#(what would really suck if the cost was him going dark mode and killing somebody though)

[godzexperiment]

nix, severely warned against and very much pressured to never use the information he knows (promised/horror tales more or less true aside) and him just throwing it out the window for somebody he cares about? or sometimes just when he isn't going to just let shit happen

nix 'you're not dying on me' & fully willing to pay the price for not letting it slide. the way he just doesn't want to hear protests or apologize afterwards. like he'll let it happen but he's also probably too busy like ... okay so everything still exists- i'm just bleeding internally? no big deal

[thequietmanno1]

Thelreads, MHA 263, Replies Part 2

1) “YEAH YEAH GOOD FUCKING LUCK WITH THAT, I BET KAMINARI IS GOING TO NEUTRALIZE YOUR QUIRK IN ONE SECOND.”- It seems their quirks differ in terms of ‘output’ and practicality. Kaminari’s allows him to produce his own charge and steadily build up electricity on his own, which can be further enhanced why giving him sockets and such to drain power from, but at the cost of lowered defences against this same electricity and how it impacts his brain, not to mention not having as powerful an output as Cigarette man. His quirk, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to allow him to produce his own electricity, but instead allows him to take existing sources of electricity and ‘maximise’ the output for an attack greatly exceeding what he put in, but with the side-effect of being unable to attack on his own if he’d deprived of electricity to produce the initial ‘spark’ he needs. If Kaminari sucks up all his voltage at once, he’s powerless unless somebody has multiple Tasers on hand to revitalise his energy. 2) “oh right, Cigarette man is fucking around and he`s about to find out. Kaminari`s quirk is far more powerful, and he doesn`t even need any tech to crank it up.

This is going to be a one-sided massacre for pikachu, that`s for sure.”- Generally, speaking, it seems Kaminari’s quirk is less powerful, but more ‘stable’ and versatile than Cigarette man’s. He won’t beat him in a battle of power, but he doesn’t need to if he’s got allies on his side to handle him whilst he cancels out his voltage blasts. 3) “HELL FUCKING YEAH, THERE GOES MY BOY

DOING AN EPIC POSE AND KICKASS ONE LINER BEFORE THE ELECTRICITY FRIES HIS BRAINS AND HE`S TAKEN OUT OF THE FIGHT FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. IT DOESN`T MATTER, HE DID HIS PART, WE`RE PROUD OF HIM.”- The power surge will either overload his brain to doofus mode, or if he’s improved his handling of the quirk he might be able to use it against some of the clustered PLF goons in the back, in an ironic reversal of what Cigarette man intended. 4) “HUH WHA

WHA

TNNO NO NO

WHAT THE FUCK NO HWAAWAKNS GWHATA YOUR DOING NO NO NO NO NO OH GOD

NO

OH GOD FUCKNO HES GON

NO ABSOLUTEY NO”- On the one hand we have heroes on the outside as the bastions of righteousness they claim to be, taking the fight straight to the assembled villains lurking in the shadows and bravely facing them head-on before people get hurt. On the other we have a lone hero hiding in the darkness and stabbing a mentally traumatised man who trusted him in the back whilst he’s confused and saddened by his betrayal. Both of these are necessary for the heroes to win with minimum casualties, but at the same time, it does underscore the grim reality that the kids can only afford to have the rose-tinted view of the situation (PLF Bad people, us heroes Good) because of somebody like Hawks having to get his hands dirty. And whilst the outcome might overall benefit the ‘greater good’, it’s still a bitter pill to swallow seeing how broken Jin’s been by everything in his life and then having this happen to him.    (MHA ch 255) 5) “oh my fucking god twice- You know, I wouldn`t rule this being you just being, well, you, but I prefer to believe it was Hawks tricking you into gathering intel for him to send back home, because that would be just fucking hilarious to see.”- Not so funny now, huh? Twice really does spend his entire time onscreen looking for somebody to put his trust in and be helpful to, and literally everybody but the League betrayed that trust in one way or another. Poor guy deserves a hug, but I doubt he’d trust anybody but the league to give it to him now. 6) “ABSOLUTELY NOT. FUCK NO

OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK- I MEAN, I KNOW THAT TWICE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE AFTER SHIGARAKI AND TAKING HIM OUT OF THE FIGHT IS A PRIORITY BUT

NOT LIKE THIS

OH MY GOD NO HAWKS I WANTED YOU TO RECRUIT HIM OR AT THE LEAST KIDNAP HIM SO HE WOULD BE AWAY FROM DANGER. LOCK HIM AND GIVE HIM SOME PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT NOT FUCKING KILL HIM WHILE EVERYBODY IS DISTRACTED

OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK”- Fantasy vs Reality. Maybe Hawks could have swayed Twice against his allies – maybe -if he was given more time, but on the other hand, he doesn’t really know Twice all that well. Sure, he can tell twice is a nice guy deep down, but getting him to turn against his friends after everything they’ve been through is the kind of emotional conversation that would require Hawks to have and in-depth understanding of Twice’s backstory and broken psyche, something that would have happened from the kind of ‘baring your soul’ conversation that had both men outlining the whole truth about each other and where they stand. Because he’s always kept his real self hidden from others because of his mission, Hawks actually doesn’t have a clue about what drives Twice beyond his surface-level understanding of him. And maybe that could have been remedied if they’d been given more time, but with the villain’s accelerated timetable that wasn’t really an option that Hawks could use, so because of both his position and the overall situation between their opposing side, Hawks is being forced into this. He’s probably not happy about it, but if he does nothing then he’s responsible for all the calamity that would ensure from an active Sad Man’s parade. ‘All that is required for evil to win is for good men to do nothing’. Though, that quote was probably not taking into account the idea that a good man might have no other choice but to preform an ‘evil’ task to avert greater evil as a result. @thelreads