#i can imagine him willingly staying in contact with. anyway. i don't care about him really but it's interesting re: lovelace

[commsroom]

So 2 questions, one Eiffel and one not:

What do you think happens post-canon with regards to Anne? Will Eiffel actually get to see his daughter again and have a chance to try to make what amends he can? (Whether before or after he regains his memories, which I think I recall you saying you think he will)

How does the not-Eiffel&Hera part of the crew deal with coming home? Do you have any thoughts on them?

I love reading your W359 analysis, and your Eiffel posting brighten up my dash every day!

thank you, that's very sweet of you!! 💙

i hope he will, but... even if he does, it won't be as soon as he's hoping. i do think eiffel will regain his memories, and my reasoning for that is in a ton of other posts, so i'll just say: i don't know if he even should attempt to make amends until/unless he does? no matter how it's framed, i think... doing what he did, and going to prison for it, and then everyone thinking he was dead... if he shows up alive, that's already going to open old wounds, but without his memories? i really don't think it would help. and again. i really hope he gets the chance to be in anne's life again, but it's really up to her, and i think. when he reaches out, he is probably not going to get the initial response or chance to fix things that he wants to get, and even if he understands why... i don't think he'll take that rejection well. it's going to take time, and he's going to need to learn to not push it if he wants it to work out.

hm, well. i think the show is clear that minkowski, eiffel, and hera intend to stick together, so i think minkowski post-canon is kinda inherently tangled up in that. but her personal issues are definitely going to be about... well, she's not the same person she was when she left, either. she has people she cares about, who she feels responsible for, who literally don't know how to live on earth. i think she might to have to learn how to stop trying to be the commander all over again, and let other people share her burden. even if he can't see anne, i think eiffel would want to stay in the same state as his daughter, and minkowski's life was... obviously, somewhere else. how does she feel about her husband now? would they stay together? she plans to talk to him right away, but i don't know if it'll be that easy to actually face; i think the way it makes everything real might scare her. likewise with lovelace, who i think actually had the most connections at one point - she was close to her family, and clearly had friends, etc. - but they've all thought she's been dead for years, and in a way she has been, so... seeing those familiar people and places and knowing on some level she's technically never seen them before? that would really freak her out. understandably. she can take a vacation far away from it all for a while, but eventually she'll need to decide how she fits into isabel lovelace's old life. she doesn't intend to live her life with the others, but i think she might need them more than she suspects, for a while. i think she and minkowski might end up doing that thing, like... pointing out the other person is avoiding something that scares her, getting called a hypocrite for it - ultimately, if clumsily, pushing each other to confront it.

[aitadinnerwex]

Did you get a lawyer op :(

Yes, I have!! Sorry for going so long without any updates, but right now there's a lot of legal stuff going on and tbh? Most of it is kind of boring. My daughter talks to her dad on the phone, but is still mad at FIL and MIL. She's going to therapy in person every week. My ex is being very cooperative about the custody issue. I met K briefly and it was awkward (more on that under the cut)

I got in contact with a lawyer the day after I made my last post. I live in a state that does not recognize common law marriages, and my ex and I were never actually married. Add that to the fact that my home has been my daughter's primary residence for the last 3 years, and the fact that she's almost 12 and that's the age she has a say in who she wants to live with, and my lawyer assured me that in the eyes of the law I am currently my daughter's sole legal guardian. My ex would have a case if he wanted to fight for custody, but he doesn't. He just wants the arrangement we had before: I keep custody of our daughter, but she is free to come see him whenever she wants. He even offered to pay child support and help with my bills until she turns 18, but this I declined. I make more money than him and my own parents, while estranged and on the other side of the country, love their granddaughter and are more than happy to help financially.

We worked most of the legal stuff out on zoom calls, but one day we were meeting in person with both our lawyers to sign some legal stuff and K came with my ex. Some of you thought she must be younger than me and my ex because she sounded so immature, but y'all. She's older. Much, MUCH older. She looked like she was at least in her late 50s, which bleach blonde hair and yellow smoker's teeth. I don't wanna be petty or tear fellow my fellow woman down but... y'all. She looked like Donald Trump doing drag. Poorly.

Anyway, she stays quiet the whole time we discuss things with our lawyers. but she does keep one hand on the back of his neck kind of... grabbing him and massaging him? And the other hand is holding his hand in his lap, or occasionally stroking his thigh. In other words she was all over him. I can only imagine she was trying to show me that he was hers now or something, but I honestly couldn't care less. She can have him.

Before the meeting ended both lawyers asked if there were any questions and I admit, I got a little petty. I asked if I could maybe know even a little about K, because she was, ostensibly, going to be acting like a stepmom to my daughter if/when she decided to reconcile. K just gave me this death glare, but ex asked what I wanted to know and gave me short answers.

How old is she? 52.

How did you two meet? Church. (I doubt this, he hasn't willingly been to church since high school, but I didn't argue)

Why did K move in with ex at MIL and FIL's house after less a year of dating? None of your business. (Fair)

I asked a few other things too, mostly about my daughter and how we could more effectively coparent, and ex was helpful here and K continued to be silent (and handsy).

So, yeah. Court stuff is agonizingly slow, and talking to ex is like talking to a brick wall, but at least he's being a cooperative brick wall for now.

[el-pintor]

Thoughts about the Christmas special

This will be a long, long, long post...

First, I write about ZhanYi and then about Tianshan.

ZhanYi:

Jian Yi's comment about his strength:

— Jian Yi mentions that he is so strong that he could pull trees out. This is pretty interesting information. Because this could indicate the time during the kidnapping, depending on how seriously you can interpret the statements. Did he continue to train or drill? Is it the result of training with He Cheng?

- In addition, this drunk talking could also refer to earlier chapters. Jian Yi has a desire to become stronger because he felt helpless against Mo. Incidentally, it is the first appearance of Mo.

The apartment:

— Whose apartment is this? Probably Zhen Xis, since Jian Yi is only at Xi's apartment in the future chapters. In contrast to earlier insights, the apartment is also pretty tidy.

– However, the interior differs massively from the previous chapters. I don't expect Zhen Xi and Jian Yi to be living together at this point. Old Xian just may not have used the previous references.

— So the connection between the two seems to be as strong as ever since Xi possibly brings him home to his flat instead to Jian Yi's.

- And another proof of how much Xi's character has changed. Because in the beginning, he didn't want anything more than kicking out Yi as soon as he showed up.

- He also apparently abandoned the violent nature. Instead of beating him up, he sits down on the couch with him in an embrace and falls asleep. He doesn't even take off his jacket, but lets Jian Yi willingly hug him.

- Somehow cute. Nevertheless, I hope that he will soon no longer keep Jian Yi friendzoned and return his feelings.

- Just as home furnishings have changed, Zheng Xi's character has changed.

— But maybe that's Jian Yi's apartment after all. No one knows about his living condition.

- Does he live alone? Or with his mother? Maybe he's back in He Cheng's care? Does Zheng Xi even know Jian Yi's address?

I hope we can find out more soon.

Tianshan

I think there are a lot of inconsistencies and you don't really get their behavior.

First of all a few trivial comments.

Rings:

- He Tian wears the ring he took himself as a gift. Coincidentally, it also fits like a glove. Either it would be too big for Mo anyway, or you can adjust the ring.

- In the first panel, it seems that Mo is also wearing a ring.

He Tian flirting:

- He Tian goes straight to the attack and leaves no unnecessary time and doubts about his intentions: After flirting, he just takes off his jacket and throws himself and Mo on the bed.

- He is hopelessly in love and love everything about Mo.

- That Mo has a newfound interest on studying turns he even more on.

- I think despite the fact that the room is too small for him, he will develop a secret preference for the bed. Because it's narrow and there is no place to escape and to keep a certain distance. So perfectly made for  cuddling and sticking close together.

The apartment, Room, whatever you can call it:

- I immediately noticed the rule with books (if they were books).

- The guitar on his bed plus other books.

- At first I thought that the "apartment" consists of only one room, but the kitchen and at least the bathroom are missing.

- it's quite empty and reminds of He Tian's empty apartment.

- Still, it's pretty run down and seems so cold. I hope Mo doesn't freeze.

Living condition:

- The question, of course, would be why Mo lives under this condition, although he would have it better in his mother's old apartment.

- Did he want to become independent as quickly as possible and therefore moved out so as not to further burden his mother?

- However, I hardly think that his mother would have been satisfied with the condition of the apartment, because the condition is worrying. I don't think he invites his mother over to his house.

-I don't know if that is standard in China when you don't have money. In addition, 19 is still quite young. Many people still live with their parents at this age.

- Did something happen to the mother? Hopefully not.

But maybe Mo is just rebellious and proud that he could afford something of his own.

Indications of Mos' current activity.

- As I said, I immediately noticed the rule with books (if they were books). Which of course is totally untypical for Mo, since he was never interested in books and learning.

- Are these cook and music books?

- Can someone tell me what's written on this book?

- The book in He Tian's hand has an unusual book form. So I suspect that this is a music book with notes or tabs. It seems to be at least a book for studying.

- So does Mo study anything with music and do his part-time jobs to finance it?

- Does he study anything else?

- Does he go to university at all?

- Or does he really earn his money only with part-time jobs? Obviously he won't make much money with it, so they could only be an interim solution if Mo didn't want to keep this lifestyle for life.

- For the university in China you need a lot of money, which you couldn't pay on your own. But there is the possibility of scholarships (I just assume that there is also something like that in China). Maybe he got a music scholarship?

- Mo doesn't seem to have many things. Of course, the books and the guitar are striking.

The guitar

- At first glance, the guitar is reminiscent of He Tian's guitar, which he would like to give to Mo.

- If you take a closer look, they are identical in shape and color, but they are two completely different guitars.

- He Tian's guitar is an acoustic (or concert) guitar and Mo's is an electric guitar.

- Could it be a little mistake from Old Xian?

- Perhaps this is also a later gift from He Tian after Mo learned to play guitar with the acoustic guitar and get advanced. A lot of people start with an acoustic guitar before playing electric guitar.

- Maybe the guitar is from the same serial production.

- Maybe He Tian owns the acoustic guitar and buys an electric guitar for Mo from the same series after Mo's interest for learning guitar has been completely awakened.

- By the way, you need a guitar amplifier for full fun with an electric guitar. I didn't see it in his room.

- Unless this could be an amp. Does anyone know what this thing could be? For me this could be organizers.

- It's s also extremely inconvenient in an apartment to turn it up fully. (Do more people actually live there? The apartment looks more like an old rehearsal room or a garage. My rehearsal room looked something like this, that's why the associations).

- You can also play the electric guitar on headphones, but that's pretty impractical because of the sound (it differs, if you use headphones ir not) and you still need an amp.

- By the way, music it's a costly pleasure. So, it is all the more interesting what exactly Mo does and how he finances everything.

- But I think those are little things that Old Xian probably doesn't think about (something that you easily can forget) .

- I wonder if Mo is in a band. Maybe with Zhen Xi together.

So now to the most complicated point:

Hey Tian, ​​his disappearance and the relationship with Mo.

- One learns that He Tian was not in China for a while.

Many questions arise from this:

- When was he gone?

- How long was he gone?

- Has he been away for a long period of time or is it a coming and going? A lot of it is pretty unclear, so you could guess both.

- The fact that He Tian was away for a long time speaks for the fact that he has never been to Mo's apartment. Has Mo just recently moved there?

- What is also new for him is that Mo reads books or even studies. You should actually know that if you were in regular contact. So is this a recent Mo hobby? That is rather unlikely. So how much did they really have to do with each other in the 4 years?

— However, there are some arguments against staying longer:

- He Tian knows where Mo works. If He Tian had been away for years, how would he know where Mo works? From Jian Yi or Zahn Xi? Maybe from Mo himself? Mo would most likely not give it away. So He Tian should at least stop by for visits.

- The second thing that speaks against it, is that Mo knows where He Tian lives. He Tian probably didn't change his apartment, but could have been if you weren't in the country for a long period of time. At least that doesn't indicate radio silence.

The relationship with Mo:

- After the chapters and all the hints, it was thought that the penny had finally fallen between the two, but no.

- Their relationship to each other has not really changed.

- Mo is still dismissive to He Tian.

There are several reasons about this matter:

— 1. Mo feels hurt and probably betrayed too.

- He Tian asked Mo in middle school not to abandom him. Now HE was the one who left and left Mo behind. Depending on the point in time at which this occurred, it is logical to first react in a negative manner.

— Nevertheless, He Tian seems to be a part of Mo's life, which he does not really want to give up and maybe also gives evidence that he might misses him.

The following aspect indicate

- He lit a cigarette, reminiscent of He Tian.

- He is still wearing his earrings.

- In addition, the design of his electric guitar is similar to He Tian's.

— 2. Mo couldn't build a closer bond with He Tian because He Tian left the country right after middle school.

- How can you build a relationship if you hardly see or not see each other?

- Mo has problems with trust. So I can imagine, that this could be extremely bitter for him and he is angry. Especially if he had open up to He Tian and then his gone.

— 3. Mo is just too stubborn to admit his feelings and get involved with He Tian and is a tsundere, so he have to act this way.

- Definition of a tsundere: "A tsundere is a character, most often female and in anime, who switches from being tough and cold towards a love interest into being soft and sweet"

- Well, I'm not so keen on these whole tsundere explanations. Of course his character is like a tsundere but it would be to simple to explain his character so one sided.

- Even tsundere characters can make progress and that's what I missing. The reationship between those two is going back and forth mostly two steps back and one forth. It's like they are stuck in this, just like ZhanYi are stuck in their relationship. But in this matter you know that Jian was gone for three years. Still I hoped Zhan Xi would finally admit his feelings, but he rather go with the safety zone. The case of Tianshan is way more complicated: You don't know what happened between them in these years. But He Tian seems to be in love more than ever and Mo seems to that he still hasn't figured out his feelings and doesn’t give the attention that He Tian wants. Mo is 18 or 19, not 15 anymore and I wish he would act more mature. But on the other hand, He Tian is really pushy again and is testing his limits. It's understandable that Mo acts irritated.

- So I think they are still don't there where you can call this a mutual relationship.

- They will eventually in the future, but this will take a lot more time obviously and they have a long road ahead.

Of course there is progress:

- Mo seems to have grown used to He Tian's approach.

- He is less aggressive, can even be touched, and he doesn't immediately panic. In the other special he even voluntarily shares a room with He Tian.

- On the other hand, He Tian seems to have become more courageous, so you thought, they really started out with a physical relationship.

- He gives away condoms, hugs him profusely, and tries to get to his butt (other special).

- Maybe they really did have an on-off thing.

- Old Xian indicated that He Tian was allowed to stay the night. So Mo doesn't throw him out. The only question is whether he is allowed to sleep in bed or whether the floor has to suffice.

- So yeah, for me this is really confusing.

Other abnormalities:

- Where's the dog?

- Did Xi stays true to the music? So far there has not been a hint of a musical instrument at his flat.

- What about Yi? Does he continue to play the guitar?

- And He Tian?

- When and why did Mo get his second piercing?

- He Tian doesn't seem to wear the chain with ring. Maybe he get it later?

[captainkirkk]

Hoooo BOI those Hisashi speculations have tickled me, and now you've done it. I'm gonna gave to anon this cuz I don't have a profile on this blue hellsite, but will that stop me? NO. So here goes: firstly, I have a question. If papa Midoriya is a villain in the historyverse, and a known one, at that, then why there need to be fan speculations about whether or not he's Izuku's dad? I sincerely doubt Izuku would deliberately hide something so important: if anything, wouldn't he feel (p.1)

This is... so long. 

responsible for helping the American authorities deal with him? As the Symbol of Peace, refusing to act when he's aware a member of his own family (whether he actually considers Hisashi family is besides the point) is committing criminal acts would be EXTREMELY shady and out of character for Izuku. It would go against who he is as a person too. So... what's he doing about it? Even if he's not 100% sure about stuff, the fact that his own fans speculate and have access to photos of Hisashi (p.2)

should at the very least tip him off and get him interested into researching his father's whereabouts and occupation, and subsequently dealing with him in some way, even if it is by just assisting American heroes from a distance/handling press. And OH, the press. Imagine how awful it would be if it got out that Izuku knew his biodad was a baddie and deliberately hid it. To protect his family? Likely. His image? Less likely. Does it matter? Lol no, the media would eat him alive either way. (p.3)

And it is highly unlikely something like this could stay hidden from the press FOREVER. Which is why this is a plausible theory (and one which both I and my friend are behind): Inko and Hisashi married young, thinking they were in love, and their families disapproved, so they kinda... eloped (which is why Deku has no family contact besides his mama). But after starting to live on their own and having a kid (maybe even a surprise kid?), things get HARD for them. Emotionally, financially, (p.4)

name it. And so when the opportunity for Hisashi comes up to work abroad, he desparately takes it: not just because his family needs the money, but also because he and Inko have both realised by that point that they probably did rush in their decision to marry, and he doesn't feel he loves her and their son as much as he should. Typical reason for many absentee parents to become, well, absentee parents. He's too soft-hearted to abandon them completely, so he thinks this is the best option (p.5)

for all three of them. So he leaves, and for the first couple of years he manages to scrape by, but he soon realises he can't make it. Maybe there's a problem with his company, or some other external factor that prevents him from making the money his family needs, and after multiple useless attempts to solve the situation, both he and his family are at the end of their rope, and really struggling, perhaps more than before, even. He has nothing else in his life except for them, so he feels (p.6)

he can't fail them. He lives for them, at this point not because he wants to, but because he needs to, otherwise his life would be meaningless. So he resorts to crime once the opportunity for it arises. He gets caught up in the tangles of the American underworld, and becomes a minor villain. His family doesn't have to know -- and at this point they're estranged anyway, so he doubts they'll ask after him. As long as he can send them money, it'll be fine. And this goes on for years on end, (p.7)

until Izuku make sit big and his family no longer needs his support. With his one purpose in life negated and his spirit broken form having been half-willingly stuck as a criminal for over a decade, his guilt finally overrides his desparation to survive and have a purpose, and he surrenders himself to the police. Deku and Inko find out and they're deeply hurt and maybe even just a little devastated, also angry. But after contacting him and learning he doesn't really want to see them out of (p.7)

shame, guilt, and the overall conflicted feelings he's had towards them for so long, they make peace with it, although a small part of them will forever be somewhat broken-hearted over the whole thing. Hisashi wants to serve his time, and a 10+years career in villainy probably merits a lifelong sentence, but he's convinced he's earned it. After making it as no.1, Izuku starts to get more interviewers scrounging for personal details, and upon being asked about his biodad, he doesn't hide (p.8)

what happened to him, as well as how that influenced his family life. He doesn't like it when the press pushes, but he also talks about it without much hesitation, as he hopes it can serve as proof that even someone who has a villain for a parent can become a fine hero, and that not all villains are villains simply for the sake of it -- that a lot of things in the world need to change. He becomes an inspiration specifically for kids in his position: kids who want to distance themselves (p.9)

from their villainous roots/origins and become heroes in spite of their family history. Shouto is the most supportive boyfriend/husband to have ever lived, not only in general, but also in particular when it comes to this, obviously because he too has dealt with something similar, yet also something so different. Together they're the ultimate poster-children for forging your own path and not letting family history define your quality of character. THE END *happy sparkles*

Ok so I only have vague headcanons, since I’ve never cared about papa Midoriya much, but I imagine most people in Japan have never heard of him. I figured that either Deku and Inko aren’t aware of what he’s doing, or they have vague ideas. 

Anyway, Japan’s Number One leaving the country and publically chasing after a minor villain overseas would probably stir up trouble and create a media nightmare. And I’m sure heroes have to deal with a lot of paperwork in order to work internationally. 

But that’s a neat idea! I like the idea that Deku doesn’t hide it and just acknowledges it with a shrug, and a reminder that people aren’t defined by their parents (re: Hisashi Midoriya, and re: Endeavour)