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makeste · 5 years

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some Monday morning follow-up thoughts on BnHA 245

mystery of the 4+ hour translation time: solved lmao.

you know, for all that I’ve complained about various Viz translation issues over the years, I have to give credit where it’s due. this really wasn’t necessary in order to understand the chapter, but he went and did it anyway. that’s some dedication to your craft. and apparently Horikoshi actually went and wrote way more of this book than he strictly needed to as well, because of course he did.

also, in Viz’s version, Hawks’s “secret message” is so overt that there was like zero chance of Endeavor not putting two and two together. “that’s my SECOND!!! recommendation, in so many WORDS!!!!! MAKE SURE YOU READ WHAT I HIGHLIGHTED WELL ANYWAYS BYE.” for all I know the original Japanese may have been much more subtle, but this is nonetheless my new favorite translation on account of its implication that Hawks really didn’t have any faith in Endeavor’s intellectual capabilities at all lmao.

other follow-up thoughts on 245! well really just two thoughts, but one of them is a list of things and the other is a long tangent!

so, (1) the following is an incomplete list of events which are coming up in canon roughly at or around the four-months-from-now time period, which in canon will be the end of April:

the start of the new school year, and Shinsou’s transfer to the hero course

the next U.A. sports festival

Bakugou’s seventeenth birthday (420 blaze it)

Golden Week (starts April 29th)

possibly the next Hero Billboard Chart event. the previous one was at the end of November, and it’s stated that the rankings are updated twice a year. normally one would then assume the previous rankings came out at the end of May, i.e. six months earlier, but it was implied that the event in ch 184 was delayed due to the events at Kamino, so it’s possible that the Spring rankings actually came out earlier

and last but not least,

[Marge Simpson noises] [worried glances toward Horikoshi's frustrating poker face] ...

and (2) where does Endeavor go from here?? what’s his next move? he now knows (a) that the League of Villains has taken over the Liberation Army and now numbers 100,000 strong, and (b) that they have something big planned that’s going down in four months. but he also knows that Hawks went to great lengths to tell him all of this secretly. “there was something he couldn’t say outright.”

he knows there is some shady shit going down, for sure. the media’s version of the Deika City incident isn’t telling the full story. Hawks is out here shilling Re-Destro’s book and praising the Liberation ideology despite knowing they’re secretly a front for the League of Villains. but clearly the most glaring signal of all, the hint that even Endeavor should be sharp enough to catch despite being a few Bradys short of a bunch, is the fact that for whatever reason, Hawks wasn’t able to just tell Endeavor all of this outright. not even in private. that is big. what that should tell Endeavor, if he has any detective instincts at all, is that Hawks has been compromised in some way. it’s not just that he doesn’t trust anyone. it’s that he can’t communicate at all without risking something.

and once he puts all that together, it’s not that much of a stretch from there to puzzle out that maybe, just maybe, there might be some secret agent stuff going on. because where else could Hawks have gotten this information? and maybe, if he decides to put his conspiracy goggles on, he might even get to thinking about the incredibly suspicious timing of that High End Noumu attack back in November. anyways, the important thing is that he has enough information now to make the correct leap here. and assuming that BnHA continues its trend of letting characters actually be smart about this sort of thing, I’m going to assume that he will do just that as soon as the next chapter.

so then, the question is, what does he do with that knowledge? your little bird buddy is working undercover and spying on the League of Liberators and is probably in terrible danger! well, then! that’s not ideal!! so he has a few options here, I think. one is that he can check with the HPSC whether they have anyone working undercover. buuuuut, that’s risky though. because the thing is, he doesn’t know for sure whether he can trust them. so even though they actually are clean as far as we know, I'm not sure Endeavor will go this route, because he doesn’t know that, and the last thing he wants is to accidentally get Hawks exposed and killed.

option two is that he can keep it on the dl but tell a few other heroes, ones he actually trusts. this in practice would probably be a pretty short list, though. the other U.A. alumni, possibly, if he makes the judgement call that they can be trusted since they’ve all fought against the League before. or if not, then he can at least tell All Might. I do think him going to All Might for advice is a very strong possibility regardless of whatever else he decides, because he’s clearly in over his head here, and he needs to tell someone.

and the third option is that he keeps it even more on the dl, and decides to put his agency to work quietly investigating the leads that Hawks has given him, starting with the Deika incident. this should hopefully lead to him figuring out the connection between Detnerat and the villains, and they might even manage to learn the actual details of what really happened if they can manage to talk to someone from Deika who wasn’t on the Liberation Army’s side. back in chapter 224, Hanabata said that 90% of the population were secretly MLA soldiers. but that still leaves 10% who weren’t, so there’s a chance that some of them might have a very different tale to tell if Endeavor can manage to track them down.

anyways, my guess is that in the course of their investigating, someone on Endeavor's team, which could be anyone but will absolutely be Deku, will stumble across something big which will subsequently land our heroes in Big Trouble, and provide a focus for the rest of this arc. and while I almost feel like it’s jinxing it to hazard a guess, I will say that the traitor plot could very well finally play a big role here, particularly if the Terrible Trio gets involved in this whole thing, which, again, they 100% will. needless to say, I hope the kids are as tight-lipped about what’s going on in their internships as they were during the Basement arc, or else we might really be in for some trouble.

and the other possibility is that the traitor doesn’t come up again in this arc (lol see how I covered my bases there. "the traitor will definitely play a role in this arc, unless of course they don't"), and we wind up focusing on the Noumu instead. either way, hopefully Hawks will focus on unraveling more of the League’s plan, because it would really come in handy to know just what kind of “power” Tomura is going to be acquiring in four months’ time. is it Noumu-related? are they planning a prison break? or is it something else entirely? there are just too many possibilities right now, which yet again serves as a reminder of just how many cards the villains currently hold up their sleeves. the heroes really need to get their hands on a few cards of their own. godspeed.

#bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha 245 #endeavor #hawks #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #makeste reads bnha #long post #sorry I was gonna put some of this under a cut but it never seems to work on mobile for some reason #I feel like the next chapter is gonna be a crucial one for laying the brickwork for the rest of this arc #right now so much of it is still up in the air #which is both exciting and exasperating #I just want to know everything that's going to happen right this second #is that so much to ask #lol

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performingtheartsrp · 7 years

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Accepted Quinn Application

OOC:

NAME: Jillian

PREFERRED PRONOUNS: Her/She.

AGE: 25+

TIMEZONE: EST

ACTIVITY LEVEL (1-10): Right now, 8, but that’ll probably go down to maybe a 5 when I start working simply because I’ll be working at night 4 days a week so I won’t be around in evenings. But on my days off, I’ll be completely present.

OLD ROLEPLAY ACCOUNTS: RFP

ANYTHING ELSE: RFP

IC:

CHARACTER’S NAME: Lucille Quinn Fabray CHARACTER’S BIRTHDAY: October 12th; age: 26 CHARACTER’S SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Identifies as straight, at the moment. SHIPS: Quinn + Chemistry. ANTI-SHIPS: Quinn + No Chem/Forced. MIDGAME SHIPS: I’m really open to Mid-games, as long as the other person respects that the relationship is midgame and we choose a time when it WILL end and they stick to it. I’m open to a mid-game for anyone that Q has chemistry with, but it will most likely lean toward a male.

CHARACTER TWEETS:

@theequinnfabray: set. filming. hot yoga. shower. dinner. 4:30am-9pm. rinse/repeat. #actorlife @theequinnfabray: Book recs?? Need new DLs for my Kindle while waiting on set. @theequinnfabray: OMG just had the best smoothie of my life from @ LiquidJuiceBar. Green Manna w/ wheatgrass. BIOGRAPHY: When Quinn (named Lucille Quinn Fabray) was born as the second daughter to Russell and Judy Fabray, they agreed that their family was complete. Russell had always wanted a son, but he fell in love with his daughters and spoiled them to no end. Quinn was raised in Bronxville, New York, while her father worked on Wall Street in New York City. Quinn was completely spoiled in every way. She had a horse, played piano and violin, played tennis and golf, and did ballet as a child. She liked performing, but once she was ten, her father took her out of dance to let her focus more on the sports aspect since she had talent there. As she grew up, she realized that her life was already laid out for her. It was clear that grades didn’t matter because her father would pay her way to get into any school. It was also clear that it didn’t matter what she wanted to do as an adult. She was being groomed to attend college and achieve a degree in anything, but what was most important was being a good future wife and mother. Both her parents pressed the importance to Quinn that she always appear beautiful and to demand respect and attention from male companions. At the beginning, Quinn was fine with that. After all, her older sister, Francine, followed those rules and she flourished. She went off to college at Brown and was engaged by her senior year. But, when it came time for Quinn to go to school, she found she actually wanted a career. She wanted to do something with her life. However, her interests were in English, Literature, and the Arts, but her parents both thought they were a waste of time. They were an okay hobby, but jobs for the poor or middle class. She needed elite status. Quinn had worked hard on her grades in high school, even though she knew she didn’t have to, and it made her feel all the more better once she had been accepted into Yale. She felt she actually earned it herself. When she entered Yale, she was undeclared, but the pull toward the arts was strong and she took an acting class in her first semester. That was all Quinn had needed. Her professor said she had natural talent and beauty and pushed her into auditioning for the Yale School of Drama. She was ecstatic to get in, but that was short lived because when her parents found out, they were incredibly mad. Her father even threatened to stop funding her education, but he never did. When Quinn graduated, she felt like a better person for it. She had done this all on her own. She hadn’t been pressured into it like she had with all of her activities as a child or teenager. She was finally in control of her own life. Which is why she moved west. She didn’t want to be on Broadway. She wanted to be in the movies and on TV. Her parents were even more upset at her decision to move and it made their relationship very strained. She realized the only reason her father never pulled his funding was because he assumed she was still going to settle and get married, like her sister, who was already married with a baby. But that wasn’t Quinn’s life and she moved to Los Angeles. It was a slightly slow start for Quinn. She received small roles, but they were speaking parts that granted her a SAG card and got her a management team, which landed her a role on a short lived show where she met her future (now ex) boyfriend, Mike Chang. Quinn liked the relationship, Mike was a cool person and she enjoyed hanging with him. But once the show ended and other cameos pulled her from spending time with him, the media started to rip apart their relationship. There was too many rumors of cheating, which wasn’t happening, and her mother kept calling to tell her to break up with him, which was simply incredibly irritating, and Quinn decided they should just be friends. (note: this may be edited based on Mike’s bio) Quinn began auditioning again and filmed two indie shorts, which were nice ways to flex her acting muscle as she tried to land her next big role. When her manager sent her her the sides to read for Ivy Grant for /Performing The Arts/, she was very excited. She felt she could easily pull from her experiences to act the crap out of the role. She auditioned and thought it was fantastic. They called her back to read again, however, this time it was for Lennon Cole. Quinn was surprised because she didn’t think she fit the type, but as she learned of Lennon’s background, she found she actually could identify very well with her. She read for the part and got it. Again, Quinn’s happiness was short lived when her manager called and told her she didn’t want her to take the part. She said it had the potential to change her career path for the rest of her life. The character could be mean, sarcastic, rude and somewhat dragged through the mud, not to mention that she’s a lesbian. While Quinn was also was concerned about being type casted, she also didn’t like her management trying to control her like her parents did so she took the part. As she read over the script for the pilot, Quinn became a little more excited about her role. It was something different, not as easy for her as playing the pretty, bitchy blonde girl. If this was the start of a career with characters off the beaten path, Quinn was sure she was going to enjoy the walk.

YOUR CHARACTER’S HEAD CANON FOR THEIR CHARACTER: Lennon Cole was a picture perfect daughter until she reached the age of twelve. It was then that she realized she was gay. There were signs before, finding she didn’t relate to her girl friends when they’d talk about cute boys and wanting to kiss them. But by the time she was twelve, she realized she did know what those girls were talking about, except that she wanted to kiss other girls, not boys. She kept this hidden from everyone and found it difficult to stay in her friends group as she started to find all those girls very pretty. Their parents were friends with her parents, so they spent quite a lot of time together. It was when Lennon was thirteen that she started to rebel. It was slow, at first, as she dropped out of the hobbies her parents placed her in as a child. Then, she stopped hanging out with her friends and began to hang out with some of the burner kids at her prep school.

Lennon felt she didn’t fit in anymore, but with the burnouts, they all had troubles, and she did too. She didn’t fit in her family. She wasn’t Republican, she hated those ideals, and they way they treated anyone who wasn’t exactly like them. She was starting to be worried her parents would find out she was a lesbian and kick her out at any minute. The anxiety and stress made focusing in school difficult and Lennon started to skip class. When her parents found out about her grades dropping and skipping class, they grounded her and gave her a tutor.

That simply made everything worse. The extra attention was painful and while Lennon knew the answers to her tests, she started to fail them on purpose. She didn’t want to be in her dumb prep school anymore. It was too much pressure to hide who she was and not let anything slip. If anyone found out the real her, she knew it would get back to her parents and that would be the end of it. But her parents donating money kept Lennon there despite her attempts to get out.

Since that didn’t work, she cut her hair, she dyed it pink, and she made a point to get caught smoking in the bathroom. The smoking alone was enough to get her near expulsion but with the failing grades and the disregard to the dress code, her parents had to pull her out so she would not have expulsion on her permanent record. At a loss for what to do, Lennon suggested New Burton to her parents, knowing she’d fit in better there, and claimed that the fact that it focused on the arts would help with her self expression. She told them that was the main problem, she had no outlet for her creativity. They agreed in the hopes she would outgrow her phase and then be able to go back to another private school once her phase ran its course, but that has yet to happen.

#quinn fabray rp #accepted

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