#sazanka

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I can't believe Spinaraki became canon on the last page of Boku no Hero Academia's Final Chapter 430.

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#374: Don't Knock the Knock-Offs

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Tenko and Himiko, from my “what if Tenko was Scissors-kun” AU!

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me and who

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let's go ! you're coming too, aren't you ? (alt text)

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random dump

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i went to sleep on this show ngl i went back to finish it and (i didn’t yet but) it’s a good concept but i feel like it could do better by the plot team monkey is really funny i think team dog is my favorite but they are lowkey the funniest squad

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Today's Haiku with Picture 334

Sazanka

A row of giant trees

Fools cut

山茶花の

巨木並木を

切る阿呆

Ota City Hall cuts down the sazanka trees that have grown over the years. This is the remains.

(2022.12.23)

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“I would want to go somewhere with Izuku and show him something I'm passionate about, but I feel as though my identity's just been absorbed into motherhood so thoroughly I can't picture doing anything I like anymore.”

Oh so ur a writer?? Prove it. Drop the last sentence of ur wip in the tags

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guess those feelings are gonna stay unrequited, huh? — ( feat. @laurzvahll's sol! )

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it's somewhat related to Sazanka, but personally, I like to wonder about what would have happened to Tenko if decay had manifested without bloodshed, and I really like the idea that he would have turned vigilante even if Kotaro had changed his mind about heroes. or maybe he would have turned vigilante also if AFO had never found him on the street? i just generally find the fact that the Sazanka concept was vigilante super interesting, and his whole stick of "i'll carry out hero work on my own terms" while being extreme about his methods still sounds quite Shigaraki to me.

Sorry to derail your ask for a bit, but I LOVE wondering about what would happen to Tenko if Decay had manifested in different ways. I'm a slut for AUs, and I'm a slut for worldbuilding, and so it's such a rich area to explore.

Plus, like, there are are so many moments inbetween the first ever manifestation of Decay (the ball Tenko was playing with cracking) and when everything official goes to hell (Mon-chan dies) for things to reach a different outcome.

If you want the AU where Decay manifested without bloodshed, it would be the family realizing Tenko finally got his quirk after the ball disintegrates a bit. (Which is interesting, because it means Decay first manifested when Tenko was experiencing happiness - realizing he had a Hero for a grandmother, at feeling like he could take on the world - contrary to all those theories about how Decay is from Tenko feeling bad and hating things.) Maybe it would've distracted Kotarou from his anger at the moment. Maybe not.

I've got an AU where Decay manifested partly as Kotarou gears up for the second slap. Tenko throws up his hand to protect himself, and Kotarou's arm get disintegrated. Kotarou survives minus one arm, but there's a lot of screaming and blood.

AU in which Mon-chan still dies, but Hana managed to get away. Or, AU in which Hana still gets killed, but not Nao and the grandparents (nor Kotarou). Fun thought exercise: if this is because a Hero heard screams and managed to get to the scene on time, how traumatizing to Tenko would it be if one of his formative experiences is a Hero saving people from him?

@stillness-in-green managed to come up with the horrifying 'what-if' of 'only the grandparents and Kotarou' survive, so that Tenko loses his mom and sister, his two main supporters; and we've also come up with the AU where Kotarou manages to knock out Tenko, so that only he and his son lives (and still fall under AFO's sway).

Putting side the first AU - these are all on like, varying levels of stigma and fear Tenko would suffer due to the incident (kid who mutilated his dad with his quirk < kid who killed his dog < kid who killed his sister < kid who killed multiple members of his family), but I think there's no doubt that he would've gone through life being shunned and with rumors swirling all around him, no matter how much everyone knows it was an accident/how much information about the incident is suppressed. Not to mention how strained the Shimura household would be.

At the root of everything, though, is 'Decay'.

It's a powerful quirk - it can easily hurt people (and damage property). Those traits can be said to be true for lots of other quirks! And people with those quirks have turned out more or less fine.

Where Decay differs though, from what I can tell, is that 1) there's only one power level, so to speak, and it's the highest one: it can kill a person in seconds with no way of stopping the decay chain unless they're willing to undergo an immediate amputation (and that's if the origin point is somewhere that can be amputated), plus in it's original form, the disintegration can even spread beyond the object; and 2) it can be easily and involuntarily activated. Even if Decay had manifested without bloodshed, I think it's a quirk that would've made people fear it (and along with it, Tenko).

For a quirk like that, it's not hard to imagine Tenko being directed to quirk counseling - especially if his scratching is seen as a symptom of Decay. "The itch is the user wanting to use their quirk" + Tenko is always itchy = Tenko seems to constantly subconsciously want to use his quirk? That's no good - let's get that behavior straightened out.

(Bonus: since it's a mutation that suddenly pop up in the bloodline with no precedent, the Shimuras might need to take Tenko to see a quirk specialist. And because the Shimuras can afford it, why not see the best quirk specialist available?)

I want to say, this isn't me trying to come up with the worst scenarios to give to Tenko. I'm not purposefully trying to torture the poor kid - I don't think I am. I'm deriving a lot of these ideas from things that we already know happens to other people in the manga - being singled out for having a 'villainous' quirk, being shunned for having been involved in a crime, being forced to attend quirk counseling, etc. And I do think that it's fortunate that the Shimura family is wealthy, because maybe that money might be able to help Tenko out - Kotarou can straight up move the family to a new area for fresh starts, keeping ahead of any rumors; or he can pay for support items, if those can be of any help.

But I think 'Decay' would've given Tenko trouble without even bloodshed at its manifestation. I've talked about him being ostracized, I've talked about possible quirk counseling, but there's other stuff too - like having to wear gloves, which I know is a popular headcanon, but I think could lead to it's own issues. What if he's told he should make himself useful and go into waste management (with the implication that he needs to "make up" for having such a dangerous quirk)? A minor thing by itself, but it will start to irk a person if they're told this by every well-meaning teacher they meet.

Even if a more glamorous profession like 'Rescue Hero' is suggested, it's still a subtle narrowing of options for his life, it's still trying to fit him into a category that he might not want to be in. You can say finding fault with stuff like this is bratty and selfish - but if it makes someone chafe, it makes them chafe.

You will notice lot of these things isn't because of 'Decay' itself, but because of how the world will react to Tenko having this quirk! This is why I'm wary of blaming AFO for everything and saying only Heroes saved Tenko, then everything would've been/will be fine. Things probably wouldn't have escalated to 'Shigaraki tries to decay Mt. Fuji', but things likely also wouldn't have been fine.

(and even if AFO gave Tenko 'Decay', the fact that this quirk exists and someone out there had it, means all this things would've happened for them, and that is also not acceptable. No one should go through such shunning? (inb4 it turns out 'Decay' was an artificial quirk created by AFO for nefarious purposes))

Especially because Tenko might very well be someone who ends up being similar to Shigaraki Tomura - bratty and selfish and hates having to chafe against the rules society puts on him. In which case - heck yeah, turning to vigilantism. Becoming 'Sazanka', in even this version of HeroAcaLand.

To reply to points in your ask:

even if Kotaro had changed his mind about heroes

Personally, I think Kotarou would be the kind of insensitive ass who, after Tenko manifests 'Decay' even without bloodshed, would say something (perhaps not to Tenko, but definitely something that would be overheard by the kids) like, 'Well, at least he can't be a Hero now, with such a dangerous quirk.'

And I think Tenko should be spiteful against that, forever.

his whole stick of "i'll carry out hero work on my own terms" while being extreme about his methods still sounds quite Shigaraki to me.

It is, isn't it??? <333 It has all of Shigaraki's signature traits - extremist/black-and-white thinking, doing whatever he wants, but at the base of it, trying to help out, in his own way.

Though I'm unsure what exactly Tenko would be a vigilante against. Is he going to hate and target Heroes who can't "hold up" their end of the social contract, much like how he hates All Might for smiling as if there's no one he can't save? Is he going to carve out an area of the city as his own territory and peacekeep it, like Koichi in Vigilantes? Unite the troublemakers and punks, end up forming a League, and protect his own? Or maybe he can go and kill CRC remnants and other non-Villain villains.

And finally, let me recommend @robotlesbianjavert's AU fanfic about vigilante Sazanka, featuring Spinner, Nana, and porcelain gnomes.

Thanks for the ask!

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#378: The Forgotten Man

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This is literally the premise of my fanfiction Sazanka lmao. AFO has fricked every person in Japan at this point

What if Dad For One but he’s everyone’s dad EXCEPT Midoriya’s

i would actually love this.

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A good uncle.

(The Bible verse was something I added because I ran out of space)

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