#also ngl i wouldn't exactly feel assured if only chat noir shows up lol

[miraculousnoromance]

Is it better to be a good hero(title) and a bad hero(profession), or is it better to be a good hero(profession) and a bad hero(title)?

this got very incoherent, i’m sorry. the original answer was going to be three paragraphs, and then i had to add more alsjdflasdjkf

i don’t exactly have an answer to that, to be honest. i personally think it boils down to a) how do you treat people around you at different times and b) how competent are you at your job. let’s pretend i’m endeavor pre-redemption for a hot minute here. i get up, go to work, save fifty people in one day, fight some criminals and have them arrested, then the public would call me a good Pro Hero. but then i go home and put my son through training from hell* while ignoring the other kids because they’re ‘not strong/good enough’ for your standards, then i’m an absolute dickwad of an asshole. it doesn’t matter whether or not i saved fifty people, i still abused a person (especially one under my care)

also, it’s noted that the best form of a hero, no matter the aesthetic, is one that makes you feel safe/reassured/a victory is in their hands when they show up, meta linked a few paragraphs down)

and a bad hero (the title) would be low-ranked/not regarded kindly by society. if you show up to fights and can’t finish them or save people, then no one is going to trust you, even though you could be the kindest person in the world. this is one of midoriya’s first lessons at UA, actually - it doesn’t matter how big of a heart or how willing you are to fight, if you cannot properly get through a fight without needing back-up all the time (or needing to get saved), then he can go home. it’s harsh, but it’s true. say if beginning of school year midoriya saw some criminal about to attack a defenseless person (and there were no one else around to help), and he attempted to stop them by one-shotting them with whatever US city smash, but then the criminal reveals that the punch did nothing and they’re still going to attack, now midoriya is one limb down and can’t fight well anymore, on top of protecting that defenseless person. that defenseless person might not have a high regard to midoriya - they can see that he tried, but as a Pro Hero, he broke himself five seconds into the fight. not very reassuring, and the criminal is still right there, buddy. i appreciate the spirit, but if you can’t end a fight you started, you should probably train better

or as the previous ask mentioned, sure, batman could get the tar beaten out of him all the time and lose fights but still be a hero in the sense that batbruce cares about the city and will do everything he can to help, it’s just that batman is there to knock out criminals who don’t want to truly repent. however, it isn’t whether or not batman can defeat a criminal, it’s that if i’m walking alone at night and a criminal attacks me, and batman shows up, i would like to be reassured by the thought that this guy can win and take out the criminal so that i can walk safely home. if he has a previously established reputation of being able to save people, i’d be safe. if he doesn’t, then i would go ‘i appreciate the spirit, but i like to live’ before getting hit by the villain

in the context of our world, we don’t have a Pro Hero profession equivalent, since Pro Heroes are what happen when you throw police, rescuers, paramedics, and celebrities into a blender and throw some super powers for the fun of it, on top of how societies like people who win (a bnha meta about superhero society). so my answer here is you decide who you are, and you come to your own conclusion. if you’re asking for my personal opinion, i say that striving to be compassionate is the best way to go about life. the world’s on fire, life can be shitty. it’s best to be compassionate in all the ways. we can’t be cool, but we can be compassionate

if we’re going to apply it to the world of bnha, it’s a grey area. the ideal is someone who gets results, is kind, and approachable (like all might), but people are going to be people and there’s going to be mixed approaches. the majority of Pro Heroes are competent at their jobs and get it done, but with various personalities, some might be more approachable than others (rip inasa for approaching the wrong Pro Hero, that has to be a rude awakening). some might love the attention and roll with it or fan it (mt lady), while others are fine with having a camera pointed at them but aren’t in it for the fame (creati [okay with momo, she’s fantastic at talking to reporters, but if she was on the clock, she’s not here to be pretty. she’s here to be a Pro Hero), others despise the cameras being on them (eraserhead), and others have a form of social anxiety (suneater and deku). 

if we’re going to apply it to the world of miraculous, where our protagonists are starting out as the first generation of heroes (title and profession both) to battle opponents who are created out of their negative emotions, but if they lose it’s game over, i say it’s both. ladybug and chat noir need to be compassionate, but they also need to be good at their jobs, and there should’ve been boundaries respected because every time i heard a plot with nadja being involved i was like ‘there goes ten years off my lifespan’ 

so it really boils down to i’d rather have a hero i can feel safe/assured that everything be around, and preferably one who’s not an abusive dickwad, but life is life and you’re going to get people from all walks of life who treat people in their own individual ways. 

*shoto was five when endeavor punched him hard enough to make him throw up. Quirks manifest at five years old, which means this was probably one of his first training sessions with endeavor. i’d say endeavor can fight me in a parking lot, but i think he’s been beaten up enough by the plot and narrative, so i’m just going to leave him be. 

#aero answers #what is a hero #also i forgot to mention the blatant disregard of boundaries in ml holy shit #also ngl i wouldn't exactly feel assured if only chat noir shows up lol #like if i was a parasian and i only saw chat noir on the news i wouldn't be assured by the flirty personality #maybe at first i'd be charmed but later on i'd react with 'do you job please. can i please have a meltdown w/o a butterfly?'