#I might actually finish this in like mid february

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RRAAHHHHH I’M SO HAPPYYYYHDICBEOD I FINISHED LIKE 2/3 OF THE DETECTIVE DUST ANIMATIONNNNSHDKEVD

also look I GOT HIM TO DO AN UWU FACE MUAHAJAGAKAGAKAGAKG

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Cosmic Adoration (Ophion TF/PMC)

(Original Date of Upload: February 14, 2024)

Hey look, I'm uploading something in the same day it gets uploaded on my other accounts. Woah.

Original Description:

Happy Valentine's Day! I've sort of become infrequent when it comes to holiday-themed TFs, but this was actually a story I've wanted to write out for a long time! Quite literally since I started writing it back in January of last year before getting burnt out and never finishing it... until now, anyway. Now I have it done and I can upload it publicly for all to see! I'm quite proud of how this turned out. I typically don't deal in PMC but I feel like that would have been the best route to take this story, and full MC would have tarnished what little themes I was trying to convey with this.  I don't think I have much commentary besides all of that though. I guess I could mention there was going to be a reality change segment in the furthest end of the post-TF, but with how I led that segment of the story along I couldn't really fit it in without it feeling needless and awkward.

   Valentine's Day.

   Initially the very concept of the holiday had eluded Hugo for a good chunk of his life. This had mainly been because he had trouble discerning the purpose of the holiday. Why did such a holiday need to exist to celebrate love? Especially when such a thing could be celebrated on any day of the year. To him, at least originally, it was just a way for stores to boost sales. The most he'd usually acknowledge is the price drops of confectionaries after and that was it. So as far as he cared the holiday was nigh-nonexistent…

   That pattern of thought lasted for about twenty-five years. Then he met… Jace…

   Dating had always been outside of Hugo’s range of social skills. He had originally thought himself as never really feeling the desire for it. He was content with being single, or at least he tried to tell himself that as to avoid confronting any weird feelings he might have. This thought pattern had quickly changed over the past ten months however, and it was all thanks to the introduction of his boyfriend into his life.

   It was… strange, really. Having first fallen in love all that time ago. Was it love at first sight, or was it gradual…? Hugo had originally just been sitting in a coffee shop waiting for his order before going to work, but had encountered Jace after they seemed to recognize him as someone whom he shared a few high school classes with so many years ago. He'd be lying if he said he knew what the guy was talking about, but the thought of being recognized so randomly was quite pleasant.

   Their encounters at that shop became frequent, almost weekly. Casual talks about life between the two, sharing their interests and enjoyments to one another. Admittedly Hugo had been the more reserved one of the two, but he always enjoyed listening to Jace talk about their own life. He loved hearing his voice, he loved hearing him speak so passionately about things, he loved… him…

   It was definitely a little awkward whispering those very words beneath a breath while in mid-conversation. And even more so when they decided to take things outside and less public so they could talk it out. That awkwardness had quickly faded though, their conversation shifting more into the hypotheticals of dating each other. It was silly and lifted Hugo's spirits up a bit after what he felt like was one big act of making a fool of himself.

   Then Jace said he would like to date.

   Hugo was surprised, stuttering and sweating and being filled with complete and utter confusion. Jace then gave him a small kiss on the cheek, the man's mustache ticking the skin and making Hugo feel even more flustered. 

   That was enough to settle everything though. They were officially getting together… but now Hugo had a new problem.

   It's been ten months of them dating now and he felt… inadequate? He always felt like his way of expressing love was lackluster in comparison to Jace's. Jace was the more expressive and outgoing one of the two, meanwhile Hugo always had trouble trying to properly express his own emotions in a way that didn't sound like he was forcing it out of himself. He just always had trouble trying to say things properly. Trying to determine what to say, what to do. Was he romantic enough? Was he receiving without giving back in a perfectly equal amount? Of course Jace had been left unaware of these concerns. Hugo had chosen not to tell these fears to them, which in truth might not be a good idea…

   He shook his head, then whispered to himself. "Why am I such a mess…"

   Realizing he had his head down in thought the whole time, Hugo raised it and looked forward. He was currently walking down the sidewalk of the city's shopping district. It was currently February 13th, the eve of Valentine's Day, and Hugo had decided that with the day of celebrating love fast approaching he should do something for it. It wouldn't necessarily be something grand, but he at least wanted to give his boyfriend something that would commemorate his own love for them.

   That's easier said than done though. Fortunately Hugo had a plan! He was on this particular street for a reason, to visit an antique's store and locate something of value there that would be enough to encapsulate his passion. Unfortunately, that was also easier said than done. He wasn't even sure he'd find something there, especially considering how… odd the wares seemed to be, at least just by a casual glance at the store's website.

   Still, it was an adequate starting point. His steps began to slow as his peripherals caught onto the deep brown wood of a building. Hugo turned, gazing into the windows and finding shelves lined with various peculiar objects. Too many to discern properly. He lifted his head for one final check, staring up at the letting that spelled out the store's name.

   Maurice's Audacious Antiques. The very place he was looking for. Perfect…

   A bell above the door silently rang as the young man walked in and the wooden floorboards softly creaked beneath the new weight introduced upon them. The place had an odd and comfy feel to it. Hugo would describe it as cabin in the woods-type vibes. And considering the rusting of the shelves to his left, this place definitely has age to it.

   His eyes then caught a singular person here. To the right, behind a counter was a rotund man with a balding head and a thick, tied up beard. His head constantly went back and forth between two objects, a laptop and a notebook with poorly scrawled wording in it, while mumbling random things that Hugo couldn't discern. Hugo took a few steps forward before he was in front of the counter, the younger man noting that the older one hadn't seemed to notice him yet.

   "Uh, hi…?"

   The burly bear of a man raised upwards with his eyes wide, sharply inhaling. "Got damn, ya' startled me!"

   Hugo rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Sorry about that… sir?"

   The man's face suddenly shifted from startled to smiling. "No need fer formal'ties! Jus' call me Maurice!"

   "Er, right. I just uh, came here to…" Hugo started to trail off. Should he say the reason why he's even here? Will it even help?

   Maurice raised a brow. "Ya' alright, son?"

   Hugo blinked a few times, then swallowed the forming lump in his throat. "I-I'm fine! I just uh, wanted to find a… gift for someone close to me."

   The older man nodded, stroking his beard in thought. Silence filled the space between the two for a few seconds before one of them spoke again. 

   "Don' think I've gott'n a reques' like that before. Ya might be able to find somethin' in one a' the furth'r shelves though. They have all kindsa trinkets 'n knick-knacks." Maurice advised. He then repositioned his hand to lean his head on its palm. "With our recent batch a' stuff, ya' should find somethin' you like!"

   Hugo nodded in response. "Th-thank you… Maurice-"

   He turned around and went to the area he was advised to go to. The store's amount of stock was unimpressive with only a single row of five shelves filed one after another, but he had settled on checking the fourth one for anything interesting. It looked like it had small stuff in it after all. Although he was a little curious about the store owner's usage of should and would. It felt like they didn't know their own stock. They tried to ignore that though. They had to focus on finding a gift for Jace.

   It was now that Hugo truly saw how strange the objects on these shelves seemed to be though.

   Some seemed pretty normal. A few intricately designed rings, sets of jeweled earrings, and weird looking necklaces with a design-scheme that felt expensive to look at. However, oddities seemed to pop up left and right. A red, glass-looking orb; sitting beside it was a blue orb with gold metal zigzagging across the middle. Some weird sharp pen-looking thing, a golden chalice of some kind, and… was that a marble pauldron???

   "This is so weird…" Hugo whispered to himself. 

   Finding a gift was already hard enough, but the pure absurdity here made things feel more challenging than they needed to be. At least finding something perfect was a non-issue. He casually picked up one of the many spheres, one that looked like it contained an entire galaxy inside, and stared at it in utter confusion. 

   He whispered again, "What is your purpose??" while pushing his face close to the object. He then set it down again, suddenly worried that he might break it.

   "This isn't going to work…" he sighed, slowly stepping closer to the shelf's end and the window beside it. He sounded off more objects in his head as he continued forward. Weird blue crystal, a pair of sunglasses, a censor thing, some kind of… cap??

   For an antiques store all of this felt absurd-

   His confusion was momentarily broken as the peripheral of his eye caught onto something glistening. He turned his head to look and found… another necklace? A fairly simple one at that. It was a single golden string with a white elliptoid object on it. For some reason he felt compelled to pick it up, gently cupping the elliptoid and putting it in his hand.

   "What is this…" he asked himself, lifting his hand towards his face a little. The elliptoid looked almost like an egg. Its shell was adorned with beautifully designed spirals, rigid enough that rubbing a thumb over it allowed him to feel them out a little. It felt nice. Nice and warm. He wasn't sure why it was warm, probably because of the sunlight, but it was oddly calming to him.

   "It does look pretty neat," he said with a smile. His mind was wracking over all the possible representations this single object could hold. The warmth he feels around Jace, the way they have slowly have made him try to come out of his shell, the newness he felt upon realizing his love for them. A small laugh escaped his throat. All of those sound so cheesy, damn. But… they're the truth, are they not? 

   It feels so embarrassing though. His smile falters, his emotions dimming. What if it's too cheesy though? What if it comes out horribly and he makes a fool of himself in front of Jace? Damn it, damn it, damn it, he felt so fucking stupid!!

   He sighs. "I-I'm overthinking this, I have to… I have to calm down. I just…" he looked out the window, sighing. "I just wish I could better show my feelings…"

   Right as these words left his mouth the egg on the necklace began to glow. Bright gold shone from the unknown material, the object slowly shaking as it seemed to move closer to him. Hugo had felt the object moving in his hands and looked towards it, but barely got any time to process it as the object practically flung out of his hand and around his neck.

   "Wh-what the hell-" he exclaimed, feeling a tickling around his neck as the string tied around it. He reached up both hands to try and grasp the mysterious egg-like object and pull it off. However, the moment his palm made contact with it he felt an intense warmth run throughout his entire body. He took a few steps back, bumping into the shelf behind him, as an intense golden glow entered his irises.

   "What is… hhhaaa…."

   A hand opened, fingers unfurling away from the elliptoid as they began to twitch. A strange energy was filling his body, coursing through it painlessly and warming it to a strangely comforting degree. All the while strange changes was beginning to form into his form.

   His hands were the part of his body that first made contact with the necklace, which meant they were the first to have begun their transformation. As Hugo's fingers twitched his nails began to lengthen. They grew longer, the tips getting sharper and curling as if they were becoming claws. Their translucency was lost as they gained a golden tone as well. The skin on his hands started to lighten, a cream color entering them as the softness hardened. A leathery texture had steadily etched into them while their composition became less fleshy and more scaly.

   As the cream-colored scales started to form across his hands, their size was beginning to increase as well. Both hands had stretched out to become larger and thicker. His fingers were getting plumper and meatier. As his hands got larger in size he gripped both of them into fists, his knuckles proceeding to ache for a moment before short, sharp golden spikes erupted from beneath the scales.

   The scales quickly started to move upwards to his wrists and forearms. The area increased in size to match the proportions of his hands. However, this new enlargement had also been due to a gain in muscle mass. Comforting heat surging into his forearm muscles as they began to gain bulk. At the same time the coloration of his scales had steadily shifted, hue changing from its soft cream to a brilliant gold. All the while more short golden spikes erupted from the back of his forearms at evenly spaced intervals before seemingly ending at his elbow.

   His elbows got larger, the scales rapidly transitioning to his upper arm and running beneath the short sleeves of his polo shirt. The sleeves proceeded to constrict, his muscles now bloating beneath the lustrous scurf he was gaining. His biceps bulged beneath the fabric to a quickly noticeable degree. His triceps mirrored those changes as well, Hugo's once skinny arms now having been mostly consumed by his newfound musculature. Rips started to form within the fabric of his sleeves as his delts ballooned, his shoulders widening drastically as everything soon began to flow into his body proper.

   Hugo leaned on a shelf, breathing deeply as he stared down at a hand. His mind was feeling… conflicted, to say the least. A fraction of him wanted to be afraid, wanted to attempt to pry off this necklace from his neck. His other arm was slowly raising itself up to fulfill that desire. But his fingers that were slowly curling around the elliptoid never closed the gaps between them.

   There was still another fraction of his mind. Curiosity as to what was going on, as to what this object was doing to him. A strange desire to let that curiosity flourish and let these changes progress. What was happening to him, why was it happening?

   His breathing slowed just slightly. "What does this necklace want to do to me!?"

   It had to be the necklace's will after all. Such a thought felt so absurd, but in the back of his head he felt it was correct to assume to.

   A sharp exhale exited his mouth as he felt a sharp heat enter his torso for a second. His shirt began constricting even more as he felt his own collar bone widen, his entire frame being made more wide and broad. The one button of his polo he had fastened started straining as a result, his frame clearly getting larger than his shirt had been accustomed too. Shortly after that the comforting warmth entered his torso as well. The light of the necklace's egg glowed brighter for a moment, Hugo beginning to feel a strange feeling well up inside him as it did so.

   As the scales started to converge on his chest their color lightened back to its previous cream tone. Meanwhile, his chest began to swell in size. His pectorals got larger and rounder, packing on mass at a steady rate as his polo filled out more and more. It wasn't long until their thickening pressed up against his shirt, steadily testing its limits each passing second as his cleavage got deeper and more visible within the fabric. The new roundness of his pectorals were quite visible in general. The one fastened button of his shirt would suddenly pop off, unable to hold itself against the slabs of meat that were now his pecs.

   Meanwhile the changes were running down his back as well. The back of his shirt was tightening as his trapezius muscles broadened and enlarged. A sudden surge zipped down his spine, the vertebrae decompressing and getting thicker steadily forcing his height to increase by a few inches over the course of the next few minutes. But the strongest feeling was in two points of his upper back, a massive pressure slowly mounting into them. Two bumps slowly rising from the skin-turning-scales, hard spikes emerging from those bumps and beginning to poke holes in the fabric of his shirt. This pressure only seemed to increase as time went on, Hugo stumbling forward a bit and hunching. He gripped his abdomen with his left arm while he grasped onto a shelf with his right, the sound of metal crunching piercing the air thanks to the strength of his grip and sharpness of his claws. 

   Hugo practically growled at the mix of senses he was enduring right now. "F-fucking hell-" his voice cracks slightly, sounding slightly deeper as it crackles. "W-where'd that comfort go…"

   The warmth he was looking for still remained, albeit now drowned out by the insurmountable pressure in his back.

   His abdomen started to churn, the region rippling as his entire lower half was consumed by scales. Hardened slabs of muscles arose from the area, abs pushing forward row by row. His shirt was riding up his belly during the process, his new muscles being granted increasingly better visible. It wasn't long until a solid eight-pack of abs formed. An even stranger addition occurred in his abdominal as well, golden gemstones formed on the perpendicular folds of his muscles: a massive diamond-shaped one at the bottom of his pectoral cleavage, a smaller one at the base of his first row of abs, and the smallest at the base of the second row. 

   Beneath a hand he felt his side getting indented as well, the muscles in his obliques shifting and gaining in muscularity, strengthening as his chest was barrelling out. All these changes tightened his polo shirt to an even stronger degree, the threads on his sides unstitching due his much larger body size. The size of his newly formed muscles had resulted in the crevices his muscles had produced being visible from indents in the fabric. Due to his increasing height the hem of his shirt continued to rise even more as well.

   By this point, the holes in the back of his shirt has been stretched even larger by the formulating spikes. Although at this point the spikes had grown larger enough to prove themselves as the pointed ends of an external bone growth. This growth had continued to extend and expand, a pair of large triangular bulges swelling up at his back. Pressure just continued to build up as these bulges got larger and larger. More and more of the back of his shirt continued to tear, and the bulges gained more and more definition in their shape to point that they were proven to be more than just bulging scaley growths. But after a few more seconds of pressure building, everything came to one big feeling of relief.

   “GGRRRAAAAGHHHH!!!” Hugo roared, the sound of splitting fabric piercing the air as his back was finally granted escape from its discomfort. What had emerged from the region was a pair of magnificent wings. They were draconic in appearance with the flesh and membranes possessing the same golden scales that the rest of his body had formed. Furthermore his newly developed wingspan was noticeably large, and as the new appendages curled into themselves it became evident that the fingers of his wings were long enough to descend down to the ground. 

   The young man could feel the heat of his blood pumping through the newly emerged wings. Strange tingles and sensations coursed through his nervous system as his brain was forced to get accustomed to them, and in truth he could feel his muscle memory rapidly getting used to having them there. Once all the pressure and tightness had subsided, Hugo shakily straightened his back and looked behind him.

   “These… things…” he stated, his voice continuing to deepen in tone as he spoke. Like the feel of something commanding was seeping into it. “Why does… having them feel so… nice…?”

   Finally unhanding the shelf in front of him, he moves a hand over to give his new wings a gentle caress. That desire to be afraid had been dispelled now, the man filled with a feel of familiarity at the sight instead. These wings were his, and this body…

   This body is yours, a stray thought pierces his brain. The Celestial Egg is granting what you desire…

   Hugo blinked a few times at the thought, and the pupils of his eyes seemed to get thinner which each blink. He then stops caressing the wing and pulls his hand over to rub a thumb on the egg that adorned the necklace.

   “The Celestial Egg…” he whispered, the meekness of his earlier tone of voice almost completely replaced by an almost deific level of deepness. Meanwhile his mind dwells on the object and thinks about what it's done, what it's doing to him, and as he does so he feels a tinge of pressure at the base of his spine. 

   Instead of sitting around waiting for what he knew was about to explode from his body, he decided to just move his other arm behind him so he could push down the back of his pants a bit. It was a little hard considering his legwear was already at the point that it could barely fit around his waist, but he managed to push the top of his jeans just enough that he could let whatever pressure in his rear relieved itself without having to fight against his pants.

   The act had unveiled a small, pointed growth at the base of his spine. Its size wouldn't remain diminutive however as pressure continued to build up within it, that pressure causing it to quickly extend downwards. At first it started out being rather thin and small, like an unimpressive snake slithering out from above the waistline of his pants. However after a few inches it became noticeable that the lengthening appendage was beginning to get segmented, and each segment was slightly larger in diameter than the last. Come ten segments long and it was undeniable that Hugo was gaining a tail, and it was only getting longer. Twelve segments, fifteen, eighteen, twenty two; all with a sequential increase in diameter by almost an inch. Come the mid-twenties and the tail would be about a ruler in thickness. A few more seconds and the segment count reaches the thirties, in which the rate of growth begins to slow down. Thirty two, thirty three, thirty four… then it comes to a halt at about thirty five segments. By then the tail’s width was about a ruler and a half, and the length itself could only be about four times that long. It also formed with the tail’s aforementioned pointed tip, a series of spikes running across the top of certain segments, and a shine from the golden scales adorning it.

   Concurrent with the growth of his new appendage were the swath of changes entering into the lower half of his body. The sea of scales cascaded down all sides of his body, flowing down his waist and hardening the skin of his legs to match the nigh-reptilian nature the rest of his body was garnering. Beneath the shifting scales on his thighs were his muscles which, just like in his arms, were in the process of bulking up and discarding their once skinny appearance. His quads and hamstrings grew in conjunction with each other, absolutely bulging in strength as the denims of his jeans were forced to strain against his rapidly developing musculature. At the back of his legs were his gluteus muscles, them too in the process of swelling up to the point his rear was rounding out a fair bit.

   Pressure surged throughout the bones in his legs, and the bottoms of each pant leg rose up the crus of his own limbs indicating that more height was being added to his body. All the while a low heat burned in his calves, those muscles also ballooning out of the back of the lower half of his legs. By this point all the crevices that divided his muscles were indenting into the material of his pants, splits and tears forming in the sides of his jeans and revealing the shining gold his body had attained. It was like the changes had finely sculpted his form to a body type akin to the Grecian marble statues, except looking like he himself was worth billions.

   The final change in his body’s lower half came to his feet. By now they had already undergone a process to have grown in order to fit his new bodily proportions, larger and wider and thicker. His chunkier toes were pushing up against the fronts of his shoes to such a degree that the footwear themselves was bulging in its attempt to contain them. The heels of his own feet dug into the back of his shoes, and the sides pressed up against their sides. Even a few rips could be heard as the strings began to snap against the bridge of his feet.

   And then came the sea of scales…

   Once beyond his ankles the hardening of his flesh went from the pristiness of the rest of his form to getting mixed with a shade of vermillion around his feet. As his soles were covered in scales an almost reddish-orange hue formed in the area. Meanwhile the top of his feet seemed to practically harden as a scute-like segmenting broke apart the skin, perfectly dividing itself to align with the ligaments of his toes. And by the time this plating extended to the ends of his toes, an almost bronze shade of brown dispelled the translucency in his toenails as they gradually restructured and sharpened. Rips could be heard from the cloth of his shoes as a quintet of pointed claws emerged from the front, curved and pointed and almost bestial.

   Yet none of the sounds of his clothing shattering or the feeling of his form practically improving on itself were as much a distraction for Hugo as they could have been. All during that segment of the transformation his mind was instead focused on his own thoughts. Because the longer the changes are pressed on, the more his body becomes less human, the more information his brain seems to attain. The more the Egg puts into his mind to make his mentality compatible. And he knows it's the Egg that was doing this. His mind registers it as his unique Sacred Artifact.

   “Holding all that is and ever was in the very palm of my hand…” the changing man speaks cryptically, a low and deep chuckle escaping his throat after he makes the comment. He could practically feel the power of his own voice resonating through the walls of his throat. Although that could also be from the scales rising up his neck.

   A grin then forms on his face, any emotion he was feeling earlier cast away as a feeling of pure confidence had overtaken him. “…and out of everyone within you you're making me one of the most powerful there is? I should feel honored considering just who I used to be~”

   He could only grin wider as he felt pressure wracking his very skull. He lets out a laugh of triumphant glee and exclaims, “Yes! Give me that visage and make this Ophion complete!” For a moment the Celestial Egg around his neck glows brighter as if in response to him, then Ophion (who has at this point cast out the name Hugo) continued to grin as his face finally began to push out with his entire skull structure shifting alongside it.

   The way his skull was restructuring was a complicated series of events to say the least. The lower half of his face was being pushed forward, and his lower jaw seemed to be extending and growing to be a bit wider in size in comparison to the upper portion. That portion of his face would only continue to push out more and more into a muzzle, the very features of his face being reconstructed to fit this new development. His nose melted into the muzzle’s tip as the nostrils became holes at the furthest end, meanwhile his lips quivered as small portions of them reshaped into points and hardened as they did so. By this point his new snout was looking to be one that belonged to someone draconic in nature, much like how the rest of his body had. This was further proven by how the dome of his head was being reshaped, humanity rapidly being lost under a deluge of shifts that made his entire skull structure that of an entirely different species. 

   The shape of his skull wasn't the only thing changing either. As the scales washed across his head, rushing past his neck and circling the base of his muzzle, bony protrusions began painlessly erupting from certain areas of his face. On each side of his head a triad of bone spikes would emerge. The series of spikes just barely obscured his ears, which themselves were in the process of repositioning themselves to protrude at the sides of his head while also gaining an almost elfine pointedness to their structure. His eyebrows were quick to fade beneath the scales, quickly replaced by juttings of golden spikes that layered over yet another set of bone spike triplets that would rise from his browline. Even right in between his eyes a very small spike would emerge. And although these weren't spikes, a pair of short and pointed protrusions would extend out of both ends of his chin.

   All while these changes had occurred, Hugo’s somewhat lengthy hair was being steadily sloughed off. With each inch of his scalp the sea of gold claimed clumps of hair would slip off his head. It's once luscious fullness thinned out, each follicle being shoved out at the root by his magnificent scales. As more of his hair continued falling off it would also reveal one last set of growths on his head. The first of which was rising from the middle of his head’s apex, a series of short brown spikes that would soon run down the middle back of his head. The second of these changes however was significantly more substantial. Two brown points erupted from a portion of the upper region at his head’s back, and those points were quick to grow outwards and upwards. Unlike the rest of his face’s pointed protrusions, these ones were noticeably less bony despite possessing an appearance of hardness to them. And as the duo of brown growths continued to rise out from his skull, diameter getting a little larger as they got longer, it was evident that he was gaining a pair of horns.

   Perhaps the last major change came to Ophion’s teeth. The omnivorous nature of his humanity was quickly shifted, incisors and molars quickly sharpening to fit his new species well. The most drastic change would come to his lower canines though as the reasoning for his lower jaw’s protrusion finally came into tangibility. Much like the horns atop his head the left canine of the two lower teeth would extend upwards a fair bit while sharpening itself and, after a few seconds, shift into being more like a prominent fang. The rightward canine didn't get that luxury however as instead it seemed to practically atomize and leave the gum to harden and scar in mere seconds.

   The pressure that had enveloped the anthropomorphic dragon’s head finally began to subside. A glint of red overtook Ophion’s irises as the pupils finally properly slit like a reptile’s. “This feels so… good,” he muttered to himself as he raised up a hand and gently caressed his own face. “Makes me wish I had a mirror to see just how divine I look now!”

   Because at this point that's just how he felt: absolutely divine! His brain can register memories of a world beyond this one, a life beyond this one, all of which has been meshed and mixed with his own thoughts of his previous humanity. The Egg had taken his desire and, inevitably, went a bit overboard in fulfilling it. But Ophion hadn't cared, the personality overhaul he had garnered was absolutely wonderful! No more pitiful fears about how he acts, no more staggeringly low amounts of self-confidence, no more worries about… about how he can show his love to…

   “Jace…” he whispered beneath a breath. The very name carried the same familiarity that it had when he was a human. And thinking about it… about him made Ophion’s brain register the same emotion the dragon had towards him: an intense feeling of love. But now that intensity practically burned inside him, he felt a devotion that not even those atop the System of Olympus could fell. It was an unquantifiable feeling and was something he just couldn't hold himself from expressing!

   “I can finally do what I've wanted for so long~” Ophion proclaimed. He turns and takes a step forward, but is stopped in his tracks almost immediately as he feels a knee of his pants split over his own. It was at this point that the dragon had finally taken full notice of his extremely ill-fitting clothing. His polo was somehow still hanging on for dear life, meanwhile his jeans were a few stitches away from ripping apart at the sides.

   “I'm going to need something better than this if I'm going to look more presentable…” he sneered.

   The Celestial Egg sparkled a bit and glowed for a few seconds, prompting his clothing to sparkle themselves as a bright light enveloped them. A few seconds later and his clothes would begin to grow, expanding over his form so they could all cover him properly. The hem of his shirt was quick to descend over his abdominal region as the entirety of it enlarged enough that his muscle mass wouldn't indent so intricately into the fabric. But then a different change occured, a deep brown beginning to overtake the coloration of the shirt at a rapid pace. As it did so the small placket of the polo began to extend down the middle, golden buttons lining it but not even bothering to fasten themselves. The once small collar would also lengthen, popping itself upwards as it raised higher and higher. And as the shirt’s split finished its full formation the entirety of the shirt would open to now fully reveal his muscled torso. Meanwhile the back of his shirt was seemingly being restitched, the giant hole formed by his wings altering to become more intentional rather than a byproduct of the appendages tearing through it.

   The sleeves of the shirt weren't left unscathed as any rips were fixed almost instantly. The constricted feeling was alleviated, changed to a more snug feel as they more comfortably outlined his upper arm muscles. By the time the sleeves were enveloped by the brown coloration they would also bulge as if they were simultaneously extending in length while still trying to contain themselves to their shortness. This would eventually manifest in the form of his shirt sleeves now taking a rolled up appearance.

   A similar discoloration had entered his enlarging pants, although this time it was more beige in tone that was enough to shift the denim into a different and finer material. The shifts within his legwear were a little less intense as they would also only enlarge enough to allow movement yet still be tight enough to outline his muscles, all while fixing themselves of the damage his unexpected growth in muscle had incurred. The button that held the jeans closed gained a golden tone, as did the zipper, both of which being left completely open despite the fact his pants fit him now. And with no belt the only thing that held the jeans on his body was a pair of suspenders that snaked from over his shoulders and down his torso before promptly buckling on his legwear.

   The last piece of his attire that remained were his shoes which after being enveloped by the Egg’s magical light… straight up dematerialized into motes of light and leaving his feet bare. The motes of light didn't disappear however, instead floating upwards and behind the dragon before seemingly rematerializing into something else entirely. Fine silken material layering onto his back, amorphousness quickly dispelling as it gained a menagerie of whites and browns, all with trims of gold lining. It was hard to fully realize at first but it would seem that some kind of suit jacket had manifested behind him, being worn casually as it was just clinging onto his shoulders.

   With that the Egg’s glow finally dimmed, Ophion now sporting a look that could only be described as both distinguished and casual. With a smile he held the Artifact with two claws and brought it to his face. “Really abiding by all my wants today, hm?”

   For once the Egg didn't shine in response. The dragon wasn't expecting any though, so he unhanded the object and let it drift back to hang over his chest. He then sauntered forward, making his way out of the aisle… and into the eyeline of a very awestruck Maurice who was still behind the counter.

   “Was wonderin’ if I needed to check on ya’...” Maurice commented as he made eye contact with the anthropomorphic dragon.

   “Does this not happen often?” Ophion inquired as he stepped forward towards the counter. “I can practically smell the stench of anomalous magic from this place now…”

   “Err…” Maurice looked away.

   Ophion chuckled. “Do not think I give much of a care with what you do here. Although I do give thanks for your wares allowing me to attain such a brilliant form~ I don't think I've felt this great in ages!”

   “Uhuh…” Maurice nodded, face still in a mix of awe and surprise. “Well, that’ll be-”

   “I'll be deciding the price here…” the dragon practically demanded. He fished around a back pocket for a bit and pulled out a wallet, although upon opening it he was greeted with his former self’s image in the ID photo window. “…and I have a feeling I won't be here for much longer.”

   Ophion then placed the wallet onto the counter, then turned to make his leave. “Thank you for your help, Maurice! Your actions shall be etched into my memory for as long as time flows!”

   Maurice is just left dumbfounded as he watches Ophion leave the store and, after a good few seconds, jet into the air as one would expect a dragon to do.

   “...still not quite sure how to process that,” the storeowner muttered as his gaze drifted to the wallet the dragon had left behind as payment.

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   The sound of a blender pierced the air of the apartment, Jace idly watching as the fruit within the object was shredded into a fine paste. He was never quite sure how to spend days off from work whenever he was left alone. Especially since he had his hopes on spending the day with Hugo, but it was almost 5PM and Hugo hadn't gotten back from his mysterious shopping trip yet.

   The apartment falls into silence and Jace eyes his phone. Not even an indicator that his last text was read. “What could he be doing…?” the man muttered in concern.

   Then the melancholy serenity of the room was broken in an instant by the sound of a thump from the apartment balcony. A giant shadow being cast through the glass, easily visible from the kitchen’s adjacency to the balcony door.

   “Uhhhh…” Jace backed up a bit, eyeing the shadow with a slowly building fear in his chest. He couldn't make out what it was, it was just large and… monstrous?

   He then hears the balcony door slide open. A sound that prompted him to turn around and scramble for a knife or something to-

   “Jace…” a deep voice called out, interrupting his actions. Jace promptly squeaked in response, heart rate skyrocketing. He very slowly turns around to see the form of a golden-scaled musclebound dragon anthro staring straight at him.

   “Wh-what are you?!?”

   The dragon tilted its head, a spiky brow raised. “How undignified, I probably should've…” he shoved a hand in a pant pocket and pulled out a phone. “Please give me a moment.”

   Jace just stood there in fearful silence as he watched the dragon futz around with their phone, the sound of claws tapping on glass being the only thing fully heard in the apartment. Then after a few moments a look of satisfaction formed on the dragon’s face.

   “Here,” the dragon held the phone out, its wallpaper fully visible to Jace. The man’s eyes widened as he saw the image: a picture of himself and Hugo. This was Hugo’s phone.

   With a shaky step forward Jace began to verbally panic. “Where did you- what did you-”

   A look of realization then formed on the dragon's face. “Jace, my love, it's me. Hugo.”

   “Your love???” Jace exclaimed, eyeing up the golden dragon with some level of fury in his eyes. “I don't- you can't be! For one, Hugo’s a human!”

   “Was, I was a human,” the dragon corrected. “It would be hard to explain it all fully but,” he raised up a hand and tapped what looked to be an egg that was hanging around his neck. “This? This changed me into this glorious form.”

   Jace was far from convinced though. “Please, people don't just suddenly transform into dragons! You- you have to have done something to him-”

   “Our anniversary is in two months, the receipts for the bracelet you bought me for it are in the dresser next to our bed, and you’re still trying to reserve a date for that one restaurant with the shrimp,” the dragon listed out in rapid succession. He then stepped forward with his arms outstretched. “Now do you believe me, my love? Or must I go into your personal confessions?”

   Jace swallowed a lump in his throat. All those things the reptilian spoke of were correct, and there's no way he could've garnered that information unless he was somehow spying on the two of them. “I-I was hoping you wouldn't have noticed any of that!”

   “We live in an apartment, love,” the dragon, Hugo apparently, stated as he leaned over the kitchen’s island. “It's almost impossible to hide such sensitive information.”

   Jace just nods as he stared into Hugo’s eyes, and just looked at his draconic visage in general. He appeared so nonchalant, so calm, and his face seemed to look more tender the longer he looked at Jace. 

   “I'm… still trying to process this,” Jace began leaning onto the counter behind him. “How the heck did you get that… thing that transformed you into this, Hugo…?”

   “I'd like to start by saying I go by Ophion now. In truth I was trying to find an adequate gift for this coming Valentine's Day,” Ophion began to recount. “I found an interesting antique's store a few days back and decided to pay a visit today. Although in truth it seems that place is some kind of front for magical artifact vending but well…” a somber look formed on his face as he took hold of the necklace’s egg and held it into view. “Truthfully I've always felt like an inadequate lover to you. I was hoping to get you something that'd prove myself, and perhaps make up for my lackluster approach to our relationship. Once I picked up the Celestial Egg it resonated with my desires and made me into this. Transformed me physically, mentally…”

   The dragon leaned a little closer, a fervorous look in his eyes. “Perhaps it even deepened my love for you…”

   Jace let out a sharp exhale, then stepped forward to gently caress Ophion’s face. “Hu- Ophion. You don't have to give me some trinket to prove your love to me. And truthfully for me, I never found you lackluster at all! Perhaps a little neurotic but, you were always still a wonderful person…”

   He then gave the dragon a kiss on the snout.

   “...but I should really ask if you feel better about yourself?”

   “I do,” the dragon confessed. Ophion lifted his head out of Jace’s grasp and straightened himself up. His form from the waist up was visible from behind the kitchen island: strong muscles, glistening scales, those weird crystals embedded in his body. Jace couldn't even help but give a glance at Ophion’s wings, the man wincing at the thought of having to suddenly grow those. Nonetheless, the golden reptilian had a certain confident aura that Hugo seemed to always have trouble mustering.

   “I can't say I'm the same person I was as a human,” Ophion admitted. “The way this Egg works, it put so much into me to make me fit an identity I desired. But I will also admit a fraction of that was because I wanted to be able to better show how much I love you, my love~”

   “I don't think you had to change yourself into a literal dragon to show how much you love me,” Jace said with a laugh. “I'm glad you're happy though. I will admit I'm getting used to being called your love, it's so dignified!”

   He then paused. “Now how will we explain to the landlord that my boyfriend has become a real life scalie…”

   Ophion let out a hearty laugh. “We don't need to deal with that now…” he then walked around the counter to properly stand near Jace. “It's just me and you, today~”

   Ophion then brought Jace into a warm embrace. This mostly meant Jace was being pressed up into the dragon's meaty pecs as he was put into a hug. It made the man blush a bit…

   “Now then…” Ophion’s voice lowers to a whisper, and Jace could feel himself being lifted. “How about I show you how a universe can be made…?”

   Jace raised a brow. “What's that supposed to mean?”

   Ophion just chuckled, and Jace turned his head and found himself being moved out of the kitchen. It took a few more seconds for him to fully register what was about to happen as he realized they were moving into a hallway, and everything finally clicked.

   They were heading to the bedroom…

[bloody-wonder]

mid-year book tag

1. Best Book You’ve Read So Far in 2024? i have read so many good ones this year but no particular one stands out to me as The Best so i'll name top 5 instead (in the order i read them in): a thousand stitches, doctrine of labyrinths, in other lands, big swiss, my brilliant friend - so, quite a range of genres and tones, as usual :)

2. Best Sequel You’ve Read So Far in 2024? the virtu is definitely my favorite part of doctrine of labyrinths and the tropic of serpents, the second book in the memoirs of lady trent, was just a perfect historical fantasy adventure novel - it's like if jane austen wrote indiana jones except it's also a nature documentary about dragons. last but not least, empire of the damned which came out in march solidified jay kristoff's empire of the vampire as my favorite vampire book series. you might have heard me screaming about it from the rooftops. all three of these sequels, i find, are even better than the previous book in their respective series.

3. New Release You Haven’t Read Yet, But Want To? i'm saving kj charles' death in the spires for the fall since it's a spooky campus murder mystery (i think?) and i also want to read apostles of mercy and so finish lindsay ellis' sci fi series (which i have lost interest in somewhat tbh but i'm nothing if not a completionist lol). i was curious about the familiar but the reviews i've seen don't look too promising so i'm probably not going to prioritize it.

4. Most Anticipated Release For Second Half of 2024? i'm looking forward to kj charles' new romance book, the duke at hazard, as well as the new evander mills mystery, rough pages, but the piece of fiction i'm anticipating the most is actually the radioapple southern gothic au by my favorite fanfic author reminiscentbells. she's going to write the whole thing this summer and start posting in september - i'm so excitedddd😱

5. Biggest Disappointment? emily wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries is the book equivalent of a ghoul wearing the skin of your beloved. i wasn't a fan of a deadly education either😒 was very excited to read gaywyck but the expectations of "jane eyre but gay" which the cover of that book gave me were unfortunately not met🤷‍♀️

6. Biggest Surprise? i didn't think i might be into extreme horror and neither did i fancy myself a sally rooney girlie so i was quite surprised that i liked her conversations with friends as well as the sluts by dennis cooper. will definitely read more from both authors next year. an even bigger surprise however was solitaire which i picked up on a whim after tori came out as ace in the last heartstopper volume. i have a complicated relationship with alice oseman's books mostly due to the fact that i'm years past the target demographic age but still feel compelled to read them bc it seems they're the only mainstream books with prominent aro/ace rep out there. so i didn't expect much and was astonished to discover that tori spring is like looking at a mirror reflection of my 18yo self - uncanny in a fun way. ig i shouldn't be so surprised this turned out to be my favorite oseman book since it's the one with the most mixed reviews lol people like to hate a depressed teenage girl😬

7. Favorite New Author? i have devoured doctrine of labyrinths and the cemeteries of amalo in february so now i can safely say sarah monette aka katherine addison is one of my favorite authors. each of her series has a different tone but there are consistent themes of real or magical disability and non amatonormative relationships which are explored in creative ways throughout her stories. i also like her worldbuilding quite a bit, especially the naming systems and fantasy terminology. i read more books by celeste ng as well as by vale aida - both are likely to become favorite authors too. in the latter's case - provided she writes a sequel to hostis. if not, i shall never forgive her😅

8. Newest Favorite Character? okay this is just impossible to narrow down! first of all, liathe from empire of the damned bc i want her Gender: wearing a porcelain mask and a splendid crimson coat, formally bowing to her adversaries before she beats the shit out of them with her blood sword, referring to herself by the royal we and hissing every time she speaks - character of all time material right there. behold my beautiful girl who has done nothing wrong!🥰

(official illustrations by bon orthwick)

secondly, elliot schafer bc he's the most obnoxious prickly boy in other lands and yet everyone wants him carnally lol. i adore his internal monologue - probably the best i've read in ya. his dialogue too tbh - his cutting repartee game is off the charts. honestly, he's just my favorite type of character: a mean bisexual gremlin who scolds people so creatively that they fall in love with him on the spot. what more can you ask.

finally, i have to mention that to my great surprise i liked mildmay more than felix harrowgate🤯 idk felix is this cunty traumatized savant which is a character archetype i'm used to liking so it was a safe bet. the opposites attract sidekick or love interest of such a character is usually not my cup of tea but mildmay is the exception that proves the rule ig. mostly it's bc of his unusual manner of speaking with those funny slang turns of phrase and just generally the contrast between his expressive internal monologue and his reserved demeanor. as a result, he easily rivals felix as the most interesting guy in the book. such excellent character work! taking my hat off to monette🎩

9. Newest Fictional Crush? i reserve this question for that special kind of obsession only a very particular character can inspire and this year it's alastor from hazbin hotel. which, i know, is not a book but i have read so much alastor fanfic in the last few months that he's basically like a book character to me at this point lol

💕Best Ship💕 elliot schafer and luke sunborn are very cute. i don't usually go for cute but here we are. especially after reading that short story from luke's pov i realized i just need more of these two together😌 felix and mildmay with their unholy magic bdsm union - need i say more? forbidden ship that watered my crops. last but not least, i'm currently trudging through the realm of the elderings bc of fitz and the fool and as of assassin's quest it finally started paying off: i'm being queerbaited and asking for more🥲

10. Book That Made You Cry? a thousand stitches is such a wholesome cozy book and it made me cry multiple times the way that a nostalgic movie from childhood can make you cry sometimes. especially the pug scene😭 the scenes of thara celehar walking the corn maze in the cemeteries of amalo made me cry a lot too. the symbolic depths addison is able to achieve with the labyrinth motif, the exploration of grief and forgiveness and letting go - unparalleled🤌

11. Book That Made You Happy? a thousand stitches made me happy! especially the pug scene!!😅 honestly it was like watching a disney movie back when they were good except also more relatable bc atwater's characters read neurodivergent and aspec-coded to me. love how she maintains that the kiss of true love that breaks the faerie curse doesn't have to be romantic. re-reading the three musketeers made me very happy too - it's one of my top 10 favorite books of all time and i was kinda nervous i might not like it as much as an adult. well the joke's on me bc now i can confirm it's one of the best books ever written😊 reading in other lands and big swiss cheered me up a lot too bc they're just so damn funney😄

12. Favorite Book Adaptation You Saw This Year? haven't seen a lot of adaptations so ig dune part two wins by default. twas a fine movie. the wheel of time is also a nice show in my opinion but i didn't read the source material so idk how good it is adaptation-wise🤷‍♀️

13. Favorite Review You’ve Written This Year? my favorite ones are probably the ones i wrote about the three musketeers and in other lands but i think i also wrote some good critical/negative reviews of the mask of mirrors and of the vorkosigan books i read this year (1 2 3)

14. Most Beautiful Cover? behold the cover of the voyage of the basilisk!🤩 i want to frame it and hang it on my wall so that i can gaze at it adoringly and connect with my inner ishmael

(art by todd lockwood)

i also like this vintage romance cover of gaywyck and the uk covers of the farseer trilogy. it's a shame that the books are not as good as the covers led me to believe. especially in the case of gaywyck - this cover is Such A Vibe! but alas

15. What Books Do You Need To Read By The End of The Year? in terms of series i want to finish the memoirs of lady trent, read one more witcher book, at least a couple vampire chronicles and then reread swordspoint and hopefully complete that series too. other fantasy i want to get to at last is fire & blood and the hands of the emperor - both are big and intimidating tho. for my classics challenge i need to finish a couple of tomes i'm reading slowly throughout the year and then also read the name of the rose. american psycho and mona awad's bunny have been on my tbr for ages - maybe i'll finally read them this fall. and i also want to finish reading kj charles' backlist bc the completionism drive is stronger than the fear of having no kj charles to read lol

i never do things a normal amount - every time i take up new media i go all in. so i had a musicals phase, a movies phase, a tv show phase - each lasting a few years and then i barely watched any of these once the phase ended. which is why i've been wondering if my current Book Phase is about to wrap up soon but, given how many books i managed to read since january, it sure doesn't seem that way. instead, it feels like the more i read the better i am at finding books that i'm likely to enjoy - which leads to more reading. and i cannot complain about that tbh😁📚

tagging @magpiefngrl @doh-rae-me @oliviermiraarmstrongs @fugitoidkry @pinkasrenzo @counterwiddershins @figuringthengsout @sugarbabywenkexing @fandomreferencepending @venndaai @weirdsociology @sixappleseeds @theodoradove

please tell me what you've been reading this year (if you want)! one can't have too many book recs👀

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[bnhaobservation]

Full “Boku No Hero Academia” Timeline (Last update: 2024-09-28)

WHAT IS THIS?

This BNHA timeline was done to help me with my fic and therefore it’s mostly focused on the Todoroki family so you’ll find a lot on info about it, including which age Todorokis are year after year and which school they’re attending at. It however contains also almost everything else that happens in the story, including character birthdays and events that don’t strictly regard the Todoroki family.

It's still a tentative version as it's still missing bits from sidematerial here and there but it's mostly complete, though often info are given in an EXTREMELY summarized version. As it covers the whole story it has of course plenty of spoilers if you hadn't finished it.

NOTES:

In BNHA ages are given according to which age the character currently is and not according to the age the character would turn in that year. This means, for example, that although Todoroki Tōya is said being 23 while Todoroki Fuyumi and Takami Keigo are said being 22, the three are actually all born in the same year because Tōya is said being 23 POST his birthday, while Fuyumi and Keigo are said being 22 BEFORE their birthday.

We don’t know in which year BNHA takes place so it’s not possible to add to this timeline the BNHA universe year counting.

Since naming years is kind of useful in a timeline and this was originally meant to be a Todoroki family timeline only, I first considered as Year 0, the year in which Todoroki Enji had birth, as he would be the oldest and everything strictly related to the Todoroki family would happen after his birth and we would have years placed in a progressive manner.

When I started adding facts that weren’t strictly related to the Todoroki family I decided to also add the name the years considering Year 0 the one in which Todoroki Shōto starts to go to U.A. This of course means that BNHA starts in the year -1 and that all the years prior to that event are counted with negative numbers.

In Japan, in order to start Elementary school, you need to be already 6. This means if you’re born past the 2nd of April you won’t be allowed to start Elementary school in the year during which you turned 6 but will have to do it the year after. That’s why Todoroki Tōya and Todoroki Fuyumi, despite having birth in the same year, went to school in two different years and why Todoroki Shōto was in the same class with Midoriya Izuku despite having birth in the year after the one in which Midoriya Izuku was born.

ABOUT YAGI TOSHINORI/ALL MIGHT:

We don’t know his exact age just that he’s supposed to be over 55 (in BNHA Chap 397 he says ‘50 mo nakaba wo koete’ 50も半ばを超えて “I’m over mid 50s”) but, very likely Yagi Toshinori is around 10 years older than Todoroki Enji. In fact he met Shimura Nana at 14, same as Midoriya he likely didn’t receive One for All immediately after meeting her but he needed to receive it after he turned 15 in order to go to U.A high school (the rule they would accept Quirkless people was removed only recently or so BNHA Chap 1 said) and he kept it for 40 years (BNHA Chap 304), meaning he was 55 about to turn 56 when he handed it to Midoriya and, when he faced All for One, he was 56 about to turn 57, which match with how he’s supposed to be over 55. Due to this I placed his birth at U.A. YEAR -56. Mind you, I might still be wrong.

ABOUT SHIMURA NANA:

According to “All Might Rising” she dies when Yagi Toshinori/All Might is 18. Since, according to the script for Ep. 49 she’s 31 when she meets Yagi Toshinori and he’s 14 this means she died at 35. If we accept Yagi Toshinori/All Might had birth in U.A. YEAR -56 this would mean (31-14)+56=73, therefore placing her birth in U.A. YEAR -73. Mind you, since I’m not 100% sure of when Yagi Toshinori/All Might had birth, I might still be wrong.

ABOUT THE ASUI FAMILY MEMBERS:

Although we’ve their ages, we don’t have their birthdays. Due to this I’m assuming the sidestory, which takes place in between FEBRUARY and APRIL, also takes place before their birthdays. If this weren’t to be the case, they would be born in the year prior to the one in which I placed their birth.

ABOUT THE DATE IN WHICH THE TODOROKI KIDS ARE CONCEIVED:

Yeah, this list contains them to but they’re based around the idea Rei’s pregnancy lasted EXACTLY 9 months. It’s worth to remember that, although the English version of the manga in chap 302 seems to imply Todoroki Tōya was born premature, this was actually a mistranslation. The Japanese test only says ‘Hayaumare no chīsana karada ni yōyaku otozure hajimeta nijiseichō’ (早生まれの小さな身体に漸く訪れ始めた二次性徴 “Secondary sexual characteristics have finally begun to appear in the small body of the hayaumare”.) An ‘Hayaumare’ isn’t a premature kid but someone born between January 1 and April 1. In Japan this is relevant because in order to start school you need to be 6 by the time the 2 of April comes around, meaning the Hayaumare are the youngest kids in the class as they’re born in the year following the one in which the other kids, or ‘Osoumare’ (遅生まれ “born in between April 2 and December 31”), were born. Long story short this only means Tōya was one of the younger kids in his class. Todoroki Shōto is an ‘Hayaumare’ as well, while Todoroki Fuyumi, Todoroki Natsuo and Todoroki Enji are all ‘Osoumare’.

ABOUT REI’S HOSPITALIZATION AND TŌYA’S DEATH:

In the magazine version it was said Todoroki Rei poured boiling water on Todoroki Shōto AFTER Todoroki Tōya’s death. Horikoshi though said this was a mistake and retconned it in the volume version so, according to canon, Rei was hospitalized PRIOR to Tōya’s death.

ABOUT THE PROVISIONAL HERO LICENCE EXAMS:

They’re held each year in April or June and September in three different locations. [BNHA Chap 102, 114. In chap 102 it was said June and September but in chap 114 it was said April and September.]

ABOUT THE HERO BILLBOARD CHART JP:

It takes place each year in May and November.

ABOUT “TEAM-UP MISSIONS”:

We don’t know exactly when the “Team-Up Missions” program starts.

It’s after the students have gotten their provisional licences, in fact All Might mentions how the arena in which the students can perform is now bigger as they have gotten their provisional licences, and this will be especially thanks to the “Team-Up Missions” program, so after September.

It should also be after November Japanese Hero Billboard chart, as all the Heroes (Mirko, Hawks, Endeavor) have already the ranks that will be given to them during it but, since in the first chapter Bakugō hadn’t changed his Hero costume yet (but he will in Mission 2), likely the whole thing took place pretty close to it and continues till March, just before the Paranormal Liberation War. That or this is a completely separate AU.

LEGENDA:

Y1: Birthday and age were given during the first year of Todoroki Shōto at U.A. (Y1= year 1)

Y2: Birthday and age were during the second year of Todoroki Shōto at U.A. (Y2= year 2)

AB: Birthday and age were given before that character were to have his birthday that year (AB= ante birthday)

PB: Birthday and age were given after that character were to have his birthday that year (PB= post birthday)

U.A. YEAR: Years counted considering the year in which Todoroki Shōto enters in U.A. as the Year 0.

Enji year: Years counted considering the birth of Todoroki Enji as the Year 0.

BNHA: “Boku no HERO ACADEMIA” (僕のヒーローアカデミア My Hero Academia) manga.

OAV 1: “Sukue! Kyūjo Kunren!” (救え!救助訓練! Save! Rescue Training)

OAV 2: "Training of the Dead”

OAV 6: “Tabidachi” (旅立ち Departure)

AMR: “N.0 - ALL MIGHT: RISING” the short story in Vol. Origin “Futari no Hero”.

D&BR: “Izuku (read: DEKU) & Bakugō: RISING” (出久(デク)&爆豪: ライジング) the short story in two parts included alongside Chapter 254 & 255 in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 3, 2020 & 4-5, 2020 and later collected in “Team-up Missions” Vol. 2.

LOVU: “No??? Teki (read: VILLAIN) Rengō: UNDERCOVER” (No.??? 敵(ヴィラン)連合: UNDERCOVER No.??? League of Enemies (Read: Villains): Undercover) the short story in Vol. Rising “HEROES: RISING”.

EM: “ENDEAVOR MISSION” (エンデヴァーズ ミッション) the short story included alongside Chapter 321 in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 35, 2021.

HS: “HAWKS: SOOTHE” (ホークス: SOOTHE) the short story in Vol. “World Heroes”.

CTTD: “CONNECT TO THE DAY” the short story included alongside Chapter 429 in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 35, 2024.

UArch: “Boku no HERO ACADEMIA Ultra Archive” (2016/05/02).

UAnal: “Boku no HERO ACADEMIA Ultra Analysis” (2019/10/04)

IOP: “MY HERO ACADEMIA INTERNSHIP OFFICIAL PAMPHLET” (2019/12/26).

AScript: “Anime script”.

SB: “Boku no HERO ACADEMIA: U.A. Hakusho (僕のヒーローアカデミア 雄英白書 Lit: “My Hero Academia: U.A. White Paper”)” called in English “My Hero Academia: School Briefs”

MOVIE 1: “Boku no HERO ACADEMIA THE MOVIE ～Futari no heroes (read: HERO)～” [僕のヒーローアカデミア THE MOVIE～２人の英雄 (ヒーロー)～ My Hero Academia the movie: Two Heroes]

MOVIE 2: “Boku no HERO ACADEMIA THE MOVIE ～HEROES: RISING～” [僕のヒーローアカデミア THE MOVIE～ヒーローズ:ライジング～ My Hero Academia the movie: Heroes Rising]

MOVIE 3: “Boku no Hero Academia The Movie ～WORLD HEROES MISSION～” [僕のヒーローアカデミア THE MOVIE～ワールドヒーローズミッション～ My Hero Academia the movie: World Heroes’ Mission]

MOVIE 4: “Boku no Hero Academia The Movie ～YOU’RE NEXT～” [僕のヒーローアカデミア THE MOVIE～YOU’RE NEXT～ My Hero Academia the movie: You’re Next]

VIGIL: “Vigilante -Boku no Hero Academia Illegals-”

TIMELINE

U.A. YEAR -138?

DATE UNKNOWN: Birth of Shigaraki (死柄木) aka All for One (オール・フォー・ワン) [Age: 100+ AMR. If we add to it the years that went by to reach the current point in the story we get he’s over 138]

DATE UNKNOWN: Birth of Shigaraki Yoichi (死柄木 与一) [BNHA Chap 407. He’s the youngest twin brother of Shigaraki/All for One]

U.A. YEAR -137?

DATE UNKNOWN: Birth of 50 babies with meta abilities in India [BNHA Chap 407. It was 2 weeks prior to the birth of the luminescent baby]

DATE UNKNOWN: Birth of the luminescent baby (発光 する 赤児 Hakkō suru akago) [BNHA Chap 407. He was born one year after the Shigaraki twins]

U.A. YEAR -120?

DATE UNKNOWN: Birth of Garaki Kyūdai (殻木 球大) aka Ujiko Daruma (氏子 達磨) aka Tsubasa (翼) [Age: 120+. BNHA Chap 270]

U.A. YEAR -73?

DATE UNKNOWN: Birth of Shimura Nana (志村 菜奈) [Age of death: 35. AScript Ep. 49 & AMR. For more info see above]

U.A. YEAR -69?

DATE UNKNOWN: The Paranormal Singularity (超常 特異点 ‘Chōjō tokuiten’) theory aka Quirk Singularity (個性 特異点 ‘Kosei Tokuiten’) theory is written by Garaki Kyūdai and then dismissed and mocked and his writer goes missing [BNHA Chap 270. During the attack at Jaku hospital they said it was mocked 70 years before, though, of course, it can be an approximation]

U.A. YEAR -62?

DATE UNKNOWN: Garaki Kyūdai is assumed dead [BNHA Chap 270. Officially Garaki Kyūdai went missing and some years later he was assumed dead. In Japan missing people are declared dead after 7 years]

U.A. YEAR -60

MAY 12: Birth of Tanuma Eizō (田沼 栄三) [Age 36+24=60. He’s 24 year older than Tsukauchi Naomasa. VIGIL Chap 85]

U.A. YEAR -56?

JUNE 10: Birth of Yagi Toshinori (八木 俊典) aka All Might (オール マイト) [Age 55+ BNHA Chap 1 & BNHA Chap 397. For more info see above]

U.A. YEAR -47

MARCH 4: Birth of Kurumada Untenmaru (車田 運天丸) [Age 47 Y2AB BNHA Chap 250]

JULY 13: Birth of Shimura Kotarō (志村 弧太朗) [Age of death: 32. BNHA Chap 237. 32+15=47. He might have been born in the previous year, as we aren’t sure if he dies prior or after his birthday. I would say after as the clothes worn by the characters in the BNHA Chap seem to imply it’s hot season]

U.A. YEAR -46 (Enji year 0)

AUGUST 8: Birth of Todoroki Enji (轟 炎司) aka Flame Hero: Endeavor (フレイム ヒーロー エンデヴァー) [Age 45 Y1AB BNHA Chap 37]

U.A. YEAR -45 (Enji year 1)

MARCH 16: Birth of Drive, Ethan (イーサン・ドライブ) [Age 45 Y2AB BNHA Chap 336]

APRIL 14: Birth of Higawara Sajin (日河原 砂塵) aka Sand Hero: Snatch (サンド ヒーロー スナッチ) [Age 45 Y1PB BNHA Chap 160]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 1.

DATE UNKNOWN: Birth of Asui Ganma (蛙吹 頑馬) [Age 44 Y1AB? Sidestory Vol 10. For more info see above]

U.A. YEAR -44 (Enji year 2)

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 2.

U.A. YEAR -43 (Enji year 3)

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 3.

U.A. YEAR -42 (Enji year 4)

MARCH 15: Birth of Bakugō Masaru (爆豪 勝) [Age 42 Y1PB BNHA Chap 96]

JULY 4: Birth of Bate, Cathleen (キャスリーン・ベイト) aka Star and Stripe (スター アンド ストライプ) [Age 42 Y2AB BNHA Chap 334]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 4.

U.A. YEAR -41 (Enji year 5)

IN WINTER OR SPRING: After losing his family Yagi Toshinori (14) meets for the first time Shimura Nana (31) who has lost her husband [BNHA Chap 397/398. In Ep. 49 they added snow falling on the scene which would place it in JANUARY but there’s no snow falling in the manga and I wouldn’t be surprised if this would mean this meeting takes place in APRIL, at the beginning of the school year same as it has happened for All Might and Midoriya Izuku’s meeting]

MARCH 23: Birth of Ectoplasm (エクトプラズム) [Age 41 Y1PB BNHA Chap 61]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 5.

JULY 4: Birth of Midoriya Inko (緑谷 引子) [Age 41 Y1PB BNHA Chap 108]

SEPTEMBER 17: Birth of Maijima Higari (埋島 干狩) aka Excavation Hero: Power Loader (掘削 ヒーロー パワーローダー Kussaku HERO POWER LOADER) [Age 40 Y1AB BNHA Chap 101]

DATE UNKNOWN: Birth of Asui Beru (蛙吹 鈴) [Age 40 Y1AB? Sidestory Vol 10. For more info see above]

U.A. YEAR -40 (Enji year 6)

JANUARY 16: Birth of Jirō Kyōtoku (耳郎 響徳) [Age 40 Y1PB BNHA Chap 97]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 6.

DATE UNKNOWN: Yagi Toshinori (15) receives from Shimura Nana All for One and will keep it for 40 years. With it he will be able to attend U.A. High school [BNHA Chap 304]

U.A. YEAR -39 (Enji year 7)

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji starts Elementary School.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 7.

DECEMBER 1: Birth of Bakugō Mitsuki (爆豪 光己) [Age 38 Y1AB BNHA Chap 96]

U.A. YEAR -38 (Enji year 8)

JANUARY 2: Birth of Sasaki Mirai (佐々木 未来) aka Sir Nighteye (サー・ナイトアイ) [Age 38 Y1PB BNHA Chap 127]

MARCH 9: Birth of Mera Yokumiru (目良 善見) [Age 38 Y1PB BNHA Chap 107]

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji starts his 2nd year at Elementary school.

EARLY JULY: Shimura Nana (35) is killed by All for One through Yagi Toshinori/All Might (18) is taken away by Torino Sorahiko/Gran Torino who’ll become his teacher in his final year at U.A. [AMR]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 8.

OCTOBER 10: Birth of Tsutsumi Kaina (筒美 火伊那) aka Lady Nagant (レディ・ナガン) [Age Late 30s Y2AB BNHA Chap 312 which, in her profile, says ‘30-Dai kōhan... to dake’３０代後半...とだけ “Late 30s... that’s all” so she could actually be one year younger or one year older, I’ve merely chosen 38 Y2AB because it’s the middle number between the three possible numbers]

U.A. YEAR -37 (Enji year 9)

MARCH’S THIRD WEEK: Yagi Toshinori/All Might graduates from U.A. and goes in the States [AMR]

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji starts his 3rd year at Elementary school.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 9.

U.A. YEAR -36 (Enji year 10)

FEBRUARY 16: Birth of Jirō Mika (耳郎 美香) [Age 36 Y1PB BNHA Chap 97]

MARCH 1: Birth of Tokoname Tatsuyuki (常滑 達行) aka Slidin' Go (スライディン・ゴー) [Age 36 Y1PB BNHA Chap 219]

APRIL 4: Birth of Tsukauchi Naomasa (塚内 直正) aka True Man (トゥルー マン) [Age 36 Y1PB BNHA Chap 25]

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji starts his 4th year at Elementary school.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 10.

OCTOBER 5: Birth of Hakamada Tsunagu (袴田 維) aka Fiber Hero: Best Jeanist (ファイバー ヒーロー ベスト ジー二スト) [Age 35 Y1AB BNHA Chap 48]

U.A. YEAR -35 (Enji year 11)

JANUARY 4: Birth of Kannagi Enma (巫 円真) aka Magic Hero: Majestic (魔法 ヒーロー マジェスティック Mahō HERO MAJESTIC) [Age 36 Y2PB BNHA Chap 283]

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji starts his 5th year at Elementary school.

JUNE 4: Birth of Moashi Jūzō (百足 従造) aka Centipeder (センチピーダー) [Age 35 Y1PB BNHA Chap 136]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 11.

OCTOBER 29: Birth of Sakamata Kūgo (逆俣 空悟) aka Killer Whale Hero: Gang Orca (シャチな ヒーロー ギャング オルカ Shachina HERO GANG ORCA) [Age 34 Y1AB BNHA Chap 110]

AFTER JUNE 10: Yagi Toshinori/All Might (21) saves David Shield. The two become friends and the latter starts creating costumes for him. [AMR, though it could have been happened in the following year as well as all we know is All Might was 21]

U.A. YEAR -34 (Enji year 12)

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji starts his 6th year at Elementary school.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 12.

DATE UNKNOWN: In California Yagi Toshinori/All Might (22?) while on his way to university, stops to fight a couple of Villains with the support of David Shield and also saves Cathleen Bate (8?) and her family [MOVIE 1 and BNHA Chap 330, though this might have happened also in the following years as we don’t know how old Cathleen Bate was... around 8 though seems to be a reasonable assumption]

U.A. YEAR -33 (Enji year 13)

FEBRUARY 22: Birth of Kamihara Shinya (紙原 伸也) aka the Ninja Hero: Edgeshot (忍者 ヒーロー エッジショット Ninja HERO EDGESHOT) [Age 33 Y1PB BNHA Chap 88]

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji starts Middle School.

JUNE 10: Yagi Toshinori/All Might turns 23 and, afterward, decides to come back to Japan. Once there, during a big disaster, he saves around 100 people, starting his career as a Hero in Japan [Vol. Origin. “Futari no Hero” and BNHA Chap 1. We don’t quite know exactly when he came back, just that he remained in America until he was 23, meaning he could have come back in this year or the next before JUNE 10]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 13.

NOVEMBER 15: Birth of Inui Ryō (犬井 猟) aka Hunting Dog Hero: Hound Dog (猟犬 ヒーロー ハウンド ドッグ Ryōken HERO HOUND DOG) [Age 32 Y1AB BNHA Chap 122]

U.A. YEAR -32 (Enji year 14)

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji starts his 2nd year at middle school.

JUNE 9: Birth of Takagi Ken (高木 鍵) aka Lock Hero: Rock Lock (錠前 ヒーロー ロックロック Jōmae HERO ROCK LOCK) [Age 32 Y1PB BNHA Chap 137]

JUNE 14: Birth of Akaguro Chizome (赤黒 血染) aka Hero Killer: Stain (ヒーロー 殺し ステイン HERO Goroshi STAIN) aka Stendhal (スタンダール) [Age 31 Y1AB BNHA Chap 57]

SPRING OR SUMMER: Todoroki Enji’s father tries to save a girl from a scumbag and, instead, dies with her, apparently under his son’s gaze. [BNHA Chap 356. Actually this could have happened the year before or in one after it as all we know is that when it happened Todoroki Enji was wearing his spring/summer middle school uniform]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 14.

AUGUST 29: Birth of Tobita Danjūrō (飛田 弾柔郎) aka Gentle (ジェントル) aka Gentle Criminal (ジェントル・クリミナル) [Age 32 Y1PB BNHA Chap 174]

OCTOBER 8: Birth of Sako Atsuhiro (迫 圧紘) aka Mr. Compress (Mr.コンプレス), Harima Ōji’s great-great-grandson [Age 32 Y2AB BNHA Chap 295]

U.A. YEAR -31 (Enji year 15)

FEBRUARY 29: Birth of Chatora Yawara (茶虎 柔) aka Tiger (虎 Tora) [Age 31 Y1PB BNHA Chap 74]

MARCH 9: Birth of Kayama Nemuri (香山 睡) aka R-Rated Hero: Midnight (18禁 ヒーロー ミッドナイト Jū-hachi-kin HERO MIDNIGHT) [Age 31 Y1PB BNHA Chap 28]

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji starts his 3rd year at middle school.

APRIL 8: Birth of Shiretoko Tomoko (知床 知子) aka Ragdoll (ラグドール) [Age 31 Y1PB BNHA Chap 71]

MAY 1: Birth of Sōsaki Shino (送崎 信乃) aka Mandalay (マンダレイ) [Age 31 Y1PB BNHA Chap 71]

MAY 5: Birth of Shirakumo Oboro (白雲 朧) aka Loud Cloud (ラウド クラウド) [Age of death: 17. BNHA Chap 255. He was in the same school year as Aizawa Shōta & Yamada Hizashi]

MAY 10: Birth of Bubaigawara Jin (分倍河原 仁) aka Twice (トゥワイス) [Age 31 Y1PB BNHA Chap 230]

JUNE 26: Birth of Tsuchikawa Ryūko (土川 流子) aka Pixie-Bob (ピクシーボブ) [Age 31 Y1PB BNHA Chap 70]

JULY 7: Birth of Yamada Hizashi (山田 ひざし) aka Voice Hero: Present Mic (ヴォイス ヒーロー プレゼント・マイク) [Age 30 Y1AB BNHA Chap 7]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji turns 15.

NOVEMBER 8: Birth of Aizawa Shōta (相澤 消太) aka Erasure Hero: Eraser Head (抹消 ヒーローイレイザー・ヘッド Masshō HERO ERASER HEAD) [Age 30 Y1AB BNHA Chap 6]

NOVEMBER 10: Birth of Kan Sekijirō (管 赤慈郎) aka Blood Hero: Vlad King (ブラッド ヒーロー･ブラド キング) [Age 30 Y1AB BNHA Chap 30]

DATE UNKNOWN: Birth of Hazukashi Teruo [Age 31 BNHA Chap 186. Since it’s age is given at the end of November very likely he already had his birthday however, since we don’t have the date of his birth, it’s possible he was born a year earlier.]

U.A. YEAR -30 (Enji year 16)

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji starts U.A. High school. Here he decides his Hero name will be Endeavor. [BNHA Chap 356. Choosing the Hero name was one of the first student activities.]

JULY 22: Birth of Īda Tensei (飯田 天晴) aka Turbo Hero: Ingenium (ターボ ヒーロー・インゲニウム) [Age 30. He’s supposedly 15 year older than his brother. BNHA Chap 54. As we don’t know if, when the scene takes place, both already had their birthday or just Tensei or neither, it could be he’s a year younger.]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 16.

U.A. YEAR -29 (Enji year 17)

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji starts his 2nd year at U.A. High school.

MAY 20: Birth of Nishiya Shinji (西屋 森児) aka Kamui Woods (シンリン カムイ SHINRIN KAMUI) [Age 29 Y1PB BNHA Chap 87. He’s technically older as 29 is his age from when he started counting his birthdays.]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 17.

AUGUST 8: Birth of Toyomitsu Taishirō (豊満 太志郎) aka BMI Hero: Fat Gum (BMI ヒーロー ファット ガム BMI HERO FAT GUM) [Age 29 Y1PB BNHA Chap 135]

DECEMBER 5: Birth of Mizushima Masaki (水島 正規) aka Normal Hero: Manual (ノーマル ヒーロー マニュアル) [Age 28 Y1AB BNHA Chap 50]

DECEMBER 18: Birth of Mitarai Susugu (御手洗 濯) aka Laundry Hero: Wash (洗濯 ヒーロー ウォッシュ Sentaku HERO WASH) [Age 29 Y2AB BNHA Chap 300]

U.A. YEAR -28 (Enji year 18)

FEBRUARY 3: Birth of Kurose Anan (黒瀬 亜南) aka Space Hero: Thirteen (スペース ヒーロ・13号 SPACE HERO Jū-san Gō) [Age 28 Y1PB BNHA Chap 13 - Age 29 Y2PB BNHA Chap 322]

FEBRUARY 5: Birth of Fukukado Emi (福門 笑) aka Smile Hero: Ms. Joke (スマイルヒーロー Ms.ジョーク) [Age 28 Y1PB BNHA Chap 103]

MARCH 22: Birth of Ishiyama Ken (石山 堅) aka Cementoss (セメントス) [Age 28 Y1PB BNHA Chap 30]

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji starts his 3rd year at U.A. High school.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 18.

DATE UNKNOWN: Birth of Takagi Ken/Rock Lock’s wife. [Age 28. BNHA Chap 153. She’s said to be 4 years younger than him.]

U.A. YEAR -27 (Enji year 19)

MARCH 20: Birth of Chisaki Kai (治崎 廻) aka Overhaul (オーバーホール) [Age 28 Y2PB BNHA Chap 312]

MARCH’S THIRD WEEK: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor ends U.A. High school. He either starts working as a Sidekick for some Hero and then later opens his Hero agency or he opens his own Hero agency just after graduating.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 19.

U.A. YEAR -26 (Enji year 20)

MARCH 1: Birth of Usagiyama Rumi (兎山 ルミ) aka Rabbit Hero: Mirko (ラビット ヒーロー ミルコ) [Age 26 Y1PB BNHA Chap 186]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 20.

SEPTEMBER 22: Birth of Tatsuma Ryūko (竜間 龍子) aka Dragoon Hero: Ryūkyū (ドラグーン ヒーロー リューキュウ) [Age 26 Y1PB BNHA Chap 131]

NOVEMBER: 2nd Japanese Hero Billboard chart of the year. In this chart or in the next Todoroki Enji/Endeavor becomes number 2 as he did so at 20 (likely in this he placed in the top 10 and in the next became number 2) [BNHA Chap 165].

DECEMBER 7: Birth of Imasuji Gōto (今筋 強斗) aka Muscular (マスキュラー) aka Jailbreaker (ダツゴク Datsugoku) [Age 26 Y2AB BNHA Chap 307]

U.A. YEAR -25 (Enji year 21)

JANUARY 18: Birth of Kamiji Moe (上路 萌) aka Burnin (バーニン) [Age 25 Y2AB BNHA Chap 244]

MAY: 1st Japanese Hero Billboard chart of the year. In this chart or in the previous one Todoroki Enji/Endeavor becomes number 2 as he did so at 20 (likely in this one while in the previous he likely placed in the top 10). [BNHA Chap 165]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 21.

U.A. YEAR -24 (Enji year 22)

JANUARY: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor and Himura Rei meet for the first time. During their first date Todoroki Enji/Endeavor learns Himura Rei likes Gentiana. They will eventually marry. Marriage in Japan most commonly occurs in APRIL. [BNHA Chap 187, 301 This is tied to when Enji managed to become Number 2 and therefore it could have happened the year before this. Also, since Rei is wearing a scarf and characters are shown to wear them in January, I assume this too happened in January. I might be wrong]

APRIL: Todoroki Tōya is conceived.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 22.

AUGUST 11: Birth of Takeyama Yū (岳山 優) aka the Mineyama Hero: Mt. Lady (峰山 ヒーロー Mt.レディ Mineyama HERO Mt. LADY) [Age 23 Y1AB BNHA Chap 83]

NOVEMBER 26: Birth of Ikoma Komari (生駒 小麿里) [Age 23 Y1AB]

U.A. YEAR -23 (Enji year 23)

JANUARY 18: Birth of Todoroki Tōya (轟 燈矢) aka Dabi (荼毘 Dabi). Short after his birth it’s assumed he has only a very strong Fire Quirk. [Age 23 Y1PB BNHA Chap 240]

MARCH: Todoroki Fuyumi is conceived as Todoroki Enji still longs for a child with a dual Quirk and Todoroki Rei thinks siblings would support each other.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 23.

DECEMBER 6: Birth of Todoroki Fuyumi (轟 冬美). She will turn out having solely an ice Quirk. [Age 22 Y1AB BNHA Chap 192]

DECEMBER 28: Birth of Takami Keigo (鷹見 啓悟) aka Wing Hero: Hawks (ウィングヒーロー ホークス) [Age 22 Y1AB BNHA Chap 187]

U.A. YEAR -22 (Enji year 24)

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 1.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 24.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 1.

U.A. YEAR -21 (Enji year 25)

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 2.

FEBRUARY 14: Birth of Aiba Manami (相場 愛美) aka La Brava (ラ ブラバ) [Age 21 Y1PB BNHA Chap 176]

APRIL 23: Birth of Awata Kaoruko (泡田 薫子) aka Bubble Girl (バブル ガール) [Age 21 Y1PB BNHA Chap 128]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 25.

AUGUST 8: Birth of Iguchi Shūichi (伊口 秀一) aka Spinner (スピナー) [Age 21 Y1PB BNHA Chap 233]

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 2.

U.A. YEAR -20 (Enji year 26)

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 3. Likely he starts training with his father at this age (otherwise it wouldn’t be possible for Todoroki Natsuo to be conceived after Todoroki Tōya’s Quirk has started burning him during training).

APRIL 4: Birth of Shimura Tenko (志村 転弧) aka Shigaraki Tomura (死柄木 弔) [Age 20 Y1PB BNHA Chap 224] Short after it All for One stole his Quirk [BNHA Chap 419]

SPRING OR SUMMER: Todoroki Tōya’s hair start to turn white and his Quirk starts burning him.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 26.

AROUND OCTOBER: Todoroki Natsuo is conceived.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 3.

U.A. YEAR -19 (Enji year 27)

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 4.

MARCH’S THIRD WEEK: Tsutsumi Kaina/Lady Nagant ends High school. This is likely when the Hero Public Safety Commission contacted her and asked her to work for them [We don’t know her exact age, I speculated she’s born in U.A. YEAR -38 (Enji year 8) but she could be a year younger or older so this might have happened a year sooner or later. We also aren’t sure she was contacted by the NPSC at the end of High school but in BNHA Chap 314 we see when they contacted her she was wearing a high school uniform so it makes sense they waited for her to end the Hero High School and then hired her].

JULY 1: Birth of Todoroki Natsuo (轟 夏雄) [Age 19 Y1PB BNHA Chap 189]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 27.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 4.

U.A. YEAR -18 (Enji year 28)

JANUARY 8: Birth of Tameda Hiroshi (為田 浩) aka "Can't You See" kid (見ろや君 Miroya-kun) [Age 18 Y1PB BNHA Chap 200]

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 5.

APRIL: Hakamada Tsunagu (18) and Kamihara Shin'ya (15) are in the same textile arts association (手芸同好会 Shugei dōkō-kai “Handicraft club”) at U.A. High school, Hakamada being the president of the club [BNHA Chap 364]

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 1.

JULY 15: Birth of Tōgata Mirio (通形 ミリオ) aka Lemillion (ル ミリオン) [Age 18 Y1PB BNHA Chap 123] (3rd year)

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 28.

SEPTEMBER 10: Birth of Haya Yūyu (甲矢 有弓) [Age 18 Y1PB BNHA Chap 183] (3rd year)

OCTOBER 1: Birth of Shield, Melissa (メリッサ・シールド) [Age 17 Y1AB. Vol. Origin. “Futari no Hero” should take place during summer break]

OCTOBER 6: Birth of Hadō Nejire (波動 ねじれ) aka Nejire-Chan (ネジレちゃん Nejire-chan) [Age 17 Y1AB BNHA Chap 126] (3rd year)

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 5.

U.A. YEAR -17 (Enji year 29)

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 6.

MARCH 4: Birth of Amajiki Tamaki (天喰 環) aka Suneater (サンイーター) [Age 17 Y1PB BNHA Chap 124] (3rd year)

MARCH 5: Birth of Kenranzaki Bibimi (絢爛崎 美々美) [Age 17 Y1PB BNHA Chap 177] (3rd year)

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Tōya starts Elementary school.

MAY 10: Birth of Fuwa Mawata (不和 真綿) [Age 17 Y2AB BNHA Chap 254] (2nd year)

MAY 13: Birth of Shindō Yō (真堂 揺) aka Grand (グランド) [Age 17 Y1PB BNHA Chap 105] (2nd year)

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 2.

AUGUST 7: Birth of Toga Himiko (渡我 被身子) aka Toga Himiko (トガ ヒミコ) aka Yakuza Toga (ゴクドー者 の トガ Gokudō-sha no TOGA) [Age 17 Y1PB BNHA Chap 226]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 29.

AUGUST 15: Birth of Utsushimi Camie (現見 ケミィ) aka Illus-o-Camie (マボロミケミィ Maboromicamie) [UAnal] (2nd year)

NOVEMBER 13: Birth of Mōra Nagamasa (毛原 長昌) aka Chewyee (チューイー) [Age 16 Y1AB BNHA Chap 109] (2nd year)

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 6.

DECEMBER 20: Birth of Tōteki Itejirō (投擲 射手次郎) aka Boomerang Man (ブーメランマン) [UAnal] (2nd year)

U.A. YEAR -16 (Enji year 30)

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 7.

JANUARY 23: Birth of Nakagame Tatami (中瓶 畳) aka Turtle Neck (タートルネック) [UAnal] (2nd year)

FEBRUARY 9: Birth of Shishikura Seiji (肉倉 精児) aka Shishikross (シシクロス) [Age 16 Y1PB BNHA Chap 106] (2nd year)

FEBRUARY 13: 16 Soul, Rody (ロディ・ソウル) [Age 16 Y2AB Vol. World Heroes. “World Heroes Mission” should take place in January, while the boys are doing their Work Studies with Todoroki Enji/Endeavor]

MARCH 30: Birth of Makabe Shikkui (真壁 漆喰) aka Mr. Smith (Mr.スミス Mr. Smith) [UAnal] (2nd year)

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Tōya starts his 2nd year at Elementary school - Todoroki Fuyumi starts Elementary school - Akaguro Chizome starts a Private Hero High School. [BNHA Chap 57]

APRIL: Todoroki Shōto is conceived.

APRIL 18: Birth of Hatsume Mei (発目 明) [Age 16 Y1PB BNHA Chap 27] (1st year)

APRIL 20: Birth of Bakugō Katsuki (爆豪 勝己) aka Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight (大•爆•殺•神ダイナマイト Daibakusasshin DYNAMIGHT) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 3] (1st year)

APRIL 21: Birth of Tsunotori Pony (角取ポ ニー) aka Rocketti (ロケッティ) [Age 16 Y1PB BNHA Chap 121] (1st year)

MAY 13: Birth of Monoma Neito (物間 寧人) aka Phantom Thief (ファントム シーフ) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 29] (1st year)

MAY 19: Birth of Tsuburaba Kōsei (円場 硬成) aka Tsuburaba (ツブラバ) [Age 16 Y1PB BNHA Chap 83-196] (1st year)

MAY 28: Birth of Ojiro Mashirao (尾白 猿夫) aka Martial Arts Hero: Tailman (武闘 ヒーロー テイルマン Butō HERO TAILMAN) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 12] (1st year)

MAY 30: Birth of Aoyama Yūga (青山 優雅) aka Shining Hero: Can't Stop Twinkling (輝き ヒーロー Can't Stop Twinkling Kagayaki HERO Can't Stop Twinkling) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 9] (1st year)

JUNE 12: Birth of Kaibara Sen (回原 旋) aka Spiral (スパイラル) [Age 16 Y1PB BNHA Chap 201] (1st year)

JUNE 16: Birth of Hagakure Tōru (葉隠 透) aka Stealth Hero: Invisible Girl (ステルス ヒーロー インビジブル ガール) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 10] (1st year)

JUNE 19: Birth of Satō Rikidō (砂藤 力道) aka Sweets Hero: Sugarman (甘味 ヒーロー シュガーマン Kanmi HERO SUGARMAN) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 38] (1st year)

JUNE 20: Birth of Honenuki Jūzō (骨抜 柔造) aka Mudman (マッドマン) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 42] (1st year)

JUNE 29: Birth of Kaminari Denki (上鳴 電気) aka Stun Gun Hero: Chargebolt (スタンガン ヒーロー・チャージズマ STUN GUN HERO Chargezuma) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 20] (1st year)

JULY 1: Birth of Shinsō Hitoshi (心操 人使) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 34] (1st year)

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 3.

JULY 14: Birth of Rin Hiryū (鱗 飛竜) aka Long Weizi (龍帷子) [Age 16 Y1PB BNHA Chap 197] (1st year)

JULY 15: Birth of Midoriya Izuku (緑谷 出久) aka Deku (デク) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 2] (1st year)

JULY 28: Birth of Sero Hanta (瀬呂 範太) aka Taping Hero: Cellophane (テーピン ヒーロー セロファン) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 23] (1st year)

JULY 30: Birth of Ashido Mina (芦戸 三奈) aka Pinky (ピンキー) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 35] (1st year)

AUGUST 1: Birth of Jirō Kyōka (耳郎 響香) aka Hearing Hero: Earphone Jack (ヒア ヒーロー イヤホン＝ジャック HEAR HERO EARPHONE JACK) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 19] (1st year)

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 30.

AUGUST 22: Birth of Īda Ten'ya (飯田 天哉) aka Turbo Hero: Ingenium (ターボ ヒーロー・インゲニウム) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 5] (1st year)

SEPTEMBER 8: Birth of Shiozaki Ibara (塩崎 茨) aka Vine (ヴァイン) aka Maria (マリア) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 33] (1st year)

SEPTEMBER 9: Birth of Kendō Itsuka (拳藤 一佳) aka Battle Fist (バトルフィスト) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 32] (1st year)

AUTUMN: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor arrests Takami and, indirectly, becomes the savior and role model of Takami Keigo (6). Ending sees Todoroki Enji/Endeavor for the first time as he arrests Takami. [BNHA Chap 250, 299. it seems in an interview it was said Takami Keigo was 6 when the Hero Commission got him... as he’s born on DECEMBER 28 he would still be 6 in autumn of this year]

AUTUMN: After his father is arrested Takami Keigo (6) and his mother Tomie leave their house. After Takami Keigo saves 6 people from a car crash the Hero Public Safety Commission set their eyes on him and volunteer to provide to his family expenses and erase any connection he had with the name Takami. [BNHA Chap 192, 267]

SEPTEMBER 23: Birth of Yaoyorozu Momo (八百万 百) aka Everything Hero: Creati (万物ヒーロー クリエイティ Banbutsu HERO CREATI) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 16] (1st year)

SEPTEMBER 26: Birth of Yoarashi Inasa (夜嵐 イナサ) aka Gale Force (レップウ REPPŪ) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 104] (1st year)

OCTOBER 8: Birth of Mineta Minoru (峰田 実) aka Fresh-Picked Hero: Grape Juice (モギタテ ヒーロー グレープジュース MOGITATE HERO GRAPE JUICE) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 15] (1st year)

OCTOBER 13: Birth of Tokage Setsuna (取蔭 切奈) aka Lizardy (リザーディ) [Age 16 Y1PB BNHA Chap 203] (1st year)

OCTOBER 16: Birth of Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu (鉄哲 徹鐵) aka Real Steel (リアルスティール) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 31] (1st year)

OCTOBER 16: Birth of Kirishima Eijirō (切島 鋭児郎) aka Sturdy Hero: Red Riot (剛健 ヒーロー 烈怒 頼雄斗 Gōken HERO RED RIOT) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 18] (1st year)

OCTOBER 30: Birth of Tokoyami Fumikage (常闇 踏陰) aka Jet-Black Hero: Tsukuyomi (漆黒 ヒーロー ツクヨミ Shikkoku HERO TSUKUYOMI) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 24] (1st year)

NOVEMBER 1: Birth of Kuroiro Shihai (黒色 支配) aka Scheming Hero: Vantablack (陰謀 ヒーロー ベンタブラック Inbō HERO VANTABLACK) [Age 16 Y1PB BNHA Chap 199] (1st year)

NOVEMBER 7: Birth of Awase Yōsetsu (泡瀬 洋雪) aka Welder (ウェルダー) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 81] (1st year)

DECEMBER 2: Birth of Komori Kinoko (小森 希乃子) aka Shemage (シーメイジ SHIMEIJI) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 198] (1st year)

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 7.

DECEMBER 19: Birth of Kodai Yui (小大 唯) aka Rule (ルール) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 207] (1st year)

DECEMBER 23: Birth of Bondo Kojirō (凡戸 固次郎) aka Plamo (プラモ) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 202] (1st year)

DECEMBER 27: Birth of Uraraka Ochako (麗日 お茶子) aka Uravity (ウラビティ) [Age 15 Y1AB BNHA Chap 4] (1st year)

U.A. YEAR -15 (Enji year 31)

JANUARY 7: Birth of Kamakiri Togaru (鎌切 尖) aka Jack Mantis (ジャックマンティス) [Age 15 Y1PB BNHA Chap 205] (1st year)

JANUARY 11: Birth of Todoroki Shōto (轟 焦凍) aka Shoto (ショート) [Age 15 Y1PB BNHA Chap 11] (1st year)

LIKELY IN JANUARY: Desperate due to feeling replaced, Todoroki Tōya trains himself and seriously burns himself with his own fire. Confronted by his father who doesn’t seem to understand him, he snaps and attacks Todoroki Shōto so Todoroki Enji/Endeavor decides to forbid contacts between Todoroki Shōto and all his siblings. [BNHA Chap 301]

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 8.

FEBRUARY 1: Birth of Kōda Kōji (口田 甲司) aka Petting Hero: Anima (ふれあい ヒーロー アニマ Fureai HERO ANIMA) [Age 15 Y1PB BNHA Chap 39] (1st year)

FEBRUARY 2: Birth of Fukidashi Manga (吹出 漫我) aka Comicman (コミックマン) [Age 15 Y1PB BNHA Chap 200] (1st year)

FEBRUARY 2: Birth of Shōda Nirengeki (庄田 二連撃) aka Mines (マインズ) [Age 15 Y1PB BNHA Chap 43] (1st year)

FEBRUARY 11: Birth of Yanagi Reiko (柳 レイ子) aka Emily (エミリー) [Age 15 Y1PB BNHA Chap 215] (1st year)

FEBRUARY 12: Birth of Asui Tsuyu (蛙吹 ��雨) aka Rainy Season Hero: Froppy (梅雨入りヒーローフロッピー Tsuyuiri HERO FROPPY) [Age 15 Y1PB BNHA Chap 14] (1st year)

FEBRUARY 15: Birth of Shōji Mezō (障子 目蔵) aka Tentacle Hero: Tentacole (触手 ヒーロー テンタコル Shokushu HERO TENTACOLE) [Age 15 Y1PB BNHA Chap 21] (1st year)

MARCH 26: Birth of Shishida Jūrōta (宍田 獣郎太) aka Gevaudan (ジェボーダン) [Age 15 Y1PB BNHA Chap 195] (1st year)

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Tōya starts his 3rd year at Elementary school - Todoroki Fuyumi starts her 2nd year at Elementary school.

LIKELY IN APRIL: Takami Keigo enters in a special program to become a special Hero. Around this same period Tsutsumi Kaina/Lady Nagant kills the Hero Public Safety Commission president and is sent to Tartarus by the HPSC new president who thinks to replace her with Takami Keigo, whom they could train from a young age. [BNHA Chap 192, 314, 316. The year and month are tentative but as Takami Keigo has now short sleeves the season should be warmer.]

LIKELY IN SUMMER: All for One gives Shimura Tenko (5) a Quirk Garaki created by copying Chisaki Kai/Overhaul's Quirk and stripping away half of it (the ability to reconstruct). Eventually that Quirk manifest for the first time and Shimura Tenko ends up murdering his whole family. He’s later found by All for One who will start raising him. [BNHA Chap 235, Chap 419]

SUMMER: Akaguro Chizome drops out of school and starts making soapbox speeches (often in front of a station) about the need for “Hero revival”. He’ll keep on doing them through all his teenager years. [BNHA Chap 57]

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 4.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 31.

AUTUMN OR WINTER: Bubaigawara Jin (16) runs down with a motorcycle a young man and breaks his arm. This leads him to end up being fired and, since his parents died when he was in middle school, he also eventually becomes homeless. [BNHA Chap 229]

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 8.

U.A. YEAR -14 (Enji year 32)

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 1.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 9.

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Tōya starts his 4rd year at Elementary school - Todoroki Fuyumi starts her 3nd year at Elementary school.

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 5.

SUMMER: Aizawa Shōta/Eraser Head (16) and Oboro Shirakumo/Loud Cloud (17) start their work study.

AUGUST 7: Last time Toga Himiko (3) had her parents measuring her height and making a sign for it on the wall. This might mean her Quirk started to manifest after her 3rd birthday, this year or the one after it, before she were to turn 4 and, once it did, they started mistreating and neglecting her, viewing her as a monster. [BNHA Chap 341]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 32.

OCTOBER: Oboro Shirakumo/Loud Cloud (17) dies. His body is retrieved by All for One and Garaki Kyūdai and eventually turned into the Nōmu Kurogiri. [BNHA Chap 254]

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 9.

U.A. YEAR -13 (Enji year 33)

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 2.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 10.

MARCH: Tobita Danjūrō (18) after failing 4 times the Provisional Hero Licensing Exam and being held back a year is told so that he’s still at his second year of high school, is told he should drop out of his low-level Hero high school. [BNHA Chap 179 We’re likely at the end of the school year as they are likely having this discussion to stop him from attending school the next year as well]

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Tōya starts his 5th year at Elementary school - Todoroki Fuyumi starts her 4th year at Elementary school.

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 6.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 33.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 10.

LIKELY IN AUTUMN: In an attempt to save a man from falling off a building Tobita Danjūrō uses his Quirk unauthorized and ends up on failing to save the man and preventing a Hero from doing it. As a result he’s charged of obstructing public duties, expelled from school, the neighbours start painting offensive graffiti on his house and his parents kicks him out of it. [BNHA Chap 179 It can be it’s also in the next year if he was held back another year...]

U.A. YEAR -12 (Enji year 34)

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 3. If his father started with him as early as he did with Todoroki Tōya, this might be the year in which Todoroki Enji/Endeavor started training him.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 11.

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Tōya starts his 6th year at Elementary school - Todoroki Fuyumi starts her 5th year at Elementary school - Todoroki Natsuo starts Elementary school.

JUNE 14: Akaguro Chizome is 20.

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 7.

DATE UNKNOWN: Bakugō Katsuki’s Quirk manifest. [BNHA Chap. 9. It’s prior to Midoriya Izuku turning out Quirkless.]

JULY 15: Midoriya Izuku is 4. On that same day he is diagnosed Quirkless and learns one of the great truths of the world “People are not born equal”. [BNHA Chap 1, SB 1. According to SB 1 Midoriya was diagnosed Quirkless on his birthday]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 34.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 11.

DATE UNKNOWN: Sōsaki Shino/Mandalay, Tsuchikawa Ryūko/Pixie-Bob, Shiretoko Tomoko/ Ragdoll, and Chatora Yawara/Tiger form the Wild, wild pussycats Hero team specialized in mountain rescue operations. [BNHA Chap 70]

U.A. YEAR -11 (Enji year 35)

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 4.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 12.

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Tōya starts Middle school - Todoroki Fuyumi starts her 6th year at Elementary school - Todoroki Natsuo starts his 2nd year at Elementary school.

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 8.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 35.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 12.

DATE UNKNOWN: Birth of Asui Samidare (蛙吹 五月雨) [Age 10 Y1AB? Sidestory Vol 10. For more info see above]

DATE UNKNOWN: All Might’s partnership with Sasaki Mirai/Sir Nighteye (27) starts. [BNHA Chap 130]

DATE UNKNOWN: Akaguro Chizome, no more a teenager, concludes that “words alone are lacking in power” and, in the 10 years that follow, starts training himself in the art of killing, all to fulfill his so-called duty (if it’s exactly when he stopped being a teen it was the previous year, if it’s 10 exact years before the time he met Midoriya Izuku it took place in the next year). It’s likely around this time he becomes the Vigilante Stendal. [BNHA Chap 57]

DATE UNKNOWN: The government put forward the “Hero costume skin exposure limitation act” [VIGIL Chap 59]

U.A. YEAR -10 (Enji year 36) [For a more detailed break up see this post]

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 5.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 13.

DATE UNKNOWN: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor and All Might talked at an interview for the last time. [BNHA Chap 31]

DURING THE YEAR: Todoroki Shōto likes to watch All Might on tv with his mother. [BNHA Chap 39]

DURING THE YEAR: Todoroki Shōto’s training is so severe it causes him to throw up. Todoroki Rei tries to get in between him and Todoroki Enji protesting he’s only 5 and gets hit. [BNHA Chap 39, 202, 204]

DATE UNKNOWN: While Todoroki Shōto is scared at the idea of becoming like his father, someone who abuses his mother, Todoroki Rei comfort him saying he can decide who he’ll become. [BNHA Chap 39]

DURING THE YEAR: Todoroki Tōya is desperate because he can’t figure his reason to exist and search comfort in Todoroki Natsuo [BNHA Chap 290]

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Tōya starts his 2nd year at Middle school - Todoroki Fuyumi starts Middle school - Todoroki Natsuo starts his 3rd year at Elementary school.

LIKELY IN SPRING, ANYWAY PRIOR TO JULY: Todoroki Tōya, Todoroki Natsuo and Todoroki Fuyumi play together while Todoroki Shōto can only watch them. Todoroki Enji refuses to let him join them saying he needs to train and they belong to different worlds. [BNHA Chap 302 & 39 & 250 Natsuo isn’t 9 yet]

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 9.

LIKELY SUMMER, THOUGH IT COULD BE STILL SPRING: Todoroki Natsuo refuses to listen to Todoroki Tōya’s complains during the night, telling him to go talk with Todoroki Fuyumi. [BNHA Chap 302]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 36.

LIKELY IN AUTUMN: Todoroki Rei tries to stop Todoroki Tōya from leaving the house and the two have an argument. [BNHA Chap 302. Rei’s sleeves are long so we likely moved in autumn]

DURING THE YEAR: Todoroki Rei begins to break starting to cry way too often to the point Todoroki Shōto will end up remembering her solely crying and will forget her smiling. [BNHA Chap 31]

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 13.

DECEMBER 6: Birth of Shimano Mahoro (島乃 真幌) [Age 10 Y1PB. Vol. Rising. “Heroes: Rising” should take place after the formation of the Paranormal Liberation Front [Mid DECEMBER] but prior to Shigaraki undergoing body modification so likely still in DECEMBER]

DECEMBER 21: Winter begins.

WINTER: Todoroki Tōya reaches puberty and his flames turn blue. [BNHA Chap 302. Actually this, and the following facts might have happened in JANUARY of the following year too, as long as they took place while Tōya was still 13, therefore before JANUARY 18]

WINTER: Todoroki Tōya asks Todoroki Enji/Endeavor to come to Sekoto Peak with him his next day off. [BNHA Chap 302. This happens likely in a different day as the black bars on the corner hint at time passing by... possibly because when Tōya came back home that evening/night Enji wasn’t there?]

WINTER (LIKELY IN THE SAME DAY): Todoroki Enji/Endeavor hits Todoroki Rei for not stopping Todoroki Tōya from training. [BNHA Chap 302]

WINTER (THE MORNING OF ANOTHER DAY): Todoroki Rei snaps and burns Todoroki Shōto. [BNHA Chap 31, 39, 249, 302. Todoroki Shōto has just woken up]

WINTER (THE SAME DAY OR THE ONE AFTER IT): Todoroki Rei is hospitalized and put in isolation. After learning about his mother’s hospitalization Todoroki Shōto decides to blame his father for this and won’t visit his mother until he’ll be in U.A. High school. [BNHA Chap 39 Shōto’s clothes are different but he might have had to change because he got wet... on the other side it’s also possible that Rei’s hospitalization wasn’t done the same day but Enji had to do preparations for it]

WINTER (LIKELY ON TODOROKI ENJI/ENDEAVOR’S DAY OFF): Todoroki Tōya goes on Sekoto Peak, waiting for his father. When his father doesn’t arrive and the lights go down he ends up setting himself on fire losing his lower jaw before he manages to enter in a stream. He is then found and taken away by All for One. Todoroki Enji reaches Sekoto Peak but can’t find his son except for a piece of his jawbone. Todoroki Tōya is assumed dead even if Todoroki Enji at first claims he didn’t want to accept it. However this will lead him to focus even more on Todoroki Shōto. [BNHA Chap 291, 302, 350Tōya asked his father to come with him on Sekoto Peak in his next day off. His clothes are also noticeably different from the ones he had when he asked his father to go with him on Sekoto Peak]

WINTER (AFTER TŌYA’S ASSUMED DEATH): Todoroki Rei’s psychological condition will get worse as she will learn of her firstborn’s death. Todoroki Fuyumi, despite knowing about her family’s sad situation was and will remain too scared to do anything beyond keeping up appearances. Todoroki Natsuo will gradually forget things but will keep on resenting Todoroki Enji for what happened to his mother and to his siblings. [BNHA Chap 39, 187, 250, 302]

U.A. YEAR -9 (Enji year 37)

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 6.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 14.

SPRING: Tobita Danjūrō (22), underemployed sees his old classmate Takeshita but the latter doesn’t recognize him which pursue him to decide to carve his name in history by becoming a Villain instead than a Hero (BNHA Chap 179)

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Fuyumi starts her 2nd year at Middle school - Todoroki Natsuo starts his 4th year at Elementary school - Todoroki Shōto starts Elementary school. Amajiki Tamaki (8) transfers in a new school for his 3rd year at Elementary and makes friend with Tōgata Mirio (8). [BNHA Chap 140]

SPRING OR SUMMER: During his first year at Elementary School Bakugō Katsuki beats two forth graders who attacked him because they claimed he bumped against them. They’ll claim they’ll attack him the following day too with Yucchan, a super strong friend of theirs. The scene is witnessed by Midoriya Izuku, hidden behind a tree, and by two other childhood friends who will instead congratulate with him, one of them being Tsubasa. [BNHA Chap 62 Since everyone is wearing shirts with short sleeves we can speculate the weather is either warm or hot]

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 10.

AUTUMN: During her 1st middle school year Aiba Manami gives a love letter to the boy she likes but ends up being mocked, stops believing in anyone or anything and spends her days as a shut-in, glued to the computer. Eventually she worms her way into Feel Good Inc.’s server and replaces all the adds with optic kitty just for practice, making this the sole failure Chikazoku Tomoyasu/Skeptic had known [BNHA Chap 178, 230, 378]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 37.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 14.

DATE UNKNOWN: All for One grants Aoyama Yūga his Quirk (it happened around 10 years before the final battle, likely when he started Elementary school.) [BNHA Chap 337]

U.A. YEAR -8 (Enji year 38)

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 7.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 15.

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Fuyumi starts her 3nd year at Middle school - Todoroki Natsuo starts his 5th year at Elementary school - Todoroki Shōto starts his 2nd year at Elementary school.

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 11.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 38.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 15.

U.A. YEAR -7 (Enji year 39)

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 8.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 16.

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Fuyumi starts High school - Todoroki Natsuo starts his 6th year at Elementary school - Todoroki Shōto starts his 3nd year at Elementary school.

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 12.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 39.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 16.

WINTER: Todoroki Tōya wakes up from coma, escapes from the orphanage unleashing some fire and comes back home to find his father training Todoroki Shōto. He comes to believe his family didn’t care about him and leaves. Sun-Sun Haruaki put out easily the fire as Todoroki Tōya’s Quirk had been weakened. Garaki Kyudai pins the blame of starting a fire on him so as to protect the facility’s dark secrets and, since no one died, there was no investigation from Heroes and authorities. [BNHA Chap 350. Actually this could have happened also at the beginning of the following year as all we know is Todoroki Tōya spent three years in coma after burning on Sekoto Peak]

DECEMBER 21: Birth of Eri (壊理). She’s supposedly a 5th generation. 1 or 2 years after her birth she will accidentally use her Quirk to erase her father, so her mother will discharge her to her grandfather who’ll entrust her to Chisaki Kai/Overhaul, who’ll use her to produce bullets that erase people’s Quirks. [Age 6 Y1AB BNHA Chap 170, 156]

DATE UNKNOWN: Birth of Asui Satsuki (蛙吹 さつき) [Age 6 Y1AB? Sidestory Vol 10. For more info see above]

U.A. YEAR -6 (Enji year 40)

JANUARY: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor arrests Ending. [BNHA Chap 250]

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 9.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 17.

MARCH 6: Birth of Shimano Katsuma (島乃 活真) [Age 6 Y1PB. Vol. Rising. “Heroes: Rising” should take place after the formation of the Paranormal Liberation Front [Mid DECEMBER] but prior to Shigaraki undergoing body modification so likely still in DECEMBER]

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Fuyumi starts her 3nd year at High school - Todoroki Natsuo starts Middle school - Todoroki Shōto starts his 4th year at Elementary school.

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 13.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 40.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 17.

DECEMBER 12: Birth of Izumi Kōta (出水 洸汰) [Age 5 Y1AB BNHA Chap 71)

DATE UNKNOWN: All Might fights Toxic Chainsaw with no problems. [BNHA Chap 1] All Might and All for One fight each other and are both seriously wounded. [BNHA Chap 1] All for One is assumed death, his body retrieved by Garaki Kyūdai [BNHA Chap 408] All Might partnership with Sasaki Mirai/Sir Sir Nighteye (32) ends with the latter also informing him of his prediction about All Might’s death. [BNHA Chap 130] Gentle Criminal starts posting online videos of his crimes [BNHA Chap 171]

DATE UNKNOWN: Īda Ten'ya asks to his brother Īda Tensei why he became a Hero since he wants to become a Hero as well [BNHA Chap 54. As we don’t know if, when the scene takes place, they’re still in the year in which they turned 10 and 25 or in the following one prior to them turning 11 and 26, it can be that this happened the year after]

APRIL: If the fight between All Might and All for One took place before or during APRIL this is technically the first year in which “Vigilantes” can start as “Vigilantes” starts in APRIL, post All Might and All for One’s fight. My best bet though is it started the following year.

DATE UNKNOWN: Tobita Danjūrō/Gentle Criminal becomes a Villain of the online vid world [BNHA Chap 171 says he is a Villain of the online vid world by 6 years.]

SOMEDAY THIS YEAR (OR THE ONE AFTER IT): Aiba Manami shows up at Tobita Danjūrō/Gentle Criminal’s door professing to be his greatest fan and starts helping him [BNHA Chap 174]

U.A. YEAR -5 (Enji year 41)

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 10.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 18.

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Fuyumi starts University - Todoroki Natsuo starts his 2nd year at Middle school - Todoroki Shōto starts his 5th year at Elementary school.

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 14.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 41.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 18.

U.A. YEAR -4 (Enji year 42)

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 11.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 19.

JANUARY: Takami Keigo starts his agency (he opens it at 18 but he’s born on DECEMBER 28 so I think he opened it after New Year holidays).

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Fuyumi starts her 2nd year at University - Todoroki Natsuo starts his 3nd year at Middle school - Todoroki Shōto starts his 6th year at Elementary school.

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo is 15.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 42.

NOVEMBER: Takami Keigo/Hawks is the first to makes Top 10 on the Japanese Hero Billboard chart before 20.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 19.

APRIL: This is technically the last year in which “Vigilantes” can start as “Vigilantes” starts in APRIL while Midoriya Izuku is still in Elementary school. My best bet though is it started the previous year.

U.A. YEAR -3 (Enji year 43)

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 12.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 20.

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Fuyumi starts her 3rd year at University - Todoroki Natsuo starts High school - Todoroki Shōto starts Corusan Middle school.

APRIL: At Nabu Middle School (名部中学校 Nabu Chūgakkō) Shinsō Hitoshi’s classmates learn about his Quirk and tell him not to use it on them. [BNHA Chap 34 Likely it happened on his first year, at the beginning of it]

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 16.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 43.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 20.

DATE UNKNOWN: Hazukashi Teruo starts working for a company [BNHA Chap 186 He’s been working there for three years]

U.A. YEAR -2 (Enji year 44)

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 13.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 21.

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Fuyumi starts her 4th year at University - Todoroki Natsuo starts his 2nd year at High school - Todoroki Shōto starts his 2nd year at Corusan Middle school.

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 17.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 44.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 21.

WINTER: Asui Tsuyu (13) becomes friend with her classmate Mongoose Habuko who apparently had began following her from spring/summer [BNHA Sidestory Vol 10. Asui Tsuyu is wearing a scarf so we’re likely in winter]

DATE UNKNOWN: Izumi Kōta’s (3) parents, the Water Hose team, die fighting Imasuji Gōto/Muscular but manage to destroy his left eye. The fact that, despite their death they’re constantly praised leads their child to hate Heroes. [BNHA Chap 71]

DATE UNKNOWN: During their second year at middle school while in Tatooin shopping district Midoriya Izuku/Deku and Bakugō Katsuki spot a Villain. At the same moment Nine’s Weather Manipulation Quirk goes out of control. Midoriya Izuku/Deku and Bakugō Katsuki chase a sand Villain but it’s Buster Hero Airjet who defeats it. At the same time Nine decides he has to find a Quirk that would stabilize him so that he could control his power and fulfil his destiny to turn the world into one where the strongs like him can rule over the weak. [D&BR]

U.A. YEAR -1 (Enji year 45) [For a more detailed break up see this post]

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 14.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 22.

MARCH’S THIRD WEEK: Toga Himiko runs away after middle school graduation.

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji (44) is still Number Two Pro Hero of Japan. Todoroki Rei is still hospitalized at Fujitani Hospital. Todoroki Tōya (22) is still assumed to be dead. Todoroki Fuyumi (21) might have already started being a teacher at Elementary school - Todoroki Natsuo (17) starts his 3rd year at High school - Todoroki Shōto (14) starts his 3rd year at Corusan Middle school.

EXAM ENTRANCE ARC

APRIL (LIKELY ON THE 1ST OR 2ND DAY OF SCHOOL): Takeyama Yū/Mt. Lady’s debut. Midoriya Izuku meets with All Might, then, due to Midoriya Izuku trying to save Bakugō Katsuki that was being held captive by the Sludge Villain, All Might decides to pass him his Quirk, One for All, and also informs of this Sasaki Mirai/Sir Nighteye, ending up on arguing with him. This leads Sasaki Mirai/Sir Nighteye to take Tōgata Mirio/Lemillion under his wing, believing him to be a better candidate to All Might’s power. [BNHA Chap 1, 131]

DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR: Aizawa Shōta expels his whole class and then reenrolls it. [BNHA Chap 7, Chap 254]

APRIL (2 DAYS AFTER): At Takoba Municipal Beach Park All Might begins to train Midoriya Izuku according to the 'Pass the test, American dream plan’. [BNHA Chap 2. 10 months before the entrance exam]

APRIL (1 DAY AFTER): At Mt. Agency Takeyama Yū/Mt. Lady is told she caused so many damages they’re in red. She inadvertitely turns giant and destroys her own agency. [Vol. 5 Bonus chap 2. It’s 3 days after she debuted]

SPRING OR SUMMER: At Musutafu private middle school, 3rd year Kirishima Eijirō (14) is impressed by Ashido Mina’s way to handle bullies. On the way back to school he sees her dealing with Gigantomachia, who was searching the Springer Hero Agency and scaring some girls who weren’t giving him directions. [BNHA Chap 144]

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 18.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 45.

NOVEMBER: All Might realizes Midoriya (15) overworked himself. To respect Midoriya’s efforts he changes his 'Pass the test, American dream’ plan. [BNHA Chap 2. It’s 3 months before the entrance exam.]

NOVEMBER: U.A. School festival. Kenranzaki Bibimi wins the beauty pageant,Hadō Nejire/Nejire-Chan is the runner up. [BNHA Chap 173]

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 22.

END OF THE YEAR: Birth of Takagi Ken’s kid [Age 0 Y1AB BNHA Chap 153]

U.A. YEAR 0 (Enji year 46) [For a more detailed break up see the following posts: January to March, April, May & June, July, August, September, October & November, December]

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 15.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya turns 23.

FEBRUARY: Students submit school entrance application, examination admission card, and school report to the high school. [This is the month in which is usually done in Japan]

FEBRUARY 25: U.A. entrance exam, written portion, usually called Academic Achievement Examination [In Japan it’s usually the day before the practical portion... though it can be it was after it]

FEBRUARY 26 (9.00 AM): Midoriya receives One for All then runs to take part to the U.A. entrance exam, Practical Skill Examination. During the test he can’t make any Villain point but, unknown to him, totalize 60 resque points by saving Uraraka Ochako (15). Score for the practicals are out. Right after the test, Uraraka goes to Yamada Hizashi/Present Mic (30) and asks him if she can give some of her points to Midoriya but she’s told it’s unnecessary as the school has given him 60 rescue points. [BNHA Chap 3]

MARCH: U.A. entrance test for recommended students divided into written part, practical test (a three-kilometer footrace) and interview. Todoroki Shōto places second after Yoarashi Inasa. Due to his behavior though, he makes an enemy out of Yoarashi Inasa who decides not to go to U.A. High School. [BNHA Chap 111-112 We don’t know if the recommended students had it prior or after the other students or in the same day but Present Mic is present to both so they take place in different times]

MARCH 5: Midoriya Izuku (as well as all the others who took part to the U.A. entrance exam) receives the letter that informs him he’s been admitted to U.A. High School. [BNHA Chap 4]

MARCH (LIKELY THE DAY AFTER): After learing Midoriya and Bakugō passed the test their teacher congratulate with them. Bakugō angrily yells at Midoriya who refuses to let the other scare him. [BNHA Chap 5]

MARCH (AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE MONTH OR AFTER IT): Graduation Ceremony for the award of graduation certificates. [This is when it’s usually done in Japan]

MARCH (THIRD WEEK): Midoriya, who, like all the students, has to send to school his Quirk registry and bodily specification forms along with a request form so that a support company will create their Hero costumes, when realizing he has to go to the city hall to get his Quirk registry form, phones to All Might, worried because he’s been registred as Quirkless and is told he will be allowed to update it. Moments later his mother, Midoriya Inko, gifts him with a Hero costume made by her. [BNHA Chap 8. Three weeks before the school start]

MARCH (END OF THE MONTH): Spring Break. [This is when it’s usually done in Japan]

QUIRK APPREHENSION TEST ARC

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji (45) is still Number Two Pro Hero of Japan. Todoroki Rei is still hospitalized at Fujitani Hospital. Todoroki Tōya (23) is still assumed to be dead. Todoroki Fuyumi (22) works as a teacher in an elementary school. Todoroki Natsuo (18) starts studying ‘Iryō fukushi’ (医療福祉 “medical welfare”) at university. Todoroki Shōto (15) enters U.A. High school.

APRIL, SUNDAY (1ST DAY OF SCHOOL): Instead of the entrance ceremony and guidance session class A has a QUIRK APPREHENSION TEST. Todoroki Shōto places second. [BNHA Chap 5 to 7 Typically, the first day of a new school year is around APRIL 8th, 9th]

BATTLE TRIAL ARC

APRIL, MONDAY (2ND DAY OF SCHOOL): After a typical high school morning and lunchtyme, during the afternoon lessons the students wear their Hero costumes and start their Hero basic training with BATTLE TRIAL held at Ground Beta  under Yagi Toshinori/All Might’s supervision. Midoriya and Uraraka from Team A manage to beat Bakugō and Īda from Team D but Midoriya badly injures his arm and ends up in infirmary again. Todoroki Shōto, who is in Team B and paired up with Shōji Mezō play the role of the Heroes against Team I formed by Ojiro Mashirao and Hagakure Tōru and defeat them easily. Shūzenji Chiyo/Recovery Girl scolds All Might for Midoriya’s injuries. After school Midoriya tells Bakugō he got his Quirk from someone else, Bakugō voices his own feelings, All Might tries to talk with him but with no luck. All Might then confronts with Midoriya, telling him not to tell about how he got his Quirk to anyone else. Shigaraki Tomura learns that All Might is teaching at U.A. High School. [BNHA Chap 7 to 11, 13]

U.S.J. ARC

APRIL, THUESDAY (2ND DAY OF SCHOOL): The press besieges U.A. wanting to know info about All Might teaching there. The media uproar will go on for several days. Class A is asked to chose the CLASS PRESIDENT. Todoroki Shōto gets 0 votes and votes for Yaoyorozu Momo. Midoriya, who gets 3 votes, is chosen as class president with Yaoyorozu as his vice. U.A. gate is destroyed by Shigaraki Tomura which allows the press to get inside and triggers U.A. alarm system. Īda Tenya handles the panic caused by the alarm being triggered and is then later chosen as the new class president in place of Midoriya, who suggested the switch. The police drives away the press. [BNHA Chap 12]

APRIL, WEDNESDAY (3RD DAY OF SCHOOL): 7.35 AM On his way to school All Might defeats the Villain Habit Headgear who has taken captive a family, then runs to take care of a hit-and-run and then to take care of a hostage crisis. Eraser Head announces Class A will have RESCUE TRAINING. The kids can chose if they want to wear their costumes and then they move to the unforeseen simulation jointby bus. There they meet Kurose Anan/Thirteen and are then attacked by 72 Villains lead by Shigaraki Tomura, who’s supported by Kurogiri and a Nōmu. Kurogiri causes the students to end in various places of the simulation joint. In order to defeat the Villains attacking him, Asui Tsuyu and Mineta Minoru, Midoriya will break his finger. Todoroki Shōto ends up in the landline zone where the boy defeats easily all the Villains who try to attack him. Īda manages to leave the place and warn the school. All Might will reach the place and fight the Nōmu who’s however helped by Kurogiri. In order to help All Might, Bakugō attacks Kurogiri and Todoroki Shōto freezes the Nōmu. All Might defeats the Nōmu, making him fly away from the area and the arrival of the other U.A. teachers who manage to wound Shigaraki causes him and Kurogiri to retreat. The police, lead by Tsukauchi Naomasa, arrives, the 72 Villains will be arrested, Eraser Head and Thirteen are hospitalized, All Might and Midoriya ends up in infirmary and are later joined by Tsukauchi, who’s friend with All Might. [BNHA Chap 13-21]

APRIL, THURSDAY (4TH DAY OF SCHOOL): Classes are cancelled. [BNHA Chap 21]

U.A. SPORT FESTIVAL ARC

APRIL, FRIDAY (5TH DAY OF SCHOOL): Despite the injuries suffered Aizawa Shōta/Eraser Head is back to school and informs the students they’ve to prepare for the sport festival. Tsukauchi Naomasa reports to U.A. teachers the results of his investigations. Todoroki Shōto hears Īda Tenya and Uraraka Ochako saying All Might might have taken a liking to Midoriya Izuku. All Might and Midoriya Izuku talk, All Might telling him how the time he can stay transformed has shortened to 50 minutes and encourages him to use the sport festival to tell the world ‘he’s here’. After school the other classes go check class A. Shinsō Hitoshi of the General courses makes clear he wants to aim at being transferred at the Hero course by doing good at the sport festival so that he can replace one of class A students. Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu from class B makes clear he’s disappointed by class A as well. [BNHA Chap 21-23]

APRIL (4 DAYS AFTER): The class attempts doing another rescue training at USJ with Thirteen and Eraser Head. The first rescue operation involves three students trapped at the bottom of a chasm and goes on smoothly. The second rescue operation, which involves rescuing students in need of rescue scattered in unknown locations in unknown conditions gets interrupted by a Villain who has knocked out Todoroki Shōto and is holding him captive. The rest of the class tries to take him down and they manage to capture him but the Villain turns out to be All Might in disguise. [OAV 1. In some subs you can find the writing say the OAV took place 4 weeks after the attack but it’s a mistranslation. Plus the OAV clearly takes place before the sport festival which takes place 2 weeks after the attack]

MAY (TWO WEEKS AFTER, EITHER THE 3rd OR THE 5th AS SPORT FESTIVALS ARE USUALLY HELD ON A NATIONAL HOLIDAY): It’s the day of U.A. sport festival. The press is allowed to get inside the school. Todoroki Shōto tells Midoriya he’ll beat him. Bakugō makes the athlete’s oath, claiming he’ll take first place. The first competition will be the Obstacle Course Race in which Midoriya will place first and Todoroki Shōto will place second. The Cavalry Battle will follow in which Todoroki Shōto’s team will place first. Todoroki Shōto then will tell Midoriya about his past while Todoroki Enji/Endeavor, his father, who’s watching the festival from the stands, will talk with All Might. In the One-on-one battles Todoroki Shōto will defeat first Sero Hanta then he will fight with Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya’s words and action spurring him to use his left side even though he vowed he won’t do it in battle. He defeats Midoriya and, later, will tell his father who’s telling him to work with him after he graduates, how he didn’t forgive him but used his left side because, in that moment, he forgot everything about him. In Hosu City, one of Tōkyō wards, Akaguro Chizome/Stain attaks and seriously wounds Īda Tensei/Ingenium. Kurogiri talks with Akaguro Chizome/Stain. Todoroki Shōto fights in the final against Bakugō Katsuki but refuses to use his left side against him and loses, therefore placing second at the sport festival. Shigaraki Tomura follows the sport festival on tv. Īda Tensei visits his brother at the hospital. [BNHA Chap 23-44 Two weeks earlier All Might and Midoriya had their chat about telling the world Midoriya is here]

MAY (THE DAY AFTER): Class A has a day off. Todoroki Shōto goes to visits for the first time his mother in hospital. They reconcile and tell each other they forgive each other. Uraraka Ochako’s parents go visit her. [BNHA Chap 44, 53]

MAY (THE DAY AFTER): Class A has another day off. [BNHA Chap 44]

VS. HERO KILLER ARC

MAY, WEDNESDAY (THE DAY AFTER): Eraser Head’s bandages are removed. Class A has a Hero Informatic class in which the students are asked to pick up their Hero name. They’re also informed about the draft pick numbers. Todoroki Shōto is the one with the most picks (4.123). Kayama Nemuri/Midnight helps them to pick them up. Todoroki Shōto choses Shōto (ショート). In the end the students are told they have to chose in which agency they want to intern. All Might tells Midoriya that Torino Sorahiko/Gran Torino drafted him. Takami Keigo/Hawks tries to scout Todoroki Shōto and scouts Tokoyami Fumikage as well, making this year the first year in which he scouted an intern after seeing U.A. sport festival. [BNHA Chap 45, 186, 199 When the students are told they’ve to submit their choices by the coming weekend they say they’ve only two days to do their pick]

MAY, FRIDAY (TWO DAYS AFTER): Last day for the students to submit their choices regarding the agency they want to intern with. [BNHA Chap 46]

MAY, MONDAY (THREE DAYS AFTER): 1st day of INTERNSHIP. Todoroki Shōto interns at Endeavor Agency. Midoriya meets Gran Torino who starts training him and gives him tips on how to figure out how to use his power. Tsukauchi Naomasa reports the info he has about the Nōmu to All Might. Īda Tenya patrols Hosu city with Mizushima Masaki/Manual. At night Midoriya trains till late hour. [BNHA Chap 46-48]

MAY, THUESDAY (THE DAY AFTER): 2nd day of internship. Midoriya develops Full Cowling. Īda, aware that in the 7 previous locations in which Stain appeared, killed 17 Heroes and injured other Heroes, attacking around 4/5 people in each location, is waiting for him to appear in Hosu again. [BNHA Chap 48-49]

MAY, WEDNESDAY (THE DAY AFTER ): 3rd day of internship. Stain meets with Shigaraki, but refuses to join him so Kurogiri brings him back in Hosu. This is the start of the Hosu Incident during which Shigaraki lets loose three Nōmu in Hosu while Stain attacks the Hero called Native. On the way from Kofu to Shibuya, Midoriya’s train is attacked by one of the Nōmu. Īda sees Stain trying to kill Native and fights him. Midoriya comes to help him.Todoroki Shōto, in Hosu with Endeavor and his sidekicks as they’re hunting Stain goes to help them as well. In the end Stain is defeated. Gran Torino knocks down one Nōmu, Endeavor knocks down another, the third attacks Midoriya but Stain saves him before losing consciousness. Todoroki Tōya/Dabi will later claim he had witnessed the fight against Stain (though it’s unclear if he means personally or that he watched it on a video). Shigaraki and Kurogiri are spotted by a journalist in Hosu and it’s assumed they’re in cahoots with Stain. Todoroki Shōto, Midoriya and Īda spend the night at Hosu hospital. [BNHA Chap 49-57, 349. In truth it seems like Stain and Kurogiri met during the sport festival and Stain and Shigaraki during the second day of internship but likely, since Kurogiri contacting Stain, Stain meeting Shigaraki and then going back to Hosu and attacking Native happened all in the same day, whose scene we saw were likely meant to be flash forwards]

MAY, WEDNESDAY (THE DAY AFTER ): 4th day of internship. Todoroki Shōto is hospitalized along with Midoriya and Īda. They receive the visit of the chief of police Tsuragamae Kenji. He informs them that Endeavor agreed to take the credits for arresting Stain so that they won’t be punished for unlawful use of their Quirk. Endeavor, Gran Torino and Native will still get punished for their interns’ actions though. Dabi hears of Stain at the news and decides to follow the Hero killer ideals. Toga Himiko and Iguchi Shūichi/Spinner will do the same. Shigaraki is annoyed because the news are talking more about Stain than of him. Īda is told his hand might have received permanent damage. Gran Torino phnes to All Might and tells him All for One might be back. [BNHA Chap 56-57, 349]

MAY, THURSDAY (TWO DAYS AFTER THE HOSU INCIDENT): 5th day of internship. People starts exploring Stain’s background and a video about him keeps on being uploaded in the internet. Okuta Kagerō/Giran shows it to one of his customers. [BNHA Chap 57]

MAY, SUNDAY: 7th and last day of internship. Midoriya leaves Gran Torino. [BNHA Chap 58]

MAY, MONDAY (THE DAY AFTER): Class A have a Rescue training race at Ground Gamma. Midoriya and All Might have a discussion about All for One. [BNHA Chap 58-59]

MAY: Aizawa tells his students they’ll have a summer training camp if they pass final exams. All for One and Garaki Kyūdai talk about Tomura Shigaraki. [BNHA Chap 59 It might be it’s the same day before the end of the lessons... it might be it’s in another day after that one. In the anime it’s definitely another day. Ep 33]

MAY: Class A have a survival training with 4 students from Isamu Academy High School. One of them is Mongooaw Habuko, Asui Tsuyu’s middle school classmate and friend. [OAV 2 It’s unknown when it takes place but it’s implied is short after the internship ended]

MAY (FINAL DAYS): Takami Keigo/Hawks becomes Number Three Hero on the Japanese Hero Billboard chart. [BNHA Chap 185]

MAY: Nine donates his body to the League Quirk-enhancing experiment. Garaki Kyudai experiments on him and discovers he’s compatible with All for One’s Quirk factor so he has a body that can steal eight Quirk and use nine. [Movie 2, LOVU. We don’t really know when this happened, MAY is my best bet because the League became popular, people wanting to join it, after the attack at Hosu, and in the sidestory, when Nine is being experimented over, we can see Shigaraki Tomura and All for One together so it’s clearly prior to Kamino. Also one of Nine’s men is wearing a coat when Nine talks to them so it’s not summer yet. Of course it could have happened in April, when the League first appeared, or in June too]

FINAL EXAMS ARC

BEGINNING OF JUNE: First midterm exams. Satō Rikidō will later say they weren’t that tough. [UArch. According to the official timeline they should take place in JUNE, even though in Japan they usually take place at the end of MAY, around the 20th. U.A. exams also possibly lasted more than the normal 3 days since normally they test only Japanese, math, science, social studies, and English but in the official timeline is said students will be tested on subjects that are new to the students. BNHA Chap 60]

JUNE (PROBABLY MONDAY): In the morning All Might catches a bank robber. Midoriya learns about it at lunch on the news. All Might is held at the bank by another Villain. Meanwhile, after lunch break, class A for its Basic Hero training starts doing evacuation training with Eraser Head as All Might wasn’t back yet. Eraser Head informs them they’ll have Parent day next week, hands them a handout to give to their parents and gives them as homework to write a letter of appreciation to their parents as he explains the program for parents’ day will include a brief tour of the campus, a practical demo and hearing the students reading their appreciation letters to their parents. All Might joins them on an elicopter and training continues. On the way home Īda tells Midoriya and Todoroki Shōto he received from Native tickets to visit the “Zoo Dreamland” park on Sunday for the three of them plus a fourth person but they inform him they can’t go with him on Sunday. Afterward Todoroki Shōto goes to visit his mother. Todoroki Fuyumi also drops there, discovers about Parents’ day and volunteer to go there in place of Todoroki Rei. At U.A. Eraser Head is contacting the parents to discuss the Parents’ day event. All Might tries to contact Endeavor in his place but ends up leaving an incomprehensible message on the man’s answering machine. Todoroki Fuyumi phones to Eraser Head asking if she can record parents’ day but she’s told she can’t. [SB1]

JUNE (SUNDAY - A WEEK AFTER): Midoriya goes to an Hero exhibit at culture hall. Once there he accidentally meets with Bakugō. Īda goes to the park with Kaminari, Mineta and Tokoyami. There they help Yuka, a lost child, to find her mother. At dinnertime they meet again with Yuka’s mother, and learn her daughter disappeared in the haunted house, as the puppets inside and the building start to crash and go haywire. The boys go to rescue her, discover the problems were caused by her Quirk awakening and bring her back to her mother. Uraraka, Asui and Yaoyorozu meet as they’re doing shopping and end up chasing a shoplifter. [SB1]

JUNE (MONDAY - THE DAY AFTER): The students are in their class when Eraser Head messages to tells them to take the bus and go to the mock cityscape. There they discover their parents had been kidnapped by a Villain and Eraser Head had been knocked down. The students almost manage to successfully save everyone when Midoriya’s mother almost falls in the fire and is saved by a Villain. It turns out the kidnapping was fake and that was U.A. test for them. Eraser Head also gives a registration of the event to Todoroki Fuyumi. Endeavor runs at U.A. having discovered only then about Parents’ day but can’t get in. Shūzenji Chiyo/Recovery Girl appears and tells him about how the test went and how now it has already finished. Endeavor ends up letting slip he came there for Parents’ day even though later he tries to deny it. [SB1]

FINAL WEEK OF JUNE: Students worry about first term final exams approaching so some of them organize study groups. Yaoyorozu Momo volunteers to tutor some of her classmates. Bakugō ‘volunteers’ to tutor Kirishima Eijirō. At lunch Kendō Itsuka/Battle Fist let some of class A students know the practical exam will be a battle against robot. Uniform change (衣替え ‘koromogae’). [BNHA Chap 60. UArch. In the official timeline it seems placed around the end of JUNE and, in fact, we only see the students changing their uniforms on the final week of JUNE but it’s normally around its 1st day of JUNE.]

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 19.

JUNE (FINAL SUNDAY): Midoriya is studying for finals. Kaminari, Jirō, Sero, Ojiro and Ashido go to Yaoyorozu’s house to be tutored by her for the finals. Bakugō is instead tutouring Kirishima at a library but he causes so much noise that Kirishima drags him out of it. The pair moves to a diner where Bakugō meets two of his old classmates who tells Kirishima how Bakugō and Midoriya were in middle school before the group is chased again out of the diner because too loud. [SB2]

FIRST WEEK OF JULY (A WEEK AFTER THE STUDENTS DECIDED TO ORGANIZE THEMSELVES IN STUDY GROUPS - LIKELY MONDAY): Written part of the FIRST TERM FINAL EXAMS. [BNHA Chap 60. In Japan, during them, no regular classes are held so the same likely applies here too. Usually Japanese students are tested in English, math, Japanese, science, and social studies, plus health and physical fitness, home economics, music, and art. Also they usually last three days. If the same applies here this would mean they started on Monday and the practical was on Thursday.]

FIRST WEEK OF JULY (LIKELY THURSDAY): Practical exam. Todoroki Shōto manages to pass it working in team with Yaoyorozu Momo. Todoroki Tōya, under the name of Dabi, along with Toga Himiko, joins the League of Villains. [BNHA Chap 60-68. The time is unclear here as the scene with the League of Villains might have happened the day after or even two days after as Shigaraki Tomura will meet Midoriya on Saturday... though it’s also possible Shigaraki wandered for two days before meeting him.]

FIRST WEEK OF JULY (LIKELY FRIDAY): Eraser Head informs them they all will go to the Summer camp even if they failed the exam. [BNHA Chap 68. The scene with the League of Villains might have happened this day as well]

FIRST WEEK OF JULY, LIKELY SATURDAY (THE DAY AFTER): Todoroki Shōto goes to visit Todoroki Rei as he always does in his days off. The rest of class A minus Bakugō goes at the Kiyashi Ward Shopping Mall to buy things for the summer camp. Midoriya and Shigaraki Tomura meet. [BNHA Chap 68-70, SB 2 It’s three months from when All Might started teaching]

FOREST TRAINING CAMP ARC - Part 1

SECOND WEEK OF JULY, MONDAY: Aizawa Shōta/Eraser Head tells the students they cancelled their usual accommodations and won’t reveal their destination until the day they depart. Shinsō Hitoshi starts being trained by him. [BNHA Chap 70]

THIRD WEEK OF JULY, AROUND THURSDAY: Tamakawa Sansa learns that someone saw Todoroki Tōya/Dabi is seen entering in a building that didn’t have any tenants, the building being Shigaraki Tomura’s hideout. [BNHA Chap 83 It was two weeks before the summer camp attack]

TWO HEROES

JULY, AROUND THE 20TH, POSSIBLY ON SATURDAY: Summer Break. Midoriya and All Might go to I-Island for the I-expo and meet Melissa Shield and her father, David Shield. Uraraka, Yaoyorozu and Jirō, who’re there because Yaoyorozu’s father received an invitation due to him holding some of I-expo sponsors’ stocks and had two extra invites for her friends, meet Midoriya and they all end up at the place where Kaminari and Mineta are working. Īda, who received an invitation to go there due to his family being one of Heroes, meets with them as well. We’re told the other girls from class A are also on the island but not with them. They then meet Kirishima who’s there with Bakugō who got invited because he won the sport festival and allowed to bring a friend along, and Todoroki Shōto, who was there in place of his father, Endeavor. They all go at the party when Wolfram’s group attack it. [MOVIE 1 The movie is clearly placed before the Summer training camp. Summer break in Japan starts around the 2th of August]

JULY (THE DAY AFTER), POSSIBLY SUNDAY: By dawn Wolfram’s group is defeated. The Academy’s exibit opens to the public. Some of class A kids will go to the pavillon where the academy’s exibit is or so they planned. David Shield, from his hospital bed, talks to his daughter. [MOVIE 1]

FOREST TRAINING CAMP ARC – Part 2

BEGINNING OF AUGUST, MONDAY: 1st day of the Summer training camp. Class A and B leave for their summer camp. After 1 hour the buses stop in two different location. The students meet the Pussycats members and have to make through the Beast’s forest in 3 hours. Izumi Kōta punches Midoriya Izuku/Deku. Later Midoriya learns about how the child’s parents were killed and how this caused him to hate Heroes. [BNHA Chap 70-71, SB2 It’s unclear if, in the official timeline this is meant to be still placed in July, which would match with how in Japan School organized overnight camps starts at the end of July and would fit with how in SB2, it’s said that Midoriya and Shigaraki Tomura met few days before or we’re already in August or, since it’s on the tip and not on the body of the arrow, they’re placing it in August. Since the battle between All Might and All for One should happen around the 5th of August, for this timeline I decided to place the whole summer camp in August]

BEGINNING OF AUGUST, THUSDAY: 2nd day of the Summer training camp. Aizawa Shōta/Eraser Head tells the students they will train their Quirks. In the evening Later Midoriya talks with Kōta. The members of the Vanguard Action Squad of the League of Villain start to gather close to the summer camp. Todoroki Tōya/Dabi leads themand with him are already Imasuji Gōto/Muscular, Toga Himiko and Mustard. Short after they’re joined by Hikiishi Kenji/Magne, Moonfish and Iguchi Shūichi/Spinner. [BNHA Chap 71-73]

BEGINNING OF AUGUST, WEDNESDAY: 3rd day of the Summer training camp. Quirk training continue. Midoriya talks with Todoroki Shōto about Kōta. In the evening there’s a test of courage. During it the Villains attack.Dabi starts a fire in the forest while Mustard uses his gas. Twice also clones Dabi and said clone is sent to fight Eraser Head but loses the battle with him and is destroyed. Midoriya fights and defeats Muscular in order to save Kōta. Bakugō Katsuki is kidnapped alongs with Tokoyami Fumikage bySako Atsuhiro/Mr. Compress who brings him to where Dabi is, but he’s chased by Midoriya, Todoroki Shōto and Shōji Mezō. Another clone of Dabi attacksKan Sekijirō/Vlad King’s group but it’s destroyed. Shōji manages to retrieve Tokoyami but Todoroki Shōto fails to retrieve Bakugō as he’s anticipated by Dabi who calls Todoroki Shōto with his full name, implying he knows him, before the group leaves. Mustard, Moonfish and Muscular are captured. Shiretoko Tomoko/Ragdoll is kidnapped as well. [BNHA Chap 73-83]

BEGINNING OF AUGUST, THURSDAY: Midoriya is brought to a hospital and, for two days he’ll fall in and out of consciousness. At U.A. there’s a teacher reunion and start suspecting a mole could be among them. Tsukauchi Naomasa phones to Yagi Toshinori/All Might to let him known that Dabi was spotted entering in a building. [BNHA Chap 83]

BEGINNING OF AUGUST, FRIDAY: Todoroki Shōto andKirishima Eijirō overhear the police talking to Yaoyorozu Momo and hear about how a tracking device was placed on the Nōmu used to attack them. [BNHA Chap 83]

HIDEOUT RAID ARC

BEGINNING OF AUGUST, SATURDAY (AROUND THE 5TH): Midoriya is conscious enough he can receive a visit from his classmates. Kirishima tells him about what they learn the day before saying they can go and try to save Bakugō. That evening Midoriya, Kirishima, Todoroki Shōto, Yaoyorozu and Īda try to track down Bakugō. At the same time the police and a group of Heroes, among which All Might and Todoroki Enji/Endeavor attacks the League of Villains’ hideout in the rescue and search-and-destroy operation while they’re trying to recruit Bakugō.Dabi gets knocked unconscious by Torino Sorahiko/Gran Torino but thanks to All for One the league still manages to escape and many Heroes, among which Best Jeanist, gets knocked out.All for One and All Might have a huge fight. Bakugō is rescued by Mirodiya’s group and All for One loses but All Might ends up revealing his true form to the world and can’t use his strength any longer. This will later be called the KAMINO WARD NIGHTMARE. [BNHA Chap 83-94 The fight between All Might and All for One takes place two weeks before the middle of August, and 3 weeks and 4 days before the Provisional Hero license exam which is held in September]

BEGINNING OF AUGUST, SUNDAY: All for One is trapped in Tartarus. The League of Villains goes in hiding. The world is in chaos. A police meeting is held. All Might is hospitalized and acknowledges he has lost his power. He, Gran Torinoand Tsukauchi discuss how Shigaraki Tomura is the grandson of Shimura Nana. Bakugō goes to the police, everyone else goes back home. Once at homeTodoroki Shōto is informed by his sister that his father got at home earlier and is traching the Training Hall because he’s furious since All Might will have to retire which means he will be the new Number One in a way he can’t accept. Later in the evening Mirodiya meets All Might. [BNHA Chap 94-95 I’m assuming ‘the next morning’ in chap 95 still refers to the morning after the Kamino ward incident]

AUGUST: All Might retires making Endeavor the de facto Number 1 Hero. All Might then visits the homes of the students along with the other U.A. teachers to persuade the parents to let the students move in the U.A. dormitories. Once he’s done with them he begins training himself. [BNHA Chap 96 - 130 It’s unclear if this happens the day after or some time after it.]

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 46

SECOND WEEK OF AUGUST (4 DAYS AFTER ALL MIGHT VS. ALL FOR ONE): At the Heroes Public Safety Commission HQ they plan the provisional license exam. [BNHA Chap 111. 3 weeks before the provisional Hero licence exam which takes place in September]

PROVISIONAL HERO LICENSE EXAM ARC

AUGUST (3 DAYS BEFORE THE STUDENTS MOVE IN THE DORMITORIES): The dormitories are finished. [BNHA Chap 98]

MID-AUGUST: Todoroki Shōto moves to live in U.A. dormitories, Heights Alliance along with the other U.A. students. They settle in U.A. and, by evening, they look at each other room. [BNHA Chap 98, SB 3]

AUGUST (THE DAY AFTER - POSSIBLY MONDAY): The students are told they need to come up with at least two ultimate moves in order to pass the exam to gain their provisional licence. [BNHA Chap 99]

AUGUST (4 DAYS AFTER): Midoriya has come up with his One for All Full Cowling Shoot style. [BNHA Chap 101]

AUGUST - SUNDAY: Sero Hanta, Ashido Mina, Kaminari Denki, Shōji Mezō, Asui Tsuyu and Mineta Minoru have a scary story session in Tokoyami Fumikage’s room. Yaoyorozu Momo, Uraraka Ochaco and Hagakure Tōru are in Jirō Kyōka’s room to look ar her musical instruments. Todoroki Shōto goes visiting his mother. Midoriya and Īda Tenya train. Kirishima Eijirō and Ojiro Mashirao do the same. At night Mineta hears a strange buzzing sound. [SB 3]

AUGUST - MONDAY (THE DAY AFTER): Mineta discovers the people hearing the buzzing sound where only the ones who, like him, were telling scary stories in Tokoyami’s room. However later they find out Jirō also heard it. That night Īda remains awake to check on the sound. Kaminari Ojiro and Kōda Kōji join him. They hear Mineta scream and then it turns out everyone has heard the buzzing sound. [SB 3]

AUGUST - THUESDAY (THE DAY AFTER): Eraser Head talks with his students of the “Seven Mysteries of U.A.” and then volunteers to check up the buzzing that night. There’s a storm during that night, Eraser Head manages to spot the source of the buzzing sound but later he’s found unconscious by his students. A thunder causes a blackout. Present Mic burst through the door but the students don’t recognize him and knock him out. Eraser Head wakes up and explains what’s happened was not due to a ghost but due to a device. Once he sees the students had damaged the doors in their attack he orders them to write apology essays, giving them a curfew and putting a ban on ghost stories and sends them to bed. [SB 3]

AUGUST (HALF A MONTH AFTER THE FIGHT BETWEEN ALL MIGHT AND ALL FOR ONE SO AROUND THE 20TH): The people is unease due to Endeavor being the de facto new Number 1. Okuta Kagerō/Giran calls Bubaigawara Jin/Twice searching for Dabi as Shigaraki Tomura is searching for him. He also tells him in the past 1 or 2 weeks demands for costumes and accessories through the black marker has basically doubled. Dabi is searching for recruits for the League of Villains but ends up burning them up finding them not good for it. Twice meets with Chisaki Kai/Overhaul. [BNHA Chap 115. In chap 130 they say this happened ‘the other day’ but the word used is ‘senjitsu’ (先日) which can also mean some time/days ago... since the police came up with nothing this incident pushes Sasaki Mirai/Sir Nighteye to investigate on the Shie Hassakai later on.]

AUGUST 22: Īda Tenya turns 16. His classmates organize him a surprise birthday party. [SB 3]

AUGUST (LAST WEEK): In the evening the girls talk among them [BNHA Chap 102 They only have one week before the Provisional Hero license exam]

AUGUST (3 DAYS BEFORE THE PROVISIONAL HERO LICENSE EXAM): Toga Himiko takes the place of Utsushimi Camie/Illus-o-Camie. [BNHA Chap 114. I’m assuming the exam took place on the 1st of September but, if it took place later, this would also happen later]

AUGUST (LAST WEEK): Sasaki Mirai/Sir Nighteye starts investigating Overhaul [BNHA Chap 130. It’s a week and a half before the meeting between Midoriya, Tōgata Mirio/Lemillion, Eri and Chisaki Kai/Overhaul]

AUGUST 31: End of summer vacation [Summer vacation usually lasts til the last day of August]

SEPTEMBER (LIKELY SUNDAY): Provisional Hero license exam. Todoroki Shōto argues with Yoarashi Inasa during the exam which will lead them both not to pass it. Bakugō Katsuki also will fail the exam. They will then sign up on a three months training course with individual test to try and get his provisional Hero licence anyway. Toga Himiko, disguised as Utsushimi Camie/Illus-o-Camie, manages to get her hands on some of Midoriya Izuku/Deku’s blood. Yagi Toshinori/All Might meets up with All for One. In the evening Midoriya and Bakugō have a fight and ends up in lockdown, 4 days for Bakugō, 3 for Midoriya. [BNHA Chap 102-121 A week after the girls talked among them]

BEGINNING OF SEPTEMBER (THE DAY AFTER, LIKELY MONDAY): Second semester opening ceremony. The students learn of work studies. Classes resumes. Midoriya meets Tōgata Mirio/Lemillion. Īda Tenya/Ingenium learns form his brother how, if he rips out his exhaust pipes and continue to train new stronger ones will regenerate, so he will do it. In the evening the students wonder if Bakugō and Midoriya will survive their house arrest. [BNHA Chap 121-122, SB 3 In Japan the ceremony is in the first week of September, possibly on the 1st. Since the provisional Hero Licence exam took place in September I guess it took place on the 1st and, after it, they had the opening ceremony...]

SEPTEMBER (THE DAY AFTER, LIKELY THUESDAY): Kōda Kōji’s pet bunny, Yowai leaves Kōda’s room while the latter is at lessons and meets up with Bakugō and Midoriya who chase and ultimately capture him, returning Yowai to Kōda’s room. [SB 3]

SHIE HASSAIKAI ARC

SEPTEMBER (THREE DAYS AFTER MIDORIYA WAS PUT IN LOCKDOWN, LIKELY WEDNESDAY): Midoriya’s lockdown ends and class A is introduced to the Big Three. Midoriya phones to Torino Sorahiko/Gran Torino and asks if he woud take him for his work studies but he’s turned out because the man is working on a case. He’s however told to ask All Might to help him get recruited by his former sidekick, Sasaki Mirai/Sir Nighteye. Chisaki Kai/Overhaul makes contact with the League of Villains (meeting up with them while Todoroki Tōya/Dabi isn’t there). Shigaraki Tomura reveals knowing who he is as All for One showed him a picture of him before. He and Overhaul argue and Overhaul ends up killing Hikiishi Kenji/Magne and causing Sako Atsuhiro/Mr. Compress to lose his arm. Nighteye learns about it. U.A. have a conference to decide if the students of the first year can take part to work studies. [BNHA Chap 122-125]

SEPTEMBER (THE DAY AFTER, LIKELY THURSDAY): Bakugō Katsuki’s lockdown ends. Tōgata Mirio/Lemillion agrees to introduce Midoriya Izuku/Deku to Sasaki Mirai/Sir Nighteye. [BNHA Chap 126]

FIRST WEEKEND AT THE BEGINNING OF SEPTEMBER (SATURDAY): Todoroki Shōto and Bakugō start the three months training course for the provisional Hero license. Midoriya meets Nighteye and the latter accepts to hire him. Tokoyami Fumikage has started his workstudy with Takami Keigo/Hawks who asks him about Todoroki Shōto. [BNHA Chap 126-128, SB 4 Again here things are a bit confusing because in SB 4 is said this took place on the first day of fall and, if the translation is correct, this is a problem. Fall starts on the 22th of September... which, not only would leave us with no enough days to fit everything that happens before the start of October but seems very late considering the students just had the second semester opening ceremony which usually takes place at the beginning of September and that the Osaka’s danjiri’s festival float which happens in the middle of September is meant to happen after all this...]

SEPTEMBER (THE DAY AFTER - SUNDAY): Midoriya and Tōgata are on patrol together when they meet Eri and Overhaul but are forced to let them go. On that same day, Shigaraki Tomura phones to Overhaul. [BNHA Chap 128-130]

SEPTEMBER (MONDAY): Todoroki Shōto and Bakugō look ragged. Midoriya talks with All Might and learns of Nighteye’s prediction about All Might’s death. Uraraka Ochako/Uravity and Asui Tsuyu/Froppy are having their workstudy under Tatsuma Ryūko/Ryūkyū along with Hadō Nejire/Nejire-chan. During teatime though they’re all called to stop a Villain on the run on Erai street and ends up on having to stop two Villains with a gigantification Quirk fighting each other. Thanks to Amajiki Tamaki/Suneater help Kirishima Eijirō/Red Riot starts his work study under Toyomitsu Taishirō/Fat Gum while in Osaka is taking place the danjiri festival float. After work Ryūkyū, informs Hadō, Uraraka and Asui that Nighteye has requested their help for a case. Fat Gum and his two interns,Amajiki and Kirishima are also asked to help. While they’re working Amajiki is hit with a Quirk erasing bullet. Kirishima helps capturing the shooter despite the latter injecting himself with drug. Shigaraki Tomura meets with Overhaul. [BNHA Chap 130-134 SB 4 The English translation says “one week later” but the word used is actually ‘Shū-ake’ (週明け) which means “the beginning of the week”]

SEPTEMBER (THUESDAY): Kirishima, Uraraka and Asui’s names appear in the news. Amajiki’s Quirk resumes working. [BNHA Chap 134, 135]

MID SEPTEMBER (WEEK END): Osaka’s danjiri’s festival float. Fat Gun, Kirishima and Amajiki patrol it, then Fat Gum is summoned on police headquarters so the other two can rest. They try to encourage a cartwright, Ei, who feels like dropping because the past year he inadvertitely injured a boy, Ken, but fail. Kirishima would like to try again but Fat Gum calls them. They go undercover to catch a bank robber Villain and managed to track him down but the Villain takes Ken as a hostage. With the help of Ei, Kirishima, Amajiki and Fat Gun save Ken and take captive the Villain. [SB 4 The Osaka’s danjiri’s festival float usually takes place on a week end in mid September... which means in a time period that goes from 13-14 to 19-20. In 2019, the year in which the story was released, it took place on 14-15]

SEPTEMBER (A FEW DAYS AFTER KIRISHIMA, URARAKA AND ASUI’S NAMES APPEARING ON THE NEWS, MIGHT BE THE DAY AFTER THE DANJIRI FESTIVAL): Midoriya, Kirishima, Uraraka and Asui are summoned on Nighteye’s agency for their work studies. There are also Gran Torino, Eraser Head as well as other Heroes. [BNHA Chap 134-136. Around two weeks after Sir Nighteye agency started investigating the Shie Hassaikai... this is a bit messy. We know it happened a few days after Kirishima went back to school (‘Sūjitsugo’ 数日後 “a few days later”). Now we’re told Nighteye had been investigating on Overhaul for around two weeks ('Yaku 2-shūkan hodo mae’ 約２週間程前 “About 2 weeks ago”) The problem is that when Midoriya met Overhaul, on Sunday, they were investigating him already by a week and a half ('Isshūkan-han’ 一週間半 “A week and a half”... meaning to get two weeks we would need to be on Wednesday or Thursday... meaning 1 or 2 days after Kirishima went back to school... but let’s assume they’re actually being approssimative here]

SEPTEMBER (POSSIBLY THE DAY AFTER): Todoroki Shōto and Īda show their support to Midoriya who looks down. Students seem to have gone through uniform change as no one is wearing a short sleeve shirt. [BNHA Chap 137. Normally the uniform change is done in OCTOBER but, from this chapter on, the students will wear winter uniforms even though we’re supposedly still in SEPTEMBER since Midoriya will say OCTOBER started after Nighteye’s funeral]

SEPTEMBER (TWO DAY LATER): A member of the Shie Hassaikai buy a toy for Eri and is spotted by Nighteye who uses his Quirk on him and learns of Eri’s location. Night. Everyone is informed the date for the raid had been set. [BNHA chap 137 Two days after the reunion]

SEPTEMBER (THE DAY AFTER): Nighteye informs everyone they found Eri’s location because, the day before, he managed to use his Quirk on one of the Shie Hassaikai gons and had confirmation on it. [BNHA chap 137]

SEPTEMBER (LIKELY THE DAY AFTER): 8.00 AM. Preparation for the raid. Gran Torino can’t take part to it due to developments about the League of Villains. 8.30 AM. The Shie Hassakai raid begins. Toga Himiko and Bubaigawara Jin/Twice, pretend to fight on the Shie Hassaikai side but it’s all for the purpose of getting their revenge on them and end up hindering them. Tōgata is hit by a Quirk erasing bullet and loses his Quirk. Overhaul seriously wounded Nighteye. Midoriya beats Overhaul with the help of Eri. 9.15 AM The battle has ended and the wounded are being taken to the hospital. Shigaraki Tomura attacks the car transporting the captive Overhaul and while Dabi kills Higawara Sajin/Snatch with the help of Compress, Shigaraki Tomura steals the bullets that erase Quirk and, with the help of Compress, takes away Overhaul’s arms. The wounded Heroes are taken to a nearby hospital. Nighteye dies after talking with All Might and Tōgata. Kurogiri gets captured by Gran Torino. [BNHA chap 137-162]

REMEDIAL COURSE ARC

SEPTEMBER (THE DAY AFTER): The news report how the League attacked the car transporting Overhaul, stealing his Quirk erasing bullets. Midoriya talks with Tōgata. The students are sent back to U.A. and are welcomed by their classmates. Todoroki Shōto and Bakugō go to sleep early. Endeavor sends a message to his son saying he’ll come see his provisional license course. [BNHA Chap 163]

SEPTEMBER (THE DAY AFTER - LIKELY SATURDAY OR SUNDAY): Todoroki Shōto and Bakugō go to their provisional license course. Present Mic and All Might go with them. Endeavor and All Might talk. Yoarashi and Utsushimi also take part to the training which requires them connecting with the students from Masegaki Elementary. Once they succeed Endeavor tells his son he’s proud of him and that he will become a Number One Hero his son can be proud of. Yoarashi shows Endeavor his support. [BNHA Chap 162-167]

SEPTEMBER?: Nighteye’s funeral takes place. [BNHA Chap 167. No date is given in the manga]

SEPTEMBER?: Takami Keigo/Hawks is told to infiltrate in the League. [BNHA Chap 191 Gran Torino was already part of the team searching for the league. That team was actually formed in AUGUST but considering that Hawks learnt about it having already been formed and how everyone is dressed, I’ll say we aren’t in the hottest month but after it... and also considering Hawks managed to come into contact with Dabi only by the middle of OCTOBER I’ll say he didn’t start working on this in AUGUST. I might be wrong though and Hawks might have been put in action in AUGUST... or much later, at the beginning of OCTOBER]

OCTOBER (A FEW DAYS LATER): Sasaki Mirai/Sir Nighteye’s funeral. Work studies are put on hold. Eri regained consciousness. Aoyama Yūga/Can’t Stop Twinkling starts feeding Midoriya Izuku/Deku with cheese. [BNHA Chap 167]

OCTOBER (THE DAY AFTER): Past 1.00 AM. Aoyama peeks at  Midoriya while the latter is pretending to sleep from Midoriya’s balcony and leaves him a message written with cheese which says ‘I know’. During class Kaminari Denki/Chargebolt informs everyone Kamihara Shinya/Edgeshot, Takeyama Yū/Mt. Lady and Nishiya Shinji/Kamui Wood are teaming up, forming “The Lurkers”. Class A is then asked in the afternoon lessons to continue working on their ultimate moves. As Aoyama feels sick, Midoriya approaches him to help him and ask him explanations on his behavior and learns that he knows about how his Quirk isn’t suited to him and that they’ve this in common. This helps them to become friends. It’s probably around this time the commissioner-general of the national police agency visits Nezu asking him not to make the school festival. [BNHA Chap 167-168, 173]

U.A. SCHOOL FESTIVAL ARC

OCTOBER: U.A. starts preparing for the school festival. During supplementary classroom Aizawa Shōta/Eraser Head informs his students Eri wants to see Midoriya. Class A decides they’ll do a dance club with live music. Tobita Danjūrō/Gentle Criminal uploads another video. During supplementary classroom Eraser Head says Eri asked to see Midoriya and Tōgata Mirio/Lemillion. [BNHA Chap 169 No info about how much time went by is given]

OCTOBER (POSSIBLY THE DAY AFTER?): Tōgata and Midoriya go visit Eri and plan to bring her to the school festival. Aiba Manami/La Brava uploads a new video of Gentle Criminal as he deals with J store on that same day. The police realizes a new video is being uploaded and tries to pinpoint the location from which Gentle Criminal’s videos are uploaded. [BNHA Chap 170]

OCTOBER: La Brava reuploads Gentle Criminal’s videos. Bakugō Katsuki hears General study students being displeased by how Class A claims to want to have a concert ‘for their sake’. Gentle Criminal decides his next video will show him getting inside U.A. Class A decides the roles for their performance at the school festival. [BNHA Chap 171-172. Exactly a month from school festival. Traditionally, most schools hold festivals on or around Culture Day (November 3), a Japanese national holiday. Normally it is held on a Saturday or Sunday; sometimes even both. This means we’re pretty early in the month]

OCTOBER (THE DAY AFTER): 1.00 AM. All the roles for the school festival are given. Midoriya talks with All Might and they start training together so as to help him develop long range attacks. [BNHA Chap 172]

OCTOBER (SATURDAY): Eri visits U.A. Midoriya learns if the alarm goes off during the school festival the whole school will get evacuated. [BNHA Chap 172-173. A month still to the festival]

OCTOBER (ONE WEEK AFTER THEY STARTED PREPARING FOR THE FESTIVAL, LIKELY ON MONDAY): Midoriya is told he’s out of the dance group. [BNHA Chap 173-174]

OCTOBER (SUNDAY): The students continue to work for the school festival. Shinsō Hitoshi of class C of the General study is helping his class prepare “the Labyrinth of Doom” when he feels a little fearful he won’t manage to get in the Hero course and so he starts wandering through the place looking what the other class are doing. Once he is back he’s determinate to tell his class he’ll get transferred to the Hero course. [SB4]

OCTOBER: Second midterm exams. [Usually during the last full week of October]

END OF OCTOBER BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER: At night the league attacks the Creature Rejection Clan. Once they’re back at their base, they’re found by Gigantomachia and then Garaki Kyūdai/Ujiko Daruma summons them in his lab. He promises the League his help if they can tame Gigantomachia. Todoroki Tōya/Dabi claims he doesn’t want to get involved and mentions having found a good potential ally, likely referring to Takami Keigo/Hawks, meaning they should have gotten in contact already. Garaki insists Dabi has to help him test his High-End Nōmu. Shigaraki Tomura begins to fight Gigantomachia while they’re in Nīgata. [BNHA Chap 219-223 One month after Kurogiri was captured [who was captured at the end of SEPTEMBER], one month and a half prior to mid DECEMBER, when the League will go to Deika, but also prior to the Hero Billboard chart. We don’t know at which hour the attack at the Creature Rejection Clan took place. For my own personal comfort I’ll assume it was past midnight so that I can place everything as happening in the same day but it’s entirely possible it happened before midnight so what happened afterward happened in the day after it]

NOVEMBER (NIGHT BEFORE THE SCHOOL FESTIVAL): Midoriya is chosen to buy a new rope. [BNHA Chap 175]

NOVEMBER: Hatsume Mei gives Midoriya new equipment. School festival. Gentle Criminal  tries to disrupt the festival but he’s stopped byMidoriya which causes both him and La Brava to be arrested. [BNHA Chap 171, 175-183 The school festival is one month after class A decided what to do during it]

PRO HERO ARC

NOVEMBER (FINAL DAYS): Eri moves into U.A. dorms. Wild, Wild Pussy Cats and Izumi Kōta visit class A. 2nd Japanese Hero Billboard chart of the year. Todoroki Enji/Endeavor becomes number 1. [BNHA Chap 184-185 Three months since All Might’s retirement]

NOVEMBER (THE DAY AFTER): “Meta Liberation War” by Yotsubashi Chikara/Destro is back on print. Dabi goes on Hidamari Kindergarten with Garaki and check a High-End Nōmu. Todoroki Natsuo and Todoroki Fuyumi visit their mother, Todoroki Rei, at the hospital. Endeavor goes in Kyūshū, likely in Fukuoka to meet up with Hawks and ends up fighting with the overmentioned High-End Nōmu, defeating it. At the end of the fight he meets Dabi but their fight is interrupted before starting by Usagiyama Rumi/Mirko. In the evening Dabi and Hawks meet. Hawks then goes visiting Endeavor thinking at how the HPSC ordered him to infiltrate in the league. Dabi remembers who Higawara Sajin/Snatch was. [BNHA Chap 186-191 Also it has been 3 months since the Kamino nightmare]

NOVEMBER (TWO DAYS LATER): Shūzenji Chiyo/Recovery Girl heals Endeavor then the man goes back home and finds Todoroki Fuyumi, Todoroki Natsuo and Todoroki Shōto waiting for him but argues with Todoroki Natsuo who leaves whileTodoroki Shōto tells him he wants to see which kind of father he can become. That same day Midoriya dreams the vestiges of the previous users of One for All and of the discussion between All for One and his brother. [BNHA Chap 192-193]

JOINT TRAINING ARC

NOVEMBER (THE DAY AFTER): 6.30 AM Midoriya goes out for a run then, later in that day, talks with All Might about his dream. They then meet Eraser Head who’s with Shinsō Hitoshi. In the afternoon class A and class B have a joint battle training at which Shinsō Hitoshi also take part. At the same time Endeavor tries to contact Todoroki Shōto. Todoroki Shōto’s team will have a draw with class B Team. Midoriya loses control of his Quirk unleaching black wip but then regains it. All Might and Torino Sorahiko/Gran Torino talk at the phone. It’s decided Shinsō Hitoshi will join the Hero course at the start of the second year. 7.00 PM Midoriya, training with Bakugō, tries again to unleash black wip but can’t. Todoroki Shōto sends a message to his father telling him he wants him to teach him Flashfire. [BNHA Chap 194-217]

NOVEMBER (THE DAY AFTER): The other teachers agree to move Shinsō Hitoshi in the Hero course.Monoma Neito/Phantom Thief visits Eri but, when he tries to copy her Quirk, he can’t use her power. [BNHA Chap 217]

HEROES RISING ARC - Part 1

NOVEMBER: Mera Yokumiru goes to U.A. to require them to send their students on a ‘practical hero work recommendation project’. [Movie 2. One month before the U.A. students are on Nabu island, which takes place after the birth of the paranormal liberation front]

META LIBERATION ARMY ARC

BEGINNING OF DECEMBER: Todoroki Tōya/Dabi phones to Takami Keigo/Hawks asking him to kill a Hero who’s not the Number One. [BNHA Chap 231, 299 It could have happened at the end of November as well but since the attack with the High-End Nōmu happened at the end of November it’s more likely Dabi waited a little before contacting Hawks]

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 23.

DECEMBER: 2nd term final exam. [In Japan they’re usually held during the first week of December]

EARLY DECEMBER (SUNDAY): Todoroki Shōto and Bakugō Katsuki license course ends with a final test and they finally gain their provisional Hero licence. Detnerat entered the hero support sector. Yotsubashi Rikiya/Re-Destro kills Miyashita and then he’s informed his men have found someone connected to the League so he tells them to procede. Todoroki Shōto and Bakugō, who has gotten their licence by half a hour, stop some Villains. By night Re-Destro’s men captures Okuta Kagerō/Giran who however had managed to erase his client list first and bring him to Re-Destro. [BNHA Chap 218-219]

DECEMBER: Hawks pretends to kill Best Jeanist to prove Dabi his loyalty to the league. [BNHA Chap 231]

DECEMBER (3 DAYS BEFORE RE-DESTRO CONTACT THE LEAGUE): One of Giran’s fingers, his middle finger, is found outside the residence of the leader of the Shie Hassaikai and his index finger is found in Hosu city terminal. [BNHA Chap 223. It’s unclear if the index finger was found the same day as the middle finger or the day after]

DECEMBER (THE DAY BEFORE RE-DESTRO CONTACT THE LEAGUE): One of Giran’s fingers, his ring finger, is found on the Central Highway and his thumb is found in Kamino Ward. [BNHA Chap 223]

MID-DECEMBER: Chikazoku Tomoyasu/Skeptic recovers Giran’s client list. One of Giran’s fingers, his pinkie, is found in Fukuoka. Re-Destro phones to Bubaigawara Jin/Twice and challenges Shigaraki Tomura claiming if they don’t do as they say, they’ll reveal to the Heroes they’re in Nīgata. After having Dabi, who was at the border between Mie prefecture and Shiga prefecture, join them, the League of Villains moves in Deika City in Aichi prefecture to fight the Liberation Army. Hawks is in Osaka with Best Jeanist’s body in a bag, waiting for Dabi to contact him with no results. Toga Himiko fights Kizuki Chitose/Curious and has a Quirk awakening that allows her to use Uraraka Ochako’s Quirk with whom she murders Curious and her men, Twice defeats Skeptic’s puppets and overcome his trauma becoming capable to use his Quirk in full. Dabi fights Geten. Deika is destroyed. Tomura Shigaraki also have a Quirk awakening, remembers his past, beats Re-Destro and becomes the new leader of the Metahuman Liberation Army. [BNHA Chap 223-239 A month and a Half after they met up with Garaki Kyūdai]

DECEMBER: Dabi contacts Hawks who then warns the HPSC and claims from then on their communications need to be in code as he’ll be monitored. Dabi and Hawks meet at night and the latter shows him the body of withBest Jeanist. Dabi had said body identified and preserved in one of their facilities. [BNHA Chap 240, 243]

DECEMBER (ONE WEEK AFTER DEIKA’S DESTRUCTION): The paranormal liberation front is born. Shigaraki Tomura is its leader. Dabi allows Hawks to take part to that moment. Dabi is a lieutenant of the Vanguard action guerrilla warfare regiment violet. Garaki Kyūdai volunteers to give him power in exchange for him bringing him something. [BNHA Chap 240, 258 One week has passed from Deika’s destruction]

HEROES RISING ARC - Part 2

DECEMBER: Eraser Head explains his students about the ‘practical hero work recommendation project’. [Movie 2 We don’t know when this was done, it could have been done the previous month as well]

DECEMBER: Night. The League is moving a special cargo but they’re chased by the Heroes. Todoroki Enji/Endeavor manages to stop them, but it turns out the League members are clone created by Twice and the chargo is missing. Said chargo was Nine who regroups with his men and explains while the experiment on him was a success the side effects of his Quirk has worsened. [Movie 2. It could be it was the same night as the one in which the paranormal liberation front is born as it was in that night Garaki Kyudai asked the League to retrieve something for him but it seems more logical to assume it was in another night, maybe the one after it.]

DECEMBER (A WEEK AFTER): Class A goes on Nabu island, an island without Heroes in the southern of Japan, for a 'practical hero work recommendation project’. While there Midoriya meets Shimano Katsuma and Shimano Mahoro. In the evening the people of the island they have helped gift them some food. At the Hero commission, Hawks, Madame President and her underling discuss how there had been continuous acts of violence against Heroes which deprived them of their Quirk by a week. The league wonders what they were carrying. In Kyūshū Mr. Shimano is attacked by Nine who takes his Quirk and then uses his power to bring devastation to the city. Katsuma asks help against a Villain but it’s actually a projection done by Mahoro. [Movie 2. It’s worth to point out Hawks by this point was already introduced to the paranormal liberation front and the dialogue confirms he’s doing a secret investigation but, apparently, he has no transmitters on otherwise he wouldn’t openly take part to a Hero commission meeting that would be overheard by Villains. Also Shigaraki Tomura seems in perfect good health so it should be short before he were to undergo the experiment as well]

DECEMBER (THE DAY AFTER): Mr. Shimano is in coma, his things stolen so he can’t be identified. Hawks and Shigaraki Tomura are both on the scene of the attack. Katsuma apologizes to Midoriya. Nine attacks Nabu island, starting from the fishing harbor. While the students fight Nine’s men, Midoriya saves Katsuma and Mahoro from Nine who wants Katsuma’s Quirk. Mummy gets captured but Nine pursues Midoriya. Bakugō comes to help, they both get seriously injured but their friends manage to take them and the kids away while Nine gets knocked down by the side effect of the use of his power. [Movie 2]

DECEMBER (THE DAY AFTER): The people on the island is evacuated in a safe shelter and the students fight Nine and his men. Mr. Shimano wakes up and tells Hawks how his Quirk his cell activation but works only with whose of type A and that he’s from Nabu island. Hawks then learns of a boat receiving an S.O.S. message from Nabu island. Bakugō and Midoriya share One for All and beat Nine. [Movie 2]

DECEMBER (THE DAY AFTER): The rescuers come to Nabu island. A badly beaten but still alive Nine faces Shigaraki Tomura who decays him. It’s unclear if Mr. Shimano came back on the island on the same day but although the program got immediately suspended Class A remained on the island until they were scheduled to leave to help the people. [Movie 2]

DECEMBER (TIME AFTER): Last day of class A on the island. As the kids leave Katsuma and Mahoro come to tell them bye. [Movie 2]

ENDEAVOR AGENCY ARC - Part 1

DECEMBER: Bakugō Katsuki and Todoroki Shōto (Todoroki Shōto) get an interview. [BNHA Chap 241].

FINAL WEEK OF DECEMBER (9 DAYS AFTER DEIKA’S DESTRUCTION &, LIKELY, THE DAY AFTER THE INTERVIEW): Class A has a lesson about how to deal with media in a Hero interview training. Yagi Toshinori/All Might studies the story of the past vielders of All for One and, with Nezu, says it’s almost time to announce the next round of work studies. The HPSC wants students take part in a ‘practical field testing’ aka resume working studies and the teachers discuss about it in a reunion. The HPSC also contacts Endeavor telling him to train his inters the best he can. [BNHA Chap 241-242, 246. 9 days after Deika City’s destruction. The commission requesting such thing, the teachers’ reunion and the commission talking with Endeavor might have happened in different days]

DECEMBER: Class A does the typical end-of-year cleaning for each of their dorm rooms then some of them discuss the earthquakes that had started happening at night. Īda Tenya, Kōda Kōji, Kirishima Eijirō, Tokoyami Fumikage and Shōji Mezō, while chasing a crystal ball, ends up on some ground softer than usual, that suddenly gives in swallowing the boys up causing them to end in an underground place. Eventually Nezu finds them and sends them back to the dormitories. [SB 5]

FINAL WEEK OF DECEMBER (A FEW DAYS LATER) CHRISTMAS EVE - DECEMBER 24: During the teachers’ meeting Nezu informs everyone he decided to let the students go back home, escorted by the teachers, for the new year eve, since no suspicious behavior took place in the 4 months they’ve been in the dormitory. He also informs of this the police and All Might, saying it’s safe toassume no student is spying for the League. Christmas Eve party at U.A. school dormitory. Todoroki Shōto invites Midoriya and Bakugō to have a work study at his father’s agency. That night, while Eri is sleeping, almost all the teachers dresses all up as Santa and bring her presents. [BNHA Chap 242. SB 5. The students had been in dormitories by 4 months]

DECEMBER 25: Eri wakes up and finds plenty of presents and all the teachers sleeping in the lounge. Delighted she tells them about the presents. [SB 5]

DECEMBER 26: Starts winter break. [Usually this is the date in which it starts in Japanese schools]

DECEMBER 31 (NEW YEAR EVE): The students, escorted by the teachers, can go home and visit their families for one day. Midoriya spends time with his mother. Jirō Kyōka goes to watch her parents performing at a livehouse. Asui Tsuyu goes back home and finds her younger siblings now capable of taking care of the house. She has a phonecall with Mongose Habuko and then, later, her parents come back home. Todoroki Shōto and Todoroki Natsuo go back at home and find Todoroki Fuyumi preparing Soba. As she has to leave they try to finish her work with disastrous results. Endeavor is attacked by a Villain and, although he defeats him, this causes him to lose all the food he bought. Uraraka Ochako goes back to her family and takes part to their local tradition of the mochi-pounding event. [BNHA Chap 243 SB 5]

DECEMBER: Shigaraki Tomura hands his body to Garaki Kyudai so that the latter will make it even more powerful, although it’ll take 4 months to be complete. Hawks learns in 4 months Shigaraki Tomura’s body will be complete and the Meta Liberation Army will attack. [BNHA 245-246 It’s unclear when exactly this happens, the visual might suggest Shigaraki started being experimented over on the 1st of JANUARY but, since Hawks warns Endeavor about the attack coming in 4 months on the 1st of JANUARY, it might be that the scene we see is only a flashback]

U.A. YEAR 1 (Enji year 47)

ENDEAVOR AGENCY ARC - Part 2

JANUARY 1: New year’s morning. Midoriya Izuku/Deku leaves for his work study. Takami Keigo/Hawks goes to the MLA bases. Todoroki Enji/Endeavor ‘welcomes’ the students that will have their work study in his agency (Todoroki Shōto, Deku and Bakugō Katsuki) then deals with Starservant and receives from Hawks a book of the meta liberation army which Hawks uses to reveal the MLA future plans to him and how they plan to attack in four months. Hawks goes to the MLA bases and the League sees Endeavor’s interns in action through a video. [BNHA Chap 243-248 It could also be that it’s on this day Shigaraki Tomura/Shimura Tenko has Garaki Kyūdai start modifying his body.]

EARLY JANUARY (ONE WEEK AFTER THEY STARTED THEIR WORK STUDY): Todoroki Fuyumi invites Shōto, Deku and Bakugō at her home where they learn of what happened to Shōto’s oldest brother, Todoroki Tōya/Dabi. Ending captures Todoroki Natsuo to get Endeavor to kill him. He instead freezes and the one saving Natsuo and capturing Ending are Shōto, Deku and Bakugō. [BNHA Chap 248-252]

PARANORMAL LIBERATION WAR ARC - Part 1

JANUARY 6: Winter break is over. [BNHA Chap 253. Usually this is the date in which it ends in Japanese schools]

AROUND JANUARY 7: School resumes. The student go on ground Alpha to train with Yagi Toshinori/All Might as Aizawa Shōta/Eraser Head and Yamada Hizashi/Present Mic go see Kurogiri and gets from him the word ‘hospital’ which the Hero commission passes to Hawks while Garaki is still experimenting on Shigaraki. Meanwhile Class A shows what they learnt in their work study. Deku, Shōto and Bakugō show how they have improved working under Endeavor. Eri’s horn starts to feel weird and Aizawa decides he’ll start training her that same week. He then meets up with All Might and tells him Tsukauchi Naomasa wants him to delay seeing Akaguro Chizome/Stain. In the evening class A has a hot-pot party. [BNHA Chap 253-257 Usually this is the date in which Japanese schools resume lessons]

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 16.

AROUND JANUARY 14: Bubaigawara Jin/Twice asks Hawks to help him with his mission statement. Hawks has memorized how the Paranormal Liberation Front is organized. [BNHA Chap 258 One week has gone by from the hospital hint, one month from the formation of the PLF]

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya/Dabi turns 24.

WORLD HEROES MISSION ARC

LIKELY STILL IN JANUARY: Flect Turn, leader of Humarise, gives a speech in the main sanctuary of the Humarise sect involving Quirk Singularity Doomsday Theory and the extinction of humanity before triggering a Trigger Bombs in a major city, with the result everyone who has a Quirk first goes Berserk and then dies, leading tot he distruction of the city and the survival of few Quirkless people which are then approached by Humarise members. At the same time Alan Kay, flees from Humarise taking important document with himself. After it Humarise broadcast to the world that they were the ones responsible for the bombing. [Movie 3 In theory in the anime this is presented as taking place bfore Fuyumi were to invite the boys in her own home but since the twim between the boys starting their internship and Fuyumi’s invitation is solely of a week I assume it took place short after]

LIKELY STILL IN JANUARY: Endeavor tests Deku, Shōto and Bakugō to see if they can take part to the operation that’s being organized by the World Heroes Association. The kids pass the test and are told they’ll get special stealt new suits. [EM It takes place short before the mission in Otheon though it should take place before the first Trigger bomb exploded]

LIKELY STILL IN JANUARY: Endeavor, Deku, Shōto and Bakugō are at the airport about to leave for Otheon a small country in Europe when they argue for their seating places on the plane. Hawks, who’s also at the airpost with Tokoyami Fumikage/Tsukuyomi as they’re about to leave for America, reassigns their places so they can safely start their travel to Otheon. [OAV 6, HS. It takes place short before the Heroes leave for the mission to Otheon. It’s unclear if it’s in the same day as when Deku and Co were tested... as it’s unclear how long it took to create their new suits]

LIKELY STILL IN JANUARY: The Heroes are searching for all the 25 Humarise branches all around the world but can’t find any Trigger bomb nor Flect Turn. Alan Kay is still on the run, carrying a package he plans to deliver to prevent the destruction of the world. [Movie 3]

LIKELY STILL IN JANUARY: Rody Soul leaves his siblings to go to work. Stanleyk gives him the job to retrieve robbed uncut, untraceable jewelry. However Deku, Shōto and Bakugō stumble on the robbery and try to capture the thiefs. As the thiefs escape one of them managed to give the briefcase to Rody who’s then chased by Deku. At the same time Beros, a Humarise agent, attacks Alan Kay while he’s driving a car on the highway just as Rody is passing under it. By mistake Rody ends up picking up Alan Kay’s briefcase and leaving behind his own. Deku managed to reach him and inspect his briefcase but to their surprise there are no jewels but documents. They’re then encircled by the police and, as Rody escape, the police tries to kill them both, along with Berus who also attack them. They manage to escape but when Deku contacts Shōto the Otheon international news agency announces that Izuku is publicly accused of a mass murder of twelve people, notifying the entire nation that he is extremely armed and dangerous, resulting in putting him on the most wanted list. Deku and Rody goes in hiding and try to leave the country and go to Klayd. At the Otheon Police HQ, Endeavor complains to the Otheon Chief of Police with no results. His group discover Alan Kay is a defective member of Humarise who is now comatose. Shōto and Bakugō decide to reach Deku to Klayd. By night Rody dreams of his past. Rody tries to escape but he’s attacked by a Humarise agent, Rogone and Beros. Deku saves him but gets injured and the two manage to escape and become frieds. [Movie 3]

THE DAY AFTER: Rody gets ahold of a nearby van and he and Deku travel on it. It’s unclear if the travel lasts one full day or more but, if that’s the case, during the night of that day Rody tells Deku about his Quirk. [Movie 3]

THE DAY AFTER: When Deku and Rody are close tot he border they’re attacked by Berus again and by another Humarise agent, Sidero but Shōto and Bakugō save them. Inspecting the briefcase they manage to recover a chip and hid in Klayd. Humarise publicly broadcasts that they will detonate 25 Trigger Bombs in less than two hours. This causes mass panic while the Heroes try to prevent the bomb explosion. Meaniwhile Deku and Co hear Alan Kay’s recording and discover Humarise’s plan and how to shut down their bombs with a device created by Eddie Soul, Rody’s father who was kidnapped by them. Rody drives a plane to take them to Humarise’s true main base in time. Eventually they beat Humarize and Rody manages to stop the bombs. [Movie 3]

THE DAY AFTER: The leaders of Humarise are arrested and so is the chielf of police of Otheon. Deku, Shōto, Bakugō and Rody are carried to the hospital where Rody meets his siblings and Recovery Girl heals them. [Movie 3]

LIKELY THE DAY AFTER: Deku, Shōto, Bakugō and Endeavor are about to leave Otheon. Rody says bye to Deku first then goes to Stanleyk’s to ask for a honest job and begins working as a bartender. [Movie 3]

PARANORMAL LIBERATION WAR ARC – Part 2

MARCH: 3rd term final exam. [Usually held during the first full week of March]

MARCH (THE THIRD WEEK OF MARCH): Spring break starts. [Usually this is the date in which it starts in Japanese schools]

MARCH (THE DAY BEFORE THE PARANORMAL LIBERATION WAR): The students are told they’ll go on a trip for their work study.

MARCH (END OF THE MONTH WHEN SPRING BREAK IS ALMOST OVER): Paranormal Liberation War. Endeavor attack Jaku hospital. Dabi tries to protect Twice from Hawks attack but Twice ends up killed anyway. Dabi seriously burns Hawks’ back. Endeavor fights along with other Heroes against Shigaraki and, with the help of Shōto, Deku and Bakugō manages to seriously burn him. Dabi and the rest of the league arrive with Gigantomachia and Dabi reveals his real identity to his father and brother and in a video that’s made visible to all the world. He then fights with Shōto and seriously burns himself, though he also manages to burn his brother. Endeavor manages to knock down Gigantomachia before fainting. Shiragaki, now possessed by All for One, Dabi, Toga Himiko and Iguchi Shūichi/Spinner flew. Gigantomachia and Sako Atsuhiro/Mr Compress are captured along with most of the MLA (Geten included). A clone of Yotsubashi Rikiya/Re-Destro goes to the Hero Public Safety Commission and is attacked. He however manages to kill the president and many of the people there before melting when Twice dies. On that same night Shigaraki attacks Tartarus with his Nōmu, kills all the guards and free all the convicts. Stain take possession of some documents and escapes on his own. Tsutsumi Kaina/Lady Nagant takes with herself Chisaki Kai/Overhaul and is asked by All for One to capture Deku. In exchange she is granted the Quirk ‘Air walk’. [BNHA Chap 258-297]

MARCH (THE DAY AFTER): Shian prison, Bagu prison, Kuin prison and other 4 prisons are attacked by Shigaraki Tomura, All for One and the Nomu. The convicts escape from all the prisons except for the one which was also holding captive Tobita Danjūrō/Gentle Criminal, as he refuses to escape and stop the others from escaping as well. [BNHA Chap 298]

MARCH (TWO DAYS LATER): Bakugō wakes up in Central Hospital.Shōto is awake and gets his classmates’ support. Endeavor undergoes surgery. Hawks and Hakamada Tsunagu/Best Jeanist discover Dabi got his info about Hawks from Takami Tomie. Civilians take arms to fight the Villains on their own. Yoroi Musha retires. Endeavor wakes up at the hospital and confront with his family, Todoroki Rei, who has left the hospital, included. They think back at their family’s past, and then Endeavor is pushed to fight Dabi. Shōto promises he’ll do it with him. Deku, while unconscious, talks with the previous owners of One for All. [BNHA Chap 298]

MARCH (THREE DAYS LATER): Endeavor gives a conference which is witnessed by Dabi as well. People is told to move in shelters. [BNHA Chap 306 It’s unclear if they mean 3 days from the previous event or 3 days from when the war has ended and the convicts are escaped. I went with the first so that Enji had some time to recover but I might be wrong.]

DARK HERO ARC

APRIL (end of the first week): Spring break is over. [Usually this is the date in which it ends in Japanese schools]

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji (46) is Number One Pro Hero of Japan. Todoroki Rei has been evacuated at U.A. high, along with Todoroki Fuyumi (23), who likely can’t work, and Todoroki Natsuo (19), who likely can’t study. Todoroki Shōto (16) is also at U.A. High but he’s being kept as a 1st course. Todoroki Tōya (24) is hiding with the rest of the League.

APRIL (THE DAY BEFORE MIDORIYA LEAVES U.A.): Imasuji Gōto/Muscular shows up in the south ward [BNHA Chap 307]

APRIL (SECOND WEEK): Midoriya Izuku leaves U.A. Academy. Shindō Yō/Grand and Nakagame Tatami/Turtle Neck try to persuade the people holed up in the Taguchi building to leave the place and take shelter at Ketsubutsu Academy High School without success and, when they leave the place, they're attacked by a jailbreaker, Imasuji Gōto/Muscular. Midoriya spots a huge Villain, likely talking about Muscolar and runs there just in time to save Shindō Yō and defeat Muscular. Makabe Shikku/Mr. Smith and Tōteki Itejirō/Boomerang Man run to help only to see Muscular having been defeated, Midoriya then handing him to the police and then joins Yagi Toshinori/All Might. Midoriya leaves as Todoroki Enji/Endeavor and Hakamada Tsunagu/Best Jeanist are defeating the huge Villain of chap 1 and Takami Keigo/Hawks is phoning to All Might. [BNHA Chap 306 to 309 Likely we're on the second week of April, as the scene is meant to match the one of the 1st chapter]

APRIL (A STORMY NIGHT): Civilians attack a giant heteromorph which Horikoshi simply calls ‘ordinary woman’ but Midoriya Izuku saves her and then entrusts her to All Might who gives him a Bentō. [BNHA Chap 310 This might be taking place on the same day as before... or not. We don't know]

APRIL (A STORMY DAY): Todoroki Enji/Endeavor captures more escaped convicts but the civilians chase him away. At night Tsutsumi Kaina/Lady Nagant attacks Midoriya Izuku but she’s defeated by him and when she considers helping him All for One causes her to explode. She still tells him she was supposed to bring him within two months to a mansion in Haibori woods. Chisaki Kai/Overhaul, who was with her, is captured. [BNHA Chap 311-316 This might be taking place on the same day as before. We don't know]

APRIL: Punching Hero: Death Arms quits on being a Hero [BNHA Chap 317 It's two days before the Heroes reunion]

APRIL: Midoriya Izuku and the Heroes go to the mansion in Haibori woods but only see a video of All for One before the house explodes. Midoriya still manages to save them all. [BNHA Chap 316]

APRIL: The Heroes have a little reunion in which they discuss what to do. Todoroki Shōto/Shōto phones to his father who however doesn't answer. As the Heroes have their reunion Midoriya Izuku runs into a second hired gun and easily defeats it then tells Yagi Toshinori/All Might to stop tailing him. Akaguro Chizome/Stain spots All Might. [BNHA Chap 317. It could be in the same day in which the Heroes went to the mansion in Haibori wood. We don't know.]

APRIL (A FEW DAYS AFTER MIDORIYA LEFT U.A.): Class A talks about what to do in regard to Midoriya Uraraka Ochako/Uravity proposing to bring the matter to Nezu. [BNHA Chap 319]

APRIL: Todoroki Enji informs Midoriya the official dispatch dates for the foreign Heroes will be decided soon. Midoriya defeats more Villains. [BNHA Chap. 318]

APRIL (A FEW DAYS AFTER CLASS A'S APPEAL TO THE PRINCIPAL): Nezu summons Todoroki Enji/Endeavor at U.A. and let class 1 A face him. Ultimately he relents and gives them the means to locate Midoriya. [BNHA Chap 319]

APRIL (35 DAYS AFTER ALL FOR ONE'S PRISON BREAK): Midoriya faces Dictator, his classmates join him, helps him defeat Dictator and try to persuade him to go back to U.A. high. Hawks phones to Todoroki Enji asking if they should have Best Jeanist pull Midoriya out of that situation but the latter say to not interfere. Class A finally manages to persuade Midoriya to rely on them and come back to U.A. high. There however, the civilians doesn’t want to let him in but then, after Uraraka’s speech, they accept for him to stay. All Might leaves U.A. high and meets up with Stain who hands him the information he got from a Tartarus guard and then tells him to come for him as he’s the man who murdered 40 Heroes (since when he was arrested they were only 17, I guess he murdered more once he left prison). All Might hands the information to Tsukauchi Naomasa, patches things up with Midoriya Izuku and then joins again the police. The info says Shigaraki Tomura’s body will be ready in 38 days and not in 2 months as they believed it would. [BNHA Chap 318 to 327 Since they would still have 3 more days before Shigaraki would be ready, and it’s late in the evening, it means we’re at the end of the 35 days]

STAR AND STRIPE ARC

MAY (IT’S 36 DAYS AFTER THE TARTARUS PRISON BREAK AND ONE DAY AFTER MIDORIYA IS AT U.A.): While at a world conference they discuss All Might, Endeavor and Hawks plea for help,Cathleen Bate/Star and Stripe, U.S.A. Number 1 Hero, leaves for Japan without asking for permission. All for One discusses his plans with Iguchi Shūichi/Spinner, whom Chikazoku Tomoyasu/Skeptic is trying to promote as the new liberator. Toga Himiko and Todoroki Tōya/Dabi are outside the leagues’s hideout. On the way to Japan Star and Stripe faces Shigaraki Tomura, who’s under All for One’s control. The two fight and while he manages to decay her and steal from her New Order, as her last order was for New Order to revolt against other Quirks, with the result it starts destroying the Quirks inside him. This forces him to pass New Order to Kashi Kashiko. At the same time, as the other nations learn about Star and Stripes defeat, they refuse to dispatch their own Heroes. [BNHA Chap 327-334]

U.A. TRAITOR ARC

MAY (THE DAY AFTER – TWO DAYS AFTER MIDORIYA RETURNED TO U.A.): All Might informs class A that Shigaraki should have obtained a perfect body the next day but now it would take him a week to recover. Toga Himiko and Todoroki Tōya/Dabi are back at the leagues’s hideout, where Shigaraki is painfully recovering. All for One shares with them how he has friends to spare. Todoroki Shōto is working on perfecting Phosphor. Hagakure Tōru and Midoriya Izuku overheard Aoyama Yūga’s parents talking with him and discover he was All for One’s mole in class A as All for One granted him a Quirk 10 years ago and so he and his parents are arrested. Midoriya Izuku and Īda Tenya ask Hatsume Mei for more support items. Once they’ve them they join the search team. In Kansai, Amajiki Tamaki/Suneater, Hadō Nejire/Nejire-chan, Toyomitsu Taishirō/BMI Hero: Fat Gum and Tatsuma Ryūko/Dragoon Hero: Ryukyu are also hunting convicts. All Might and the League of Villains/Paranormal Liberation Front counterforce discuss their plan while Central Hospital is checking if there are explosives in Aoyama. Once none is found Aizawa Shōta/Erasure Hero: Eraser Head talks to him and persuade him to fight. In the evening Toga Himiko visits her old house and, once she has left it, Todoroki Tōya/Dabi burns it down for her while Shigaraki Tomura is ‘conqueering the Quirk doomsday theory’. Chikazoku Tomoyasu/Skeptic pressures Iguchi Shūichi/Spinner to lead the Heteromorphs to revolt while All for One gives him one of the detatched hands Shigaraki Tomura used to have along with two extra Quirks. All Might informs the kids at the dorms of their battle strategy. Shinso is also added to their group as Mera, the acting HPSC president gave him special permission to act even if he doesn’t have a license. Takami Keigo/Hawks informs the Heroes of their battle strategy. Aizawa asks Monoma Neito/Phantom Thief’s cooperation, telling him to learn to copy Kurogiri’s Quirk. [BNHA Chap 334-342]

MAY (THE FOLLOWING DAY): As the school principal announces All for One is going to make a big move in 4 days Midoriya Izuku leaves U.A. with Class A and transfer in the fortress Troy. Once there he talks with Usasaka Ochako about their feelings toward Tomura Shigaraki and Toga Himiko. Todoroki Shōto spends the evening with Bakugō Katsuki and Īda Tenya. All for One talks with Aoyama Yūga’s parents and decides to attack the day after. [BNHA Chap 342]

FINAL WAR ARC

MAY (THE DAY AFTER): The Final battle starts. The Villains are split in various locations. All for One ends in Gunga Mountains Villa ruins to face Endeavor and Hawks. Shigaraki Tomura ends in U.A., Sky-High Tomb, to face Best Jeanist, Edgeshot, Suneater, Nejire-chan, Dynamight, Eraser Head, Phantom Thief, Lemillion. Deku should have also ended here but Toga Himiko, who ends on Okuto island to face Uravity, Froppy and Gang Orca, manages to drag him with herself. Dabi ends up in Kamino Ward, to face Shōto, Ingenium and Endeavor’s sidekicks while Spinner was near Central Hospital to try to free Kurogiri and some other Villains were already as Jaku ruins trying to free Gigantomachia. Deku manages to leave Okuto island, trying to go back to where Shigaraki is. Shōto apparently defeats Dabi with his new move but he’ll be up again short later and capable to use Shōto’s new move, Endeavor gets seriously wounded and loses his right arm but then manages to burn All for One seriously enough to force him to use a rewind bullet. Dynamight’s heart gets fatally wounded but Edgeshots works to revive him. Deku reaches Shigaraki and the two start fighting. Toga Himiko uses Twice’s blood to create doubles. Although Tentacole’s words stop the Heteromorph revolt near Central Hospital, Spinner reaches and free Kurogiri who brings Dabi to his father and spreads Toga Himiko’s clones. Uravity and Froppy manages to tail her though. Gentle Criminal will save U.A. from dropping from the sky and La Brava will override Skeptic’s control on U.A. computers while Skeptic will be arrested. Endeavor leads Dabi away from the battle ground, only to discover his body will explode soon. Unable to stop him he tries to have him explode in the sky, planning to die with him. His family joins and try to freeze Dabi, but they’ll succeed only when Shōto will join them. His family and Dabi though will be seriously burned. Uravity will try to stop Toga Himiko and gets stabbed but finally she’ll manage to calm her down. As the effect of Twice’s blood ends Toga Himiko, in order to save Uravity, gives her all her blood and dies. All Might will fight All for One, causing him to further rewind and will be saved by a revived Dynamight who’ll manage to trigger All for One’s final rewind. Deku will fight against Shigaraki, he’ll manage to reach out to Tenko only for All for One to take control of Shigaraki. Eventually though, through the combined efforts of Deku, the Heroes, the previous owners of One for All and even Shigaraki All for One will be defeated, Shigaraki’s body disintegrating, even though Kurogiri tried to protect it, which will lead also to Kurogiri’s death. [BNHA Chap 343-424]

EPILOGUE - Part 1

MAY (ONE WEEK AFTER): The other countries show up to help Japan’s reconstruction. Bakugō Katsuki’s armi s declared permanently damaged and prescribed bed rest for a while. All Might and Midoriya are also still in hospital, but Midoriya now only has One for All’s embers which will eventually die out like they did with All Might. Bakugō, who has just gone to him, cries as he hears about him and All Might told them they are his greatest Heroes. [BNHA Chap 424]

MAY: Midoriya is enough healed he can go back to school and attend to the graduation ceremony of Togata, Amajiki and Hadō, which had been postponed till now. Aoyama drops by to say bye to his class as he’s going to leave U.A. while Shinsō instead will join class A. The whole Todoroki family go to visit Tōya who’s held prisoner in a contraption and slowly dying. They tell him they want to talk with him as long as he’s alive. Before they leave Shōto asks him which is his favorite food and learns it’s soba, same as him. Once alone, thinking back at this, Tōya cries and apologizes to Shōto. As the Todoroki are outside Natsuo informs them he doesn’t plan to see his father ever again and that he has decided to marry his girlfriend. Endeavor’s sidekicks and Hawks, who’s the new HPSC president, offer Endeavor their support, Lady Nagant let Hawks know she prefers to stay in jail while La Brava and Gentle Criminal reunite. [BNHA Chap 424-426]

MAY (THE DAY AFTER): Midoriya visits Spinner to bring him Shigaraki’s last words. Spinner tells him he’ll write a book about Shigaraki to let the world know who he was. As for Chisaki Kai he meets the Shie Hassakai boss. Meanwhile a boy has left the basement of his own house and is wandering through the city. The new students start their first day chasing after Bakugō and Todoroki Shōto. Class A helps in the reconstruction of the city and the new students join. People also support them. In the evening Class A discovers Uraraka isn’t there as she claimed she wanted to go back home. She’s instead on a cliff thinking back at how Toga Himiko died to save her life. Midoriya reaches her and the two of them talk. Class A joins them. [BNHA Chap 426-429 I would have thought Midoriya meeting Spinner would take place in another day but Midoriya commented that was the same day in which the new first years would join so...]

MAY: Aoyama’s farewell party. All Might and Hawks talk about broadening the scope of the billboard chart. Meanwhile the unnamed boy continues to wander through the city in desperate need for help until the old lady who didn’t help Shigaraki when he was a child volunteers to help him, Uraraka and Midoriya seeing the scene. [BNHA Chap 429]

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 20.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 47.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 24.

U.A. YEAR 2 (Enji year 48)

EPILOGUE - Part 2

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 17.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya/Dabi is probably dead but if he had survived he would turn 25.

DATE UNKNOWN: Spinner’s book “The League of Villains” will be printed. Sako Atsuhiro/Mr. Compress will read it. [BNHA Chap 430. If the images shown are consequential it’s before Class A’s graduation ceremony. It could be the year prior to this one but I would give Spinner at least a year to write his book so I think it’ll make more sense if it’s printed in this year.]

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 21.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 48.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 25.

U.A. YEAR 3 (Enji year 49)

EPILOGUE - Part 3

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 18.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya/Dabi is probably dead by a while but if he had survived he would turn 26.

MARCH: Class A graduates. [Chap 430]

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 22.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 49.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 26.

U.A. YEAR 9 (Enji year 55)

EPILOGUE - Part 4

JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 24.

JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya/Dabi is dead but, if he had survived, he would have turned 32.

APRIL?: Midoriya is a teacher at U.A. and, in his class, there is Izumi Kōta. The nameless kid that was saved by the old woman is also at U.A. high. The embers of One for All have left him after graduation, though we don’t know exactly when. Tentacole wins the Imamura Peace Prize for his efforts in finding peaceful resolutions to conflicts based on body discrimination. Ingenium, Froppy, Creati and Uravity are touring elementary schools nationwide, as part of Uravity’s plan to expand access to Quirk counseling. Eri is a high school student who’s also playing a musical instrument. Dynamight risks losing points in the Hero billboard chart, people don’t think anymore at Shōto as Endeavor’s son and he’s climbing the billboard chart. The current Number 1 is Lemillion. Other Heroes who’re high in the chart are Mt. Lady, Kamui Wood, Phantom Thief and Mudman. Midoriya meets and encourages a kid to become a Hero and then meets up with All Might who gives him a technological suit (the project founded by his class lead by Bakugō) so that he can go back on being an active Hero [BNHA Chap 430. Considering all those Sakura petals fluttering around we should be in April.]

MAY: 1st Japanese Hero Billboard chart of the year. Todoroki Shōto becomes number 2. Class A celebrate it together. Todoroki Shōto informs his classmates he decided to go to a bowl and chopsticks-making class in Ishikawa to learn the Wajima-nuri and the Yamanaka-nuri lacquerware styles as he likes to eat and thinks food will taste better if he eats with stuffs he made himself, the idea coming to him as he was praying at Tōya's Butsudan. Midoriya Izuku tells Uraraka Ochako he wants to talk with her more than with the others from then on. [BNHA Chap 341]

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 28.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 55.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 32.

THE END

[likeadevils]

Any timeline news bestie?

actually yeah!! a good chunk of news that i need to officially type up and source, but if you want to just take me at my word that i’m not making up interviews:

@1989worldtour and @taylor-on-your-dash found an old interview where taylor says she wrote back to december in new york, meaning it was likely written in early/mid may 2010

in that same interview she also said she wrote mine while on tour, probably in texas (that’s her saying probably texas not me). which would put it march 10-12 2010. the thing that trips me up about that though is scott borchetta said she showed it to him in february, which isn’t a big time difference, but taylor left for the bahamas right after texas. i don’t know exactly what day she left, so it’s possible she flew from texas to nashville’s to the bahamas and recorded the first mine demo then, but unless she did that the next time she could be in nashville would be on the 21st, and the next time she’s in nashville for longer than a day would be march 29, both of which are pushing the february mix up. but no matter what taylor probably wrote it in early march, since all the dates in february were in australia and tokyo, which seem hard to mix up with texas.

in that same interview she said she started mean in her kitchen but then had to leave to go play a show. that could be whenever, but the only 2010 show she played without a show right before/after it was in baton rouge on may 29, where she had two days off before and after it, so speculation but better than the “idk sometime in spring?” that i had it under before

(side salad: you might be thinking claire, is that too many may 2010 songs? and if you’ve read the speak now timeline you might be thinking, but what about long live in the first week of june and the story of us in the second week of june? is that too many songs? and to that i’d say wow, thank you for paying so much attention. but, taylor does go into writing frenzies in the months right before she finishes an album, and she finished writing for speak now in june and recording for it in july, so like. it makes sense that there’d be a cluster right at the end)

nathan chapman, the guy who produced basically every song taylor recorded between 2006-2011, posted a couple photos from the speak now and red sessions! unfortunately we don’t know which song she was making in the speak now picture (my kingdom for speak now studio credits), but the one from red is likely girl at home— it is the only released song taylor made with him at his house after cutting her bangs and straightening her hair

and some super early tortured poets speculation— on october 17, post malone said he’d just hung out with taylor, and on october 20 deuxmoi said taylor had just been in LA working with a new producer. dm is normally absolute dogshit at getting information out of taylor’s camp, but idk about post malone/whatever producer’s side of things. so i’m putting a very shaky maybe on fortnight in october 2023

if anyone has an opportunity to enter electric lady studios please tell me if they have a tan couch in front of a dark wood background. i have crawled through their website and instagram and i can find no such couch but taylor and jack working in a non-electric lady/his house studio would be insane (EDIT JACK BUILT A NEW STUDIO IN LA AND THE PHOTOS I WAS TRYING TO TRACK DOWN WERE PROBABLY TAKEN THERE)

[grapenehifics]

Making of Monday: Can't Stop the Suns Part 1

(I am thinking SO positively rn that I am calling this part 1, like I will remember to actually write more. YMMV; we'll see how I do.)

I'm hard at work on the concluding chapters of Pick Up the Pieces right now, and working on Pick Up the Pieces means I also need to do a fair bit of rereading An Uncivil War, so it's very much on the forefront of my brain, and also I have yet to participate in a single MoM, so: here's some backstory on An Uncivil War.

Okay I actually need to back up even farther than that, all the way to Solsbury Hill and February 2020. I started Solsbury Hill - it wasn't called that, then; it didn't have a name, just 'weird doc file/outline I'll probably never finish because I don't have a track record of finishing creative writing projects, ever' - and then the very next month I started working from home AND season 7 of Clone Wars premiered.

To get ready for season 7 - and because I was home a lot more during the day, now, and didn't have to commute to work - we decided to do a rewatch of Clone Wars season 1 through 6. And you know how we joke about plot bunnies, and why they're called that? That the hardest idea is your first one and once you have that the ideas just keep multiplying? So, I'm sitting on an outline for what would become Solsbury Hill, and we're watching Clone Wars, and we get to season 5, and the episode with Ahsoka's trial, and I think to myself, huh. That's weird. Why is Obi-Wan acting like that? Why is he not sticking up for our Padawan? If he had, I bet things would have turned out differently. Ahsoka might not have left the Order. Anakin might not have turned to the Dark Side. Clone Wars is full of all these little things that individually might not be enough to push Anakin over the edge, but they start stacking up, collectively...

From there, it was a pretty easy leap to, 'what if Obi-Wan left the Order instead of Ahsoka', and that created this whole domino effect because Anakin would obviously leave with him, right, and Ahsoka was getting kicked out anyway, and now I've got this scenario with three Jedi on the run in the middle of a war.

And that was fascinating to me. Once I started thinking about it I couldn't stop. But I was also getting really into Solsbury Hill, at that point, so this new story needed to take a backseat. I dumped a bunch of notes into a Word doc and went back to my AU.

It turns out, though - and this was the first time I'd learned this about myself - that I liked having both an AU and a canon project going at the same time. Solsbury Hill and An Uncivil War both used such different parts of my brain and required a different skillset and researching vastly different things, and if I got bogged down in one it was nice to be able to switch to the other one and hack away at that one for a while. So I ended up, from early 2020 until August 2022 when I posted the first chapter of Solsbury Hill on AO3, working on both projects nearly simultaneously, although obviously Solsbury Hill (despite being three times longer) got to the finish line first.

For a long time - almost three years - An Uncivil War was just called, An Uncivil War. And it had this expansive outline that I just kept cracking away at, and whenever I came across something cool in another piece of Star Wars media or another show premiered or I read another book I'd think 'Ooh, that's neat! That's going in the fic!' and I'd add it to my to-do list. And at some point I looked at my word count and realized I was pushing 100k and not anywhere close to the end of the story I wanted to tell.

So, I started thinking about sequels, and series. I had (still have) this outline, fortunately, and there was one pretty obvious stopping point at what was then the mid-point of the plot. (I say, 'then' because it has since, of course, expanded. It turns out I'm very bad at guessing word counts.) So I took half my outline, dumped into a brand-new doc, called that one Pick Up the Pieces, and wrote the 'ending' of An Uncivil War, as much as possible, as if it were the ending, just in case I for some reason never got around to writing Pick Up the Pieces.

Because it was important to me that An Uncivil War be able to stand on its own. It's got a beginning, a middle, and an end, and the end calls back to the beginning, and the main threat to the characters is resolved, and they talk about what they're going to do next but even if that was the only story you had, it should still be a satisfying conclusion (or, at least, I hope it is).

But it isn't the entirety of the story I wanted to tell. Because they originally were one big story, I actually had maybe half of Pick Up the Pieces already written by the time I started posting An Uncivil War, so while the first part took me three years to write, the second has technically only taken me a year, but I was definitely not starting from scratch.

I also - and this should shock absolutely no one - was once again wildly off in my word count estimate. Pick Up the Pieces is, right now, already as long as An Uncivil War (120k), and I've still got three chapters left to go...plus a bunch more things in my outline I haven't gotten to yet.

So, in true Star Wars tradition, I'm now plotting a part three! Pick Up the Pieces, like An Uncivil War before it, has a logical ending point, so it will wrap up there, but the plot will move merrily along to the next thing on my to-do list, which is in fact the same to-do list I've had since March 2020. (It's a good thing I love this story so much or I would have quit long ago.) Part Three, at the moment, is tentatively titled Sometimes Fate Steps In, and I'm really, really sorry to have to admit that that's where all the smut is going to be. (I know. It's Solsbury Hill all over again.)

(I do love it, though. I feel like I should...apologize, to my fics, somehow, for having a favorite? I do have a favorite, though. It's this series. I love it so damn much. This is the one thing I write where, if you told me right now that I would never get a single comment or kudos on it, I would still write it anyway, because I just get so much enjoyment out of researching and writing it and re-reading it.)

(Which is not to say you shouldn't comment on it. Please, please do! You will absolutely make my day, week, month, year! But I love it enough to do it anyway.)

[voidscarredadjudicator]

Hey guys, still not dead yet. I wish I had more to talk about more often so the few posts I do on here aren't just shit to prove I still have a pulse, but the simple truth of the matter is that there's usually not much of anything to really talk about on my end.

But right now, there is!

There's a couple things - first, we're about a month out from the one-year anniversary of Act I's final chapter being published, which is very bizarre to think about because time is moving quicker than I can acknowledge and that just makes me vehemently aware of how long folks have waited for anything regarding Act II. And I know y'all are patient, and I know I shouldn't feel bad about actual real life shit that matters more than funny squid video game fanfiction taking precedence over said funny squid video game fanfiction (😱 no way) BUT I feel bad anyways. On the bright side, in the time between then and now, I feel as though my writing has improved dramatically thanks to the effective training courses that have been the shit I've written for the tabletop I'm running. I also may have discovered a latent passion for acting, as I genuinely brought myself to tears while voicing an NPC's emotional breakdown? I never even did theater in school, I just got so caught up in the moment that I felt it.

All of that said though, I think I'm almost at a point where I can start working on Act II once again!

Writing a fanfiction series and running a very plot-heavy tabletop game at the same time is not a combination I'd recommend. Like I said in my last post back in mid-January, it's definitely been a contributing factor to the delay (while certainly not the main one), but also like I said in that post, we're wrapping it up soon. The current projected end date is somewhere in early March, but it might be closer to late March/early April depending on the pace my players go at. So before I get myself caught too deep in planning the next game I run for those goobers, I wanna step back from that for a hot minute and kick this series back into gear - if not for you guys, then for my own sanity's sake.

Does that mean for certain Act II will be finished soon? I dunno. There's a non-zero chance that I might scrap what I've got so far and just start with a blank page once again, but at least that would mean there's progress actually happening.

Anyways... yeah, that's about it. Definitely nothing else worth talking about in regards to Splatoon in the month of February in the year 2024. Nope. Certainly not.

...

guys that's agetn 4 i'm telling you that's the 4 the oone who is not agentn1 ro 2 and not 3 but FOUR number 4 like from pslatton 2!!!

my uncle works at nintendo and he said that um he said that side order will make humanity's endling canon. and uh. kaleb appears and goes "huh. this really is the humanity's endling" and they all clap. yea. also harmony gets a remington 870

[queenie-official]

Bae please tell me your not giving up on the Bridgerton Series

OSHSOAJ IM NOT I PROMISE 💋💋😭 i’m just taking a hiatus! been feeling really burnt out writing it and it was beginning to feel like a chore, so the best solution is for me to take a break :)

forgive me for not uploading hun 🙏😭

so when writing the series i sort of isolated myself to solely writing for it so that i could get chapters out, in the process i had all these other ideas for oneshots and stuff that i wanted to write for but kept pushing off and telling myself no.

and i’ve really missed the creative freedom of writing for other things, which is why you lovelies will be seeing me post a few more oneshots before we get back to the series.

The royal heart series will be back, i’m thinking roughly around mid february or maybe even sooner if the inspiration hits me!

i already have chapters planned out so don’t worry to much, lots of stuff for that series planned.

as a apology let me let you all in a little bit on what i am planning. so the royal heart is actually very close to coming to a close- i’m thinking maybe 5-10 chapters left of the main story line. (this might change but i think roughly it will still be about the same amount)

once i finish the main plot there will be bonus chapters released of Anakin’s POV! i’ve been planning on doing this for a while and a few of you guys have even left comments saying you’d love to see it from his perspective so that really solidified those chapters becoming a reality.

it’s not going to be every chapter from his POV but there are going to be quite a few. mostly of big events like when him and reader first met, when he got sick etc.

i want you guys to see his thought process on certain things- which is why the bonus chapters are honestly one of the most exciting things i’m looking forward to writing for this series!

that’s technically going to be the end of the royal heart series, however it won’t be the end of bridgerton au!Anakin x reader content!

i will also be writing oneshots based off of them, which could be read as part of the series or just stand alones <3

like i said lots of plans so i hope you’ll stay tuned to see it all play out 🫶🏼🫶🏼

love you all and thank you for your kindness and patience Xx

[snake-berry]

some very old & some relatively new sketches (including asoiaf, hp, & tmi/shadowhunters)

since im never going to finish these, i thought i'd post them. and since i have nothing new to post (been the worst ive ever been mentally for the past 5 months, which is saying... a lot). but im working on some requests so i'll get back to regular posting soon.

sooo anyways (left to right, top to bottom)

ashara dayne x howland reed sketch for last february's ship challenge that i never finished coloring

regulus black redraw (for an old drawing posted here). from around/over a year ago. didn't like the way it looked so i scrapped it - still might try to redraw that one again

clary fray sketch from november-ish. going to do some shadowhunter fanart soon probably. not exactly the type of content i think my target audience expects and/or wants but i have to do what brings me joy

shiera seastar colored sketch. from last summer. i like this one but it was meant to be for a full page of sketches for the great bastards lol

ACOK sketches (melisandre, theon & robb, shae, and bran). veryyyy old (march 2022). i always liked something about this one, but i guess i got too overwhelmed and abandoned it. the character designs here contradict the way i draw these characters now but yeah

ginny weasley + mystery man i shall not yet reveal sketch. embarrassingly more recent. basically for a while i lost all ability to draw, literally, like any semblance of skill i had completely disappeared and sketches that would have taken me 20-30 mins started taking hours and hours. andddd this was one of the sloppy products of that time. still going to redraw this mystery ship and post it soon tho so stay tuned

anyways thats all sorry for the mid drawings i'll be back to actual posting soon

[legolasbadass]

Office Hours, Part 22

Summary: Lorelei Browning has just secured a job as an assistant professor at Exeter College in Oxford. Naturally, she is eager to prove herself and meet every challenge sent her way, but what she does not expect is the tall, handsome stranger who will quickly become much more than a colleague…

Relationship: Richard Armitage x OC (Professor AU)

Word Count: 4.7k

Rating: E

⚠️ Warning: This chapter contains some student/teacher roleplay. Please do not read if you are uncomfortable with that!

Read on AO3

January flows by in a blur, and before I know it, it’s mid-February, exams are fast approaching, and Natasha and I are rushing to finish all the preparations for our conference next week. The days are growing longer, but we can observe no evidence of this in Oxford, for the city is permanently soaked under thick, grey clouds. Even the dreaming spires seem to long for spring, reaching high into the sky above the clouds in search of the sun.

After my morning tutorials and a quick meeting with Natasha, I finally have a rare moment to myself, so I decide to take a chance and see if Richard is in his office. Yesterday, I finally received an advanced copy of my monograph, but I still haven’t gotten the opportunity to show it to him. 

My first monograph. I can hardly believe it. Despite all the long nights of research and writing that went into it, it’s almost like part of me hadn’t really expected it to become a reality. But it did, and now I’m holding it in my hands. An actual book with my name written in bold, black letters on the slipcover. I take another glance inside, as though worried my surprise for Richard might have disappeared from the pages, but of course, seeing as this isn’t Tom Riddle’s diary, the text is still there. My heart flutters as I try to imagine Richard’s reaction, and when I knock on his office door, it’s with a wide smile on my face.

“Come in.” His deep, rumbling voice declares from the other side of the door. 

“Hey, do you have a minute?” I ask, now standing in the doorway. 

Soft, grey light floods the room from the grand, diamond grid window behind the desk, where Richard currently sits, the elbow patches of his tweed jacket resting on the wooden surface as he puts down his cuppa. His eyes light up when he looks up at me, and he nods enthusiastically. 

“Of course!” 

Closing the door behind me, I approach his desk and snuggle into his awaiting arms, leaning in to press a kiss atop his unruly hair. 

“I have something to show you,” I say in a sing-songy voice. 

“Oh?” 

With a smile, I pull the book from my bag and hand it to him. His eyes linger on my face for a moment more, brimming with tenderness, before he glances down at the book, and a surprised chuckle falls from his lips. 

“Lorelei—this is a copy of your monograph!” 

“It is,” I reply in an equally excited tone. 

His eyes shine with unmistakable pride as he pores over the front and back cover. “This is incredible! I am so proud of you, sweetheart.” As he says so, he pulls me onto his lap and squeezes me tight, one of his hands coming to rest on my thigh just below the hem of my plaid skirt as he presses a lingering kiss on my cheek. “I wish I had time to start reading this right now.” 

“Oh, you don’t have to,” I hasten to say with a shake of my head. “It’s not even remotely connected to your research area.” 

“This is your first monograph—how could I not read it?” His words stir an overflow of affection within me, and I wonder how I ever put up with partners who couldn’t even pretend to be interested in my research to show support. “We definitely need to celebrate!” 

Pushing all thoughts of past relationships from my mind, I smile. “Well, Beatrice is coming to visit in a few weeks, right around the publication date, actually. So maybe we could all celebrate together then?”

“That sounds great,” Richard replies, then moves to set the book on his desk. 

“You haven’t looked inside!” I point out, and he raises an inquiring eyebrow. 

“What—did you hide a naughty photo in there for me?” he jokes, causing me to shake my head in amusement as he opens the book and flips through the first pages. Then he stills, and his eyes soften as he carefully reads the dedication. 

To Richard,

For all your love, patience, and support

“Lorelei…” he says softly, his voice heavy with emotion. 

I smile as I reach out to cradle his face, my thumb gently tracing the faint colour on his cheek. “I love you, Richard. So much.” 

“I love you, too, my darling girl,” he murmurs as he leans in to rest his forehead against mine. We remain like this for a little while, savouring the comforting tranquillity of the moment, before his eyes flutter close, and he tilts his head slightly to kiss me. His lips are warm and soft against mine as we lose ourselves in this languid caress, our arms wrapped around each other as though unwilling to let the other go for even a second, but we both know that this intimate moment cannot last as long as we wish it could. 

“I have to go,” I reluctantly say when we pull apart a few moments later. “I have a meeting with a student in like 10 minutes, then another tutorial.” Richard groans in response but loosens his hold on me. “Your place or mine tonight?” 

“I’m pretty much done for the day; I just have a meeting on zoom later and I’ll be heading home for that. So is my place okay?” 

“Yeah, sure! Do you need me to stop at the grocery store to get something for dinner?” 

“No, I’ve got plenty of food. I do need laundry detergent, though, but I won’t have you running errands like that for me just yet—I want to keep the spark alive between us for a little while longer,” he says teasingly with a wide smirk, causing me to giggle as I lean in for another kiss. 

“Alright, I’ll see you later then.” Another kiss. “I love you.” 

“I love you, too,” he replies as I stand up and retrieve my book. “And I’m really proud of you.” 

“Thanks,” I say with a smile, warmth blooming on my cheeks. There is so much more I want to say to him, but words fall short of conveying the depth of my love and gratitude, so I can only hope that the dedication reveals just how much his support means to me. 

***

Later that day, I park behind Richard’s car in the hedged drive in front of his house, then make my way up the stone steps leading to the front door. I’m about to ring the doorbell when I remember he mentioned a zoom meeting, so I opt instead for the emergency key he keeps hidden under the currently empty clay pot next to the door. As quietly as possible, I slip inside, making sure to put the key back in its place and lock the door behind me. 

Apart from a small table lamp next to the sofa in the living room, the house is submerged in darkness, but I’m not surprised. After taking off my coat and boots,  I make my way up the creaking stairs and, as expected, find Richard in his office, a deep frown of concentration wrinkling his forehead. He sits at his desk, surrounded by books and papers, his glasses lowered slightly on the ridge of his nose as he carefully reads something on his computer. The only light in the room comes from his screen, telling me that he has been hard at work for many hours. Though I don’t want to disturb him, I reach out to turn on the light to ensure he doesn’t overexert his eyes, which prompts him to look up at me. 

“Am I on time for your office hours, Professor Armitage?” I teasingly say.

Smiling, he scratches his beard with one of his large hands, then stretches, and I bite back a sigh at the sight of his white shirt tight over his muscles. The tweed blazer he wore earlier is draped over the back of his chair, and it almost falls to the floor before he secures it more carefully behind his back. “I’m sorry, love—I thought I’d be done by now.” He removes his glasses and rubs his eyes with his other hand, then frowns. “Did I forget to lock the door or did you get the key from the flower pot?”

I bite my lips guiltily as I walk over to his desk. His eyes linger on my legs—or my skirt?—for a moment, but then he meets my eyes. “I wasn’t sure if you’d still be in a meeting, so I didn’t want to disturb you. I hope that was okay?” 

“Of course, it’s okay. In fact, that key should be yours.” 

I pause. 

“What?” 

“The key should be yours,” Richard repeats, unfaltering. “You’re here all the time anyways.” 

This isn’t the first time a partner has offered me a key to their home, but it had felt different last time. My ex had been a Ph.D. candidate like me at the time, and he was going away for a conference over the weekend and had asked me to water his plants. Then, when he came back, he simply told me to keep the key. Perhaps my ex had meant it to be symbolic, but it had felt more like a thing of convenience, and somehow, even though we had been dating for over a year, I had felt like I was trespassing when I went to his flat when he wasn’t there. Now, however, as I gaze back into Richard’s cerulean eyes, everything feels right. Things are moving fast between us, but it just feels so right. 

“Well, as you say, I’m here a lot more than you’re at my flat. But, still, consider my spare key yours as well,” I reply with a shy smile, hoping that is the appropriate response to his offer. 

He grins, the corners of his eyes wrinkling in that deeply irresistible way. Then silence falls between us, and I recognize a hint of shyness in his expression, so I lean in to kiss his forehead and change the subject. 

“Are you still working on that dissertation?” I ask as I steal a glance at his computer. 

“Yeah because my meeting went on much longer than expected. Stephen put me in contact with Stanley Griffin—he’s a professor at Harvard—”

“Wait, the Stanley Griffin?” 

“Yes,” he replies with a wide smile. “We talked about our research and he’d be interested in working on a project with me—not sure yet the extent of it, but it’s exciting.” 

“Richard, that’s amazing!” I exclaim and hug him tight. His smile widens as he wraps one arm around my waist.  “Why didn’t you tell me before about this meeting?” 

A hint of pink colours his cheeks. “Part of me honestly expected him to cancel, so I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it.”

I raise my brows in incredulity. “Why on earth would he cancel a meeting with you?” 

He shrugs again. “He’s Stanley Griffin.” 

“And you’re Richard Armitage!” I exclaim. “Professor at Exeter College. Winner of Shakespeare’s Globe Award and the Sam Wanamaker Award. Editor for the Shakespeare Quaterly—shall I go on?” 

 “Please, no,” Richard laughs, his face now a deep, endearing red. 

“You are just as brilliant and influential as he is—”

“I highly doubt that.” 

“Richard!” I groan. 

He laughs again and squeezes my waist. “I just don’t know how to handle compliments.”

‘They’re not compliments—they’re facts,” I reply with a raised chin. “But I guess what I’m trying to say is that this is a wonderful opportunity, and I’m very happy for you.” 

“Thank you, sweetheart,” he says with a shy smile, then returns his attention to his computer, telling me that I need to stop lavishing him with praise before he permanently turns into a tomato. “So, I’ll just finish this—I promised a student I’d finish writing my comments on her latest dissertation chapter tonight.” 

“How much longer?” I ask, pouting playfully, but deep down, I really do crave his attention. We are both so much busier than we could have anticipated this semester, and thus our time together has been limited to rushed lunches between classes or evenings spent working on our research or course planning side by side. 

“I don’t know,” he chuckles. “You can have dinner if you’re hungry. Don’t wait for me, love.”

Usually, I would simply kiss him and let him work; ever since we started dating, it’s been important for both of us not to allow our relationship to get in the way of our careers. Tonight, however, I feel an irresistible pull toward him; I don’t know if it’s how refined he looked with his glasses, if it’s the slightly loosened tie over his white shirt, or simply the fact that we haven’t had much time to ourselves lately—or even a combination of all three—but I cannot take my eyes off him. 

“You’re distracting me,” he says with a raise of his eyebrows, the deep rumble of his voice sending shivers down my spine. 

“I’m sorry, Professor,” I reply without thinking, biting my lips. 

Richard keeps his eyes fixed on his screen, but I don’t miss how his eyes darken. Although he has never spoken about it, and he would probably never ask, I know he finds it deeply arousing when I call him by that title, and now that we are in his office, I find the fantasy even more intoxicating. 

Now leaning against his desk so that the hem of my brown plaid skirt slips higher along my thighs, I hesitantly reach out to caress his bicep. His skin is warm under the cotton of his shirt, but not as warm as the fiery intensity in his eyes as he stares longingly at my thighs. No words are spoken as we study each other, assessing the other’s intentions. Then he swallows heavily.

“I don’t know if it’s that skirt or what, but….” He shakes his head as though trying to get rid of the lustful thoughts he hesitates to share with me, even though I know he wants this new and exciting game as much as I do. “Sorry, forget about it.” 

“Don’t be embarrassed,” I say softly, coming back to reality for a moment, but when he remains silent, I begin to fear I’ve crossed a line. 

“I don’t want it to be weird,” he begins, looking away. “I mean, I have never thought of a student in that way, but if we do this, isn’t it weird?” 

“Oh, love, no—don’t worry! I’ve never fantasized about being with a professor when I was still a student, and I know you’ve never thought of a student like that. Believe me, if I had even the smallest suspicion on that front we wouldn’t be together,” I say, and he chuckles, though I can tell he’s still embarrassed. “This is just role-playing. For fun! It’s completely harmless—nothing weird about it.” 

“Yeah?” 

I nod. “Richard, I want you to feel comfortable sharing your fantasies with me, even if you think they’re weird! Because I can assure you they’re not.” 

Richard swallows heavily, and I bite my lips to stop myself from sighing when he runs a hand over his beard. Desire hums in my veins, and despite myself, I impatiently press my thighs together and am rewarded with a gentle wave of pleasure that only leaves me yearning for more. He remains silent for a few more moments, then, at last, something shifts in his gaze, and he rests one of his large hands on my knee. 

“You didn’t do very well on your last assignment, Miss Browning,” he begins in a dangerously low voice. I shiver. 

“I’m sorry, Professor,” I reply, my voice slightly breathless as I lose myself in his hungry eyes. “Is there any way I could improve my grade?” 

Richard’s hand slips higher up my thighs, sneaking under my skirt to tease the hem of my nylon stockings, and my skin erupts into goosebumps. I need him to bring his hand to my core and caress me until that sweet, fiery pleasure consumes me, but something in his gaze tells me that I will be rewarded for my patience, so I force myself to remain silent. When his fingertips brush against the laced edge of my knickers, however, I can’t help but rock my hips to meet his touch. I instantly regret my disobedience, for Richard narrows his eyes and removes his hand completely, depriving me of the touch I desperately crave. 

“I’m sure we can arrange something, Miss Browning, but you will have to do exactly as I tell you. Is that understood?” 

“Yes.” 

Richard stands up, now towering over me, his tie hanging between us and tickling my skin through my jumper. His eyes are dark with lust as he frowns. “What was that?” 

“Yes, Professor,” I correct myself. He has only spoken a few words, and I’m already on fire; I could never have predicted how much this game would affect me, and I know I’m not prepared for the pleasure yet to come.

“Good girl,” he says, and heat pools between my thighs. “Now undress.” 

“Yes, Professor.” My voice trembles as I hastily reach for the hem of my jumper to pull it over my head, only for him to stop me with a harsh grip on my wrists. 

“Slowly,” he growls warningly. 

Swallowing back a whimper, I obey. I keep my eyes fixed on his face to catch every flicker in his eyes and every swipe of his tongue over his lips as I undress, making sure that my jumper slowly caresses my skin as I peel it off my burning body. Richard leans back in his chair as I reach for the clasps of my bra; his wool trousers do nothing to conceal his growing arousal, and I bite my lips as I let my bra fall to the floor, exposing my beaded nipples to the low light of the office. The next items to go are my skirt and stockings, but before I can stand up to remove them, he stops me. 

“The skirt stays on.” 

Another wave of heat spills from me, and my breath hitches in my throat when his large hands come to rest on my left thigh, his fingers brushing the naked skin just above my nylon stocking, all while he gazes into my eyes. With a level of tenderness that makes my head spin, Richard slowly begins to peel my stocking off my leg, caressing every inch of my goosebump-stained skin as he uncovers it. I never thought something as simple as taking off stockings could be so sensual, but now I almost feel as though I could climax from that alone. My knickers are next, and he steps into the space between my legs as he slides his hands under my skirt to take them off. I have to wriggle around to help him, and I can’t hold back my giggle. A boyish smirk spreads across Richard’s face, but he quickly gets back into character. 

The wooden desk is hard and cold against my bare bottom, but I soon forget about the minor discomfort as Richard towers over me, forcing me to raise my head to meet his fiery gaze. His chest is mere centimetres away from my face, so close I can practically hear the frantic beating of his heart. I desperately want to pull off his tie and unbutton his shirt so I can caress every inch of his chest, but I crave praise even more, so I keep my hands on the desk and wait for his next command.  When Richard speaks again, his voice is deeper, rougher, and far more commanding. 

“Bend over the desk.” 

I bite my lips to stop myself from whimpering. Thrilled to see that he is unknowingly acting out exactly what I had been dreaming of, I obediently stand and turn around to bend over his cluttered desk. I can feel his hungry gaze on me, burning my skin, and my heart beats faster in anticipation. His chair scrapes against the floor as he inches closer to me, then, with only the tips of his long fingers, he begins to caress my back, down the length of my spine, before reaching under my skirt to squeeze my bum. My whole body is on fire as he continues his careful exploration of my curves, and when, at last, he spreads my legs further apart to trail his fingers over my slickness, a desperate whimper escapes my lips. He leisurely caresses my folds, spreading my arousal around before burying two fingers inside me. My responding moan echoes through the room as I lift my hips toward him, desperate for more. 

“I think you are enjoying this a little too much, Miss Browning,” Richard growls as he suddenly stops pleasuring me with his long fingers, and I whine in frustration. “I’m supposed to be teaching you a lesson, aren’t I?” A light smack on my bottom accompanies his words, then he pauses, waiting for my consent, and my core trembles when I understand his intention. 

“Yes, Professor,” I whimper and obediently arch my back. 

The sound of his hand against my bare flesh echoes through the room as he smacks my bottom. It stings, but Richard hastens to gently rub the soreness away. Even in our most heated moments, he is always so careful and tender, and it makes me fall more in love with him each time. Then he smacks me again, a little harder this time, no doubt marking my skin, but my arousal only hums more intensely. 

“Professor,” I moan, my hands closing in on a loose sheet of paper on the desk, carelessly scrunching it as I squirm under his unrelenting treatment, my cheeks burning in need and embarrassment. Then, as he tenderly caresses my back, his name unwittingly falls from my lips in a needy whine. 

Suddenly, he stops and hastens to turn me around. His face is flushed, a strand of hair falling over his forehead, and his eyes dark with lust, but I notice a trace of worry in him as he searches my face, clearly worried he has gone too far. But he hasn’t, and a simple look of encouragement is enough to convince him to go on. However, instead of pushing me back onto the desk, he reaches for his belt, and the soft cling of the metal hitting the floor sends a thrill through me. Then he sits back on his chair and beckons for me to join him. 

His hardness presses into my inner thigh as I straddle him, my arousal spilling onto his trousers. His strong arms hold me tight, digging into the flesh of my waist, and I rest my hands on his chest, waiting for his next command. The corners of his lips twitch as he leans in closer, his lips hovering over mine but never closing in for a kiss, and I nearly whimper from the frustration. 

“It’s your turn to undress me now, Miss Browning.” 

His words, spoken in that low, rumbling tone, go straight to my core. My fingers brush against his throat as I struggle to loosen his tie, then pull it over his head, ruffling his already unruly hair in the process. I know better than to be surprised by how irresistible he looks when his hair is messy like this, but I can’t help but sigh in admiration. Taking a deep breath, I force myself to focus, and with trembling hands, I unbutton his shirt, then trail my fingers through the patch of hair that covers his pectorals. He groans, and, finally, as though he cannot wait for a second more, he kisses me. Sparks erupt in my core as he devours my lips with abandon, and when he catches my bottom lip between his teeth, I purr and grind myself against him. As soon as his member brushes my core, I know we have teased each other enough. 

Everything happens so fast. No hesitation remains between us as he shrugs off his shirt, and I unbutton his trousers and push them down along with his briefs as much as I can in this position. His member springs free, hard and ready for me, and I lick my lips as I stare at the drops of arousal spilling from the tip. 

“Lift your skirt,” Richard orders, and I blindly heed his command. With one hand, he tightens his hold on me, while with the other, he grips his hardness and rubs himself against my wetness. My whole body trembles from the nearly overwhelming need for release. “You are so desperate for me, aren’t you?” 

I can only whimper in response, feeling as though I will faint from the intense pleasure burning incessantly inside me. When he finally presses himself between my folds, I cry out in relief and steady myself with one hand on the back of the chair. My other hand digs into his chest, scratching him lightly. Once he is all the way in, he praises me and gives me a short moment to adjust before he gives a tentative thrust. Heat coils in my belly, my skin tingling from the delicious intrusion, but then he thrusts again, harder this time, and fire licks me from the inside out, leaving me whimpering and panting in his arms. I move along with him, bouncing in that rhythm and angle that feels especially good for him. Richard rewards me with a low groan and a harsher grip on my hips, and I smile to myself as I bury one hand in his unruly hair, pulling him closer to me. 

“That’s my girl—you’re doing so good.” 

He seems to be everywhere at once; his arms wrapped around me, his lips and teeth marking a path from my neck to my breasts, and his hardness grazing into that sensitive spot deep inside me with every thrust. I feel my orgasm within reach already, my muscles clenching him hard, but Richard is the first to come. He spills himself inside me with a harsh moan, yet even as he lets his head fall back in bliss, he slips one hand under my skirt to rub my clit, shattering me in seconds. My climax is unlike anything I have ever experienced before, and it feels like the whole room is spinning around us as I cry out. 

We remain wrapped in each other’s arms for a long while after, our heavy breathing the only sounds in the office. My muscles still quiver around him, and he shivers in my arms before pressing a gentle kiss on my cheek, then on my swollen lips. 

“I’m sorry,” he suddenly whispers, and I frown. “I don’t know what came over me, when I … spanked you….” His voice is heavy with guilt, and when I meet his gaze, a deep blush paints his cheeks.

“Don’t be sorry,” I reply softly. “I liked it.” I feel my own cheeks burn up, but I force myself not to be embarrassed, knowing I have no reason to be ashamed about my feelings with him. 

“I didn’t hurt you?” he asks, his eyes widening with worry as he tucks a stray strand of hair behind my ear. 

“You didn’t. Well—maybe a little, but again, I liked it.” 

He sighs in relief, then kisses me once more. “You’re a very naughty girl, Miss Browning.” 

Giggling, I bury my face in the crook of his neck, inhaling the musky, sweaty scent that clings to his skin. “I guess I should let you work now,” I reluctantly say. “I’m sorry for distracting you.” 

“You’re the best distraction,” he replies, a note of playfulness to his voice as he squeezes me tight. “How about we take a shower, then have dinner together, and I can finish all this later.” 

“Are ou sure?” I ask, looking up to watch his handsome face. 

“I’m absolutely sure. I miss hanging out with you.” 

His words fill me with warmth, and I offer him a tender smile as I trace the outline of his bearded jaw with my fingertips. “Then it’s settled.” We seal our deal with another lingering kiss. “And let’s have some wine—we do have something to celebrate, after all.” 

“More than one, actually,” he answers with a wide grin.  

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January-July, 2025

Ayooo errybody :) Continuing from December 20 and 25, 2024 , this is mostly all fluff for Raphael and Dolores during D's pregnancy. Jan 19 for cravings March 3 gender reveal April 9 Raphael's birthday + Julius confrontation May 27 family picnic July 10 maternity photo shoot + foreshadowing

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January 19, 2025.

By mid-January, the pregnancy cravings were really doubling down...

CW: Mentions and descriptions of pregnancy symptoms and experience. It isn't super detailed, but still might make someone uncomfortable, so I did want to mention it <3 No sexual content, no violence, no drug use. 1.2k words

...I woke up feeling starved that morning, and went to the kitchen right after checking on Theo.

Raphael was getting up, too, but he had gone to the bathroom.

My craving that morning was chocolate covered strawberries. Now, let me explain something. And don’t judge me. I don’t like chocolate, so we definitely weren’t going to have any chocolate covered strawberries in the fridge.

When it hit me that I had no way of having my craving, I immediately started to cry like a baby. This pregnancy was way harder on me emotionally than I had expected.

Raphael came into the kitchen and quickly rushed to my side when he saw I was crying, “what happened? Are you okay?”

“I woke up craving chocolate covered strawberries and I want them so badly but we don’t have chocolate because I hate chocolate,” I said everything so quickly, sobbing as he pulled me into a hug.

Summer's gone, but you can be my winter loving. Summer's gone, but you can be mine.

“I’m not going to ask right now, I’ll get you chocolate and fresh strawberries. Do you want milk or dark chocolate?” He asked, rubbing my back as I cried into him.

“Milk, please,” I choked out in between cries.

“Okay, I’m gonna get it, but you wipe away those pretty tears, Doll, you’re hurting my heart,” he used his thumbs to wipe some tears off my cheeks.

I nodded my head, wiping my eyes as my lip still trembled.

The world stops spinning when you open your eyes, my darling.

March 3, 2025.

Towards the end of February, Raphael and I had gone to the doctor and the doctor had written down the gender of the baby in a letter. I gave the letter to Catalina, my childhood best friend.

On March 3, our families and our closest friends, came over to our home for what they thought would be a late dinner to celebrate our wedding.

Raphael had invited his parents, his older siblings, his best friend Marcus, and Julius. I had invited my parents, my little sister, and my friends Catalina, Natalie and Sara.

Once everyone arrived, we all stood around talking in the living area. Theo was playing with J’s son, Anthony. Raphael cleared his throat, “actually… this isn’t a dinner for our wedding…”

There was a confused silence.

Raphael placed his hand on my tummy, flattening my dress over the bump, “Dolores has a little baby here, and she’s due to give birth end of July.”

Everyone erupted into congratulations, except for Catalina who broke off from the group to go to her bag. She came back with cards for everyone, and waited.

‘We didn’t just want to announce my pregnancy. We also wanted to find out the gender with all of you,” I smiled, thanking everyone for their kind words.

Catalina happily handed out the scratch cards that she had gotten made, and she was smiling ear to ear.

Everyone took their card and we all crowded the dining room table, putting our cards down and beginning to scratch together.

Natalie was the first to finish scratching, so excited to hear I was pregnant again, and she squealed when she saw, “Dolores! Theo’s going to have a little…”

Raphael, Julius, my sister, and Raphael’s mother, shouted at the same time as they all finished scratching, “brother!”

April 9, 2025.

I planned a 26th birthday party for Raphael, inviting all his closest friends and family to our home. I invited Catalina and Natalie too, so I’d have help with everything. I was 25 weeks pregnant and my mobility wasn’t terrible, but I definitely couldn’t run the party alone.

I was glad I had invited my friends, because when the party was winding down, Julius came up to me while I was apart from Raphael.

“You think I could talk to you?” Julius asked, semi-casually, but there was a hint of anxiety in his voice.

I made eye contact with Catalina, and she left quickly to get Raphael, I turned my attention back to the dishes I was in the middle of, “About what exactly?”

“The baby, uh… your pregnancy?” Julius shifted and got closer to me, just as Raphael entered the kitchen.

“Julius,” Raphael’s voice was tense, and I was worried he was going to rage out on his birthday, but he seemed to be keeping his cool.

“I just have a question,” Julius said, his attention on Raphael now.

“What exactly would that be?” Raphael asked just as I finished the dishes.

I turned toward the two men, they were staring at each other with each face showing clear irritation over the situation. I was always so confused about why Raphael insisted on inviting Julius to things if he continuously would get mad at him.

Julius turned his expression to me, “does he know?”

I looked at him utterly confused, “does he know what?”

Julius groaned and finally spoke his mind, “you two announced that the baby is due at the end of July. I had unprotected sex with Dolores the week he would have been conceived.”

Raphael was about to speak, but Julius continued, “are you sure that he’s Raphael’s son, Dolly?” His eyes were on mine.

I turned my eyes back to Raphael’s, but he wasn’t looking at me. His face and eyes were dark and unreadable. I’d never seen him so angry.

“Yes, we are absolutely sure that he is my son,” Raphael said, his voice so sharp that I felt personally cut by it. His expression was cold as he stared at Julius, “Man, I still want to be your friend, however… Dolores is my wife. Do not call her any pet names, and do not speak to her without me around.”

Julius nodded his head, “you’re right, Ralph. Sorry for overstepping.”

“You got your question answered. Don’t ever bring that up again,” Raphael led him out of the kitchen.

May 27, 2025.

I got orange blossoms in the air right now. Smells so sweet, until they hit the ground.

We took Theo to Papago Park for some much needed time in the sun. We took turns playing with Theo, and on Raphael’s turns, I would look into baby names for our son.

I won't save my breath for another day, 'cause the wind might come and blow them all away.

By the end of our family picnic, Raphael and I had a list of about 10 names that we liked. I had made a list of about 30, but there was a lot of back and forth and we crossed out so many names.

I can't think of anything I wanted more than to see the colors of my seasons change.

Still, the name we ended up picking for our son was actually on that 10 name list.

July 10, 2025.

I was nearly 39 weeks pregnant when Raphael booked a maternity shoot for me. We went out into the desert with the photographer and I wore a red gown.

In between photos, Raphael and I would talk back and forth, and it was during one of those conversations that I said, “you know, I really don’t think he’s going to come on his due date.”

“Do you think he’s going to come early?” Raphael asked, touching my belly.

“I wish, but no… I really don’t think he will. I really don’t know why I feel this way, but I think he’s coming in August,” I placed my fingers over Raphael’s for another photo.

“This is going to be such a long pregnancy for you,” Raphael spoke after the photo had been taken.

“Yeah, but he’s worth it.”

“100%.”

SONG REFERENCES Summer's Gone by NoMBe, Thutmose Orange Blossoms by GoldFord

[fowl-leaf]

my 2023 summary of art!

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still not consistently posting anywhere, but I like doing these. they're fun there's a lot of things i would've liked to include but had to exclude, due to not being shareable on this account. maybe i'll have more stuff next year!

this is long, so details under the cut

JANUARY silly lizard oc i generally dont do much single line hatching, so it was nice to fiddle with it this time

FEBRUARY the wittle scrunkly lizard last time i drew this one, they were an lps shitpost, so its nice to like draw them normally lol

MARCH herman is running out of time glasses axolotl but make him neon idk

APRIL fancy calico i honestly dont know whats up with the clothes, i just kinda drew whatever tbh

MAY yippie!! toontown oc! was playing ttcc w/shard and co, this is the character i ended up making i also got covid around april-march iirc so i was feeling horrid for a while (and the remaining symptoms didnt clear up till like june)

JUNE an oc i got years ago but didnt have the confidence to draw for a while lmao anyways i like her colors and shape, she's fun

JULY mandatory artfight posting this was one of the last ones i did! ocs belong to pookapooka and they were so fun to paint

idk if ill be doing artfight again tbh. ive been doing it consistently since sun vs moon but its honestly felt less fun ever since the tiktok invasion`and how ppls behavior has changed, and especially since the whole ownership thing that happened mid fight this year. (not interested in any of the alternatives ive seen either bc they have the same issues, notably worse issues, or are not furry friendly) but tbh that might just be me being disenchanted with online art spaces due to the intensifying shittification of basically everything, fucking rip

AUGUST ring but hes going to jail (again but for real this time) the staxie monthly prompt was barbie mugshots but i . . . i did this with ring and lumos and promptly forgor to do this with cakes and ale like i was planning to lmfao im actually gonna watch the barbie movie tonight, renting it so i can watch it on the big tv (didnt watch in theaters bc expensive (movie tickets are generally 15-25 bucks in my area (compared to the 5-10 in my aunt's area (renting is cheaper per person)), and they changed the chairs to these weird uncomfy pleather recliners that make my skin crawl to "justify the price raise" + i hate sitting for more than an hour i need water, bathroom, stretch, and snack breaks))

SEPTEMBER ganache went over the hedge was very busy w/projects so i did little casual art this was inspired by me comparing the over the hedge version of supermarket by ben folds (upbeat & high energy) vs the one by the clash (melancholy + commercial-induced agony) ever since then i cant stop thinking abt how much the lemon demon guy's voice sounds like the fucking clash guy sdjkhfkjsd also over the hedge was one of my favorite movies as a kid and i watched it at least 10 times before we had to return the dvd to netflix. i also regularly played the flash games on the site until i forgot about it after finding out about miniclip + notdoppler from other kids and decided to use those for flash games instead bc more options lol

OCTOBER dta img for a new oc i got, funny long neck budgie thingy busy w/projects again so little casual art had to use old mini tablet bc previous tablet was completely unusable fucking rip

NOVEMBER ganache + cactus pony, they want to know if you have any bubblegum. do you? busy w/projects again so little casual art doodle i made in heavypaint (one of the old layerless versions, i bought a lisence for it a while ago.) i got a new tablet on black friday since the mini tablet was horrible + my broken tablet was making me work very slow

DECEMBER ring in the void (this is lore accurate) or as nic put it, "fucked up twilight sparkle" lol busy w/projects + gifts so little casual art i actually sketched this w/the mini tablet, but didnt finish it up till getting the new tablet

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for reading this far, you get to see amogus.

i would've put amogus whisper on the chart but decided against it since im not done with that one yet lmao

[gaast]

Since October 2022, I've been playing only one game at a time. That might not sound like much but for something that struggles to keep its number of concurrent games even at two, it's a pretty big deal. I did it because I wanted to commit to games, and to commit to finishing them. And for the most part, I've been successful.

As part of this, I've been tracking the games I've played and want to play, and I've been marking down the days I started something (usually) and the days I've finished them.

Now that this much time has passed, I've got a year's worth of games down, and I wanna do little write-ups for everything I played in 2023.

That means that anything I played in late 2022 (Silent Hill 2, Xenosaga Episode 1, Observation, and Red Dead Redemption, among others) can only get mentioned honorably here. But I'm gonna go through everything I started in 2023, beginning with:

Outer Wilds, January 1-January 7

What a way to start the year. Outer Wilds is unique and charming. It's really fun to fly through space in the awfulest space ship ever with the worst autopilot (have fun in the sun!) and check destroyed, abandoned planets, read ancient peoples' logs of their attempts to save the universe, and to be there at the end of everything.

Unfortunately: the fucking angler fish. I hate those fucks so bad that I actually didn't finish the game. I never brought X to Y (no spoilers) because I hate dealing with those guys. So I can't class this a perfect game. Those dudes need some changes.

Still, highly recommended.

The Sims 4, January 6-the ride never ends

I'm not gonna lie. This is just a sex thing for me.

Even still, I don't quite get why people hate it so much. I played the third game, too. This one's fine. This franchise isn't amazing. It's weird and held together by Scotch tape. I like that about it.

What a weird world.

Anyway, this must be around the time my ISP sent me emails telling me to stop pirating shit or they'd kick me off their plan, which would be bad because that ISP is the only one we can get in our building! Imagine being unable to work because you wanted TS4 DLC.

Bioshock, January 14-January 28, canceled

I couldn't do it.

This was my second attempt at getting through this game and I had to just admit that it's not for me. I didn't enjoy it. It was a chore. I decided to just set it aside.

Wish I hadn't paid for a PS4 copy when I already had a Steam copy. Ah well.

The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince, January 31-February 2

A very aesthetically-pleasing puzzleish platformer with a cute story and good music. I enjoyed my time with this simple little game.

Half-Life, February 3-February 5

You starting to see a pattern where I only manage to finish games, like, late at night, so I can't start a new one until later? Anyway.

This was my second attempt to get through this game. I did it this time, and I regret it. I didn't have fun.

I don't really know why I didn't have fun, I just didn't. Maybe the combat was too tedious. Maybe the jumping was too iffy. Maybe it just went on for too long. Maybe it's a case of "Seinfeld Is Unfunny." I don't know. I just know I don't like Half-Life.

So maybe I don't like the game, but I love the Headcrab Fucker 9000.

Poison Control, February 8-February 11

Sometimes you just wanna play a mid game.

Look, I like poison. I love pink. I love androgynous characters in suits. I like NIS. This game had it all. And it was perfectly. It made me want to stop playing a little while before it was over. It had a really good OST. I got the platinum trophy and I didn't feel satisfied.

I liked it. And sometimes that's enough.

This is the first on a small series of mid NIS-related games. I'll have more to say when I hit the other.

Grasping, February 15

Obviously I couldn't play this as intended, but it's not hard to imagine having shoved your hand into an awful box.

Anyway, this was good, I think. I don't really remember it.

The House in the Woods, February 15

Another horror game I absolutely do not recall playing.

Apocryphauna, February 15

I remember this one! It's good! I liked it! I wish there were more to it--like, a lot more. A lot lot more.

Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, February 25-March 21

I held off on playing this for a long time because I had always heard it was "made by the B team" and "not as good as the other games." But I decided to play it. It was the gaping hole in my From résumé.

It's not as good. It has a ton of bosses and none of them are memorable except for a select few DLC bosses (Fume Knight, Sir Alonne, Sinh). It makes a lot of weird gameplay choices. It takes way too long for Estus sippies to heal you--like, in terms of the health bar going up. The Iron Keep is infuriating. So many of the runups are abominable. It runs with the clunkiness of Demon's Souls and Dark Souls despite having the svelte ambitions of Bloodborne and Dark Souls III. It has way too many sections where it just says, "okay, deal with a ton of enemies now."

And I loved it.

Honestly, this is probably my favorite of the three Dark Souls games. I think it is by far the most aesthetically complete game of the trilogy. It fulfills its own promise, you know? And I disagree with the people who call it bleak. I think it's the only game of the trilogy that actually offers hope. A real hope, too. One that says that, just because our struggle may not take us anywhere, at least our struggle itself is beautiful.

In a strange way, I think that Dark Souls II is the only Souls game that actually understands the Souls series.

"A lie will remain a lie."

Pokémon Violet, March 21-March 25

I didn't want to play this game. I didn't want to like it. I just wanted to play it. I love Pokémon. Sure, this wasn't a Pokémon game (according to me), but I wanted to play it anyway. The morning I finally decided to go for it, I had read that the professors were antagonists all along. How stupid!

And the reaction. Oh boy. All the glitches. All the performance issues. All the memes. What trash, right? Right?

I fell in love. I didn't think anything could unseat Gen 7 in terms of my love for a Pokémon generation, but honestly, this game might do it.

Did it need more time to cook? Absolutely. I'm not gonna sit here and say it should have been released as it was. No; it is in many ways a disaster, and it is certainly unacceptable.

But every inch of it oozes with love.

This game wasn't just shit out to make a buck. It feels that way at first, but no, everyone who had a hand in making the Gen 9 games absolutely loved what they were doing. You can feel it--from the sound design to the music to the character design to, fuck, everything. They did the best they could with what they had and they made one of the most charming, wonderful games I've had the pleasure of playing in far too long.

There is so much heart here. It convinced me that the future of Pokémon is still bright. Very much so.

Just... let's take a couple extra years to make the next one, all right?

Heroine Conquest, sometime in April

Look. It's actually pretty good.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, March 31-April 18

I'll get this out of the way: I didn't really have fun.

The game has aged surprisingly well. Or Skyrim is just a truly unmotivated sequel. Either way, it holds up.

The problem is that I just don't think that TES games are for me. They're just so fucking boring. And I never end up liking literally any character in them.

I have fun actually playing for a while, but the general guideline with Oblivion is "don't level up." Fun! Either way, it's just rote after a while. Nothing really feels satisfying, and you're always worried something is going to break.

Frankly, the main story quest isn't compelling, either. With hindsight, knowing it'll lead to the rise of the Dominion again, it's like, well, shit.

Anyway, I played it. And it's certainly a game that you can play. If you wanna.

FEWAR-DVD, April 23

I called it "an arcade game" in my notes and that's basically what it is. Doesn't mean it isn't fun.

(Have you noticed I'm not reviewing games yet? It's write-ups; I'm giving my thoughts and impressions. Also, it's been a while, so I don't super remember a bunch of these. Oh well!)

Bleak Sword DX (Demo), April 23

I think I liked this? Apparently it's out. I should review it and see if I wanna get it at some point.

It looks pretty cool.

The Signal State (Demo), April 23

I liked this a lot because it's so unique and it taps into a specific type of autistic urge for me but god is its price tag just too high for what I suspect that it is.

Deltarune (Chapters 1 and 2), April 22-April 23

This was a replay of Chapter 1 and a first play of Chapter 2.

I think when I first played Chapter 1 I felt... you know, I didn't want Undertale, or a sequel to Undertale, but a secret third thing. And when I first played it in... late 2019? It wasn't whatever that secret third thing was. I liked it, don't get me wrong. But I think I didn't... get it?

Not to say I wasn't excited for me. It just took me a while to convince myself to finally get to Chapter 2 and to meet the funny spambot man.

Anyway, I won't bother spending too much time on Deltarune. I'll just say that in this play, I realized that Deltarune is that secret third thing, and that I think it's better than Undertale.

I'm scared.

Pizza Tower, April 14-April 23

I think I'm guilty of wanting this game to be something it isn't.

I wanted WarioLand, and it's like that, but it isn't precisely that. It isn't trying to be precisely that. It's trying to be Pizza Tower.

I like the game, but not as much as I thought I would. Not as much as I think I should.

I'll probably reply this game in a year or two and it'll click and I'll love it the way I was always meant to love it. But for now, I'll just let the "Tombstone Arizona" guitar impregnate me.

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, April 19-May 27

...It took me that long? Really? Huh.

Anyway, I love this game. I love love love it. I love the characters and the art style and the way they tell the story and the story itself and the gameplay (holy shit the gameplay!) and just. Man. I wish more games were just like this. Weird, experimental, talky, confident, cool, and unique.

This is the type of game that inspires you to write your own sci-fi. Or to write about its world. To think and to imagine.

And that's the best type of game.

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, May 28-June 6

Come to think of it, how can a sky be unknown. There's just the one.

As mentioned above, I played this after Ace Combat 2. With both of those under my belt, I now know: the way I want to play these games is not the way I'm supposed to play these games.

And that's fine. I feel like "gamers" nowadays are so fixated on the idea that games should let you play them however you wanna play them, and that if they can't accommodate that then they're somehow inherently flawed. It's like everything needs the mutability of Minecraft, the problem-solving freedom of Scribblenauts, and the role-playing depth of Dungeons & Dragons. If it doesn't score highly on all those axes, it's got problems.

Obviously, I disagree. Games can and should have "supposed tos." You should be expected to play a specific diegetic role. You should be limited (and by the way, you're always limited, so don't act like you aren't).

If I ever play another Ace Combat game (and I wanna play Electrosphere), I might do it on easy. I like these games but man do I not know how they want me to engage with them.

no-one has to die, June 4

I had to replay this Flash game that I had originally played once when I was probably 14.

I'm glad I did.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, sometime in 2022-sometime in mid-2023

The strange thing about the Danganronpa games is that they're actually really good.

They shouldn't be. They shouldn't work. But they do.

This was kind of a replay. I had read most of the original orenronen LP back in... 2012, 2013? I only now have actually played it. And it's good. It's really good. I'm glad I went through it, and I'm glad I went through it with my fiancé, and I'm glad he knew nothing of any of the twists, and I'm glad I got to experience someone experiencing those twists for the first time.

SCARLET NEXUS, June 4-June 6, canceled

This was a second attempt after a first attempt in 2022 got deep into Yuito's story before I aborted it.

It's not for me. Not to say I don't like it--I do. A lot. I wish I could play this game. But I demand such fucking perfection from myself when playing it that I get too caught up by how poorly I'm playing to enjoy myself and actually let myself proceed.

I had to stop because I just wasn't having fun. I'm sad about it.

Risky Sanctuary, June 10

This is one of those games that I hope the developer comes back to, not to spruce up but to make anew. Because it's a really fun concept that basically got held back by being made in a month for a jam.

It really shouldn't take that long to clean come off of a wall.

HYPNOSCREEN, June 10

I keep forgetting I gotta play this more.

Parasite Eve, June 9-June 15

I'm still not super sure how I feel about this one.

The plot is fun but it never becomes compelling. There's an obviously evil scientist and he does obviously evil things. Never a good sign.

The gameplay is fun but it never hits nearly the level of intricacy and care that a close relative, Vagrant Story, does.

The dungeons are well-designed, though, and even if the setting is New York, it feels... fresh? It feels like NYC is always a backdrop in games and its specifics aren't important to it (see: Prototype). Parasite Eve actually cares that it's in NYC and it goes to locations there. The game feels like the developers enjoyed making it.

Also the OST is awesome. And Daniel fucking jumping out of the helicopter, getting lit on fire, throwing the bullets to Aya, landing in the water, and surviving is by far the coolest shit I've ever seen in anything ever.

This feels like a game you have to play at least once. I don't know why it feels that way; it just does.

WASTE EATER, June 17

It asks for like 20 minutes of your time and makes you cry. It's awesome.

EXPERIMENT: GROCERIES, June 17

I was more bored than spooked. It was a good try and maybe someone else will find it more fun than I did.

I'm sure if I replayed it and turned a critical eye to it I could talk at length about it. But I just don't want to.

I feel like if you're going to make uncanny the grocery store, there's other ways to do it.

Final Fantasy X: HD, sometime in 2023-sometime in 2023

We're about to see schedule issues. You'll find out why later.

This was, obviously, a replay.

I swear, this game gets better every single time I play it. I don't know what it is. It's such a smart, insightful game, with lovingly crafted characters. I love the inexorable northward journey, the feeling like you're constantly outrunning something even if you know you're running straight into the very thing you're outrunning.

Maybe it's because once you're aware of the spiral, its pull becomes that much stronger. I swear, I cry more with each playthrough, maybe because it just becomes all the more apparent how hopeless the journey is, and how much strength it takes to hope regardless. Yuna and Tidus are fantastic.

The gameplay ages like a fine wine, too. I know, it's turn-based, so it's hard to get clunky, but the game knows how it's being lenient to you and it knows just how to turn it against you. It's a system you can get better at. It's a game that rewards you in proportion to the time you're willing to put into it.

I don't need to tell you that FFX is a masterpiece, I hope. But it's worth reminding ourselves that it is. Because I think it's willing to be vulnerable in a way that most games just aren't anymore. I think the only Final Fantasy game that I've played that is more vulnerable than X is XIII. I respect the hell out of that.

(Speaking of, another honorable mention from the end of 2022 is my replay of the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy--and frankly, my love and appreciation for those games grew only deeper. They rule!)

You can talk about X forever. You can live in its world. It's fantastic, and it's always worth returning to.

Even if you have to make Yuna dance again, at least you know there'll be a time when she won't have to anymore.

Succubus Academia, September?-September 16

I tend to stay away from RPG Maker games, not for any valid reason but because creators, especially of eroge, tend not to really edit much. They end up looking fairly samey, with similar gameplay. Menus don't get edited, music is pretty bland, it's a fantasy setting... Exceptions exist, like Miwashiba's games ("that's a different engine!" yeah well they're still well-crafted despite being Made Like That) and, apparently Succubus Academia.

I won't tell you what tag I searched to find it on DLSite but anyway, I found it, I got it, I played it, and I loved it.

The map graphics are standard RPG Maker fare, sure, but the battles are totally custom and they're actually really fun. The music, though, the music fucking rules. I was there to bust a move, not bust a nut, I swear.

The concept is really fun too. "The only way to proceed is to literally get killed the right way. Sorry! But hey, at least you'll save the world. Snrk." Coupled with a battle system that actually has a really fun push-pull kind of resource management/health system, it just works. It helps that the battles all have Live 2D animation work going on, too.

Give this one a shot (no pun intended) if you like eroge. Seriously.

Dohna Dohna, sometime in September?-sometime in October

All right, look. It's not the best at anything. But it's pretty good at everything.

The character designs rule. The color palettes are awesome. The gameplay is fun. The OST is actually pretty outstanding. The combat is really fun. The mechanics are interesting. The writing has a lot of care put into it.

Alicesoft wanted to celebrate its anniversary and they were welcome to do it. I enjoyed celebrating with them.

Kirakira best girl. Even if Joker is truly best girl.

Baldur's Gate 3, sometime in October-November 14

One of the first sounds you hear in this game is a Wilhelm scream. This is a subtly masterful introduction to the game, as it signals to attentive players a lot about the artistic experience they're about to embark on: It will be more or less the same as everything else they've ever experienced, just remixed so it will hopefully be less noticeable.

And that's the thing. We've seen everything that BG3 does before, over and over, and we're so used to seeing all of these signs and tropes that it's actually become difficult to tell when they're being used poorly. BG3 throws so much of the same old shit at the wall and it can only stick because the shit that's there from last time still hasn't dried.

But here's the thing: I don't even know if any of its shit sticks. It's all so bad.

For instance, the party. Each individual party member is a collection of about 3 traits, plus their own unique brand of "horny for you." They're about as complex as late-stage Tales characters, but they have way less charm because they don't have anything like skits to round them out. In fact, because there's no guarantee that you'll have X or Y party member, or that they'll be present for conversation A, your party doesn't really have conversations together so much as they just talk through you like you're a telephone. You don't really have a party. You are a guy who has friends.

So you drag along this uninteresting, blandly-designed crew of the same fucking shit you've seen a billion times (literally one dude's whole thing is "I'm a vampire and I have vampire problems") who never really engage with each other (they'll maybe trade quips here and there, and they've got some dialogue they'll run through ambiently when specific ones are in the party together, but it's clear that This Does Not Matter) through a pretty standard fantasy world that by its own popularity offers little novelty. As you do so you meet asshole upon asshole who has a quick trait or two and says things in a European accent and maybe you'll get the scummiest Narrator I've ever heard say something smarmy based on a passive roll you'll probably fail mid-conversation. Go kill some shit and come back and maybe I'll try to help you not die. Idiot.

But you can't not die. You need to keep dying, and people need to keep failing to help you not die, or people need to keep trying to kill you because you're dying the wrong way for them, or else there'd be no reason to have the game. Honestly, if you lost the tadpoles before you killed the final boss, like, two party members would probably just outright try to kill each other, and everyone else would fuck off back to their shitty little lives, except for the ones who managed to escape their shitty little lives, in which case I guess the adventure continues! I don't feel like any of these people, with maybe three exceptions, would actually keep litigating the campaign if their lives weren't on the line.

But hey, even if almost every time someone speaks it's just to either whine about how hard they have it or to criticize you for a choice you made or to give you a quest because everything in Faerûn is your fucking problem, at least you get to have the gameplay! At least you get to slog through some of the most bullshit combat encounters they can throw at you with their barely-working mess of a battle system! With the most boring bosses imaginable save one! (Why is Gortash the only fun boss? Why does he get to have those explosives systems that aren't anywhere else?)

But oh, you get to make so many choices! You can be whoever you want, so long as they're someone who'll make any of these specific choices. Fuck off.

Meanwhile the music makes you want to fucking tear your hair out because I swear to god every single track uses the exact same leitmotif and it is so boring. Oh my god this game takes absolutely no fucking risks with anything. There's no fucking reason to play this thing. It's miserable. It's miserable, it'll make you save scum, its loading times (to load saves; loading areas is quick as can be!) are atrocious, and every time you have an option to pick something cool, you get fucking despised for it. You can become a fucking mind flayer and the game makes sure to tell you you're a complete fucking scumbag for doing it.

I hate this game. I hate it so fucking much. It is so bad and it has nothing redeemable in it and it has nothing noteworthy in it and worst of all it is just not at all fun. It's awful.

Game of the Year. Play it.

Monark, November 25-December 3

Time to fulfill the promise I made back with Poison Control.

This game is good. It's not great. Maybe it's pretty good. I liked it a lot. I enjoyed playing it.

Does it have problems? Sure. Could they be easily corrected? Yep. Does that hamper my perception of it? Of course.

As I said, sometimes you just wanna play a mid game.

After I finished Monark, I checked out its TV Tropes page, and I of course linked to "So Okay, It's Average." The Quotes page on that trope all seem to imply that just being all right is somehow worse than being bad.

I can't agree with that.

First of all, I think the binary of "good" and "bad" art is a false one. There's value in literally all art. There's something to mine, to find, to take home, to use, to learn--to whatever--in everything. Meaning and worth aren't exclusive to the good.

Maybe something isn't as good as it could be, but it's certainly what it is, and nothing else is as good at being it. Monark maybe isn't a great game but it's awesome at being Monark. I doubt any other game could compare.

So many articles from game writers and journalists lament the concept that "there's so many great games out there that it's just impossible to want to make time for anything that isn't great." That's... such a sad state, to me. Imagine playing a game only because it is considered "great." Imagine needing everything you play to have an award or a green Metacritic score just so you'll make time for it.

I don't think these writers mean to do this when they say it, but they're really benefiting a capitalist mindset. Companies have to do everything they can to get your attention. They have to make "great" games, or you won't play them. They need hype machines. They need stellar reviews. They need people talking. They need public reception to manufacture their game's own greatness, so that it will be great and then be played and then make money. If the incentive to get good reviews is to make money then the game is just a product and it wasn't made to be art.

I don't think people purposely set out to make shitty games or average games. I just think they set out to make the game they make, and the question is how well they achieve that goal. And that's entirely personal. It's something that only the creators can decide.

But in the end, some of the creators are producers and directors and executives at publishing companies who look at games in terms overhead, costs, projected income, earnings statements, financial reports.

But these are the people who make great games. Because they have to money to spend to make them great, the clout they need to keep exploiting their specific workers, and the agents necessary to make sure that reviewing publications will be predisposed to helping make their game great (you know, like what Nintendo relies on pretty much exclusively). The game doesn't have to be good. People just have to be told that it is, and then when enough people believe, they'll police the narrative so much that others will be scared to voice their opinion without getting a ton of clown emojis in their inboxes.

I'm not saying that's every "great" game. I'm willing to argue it's probably most Games of the Year as determined by Big Industry Figure Geoff Keighley, though (borne out for sure with 2022's winner; Elden Ring is so mediocre, dude).

Anyway, there's no need to play all the "great" games that are out. You know what you can play instead? The games you want to play.

You don't have to agree with me that sometimes you just wanna play a mid game. But you'll probably agree that sometimes you just wanna play a specific game. Good, bad, or mid, it's what you want to play because it, in some way, speaks to you.

That's all you need.

Mediterranea Inferno, December 4-December 6

Until now, I was cautious about pandemic stories.

The problem has always been that, sure, the lockdown happened for a year (in the US, at least), but it was only a year. It was major, to be sure, and I'm not downplaying that, but in the grand scheme of human history, it was a year. There's no guarantee (or even, necessarily, reason to believe) anything like it will happen again for a long time. So, I thought, how applicable could stories that come from it be to the future?

Don't get me wrong, I always recognized that in the lockdown was stories about isolation, grief, illness, fear, loss. But those are all distinctly human things we've been writing about since we could write. They weren't unique to the pandemic. Why use the very specific imagery of the lockdown to tell a story about those things when there's definitely more universal things to use?

I'm, as always, an idiot.

Beyond just the fact that it was an event and we'll never stop needing to take stock of it, to examine it, to see who we were and became through it, the pandemic was a world-ending phenomenon, a sea change, a new way of understanding ourselves, or misunderstanding ourselves, or misunderstanding others.

Mediterranea Inferno is about having lost yourself. The lockdowns made three young Italian men lose themselves, and when they came back together in 2022 they found that they had lost each other, too. It presents continuity with their histories: their self-destruction wasn't inevitable, but the pandemic forcing them to grapple with their places in life created living nightmares of isolation, grief, powerlessness, loss of identity, and loneliness.

When you start a new game, a card informs you that the creator made it "about his generation." He seems to think that we're lost, not in the way that the Lost Generation was, but in a different way. Whereas in the 1920s we lost faith in symbols, institutions, and humanity, in the 2020s we lost faith in ourselves and each other.

It's terrifying to admit that we can't do this alone, and that the crutches we always used to get through each day were other people. Claudio relied on his family name; it lost all meaning when his father blew his inherited fortune, revealing that there isn't necessarily a continuity between past success (Nino) and the present. Mida relied on the ways he could keep people at arm's length and when he couldn't get closer to the only person he wanted to grow closer to, he decided that others were there for him to take. And Andrea was never able to identify precisely what he needed from other people to keep him going, mistaking sex and skin-deep pleasure for the validation he so desperately craved.

Of course, if one of them gets accepted to Heaven during the Assumption, one of the others kills their friends and, in one case, accidentally himself. And if none of them make it--or if all of them do--they tell themselves that they're no longer friends. They walk away. They fall to the ground. They feel, sharply, the absence. They try to feel it in the crutches they replaced each other with (the past, the prestige, the plenty). But it isn't there.

Alternatively, if they suffer enough, they can give their spiritual guide through their pain an opportunity as well, and through him learn that they went through all of it to encourage them to revolt against their fathers, against the endless history that suffuses every rock in Italy. Paraphrasing: "There's never been an Italian Revolution. We've always been satisfied with what our fathers gave us, so long as we had permission to kill our brothers." He, like so many, wanted the pandemic to become a watershed moment, one that spurred on change, made the world a better place.

And the Sun Guys reject it. Their revolt is to refuse to be told what to do.

Just give them time to figure out what to do next.

I don't think you can tell this story without the pandemic.

This game is bleak. It's harsh. The style is immaculate. The soundtrack rules. Play it.

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, June 16-ongoing

Here is why the schedule slipped.

I like this game a lot. I burned myself out on it. Over the course of months.

I'm still not done. I'm not letting myself uninstall it until I'm done.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Pokémon Fool's Gold, unknown

The new music was great and the sprites were awesome and I love Eris. But to me this was mostly a fun new way to experience Gen 2. That's not a bad thing, really. Gen 2 isn't great, but there's a lot about it to love.

Pokémon Unbound, unknown

This and the previous entry are the only two Pokémon mods or fangames or whatever that I've ever played. I'm glad I started here!

If you're into playing fangames or whatever you know about this one and you know it rules. I'm not gonna bother praising it directly, though I'll say it earns all the good things said about it.

For me, projects like these really remind me of why we're still drawn to the Pokémon series even when the people in charge of it keep making pretty drastic decisions. I've said for years that the series is for kids and that it's not only fine but right to keep its focus firmly on kids, but Black and White proved that we can actually have our cake and eat it, too. We can have a game for kids that is also just flat-out a good game.

But for some reason, even if I ended up loving Gen 7 more than I did Gen 5, I feel like it's harder to call Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon good games? It's more like I can call them good Pokémon games. But are they good games?

I want them to be.

But what I want Pokémon games to be is totally different from what anyone else wants Pokémon games to be. Fool's Gold and Unbound confirmed that to me. I mean, I always knew it was true, but they confirmed it. What surprised me about them was that they were also good. That even if they weren't my vision, I still enjoyed them as a vision for Pokémon.

But to return to what I said a few paragraphs ago: We're still drawn to Pokémon because in each new entry we find more promises. We find new things to enjoy, to marvel at, to wonder about, to fill in. Every new mainline entry, especially since Black and White, feels like a new reinterpretation of what Pokémon is and can be, and even if we as fans don't always agree, we still have the conversation and we're still often compelled enough by something in the new interpretation that we hang onto it and let it be a part of what Pokémon is to us.

For as much as it stays the same, Pokémon is very much a living franchise, one that changes and, no pun intended, evolves. Maybe it does so in different ways than we might want, but there's nothing stopping us from knowing better. Well, nothing except Nintendo, a company that is more than welcome to fucking die immediately.

Pokémon, both the franchise and its fan works, is constantly grasping toward perfection. But we all know that perfection doesn't exist. We head towards and we know that we'll fail and we also know that even if we were to attain perfection, we'd reject it. Perfection is an illusion, a cruel one; even were it not, it would still be cruel, a poison pill. Real beauty isn't in perfection, it's in striving for it knowing you'll fail. It's about being weak, bad even, useless even, and still being loved. It's about trying, hard, getting nowhere close, and smiling afterward. It's about working together to make something new, something that loves, something that brings us all together to love even harder. It's about the struggle; it's about the effort; it's about the handshake after the battle.

Wherever Pokémon goes, no matter who's propelling it along, it'll be Pokémon. And that's what I want.

[zmwrites]

Tag: 2022 Writer Wrap-Up!

I was tagged by @whimsyqueen​! Thank you! And please ignore that I’m filling this well into February.

I think these were originally for fanfic writers or writers who write short fiction, so my answers might be boring lol. Also please forgive if I reference things from 2021, as time has congealed into a giant ball since mid-2018.

Total number of completed works: uhhh none? oops. I’m very much a long form writer and I have a full time job so finishing things takes me a while

Total number of WIPs worked on this year: maybe 16? but most of them were just a few lines or developing ideas.

WIPs neglected this year: Indigo Wars Book 1 😬 sry bby. and Remnants which hasn’t been touched in a while.

Fandoms I've written in: none :( all og fiction

Total word count: oh god probably over 80k? maybe over 100k? i should really start keeping track

Looking back, did you write more than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you expected? definitely less. i moved back in with my parents in early 2022 and had a lot of trouble writing after that. i’m hoping to turn that around in 2023 (or move out again to protect my free time).

Did you take any writing risks this year? i started a new wip that centres around a love triangle that becomes a poly triad, and i have genuinely no idea how to write that! the risk did not get very far as i’m now stuck on the set up for the actual plot lol

Do you have any goals for the new year? write more! as i said, 2022 and the first part of 2023 have been really hard in terms of writing and i want to turn that around. i’d also really like to FINALLY finish editing the current draft of Indigo Wars 1 and prep it for querying, then start editing Remnants

Biggest disappointment? probably my overall productivity, i really wanted to write more and it just didn’t happen

Biggest surprise? i started another new world with multiple stories set in it, which i said i wasn’t going to do after how much of a headache the vario world has given me. ah well!

Most popular story of the year? lol Remnants!! people love that story even if i didn’t write anything for it this year

What's your own favourite story of the year? also Remnants i honestly think it might be my best project to date and it makes me doubt all of my other projects

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Indigo Wars!! non of y’all seem to like IW and i don’t know why

Most fun story to write: hmm Just Jane or Open Seas, they’re both absolute delights

Most unintentionally telling story: tbh they’re most telling as a whole, when you realize that almost all of them are about women who think they’re full of rage but are actually full of grief

My favourite part of writeblr this year: my friends!! honestly they’re the reason i stick around even when my creative output is subzero

i’m not going to tag anyone bc of how far into 2023 we are, but if anyone wants to do it, feel free to steal it!

(this also made me realize i finished Remnants over a year ago which is absolutely wild)

[booksbydlwhite]

Leave the Thrillers, Take the Romance: A Mid-January Update

Hey friends! Welcome to episode 107 of The Bookcast. I'm recording today with a bit of a cold, so I sound funny, but I'm here and that's all that matters.  I  had to come in and share a mid-month update on my latest reads, writing efforts and author wins with you. Also, it snowed in Atlanta, a thing that only happens every few years, so there's that.   

Book Report

I have read 14 of 100 books. I'm well ahead of my challenge and as per usual, I'll re-evaluate mid year. SO FAR it looks like I am going to be bumping up the goal much earlier. I just love reading. Here's what I've read so far this month- note I was on vacation for the first six days of the month.  I'm trying something new by tracking on both Goodreads and StoryGraph. I don't personally enjoy storygraph but I want to stick it out to see if I get good reporting at the end of the year. Goodreads is very social but not good at reporting. 

Track Her Down by Melinda Leigh (Bree Taggart #10)

A Winter Crest Christmas Reloaded: Mia and Zen by Cordae

One More to Die by Joy Ellis (Audible Original)

Tell Her Story by Margo Hunt (Audible Original)

The Family Lies by Angela Henry

The Setup by Falguni Kothari

Lacey James series by Chris Patchell

Shooting the Moon by Brenda Novak

Westmoreland Legacy series bundle by Brenda Jackson: 

The Rancher Returns

His Secret Son

An Honorable Seduction

The Secret Witness by Victor Methos

More Than Friends by Reese Ryan (Love and Music Suite #3)

Writing Updates:

Currently working on a Valentine's Day story titled Rules in Romance

Calculated Risk is with my editor and due end of February

Missing Persons is complete but needs editing

Still plugging away at my Berkeley Sisters trilogy

Writing fan fiction on my Substack (short fiction by dlwhite.substack.com)

I ended the episode asking how you all are planning to get through these interesting times ahead. Drop me a line - I'd love to hear from you!

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TRANSCRIPT

DL White [00:00:14]:

Hello. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Happy Sunday or whatever day or time of day you might be listening to this podcast. Welcome back to the book cast. I am so glad you are here, boos and bros, book pals, fans of the written word. I'm a little bit loopy.

DL White [00:00:34]:

I know you can hear it in my voice. I got a lot of nasally things going on. I do have a cold. I think I am on the end of it, but I am very coffee, sneezy, sniffly, and I have not taken any cold meds because I'm weird. So I think after I record, I may actually take cold meds. So, anyhow, welcome back to the book cast. I am DL White, your host. I am an Atlanta based author of 15 published novels, 16 written ones that you'll hear about calculated risk later this year.

DL White [00:01:14]:

Actually, I think it's more than 16 because I have also finished missing persons. I don't know. I've lost count now is where I'm at. I know I'm not at 20 yet. Anyway, novels, short stories, fan fiction, I write them. I also read. I'm a reader first. So we begin with the book report as always, and then we talk about writing and topics of the day.

DL White [00:01:40]:

I no longer plan out this podcast, so that's why I'm rambling. And perhaps I should go back to planning out the podcast, but, honestly, I feel like it goes so much better when I'm just I get up. I look at the my my, book report information, my Goodreads challenge mainly, figure out where I'm at for the month so I can report, look at my sales to see, like, do I have anything to talk about? Yes? No? Maybe? Is it exciting, or is it meh? Look at my writing stats. How's that going? And, and then I I press record. And I was using Riverside, and I still have my my I still have, like, a login there, but it's just like an extra step. Like, all I need is Audacity. I just open Audacity, and I start recording. So I feel like it's going a little bit better, actually.

DL White [00:02:36]:

I don't have to script out every word I need to say. So, you know, we're gonna do what works until it doesn't work anymore. Anyway, I don't think this episode is going to be long, but who knows? Because I didn't script it out. So it could be 40 minutes of me yammering about books. Who knows? Anyhow, so let's get rolling. We're gonna have a little coffee break. And And then after the jump, we're gonna talk about books and writing. Today is Sunday, January 12th.

DL White [00:03:07]:

It is 8:11 AM. There is snow on the ground here in Atlanta, which I'm very surprised about. I actually figured it would be gone, like, by tomorrow, but it is cold outside. I took some garbage out this morning, and, it's it's it's chilly. Hopefully, we get above 40 degrees today and this stuff starts melting because Monday Friday are work from home days for us. But if this stuff is still on the ground on Tuesday, I ain't going nowhere. Nowhere. Anyhow, let's have some coffee and then come back to talk about books.

DL White [00:04:22]:

Okay. And we are back. Let us begin with the book report. Let me get to my tab because I didn't write any of this down because I'm smart. We are 12 days into the year, and I haven't done an update since January 1. So we are just gonna call this, like, for the year at, 14 books completed. I am 11 books ahead of schedule. My goal is, of course, set at 100 books as always.

DL White [00:04:55]:

I always set it at a 100 on January 1, and we see where we are by, you know, midyear, like the end of June, I'll evaluate. Maybe I will raise it to 150, 175. Last year, I ended up with 225 books. I had a lot that I needed to hide from, and, that worked out really well for me, actually. This year, I'm doing a little something different. I'm trying trying to duplicate my books on the StoryGraph because I wanna see, like, all the pretty graphs and whatever. There's a lot that goes into, tracking a book on StoryGraph, and I literally I just wanna track the book and the dates that I read them. I don't I don't wanna fill out all this extra information, so I'm really not doing all that.

DL White [00:05:51]:

So I don't know how pretty my charts are gonna look, but Goodreads doesn't do very good reporting to me. And I like numbers, and I like reports and graphs and pie charts and bar charts. So I am not actually a big fan of the story graph. It's too plain for me. Like, it it simultaneously does too much and not enough and, that I don't like the interface. I can't see what all my friends are reading. It's not very social. Goodreads is, like, very social.

DL White [00:06:24]:

I can see what everybody else is reading, what everybody else is reviewing, what everybody else is, you know, adding what, you know, what, what do they call them? What, shelves everybody's adding their books to? Like, Goodreads is very social to me, and I've been saying this for a long time. I'm not giving up anything that makes my life easier and enjoyable. I do not care what Jeff Bezos is doing. I don't. He owns 8% of Amazon. 8. If I'm not participating in Amazon stuff, like me not sending him 14 99 a month for Prime isn't going to make him less of a billionaire. So I'm not making my life harder to stand arm and arm with people who can't even get in the booth with me.

DL White [00:07:10]:

I don't I don't care. So that's my stance on it. I'm at Goodreads. I enjoy Goodreads. I'm duplicating at the story graph so I can participate in a couple of challenges that are hosted there and also just so I can see, you know, what my reading year is gonna look like graph wise. So I'm at 14 books for the year. A lot of that is audio, I'm pretty sure, and let's just take a look at, what I have been reading this year. Melinda Lee, track her down.

DL White [00:07:47]:

This is number 10 in the Bree Taggart series. Bree Taggart is a, like, of course, a female sheriff out in the northwest. I believe it's the, Oregon area. I love this series, and I've been gobbling them down. I need Melinda Lee and Kendra Elliott to write many, many books much faster. And then I, caught up a little bit on some holiday reading, A Winter Crest Christmas Reloaded, Mia and Zen by an author named Cordae. This was, I think this was like a, like, a urban urban romance is what they call it. It's one of those, like, you can tell by the cover, by the font, and how they're it's all, like, shiny and whatever.

DL White [00:08:34]:

One of those, there was a lot of sex in it, so there's that, if that's something that interests you. It's a thing that doesn't really interest me much anymore. Like, I like reading sex in a novel as much as the next guy, but after, like, the first two scenes, I get it. They like each other. I'm I'm good. Like, I I like that it's there. Like, if I wanna go back and read a sex scene, I know where to find it. But, I don't read books for the sex, so I wanna know how like, does the plot sizzle as much as those bedroom scenes sizzle? And sometimes, the plot don't be sizzling the plot don't be sizzling.

DL White [00:09:17]:

So, like, a lot of times when I I write, I write the story to make sure the story has legs, and I already know, like, this scene is gonna lead to sex. That scene's gonna be, like, suggestive, but I can close the door that one. But I already know which scenes are gonna have sex in them, but I leave that out. And then in draft 2 is when I go through front to back. I'm writing, I'm rewriting, I'm fluffing, I'm adding, and every time I go through that book, I am adding more to each scene so that it's full and it's fleshed out. That's how I do it and, like, you know, I know I am not one of them popular girls out here, but I feel like my books like, they work out it works out good for me. I wanna make sure that the the story is about the story and the sex is an added benefit. That's an obvious part of a modern adult relationship.

DL White [00:10:23]:

Anyway, I picked up 2 Audible originals, 1 More TO Die by Joy Ellis and Tell Her Story by Margo Hunt. I honestly don't remember what these books were about. They were short, like, 2 hours and whatever. I read those on the second or listened to those on the second. And then The Family Lies by Angela Henry, I believe publishes January 14th. So this coming up, so I had this as an arc. Like, this was really good until it was not. Angela Henry is a new to me author.

DL White [00:10:59]:

I think I started following her on TikTok around, like, 2023, and she had, it's not her first book, but the first book I know by her called The Perfect Ties or something like that. And that book was pretty good, but she gets to a point in her book where it kinda jumps off a cliff, and then it just becomes entirely too complicated, and I can't follow the story. This story, it was it was actually it was actually pretty good about a woman that gets a job managing, the, personal library of this very wealthy family. And there's just, like, a bunch of, like, not creepy, but, like, weird stuff that's happening in the house. Like, she has to live in the house. The dude that, owns the house and is, like, the patriarch of the family, I guess, that hires her. He's got, like, some weird stuff going on. It was, like, it was really good, and then, like, the last 4th of the book was just a lot of what? Wait.

DL White [00:12:07]:

What? What? So I think I gave it 3 stars. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't, like, the most amazing book I've I've ever read. The Family Lies by Angela Henry. And then I listened to The Setup by Falguni Kothari. This was pretty good. This was like it was an audible original about I believe they are a Daisy family and grandpa, I believe, or an uncle, I couldn't I I can't remember, is trying to set a young woman up with, a man so she can get married. And at first, they don't like each other, and then they start to grow on each other. It was really cute, and it was, you know, it's an audible original, so it was pretty short.

DL White [00:12:58]:

Then I stumbled upon this series, and I ate it all the way up. The Lacey James series by Chris Patchell. Lacey James is a I believe she's a young, investigator, detective. And, I found the first one, which I think is, find her, and it's been, I don't know, 10 days since I read this book, so I don't remember the exact, the, you know, the synopsis of the book. It's a police procedural, which is my absolute catnip. I ran through all 4 of the books in this series, in 2 days, which I'm want to do. Hello, Robert Dugoni, Kendra Elliott, Melinda Lee. I'm all over it.

DL White [00:13:52]:

So this series is really good. I really, really enjoyed it. All of these books, I believe, are available on Everand. If you are a member, I think they're also at Chirp if you wanna just buy them outright. I think I borrowed them not borrowed, but think I got them at Libro. I don't remember. Or maybe it was Everand. I don't know.

DL White [00:14:13]:

Can't remember. But Chris Patchell, really good series, and I think there is another coming out in that series in a few weeks, so I'm excited about that. And then I grabbed Brenda Novak shooting the moon from NetGalley. This is an audible, audio arc, and I take all the audio arcs I can get because I wanna keep getting more. This is a audio release of an old Brenda Novak book, and it showed it did not age well. It was rather uninteresting, but, it was a story about a guy who comes back to his hometown to claim the son that he, quote, unquote, left behind. The mother of his child died in a car accident, I believe, and his, mother's the the mother's the child's aunt has been raising him, and grandparents have, like, been taking over since the child's mother died. Like, way way back when they were dating, he was quote, unquote bad news from the other side of the tracks, and dad paid him to go away.

DL White [00:15:34]:

And he comes back like, hey. I need access to my son. And yeah. It's I mean oh, gosh. Yeah. White author's romance doesn't hit me at all anymore. It just doesn't it just doesn't do anything for me. But I listened to it.

DL White [00:15:56]:

I got all the way through it. Gotta send my review off to NetGalley, and we're done with that. And that's that's just gonna be the last that we're gonna do of that. And then I got Brenda Jackson released the first three books in the Westmoreland legacy series, The Rancher Returns, His Secret Son, and An Honorable Seduction in 1 bundle. So this was like a long listen. This took me, like, a couple days to get through. I put this on Blue Sky. Whenever I think that I have put too much sex in a book, I am just going to refer to Brenda Jackson romance because I promise you once her characters start having sex, it's sex in every chapter.

DL White [00:16:48]:

But the thing that miss Jackson does is that story is tight. There is a beginning and there is a climax and there is an end. That story is tight. The sex isn't like, the book the this the story isn't the sex. The story is the story and the sex enhances. There just is a lot of it. So I just sometimes, like, I I'm reading and I'm like, again? Oh my goodness. Whoo.

DL White [00:17:17]:

Lord. So I'm to the point where I kinda skip through a lot of that, and I just I just wanna know what happens in the story. Thankfully, there's so much pleasure in reading the story itself. So those 3 I got through. I can't say I will ever listen to 3 audiobooks in one bundle at a time ever again, but Brenda Jackson is not a bad way to spend a couple of days. And then had a couple days off from reading because that was a lot that was a lot of reading in 9 days. And then yesterday, I, picked up on well, actually, Friday, I picked up, The Secret Witness by Victor Methos because I was want I wanted to read book 2 then realized I hadn't read book 1, which was the secret witness, so I picked that up. It wasn't the best book I ever read.

DL White [00:18:11]:

I like Victor Methos, and I see why I started this and then stopped reading it because it was a little bit boring. But I did wanna read book 1 before I read book 2, so now I'm gonna pick up book 2. I don't even remember what the name of book 2 is, but I got that out of the way. So I can pick up book 2 now. So I got that, and then I read yesterday. I I have been so deep in thriller, suspense, mystery since January 1. I needed some romance. I woke up yesterday like I need a romance immediately.

DL White [00:18:44]:

And Rhys Ryan just released book 3 in the Love and Music Suite series. I believe this is her 1st self published series, and she's doing such an amazing job with it. I'm like I am so pleased and proud of this work that Ries Ryan has been doing. More than Friends is this, friends to lovers romance. And it's a second chance because they dated in high school and decided that they would rather be friends, except one of them did not really want to stay friends. And hence, like, that's how friends to lovers always is, which kinda ticks me off. Like, one of them is always, like like, hanging out in the cut, hoping the situation will change. Meanwhile, I will just take your friendship as a consolation prize.

DL White [00:19:32]:

It's never that they're, like, actual, like, friends. And then one day, they look at each other and they're like, hey. So, why haven't we ever like, that's the Friends to Lovers I wanna read. That's a Friends to Lovers I would write. So I got that read yesterday. It was excellent. Excellent. Like, when I am reading and talking back to the book and highlighting things, it's a good, good read.

DL White [00:20:01]:

I really, really enjoyed it. It's fun. It's set in Atlanta, which I like, a lot, and, I just really enjoyed it. It's very good. More Than Friends, A Second Chance, Friends To Love is Romance by Rhys Ryan. Like, I love a Rhys Ryan book. She is like a Sunday afternoon snuggle down with a book kind of author for me. I have several of those, like, Synthia Williams, Delaney Diamond, Sharon c Cooper, Nia Forester.

DL White [00:20:27]:

Like, if I have a Sunday afternoon and I need to fill it with a book, I will dig through their catalog for something I haven't read. Turn on, like, the fire channel on YouTube, or lately, I've been listening to, like, this lo fi channel and grab me a snack, a beverage, and I'm out. I am out, and that is the best day for me. So that was the 14 books I've read so far in January. I am, of course, not done reading because come on. But it's been a good look so far. I've been I've been happy with my reading. So moving on super quickly to books.

DL White [00:21:07]:

Sales have dropped considerably since the holidays. Of course, things really slow down when the kids go back to school and the earth catches on fire and or freezes. There's been a lot going on, so sales have been a little slow. I'm not promoting as much. There's not there's not a whole lot going on, but it'll pick up hopefully toward, like, the second half of the month. My books are in a book funnel promo. It's an indie sales promo, which is gonna move a lot slower, I think, than a, like, a giveaway, but this is definitely, geared toward supporting indie author sales. So that's at BookFunnel.

DL White [00:21:49]:

I'll be talking about that in my newsletter this week. Also, in my newsletter, I will be talking about, I think I told you guys I wrote a newsletter magnet, like a little a short little story that you can only get in my newsletter. You can now also get it if you are a paid subscriber to my short fiction substack at short fiction dot substack short fiction by dlwhite.substack.com. That's also loaded up there. If you are a paid subscriber, you have automatic access to that as well as my weekly serial. Same time next week, which is actually almost done. I have maybe 4 chapters, which is, like, 2 days worth of posting. That's almost almost done.

DL White [00:22:33]:

So if you were waiting to subscribe until same time next week was already all loaded up, you might as well go and subscribe now. It's $5 a month. Short fiction by dlwhite.substack.com. Get into it, same time next week is a serial. It's a interracial I should actually say it's, yeah, it's a interracial rock star romance that I wrote. It was fan fiction, and then it was original fiction, and I unpublished it because it's interracial. And I'd be writing black on black Negro nosed romance. So, I brought it back as a serial because, it's already written, and I have been publishing it twice a week in theory on my short fiction substack.

DL White [00:23:17]:

It is, paid access only. I do have some free stuff on there. I also have a fan fiction story that I started writing. I actually started writing it in August and kinda lost the plot and stopped updating. And then I got a email from a reader that said they had started it and wondered if I was going to finish it. And I was like, what? So I went back to the archive. I was like, oh, yeah. I did start this, and then I started getting ideas.

DL White [00:23:46]:

And so I have been updating that, and so that's really fun. And that one is that is a fun one about a woman named Zoe Chapman. She is an aspiring songwriter, and, she gets a chance to attend a songwriter's retreat with, JC Chasez. And this is a thing that he does, except I think he usually does it in Nashville. The story is called Music on My Heart because it was the only song title I could think of, which is weird. I'm trying to bring it up so I can, so I can read the synopsis. When aspiring songwriter Zoe Chapman joins JC Chasez's exclusive mountain retreat, she's looking for a musical mentorship, not to fall for the man behind the legend. But as the late night studio sessions blur the lines between professional and personal, they discover their hearts might be writing a very different song.

DL White [00:24:44]:

So, I started writing this in August, and I picked it up in December. It's just like some fun fan fiction stuff if you have any interest in in single whatsoever. I, almost exclusively write JC. He's just a very interesting character to me, especially JC in his forties as opposed to JC in his teens and twenties. It's been very fun to watch him grow as an artist, as a writer, as a person. And so writing this older, more mature mentor type person who still is susceptible to meeting someone amazing that they should probably avoid but can't. I like it a lot. So that's going on my short fiction substack.

DL White [00:25:36]:

Fan fiction is always free, and I have a couple I do have some fan fiction stories that are written there. And, I also I have the serial that's there. I believe I have one serial that's free there on the short fiction substack. That is the story of Kate, which I really, really, really loved writing. And, like, writing that really helped me write missing persons because I needed to kinda turn I just needed to turn my brain toward something that isn't so, like, lovey dovey soft place to landy. So there's the story of Kate that's up there. I really enjoyed writing. The photograph is, up there.

DL White [00:26:17]:

That's a 4 part series that I wrote for the podcast last year. Really enjoyed writing that, and all of those really helped push me toward writing missing persons, which is done, but I do need to go through, like, edits and rewrites and fluffing and adding and verify things I just made up because it sounded good. So very exciting things going on on the substack, but I was talking about book sales. So I'm at 5446 for the year. Sales are spread across basically Amazon and Draft2Digital, then I have 21/21 sales through book funnel, which is direct sales. So 21 sales through my, channels. But a lot of those were free, copies of The Guy Next Door. I was giving that away in audio.

DL White [00:27:08]:

For some reason, I can't remember. So most of those are giveaways. The sales through Amazon and Draft2Digital are, sales that have actual royalties attached to them. Biggest sellers this month are Leslie's Curl and Die in audio, The Guy Next Door, an ebook Home for the Holidays, like, 11 I sold 11 copies of Home for the Holidays in January, which is darn good. A thin line dinner at Sam's, and then I have a couple of sales of pearl at Black Diamond Bay and Elysium Black Diamond Vacation Romance. Those are both part of the Black Diamond series. And then a couple of straggler orders for a second time around, the guy next door and the WANSA brunch. That's kind of how my sales are.

DL White [00:28:00]:

And then, like, a couple sales, I guess, for hay lovers. So that's kinda how my sales are breaking down for the month. Not too bad. I mean, not great, but, like, not too bad so far. I am it's before 15th. So, like, if I hit if I hit $50 before 15th, it bodes well for the rest of the month. So I'm at 54.46. I'm just honestly, I just try to make a $100 a month.

DL White [00:28:29]:

That covers a lot of the subscriptions that I'm paying for, although I subsidize a lot of that with my own money. And then I have a I have, like, my Substack subscriptions and my BuzzFeed subscriptions that helps also pay some costs. But a lot of the costs of being an author and running a podcast, I am paying for out of pocket. And so what what I'm getting in royalties and subscriptions is actually reimbursing me for stuff I've already paid for. That's neither here nor there. You know what I'm saying? Get out of my pocket. So that's what's going on with book sales. Writing wise, it's been kinda slow.

DL White [00:29:15]:

I have been trying to write this Valentine's Day piece for a minute, and it's kinda not coming together. And I'm a little upset about it. Like, I I keep keep keeping changing the title because I can't even decide what the title should be, but I I don't know. We'll see we'll see how it goes. It just is not it's not really coming together. It's kind of a jumbled mess. I'm on, like, chapter 3, and I just keep going back to chapters 1 and 2 and fixing things because if it doesn't start right, then I I set off again on the wrong foot. It's currently called Rules in Romance.

DL White [00:29:53]:

It is kind of an opposites attract grumpy sunshine kind of thing. It's set in Atlanta in the tech space, which I really enjoy writing because I just like writing smart people. And, my characters happen to meet in the cafe at the co working space where they both work at. Sterling has just relocated to Atlanta from New York, and Simone lives in Atlanta. And she works for a tech company, and it's her job to, put together this hiring platform that her company is, putting together, and they're gonna premiere it at this big gala. And, Simone is very much an introvert. Probably not as bad as Esme in the Neverlist, but as an introvert, I do find myself writing introverts because I know them very well. So it's like like, I I want to write it.

DL White [00:30:45]:

I want it to come together, but I also want it to be short. And it just in my mind, it just keeps I feel like when I write short, I leave so much out, but I also don't want to write a 75,000 word novel. You know? I just want this to be like a cute short that's gonna be out for Valentine's Day. I'm gonna take a look at it later. We'll see how it shakes out. I might just need to give it some time and, you know, hit it really hard, toward the end of January. I don't really have time. I don't have time.

DL White [00:31:19]:

I don't I don't have time really to get it to my editor. I needed to be reading writing this in November in order for her to have it in January, but here's where we are. So I don't know what I'm gonna do about that. I know she listens to the podcast. This is not any pressure. This is not, an editor Kai problem. This is a d l white problem. So I may not get it written in time.

DL White [00:31:46]:

It may be something I write and shoot out, and, y'all just have fun with all the typos in it. I'll I would never do that, maybe. I don't know. I I just wanna be I I wanna write more. I wanna publish more, and I just wanna be less rigid about how it has to come out. You know? Like, it doesn't have to be perfect. It doesn't have to be edited to the nth degree. And editing is editing is not terribly expensive because I have a very good editor who is cognizant of how much indie authors have to put their own money into their writing.

DL White [00:32:25]:

This is not absolutely not sucking up to my editor. We have had this conversation. But, also, I wanna reserve those funds for my full length projects that desperately need an extra eye. So these things where it's gonna be 5 or 8 chapters, you know, and I'm gonna sell it for 99¢. I'm not gonna spend on editing it. I'm just I'm I'm just not. And, you know, sue me, but I'm just not. So that's kinda where that is.

DL White [00:32:58]:

It's currently called rules and romance. Maybe I'll switch the maybe I'll switch the order and it could be romance and rules, but I don't like that. The idea is that it's kind of an opposite to attract kinda thing, and so I wanna I wanna play on the two sides of this equation. Like, you know, it's a it's a very grumpy sunshine kind of thing. So I may change the name again. I I don't know. So there's there's there's that. The other thing I'm writing is the fan fiction story, and I just published chapter 7 on Friday.

DL White [00:33:35]:

I don't know that I have another chapter in me this weekend. I wanna think about what the next chapter entails. It's a little bit of a field trip, and I just need to I need to think about it and put it together. So I'm probably gonna think about that this week and probably write it Thursday and post it Friday. That's used to be my old, fan fiction publishing schedule. I usually write on the weekends, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, then I edit, think about what I'm gonna write post. So that way, readers always have a week to, like, read it, react to it, you know, offer comments and feedback, etcetera. Meanwhile, I'm thinking about and writing the next chapter.

DL White [00:34:21]:

And I kind of have adapted that also to writing my books and my commercial fiction. So there's that. What else do I have going on? Let me open up Dabble here and see what's popping. I do have, the Berkeley sisters, which is the sisters trilogy I've been yammering about for, like, 2 years now. Missing persons, which I still need to get into. Calculated risk is in here. That's with the editor. I have to turn that in at the end of February.

DL White [00:34:49]:

Again, that's part of a group project. Still I arise, I haven't touched. I did add, like I don't know. I tried to do some editing on it, and I, like, I feel like I added, like, half a chapter to that in the last year, but it's still on the docket. And, I also was trying to do an epilogue to the never list, and I can't even tell you the title because that would be a spoiler. But, I wanna dig back into that and see if I could just do a fun little 5 chapter update to that story because I just love Esme and Trey, and I have the perfect little update to that couple. I just gotta I just have to get it out of my brain. You know? So that's what's happening over here.

DL White [00:35:36]:

Ain't nothing going on with the rent is what my mama would say. Yeah. That's what's happening here at Books by DL White. I am reading a lot. I am writing a lot. I am you know, I'm just trying to make it. I'm just trying to make it over here. I feel like I'm doing better than I was in November December, but I am kind of dreading the back half of January.

DL White [00:36:02]:

I just know I'm gonna be digging hard into reading, into writing, working, getting the work done. I'm somewhat unmotivated. It could have a lot to do with this cold, but also, like, that vacation was long, and it was really, really needed, and I hated to come back. Even though I really like my job, I hated to come back and, like, dig back into work and meetings and scheduling things, and the emails were flying. I definitely just eased eased real slow, nice and slow back into the year. So it is Sunday. I have coffee. I went through my, my planner and all of my streaming channels, and I wrote down all of the things that I have saved in my watch later cues and wrote them all down.

DL White [00:36:56]:

So I have lists on lists on lists of things I can be watching besides the news, things I can be looking at besides doomscrolling on all the social media sites, things I can be reading, writing, or watching for this next however long. That's how I'm gonna be making it through. I am so very interested in your plan for the next few years, how you are going to be pulling yourself through what I feel are gonna be some very interesting, and by interesting, I mean terrible times. So feel free to shout me out a holler. This episode will be on my website at books by d l white dot bookcast.com/107. You can also hit this episode on my substack, or you can shoot me an email. It's author d l white at books by d l white dot com. I'm sorry.

DL White [00:37:54]:

It's author d l at books by d l white dot com. I welcome your comments, questions, feedback, what have you. That brings us to the end of today's show. So I will bid you adieu, but not before thanking you so much for joining me for today's chat. I really enjoy having you here. Again, I welcome any comments or feedback at books by dlwhite.com/bookcast/107. You'll find full show notes, links to all the things I talked about if they're relevant, and a transcript for today's show. Please share the podcast if you really enjoyed the sound of my voice as I appear to.

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[offbeat-manga-ships]

Sorry if I ask too many question at once, but what do you think about Otomen, Ranma 1/2 and Kamisama no ekohiiki?

hey! sorry for the wait, i was very busy yesterday. unfortunately i haven't read otomen yet though i've been meaning to do that basically since the mid to late 2010s 💀 i think i even started at one point, but i don't remember anything about it and if i had to guess why i stopped it might be because it's like almost 20 volumes and i didn't want to commit Hsbssbbsbshsb rest assured, i will get to it some time this year. right now i have a couple of things i need to do and a few other manga that i gotta finish before starting this one. but hopefully by february i'll have more time in my days.

about ranma 1/2, i only watched the 2024 anime, which i really enjoyed! it's very rare that i feel the pull to watch an anime (or any series for that matter) while it's still being released (and i thank the tumblr gifmakers for getting it on my radar in the first place! i don't follow a lot of the anime side of the culture) and even rarer that i decide to stick to it week after week instead of waiting for it all to be out so i can binge it. it was so entertaining and i had a good feeling about it because of the author (duh lmao) and the time period it was published in. i think it has a superb premise that is mostly used for comedic beats. not gonna lie, i cant help but want waaay more scenes of ranma and akane getting close and personal while he is girl-ranma, but i was also happy that we got any at all lol i think it's also interesting how ranma is this really boyish kid and sometimes girl-ranma is also relaxed and boyish but sometimes he really embodies the cute girl spirit. a cute girl who really likes the size of her boobs as well jxbsjsbshsb and to be completely honest, i do like boy ranma, but i think i like girl ranma more hahahhaa there is such a charm to this bratty tomboyish but feminine at the same time squeaky-voiced girl. i love how she's a bit shorter than akane and the implication that she's more feminine than her hshahahhag.

and speaking of, the relationship between ranma and akane is the highlight of the series. they are such a cute pair of stubborn kids and rip to the more recent and way less subtle iterations of the tsundere archetypes, these two are great tsunderes and them butting heads while thinking the other is actually pretty cool is so engaging :DDD it has that charm of such a thing being really just one aspect of the characters instead of the lazier writing of nowadays. i think both characters are extremely loveable as they are. and to point out one thing that put me off the series, it was a little disappointing how akane is introduced as this really strong disciplined girl and yet she is still weaker than every other important character in the series and pretty much never gets a chance to save the day. it's always ranma. i really loved akane as a character. the haircut arc was the most impactful of the series and it's a shame the plot doesn't let her get the spotlight some more.

i had never heard of kamisama no ekohiiki before. admittedly it's my own fault because i always filter yaoi out when i'm searching for manga, but i spy with my little eye that it's by komura ayumi 🐐 and so i WILL be reading this one for sure! usually, it feels a bit weird reading something to root for a couple where one of them had to turn into the opposite sex just so it can be straight and they can appeal the straight person, but i came to trust this author and i'm willing to just roll with it.

and don't worry, ask as many questions as you want :) hopefully i will be able to actually answer them instead of so many "i haven't read that yet" lol