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Hey Admin!

Congrats on the 250 followers! No rush on this one so take your time!!! Looking forward to reading this!

As for Mha it can be a surprise if you wanna go that route, if not Shota and Hizashi or Hawks really any one of them please :)

14- stay with me

54 - no one has made me feel like this

55 - I missed you…a lot

70- Don’t hurt yourself again

85- I’m sorry

87- don’t be scared. I’m right here

I would love to do these. How did you know that Shouta, Hizashi, and Keigo were my favorites? Thank you for sending in this request. I'm excited to do these.

AJ! Thank you for sending this in! I love getting a challenge. I’ll be doing my comfort characters as you’ve mentioned above as things have been a bit rough for me now. I’ll do two prompts per character. <3

Luna! Hizashi Yamada x Beta! Reader.

( I do not own Hizashi Yamada/ Present Mic. Horikoshi Kohei does. If this isn’t your cup of tea, blend of spices or brew of coffee, move along. Reader discretion is advised.)

I was given a set of six prompts. I picked three characters and gave them two prompts each. This is for my 250 follower’s event. These are for Hizashi Yamada. The prompts following are:

54. “No one has made me feel like this.”

14. “Stay with me.”

Wc: 676

Tw: ABO, angst

You were cooking dinner when you heard the front door open and close and the voice of your mate came ringing from the front of the house. “Honey! I’m home.” He called out and walked into the kitchen where you were and he kissed your head. “Hi love. How was your day? Did you bring what I asked you for from the store?” You asked him. He nodded and handed you a grocery bag. You kissed him back and took the bag. “My day was ok. Something did come up and it wasn’t that good. I’ll explain over dinner. It smells amazing by the way.” He told you with a smile before he went to the bedroom to get changed before dinner. You got dinner on the table just as he came out having changed into one of his faded red t—shirts and a pair of shorts. He kissed your cheek and pulled out your chair and pushed it in for you as you sit down. He then sat down across from you and looked at the plate in front of him. “Thank you for the food, baby.” He said before taking a bite of the food. “You’re welcome. Now, what’s going on? You said that something came up today? What happened?” You asked him as you ate your food. He sighed and picked at his food. You had bought fried chicken along with some mashed potatoes along with mac and cheese. You knew that something was wrong when he didn’t gobble down his favorite meal. “Hizashi, tell me what happened today, please?” You asked him as you tried to gain his eye contact. He looked up at you and exhaled deeply. “Something happened at the store that made me question even marking you.” He told you. This made you concerned and you set down your fork to keep listening. “I was in the aisle looking for the thing you asked me to get for you and someone came up to me. Now I thought that they were just a fan that wanted an autograph, right? But I was wrong. They asked me if I was single and I said no. They asked me your dynamic and I told them that you were a Beta. This is where things went wrong. They began to tell me that you were a waste of my time and that I should’ve gone for either an Alpha or an Omega because of my dynamic. I told them that I chose you and I was happy with you no matter what your dynamic. This caused them to finally leave me alone. I then went about getting the item you wanted and purchasing it. But it made me think, did I make a mistake of mating and bonding with a Beta?” He explained. You looked down at your plate and tried to keep back your tears. “All I know is that on the drive home is that I know I didn’t make the mistake of mating and bonding with you. There’s something about you that I like. Something that No one else has made me feel before. There’s something calming about you that I seek out during my heats and ruts. I wouldn’t change that for the world.” He told you. You looked up at him with tears forming in your eyes. He saw this, stood up, walked over to you, and pulled you close to him. You stood up as well and buried your face into his chest and let your tears flow. “Stay with me please. You’re the first mate that’s stayed with me after their cycles… I don’t know what I’d do if you’d leave me, Hizashi.” You sniffed and laid your head on his chest and he rubbed your back. “How about we finish dinner in the bedroom with a movie?” He suggested. You agreed to the idea and he carried your plates to the bedroom where the two of you cuddled and spent the rest of the evening just being in each other’s company. The end.

Hawks x Reader ( I do not own Keigo Takami/ Hawks. Horikoshi Kohei does. If this isn’t your cup of tea, blend of spices, or brew of coffee, move along. Reader discretion is advised.)

I was given a set of six prompts. I picked three characters and gave them two prompts each. This is for my 250 follower’s event. These are for Keigo Takami. The prompts following are:

55. “I missed you… a lot.” (Hawks) 85. “I’m sorry.” (Hawks)

Wc: 880 Tw: Fluff, mention of terrorism. More of a spoiler warning for the WHM movie.

Your phone buzzed in the late evening as you were home alone watching the news on the tv. You picked it up to see that it was a message from your boyfriend, Hawks. Your heart lifted a bit as you were worried when he had been called out to go to America with the appearance of the global terrorist group, Humarise. Despite the Commission not wanting civilian interference in this operation, you did some research in an attempt to learn about what was going on with his evil organization. You had found out that most of the followers in this cult were quirk-less and their follower was someone by the name of Flect Turn. What spurred you on to research was the Trigger Bomb that went off and turned all the nearby people into some kind of animal. This is when the call for all the heroes in the world to band together to defeat this enemy. Keigo got his assignment to go to America with his agency to take out the Trigger Bomb in New York. “Honey, I’ll be ok. I’ll message you when I come home, alright?” He told you as you head teared up being afraid that he wasn’t going to come back to you or he was going to get hit by the bomb and turn into a chicken. He chuckled and kissed your head. “I’m going to be fine. I’ll call you when I land, ok? Please don’t worry. When I leave, go home and get some rest, ok? You can use my shirt to help you sleep, alright? I love you, Y/n.” He told you as you hugged him and he stroked your hair as the mass of his angry fangirls that had to be kept back by the airport security. You stayed in his embrace until he had to board onto the plane. You waved to him as he went onto the plane. You were a bit choked up but you hid your tears until you got out of the airport terminal and got back into your car. That’s where you broke down and let your tears flow from your eyes and let your body shake from the emotions you had bottled up. Once you had gotten your emotions out of your system, dried your eyes, and calmed your mind, you began your drive home. Since the sun had already risen, you decided to buy yourself some breakfast from a local coffee shop before heading back to the apartment that you shared with the Pro Hero. When you had procured your food and caffeine, you finally made it back to your home and go back to sleep. You entered your home and kicked your shoes off before going to your bedroom and changing back into your pjs. You laid out on your bed and checked your phone to see some messages from Keigo. He had sent you some sweet messages like ‘Miss you already’ and ‘I love you’. He also sent some images of his view from his seat and a selfie of him along with his intern, Tokoyami who was already passed out in his chair. This made you chuckle as you ate your breakfast and watched the news as it kept recycling the same news of the Humarise group and their recent acts of terror in cities worldwide. You grew tired and laid down on your bed to go back to the land of sleep. A few weeks later. Your eyes nervously darted around the baggage claim as you were waiting for Hawks to come off the plane from America. The mission was a success! The head of Humarise had been arrested and sent to prison after a certain green-haired student from U.A. had defeated him. The overhead intercom sounded for Keigo’s flight to be disembarking. You were itching in your seat to be in your boyfriend’s embrace and never leave.

You saw some other people come from the flight along with some others from his agency along with Tokoyami. You saw the young hero and gestured for him to come over. “Where’s Hawks?” You asked him.

“Caught up with fangirls. He sent me to pick up his bag and tell you that he was ok.” Tokoyami explained. You gave a sigh of relief and told him that you’d get his bag when it came around and that he should head home to rest. You waited and got his bag off the conveyer belt and waited for him. Soon you were alone and he found you. You were a little startled and when you saw that it was him, you relaxed and kissed him right there in the airport and hugged him tightly. “I missed you… a lot. You made me worried for you. I’m glad you didn’t get turned into a chicken.” You said as tears flowed down your cheeks. He wiped your tears away and kissed you again. “I’m sorry I made you worry, baby bird. I’m here now and I’m definitely not a chicken. But some fried chicken sounds good, wanna get some?” He suggested. You nodded and the both of you went to get some fried chicken and spend the rest of the evening together now that the current threat was gone from the world. The end.

Werewolf! Shouta Aizawa x Human! Reader

( I do not own Shouta Aizawa/Eraserhead. Horikoshi Kohei does. If this isn’t your cup of tea, blend of spices, or brew of coffee, move along. Reader discretion is advised.) I was given a set of six prompts. I picked three characters and gave them two prompts each. This is for my 250 follower’s event. These are for Shouta Aizawa. The prompts following are:

70. “Don’t hurt yourself again.”

87. “Don’t be scared. I’m right here.”

Wc: 1,495

Tw: Injury, bl00d, fear, stitches.

You were looking out over the frozen lake as the sun rose up from behind a mountain. You had been up all-night waiting for your werewolf mate to return home from a night of his transformation. You were sleep deprived and wanting to just sleep. You watched as he came walking out of the woods looking injured. Your eyes widened and you darted inside the log cabin where the both of you lived to snatch up the massive first aid kit that you had put together and ran outside to meet him halfway and tend to his wounds. You saw him approach the back lawn of your property and tackle him in a hug. “Where the hell were you all night!? You had me worried sick. I was waiting for you to come back home all night.” You told him. His exhausted dark eyes looked at you and he kissed you gently. “I’m hurt, you need to help me back inside and get me patched up. We’ll talk about your sleeping habits later.” He grunted. You glanced him over and saw some blood on his side and dripping down his legs. You began to panic on the inside but you stayed calm and helped him back inside. Once you had him settled on the couch, you retrieved the first aid kit that you had left on the counter and began to tend to his wounds. “What did you run into?” You asked as you were focused on cleaning the deep gash in his side. “Would you believe me if I told you that it was a giant blackberry bush?” He asked. You glared up at him knowing that blackberry bushes don’t leave claw marks this deep in flesh. “No. What creature was it this time?” You asked as you pulled out surgical thread, a needle, and some gauze and medical tape. You sterilized the needle and threaded it before you began to stitch up the wound. Shouta hissed as the needle pierced his skin. “I ran into a pack of wolves. The leader attacked me. I was lucky to make it out alive.” He said as you sutured up his wound. You frowned and tied of the thread and covered the stitches with a piece of gauze and taped it to his side before you went about tending to the other scrapes and scratches he obtained over the night. He watched you patch him up and he smiled. “Kitty, I am grateful that you take care of me but I can tell there’s something on your mind. Please tell me.” He said as he pushed a loose strand of your hair out of your face and made you look him in the eyes. “Don’t hurt yourself again.” You spoke as tears formed in your eyes and you buried your face into his chest as you broke down crying. You downright sobbed for a while as he held you and rubbed your back. “I can’t take any more of the nights that you go out and get injured like this. I want you to stay here when you transform. I can handle it. I’m not scared of you.” You told him. He kissed you gently and smiled softly. “I hear you, baby. But I don’t know if I can live with the idea that I might hurt you when I’m in that… state.” He told you as he rubbed circles on your back. “I know. I want to help you in any way that I can. But I don’t want you going outside at night especially with that wolf pack in the woods. I don’t care what the neighbors say when you’re howling in our bedroom. I want you to stay here the next full moon. No fighting it.” You spoke before you went about finishing up bandaging your mate’s wounds and going back to your morning.

The next full moon came quicker than you thought. You made sure Shouta had his potion to keep his human side on the surface when he transformed the following week under the rays of the moon. The first night of the full moon arrived and the two of you made a plan that when the moon began to rise, you’d put him in the guest bedroom where you’d be able to lock it from the outside and he’d spend the night in the room alone. This made your heart ache to leave him in the room all night by himself. But you told yourself that you’d stay in your room and stay up all night with him and make sure he wouldn’t harm himself.

The time came for you to put him in the room and you couldn’t make yourself do it. “I can’t do it. I don’t want to lock you away just because of your transformation. You’re not a monster like the others think you are.” You told him as you began to tear up. He cupped your cheek and kissed you gently. “We have to, honey. It will be morning soon enough. Now, I’m going to go into the room and I want you to lock it and go back to your room. Do whatever you can to drown me out, alright? I love you so much and I know you care for me otherwise we wouldn’t be doing this.” He told you after he kissed your head. He began to walk backwards into the room and he closed the door that now separated the both of you. The moon had risen and began to stream its silvery rays through the window and onto your mate. You heard him grimace and his cries of pain as he transformed turned into growls, soon into a howl that sounded from the room. You had been frozen in fear as you knew what he was going through and all you wanted to do was rip the door open, hug him tightly, and soothe him through the pain he felt.

But you gripped the key and quickly locked the door and ran back to your room, locking the door before you curled up on your bed and turned the tv on to try and drown out the lonely whimpers of the werewolf currently residing in your guest bedroom. A little while later, you decided to check on him as you normally did when he would spend the full moons at the cabin. You wandered

Down the hall and to the door of the guest bedroom. You pressed your ear to the door to listen for any breathing noises on the other side of the door and you didn’t hear any so you unlocked the door and opened it slowly. You peeked inside and saw him sitting on the bed gazing out at the full moon in a type of trance. “Shouta?” You spoke and his head whipped around and his big, dark eyes stared back at you. He gave you a quiet, whimper that told you that he had been expecting you. “Are you ok?” You asked as you stepped inside the room and closed the door behind you. He watched your every move before he invited you to come closer. “I’m fine. I just missed you.” He spoke in a lower tone that ran shivers down your spine. “I’m not going to hurt you. Please, come closer. I would like your company.” He told you. You moved closer to the bed and he invited you to sit on the bed next to him. “We haven’t been together during this time in a while.” He spoke. you pulled your knees to your chest and looked at the hardwood flooring below you. “To be honest, I was scared that you weren’t going to come check on me this time.” He confessed. You looked at him with a concerned look. “Someone had to come check on your bandages to make sure they didn’t rip or come off with your transformation.” You responded. He nodded and leaned against the wall.

“Kitty, can you hold me please? I need you. I don’t know why but this time is a bit scarier than the last time.” He told you. This made you move closer to him and move into a position where you could hold him comfortably. He laid his head on your shoulder and you rubbed his back. “What’s making this time scarier than the last?” You asked him as you ran your fingers through his fur. “I feel like the wolf side of me is growing stronger. Like I can hardly keep it back even with the potion you give me.” He told you. “Shhh, don’t be scared. I’m right here.” You told him as he began to relax. “You know something, kitty? You being here makes me calmer already. Please just stay with me tonight. I don’t want to be alone.” He told you. You nodded and began to doze off and on all night with him in your arms.

The end. ( Sorry for the long wait. I was getting back home from vacation and getting used to being home again. I hope you enjoy the stories above. If you want, keep sending in requests as this event is open until the 1st of September. Thank you again for sending in the request and I hope to see more from you again soon!)

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BNHA Observations, speculations and assorted info: The facts taking place during the year that ends with Rei's hospitalization and Tōya's assumed death

So, in order to write my fic, I spend much time observing canon scenes, comparing the manga and the anime version, take note of details, translations and info in them as well as finding out how are some things called.

Since what I noticed/speculated/found out can be of use for other fic authors I thought to share as well.

Resources:

Chapter 31 The Boy Born with Everything (全てを持って生まれた男の子 Subete o Motte Umareta Otoko no Ko) Chapter 39 Todoroki Shōto: Origin (轟焦凍：オリジン Todoroki Shōto: Origin) Chapter 44 Relaxing Day Off (休め振替休日 Yasume Furikae Kyūjitsu) Chapter 93 One For All's Ember (残り火ワンフォーオール Nokoribi One For All) Chapter 166 Be Proud, License Trainees (ホッコれ仮免講習 Hokkore Karimen Kōshū) Chapter 187 Flaming Roar! vs. Nomu: High-End (燃えよ轟け！VS脳無：ハイエンド Moeyo Todoroke! Versus Nōmu: High-End) Chapter 188 Your Father, the Number One Hero (父はNo.1ヒーロー Chichi wa Number One Hero) Chapter 192 The Todoroki Family (轟家 Todoroki-ke) Chapter 202 Match 3 (第3セット Daisan Set) Chapter 204 Tuning Up (チューニング Tuning) Chapter 249 The Hellish Todoroki Family (地獄の轟くん家 Jigoku no Todoroki-kun-chi Chapter 250 Ending (エンディング Ending) Chapter 290 Dabi's Dance (ダビダンス Dabi Dance) Chapter 302 The Wrong Way to Put Out a Fire, Part 2 (火の不始末後編 Hi no Fushimatsu Kōhen) Chapter 350 Bound to a Fiery Fate (エン En)

Episode 19 The Boy Born with Everything (全てを持って生まれた男の子 Subete o Motte Umareta Otoko no Ko) Episode 23 Todoroki Shōto: Origin (轟焦凍：オリジン Todoroki Shōto: Origin) Episode 25 Todoroki vs. Bakugō (轟VS爆豪 Todoroki versus Bakugō) Episode 49 One For All (ワン・フォー・オール) Episode 88 His Start (始まりの Hajimarino) Episode 90 Vestiges (面影 Omokage) Episode 95 Match 3 (第３試合 Daisan Shiai) Episode 96 Match 3 Conclusion (第３試合決着 Daisan Shiai Ketchaku) Episode 105 The Hellish Todoroki Family (地獄の轟くん家 Jigoku no Todoroki-kun-chi) Episode 106 The Unforgiven (許されざる者 Yurusarezaru-mono) Episode 124 Dabi's Dance (ダビダンス Dabi Dance) Episode 130 The Wrong Way to Put Out a Fire (火の不始末 Hi no Fushimatsu)

Series 4th Outro2 "Shout Baby" by Ryoku Oushoku Shakai

My Hero Academia: School Briefs I (僕��ヒーローアカデミア雄英白書 I Boku no Hīrō Akademia U.A. Hakusho I) - Part 2 Notice from School My Hero Academia: School Briefs V (僕のヒーローアカデミア雄英白書祝 Boku no Hero Academia Hakusho Iwai) - Part 3 Awkward Year's-End Soba

OBSERVATIONS, SPECULATIONS AND ASSORTED INFO:

Fundamentally the year that lead to Rei's hospitalization and Touya's death is narrated into two different moments, chap 31/39, in which we've a retelling of how bad it was from Shouto's point of view and chap 290/302, in which we learn instead of Touya's side.

However, there's a fundamental difference in the two narrations. When the story tackles Touya's side, we can more or less pinpoint the dates of when this is happening, the same can't be said for when the story tackles Shouto's side. There's probably a narrative reason for this, Touya's whole story (which covers much more than just this year) is a progression of things going from good to terrible, while Shouto's story is likely meant to narrate the constant horror in which he and his mother lived until Rei lost it. So there's not really a need to pinpoint when a scene took place because that scene likely kept on repeating in similar variants for days, until Rei became unable to take it any longer.

As a result I'll narrate some fact that are part of Shouto's side first, so as to give the idea they likely repeated over and over through that year, while I'll follow the timeline of Touya's side of the story more closely.

So anyway let's dig on what happened that year.

Warning: as tumblr now has an image limit (no more than 30 per post), I had to turn more images into a single one so as to show the full scene. The result is that the image quality in some scenes is pretty low... Please, use the images solely as a visual reference of which scene you need to look at and, for the text check your own copy of BNHA.

TIMELINE

January 11: Todoroki Shōto is 5.

January 18: Todoroki Tōya is 13.

April: Todoroki Tōya starts his second year at Middle school - Todoroki Fuyumi starts Middle school - Todoroki Natsuo starts his 3rd year at Elementary school. - Todoroki Shōto attends preschool.

[Preeschool in Japan isn't mandatory but we know Shōto attended to it as Chap 166 shows on its cover the photo taken at the preschool entrance ceremony... the photo might not be necessarily taken in this year as kids can start preschool from when they're 3 but it just confirms Shōto went at it]

Sometime during the year: Endeavor and All Might talked for the last time.

A note on the translation:

‘Chō hisashiburi! 10-Nen mae no taidan furi ka na! ? Mikaketakara aisatsu shi tokou to omotte ne.’ 「超久し振り！10年前の対談振りかな！？見かけたから挨拶しとこうと思ってね。」 “It’s been a long time! It's from the talk/conversation show from 10 years ago, right! ? I saw you and thought I'd say hello.”

Endeavor and All Might's conversation is called ‘taidan furi’ (対談振り) where ‘taidan’ (対談) means “a discussion between two people which is usually set up as a special occasion and whose topic is set in advance”… while ‘furi’ (振り) is “show”. So basically, 10 years ago they didn’t have a casual chat but ended up together in some sort of talk show / combined interview. The anime makes it even more obvious because in it the sentence is:

‘10-Nen mae, media de taidan shite irai ka na! ? !’ 「10年前、メディアで対談して以来かな！？！」 “I think it's been since we had a conversation on the media 10 years ago!?”

During the year: Shōto watches All Might on television when his father isn't around [shown in chap 39 and 206. We see that Shōto's clothes are different in the two scenes and so is his position, meaning he did it more than once which "School Briefs" also confirms]

“You always were a fan of All Might, weren’t you, Shōto? But you had to wait until your father wasn’t around to watch those video clips in secret. Remember?” [Rei from "My Hero Academia: School Briefs I"]

During the year: Shōto's training is so severe it causes him to throw up. Rei tries to get in between him and Enji protesting he's only 5 and gets hit. [shown in chap 39, 202, 204]

Actually we don't know if Chapter 202 & 204 are placed in this same year (Shōto is still small but Rei isn't present and Shōto and Enji are dressed differently so it's not the same time as chap 39... and likely chap 202 and 204 show two different scenes as well since in one Enji has his moustaches on fire while in the other is his beard... never mentioning in chap 202 Shōto already has his scar so this likely happened post him being burn and could as well take place in the following year, though the fact that Enji has long sleeves might imply it's still winter...) but they seems to show other scenes of Shōto's training which still sees him throwing up and crying, which surely confirm an abusive pattern.

A note on the translation:

'Tōya wa oshikatta. Ore ijō no karyoku o sonaete irunoni. Rei no taishitsu o motte shimatte… Aitsu wa… oshikatta' 「燈矢は惜しかった。俺以上の火力を備えているのに冷の体質を持ってしまって… あいつは…惜しかった」 “Tōya was close/disappointing/something I feel regret for/deserving better. Even though he has more firepower than me. He had Rei's constitution… That guy… was close/disappointing/something I feel regret for/deserving better.”

Oishikatta (惜しかった) has quite a bunch of meanings like to feel regret for, to find something a pity/pitiful, to mourn but also to cherish, to love dearly, to be precious... and is used to express pity/regret of an "almost but not quite" situation, in "a damn it, you were so close" kind of way.

Very likely the emphasis in the sentence isn't that Tōya could almost do it, but that it was so unfortunate Tōya couldn't do it.

This doesn't necessarily mean Tōya was already dead because it was decided Tōya couldn't fulfill Enji's ambitions way prior his death and way prior Shōto's birth.

BTW, Tōya started burning himself before Natsuo was conceived. In order for their age difference to work, it means Enji started training Tōya when Tōya was 3 (yeah, it's possible he started earlier than this age but I find difficult that a child of 2 could pull it out successfully). As a result it's possible he started training Shōto at that age as well. In case someone doesn't remember it, Quirks don't appear when one is 4 but can appear even earlier (luminescent baby anyone?), Shōto could freeze his own snot as an infant and it's implied that Enji knew Tōya had a fire Quirk when they conceived Fuyumi (meaning when Tōya was 2 months or younger) so starting their training before 4 wasn't impossible.

During the year: While Shōto is scared at the idea of becoming like his father, someone who abuses his mother, Rei comfort him saying he can decide who he'll become. [Chap 39... I pieced back the scene for better visual]

During the year: Tōya is desperate because he can't figure his reason to exist and search comfort in Natsuo [Chap 290]

Likely in sprind, anyway prior to July (as Natsuo isn't 9 yet): Tōya, Natsuo and Fuyumi play together while Shōto can only watch them. Enji refuses to let him join them saying he needs to train and they belong to different worlds. [Chap 302 & 39 & 250]

July 1: Todoroki Natsuo is 9.

Likely summer, though it could be still spring: Natsuo refuses to listen to Tōya’s complains during the night, telling him to go talk with Fuyumi. [Chap 302]

August 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor is 36.

Likely autumn (Rei's sleeves are longer): Rei tries to stop Tōya from leaving the house and the two have an argument. [Chap 302]

During the year: Rei begins to break starting to cry way too often to the point Shōto will end up remembering her solely crying and will forget her smiling. [Chap 31]

December 6: Todoroki Fuyumi is 13.

Winter: Tōya’s flames turn blue. [Chap 302]

A note on the translation:

'Hayaumare no chīsana karada ni yōyaku otozure hajimeta nijiseichō’「早生まれの小さな身体に漸く訪れ始めた二次性徴」 "Secondary sexual characteristics have finally begun to appear in the small body of the hayaumare.”

'Hayaumare' isn't a premature kid but someone born between January 1 and April 1. In Japan this is relevant because in order to start school you need to be 6 by the time the 2 of April comes around, meaning the Hayaumare are the youngest kids in the class as they're born in the year following the one in which the other kids, or ‘Osoumare’ (遅生まれ "born in between April 2 and December 31"), were born.

Winter (likely in a different day as the black bars on the corner hint at time passing by... possibly because when Tōya came back home Enji wasn't there yet?): Tōya asks his father to come to Sekoto Peak with him his next day off. [Chap 302]

Winter (likely in the same day): Todoroki Enji/Endeavor hits Todoroki Rei for not stopping Todoroki Tōya from training. [Chap 302]

Winter (the morning of another day as Todoroki Shōto has just woken up): Rei snaps and burns Shōto. [Chap 31, 39, 249, 302]

“Shōto?” he said, facing the sliding fusuma screen. No response. Natsuo slid the screen aside, not expecting to find his brother inside, but there he was-fast asleep on the Futon that he’s clearly plopped down onto without much care, all askew. Moving quietly so as not to wake Shōto, Natsuo crept over and peered at his brother’s face. He looked surprisingly young, despite the burn scar that sat heavily on his face like a shadow. Having been abused by Endeavor-who’s been fixated on his own ambition. Todoroki Rei had snapped one day and thrown scalding water in Shōto’s face. Natsuo would never forget the pair of tear-filled screams he’d heard that day. How painful it must have been, he thought. Natsuo caught himself extending a finger toward the scar but quickly curled it away when he realized what he was doing. Shōto’s scar probably wouldn’t exist if only the boy hadn’t inherited aspects of both his parents’ Quirks. Maybe Shōto could have enjoyed a normal childhood, full of carefree days playing with his siblings. And yet I couldn’t do a thing… Natsuo had been in elementary school when it had happened. Their father, Endeavor, had ignored his family well-being in pursuit of his ambitions-ambitions he’d projected onto young Shōto. Even now, Natsuo would beat himself up over how he used to be before the abuse really began, recalling the period in his life that had made him feel pathetic and ashamed. Before Shōto was born, Natsuo had sought his father’s love and care, and when Endeavor was around, he would turn into an excited ball of energy, eager for attention. But that love never came. It was only thanks to his warm and caring mother that Natsuo had survived those early years and learned to cope with rejection from his other parent. But after Shōto was born, even their mother grew distant, though not out of indifference. Natsuo could sense how much energy she had to devote to protecting her youngest, her baby, from her husband’s so called training-which most would label abuse- but at that age, Natsuo couldn’t help but feel that his mother had been stolen from him. After witnessing his mother and brother crying and screaming on that horrible day, Natsuo had been overcome with crushing shame. [My Hero Academia: School Briefs V]

Winter (the same day or the one after it... Shōto's clothes are different but he might have had to change because he got wet... on the other side it's also possible that Rei's hospitalization wasn't done the same day but Enji had to do preparations for it): Rei is consequently hospitalized and put in isolation. After learning about his mother's hospitalization Shōto decides to blame his father for this. [Chap 39]

A note on the translation:

'Omae ni kigai o kuwaetanode byōin ni ireta. Mattaku… daijina tokida to iu no ni…' 「おまえに危害を加えたので病院に入れた。全く…大事な時だと言うのに…」 "I put her in a hospital because she hurt you. Good grief... even though it's an important time..."

Enji is actually more specific in what he says to Shōto about Rei's fate, saying he put her in a hospital and didn't call her a fool but uses an expression of general exhasperation 'mattaku'.

Winter (likely on Todoroki Enji/Endeavor’s day off, Tōya's clothes are also noticeably different from the ones he had when he asked his father to go with him on Sekoto Peak): Tōya goes on Sekoto Peak, waiting for his father. When his father doesn’t arrive and the lights go down he ends up setting himself on fire losing his lower jaw before he manages to enter in a stream. He is then found and taken away by All for One. Enji reaches Sekoto Peak but can’t find his son except for a piece of his jawbone. Tōya is assumed dead even if Enji at first claims he didn't want to accept it. However this will lead him to focus even more on Shōto. [Chap 291, 302, 350]

Winter (after Tōya's death): After Rei's hospitalization Shōto will never visit her until he'll be in U.A. High school. Rei's psychological condition will get worse. Fuyumi, despite knowing about her family's sad situation was and will remain too scared to do anything beyond keeping up appearances. Natsuo will gradually forget things but will keep on resenting Enji for what happened to his mother and to his siblings. [Chap 39, 187, 250, 302]

TIMELINE CONSISTENCY PROBLEMS

Either Horikoshi didn't plan the Todoroki timeline or decided to change things along the way as, occasionally, what the characters say happened in a chapter get contraddicted in another... or make them seem uncaring of Enji's neglect of Natsuo (and Fuyumi) and of how he eventually casued Tōya's death.

Mind you, I'm sure they all cared about Tōya's death and about the neglect Natsuo and Fuyumi suffered because otherwise the characterization wouldn't make sense. This is likely a problem in the narration, not an attempt of the narration to deny the care.

Anyway I'm gonna list the problems in narration now. Do with them what you want. I'm sure plenty of people has headcanons that solve them just fine. This though isn't a page for theories so I didn't list any of mine either.

Not all of the problems are terrible (the only ones really bad are the ones that consistently change the timeline/why things happened) but some of them can undoubtedly confuse a reader about the characters' feelings.

Let's start with chap 350.

For start this establishes that Tōya assumed his father didn't come to him on Sekoto Peak because he was too busy with work... so the fire took place not after the discussion they had (which fits with how the timeline decided Rei needed to be hospitalized before Tōya were to burn) but neither on Enji's free day apparently... unless Tōya assumed his father gave up on his free day to work some more which is something he had already done in chap 301, when Enji left and refused to train Tōya even though it was his day off... and this can be Tōya's own way to excuse his father for not coming to Sekoto Peak.

However, after this the chapter has Tōya say he has to go back home because he did and say some awful things so he should apologize to his mother and the others and shows his father what he can do.

The problem is... we didn't really see him doing something awful. Yes, he argued with his mother but this was PRIOR to his flames turning blue, as for his siblings his argument with Fuyumi dated to PRIOR Natsuo's birth and the one with Natsuo to PRIOR his argument with his mother and wasn't even a real argument. He just begged his little brother to hear him out.

If there was an argument that day before Tōya left for Sekoto Peak... if he did something... well, this is completely discharged by the plot. It won't even be mentioned when he and his siblings will meet again... not even mentioning his mother was hospitalized and put in isolation PRIOR to him going on Sekoto Peak, so if he had an argument with her we didn't see, it still was way prior to that.

And the same goes for whatever he did of awful... as I've hard time thinking he's referring to accidentally burning down the peak.

Even his discussion with his father doesn't seem to fit the description and if he blames himself for how his father hit his mother... well, that just feel messed up especially since he wasn't even shown being there to see.

Going on.

Chap 39 said Shōto didn't visit Rei because he blamed himself, while chap 250 says it was due to Rei's psychological condition worsening after Tōya's death... to go back on chap 302 volume version which said she was put in isolation PRIOR to Tōya's death (and therefore likely couldn't see anyone even if she wanted to) and then, AFTER Tōya's death she got even worse.

In the magazine version of chap 302 Horikoshi had Rei state that Enji basically became abusive AFTER Tōya's death, and this is what eventually lead Rei to snap and be eventually hospitalized... the whole thing was corrected in the volume version so now the volume version too agrees that Rei was hospitalized FIRST and then Tōya died.

While the thing got 'fixed', the whole correction was done in a sloppy manner... it would have worked much better if the dialogues in whose two scenes were swapped because, if Rei was already hospitalized and put in isolation, she wouldn't have known if, after Tōya's death, Enji got worse. It's hard to think she's referring to the time prior Tōya's death because it feels like a non sequitur since they were talking of the time AFTER IT.

Since the narration was changed retroactively it's possible that in the first planning for the chapter Tōya's flames turning blue, him telling his father, his father abusing Rei and him running to Sekoto Peak (instead than waiting for Enji's day off) took place all in the same day... or better all in the same night as it's dark when Tōya's flames turn blue and it's dark when Tōya burns on Sekoto Peak.

This however becomes impossible when it was decided Rei was hospitalized PRIOR to Tōya dying.

It doesn't help how Rei in chapter 39 focus especially on how she shouldn't stay with Shōto due to his left side being repulsive to her, when chap 302 magazine version also implied Natsuo's look was repulsive to her and the volume version instead change things and made it all about the way they looked at her (but Shōto never looked at her in such a way though okay, she might have been losing it but she should have still worried more about Tōya who glared at her like Enji and also about Natsuo). Of course the problem of chap 39 is likely that what happens in chap 302 was likely not planned and the story was possibly meant to focus solely on Shōto so, of course, she wouldn't want to be near him and wouldn't be troubled by the other kids.

Shōto is supposed to be kept isolated by his siblings, which is also why Natsuo had no idea Shōto liked Soba as, evidently, they never ate together before. However, when Enji attack Rei from the furniture we see they seem to be all in the same room, the television one.

In chap 291 Enji claims he kept searching for Tōya, unable to believe in his death... but chap 302 presents him as resigned and completely focused on Shōto.

Either because Tōya's storiline wasn't planned yet or to keep the secret, the story in its early stages avoid mentioning him... with confusing results.

Shōto, in chap 39, won't mention to Midoriya how his father might have lead to his older brother's demise. The manga will try to excuse it by saying

'Sotsu-sen shita hanasu mon ja nēdaro' 「率先して話すもんじゃねエだろ」 "I wouldn't take the initiative to speak (about it)."

Only... during his first discussion with Midoriya Shōto:

Asked Midoriya if he was All Might illegittimate son

Told him about his father buying his mother for Quirk Marriage

Told him about his mother's depression and how she ended up burning him

Told him about how he was raised to fulfill his father's expecations and how he hated it and how he'll deny his father by refusing to use his Quirk

That's quite a lot he decided to mention, but the fact he didn't mention how his father also lead his oldest brother to his demise made it seems as if Shōto didn't see Enji responsible for it... which also seems confirmed by how, when Fuyumi asks Shōto how he feels about Enji, he replies he blames him solely for his scar and driving his mother to madness, not a word for his dead older brother or for how his siblings suffered of neglect even if Natsuo made clear he still suffers for it.

Shōto is a VERY caring boy. This narrative choice seems to imply he didn't care about his siblings when it's likely the opposite. He cared for Natsuo and likely for Tōya and Fuyumi too. The way the story is told though, is misleading because it makes him look like he only cares about himself and his mother when I don't think that's the case.

Probably though, back in chap 31 Horikoshi either hadn't planned Tōya's storyline yet or wanted to keep it secret and here he didn't want to repeat the whole narration or give too many hints about Tōya's death so he had Shōto skip it and focus on Rei. It's a choice... but it's not a great one.

Enji also for a long while won't show concern for how he caused Tōya's death.

In chap 93 Enji thinks at how his despair lead him to ruin his family... only again there's no mention of Tōya not even visually, again likely because Horikoshi either hadn't planned Tōya's storyline yet or wanted to keep it secret. Still it seems as if Enji doesn't care he lead his son to death for his own ambition.

Chapter 188 is a little better as, at least, Tōya is shown along with his siblings... but it's still not great because, even though Enji is in the middle of his attempt at being a better person, here he worries about his overheating and seems to focus solely on how he married Rei and with her he had three kids who didn't have the Quirk he wanted and then to a kid who had the Quirk he wanted to fight the over heating, and doesn't concern at all with how, in the process, he also abused his family, lead Rei to madness and Tōya to death, but it can work narratively... even if it's not so great because it remarks something we already knew and doesn't focus on his regret (which would have been more important since Enji is trying to be a better person). But okay, it can work.

Probably the worst part is chap 192 because by then Enji is making clear he plans to atone but when he worries about the lives he had cut short, even though Tōya was mentioned, the visual shows us only Rei, as if she were the only life he had cut short (as she ended up in a hospital), skipping the one of his son WHO DIED.

Yes, this is probably to keep the mystery about Tōya but it's still not a great choice since he doesn't seem concerned.

Also probably because Horikoshi either hadn't planned Tōya's (and Natsuo's) storyline yet or wanted to keep it secret in "Ultra Archive" it was said Fuyumi became a teacher solely because she felt bad about the mistreatment Shōto suffered, apparently not caring about the neglect Natsuo suffered or of how Tōya ended up dead.

Fuyumi is also showed 'not caring' when no changes are done regarding to her in chap 302.

In the magazine version Fuyumi saying "I knew our family was broken" with an image of Enji dragging away Shōto and her mother trying to stop it, can be read as "(After Tōya's death) I knew our family was broken" and this allows her to sound like she's in pain for Tōya, Shōto and her mother.

However when the manga version changes things and have Rei hospitalized before Tōya's death, showing her having a flashback of how Enji was dragging away Shōto and her mother trying to stop it, remarks she knew her family was broken PRIOR to Tōya's death but not her feelings in regard to it. This combines negatively with how it was said she became a teacher for what Shōto suffered and paints her as uncaring for what Tōya suffered.

Again, I'm sure Fuyumi cared. It's just when "Ultra Archive" was written either Horikoshi didn't think about this part of the storyline or we weren't meant to know about it so he skipped it, and in chap 302 he merely adjusted things poorly so they ended up having implications he didn't plan.

Shōto going to preschool, where other children are, but being kept isolated by his siblings because they aren't part of the Hero world, seems a contraddiction in the story. While part of it can be due to Tōya's actions when Shōto was a baby, even after Tōya's death it will be said Shōto was kept apart from Natsuo (it's unclear if the same applies to Fuyumi) but then we see that when Shōto is in U.A. he's free to also go out without supervision so it becomes weird how (or why) Enji managed to keep him apart from his siblings, when he was allowed to spend time with whoever he wanted outside of his house... and even in his house he apparently wasn't controlled.

It also doesn't speak so great of Natsuo never attempting to connect with his little brother even if "School Briefs" tries to excuse it by saying it was due to Natsuo's grief.

When giving the green sign to "Vigilantes" Horikoshi likely completely forgot that All Might and Endeavor supposedly didn't meet for 10 years as, in chap 122, the two will cooperate to stop a Villain attack. Since “Vigilantes” takes place AFTER All Might and All for One’s big fight that injured both, it can’t be more than 6 years at the very best but, much likely, it’s less as this takes place at the end of “Vigilantes”. It’s true they didn’t really talk but still, they met.

Also both the anime and the coloured version of the manga give him red hair when, by then, his hair were while.

Credits when it's due though, I don't know if Horikoshi is behind the coloured manga version or another person does the colouring and that person took the anime as inspiration. In the black and white version Horikoshi's design for Tōya is consistent as his hair aren't coloured (while he colour red hair in black), so this could be not Horikoshi's fault.

The anime seems to confirm many scenes took place during night (except for Endeavor searching for Tōya after Sekoto Peak burned)... clearly no one was keeping an eye on Tōya if Enji never noticed how late his son got home and Rei, despite knowing Tōya went on Sekoto Peak to train, never worried about her son being up on a peak alone till late at night...

That's all I could remember/find for now.

The Todoroki storyline remains my favorite in the manga but there's no deny it was handled in a way that ended up contradicting itself, likely sometimes by mistake and sometimes due to change of plans or plot reasons. It's still a great story so don't think I believe the fact it has shortcoming means it's not enjoyable.

#boku no hero academia #bnha spoilers #Todoroki Enji #Todoroki Rei #Todoroki Touya #Todoroki Shouto #Todoroki Fuyumi #Todoroki Natsuo #All for One #bnha observations

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andypantsx3 · 9 days

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Hey Andy! I was wondering if you had a list of recommended BNHA x reader writers?

I feel bad answering these asks because I love so many writers and I will inevitably forget someone!! And I would die if I hurt someone's feelings like that 🥺

I wholeheartedly rec every writer who has a fic listed in my bnha fic recs tag, and I think there's like 250+ fics in there alone, so I could not for the life of me distill this into a single list lol.

I hope you enjoy all these though!! And here is to many more writers being added that I've yet to have the pleasure of reading :3

#i do hope this helps even if it's not a single list!!!!!!#happy reading!!!!!!#ask andie

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xrtoms · 8 months

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Bnha adopt

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2toplibrary · 8 months

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Ch 250 - Recipe exchange

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class1akids · 1 year

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Do you know why the todofam timeline was changed? I was really confused about it until I saw your comparison post. I understand it now, but I don't know why hori would change it. Did the original order of events create a plot hole?

He set the original timeline already in Ch 250, where Fuyumi says Rei was already in the hospital when Touya died.

Chapter 299-302 had a lot of mistakes - I think Hori was simply too tired after the war arc to remember, and he had a new editor who didn't catch these mistakes. So the weekly version of 302 directly contradicted the previously set timeline. They caught it by the time the chapter was published and said it would be corrected in the volume, but the mistake was already in circulation by then.

#c1a asks #todoroki timeline #bnha 302 #bnha 250

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Clubs were added in BNHA Ultra Impact, so naturally I started an EraserMicNation club. Club ID is 627 655 82

Also here is my username and ID (250 619 995)

#i say stuff #bnha ultra impact #mha ultra impact #bnha #mha #erasermic

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adminbryantsaki · 2 years

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Hey there Admin! I saw your 250 follower celebration post, and I’d love to see what you could do with some of my ideas. I’m thinking something with Kaminari and prompt number 75. SFW or NSFW, doesn’t really matter to me. But with a male reader please, I tend to get tired of every “x reader” fanfic being a female reader. Any plot you’d like is fine with me, I’d like a nice surprise. Thanks!

I’d love to do this for you. I understand the lack of male reader stories out there and I love to write for the uncommon and rare story types out there! Thank you for coming here with your request! I hope you enjoy!

Denki Kaminari x Male! Reader. (I do not own Denki Kaminari/Charge bolt. Horikoshi Kohei does. All student characters are aged up to college age. If this isn’t your cup of tea, blend of spices, or brew of coffee, move on. Reader discretion is advised.) This is for my 250-follower event. The prompt is #75. “You’re overworking yourself… Please take a break.”

Wc: 388

Tw: none.

You were up at a late hour doing homework for a paper that was due in a couple of days. You were so fixated on getting this paper done before you allowed yourself to go to bed that you had forgotten what time it was. Your roommate was the up-and-coming pro hero, Charge bolt. He had peeked his head into your room to check on you.

“Dude, its like 3am. Go to bed. You deserve rest.” He told you. “I can’t go to sleep. I need to do this paper. I haven’t started working on it and it’s due the day after tomorrow.” You groaned and rubbed the back of your neck. Kaminari walked over and began to rub your broad shoulders. “You’re tense. You really should relax.” He suggested. “I can’t tonight. I’d love to go to bed now but I can’t I need to finish this paper but I keep circling around the same point for my subject.” You groaned. Your partner’s eyes widened. “You know I’ve been observing you over the past couple of days, right? I’m not just sitting behind my computer and playing games all day. You’ve been overworking yourself, love… please take a break. If not for me, then for your own health. I’m worried about you.” He told you. You nodded and stood up to your full stature. You straightened your shoulders and walked over to your bed, collapsing on the soft mattress and bedding before rolling onto your back and letting your boyfriend lay on your chest. He was so small compared to you and you loved it. You pulled a blanket over the two of you and fell quickly into sleep. The end.

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BNHA Observations, speculations and assorted info: Todoroki Mansion (Part 4: Dining Room)

Since what I noticed/speculated/found out can be of use for other fic authors I thought to share as well.

Resources:

Chap. 192 “The Todoroki Family” (轟家 Todoroki-ke) Chap. 249 “The Hellish Todoroki Family” (地獄の轟くん家 Jigoku no Todoroki-kun-chi) Chap. 250 “Ending” (エンディング)

Ep. 90 “Vestiges” (面影 Omokage) Ep. 105 “The Hellish Todoroki Family” (地獄の轟くん家 Jigoku no Todoroki-kun-chi) Ep. 106 “The Unforgiven” (許されざる者 Yurusarezaru-mono)

OBSERVATIONS, SPECULATIONS AND ASSORTED INFO:

The dining in the Todoroki Mansion is a washitsu (和室), which means "harmony room" but which is the name used to mean "Japanese-style room".

It's a room characterized by a tatami flooring (Tatami (畳) is a type of mat used as a flooring material in traditional Japanese-style rooms)...

and sliding doors, be they Shōji (consisting of translucent or transparent sheets on a lattice frame) or Fusuma (vertical rectangular panels often painted)...

....and, if the particular room is also meant to serve as a reception room for guests, it may have a tokonoma (床の間), an alcove for decorative items.

HOW ONE REACHES IT?

In the manga from the Genkan, taking the corridor on the left, though we aren't shown more about how to reach it...

In the anime it's possible to speculate it's reached always taking the corridor on the left but then we're shown you've to walk through the engawa...

We know that in the anime the Shōji door with a lower door panel of the room doesn't open on the open part of the Engawa because, outside of the door, we always see a closed corridor.

Natsuo takes the way on the right and then curves again on the right and then we'll see he has reached the engawa so we can assume that's the way one has to take to reach it.

It's a little harder to say if the same applies to the manga as what's behind the characters entering in the room is left white... but since the wall isn't drawn it's possible the room opens on the outside...

...but let's look at how the dining room is in details.

THE DOOR AND THE WINDOWS

As said before it's a large Shōji door with a lower door panel and some small Shōji windows above it.

In addition to the two small windows on top of the door, we've a marumado (円窓), a circular window with a flat bottom edge, on the left.

Outside the Marumado there's another corridor, which is probably not the engawa as we don't see it having round windows. By the way, that corridor lead to the Butsudan room, though it's evidently in opposite places in the anime and in the manga as Enji is walking in opposite directions to reach it.

On the wall opposite to the door, on the left, there's a Shōji window the Shoin (書院) with, below it, a power point.

The Shoin (書院) is considered a decorative window-style structure which is usually located to the left of the Tokonoma in formal ones (since the Todoroki one is collocated to the right I guess their own isn't formal). A Shoin with an overhang toward the porch area is called “Tsuke-shoin” (付書院), and those without an overhang are called “Hira-shoin” (平書院).

SIZE OF THE ROOM

In the anime is clearly of 12 tatami mats.

In the manga is harder to say but maybe it's 10 tatami mats?

WALL IN FRONT OF THE DOOR

As shown in the images above and as said before, on the wall in front of the door there's a Shōji window, then an alcove, which I'm not sure could costitute a Tokonoma as what's displayed in it is a television.

The anime also adds, hung on the wall on the side opposite to the window, a picture.

WALL ON THE RIGHT

As said before and as shown in the images before, on the wall on the left there's only the marumado window.

WALL ON THE LEFT

The wall on the left is the one of the Tokonoma. A formal Tokonoma structure is called Hondoko (本床) and consists of the following three parts: the Shoin (書院), a decorative window, the Tokonoma (床の間), an alcove and the Tokowaki (床脇), a space with shelves.

In the manga we've already seen that the tokonoma structure isn't a formal one as the Shoin window is placed in the opposite side. Let's focus now on the Tokonoma, which contains a kakemono (掛物 "hanging thing"), more commonly referred to as a kakejiku (掛軸 "hung scroll"), and a vase on the right. We can also catch a glimpse of a flower arrangement which should be in front of the scroll.

As for the Tokowaki, instead than an upper and lower cupboard with, in the middle some shelves, we've what seems to be a closet with a lower cupboard.

The anime instead went for a traditional Tokowaki.

It has in the middle a Chigaidana (違い棚) which is decorative shelves consisting of two different levels and two cupboard-like shelves with sliding doors placed above and below the Chigaidana, which are called Tenbukuro (天袋 "top shelf") and Jibukuro (地袋 "bottom shelf").

CEILING

The ceiling is a Japanese Saobuchi tenjō (竿縁天井 "rod edge ceiling") ceiling, a flat wood ceiling supported by narrow wood beams.

ON WHAT DO THEY SIT?

In the anime they're always sitting on Zaisu (座椅子) chairs, Japanese chairs with a back and no legs.

In the manga, when Enji comes home after beating a Nomu and when he dreams his family eating together they're all sitting on Zabuton (座布団) Cushions.

Only Fuyumi seems to be sitting in a seiza (正座) position (on her heels with her legs tucked underneath her). As she's a female her other option would be to sit with her legs tucked on one side. Males can also sit in a seiza position but the Todoroki males all seem to sit in agura (胡坐) position (cross-legged). Stretching the legs directly out in front of themselves is something one must not do so nobody does it.

The table should be a Zataku (座卓) table, a low, rectangular table suitable for sitting on Zabuton or Zaisu.

SEATING ARRANGEMENT

Seating arrangements is very important in Japanese culture: The guest-of-honor is seated upon the kamiza (上座 "Chief seat" or "seat of honor") which is typically situated farthest from the entrance. The middle of the table is the most honored position, and the second most important person is seated next, at his right, the third most important person at his left. When there is a tokonoma in the room, the guest-of-honor is seated in front of it. The host or lowest-ranking guest is seated closest to the shimoza (下座 "lower seat").

So let's give a look at how the Todoroki sit...

To make things simpler I made a scheme showing the floorplan of the dining room and the seating arrangement.

Enji, the family head, is always at the head of the table. I'll assume the first time they put him near the door because otherwise he wouldn't have been able to watch the tv.

The second time in fact, when the tv is not turned on, he's at the chair farther form the door.

The first time Shouto is placed at his right, which is the second most important place. It might be because Shouto is being a guest in a way, as he's temporally living at the dormitory, or it might be because this, in a way, remarks Shouto's status as Enji's heir, despite Shouto being the youngest.

The second time at Enji's right there's Bakugo, which makes sense as he's a guest. Technically the third most important place would be the one at Enji's right, but they've probably left Bakugo, Midoriya and Shouto all seated at the same side of the table so that they would be more comfortable. From what I could understand in theory in such scenario, Enji should have seated opposed to them, between Fuyumi and Natsuo (the middle place is the most important spot in this kind of arrangement), but this is no business dinner so I guess they didn't bother.

So the most important spot after the one Bakugo is having goes to Fuyumi's Enji's eldest child.

Interesting enough, when Enji came home from fighting the Nomu, that spot was given to Natsuo.

What's interesting to notice though is that the Todoroki's dining room comes with a problem.

Guests should be placed facing the Tokonoma but this here doesn't happen. In order to place Bakugo at Enji's right, they give their back to the Tokonoma.

That is unless Enji gives up his place as the head of the table and sits on the middle of the table between Fuyumi and Natsuo.

Now, Enji's dream in the manga.

The manga doesn't give us a way to figure out how the characters are placed in the room but the anime confirms the scene is seen from Enji's point of view as he enters in the room, so Rei and Fuyumi are next to the tv. In this arrangement, there's no spot for him and no head of the table.

In theory the most important person should be Rei, as she's the oldest (and she's placed far from the door)... which makes Shouto the second most important person again with Fuyumi coming third.

The anime added a dream sequence which has Rei seated at the head of the table but this time Natsuo would get the second most important place, then Fuyumi, then Shouto.

On a sidenote there's to say families might chose not to be so strict about seating arrangement and just go with what makes them comfortable so...

Still, to sum it up, manga and anime this time are pretty similar in how to represent the room, the biggest difference being merely how the anime, differently from the manga, decided to go for a traditional Tokowaki.

#boku no hero academia #Todoroki Enji #Todoroki Shouto #Todoroki Natsuo #Todoroki Fuyumi #Todoroki Rei #Midoriya Izuku #Bakugo Katsuki #bnha observations

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