#thief takami

[tabbyhoney]

Finished the last Ballet!Shinyo drawing!

I swear to everyone you should try drawing some ballet poses, they are so much fun to draw :D. To add this was the only time I was able to capture the essence of Amaya, sadly with no face reveal :(.

Character belongs to @sleepwalkersqueen from the story 'Fear of you'.

[transhawks]

So, uh, just reread "chapter"all it takes is one bad day" and does Twice have pure white pupils and irises like AFO supposedly does? Like, I haven't seen any clear official art of his eyes, but in the one back cover of him they look like they're pure white?

At this point I'm just going to have to make an entire essay on how we should be reading Japanese media with an understanding of cultural and class markers. No, Jin does not have the same eyes or similar eyes to AFO. Yes, there's connections with Jin and AFO but that's another topic. 1. AFO's eye color hasn't been really confirmed aside from that one WSJ cover that implies they can be clear and white. 2. That's not what the "something about my eyes rubs people the wrong way" means. This is what I mean about the cultural context being missing from most of us Western-readers and how we just don't get reading the manga with no guide to explain small details to us. I also wish Jin was just popular so I don't feel like I'm the only one in the fandom yammering about the ridiculous amount of depth he has as a character and in his storyline. First off, Jin's eyes are sunken in, his features abnormally "chiseled" and rough for an anime character. By the time we meet him he looks like he's had a hard life but we also find out in flashbacks he always kind of looked like that.

He's unkempt - stubbled, has the sunken eyes and dark eyebags the villains are generally drawn with. He smokes, drinks, wears a wife beater, has no eyebrows, and used to ride a motorcycle. All these things are a red flag. This is where "you really need to be familiar with Japanese media before you read BNHA" comes in, Jin, while drawing from several different Western comic characters (John Constantine, Deadpool, Rorschach), is also neatly fitting into the yanki and bosuzoku (sorta) trope. Or Japanese delinquents. What throws people "off" is the lack of eyebrows. Yanki are traditionally portrayed with no eyebrows. This link here explains that at sight a delinquent can be identified with shaved eyebrows. This is why so many villainous or rough characters are eyebrowless. It's like the Japanese equivalent of giving villains twirly mustaches and goatees - something about the imagery of that already implies villain in our minds, whereas the lack of eyebrows implies delinquent/criminal in the Japanese cultural imagination (in modern day settings. Heian-era eyebrow-lessness is a different story/class marker).

He's also blonde, or "chapatsu" which is also another "Delinquent" trope in Japan - many delinquents in the 70s-90s bleached their hair to this yellow or orange color (hence "cha" which obviously means tea/chai). Japanese schools are infamously awful at allowing for self-expression to the point where naturally brown-haired students can be forced to dye their hair, and chapatsu hair was a marker of a rebellious/delinquent student. Twice isn't the only one who Horikoshi uses this trope for. Tomura, for example, really had the "up to no good" look early on even if I think he's more of a homebody.

You know who else?

Huh, interesting, given Takami's a murderous professional career thief alcoholic. Wait a minute, wasn't Jin was one of the greatest Japanese thieves until his accident, I wonder exactly what Horikoshi meant by making Thief Takami have a similarly unkempt appearance, rough rugged facial features, and barely any brows? Wait -

Something to understand is that we've gotten information from Yoco Akiyama in TUM about how the main manga's design process works and apparently the facial feature consistency is really important for the artists. Thus the fact Keigo's parents were designed with: 1. Rough, sunken features (Thief & Jin) 2. Unkempt facial fair (Thief & JIn) 3. Deep eyebags (Jin & Tomie) 4. Similarly disordered filthy homes (Takami fam & Jin) 5. Beer Bottles lying around everywhere (Takami fam & Jin) 6. Small, beady eyes with little pupils (Takami Fam & Jin) 7. Grey-Blue Eyes (Tomie & Jin) 8. Clear mental instability (Tomie & Jin) Was absolutely intentional. For all that we see Keigo's parents, Horikoshi knowingly designed them to resemble Jin. Again, Jin was Keigo's villain to save. Keigo was Jin's hero. Keigo failed because we needed a character to fail to save "their villain". Both Keigo and Jin have clear working-class background and criminal class markers. These things tie them together, these marginalized identifications make their relationship something that should have worked. If we want an in-universe reason for Keigo's focus on Jin, it's absolutely true he likely (subconciously) saw his parents superficially reflected in Jin, and decided to "save" him because he was unable to save his parents. Of course, that was not only presumptuous, it was also wrong because Jin is not a stand-in for Keigo's parents (and unlike them is a decent person). Anyway, yeah, no Jin's design/looks made him look like a "thug" to people in his community. That's why he had issues and that's what his comment meant. People's biases about people who look like Twice made him just get...away less. If someone "looks like a thug" you will try to make connections that justify that bias. That's why things like his motorcycle accident hurt him so much. He was uneducated, likely a middle-school dropout, fired from a job, had a record and had "bad vibes". Who'd hire him? Can you understand why Jin was doomed into having to survive as a criminal? Society decided he was meant to fail years before he did fail. So much of BNHA is about people falling into traps of pre-determined outcomes. Jin's tragically so.

[helpimstuckinafandom]

All art I see of Hawks' father depicts him looking almost exactly like Hawks but more bloody and rugged when we canonically know he looks like this

[sleepwalkersqueen]

Healthy Birb >:3

He's very kitten shaped ur honor

[splo0shh]

Showing off some of my favourite bnha characters :]

I like how almost all of them are blond, and then there's Kirishima and Endeavour

[hitoshi-yuuto]

Takami siblings AU

Keigo, laying in a hospital bed : If I die during the operation, can you do me one favor?

Denki & Neito : Anything for you, Nii-chan.

Keigo : Take explosive and blow up the hospital.

Neito and Denki :

Denki, sighing : Well, we said we'll do it.

Neito : So I guess we'll have to.

Keigo : Thanks bros!

[takami-flock]

Oops just remembered to post this here XD

[ralburry]

ughhh he’s so cool i hate him (read it: Fear of You)

i have yet to watch s7 so i’m trying to finish my bnha wips to get back into the fandom (it’s not working 😓)

[tabbyhoney]

Have some ballet dancer Shinyo!because I am obsessed with this AU that came with my obsession of drawing ballet dancers.

I really just adore the chemistry when two people dance together.

Shinyo Takami is from @sleepwalkersqueen

[transhawks]

I've been wondering about this for some time now, but how did Dabi figure out who Hawks' mother was? I'll admit i don't remember the details of the manga very well, but when i watched the new season that came out, it seemed to me the plan Re-Destro came up with to plant spies into the Comission failed after the HPSC lured him out and he killed its president. Is that explained in the manga at all? Or perhaps i misunderstood it?🤔🤔🤔

Please take this with a grain of salt. I have a feeling we'll be actually told why eventually, because Hawks remarks on it manga-wise.

For now, here's my best guess:

Dabi was obsessed with his own father. I have no doubt that he was incredibly obsessed with watching his father's fights and likely did so after his death, though this would have been when he was still young, likely when Natsuo was a very young baby.

It seems that the Thief Takami fight was like...memorable somehow. And given he was a murderer, not just a thief, it's clear that Keigo's dad had notoriety.

I think Dabi might have recognized the red feathers as similar to the feathers on Takami's arms and just decided to go on a hunch because Hawks's lack of biographical info is weird, actually. The thing about investigation and any avenue of trying to gather info about a person's motives, it's important to leave no unturned stones.

Anyway, so, when you have a hunch, you look into it, right?

Let's be a bit clear on some stuff:

Thief Takami was a two-man team. Tomie was clearly helping him in certain ways. It's implied that he relies on her for finding jobs and this might be linked to her quirk. There's other strange wording around that whole chapter that make me suspect she had absolutely fascinating propensity for tracking people.

We're also not sure what he did prior to having to hide with her. Perhaps he had a team, etc. Dude wasn't like a one off criminal, clearly, and that means he had connections.

So, uh, what does this mean? Well, let's think about it this way: Dabi has a lot of reach now. Giran, the many PLF members, etc. Imagine he starts asking about Thief Takami, seeing if Giran has any contacts who knew the man prior to his arrest and maybe even after, in jail. Maybe Takami mentioned in trial documents or something that he had help though never elaborated, etc.

There's just a lot of possibilities and areas where someone might have found out he had a criminal partner and possibly a first name.

The thing is, and the HPSC were kind of dumb for this, it doesn't seem like they changed her first name. There are quirk databases. I doubt the tech skills of the PLF wouldn't able to get into one of these. Then you look for anyone who matches - eye quirk, surveilence, age range, etc. Of course if you have a name, you put it in even if it seems it's a long shot that she'd still be using it.

(she was)

My view is the HPSC simply didn't cover their tracks well-enough when it came to Keigo's background. Likely it was just a bit less important than the other shit they do cover up. Tomie's quirk was in a quirk database, her first name likely the same, if you knew what you were looking for, cross enough names in your list to check them out. It's possible she wasn't the only woman approached by Dabi and Dabi's people, by the way, but he eventually found her.

Until we get confirmation otherwise, that's been what I think might be the most understandable explanation. When you are able to have a wide reference point of info and willing to dig deeper, you can find out a lot. I'm fairly good at social media stalking stuff myself through this sort of method myself.

[roo-brr]

YOOO‼️ HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHINYO 🎉🎉

Joke day and Chicken wing day are perfect for you... 🙏 🎉🎊🎁🎈🧨✨️🪅

I made a lil drawing‼️ (with help from a chibi base, I tried to draw him normally and I was having a hard time so I said NAH 🙅‍♂️ AND I used party transparent pngs, I tried to draw the party hat and again, I had a hard time, my #skillz died 😭)

SO ofc I drew his face and wings and shez to make it Shinyo and not just an outline 😝 but yur, I didnt do the outline 4 da body, WAS NOT ME 🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️ I do NOT take credit 4 dat 😔 I do take credit for that hair & ponytail tho bro...🐎🐎🐎🐎 and the fuckass wings, don't look too hard 🙈

⚠️SHINYO TAKAMI AS A CHARACTER IS BY @sleepwalkersqueen ‼️ from the fic "Fear of You" on Ao3 ‼️‼️ GO CHECK HER OUT 🥊

And a silly capcut template 4 him AND yOu🤙‼️

Again, happy birthday Shinyo 😔🙏 I love you so much, I do hope you have an epic time. I hope your birthday is celebrated in FoY and we just don't know ☹️ you deserve the happy <3

[sleepwalkersqueen]

NEW FEAR OF YOU CONTENT AHH

Not even written by me! @dahvampire wrote an entire fanfiction for Fear of you, check it out!! <3

Pretty much this dynamic:

[ajo-oh]

So I was away from the computer, there was an idea, and then this happened; figured I'd share it here :D *Might turn it digital someday; though no promises*

My god, when I was re-reading the brief healing chapters I forgot the man was supposed to be wearing slacks, and right after doing the detail of adding pockets and cuts. Oh, and adding bruises on Shinyo's face, ugh, that part hurt... he looked so precious before and still does. At least I managed to save the face before the trauma.

OC by fluffball above is not mine - belongs to @sleepwalkersqueen

[toga-time]

Seiji: When the kids gave you a hard time, what did I say?

Hawks: You told me I was special and they were jealous.

Seiji: And if they still gave you a hard time, what did I tell you to say?

Hawks: My father can have you eliminated with one phone call.

Seiji: That's my boy!