#rei divorce arc when

[malewifetouya]

Unpopular opinion but I never liked the hc that Rei goes back to using her maiden name.

I understand wanting her to divorce Enji, and I do too, but her parents weren’t exactly good people either (considering they literally sold their daughter), and especially after the reveal that the Himura clan have been inbreeding, I DEFINITELY don’t want Rei to go by Himura again should she divorce Enji.

I hope Hori gives her a new last name. Not Todoroki, not Himura, just a new identity for Rei.

[apoloadonisandnarcissus]

@rey-jake-therapist asked me about my thoughts on the “Elrond will replace Celeborn on “Rings of Power” as Galadriel’s husband” theory. And I’m actually taking the role of Celeborn’s defense attorney on this one.

This is not a simple case of replacing one character with another. And this happening would not only cause a meltdown in the entire Tolkien fandom, but would completely wreck Tolkien lore beyond repair.

Firsts things first, no character can replace Celeborn as Galadriel’s “Elven husband” on Tolkien legendarium. And the show itself has already introduced Celeborn’s existence, and that he’s married to Galadriel. Elves marry for live and death (because Elves can’t truly die, their souls go the Halls of Mandos for a while, and are then reembodied and stay in Valinor), and divorce is forbidden, and only the Valar can decide otherwise. This is literally one of the main arguments against Sauron x Galadriel (every Saurondriel shipper knows this is doomship).

The "Rings of Power" fandom can’t really compare Sauron and Elrond. Elrond is one of the Eldar, and he follows the Valar laws; meaning, he knows Galadriel is married to Celeborn at the eyes of the Eldar and the Valar, and she can't divorce him (yes, even if he's “dead”). Sauron is a fallen Maia, a servant of Morgoth, who rebelled against the Valar and hates the Gods. Meaning: he couldn’t care less about their laws, and Galadriel is as good as single in his book (because he doesn’t recognize the Valar authority).

The moment “Celeborn as Galadriel’s husband” has been acknowledged by “Rings of Power”, any idea of replacement is out of the table, according to Tolkien legendarium. Besides, the show producers, in San Diego Comic-Con 2024, have already confirmed Celeborn will be in “Rings of Power”, we just don’t know when. 

For the sake of the argument, allow me to elaborate further problems with this hypothetical replacement. Rivendell and Lothlórien are two key Elven kingdoms in the story. Elrond is Lord of Rivendell, and Galadriel is Lady of Lothlórien; both kingdoms are protected and sustained by the power of their rings; Vilya and Nenya. This couldn’t possibly work, because they have to be in their kingdoms (only leaving on very specific occasions).

Celeborn and Galadriel, indeed, spent a lot of time apart in Tolkien lore, but this is usually in connection with Celeborn’s role as a warrior and as Lord of Lothlórien. Elrond couldn’t possibly be Lord of two major Elven kingdoms at the same time. And for the show to erase Lothlórien entirely would also create several issues: this is not only where Galadriel has her Mirror, and several other magical artifacts, but it’s a key location on itself and a huge part of Galadriel character, and of her “repentant sinner” arc in Tolkien lore: she needs to become a wise and powerful leader, and to wield her power with compassion and humility, in order to gain the Valar’s pardon and be able to return to Valinor.

In some versions of the lore, Galadriel established Lothlórien and Celeborn joined her later (because he was fighting elsewhere); in others they did it together. I don’t know with which version the show will go, but Lothlórien has to exist in it.

[laufire]

Thank you @redhoodinternaldialectical for tagging me!

rules: answer and tag nine people you want to get to know better and catch up with.

favourite colour: any shade of purple/lilac/violet/etc. also maroon/burgundy. also deep blues. that whole spectrum xD

last song: I was out partying last night and it was actually some techno song I couldn't name (it was good though), but the last song I actually remember and can tell you is Aloisio's "Flashbacks". Some eye-roll worthy lines but admittedly "Por ti me arrodillo y no te llamas Mary / No eres la muerte pero eres parecida" does things to me.

currently reading: I'm still going through "Burning Your Boats", a compillation of Angela Carter's short stories, and "Olvidado Rey Gudú" by Ana María Matute, both of which I'll finish this month. I also started reading my ARC of "We Will Devour The Night" by Camilla Andrews (aka @aninkwellofnectar) and caught up with the chapters she's posted of part three of the series (The Essence of the Equinox) in her ko-fi \o/

And, as usual, I'm reading through... many comics. I'm actually going to embarrass myself and list them lol. I'm completing some characters' appearances (prime earth!Jason, new earth's Cass, Steph, Talia, Leslie, Mia), almost done Green Arrow '01 and No Man's Land... + I started Devin Grayson's Catwoman's run (A++ so far!), Suicide Squad '87, and The Death of Superman.

Aaaand I'm keeping up with some ongoing runs. Monstress, Saga (IT'S BACK), Robin Lives, The Boy Wonder, Zatanna: Bring Down the House, Batman '89: Echoes, Batman: Dark Age, Batman: Justice Buster, WFA, Batman: Off-World, Ram V's 'Tec, Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham

currently watching: currently I'm on pause (I'm away on vacation) but when I'm back I'll continue watching old DCAU shows and FINALLY watch part 2 of The Glory. And finishing season 7 of stacked100, since I didn't even watch yesterday's episode lol.

currently craving: an hysterectomy.

coffee or tea: teaaaaaaa, always.

hobby to try: writing poetry. Attempts have been made but I want to go for it lol.

current au: "ooooohhh I got a million of these going at all times" <- same lmao. I'm just going to name the few I'm most focused on rn:

Young Justice: FÉNIX. That One Long Idea About Jason Reuniting With Everyone in the YJTV verse. It will include at least one additional (waaaay shorter, thankfully) story.

Damon & Elena, Marriage of Doom. I'm going to get so MEAN about this one <3

Mia & Jason Dollhouse AU!!

Jason Survives ADITF/No Death in the Family. What is says. Long series expanding from immediately post ADITF to the end of new earth añsdlfjasf. In my head, at least. You will see different versions of Knightfall, No Man's Land, Joker: Last Laugh, Murderer?/Fugitive, War Games/UTRH, and so on...

This ~future canon series that takes inspiration from some elements from A Lonely Place of Living and Duke's story but places them in New Earth. It includes a Damibats story with Damian and Colin as recent exes, a Jaytim story, TWO Jason & Duke stories, and another one where Chris Kent parent traps a divorced Clois. For now xD

Amnesiac Jason. Jason has suffered a psych attack and Bruce gets some creative licenses when he "fixes" him :)))

I'm gonna stop there. For all our sakes lol.

tagging (no pressure): @missbrunettebarbie @blairwaldcrf @wowthatsextra @mircallaruthven @lichfucker

@jaynotwayne @nastasyafilippovnas @danystargaryens @snowdropsandtigers

[lazlolullaby]

wish rewrite but Queen Amaya has a minor influence on the plot, aka: Divorce arc! + Bonus song context changes

(it sucks that a person with so much potential was put in the story but just utilized as the Villain's sounding board. You could have replaced her with an animal sidekick! She could have been a classic evil cat! Anyway.)

Tl:Dr: Amaya and Magnifico's relationship is utilized more in the movie for both plot and character development.

Plot: the same but Amaya is having a mid life crisis and relationship issues with Magnifico, giving them both more depth than "childhood trauma made me a control freak + evil book possession" and "I'm the indicator that something is going wrong with my husband".

(tw: verbal and emotional abuse tactics.)

Movie opens on a book. It's not adorned or flashy, just a simple journal. Amaya is writing in it, narrating.

Teen Amaya arriving on a boat with a small group of people. She looks up, enraptured by the stars but no one else does and she's left alone. There's no voice, but you can see that she says "I wish". Then someone calls for her and she leaves. The next night Magnifico appears from the forest, performing magic.

Then we get "City of Rosas" montage going through years. Amaya as the singer, giving the tour. You see the 7 friends interact with her as quick help, then Asha pops up, first next to Amaya then taking over the tour guide spot.

There's a quick establishing walk around the Castle. Amaya checking in on the 7, the servants and people. Everything is going well! The Castle is humming along perfectly! Amaya doesn't need to lend a hand, or explain what's needed. She's a bit of a workaholic and doesn't know what to do with herself.

She ends up in the kitchen with the 7 and Asha. Dahlia gets a check in, her new medication is working well so she's just got her crutch today instead of a full wheelchair. Asha is told "you care plenty, but don't let it blind you." Asha is the one who says that her grandpa Sabino is having his 100th birthday. And wants his wish granted.

Simon is sleepy, everyone is concerned. Amaya excuses herself.

She goes to Magnifico. "Mi rey. You need to give Simon's wish back. He's not well."

"You mean grant it? what do we need Knights for? We're perfectly safe!"

And with Sabino - "there's nothing that needs changing! I'm all the inspiration the Kingdom needs!"

There's hints that Magnifico doesn't like people too much. "we have to keep these safe. They are the best parts of our people." Implying that he just likes what he can choose and control out of people.

And cue "At all costs" as a duet between Magnifico and Amaya. Starting as a love song addressed to Amaya, but then his focus shifts to the Wishes. Her face falls as she realizes that he won't do what she asks. And she leaves.

(what happens when your picture perfect life falls apart? When the job you have chosen, put your whole body and soul into, doesn't need as much time or effort? When the person you love, that you have partnered with for over several decades, doesn't have the same goals you do anymore? Doesn't value you like they used to?)

Only to find Asha was eavesdropping the whole time. "Wait. Are you. Having an argument? I thought you were happy?"

"we are. It's just difficult right now. It's a disagreement. We're fine."

Cut to Asha in the kitchen gathered with the 7. "They are not fine." So. Lighthearted scheme to get the Queen and King back in love by setting up a romantic date.

The lunch date fails. Amaya asks questions, probing more into Magnifico's self serving logic. He launches into "This is the Thanks I get?" (Less of a solo tantrum, more of a mocking dialogue between them.) And shuts her down. Amaya is stricken.

"if they break up, who gets the Wishes? Who's in charge? I don't think divorce is a thing that Royalty goes through!"

They retreat - Magnifico to a wish granting and Amaya to the kitchen. Asha wants to convince Amaya to keep going, keep pushing for the wishes.

"Has he always been like that?"

"Magnifico - oh he always wanted an audience. He hasn't changed since the day we met. He was fun. We needed that support, people who believe in him, in our rule. back then, when there were so many unknowns."

"But it's not back then anymore. We deserve our wishes. Maybe if we can show him that a dangerous wish won't be so bad, he'll come around!"

"Asha, don't tell me-"

"my Grandfather Sabino! He just said wanted to play the lute, right?"

"not exactly..." Amaya felt the true nature of the wish, to inspire.

"what more time does he have! My father already lost out on his wish! I'm not letting anyone else lose!"

"this is what I can do. For now. Go home."

"I can't wait for this change. Until I'm 18? Then what? I'm just supposed to give up my wish like everyone has? Be like Simon?"

Amaya doesn't have an answer to that. Asha goes home. She talks to her family and has her solo "This Wish" song.

The Star shows up. But as in the concept art, it's a mute boy! He starts the animals singing "You're a Star" - and eventually joins in once he gets the hang of talking. "Here I are!" Is his first line.

Once that's over, Star explains. "The Stars grant Wishes. Sometimes they come down to help out personally. But that was a while ago. I want to find them, but you're the first person in a long time to make a wish on a star." They make a plan to release the Wishes themselves.

Meanwhile, Magnifico and Amaya see the light show from Star coming to the Kingdom. Amaya has vague recognition, Magnifico is mad. "Absolutely not. No one is stealing my Wishes from me."

Amaya takes this time that he's distracted to find Simon and Sabino's wishes. She sings a solo version of "Knowing what I know now" with more personal touches and she sends the wishes down the dumbwaiter.

Asha sneaks Starboy into the Castle. Gets her friends to help. They open up the dumbwaiter and find the wishes. Simon gets his back, starts to feel better. Asha grabs Sabino's and runs.

Magnifico starts to build up power. He gathers the town and tells them that there's a rogue magic user on the loose.

Asha brings the wish to Sabino. And he immediately starts to inspire people to question Magnifico. (Seriously. That was the easiest thread to follow through. And it didn't happen!!! What- who dropped the ball?)

Asha regroups with her friends. Does the full "knowing what I know now" song. Runs away to distract Magnifico while her friends release the wishes.

Star looks at Amaya - "your wish wasn't granted. There's a trick to it, if you want to hear." Amaya looks sad again.

Big courtyard confrontation. Magnifico has been absorbing Wishes to get more power.

"I haven't granted my first wish. A lot of them, actually. I won't leave." Magnifico stands his ground.

"unless I retract it."

"you won't." Magnifico laughs. "Who would love you? You're past your prime, far too bossy-"

"You. Wanted love?" Asha asks.

"I was younger than you are. I had lost everything. When I came here and looked at the stars, I thought I could have anything I wanted. And I wanted love. After everything that happened, I wanted love. That was only mine. But not like this."

"we love you. We see you. Even if you can't do magic or fix everything. We love you." Asha and the 7 say to Amaya.

So she reaches into Magnifico, pulling out her wish herself. Everyone sees that and starts to pull theirs from Magnifico.

And it leaves him as a slip of a silvery man. Star taps on him and Magnifico turns completely into his silver white star form. "That's where you've been!"

"so Stars can't stay on earth for too long or they'll go mad?"

"pfft. No. It's just this guy. C'mon let's get you some perspective." And Star takes him away into the sky.

It fades into a picture that Asha is drawing. Her and Amaya are making a book to explain what happened.

Amaya narrates the ending, telling us that it doesn't really end.

The 7 friends and Asha are made apprentices to Queen Amaya. Amaya starts to give the Wishes back, setting people up to achieve their dreams. Star pops back to say hi and go and grant more Wishes.

The handwritten book closes and Amaya stamps "Wish" on the cover with leather tools.

The end

[westgateoh]

The Mother Problem and “Buddy Daddies”

SPOILERS AHEAD “Buddy Daddies” was a surprisingly wonderful little anime! They did a fantastic job of creating three lovable main characters and a couple of also-lovable side characters, and I got very invested in the story right away. It was also darker than expected, in a good way that gave the show depth and stakes. However, it had the Mother Problem, which so many media have. 

Mother characters always seem to baffle writers (almost as if they’re not sure how to write them as real people), and writers often blunder when trying to solve the Mother Problem. People are accusing “Buddy Daddies” of this same blunder.

In short, the Mother Problem is that our culture assumes that mothers are magical creatures who would never let something bad happen to their child and, more importantly, that if they do let something bad happen to their child then they are bad mothers, and maybe even more importantly, we can’t possibly depict bad mothers. (Bad fathers are fair, rich game, of course.) When media does depict bad mothers, which absolutely do exist in the real world, it’s a risky endeavor, so they often use the Standard Mother Problem Solution: get rid of the mothers entirely, early, so they’re out of the picture and our narrative doesn’t have to worry about them. Mothers die offscreen a LOT in media.

  A story about two men who find a four year-old child (after killing her father) and decide to raise her (causing beautiful character growth for both of them) definitely is going to have the Mother Problem, and it appears that the writers knew this and didn’t want to go the easy way out. They didn’t want to kill the mother character at the beginning, the easy route, because they wanted her to be able to come back later and decide to step up and take Miri back to raise her and be a Good Mother. The coming back arc was the way to show that our beloved dad characters have Actually Grown, and they are both devastated to lose Miri. We needed that arc, especially with Rei’s character, who had been reluctant so far about being a dad. Mom had to come back for a short time. Makes sense.

  What do with her, after, though? We need our dads to be able to be dads again! We need the mother out of the picture! The Internet is abuzz this week about how they solved the problem. I would argue that the only way they could have solved the problem differently was to keep Misaki alive and have the three of them co-parent, like a divorced household, with Miri spending time at both places throughout her childhood. HOWEVER, this would not have our beloved dads the center of attention, and was not really a good option, narratively. It would have been clunky to set up, and we would have lost the found-family focus that the story sets up.

  They maybe could have had Misaki decide that parenting wasn’t for her after all (which is where I expected them to go), but two things would have happened there, very importantly. One, Misaki would have been a Bad Mother and, honestly, it would have been tough for people not to see her as a kind of villain – but we didn’t want that because she was clearly the victim of domestic violence and in a tough situation. She wasn’t ever a villain. Two, if they had made her a Bad Mother, people would have cried misogyny, likely. I think we need to see that reality more often, but the show runners wouldn’t have wanted to deal with those accusations, I imagine.

  Some might argue that they could have had her willingly give Miri up because she didn’t have much money, but there’s a lot to unpack around that, including the fact that our boys were about to leave their only known profession and be done with Rei’s family money, so they weren’t very well-off, either. Also, a lot to unpack around that in general around poverty and single motherhood, as well as how hard it would be for her to do that and leave the picture entirely. They also would have had to do that in a single episode, cutting short the other emotional beats the show was aiming for.

  The narrative kind of demanded that Misaki got killed, really, even though it sucks, of course. The boys needed the jarring reality that they couldn’t stay in the hitman business with a kid because the stakes were too high and the possibility too real that Miri could also get killed. They needed the push to call everything off and get out. Misaki was that push, to say nothing of how the narrative didn’t have the time or space for a three-parent situation.

  In the end, when they set up the premise for the show, they had to deal with both of Miri’s bio parents, and the choices they made were difficult. I wish the Mother Problem didn’t get dealt with this way so very, very often, but for me, it played out in a necessary way here (at least it wasn’t offscreen), and didn’t feel like an easy out or misogyny, just the way the story traveled.

[meowstix]

RAT'S BIGASS LIST OF (TRUE AND CORRECT) BSB HEADCANONS

i've listed most of these before in previous posts but since i added onto that via reblog additions they aren't in the main tag. however, i want to make as many people look at these as possible, so i am making this absurdly long post compiling them.

kyojyu trans.

after the events of v-force, zeo went on to pretty much start a new life with a new identity. during this process they Also transed their gender (i'm not sure on the specifics of this one admittedly, but as you might have noticed i do hc zeo as using they/them pronouns that much i'm sure of)

speaking of post-season antics, brooklyn retired from beyblading after g-revolution and is now focusing on ornithology

speaking of which. points at brooklyn. autism

honestly. i think the entire main gang is also neurodivergent i'm not even exactly sure what but i refuse to believe they're neurotypical.

i think at some point i hit rei with my aro beam i'm not even sure why (i probably just wanted to hit Somebody with the beam) but he's aro now why not.

so those top euro bladers right. ralf, olivier, giancarlo, and johnny. them. they're in a polycule.

ok these last two are gonna be fucking stupid so bear with me here. first i joked about this one before but steve got hit by the down with cis bus before the start of g-rev and that's why he's in the hospital (kyojyu and zeo were on the bus obviously)

daitenji is divorced from zagart. he is also divorced from soichirou. maybe throw in volkov for good measure why not. every time this guy gets a divorce the other person goes on to commit atrocities this man is a fucking menace to society

you know how like with ghost stories sometimes it's like if you try to take a picture of the ghost the picture gets all messed up. it's like that with sacred beasts too, though the world tournaments probably have some way of getting around that.

it's also effectively random who can see sacred beasts! like there's Some factors i guess but there's no specific big one other than "if you have a sacred beast you can see them no matter what". but yeah this leads to.. a LOT of debate over whether they're real even outside of beyblading discussion. takao vs yuriy either settled this debate or made it even worse.

judy ABSOLUTELY knew what she was doing when sending genbu's bit to max. i don't know how she ended up with it but i wouldn't be shocked if it was through her work with the PPB and honestly i'm still kind of 🤨 about them so it's probably for the best this Literal God ended up with some preteen

i think during the bega arc while the main gang was figuring out how they'd handle all of that king and queen were probably getting into so much shit. like obviously the focus is more on these Former World Champions (and Current World Champion) but in the background there's also just these two other decently strong bladers who are completely unaffected by bega's monopoly on parts because they've never been getting parts legally in the first place AND YOU CAN'T REALLY TRY TO RUIN THEIR REPUTATION EITHER BECAUSE THEY JUST DO NOT GIVE A SHIT

kai, rei, and daichi all out here in the getting sensory overload gang. congrats daichi you’ve gotten 1 (one) headcanon.

boris and sergey sound like 4kids sword knight and blade knight. the thing is that who sounds like who constantly switches so at any given time one of them will be near incomprehensible and there’s no way of telling which. it’s not like they have much if any personality in the first place so i can make up stupid shit

kyojyu has pretty much become hiromi’s semi-reluctant partner in crime, except the crime is powerpoint presentations detailing the most well thought out but also utterly stupid (and illegal but like. this is the BBA team we’re talking about with their track record they’ll be fine) plans any of the other team members have seen in their life. atleast one of these either has already gone through or will be executed in the future

takao has also kickstarted some stupid shit albeit it’s generally more akin to #clayisoverparty if you've heard of that

i think bakuten shoot might be the first piece of media i’ve had a significant number of lgbt headcanons for. anyway mao is bi and emily is an aro lesbian.

after the events of g-rev the entire situation surrounding bega is just generally considered an absolute shitstorm. like we’re talking like community lore here if that makes sense. someone probably wrote an r/hobbydrama post about it well over a decade later.

you know how they mentioned that like thirty years prior to the events of the show zagart had stolen that one sacred beast rock and then they never explain what happened to it. that's how zeo like, Exists despite the question of "how the hell do you create a replica that perfect of a human being in two thousand fucking two". mf is basically held together by sealed away sacred beasts

this one i mostly thought of because i was looking through the manga version of the battle tower stuff. in the animeverse i feel like zagart and volkov possibly knew eachother at some point. quick note here whenever i think abt v-force i generally just. pretend psykick Isn't There. I Do Not See Them. since they're basically just a middleman but ANYWAY. honestly this idea is very funny to me because like you have these two guys trying to create artificial sacred beasts right? and Child Soldiers McWar Crimes over here is doing animal experimentation n shit, still fucked up of course but then over on the other hand. the guy who's trying to bring back his dead son ends up basically just straight up brainwashing people

another very much canon-contradictory v-force one, actually i know i was talking about this one a few days ago. anyway yeah kane, salima, and the other two guys had very much taken interest in zagart's research on sacred beasts! they looked up to this guy! and this motherfucker went "yeah i'll take advantage of these literal teenagers" can you TELL i like leaning into the concept of zagart just being an absolute shit person even if his motivation was sympathetic

DEDICATED KAI SECTION BECAUSE I THINK HE'S NEAT :3

he is ABSOLUTELY the kind of motherfucker to wear shorts in cold ass weather

also this guy knows hand to hand combat. probably beat up atleast one person during his time as a Whole Ass Gang Leader tbh

speaking of which i think that time period is probably where like. almost all of his experiences with social settings before the world tournament came from. also he probably got updogged around this time i think

so you know how i brought up the daitenji's divorce shenanigans? going by that kai really out here being the focus of the world's most batshit custody battle huh

kai was NOT having a good time with the whole celebrity (or atleast. in terms of whatever the scope for beyblading is) thing. you throw this very much traumatized teenager with a sketchy ass past into the spotlight it’s not gonna go well

i was just talkin abt this one earlier but he is gay and ace.

and of course. last but most.

[challengerblue]

masriel of course, ichiruki, reylo

MASRIEL

— ship it

why? i want to put them both under a microscope. and my own self for reading those books aged 10 and fixating on these two characters. would you believe my parents are divorced shocking i know

my favourite things about them? lovers to enemies... deep & unexplored backstory... the push & pull of it all... assholes who respect nobody but themselves and each other... "you and i could take the universe to pieces and put it back together again"... "your parents, both strong in the world, both ambitious"... etc etc. and just the way so much time has passed, and their goals have diverted so much, but they still remain fixated on each other. i also like that they're both so intelligent and ruthless in pursuit of scientific discovery. science as a love language etc etc. they are also very very funny

an unpopular opinion? i like the idea that they first fell in love as more of a... uh, meeting of the minds than purely physical on the spot. love or lust at first sight isn't my bag

ICHIRUKI

— ship it

why? it's such an old ship for me i'm not sure what first got me... i remember watching the ss arc on tv late at night, and they grew on me very quickly

my favourite things about them? i love the sun and moon imagery, the way their meeting sets the whole story moving. they had such a massive influence over each other's lives & the level of trust that grew from that was really sweet to watch. they felt like equals in a lot of ways. i also like how comfortable they are with each other despite coming from such vastly different ways of life.

an unpopular opinion? hmm. the older i get the more my brain kind of hones in on the age difference, i won't lie.

REYLO

— ... ship it

why? when she butchered his face with the lightsaber at the end of tfa, that. that was the moment. yes i know

my favourite things about them? enemies to lovers idk. i found their dynamic very entertaining throughout, and how she essentially "stole" his legacy right out from under him, to which he responded by being obsessed with her. and rey finding connection despite herself but refusing to give up her morals, so she just. beat his ass constantly

an unpopular opinion? i was pretty happy with the end of tros & never particularly wanted a redemption arc for him

[sinaliciousposts]

I confess, I've been rewatching a lot of My Hero Academia and finally finished season 6. Aaaaaaand I can't help myself. I am an Endeavor fangirl. I don't know why, but maybe I just like the most complex characters that in reality are emotionally unavailable. Who knows?

So I tried something knew to write about. An inner monologue of him realizing that he fell in love with another pro hero, before he became our No. 1 and started his redemption arc.

(In my mind Rei also divorced the shit out of him. I would have if I'd been in her shoes, just to protect my kids from the maniac.)

Struggles

Why is this happening? This is ridiculous. I don't have time for this. I'm supposed to be focused on becoming the number one hero, surpassing All Might. But every time I see her, every time she smiles in my direction, it's like something shifts within me.

Love? No, that's absurd. Love is for the weak, for those who can afford to lose focus. I have responsibilities, a legacy to build and uphold. I can't let myself be distracted by silly emotions.

And yet, there's that nagging feeling, that flutter in my chest everytime she's near. Damn it, this is frustrating. Why can't I control myself like I do in battle? Why do my thoughts become a chaotic mess when it comes to her?

Maybe it's just admiration. She's a competent hero, dedicated and strong. Perhaps I've mistaken respect for something more. I can't afford to be vulnerable, not after all the times I've fallen short of my own expectations. I can't and won't allow myself to disappoint myself again over a foolish notion.

But... I've seen the way she looks at me. The way she listens to me, even when I'm not speaking. Is it possible that she... no, that's wishful thinking. You damn fool, get yourself together.

And yet, I can't escape this pull. It's like an undertow, dragging me into uncharted waters. I've built walls around myself for so long, to protect myself from exposing my weaknesses. Love is just another weakness, isn't it?

But what if it's not? What if letting someone in doesn't make me weaker, but stronger? What if I just could learn to accept that I'm not perfect, that I've made mistakes, that I have flaws?

Damn it, this is infuriating. I can't let myself be swayed by emotions, but... I can't ignore them either. Perhaps, for now, I'll postpone this decision. I'll keep my distance and regain control over my thoughts again.

-Ding-

Wait, a text? From her? What does she want? "Hey, are you free tonight?"

Maybe... maybe it's time to take a chance. To see where this path leads. This is just another challenge I meet head-on, right? If she's willing to accept me, flaws and all, then maybe... just maybe... it's worth it.

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I hope you liked it. Don't know if I got his character right, but I tried.

Thanks for reading :)

[garnetrena]

Tagged by @mybrainsamess , thanks!! 💙💙💙

Put your spotify (or non-spotify equivalent) on the 'on repeat' playlist, shuffle it and then share the first 10 songs. then tag 10 people.

For me, it's on Deezer!! A lot of fandom stuff, tbh.

Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strenght) - The Weeknd (Avatar 2 OST)

I See You - MISSIO (for me, it's a Ineffable Husbands song)

Wololo - Babes Woduma, Mampintsha (Black Panther OST - Shuri's lab song). I listened to this song a lot while I was writing my afrofuturistic solarpunk story!!

Would That I - Hozier (a Raeda song)

Eat Your Young - Hozier (not a fandom song but I really, really love Hozier and I listen to this song a lot)

Francesca - Hozier (same remark for this one)

Eyes Closed - Ed Sheeran (for me, it's a RosePearl song ✨)

L'Amour est Mort - K-Reen (another Raeda song when they're in their divorce arc, and it's zouk this time so I think it only works for me lol)

Rabbit Heart (Rise It Up) - Florence and the Machine (a Jaspis song, for me)

Cola - Lana Del Rey ("My pussy tastes like Pepsi Cola" and "Don't treat me rough, treat me really niceys" are true bangers)

And I tag: @chonaku-things , @sweettsubaki , @toooldforthisbutstill and anyone who wants to do this game!! And no pressure, only do it if you find it fun ^^

tagged by @ronandreams, thank you so much chance! 💘

put your spotify (or non-spotify equivalent) on the 'on repeat' playlist, shuffle it and then share the first 10 songs. then tag 10 people.

too many gods by asap rocky, joey badass

hair down by sir, kendrick lamar

moonlight by xxxtentacion

pick me up by g-eazy, anna of the north

hollywood's bleeding by post malone

dont want it by lil nas x

little bit by drake, lykke li

bounce back by big sean

hurt you by the weeknd, gesaffelstein

chun swae by nicki minaj, swae lee

tagging: @hellshee, @nynazenik, @andronicus-lives-here, @nathan-fielder, @laurensgraham, @kuroes, @currahee, @mmelark, @hermnione, @winterflell

[thyandrawrites]

how would you write dabis ending if you could?

I feel like I have answered variations of this question at least half a dozen times this year, but the more the ending of the manga creeps closer... the more my reply gets simpler and simpler. If there was one (1) thing I could change, it would be the purpose of Dabi's character in the story. With increasingly less subtlety, Horikoshi has been treating Dabi as a narrative tool to make Endvr achieve his final, true atonement. So far, nothing of what Dabi has done to achieve justice — or even a bare acknowledgment of his suffering from his dad or his family — has stuck. Not only has Endvr failed to take accountability for it, but Dabi's still being scapegoated as a problem to solve, as a stubborn, reckless idiot that doesn't know when to "stop" and needs to be shaken out of his obsession with force.

I still hold out some hope that Shouto will address him in less dehumanizing terms at some point, but so far, nothing in the story gives me any hope that saving Touya is a choice motivated by the will to see Touya as a victim. Too much narrative focus was put on how Endvr can "correct" his past neglect by bringing Touya home for that to happen. One good "redemptive" action doesn't cancel out a lifetime of domestic abuse, it doesn't erase Dabi's scars, and it doesn't give him and Rei the years of their life that they've lost to mental illness. But it looks like Horikoshi is pushing for an ending where the heroes are ultimately framed as "good" and all the conflict and social inequality he spent so long presenting will never actually get solved (or even addressed as more than worldbuilding lore, tbh). Dabi will likely be brough back home, will make peace with his dad, the end.

If I was writing the story... Well, there's little that can be done to "fix" the inconsistencies and the retconning in the todofam plotline at this point... But I guess I would write an ending where the fam doesn't have to reconcile with Endvr at all, but in fact moves on from him, without him. Particularly Dabi.

Narratively speaking, Endvr's "bad" is not something fixable with character growth. Especially when he doesn't have much growth in the first place (the man is still running away from facing Touya, despite how that's literally been presented as his one obstacle for atonement. He has the chance to earn all he'd ever wanted at the ridiculously low price of swallowing his pride, and he can't even do that for his family).

One way for Endvr to stop dragging his family down would be death (and it could've been achieved easily during the war arc), but I feel like that would leave some loose ends that still need addressing. If I was writing this, I would have Endvr consciously deciding to step away from his family. Divorcing Rei, using his ranking for something actually useful like advocating for his son not to end up in jail for life, that sort of deal.

Thematically, Dabi's arc cannot be solved without Endvr. The question Dabi asks, the one still unanswered by Endvr's avoidance, is "What is my existence truly worth to you, father? Why did you bring me to life if you never wanted me?"

Which is where I think the whole Todofam plot starts suffering. Cause that question... is far too kind. Dabi's not asking "Why did you inflict all that suffering onto me, father? Why could you not love my flaws as much as my bright sides? Why was it so easy for you to forget about me and my pain when you got the heir you wanted, if you still insist that you loved me?"

The reason behind this is simple. As I explained above, Horikoshi's not setting out to write Touya/Dabi as a fully fledged character, but just as a narrative challenge for Endvr to overcome and "earn" his atonement. The question Dabi asks, then, is very obviously staged as an easy hurdle for Endvr to overcome. Horikoshi made it so that Dabi's arc cannot have a resolution so long as Endvr doesn't have a central role in it.

To explain what I mean by this: the reason why Touya couldn't make sense of his existence when Endvr tossed him away is because Endvr never conceptualized Touya's existence as Touya's. He always phrased it as if Touya was an extension of himself. That's why half of Touya's life consisted of making his father proud and the other half of spiting him. Touya cannot fully separate his sense of self from his father and from the need to be seen by him. Horikoshi set this up so that for the writing to make sense, Endvr needs to set him free from that suffocating expectation. He needs to let Touya start living for himself. The one way he can do it is by acknowledging his son as an individual, and seeing him as a person and not an abstract concept. Another way he can achieve this is by simply... caring for Touya now.

You see what I mean?

Dabi's arc is not written with the idea of giving Dabi justice or even a satisfying ending. It's written from the assumption that Dabi is Endvr's redemption tool.

There's little that can be done about this now, unfortunately. I don't really see a way for Horikoshi to make Dabi's saving something about Dabi instead of about Endvr's redemption... If I was writing a fix-it that gave Dabi more justice, that saw his reason to be angry and didn't brush it off... Basically, if I was writing an ending of Dabi's arc that had in mind Dabi's healing instead of the "fixing" of a dysfunctional family, I would definitely scrap the past few arcs and completely write them anew. Imho, the Todofam's plot started going sideways ever since pro hero arc, where Endvr became a main character with a pov, and the todofam was his collateral, instead of victims who need healing. It only got worse and worse since then, culminating in the war arc.

So... to answer your question... If I wanted to write an ending for Dabi... I would completely unearth this idea that Dabi's healing = Endvr's atonement. I would likely work on something more focused on Shouto and Dabi, or the Todosibs in general. I would make Dabi face the idea that his life always had meaning from the start, and he didn't need to prove his right to exist. I would have Shouto reach out to him emotionally because he's the only one who can understand the rage that's destroying Dabi from within. I would have the two of them be each other's support system, to counter how his father forcibly pried them apart and fueled their rivalry, depriving them of the one person who could've understood. I would have Endvr stop trying to be a father now, without even asking his children if they're okay with it. I would have Dabi consciously decide to never summon his flames again because he has worth without them. I would make him see that the Lov is more than just pawns and that they have his back. I would make him realize that his family always loved him. I would make him reach a point where he's fully comfortable in his skin, and stops trying to rip it from his bones to find a meaning in death that he couldn't find in life. I would make him live, and I would make him move on from all the toxicity his father planted in his head

Alas, bnha will never go that deep. I'll be surprised if the story doesn't end with some wishy-washy morale like "the heroes are cool because they could save even someone as insane as Dabi"

[heartbreakercupcake]

🔥 for my hero academia?

Oh God where do I start?? Like:

I think Dabi is 100% Endeavor's fault

The family sharing the blame for what happened to him is bullshit, in that chapter it should have been Rei being able to stand up to Enji and divorcing him.

I feel like Rei is only used to for Shoto and Enji's "Man pain" like they never really go into her as a character and how all this has effected her and how she dealt with it, its like shes just there to get slapped around and cry pretty much.

I didn't like the fact that Rei was so quick to forgive Enji, she was sent away to the hospital FOR 10 YEARS away from her kids, having no idea what was going on that whole time, I really would have liked if she either didn't forgive him or was PISSED, I want Rei to get mad, that's all I'm asking shes well with in her rights to.

Endeavor should have stepped down from hero work after he past was reviled to the public

THE PEOPLE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO PROTEST AND BE UPSET WITH ENDEAVOR OR NOT QUICK TO TRUST HIM AFTER THEY FOUND OUT HE ABUSED HIS FAMILY FOR PRETTY MUCH A DECADE

the fact that MHA depicts protesters as malicious is DEEPLY troubling

The liberation Army/War Arc is TRASH

Might as well call the hero kids Child soldiers/ The heroes cops at this point, I mean I use to think people seeing them like that to be a bit far fetched but now? GOOD GOD

Lady Nagant was right, I hate how the narrative HAS to make her side with AFO and murderer so you can't side with her same thing with "Villains", The people who want liberation and have been abused by the system and have the gull to question it gets painted as "Crazy" or "killers" is just gross, I knew MHA was inspired by American Comic books/movies BUT I DIDN'T THINK THEY GO WITH THAT ANGLE TOO, The status quo is God I guess ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

Also I never liked Bakugo, I honestly thought he was annoying and to nasty to like, I never got why he was so popular, I JUST started to like when he FINALLY said sorry to Midoriya.

Endeavor is still my fave character.

[littleholmes]

As someone with a dad who was, to put it mildly, a shit dad in my youth and most of my life but is now trying to redeem himself in my late 20’s, this situation with the Todoroki family to me is so interesting in it’s depiction of the family’s varied reactions to endeavor over the course of these arcs, idk let me explain [mild spoilers for ch. 300 under the cut, tw for mentions of abuse and abandonment]

My mom is similar to Rei, unmoved by my dad’s tears when he receives consequences for his actions and unfazed by his attempts to be a better man decades after he left and she (my mom) divorced him. I have three significantly older half-siblings, two of which have written him off completely, one who is indifferent but keeps contact with him, and then there’s me. I have wavered since my late teens to now between Touya’s anger, Fuyumi’s care, Natsuo’s indifference, and Shouto’s irritated tolerance (I know their emotions aren’t as simply reduced to the above but that’s a whole separate post).

When I see Enji, I see my dad. While he wasn’t nearly as awful nor was he physically abusive like Enji, I still bear the trauma and metaphorical burns of his emotional (& verbal at times) abuse, his neglect when he was around, and his years of pure straight-up abandonment. He recognized me as his kid, as a tiny human he helped create who existed, when it was convenient. When I see Dabi, I see what he’s done in these last chapters as completely justified, particularly given the hero society as it is right now and how much of a pedestal they put heroes on. I would be livid if a society put my dad on a pedestal as a No. 2, now No. 1 hero, if kids were saying they wanted to be him when they grow up. To see that, and have society praising him as an amazing man when I know the horrible shit he did to me and my mom and his other kids? That would be upsetting at the least and traumatic at worst. So Touya pulling out the truth to ruin his reputation? I don’t blame him.

Now when I see Fuyumi and her previous attempts to bridge the divide so to speak and play nice, I understand that too. I cling to the crumbs of moments when he was a good dad and the good times, but the bad tilt the scale in a way that makes it hard to ignore. It’s all part of the weird complicated emotions that, for some people, can come up when dealing with a parent, (particularly in my situation as an only/youngest child hybrid which gets extrapolated in the feeling-responsibility-for-aging-parents department, but I digress). My dad has improved since I was a kid, and while I recognize that he’s actively trying to be a better dad, it doesn’t make the damage he caused me and my mom any better. It’s hard to undo damage from gaslighting and emotional abuse. It’s taken time and years of therapy, but my view of my dad is still something that is incredibly complicated. He underwent cancer treatments this past year and that made everything even more emotionally complex because I was worried and scared, but there were absolutely moments when part of me, the part who is still very upset about what he’s done, was indifferent.

The metaphorical burns, the trauma, caused by my dad will always be in my mind. And I know forgiving is not forgetting, but I don’t think I’ve fully forgiven him--and idk if I ever will because his past actions have had major repercussions to my being and mental health, and while I recognize his progress, I also keep myself on guard and stop getting my hopes up because I’m always certain the bottom will drop and he’ll go back to being awful again and I don’t want go back to being that kid who was let down by her dad over and over again.

So when I see this Enji situation and the Todoroki family, I feel the same. I watch Enji and wonder when the bottom is gonna drop. Is he just trying to be ‘better’ because the public is watching now that he’s No. 2 and because his shit is catching up to him? Or is he really trying to be better because he feels guilty? I see him cry and I’m angry--why does he get to cry about his consequences? But then a tiny part is like damn because I recognize his humanity and I’m too damn empathetic for my own good, but the overwhelming bulk of me is rolling my eyes because I can’t accept the tears after everything he's done. I don’t want him to get away with it.

While I recognize that, sure, Enji’s trying, I’m wary and waiting for the bottom to drop, just like with my dad. And I might have a few moments of care, but mostly I’m as indifferent as the other siblings because I was Touya, crying and ripping my hair. I vied for years for my dad's attention, acceptance, and love, only to be forgotten for a few years then remembered. And because of that, now I’m severely burned and carry that weight of his ‘parenting’ and choices, and deal with it and him like Shouto.

But that’s just my situation and I recognize that everyone’s own histories and experiences with toxicity/abuse is different and influences how they view these arcs. How we view these arcs is as valid as our experiences and pain.

TL;DR: I just appreciate that we get to see the layers of this family and the complexity of their emotions while they navigate the situation that is reconciling past with present Endeavor.

[spaceasianmillennial]

The Endeavor Atonement Arc

As someone who watched the entire anime and knows the manga arc and its spoilers.

I know there is so much discourse around Endeavor. In my own viewing experience as a western viewer, I’m kinda impressed that most of what I see in the anime has been sensitively pulled off. It lays out its imperfections bare and explores real cognitive dissonance when dealing with a loved one who’s hurt you and other loved ones, and stolen several of your happy years away. It’s not very sentimental to said subject of “atonement.” It’s trying to persuade you to understand Endeavor is actively growing and he makes material plans to provide a safer space for his family, but it’s also a realistic portrait about the messiness of healing and even shows the ways he still stagnates emotionally. 

I also know of the “Dabi is Touya” spoiler from the manga. 

I don’t where this will go, but I have some thoughts what could be the outcome:

Endeavor is killed in battle, possibly while trying to save/recover Touya.

Endeavor proceeds with his plan to construct a separate home for his kids and Rei. (Now this is a spoiler thing that’s apparent but I didn’t experience the full context). Possibly after that, he is on visitation terms with them, but he never resides with them because there are irreparable things between him and Rei, even if they were able to come to equal footing after a messy marriage.

I can see Endeavor and Rei filling out divorce papers and it being played as a necessary outcome. I can see them recollecting fonder memories of each other, Endeavor realizing that he should have just focused on sharing a life with her rather than pursue his ambitions, but ultimately leaving behind the relationship because Endeavor now understands it’s too late.

I can see Endeavor being a better grandfather than he is a father if/when he becomes a grandfather. And while everyone trusts him at this point, that still contributes to cognitive dissonance his kids undergo.

Natsuo is mentioned to possibly have a girlfriend. I think this may foreshadow him starting a family later, and Endeavor would be in future grandchildren’s lives.

[brownshouto]

(Headcanon Ask Game) The Todorokis (Including Endeavor if you like, considering this can be used to dunk on him LMAO!!).

I won’t do Endeavor bc the man doesn’t deserve to live in my head rent free, I rather do Rei

Todoroki Rei

Headcanon A: She didn’t know she was vulnerable to developing psychosis, but she has a long family history of it, hers was dormant and only got triggered by the abuse she suffered. Like her she inherited it to all her kids (which is not a bad thing, they are just all schizo-spec)

Headcanon B: She unplugs Endeavor’s life support post war arc 🤷‍♀️, she walks out like nothing happened.

Headcanon C: Shouto doesn’t blame her for what happened, it isn’t her fault at all but after she’s rightfully freed from the hospital sometimes Shouto has bad days where he will look at her with fear in his eyes as an immediate trauma response before rationalising his fear, it hurts both of them.

Headcanon D: she divorces Endeavor and marries a good man who cherishes her and helps her through her psychotic episodes.

Todoroki Touya

Headcanon A: He keeps a list of all the people he kills and mentally tortures himself by obsessing over how their families must be suffering because of his actions.

Headcanon B: He worked at a McDonalds and would undercook the meat from the burgers of mean clients, he is responsible for many cases of brucellosis.

Headcanon C: He has no sense of identity outside of what Endeavor instilled in him, he considers himself a failure and even as he grew to hate Endeavor he still internalised all the fake abusive shit Endeavor made him believe.

Headcanon D: He listens to ABBA in his free time.

Todoroki Fuyumi

Headcanon A: She is a very attentive pre-school teacher, she will pay attention to her kids in case anything is going on in their home lives, she’s very gentle and kind, the kids love her.

Headcanon B: She and his girlfriend run an Endeavor hate account on Twitter.

Headcanon C: Her fawn response to trauma has made her do a lot of emotional labour for Endeavor, in order to try to connect with him in a healthy way, which is exhausting and bad for her, she will occasionally break down after doing it for too long, she doesn’t know why it happens.

Headcanon D: (ik this has been disproven by canon this is the only reason why this is in the “unrealistic” category) She and Touya are twins, she’s in the possession of a very powerful ice quirk she rarely uses because of its destructive power and because she inherited Endeavor’s fire quirk constitution and will get hypothermia really quickly after using it.

Todoroki Natsuo

Headcanon A: He is treated like a human being for the first time when he leaves for college, that’s why he returns home even angrier than before, he’s gotten a taste of what he and his siblings actually deserved and he’ll be damned if he lets Endeavor overlook them and disrespect them a single second more.

Headcanon B: He cheers for Rei when she unplugs Endeavor’s life support.

Headcanon C: His girlfriend had to make the first move because even though they both liked each other, Natsuo didn’t think he would be noticed by her due to years of abuse and neglect where he was taught to feel worthless.

Headcanon D: (this is only unrealistic bc bnha would never go there) he is bisexual with a preference for women and he’s very proud of it.

Todoroki Shouto

Headcanon A: He has never recognised himself as a victim of abuse, even though he knows what abuse looks like, this leads to a lot of dissociation whenever he remembers anything about his abuse.

Headcanon B: he says fuck hero school, drops out of UA, starts culinary school and becomes a baker.

Headcanon C: He was isolated as a young child and therefore experiences a lot of anxiety in social situations, he can’t read them at all, however he is hyperaware of anger in people and therefore prefers to stay quiet in case what he says angers a person. When he makes friends this becomes a problem because he won’t speak up or disagree with them even when he wants to because he’s been conditioned to expect violence.

Headcanon D: He maxes out Endeavor’s credit cards while getting things for Uraraka and Midoriya because he wants to give them the nice things they deserve.

[justslightlycool]

Hey bnha manga rant here. I'm kinda disappointed with Shoto's arc in the recent chapters. After the big dabi reveal the war arc felt kind of convoluted because of one plot twist after another. We also get very minimal pov from Shoto after the reveal. He was finally healing mentally. But we hardly get to see his proper emotional turmoil and the pressure of fighting his own brother in the future. Even in the dabi vs shoto fight, Deku sort of steals the spotlight by demonstrating his new quirk. I also think it would have been nice to see 1a's reaction. How do you feel about this?

Ohoho~ my time has finally come.

Welp, bb, I have a lot of feelings about Shoto’s arc and the manga’s plot in general, in this essay I will but to answer your questions:

1. Yes, everything post-Toya reveal felt like Boku no Hero Speedrun and it did take precious focus and pages away from an emotionally charged for everyone - Shoto, Toya, and Endeavor.

2. Having said that, it didn’t bother me that Hori didn’t dive into Shoto’s turmoil right away (and by this I mean, during the battle) bc I read it as Shoto taking over while Endeavor froze. Shoto, canonically, is great at compartmentalizing (eg: there’s the amazing hero Endeavor, from whom he can learn so much; and then there’s his abusive father, Enji Todoroki). So right then, it felt very in-char for him to handle Toya’s attacks, even trying to reach out at once (objectiveness + kindness, traits we have seen other characters praise Shoto for having).

3. Now, post-battle...We got that one panel where Shoto thinks “I have to be the one to face Toya” or something along those lines and then we have Rei arriving with divorce papers and the whole TodoFam assuming responsibility for the creation of Dabi, therefore telling Shoto ~they’re all in this together~ and heeeeere is where my particular beef lies.

4. I am not exactly bothered by the fact Hori didn’t explore more of Shoto’s feelings about fighting Toya because - and this might be controversial - Shoto barely remembers his brother. He’s much younger and had barely any connection to his siblings. I think he feels the pressure from the concept of fighting against a brother, but not Toya himself (completely different than if Natsuo were in Shoto’s shoes, for example). But we did get Shoto’s empathy, how he can see his past self in Toya and recognize the same self-destruction, etc. And I feel like this is where the connection and chance to save Toya is, so I was satisfied by the way Hori did it.

5. What I did miss, and I think we’ll never get to see, is his reaction to Rei’s admission she’s to blame for his scar; what was he thinking when he saw Endeavor crying?; what did Natsuo and Fuyumi say to him after Hawks and BJ left?

6. I say this bc, despite the western fandom’s stance on Endeavor and the tons of hcs and fanfics where Shoto is forever sluuuuurping away at his dad, canon is showing us that he might indeed choose forgiveness. And, damn it, I wanna see how he arrives there!

7. I love the Todofam plot, it is my favorite in the entire series: it’s incredibly nuanced, from how the siblings react to Endeavor’s abuse and neglect; to how it affected their other parental figure, an abuse victim so broken she hurts one of her children; to Endeavor himself. Everything has layers, no cookie-cutter reactions and - most wonderfully of all - no right answers. It’s okay to forgive or not. The first does not equal forgetfulness, a free pass; and the second does not damn you to a life of bitterness. It’s just what’s right for that heart.

8. Now, Deku’s new quirks...*sigh* Man, that’s a whole other essay, but I’ll say that I hate-hate-hate the narutofication of Deku. As for 1-A’s reactions, I can’t say I was surprised. Since Hori didn’t take the time to explore Shoto’s POV, I felt like he wouldn’t show much of the other students.

9. So as you can see by this essay, I FEEL FUCKING ROBBED, NONNIE. Hori has proven before that he knows how to write emotional build-up and that he knows the importance of it. There’s no way this man crafted this plotline without knowing it, SO WHERE IS IT?! HUH?!

10. In conclusion, I think BNHA is about to become a different manga. Hori moved away from mixing action and high school shenanigans when Deku dropped out. I don’t necessarily have a problem with that if it’s well-executed, but I suspect heavy editorial meddling and Hori burning out are stripping away the human element that first attracted me to BNHA (shonen can combine action and emotion, just look at FMA), and turning it into a Cool Fight Scene extravaganza that’s not my cup of tea.

tl;dr: I hate it here and my boi deserved better

[highabovethewall]

Spoilers for bnha 291-292

Alright so I've heard a shit ton of anger about how this todoroki family drama is going down and I'll do my level best to boil it down to the essentials of my opinion.

Again. My opinion. You can disagree with it, but with all the stuff popping up I feel obligated to say smth;

Dabi: it's not right to fucking murder innocent people. I don't know how to tell yall this but he joined the LoV bc he aligned with Stain's ideals, specifically murder of unjust heroes. Alright, that's fair. His father abused him horrifically, and he turned his justified rage onto people who were undeserving of it — other heroes, and shouto. He's killed THIRTY people. Personally I'm rooting for him to kill Endeavor because that's justice baby, but if that happens he's going to be murdered in front of innocent civilians and Shouto. The number one hero, the new symbol. People are going to be horrified and scared, rightfully so, because they aren't going to see that as the murder of an abuser, they're going to see the strongest hero be killed. That's SCARY, because how easily could Dabi kill them? And saying 'these flames that have killed people belong to Endeavor' is a justification. No. They're his flames, he's killed people, he will kill people, and maybe he was justified in joining the LoV to kill Endeavor but trying to kill (how old is Shouto now? 16?) a goddamn child just because the abuse shifted from you to him and you got jealous is no way to cope.

Endeavor: I just said it but to reiterate — kill him dead. I don't want an abuser being redeemed in 2020, I want him to face the consequences. What I DONT want is the goddamn series suffering from it. Fucking exile him to the damn shadow realm until you can kill him (divorce from Rei, have him apologise and NOT be forgiven, I'll take anything) if you have to, but only after the war arc. If he gets murdered with the whole world watching then that's either a rallying point or a resolve-breaker, not the killing of an abuser. Dabi's video'll probably be explored in later chapters but right now people are seeing the number one hero fighting his son, who's apparently a villain.

Shouto: a child. People are talking about him calling Endeavor 'father', and I don't know how to say this but he's in a life or death situation (again, damnit). Practically none of the adults in his life are there to help, and if he's calling out to Fuyumi or Natsu, or even his mother, he's calling out to people who aren't there and can't help. 'father' is a call to action as well as trying to snap Endeavor out of it. If it's a life-or-death situation, I don't really think he's got the time to call Endeavor 'shitty old man' when DABI IS RIGHT FUCKING THERE AND TRYING TO KILL HIM.

Midoriya: yes, he IS worried about Shouto. He's trying to do something ("todoroki is in pain! Move, broken limbs, move!" because he's yelling at himself internally at the pain shouto's going through), and that something is 'saving their goddamn lives', but he's a little slow getting there because he's been yeeted into the astral plane to watch his quirk and AFO's quirk duke it out in the best display of the Cain™ instinct I've ever seen. He's also broken so, so many fucking bones, watched his mentors take fucking dives, and gone toe to toe with Shiggy because HES DOING HIS DAMN BEST OK???

And just to wrap it up; I don't know if we had confirmation yet, but did Endeavor kill Touya or not? Supposedly there was only a jawbone found, but was that due to Touya exerting himself and burning up or Endeavor pushing him during training? Because I'm wondering if Touya ended up killing some kid (thereby leaving the jawbone) during training and ran away with heavy injuries, or if Endeavor came across the jawbone and called it.