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Just wondering, are you okay? Just a check in that you’re alive you know 👍 (please be okay)

I'm alive!! Just very kicked in the butt from shifting countries/continent/timezone to start my master's degree, but that's definitely been letting up these couple of weeks :')

And so, without further ado...

FIC UPDATE: Where your love has always been enough (for me) - C27

Chapter 27 of the fic is up! :) Chapter summary: The media. Traditional, social, you name it, we've got it.

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love love love your fic where your love has always been enough (for me)!! would it be okay with you if I wrote a short fic with the dynamics/backstory you created? like a fic of the fic you made. I'd give you credit and link your fic.

I'm glad you've been enjoying the fic and its universe!! That's most definitely fine with me :)

My only request would be to use the "this fic is a remix... inspired by another work" option if it'll be up on AO3, and a link to the fic if not as I'd love to have a read myself!

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Headcanon that when Fuyumi manifested her Quirk, she accidentally froze the kitchen floor in knee-deep ice and Rei right along with it.

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Rei: So Fuyumi manifested her Quirk and, long story short, I need you to come home and melt me out of the floor.

Endeavor: ...can you get Touya to do it?

Rei: He's two. And he's a little upset about the floor situation because, and I quote, 'his legs don't work' because, 'the floor broke.' It took him forty-five minutes to Bambi-scramble across the ice in order to bring me my phone so I could call you.

Endeavor: All right, I'll be home in twenty. Stay put.

Rei: Duh. .... I can hear you laughing, Enji, and for the record, this had better not be an office story tomorrow.

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“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos

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In the manga's flashback about EnjiRei's first meeting, one of the very first words he uses to describe her is 'strong'. Later, in Enji's memories during the battle with AFO he thinks about his weakness as about something that drove him all this time, and his inner monologues empathize he thinks about himself as a weak human being. Do you think canonical Enji consider Rei stronger person than he is? This two are fr my Roman empire 🥹

Thanks for the ask! These two are definitely my Roman empire too. Essay incoming :') There are different types of strength. In terms of mental/emotional fortitude + the courage to question yourself and admit when you’re wrong… I think canon Enji’s opinion on which of them is stronger would have differed greatly depending on whether you’re asking early manga pre- or post-character development him. In a way, his definition/understanding of what constitutes strength in the first place seems to have changed as he did.

Pre/Early Manga

From what we see in the manga's flashbacks where Rei tries to confront Enji about how their plan to keep trying for a perfect half-and-half child to convince Touya to give up on becoming a hero/using his quirk and hurting himself wasn’t working and was only hurting him emotionally + even more again after Shouto's birth... His response (or lack thereof) suggests nothing positive:

At that point, he probably thought of Rei as the weaker one for not having the stomach to go through what they (he) planned, and himself as strong for willing to be the ‘bad guy’ and ‘doing what’s right even when it’s hard’. Throw in a whole slew of other possible defensive self-justification with his attitude in chapter 302 e.g. ‘I'm too busy with work/I’m the breadwinner going out every day only to come back and have to deal with this, what does she have to complain about’ to ‘what does she even know/understand about wanting to be a hero/the lengths a man will go to to achieve his dream’ and he probably did a good job devaluing Rei in his own mind, making it easier to justify himself dismissing her opinions and his subsequent abusive behaviour towards her.

(That being said, while it’s never outright confirmed, all those future inner monologues and flashbacks seem to hint that a part of him always knew that what he was doing was wrong/that Rei was right. The man is far too good at compartmentalising and self-denial/righteous self-justification…)

Middle/Late Manga

Post-character development and later into his atonement/redemption arc is where he starts openly acknowledging that what he’d justified to himself as strength (not giving up on the path he chose and doubling down instead, not showing weakness to others including his own family etc.) was in fact weakness, because like Rei pointed out to him earlier, it was nothing more than him running away from the consequences of his decisions.

I personally think of the aftermath of the Dabi/Touya reveal + this subsequent scene in the hospital where he’s drowning in his own guilt and Rei steps up to challenge him/acknowledge her own responsibility as a turning point of sorts.

If there was a point Enji started thinking of Rei as a stronger person than him (and properly admitting it to himself), this would probably be it. Both for the reasons above and for (again, it's never explicitly stated) wanting to stand by him despite everything he's done to her and their children, even if only to give him the strength to continue to fight and confront Dabi. There's a difference between acknowledging your wrongs and getting crippled by guilt, and I like to think Enji does take some reference from Rei's attitude + mindset (both from that conversation and off-screen interactions) as to how to balance the two and go on from there!

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Fic update: Where your love has always been enough (for me) - C26

Chapter 26 is up! :) 80% fluff, 20% chaos, 20% angsty introspection. (I'm aware the math doesn't end up. It's all Horikoshi's fault with his Shimura family AFO reveals + chapter 426 that I needed to go back and add in even more fluff-)

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part of what makes tragedies tragic is the story being preventable from the outside but unpreventable from the inside

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Still how Yagi's gonna greet Enji in WYLHABE(FM) chapter 26 when he turns up at his doorstep for Shouto's birthday party

Chapter 31 | The Boy Born with Everything

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One last dance in the deepest pits of hell

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1st line: canon

2nd line: me, speaking to these same 2 characters I'm now aggressively writing happily together in a fanfic at 3am

Prompt #1102

"It's me against you."

"It doesn't have to be."

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Throw in a wild Geten too, and the gang's all gathered 🥲

16 yr old Touya and Keigo + their 13 yr old weirdo friend Tenko 🧡💙🤍

( They’re on their way to pick up Shoto from school )

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More what could have beens 💔 Throwback to the first half of where your love has always been enough (for me) - chapter 426 reminded me of the soba scene ;-; Art of my fic commissioned from gantiwasastra on etsy

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Have you read chapter 426? Because I did and I'm completely not okayI think another reread of WYLHABE(FM) might be a good therapy

Literally me after reading On the bright side it's got me motivated to write a whole bunch of bittersweet fluff of the Todofam for the next few chapters :D

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Remember: behind every robot that turns evil is an engineer who specifically installed red LEDs into the eyes just for this occasion

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errands for mom

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Batteries

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I would love to hear more Author’s thoughts on wylhabe(fm) Chapter 10! It’s one of my fav chapters :,,) U mentioned about Rei and Enji’s characterizations at the end of the chap and I’m so interested…

Ahh it's been a while, but chapter 10 remains one of my favourites as well :') I'll refrain from actually writing an essay, but to me, it felt like the turning point for both Rei and Enji and where their relationship really began proper:

Fic spoilers

For Rei, she'd been treating everything that'd been happening from chapters 1 to 9 as a sort of fever dream. What Enji did in telling her the truth (in the heat of the moment) felt to her like he was handing her a loaded gun. It was wholly up to her where they went from there, and her deciding she wanted him anyway was also the moment she realised/decided two things: that she's fine with having this messy complicated situation (and man) instead of a fairytale romance, and that from now on, she's going to be her own main character and actively shape her own story. The switch from "I'll enjoy this for however long it lasts" to "I'm going to make sure this lasts no matter what anyone else might think or say about me for it", if you will!

As for Enji… oh where to begin. Up until that point, I'd been writing him as quite an unreliable narrator - he downplays his regret in his own mind (at times) only to let it boil over, pretends to feel less than he actually does (the disconnect between his thoughts and actions/dialogue was most stark during those early days) and treats the times he does express affection towards his family as him play-acting someone else (in a way, it is since he's playing the part of his younger self and feels like he's building a relationship under false pretences). That last scene in chapter 10 was him at his most emotionally vulnerable, not quite unwilling so much so as simply being unable to put his guard up. It was the first time he finally felt seen as himself and when Rei told him she loved him then… I don't want to be dramatic and call it life-changing, but it kind of was in that it gave him the final push he needed to admit he wants all these things - to love/be loved by his family - for himself, and not just because he needs to make them happy for the sake of redemption like he'd been telling himself. A major catalyst for all the character growth we've seen from him since then, for sure!

Lol I guess this turned out to be an essay after all. Hope it satisfies your curiosity!