#this was a little 'tdmm antis can't clown me for what i do in atla when the Worst^TM happens'

[cobraonthecob]

seeing tdmm antis’ clownery got me thinking - in any case where it does become canon and horikoshi makes a bnha sequel series that has them becoming bad parents or something a la LoK’s kataa.ng, how would i feel?

And to be honest, I think I’d be able to ignore it and keep making a ton of fics where canon is ignored because I have the current show’s tdmm scenes to back up a version where they didn’t become like what LoK did to kataan.g, largely because tdmm so far don’t have kata.ang’s issues: kataa.ng’s issues started within ATLA rather than LoK coming out of the blue with the whole ‘they became bad parents if you think about it’. ATLA’s S3 deteriorated k.atara and aa.ng’s relationship, starting with the superficial shipping scenes to the surprise kiss neither talked about until EIP, to when she got no support from Aa.ng when it mattered the most (TSR. i’m talking about TSR), to Ember Island Players...everything (i still hate that assault to this very day), to neither of them talking one-on-one after EIP, to Kata.ra and Z.uko building up their relationship to culminate in the Last Agni Kai...need i say more? And even before S3, we have notes of Aa.ng...just not being a great future partner for K.atara. There’s moments where he disrespects her culture and moments where Kata.ra has to think of Aa.ng as a partner because the narrative said so. 

And in any case, from what I’ve heard of the manga, we have nothing to point to a deterioration of tdmm’s friendship yet (and even if it did, we have at least five solid seasons worth of their lovely friendship) and I have no reason to doubt Horikoshi’s ability to keep characters in-character (despite some bad character design choices and some questionable narrative framing, but as far as I’m concerned, he can write) just yet, i can hold out hope that tdmm won’t go anything like ka did. 

Sure, there’s great friendship moments between Kata.ra and Aan.g, but for me personally, there’s nothing for me to get me onboard the ship (especially when there’s plenty of other Katar.a ships for me to jump aboard lol) while tdmm i could be content with anything happening and i’d continue to make my fics however i desired. Furthermore, bnha is a lot more multishipping friendly, largely because the BNHA girls aren’t done as dirty as Katara was - they’re not shamed by the narrative for not returning the guy’s feelings and they have a ton of good friendships everywhere (there’s 20 people in the class. have a field day) while Katara was limited to a friend group consisting of her brother, the kid that the narrative doesn’t want to be clear on what she feels about him until the last episode of the show, a weird little sister/daughter relationship going on with Toph, a male character that cares for her and has a whole narrative to her, and the girl dating her brother. There’s not a lot of shipping fuel for Katara except for the two infamous ships, whereas in BNHA, there’s a lovely sprinkling of shipping crumbs everywhere.

tl;dr: tdmm don’t have issues in their friendship in the show/manga, not like ka did during atla’s run, nor do i feel threatened or eclipsed by another todoroki or momo pairing and i would care less if it happened. Canon is a suggestion, my headcanons are my headcanons, and your headcanons are your headcanons. Blocking, backing out of a page, clicking the ‘x’, and not saying anything saves your energy and time