#Bnha salt

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

i haven't watched mha in its entirety so correct me if i'm wrong but bakugou started off as a good example of how privilege can turn people into absolute assholes.

because guess what? bakugou doesn't have a tragic backstory. he doesn't have abusive parents or a dead lover or a torturous childhood. he was, in fact, the "gifted child". people constantly praised him for having such a powerful quirk. his parents seem decent enough. there is no inkling of trauma there, just a man who was so used to being on top that he developed a huge inflated ego and hubris.

and this would have been a good critique of how privileged people often take their experiences for granted, and feel threatened when minorities actually stand up for themselves or gain some attention (see: cishet people complaining about how they didn't get a "straight pride month").

but then the author went and ruined it by not addressing that narrative at all and instead coddling bakugou and having all the other characters put up with his violent tendencies. i don't care if he apologized to midoriya, the fact that it took the author so long to even think of it is bad enough. and the fact that the teachers never try to stop bakugou from bullying the other students, and he apparently goes right back to being an asshole after the apology.. yikes.

there was so much potential to make him interesting character and to address a common social issue, but of course you had to prioritize fanservice instead.

[heytemporary]

Oh goodness gracious

Tumblr please understand that just because I post critics of bnha does not mean I want to see posts about the show UNLESS its about slandering them.

I switch to For You for one second thinking I was going to get a fresh feed of media I genuinely care about. But no its flooded with shows I’ve slandered being praised one way or another.

Quite frankly idgaf about the general census fandoms portrayal about the show. Not the inside jokes, fanart, fanfic, headcanons, fanon portrayal, ships or controversial discourses surrounding themes like (allegations for) marginalised identities & oppression because who are we kidding thinking Horikoshi did a great job at it when he himself never even faced such things.

For example there’s no point of me caring about ships like togachoko when the canon itself couldn’t even handle it right. Because from what I could tell it didn’t know if it wanted to be portrayed as positive or toxic. Don’t care about its fandom discourses like if Oochako is suffering from comphet, if Oochako deserved Toga from Izuku, if Oochako’s bisexual, if this and thats the fourth.

And I’m saying this as a (Asexual) Lesbian who does genuinely care about representation. Same thing can be said for other aspects but I don’t want to get too ahead of myself and possibly alienate myself.

If you genuinely believe Horikoshi did a good job at portraying lesbians like that then 🤷‍♀️ All I’m saying is theres no point emotionally exhausting yourself in those fandom discourse if the creator themselves has shown time again to fumble even their own canon representation. You honestly deserve better than that.

Heck, I don’t even want to see fanart /fanon from my supposed favourite character Hitoshi Shinsou. Only canon screencap/manga panels and slander off him. Miserable fucker is not even getting a smile from me.

And I also do not care to emotionally invest myself with the canon anymore. Cba to care about the vigilante, movies, sideplots or whatever. Don’t want to actively see that unless its just canon posting without any bias comments.

The only thing I want to see from the mha tags is criticism, slander, and better reimagines.

Yes ik I sound miserable. No I would not go out of my way to deliberately shit in the fandoms tags and ruin it for everyone. Yes I get some ppl are emotionally invested in this series. No I don’t want to see any positive praises on my feed especially if its bias driven.

I’ve got to start actively cultivating my feed. I didn’t want to block bnha / mha tags because thats just doing too much. But now you leave me no choice Tumblr

((Tbh this can be said for other shows I once used to be a fan of that I’ve grown to hate. i.e Miraculous, Doctor Who))

[tae-shimura-is-my-wife]

[transhawks]

I have to agree. I will argue that cwac is well written but it's essentially just different characters with a bnha coat of paint, it was written so many years ago where it could've technically been a direction taken but canon has deviated so far from it no longer resembles anything close to it. The problem begins when some take it as a canon interpretation when it was not leading to infighting and misreading of canon events and character, although this is no fault of the author who I believe is still very talented.

When I first got into the fandom circa 2018, right before Hawks debuted, I was super obsessed with Deku and so CWAC was up my alley. But the moment I started paying attention to the villains, somehow it clearly dawned on me how not only OOC the story was but just how much the author clearly dislikes characters like Shigaraki or Dabi and how much it shows, fairly juvenile-y.

I won't argue that the author isn't talented, but over the years a friend who was also a very Big Writer at the time of CWAC's popularity 2018-ish has told me how discussions about the League went very badly.

The issue still is the fandom. I absolutely blame DFO on CWAC and the other work of the author that the name escapes me. Even now, when I look at DFO dynamics or the weird afo inko obsession they absolutely clearly have elements from the fic, so essentially what CWAC did was establish such a clear fanon that even non-fic readers have taken it as part of the theory.

I mean, again this is more the issue of the fandom in general just clinging on to very old perceptions of characters and plots. I'm going to rant about that below.

I'll use Tomura as an example because what made me dislike CWAC was the handling of him when I started to realize just how rich Horikoshi made Tomura 's character. Some shig-haters never get passed Kamino in what they think of him, and there are the LOV stans who haven't caught up with the idea that actually the MLA arc was *bad* for the League and are still in the viewpoint that the villains are revolutionaries. So there's these spaces where Shigaraki is just seen as a murderous incel versus Shigaraki is Che Guevara incarnate.

And these echo chambers are so removed from each other that very often little nuance penetrates, so you have incredibly established fanon truths that are rarely deviated from and people just stop examining the source material. Then conflict arises when you leave the echo chamber and talk to someone else.

Also worth mentioning is that the fandom echo chambers manage to function as they do by assigning moral values to any "thought crimes" that don't line up with accepted fanon-"canon". Don't think the League are super-radicals who will actually liberate society and create a Marxist utopia? Well you're a capitalist pig who supports cops, bye. You can see it with the very hardcore hero stans who think liking a villain means condoning murder too, "why do you like terrorists?" Or come into my inbox to tell me Jin's murder was justified. Fandom is very good at policing itself into cliques, to the detriment of everyone, I think.

It also, I think, created the situation where people in this fandom genuinely hate the work, keep reading it in bad faith due to those ingrained fanon expectations and preconceptions of what the work should be, and then get more and more resentful as time goes on and their views are not even acknowledged.

Seriously, just look back at the reaction of hero stan Twitter and reddit bros at Himiko's whole fight with Ochako. There was so much hatred of how Himiko was being redeemed.

There are still canon DFO fans. I feel sorry for those who had to look at this chapter and realize that what they've sunk so much time into was not real. Disappointment hurts, man.

Anyway, thanks for listening to me rant. I find it fascinating in an academic sense how so much of fandom was shaped by a fic and I wonder if at some point someone will examine it critically.

[dragynkeep]

I swear if Toga dies from a blood transfusion when several (male)characters can have all their internal organs blown to hell, be reduced to an actual, literal skeleton or have open heart surgery smack dab in the middle of a battlefield an still be breathing I will turn feral.

Us if Toga dies giving blood when everyone else was literally exploded and walked it off:

[jasmine-the-fox]

Crazy in love isn't always healthy love

So, this little idea is mine. Have had it in my head for a while now, I have hoped to write it at some point and now the time has come for you all to read it.

Please enjoy!

Denki Kaminari never thought he would fall in love with someone until he was a pro hero… until his eyes landed on Katsuki Bakugo. An alpha that was smoking hot and that everyone wanted to be with. He sometimes daydreams of them married and being happy but for some reason Katsuki hasn’t asked him out yet, he thought it had been because he wanted things to be perfect for them so he waited and left him some hints for his confession. He tried asking help from the Bakusquad but they always refuse and tell him to give up on Katsuki… making him even more determined to be with him then ever before by working hard to get his attention, getting some alone time with him and trying to give him courting gifts.

This of course resulted in Denki… failing his classes due to him not paying attention in class or turning in his homework… making it possible that he will be expelled…

Once it was discovered the source of his distraction… he was told to leave Bakugo alone so he could focus on school. He was also told that if he didn’t listen, they would have no choice but to expel him from UA… even worst of it all is the fact Denki discovered that Katsuki was trying to switch classes so he didn’t have to see him often. Denki thought it was unfair as he was enraged on the inside… so in order for none of those things happen he “promised” to change and focus in class while leaving Katsuki alone. But it wasn’t enough for them so they decided to instead have Denki transferred to another class while also keeping an eye on him, Denki begged them not to do this and how he “promised” to change already… he turned to his parents for help but they kept quiet and didn’t look at him… causing him to see that no one cared about him.

But the truth was that his parents had their hands tied… see Mitsuki Bakugo had gone to see them with a lawsuit… she threatened to sue them if they don’t allow Denki to be punished for harassing her son…

Denki refused for this to happen “I love Katsuki! You can’t keep us apart just because of that! It’s not fair!” he screamed at them… and that’s when Mina snapped “Grow up Denki! We have tried to tell you over and over again to leave us alone and how Katsuki is already dating someone but you only want to hear what you want!” she shouted which caused Denki to look at her in shock.

Denki couldn’t believe it “Your kidding right Mina? Were all friends and the Bakusquad! And it’s a joke that Katsuki is dating someone right?” he asked but everyone was quiet “We never asked you to join our pack… you just started claiming to be part of it to anyone who would listen… and I have been with my omega for three years now” Katsuki explained making Denki look at him in horror.

He then lost it… he started screaming that he was making a mistake, how they should be dating as his parents are pro heroes’ while his are fashion designers. He claimed this omega he was dating isn’t going to help him in anyways that he could and that once he realized it… he would come crawling back to him begging for them to date. Security had to take him away as he screams.

His parents watched him in horror as he was dragged away… they apologized to everyone for the incident and promised to get him the help he needs to get better from all of this. Once they left, Nezu apologizes for not stopping this sooner. He then offers him two weeks out of school to relax from all of this “Sure I’ll take it… I’ll be able to go see Jasmine” he explained making Nezu nod “Allow me to pay for the flight though” he offered but Katsuki declined “My parents already bought me and my pack tickets to go see her… I’ll just have them change them to an earlier flight” he explained.

This surprised his pack “Alright then… I’ll be extending the two weeks to your pack too” Nezu said which made the pack happy and excited to go see Jasmine. They leave Nezu’s office to go back to there dorm to pack their things for a two-week trip to Canada to see Jasmine “I can’t wait to see her again. Jasmine worked so hard to learn Japanese to talk to us and I wonder if she got any better since last, we spoke to her” Kyoka said making them nod “I’m excited to listen to the new albums she got! She said she got some new ones and I can’t wait to hear them” Hanta said with a smile as they finished up packing what they needed “I’m just excited to play with her hair! It’s soft and long and she let’s me style it all the time!” Mina cheered making them smile towards her as Katsuki got a text from his sire about their flight.

Denki couldn’t accept this at all… instead of transferring him to another class… his parents pulled him out of UA so they could place him in a mental facility because he was “sick” and needed “medical help” in their opinion… if anything they were the ones who should be here! Nothing was wrong with him! He knew he is in love with Katsuki but no one cares about his feelings at all! The worst part is he needs to talk to his doctor and therapist and also take his medication… but because he does none of those and only talks about Katsuki… he gets punished. No phone calls, no visitors and sometimes no food… this was the worst pain in his opinion… since it wasn’t fair that they would treat him like this simply because he was in love with someone.

Meanwhile… the Bakusquad arrived in Canada safely. They were so excited to be here and were really happy to find Jasmine waiting for them with a sign with the words ‘Bakusquad’ in Japanese “Hi guys! Ready to get going?” she asked in Japanese making them agree. She brought them to the vehicle and they drove off to her home, during the drive she noticed how the pack fell asleep making her giggle towards them while kissing her alpha’s forehead.

When they arrived, she got to work on grabbing their things to bring them inside while they slowly woke up in the van, once they realized they arrived, they slowly got out and took over grabbing their things and putting them in their rooms. Mina and Kyoka shared a room while Eijiro and Hanta shared a room… this left Katsuki to sleep in Jasmine’s room with her there since they are dating… as long as they were careful and took precautions which made Jasmine turn bright red at that.

There two-week trip in Canada was amazing! Jasmine showed them so much while having them enjoy foods she grew up enjoying. She also had them check out stores that they wouldn’t find in Japan which made them so happy to buy things from those stores to bring back home. At one point, the Bakusquad left Katsuki and Jasmine alone to have a date together… they of course cooed at them when they came back with Katsuki carrying Jasmine on his back since she fell asleep at one point of there way back home.

They had a great time… but soon it was time to go back to Japan to get back to there classes, they were sad since they were having so much fun “We can still talk, plus there are multiplayer games we can play together… and it’s not like I can’t come see you guys or you guys can’t visit again” Jasmine explained making them all very happy at her words. They said their goodbyes and after giving Katsuki a moment with his omega… they flew back home to get back to UA.

Once home, the Bakusquad got to work in class and studied hard. Sometimes one or two of them would contact Jasmine to talk for a moment but after that they got back to work… Katsuki of course contacted her the most as he is dating her after all. Time went by and soon the Bakusquad graduated UA and are now able to go out to work as pro heroes!

They were so happy but were surprised to find Jasmine there in Japan, Mitsuki came over and revealed that she bought Jasmine a plane ticket to come see them graduate… and to spend a week with them before she needs to go back to Canada for school. They spent so much time together during that week that Jasmine was happy for all the good memories they had made together. Once she left, the Bakusquad worked very hard to make names for themselves… especially so Jasmine knew what they were doing in the end.

Katsuki though… he worked really hard. He wanted Jasmine to move to Japan so they could be together… or so he could move to Canada if she preferred staying there. He wanted enough money and a name for himself so if he had to transfer to an agency in Canada… they would know who he was back in Japan.

Overtime Jasmine had finished school and Katsuki bought her a ticket to Japan… since she was working to pack her things to start sending them over to him as she wanted to live in Japan “I don’t want to stay somewhere I know everything about… I want to discover your home while you work to become number one” she had told him. This resulted in her moving into his apartment… at least until he could afford something bigger that is. After that they continued on with there lives while working together, they went on dates and were happy together.

And then… Denki Kaminari returned…

He was very angry but had to hide it from his parents or he would be sent back. He had to go to college since being a pro hero was no longer an option… but now he had a job and was close to being happy since he couldn’t see his Katsuki’s accounts on his real account… Katsuki had blocked him when he was in Canada which he didn’t know about. Same for the Bakusquad who didn’t want to take any chances, the second he could he cut his parents off and blocked them in every way he could think of.

One day as he worked, he received an email that made him very happy… UA was having a class reunion and he had gotten an invitation. He knew that this was his chance to see Katsuki again and get back with him… but before that he needed to be perfect for his alpha. He made appointments for his hair, nails, face care and then rented out the perfect outfit for the reunion that he knew would make Katsuki want him even more.

When he get’s there, Denki sees familiar faces and begins to greet them… he didn’t care to notice how uncomfortable everyone was to seeing him at the reunion… or of the fact that they were lying to his face to get away from him. He checks the time after leaving the bathroom only to look up as the Bakusquad that abandoned him arrived, he so badly wanted to scream and attack them but he controlled himself and simply walks over as he knew Katsuki would be with them… only for him to notice he didn’t arrive with them. He goes over to talk but they avoid him and walk away from him while talking to one another or to a friend… he got upset but decided that they weren’t worth it and to focus on when Katsuki arrives… but then fifteen minutes pass and he still didn’t show up.

He was getting tired of waiting and simply decided that he didn’t want to come or he had an early shift in the morning and so he left the reunion. He had just grabbed his things when he realized he left his lip gloss in the bathroom… he went to get it and after grabbing it he saw… Katsuki with some other omega.

He was livid that Katsuki would pick this omega over him, but that wasn’t the worst part… it was the fact she had a small baby bump forming and he decided that he had to get rid of her somehow… and then a plan began to form in his mind. He was certain that it would work in the end, he left the area and returned home to get started on his plan to get that omega out of his precious Katsuki’s life for good.

It took him a few weeks to set everything up but it was so worth it for the end results. He had created a fake account to follow Jasmine, the one he uses to check on his Katsuki and the Bakusquad was only to watch and not say anything or he could get blocked… but this account was fake and meant to reach out to Jasmine and then destroy her.

After making sure everything looked good… he went and followed Jasmine’s Instagram, then he waits for her to post something so he can start liking and commenting her posts… this was his plan. After a while he will start pointing things out about her posts to see how she reacts and then after doing it long enough he will message her to talk like a good friend would… when really, he’s going to make her overthink things.

But then… three days go by and Jasmine didn’t post a thing for some weird reason. From what he could tell in her previous posts… Jasmine posts something every day, but he didn’t think much of it and decided to look through her posts to like and comment on some for a while. But then a week goes by and still nothing… but instead of wondering what was wrong he goes to focus on his job.

It was during one of his lunch breaks that Jasmine at long last posted something… the post was of her feet and the views of a dog park, near her was a Great Dane that had the name tag King. In the description it said she took King out for a walk but he decided to play in the dog park without Katsuki.

Denki was disgusted. A Great Dane!? Katsuki got that thing!? If he had been with Katsuki, they would have gotten a Shiba Inu as they were gorgeous to look at. He was about to say something rude but stopped himself, took a second to breathe and then liked the post and commented about how gorgeous King looked… while in his head he planned on getting rid of that mutt as soon as he could.

After that he went back to his own thing while waiting for Jasmine’s next post, but then… nothing was posted and that pissed Denki off since she was ruining his entire plan to make her leave his Katsuki by not posting like usual which didn’t make any sense to him “You being lazy or something? Maybe ordering my alpha around like he’s your second dog or something!?” he mumbled to himself while looking at her profile picture.

“Are you sure I should wait? I haven’t posted anything for days since the last post and that one was taken two days after the reunion happened” Jasmine asked while looking at Katsuki, King had his head on her lap while Katsuki sat next to her “Yes. By waiting were getting him to make a wrong move to show that this is his fake profile… we need him to act and then he will be gone for good” Katsuki explained making Jasmine sigh but nod to his words… while she didn’t like the plan as it was messing with her usual routine, she still wanted to help her alpha to get rid of the omega who was obsessed with him for some reason. No one in the Bakusquad would tell her what happened exactly but she could tell it was really bad.

Denki then decided that he was done waiting… he went to private message Jasmine. He decided to use the fact she wasn’t posting as often as usual and asked if she was alright… this was in hopes of her responding and giving him something to pick at. He read over his message multiple times while changing a few things every once in a while… while other times erasing the entire message and writing something different.

Once he deemed it perfect, he hit send and went to do his own thing while waiting for her reply… he decided to make a wedding planner for his and Katsuki’s wedding… while also making a planner for his life with Katsuki by planning out everything to be perfect so Katsuki only needed to focus on work and relaxing when he gets back home.

Time soon went by and Denki didn’t get a response from Jasmine… instead she posted about her spa resort trip with Katsuki. There were pictures of the place, the view, the food, them taking a walk and a few other things… but the description was about how Katsuki surprised her by bringing her there instead of to their friend’s place.

Denki scoffed at the post “So much money wasted on the trip… clearly she made him pay for the trip and it wasn’t an actual surprise from the start” he whispered as he looked at the two pictures, she took of Katsuki which made him happy as he liked the post and commented in a positive way… just after sending the comment, he received a notification that Jasmine replied to him.

Excited that he could continue with his plan he went to see what she wrote… it was her greeting him and then apologizing for not replying “No phone service at the resort? What a clear lie. She didn’t respond because she was busy bossing my sweet Katsuki around” he said to himself as he rolled his eyes, but he responded with clear understanding of her words and then began to talk to her.

A month goes by and Denki has decided that he has bonded with Jasmine long enough to start the next part of his plan. He has made sure to keep up his little act so Jasmine would never know who he really was from the very start, instead she would believe he was just one of her followers who had things in common with her “I need to make sure that what I write next is very clear that it’s from a place of worry for her and not just me trying to destroy her relationship with my alpha so I can be with him” he mumbled to himself as he got to work on his next message to her.

Sadly, he should have noticed how Jasmine was slow with her replies, or how sometimes she will talk as if what he just wrote was never there… and then there was the fact that she would sometimes end their conversations short but not explain the reason why they had to stop talking since he never asked her and simply accepted the fact, she had to go do something which he was certain was hurt his alpha over something stupid.

He looked over his message and with a nod sent it to her, he smiled as it was confirmed sent and seen… he then relaxed as all he had to do now is wait for her reply full of worry… but he never got that reply. The next day when he got to work, he was fired by his boss who was waiting for him “I cannot believe I hired someone like you! If I had known the truth, I would have gotten you blacklisted!” he screamed as Denki packed up his things and left.

Then he got a call from his parents when he knew he had changed his number and blocked them but they were telling him to pack up all his things because they were on there way to get him and bring him home “We can’t believe you didn’t change Denki! Instead, you vanish, cut us out of your life and stalk that sweet omega!?” his mother said which made his eyes widen as he hangs-up on her and looks at Jasmine’s Instagram account.

There it was… Jasmine’s new post… and it was all about him and his fake account…

She revealed his fake account and who he really was. She went into detail about how he had stalked and harassed her with this act of a worried follower. She then revealed his actions from back when he was a student at UA and how Katsuki was getting his lawyers involved to sue him.

The Bakusquad had commented to back up her story with some students who also went to UA who replied and talked about what they remember seeing or hearing from Denki… lawyers arrived just moments after his parents had “This is a warning. Get your son under control or the Bakugo’s will sue you for everything your son has done” one said before they all left… leaving Denki with his angry parents who yelled at him as they all packed up his things to move back in with his parents.

“This is to keep you safe and to keep an eye on you from now on Denki” his dad explained as he held Denki’s phone, tablet, laptop and any other item he could use to contact someone “We can’t have you do this anymore. You’re not well and we clearly need to get you some help once more” he said before closing the door to Denki’s room… and locking it from the outside.

He hated this, he knew that he wouldn’t be able to leave the house for a while and he didn’t even know how long it would take for him to get at least his phone back… but because he didn’t want to give up on Katsuki… he would need to be very patient before he can do anything. A year has passed and Denki was now able to go out and have his phone, he was so happy because now he could once more get to work on getting his alpha.

But for his plan to work… he needs to find a strong alpha who is dumb enough to believe him and to do what he wants. Which is why he went to places where alpha’s will be at and flirts with one every once in a while, to see how they react and to go from there, once he finds the right alpha… he will send the alpha on Jasmine to end her life and make her vanish from the world so he could have Katsuki.

This of course caused him to need to be ready to sleep with the alpha as a reward… he wishes he could save it for Katsuki but it was a small loss to get his prize. This took him a whole year… but he finally found Inasa and he was perfect, sweet, strong and stupid which was what he needed in an alpha.

He got to work in telling him a made-up story about how he had been dating Katsuki but Jasmine stole him from him “He had to do a shoot in her area and I guess that’s when it happened because the next thing, I knew… he didn’t care about me” he cried making Inasa hold him close. He also talked about how Jasmine was abusive towards Katsuki “I’m certain that either the pup isn’t his or she somehow forced herself onto him to get pregnant” he explained making Inasa look horrified at his words.

Inasa asked Denki questions and he was more than happy to answer them with more lies he had prepared in advance; it took sometime but soon Denki could tell Inasa was ready to do what he wanted… so he cried to him and showed him a post Jasmine made about how she and Katsuki were expecting their second pup.

“Katsuki called me to say that she was lying. He said he hadn’t slept with her since the first pup so he knows it’s not his” he cried to Inasa… and that was enough for him as he promised everything would be alright… and then he left him alone. Denki waited a while before going back home. Once in his room he smiled as he was certain that Jasmine and her first pup would soon be gone… then three days go by and there was nothing from Inasa.

He really was hoping he left to take care of Jasmine so as he waited, he got himself ready for Inasa so he could reward him for taking care of Jasmine… but then it happened… the police barged in and arrested him. He was told that Inasa was a hired man by Katsuki to spy on Denki since the day his parents brought him to their home.

The police presented all of the evidence Inasa had collected on Denki to his parents. Denki wasn’t mentally there as his parents screamed at him for doing all of this behind there backs when they brought him here to be safe and to start fresh. The police explained that since nothing happened, Jasmine and Katsuki weren’t pressing charges but warned that the next time he tried something then they would file for a restraining order.

They then left, his parents went back to screaming at him for all the pain he has caused to them… but Denki never answered them, he wasn’t even listening to them… instead he was trying to wake himself up because he was now at the stage where he believed this was all just some crazy nightmare and that once he wakes up, he will be with Katsuki at his side.

But he wasn’t in a nightmare… he was in real life… and soon he would be sent back somewhere to get him help for his mental state…

Meanwhile… Katsuki sighed in relief after hanging up the phone. He had just finished talking to Inasa who confirmed that the Kaminari’s were sending Denki somewhere to get him help, of course he knew that considering it was Denki he wasn’t going to get better anytime soon. But at least he was freed from the crazy omega for good, he turned to his sleeping omega as their son Kazuki was on the floor watching TV.

He smiled towards them as he was happy with his growing family… he then pulled out a small ring box from his pocket and smiled “Can’t wait to see her next post about our engagement” he whispered to himself as he walked over to his omega to care for there son while she slept soundly “Now we can be happy and not worry about something being behind us” he said softly before his son turned to look at him with a smile.

They were finally happy and free from Denki Kaminari… while the Bakusquad relaxed at the peace and quiet... Denki was sent to another state where a facility would take care of him… he fights and screams at them to let him go but no one listens… and as he gets knocked out by a drug… he thinks about how Katsuki loved him and would soon come to save him… because he was THAT obsessed with Katsuki… that he thought it was love…

[utaite-mun]

if youre anti-bakugou and you are interacting with my monoma metas, i am blocking you people

im adding text to the body of the posts so if you want to get the original, youre getting a message that it was not created with the intent for usage in anti-bakugou posting (it will deter people, i know how tumblr is, but you WILL know you are going against my intent with it)

[delawaredetroit]

Man whose entire public image has been crafted by the government: I'm just an authentic guy telling it like it is

Or in the alternative, local man who hasn't processed an emotion in his entire life somehow believes he is in touch with his feelings

[moodyvoid]

After pestering him for days, you finally convince Dabi to pierce your tongue.

Beforehand, he’s taunting you the whole time saying “It’s gonna hurt really bad— are you sure you still want to?” getting a kick out of seeing you nervous.

However, once it’s time for the act, he’s surprisingly gentle as he tilts your head to face him just right and he directs you on what to do. His voice is soft, but stern.

“Stop moving.”

You start to realize how intimate this all is once he’s up close to you, lining up the needle. The two of you catch eyes for a moment, “Take a deep breath for me… and breathe out.” as he pushes the needle through, securing the jewelry in place. You blink a few times, not even realizing it’s over.

“Not so bad, huh?” he asks, putting aside all the tools while you look in the mirror.

You go to ask him what he thinks about it, but barely get the question out before he’s kissing you — something he was fighting the urge to do the entire time.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

i haven't watched MHA in its entirety so correct me if I'm wrong but bakugou started off as a good example of how privilege can turn people into absolute assholes.

because bakugou didn't have a tragic backstory, he didn't have abusive parents or a dead lover or a torturous childhood. he was in fact the "gifted child", praised at every turn for having such a cool quirk and told repeatedly that he would have a great future. his parents seem decent enough and there is no inkling of trauma there, only a man who was praised by everyone to the point that he developed an inflated ego.

this was, in theory, a really good base for a character. it shows how privileged people often take their position for granted and feel threatened when minorities actually start to stand up for themselves or gain attention (see: cishet people complaining about not getting a "straight pride month").

but then, the story ruined it by coddling bakugou and never having him learn his lesson. i don't care that he apologized to midoriya in the manga, the fact that it took so long for him to do that is bad enough. and the fact that none of the teachers stopped bakugou from bullying his classmates, especially midoriya, and he apparently goes back to acting like an asshole after the apology.. yeah. yikes.

you had the opportunity to create a really interesting character and address some important social issues, but you completely ignored it in favor of fanservice.

[stillness-in-green]

Some thoughts on The Discourse about the last BNHA cover

(Note: This Discourse was on Twitter. I don’t know how much of this may have been said here on Tumblr, so consider this either my contribution or just me reporting back on drama from other fronts.)

So, I saw a lot of back and forth over there between people who didn’t like the cover and people who did, and I spent a little while mulling it over. It seemed to me that the people who didn’t like it had a good point, but one they were not articulating particularly well, possibly thanks to the character limit and possibly also because the people talking about it tended to phrase their objections in sarcastic, consciously exaggerated terms because that’s the language months and months of dealing with the truly insufferable Horikoshi Defense Squad on Twitter primed them to use.

So what is the point?  Basically this: In going for the lazy/easy callback in both the cover design and Dai (plate-hair kid)'s role in the final chapter more generally, Horikoshi landed on an "everything comes full circle" ending when what the story desperately needed was an indicator of change.

We didn't need to know that a kid with low self-confidence and nothing to speak of in the quirk department can still become a Pro Hero if he[1] wants to.  We already knew that because it's what the whole story of BNHA was about!  Deku passing the torch/paying it forward is nice if all you care about is Deku's personal arc, but it's sheer reductiveness if you care about literally anything else.  If there was going to be a kid getting Deku's encouragement and help at the end, if that's the ending Hori was absolutely set on, it shouldn't have been the Deku Redux kid; it shouldn't have been the weak kid who has already been metaphorically proven capable of becoming a Hero.

1: And of course it would be a boy.

It should have been the troubled kid, the one from the bad family situation, the one who isn't sure whether he even believes in this Hero thing.  It should have been the kid who, if nothing about Hero Society had changed, would’ve been rejected by the whole corrupt system—in so many words, the Tenko Redux kid.  That's the one who we saw could not become a Hero under the previous system.  That's who we needed to demonstrate the system's improvement.

Instead, all we get is Deku helping himself.  And it fits, I guess, because “himself” is the only sort of person Deku ever wanted to save anyway—remember that in the very first chapter, Deku tells All Might that he wants to be a Hero because he was never “saved” as a kid and so he thinks saving is the coolest thing ever.  Implicitly, then, Deku wanted to be the kind of Hero who could have saved the kid he was, and that tendency to reserve his compassion for people he can recognize himself in—the crying children and the Hero wannabes—is consistent throughout the series.  Dai, then, simply becomes the very last of these examples, the chance for Deku to tell his middle school self that he, too, can be a great Hero.

And that’s quite a choice, isn’t it?  Take a second to consider the implications there. The metaphorical parallel Deku helps is his middle school self, not his childhood self—there’s no evidence that Dai was bullied on the same level young Izuku was, and we sure didn’t see anyone telling him to jump off a roof.  So, who does save those children, then, in this grand, improved version of Hero Society?  Does anyone?

Well, not really. Not that we’re shown. Indeed, the child who was the closest analogue to young Izuku—a weak and seemingly quirkless boy who stuck his neck out for other rejected children, who still stubbornly wanted to be a Hero despite a parent's disapproval—was Tenko, and Deku pointedly did not save him.

To be clear, I don’t mean that just in the sense that Deku failed to save the adult Tenko became, but even in the emotional sense that the series clearly wants me to believe Deku succeeded at, the saving of the boy's heart? I don’t think Deku even managed that.  Sure, he might have protected the echo of that child from a few memories, might have held his hands for a few exchanges of dialogue, but then the boy transformed back into the form of the Villain he'd become and was swallowed down the spiritual maw of the man from whom society failed to save Tenko to begin with! And what was Deku doing as this happened? Absolutely nothing but yelling impotently as he got blown backward and out of the mindscape.

Imagine that Deku had found some way to cheer up Izumi Kouta only for Muscular to kill the kid thirty seconds later.  No one would be saying, “I think Deku still saved him—his heart, anyway,” if Deku got Kouta to smile and admit that Heroes were actually pretty cool only to do nothing but scream helplessly as he watched Muscular pulverize Kouta’s ribcage with one gentle squeeze.[2]

2: Mind you, this comparison is flawed!  Unlike AFO’s vestige, Muscular doesn’t turn up to kill a child as a direct result of Deku’s own actions. Also unlike the events of the final battle, Deku doesn't jump up and personally administer the killing blow to the still-screaming victim, either.

It just leaves me thinking about some of the stuff @codenamesazanka has said about how the narrative treats Shigaraki and Deku helping him: not as something Deku has a duty to do, not something Hero Society on the whole owes Shigaraki (and all the other metaphorical expy/future Shigarakis), but rather a bonus, a nice extra, a demonstration to shine up Deku's Hero cred because he's making efforts no one else would bother with and that no one would reasonably expect him to make. It's not Deku’s job to save the Tenkos or the young Izukus of the world; apparently that just falls to society at large.

So then, what was the point of making Tenko/Tomura such an extreme case of someone who started in a similar place to Deku?  Why make him, also, a weak kid who was told he couldn't be a Hero, if you're not going to have Deku save him in the way no one saved Deku himself?

From where I'm sitting, the answer is, "It seemed like a good idea to Horikoshi at the time, but proved to be poorly thought out."  But if Deku failing to save his own closest childhood analogue was where the story was going the whole time, then Shigaraki should never have been used to parallel Deku to begin with.  It's just a damned waste of Shigaraki as a character, an insult to everything he represented, to use him for ~the parallels~ throughout the entirety of the story except the very beginning and the very end.

Anyway, Pro Heroes are bullshit and the ending should have been them being radically reconceived from the ground up with input from all the people they failed to save.  But again, if you have to still have Heroes-qua-Heroes at the end, and you have to have some stupid thematic echo because you as an author think callbacks are the single most compelling storytelling tool of all time, then everything we got on Dai should have been for Scissors-kun instead, and here I am very much including Dai's scene before the first war. An unsettling scene of a strange child with his mouth sewn shut, stuck in a straitjacket in a dark room should have been the last thing we saw before launching into the day of the raids, an apparent element for the future in the same way that so many future Villains were first shown in the wake of Stain's arrest.

See, Shigaraki’s own destructiveness is what ultimately frees Scissors-kun from the basement, “saving” this rejected, abused child in a way no Hero ever managed or even knew to try, just as Shigaraki brought light and a strange sort of hope to the lives of so many others whom Heroes failed.  However, Shigaraki couldn't carry his ambitions through to the end. He was never able to meet the kid he indirectly saved, never able to offer that appallingly abused victim an avenue for his signature brand of rough justice. Heroes stopped him from doing so. So then, who will help Scissors-kun?

If we’re to believe that the story's protagonist has made a real difference, that Deku and his classmates have changed the world for the better, then we don't need to see them helping a kid who we already know is going to turn out fine because “he” aleady did. We need to see them help the people that previously only Villains would have helped, picking up the torch they struck from Shigaraki’s hands.

So sure, keep the scene with Granny Evil and Scissors-kun if you must, to show that it’s not only Heroes but also the broader Hero Society that’s changed. After that, though, show Deku stepping in.  Show him taking an interest in this kid as a way to keep his promises—to Shigaraki, that the rejection and obliviousness that he sought to destroy have indeed been destroyed and will remain so, and to Spinner, that Deku will remember Shigaraki for the rest of his life. 

When Deku is older and in a position to give advice to a kid who’s floundering and uncertain of what to do with his life because of what people around him say about him, make that character echo the characters the old system failed to save, not the character who the entire story proved would do just fine.

For god's sake, ditch Deku Redux.

Now, I know the obvious rejoinder here: We can’t use Deku’s story to say that BNHA already showed us that Dai would be fine because Dai has a quirk where Deku did not, therefore Deku’s path would not be open to Dai.  To this, I would reply that neither Deku nor Dai specify that Dai wants/is able to be a top Hero, merely that he be the kind of Hero people can admire—which the story has also already proven true!

Ojiro got into UA with nothing but one (1) extra limb.

Manual has a perfectly middling quirk that turned out to be absolutely crucial in two different wars because it was the right quirk at the right time.

Wash’s quirk makes strong bubbles. 

Like, this list is not short.  Manifest Plates might or might not make Dai Hero Billboard material, but one of the major points of the endgame was the sublime and noble value of helping when you can, in the way that you can.  So to reiterate, we didn’t need that to be proven again in the epilogue.

If anything, going the route of retreading the same story makes the epilogue much worse! Not only do we not get to see how this society is helping the people the old society most profoundly failed—victims who fall through the cracks and become Villains—but in seeing yet another a weak kid being mocked for his heroic aspirations, we find that we’ve barely moved a step beyond the exact same place we started.

That’s the message Horikoshi chose to go with, for both the closing chapters of the story and the story’s final volume cover.  Truly, as art that summarizes the story goes, it’s a masterful choice!  And that's the whole problem. The cover of Volume 42 is a perfect illustration of the self-absorbed, cynical, cyclical nature of BNHA's endgame. Little wonder, then, that it's hated by the same people who hated said endgame.

[tae-shimura-is-my-wife]

Ochako wanted to be like Izuku so much that she ended becoming a souless shell who just exists to be a perfect hero exactly like him, poor girl 😔

[codenamesazanka]

Chapter 40 of Team-Up Mission takes a look at Gentle and how he was doing in prison! And the friend he makes.

I really liked the chapter, so I scanlated part of it.

[haine-kleine]

I think enough time has passed that we can finally talk about how utterly useless and disappointing the final act of Dabi's arc ended up being.

The most disappointing thing of all is how fucking cool almost every setup was. Enji finally seeing the full extent of the damage he did to his son, his mind almost gone and his body about to blow up, and deciding to sacrifice his own life. Dabi developing an ice quirk, like his mother's. Rei coming there using her powerful ice quirk to save both Touya and Enji's lives, because she felt responsible for her part in driving Touya to this point. Fuyumi and Natsuo following Rei because they couldn't sit idly, while their family members are risking their lives. Shouto going above and beyond his limit to save Touya's life and then praising Touya's natural talent the way no one ever did.

This picture. The eerily happy what could have been, what both Touya and Enji wanted, a happy family where they both are accepted and loved, where Touya is healthy and doesn't hurt himself. Except he is missing an arm now, a new self-inflicted injury transferred from the real world, where the family is as far from happy as they could be. Enji is also missing an arm, the mutual self-sacrifice which was payment to getting Enji to finally fully see Touya and accept him, accept his own role as the parent responsible for this child of his.

This was the exact moment. That first frame is such a masterpiece it's much more thought provoking than the entirety of what followed. Look at your son's disfigured face. See the monster that you created. The fire that you have ignited. It's hotter than your own Hellfire and it won't ever stop burning, as long as either of you is alive. There's no end to this hurt. It's been hurting him since he was a child, and now it has spread to you. You did this to yourself.

And one thing I can tell for sure is that these chapters are going to go hard as hell in the anime. These surrealistic frames, followed by blockbuster-worthy action sequences. But what comes after that? And then nothing. It's like Horikoshi made these chapters specifically to work well for the anime adaptation. Because there is no resolution or even conclusion to any of the things that happened here.

Enji and Dabi losing their arms had so little meaning Horikoshi himself forgot about it and gave Enji the missing arm back in chapter 425. We never get to see the state of Touya's body after the war, so him losing his arm also loses his meaning, as he is covered in a full-body metal restraining jacket. Did they provide him with a prosthetic? If not, are they going to? Is he even going to notice the missing arm, or did it truly not matter? Or perhaps he somehow grew his arm back, the same way he grew his melted eyeballs back? Who even knows.

What about the family? Rei clearly cared a whole lot, enough to risk her own life to attempt to save Touya from certain death because she knew there's no point to rely on Endeavor , but now that the heat of the moment is over, how does she feel about what happened? Does she insist on getting to visit Touya more often? Does she reflect on her own experience of spending ten years in isolation and try to give Touya his freedom? Did Shouto share the story of Touya coming back home after his death with her and his siblings? How does she feel about it? How do they feel about their dearly missed brother willingly choosing to abandon them?

On that topic, how do Fuyumi and Natsuo feel about Touya at all? We do get to hear about Fuyumi's desire to talk more with Touya, but what does she want to talk to him about? Does she want to share her own life with him, to tell him about her old job and the kids she was teaching? About the many family dinners she had been organizing for their family despite it falling apart? Or does she want to ask him about his life? Is she at all curious what he had been up to? Does she want to know how he ended up a villain, why did he keep burning himself despite almost dying from it as a mere child? Would Touya himself want to talk to Fuyumi, or does he still think his sister will never understand him? If so, will she try to push through and repair their sibling bond, try to show him that mending their family is possible and she wants to see him a part of the healed Todoroki family, eating dinner with the rest of them?

Natsuo... I don't even know where to start. Todoroki Natsuo when he first appeared in the manga and Todoroki Natsuo from Dabi's dance onwards are two wildly different characters and the development that made him change so much is skipped entirely in the story.

The entire point of Natsuo's character conflict was being unable to let go of the past, when the rest of the family was demanding he puts the past behind them and looks towards the future. Why exactly was he so fixated on the past? Two reasons. One, his father's neglect of him and abuse of his brothers. He is indignant about what Enji put Shouto through, still angry about Shouto being isolated from his siblings despite the younger freely interacting with him and Fuyumi for quite some time since before the manga plot had started. He outright says that his father had killed Touya. And that's the second reason, his close bond with Touya. While the rest of the family, even their mother, have been able to grieve and let go of Touya, Natsuo has been haunted by him ever since the day of his death.

Their relationship was a toxic one, that is true, Touya was traumadumping his extremely unhealthy feelings on a little kid who was too little to process or sympathize with what the was going through. But from the way Natsuo talks about Touya after his death it's obvious that Natsuo cared a lot about him, still cares. He is indignant about the unfairness of what happened to Touya precisely because he knows the most out of all family members about what his experience was like. It's pretty clear that the reason he stubbornly refuses to forgive and accept Endeavor the way his mother and siblings did, despite genuinely believing himself to be a bad person for it, is not just because Enji was neglecting him as a kid but because since he was a kid he was exposed to the horror of what Touya's life was like. He was watching a person begging to be helped hurt himself everyday and he didn't know how to help him or stop him. Hell, it's pretty straightforwardly implied that his career choice was impacted by his inability to help Touya, who was covered in burns at all times, and Rei with Shouto.

So with all of that in mind, Natsuo's resolution feels fairly... bizarre. As far as his reunion with the dead brother he was bitterly mourning for 11 years, the one who showed up back from the dead expressing the exact same sentiment Natsuo has been trying to express to his family, 'The past never dies', goes, it's this:

This wouldn't even be so bad if there was some followup to this. Natsuo was highstrung with nerves, he was terrified at the thought of both of his parents and his brother dying for real this time (except it's Fuyumi who gets this line). Natsuo apologizing to Touya for saying this, after the climax of the battle is behind them. Anything. Because this framing with no followup at all makes it seem like Natsuo's feelings about his oldest brother is just being annoyed at him for constantly causing trouble to others, because he was venting to him so much when they were kids. If his were any other character, this claim would hold some weight, after all the dynamic was genuinely toxic, but all Natsuo did for the entirety of the Hellish Todoroki family subplot was causing others trouble by his inability to cope with his feelings. You know, the same thing Touya is doing right now, was doing as long as he was in the Todoroki household. Hypocritical much?..

Then we get to look at the final pages of the Todoroki family's conclusion, and it's all about Natsuo once again disrupting the fragile family harmony and peace by announcing he never wants to see Endeavor again. Also he is getting married. For someone who was so held back by the past for 200+ chapters, this sure is a big leap of faith into the future. What caused this development? Touya reappearing back into his life? Did Natsuo make his brother the symbol of that past that was holding him back and decide to abandon him, never see neither him nor Endeavor again?

Maybe so, maybe not. Does he hold hard feelings against Touya, because the real living Todoroki Touya is too different for him to accept as the brother whose ghost had been haunting him for a decade? Is it being a villain that he can't forgive? Or is he simply unable to cope with everything right now and puts off the conversation with his brother because that would be too hard right now? Isn't that the same thing Rei and Enji were doing for Touya's entire childhood?

That's the thing with this ending, you can ask a million questions and make up endless interpretations but you won't get any answers or reasonable conclusions to any of these character's stories, save for Endeavor.

And what is his ending? It's this.

He has moved on! Doesn't matter what happened to his original family, because he's got himself a new one. He is moving towards the future, surrounded by love, support and acceptance. It's the same thing as this picture!

Minus the inconvenient and explanation-demanding children subplots. That would require too much space and effort and the story needed to be finished asap. So? Why resolve the Todoroki family mess when you can give Enji a whole new family of his own? What happened to the other, original children? Who even knows. Who cares? Definitely not Enji, he has new ones.

What about Touya? Well, he was already accepted by his father once, that's enough for him. About his family? As far as we know, they left him all alone, crying, dying. About his missing arm? About his ice quirk? About his relationship with his siblings? With the League of Villains? The living villains, Spinner, Mister Compress, his cousin Geten, Skeptic? Who even cares. Definitely not this story.

[utaite-mun]

a reminder for my bnha followers that if you think that just because i write meta surrounding monoma in a positive light/exploration of why hes the way he is and im not automatically bashing him, if you use that as some sort of ammo for your "anti-bakugou" campaign, im biting you and revoking your rights

[tinyshinysylveon]

what's really interesting is katsuki's dialogue in the end, he says, "腐れ縁だわ.." which is basically-

like they are close but not that close ;; i was considering putting it as a "toxic relationship" but rotten also goes the same way. i really like that he admits to others openly that their relationship was terrible to the point where he tries to change ;;;;

edit: because some understood it differently lol i described 腐れ縁 as "an undesirable but inseparable relationship" as i've mentioned above. i took the literal kanji 腐: rotten/sour since if you do try to describe 腐れ縁 in simpler terms, it'll more than likely lose its deeper meaning ;; if i were to edit it out, i would say "it was a complicated relationship" instead. now IF i had enough space tho, i would prob put "it was an unsavory relationship where i couldn't break it off no matter what."