#feminist bakugou is something we need to talk about more

[lurking96]

I think monoma would have been a better rival for deku instead of Bakugou. He has nicer personality , an interesting mentality and could bond with deku as both of them are quirk nerds and were put down in their childhoods .

Oh boy. You are talking to a Monoma stan so get ready for a little bit of a rant. An opinion and as all opinions they are not absolute. This is also anti bakugou. So I put it under a cut. I also put the tags on so whoever doesnt want to read it can just filter this post out.

I personally think that bigger things were planned for Monoma and Class 1B. Let us look at why I think so. As of now the story wants us to believe that Bakugou is the main rival of our main character Izuku. Bakugou gets a bit lets say coddled by the narrative. His personality and actions dont get called out anymore. This wasn't always like this. In the infamous Chapter 1, which as long as it won't get retconned is still part of the backstory, we see the narrative paint Bakugou in a bad light. The character is clearly not meant to be liked. Shown as an antagonist that beats our protagonist down. He doesnt thank him for being rescued and so on. The first day has him attack our protagonist which the narrative also paints in a bad light. And the first Heroics class has him almost murder Midoriya. Do not tell me there was no intent. He was going to murder or end his career before it started if he didnt dodge. In the bus ride to the USJ you have the actual characters call out Bakugous behaviour. Something rare that nowadays just doesnt happen anymore. I think in the beginning Bakugou was supposed to be disliked. To a degree the narrative and characters still called him out. He might have been even further called out. However he gained popularity and either the editors or the author himself decided to change the direction Bakugou went. While his personality stayed similar the narrative around him changed to portray him more positive. Enter Class 1B.

Monoma Neito is one of the first characters we see of the rivaling class of the hero course. Could his Introduction been smoother. Yes. Could he have said different things. Also yes. We also see that Bakugou shows his usual aggressive self that looks down on others. He paints a target on his own classes back and makes them seem arrogant like him. Monoma is an interesting character stat wise.

His intelligence stat is 5/5. That is quite the high stat. Izuku only has 4/5. Same for Bakugou. We see this intelligence used at the tournament part of the sports festival when he actually makes out what strategy Uraraka is going to use. We also see it later in the joint training arc when he gives his classmates good constructive criticism and works on their strategies. He knows he needs to work with others to make it as a hero. Speaking of the sports festival this is where things are changing. The sports festival is also the big introduction of Class 1B. We finally see them. We see them battle in the cavelery battle and some in the tournament part. Two important parts happen here. In the cavelery battle you have Team Monoma and Team Bakugou fighting. Monoma actually calls Bakugou out for his actions and personality. Does Monoma get a bit too cocky. Yes. Does Bakugou just win and break through a solid air wall like nothing. Also yes. The second part is the Bakugou vs. Uraraka fight. There we see the narrative shift. The problems of female Pro heroes get explored in that fight. A problem that wasn't there before. We have Aizawa call Bakugou great and belittle the audience for an argument they didnt make. The audience asked why Bakugou was playing like that and not just kick her out. They were not worried about her being a girl. In the end Bakugou gets the win and he got painted as Feminist Icon. Even though he personally thought that Izuku gave her the plan. Overall it feels shoehorned in just to make Bakugou look good. Now back to a more nicer topic. The better blonde. Monoma. His personality is certainly something but there is reason for it. We have him call out 1A for outshining his class, have him be loud, have him act "unheroic" in insulting and poking at people. However this all has reason. Monoma grew up having what the BNHA society call a "weak" quirk. Copy. He actually needs the help of others to use his quirk. Otherwise he is basically "Quirkless". He got discouraged from being a hero. It is why he acts more strategic and not always fair. He doesnt have a powerful and flashy quirk. So he needs to think things through more. He is loud but that is probably to be noticed. Because he lacks the "flashy heroic" quirk that is so desired in society. It´s probably one of the reasons he went for Bakugou before. Bakugou with his quirk is privileged in BNHA society. It is flashy. It is "heroic". From a young age he got told that he is great. Monoma didnt have that. He feels inferior. He probably wanted to cut the privileged arrogant sounding Bakugou down a bit. Monoma trash talks his enemies so they get angry and screw up. Give him a way to use their anger against them. We also later learn that his whole rivalry act is well an act. He even calls it an act. Even with a class 1A member there he acts calm and subdued with Eri. He puts it aside to actually help someone. In a real danger situation he would probably work together with anyone from the other class. His confident and loud act is just an act. Deep down he feels inferior. He feels silent and ignored.

Monoma and Midoriya are similar. Both have an inferiority complex. Midoriya having the stronger one. Both were given up by society. Monoma by the weak quirk. Midoriya for a lack of quirk. Unlike Bakugou who comes from everything Monoma could actually better understand where Izuku is coming from. Again I think he was planned as a main rival. He has smarts to deal with Midoriya. He is from the rival class. Hori based him on a real person. Him and Midoriya while not having the same background could understand another. Monoma understood seemingly where Shinsou is coming from so why not with Midoriya. Monoma also doesnt judge him for an "evil" quirk. So I dont think he would judge Midoriya for his quirklessness. Both have parallels and opposites. Midoriya shows a calm and more silent facade. Monoma shows a more aggressive and loud one. One wants to hide the other wants to be seen. Both are quirk nerds. Monoma out of need. Midoriya out of interest. At the beginning Izuku had a rather imperfect control of OFA. You could call him a discount All Might. Monoma with his quirk and hero costume is a discount All for One. Foreshadowing. Narrative foils. But instead of killing eachother they could have befriended eachother. Heck it would be so easy to hit Monoma with the dad for one stick. Have him actually decide between his father and his friends. Could have been interesting to see. Maybe he didnt know he was related. But sadly we didnt get it. While he could have been also antagonistic to his rival this could change. I could see him actually helping and lifting up Midoriya. I would give them both a more healthy rival relationship. Each trying to get better than the other and growing with eachother. I think one of the reasons we didn't get it was Bakugou himself. The same arc that introduces Monoma also starts a narrative change where Bakugou gets more positive light shined upon him. While Bakugou gets likes from the fandom. Monoma gets hate. Probably for the huge sin of attacking Bakugou. Bakugou got made the main rival while Monoma turned into a joke of a character. Still I would say with more depth than Bakugou. Bakugou got more and more spotlight. He got shoehorned into scenes. And if you give spotlight you also take spotlight from other characters. You might also get more popular and get even more spotlight. Monoma got put on the bench shortly after being introduced. Sadly a good part of the fandom turned Monoma into a hate sink like Mineta. Claiming him to be an abusive bully that attacks and insults anyone. That is a huge pervert. The "Draco Malfoy" of Bnha (They are both blonde. Thats the only common thing they have). While turning Bakugou into a soft understanding boy that is the team mom. I am always happy to read some nice Monoma or Monodeku fics that dont make him an abusive ass. So if anyone wants to send some my way feel free to.

[floof-ghostie]

I don’t know if it’s just me... probably not. But I was rewatching Season 2 of BNHA (favorite season by far) and of course was rewatching the sports festival and I just hate what they did to Uraraka.

Not only am I under the impression that Uraraka should have won (her overpowering Bakugou’s brute strength with strategy would be cool as hell), but the way the other characters were presented to make Bakugou look better by comparison irritated me.

Bakugou willing to fight her without holding back is viewed as an honorable thing in comparison to everyone else who didn’t want him to do that because he was fighting a girl. Like that’s not something that deserves applause that’s called basic human decency they’re literally in the same hero course. And it especially rubbed me the wrong way because Iida mentioned something about Bakugou “not using his full strength on a girl”? Which makes no sense for his character. He learned in the first goddamn episode he appears in to not judge others immediately (Izuku and the entrance exam) and he literally has no reason to doubt Uraraka’s abilities? He saw her in action during the Battle Training exercise and knows that she can hold her own. And it’s stated that his mother was also a pro hero (so there is no reason why he should doubt her abilities on the basis of her gender). Could have been better if he was worried Bakugou would take it too far during their fight, as he knows how rough and violent that boy can be when he puts his mind to it (especially when it comes to an actual fight).

Anyway back to the others. Bakugou is presented as a good guy for treating Uraraka as an equal, I get the message, even if it’s a trope that’s been done to death before and is honestly insulting at this point. But it came out of nowhere. There was no mention previously that female pro heroes are viewed as more fragile or face sexism like that in the workplace, so it created a societal problem for that one fight to make Bakugou look better than everyone else. Because we got to make sure that the audience likes him!! Who cares if it makes other characters look bad or act out of character to achieve that!! The fans need their “hot bad boy favorite” to also be a “feminist icon!”

AND THE BEST PART OF THAT CRAP IS THAT BAKUGOU DIDN’T EVEN RESPECT URARAKA’S ABILITIES. Right after their fight he confronted Izuku and accused him of creating the strategy Uraraka used in her fight against him. So the big show of Bakugou being the only one to respect Uraraka’s abilities and view her as an equal wasn’t even true. He couldn’t fathom the possibility she created that strategy by herself and that she must have received help from his abuse victim rival. Because Bakugou must always find a way to blame Midoriya for everything that goes wrong for him or even presents a challenge to him.

Sorry for this rant. But I don’t see enough people talking about the utter crap around Bakugou vs. Uraraka in the Sports Festival. Anyway Uraraka should have won the fight and placed in the top 4 (or 3 technically).

Don’t apologise. You’re right. 

[hanji-is-life]

Ok so hi I’m back and I’m on my bullshit but imagine this for me if you will.

Ik we all love and adore barbarian king Bakugou but like can we just take a minute and think about plain old prince Bakugou. He’s kinda like prince Eric in the sense that he loves adventure but obviously way more rough around the edges. He also def gives off bastard prince vibes.

And I argue he would be even better than most princes because I don’t care what anyone says. Bakugou Katsuki is a giant feminist. No I won’t be taking criticism. Like he was the only one in mha who didn’t think he should go easy on ururaka just bc she was a girl. He was mad even at the thought.

So now take that information and imagine trying to tell prince Bakugou who to marry. Good luck winning that fight. He could care less if it’s better for the nation. No ones telling him what to do. And if he was up for it he’d probably be like “ok but what about the princess does she want to do this???” And you start to give some half ass “it’s what my father wants” he’s immediately be like “no that’s not what I asked I said what do YOU want”

You do marry him and now all protocol is out the window. Don’t wanna wear a dress??? Ok go for it. Wanna learn how to fight like he does?? Absolutely baby when and where. And if anyone tried to tell him something about how he needs to control his women and make her act proper..... well let’s just say the courts gonna be down one person.

Can you tell I’ve been watching too many Disney movies🥴

you had me hooked since you said prince Eric bc he was my fav Disney prince 🥴

everyone would both love and hate him as a prince!!! he’s strong, he knows how to put his foot down, rule a kingdom. but he....respects women? and doesn’t push them around or use them as breeding holes? he actually talks to his princess (that he chose, no matter how awful her background was) and asks for her opinion when it comes to the kingdom.

he just knows wtf he wants and wtf is right and wrong. period.

[thatringboy]

All of my other TWST HCs

Because my Twisted Wonderland Headcanons have been my most popular posts, here I am giving the mob what they want! An almost complete list of Headcanons I have about every character and house!

This is by far my longest post and it took me three days to type, so I hope you guys get a laugh out of it!

WARNING: THESE ARE MY PERSONAL OPINIONS ABOUT EACH CHARACTER. IF YOU DON’T AGREE WITH ONE, PLEASE DON’T ATTACK ME OR OTHERS WHO SUPPORT MY HCS. JUST DON’T BE A DICK.

Heartslabyul

The word “Queen” is gender neutral

Frequently allows students from other houses to study with them

Recently expanded into two buildings dedicated just for dorms to house all of the students

Actually lots of words are gender neutral

Riddle

Does rebellious things with Trey sometimes

Actually struggled with gender for a while because of his mother and responds to all pronouns (he/she/they), but identifies as male

Sometimes uses the label “Androgynous Male”

Is attracted to Trey, but he can’t tell if it’s because of his childhood or because he genuinely likes his Vice DH

Has Tea Time TM with Vil

Abolished gender roles in NRC despite it being an all guys school

During Summer Vacation he wears jean shorts and mint green tank tops with red flip flops

Has a pet crab that is red and named “Queen” despite Riddle not knowing Queen’s gender

Queen is the mascot for Heartslabyul despite being a sea creature

We stan Queen the Crab in this house.

Trey

Enjoys breaking the rules with Riddle, even if it’s not very often

He dyed his hair green as a joke with Cater during his first year, but decided to keep it 

Has fallen for Riddle. Hard.

But between his dignity, his position and him not knowing if Riddle likes men, he won’t say anything that could ruin the friendship

Rook found out by accident and actually helps Trey try to work up the courage to ask Riddle out, but Trey always backs down

Invented a type of Tea that soaks clover leaves and it tastes like vanilla mixed with mint

Cater

#SELFIE

Not really a drama queen, but will egg on fights for views

Sometimes his clones will develop different accents and that’s how you tell them apart

Has a pansexual flag in his room

Spends more time partying in Scarabia than in Heartslabyul

Is close friends with Kalim and actually crushed on him for a bit, but got over it once he noticed the way he looks at Jamil

Actually gives good relationship advice

Deuce

Was Bi-Curious during his Pre-NRC days and actually tried to put it behind him like everything else

However, like, everyone at NRC is some flavor of gay

So he gave up on his internalized homophobia and now lives his full authentic life!

Still uses the labels Bi-Curious and Questioning and often goes to Cater for advice

But his buddies love and support him no matter what

Is a huge feminist

Cater fully believes that Deuce likes Ace, but he actually doesn’t

Deuce admits when men are attractive, no matter if it makes them uncomfortable or not

Didn’t go over well with Jack

But the two are cool now

Ace

Probably one of the straightest guys you’ll ever meet besides Rook

Actually learned what the different teas smell like so that he never messed up again

Enjoys his fights with Grim, even if Grim is a little shit

Like seriously Grim is a little flying rat shit turd fuck but that’s just my opinion

Almost never learns from his mistakes and always pays the price

Chaotic Good.

Loves going on adventures with the Prefect and Grim!

Has never gone back to the Mostro Lounge without Jack or the Prefect

Also got really into Mermaid culture and regularly goes back to the Atlantica Memorial Museum to talk with that one guard

Has memorized the script from the Little Mermaid

Can sing You Pour, Unfortunate Soul in a perfect baritone vibrato despite his high voice

Also takes singing lessons from Azul, but only if someone else is in the room with them

Savanaclaw

Throws pool parties regularly

Octavinelle is almost always invited

Magift between the two houses is insane

Leona

Raging Bisexual, need I say more?

Goes to great lengths to find loopholes and just be lazy

Also goes to great lengths to help Ruggie

Hates his brother, but loves Cheka and his sister-in-law

Can’t properly digest seafood, but eats in in front of Azul and the Leech twins just to be a bitch

Is kinda clingy

Even if he doesn’t want to, he goes to all of the Savanaclaw vs Octavinelle vs Pomfiore karaoke battles

Can’t sing for shit, but likes to watch Ruggie and Jack duet and destroy everyone

Constantly reminds Malleus about the time they swapped robes

Actually swaps clothing with Malleus quite often on purpose to see how they feel

Ruggie

A good singer

But kinda self conscious about it??

Also a Raging Bisexual

Play flirts a lot with Leona, even though they don’t like one another like that

Is FtM Transgender, fully transitioned, and wears his scarf to cover the fact that he doesn’t have much chest hair and his scars

Only Leona and Crowley know

Gets a little dysphoria because his voice is still so high and because he’s shorter than everyone in Savanaclaw, but takes one look at Riddle, Lila and Ace and forgets about it

Jack suspects, but the two make a killer duo during karaoke!

Jack

Is straight, but won’t get in your face about it

Actually learned how to become a fast swimmer just to flex on Jade and Floyd

Has memorized almost all of Heartslabyul’s rules just because he didn’t want to be disrespectful

Arm wrestles with Floyd often

Helps out in the Mostro Lounge pretty often when he’s bored

His karaoke skills are out of this world!

Also has memorized the layout for Ramshackle Dorm just so he wouldn’t get lost in there

Tsundere? Maybe.....

Knows something’s different about Ruggie, but can’t figure it out

Respects privacy like crazy

Just a cool guy to be around

Octavinelle

Hosts the karaoke battles

Now pays their employees in the Mostro Lounge

Gives free singing lessons

Azul

Choir Gay TM

Aromantic Homosexual

Constantly has Boss Bitch by Doja Cat in his head

Actually has shit handwriting and it made his Golden Contracts all the much more powerful

His handwriting is beautiful underwater, though

When he’s feeling lazy, Azul transforms into his Merman form and uses his 8 extra arms to do things for him

Has a single picture from his childhood that he has not edited (or tried to edit)

It’s of him, Jade and Floyd graduating Junior High

All three of them are linking arms and smiling brightly

It sits on his nightstand in a golden frame

Gives most of the singing lessons

But doesn’t participate in the karaoke battles

“I’ll join if Leona joins.”

Petty about the karaoke

Jade

Once swapped clothing styles with Floyd for an entire day and was just chaotic towards everyone

Does this more often now just to relieve stress

Only the Prefect could ever tell them apart

Not even Azul knew they had swapped

Is Pansexual and liked Azul during Junior High, but got over it once they started at NRC

Can scare someone so badly that they tell the truth regardless of Jade using his magic

50 students were asked who they’d rather have to fight, 42 of them said “Floyd all the way! No way am I fighting Jade!”

Was actually popular in Junior High, but turned down opportunities to be more popular to spend time with Floyd and Azul

Can cuss in 8 languages

Floyd

When he swapped clothing with Jade, he actually enjoyed being calm and responsible

Loves to do things like that for Jade

Raging Homosexual, need I say more?

His Bakugou impression is on point

There are several videos of him just standing at the end of a dark hallway laughing and whispering “Die, Deku!”

Also really likes Volleyball despite being on the Basketball team

Takes Bean Day a lot farther than it needs to be

Flirts with Riddle a lot, knowing it upsets Trey

But doesn’t know that Trey actually likes Riddle

Has sea related nicknames for everyone

Scarabia

Everyone has to help take care of Snake

Monthly competitions where Kalim hands out free vacations

The competitions involve taking care of Snake

Who is Snake? You’ll see.

Kalim

When he learned what Pansexual was, he went around Scarabia clapping pans together to come out

Cater was the one who explained it to him

Loves to party and flirt with Jamil, but can be serious if needed

Sometimes holds group therapy for his dorm residents

But also PARTY 24/7 IF IT HAS ALCOHOL WE CHUGGIN’ TONIGHT!

PARTY ROCKERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT

Named his magic carpet “Jamil Jr.”

Flexes on Azul with Jamil Jr.

Is open about his attraction to Jamil, but also respects Jamil’s personal space

He and Lila sneak out at night to mess with people

Jamil

Has a pet snake that he never named

Just calls the snake “Snake”.

When Jamil’s busy, other residents take turns taking care of Snake

There is an entire chore chart and half of the chores involve Snake

Snake isn’t even the dorm mascot, he’s just Jamil’s pet

Tsundere TM

The only reason he doesn’t accept Kalim’s professions of love is because of his family obligations to serve the Al-Asim family

Takes family and traditions very seriously

Internalized homophobia? Maybe....

Petty as well

Has poured sand into people’s shoes and hidden scorpions in beds

Pomfiore

Usually wins the karaoke battles

Unless Ruggie + Jack join

Make up tips

Vil

I’ve said most of my HCs about him

But I’ll retype them

Wine Mom TM

Musical Theatre Gay TM

Tea Time TM

Fashion Police TM

NRC James Charles

But also respective of people’s sexualities

Has poured water into people’s makeup

Has attempted to give Rook a make over, but Rook is more acrobatic then he looks

Has never actually sung in public

Likes to keep people guessing over his singing voice

Has a cherry apple tree in the school garden that he spends time every day taking care of

Runs NRC’s GSA

Rook

Heterosexual TM

Wears Doc Martens sandals with beige cargo shorts and white polo shirts when not in uniform

Can be seen back-flipping away in this outfit while Vil chases him around the dorm

Is allergic to strawberries

Epel’s bodyguard

Throws rotten fruit at people and calls it a prank

His bangs were by accident

But decided to keep them

Pretends to hunt, but can’t shoot for shit

However does go on fishing trips

Has to have some Heterosexual Hobbies TM

Epel

Is an actual Prince

Like owns land

Everyone in the dorm protects him

Is actually like Honey Senpai

Will put you in your place.

Like fr is a top.

Despite being so small

I don’t know what his sexuality would be

Probably Bisexual

Can lower is voice a lot if needed

Ignihyde

There’s magic inside of the dorm that turns all fire blue, but the fire turns back to normal once outside the dorm

Doesn’t apply to Ortho’s hair, though

Has the most LGBT residents - even more than Pomfiore surprisingly

Actually, not surprising - have you seen Disney’s Hades????

Iida

Cat-sits for Professer Trein

Everyone believes he can set his hair on fire, but he actually can’t

His hair is naturally that fire-y color

Loves to prank people, but never in person

Social Anxiety? Personified.

Before he rebuilt Ortho, Iida had a robot he controlled from his room that went to class for him

The robot was named “Meg”

Now he just uses his screens

Owns a crop top that has a cat face on it that Ortho made for him

Actually wears it a lot, but nobody ever sees below his shoulders on his screens

Oh yeah, also constantly questioning his sexuality

Currently likes guys, but that might just be because he goes to an all-guys school

Ortho

Has tons of cat plushies in his room despite not needing to sleep

Also has a mini library in his room, but he memorized all of the books

Burns things with his hair

Also sews a lot

Spills tea about the dorm residents with Trey, Jamil and Lilia

Has a couple pictures from before he became a robot, but doesn’t remember taking them

Has a bulletin board where he hangs pictures of his friends and family

Actually takes photography classes from Cater

Doesn’t focus on sexuality, so he just goes with “Queer”

People assume he’s scared of water because of his fire hair, but he loves playing in pools

Once cosplayed as Alphonse Elric and Iida was Edward from FML

Has pictures of that as well

Diasomnia

Basically one big family

Even more-so than other dorms like Ignihyde

Has a vault of hard liquor that has been sitting there for centuries

Malleus

Responds to Tsunotaro

Smuggles hard liquor into Scarabia despite not being a drinker

Has a YouTube account where he visits old buildings

Floyd ruined his Ramshackle Dorm video by standing at the end of a hallway and laughing

Can turn into a Dragon

His horns aren’t sensitive

Lilia once hung Christmas lights from them and Malleus didn’t notice for the entire day

Sometimes Lilia jumps and pulls on Malleus’ horns when he’s being dumb

Polysexual, but leans towards men

When he looks surprised by something - he genuinely is surprised, not faking it for someone else

Doesn’t believe in hiding emotions

Is actually like 300 years old, but was frozen for a good amount of it

Also immortal and is stuck at being physically 18

Damn Fairy magic

Oh and he didn’t mind wearing Leona’s ceremonial robes that one time

They were comfy

Enjoys swapping clothes with Leona a lot

Also had a crown made of thorns that is uncomfortable to wear

He burned it, but hasn’t told anyone yet

Takes the term “mom friend” to another level

Just ask Silver

Lilia

Only calls Malleus “old man” to be a prick

Is like 500 years old

Has gone through high school many times

Can undo stitches in people’s clothing without them knowing until their clothing falls apart

Asexual Homoromantic

“Who needs sex when you can be a bitch?” - Lilia Vanrouge, 2020

Is Malleus’ royal advisor

Spills tea like crazy

Has catfished people

Is the cool dad

Sebek

Is a Malleus fanboy???

He named his horse Draco

I don’t have many Headcanons about Sebek actually

Probably drinks tea with Riddle sometimes

Oh and definitely a bottom

Is he Bi? Poly? Pan? No one knows

But he’s a power bottom

Silver

Doesn’t have a last name because he was raised by Lilia and Malleus

Is indebted to Malleus because of this

and Lilia too, but like I said, Lilia is the cool dad

(he is actually indebted to Malleus in canon, but idk if it’s for this reason or not)

just let him have two platonically gay dads that go to school with him

Once in a Diasomnia/Savanaclaw sleepover, he and Leona passed out on each other’s shoulders while Ruggie and Lilia took photos

The photos haven’t been seen in a while, but are still around somewhere

Actually has several photos of him falling asleep with his head in Lilia’s lap

His bed stretches across his entire wall, forming a bench almost

Owns a suit of armor

It has a sword

He can use the sword if needed

Can he just get a nap????

Because of his relationship with Malleus, seeing fireflies calms him down

Is this guy wholesome? Yes.

Is he a Bisexual top? Also yes.

Can’t make everything wholesome

Holy fuck my fingers hate me. If you managed to read this far, I hope you enjoyed my headcanons for Twisted Wonderland students and houses! I don’t know enough about the teachers to make headcanons for each them, but I do have one for the staff:

Sam and Dire Crowley

Married

This is the only reason Sam runs the school store

Sam is not qualified for anything else

But Dire loves him too much to fire him

Forget the wholesomeness between the Dorm heads and their Vices

This is the most wholesome pair

Okay seriously - I need to stop making these headcanons it’s midnight at my house. I’ve spent probably close to 13 hours (give or take with a lot of breaks) writing these down and doing research on characters just so that my headcanons don’t seem completely out of the blue. Also, don’t be afraid to post your own headcanons, even if canon doesn’t always support them. That’s the thing about fictional characters - they’re open to interpretation!

And now to the long list of tags....

[unfortunatelyilikebnha]

I say the sports festival arc is my favorite but in reality we all know that just means “‘it’s your quirk not his!’/‘it’s your power Todoroki!’ lives in my head rent free” I don’t even necessarily like the other parts that much.

I mean don’t get me wrong the other Midoriya-centric parts? Love those. Him strategizing his way to first place in the first round without ever using his quirk? So fucking cool I’m proud so proud of him. Him in the second round choosing his team, specifically picking some people and having some people come to him and then figuring out the most effective way to use all their skills (and Iida having his moment to shine on Todoroki’s team)?! Incredible thank you. Midoriya inspiring so many characters to do their best to beat him including Iida, Uraraka, and Todoroki?! Amazing 10/10. Him fighting Shinsou and sympathizing with him but being unable to reveal he understood how he felt and the fact that what provoked Midoriya to get brainwashed wasn’t an insult about him but one about his classmate/friend? Super interesting (though how he broke out of Shinsou’s control was weird & kinda unsatisfying & confusing but whatever I wanted him to win sorry Shinsou)!!!

But like,,, if it’s not about Midoriya, chances are I didn’t like that part of the arc (and I swear this isn’t just me being a Midoriya stan, the parts that didn’t involve Midoriya were just generally disappointing to me) like,,, Midnight???? She’s “the R rated heroine”, who decided it was a good idea for her to work at a school for children? She made a comment that a student’s decision “turned her on” like wtf they’re 15 that’s nasty and illegal? Why can’t Horikoshi write female characters right wtf. I don’t have a problem with her being sexual but her being sexual in an environment with kids and especially towards the kids is gross af!! Even if her comments are just part of her hero persona (which is something I’ve seen people argue), that’s not acceptable in an environment where there are children and she needs to be replaced (also not relevant but her costume is ugly af and horikoshi apparently doesn’t know how boobs work).

The fact that class 1B actually had a really good plan and effectively used their teamwork skills was really cool but of course since they decided to go against Bakugou, they had to fail despite their extensive pre planning. Yes I know that Bakugou is really strong and super determined, but Monoma had figured out almost to the exact number how many students would make it to the next round and analyzed 1A’s quirks and specifically chose his team to be the most effective so I think it would be so interesting if they could’ve made it to the next round (and I’m not even saying Bakugou shouldn’t have made it to the next round, there’s four spots available. Could’ve had him run into Shinsou during the cavalry battle which I think would actually be super interesting considering how easily provoked he is, and if he won against Shinsou it would’ve been interesting to see him go against Monoma in the tournament, if he didn’t win against Shinsou he would’ve gotten the learning experience of actually losing and realizing he can’t just assume he’s better than everyone and can automatically beat them).

Also the Bakugou vs. Uraraka fight? She should’ve won. Bakugou had been using his quirk a LOT throughout the sports festival and he SUPPOSEDLY gets backlash on his hands when he uses his quirk too much. Uraraka was smart and had a solid strategy, one that nobody predicted, and she utilized a LOT of rubble, yet Bakugou, after using his quirk numerous times to explode her, was apparently able to summon a giant explosion which he seemingly received no backlash for at the time. It just doesn’t seem right, and I personally think it would’ve been much more interesting for Bakugou “I’m gonna win” Katsuki to suffer an actual loss & start to realize that he can’t just look down on everybody and assume he’s better than them. Also I hate that people use this fight to be like “omg feminist king Bakugou!” as if he didn’t 1) change his entire fighting strategy (mostly staying on the defensive, only exploding when Uraraka got near, letting her rush him vs. his usual charging at other people, explosions blazing) for his fight with Uraraka, something he didn’t do for any of his male opponents, and 2) assume Midoriya gave her her strategy, not that she was smart enough to come up with it herself.

While we’re talking about unsatisfying fights involving girls, the whole last part of the sports festival deserves a mention. Yeah Shiozaki and Ashido easily got through round one, but then they were pretty much immediately picked off after that so what’s the point? Shiozaki beat Kaminari easily, but then was pushed out of the ring by Iida (no hate to Iida, love him & he deserved his third place win, but it just seemed a bit too easy for him to beat an opponent who had almost effortlessly beaten Kaminari the round before). Ashido won against Aoyama, but similar to Shiozaki, Tokoyami beats her easily. Momo, who up to this point had been pretty confident and sure of herself and her abilities, and had been shown to be pretty adept at using her quirk and thinking on the spot, was suddenly overcome with self doubt and was beaten by Tokoyami in the first round in like 8 seconds like wtf. Mei, who it would’ve been interesting to see what she did if she advanced in the tournament, voluntarily stepped down in the first round because she was only interested in showing off her support items. I know the series isn’t focused on the girls but seriously none of them made it past the second round of the tournament (not to mention the fact that way fewer of them qualified for the third round than the boys)?

Since I’m talking about the girls in conjunction with the sports festival, I feel like I’ve got to briefly mention the cheerleading outfit scene, which I obviously hate for multiple reasons (m*neta being gross, kaminari going along with m*neta despite the fact that he’s actually FRIENDS with the girls and in doing so he is betraying their trust - I could write a whole separate post about kaminari and why he interests and frustrates me but in not gonna do that here cause this post is already too fucking long -, some of the girls being uncomfortable in the outfits, especially after realizing they’d been tricked, etc) but I feel like those r obvious problems so I’m not gonna spend time unpacking that cause it’ll just make me angry. Neways.

The Bakugou vs. Tokoyami fight was kinda disappointing in that he had been such a tough opponent for the girls but is easily defeated by Bakugou (and yeah I know it’s cause Bakugou’s quirk was a bad matchup for Tokoyami but how convenient it was that Bakugou’s quirk just HAPPENED to be Tokoyami’s one weakness (and how come Dark Shadow was that strong earlier, it was really bright out and he even fended off Bakugou, explosions and all? But I digress)).

In the Bakugou vs. Todoroki fight I don’t necessarily disagree with Bakugou winning since it made sense for Todoroki to use only half of his power bc you don’t magically get through trauma in a day (although tbh I think if Todoroki was completely on his game and not distracted trying to start processing the fact that his fire is his he could’ve won against Bakugou, fire or no fire, BECAUSE they’ve both been using their quirks all day, BUT while Bakugou’s quirk had a physical drawback that should’ve weakened him, aka the aforementioned joint pain or w/e - and reminder that Bakugou used his quirk a LOT in the first and second tests, as well as a LOT against Uraraka, and a LOT/for a long time against Kirishima and some against Dark Shadow, so even with resting periods in between matches, unless he got healed by recovery girl which I find unlikely both because I think he would’ve seen it as an insult implying he couldn’t win in his current state and because UA and recovery girl both have a concerning attitude towards healing children, his hands should be in a LOT of pain and he should be over his limit - whereas Todoroki, while also having used his quirk a lot, had the advantage that the drawbacks of his quirk cancel each other out, and even if he wasn’t using his fire DURING matches, he obviously used it some in between - for example, to melt sero out - so he doesn’t have lasting drawbacks in the same way that Bakugou does, AND he trained for 10 years with the number 2 hero, which while end//vor is an absolutely awful person he’s obviously good at fighting meanwhile Bakugou’s only “training” that we know of prior to UA was using his quirk to bully people and even if he HAD trained I don’t think his training would match end//vor’s training so yeah that was a really fucking long winded way of saying I think Todoroki would win if he wasn’t distracted) and it made sense for Bakugou to not think of his win as a win because Todoroki wasn’t trying his best (and had brought out his full power against MIDORIYA, who Bakugou hates).

That being said I obviously have problems with how Bakugou treated Todoroki cause like,,, what the fuck he overheard him telling Midoriya about his trauma and then was a complete and absolute dick about it. Granted Midoriya didn’t handle it quite right either, but he was mostly doing it to help Todoroki rather than prove himself by beating him (don’t get me wrong Midoriya absolutely wanted to win, but once he found out Todoroki’s story he deemed helping Todoroki was more important than winning whereas Bakugou’s first priority was obviously still proving himself) so I still don’t really like that fight (and another thing: it’s really hard to watch Bakugou be so aggressive towards Todoroki after he decides not to use his fire like ik he’s mad bc he thinks Todoroki insulted him by not trying his hardest but that’s uhh none of his fucking business he even fucking KNOWS why Todoroki has such hang ups about using his fire and still!! Registers it as an insult!! He’s smart he should be able to see that some of the reason Todoroki used fire against Midoriya is Midoriya fucking SURPRISED HIM. Even if the people in the stands/watching the broadcast couldn’t hear what they were saying - I don’t remember if they could or not - it should’ve been obvious that Midoriya said SOMETHING that impacted Todoroki enough to get him to use his fire. Bakugou’s approach of yelling at him about it obviously wasn’t gonna work like it worked for Midoriya because Todoroki had already been thrown off too much by Midoriya and hadn’t had time to process it, and nothing that Bakugou said to him was a new emotional revelation. Todoroki himself later states the reason he used the fire at all in the Midoriya fight was that he forgot all about end//vor) and anyways I think the final shoudve been Todoroki vs. Uraraka.

Finally, though I’m obviously not a Bakugou stan, the fact that they fucking muzzled and restrained him just so they could force him to accept a medal he didn’t want? That’s fucked up like I know UA does a really bad job of caring for its students but who thought that was a good idea. Who?!?! It’s probably pretty fucking traumatizing to be muzzled like an animal in front of a crowd of LITERALLY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE and have that played off as a joke, not to mention the fact that I seriously doubt being restrained is a good experience for him after the sludge villain. If he doesn’t want the medal he doesn’t want the damn medal, either give the gold to Todoroki and the silver and bronze to Iida and Tokoyami or just don’t hand out the gold medal your ceremony isn’t more important than the well-being of your students!

(Also while I’m talking about the well being of UA students uhh why the fuck did UA think HAVING the sports festival was a good idea in the first place? They hype it up so much that students are willing to seriously injure themselves over a fucking sporting event in the name of “plus ultra”, not to even mention the fact that it SHOWCASES THE QUIRKS AND BY DESIGN DISPLAYS THE WEAKNESSES OF THESE STUDENTS WHO ARE TRAINING TO BE HEROES WHICH IS A HIGHLY DANGEROUS JOB ON LIVE FUCKING TELEVISION SO THAT ANYONE COULD EXPLOIT THEM - something literally every other school takes advantage of at the provisional license exams! Like,, literally Who thought this was a good idea???)

In conclusion, I hate love hate the sports festival arc and the writing really annoys me