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Huh?!

Chat is this true?

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…Ain’t no way you of all people are saying this 😭.

Girl, even other Katsuki fans call you out on your victim mentality. Guess that’s another thing she shares with her fave.

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Character Flaws vs Writing Flaws:

While catching up on some of the stuff people have commented/sent to me, I noticed someone mention how Katsuki being a bully is a flaw of his and that not every character needs to be a good person.

First of all, when did I ever say that a character has to be morally correct to be a good character? Some of my favorite characters are villains who’ve done worse things than Katsuki.

So what’s the difference between them and Katsuki?

Well, the villains have a reason for existing. Joker is meant to serve as a parallel to Batman, challenging his morals while also showing what an unhinged Batman could look like.

On a much lesser scale, despite his extremely limited screen time, Moonfish’s bloodlust, lack of sanity, and cannibalism serve two purposes in MHA: to showcase Fumikage’s power and to give the readers an example of what the heroes of this world have to deal with.

Katsuki’s flaws are meant to show the flaws of a world that values raw power over morals, but he fails at this. The reason why? His flaws are never allowed to be flaws.

Katsuki’s aggressive and hostile nature should have him struggling to make friends, yet he has the two pillars of 1-A, that being Ejiro and Denkias described by Hori, immediately befriend him with no issues. His inability to empathize with others should have people wanting to steer away from him, but his instead 1-A loves him, Eri loves him despite being the last person who would, and anyone who doesn’t love him is seen as being in the wrong.

Katsuki is meant to be a big fish in a little pond, someone whose ego isn’t challenged until a certain point, and the Battle Trials were meant to show this. While yes, Katsuki has a mini-breakdown over the fact that he’s no longer in a class of people with weaker quirks, he has no issue claiming a spot as a Top Dog and he still continues to demean the people around him.

Katsuki’s aggressiveness is meant to be both a flaw and an asset. His aggressive nature is what motivates him to defeat the villain, but it’s supposed to cause him to have a one track mind when it comes to hero work. Rescue, teamwork, all of that is ignored by him to fight the big bad. His ego caused everyone to have a tougher time during the USJ, but is that ever touched upon? Nope. It’s just ignored. When Katsuki saved Kyouka, there was no buildup to it. It just happens. We never see him struggle with teamwork because everyone else follows him like a lost puppy.

Meanwhile, Izuku is meant to be Katsuki’s parallel in this department. He’s meant to showcase why too much selflessness isn’t good while also showing that a hero is more than just their raw power. Problem is, Izuku gets completely shat on no matter what he does. He goes after a villain to protect U.A? Gets criticized. Does his best to work with Katsuki? Gets blamed despite it solely being an issue on Katsuki’s end. Does everything perfectly? Nope, still not enough. Compared to Izuku, who always seems to be in the wrong, Katsuki’s placed as this paragon of heroic virtues despite the fact both characters are supposed to be two halves of a whole. They’re supposed to learn from one another. Problem is, Katsuki’s flaws are always ignored while Izuku’s positive traits are demeaned.

Finally, Katsuki being a bully is supposed to serve as a starting point for his character. He’s meant to grow and develop as a human being. Again, he doesn’t, or at least he doesn’t do so in an organic way. He never suffers consequences for his behavior, he’s constantly propped up and coddled instead of criticized, and he’s given some heroic moments despite there being no buildup to them. In the span of a month he goes from nearly killing Izuku to risking his life for him. Where the hell did that come from? Honestly, I wouldn’t care if Katsuki being a bully is his sole purpose for existing, but he’s meant to be more than that. This is supposed to be a well developed and fully fleshed out character who grows from his selfishness and is meant to show that anyone can be a hero, no matter their starting point. But when the development is crap and he hardly changes outside of some OOC moments, then his flaws cease to be flaws that he’s meant to overcome. Instead MHA treats it as him being quirky and misunderstood.

In conclusion, you just can’t present something as a character flaw and expect it to serve as an excuse as to why a character exhibits said flaw. You have to think of the following: what purpose does this flaw serve? Is it meant to be used to teach a lesson? Does it set something in motion, whether it be the development of this character, another character, or does the flaw cause the character’s downfall? The only thing Katsuki’s flaws does right is that they set up Izuku’s story, which again would be fine if that’s Katsuki’s purpose, but it’s not. Him being a bully isn’t something that he overcomes in a natural way. His redemption story is the equivalent of filling things out of a checklist without being fleshed out. Every time he screws up, it’s never treated as a screw-up. Oh he failed the hero license exam? Well so did Shoto so he’s not unique there, and the proctors still suck his dick even while he’s “failing”. Him being the reason for 13’s injuries? Never brought up.

Katsuki’s flaws don’t piss me off because they are flaws, but because the writing of his character IS so deeply flawed despite being a centralized character in the story.

Oh, and as always, someone can dislike a character for whatever reason they might have. If people don’t like Katsuki because he’s a bully, then they have every right to. What I wrote is a response as to why I think Katsuki’s a shit character and how it’s not because of his flaws themselves, but how Hori goes about writing these flaws.

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Hey y’all, I’m still alive. To be honest, I haven’t been keeping up with MHA as of late 😂. Things around me have been hectic and the times when I’m free I spend doing activities that I enjoy.

From what I’ve been reading from the asks and comments you leave me, it seems that MHA’s finding a way to keep falling to an all time low. Once I feel ready to, I’ll dive into the latest chapters. For reference, last time I checked in on MHA, Katsuki was getting his dick sucked by Hori once more, stole All Might’s moment, was given another unearned heroic scene, given a power up that makes no logical sense, and was responsible for both scaring and defeating AFO despite actually not doing anything.

As for asks, submissions, and comments, I’ll be answering them on a future date. I promise I’m not ignoring anyone, I just need a break from MHA for a while 😂. If you’re reading this right as I post it, I’ll have another mini-rant/essay up as well so you’ll have something to read while I’m gone. See you sometime in the future 🙌

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Hi! i remember someone sent you an ask on what are your recommended katsuki faces consequences (idk somewhere along those lines) but i can't seem to find it? do you still have that list? thank you!!

Here you go 😊

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Whenever I see a story, where Izuku, unfortunately, ended up committing suicide, they do the same thing, it makes Bakugou completely depressed or sad. But let's be honest, he could never be like that, like he might not even care about it, or even worse, he could be thinking "Finally Deku is gone". But stans always want to distort it, to make it look like a love story.

Same. If anything I feel Katsuki wouldn’t care about what happens to Izuku.

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I feel like comparing Catadora and Bakudeku is a bit unfair in my personal opinion as someone who has seen the show.

Could the Catadora ship have been written better? Yeah no doubting that. But I feel what we were given compared to BNHA is a little better.

Because the main difference in Catra and Bakugou is that Catra actually suffers consequences in the form of losing everyone around her, and having some of the characters call her out on her bullshit. While Bakugou doesn't have any of that.

Catra actually apologizes and worked on improving herself unlike Bakugou who stayed the same throughout the series.

And yeah while the show does show her personal struggles and issues, it doesn't use it as a way to say the things she does is okay and still view her an antagonist. While BNHA tried to show us Bakugou's personal struggles but USING them as a way to get us to like him and be okay with the awful things he does.

I can’t speak on Catradora cause I’ve never seen the show those characters are from but you’re spot on about Katsuki. It’s honestly a problem that the series has in general. Katsuki’s, and to a lesser extent, Endeavor’s backstories/struggles seem to be there to try to convince the readers that they’re not all that bad. A good backstory explains a character’s decisions and their motivations. What have Katsuki and Endeavor’s backstories told us about how they’ve become vile abusers?

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The movies being canon is such a double-edged sword imo...

Because while it means that two of my favourite characters (Melissa and Rody) are canon, it also means that the whole bullshit of Bakugo getting AFO is canon too, which... Holy shit I find that dumb-

Ew, don’t remind me 😭. Katsuki killed an otherwise good movie.

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"I wish we could have been friends. That's all what I wanted the most. But ever since your Quirk manifested, you began to bully me. You abused me, you harassed me, and you made me feel unsafe whenever you were around. You made my life a living hell. All because I was diagnosed as Quirkless. But I'm not angry with you. I thought I would be. And I was. But then I realized that it would only make me unhappy. And after being unhappy whenever I'm with you for so long, I would never choose to feel that way again. I've accepted that we aren't friends, and that we never will be. I've also accepted that I cannot forget those years that you were cruel to me. I forgive you, Bakugō. I'm not angry with you; if anything, I pity you. You can't know happiness if your life is built around anger. For your sake, I hope your heart changes."

- Izuku to Bakugō

(NGL, I feel like this is something Izuku would say if he recognizes their toxic/unhealthy relationship & made the decision to completely cut off ties with Bakugō)

MHA if it was good.

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In JJK, there is a Bakugo character named Naoya and is unironically a better character with real and understandable reasons why he is a scumbag. But Gege doesn't whitewash this dude, he gives the guy a cool ability and some impressive moments but still treats him like a delusional fool in over his head. Best of all, no pretentious "redemption" arc to follow, just a guy that is fun to hate. JJK has some writing issues but this is one of these things I enjoy reading.

Honestly there should be more asshole characters that just stay assholes and dig themselves into a hole. Redemption stories are nice and all, but they’re not something anyone can write.

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You know, in the real world, if a group is punished for the fault of a single person, that person will most likely become the most hated in class. Besides, nothing was more hateful than being blamed for another idiot.

This. 1-A’s gotten into a lot of shit because of Katsuki and not once have they called him out for him.

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Idk what shit the principal of bnha was son tbh

But I do not trust him

Lol 😂. Same

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Very hot take, and probably cynical, apologies but this is how I feel.

There are probably other franchises that did it as well, but MHA is probably one of the worst examples of showcasing characters that are “kind and selfless”. Because unfortunately, with how everything is handled, especially in Midoriya’s case, (and it kills me calling him this), he comes across as a doormat when in regards to his toxic relationship with Bakugou. I don’t hold it against him having those traits. Give me a protagonist with those traits over a selfish asshole any day. But the fact those are the only things he feels, and the fact he doesn’t get to hold any other negative feeling (especially to Horikoshi’s pet), and it could easily equate “good, kind person will always forgive me, no matter what I do, because that’s their nature. They won’t be angry at me if I apologize.”

I guess what I am trying to say is a series like these slowly takes honestly positive traits like kindness and forgiveness and make them seem like crutches or obstacles to characterization, if it makes sense.

Nah, I completely understand this take. Toxic positivity exists, and I’d say Izuku does display some of these traits. He’s never allowed to feel and process things and the narrative is always giving him shit for being kind. This in turn makes it extremely difficult for any development to be done. For a show that’s all about criticizing that kind of reckless selflessness, MHA really doesn’t show us what positive kindness/selflessness looks like.

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begging for the mha fandom to understand that therapy isn't a punishment

Same. It really grinds my gears when people do this in their fanfics. No, therapy isn’t a form of punishment. It’s a tool to be used for self growth.

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Hey y’all, so I’ve decided to make a personal blog for myself. Thought it’d be a nice way outlet for me to talk about the things I’m passionate about. Currently there’s nothing on it except for a dumb little essay I wrote for college, but I do plan on posting stuff on there. If you’d like to follow, here’s the link:

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''hori been here''

''how can you tell?''

''angry blond man-''

😂

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U now have a mini hori

Please take care of him he's shy

*Pats the mini-Hori*