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My Ninjara Headcanons part 3:

He does wear glasses because he has bad eyes. But, because he plays ARMS, his glasses were designed to be implemented into his restraining mask so they don’t break or fall off during matches. He could just wear contacts, but he doesn’t want to. People with the arms ability who don’t play ARMS usually just wear their glasses over their masks.

His glasses sometimes fog-up when he gets punched in the face with an ARM with the ice attribute, especially in humid places like the Temple Grounds.

He has an unexpected taste in music, surprising and confusing people when he puts on his favorite tunes.

He dislikes extreme cold or being in the hot sun because his arms retain temperature. He dislikes summer more than winter though because of the mosquitoes. When he was little, during winter, he probably at least once got his tongue stuck to his arm because of the cold.

Since his arms are made of metal, he can’t receive needles in them. When he needs a shot, the syringe has to be inserted somewhere other than his arms.

When he claps, he has to do it very gently or else it just makes a horrible metal clanging noise that annoys everyone. Alternatively, he can do it deliberately to deter people annoying him by making horrible squeaking sounds by rubbing his fingers together.

Despite the set-backs of having metal arms, he is proud of them and lets them define part of his identity. In the game, just like how Spring Man occasionally says things like “Boing!”, we can hear Ninjara say “Jara” (”Jara” is the Japanese onomatopoeia for rattling chains, I can’t just assume everyone knows this). It’s evident he says it every once in a while when he wins or loses, as well as when he performs a dunk in Hoops. He clearly allows his chains to be a part of who he is, and seems to embrace it.

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“spring man coincidentally wears the trans flag colors”

“his voice is surprisingly high pitched”

“he isn’t afraid to wear pink and therefore break a gender norm”

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lotsa people say Ninjara has a dog. while he is a canon dog person, I like to think of him owning a skunk. They’re both nearsighted and diurnal and somewhat High Maintenance. Nobody knows about his skunk because he usually keeps her in his room when others are around which isn’t often. Nin’s skunk is named Enmu and he loves her to bits.

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Confession by Anon ~Mod Misango

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oh if you’re still doing pride reqs, what about how/when spring man realized he’s a trans guy? like what’s his story behind that 🤔

trans Spring req right off the bat, you guys sure know me well lol

my hc is that Spring Man first started questioning his gender in his mid teens, about 14-15ish. He was kind of vaguely aware that being trans was a thing even as a kid, but it wasn’t until he started learning more about it that he started wondering if he was trans as well. I think what really kickstarted his questioning process was seeing a trans celebrity in media, and subsequently looking up what being trans really meant online.

coming to terms with being trans was kind of scary for him, because even though he knew his parents would be accepting he was still scared he'd face transphobia from people at school. Additionally, he wanted to be an ARMS fighter; but it wasn't safe to bind while fighting, so he'd have to push back any kind of debut to after he got top surgery.

In the end, though, everything worked out fantastically! Now he's the trans celebrity who's kickstarting other kids' questioning processes.

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Trans ARMS Fighters!

- Mod Kid Cobra

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making up quirks is super fun, even if I'm not all that creative lol. Since evidently these are their stage names and not their real names, they could most definitely be their hero/villain aliases!

You've covered most of them very well already so I'll just comment on the ones I'm particularly interested in;

> Mechanica is Hatsume Mei but swole, lol

> I'm so down for Min Min having a dragon transformation quirk! Let her be a literal Chinese dragon! (slight nitpick though, please don't use the word oriental, it's not considered very polite!) I'd say along with the physical strength associated with dragons, she'd have some minor pyrokinesis - technically Chinese dragons are associated with water, but Min Min's dragon arm does have the fire attribute. She probably promotes Mintendo via her hero work, lol.

> Ninjara has a form of short range teleportation - can't warp to faraway destinations, can't warp any objects other than what he has on him, can't warp any people other than himself. Looks straightforward and relatively weak on paper, but is absolutely incredible in battle with training and some creative application - a bit like how in-game Ninjara has a rep of grabspamming and generally being the newbies' go-to but he's amazing at mixups in the right player's hands.

> I'd say a mix of Satou's quirk and Fatgum's quirk for Lola Pop. By consuming sugar, she can inflate and thus temporarily increase her defense and offense. Drawbacks, probably a cooldown time and a sugar crash?

> Dr. Coyle as a quirkless scientist who conducted experiments because she was desperate to gain a quirk! It has different connotations from ARMS lore too, because we've all seen how bad quirkless discrimination is. I don't think she'd make Noumu the same as canon, since Noumu experiments are so horrific that I can't see someone who does that as redeemable, but I agree that she does some stuff that ends up creating Helix and Springtron.

> Springtron's a tricky one - he'd most likely be a Noumu if we're going with the above for Coyle, but then he wouldn't be a robot. He could be an experiment in replicating quirks in mechanics - a way to see if the desired effects could be created using robotics rather than genetic modification.

> Spring Man could play off his rebound ability! An injury based stockpiling quirk: the more damage he takes, the more raw power he has. I bet he drives this universe's Recovery Girl-equivalent absolutely nuts. He'd have to have incredible pain tolerance too.

> Master Mummy's another toughie, yeah. Super healing? Ref to his in-game shield heal, and gives him the impression of coming back from the dead when he walks off debilitating injuries. Another hero who drives the medical staff nuts.

> As for Misango, hm... I want to say, he can temporarily create beings from his own energy, and these beings can help him in battle by deflecting attacks or powering him up. Most likely a limit to how many he can make, the effects they have on him, and how long they last.

ARMS and My Hero Academia Crossover/AU

Quirks are replaced with ARMS Max Brass is All Might, Mechanica is Midoriya

Discuss

- Mod Kid Cobra

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it’s time for my BNHA loving ass to shine

Ribbon Girl is Uraraka, most definitely. Floaty jump ability = gravity defying quirk. EDIT: or Pop Step!! Can’t believe I forgot about Pop Step! Probably because I don’t read Vigilantes/Illegals, but Pop Step is perfect! Her quirk is literally jumping very high!

Min Min could be Ryukyu? A minor character, but Ryukyu literally turns into a dragon.

I’m tempted to say Ninjara for Edgeshot, because they’re both ninjas. Abilities don’t quite fit though. The warping might be more befitting of Kurogiri.

Helix’s abilities fit best with Tiger or Edgeshot, I guess? Stretchy body = stretchy body. Though if we’re going with the synthetic being route, he could be a sentient Noumu who defected and joined the Heroes’ side.

Lola Pop’s sweets theme would fit best with Satou probably - abilities wise, her inflation ability reminds me of Fat Gum. Personality wise, perhaps Ms Joke? Lola’s a hard one to pin down.

Dr. Coyle - I don’t know, actually. The “Big Bad” villains like Chisaki or AfO could be a fit, since Coyle is kind of the Big Bad of the game, but they’re a lot less, well, redeemable. We don’t have a lot of mad scientist type characters that could fit her. There’s Hatsume Mei, but she’s too upbeat for Coyle and I think she fits Mechanica better anyway.

Twintelle could be Uwabami? ARMS hair = snake hair. Uwabami seems too self-centred, though.

Alternatively, Kid Cobra for Uwabami or Habkuo. Because snakes.

Can’t think of anything for the rest, though. Might be more fun coming up with original quirks than trying to find BNHA characters whose roles they can fit into.

ARMS and My Hero Academia Crossover/AU

Quirks are replaced with ARMS Max Brass is All Might, Mechanica is Midoriya

Discuss

- Mod Kid Cobra

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Happy Pride Month!!

I know I've been neglecting this blog, and I'm sorry. It's mostly because I literally just didn't get any requests, but also partially because I lost interest in ARMS for a while.

But! It's Pride Month! So in celebration, I ask everyone who's still interested in my little blog to send in both pride-themed requests and submissions! The only things I won't accept are ones that focus solely on discrimination and such; I want to keep this positive.

Happy pride everyone!

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happy pride month here’s my trans spring man icon stash

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A new ARMS Sparring Demo just dropped!

The demo itself includes five Playable Characters (Spring Man, Ribbon Girl, Ninjara, Master Mummy and Twintelle) with three sets of ARMS each and two modes, 1 Player VS CPU and 2 Player Versus

Though there’s no online this time, it does look like there’s no limit on this demo as a trade-off, and you can play it as much as you want

- Mod Kid Cobra

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cursed daily biff

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nintendo why won't you let us see Spring Man's full face unmasked

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can animals naturally control their ARMS without masks? if yes, what sets them apart from humans who evidently cannot?

and we know that Kid Cobra was not registered to the ARMS Lab, meaning his mask most likely isn't an official Lab issued regulator mask. so does that mean the regulator masks' tech can be replicated by other people? does it mean KC doesn't actually need a mask to control his ARMS? if so, how and why? dedication and practice? the fact that he was born with them as opposed to randomly waking up with them? or, relating to my question about animals with ARMS, maybe he's not entirely human and animals can somehow control their ARMS without outside help unlike humans.

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dark nintendo give us the fighters' real names

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It looks like most people with ARMS share the same generic mask shape, while the named fighters have unique masks. Spring Man No. 2 and No. 3 share the same mask design, so it's safe to say that their masks are part of the Spring Man title, but what about the others? Are the masks custom ordered? Is that a privilege that ARMS GP fighters get? It does say that the masks are free, so maybe the custom masks can be paid for?

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also Spring Man punched his phone trying to answer it lmao