#being honest in a sketchbook isn't bad! and yet! here i am! wishing i could just. remove my head from my neck for a few hours

[doodlegirl1998]

Hi, so I saw the asks earlier but fall sleep lol

So here my continuation: Inko agreeing with "Izu will face worse. Oh well" it's how hard this crash with what people tell us. But wait...has anyone talk, in the story, if Inko is a good mom?

Think about : the fandom says "Inko is the best mom" but no one even mentioned her at all. People ship AM and Inko (which ship what you want) but AM never said anything...I think he maybe noticed how Inko has the similar hairstyle of Nana.. and that's it.

Why the fandom thinks she is the best mom ever?

And the whole excuse " Izu hide from her" MY GUYS, HIS SKETCHBOOK IS STILL BURNED. HE WAS A 4 YEARS OLD ...does Izu is a mastermind or MHA is not realistic at all?

Bc either Inko is really dumb to be decided by a 4 year old for years on going or she never cared.

Hi @mikeellee 👋,

To be honest, I can't remember a moment where in canon people have said anything complimentary about Inko's parenting (bar maybe Izuku.)

I think the reason that people could be so attached to 'Good Mum Inko' as a concept could be due to

Wish fulfilment - Izuku deserves good mum Inko so the fans want to give him a super mum version of who she is in canon.

A personal attachment - some fans may have grown up with single mums who did a good job with raising them regardless. So feel sensitive when, even valid, critiques are being levelled toward Inko. And wish for her to be seen as and to show a good mum - when unfortunately in canon she isn't.

A over simplification of what constitutes abuse/neglect - It's not always putting out cigarettes on your child, leaving them alone for long periods (like I've seen Inko do in some bashing fics.) Sometimes more subtle but also insidious - such as turning a blind eye by allowing her child to be viciously bullied for a decade and not doing anything to prevent it. Or seeing Izuku come home with destroyed property (that looks like it's been exploded) yet not being shown to confront the school, the Bakugou's or anyone else about it. Yet a lot of fans don't want to see this, Izuku sees her positively so a lot of the fans want to too.

She's barely there in the story so it allows the fans to fill in the gaps however they wish. This point speaks for itself.

TLDR - I theorise why some may like the trope of "Good mum Inko."

Also my personal theory on why Inko didn't interfere with the bullying is due to her thinking that "it would be bad everywhere" and Izuku has 'limited prospects now'. Something that has ableism undertones/mirrors and would have been cool to explore if Hori bothered to flesh out Inko / have her grow beyond this mindset but he didn't.

Instead, Hori only had her show regret she didn't support his dreams and try to protect him AFTER being 'cured of quirklessness' and never had her acknowledge that Izu always had potential which says nothing nice.

[mjvnivsbrvtvs]

wow! sometimes making a post that reveals too much about your relationship with art is cathartic, but sometimes it’s also: time to bury that in a graveyard somewhere