#just realized shirakumo isn't a spoiler anymore! yay!

[aromanticannibal]

ok something that has been bothering me and that ultimately doesn't matter. but. here I am.

So here Mic is talking about Shinsou. we all get why Aizawa would see himself in Shinsou, what's confusing to me is how he's see Shirakumo in him.

To me this can only be a question of appearance, because Shinsou just. Isn't like Shirakumo?

Shirakumo is joyful and a dumbass and he likes people and stuff, and Shinsou is a bitter, tired and mostly rude smartass (affectionate). Apart from their desire to be heroes, there's not really anything that makes them look alike.

I'll go over some other stuff I think Mic could be talking about at the end, but let's get to the appearance part.

THEY DON'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THE OTHER??

Here's a little doodle I made to show their main characteristics.

Shinsou : purple hair that stands on its own (or with hair gel), crescent-shaped eyes w/ heavy dark circles and white pupils.

Shirakumo : Blue cloud-like hair that stands on its own/floats, big almond eyes with white pupil (forgot to put that in the doodle), band-aid over nose, and those two little hair pieces framing his face.

The only thing they have in common is their hair standing up. Shinsou's eyes are also pretty much always the same shape, I noticed, he's not very expressive. see :

even at his most expressive, his eyes don't change that much :

I have no idea what that means but there.

Anyways, where am going with this? I thought of some way I could make Shinsou and Shirakumo look more alike. Think of this as a redesign of sorts.

here's another doodle :

my offer is to :

make Shirakumo's pupils more noticeably white, and make Shinsou and him some of the only characters who always have white pupils.

Give Shinsou hair pieces to frame his face like Shirakumo, but longer, or messier, so they don't look like a copy-paste.

make Shinsou's eyes slightly more almond-shaped - not exactly like Shirakumo's, just. rotate the guys a bit.

make Shirakumo's hair not exclusively blue ; here I made it a bit purple, but any darker or warmer color could work, as long as it's close to purple without being the exact same shade.

ideas that I couldn't incorporate in the doodles : Shinsou could have an aspect of his fighting style be similar to Shirakumo's, or have a similar mannerism as him (like how Aizawa and Shinsou share the nervous habit of putting their hand on their neck).

I think I'm gonna try to edit some screenshot or manga panel to show these changes (uwu follow @lunejump)

Anyways I'm not really doing this for any reason it just makes me so confused that Mic said Aizawa could be seeing Shirakumo in Shinsou.

I suppose he could just be talking about how Aizawa's protective of his students because of Shirakumo, or maybe he's making a parallel between Shirakumo saving Sushi and Aizawa "saving" Shinsou? idk man feel free to tell me if you know