#sure they knew that their 4th brother was missing and they wanted to reunite with him

[tizeline]

Will the others (Raph Leo and Mikey) grow to view April as a sister like Donnie? Or does the viewing humans as a bad thing mess that up

Mmh there're never gonna be quite as close to April as Donnie is, but it's not because she's human (they get over that eventuality, even Mikey) but they didn't grow up with her the way Donnie did. They all become close friends eventually but I dunno for sure if they start viewing her as their sister? I mean they obviously view Donnie as their brother and recognize that April is basically his sister, so like..... step-sister maybe....? Then again I don't think their exact dynamic with April is something they've necesarily put a ton of concious thought into, they do view her as part of the greater Hamato-Draxum-O'Neil family so that's something.

[gentlygolden]

model: revenant

Nearly everyone is haunted, and only the Horo-Horo user knows. Even though Devil Fruits exist, there’s stigma around saying you’re hearing voices (and it’s not like you know who the fruit ends up with next) so the fact itself has been forgotten from all recent DF handbooks.

Unbeknownst to anyone else on Thriller Bark, Perona is fully aware of what Moria’s old crew was like, the promise Yorki and his crew made to Laboon, even how much Ryuma misses Wano. New conversation partners are hard to find when she’s been practically isolated all her life though, so it’s better than being stuck with zombies or other pirates that want her dead. The invisible creep or Dr. Stalker don’t count.

I had already been considering an “awakened!Perona au” and then I saw @andaniellight ’s artwork that got me to fall deeper down the rabbit hole… and now here we are. (For added ambiance I recommend “I Know The End” by Phoebe Bridgers; just trust me)

This is a general timeline ; canon is in normal text and au events are in red. Everything is canon-adjacent during timeskip, then veers away late Wano arc. (source: The Library of Ohara link here )

Major Spoilers thru Wano ahead

TIMESKIP, 2 YEARS BEFORE CURRENT EVENTS

At some point on Kuraigana (between 6-8 months in), Zoro overhears Perona talking to Kuina. Assuming she’s been snooping, he corners her and (threatens, basically) demands an explanation. Perona breaks down (she’s been so careful until now, no one on Thriller Bark would have cared but she’s not safe now is she) and ends up spilling everything: Kuina, both of Zoro’s parents, Ryuma, (Merry only appears one year into 3D2Y) how strange it is to be so far away from everything she’s known her whole life. Zoro regrets opening his mouth. He gives her a pat on the back as an apology and to console her (thinking what would Nami want what would Nami want). A week later he asks if she’s ever tried summoning a ghost, which actually brings them together for once; Mihawk has to pull them from the library to eat multiple times.

At some point they try a summoning circle from one of the books (if only Robin were here Zoro thinks) but it’s promptly discarded when Perona’s nose bleeds and her eyes roll back, body limp. As they’re scrubbing away chalk marks, Perona recovering in her bed asleep, Mihawk mutters something about “Mythical level” and a “lack of information”. Zoro has decent practice being a soundboard (mostly Usopp and Chopper) and is bored enough to listen to Mihawk go on about standards and pirates and apparently his distaste for Moria??

All of a sudden Zoro listens in quiet horror as Mihawk recalls past Warlord meetings where a much younger Perona told her captain how paranoid she felt around Absolom or how she really wanted to have a playdate with Baby 5, only to be brushed aside by Moria, and by the present Marines & other Warlords as well. After all, they were captains not parents. Zoro notes the guilt in Mihawk’s voice, but neither of them are brave enough to acknowledge it. Never mind absolve it..

Eventually Zoro does circle back to “what do you mean you talked to Kuina and my parents” and has a very deserved mental breakdown after learning they’ve been watching him (not in a creepy way but “oh god they saw me try to chop my legs off/get stuck in a chimney on Water Seven/*insert other embarrassing Zoro moment*) and because Kuina has heard him this whole time. She knew he hadn’t forgotten about her. Of course, this does affect the World’s Greatest Swordsman goal; but now that Zoro knows that Kuina knows, it becomes even more about Zoro making sure Kuina lives on in the memories of anyone who meets him by becoming the World’s Greatest Swordsman.

FEBRUARY

4th-6th: Straw Hats reunite on Sabaody. Right before Chopper brings Luffy/Zoro/Sanji back to the Thousand Sunny, Perona informs Zoro that his captain (previously lacking a ghost) is now haunted by his brother Ace.

MARCH

7th: the Warlord system is abolished; Moriah storms and then is imprisoned on Fullalead

12th approximately: Crocodile contacts Mihawk about Cross Guild (by now Perona has left and is on her own; she’s not so sure Moria’s crew is where she want to be though. It’s funny what two years of a domestic lifestyle with people that don’t make you paranoid will do to a girl huh)

17th: Zoro beats King, then collapses and sees Death itself. Perona watches Zoro’s vivre card smolder and shrink alone; unable to safely react or process, she forces herself to keep moving. Mihawk hides away in his room on Karai Barai, confronted with the reality that he didn’t do enough for his apprentice ward son Roronoa and that his other ward daughter the Ghost Girl is not here, all because of him. [kudos to @where-does-the-heart-lie ‘s piece about Sabo reacting to Luffy ie Gear 5, absolutely heart wrenching]

24th: Luffy and Zoro awaken after their battles. Only now does Zoro consider Mihawk’s Devil Fruit mutterings.

APRIL

7th-11th: Law & crew arrive at Winner Island and are ambushed by Blackbeard Pirates; Bepo and Law escape; Garp storms Fullalead to rescue Koby, who had been sprung free by Perona to help her free Moria. [AN: there has been NO mention of Hogback at all since Thriller Bark in-universe which makes me very uneasy]

8th-12th: Iron Giant is awoken by the Drums of Liberation (ch 1089), and soon after (ch 1106) Vegapunk is killed by Saturn, thus allowing his pre-recorded message to be broadcast to the world.

Library of Ohara hasn’t updated any further, and I don’t need to be any more precise, so let’s say that by the end of April, the Straw Hat have made it to Elbaf. (and for the purposes of this au, they’ve left by early May)

May

Early May: by some great chance, Perona et al happen across Law & Bepo. Perona begs Moria to let her have Bepo (who makes it very clear he will only go if they take Law as well). The duo are thus added to the Perona/Moria/Hogback trio (they would have put up a serious fight if they were at full power, but. well.) Perona eventually realizes Zoro + StrawHats are their connecting factor, and almost feels like she can breathe again when Law swears Zoro was fine last he saw. Privately, Perona thinks she might want to trust this weirdo.

Late one night, Perona overhears Moria plotting with Hogback about using Law to get on Cross Guild’s good side [AN: maybe Doflamingo is there? still uncertain how believable this is, might change in future]. This, combined with 2 years worth of a normal life with decent people/missing said people/Zoro’s near-death, leaves Perona very seriously considering something.

She’s been telling herself that her childhood was fine; Yeah sometimes she heard breathing in her room at night and maybe she had nightmares about being experimented on but nothing ever happened to her.

Zoro and Mihawk both disagreed. They said it wasn’t her fault. That as an adult, as her adult, Moria should have taken better care. No, he wasn’t her father, but as a captain he was supposed to take care of his crew. Protect them. It took 23 years, sure, but someone finally heard her. She can’t loose that.

———————

There are footprints across the beach, more than just five sets. Hogback is face down, motionless. Her captain’s head has been severed from his body. She doesn’t remember how it happened.

Law says Moria had swatted her like a fly mid-battle, that he hadn’t got a good look because then Moria was coming for him but her neck— and then the pirates had appeared out of nowhere, scaring Moria enough to loosen his grip. Law had retreated but couldn’t stop watching as those pirates turned to her, like they were waiting for something; then as a group, had descended upon the ex-Warlord and his mad doctor. Perona has a feeling she knows exactly what that group of pirates looked like. She saw them everyday on Thriller Bark.

(more to come soon! Just have to figure out how to format it…)

[psychdelia]

season 3 but instead of billy, neil was flayed.

he had been acting... off the last couple of weeks. distant and withdrawn, completely the opposite of how he usually is with billy.

he first notices the difference in behavior when the abuse stops. maybe he gets home late for dinner and instead of the usual stern look he gets before a smack when max and susan go to bed, neil just smiles all big and wide, but it doesn’t quite reach his eyes, before he welcomes his son home.

then neil starts coming home later and later, giving susan some bullshit excuse about work and overtime and she eats it right up. chooses to believe that he’s somehow morphed into the perfect husband and father overnight. on top of that, he smells like bleach and chemicals and his eyes seem so dead. billy can tell what the guy is thinking or feeling through one look at his expression, but now he’s just eerily blank.

so billy follows him on 4th of july, surprised to find himself in the starcourt parking lot for the second time that day - he dropped max off earlier to hang out with her shithead friends, but it’s past closing hours so she shouldn’t still be inside unless she’s at the movies, the only part of the mall that remains open late. he watches as neil marches into the mall, fists clenched at his side. billy has no idea why neil is even at the mall so late when he should be at work or wherever he’s been going and lying to susan about. so, he follows him in.

he doesn’t know what to expect, but seeing his little sister and her gaggle of friends screaming as neil gets closer and closer to them. squinting, billy can see black veins crawling their way up neil’s neck, discoloring his face and eyes. he jumps when he hears the first bang, the sound of a firework exploding way too close for comfort.

then he spots it. the huge slimey alien being that screeches when the first firework hits it, then second, third, and so on.

and like. what the fuck.

his eyes must be as wide as saucers as he stares at the thing, gangly and screeching with every hit, trying to swing at anyone it can reach. he doesn’t have time to process what the actual fuck he’s looking at when he hears someone yell his name. max.

“billy! BILLY!” she screams, absolutely terrified. “DO SOMETHING!” she demands.

immediately, his eyes search for fireworks. looking up, he finds harrington on the second floor in matching work uniforms with a girl - buckley, his brain distantly provides. they had the same ap literature class. the fireworks get louder and louder along with the monster. he eventually finds a small kiosk set up for the 4th, so he follows suit and grabs his lighter, blindly throwing at the monster as he watches the scene unfold in front of him. his father approaching a girl around max’s age with a maniacal expression on his face, eyes about to burst out of his goddamn head. he hears the kids screaming in protest to no avail. pretty soon, they run out of fireworks and his dad’s got this girl beneath him on the floor.

he’s about to intervene when the girl lets out this piercing scream, almost louder than the shadow, and suddenly his father is thrown up in the air then launched right at the monster. he’s caught mid-air by a tentacle - wait a goddamn second are those human body parts??? and teeth????? - right in the center of his chest. billy flinches, watching in horror as his father screams in pain before he’s dropped onto the floor, head smacking the tile before he goes limp.

it feels like the world goes still for a second, everyone standing still, eyes wide and mouths open in shock at the scene before them. distantly, he hears the monster screeching, but his eyes are locked on his father’s body - torn open and bleeding out. what eventually brings them all out of their stupor and back to the real world is the same girl standing and screaming at the monster, merely feet away from the thing. her hand is shaking in the air, nose dripping with blood as the monster’s screeches grow quieter, its body shrinking. soon enough, it hits the ground just like his father. limp and silent.

billy just watches the scene unfold, his mind racing yet completely blank. he knows he should move, grab as many little shits as he can and run, but he’s stock still, unable to process what he just witnessed. ironically, it ends up being the kids who run to him first.

“billy,” max calls as she reaches him. “billy!” she grabs his shoulders, shaking him until he acknowledges her. “billy we have to go. now! come on billy let’s go!” her hands are shaking as she grips his shoulders.

he blinks a couple of times before he nods once, then again.

“shit!” he hears harrington yell, footsteps approaching them as the two teenagers run down from the top floor right before it comes crashing to the ground. soon enough, the mall is falling apart, the ceiling caving in.

billy finally kicks into action, wild eyes and expressions matching everyone else’s as the teens drag the kids out of there, the group sprinting outside in time to watch the mall crumble to the ground with his dad’s body trapped in it.

he doesn’t know how much time has gone by when ambulances, fire trucks and police cars appear. he’s stuck in place as parents reunite with their children while paramedics check on everyone, wrapping heavy blankets around them. billy manages to sneak off to the side, hiding behind an ambulance. he spots max with sinclair and susan, harrington with buckley, girl and boy wheeler close to the three byers, accompanied by the police chief.

billy’s alone, he realizes. he looks back at the mall, now in flames and taking his father down with it. his hands and legs begin to tremble and he’s sliding down the side of the ambulance, unable to breathe as he hits the floor. hugging his knees to his chest and holding his head low, he takes in short breaths and ends up wheezing, unable to get enough air into his lungs. he doesn’t realize he’s crying until his vision is blurred and cheeks are wet. he’s hyperventilating and is pretty sure he’s about to black out.

billy’s alone.

everyone here has someone and he doesn’t.

his mother left and now his father is gone and he doesn’t, can’t understand why. yeah, neil was abusive and cruel but he was all billy had left. he lost his friends, the ocean, his life the second neil ripped him away from california and dragged him to a state where he knew he’d get hurt if neil caught him with a boy again like in cali, except this time he knew it wouldn’t be just neil pounding on him for his “sickness.”

billy misses his mom. wants nothing more than to be held and comforted by her. to hear her soft voice as she sings or hums or shushes him as she rubs his back and plays with his hair and kisses his head and tells him everything’s going to be alright.

except everything’s not going to be alright and now he’s sobbing silently, soft whimpers and harsh wheezing being the only noise leaving his body.

with the rest of the world tuned out and only hearing his own choked sobs and sharp breaths, he flinches when he feels the hand on his shoulder, trying to scramble away from it.

“hey,” the soft voice says. “its okay. hey, kid, it’s okay. it’s just me.” she immediately pulls her hand away, holding both up to prove herself as unthreatening. “just me.” she repeats gently.

billy slowly raises his head, eyes and cheeks red and blotchy and puffy and wet. he finds exhausted, sad brown eyes looking over him.

“oh, kiddo, you look like you’ve seen hell.” she sounds motherly. “c’mon, breathe with me. take deep breaths, okay? count with me.” she encourages as she kneels down to his level. “deep breaths. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, breathe. in and out, just like that. you’re doing good.”

pretty soon, his wheezes and rushed breaths even out. he takes his first deep breath of fresh air, releasing a shaky relieved sigh.

“you must be billy, max’s brother. i’m joyce, jonathan’s mom.” she introduces, except neither of them are in the mood for small talk. “i, uh,” she sighs. “there’s a lot we all have to talk to you about,” she sits down beside him. “but that can wait,” she assures. “until you’re ready.” she adds on quietly.

he stares at her a couple seconds before he breaks again, a strangled loud sob ripping its way through his chest and out of his mouth. he doesn’t even think about it before he launches himself at her, fully prepared to cry to this woman he’s barely met yet spent hours knocked out cold on her ground only after breaking one of her nice plates.

she - joyce - seems to have the same idea because as soon as he starts crying again she’s opening her arms and reaching for him. they meet halfway in the middle.

“it’s not fair.” billy chokes out, trembling in joyce’s surprisingly strong arms as she holds him upright. “it’s not fair.” he repeats, louder yet more broken.

“i know, sweetheart.” she nods, rubbing circles on his back with one hand, the other gently running through his hair. “god i know.” she sighs and, poor woman, it sounds like she’s been through it. he vaguely remembers hearing about her sons - zombie boy and creepy byers. his brain isn’t processing enough to connect any dots just yet.

“she-she just left,” he holds onto joyce tightly. “she left and now he’s gone.” he cries. “he’s gone.” he repeats, again and again. “they all leave. why do they all leave?” he asks weakly.

joyce’s heart breaks for the boy shaking apart in her arms, using her last remaining strength to hold him upright and provide any comfort she can. she can’t help but look around, searching the crowd for anyone who might be there for him. she frowns when she finds everyone’s eyes on them yet no one making any moves to approach. she wishes she could hate them all a little bit for it, for leaving him alone. letting him feel alone and unwanted. unlovable. she knows the feeling and it’s the worst.

“well, blondie, looks like you’re stuck with me now.” her attempt to make him feel less lonesome seems to work, just a little, if the way he squeezes her for a second is anything to go by. “i don’t give up. i don’t leave. i promise.” she kisses the top of his head, gets the scent of hairspray, cigarettes and ash.

over the top of his head she finds steve harrington still watching them, a distant look in his eyes. he seems conflicted, staring at billy with wariness as he bounces nervously from foot to foot, holding the blanket hanging loosely around his torso.

he seems to make a decision when billy releases another sob at her promise, striding over and draping his blanket over billy’s shoulders. he goes out of his way to tighten it around him, making sure it’s comforting and cozy around his trembling figure. he hesitates once again as he goes to walk away, fist clenching and unclenching at his side before he looks back to billy with sad, tired eyes and rests his hand on the blonde’s shoulder, squeezing just once before he walks away. the same hand is nervously flexing at his side once again.

[swiftwidget]

MHA: Fling Theory

While writing a much, much longer analysis and prediction post (which we will finish and post hopefully by Wednesday - fingers crossed, it’s already been delayed over a week because of work schedules and additions) and a portion discussing what @aoimikans​ and I know of the wider-known Dad for One Theory, I had to pause while discussing the topic of Nana Shimura’s husband.  

At the time, I had been writing about the alternative ways All for One found Nana Shimura and her husband (whether he was a hero, a civilian, or perhaps the 6th User of OfA) and killed her husband. I mentioned there is an alternative theory floating around that All for One was actually her husband, but it is generally easy to debunk based on canon information, including recent information given to use via Gran Torino’s flashback: 

In a recent chapter, when we see Gran Torino watch Nana as she gives up Kotaro, Nana says later in the flashback “if he learns of Kotaro” as if All for One was not aware of the boy, to begin with. That may imply that her husband was killed while she was pregnant and she escaped AfO’s attention long enough to raise Kotaro for a few years. 

One would think that if AfO was her husband, he’d know about Kotaro early on, or at the very least know of the attempts to have a child. And if AfO already knew of their connection, he would try to use it against her and put both her and her child in danger. Not only that but when All for One finds Shimura’s family later on - and he would have to have found them to show interest in Tenko - he simply allows Kotaro and Hana to die. Kotaro, Nana’s son, and Hana, Kotaro’s daughter who resembles Nana in both name and appearance. If he had been her husband and found she’d managed to hide away a child, I can’t imagine he wouldn’t move to possess that entire family somehow. 

Then… It occurred to me that there is another alternative option which I’m calling the Fling Theory. 

All for One approached Nana Shimura under a different name and quirk (much like the theorized Dad for One = Hisashi Midoriya situation) and attempted to get close enough to her to create a relationship, trick her into giving him One for All (and maybe even a child at that point). All for One was unsuccessful stealing the quirk by force up until then. Perhaps he thought a different approach would work, and being a charismatic person and egotistical it sounds like something he’d do. 

Maybe it got as far as a night of passion before Nana realized who All for One was and fled. That would certainly give one plausible explanation for why everything seems so personal when All for One discusses Nana Shimura. Moreover, if she discovered she was pregnant after? A marriage to a hero or civilian husband to cover for the existence of a child would be necessary to hide him. Again, in Gran Torino’s recent flashback, there is that focus on what Nana says: “if he learns of Kotaro...” 

If Nana fled this false relationship, found out she was pregnant but decided to keep the child, and got married to another man in a very short amount of time, wouldn’t that give the prideful All for One reason to kill the otherwise unnamed, unidentified husband first? Revenge against the woman who did what his brother never could except through death, escape him and build another life. When Nana makes the heartbreaking decision to alter her family registry and send Kotaro into foster care, she is not just protecting herself and Kotaro at that moment, but she is ensuring she takes the secret of Kotaro’s father to the grave.

Which makes it all the more terribly ironic given what we believe All for One did upon discovering Kotaro and the life he’d built for himself. 

We believe All for One discovered Kotaro and his family and watched them for some time. Enough time to know their names, their home life, the kind of life Kotaro’s children were living - specifically Tenko Shimura. In 2016, aoimikans wrote a fanfic called “What Lies Have You Told?” based on her theory that All for One gave Tenko the Quirk: Decay. Then in chapter 235, we see a man dropping Tenko off wearing AfO’s signature suit with no tie (just before Decay manifests). This seemed like pretty strong evidence for that to be the case. A while back during our MHA discussions, we also added to that theory that in exchange, All for One took Tenko’s (“Ten” 天 = sky, “ko” 子 = child) unmanifested Quirk: Air Walk which we saw him use at Kamino and was the only Quirk written specifically in katakana. (Sky child, Air Walk → Sky Walk → Skywalker because Horikoshi loves his Star Wars references.) 

All for One never learned of Kotaro’s true origin. In giving Tenko Decay, he put into motion the events that led not only to Kotaro’s death but also the death of Tenko’s sister, Hana.

Each time All for One tries to own/possess family, he ends up destroying it. 

And again, every time All for One speaks to and of Nana, it’s terribly personal. 

In the All Might Rising OVA, AfO thanks Nana for the “amusing comedy.” Is that a bitter reminder that what they had was an act? That it was all a game to him? (At least, it was meant to be a game until she escaped him for a time.) Either way, his monologuing at Nana, the personal focus on her, may have cost him the chance to capture All Might while he was young and unprepared to fight him. 

During their first fight and at Kamino, each time All for One talks about Nana to All Might, he mocks her to anger him. All Might is Nana’s successor but more than that he is like her son. He is representative of everything All for One could not get from Nana, both One for All the quirk and the love and loyalty of family (be it a child or his brother’s remnant in OfA). Of course, he takes every opportunity to rub Nana’s death and what he views as her shortcomings in All Might’s face. 

And how would All for One know of Nana’s ideals in order to mock them? How would he know of her signature push-up smile that he parrots at Kamino? The way he talks about her even as he mocks her seems to imply that he knows these ideals of hers, how she might talk about them, her vision of the future… Sure, she might have said things during their fight, but honestly, that sounds more like something you’d tell someone as you were getting closer to them.  

This theory naturally pairs well with the Dad for One Theory for a few reasons:

The resemblance pointed out between Nana Shimura and Inko Midoriya. (All for One has a type.) 

The resemblance and similarities between young Tenko and young Izuku. (A family resemblance?) 

The continued themes of family, lineage, and legacy that is shown throughout MHA but works specifically well when we think about how Shigaraki and Deku relate to either side of the All for One / One for All coin. 

The continued use of name puns and Star Wars references that hint and foreshadow. 

Side note: How does the 6th User of One for All fit in this theory? 

We assume based on what canon tells us that All for One has been trying to take back his brother’s quirk, the last remnant of his brother and only family. 

(All for One claimed to love his brother - though his view of love is clearly skewed toward simply possessing his brother - and he tried endlessly to manipulate his brother into showing his “love” in return with loyalty to him and his view of the world. In death and through the passing down of One for All, his brother had escaped him.)

Based on flashbacks, All for One’s attempts up until the 6th User seemed to include killing them off while they were relatively young. Maybe he was attempting to hunt them down, weaken them, and then torture them until they willingly gave him the quirk; however, he was never successful because each User of One for All was successful in passing it down to the next, playing a dangerous game of keep-away.

From the 4th (top right, long hair) to the 5th (see his jacket shoulder), from the 5th (center, bald) to the 6th (far right hand?), from the 6th (bottom center, black hair) to the 7th (Nana’s gloved hand at the very bottom of the frame?). 

Aoimikans and I were trying to figure out: Who was the 6th to Nana? 

He looks younger than most of the other users we can see (not counting the younger, blurry version of Toshinori), too young to have been teaching or training Nana. And in the frame discussing how the quirk was passed down, we see that his right arm is missing, he is offering his hair to pass on One for All, and also… 

… he’s smiling. 

There is something else Nana said that makes us wonder if maybe the 6th User was Nana’s first love:  

To be able to meet again at the end within One for All, she thinks it’s romantic. It may just be her personality, but the idea of reuniting with specifically the previous users is romantic to her. 

Could it be then that the 6th was her first, young love? Could it be that they were both heroes and when he was hunted down by All for One, the 6th hastily gave her the quirk with a smile on his face - a smile she pressed onto her face, and a smile she passed down to Toshinori?

Could All for One have found out that she had that kind of relationship with the 6th and attempted to replicate the feelings that led the 6th to pass OfA to Nana? 

Not only that, but there is that focus on the romantic with regards to specifically previous Users of One for All. Why don’t we see that kind of desire to reunite with the husband that was killed? 

Well, if she were trying to find a husband quickly (not necessarily for love), one who wouldn’t mind that she was already pregnant or who would want to just as quickly have a child with her under the belief she wasn’t pregnant - how best would she go about finding such a man? Quirk marriage. It was likely more common in her time. She��s a hero, young, and with a flying-type quirk. She’d be a catch for any man wanting a marriage focused on mixing quirks. And wouldn’t that be just the kicker for All for One? In his view, she fled him only to run into the arms of a man who wanted her for her quirk? His ego can only take so much of a beating. 

Possible timeline: 

The 6th and Nana have a romantic connection

AfO hunts down and fatally injures the 6th

The 6th gives One for All to Nana with a smile 

Nana escapes for a time

AfO discovers Nana and knows of her previous connection to the 6th

AfO uses his knowledge of their connection to try and manipulate her into a relationship based on falsehoods to trick her into giving him One for All 

Nana discovers AfO’s identity and flees

Nana discovers she is pregnant with Kotaro

Nana quickly marries a man, possibly through Quirk Marriage, to explain away the pregnancy

AfO finds Nana again after years and rashly kills her husband before finding out more about her life

Nana is forced to quickly give up Kotaro to foster care and alter her family records to hide him from All for One, keeping All for One from using the knowledge of their connection against her (again) 

Nana goes into hiding again, eventually finds and trains Toshinori and passes down One for All 

All for One finds Nana again but she doesn’t run away. All for One mocks her (allowing her successor and friend to escape) and kills her in the fight but keeps her hand. 

AfO later finds Kotaro and his family, gives Tenko Decay, unwittingly allows Tenko to destroy what family he had made, AfO takes in Tenko and gives him the name Tomura Shigaraki claiming that Shigaraki is his own surname - ironic to be giving his own grandson his surname thinking he’s simply taking from Nana Shimura the last remnant of her own family. Revenge for her giving away the last remnant of his brother to All Might.  

Meantime, AfO took on the name Hisashi, met Inko (who looks like Nana but would be in his view meeker), and had Izuku. 

Fun fact: Shigaraki is 20 in canon. Izuku is around 15. AfO would’ve likely taken in Tenko Shimura around the time Izuku was born. So, at that point in time, he thinks he’s won that battle. Started a family of his own with a Nana look-a-like, and stolen away Nana’s family. All he needs to do now is take back OfA and kill All Might. Then he’ll have everything he’s wanted.

Then, All Might smashes All for One’s Empire and head in, and he takes away All for One’s ability to be a part of the family he’d tried to create. Adding insult to injury, All Might takes Izuku under his wing 5 years later and gives him One for All. Stealing everything from All for One. (All but Shigaraki - the child pawn All for One raised to hurt All Might, not knowing his own grandson.)

And there you have it: Fling Theory!  

[faithandfearcollide]

OUAT rewatch: 2x12 - In The Name of The Brother

The present day stuff is so insanely chaotic. It’s actually very entertaining. There’s something hilarious about watching a bunch of fairytale characters scramble around dealing with multiple real world crisis’ all at once.

This episode didn’t have a whole lot to offer otherwise but I will say the one liners and comedic moments were on point.

I mean...

Emma: You’re awfully chipper for a guy who just failed to kill his enemy... then got hit by a car.

Rumplestiltskin: So glad I don’t give a damn.

Whale: It’s not really murder if we let him succumb to his injuries. Emma: I’m pretty sure it is. Snow: Of course we save him. David: Obviously. Grumpy: Well… Snow: Leroy!

Snow: Anyone else notice he’s drunk off his ass?

*Star Wars theme playing*

Snow: Maybe Doc can do it. Grumpy: Surgery? *laughs hysterically* ...No.

Like I said, these moments were all pretty golden.

David: I don’t think so. He’s been in a rough place since he had brought Regina’s fiancé back to life. Snow: Daniel? Emma: Back to life?! David: And had his arm ripped off and put back on. Grumpy: Cool. Snow: Wait. Daniel came back? Emma: Like some kind of Frankenstein? David: That’s Whale. The doctor. And Daniel was his-- Snow: What went on here while we were gone?

Did they even TALK when they got back from the EF? I mean really now, this is absolutely ground you should have covered. You can’t tell me there wasn’t a single “So how were things while we were gone?” conversation that David couldn’t have slipped this information into.

Which would explain Snow being completely cold in ‘The Cricket Game’ to the idea of Regina trying to change. Cause I personally think if Snow knew half of what Regina and David went through while they were gone, she’d have flailed all over her squishy trying her best again.

I gotta admit, as lackluster as the flashbacks were, I did like how they set up this universe. Breaking the 4th wall and writing in colorless picture as an actual part of the realm was a really neat idea. And then how they incorporated Rumple into that.

Aside from the “For mommy” plaque that plucks at every one of my heart strings, I also find it really touching that she finds that picture in Henry’s room of all places.

Also throwback to that time the show did an entire photoshoot with Lana and Jared for this one tiny 10 second long scene.

Henry: Mom? Hello?

Henry: You in there? Can I come in? Mom?

I loved this shot a lot!

Henry: Mom? Mom? Regina: Henry...

Of course this works. How could she not let him in?

OOOOWWW MY FRAGILE HEART. This isn’t fair.

Regina: Henry, I’m so glad you’re here. I missed you so much when… I have to let you know, I had nothing to do with Archie. Henry: I know. I always knew. Regina: I was framed. I don’t know how. I… It just seems like everything… You knew? How did you know?

Why couldn’t this have been actual Henry?

Henry: Simple. Cora: Because I did it. Regina: Mother…

Fuck you very much Cora.

Also “Hey honey! I framed you!” is not a suitable way to reunite with the daughter who you haven’t seen in 30+ years.

Cora: I love you. I just… I’ve always shown it in all the wrong ways. And I never should have made you marry the King. I’m so sorry. When you cried over my coffin, it… It all changed. 

This is the strangest love declaration ever. “After you had me killed, I realized I really do love you”

Also Lana is amazing here...but that’s not unusual is it?

Regina: You framed me – for the cricket. Cora: Temporarily. So you could see what these people really think of you. Regina: You made an airtight case. Anyone would believe it. Cora: I didn’t want you to reject me. Not again. Regina: You wanted me broken. Cora: Receptive.

I like that Regina acknowledged that this was a good case that she doesn’t blame anyone for believing. And that she knew exactly what her mother was doing.

Regina: But I am… I was trying so hard to be worthy of Henry.

The change from present to past tense is so sad. Congrats Cora, you broke her.

Ruby: Hey. Yeah. Look, you’re Frankenstein. And I’m the werewolf. I ate my boyfriend. Regina thought she was punishing us by erasing who we were, but I think she underestimated how much crap we wanted to forget. Whale: Yeah. Ruby: But… We can’t let it stop us. She gave us a chance to start over, and I want to take it. I think you should, too.

I really like the idea of Regina’s curse being turned into something positive by these characters. That they are finding themselves appreciating a chance to start fresh somewhere new and learning to co-exist together.

Cora: Oh. For Mommy. Oh, that used to be you. Regina: When were you in my house? Cora: I haven’t had the pleasure. Regina: That was in my house.

Cora trying to lie to Regina and Regina seeing right through her is hilarious in a fucked up kinda way. She’s so completely unphased.

Regina: Think I don’t know where that was? It’s one of my most treasured possessions.

Cora: You don’t want their love at all. What do you want? Regina: My son back.

Cora: And I want my daughter back. I meant everything I said earlier. I am so sorry. I can do better. I won’t push you away again. Let me into your heart. Together, we can get him back again.

Regina: How? Cora: Oh, I have a few thoughts.

Cora was right about one thing, she had to break Regina for this to work. Regina sees right through all of Cora’s bullshit up to this point. It’s not until she realizes she’s alone that she decides to just give in. Not because she believes her mother or trusts her, but because she’s too desperate to care about where she gets the help from as long as she has Henry at the end of it.

The sad thing is all Regina had to do was go see Henry.

This was actually really sad.

Henry: Frankenstein isn’t in here. It’s not even a fairy tale. That means it comes from another land with different stories. Emma: Eat. I really want to go to bed.

Rumplestiltskin: You remember that favour you owe me, Miss Swan? Emma: Yeah. Rumplestiltskin: I’m cashing it in.

Poor Emma. She just wants to go take a nap and now she’s stuck on a damn road trip with Rumplestiltskin.

I have one question walking away from this episode:

Who the hell puts their girlfriend in their phone as “Her?” And why? What was the purpose of this, writers? Putting “Tamara” would have still been as mysterious as “her.”

[zarinthelwrites]

Blooming from the Mud Pt. 8 (Bleach/DGM)

“You don’t even know where you’re going,” Kuchiki says, moving in front of him. 

“You’re going to walk into a wall with your nose that high in the air,” mocks Kanda.

“You’ll trip over your own shadow with your feet so twisted,” Kuchiki snaps.

“You’re about to trip over the dog--” Kanda warns, just a second too late as Lizard darts out in front of the man and he goes sprawling.

Kuchiki scrambles to his feet, dusting off his clothes even though the entire Seireitei is cleaner than a hospital room floor.

“Why are the dogs even coming,” says Kuchiki, eyeing Lizard darkly.

“Why don’t you look where you’re going,” says Kanda, reaching into his new, convenient ration pack and giving the dog a treat. Fishbone whines a bit at not also receiving one, then turns to eye Kuchiki with a hopeful expression.

“No,” says Kuchiki, firmly. Then he wilts a bit as Fishbone’s eyes get wider and his tail starts to wag.

By the time that they arrive at the West Gate, Fishbone is happily munching on his own share of the rations. Kanda is expecting to have to summon whoever is in charge of lifting this particular waste of a door, but either Kuchiki is more influential than Kanda realized or no one cares who leaves the Seireitei, only who enters.

The end result is Kuchiki leading Kanda and the two happy dogs through a smaller, regular sized door cut to open from the inside. Kanda casually memorizes its position. This trip has paid off already.

The gifts just keep on coming as Kuchiki’s pace quickens the minute he enters the Rukongai. In addition, he hangs his head just a tiny bit forward, so his hair drifts forward in a shamefully bland attempt to hide his face.

“Avoiding someone, Kuchiki?” Kanda asks, lips twitching.

“You don’t know anything,” Kuchiki murmurs from the corner of his mouth. He draws himself stiffly up, pretending as if his previous attempt to hide his stature had never happened. “The Five Noble Clans of the Seireitei were each given the option of living within or outside of the Walled City, but only the Kuchiki and the Shihouin were courageous enough to leave behind their ancestral lands. The Shiba Clan chose to remain living in their territory, the first 3 Districts of the West Rukongai.

“Three Districts for one clan?” Kanda asks, amused but also nostalgic for the Chang Clan that had raised him in that place hidden from the sky.

“The Shiba Clan has a certain....specialty that makes many speculate that they would not...ah... do well in an enclosed space.”

“Claustrophobia?” Kanda suggests.

“Claustro--” Kuchiki blinks at him. “No, Kanda. Explosions.” An uncomfortable looks flickers over his face. “I dislike calling you so familiarly,” he added. “Give me your family name.”

“That is my family name,” Kanda snaps. His only family did not share the name, though. The scientists had not let him use Karma as his last name.

“Ah. Then what is your first name, then?”

“Fuck you,” says Kanda. “And fuck--”

“Hey look! I can’t believe it! Sojun Kuchiki, in the flesh,” a voice cries from the nearby town that they are having this argument directly in front of.

“Kukaku Shiba,” says Kuchiki, eyes widening in horror while his tone remains mild and polite.

The lady in question is wearing a red and white sleeveless robe that is very deeply cut down the front. The tattoo on her left arm only serves to make her wooden right arm more obvious. Both of her hands rest on her hips and she is grinning in a way that gives Kanda a sudden, visceral overlay of Allen in the midst of a prank gone horribly right.

“Dropped by unannounced for a personal visit, Sojun?” She winks at him. “You know that no matter how pretty you are, I’m truly only into the ladies~”

“Kukaku, your house moves,” Kuchiki points out almost plaintively. “It’s impossible for me to have just happened to arrive.”

“And yet you did!” Kukaku points out gleefully. “There I was, blowing up a pond, minding my own business,”

This lady definitely reminds Kanda far too much of his fellow Exorcists.

“When I spot you-- you, the hikikomori--”

“I am not a hikikomori--”

“And this brat--”

“I am not a brat--”

“Arguing, right in front of my own front door! The shock I felt! The wonder! The pure, concentrated joy so great that I could bottle it all up and set it on fire!”

“Please do not.”

“Aww, Sojun, I know you are just sad that I’m not available, but there’s nothing I can do about your habit of bottling up your feelings til they explode. My methods are much more fun. Anyway, what’s brought you away from your true beloved, your paperwork?”

“More paperwork,” says Kanda. He is going to need to just grap Kuchiki and run if this goes on for much longer. Getting sucked into the pace of someone like Kukaku Shiba is something that needs to be done quickly, or you end up binding yourself to them for all eternity or stupid shit like that.

Kukaku cracks up, sides shaking with laughter.

“That’s perfect,” she pants. “That’s the greatest thing I’ve ever heard. Though I wasn’t aware the 6th Division recruited brats.”

Kanda crosses his arms over his chest.

“I’m 11th Division,” he says, then grabs Kuchiki by the arm and bolts, dogs streaking behind him. Kuchiki may be chained by the requirements of manners, but Kanda sure as hell isn’t.

He doesn’t let up on the pace until they enter the 4th District.

“When it comes to people like that, you need to know when to cut your loses,” Kanda informs Kuchiki, willfully ignoring the fact that he has never once followed this advice in his long, terrible life.

“I was engaged to marry her when we were children,” says Kuchiki, sounding dazed. “Then her brother became the Shiba Clan head, and he broke it off.”

“Good for him,” says Kanda, not sure why he has to listen to this.

“She wants me to bring Byakuya out here so he can meet her.”

Kanda has no clue who this is. Who any of these people are, really.

“I’ve been holding out, but with the Shihouin Clan Lady exiled, he’s just been moping around the grounds, looking miserable. I don’t understand what was fun about playing tag with the Flash Goddess, but my son is a genius....”

Despite the fact that living with Allen had forced Kanda to grow inured to people whose explanations made less sense the more they explained, he had hoped he’d been done with that part of his life.

“He’ll be fine,” says Kanda, dismissing the entire explanation to the part of his brain he reserves for things only Lavi would care about.

“Yes,” Kuchiki agrees, returning to his more usual blank face mask. He stares forward towards the forest and sighs. “50 more Districts to go, then.”

Fishbone barks in agreement.

“We could always just fight more Hollows on the way,” Kanda suggests.

“Why would that help us go faster?” Kuchiki asks.

“We wouldn’t be bored,” says Kanda. “And Fishbone and Lizard need exercise.”

“Fishbone and Lizard,” Kuchiki repeats. “The dogs. Those dogs.” He points at them.

“Yes, those dogs.”

“Their names. Ah...seem a bit unfitting.”

“That’s what they looked like,” says Kanda.

“What they looked like.”

“Yes.”

“But now they look like dogs.”

“Yes.”

“And they always were dogs.”

“Yes.”

“I take back what I first said to you,” says Kuchiki abruptly.

Kanda can’t remember what Kuchiki first said to him, and can’t imagine it was that important.

“What?” He asks anyway.

“You do talk like a member of the 11th Division.”

Chapter Four: The Second Generation

As it turns out, Sojun Kuchiki could use shunpo. He couldn’t maintain it long enough to actually cut their travel time, but he could and did use it to avoid getting splashed the first time Fishbone and Lizard took their bath in the nearby river.

“Tch,” says Kanda. He’d known how far away to stand, but Kuchiki had been close enough that Kanda had hoped he’d fall in and get soaked.

“I do have a younger sister,” says Sojun dryly.

Every time Sojun bringings up something new about his family Kanda wants to take another step farther away. The only big family he’s ever dealt with were the Noahs. So far, Sojun has a father, a sister, and a son? While looking about 22. Though Kanda would be the first person to tell you that what age you look like in Soul Society doesn’t mean shit.

“People age in Soul Society, right?” Kanda checks.

This does the double duty of getting an answer and distracting Sojun from dodging away from the muddy dogs as Fishbone promptly dives in between his legs. This wouldn’t have caused Sojun to fall except that he was so worried about hurting the dogs that he’d rather fall over than chance kicking them. It never gets old.

“Yes, people age,” Sojun says, giving up on getting back up from the muddy ground and instead petting Lizard and trying to prevent the dog from licking his zanpaktou. “You’re the type that retains memories from when you were in the Living World, correct?”

Kanda nods.

“Souls like you tend to age based on two variables. Memory milestones, and reiatsu. Reiatsu above a certain level can slow the aging process to an unbelievable degree-- some of the Captains are over 1,000 years old, easily. And then there’s...ah..the milestones. I’ve only seen this happen once, mind you. When someone I knew was reunited with their wife, who had survived them by... almost 30 years, I think it was. It seemed like they had aged years over night. They told me later...it was as if the world was only truly real for them once she was there with them.”

The food here tastes like dust.

“There’s a long way to go,” murmurs Kanda. When he was truly nine he had dreamed of being so alone, so free. How fitting, that he would know of that freedom only to miss his clanking chains.

“You’re so urgent, Kanda,” Sojun says gently, lightly jumping back to his feet. “We’re halfway there already!”

Kanda blinks away the lotus flowers hiding behind his eyes.

[youremyonlyhope]

The Spoils of War

What a relevant title. I spoiled myself earlier today. From my own stupidity.

Tumblr: Here’s a suggested post tagged as “moulin rouge”! XKit: This post is blocked because it is tagged “GOT spoilers” Me: Hmm... do I make it show anyway?... Yes. Me: *Gets completely spoiled*

I’m just dumb. Sure, it was something I already vaguely knew would happen. But vaguely knowing is different than seeing it. Welp. At least this time it was completely my fault.

Oh. Also, after Lady Olenna’s death I went looking for whatever article it was I saw years ago about the Joffrey death reveal. I guess the fandom was more freaking out over the way it was revealed that she killed Joffrey, not her being the one who did it. Which is good, because this whole time I’ve been like why is the fandom even questioning who did it when Olenna admitted to it 5 seconds later? But yeah, her reveal to Jaime was worth the freak out. I still can’t believe she went out that like. Epic last words. I love Lady Olenna. I am SO MAD we didn’t get more scenes of her with Ellaria. Those two together could have destroyed the whole world and I’d thank them for it.

“You don’t need me anymore.” “No, I don’t” Bran. Sweetie. Oh my god. Bran. You are not helping. Oh my god. I don’t care if you’re all knowing, PLEASE BE GENUINELY THANKFUL.

I literally never saw any mention of Meera in the billion years I observed the GOT fandom before getting into this show. I knew Ferb was in the show, never knew he had a sister. I knew the “Hold the door!” “Hodor!” thing but no one ever mentioned it was Meera saying “Hold the door” and basically naming Hodor. I heard NOTHING. Meera deserves better. She DRAGGED Bran through the snow while running away from White Walkers. She watched her brother die and kept going. Please tell me the fandom actually appreciates her. Please tell me I just haven’t gotten the chance to see the appreciation.

I don’t like these two guards. LET MY GIRL IN. THE STARK SISTERS. ARE TOGETHER AGAIN. I AM SO HAPPY. I will say Jon and Sansa’s reunion was more emotional than Sansa and Arya’s. Probably because for the sisters there was no music and also Jon and Sansa was the first reunion of the Stark kids in a billion seasons, while Arya’s the 4th kid to come back to Winterfell. Ok. Random, but are Arya and Bran twins? I literally can’t remember. Ok, googled it (but didn’t open links because of spoilers), Bran’s listed as younger than Arya so I guess not. Why did I feel like I thought they were twins in the first episode... AWWWW BRIENNE!!! I’M EXTRA EMOTIONAL OVER HER SEEING HER VOW WAS KEPT. Ok yeah that’s a lot of Dragonglass. I love the Children making carvings in the cave and Jon showing them to Dany. It’s so crazy to me that the Children used no color in the carvings, except in the blue eyes in White Walkers. That was so important. Arya and Brienne finally bonding and training is everything I’ve wanted and more. If Gendry comes back at the end of this episode, then this will be the best episode ever. I know he’s coming soon. Bringing up Jon being a bastard once more before we finally get confirmation of his parentage. I see you. I know it’s coming soon. I wanted to mention Dany’s 3 headed dragon pin and haven’t mentioned it yet. But now I’m noticing that Missandei has a 3 dragons in a ring pin. I love it. But when did Dany find the time to have all these dragon pins made? “Will you forgive me if I switch sides.” OH I love Davos. I just gasped out loud. Theon and Jon will reunite?!??!?!?! Oh wait, for a second I kind of forgot the whole Theon seizing Winterfell thing. Not as happy and excited as I was for the Stark children reunions. So Jon. Will you slap him, hug him, or kiss him? I add kiss him because of Torchwood. I joked that John and Jack would either fight or kiss and then of course they did both. So anything’s possible in this moment. “Sansa... is she alright?” “What you did for her is the only reason I’m not killing you.” Yeah no that’s VERY valid. Also Jon pulled him real close just then, my brain literally was like “I WAS JOKING ABOUT KISSING” for a second. Wait, where did Dany go though? I thought they agreed to not attack King’s Landing now.

WAIT. JUST. A. SECOND. I gotta google something.

IT IS HIM. Randyll Tarly played creepy Uncle Geoffrey in Bridget Jones Diary! I knew I recognized him! I KNEW I WAS GETTING BAD VIBES. I thought it was just because he was so horrible to my baby Sam. But also because he played a creep before. He looks different, not completely different, but different enough that it took a while to match his face. Also. I really want to rewatch Bridget Jones’ Diary now.

Oh this was poor Dickon’s first battle. Bronn... what do your elf ears hear. Oh wait. No. The saying is what do your elf eyes see, isn’t it? I never saw Lord of the Rings. Oh ok. Dothraki. I thought it would be the dragons. Either way, Brann has good ears. “We can hold them off” (Dragon roaring) YES DRAGONS. Those captions being together made me laugh out loud. Oh. Too funny. Jaime, you’re in trouble. Now. I don’t want Bronn to die. Also don’t want Dickon to die either. I know Jaime’s still around so I’m not worried about him just yet. But Bronn especially? Don’t die. Wow this is so epic. Look at my girl go. WOAH THE DOTHRAKI RIDE RIGHT THROUGH THE FLAMES. I LOVE IT. Dickon just saved Jaime, meaning Dickon’s about to die. OH THAT POOR HORSE. Look Bronn. I love you. I really do. And I do not want you to die. But also, if you kill a dragon I will cry so.... please miss. Ok he didn’t miss but he didn’t kill the dragon either. So that’s good. Was it Bronn who saved Jaime or was it Dickon?

That was an exciting episode. We got some Stark ruinions. We got Arya and Brienne bonding. Dragon’s killing people. What else do you want from a Game of Throne’s episode?

[toku-explained]

Swordfight between Fire and Earth

Heroes' Odyssey: Spotlight on Sevengar, Windom, King Joe STORAGE Custom, followed by Zero introducing GUTS Wing 1, GUTS Wing 2, Ardessel

Saber: Yuri put the hint of an idea in my head at the start, is the problem with Sword of Logos that, like Yuri until recently, their thinking hasn't changed in all this time? Daishinji finally suggests Reika might be lying about certain things. Ogami's got to be a little impressed by Touma, but he does take King of Arthur. Man Storious, that's fucked up man. Rintaro almost forces himself to fight to cut then down when Touma shows up again. Rekka still hasn't hit the true power Daishinji is after but he manages to separate them enough that Saikou can finish it. Is Rintaro on the cusp of thinking for himself? So Desast was experiment to produce a hybrid Megiddo? Hasn't worked out has it. Storious did manage to reproduce the Megiddo.

Kiramager: Garza manages to restore Oradin's form just to torture him. I though the flashback was going to show that Oradin had been a bully in his youth, but no, he was always the supportive, loving Big Brother, so what changed Garza? It's clever of the show to convince us Garza being brainwashed was off the table early on, when in fact he had been far longer than he knew. I just wish they'd shown him as a child before now.

Zi-O Vs Decade: Swartz dubs our Sougo as Sougo A, Casual Sougo as Sougo B and Cool Sougo as Sougo C. Woz appears to Sougo A and Geiz, I believe explaining the other Sougos are from other worlds, while looking at his now blank book. Out in the forest the sleeping Tsukuyomi is found by a young boy, who doesn't know who he is. A popularity contest is ongoing with the Sougos, Sougo C gives out chocolates, while Misa and Sougo B hold a rave. Sougo A is just running his festival, with one customer, Geiz getting frustrated with him. Another Sougo, I'll say Coward Sougo for now, is chased down by Tsukasa in his 4x4, once he's cornered Tsukasa Henshins into Decade. While Coward Sougo Henshins into Zi-O, Decade quickly defeats him. Sougo A discovers Swartz chopping meat late at night, discovering he's, of course, been forced to use Inves meat. Someone let's an Inves in, and while Sougo A gets it out, he spots Sougo C scheming. He approaches him the next day, but Sougo C quickly leaves. As they share food, the boy with Tsukuyomi remembers something. Ora teaches Heure about make up when they spot Sougo A, and when Heure tries to give his letter, Sougo A doesn't know how to respond and runs away, Sougo C witnesses this. As Ora watches, one Zi-O grabs Heurue and drops him into the courtyard among the Inves, another Zi-O leaps in, fighting him because of it, while Ora rushes to Heure and unconsciously uses her old power to destroy the Inves, Swartz looking on congratulates her. Heure rushes to the fight as Tsukasa arrives. One Zi-O uses a Time Break against the other using the Saikou Jikan Girade, that one, Sougo C, is the winner. After witnessing Sougo A vanish Tsukasa heads back to his car, while Heure is horrified. As Misa and Sougo B come to look, two further Sougos arrive, who I'm calling Cute Sougo and Punk Sougo.

Decade Vs Zi-O: Whoever killed the old man used the axe and threw it away. Yusuke is glad to see Tsukasa again, as everyone sits down. Tsukasa mentions the "True" Sougo, to Sporty Sougo's confusion, Tsukasa also mentions Oma Zi-O. Heure points out the missing axe, and Swartz suggests Misa did it. The next morning, the 3rd round if the King Game is Janken between all 7 of them. It takes 4 rounds for there to be a definitive loser, Misa, and Another Ryuki comes for her again, killing her, immediately after Okonomyaki is supplied. The 4th round is hide and seek from Another Ryuki, while Swartz succeeds in hiding, he is also killed by the axe, surviving just long enough to be creepy.

Dogengers: Yuki walks through Fukuoka thinking of Tanaka, she is seen by Shuraomaru. Yabai Kamen is berating another member of AHK, the "Sharp Business" Manager, Eboshi Musha, who tries to apologise, but just further injures Yabai Kamen. They flashback to show they were there in the battle in episode 1 (for a second in the episode itself), wherein they confirmed Fukuokaliber, only for their facemask, which hides their surprisingly cute face, to get blown away, and that was what had the power of the Golden Seal they had been gifted in it. Shuraomaru dispatched, and Yabai Kamen sends Eboshi Musha out too. Tanaka is struggling home with the shopping for the house, he finds Yuki waiting for him, she hugs him, saying she was waiting so long. He poorly times his attempt to say what he wanted to all along, but she knocks him out with a sword, changing back to Shuraomaru. Eboshi Musha is lost, and runs into Fukuokaliber, who intend to settle things like normal, but sees Eboshi Musha is upset and apologises for causing them to lose their covering. He offered his Clear File as a replacement. Eboshi Musha points out he looks different to it, he explains after the years his old suit was worn out and he changed to a new one, but he's still the same hero, and Eboshi Musha can be the same villain with it without a face covering. Tanaka runs up and introduces himself, leading Fukuokaliber to offer a final apology and farewell to Eboshi Musha, before blocking Tanaka's sword strike. Shuraomaru drops his possession of Tanaka, Fukuokaliber explaining he remembered Tanaka from episode 1. Shuraomaru dismisses Eboshi Musha, saying their worthless, but Fukuokaliber makes sure to say farewell, insisting they have value as a villain. Shuraomaru combines his power of the Golden Seal with a Ninja technique to return Fukuokaliber to his original suit. The other heroes are out looking for Tanaka, apparently having left before Shuraomaru got there. They return to the house unlocked, finding the groceries, and Yuki unconscious in the floor. Tanaka intends to join Fukuokaliber despite his injuries, but Fukuokaliber reminds him of the example he showed them in episode 1, fighting despite being in his old suit, stating he fought in it for 8 years and it and the memories are always part of him, he powers the two swords back up to their new versions to use the Hakata-ori Dynamic. With Shuraomaru's defeat Fukuokaliber returns to his new suit, and unnoticed, the power of the Golden Seal Shuraomaru had goes into the Clear File. Tanaka remembers about Yuki and rushes home with Fukuokaliber, reuniting with Yuki at last.