#tldr: the pacing is weird and i wouldnt change a thing

[colorful-horses]

My review of Miraculous Ladybug S5 so far is that it has a lot of scenes that I like in theory, but in action just end up being very silly and way over dramatic

[some-pers0n]

hi! not sure how to write things like this, hope i'm not bothering- i just wanted to say i really like your fics!! Seriously i was so happy to find them! I rarely read fics but since i found your ao3 ive been reading them one by one whenever i had a moment and it's been so much fun

it's really impressive to me how well you get? these characters? you know?? especialy medic, i always thought i'm just nit picky about his portrayl and it wouldnt really matter to anyone else he's just a funny guy etc etc... but you get him!! so well!! i was expecting it to be good after the medic essay but i was still surprised how accurate you write him!!

i guess in a weird way i find your work comforting, i know these freaks might be weird characters to relate to but here i am (it's autism) also seeing relationship being explored without the need for romance is a nice change of pace and really validating for the way i care about people irl (due to the autism)

got long and personal i'm so sorry tldr your brain is huge and you're really funny and my face hurts from smiling. god this is weird uhh have a good day

WAUGH WAH EWEH GRWUAH GEYHEHEHWAH WUAGHH GUH– okay slightly more normal now.

Ahem, pardon me for that. I was trying to say thank you!! Ahh!! That's so incredibly sweet and kind of you!!

And I'm glad you like my Medic characterization :] He's such a fun character to write when you really get him, y'know? I always found myself really picky with fics too, since they don't get him (in the way I do). I'm just happy I managed to bring out his silliness and particular flavour of goofiness and do it well.

Also the relating part eheisgwigwueyej– yeah I feel that there. Get so invested that when you step back you remember, oh yeah, the silly guy is a murderer. Ah well!

Thank you so very much anon :]

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@regrettably-the-main-blog

yeah okay i was trying to keep this post short but thanks for giving me an excuse to into more detail lol. (ill un@ you if you want ofc)

1) unless hori really wants to fudge things he does need to see his target with both eyes. they would have said so otherwise. getting one eye damaged at usj affected his whole quirk, and in the panel of him cutting his foot off you can see him only closing one eye. the rules of your quirk dont change just because you lose a body part, see: shigaraki and overhaul. and if aizawa can somehow use erasure with one eye, it would... still feel weird and unnecessary? he already has the aesthetic eye scar? what would taking an eye accomplish besides further muddling an already confusing quirk? he already lost a foot are we just taking body parts for fun now?

2) aizawa is one of the very few who could still continue to be a hero without a quirk and im so glad someone else sees that! big agree. being quirkless wouldnt stop him.

but this was never about him still being a hero.

aizawa was clear-headed and rational when he made this decision. he knew he was out of the fight either way the second he got hit. so why not just take the bullet? why go to the lengths of cutting off a limb, nearly dying of blood loss, and undertaking a long painful recovery? if eri fixed mirio only yesterday and is fine, why not have her heal him too?

the only conclusion i can make is that she cant. eri probably still cant control her quirk. my guess is that she cant shut it off by herself. she still relies on aizawa for that. i wouldnt be surprised if he was also considering the future and how vital his quirk would again be in a rematch against shigaraki. but the fact is that in the moment, aizawa was only thinking of eri, not of being a hero. in his mind eri doesnt need him, she needs his quirk, so thats what he prioritized. 

he sacrificed a limb and very nearly his life all so he could take care of her and make her feel safe.

so! the issue is that if he loses erasure that makes all of that completely pointless. it means that actually selfless sacrifice means nothing. itd be like if deku fought muscular but didnt save kota, or if mirio lost his quirk shielding eri only for her to get shot anyway five seconds later. futile sacrifices are for shakespearean tragedies, not fucking shounen. itd be stupid and cruel and jarring. 

3) even if you dont agree with me on some of those points, its still a fact that losing a quirk negates the sacrifice of his foot. and compared to erasure, his foot isnt even such a big deal thanks to how good prosthetics are. so if he really did lose an eye then that should have been the climax of aizawas story this arc, right? something so important warrants a clear and dramatic moment, but his eye didnt get that.

shigarakis little swipe was blink-and-you-miss-it. nobody mentioned his eye, not even the doctor. we dont even know if he lost an eye or not and that isnt exactly hard for other characters to figure out. you just dont treat a revelation so narratively and plot important as an afterthought so minor that you forget to even mention it happened. especially next to how dramatic the amputation was.

im not saying that losing his quirk wouldnt be interesting, im saying that if that was horis plan then he wouldnt have done the whole thing with the bullet in the first place. its just a distraction. so from a story/plot/thematic/pacing standpoint it just makes no sense to have taken his quirk like that. its not like he doesnt have enough drama in his storyline already

TLDR; itd be dumb if aizawa lost his quirk because a) it would make cutting off his foot completely pointless, and b) if he did lose it then the climax of his story this arc would have been on that, not his self amputation. 

so i just still dont see him losing an eye. i know aizawa is the series punching bag but come on. like its technically possible ig but narratively so completely nonsensical that i cant believe even a bad writer would ever do it. if hori does take his quirk then im just gonna lose all remaining faith in him as a writer tbh

the problem isnt with the idea of aizawa losing an eye in itself. its that theres no fucking way he can use his quirk with one eye.

and you do NOT have a character very dramatically cut off a limb to save his quirk only to completely invalidate that sacrifice seconds later in an unclear lucky swipe by the villain.

the narrative cant just decide that it was a stupid pointless sacrifice that means nothing actually!! this isnt a damn shakespearean tragedy.

i really dont think hori will do that. but ill say now that when the bandages come off, aizawa better have a cool new scar and a functioning quirk or else what the fuck is hori even doing