#(by most drawbacks i don't mean he sucks but like... i don't think people take how dangerous his quirk is seriously or how it affects him)

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you get it so much i could genuinely spend hours talking about bakugo and midoriya’s characters and their development and how genuinely well written they are and then an exploration of their dynamic on top of that and why it’s one of the best in media atm AND I MEAN THAT but people are so busy tripping over themselves to be like ‘UHHH ☝🏼😂 MHA IS CRINGE’ or the fans themselves absolutely butchering the characters (bakugo in particular is like a toxic wasteland now do not approach do not stop within a 10 mile radius etc) that it’s pointless and it makes me so MADDDD anyway hiiii corey i put mha in ur inbox do u still think im hot

YES YES YES!!! EXACTLY HELLA!!!

and like... as far as midoriya and bakugou are concerned, they're like... forced into almost Every fic i read :/ like i'm out here looking for class a being a family fics without midoriya or bakugou trauma or hero worship is that SO MUCH TO ASK!!! i'll be under the denki-centric tag bc he's my special lil boy and like bakugou being in most of them i Get bc of the bakusquad bUT like denki is Also Smart and, imo, understand his quirk better than midoriya, so why do we need to force midoriya in there to explain how denki's quirk works tO HIM??? or like. people will bring up midoriya's past in like every fic that isn't about him or bakugou's kidnapping (which like fair ik that was traumatic for literally everyone but i'm not looking for balugou fics) and i'm just. i want sero hanta fics. not sero is worried about midoriya fics.

oof okay i have a lot to say apparently. am a lil bitter bc my favorite characters are denki, sero, kodai, and ojirou (and the bakusquad like i LOVE kiri) and finding they centric fics without just... let's talk about bakugou and midoiya is HARD they have PLENTY of they centric fics!!! i don;t mind them Being in other fics, but like... do we Haveto mention how amazing and special they are in Every Fic??? like... they're not the only ones who work hard and made it into class a??? so did literally everyone else??? midoriya isn't the only one who was bullied or gets anxious sometimes (and people make him like... weirdly anxious too like must protect him and i'm just... ugh) and midoriya isn't the only sunshine in class a (horikoshi literally said that denki is the glue that holds the class together but, no, everyne go ahead and make it mido...) and bakugou isn't the only one who's experienced something traumatic nor is he the only one who cares about others but is bad at showing it. and they aren't the only contenders for #1 hero and anyone in class a could beat them in a spar like... i don't think they're unbeatable??? denki could beat them. ojirou could beat them. satou could beat them. shouji. hagakure. kouda. aoyama. sero. mina. jirou. the list goes on. and they could beat all the people i just listed any day too!!! it just... it doesn't always have to be like "gosh i'll never be a hero like deku" like??? you got in the Same class he did.

ahem. anyways. uhhhhhh i LOVE midoriya and bakugou. hate the way fans act like they're the only characters that matter. yes this angry rant is bc i was looking for denki centric fics the other day and most of them were more midoriya centric even though that wasn't tagged and denki centric was. when you're reading a fic about the trauma of someone other than mido and baku and then one of them has to take over and be like "listen to My trauma" and suddenly it's aboyt THem.

oKAY DONE FOR REAL

anyways hella i still think you're hot in fact i think it makes you Even Hotter

(also no shame i literally made the password to last week's vocab quiz "SERO HANTA" like in all caps bc of the leaks and bc i love him.)

sorry about the angry rant about the two main characters do you still think i'm hot-

#hella tag #this was therapeutic thank you #literally everything you said!!! #i just hate the ways fans act about them UGH. and also ugh ik they're the main characters but it still sucks that like every major battle i #surrounding them. like i get it. i do. but it's Always Them. we've seen that!!! i wanna see a big satou vs villain! or sero or denki or #ojirou or hagakure or jirou or... etc... #and ik they all play roles in the final battle or whatever but no like. i want them to be the star of the Main Big Battle but i get that #midoriya is the main character and baku is the second and symbolism and stuff - just sucks having side characters as your favorites iuygtft #oKAY DONE FR #and pls no one take this the wrong way! i love mido and baku! like i genuinely do! i just don't think they need to be forced into everythin #especially when it's about another character and they're trauma or mental health. there are other people in class who care about them and #those two aren't the onlt observant or self-acrifical people in class #oKAY UGH FR DONE NOW I HAVE FEELINGS HELLA IUHGFGYHUJI #also tape is the best quirk and denki's quirk has the most drawbacks in this essay i will- #(by most drawbacks i don't mean he sucks but like... i don't think people take how dangerous his quirk is seriously or how it affects him) #corey rambles:)

[hexhomos]

I have a sincere question. I heard someone say Viktor is disabled in LoL. I feel this is untrue. Can you confirm or deny this?

That is definitely not canon. Arcane was the *first* Riot property to ever depict Viktor as disabled, and that's not without some considerable drawbacks. (Such as: knowing he could very easily fall into the 'magically curing your disability/deleting it out of yourself' ableist trope, new/casual TV show fans seeing him as positive representation while unaware that his ultimate future ideals Suck and frankly need to be viewed with a critical lens, etc etc...)

It's a very new concept which brings into question things such as agency & nuance & the continued portrayal of villains with some disability or disfigurement (as well as a deeply negative outlook on those things), not to speak of the eugenics slippery slope. The issue at hand is that Viktor's original concepts did not play into these tropes, unless it was fanmade stuff. I read his champion archetype to be much more tied to the cycles of industrialization/ exploitation /dehumanizing capitalism, while Arcane Viktor has very little to say about any of these things.

To put it more simply: League Viktor augments himself as a choice, to prove a point and present his creation; something no one could ever take credit for, because it is literally his own self. Arcane Viktor is forced to augment himself under the threat of impending death and a decaying body, via a darkmagic macguffin. Those are fundamental differences.

Riot doesn't have a good track record when it comes to sensitive topics and if I'm being perfectly honest with you I don't expect the argument borne out of Arcane season 2 to be... good... its likely to be very centrist and cartoonish in an effort to wrap up S1 storylines, and that means weird takes, bootlicking, and "Rich People Have Feelings Too".

League Viktor certainly has had fanwork interpreting him as disabled before; though back then it was a consequence of self-amputation, limb replacement, lab accidents, and the works. I can see how his staff and in-game gait brought those things to mind, and even knowing that Arcane can never un-exist, I'm happy that some people felt really seen and identified with an openly disabled Viktor being on the TV show. I think you could still write that well - if you gave a shit - which is not something I trust the company to do when they've already deleted most of his outside life/character motivation and made it singularly focused on a killing chronic illness to be 'solved'. The main character involved in scamming Viktor out of his work was even included in the TV show, but for some reason they decided to make him a long dead (and very nice and wholesome) professor instead, which just seems like proof of wasted character development to me.

^You'll see a lot of people who prefer to keep iterations of his character wholly separate for all the above reasons, some who rewrite his hollywood sickness to be a lot closer to a real condition, some who give league viktor different kinds of disability still.

You just have to remember they're different characters.

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