#bnha 264

[crow-with-a-knife]

You have character playlists? Do tell~ 🖤

Giggling excitedly yes yes I do.

My dabi playlist is about 264 songs and I can explain the reasoning behind each and every one in depth. It’s captioned this (i really like the captions i put): “My love my darling your hurt seeps through your bones and permeates all you touch. You are rage. You are anguish. You are grieving”

I also have a bakugo playlist as well since i relate to him a lot (not as much as dabi since oh god burnt out oldest sibling but yeah) that’s 155 songs long. caption: “my dear you need not be so hard on yourself.”

Shoto playlist too but it’s like 23 songs long. Caption: “may you find peace in your chaos my dear.”

Then my Shigaraki playlist too which is 65 songs long. it’s actually my second favorite bnha playlist (2nd to dabis) despite being much shorter. Caption: “My dear my darling the pain your veins is not meant to be there.”

this is just my bnha playlists I have playlists for other characters too and then just more playlists on top of that. I love music on a level which I cannot fathom nor explain and I’m alive because of it. Also thank you for asking ahhh I love talking about music!!!

[juniperarts]

Bnha Actor Au: Manga Edition 📘

[sualne]

Can't stop thinking about them.

It was sooo hard to find colors I found decent, I'm still not sure I like these one tho. Maybe I'll redo it again later but it's 1am and I'm tired. EDIT : Now that I have slept I find the colors actually good and I was really just losing my damn mind this morning.

the sketch :

[iveonlyeverseenliketwoanimes]

This is the face of a man who has had his entire army over thrown by a 20 year old, had hundreds of his followers murdered, lost his fellow liberation member (Curious), had his legs decayed off, cut the remains of his legs off so he didn’t die....

And now he has to deal with a bunch of pro heroes trashing his evil lair because the league let a mole into their ranks

F in the chat for my boy Redestro, he is having a mad couple of months

[lemongogo]

twice .. ilu :-(

[bobbit888]

Chapter 264 in a nutshell (Spoilers)

I love how chapter 264 is like

Twice realizing Hawks betrayed them:

Hawks:

Dabi on his way losing his shit realizing he’s the one who let hawks in:

Compress downstairs wondering what the fuck is going on:

and Shigaraki is just vibing in a big test-tube:

[villiansareneat]

I need to write a fic in which Hawks switch sides, for my own self-indulgent comfort.

[vtory-art]

[snowyshadow]

bakugou katsuki. | chapter 264.

Boku no Hero Academia

[僕のヒーローアカデミア]

[dasicality]

Okay so I’ve seen a lot of different takes on what’s going on with Hawks lately. I’ve seen people say he’ll turn on the Heroes. I’ve seen people say he’ll never do that because he’s too nice a person and is only calling the Heroes scum because that’s what Twice would say.

I wanna add my own take. Which is that Hawks hates himself. He hates Heroes, and everything that they stand for because of what they mean for society- which is exactly why he blended in so well with the Villains without ever fully converting to their side. He never had to lie to get anybody to believe him. He never lied about not being free just to get on Twice’s good side- because he’s NOT free.

Hawks was taken into a training regime when he was what, 8 was it? We never found out much about his parents other then they were dirt poor (all the trash and alcohol bottles in his house) and they handed Hawks over for money. So the Hero Public Saftey Commission paid his parents to keep him and train him without his say even though we know we was already saving people before they showed up- they BOUGHT him and forced him to not just be a hero but to be a Hero.

Even when Hawks goes on his mission, as it’s proposed to him, he makes a remark about how he has no choice in it anyway. He’s on a leash. These people OWN him and everything he’s become has been them pushing him down a path he wanted to make on his own because again, he was saving people before they showed up- now he’s doing it because he’s being held hostage by the image of a Hero they’re making him out to be.

Hawks Hates Heroes. Heroes are, to him, the result of a world glorifying status and quirks over the individual. Heroes tear choice apart because of the parts your born with. Heroes are bad people doing good things because someone told them to, not of their own free will- although Hawks is the only Hero who has experienced this truth. So he knows he’s alone in feeling this way- nobody even knows what his name is, after all.

He’s a good person who wanted to be a person who’s helps and saves others, but once that choice was stripped from him, his outlook changed. He’s now the hero that wants to change the world as fast as possible- he wants there to be no need for Heroes. He thinks that saving the world from the premise of Heroes is kinder than saving the world from Villains and he takes as many Villains out as he can as fast as he can from as young as he is because if there’s no crime there’s no Heroes, and if there’s no Heroes he’s done his job.

Hawks wouldn’t have needed to lie about any of that to pass off as a Villain. What separates him and them is he doesn’t want others to get hurt in the process, and that’s why he’ll never turn into one of them himself- but he hates himself for not being able to do that. Because he doesn’t want to be a Hero knowing what it means, and he knows that the real nice people have always been the ones acting of their own accord- people like Twice. Twice is the first real nice person we see talking to Hawks aside from Miruko and (maybe) Endeavour. Twice is a man who pities him for having been taken from his own and shoved in a cage, and Hawks can only ever spread his wings fully around him.

But Twice still has hurt people. Twice is still a reason as to why Heroes have to exist. So in order to put an end to them he has to be one- the shading on his face when this happened is him putting on a mask. He’s hurting, and he’s lying. He doesn’t want to do this. He doesn’t have a choice.

He’s never had a choice. That’s the whole problem. He doesn’t want anybody to ever be put in his position of being stripped of choice- that’s what he really wants to change about the world. To do that Twice has to go, even though it clearly hurts him in the small panel we see that mask slip.

So no. Hawks won’t turn into a Villain. He also has never been a Hero. He’s a tried young man who wants to save people more than ideas and thinks that Heroes are scum and good people like Twice are the real heroes. But that’s not enough, and he still needs to put an end to them in order for people like Twice to ever be free in a Hero-less society. He’s saving them all by putting this huge task on his shoulders.

Unfortunately, there’s a good change Hawks can’t keep holding this huge weight forever. They call him Icarus, after all.

[todorokissmile]

I have a lot of feelings about the new manga chapter...

[elegiesforshiva]

what a glow up

[juniperarts]

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[sualne]

Hey you know what ? Dabi's smile wasn't that creepy ! I'm going to redraw it from a different angle to prove it-OH FUCK

(better quality here yknow the drill)

[iveonlyeverseenliketwoanimes]

How is this the same person? 

[lumchan]

Do you think this is bad writing on Horikoshi's behalf on Hawks' character? I was personally hoping he'd side with the villains but now he's just a bootlicker

DEFINITELY NOT!

i think it's totally in character and 100% makes sense. hawks was taken in by the commission when he was only five years old and has been conditioned for 17 years. This is what he was raised and trained to do.

if anything i think i'd be bad writing for hawks to join the league this quickly. we clearly see hawks struggling with his options and he genuinely seems to feel bad about what he's doing....but what he's doing is what he's been trained to believe is right. if hawks really wanted to i'm sure he could've killed twice instantly. but he didn't because he doesn't want to. he even said he would help twice after because he knows he's a good person. it's clear hawks doesn't wanna do any of this but as far as he's concerned it's his only option

he's a morally gray character that we actually know so little about...we don't get a ton of internal dialogue with him and really know nothing about TAKAMI KEIGO, only who and what hawks is supposed to be. his inner turmoil over 'tricking' twice makes for excellent writing, i think. it's interesting. and we're nowhere near done with this arc.... who knows what hawks is really gonna do? we've barely started! trust me i want hawks to leave the commission as much as you do.....but just because something we want doesn't happen instantly doesn't mean it's bad writing or never gonna happen!