#endgame spoiler thoughts

[kenneth-black]

“Do you love him?”

Buck:

[he literally went 🤨🤨🤨]

[megaeratheefury]

the world: [blighted, about to end] davrin: you calling my stroke weak??? 🤨

[modmad]

if you ever got the chance to make a TPoH viddy game would it have a fishing minigame

what do you think I am, an idiot? of COURSE it would have a fishing minigame

[moonofthenight]

I could talk about this exact moment for hours and hours and hours.

[a2zillustration]

:)

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[whichcouldmeanothing]

What if you never see Wille ever again?

YOUNG ROYALS 3x06

[simsim54]

Wilhelm: Being gay is not a choice. Wilhelm: *holding Simon like a trophy* But it is a game and I have won.

[stillness-in-green]

Not-Really Chapter Thoughts BNHA 424

You know, I really think there should be a point at which Deku rushing in with no plan and doing whatever he thinks feels right should become Heroic Malpractice.

Just me?

Because, like, Shouto had a plan. He spent the time between the two war arcs specifically developing a brand-new combat technique that he planned to use to shut down Dabi's combat advantage without killing him. He convinced his dad not to change the plan like Endeavor was hesitantly sounding him out about[1]; he went out and talked and asked questions, and even if they weren't the right words every single time, he did his best and he did it with intention. If Dabi proves to be dead, it won't be because of anything Shouto did to him; it'll be because Dabi himself chose to stand back up, take a warp gate across the country, pick a fight with the guy who doesn't have the power set to shut him down without unduly hurting him, and try to replicate an Ultimate Move specifically tailored for someone with a balanced power set Dabi doesn't have.[2]

And if Dabi lives, it's still going to be because Shouto booked it across the country and used that same technique to stop him again.

1: Dabi surely would have preferred to fight Endeavor from the start, and it probably would have been the more "just" choice if it had to be one or the other, but Shouto is the nominal focal character between the three of them, so, critiques of the broader Hero-side decisions aside, Shouto's arc has to come first. This is one of those places where you can clearly see how much the decision to let Endeavor survive where Horikoshi originally planned for him to die hurts the shape of the later story.

2: Obviously ultimately if Dabi dies, it's going to be because his family and Team Hero made repeated choices to ignore and neglect him, culminating in the entire family swearing to deal with Touya together only to passively accept a battle plan that involved splitting them all and letting the kid who knows Touya the least be the one to fight him. But like, in the context of that fight, Shouto isn't the reason Dabi takes all that hurt.

Uraraka may or may not have had much of a plan, but at least the words she said to Toga reflected that she had been seriously thinking about Toga in the here and now, what Toga's told her, what Toga needs. If Toga dies, it will be because Toga chose to give Uraraka an unsupervised blood transfusion with no intention of stopping it. (With the same general caveats as in Footnote 2.)

But Deku? From the very beginning, Deku has been valorized by the manga for how much he doesn't plan. All Might tells him specifically that it's a sign of greatness shown by future "top Heroes" that, in some crisis situation, their bodies moved before they could think. Bakugou's Rising chapter is defined by him reaching that same state.

Deku claimed he wanted to save Shigaraki; he's sad in the latest chapter that he couldn't save Tenko's[3] life. But did he ever have a real plan to do that? With all the quirks he had at his disposal - both his own and those who would be in the flying coffin with him, or classmates whose presence he could specifically request - did he think hard and come up with a technique that would let him stop Shigaraki without harming him? Did he try to connect with the Shigaraki right in front of him by citing to the future?

3: And I have nothing but scorn for Deku's insistence on that name when "Tenko" goes out very pointedly calling himself Shigaraki Tomura.

Well, no. Deku obstinately yelled at the phantasms in Shigaraki's mindscape that he had no plan whatsoever. The only plans we saw him carry out were ones handed to him by the OFA collective that involved "breaking" Shigaraki's psyche; the only plans he came up with himself involved more efficiently breaking Shigaraki's body.

Way back in Chapter 130, Nighteye harshly scolded Deku by saying that his way of thinking was arrogant. He said, "Go after him haphazardly and he'll slip through our fingers. You're not so special as to be able to save who you want, when you want. (...) This world is not so accommodating that you can act the Hero because you feel like it."

It felt like something that Deku should have taken to heart, a lesson to be learned and applied later, but I never much got the feeling that he did. Nothing he did in that moment, in that arc, or anywhere else in the series afterward indicates that he thought Nighteye was right. He just chose not to talk back, and the arc ended with Nighteye dead and no longer around to pose objections to Deku's mode of heroism.

But Nighteye was right. Three hundred chapters later, Shigaraki is dead because Deku could not be arsed to plan for how he could stop Shigaraki without killing him. Because he let Gran Fucking Torino give him the intellectual out that killing someone could be a means of saving them. Because he followed his gut instincts of prioritizing the phantom Crying Child that he always saw as more valid and real than the human being standing in front of him.

Because he haphazardly acted the Hero and let his body move without thinking.

And he wants to act sad about it now? I hope Nighteye materializes in his bedroom to sneer at him every night for the rest of his life.

--

Incidentally, fuck All Might, seriously. "Wow, Deku and Bakugou, you two are the greatest Heroes ever. Fuck me and everyone else who fought tooth and nail, arm and leg, eye and earjack, life and death, to contribute to the pile of damage that was necessary to kill and/or save Shigaraki and All For One. You two got the last blows in, so you're the only ones who get the credit for it in my eyes. Hero Society is definitely going to be different and better with you two around."

[mika-c0re]

Sorry for the shit quality but Mobile appearance let's gooooo

[ofcrowsanddragons]

Do you ever think about how Lucanis/Rook might be a horror story? For Crow Rook, specifically.

---

Rook has been away from Treviso for at least a year, making choices that make Harding and Varric happy with them. Giving people second chances, fighting for a world that's just a little bit softer.

They even let the Mayor go.

Purring cats. Coins in basins. Focused eyes. Listening heart.

Suddenly, Neve is saying that their cause needs the Crows, and Rook is standing in front of Teia (welcoming) and Viago (berating). The vicious dance of Talons and would-be Talons becomes front and centre, and the refrain of the job comes first, the job comes first reverberates through Rook's head.

(Meanwhile, the elven god of lies is pushing them to become someone who makes the hard choices, who enforces their will on others. The voice of the main person who softened Rook has been co-opted.)

They're a chess piece now.

Skillful blades. Compass northward. Careful lists. There to catch me.

Lucanis is more of the same, except when he's not: "A Crow always completes the contract." Elsewhere, someone is playing for the position of First Talon. Lucanis is self-contained and a blade against their enemies in turn. That's what Rook is supposed to be: a blade in the dark.

Lucanis represents the Crows. The Crows represent abandoning those prisoners to their fate. Lucanis is everything that they escaped when they were told to leave home. Lucanis is home. They can't stay away. (He pushes them away.)

Saving Treviso isn't even a choice.

Terrible taste in drinks.

It's Crow politics again. It's betrayal and lies and blood and the sins of previous generations drowning them in the cradle. It's opening doors of 'why did you make me this' and 'I'm dangerous' and 'I can't choose to be different' and challenging him to stand with you in the prison forever, then!

"Then there's no difference between us," something echoes. "Don't you know you're better than me?"

And then there are perfect moments with dessert and with friends and with him, pretending that the aquarium hasn't turned into a simulacrum of Treviso's canals. The water is dark and bloody and stinking as Rook makes choice after choice after choice. There's no escaping it, not when winning means more power for the two of them at home, power that neither of them wants but that rots like so many fish when left on its own.

Buried wells. Graceful flowers. Bleeding stopped. Foes forgiven.

Fighting against their nature just ends with Rook wrapped up in their mirror. They can see themselves spitefully burning through the next generation in a churn of bloody contracts, because how can they afford to do it differently when it works?

They left, but Treviso always held them.

Everything is grey, grey, grey.

[hani-hidaya]

never has there ever been a ship that goes through this cycle like asaden does

[chicken-wayng]

I just saw an anti-bucktommy post talking about how endgame buddie proof came in how Eddie wasn't wearing a name tag and Tommy was... When I've been to the hospital, I've never been given a name tag when I went in WITH someone, only when I had to sign in and walk to their room. Y'all are making it so hard to be a buddie shipper it's not funny

[letterstomichelangelo]

just imagine, end of season 5, its the end of episode 8 and the party have defeated vecna, byler confessed, theyre happy.

we see the party heading off to college, new beginnings and all that. mikes helping will pack up his stuff into a pickup truck, he says something like "well, looks like we're all done, everything's strapped up!", will walks over to him from where he was saying his goodbyes to joyce, jonathan, hopper and el (shes going to a local college with max in this idk) and just with every bit of softness in the world says "thanks for helping me pack, mike, are you sure you don't mind bringing all this to chicago for me?" and mike's eyebrows just shoot up because he literally went to hell for this man, and in the most sassy tone you can imagine "uh, yeah, we're gonna need some type of furniture for our new place and the government hush fund didn't stretch that far" will lets out a little chuckle, "damn, its the least they could do after the last 7 years" "i know right", mike squawked out, "anyways we better start heading if we want to make it there before dinner, see you soon mrs. byers!" muffled tears of happiness can be heard from her, and her voice wobbles slightly when she shouts back "call me when you get there and send pictures of the apartment! i love you boys", even a sniffle can be heard from hopper when he shouts out some reminders for driving the long distance. as the boys get into the truck, will shouts "we'll be back for thanksgiving, you'll hardly know we're gone" and as mike pulls away from the newly renovated byers-hopper house, there's this perfect shot of a normal loving family wishing their son(s) off to college and in this moment everything is forgotten, no more upside down or vecna or demodogs, no more possessions or otherworldly connections, just two boys holding hands over the console of the car as they set off to a new city, knowing that no matter what happens they'll always have eachother.

me and michael, solid as they come

me and michael, its not a question now

[pixelatedmars]

finished arcane act 3,,,,,

[fanfoolishness]

It’s both insanely satisfying and deeply horrifying to play with Cal’s Dark Side power 😭😭😭

And somehow the most painful thing was I yelled at BD for a stim on Nova Garon just after giving in to the Dark Side, and Cal’s voice was a demand, it was cold and absolutely devoid of fondness and my heart just broke

(I don’t know if that was intentional or I just happened to make that up but that’s what I heard dammit and it was deliciously painful)

[a2zillustration]

You know, the thing.

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