more faith they have in me, the juicer the intel I can get. That’s to your advantage. Try taking the long view here.” He lowered his blade as Dabi walked around him. “What I do, I do for the League’s sake, Dabi.”
“Fine… but you don’t get a face-to-face with the boss just yet. You’ll hear from us, Hawks.” Dabi looked over his shoulder at you. “C’mon, mouse.”
You smiled at that, straightening up. “Finally, I was getting bored here. See ya around, Number Two.” You manoeuvred around him with a wave, walking after Dabi.
Dabi stared out at the horizon as the sun rose, hands in his pockets. You were leaned against him with your eyes shut.
“Oh… oh! Right! That was Snatch!”
You hummed and looked up at Dabi when he spoke. “That was the sand guy, right? He made that stupid comment about the families of the people we kill?” You frowned as blood trickled out from his scars, gently wiping it away as he responded.
“Yeah, that one.” His voice was uncharacteristically soft. ��I’ve thought about it so much that I’ve gone crazy.”
You gave a soft laugh at that. “At least you’ve got someone just as fuckin’ crazy by your side.”
“Yeah. At least I’ve got that.”
#dabi x reader#dabi x you#todoroki touya x reader#todoroki touya x you#touya todoroki x reader#touya todoroki x you#todoroki toya x reader#todoroki toya x you#toya todoroki x reader#toya todoroki x you#my writing#bnha fanfiction#navi: we cant fix each other#writing.txt
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Youtuber Niki au with a channel where he just pranks his son. The pranks are never stuff that's obviously abuse so people don't always know what to make of it. Fushimi hates it and gets bullied cause of it until he meets Yata who like going outside more so he hasn't run into those videos online and only sees the cool side of Fushimi. Fushimi is already very smart but he decides to be really good at hacking so he could wipe all of those videos from the face of the earth before Yata sees them.
I can totally see Niki having one of those awful family channels where he plays fun ‘pranks’ on his son and the viewers think it’s so funny when it’s actually terrible abuse. Niki probably doesn’t even need to pretend that things are better behind the scenes, people just assume that oh isn’t it cute he told his kid that he destroyed something Fushimi loved and made him cry, I’m sure he didn’t really destroy it though and told him it was fine later (he did really destroy it and it was not fine, and even if it was this is still a terrible thing to do to a child). Fushimi’s basically gotten used to being constantly humiliated on film by the time he’s in middle school, like every embarrassing moment from his childhood was streamed live by Niki and Niki loves to torment him and put the videos on his channel. I imagine this would make Fushimi hate the world even more than he already does, like it’s bad enough that he’s being abused and neglected in canon but in this AU he’s also aware that Niki has literally thousands of followers who just watch Fushimi be abused and don’t do anything about it, who think Fushimi’s pain is entertainment.
Fushimi gets bullied due to the videos too, kids at school have seen the videos also and mock him for stuff that Niki’s broadcasted to the world. Fushimi doesn’t even care about that much anymore, he just thinks of everyone around him as worthless idiots and if they’re bullying him over it they’re admitting that they watch Niki’s shitty channel so they’re not even worth Fushimi’s time. One day when he’s being bullied Yata jumps in to save him, Fushimi thinks Yata just wants to be a hero but then later when they meet in the bathroom while Fushimi’s skipping class Yata calls Fushimi cool and amazing like in canon. As they get closer Fushimi learns that Yata never spends much time online at all and actually isn’t very computer literate, he’d rather do things that involve physical activity and even when he watches online videos it’s just video game streamers and skateboard vids. Yata asks if Fushimi has a channel and Fushimi changes the subject, acting like he would never waste his time with anything like that.
Now he’s really worried though because he doesn’t want Misaki to see all those ‘uncool’ videos of him, afraid that if Yata saw what Niki was doing to him all the time Yata wouldn’t want to be his friend anymore. He’s already pretty good with computers but now Fushimi steps up his skills, mass reporting all of Niki’s videos to get the channel taken down. He also starts using his hacking skills to scour the internet for any copies, deleting everything he can find. At first imagine this becomes something of a competition though because Niki realizes that someone’s going after all his videos with his treasured memories of his little monkey and he doesn’t want that so he’s using his own skills to try and get the videos restored. Fushimi’s terrified that Niki will find out that he’s the one trying to remove the videos and send them to Yata or something, like who knows what Niki will do if he finds out and Fushimi has to spend his nights at various internet cafes just to keep ahead of Niki. Eventually though Niki gets sick and can’t keep up with it anymore so Fushimi’s finally able to get rid of the videos for good but even that doesn’t bring him peace of mind, like imagine when they join Homra he’s always worried that someone will recognize him and tell Yata and that his precious friendship will be destroyed. (But then one day maybe Yata does find out about the videos and he’s so horrified and pissed off, how could so many people watch Saruhiko being hurt like that and not want to try and save him.)
#sarumi#Talking K#everyone hates Niki#the depressing part is people probably wouldn't notice even if Niki wasn't trying at all to hide things#real talk family channels are the worst#like those 'cute' videos where parents tell the kids they got rid of all their Halloween candy or the dog or whatever#that's? Objectively horrible? Don't do that to children??#that's what Niki would do don't be like Niki
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I can only imagine what the public and media are thinking. People recording the whole battle from the sky and broadcasting it, just like the Kalos incident
If this was a tournament that took place before the battle erupted then there’s probably trainers, elite fours, and gym leaders trying to get to the battlefield to help the champions. But Diantha is smart enough to get gardevoir to put up a magic room/psychic barrier so no one can interfere
When the battle was won and Cynthia, Steven, Leon, Iris, Hau, all with various stages of injury, and their Pokémon are all defeated, they have to come to terms with the fact that three people they trusted for years just betrayed them and tried killing them
Diantha is still standing on her ”pedestal” watching the three “worthless” champions try to get Iris and Hau behind them so they can protect the younger ones. All five of them having a thousand thoughts going though their heads, questioning if Diantha is going to spare them or kill them where they’re standing.
This part could be different in your AU, but I love “villain kills hero(s) and takes in their orphaned child(ren)” plots just as much as “hero is actually the villain” plots.
Diantha is smart enough to know that Cynthia, Leon, and Steven wouldn’t listen to her command without a lot of emotional and mental abuse as they’re fully grown adults with a strong sense of identity for themselves
Iris and Hau on the other hand…, they’re still teenagers and figuring themselves out about who they truly are as people. Are they Trainers? Are they good people with good intentions by fighting Diantha, the person they look up to as their mother?
Or is Diantha right and they’re
Champions.
People who are above the rest, the strongest people on earth, who have the right to decide who lives and who dies. That they should dictate the world to get rid of the worthless and make it perfect
Diantha knows that they’ll listen to her, it’ll just take a little bit of work to destroy their small sense of identity, but after that they will flourish as Champions
HOLY SHIT????? YO THATS SO FUCKING DOPE WTF CNMDBCMD
It's like five am here man I just woke up but this really woke up my soul fr hahaha
Anyways
HDMSHMSNS YES
God but y'know the way it went in my au is that Diantha does know it's being broadcasted one way or another, so w that she tried exposing the Galar League herself, since in my hcs/au the Galar League is corrupt as shit bc of Macro Cosmos'/Rose's influence
And before she actually did start to battle them, she went on about how Rose threatened each champion that if they don't lose to Leon, he'd get them killed
And it actually made a lot of people stop and rethink abt everything abt the Galar League, especially the Gym Leaders who just know how corrupt it really was, and especially Raihan who was so close to actually beating Leon a few times. Cause if the Gym Leaders were caught off guard and was too stunned to speak to other trainers when asked, then Diantha was right, that they too were threatened w death by Rose if they don't lose to Leon
It made a lot of people think differently abt the Galar League too. And idt Diantha would really initiate the first punch, rather she'd wait if someone would try to fight her first, and someone did, Rose did (he's still in my aus ofc for that buildup hahah)
But Rose didn't have Eternatus anymore, neither he nor Leon does, but Diantha? Well, Diantha has Yveltal at her command
I wanna say that Dia did kill Rose in this w Yveltal, or maybe just got him down to the point he's heavily injured but still alive and she's going on how if they try to protect him then they also follow his views that Leon shouldn't be defeated by anyone else, and he could still get away w his threats
But gjmdnfmd god yeah Dia w Iris and Hau just chmdbdkdndmddmd
Imagine the other three champions are knocked out or at least at different points at the Stadium, and then the only ones left face to face w Diantha are Iris and Hau, w Iris stretching her other arm to protect Hau
But God for Dia, it flashes back to that lil memory she has of doing the same thing w Augustine, protecting him from their father, protecting him from the "ugliness" of this world.
And she smiled at them, so genuinely soft, and so welcoming, and so sad, and so... So much like home. She opened her arms and crouched down just a bit, "my children... You needn't worry, we can all go home soon after they realize their errors."
But man they were also kinda scared, this was the same person who looked so coldy towards the other champions, the one who has no problems killing someone for their own version of justice to prevail, but just,,, it's Diantha, y'know. It's also the same person who taught them a lot of things, who was there for them when they needed her the most, gave them a home in Kalos w her
Iris and Hau hesitated for a bit, then Diantha cups Iris's face, smiling at her. "My darling, I just don't want you to become like Leon's brother. Do you know what happened to him?"
"n..no..."
"like the rest of us, he was shunned, treated so poorly, after he couldn't meet their standards. Having a champion for a siblings is hard, and my poor Augustine knows that feeling as well..."
"..."
"but he didn't do anything for him, didn't he? Instead of helping his brother pursue his dreams of becoming a champion, he ended up giving up on that. Do you want that, Iris?"
"no..."
"neither do I, my darling. I already know how much people are looking down on you, on both of you, just because you're young Champions, not knowing that the person they hail as a monarch was once your age when he became champion too."
And just ncmdnd Diantha holding Hau's hand, rubbing circles on it, and then she pulled them close, hugging the two, giving them the comfort that they needed at the moment
During that tho I wanna imagine like maybe Leon did get to stand, and called out Charizard, and tried to attack Diantha while she's still distracted, but Iris saw him, called out her Haxorus and knocked out Leon's Charizard
Diantha finally realizes what happened, looked down on Leon trying to help Charizard up, and she smirked, a low chuckle left her lips and she looked back at Iris, "very good, my darling."
#goooddd this au cjdknd#oh yknow i actually sketched evil diantha last night hahah wanna see??#the brainrot is that real nfkdnd hahaha#anyways#NCMSNCMDJDKDJDKD MAN#god Dia so fucked up she really up manipulated CHILDREN#but i also wanna say that she does have experience w that considering that she already had custody#of sycamore when she was still sixteen/seventeen and hes like what thirteen or fourteen during that?#so it was easy to also condition him to believe that shes always right and he has to tell her everything#just jcmdndmd#ough™#pokemon#pokemon au#champion diantha#champion iris#an ask and an answer#jerseyk112#long post#villain diantha au
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