#Zara went to all three shows with him they had a blast
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Freshly resurrected Jace wine drunk and singing along to ‘We Belong Together’ by Mariah Carey pretending that Porter isn’t dead and that this is just a bad break up
#kinda related to my fic? just a little it definitely happened early in the night before Porter called#I’m gonna die on the hill of Jace loving all the pop divas past and present#he LOVES Mariah and the only person that comes close is Beyoncé#Jace is shaking his flat ass at the renaissance world tour#he went to every single bastion city date she had#Zara went to all three shows with him they had a blast#Jace’s students love him bc when they walk in the classroom he has some pop playlist he made playing#god sorcery class is probably such a vibe#he reminds me so much of my drama and English teachers#starbreaker
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6th August 2019
Author: Doodles
Warnings: Angst, character death
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Dewdrops
Shouto wakes to the sound of Zara crying. He yawns and stretches going over to his daughter’s crib, “Good morning grumpy cat.” He teases and she coos reaching for him clearly hungry. He picks her up and nurses her sitting in the rocking chair in the guest room he’d turned into a nursery. The bedroom remained untouched as it had since the night is life fell apart at the seams. He received the news right after being told he’s with child. He feels Zara stop nursing and gently burps her before getting her nappy changed. He burned the old diaper dressing her in her favorite rebel jumper. He sets her in her playpen with a monitor going to take a shower. He lathers up his throat tightening as his mind drifts back to the night his life fell apart.
“Ochako?” He says groggy having fallen asleep his phone waking him up as it blasted walking on sunshine. “No I’ home why? I got the most amazing news...why are you crying…?” His eyes widen as she chokes out that he needs to come to the hospital right now. He gets there in 15 minutes flat running to the waiting area. “What happened?!” He says alarmed his hand on his belly protectively. “Where’s Izuku and Tenya?” Ochako shakes her head and pulls him into a chair and says they’re in surgery. “Surgery?!” He exclaims.
“D-drunk driver...they were on the way back from p-patrol...T-Tenya refused to leave Izuku so he went in for the surgery….Z-Zuku got hit head on…” She stammers through her tears. “It was the stolen fright truck cab we’ve been t-tracing….” Tenya comes back in scrubs and looks pale as a ghost shaking his head before either of them say a word. Ochako breaks down sobbing into his chest as he holds her. “I’m s-so sorry Shouto…” She wails.
“They couldn’t….he…” Tenya couldn;t form sentences through his own shock and grief but, Shouto tried anyway wanting it to be a lie. “He...his heart….gave…” Tenya managed to choke out. Izuku’s heart had stopped on the table and no amount of defibrillating could start it again.
Shouto had cried and screamed holding onto his belly with a gentle hand. The others cried even harder when they realized what his news had been. They all cried together until Bakugo showed up to take them home. He and Enjiro insisted Shouto stay with them for the night offering a watery congratulations and even more watery condolences for his loss.
Tokyo as a whole wept that day.
Shouto is brought from his reverie by a crash that has him out of the shower and dry immediately. He finds his daughter is gone and panics until he sees the door to the bedroom open and his heart sinks. He hasn’t been in there since Izuku...He sighs going after his daughter and finding her looking at his husband's picture. She looks up at him with mide eyes and opens her mouth, “D-dada?” She says waving her mist at the picture. Shouto’s heart swells and breaks at the same time,
“Y-yea that’s dada...I j-just wish he could have met you…” Shouto chokes up and starts crying, “I miss him s-so much! It hurts!”
“Mumu!” Zara stands on weak leg and wobbles over to him hugging his arm tears in her eyes.
“Y-you have his hair you know?” He sobs hugging his daughter, “A-and one of his eyes…” Shouto pulls the picture down, “S-see?”
“M-m-mumu!” She sobs hugging him tighter. “Dada…” She adds touching the picture with Shouto. They cry together one for the pain of missing his mate and the other from the overwhelming emotion coming from her mother. They cry themselves to sleep. Ochako stops by after her shift. Her eyes widen when she sees the bedroom open and Shouto in it with his daughter holding a picture of Izuku. She realized that Shouto had cried himself out along ith Zara who was too young to understand grieving just yet. She picks them up and tucks them into the king sized bed using pillows to protect Zara.
“Sleep tight.” She whispers as she leaves the room. She leaves dinner on the counter and leaves the flat hoping Shouto will finally take the first step towards healing. The next day Shouto takes Zara with his to the cemetery before he meets up with Fuyumi and Touya. He sets his three month old in the grass and watches her toddle through the dewy grass toward the statue at the centre of the graveyard.
“Shouto-” Fuyumi is cut off by her brother who sighs,
“No Fuyu let him do this...it’s his first step toward healing.” They watch their brother go toward the memorial following their niece.
“Dada?” She asks pointing at All Might. Shouto lets out a watery chuckle.
“That’s All Might…” He leads her to his husband’s grave where his statue stands shining in the early morning light, “That’s dada.” She makes grabby hands saying up. He picks her up and lets her touch the statue,
“Oyasu dada…” Shouto sniffles ore tears falling as his daughter wishes his husband goodnight. He chokes and cries with a smile on his face because he knows that Izuku wouldn’t want him to mourn. He’s want him to go on.
“You were always a hypocrite…” He chuckles as he stands in the shadow of the statue. “You cried over Toshinori for months.” he pulls flowers out and goes to the grave setting them down as Zara sets down a daisy she picked.
“Oyasumi Izuku.”
#Story#ask-doodledemon#TodoDeku#365DaysofTodoDeku#TodoDeku365#365 Days of TodoDeku#tddk#Shouto Todoroki#Todoroki Shouto#Izuku Midoriya#Midoriya Izuku#Boku no Hero Academia#BNHA#My Hero Academia#MHA#Todoroki x Midoriya#Shouto x Izuku#TodoIzu
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Dolce&Gabbana fiasco shows importance, risks of China market
BEIJING — Don’t mess with China and its growing cadre of powerful luxury consumers.
That’s the lesson Dolce&Gabbana learned the hard way when it faced a boycott after Chinese netizens expressed outrage over what were seen as culturally insensitive videos promoting a major runway show in Shanghai and subsequent posts of insulting comments in a private Instagram chat.
The company blamed hackers for the anti-Chinese insults, but the explanation felt flat to many and the damage was done. The Milan designers cancelled the Shanghai runway show, meant as a tribute to China, as their guest list of Asian A-listers quickly joined the protests.
Then, as retailers pulled their merchandise from shelves and powerful e-commerce sites deleted their wares, co-founders Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana went on camera — dwarfed against the larger backdrop of an ornate red wall-covering — to apologize to the Chinese people.
“We will never forget this experience, and it will definitely never happen again,” a solemn-looking Gabbana said in a video statement posted Friday on social media.
The apology video, and the sharp public backlash that demanded it, shows the importance of the Chinese market and the risks of operating in it. More broadly, it highlights the huge and still-growing influence of China, a country that cannot be ignored as it expands economically, militarily and diplomatically.
These trends are intertwined in frequent outbursts of nationalist sentiment among consumers who feel slighted by foreign brands or their governments. It’s not the first time a company has apologized, and it surely won’t be the last. Mercedes-Benz did so in February for featuring a quote by the Dalai Lama on its Instagram account.
For Dolce&Gabbana, it could be mark the end of its growth in China, a market critical to global luxury brands that it has cultivated since opening its first store in 2005 and where it now has 44 boutiques.
“I think it is going to be impossible over the next couple of years for them to work in China,” said Cary Cooper, a professor of organizational psychology and health at Manchester University in England. “When you break this kind of cultural codes, then you are in trouble. The brand is now damaged in China, and I think it will be damaged in China until there is lost memory about it.”
That could shake Dolce&Gabbana’s financial health. The privately held company does not release its individual sales figures. But Chinese consumers are responsible for a third of all luxury spending around the globe, according to a recent study by Bain consultancy. That will grow to 46 per cent of forecast sales of an estimated 365 billion euros ($412 billion) by 2025, fueled by millennials and the younger Generation Z set, who will make a growing percentage of their purchases online.
“Without China, the hinterland for growth, D&G will obviously be in a weak competitive position and in danger of being eliminated,” the Chinese business magazine New Fortune said in a social media post Sunday. “This is one of the major reasons why D&G finally lowered its head. They really cannot survive without the Chinese market.”
While Dolce&Gabbana has displayed a knack for social media engagement, inviting millennial influencers with millions of collective followers to sit in their front rows or walk in their shows, that engagement has been a double-edged sword. Pop idol Karry Wang, who has drawn hundreds of screaming Chinese fans to the designer’s Milan showroom for season runway shows, was one of the first to disavow the brand, saying he was ending his role as Asia-Pacific brand ambassador.
Dolce found himself on the defensive several years ago after Elton John lashed out for comments that suggested he did not support gay couples using surrogate mothers to have children. At the time, more than 67,000 tweets urged #boycottdolcegabbana, while Courtney Love vowed to burn her Dolce&Gabbana garb and Martina Navritalova pledged to trash her D&G shirts.
Gabbana, who has 1.6 million Instagram followers, faced a more contained backlash earlier this year when he responded to a collage of Selena Gomez photos on Instagram with the comment, “She’s really ugly.”
Zhang and other celebrities took to social media Wednesday to blast Dolce&Gabbana and said they would boycott the show, which was cancelled. By Thursday, the company’s goods had disappeared from major e-commerce websites. The prevailing sentiment was captured by an airport duty-free shop that posted a photo of its shelves emptied of D&G products: “We have to show our stance. We are proud to be Chinese.”
The rapid escalation into a public relations disaster was fueled by social media. Individuals posted videos of themselves cutting up or burning their Dolce&Gabbana clothes, or picking them up with chopsticks and putting them in the trash. A parody of the offending Dolce&Gabbana videos, which featured a Chinese woman using chopsticks to eat pizza and an oversized cannoli, shows a white man trying to eat Chinese food with a fork and knife. At least three rap bands took up the cause with new songs.
“Companies that don’t respect us don’t deserve our respect,” Wang Zixin, team leader of CD Rev, a nationalist rap band, said by phone from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. Its new song had been viewed more than 850,000 times on Weibo.
“We hope people will remember companies that have ever insulted China, and not forget about them when the fallout passes,” Wang said.
That sense of pride reflects a nationalism that has been encouraged by the government, often in disputes China has with other countries over other foreign products.
Sales by Japanese automakers plunged in 2012 amid tensions between islands both countries claim in the East China Sea. The clash also illustrated the complexity of Chinese sentiment: Industry analysts said buyers didn’t want to be seen in Japanese auto showrooms but went ahead with planned purchases once tensions had passed.
More recently, several foreign companies ran afoul of Beijing’s insistence that they explicitly refer to Taiwan, a self-governing territory, as part of China. Many complied, showing how important the Chinese market has become.
Delta, American and other airlines agreed to refer to Taiwan as part of China, and Zara now says “Taiwan, China” on its website after regulators criticized the fashion brand for calling Taiwan a country. Marriott announced it “respects and supports” China’s sovereignty after it was ordered to shut its China website for a week.
Actor Richard Gere, a supporter of the Dalai Lama, has told The Hollywood Reporter that movie studios balk at hiring him for fear of an official or public backlash that might affect ticket sales in China.
It remains unclear whether the D&G mea culpa video will stop the backlash — or if it will have implications for Made-in-Italy at large. The scandal erupted as Italy’s high-end furniture and design companies were making an annual presentation in Shanghai and as Miu Miu, the Prada Group’s little sister line, showed its cruise line in Shanghai.
Italian designers have so far refrained from comment.
Italian commentators mused whether the Dolce&Gabbana protests were truly spontaneous or if there was some level of government control behind them. The government has publicly said the spat had no diplomatic element and would not comment.
“Anywhere in the world, an entrepreneur can make a mistake, use inappropriate language. Usually it is the consumers and the market to decide the seriousness of the offence,” the Milan daily Corriere della Sera wrote in a commentary. “Only in China is one forced to produce a humiliating video with public self-criticism, like in the time of Mao’s revolution. Now China feels powerful and is applying re-education on a global scale.”
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Barry reported from Milan. Associated Press business writer Joe McDonald, video journalist Dake Kang and researchers Henry Hou and Jiawei Chen contributed.
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