#bnha foils

[strawberri-draws]

Togachako but happy ‼️

#my art #fanart #bnha #mha #bnha fanart #my hero academia #boku no hero acedamia #himiko toga #ochako ururaka #togachako #wlw art #healing my inner middle schooler by drawing them good :) #just. when they’re narrative foils >>> #and have so much unexplored character #just. yeah :) #anyways I drew them but like no uniforms high school era yipeee

[seagreenstardust]

Yoichi calling Kudou “My Hero”

Kudou smirking as he uses Kacchan to finally get Izuku to listen to him

Izuku not wanting to let go of One For All, not because it’s strong or because he’ll be Quirkless again but because All Might gave it to him so it’s precious to him BABY

The vestiges taking the fight inside of Shigaraki, meaning we might get vestige Izuku and vestige Kacchan

I loved it. Everything about it.

#mha #bnha #mha spoilers #bnha spoilers #mha 413 #bnha 412 #bakudeku #bkdk #yoichi x kudou is literally the gift that keeps on giving #them as a foil to bkdk??? #GOOD CONTENT #kudou: how do I get him to listen???? #Izuku: I’m so so gay for Kacchan I can’t even hear you #kudou: now THIS I can work with #the ‘my hero’ is infecting my brain though #soft soft SOFT #also vestige kacchan and vestige Izuku inside of shigaraki’s head would be too powerful for words

[class1akids]

The "boy raised in love" vs The "boy born with everything" (except love)

Mitsuki and Masaru all in the same panel with Baby Katsuki, looking at him tenderly on the one side. And then we have Shouto held by nobody, Enji, Rei and Touya divided into different panels, not a single happy face, Fuyumi and Natsuo missing.

#bakugou katsuki #todoroki shouto #bnha 409 #bnha 301 #two very different beginnings #bnha parallels #Shouto Katsuki foiling each other #i'm trying not to remember how rei didn't want to have shouto #how the only reason his father wanted him for was his quirk #and how his existence shattered toya

[delawaredetroit]

I forgot Aizawa was the one who introduced the idea of finding strength by remembering your origin because he otherwise has had little to do with this theme. The only one's with "Origin" chapters are Izuku, Bakugou, Shouto, All Might, and Shigaraki. There is a long list of other characters who touch on this idea in how their past brought them to where they are/their strength, but Aizawa isn't one of them.

I wish Izuku expanded on what he meant by his origin starting with All Might. Is he crediting All Might for inspiring him to be a hero as a small child? Or is this sentiment that he feels like he wasn't anything until All Might chose him to be the One for All successor?

And even if the former is what Izuku means here, is he correct? Recent revelations have shown that Shigaraki's perception of his origins were wrapped in deception. Will that also be the case for his hero narrative foil?

#bnha reread #bnha 73 #bnha #aizawa shouta #midoriya izuku #all might #shigaraki tomura #i think i'm being vague enough abt the spoilers but i'm expecting a twist to izuku's story after what just happened to shigaraki #could be dfo or some other involvement via ujiko - those 2 are foils and it was just dropped tenko wasn't originally quirkless

[mishy-mashy]

All For One is obsessed with Abilities and taking them. Like a toddler, he's interested in things that are straight-forward, without much effort on his part. We see this when he spares Best Jeanist and his Quirk.

When he finds Quirks he's interested in, he wants them. Like when he "couldn't help" taking Ragdoll's Search. Below are just some examples of AFO wanting Quirks, and being fascinated by them

All for One has this interest in Quirks and taking them because that's the nature of his Quirk. You know who else was like this?

Himiko Toga.

All For One, like Himiko Toga, is driven by desires caused by the nature of his Quirk. They:

● are consumed and driven by desires and interests caused by their Quirks (stealing quirks VS blood)

● have yandere tendencies (AFO is possessive, Toga stabs for blood, yet sees blood as a form of love)

● both want something vital to a person (Quirks VS blood)

All For One's Quirk both gives and takes. But he's more focused on the taking part of it. He wants Quirks for himself. The nature of his Quirk naturally makes him want to possess things, and he literally names it "All For One". All For One person, instead of One For All.

If he focused on giving, history would've been different. But he was born with his Quirk, and as a baby, he's going to be self-centered and only seek for himself, his own convenience, and the world only exists exactly as he views it. That's just how babies are.

That self-centeredness would've combined with his Quirk's desires, evolving the "take" portion of his Quirk to something that drives him.

Himiko Toga, like other kids, likely awakened her Quirk when she was five. That would be why her parents only expressed shock in her like for blood when it showed with the bird; she was a kid at the time, and it was likely their first glimpse of the nature and effect of her Quirk.

All For One had his Quirk at birth. Toga got hers later, and thus would've had time to learn about the world first. Toga didn't completely fuse her Quirk with a baby's natural "I want and need", but there's enough self-centered awareness as a child to still want first.

I want to bring attention to these panels because they're definitely related. Look at the parallels of All For One and Toga.

Toga, after a talk about why and how she loves, because blood is so fascinating,

And Yoichi talking about his brother's way of using his power,

All For One could take, but he could also give. And yet, right before Yoichi narrates this, rather than something like Toga realizes,

All For One's first thought was he had to steal Yoichi back.

Like Toga before having a girls' talk with Ochako, both were only interested in taking for themselves. Giving never crossed their minds.

All For One only gave Quirks to make sure people stayed on his side. So he had pawns.

All For One's obsession with Quirks, and having possessions, only makes Yoichi [One For All] even more attractive: he's both a Quirk, and All For One's "first possession in this world".

All For One is basically like Himiko Toga pre-Ochako-talk, but never learned. He died because he got too greedy to win against Bakugo, but Toga died because she decided to give her everything to save the object of her affection.

(Idk if Toga actually is dead, but that's the current assumption after she says she'll give Ochako all her blood to save her)

All For One and Toga are foils to each other. Goodnight.

#i like the way they explore villains #not just being bad because they should be for the sake of the story #but because something drives them that is “deviant from the norm” and “nails that stick out are hammered down” #even the big bad villain of the story - AFO - is just the same as a high school girl in the end #his quirk makes him want and want and want #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #afo #all for one #ofa #one for all #yoichi shigaraki #himiko toga #spoilers #and toga was similar in that because she loves #she wants blood to be like others she loves #has anyone mentioned their parallels/foil to each other? #or rather toga is a foil to afo #because toga is how we explore quirks impacting desires and interests and the “what if?” to live better #this one excites me #its just so blatantly obvious yet people also dont notice or mention it #(dunno if people mentioned this but if so yasss) #ITS THERE BUT CAN EASILY GO UNNOTICED AT THE SAME TIME #when there has been focus on it SO MANY TIMES FOR BOTH TOGA AND AFO #niceeeee

[cringefailnatsuo]

Nah man because what the hell was this?

First of all, I love how these panels establish a clear difference between Hawks looking at Dabi and Hawks looking at Dabi. In the scene from 240, Hawks is looking at Dabi as he's thinking about completing his mission and contacting Endeavor for backup. Like dude? You're literally staring into Dabi's eyes and thinking about Endeavor and it never crossed your mind that they have the same eyes? Chapter 267 drives this point even further by putting a close-up of Dabi's eye after he reveals his identity to Hawks. You can clearly see Hawks having an "oh shit" moment after the reveal as he truly looks at Dabi and realizes that this one piece of crucial information has been right in his face the whole time.

And second of all, this just highlights how Dabi truly is Hawks' downfall during the raid.

The whole point of Hawks' mission was to gain intel on the League so that the heroes don't make any hasty decisions and have the upper hand in apprehending the villains for good. The fact that the HPSC president specifically told Hawks "we severely underestimated the enemy" and yet he did the same exact thing is, quite frankly, hilarious.

And in retrospect, given the knowledge that we have on Dabi's past from chapter 350, Hawks could have figured out who was behind the nomu, where they were kept, and so many other things about AFO's plan for a successor if he had paid more attention to Dabi.

#bnha #dabi #hawks #dabihawks #canon dabihawks is riddled with irony and that's why it's so great #ok but also i want to know why the hell hawks looked into dabi's background and stopped looking into it when he hit a dead end #like that's so suspicious and he didn't bother digging further? #no 2 pro hero backing down from a challenge?? #i wonder how long it took for hawks to give up searching on info about dabi #honestly i'm surprised hawks underestimated him so much considering that fire is his one (1) weakness #and dabi is one of the more mysterious members of the lov since there's no info about him in the hpsc database or whatever #anyway the 'you should have been keeping both eyes on me' line hits different when you realize that dabi was keeping his eyes on hawks 24/7 #seriously the dude went through the trouble of locating takami tomie just to hear this dude's tragic backstory #and dabi copied hawks' move that one time in like 351(?) and someone called him fast or whatever #god i fucking hate narrative foils #ugh these tags are getting LONG but who even reads the tags anymore? #hello i make one original post per month and have now met my quota

[smolmilkyways]

i had the honor of drawing the cover for ‘ever after’: a bkdk wedding zine! 🌸

#my art #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #deku #bkdk #bakudeku #katsuki bakugou #midoriya izuku #zine #gold foil ahhh #katsudeku

[prettyboykatsuki]

bnha is so overhated bro boooo

#aristotle.txt #im tired of pretending its bad man i just dont think so #bnha is for the most part a thematically consistent series #you can disagree with the moral choices of the characters or the direction #but the story itself is well structured #the main ensemble is fleshed out and so is the world building #the biggest issue is pacing and some of the side character arcs #but the main characters are well integrated. the narrative foils of heros and villains is there #there is a lot of things i am critical of in the series and openly voice #but the story itself is overall better than it is worse and i am tired of pretending it is not !!!! #it gets so much shit on twitter like jhkjfdjksdkj #a lot of the hate feels so contrived and based solely on the anime production its not my pookies fault bones dgaf

[pcktknife]

speaking of toga look what leaked tonight

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#SHES WEARING TWICES COSTUME GRRRRRRRRAAAAAH #or like his body whatever #these are sick as fuck #i kinda cant say this cause i dont really read/watch anymore so idk whats goin on but damn i wish bnha had a broader focus on the issues of #hero society #the chapter where toga/ochaco have That One Encounter where toga runs away crying. life changing to me #like the stories not reeeeally abt that and it does touch on it with shigaraki with toga with dabi with shouto/endeavor (w hawks i think?) #but its not enough like so close to being something for me but its not hitting a specific mark *biting biting biting* anyways #toga + ochako as foils slays #< u can leave the bnha but the bnha does not leave u #asks #sistervirtue #mutuals! #bnha leaks #bnha spoilers #ig

[thyandrawrites]

AU where Tenko goes to UA, becomes a pro and opens an agency focused on disaster relief with Thirteen. Their duo becomes known as The Vacuum Clearner

#Don't ask #I always thought their quirks foiled each other #As very similar powers that get read in extremely opposite ways because of their respective environments #But this post? This post was mostly for that punchline lmao #Thyandra.txt #Shigaraki tomura #Shimura tenko #Thirteen bnha

[katsuki-king-of-twinks]

!!!BNHA 368 SPOILERS!!!

Okay, okay okay, so I'm sure the exact nature of the second user's quirk will become more clear in the following chapters as we see Izuku use it more, bc rn I'm honestly still pretty unclear on exactly what it does and can do...

But my main thoughts on this rn are...

... this is Izuku's "last resort" here. And the Second User says "You're done once you use this. Take him down within five minutes, or else the world loses this war."

So what I'M wondering here is.. what exactly does he mean by "you're done.." ??? Clearly Izuku has 5 minutes from activating this quirk until he's "done," meaning out of commission and unable to fight.. but... to what extent? What I'm getting at here is..

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT IZUKU IS GONNA FUCKING DIE???

I know that he's not gonna DIE die (read: stay dead), but I do think it's possible that he... I mean, he's such a self sacrificing idiot, he would DEFINITELY "die" to put an end to all this.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY NEXT CONCERN!!

Katsuki is "dead" rn. Edgeshot is working to revive him, and I'm 90% certain at this point that that is going to work, bc why else bother to show any of that effort and sacrifice being put in to try and save him?

But it makes me wonder, that if Izuku DOES "die"...

IS THIS ABOUT TO BE SOME ROMEO & JULIET TYPE SHIT WHERE KATSUKI "DIES" AND THEN COMES BACK TO LIFE JUST IN TIME TO SEE IZUKU DIE?????

#idk if my heart could take it! #but also. that's gay as hell I'm about it. #bnha #bnha spoilers #bnha manga spoilers #bnha 368 #don't mind me #mine #omg they were narrative foils #bkdk

[grimalkinmessor]

*cracks knuckles* TIME TO GET INTO MY SHIGADEKUBAKU AGENDA

How Shigaraki is BOTH Midoriya And Bakugou's Main Villain And How They're All Tied Together: A Long Ramble

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First thing's first—parallels. Specifically the differences between thematic parallels and narrative foils.

Hori has set Bakugou up as Shigaraki's thematic parallel, and Midoriya up as his narrative foil by making Midoriya mirror Tenko while also having Bakugou mirror Shigaraki.

Both Midoriya and Tenko grew up abused and lonely, one thought to be Quirkless and the other actually Quirkless, and even then the first manifested a 'villainous' Quirk not long afterward. Both of them have experienced Quirk discrimination and the inequality of society.

Both were shamed and discouraged for wanting to be a hero to the point that others would get physically violent with them. And while all three of them idolized All Might as children, only Midoriya and Tenko (specifically Shimura) have direct connections to All Might.

Meanwhile, Bakugou and Shigaraki are more physically similar. Both of them have extremely destructive, hand-centralized Quirks, and both of them have the same sort of attitude about them—even their speech patterns are similar in that they both say brash things while simultaneously staying polite in their actions. They are both quick to anger and yet incredibly intelligent and strategic, as well as not-so-natural leaders.

Bakugou's learning curve mirrors Shigaraki's on that almost identically. They approach their set goals with a stubborn single-mindedness that's honestly impressive.

The only place that they really differ is in their mindset towards battle.

Where Bakugou has always fought and trained to achieve absolute victory, Shigaraki has grown up being told that failure is expected and should be turned into a learning experience.

And now in this recent battle this difference is even more important, because while Bakugou is now finding a sort of 'freedom' in failure, Shigaraki has victory in his grasp and yet ultimately remains trapped.

Where Midoriya recognizes Tenko and his pain, but can't understand Shigaraki's villainy, the reverse is true for Bakugou. Where Bakugou cannot relate to discrimination and discouragement, he can understand Shigaraki's villainous mindset.

Because Bakugou has a mirrored redemption arc.

Both he and Shigaraki have anger issues. They lash out and hurt people at the slightest provocation, and are obsessed with making sure that they get what they want. If anyone gets in their way, they're toast.

Or, that WAS the case, at least.

Because wouldn't you know it, Bakugou has since grown! He was confronted with his own weakness, and learned the value of teamwork and kindness by making friends—though his ultimate form of redemption came through Midoriya.

Sounds kinda familiar, doesn't it?

My third point, which my bakudekus will love, is that Midoriya and Bakugou were always meant to be a team.

I always wondered why Bakugou didn't have a true villain of his own, before I realized that it's because Shigaraki is both Bakugou and Midoriya's main villain.

They are a matched set, a pair—you cannot have one without the other. Bakugou and Midoriya have each encountered Shigaraki once alone (Midoriya at the mall and Bakugou during his kidnapping), and every other time they've faced him together.

Because Bakugou was never meant to be his own hero with his own story. He's always been intimately tied in with Midoriya.

This goes all the way back to Deku vs. Kacchan 2, where the phrase 'win to save, save to win' came up, because it comes to fruition in their fight with Shigaraki.

Midoriya is not meant to fight Shigaraki, because he needs to save him. And only Midoriya can save him, because he's the only one who understands that Tenko needs to be saved.

Bakugou is not meant to save Shigaraki, because he needs to fight him. And, as we've seen in the new chapters, (what, you think a student would be the only hero to land a hard hit on the villain if it wasn't plot relevant?) only Bakugou can fight him, because he understands Shigaraki.

To beat ShigAFO, and to save Tenko, both Bakugou and Midoriya need to be the ones to face him. Together.

Both Bakugou and Midoriya understand helplessness intimately. They both know exactly what Shigaraki is going through right now.

In order for All For One to be defeated, and Shigaraki to be saved, you need them both. Because Bakugou couldn't do it on his own, and I guarantee you that Midoriya won't be able to do it on his own either.

And after Shigaraki is let loose, I'm willing to bet that it will take all three of them turning on All For One to defeat him. Not only because it seals Shigaraki's own redemption arc in place, but because it will finally be the three of them all together on the same side.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk! :D

#bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha manga spoilers #shigaraki tomura #bakugou katsuki #midoriya izuku #bnha meta #all for one #narrative foils narrative foils narrative foils— #my hero academia #mha #shigabakudeku #just bc :3 #also #shigadeku #bakudeku #shigabaku #coverin all the bases

[hatefilledpoptarts]

Ochako really out here settling problems through blood pacts

#bnha spoilers #uraraka ochako #himiko toga #home girl out here vowing her life to her foil #if it fits it ships so get in there

[tiredhawks]

I keep thinking about a Yuuei AU where Keigo is a student until like halfway through second year his dad gets arrested as a villain and he only stays for a few more months before the side-looks and bullying and different treatment from teachers finally makes him snap. As if them working with a son of a villain is so much more difficult than him losing his father and basically losing his mother too. And it really doesn't help that his (former) best friend's dad was the one who took him away.

So one day he just withdraws from the school and no one is able to get in contact with him again. Until years later when pro hero Dabi sees a report that the previously petty criminal Hawks has been seen working with the League of Villains and has, by association, been bumped up to the classification of villain. And Touya, as a hero, doesn't deal with criminals so he had absolutely no idea that was where Keigo had ended up, nor was he aware of the name "Hawks" that his former friend was going by.

And he doesn't know what to do, because they weren't really friends at the end. They fell off hard and there was a lot of tension and spitting insults and glares up until the point Keigo left the school. But he's an adult now, and he's delt with much more, so it's given a different perspective on the situation. He hates himself for acting so defensive and reactive to Keigo's anger when It's clear that he was just hurting and felt as if everyone had turned their back on him.

But now the question is if he can get that through to Hawks before the villain does something he can't come back from.

#hawks #takami keigo #keigo takami #dabihawks #dabi #bnha hawks #hawks mha #hero touya #pro hero touya #see the thing about them being narrative foils #is that flipping the script #is so much fun and still makes logical sense #i also like to think #that as a student #keigo changed his hero name a lot #he wanted something fun and original and distinctive #so touys saw hawks #on that piece of paper #it was the first indication to him #that Keigo is a different person now entirely

[saja-star]

okay I know I'm late, but wrt todoroki's whole "are you all-might's secret love child" scene. it really surprised me after I watched it when I found that in fandom it's turned into this running gag - and I mean I'm not against it, like that shit's hilarious, it just wasn't my takeaway from the scene at all?

because 1) he was 100% right about there being a conspiracy. like he didn't guess what the actual conspiracy was because wtf who would guess that? but he was right on the money that midoriya somehow had all-might's quirk. 2) as guesses go, it wasn't out of pocket. quirks are inherited. midoriya has all-might's quirk. there is a logical way for that to happen. 3) when midoriya says no he doesn't insist or throw out more speculation. he says "okay, I know you're hiding something though" and moves on. what I'm saying is todoroki gets painted as oblivious pretty frequently and as an obsessed conspiracy theorist sometimes and this is held up as like, a prime example of both things. except this is really a moment where he legitimately notices something no one else has, draws a reasonable conclusion, communicates with midoriya about it directly, and then keeps an open mind.

but more importantly: who there is the successor of a top hero, with an inherited quirk that he isn't comfortable with and a complicated father-son relationship he doesn't advertise to his classmates? todoroki is going through some shit, and he's asking "are you like me? do you understand?"

#and midoriya does! except where he chose his connection to yagi and has a supportive relationship #but that's why todoroki opens up put of the blue what makes the whole it's your quirk scene hit #they are narrative foils and i think on some level todoroki realizes that because he sees in midoriya the way things could have been for him #todoroki shouto #todoroki shoto #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #bnha #mha

[somebody-in-this-world-who-lives]

Man, I love bkdk on an analytical level

They are brainroot material

#the progression of their relationship is so satisfying the more you think about it #it just works so well #all the paralels and the narative foils stuff is just part of if #bkdk are soulmates idk what to say #they make me want to get back into bnha because they are just sooo #bakudeku #like even if I get more interested in another ship with them for a bit it doesn't go away