#bnha 156

[delawaredetroit]

One aspect of BNHA's themes that I genuinely enjoy is the emphasis of saving as something completed through a mutual understanding of the saver and the saved.

Saving isn't depicted as the unilateral decision of the powerful person doing the saving. The person in danger needs to want to be saved and believe they can be saved. Eri wasn't saved because Izuku and Mirio were strong enough to defeat Overhaul. Eri was saved because she realized they would never give up on trying to save her, and Eri responded by deciding that she truly wanted to be saved.

Bakugou was saved in Kamino because the Bakugou Rescue Squad worked to save him and because Bakugou chose to reach out his hand to be saved by Kirishima. Twice wasn't saved in part because Twice did not believe in being saved or that Hawks could save him.

It's just interesting that saving isn't depicted as a one-sided power fantasy, but as a mutual act of cooperation.

[roninreverie]

Another shot of Kamui's leaf hair! Thanks, Bones!

[aimportantdragoncollector]

2 and/or 48 for the ask game?

2. Go to your AO3 “Works” page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for “Additional Tags.” What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?

What an interesting exercise! My tags are:

Sensei | All For One is Midoriya Hisashi (156)

Possessive Sensei | All for One (94)

Alternate Universe - Parent Sensei | All For One Keeps Midoriya Izuku Isolated | Vault Time (88)

Yoichi | First One For All User Lives (My Hero Academia) (81)

Crack (65)

Seems like an accurate representation of what I write! Either I vault people, I write crack, or both.

48. What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

I can't remember which fic I read last so I will give a couple.

Pocketramblr's "An Ordinary Padawan (Unordinary Questions)." I highly recommend it! The whole series is soooo good. It's a BNHA-Star Wars crossover with amazing worldbuilding. The character development is very complex.

Asher_is_Awkward's "Terror from the Deep" is a cool spinoff of my fic "The End of the Story." In a fantasy universe, All for One is a good uncle to Tomura and a good person trying to end the sea monster threat...or is he? Amazing mer worldbuilding and fascinating mystery.

Finally, "Give Me Your Hand and I’ll Guide You Home" by Suugiart. A Yoichi lives AU where he gets involved in raising Tomura and tries to protect him from All for One's influence. Both fluffy and full of delicious angst.

[authoratmidnight]

Hot take but, I don’t actually think the Harvest Festival arc (in the anime) is dragging that long. Or even that long in general, not with how they’ve been adapting it.

We’re on episode 16 right now, out of 21. The Harvest Festival itself started at episode 4 (the first three were training and set up), and it’s set to end either next ep or the one after that (for the purposes of the arc I’m considering ‘the winners are announced�� to be the end and everything is post HF related stuff). Meaning atm the Festival itself has spanned 13 episodes (and will probably cap out at 14/15 depending).

Which is honestly a lot shorter than I was expecting all things considered given how long the arc is (if you count the training before the Harvest Festival and end it with ch 142 it’s the longest arc so far with 45+ chapters, if not it’s the second longest after Heartbreaker Exam, which has 41).

I don’t know we’ve just been spoiled/ruined with short seasonal anime with short arcs, or if I’m just ruined by having grown up with plenty of long running anime that have MUCH longer arcs. Cause frankly it doesn’t feel like that long an arc to me.

For a comparison, the very first arc in YuGiOh Duel Monsters, the Duelist Kingdom arc, is 40 episodes long. And ok that’s an older series, so what about something more recent?

Well, One Piece is still going and the current arc is. uh. still ongoing and is uh. 156 episodes and counting. And ok, OP is a bit of an outlier so, let’s look at something a bit more reasonable. BNHA. The current arc, which continues from the previous season apparently, is currently 19 episodes long. and still going(and just doing a quick glance shows there’s been a couple arcs into the double digits in length in past seasons so, not unusual in the slightest).

So like, 13 episodes is hardly dragging on. That’s like. a normal length for an arc. Esp for what is objectively a TOURNAMENT ARC. Those are always long arcs.

NOT TO MENTION, the arc IS spanning a timeline of 4+ days (6666 minutes) and bouncing between 6 teams of characters. So like, of course it’s gonna be long??

Tl;dr, despite people complaining that the Harvest Festival arc is dragging it really isn’t that long an anime arc. Be glad you weren’t reading it int he manga. One chapter a week. Took nearly a year to complete. Now that is long.

[happycattail]

Fic Stats Game

Rules: give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the fewest words.

I got tagged by @pointvee

The saddest part is ik most of these will be DSMP sobs

Most Hits

keep me safe in your arms with 4.1K hits which makes sense because the DSMP fandom is insane. It's a 5+1 fluff fic where Technoblade just gets hugs. Yeah that's right Stardust, it's a fluff fic.

Second Most Kudos

i hurt(but for you it is worth it) got 405 kudos which is insane to me. I literally posted this in August and it's only been a month. I did not realize how much attention this fic would get and I definitely want to continue it, just have no idea when lmao. It's a Star Wars eventually Codywan AU fic where the Jedi literally get hurt from other people's feelings. You know the phrase "words hurt more than actions?" yeah they actually hurt.

Third Most Comments

My third most comments is also the Hug fic so I guess I'll do my fourth most comments? It's an Original Work Christmas gift fic where I just wrote mini drabble poems about all the wonderful people I interact w/ on the Stardust server. It's called love letters to the stars w/ 17 comment threads. It's really just all my friends commenting on the fic.

Fourth Most Bookmarks

20 Demigods Go on a Journey (To Hunt Their Parents) at 68 bookmarks, short BNHA one shot. It's based on a writing prompt on this site actually where normal mortals go march to Mount Olympus to beat up Zeus, but it's the entirety of Class 1-A who are all Demigods.

Fifth Most Words

Fifth most words is the same as fourth most bookmarks. I'm surprised there's only somehow 1 DSMP fic on here damn. I can't even do 4th most words or 6th most words because those fics are already on here. Uhhhh I'll take this space to shoutout to the fic that got me active in Stardust: the ashes of trust which is a DSMP fic inspired by another DSMP fic.

Least Words

Wings with 156 words. It's a shitty poem I wrote for school where I was inspired by Skip Beat but had to remove most of the names so I don't seem more insane than I already am.

Not gonna tag anyone because I'm pretty sure Vee already tagged everyone on Stardust. I literally have no friends.

[gem-chan-the-huge-dork]

BnHA 156

[prismriot]

[nakurawari]

This is so totally “Plus Chaos”!!

[beefmutual]

Me yesterday: Mirio's cape really would be an inconvenience to use with his quirk. He spent his whole life perfecting permeation even though it's incredibly difficult and dangerous to activate and then he went and gave himself a free-flowing object a few feet away from his physical body he now has to account for every time he wants to pass through anything. I mean Yeah it's cute he did the thing with Eri but is it worth dragging that thing along wi--

Me today: CAPES! 👏 CAPES! 👏 CAPES! 👏 CAPES! 👏 CAPES! 👏 CAPES! 👏 CAPES! 👏 CAPES! 👏

[delawaredetroit]

Eri's grandfather saw her quirk as something similar to Shigaraki's - "the power to annihilate". Overhaul discovered that Eri's quirk was actually rewinding living things, but it's easy to see why the boss thought her quirk was destruction. The mechanism might be completely different - rewinding out of existence (Eri) versus breaking things down into particles (Overhaul and Shigaraki), but the end result was still destruction.

It's unfortunate the narrative never did anything with the potential foil that is Kotaro and the Shie Hassaikai boss. There is a parallel between Kotaro and Eri's mom in that after Eri and Tenko accidentally killed one parent after losing control of their quirks, the other parent rejected them.

But the contrast between the Shie Hassaikai boss and Kotaro is crunchy. The boss accepted Eri even with her quirk and acted in what he believed was in her best interest versus Kotaro who rejected Tenko. The boss's issue was that he was a bad judge of character of what help to turn to for Eri...and/or potentially a lack of resources to address quirks like Eri or Tenko's even with well meaning guardians like the boss.

The Shie Hassaikai boss, like Kotaro, was the patriarch who controlled his "house" in that he set the values that everyone else was expected to follow. The boss tried to reform Chisaki by bringing him into the yakuza so he would have a strict moral code to follow, but Chisaki only adopted the hierarchy and the bare bones of an ambition while abandoning everything else. The boss was shown trying to engage in a dialogue with Chisaki multiple times during his flashbacks. Kotaro, on the other hand, reacted aggressively to any challenge to his worldview and his ideal home even when that challenge can from his own young child. There's something about how one of the villains was shown to be one of the more well intentioned guardians (the Shie Hassaikai boss) versus several of the worst parents in BNHA being civilians (Kotaro, Eri's mom, Toga's parents, etc.)

[boi-if-u-dont-stop-imma-deku]

GO BEYOND PLUS ULTRA!! ******ᕙ( * •̀ ᗜ •́ * )ᕗ******

[c-jay321]

My girl Eri is FREAKING BADASS!!!!! Her quirk is very different from what I expected, but look at she did!???

With the amazing quirk she has, she can actually rescue Izuku, Mirio, and Nighteye!

[sobamilk]

[managician]

And they screamed “I have to save them!”

[dorkium]

Triggering her awakening! who else is screaming with me? I like the developmemt so far. Can't wait to see what'll happen. :)

[tododorkies]

Questions after BNHA 156

MY MANY QUESTIONS THOUGHTS AND THEORIES It's spoilers so under the cut

1.) Ok. Eri's quirk. If the accurate translation is rewind, can it actually destroy quirks or rewind to the point of non-existance? So like, the point before the quirk manifested?

2.) If it is rewinded to the point before it manifested, can it manifest again? Like was Mirio's quirk set to 0 (like when he was a baby) and in 4-5 years it will re-manifest?

3.) Does the above even matter? Can she rewind what was already rewinded? Is it possible for her to restore his quirk?

4.) If it's not "rewind" but "undo", how does it get rid of quirks? And again, can she undo what she already undid?

5.) Can she rewind/undo All Might's injuries? What about One For All and the fact that it was given to Izuku? Could she potentially undo that? If so, how will that play out? This is Izuku's story, so I'm sure he'll keep OFA... So will All Might choose to die in order to allow Izuku to keep it? Can she restore his health without restoring his quirk? What about Nighteye's prediction?

6.) On the flip side, could she rewind/undo All for One? But I guess that would eliminate the purpose of Shigaraki..

(Honestly speaking, I think Mirio will remain quirkless. I don't think she can undo/rewind what was already undid/rewinded. I do think it's possible for it to manifest again in 5 years, then he has to retrain it and everything)

MOVING ON

7.) WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO AIZAWA??? Like is he ok is he kidnapped will we see him again will there have to be another rescue operation or will he get out by himself OR will he be unable to use his eyes/quirk ahhHhhH Aizawa

8.) whAT is GOING TO HAPPEN TO NIGHTEYE? I feel like he might die.... like I don't think everyone can live through this and his death is the most likely....

9.) His! Prediction! About! Izuku! Dying! Will Izuku "bend the future" and not die simply because of that? Will Toga die while shifted into Izuku? Will Izuku die but be rewinded by Eri?

Going back to Mirio sorta

10.) If he does remain quirkless/cannot use his quirk again for 5 years/has to retrain to the point he is now aka like 12 years aka he can't be a hero for 17-18 years, wHAT WILL TAMAKI DO?

11.) Will he feel responsible for this in anyway? Will he still become a hero without Mirio there? Is he confident enough in himself for that? Or will he give up on his dream too? Or plan on waiting for him???????????

Those are all the questions/thoughts I have after 156 agffffggHHh