#c : himiko toga

[ynnu-64]

Tears in my togachaco eyes ,,,

[harukamitsuki]

had a couple of reblogs on my last post, mentioning toga being a failed yandere and a bad character as a whole, specifically by @mikeellee @amethystoceandespiser and @kite2013 so this is for you guys.

and, yes, she is. she is both a bad example of a yandere, and a bad character.

when you think of yanderes you think of yuno gasai from mirai nikki or monika from ddlc, or even ayano aishi from yan sim or every single girl in higurashi.

and they're all excellent examples of yanderes.

the term 'yandere' comes from two words: 'yanderu', meaning "to be sick", and 'deredere', meaning "lovestruck". together, it the loose translation would be 'sick with love'.

yuno gasai is the best example of a yandere, encapsulating it in every way possible. she's sick and twisted, ready to sacrifice everything, herself included, just to be with yuki. she acts sweet and caring, but is truly a jealous, overprotective, dangerous girl underneath all that.

one of the first things she says to yuki is that she is willing to give up everything for him.

yanderes are supposed to be obsessed with love, and more specifically, with the target of their love.

love is the only reason they have to keep going.

and toga is not it.

because when she's first introduced, it isn't love that's her driving force. it's admiration. some may say it's a form of love, but it doesn't matter. yandere's are obsessed with romantic love specifically, and toga was not introduced as such.

even if she developed into a yandere after meeting izuku, or perhaps her nature was revealed far later, as was the case with homura from pmmm, it wouldn't matter as we still don't know who she's devoted to.

yeah, she's into izuku, but we don't see that devotion. a real yandere would have abandoned everything just to be with their love, but toga doesn't.

she is not a yandere, but horikoshi presents her in such a way, because they're one of the most popular tropes in Japan, and even in the west. appearing adorable and speaking cutely, and obsessed with blood.

what, are we supposed to assume her 'love' is blood? no, her obsession with blood is as a result of both her quirk, and how she envisions love.

blood is how she expresses her adoration. there's a stark difference in how she wants to see izuku's blood, and how she wants to see overhauls. with izuku, her face is flushed and she's almost shy in the way she says it. but with overhaul, she's full of fury. it isn't about wanting to become closer with him, it's about getting revenge for mangne's death.

so, yeah. terrible example of a yandere.

if i were to write her to be a proper yandere, i'd have her obsess over twice, who canonically had feelings for her. i'd have her destroy everything just for twice.

and i'd have izuku's appearance challenge her. suddenly, she can't tear everyone and everything else down, because she can't hurt him. maybe she'd have a mental breakdown over it, trying to figure out who to fight for, if it's okay to love more than one person, maybe even coming to the conclusion that it was never love - it was obsession.

i'd have her be a proper deconstruction of the yander archetype. not this failed version of a yandere.

as for her character...

her writing is really bad, which doesn't say much when most other characters in mha are badly written, but we're focusing on her today.

we are first introduced to her after the hosu arc, where she joins the lov due to believing stain was working with them.

why did she love stain? what specifically drew him to her? we don't know, and we never find out.

why is she so attracted to izuku? the many injuries he gets? but what was it specifically that caught her attention? no clue.

did she ever love twice back? why did she stick with shigiraki? how close is she to the villains other than twice?

we don't know.

there were so many ways to develop her. maybe she, dabi and spinner would reminisce about how they first found out about stain, which would also further delve into all of their motivations. maybe they would find out stain rejected the lov, and struggle on deciding whether to leave or not.

it'd be far more interesting if she actually wanted to damn everything to join izuku, but maybe he rejected her and so she turned against him.

maybe she could have been a good deconstruction of the yandere trope, maybe she could have been a well-written character, but she wasn't.

[sewers-headmates]

hi darlings! /p could we get a duo pack of himiko toga and twice from my hero academia? with toga being an AAM and transID hoarder and twice being a MAP who is transCharacter (deadpool). thank you!!

- @roses-bah-garden

(PS my inbox will be open soon, excited to get more requests from you when it is)

yippee! here you go, toga is our favorite bnha character so very happy to do this one. i have no clue why i’m the alter stuck clearing our inbox. apologies for if it’s not enough transIDs

Name: Himiko Toga, 渡と我が被ひ身み子こ

Age: 16

Gender: cis female, bloodaesic, bloodgender, gorecoric

Pronouns: she/her, they/them, blood/bloods, gore/gores

Sexuality: bisexual

Species: human with quirk

Source: bnha

Roles: persecutor, anger holder, mania holder

cisIDs: human, quirk, blonde, yellow eyes, fangs, leo, 5’2, league of villain, villain, bipolar 1

transIDs: transHarmful, permaManic, transBPD, transYandere, transHarmed, transAbused, transHeartPupils, transObsessed, transADHD, transAutistic, transDogGirl, transDogEars, transDogTail, transOwned, permaCollared

Paraphiles: sadomasochist, AAM, biastophilia, autoaptophilia, emapihtophilia, haemotophilia, traumaphilia, vigiliaphilia, oplophilia

Other Labels: ambiamorous

Appearance:

Name: Jin Bubaigawara, 分ぶ倍ばい河がわ原ら仁, Twice, トゥワイス

Age: 31

Gender: trans male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: pansexual

Species: human with quirk

Source: bnha

Roles: protector, caretaker (specifically for toga)

cisIDs: human, quirk, blonde hair, gray/blue eyes, taurus, villain, league of villains, delusions, psychosis, BPD

transIDs: transCharacter (Deadpool - Marvel), transUniverse (Marvel), transPTSD, transHarmful, transHarmed, transDPD, transCodepent, transBeloved

Paraphiles: MAP, masochist

Other Labels: mono

Appearance:

hope you enjoy these two lovebirds

-mod jimmy

[soupcanspecimen]

Going through the fandom today is going to be very depressing.

[musedriven]

@toranoya

" how long. " she hisses. her knuckles white around the hilt of her blades. her pupils are thin and her breathing is ragged. she isn't thinking right now; far too lost in her own fury and pain. it doesn't matter what his excuses are or what his 'explanation' was. honestly he could say just about anything at this point and she probably wouldn't remember it later. all she wanted was to see him bleed. she wanted him to hurt the same way she was. the way he had hurt Jin. " how long did you know you were going to kill him! "

[fleetwoodmoth]

Take ur adopted kid sister shopping day

[howdidiendupshippingthispoll]

Round 1, Bracket 2, Side C, First Poll

Hollyberry Cookie and Pitaya Dragon Cookie, CookieRun [Pitayaberry Cookie] vs Toga Himiko and Yuri [HimiYuri], My hero Academy and Doki Doki Literature Club

[herostoried]

The buzzing in Ochako's bones is like nothing she has ever known.

It's anxiety. It's anticipation. It's excitement - though that's not the right word for it, because the aching desperation she feels is too strong to be summarized with a word like that. To be honest, she doesn't know what she's going to do, but...

Ever since that day - the day that Himiko sacrificed her life and future to save Ochako, and died - Ochako has been longing to return to the past. The regret she'd felt about being unable to save her was all-consuming, and the most painful thing she's ever experienced. If she'd done just one thing different, would Himiko have lived? If she was better, would she not be feeling the agony she was feeling now?

Those questions kept her up at night, making it impossible to rest. Even though the war was "won", Ochako couldn't feel satisfied - selfish though it may be, all she wanted was to see Himiko's smile one last time.

So when she finally found the opportunity to do what she wanted to so badly - to jump into the past, and do it over - of course she took it without looking back. Was there even another option? She's putting the world and it's future at risk, but though it's not like she doesn't feel guilt, it's not enough to stop her from taking the chance before her eyes. If she fails, she'll simply try again, and again, and again. Even if each attempt breaks her spirit a little further, and becomes more difficult than the last... Ochako won't ever give up...

When she finally sees Himiko's face, though - it takes her breath away. Maybe it hadn't felt real until this moment, but seeing her now makes Ochako want to cry. What is she supposed to say to her? How can she get across the feelings that have been trapped in her chest for so long?

"Himiko-chan... I'm so glad..."

@h-toga ( starter! )

[musedriven]

@dnangelic

she gives a small smile, her fangs still mostly hidden though she does not cover them with her hand this time. a small sign of her comfort around him. " I mean it! he's really talented and charming! even more talented than you I bet. " she teases, taunts almost as she looks up at him. " y'know, if he wasn't so adorably shy he might even make a better thief than you. "

she sighs wistfully as she fiddles with the hem of her sleeve. her cheeks a flushed pink as she pictures Daisuke's own flustered face. ' -- as cute as the rest of you ' he once had said before running off after his own cute little squeak. she wanted to run after him; to give chase and devour every adorable thing he did when he got flustered. but she did not want to scare him away either. he already seemed so frazzled and she didn't want to get her hopes up too much. he reacted similarly with Risa and Riku in the past, but what if he just wasn't actually interested? after all; he first sounded so neutral in response to her question from that same conversation. ' they're rabbits ' just little charms nothing especially fancy. maybe she was being too hopeful; reading too much into it. still... her heart beat so fast when he was around. her world seemed brighter when he smiled. maybe a little hope wasn't a bad thing to have.

" he really likes art; maybe I can slip him a new art set! some fresh paints and a few canvases to work on. you steal art a lot; do you know a good brand for paints? "

[arceus-insanity]

With the Series Ending

I decided to do this solely based on canon, except for F which are so bad that they transcend the rule. I also put this in the lens of do I enjoy watching them, or do they infuriate me. Most of the ones in G are there because I can't tell who they are from the picture, or are so minor I don't get why they were on the list to begin with

Hawks was the hardest to place because as I've mentioned before I love villain fanon Hawks, and hate Canon for all the missed potential and the guy being shit.

Before the last arc, Deku would have been in C, and I felt most criticisms of him were undeserved. I still feel a lot of them are dumb, however, he's canonically a hypocritical, suck-up to labels, abuse apologist, idiot, etc. As much as it feels like character assassination it's canon, same with Shoji. I also just don't care to read fanfiction of him, and feel he takes a lot of roles where other characters would make more sense. If I'm not already following someone I'm not going to read fanfiction with him in it

Most of E I hate as much if not more than F but the fandom either doesn't write about, or treat them like the pieces of crap they are, looking at Mineta of course.

Fun fact Edgeshot is in E for bringing Bakugo back, and causing me both meta and dramatic issues for me. What the fuck was the point of killing Bakugo to immediately bring him back. How the fuck did Edgeshot know he could do this? How the fuck did he know how to do this? Why the fuck is he doing this for some random teenager he has never interacted with before, in the middle of a war? And now why the fuck does this fucker get to live, no one gave a single fuck about Edgeshot but he gets to live!

Centipeder would have been in E if not for the fact I know what my ringtone for him would be, Red Flags by Tom Cardy

Uraraka owes her rank in B for her arc with Toga, otherwise, she would have been in D. For the plot forgoing her original motivations so they could turn her into a generic love interest. Toga tried talking crushes with her 'twice' everything else regarding that shit, which started before they ever met, is on her

I actually love Endeavor fanfics as most of them either a treat his abuse for what it is, or b I view them as an own on canon Endeavor and his incredible laziness and selfishness. But Twitter exists and they flock to him and his bullshit so to F with him.

Speaking of Fs, Bakugo is a whiney spoiled rotten brat with a silver spoon shoved into his mouth since birth. I hope he never breeds. Damn near every shit thing that has happened to him, was either brought on by himself, literally applied to everyone, he literally doesn't care, and even with the two exceptions I'd give this, the Sludge guy, and being chained up at the sports fest (he should have been disqualified), do not justify his shit

Congrats to Dark Shadow and Tokoyami for being the only hero (student) to make it past B

Needless to say I love villains, Dabi is by far my favourite, followed by Himiko, they are way more engaging and convincing than the heroes. And by convincing I mean it actually feels like they are going to put in effort to make their goals happen, not just wish really hard. I truly wish we could have seen how Shigaraki's goals shifted during his reign over the PLF. We had already seen how he wanted the League to be happy and an exception to his goal of destruction

[i-cant-sing]

Do you think Dabi and Toga try to convince Tomura that he’s adopted? Because they were birthed naturally and he was a c section

he's also lactose intolerant (i think i mentioned it somewhere) so they have definietly teased him about it, even going as far as to say that he just cant ever have the same bond as dabi and himiko have with reader because he hasnt had her breastmilk (it was a very traumatising convo for dad kai to overhear).

tomura has seriously taken the bullying to heart, which further fuels his clinginess to u and swears he's never ever leaving ur side, which sucks for kai because he was hoping to ship off the triplets far away for college so that he could finally be alone with u without his mutated cockroaches from hell hogging u <3

[musedriven]

wasn't every hero a fan of the spotlight? she always figured that was why they did it. Shigaraki had said so too -- and Dabi. Dabi often said how heroes are all about public appearances and willing to do anything to get the spotlight. Mr. Stainy too was all about taking out the false heroes who only wanted to be icons and clout chasers. so wasn't it just common knowledge that pro heroes demanded the spotlight any chance they could take it? but as quickly as she thought it odd he made a comment about her putting him in the spotlight the thought left in favor of figuring out his riddle.

her head tilted to the side as she thought on his question. she was sure the answer had to be obvious; but what did cans have to do with birds? could cans even be used to make a bird? what kind of cans? was this some sort of nesting joke? he always was drinking canned coffee; maybe it was a pun on how many cans it takes to get him awake? or wasn't there an american drink that supposedly gave people wings? was he talking about that? her eyes slowly blink as she watches him, a sign of affection but also just her taking her time to think. finally she shrugs, giving up on trying to figure it out for herself. " I don't know, how many? "

He felt that he should be concerned about her stalking people. One of the names he sort of recognized from U.A.'s Sports Festival. But the other was definitely one he knew even if he didn't personally know the kid. It was one of Endeavor's interns and someone Tokoyami spoke highly of. Well, perhaps he could keep an eye on Toga just to make sure these other kids weren't in too much trouble. So far the girl seemed harmless but Keigo knew from reports that could easily change.

Seeing her focus shift to him, he smiled at her and chuckled softly. "Oh putting me on the spot huh?" Keigo teased back. His head tilted from side to side for a moment while he thought of a good one to give her. "How many cans does it take to make a bird?" he finally asked.

[chaos-creature-on-the-roof]

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[mikanlardyclinic]

Brain rot won so one last muse list new muses will be added later add by editing it later

BNHA

The biggest heroine! And lard and takoyaki addict yu takeyamaa!!

MT LARDY

"Ulp ulp ulp ulp.. I'm n..not r.. Ready yet.... S..shou hungry..."

The lard gravity balloon

URAVITY! (Ochako uraraka)

"h..huh?.. Y..you're not the delivery b..boy WHERE EM I?.. W..wheres my food?! Hnngh! Ahh... Ahh.. Gotta get up.. C..come on!"

Suddenly a light pink light covered her body as she slowly lifted herself off the bed.. Before crashing down on it again..

"hrrruuuulk!!!?.. Frrrrrbbshlouuush!!! Hnngh.. J..jusht b..brinh meh foood.."

The biggest frog you've ever seen!

FROPPY!! (tsuyu asui)

"hnnngh k..kheerouuurp!.. P..pleashe n..nuh wheeeze!! m..muhre k..keeero..

The lardass rich gal!~

CREATI!~ (momo yaoyarozu)

"i..it's just training.. You're just training.. Momo it's all for training! Slouurp!!~"

The lardy creation heroine chugged lard from a bottle.. She hasn't used her quirk to create anything in months.. She tells herself she's saving it for a real emergency she says.. As she chugs more lard.. Never planning to actually use it..

The sweaty tornado of indulgence~

TORNADO OF TERROR! (Tatsumaki)

"hnnngh stupid burger monster.. Why did you have to taste so goood... Weaklings shouldn't g..get in my way b..but you dumb food.. Monsters.. D..dammit.. Bwoouuurp!!~

And finally for now the cutest blob of lard you've ever seen! Me!~

HIMIKO TOGA!~

"let's be friends!~ i brought some butter to share!~"

Might add more depending on the mood but i still dunno how to use mirko so imagine her as a carrot/ vegetable disposal

[mysteroads]

After re-reading chpt 426, I had... emotions. 🥺 So, even though I posted the full fic here earlier, I thought everyone else might like to see Dabi finding peace at last. Like all the other League in this series, this excerpt is when Shig comes to pick up his party member. As a bonus, it can be read in a way that complies with the current canon circumstances. (As a double bonus, there's a cute moment with Shoto💕.) Without further ado: Dabi rejoins the League:

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“Dabi,” his name brought his wandering focus back to Shigaraki, “We already know you’re an asshole. You don’t have to try and talk me out of bringing you back.” He leaned closer and met Dabi’s eyes, bloody red to clouded crystal. “I see you, Dabi. We see you, Dabi. We’ve always seen you. We want you anyway. Magne, Jin, Toga, Spinner, Kurogiri… they’re all waiting for you.”

Those words hit him like a punch to the gut, wringing out a soft sound of pure longing that he didn’t know he was capable of making. 

Arms— hot and cold, slim and thick, both of them ghostly— wrapped around him. He suspected them of trying to comfort him, but he didn’t need comfort. Shigaraki wanted him. The League wanted him. They didn’t care that he wasn’t perfect, that he had been born to be a failure, that he was a broken, twisted caricature of a human being. Knowing he was wanted despite all that… it healed a wound in his soul that had been bleeding as long as he could remember, and suddenly it didn’t matter that Endeavor was still alive.

The League wanted him. They were waiting for him.

And he was tired. 

So very, very tired.

Even so, he mustered up the strength for one last bit of snark. “So… you… expect me to… just, what? … Waltz into Hell… with you?”

Shigaraki raised his eyebrows. “You could stay, if you'd rather.” His eyes flicked to the blurry people around Dabi, lingering on the ones who seemed to be embracing him. “Your family would prefer that, I think. They seem really upset. It’s your choice, though. It’s always been your choice, Dabi. We'll still be waiting if you want to stay for a little while longer.”

Dabi considered for less than a second. “Let’s go, Duster.” He’d been toying with that nickname for months, now seemed like the perfect time to use it. Judging by the pleased light in Tomura’s eyes, he was right.

Grinning, Tomura held out his hand.

Dabi felt something shift inside him, the pain and numbness retreating, replaced by a kind of pleasant, tingling feeling. But when he tried to reach out for Tomura’s hand, he could barely raise his arm an inch. He tried again, and still couldn’t. Sudden frustration and anguish made his already dry eyes sting.

“I can’t reach you! Tomura! Fuck!” Why couldn’t he do this? Just this one, last, final thing?! Why was it so hard to reach the things he wanted the most? “I… I c-can’t…”

Then his arm was being lifted, supported gently by someone else. 

Surprised, he looked in the direction of the red and white blur that held his damaged arm so tenderly. The blur wavered and came into sudden, sharp focus. It was Shoto. Shoto, his youngest brother, his father’s perfect masterpiece, the kid he barely knew but had tried his best to kill… and Shoto was crying. Crying so hard he had snot coming out his nose and his pretty porcelain skin was all blotchy. The sight made Dabi chuckle, even as it reminded him of Toga’s sad eyes. 

“Hey, little hero, don’t cry,” he said, and found that speaking didn’t hurt. He sounded like his old self too, the words clear and firm. Still raspy, but that was just the way he talked. “`S like I told Himiko. It doesn't matter whether we laugh or cry, the sun’ll still rise tomorrow... so you should choose to smile, baby brother.” Shoto’s lips wobbled as he tried to obey. Dabi smiled back and thought it probably looked like a nightmare, but for once, he felt genuinely happy and didn’t hold himself back. “That’s better.” 

Dabi was distracted from any reply his brother might’ve made as a cool, dry hand wrapped around his, and pulled him to his feet.

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[mha-grievances]

MHA and Hori’s Stat Rankings

Ok, so if there’s any post of mine that someone can call nitpicky, it’ll be this one cause what I’m about to talk about doesn’t really affect the story of MHA in any meaningful way. Rather, it’s just going over some supplemental information that really makes no sense.

So hardcore MHA fans and/or frequent visitors of the MHA wiki know of the Ultra Archive Book and the Ultra Analysis Book. In these books, various characters are given rankings based on several stats: power, speed, technique, and intelligence/wits being the stats shared between the two books. Cooperation, the final stat in the Archive Book, was replaced in the Analysis Book by each character having a humorous stat that tells the reader a bit about them. Denki’s signature stat is Friend (6/6 S), Izuku’s is Presence (1/6 E), etc. In addition, the Analysis Book is slightly more in depth when ranking stats. Each letter has their own tiers, either being positive, neutral, or negative. For example, Izuku has a power score of 5/6 A+ while Ejiro has a power score of 5/6 A- and Mezou has flat score of 5/6 A.

The way the stats are written are easy to understand. However, when you compare the stats of some characters to one another and what we’re actually shown them being capable of doing, a lot of it doesn’t add up. Here’s I’ll be breaking down some examples of what I mean.

Power:

Perhaps the biggest examples of this area being bullshit are Shota, Hitoshi, Stain, and Tooru’s strength rankings. Throughout both books, all four characters have had a consistent power ranking, with only Stain’s really changing from a 3/6 C to a 4/5 B and Hitoshi changing from a 1/6 E to a 2/6 D. Meanwhile, Tooru has a power ranking of 2/6 D and Shota’s is 3/5 C. However, keep in mind that neither character has any sort of offensive abilities granted to them by their quirks. Stain’s is a paralysis quirk, Tooru’s makes her invisible, Hitoshi brainwashes people, and Shota’s shuts down quirks. You can make an argument for Tooru being able to refract/reflect light based quirks, but that’s something she learned later on, so keep that in mind. Meanwhile, Izuku in the Ultra Archive Book, has a power stat of 1/6 E. Now, it is basing his strength off the fact that he’s unable to properly use OFA without breaking himself, but there is absolutely no way he should be weaker than Shota, Stain, and Tooru in the power department. Izuku is at peak human strength. You can definitely say that both Shota and Stain are as well, but Tooru isn’t, struggling to do a pull-up. Despite that, she’s a tier higher than him. Speaking of Stain and Shota, you can argue that their weapons are also accounted for when Hori gave them their ratings, but that makes no sense in Shota’s case cause his capture scarf can be cut by a knife. As for Stain, his blades haven’t been shown to have any special properties, so how the hell do his blades alone allow him to beat Mina’s 3/6 C+ power. Mina’s acid melts through stone and steel with ease. Stain’s swords have nothing on that. Speaking of Mina, her power stat’s somehow lower than Mashirao’s. Sure Mashirao’s tail is pretty strong, but his best feat in the strength department is cracking concrete while Mina’s disintegrated steel with no effort. Himiko Toga also gets screwed over in terms of a power stat, being a 1/6 E in both books. Despite not having an offensive quirk at the time of her ranking, she has shown off superior strength than Tooru and Hitoshi by pining Izuku. Sure, a successful pin does involve technique, but a twig isn’t going to be able to pin a peak level human without some sort of strength. Another character who’s rated lower than they should be is Tsuyu in the Ultra Archive Book, also being a 1/6 E despite her quirk granting her enhanced strength. This was rectified in the Ultra Analysis Book with her getting bumped up to a 3/6 C, but there’s still no way Shota, a man with no superhuman abilities, should have an equal power ranking to Tsuyu, who could probably shatter a skull with a kick. Finally, there’s Dabi, who’s always thrown in the 4/6 B category. While he might not be able to use his quirk for extended periods of time, the fact that his flames are confirmed to be hotter than Endeavor’s means he deserves to be ranked higher. There’s no way you’re telling me Katsuki’s explosions are stronger than Dabi’s flames. I can also ramble about how Kyouka’s quirk is arguably one of the strongest quirks in the series but that’s for another time. To conclude, the power rankings are wonky. Peak human characters are either ranked lower than characters they should realistically beat in terms of power or are ranked higher than they should be, and characters who should be ranked higher like Mina and Dabi aren’t.

Speed:

Arguably the most consistent stat in this series is speed. There’s really only one example I wanna talk about and that’s Mezou. Mezou has a low speed ranking of 2/6 D in both books despite having some of the best performances when it comes to raw speed. He was able to save several of his classmates at the USJ before Kurogiri could warp them all away, he easily intercepted and backhanded Himiko (someone who both Shota and Izuku struggled to keep up with even when the latter was using 5% of OFA), he ran away from a full powered Dark Shadow, and he successfully countered a full barrage of Pony’s horn missiles with only his fists. Despite this, his speed stat is lower than everyone else I’ve mentioned when it should be higher.

Technique:

Easily the most flawed stat here. For starters, Hitoshi in the Ultra Archive Book has an equal technique stat to Izuku, the guy who is able to counter people by reading their body moments, and Shoto, who has been trained by the number two hero. Mind you, all we’ve seen Hitoshi do is mind control people and flail pathetically against Izuku during the Sports Festival. Katsuki, who has a 5/6 A and 5/6 A+ stat in technique, has not received any form of training and has only fought people weaker than him prior to U.A, so he also shouldn’t have a higher skill stat than the son of the number 2 pro hero. Dabi, the guy who managed to mimic the special move Shoto had to take time to learn and has the ability to mimic all of Endeavor’s moves, only has a technique stat of 2/6 D. Mezou and Jurota, the characters Hori said were the strongest characters of the first years when it came to fighting without quirks, both possess lower technique stats than Katsuki. Yui Kodai, the girl with 5/6 A+ technique, somehow got easily defeated by Ochako, who is a tier lower than her in technique. Yes, she got a surprise attack on Reiko, but Yui should’ve been able to jump her after Reiko went down. Mashirao and Itsuka are both martial artists but they both only have technique stats in the B ranks, which is lower than most of their classmates. Pretty much Hori’s rankings when it comes to technique is either constantly ignored and/or makes absolutely no sense.

Intelligence/wits:

For this section, I wanna mainly focus on Minoru. Minoru’s intelligence stat is currently ranked at 5/6 A+. Now, I’m not saying Minoru’s not smart, because we’ve seen that he is smart, but his intelligence stat’s a bit too high. For starters, Kyouka scored higher than him on the midterms despite only having a maximum intelligence score of 4/5 B. In addition, he’s ranked above Tenya, who had the second highest score on the midterms. He’s also tied with Mei, someone who Power Loader described as a “one of a kind genius”. Now, some of you might be saying that Minoru might be better at working on his feet, hence his higher intelligence stat, but Izuku’s able to accurately read an entire battlefield and scored fourth on the midterms, blowing Minoru out of the water in these instances. Moving away from Minoru, Power Loader, the head of the Support department, only has his intellect at a 2/6 D according to the Ultra Analysis book. That’s lower than the majority of 1-A and 1-B’s intelligence stats. How is the head of the support department going to have such a poor intelligence rating? Dabi, who once again is a prodigy, was the only one who had suspicions about Hawks’ loyalty, and is capable of instantly mimicking moves that Shoto and Endeavor had to take time to develop, only has an intellect of 3/6 C, which is crazy to me. Hori really has no idea what he’s doing with regards to these stats.

TL;DR: Hori’s stat assignments are bullshit and need to be drastically reworked.