#tsutsumi kaina

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Lady Nagant the badass that you are. I had so much fun making this. 💜✨️

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kill to save

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Lady Nagant

[kainagant]

i think people gloss over lady nagant's hurt and actual emotions too often and just skip straight to "she wanted to be a hero, she was just disillusioned". like yes, that's her core feeling, that at the end of the day she was good and virtuous. but there was also heaps of guilt and resentment and disillusionment piled on top of that. saying "oh but she's a good person at heart" invalidates all of her hurt. this was never about whether she was truly good or evil, it was always, at its core, that she had reached a breaking point, and she was done being a martyr for the perfect, idealized hero society that everyone took for granted.

i'm not trying to say "therefore she was actually bad", i just think that a major part of what makes lady nagant interesting is the conflict between the altruism at her core and the desire for her own self-respect which was at war with her role as a hero.

at the end of the day, she shot the president because her personal feeling was that she didn't want to kill anymore. and i don't think that, at the time, she was thinking about the general corruption of society and how that was linked to the hits she carried out. like yes, obviously, having government sanctioned black ops assassins is a bad thing, so therefore, putting a stop to it would be "for the greater good" "to achieve a less corrupt society". but in that moment, she was not killing "for the greater good of society". that single bullet was different from every other bullet she's shot, because it wasn't shot with the belief that it was for the greater good, but she shot the president for her own sake alone.

in an ironic twist, you could say that the shot she fired in a moment of "selfishness" was "good", whereas the shots she fired out of her sense of heroism were "evil", and that's a far more fascinating aspect of lady nagant to think about, rather than just boiling her down to "she's good and altruistic at heart and she saw the corruption of hero society and got fed up with it". this is a true statement but also an oversimplification of her backstory.

[dailyfigures]

Lady Nagant ; My Hero Academia ☆ Bell Fine

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They're both so unserious 😂

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I believe Hawks and Mirko would unintentionally (sometimes intentionally) cock block each other.

[homuras]

Lady Nagant ✩ Episode 133

[delawaredetroit]

"Midoriya showed me something today"

This line parallels what Lady Nagant said about Izuku's final fight with Shigaraki in the epilogue.

And it seems like Horikoshi was trying to portray Izuku as a catalyst for change after both the Shie Hassaikai Arc and the Final War Arc. He didn't stick the landing the second time though. The first time, "Midoriya showed me something" was used to demonstrate to Nighteye and others present that the future is not set in stone and fate can be changed. There is also that theme of the saved playing a crucial role in clinching the win/save as well. But it worked the first time because (1) Nighteye knew about the prophecy to know fate was changed and (2) Izuku saved someone (Eri) who was not fated to be saved.

For the Final War Arc, almost no one knew Izuku was trying to save Shigaraki and almost no one knew All Might was fated to die in that fight. Other than inspiring others to act through his transparency of how hard he worked, why was what society saw that day from Izuku different? There may have been a reaching out scene in the void, but all the public saw was the hero blasting the boss villain to smithereens.

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Doodles from trying out new brush

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LADY NAGANT ✧ レディ・ナガン    ↳ Requested by Anonymous

[kainagant]

i love lady nagant because of the complexity of someone who holds both hero and villain status. she has a heroic sense of righteousness, while also understanding intrinsically what drives villains to hurt others. she also, uniquely, understands that hero and villain are two sides of the same coin. to save people she had to kill others. by killing the hpsc president she saved herself. she's altruistic like a hero and selfish like a villain. she has the capacity to both condemn villains for their crimes while also empathizing with what made them the way they are.

[nagitosstolenhand]

nagant going from murdering the head of the hero commission due to realizing the horrific corruption of government and society at large and then being tossed in a torture prison to rot by said government to giggling and making tax dollar jokes with the shiny and brand new head of the hero commission. im gonna get fucking violent.

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Theres not enough people talking about the Lady Nagant and All Might parallels.

Without Lady Nagant the era of peace would not have existed the same way the other way around aswell. They were both made to bear the weight of the entire soceity on their shoulders.

As much as I loved lady nagant returning it cannot be denied that she is putting her life at risk here just to save one more life (Izukus but yes) just like Toshinori.

They had both lost hope under the weight of their respective roles. For Toshinori it was after the All For One fight, for Kaina it was after the weight of her sins was to much to bear so she confronted the president leading her to be thrown in tartarus. And guess who reminded them of their heroic fire, brought back light to their eyes and hope for the future.

Midoriya fucking Izuku

Theres more, "I smile to show the pressure of heroes and to trick the fear inside of me." Chapter 1.

Because even when Kaina was breaking down on the inside the commissions manufactured smile is still plastered on her face. Lets not forget they were both majorly injuried by all for one in the scenes where they are limping out of the hospital. I’d also like to mention about how Kaina at one point was hunting All For One just like Toshinori. They were also both had replacements, who were able to keep the light in their eyes through all of it because they had someone to look up to. They lost that fire because they lost (or in Kainas case didnt have) someone to put their faith in, until Midoriya Izuku. Together Tsutsumi Kaina- Lady Nagant and Yagi Toshinori - All Might are the symbol of peace. Kaina works in the shadows while Toshinori exists in the light both holding up the entirety of hero society.

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