My Hero Academia Chapter 327 (Here we go again)
Now that Deku is in U.A again (yay), now the extras & DLC NPC’s are getting lines..
Talking about "do our best" like they fucking matter. Mentioning the festivals and shit, now the tone, the setting, the momentum is right back to square one.
This is why Deku being away was so much better pacing wise.
There was focus, with focus more coherent organic development happens. This is why solo run Superhero books land long-term, and team ups are better used as short term runs or event based.
With this class 1A shit, everyone ie. ALL 20 characters are fighting for lines & relevance in the same space, it's so gd cluttered.
The best thing by far is All Might's mini arc,
"keeping up with everyone", i like that. Symbol of Hope didn't die he just retired, but that doesn't mean he's obsolete. Good shit. Glad Stain had that impact on him.
Otherwise Todoroki talking "that's why" they brought him back, is fucking monkeyballs.
He could've rested out there just fine, and there was no reason why he couldn't learn to slow down & remain on his own. Only reason it HAD to be THIS WAY, is contrivance, and Horikoshi wanting his comfort zone restored.
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Preview: Gladiator Chapter 327
A ruckus interrupts War Minister Qin’s attempt to bolster the power of the Fire Nation’s airships: what he initially misunderstands as a rebellious bout by the refugees becomes far more terrifying for him and the Fire Lord's troops when they find themselves facing firebenders who obey the orders of a warrior with a black blade.
Sokka keeps his mind focused as he ensures to defeat Ozai's latest initiative, but his unwavering determination will receive a harsh blow once he and Rui Shi take the War Minister aside for questioning, never expecting the dark tidings the old man has to give...
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"Thank you."
The words spilled out and Yoo Joonghyuk replied indifferently. "Don't say anything that isn't in your heart. I know you dislike me."
"Of course, I dislike you. I hate you. You are the person who took my role."
"I don't know what that means."
In Lee Sookyung's head, time flowed slowly. She heard that it should move quickly… then why? Was it because it was hard and difficult?
"…I've known you from a long time ago. That kid often talked about you. He came to visit his mother in prison and only talked about this."
–This time, he challenged the 12 gods of Olympus.
The young face of Kim Dokja as he talked happily. Many thoughts had floated on this child's face.
Yoo Joonghyuk spoke like he felt Lee Sookyung's heart rate slowing down. "Lee Sookyung. Don't let go of your mind."
Lee Sookyung barely maintained her blurring consciousness. She continued to be drowsy on Yoo Joonghyuk's back. "In any case, at least once… I wanted to thank you."
"You are saying things that I can't understand."
Okay, so I've been thinking this for a while now but is Joonghyuk perhaps literally unable to comprehend that he's a character in a novel?
Like, at first I just thought it was a secret (obviously it was) and he didn't know and then I thought that maybe, for some reason, he just didn't care because he's so goal-motivated and has crushed down all his own emotions beyond what's needed to save the world, but now I'm really starting to wonder if he literally cannot process it. Like maybe he has his own version of Fourth Wall but it stops him from realizing that he's a character in a novel no matter what people say.
Like, Han Sooyoung literally calls him "protagonist" to his face but it's Han Sooyoung so it's quite possible he brushed it off as that's just how she sees the world as a writer.
But we also have the fact that people were starting to recognize that the world was following TWSA way back before Dokja got lost for three years, heck people were recognizing it both inside and outside the Seoul dome way back when he pretended to be Joonghyuk for the first time. Since then, rumors have been spread all across the internet and there's apparently still functioning news agencies because Dokja's party members are treated like celebrities.
So you'd think by now that it has to be common knowledge right? If nothing else, Sooyoung can't have been the only person to ever say something weird or act weird around the Yoo Joonghyuk. It wouldn't shock me at all if people haven't tried to interview him like they did with Heewon and Jihye.
So does he genuinely have no feelings in regards to finding out he's a fake person? Do none of the other characters not care either? We've had plenty of POV scenes from other characters but thinking about it, the one time that we see the novel openly discussed is between Dokja and his mom, Dokja and Sooyoung, Sooyoung and Sangah...all non-characters...
And now we have Dokja's mom trying to have this serious conversation with Joonghyuk and he's saying he doesn't understand and while you can take that to mean that he doesn't understand how he helped Dokja since he's only recently met him, I'm starting to wonder if it's not more literal - that he literally can't process what she's talking about.
Like, Dokja literally just got done showing the giants the literal scenes of TWSA and Joonghyuk had no reaction whatsoever. Like, maybe in that particular instance he wasn't able to see those scenes, only Dokja and the giants could, but still...
"Where are your parents?"
"I was told they died in an accident."
"You don't sound sad."
"I can't grieve what I can't remember."
Lee Sookyung knew. He didn't remember because it wasn't in the original novel. Everything about Yoo Joonghyuk was just a character setting. From the beginning, Yoo Joonghyuk's parents didn't exist.
Lee Sookyung hesitated for a moment. "Yes, humans are like this. Do you think I remember all my childhood?"
"…Is it memory loss?"
"Everyone gets memory loss. Little by little, we will forget our memories and one day, we will forget everything."
And then on the other side we have this. It almost feels like Sookyung is trying to reassure him that it's normal not to remember things that happened when they were children and she specifically goes out of her way to say humans are like this. Like she's trying to tell him that he's still a human and reassure him that this is normal and not from him literally being a made up person.
So maybe he does know and has just been quietly processing it? Or maybe he does have a Fourth Wall, maybe all the characters do, but instead of blocking them from understanding, their versions keep their reactions to the real world muted whereas Dokja's keeps his reactions to TWSA muted? So they're aware but just can't bring themselves to care???
Like, I could see maybe one or two people just genuinely not caring, and maybe one of those people is Joonghyuk just because of how emotionally exhausted he has to be by now (both him AND 1863rd) but you're telling me that Lee Jihye doesn't have some opinions on all of that? Lee Hyunsung hasn't at least asked Dokja what he was like in the novel? Shin Yoosung hasn't asked about what she did in a future without Dokja taking her under his wing?
And then finally we have this:
Yoo Joonghyuk spoke, "Sometimes I remember things. I remember someone watching me."
It was the first time Lee Sookyung heard this story and she wondered, "…Who was watching you?"
"I don't know either. There was a gaze watching me for a long time. There were times when I often felt the gaze."
After Yoo Joonghyuk's words were over, Lee Sookyung didn't talk for a long time. There was a long silence before Lee Sookyung laid her hands on Yoo Joonghyuk's head and spoke in a gentle voice.
"Maybe it was your parents."
Lee Sookyung stared up at the sky. Numerous constellations were watching them.
I feel like Sookyung is once again trying to make him feel better by saying it was his parents but at the same time Joonghyuk isn't really connecting the whole "Dokja came to talk to me about you every day when he was younger" to "Dokja knows my entire life story including my future" to "someone has been watching me for years." Or, if he is connecting the two, he's unwilling to verbalize it and just seems like he's side-stepping the whole issue?? So either he can't process that he's a character or can but can't really feel it?
Well, if nothing else, I do love it when we get mentions of Joonghyuk feeling like someone was with him during his hardships just the same as Dokja felt that Joonghyuk was there with him during his.
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I was like 15 chapters behind of the Bendy and Boris in the Inky Mystery fanfic
I had to catch back up, been busy and finally got to read the chapters that I have missed!
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