#getting to see some of the quirks from class b (Tetsutetsu my beloved)

[kingofanemptyworld]

what’s the best arc in BNHA and why is it the sports festival

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 211: Jane, Stop This Crazy Thing

Previously on BnHA: The fifth and final joint training battle began with Team DekuRakaMinaTa VS Team MonoShinYanaYuiShou. (There’s probably a better way to combine those last five names. Maybe it’s time to retire this joke.) Anyways, All Might answered a phone call from Gran Torino and went to go chat with him about OFA, probably thinking to himself that surely he wouldn’t miss much in just the next five minutes or so! So while he was doing that, Shouda, Yanagi, and Kodai attacked Ochako, Mina, and Mineta with a bunch of huge flying objects. And Monoma confronted Deku and started taunting him, first trying to goad him into revealing his friends’ location, and then trying to bait him by snidely accusing his boyfriend of being the one who caused the demise of the Symbol of Peace. Fucking ouch. He almost baited me with that one tbh. Anyway, that really pissed Deku off, but because he’s a smart kid he still didn’t respond and instead went to blast Monoma with his air gun attack. Except that all of a sudden some weird fucking shit started happening and Deku’s right hand basically exploded with black lightning. Ah, well, you know. Just One for All things.

Today on BnHA: Flashback!Monoma (from like five minutes ago) bonds with Shinsou over having quirks that don’t necessarily make one think “hero!” at first glance. He asks Shinsou how he goaded Deku into opening his mouth back at the sports festival, and Shinsou says he insulted his classmates. Monoma is all “!” and we then cut back to the present, where Deku is all “NNNNNGHHHH” and scary black tendrils are lancing out from his arm every which way trying to either capture Monoma or flat out kill him (who can say). At first everyone is all “Midoriya fucking powered himself up again?” not realizing that for once it was unintentional and he has no control over it. Once Deku starts screaming at everyone to run away -- and the “new technique” starts ripping apart the entire fucking stage -- it kinda starts to sink in, though. All Might tells Aizawa they need to end the match, and meanwhile Ochako floats herself up and latches on to Deku and then calls out to Shinsou for help. Probably because she’s learned her lesson about waiting on the teachers to ever do anything, sob.

(As always, all comments not marked with an ETA are my mostly-unspoiled reactions from my first readthrough of this chapter. I’m caught up with the manga now at chapter 224, so any ETAs will reflect that.)

LOOOOOOOOL

so we’re opening chapter 211 in exactly the way that everyone was expecting! with a fucking Monoma flashback lmao

whoever was telling him that, they’re really fucking stupid by the way. Monoma legit has one of the best quirks in the game. all it means is he would work best on a team, that’s all

so he’s bonding with Shinsou (this is a flashback, obviously, so that first panel was a flashback-within-a-flashback) over them both having quirks that people looked down on

look at that, Shinsou. even fucking Monoma adopted you

oh my god hold up. do I ship it?? ...lol I’m not sure

lol well Shinsou is saying “that doesn’t make me happy” in response to Monoma declaring they were the same type. so now I know they can banter, and so the answer is yes, I do in fact ship it. this is not a thing I was expecting to happen in this arc. Shinsou I’ve gone from you being in the background every so often popping up to remind us you exist, to me having adopted you and shipping you with at least two people, one of whom is the kid who in the previous chapter was like “hey you know that thing that Bakugou secretly harbors horrible guilt over? let me just go and get in his boyfriend’s face and be all ‘yeah it totally was his fault.’” man. life sure is funny

and apparently this little weasel did it on Shinsou’s advice!

LMAO Monoma this is the role you were born to play. all you have to do to succeed is insult class 1-A omg. can you do it? it’s gonna be so fucking hard for you, so out of character. you’ll have to dig down deep

anyway so I’m not sure if this is Monoma or Shinsou monologuing here (though I’m leaning toward Monoma because he’s responsible for 8 out of 10 monologues in general when he’s around) (ETA: yeah it’s Monoma), but either way it’s an interesting speech

ahh, and now we’re back in the present!

ahhhhhhhhh

goddamn it Horikoshi. I have no idea whose thoughts these are. whatever, I’ll have to figure it out and come back to reanalyze it later

(ETA: so hey, now that we’ve caught up to this point, I finally have access to the Viz translations again! their translation makes a lot more sense, and makes it clear this is just a continuation of Monoma’s speech. here:

I appreciate the deeper look into Monoma’s psyche, but I don’t know if I buy into this argument that his quirk forces him to act unheroically. Shinsou’s quirk is a different story perhaps, but there’s nothing about the copy quirk that necessitates unscrupulous conduct in order to win the day. it just so happens that he is very good at goading others, and it only makes sense to use that to his advantage when he can. like, it’s a respectable strategy, if one that doesn’t necessarily win you a lot of friends. 

I for one don’t feel like he needs to justify himself; it’s a battle, and you gotta do what you gotta do to try and give yourself the edge, especially when you’re up against the fucking main character. but anyway, maybe he feels a little guilty deep down and has to rationalize it like this. or maybe he’s just trying to bond with Shinsou and be all “yeah I get you man, you don’t have a choice, it’s rough.” or maybe a little of column A and a little of column B, who knows. anyways.)

in the meantime, check out Monoma and Shinsou’s confused and slightly apprehensive expressions! “did Midoriya’s arm just fucking explode”

apologies to everyone reading this liveblog for getting myself spoiled btw. I probably robbed you guys of a delightful time of watching me freak the fuck out and thinking Deku had lost control of OFA again and was gonna blow his arm off or some fucking shit. but instead I’m just fucking excited because this little shrubbery of a boy is about to level the fuck up and he doesn’t even know it yet

you can see why alternate universe me would have been so concerned. it looks like he’s having a heart attack and being sucked into the void. it looks like Miroku’s kazaana from Inuyasha. oh my god

Monoma my respect for you just increased tenfold. look at you keeping your cool while not having the slightest fucking clue what’s going on

(ETA: actually this reminds me a lot of Katsuki facing the League of Villains and running his mouth at them and appearing confident but all the while having that one bead of sweat visible the entire time. Monoma has a lot more in common with him than he may think.

...in fact, I would totally read an AU where Monoma does more successfully in the cavalry battle and makes it into the tournament and consequently ends up drawing the League’s attention instead of Katsuki -- because he does do a very decent villain impression, this one -- and as a result he’s the one who gets taken. featuring a bonus rescue attempt led by Tetsutetsu and Kendou, and a Kamino arc that strangely enough ends up playing out very similarly to the one we actually got, in the end. anyways. it’s an interesting What If to think about.)

oh hey I just noticed the chapter title is “successor” and FUCK YEAHHHH are we gonna get the spoiler in this chapter? cuz then I can go back to not being spoiled again, so that’ll be nice

oh SHIT

“RUN” IS GOOD ADVICE MONOMA, I’D FUCKING LISTEN TO HIM?!

NOW IT REALLY LOOKS LIKE THE KAZAANA. except blasting black lightning shit out instead of sucking shit in

wow this is fucking amazing. I love the potential for future battles, given how powerful it seems to be and yet how he appears to have no fucking clue how to control it and so it consequently becomes a double-edged sword putting himself and his comrades at risk. it’s a lot like Eri’s power in that sense

also Deku is making some amazing faces in this chapter and I feel like we should be appreciative

Monoma is not doing a half-bad job of dodging this maniac who is trying to fucking kill him

jesus christ. maybe next time we don’t insult his boyfriend, Monoma

now he’s turning to call Shinsou and he looks pretty rattled tbh

but you know who doesn’t look rattled, like at all?

I burst out laughing in real life oh my god. they’re just like “...must be Tuesday”

I mean, this kid went from breaking all his bones to suddenly having super agility to being super strong without breaking his bones to using fucking wind attacks. they probably have no idea what his quirk is at this point and so they’re just assuming this is just another natural evolution

and the thing is, they’re not wrong

oh shit now Deku’s fucking flying toward Shinsou

have him brainwash you and command you to turn it off then!

also, I wasn’t sure with the previous chapter but now I am sure that they definitely do have sound (by “they” I mean the teachers and other students watching, that is), because they were able to follow all that stuff with Shinsou’s voice changer in the first match. so they can hear Deku saying that he doesn’t have control. so what I’m saying here is the teachers should definitely be calling this match off immediately

but will they? well, it’s U.A. so I think we all know the answer to that. it ain’t over till somebody croaks

jesus now we’re cutting to the scene from a distance and this shit is even crazier than I thought

TEACHERS ARE YOU GOING TO DO ANYTHING? NO? OKAY

TEACHERS, DEKU HAS LOST CONTROL OF HIS QUIRK AND IS SMASHING THE TRAINING STAGE APART AND TRYING TO KILL FRIEND AND FOE ALIKE. ARE YOU GOING TO PUT A STOP TO THIS FIGHT? NO? OKAY

ALL MIGHT, YOUR BELOVED PROTEGE AND ADOPTED SON IS FLYING AROUND UNCONTROLLABLY AND DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO STOP. ARE YOU GOING TO -- you know what. just, never mind

oh shit

ffff Aizawa looking at him like “what’s this now? ‘stop’?”

(ETA: Aizawa. Aizawa listen to me. I need you to look me in the eye and tell me honestly -- if All Might hadn’t said anything, would you have just fucking stood there until everyone fucking died? would you have done anything?? how much more of your problem child hupping all around the stage with this bucking bronco of a quirk screaming “STOP!! STOP!!” would you have calmly observed before it occurred to you to fucking do your job. tell me. be honest. listen, I love and respect you, dude, but sometimes you make me a little concerned.)

god I am loving this so much. this is not at all how I expected this last match to go

ahhhhhh noooooo

he’s scared! he says it hurts! oh shit I’m sorry Deku I didn’t know it was hurting you ah fuck

though that makes sense, because it’s blasting out of your right fucking arm, though, because it’s always that fucking arm, isn’t it. and whatever this new quirk is, it’s at 100% just like OFA was when you first activated it. and we all know that pretty much all quirks can do a lot of damage to the user if used at full capacity for too long

there’s another panel of Ochako staring in horror. there’s been a lot of those. is it just to show her concern, or is she planning something to help him (I have no idea what she could do though), or is she taking mental notes here and this means she’ll be hounding him with questions about his quirk after this and will eventually learn about OFA too?

(ETA: thankfully no one other than Shouto thinks to ask, and Shouto accepts the weakest of excuses without hesitation because this is the densest and most trusting group of kids to ever walk the earth. Deku your secret is safe for life. all he has to do is just shrug his shoulders every damn time. “fucking quirks, though. wild.”)

ahhh now we’re really getting into Deku’s POV and he’s freaking out bad flkajlkj

no baby no don’t cry it’ll be all right

fuck. he’s scared and he’s frustrated because everything was finally starting to go so well and he was finally getting the hang of things and on his way to being a reliable hero, and now this stupid fucking quirk is out of control again and it’s like nothing he ever experienced before, and it hurts and he has no idea what to do and he might hurt other people and fucking shit, someone help him!!

AHHHH

ONE FOR ALL YOU BETTER LISTEN TO HIM!!

is he crying blood??!

(ETA: sure looks like it. jesus Deku you’re dramatic as fuck.)

okay WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING

OH MY GOD

OCHAKO

girl when I said I had no idea what you could do to help him, that’s because I didn’t think you’d be crazy enough to fucking float yourself right at him when he’s losing it like this

goddamn that’s a ballsy fucking move though, shit

oh shit!

brainwash him and get control of him and then she can float him down to safety! yes!! do it!!

MY GIRL OCHAKO SAVING THE DAY AND MY BOY SHINSOU BEING BRAVE IN THE CLUTCH AND SAVING DEKU AS WELL AND HOPEFULLY GETTING INTO CLASS A FOR HIS EFFORTS. OH SHIT. THIS IS AMAZING. DOES THIS ARC HAVE HATERS?? I CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHY IT WOULD OH SHIT I FUCKING LOVE ALL OF THIS

Shinsou looks like a deer in fucking headlights by the way. like someone just caught him doing something super embarrassing. haha I love it

oh my god I’m gonna go read the next one

[yuki-d-raizel-blog]

Hero

Chapter 4/??

Relationship: Todoroki Shouto x Reader (Your/Name), (Full/Name)

Summit: It all begin at the Sports Festival when Shouto’s other half met Endevour by mistake. The student never thought to see his partner fight against his father just to show him that he is wrong. It started from that instant, Shouto’s new path started exactly from that moment thanks to his friends and his beloved one.

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Everyone is shouting and cheering for the winner, you prop your arms up against your knees and breath slowly. The last sprint cost you a lot of stamina without including the fact that you kept fighting against Bakugou to not let him pass. A little pat on your back, on your field vision there are white boots...

<<Good job Shouto.>> the girl gets up again just to greet her partner, <<You're getting stronger against my moves. That's not good for me.>> she tries to make him smile by cracking a few jokes.

<<We always paring during simulations, I'm getting used to your style.>> he replies, <<But you didn't use your quirk yet, so I supposed that I'm still easy to read.>>

<<I think that I need to use it soon.>> she speaks while looking at the other members, <<I was about to activate it when Izuku hit the mines, but I've restrained myself.>>

<<Why?>>

<<Mainly for two reasons: because I could hurt him, you and Bakugou and because we're at the beginning, I can't show my cards at the first turn. It's against my logic.>>

<<An answer that suit your image.>> he smiles a little, but that angry expression comes back, <<I'm sorry if I hurt you before... Today, my nerves are->>

<<I know, you don't need to apologize.>> now it's her turn to pat his back, <<And don't hold back with me. I can handle your quirk, given that mine is quite similar.>>

<<Your quirk is like mine? Really?>>

<<Mor->>

<<The first game of the first years is over!>> the heroine Midnight speaks again to get everyone attention, <<Then, I will show you the results!>> on the big screens all around the stadium, show the rank.

1st: Class A, Midoriya Izuku                6th place: Class A, Iida Tenya

2nd: Class A, Todoroki Shouto, (F/N)  7th place: Class A, Tokoyami Fumikage

3rd: Class A, Bakugou Katsuki            8th place: Class A, Sero Hanta

4th: Class B, Shiozaki Ibara                9th place: Class A, Kirishima Eijirou

5th: Class B, Honezuki Juuzou           10th place: Class B, Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu

Your attention is stolen by the R-18 professor again, who explains that only the first 42 students will go to the next challenge, and her whip activates the slot machine that will decide the next game.

"A cavalry battle? What's the trick this time? " the young woman has a bad feeling about this.

<<Let me explain! It's basically the same as a regular cavalry battle, but there is a little upgrade!>> everyone is pay attention, <<Based on the results of the last game, each person has been assigned a point value. The points assigned go up by five starting from the bottom; and the point value assigned to the first place is.... TEN MILLION!>>

"T-ten million... ?! Are you trying to kill me?!" everyone is staring Izuku like hungry predators, "Why me! I want to go home! "

<<This is a survival of the fittest, with a chance for those at the bottom to overthrow the top!>>

"This is bullshit, not a survival! Nobody wants to be in my team, come on!" the poor greenish boy is so nervous right now that even his brain can't think straight.

The teacher allowed the students to make their teams ready.

"I need those two if I want to protect my points... I need them!" walking shyly, All Might's pupil approaches you, <<(Y/N)-chan... D-do you want.... to p-pair with me?>>

<<Mh? At one condition.>> after a deep consideration, the girl adds, <<Actually two.>>

<<Y-yes?>>

<<Number one: no matter what happens, trust me until the end. Number two: I don't wanna be the horse.>>

<<Can I ask why?>>

<<I have someone in mind who's the horse, everyone will attack us from the start, so he can block them with his quirk...>> she looks angry, <<Shouto needs to be in the edge, so I want to use you. It doesn't sound heroic, but this is the best I can do for him right now. I will protect you Izuku, even with my life!>>

<<T-that's too much!>>

<<You finally smiled.>> she pats him on the shoulders, <<You're too tense, relax and think with calm. But first, let's call the horse in our team, then you can do whatever you want.>>

The 15 minutes are over and every team stand ready. Your plan was call Tokoyami and make him do the horse, you defend the sides, Uraraka uses her quirk on the squad and obviously, Izuku is the knight. Before the game start, you add one last thing, you leave the lead to Midoriya and Tokoyami, but when the strongest show up, you will switch place with Fumikage without break the rules. Everyone agreed because they trust your sense of judgement.

(Those are very interesting teams.) Aizawa's voice starts the commentary, when Mic takes the lead again.

(The bloody Yuuei battle is starting now! On your marks kids!)

<<Uraraka-san, (Y/N)-chan, Tokoyami-kun... I'm counting on you!>> Midoriya ties the value points on his head and the squad gets ready immediately.

(Let's go! Let's countdown for this brutal battle royal! 3! 2! 1! Start!)

Even a second is no wasted. Every single team is charging against the ten million one.

<<They're fast.>> comments Tokoyami, <<What's your decision, Midoriya?>>

<<Of course... Let's run away!>> when the three on the ground start to move, the floor is melting blocking the team right away.

<<We're sinking!>> Tokoyami and Uraraka are trying so hard to get out of that slimy mass, without any results.

"C'mon, so early? Guess I have no choice." <<Izuku hold onto us, Tokoyami-kun, Ochako-chan, be ready to run.>>

<<Eh?>> something almost broke Midoriya's balance. Something is pulling them out the trap... It's ice?

<<Now!>> (Y/N) drags the team along when she moves away, <<Let me face them!>> everyone stops to satisfy your request, <<Don't get burn Class B!>> moving her leg in an ascensional way, a huge strip of ice is moving towards the enemy and in another time, big spikes block their movements.

<<Wow, that's awesome! It's your quirk?>> asks Uraraka, <<So you control the ice too?>>

<<Look better, it's not only ice.>>

<<....White flames?! How your quirk works (Y/N)-chan?>> Izuku saw little white flames burn near the ice, how can the ice not melt near the fire. It's the same as Todoroki's quirk.

<<Dark Shadow!>> the monster moves to protect everyone from Jiro's attack, <<Good job. Protect our blind points.>>

<<Both of you are so cool!>> exclaims Midoriya, <<This is the spear and the shield we needed! A total defense combined with a strong offensive, you're the best duo, guys!>>

<<You are the one who chose us.>> they both replied at the same time.

(Let's see... Not two minutes have passed and we're already plagued in chaos! Everyone is stealing the headband from each other! Even without aim to the top, the positions from the second to the fourth are still great! And now mummy hero, what's your opinion on (Y/N)'s quirk? This is the first time she uses it in front of us, so...)

(I don't know, I can't see very well from here and I don't understand how it works yet. It's an interesting quirk, I must admit that.)

When your team is about to have the time to think again, a new one is charging. It's Mineta's voice, but the horse is Shoji. There's someone on the other side too. This is bad, like Tokoyami suggested, it's better to take distance, two teams are too much. Uraraka is stuck on a purple ball, and (Y/N) is freeing her as fast as possible. Now a tongue almost missed Midoriya. And now a storm of purple balls and whipping tongue is pushing your squad to the edge.

(Mineta team is using their dimension disadvantages as a weapon! How the Midoriya team will act?)

<<I’ve really enough of you!>> the balls frozen and fall to the ground, breaking into thousand pieces.

<<Midoriya, we need to get away from here!>> Tokoyami runs as the leader gives the permission, <<(Y/N), can you use a big amount of your ice?>>

<<Let me guess, to fly?>> both have thought at the same idea, <<Hold yourself Izuku!>> a circle of white flames surrounds them and in a blink of eye, a tall icy pillar is under their feet.

<<Kacchan?!>> Midoriya sees Katsuki uses his explosions to reach them, <<Tokoyami-kun, (Y/N)-chan!>>

<<Don't think to win so easily you damn nerd!>> Dark Shadow is surrounded by white flames that turned into an armor, fully blocking Bakugou's offensive, <<The fuck is that?!>>

The pillar reshape itself into a slide and Midoriya team skate on it, getting away from the chaos. They never stop running, while Uraraka is doing like (Y/N) said to her, light everyone's weight so they can move and dodge something easier than normal. The squad is working well together, all is well balanced.

<<Thank you guys!>> Izuku's stress level is rising rapidly, "Geez, these two are really fantastic! "

(Woah, what just happened?! Everyone is aiming at the first place. (Y/N) was amazing to made a way to escape and then an armor to reinforce their defense against Bakugou! Midoriya team is amazing! The entire A Section is chasing them! Will be there another development like before? These adolescents are super!)

<<Izuku, I can't use well my quirk if I need to apply it for too many things. Create an armor for Dark Shadow without hurting it or Tokoyami-kun is difficult, do it after made something big like a pillar it's too much for me. I can handle only another situation like that, so don't get into two versus one battles again.>>

<<Ok, I get it...>> "It would be hard if we keep like this; we can't run away in the sky anymore. We need to bet on the mobility of Uraraka-san's Zero Gravity, on the teamwork of Tokoyami's Dark Shadow and (Y/N)-chan."

While Mic keeps commenting the game, the screen with the results after seven minutes is drastically changed. Everyone in the Class A, Midoriya excluded, is at almost 0 points. It's Monoma from the Class B who stole every headband, even Bakugou's.

Meanwhile, (Y/N) opted to keep running and make some distance between the others, but when Midoriya was staring at Katsuki's squad, a strong change of movement almost unseats him off. In front of them there is Todoroki's team. Shouto seems another person, such scary eyes and aura... Something is wrong here.

"Well, it was obvious that wouldn't be so easy..." <<(Y/N)-chan what about the B plan?>> whispers Izuku.

<<Not now... Let's wait a bit more.>>

<<Finally, you're mine.>> even Shouto's voice is harsher and colder than before.

(This cavalry battle is on its second phase! In one side, we have an unexpected recovery from the B Section, and on the other side, we have Todoroki vs Midoriya team! Who'll wear the ten million points headband? Man, the tension is getting heavier here!)

---Continue...

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