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Aah, there's nothing like hyperfixating on your favorite childhood shows and binge watching them.

Just finished watching Ben 10: Alien Force :) Onto the next now

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Absolutely unrelated to what I normally post-

I cried in public today during an event about native americans hosted by my college. I asked the speaker what advice he had for reconnecting natives, then I burst into tears. In public. Some lady kept handing me tissues. Then I spoke with him after to thank him, then started crying again.

To be honest I'm not really sad right now, just embarrassed that I was crying in public.

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Given that I just rewatched Avatar:The Last Airbender once again, just wanted write down some of my observations.

Toph Beifong- The Flying Boar

Toph is one of my favorite characters, and I was thinking about why the flying boar would be her family's crest. There's alot of weird and fun animals in avatar, but the flying boar is a bit different. There's a chicken-pig, but that's different as chicken can't exactly fly well, and pig are domesticated, compared to boars. I think the Flying Boar symbolizes Toph, with the metaphor 'when pigs fly'(or in this case boars). People expect her to be helpless because she's blind, and they also say metal bending is impossible. Toph does the seemingly impossible, being one of the best earthbenders in the world and inventing metalbending. I thing the boar represents the fact that she isn't 'domesticated'. When pigs are released in the while, it doesn't take long until they start too grow tusk and become boars. Toph leaves her noble life behind, leaves domesticity.

Take this with a grain of salt, lol. I just thought it was a fun observation.

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Batman being thought to be an otherworldly deity, a monster of Gotham, or an eldritch being is absolutely hilarious to me. Because he's just some dramatic rich dude who dresses up as a bat instead of going to therapy. But also, if he's able to pull that off, then most Gothamites would never believe that Batman and Bruce Wayne are one and the same, even if his identity was revealed . Can't remember where I saw it, but Bruce Wayne is the equivalent to the Kardashians. I'd laugh my ass off if someone were to suggest to me that one of the Kardashians dressed up at night to fight crime. Especially if the vigilante didn't seem entirely human.

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I like to think Superman is kinda like a bird sometimes, he just smacks into windows while you're in the middle of an office meeting on the 15th floor. It really adds to his identity of Clark Kent being clumsy, he walks into glass all the time.

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All Might

To start this off, I am aware of the fact that I have a bias in favor of All Might. That does not mean I am not aware of his faults. All Might is merely human, and all humans make mistakes. Under the public eye, his faults would be closely observed.

People have their own reasons for disliking All Might, some of which I can understandand some I cannot. A common one is telling Midoriya that he could not become a hero without a quirk. Something that people tend to forget is that All Might himself was quirkless before recieving All For One, and had probably dealt with discrimination and bullying like Midoriya, but perhaps to a lesser extent. In his true form though, it is possible that he went under the guise of being quirkless(even if it wasn't completely true) and was discriminated against.

All Might had just met Midoriya, he had no true insight of his character. He understood what being a pro hero was like, he had sacrificed himself and had been brutally injured in this profession. He tells Midoriya that he cannot become a hero without a quirk, and tells him to look at other proffesions (which could be seen as a different type of heroic), and steers him away from the pro hero path, which is dangerous. In a way, he sees it as saving Midoriya. All Might doesn't realize just how important it is to Midoriya to be a hero, all he knows is that Midoriya is a fan boy who tagged along and now knows his secret of his time limit.

Of course though, Midoriya proves himself to have a heart of a true hero and inspires All Might once more. All Might offered him One for All, which is a large show of trust in somebody be had just met. But he is also trying to make up for his blunt and not entirely kind answer to Midoriya's question on that rooftop. All Might sees himself in Midoriya I think, at this moment. A young kid with no quirk who's dream is to be a hero.

I will say that All Might should have explained more about the history of All for One and One for All before giving Midoriya his quirk. But in his mind, All Might had thought he had killed AFO and that he was gone for good. Why burden his successor with this knowledge when the threat has passed?

When suspicions arise of AFO's survival, Grant Torino advises All Might to tell Midoriya about AFO. And when the opportunity arrives, he does tell him.

Almost everyone relies on All Might too much, and it isn't his direct fault. They become to comfortable and forget that he will not always be there, which can be seen after his retirement. I would argue that many pro heroes also relied on him and had become complacent in their standings and didn't try to work harder. Endeavour is not one of these heroes, he worked hard and pushed himself to be better, which I have to respect even if he was a horrible father.

All Might is a hero, while he didn't think things through, had people's best interest at heart.

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The Quirkless Population

Within the first 5 minutes of Episode 1, we're introduced to the origins of quirks. A single phenomenon which would spead throughout the world, where now ~80% of the population now posses a quirk. But within this world of quirks, there also exists a people with a lack of them.

The Quirkless.

They make up for 20% of the population, yet we know only a few canon characters who are quirkless by birth. One of which is our protagonist, Izuku Midoriya, and his mentor, the (previous) number one hero, All Might.

The quirkless population has been decreasing over the years, as to where it is seen as uncommen in younger generations. We can assume that quirklessness is more than likely higher in the elderly, and then slowly decreases in younger generations.

As the Quirkless further become a minority, they are more than likely to be discriminated against. A prime example is Midoriya's bullying, which is greatly ignored by his middle school teachers.

The death rate for the quirkless population is more than likely higher than the norm because of discrimination.

Also, countries may have different quirk demographics from one another. The world population within bnha may also be vastly different than real life.

I look forward to see if the storyline of bnha further incorporates what it means to be quirkless within a dominant quirk society.