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angy-grrr · 6 months ago

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welcome back to me being pity. I don’t mind Izu///ocha* in fanon, there’s lots of cute content out there and they are adorable after all. I can’t not love them! However, when it comes to canon, and believing they have to be canon… i have issues with that. and when the justification this being a shonen manga and not focusing on love? Oh. That pisses me off.

There’s lots of shonen manga who are romantic comedies, slice of life, and in general just are about friendships and learning about feelings —but even when talking about just the typical popular shonen, this isn’t a good excuse for me.

There is no need to add 10 chapters about love in order to make it with a natural flow —small details are there for a reason! And I’m making a list of ways izu///ocha could have been developed easily without spending energy on it, using what its already in canon.

The end of the togachako fight, Himiko gets the All Might keychain, a symbol they both have shared to symbolize their crushes on Izuku and their unity in it. Instead of drawing her covering completely with her hand, show her giving it to Ochako, or already in her hand, not completely covered; this would express Himiko’s blessing and wish for Ochako to get to confess her feelings too. An “it’s your turn now, good luck!” moment. Bittersweet, tragic, but also would make it less wrong for her to say her feelings and date Izuku in the end -after all, it would be implied Himiko wanted that! But this way, covered and in Toga’s hand, the message is not clear (is she going to confess still? Or cover her feelings as they “died” with Himiko? I don’t believe she’s dead but shhhhh)

Mutual symbols. During the Christmas present exchange, they get each other’s, an All Might keychain and a bag of mochis, two things they personally like but gifted to other people, like the rest of class A. As we establish this keychain means “Deku-kun” to her and holds onto it, why not making mochis reappear more for Izuku? They are food, so he could have said “sharing mochis” as things you do with a boyfriend. Wouldn’t it be adorable he just said that without noticing that’s Ochako’s favorite thing? If we go further, maybe add a simple scene, where he thinks about how he wishes to share some with her, maybe during one of those calm moments before the war happened.

Have Izuku struggle a little when complimenting her when he thought she was talking badly about herself. If this is your crush, or person you are developing feelings for, how could you just be this confident about such embarrassing things, specially when you are already shy about love as a whole? Even him would know that’s embarrassing no matter how clueless he is for other things, so it would be better to have him struggle to say those things —looking at the floor, playing with his fingers, blushing. Typical Deku stuff, nothing new for his character, but it would confirm there’s something going on his side too that persists clearly even after the first war.

the hand holding; ochako grabbed his hand when they were bringing him back to UA and civilians were against it. It’s a way to comfort him, and tell him everything is going to be okay, he’s not alone. Even during that context, wouldn’t that be a bigger thing between crushes? After all, Deku blushed a lot in the beginning of the final war, when he was grabbed from where he was supposed to be and people he cares for are in the most dangerous situation of them all, why wouldn’t he blush if the girl he likes grabs his hand to support him?

Thinking about Himiko; a reason he could have not reacted is “well, this is the moment they are actually developing serious feelings for each other beyond a crush”. If I was writing this, I would make Ochako have flashbacks of Izuku’s terrible state during her speech —emotions getting her, she just really needs them to let him in! With his hopelessness, isolation, dirtiness and hunger! Isn’t this reason enough to get desperate for? She is screaming with all she has to please let him stay, he is just like anyone else… but thinks about Himiko instead? And not just to stop some sadness, but about making her smile (spoilers for chapter 425; instead of turning negatives into zeros, she is talking about turning negatives into positives. Saving her, and making her happy too, because there’s a need for happiness for them all, not just neutrality and pretending nothing is wrong). This decision establishes her hero arc and ideals, which is amazing! But I don’t see how this is an izu///ocha moment in canon really —just because Izuku cries, doesn’t mean this is good romance. ill never forget the little parallels Ochako has with All Might, and idk how to just let it be when ppl limit them as “her being the love interest”. No, her ideals are so cool, and I’m really hoping she achieves what she wanted for Himiko, so we can also add more angst to Izuku’s character and show her as the hero she is

*i censor it just to avoid appearing in the tags; ppl who want to find content of their ship don’t need to see what other people think of it, specially when it’s critical.

#grrr talking #bkdk #Idk if I’ll add more in another moment #But well here I am once again flopping

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dekusleftsock · 1 year ago

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THERES A DETAIL RIGHT THERE, I SEE A FLASHBACK

I mean theres a lot of flashbacks in this chapter tbf, but this one didn’t fit given the situation… UNLESS WE DIG DEEPER.

Well okay, you could read it as ochako making dekus heart lighter by changing the meaning of his nickname and the speech back at UA, and she’s finally done the same for toga.

BUT IF THAT WERE THE CASE WE WOULD BE FLASHING BACK TO THAT SPEECH!

This is deku talking about saving shigaraki, and as proven with ochako… there is a way to avoid a battle. On top of that, even before that memory, Himiko is talking to Ochako about how she was afraid to confront the feelings she had for her parents, because they made her FEEL BAD!

More and more the idea of confronting your feelings directly as they are is brought up again and again. Shoto says it during his fight with touya, about how he wished they could’ve yelled at each other sooner, because sometimes confrontation is needed.

Ochako and toga talk about the importance of having simple conversations about your feelings, no matter how big or small they seem to others. Because the feelings they have can make or break lives in this world.

And in both of these instances, Shoto and Ochako avoided an actual battle. Both of them simply neutralized them. Because they knew about the one they were trying to save, and genuinely cared about them.

Deku doesn’t know the first thing about shigaraki. He doesn’t accept shigaraki as he is now, rather the child that was created from him, that still exists. Saving someone with the justification of what they used to be doesn’t really seem like you care about them at all.

I’m not sure what this battle will bring. They’re both stubborn people who are the same. You could say that with Touya and Shoto, or even Himiko and Ochako, but lets be honest no one is as stubborn as deku. No one is as stubborn as shigaraki.

So what if shigaraki and dekus fight is about confrontation and feelings?

Oh good god I can’t wait for all the people who have been so mad about this fight and how it’s just been about feelings, and then we turn to the shigaraki vs deku fight and it’s also about feelings.

WE’RE GETTING OFF TRACK!

Toga is a lot like deku. And from her saying this, I just want deku to come to this realization. That it’s okay to talk about bad things, that it’s okay to have bad thoughts, and even bad emotions.

Just like Toga he can’t just slap a smile on his face all the time and pretend that his traumas didn’t happen. He can’t ignore what he’s bitter of, what he envies, and he also can’t ignore what he deeply, truly, loves.

God I got nothing else to say. The chapters speak for themselves. They’re gay, everyone’s gay, mha has always been pretty fucking gay.

ALSO DEKU SHOULD STOP BEING A LITTLE PUNK

(Also I’m expecting togachako/bkdk fic about how similar toga and deku are BY MONDAY 8AM SHARP) /j

#ever since I realized how similar deku and toga REALLY WERE I couldn’t stop talking about it #especially recently bc of all the content just dumped here #togachako #bkdk

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needsmoresleepwrites · 2 months ago

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Gift for eroda: “Ok, imagine this,” Toru tells them, her face pink and her nails lime green, “Imagine you’re stranded on an island, what would you bring with you?”. (TogaChako)

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tags: stranded on an island, friendship, beach fun, summer, manipulation, confusion

A/N: I like the idea of being ambiguous with the tags SO! be careful. It's rated M for stuff that's described towards the end

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00:10

They decide to go to the beach in the summer, the group of them that are able to escape their work responsibilities. Mina is crying into the phone as Momo tells Ochako that they’ll have to pass on this weekend trip, but don’t worry, we’ll make the next one!

So it ends up being just her, Toru, Tsuyu, and Shouto. He looks slightly scandalized when he arrives and finds out that it wasn’t just Mina and Momo who couldn’t make it but also Iida, Ojiro, and Deku. He does try to escape, but considering it’s 3 against 1…well, the odds weren’t in his favor

Toru is the most excited, “We’ll get to show off the ikemen of our group! Everyone’s going to be so jealous!”

She hangs from his arm and pulls him back whenever he tries to slip away.

00:09

They stay in a cabin with two rooms and too many beds.

“Do you think they’ll care if we move things around?” Tsuyu asks when Toru starts telling Shouto to help move all the beds together.

Ochako grins as she takes up the opposite end of one of the bed frames, “I’m sure it’ll be fine. We’ll just put everything back to where it was before.”

Shouto does as he’s told but can’t help but ask, “Why exactly do we have to do all this?”

“Because it’s a sleepover!” Toru exclaims, “And you’re our Plus One! It’ll be so fun! We’ll play games and tell stories and paint each other's nails!”

Shouto sighs but doesn’t argue. Tsuyu wonders aloud, “What color do you think will look best on him?”

Ochako wipes her forehead, “Red!”

Toru adds, “A green would look nice too.”

Tsuyu nods, “We should do both colors.”

Shouto looks at his fingers, then at the girls in the room and sighs in resignation.

00:08

After they finish re-arranging the beds, they change into their bathing suits, grab some of the swimming supplies the cabin has in storage, and head over to the public beach area.

They manage to find a nice spot and Toru lays down a blanket. She turns to Shouto and grins, handing him a bottle of sunscreen, “Can you put some on my back?”

He takes the bottle and nods.

Toru kneels down on the towel and moves her hair to the side. She’s grinning and gives Ochako and Tsuyu a thumbs up when she notices the nearby beach goers whispering and looking their way. Shouto seems oblivious to the attention, kneeling behind her and lathering up her back.

Ochako giggles, whispering to Tsuyu, “He could pretend to look a bit more excited.”

Tsuyu laughs, “That’s part of his charm.”

Once Toru is all lathered up, she calls them over, “Ok Shouto, do them next!”

(She excitedly volunteers to do his back, even when he counters that he has a sweater and doesn’t need it)

00:07

Toru struts around the beach, befriending almost everyone and with the sun glowing on her clear skin and messy curls, she has everyone’s attention.

Shouto volunteers to stay behind while they all go have fun.

Ochako and Tsuyu grab the surf boards they found at the cabin and run into the sea. They’ve never actually gone surfing but it’s probably not that hard to do

(They find out quickly that it IS hard)

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Ochako falls a total of six times and it’s on the last that she feels something… grab her. She’s not the only one to notice. Shouto, who had been content to stay out of the water and text on his phone, runs over to help her. They drag the board with them and Tsuyu comes over after she’s resurfaced from her own fall

Ochako winces when she shows them the side of her stomach. There are three scratch marks and they’ve all drawn blood. Not a lot. It’s just a surface wound and they’re sure that if she cleans it off, it’ll stop

“What happened?” Shouto asks, his eyes scanning the area. There are people swimming and splashing but none close enough to where the two were attempting to surf.

“I-I think someone grabbed me…”

Toru barrels into them, her cheeks flushed and eyes worried, “Are you ok?!”

Since the wound is minor, they all return to playing. Shouto gets roped in by the three of them and they learn that he’s the only one of their group who can surf

This time, they’re part of the beach goers who gawk

(Toru, prepared as always, snaps a selfie at the perfect moment: it shows the three of them grinning and Shouto in the distance, his demeanor cool and aloof)

00:05

They make it back to the cabin in the evening with bags full of drinks, snacks, and some ointment. They settle around the beds piled together in the living area and Toru exclaims that she’ll paint one of Shouto’s hands red.

“You should do the other in green,” she tells Tsuyu.

Tsuyu cocks her head, “Wouldn’t it look better if we alternate the colors?”

Ochako is cleaning her wounds, wincing slightly, but agrees, “It’ll look more balanced that way.”

Shouto lets them paint his nails and even asks them to take a picture when they’re done.

He sends the picture to his brother with the manicure emoji.

His brother sends him a picture of the bird, his nails black.

But he doesn’t see the message until the next morning because he’s roped into helping the girls paint their nails.

(When they’re done, they take a selfie with all their hands posed in front of them: Shouto’s are red and mossy green, Tohru’s are lime green, Ochako’s are pink and blue, and Tsuyu’s are 3 different shades of green. Shouto sends that one too.)

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“Ok, imagine this,” Toru tells them, her face pink and her nails lime green, “Imagine you’re stranded on an island, what would you bring with you?”

“My phone,” Shouto tells them, “So I can call for help.”

Toru laughs, “That’s not a good answer! Take a drink!”

His brows furrow, “Why isn’t it a good answer?”

“What if your phone is dead? Then what? There’s no electricity!”

He’s already holding the shot, “It’ll be charged.”

Tsuyu asks, “What’s your battery at now?”

He grumbles when he shows his phone’s battery at 14%. He takes a drink.

“A motorboat,” Tsuyu tells them, “with a lifejacket inside.”

Ochako and Toru both nod, “That’s a good answer!”

Shouto frowns, “I thought we could only take one thing.”

Ochako giggles, “Well, we didn’t specify …”

Toru, who has taken the most drinks so far, belly laughs, “A guitar!”

Tsuyu smiles, “Why a guitar?”

“So I can listen to music,” she tells them.

Shouto nods, finding her answer acceptable, but Ochako asks, “Can you even play the guitar?”

Toru pauses and then laughs, “No!” She takes a drink.

“It’s your turn now, Ochako-chan,” Tsuyu tells her.

Ochako’s face is red. It has been since before they started drinking, “I think it would get lonely so…” Her face goes even redder, “Perhaps someone to spend time with…”

Toru waggles her brows, “ Someone? Anyone specific?”

Ochako laughs, “No, but, I mean, a cute girl would be nice. We could get to know each other.”

Tsuyu and Toru both nod and Shouto looks offended.

“We can bring people?! ”

The three of them laugh.

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Toru is the first to run to the bathroom after their little drinking game. Shouto looks unfazed but Tsuyu suspects he’s two seconds away from falling asleep.

And Ochako…

She rubs her side, feeling it burn slightly.

00:02

They all end up falling asleep soon after, their bellies full of alcohol.

They have two fans running. They did little to keep them cool while they played, but somehow (now) they cause Ochako’s skin to prickle. It feels like there’s something running along her body, some type of phantom touch.

She unconsciously moves her hand across her body, her mind believing it’s some type of bug or web she can easily flick away. It works at first, but soon after the feeling returns.

Sleep sticks to her eyes, but she opens her eyes a crack to find something shimmering. She groans, closing her eyes again

I can’t believe Toru’s hair is still so bright…

00:01

Ochako wakes in a panic, her body bracing for an impact that never comes. Her eyes fly open and it’s only when she finds her bearings that she calms. Her panic is quickly replaced by confusion when she finds she’s the only one on the pile of beds. Her friends have disappeared.

In their place is a giggle that echoes in the cabin. It’s coming from out front and she wonders if she’s woken up too late.

She tries to check the clock on the wall she’d seen when they’d arrived, but finds it missing. Her phone is also nowhere near her. That same giggle comes again and she stretches on the bed, did someone come by the cabin? She doesn’t recognize the voice

When she finally finds the energy to get out of bed, she shivers at how cold the floor is. She tiptoes to the bathroom to relieve herself and brush her teeth. She calls out to her friends while she’s still drying her face, but nobody answers her

Instead, when she opens the door, she comes face to face with a blonde girl with golden eyes. She’s grinning wide and her pale cheeks have a heavy blush on them.

“I’m so glad you’re here, Ochako-chan!”

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Ochako…doesn’t know how to react, so she furrows her brows and asks, “Who…are you?”

But the girl doesn’t hesitate. She grabs Ochako’s hand and pulls her out of the bathroom. Ochako shivers at how cold everything feels, but doesn’t pull away…even though she’s never met this girl, she doesn’t feel like she’s in danger. She feels calm, if slightly confused.

The girl pulls her onto the beds again and they bounce slightly. She giggles and when they settle down, the girl looks at her dreamily, “It’s me, Ochako-chan, Himiko! Call me Himiko, okay?”

Ochako smiles back at her, nodding, “Alright…Himiko-chan.”

Himiko’s face somehow gets even redder and it makes Ochako blush as well.

“H-Himiko-chan, where is everyone?”

Himiko’s smile becomes smaller, more intimate somehow, and when she says, “It’s just me and you today” Ochako shivers. It feels exactly like the night before when she’d felt something crawling against her skin.

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Ochako changes out of her pajamas. Yes, that must be what happens.

Himiko is already wearing a black two-piece that makes her pale skin even whiter. She has a sheer cover-top over it. It’s open in the front but trails behind her when she stands to grab the nail polish they’d all left by the kitchen counter.

Ochako is wearing a yellow swimsuit she doesn’t remember buying.

She wonders where she got it and then remembers.

Himiko places the swimsuit against her clothed body and grins, “This color would look good on you!”

Ochako grabs the hanger, contemplating, “Really? I don’t usually wear yellow…”

Himiko nods, dragging her to the changing room.

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“Let’s pretend,” Himiko tells her when she once more jumps onto the beds. She seems to float toward Ochako, “that we’re the only two on this island, ok, Ochako-chan?”

Ochako lays her hands on Himiko’s lap and grins, “Why are we pretending?”

Her nails are the natural shade of pink flesh.

She blinks at them a few times. Had she…taken off the polish?

Himiko cups her cheeks and Ochako blushes when she notices they’re much closer together.

“Because, Ochako-chan,” she feels Himiko’s whispered voice embrace her. It echoes off the cabin walls, “you said you wanted a cute girl to spend time with. Aren’t I the cutest? After you that is…”

Their lips are so close that it would take just a second to lean in

00:00:08

Himiko’s lips are cold but smooth.

The inside of her mouth is sweet but dry.

Himiko bites her and there’s blood in their mouths. She whines Ochako’s name between their gasps.

00:00:07

“Let’s pretend, ok?” Himiko tells her and Ochako nods.

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They paint their nails. The pads of Ochako’s fingers become red, the blood bright under Himiko’s hands. Her nails are pink. When Himiko blows on her fingers, Ochako has a sense of deja vu

She’s sure that Toru did this last night. Didn’t we choose two colors?

But when Himiko makes eye contact with her, she forgets.

“Do you like them, Ochako-chan? I’ve been practicing!”

Ochako smiles at her and nods, “You could be a professional! I’ll paint yours. What color do you want?”

00:00:06

They choose red.

“I love the color red,” Himiko tells her against her skin, “It reminds me so much of blood.”

Ochako laughs, shaking the bottle.

“You’ll look so cute in red, Himiko-chan.”

She paints and paints and paints

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“What else do you like, Ochako-chan?” Himiko asks as they walk along the beach. The sun is already shining brightly in the sky, but the sand is warm, even a bit cool.

Ochako digs her toes into the sand as they go. It helps cool her feverish skin.

They’re holding hands, bright pink intertwined with pale fleshiness.

There’s a breeze that makes Himiko’s cover-up dance, but Ochako barely feels it.

She laughs, “Himiko-chan, how can you not know? We’ve been friends for ages!”

Himiko’s grin is wide when she pulls Ochako close.

“That’s right! We have been. I know everything about you, Ochako-chan!”

00:00:08

Himiko’s lips are bold and demanding. They devour Ochako.

They slip under her clothes, under her skin, and glide across blood and muscle and tissue and even her soul.

00:00:11

They swim in the beach and Ochako carries Himiko on her shoulders, dunking her in the water. There’s nobody else around to play with.

Ochako has the vague sense that they should be surfing. She’s sure they had surf boards in the cabin’s storage, but when she turns to look for it, it’s gone.

There’s only sand, palm trees, and a single willow tree. It looks wrong somehow and the roots look dry. They extend out along the beach, as if they’re hoping for a drink, but stop just before reaching their destination.

They look like hands. So many of them reaching…

Himiko sticks herself to Ochako’s back and Ochako loses her balance. They laugh

00:00:05

It’s a cabin. It’s not as warm as Ochako recalls. The wood splinters and she winces when one gets stuck on her palm.

Himiko stares at her hand intently and offers to help her.

Ochako winces when they finally get it out and a bit of blood trickles out.

Himiko licks the droplet and grins, “All better, right?”

00:00:59

They sit outside in the sun, their bodies lathered in sunscreen. Ochako thinks she’ll get sunburned but Himiko looks as pale as ever, almost like the sun doesn’t reach her.

Himiko’s hand is placed possessively on her side and it’s the only place that burns. The rest of Ochako’s body is cold.

They’re talking about her friends…their friends…right? Ochako wonders once again where they’ve gone. Did they go to the store? It hasn’t been very long. She’ll introduce…

No, Himiko has been with them before. She’ll tell them she changed her mind. That her job let her come over and she…she came to meet them…this morning…

“They’re so obvious,” Ochako tells her with a grin, “We all think they should just start dating already!”

But Himiko knows this already, she’d been there after all…

Himiko’s teeth are as white as the rest of her, “Should we date, Ochako-chan?”

No. Not entirely white. There’s a rudyness there.

She leans in close and Ochako feels herself falling. Himiko has no scent, even after playing in the sand and the sea. Even after running and working up a sweat. Even after Ochako spent so long painting her nails

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Himiko’s body is light and if Ochako hadn’t been clinging to her so tightly, she thinks it would have been just a dream.

But the way Himiko touches her is real.

She feels it at her core

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“Let’s pretend,” Himiko whispers into her ear.

Ochako’s face is red. The hands have reached out further. A gnarly fingertip touches the surface of the water.

It’s so close.

“Let’s pretend it’s just the two of us, stranded.”

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Himiko’s giggle echoes in the cabin.

Ochako yawns and smiles when her blonde girlfriend buries her face against her side.

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sparkles-and-trash · 2 years ago

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Bookstore AU (dabihawks, tddk, spinneraki, togachako)

note: this is an old au, I'm just re-writing it into a drabble in stead of the list format!

Touya is the owner of Clandestine Books and Beverages, a small bookstore and coffeeshop that lies on a street corner on an ordinary street corner in a medium sized city.

On the outside, it doesn't really look like anything too special, merely your standard cozy store with dark mahogany shelves and too many plants and nice big windows that lets in the sunlight of the few days it doesn't rain around there.

That, and the owner is pretty damn grumpy.

To be fair, Touya got really tired of people trying to flirt with him when he first opened the store, when he just wanted to sell some goddamn books.

But having that snow white hair, turquoise eyes and being a member of the Todoroki family, mixed with the fact that he has this dark and mysterious aura going with the whole bookstore owner thing made people kinda forget about common curtesy it seemed.

Luckily, rumor got out pretty fast that flirting with him got you nothing but an uncomfortable stare of death, and things slowed down after that.

At first, he mainly built his clientele on having a lot of rare books, and if he didn't have what you were looking for, he would find a way to get it for you.

When Tenko, his friend from college approached him about the idea of starting off a small coffeeshop in the store, however, the customers really started pouring in.

Tenko might be a bit awkward and strange, but he makes the best coffee in town, hell, maybe in all of Japan.

Pretty soon after that, Touya had to accept his fate and hire a few other employees.

...he hired two of his friends, but hey, he still did it, so it counts.

Spinner was kinda hesitant, he was nervous that having a animorph working for him would set Touya and Tenko back, but they wouldn't hear a word of it.

Spinner actually knows a lot about literature, and while he's a little shy, he's also great with the customers.

He also gets to stare longingly at Tenko all day, which is worth more than the paycheck for him, lol.

Toga, on the other hand, didn't really care about books if they weren't overdramatic romance novels, but her sunny disposition did wonders with the customers, and she loved working like there.

One of Touya's favorite things about the stores location was how close it was to UA High, where his youngest brother was enrolled in the hero program.

Shouto is 18 now, and he has a hero license and all that jazz, and he's taller than Touya, whatever, he's still his little brother and Touya enjoys the chance to judge all of his brothers friends when he brings them there for coffee.

Sadly for Touya, most of his brothers friends are pretty cool.

However, because of the close proximity to UA, another hero have started hanging around the shop lately and it's annoying Touya to no end.

Touya obviously knows who Hawks is, he's a pretty popular and successful hero, and the big, red wings are a dead big giveaway.

At first, Keigo had just gone to the bookstore and coffeehouse because Tokoyami insisted they had the best coffee in town, but his eyes met the owners eyes once, and that was that.

It frankly feels like some form of cosmic joke, that Keigo had spent his whole life without having crushes on people, and the one time he gets one, it's on the most unapproachable and grumpy guy ever.

Normally Keigo is pretty good at talking to people, and he gets along just fine with the other employees, but just one steely game from Touya and he freezes like a statue.

So naturally, he hangs around the store constantly now Spinner and Toga is secretly telling him about all of Touya's favorite books etc to give him an edge, but it doesn't help much when Keigo is too busy looking at Touya over the books to actually read them.

Once Touya actually caught him looking over at him while holding a book upside-down.

Touya will never admit it, but he's starting to get used to having the big bird there, and might even get a little bit sad on the days he doesn't stop by.

When Shouto mentions that he wants to find a weekend job to make some of his own money while still in school, Touya tries to make him come work for him, but Shouto declines, saying that it's too easy to just work for his brother.

Touya damn near loses his mind when Shouto shows up at Tenko's coffee bar in an apron, ready to get to work.

According to Shouto, that's more than far enough removed from his brother for it to count as a real job.

It doesn't help when Shouto's green haired friend starts hanging out there every day Shouto works, mooning over his brother very obviously.

...well, obvious to everyone but Shouto, who is obviously feeling the same way, but has no idea.

When Izuku starts bringing his friend with the brown hair and rosy cheeks whom Toga has a huge crush on, there's almost too much crushes around him for Touya to be able to stand being at work.

...including his own stupid crush on the stupid bird.

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epickiya722 · 1 year ago

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The part they said these guys hate any ship with Izuku and Ochako was so real man. They always find a reason to hate on them, even when that reason is so atrocious that it's a surprise anyone sane believed it.

Like we all have our ships we hate for various reasons. Probably don't like one of the characters, or you just don't feel it, could be because shippers have said ship gave you bad experiences, anything.

I have ships I don't like or just don't particularly care for my own reasons.

However, some reasons I have seen is bonkers to me and one is "They're getting in the way of my ship".

It's what I feel like some of people feel about ships like Bakudeku and Togachako.

For one, you're allowed to still ship a ship even if it's not canon. Two, how can anyone be in the way of a ship that is one, underdeveloped, and two, not canon?

Hell, who is stopping anyone from shipping IzuOcha? Do these people think that if BakuDeku and TogaChako become canon that they can't still ship their ship?

A pet peeve of mine when it comes to shipping is the hostility some of these shippers like to bring.

They will directly attack others be it posting things like "BakuDekus are delusional if they think Midoriya or Bakugou likes any dudes" to sending hateful Anon messages.

Look, hate the ship all you want, but you cannot be the same person to "I don't want these shippers around me" but attack said shippers and be surprised when they counter back. You put yourself in their space, you attracted that attention ON PURPOSE.

Makes no fucking sense.

Like no ship is worth attacking others for.

#kiya answers #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #bakudeku #bkdk #togachaco #togachako

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marimeeko · 1 year ago

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(SPOILERS) Absolutely LOVE how the lore behind the Heroes Rising movie is that, it was Horikoshis idea for the ending of the story proper, "until he got a better idea"

Absolutely LOVE how the idea for his ending prior to changing it was Izuku and Katsuki fighting TOGETHER in a culmination of their entire relationship to defeat Shig/AFO, something I and probably everyone who even remotely likes the relationship was dying to see in the climax of the story.

ABSOLUTELY LOVE how when we finally arrive to the final war, Izuku gets sidelined, Katsuki has to carry on alone, Katsuki gets brutalized, and KILLED by ShigAFO, and hasn't woken up yet (it's been 84 years)

I love how Horikoshi looked at Heroes Risings plot, with EVERYTHING that happens in that movie between katsuki and Izuku and said "Haha wait I can do this better" and next thing we know, Kacchan is dead on the ground and Izuku had to fight on alone

(And then you have Stain in this chapter...Toga in another....)

Horikoshi is a mad man

#bnha spoilers #your daily reminder that hori said that and then DID THAT #its been 84 years #bring back explosion murder god #the insanity #rips hair out and gnashes teeth #hori plz #stainmight #togachako #hori: i can do better!#also hori: murders every love interest #lmao #plz i need to see baku and izu fight together one last time in this story #sob #alive bakugou when #bakudeku #bakugou katsuki #to be fair i do think toga will be fine #i think stain is probably doomed?#and i also think there is no way kacchan isnt coming back #at least #i hope #toga needs a blood transfusion at least her heart didnt explode #and ppl were saying that hawks has the same blood type?#poetically it would make sense for him to try saving her bc he had to kill jin #Im not sure from the scans yet but looks like stain got mulched or crushed by AFO?

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yggdraseed · 5 months ago

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No, Ochako is not the worst female character in history, that's dumb

I mean what I said. The amount of hate Ochako gets is frankly stupid.

“Oh, buh buh buh, but she didn’t beat Bakugo at the Sports Festival — “ Yeah, and it wasn’t because Ochako’s a girl and Bakugo’s a guy, it’s because Bakugo’s the ace of the whole class. Like it really is just down to Bakugo or Todoroki, and Bakugo beat Todoroki at the Sports Festival. Put Iida in the ring with Bakugo and he’d go down just as hard. Midoriya lost to Bakugo when they fought after the Hero License Exams, and at the time of the Sports Festival, Midoriya didn’t even have Full Cowling.

Like people who claim Horikoshi made Ochako lose because he’s a misogynist need to pull their heads out of their asses and remember that Bakugo is the best combatant in the class that teaches kids to be superheroes and fight crime. Even he acknowledges that if he didn’t take the fight as seriously as he did, Ochako could have taken it.

Do you actually remember that, or are you so cornfed off of social media that your brain’s rotted through the bottom of your skull? The whole crowd is jeering at Bakugo because he didn’t let the cute girl win. He took Ochako seriously as an opponent and showed respect to her by not holding back. To have done otherwise would have been to dismiss her conviction and all the hard work she’d been putting in alongside everyone else. They’re classmates, but they’re competing with each other, too. And it would have been embarrassing to win because the ace of the class took pity on you and folded. Those people who were saying Bakugo should have won were the ones being sexist, because they weren’t taking Ochako seriously. All they saw was a cute face and thought she should get to coast by without being challenged, and that’s sexism.

How about the fact that Ochako’s motivation is to earn money so she can take care of her parents? Like a fundamental part of character writing is to give female characters motivations outside of those originating from their male counterparts. Ochako wants to give back to her parents and is willing to work her ass off to do it. But that never gets brought up.

Or how about the amount of personality she shows? People try to reduce Ochako to some flower on the wall girly-girl even though that’s never been the whole story. Yeah, she has a lot of femininity, she likes pink things. She’s also so used to being poor that she almost seems to take pride in how much she can endure living on a budget, and gets completely blown away at seeing how rich people (or people with a middle class income) get to live. And she’s also a weirdo who talks about “The fated battle between men” or gets hyper pumped up to the point it’s kind of intimidating, about the Sports Festival and after learning self-defense under Gunhead.

And yeah, it’s convenient how often people forget the fact that she identified her weakness in close combat after fighting Bakugo and specifically started learning self-defense martial arts in order to make up for that weakness. She repeatedly uses techniques for safely disarming knife wielding opponents and using judo throws to drop people throughout her appearances in the rest of the series.

People will say, “Oh, but after that, all she cares about is Deku!” No it isn’t, you moron! After Night Eye dies, she’s wracked with guilt, feeling like she should have done more to rescue him. She’s extremely motivated to use her Quirk to rescue people during that portion of the Hero License Exams, since she realized how much good she can do with it, and she continues to apply that during the kickoff to the war arc when the city was left in ruins from Shigaraki and Gigantomachia’s rampage. After Class 1-A brings Deku home to U.A. and Ochako quells the crowd, her arc becomes dominated by atoning for how she rejected Toga without listening to her and putting active compassion into practice.

I believe with all my heart in the supremacy of Togachako, but you know what? Acting like it’s insidious and harmful to depict a girl liking a boy is stupid. Do I want more same-sex pairings? More than you’ll ever know. However, acting like Ochako’s a failure of a character because there’s a boy she likes is stupid. You’re stupid if you believe in that.

And as a matter of fact, I’ll do you one better. Not only does the romance subplot not ruin Ochako’s character, it’s a really well-handled one. Deku ends up getting puppy love when they first meet because he’s a reclusive nerd who’s never talked to a girl outside of “Hey, you, move” and he’s overwhelmed. Then he saves Ochako (and Ochako saves him) during the entrance exam, and going into the Sports Festival, he sees the conviction she has and his very immature, superficial crush grows into one that’s much more informed and based on respect.

This goes both ways. Ochako starts out just seeing Deku as a friend, but after seeing how hard he tries in everything he does, she starts to admire him. Little by little, by and by, this grows into affection and into love. He inspires her to try harder, and she inspires him, too. They start to bring out the best in each other even though they’re a couple of dorks who struggle to open up about these things to each other.

If you call this bad romance writing, then you don’t understand how to write romance. It’s all about the reasons why characters are drawn together, seeing them develop in parallel. All that’s missing is actually getting to see them in a developing relationship, and that’s a problem, yeah, but it’s a problem in 90% of every romance manga. You never get to see the relationship, only the will they-won’t they until the relationship is formed right at the ending.

You wanna see a real shitter of a romance subplot? Here, I’ll show you how to write a real shitter of a romance subplot.

First step, be Masashi Kishimoto. Next, write a female character who only has eyes for her love interest because he’s handsome and have her love interest not even acknowledge her. Have the female character say something stupid and hurtful about another character, then have her love interest express open animosity towards her for saying that. Have her just spin her wheels in the background for a hundred chapters while the men fight, make some half-assed attempts at putting her on equal footing that never amount to anything, have her love interest literally fucking try to kill her and never even apologize for it, have her be obsessed with getting him back anyway, have her tell the main character who’s actually into her that she loves him when she actually doesn’t and is just going through what a middle aged Japanese man thinks women go through in situations like this, and then reward her with getting married to the guy who tried to murder her and never apologized, and then have it turn out that he’s never around for her or her daughter and she just stays at home hoping he’ll come in to acknowledge his own family exists.

Thanks for letting me get that out of my system!

#boku no hero academia #ochako uraraka #kohei horikoshi

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