#i will probably brotp everyone with momo

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For the Fic Writer Ask Meme! :)

3.What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?

5. What’s a fic idea you’ve had that you will never write?

17. What’s something you’ve learned about while doing research for a fic?

Fanfic asks

3.What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?

Surprisingly, this was hard to choose. So I will cheat and give a top 5 that could take my place as being my fave fic I've written:

As Months Go By, As Seasons Change I & II: this isn't bias talking here, I genuinely love how these turned out. I feel like everything I wanted to write about the Shinji and Momo dynamic has been written here, and it was just so much fun to work on as a whole.

Under the Snowfall: ah, the old days. I picked this one because I distinctly remember writing the middle part. I remember coming to a crossroad about where the fic would go. I set out to make a fic about an older Toshiro and Momo having a quiet moment under the snowfall, but then came the idea of Toshiro proposing. I could continue down this dozy fic, or I could add a surprise. Going with the latter, I loved how it turned out. The response to this one also surprised me, and I couldn't help but grin at comments that said they were surprised by the proposal.

Amongst the Ruins: it's my favourite take I've done on Momo seeing Toshiro's Completed Form. I wanted there to be a bunch of fluff, and for Momo to see this power she unknowingly inspired. I'm still surprised by the number of notes it has, but of course I absolutely appreciate every single like, reblog, and comment!

On the Shoreline: it's probably because I recently wrote it, but I keep thinking about this fic. I relive moments from it, and I've ended up very please with how it turned out. The response has also been beautiful, [I've been meaning to reply to your commentary] thank you to everyone who has commented, liked, and reblogged this one!

The True Will Reprised: I can't explain this one...okay, I can, but it's weird. I think about this one sometimes, whether it's a scene from it or a line. I really enjoyed writing this one, and it's one of my first forays into writing action scenes for Momo. For whatever reason, this one felt epic to write, like I was writing this big action scene with emotional and tense moments. To be honest, Ionce hoped this one got more attention (how can you resist the angst of Toshiro forced to fight Momo?!) XD. However, I'm grateful for all the notes it has gotten, and because of this fic, I've gotten the confidence to write more action for Momo!

5. What’s a fic idea you’ve had that you will never write?

Turning my reconciliation of Toshiro and Momo headcanons into a fic. I kid, it's still on the cards, but it'd be an ambitious and ongoing project.

I surprise myself with how often I actually write out my fic ideas, so it's not often I ignore one or decide to not write a fic for it. One of those few ideas was a story featuring Orihime and Toshiro sometime during either the Arrancar arc (Advanced team here we come!) of the Full Bringer arc. I've always liked their friendship and wish there was more content of it. Orihime is a naturally empathetic person who could probably get Toshiro to like her for that reason alone. I can see him being softer around her, able to speak with her a bit more freely than he normally does. In the fic, they end up discussing their traumas and troubles with their love interests, wih each taking something away from the interaction: Orihim to be more assertive with Ichigo, and Toshiro to not be afraid to be by Momo's side.

I won't ever write this though because while I love seeing content for this brotp, I have no clue where to start writing for a fic involving them. In the end, this is why i gave you the prompt to write, and I got D O N K I as a result, so in the end I felt like I won! XD

17. What’s something you’ve learned about while doing research for a fic?

There's a few things I've learned about along the way, but the first that comes to mind is food-related topics. I've tried to include various Japanese dishes and snacks that I imagine the Soul Society would have. For instance, I researched what sweets and baked goods are common to give to a close friend, and this is what was included in A Part of You, Where Momo gets Toshiro try various sweet snacks, including:

 Siberia cake: a sponge cake with a sweet bean jelly filling.

Chinsuko: it’s like a shortbread biscuit, made form lard and flour with a mild and sweet flavor. A friend of mine brought these back from Japan as a gift once.

Kusa mochi: a sweet mixed with the leaves of the mugwort plant. 

Botamochi: a sweet mixed with red bean paste. It’s traditionally made during spring and autumn/fall.

Ichigo daifuku: a sweet with a redbean paste filling and a strawberry stuffed in the middle.

There were others I thought to include, such as various daifuku flavours, but I had to keep it short and sweet (no pun intended) to keep that particular plot going.

More recently, I've been researching various eateries and types of Japanese restaurants for a request fic. These include:

Kaitenzushi: basically what many in the West refer to as a sushi train. It's generally seen as a lunch or quick dinner.

Izakaya: a pub like place that mainly caters towards adults. It's customary to receive a compulsory appetizer (known as an otoshi is Tokyo) and it's charged to your bill. You first order a beer or alcoholic beverage and gradually pub style food to share with everyone at the table like yakitori, various grilled meats, etc. It's an informal and pretty casual place to go with friend or cowrokers after work.

Shokudo: small casual restaurants that typically independently owned and serve only Japanese style food likes curries, noodle dishes, and rice dishes. At times you have the choice of their dining at either tables and chairs or on lower table on a tatami floor.

Kissaten: a cafe or tearoom that typically services salads, sweets, and sandwiches along with tea and coffee. They're typically seen as quiet places and as somewhere one would go to get breakfast on the go. They can also be part of popular food chains like Starbucks.

Yatai: food carts and mobile stalls that typically sell oden, ramen, and yakitori. They can also come with a tent with tables and chairs for customers to sit under while they eat. They were big during Meiji period, but in modern times are not as prevalent.

There's a good summary of the different types of restaurants here.

In addition to finding out what a typical menu would include and what customs are involved in going to these places, I've even tried to find out if it's typical for customers to be served by waiting staff or if it's self-serve! XD

For the request fic, I finally found a type of restaurant that works, you'll see which one I chose when I post it ;)

On a separate note, in response to your lovely comment: Sending you good writing vibes! But I think you should DEFINITELY take a request break! I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say that I send in requests as (fully optional) enticements/inspirations, not assignments. I feel like you can take as long as you want, do them only when they’re working for you and the words come easy (or at least if they come hard, fun-hard), and perhaps not do them at all if they don’t work out!! <33333

Thank you for this, I think I needed to hear it. I still aim to write your request and the other two still waiting in my inbox before year's end (hopefully sooner than that though ^^; ).

Thanks for sending these in! :D

#hitsuhina #toshiro hitsugaya #orihime inoue #fanfiction #bleach #asks #ask meme #whipplefilter

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I write a lot of bkmm, especially of the brotp variety right. 

But what about DekuMomo brotping? My soft babies. Hear me out. 

Their friendship starts rather suddenly.  The weight of the world has been thrust upon his shoulders and she just happen to be in the vicinity of an episode of doubt and anxiety. It’s not something she usually associates with the ever so optimistic and capable Midoriya, but it’s something she can relate to.

She comforts him and begins to think of ways she could assist him, which is easier said than done. The boy is a perfect blend of hardworking, determination and compassion; she sees why All Might chose him as a successor. He’s not really lacking in any area except having a backbone and she leaves that to Bakugou and Todoroki for hers is lacking as well.

She provides little things; company, stimulating conversations and strategic analysis. She discreetly enables him to admit his feeling to a certain someone, who she knows feels the same way. She makes sure he knows when to stop when he starts to beat himself up relentlessly. She plays the peacemaker when the boys-Bakugou-forget to play nice.

She starts to see him like a brother of some sorts. He’s small and unimposing and her instinct to nurture adopts him as so.

Midoriya, who is nothing but grateful and loyal, helps her with what she needs the most-confidence.

Its different from how the others help her in combat and skill building, he has the most impact on her.

#dekumomo #my soft children #brotps for life #momo growth #my jots #my writes #i will probably brotp everyone with momo #its only right #yaomomo #yaomama

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Everything I Wanted (Todoroki x Reader) Soulmate Au

inspired by Everything I Wanted by Billie Eilish.

TW! Mentions of contemplated suicide and insecure thought that could be triggering.

soulmate Au! Where your soulmate tattoo appears on your wrist after you touch your soulmate for the first time.

F!reader x Todoroki

F!reader x Bakugou (brotp)

Plot: the reader is Todoroki’s soulmate, but he doesn’t want to let some mystical ink on his wrist dictate who he should love, so he rejects reader as his soulmate. This story is about how reader first reacted to the rejection and how slowly reader lets herself heal, but what the universe wants it will get.

Part two out now!

This is my very first post on here! I hope you guys enjoy!

I had a dream I got everything I wanted Not what you’d think And if I’m bein’ honest It might’ve been a nightmare To anyone who might care

Every night you’d wake up drenched in sweat, panting as you tried to calm your breathing, tears staining your rosy cheeks. Every night you had the same nightmare, you wished it was just your mind overthinking, but sadly it wasn’t. Even in your dreams you’d replay that memory in your head over and over again.

“ I’m sorry (y/l/n), but even if your name is tattooed on my wrist and even if fate says we are meant to be together, I can’t return your feelings. My heart belongs to another. I’m truly sorry if I’m not what you expected as a soulmate.” He told you with nothing but sincerity in his voice. The sad and hurtful truth. 

“I-It’s okay. I understand Todoroki-san. Don’t worry about me I’ll be fine” You said holding in the need to cry, and the need to let the crawling feeling in your throat free, to scream and yell how once again this world was nothing but cruel. 

He gave a slight nod of his head before walking away from you. His other half as written by the universe and written on your left wrist.

You looked down at the floor clenching your fists and look up once again to see him standing with the rest of the A-1 class who was chatting as they waited for class to resume. A lone tear raced down your face.

“I’ll be fine” You whispered to yourself.

‘I have to be’ you thought.

As a young girl all you ever did was fantasize about your soulmate. You thought it would  be a dream come true for you when you would finally get to meet them. You would get your happily ever after like in those princess tales you’d love to read before going to bed. You thought you’d have the perfect white picket fence life to look forward to. 

As a young foolish girl you thought life would be easy.

you didn’t know your parents were going to sacrifice their lives to save others.

you didn't know that you weren’t quirkless and that your parents had been using ‘vitamins’ to suppress your quirk because of how dangerous it was when your emotions went haywire.

you didn't know that it wouldn’t get better contrary to what your therapist would tell you.

you didn’t know that you weren’t going to make as many friends as you had hoped you would.

and what hurt the most was that you didn’t know your soulmate wasn’t going to be your knight in shining armor like you had hoped. 

Thought I could fly (fly) So I stepped off the Golden, mm Nobody cried (cried, cried, cried, cried) Nobody even noticed I saw them standing right there Kinda thought they might care (might care, might care) 

It had been a month since Todoroki rejected you as his soulmate. You thought you could've gotten over it  but as always it seemed like the universe wanted to punish you for just existing. You didn’t participate in class anymore, You made sure to cover your soulmate tattoo so that no one would accidentally look at it, you didn’t tare your gaze from the floor, you thought that  it wouldn't hurt as much if you didn't have to look at him, but then the rumors started spreading and then the rumors weren't so much of a rumor. 

“ Todoroki and Momo made it official!”

“ I knew they were soulmates, I mean just look at how perfect they look together.”

“ Did you see the picture Momo posted of their soulmate tattoos? I'm so jealous!”

It was all too much for you, so you ran and you ran until you found yourself on the rooftop of U.A. and you let the tears you were holding in fall. 

You let the monster crawling at your throat free, letting yourself scream, letting yourself voice the hurt you had been bottling up.

why weren't you good enough for anyone?

not good enough for your parents to live for, they would rather die for others than to live for you. 

not good enough for your classmates, they barley talked to you or invited you to places like they did with each other. 

not good enough for your soulmate to want you. hell he’d rather cover you up than let people know fate had chosen you for him, were you so disgusting that you weren't even worth mentioning as the soulmate he rejected?

“stop” you whispered to your thoughts.

“ please just stop” your voice sounded hoarse.

“I just wanted everything to stop. To end” you said louder to no one, because no one was there, because no one cared. 

you slowly walked towards the edge of the roof and looked down at the ground.

your eyes were void of anything, they looked empty.

shakily you put one foot out into the nothingness, into the only thing that could stop you from letting the pain overwhelm you. you closed your eyes ready to fly.

‘This world is so cruel and yet so beautiful’ you thought before letting your eyes snap open and gasping.

your eyes regained a light and tears began to swell once again, you let yourself fall backwards away from the edge of the building.

Yes the world was cruel and life wasn't fair, but it was also beautiful. there was still so much you wanted to experience, still so much that would be worthwhile.��

after sitting on the floor for what felt like hours, you heard the distance sound of the bell signaling the end of lunch. you slowly picked yourself of the ground and cleaned your tears with the sleeve of your uniform jacket. 

you made your way back to class 1-A. you were the last one to walk in, and some of your classmates glanced up at you, but they didn’t say anything about your puffy red eyes, they didn’t ask why you weren’t at lunch, they didn’t ask how your day was going so far, they didn’t ask if you were okay. 

because you were not okay.

you once again felt a heaviness in your chest. 

you thought they would care at least a bit, they were heroes in training after all, yet it seemed like they hadn’t even noticed.

they hadn’t even noticed your absence and maybe they didn’t mind it in the slightest. 

I had a dream I got everything I wanted But when I wake up, I see You with me

Maybe you were too wrapped up in your own mind or maybe you finally lost it, but for the life of you, you couldn’t figure out how you ended up like this. Eating spicy noodles quietly with your class’ very own lord explosion murder sitting across from you.

If you were to ask Bakugou why he demanded you have lunch with him, he’d say it was because your dumbass face was the only one he could stand enough to willingly share his homemade noodles with, and if you were to ask him why he was sharing noodles in the first place, he would tell you to shut the hell up and just eat without questioning him.

What Bakugou would never admit is that when he was roaming the school grounds during lunch two weeks ago he saw you standing at the very edge. He stood frozen in place, not sure of what he could do, but before he could will himself to move he saw how you feel backwards and out of his sight. He knew why he froze because he remembered a comment he made to deku before they entered U.A. He obviously didn’t mean it, but seeing you so willingly to just dive of a building made something in him feel guilt for making such an insensitive comment even if it was to deku.

He really didn’t know you well. He knew that he had never actually seen your quirk in action though probably more than half of the class could relate to that since you never really used it. He knew pretty much that he didn’t know you at all and that unsettled him. Sure he wasn’t the most sociable guy or easiest to approach, but he at least knew a couple of things about each of his classmates friends.

So he decided to pay more attention to you, he noticed how you really didn’t talk to any of your classmates and how they wouldn’t try to include you in their conversations. He noticed you always walked with your head down not really looking at where you were going. He noticed the bags under your eyes making themselves more prominent. He noticed how sometimes when you would space out in class you’d be staring at the back of the class where the half and half bastard would sit. He became aware of your being but he still didn’t know how to approach you.

The opportunity came after an awkward encounter.

Everyone (or so you thought) had gone out to who knows where and like always you hadn’t been invited. You decided to train for a little while. You had been slowly progressing with being able to control your quirk, but after your conversation with Todoroki you were back at square one. Your emotions were a train wreck making it hard to control your quirk. Becoming frustrated with yourself you decided to call it a day but since you were sweaty you went to take a shower first. You forgot to take your clothes with you, and since you were by yourself in the dorms you didn’t think it would be that big of a deal if you ran to your room. Midway there you bumped into a wall that wasn’t there this morning. You looked up and there was Bakugou looking down at you.

‘Oh shit I’m going to die’ you thought but then you saw Bakugou frown as he looked directly at your uncovered wrist.

‘Shouto Todoroki’ Bakugou narrowed his eyes. He finally understood why you had been acting more closed off than usual, and maybe if you had looked a little harder you wouldve seen the understanding in them.

“Sor-” you began to say but he cut you off

“get dressed and meet me in the kitchen” he said before walking away.

After that day things changed for you. Who knew eating noodles in silence with an angry blonde could set you on your path to healing?

Every time you saw them holding hands you didn't have enough time to let yourself question what you could have done for that to be you.

“hey dumbass hurry up or I’ll kill you” the red eye blonde would yell at you once he noticed you lagging behind. Making you forget about the black ink on your wrist and making you worry about how bakugou was going to react to you getting a C- on the test he spent a whole afternoon helping you study for.

And you say, “As long as I’m here, no one can hurt you Don’t wanna lie here, but you can learn to If I could change the way that you see yourself You wouldn’t wonder why you’re here, they don’t deserve you”

It was close to the end of the school year and if you were to say that much hadn’t changed you’d be lying. 

thanks to practing your quirk with bakugou and him suggesting meditation to help you stay calm you were finally able to control your quirk enough to use it without fear around others.

Through him you also became friends with the rest of the bakusquad and they helped you warm up to the others.

all the second guessing and the comparing yourself to others didn’t cross your mind often anymore. 

unbeknownst to you every time you peeled off the layers of insecuirty that held you back from expressing yourself bakugou would smile glad that you,just like him, could get passed the pain left by an unrequited soulmate bond.

also unbeknownst to you, as you began getting along with the rest of the class and opening up, he couldn’t help but be captivated by some of your quirks. How you would help the likes of denki study even when you weren’t better off yourself, how you were the only one who entertained Midoriya’s rambling and even added comentary.

He began to get to know you and he could see how the universe could’ve blessed him with a soulmate such as yourself. you were the complete opposite of what he was used to, the todoroki home wasn’t exactly the most affectionate.

He was seeing you bloom right before his eyes and all he could feel was guilt as he diverted his eyes to look at his left wrist.

‘Momo Yaoyorozu’

He softly caressed his thumb over the name and even with his soft touch the fake dark ink smuged.

He thought he had what he wanted.

He thought the universe had been wrong. 

He thought it was for the best.

but as he saw you bickering with bakugou he found himself wondering what he could’ve done for that to be him, for you to be open with him like that.

he knew he was wrong but he was too far in to fix it.

If I knew it all then would I do it again? Would I do it again?

lastly Todoroki knew that even if you found it in yourself to forgive him, he still wouldn’t deserve you. 

Thank you so much for reading this far if you did! I don’t know why I couldn’t get this out of my head and so here it is. Also I threw in an AOT reference to cope with the pain.

#mha x reader #todoroki shōto #todoroki x reader #todoroki angst #mha angst #anime angst #bakugou x reader #brotp #fanfic #oneshot #angst oneshot #billie eilish #songfic #soulmate #themes: unrequited #unreciprocated love #healing #fanart #strwbrrybratff

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Going to be 100% predictable here: 💛, ❤️‍🩹, and 😋 for Toshiro, Momo, and Rangiku

From this ask game~

(I apologize ahead of time for this absolute wall of text but there are two of us with lots of thoughts and no ability to be coherent or succinct)

ippoddity's answers

💛- Brotp

Hitsugaya - I'm gonna have to be predictable here, and go with Matsumoto and Hitsugaya. They have such a wonderful depth to their relationship, and unlike most other Captain/Vice-Captain pairs, they have a long history too! (lol not to blast Byakuya and Renji but at the start of the series these two barely know each other) I think that long working knowledge together makes them one of the strongest pairs in the Gotei 13, which is an organization that really seems to value individual strength, but not working together? Which is good and all, but like... you would never get a badass ash/ice wall without two shinigami who understood each other's strengths/weaknesses really well, and then used them to their advantage. Obviously teamwork makes the dream work!

Hinamori - I love Academy Days Renji/Kira/Hinamori. They're so adorable together as they're coming up in the world, and I think there's something very special about bonds forged at school. I think when they graduated, Hinamori made them all a photo scrapbook that they Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants-around throughout the years and add to every once in awhile. The pages that Kira makes are usually somewhat straightforward, but nice. Renji puts in pages that are usually activity themed (futsal stickers anyone?), and Hinamori makes pages that are nostalgia-inducing.

Matsumoto - Ok, but who DOESN'T Matsumoto have chemistry with?? The possibilities are endless. I already talked about why Hitsugaya/Matsumoto is so good together, so I will choose someone else to talk about for her. Not sure if this is necessarily a Brotp, but I love thinking about Matsumoto being a big sister to Yuzu and Karin. She already acts in that capacity for many of the other characters (Rukia, Orihime, etc), so can you imagine her with Isshin's daughters? I think she would be a very good influence on them, in terms of knowing even better how to get on Isshin's nerves. He'd probably hate it, but love it all the same, to see his former vice-captain influencing his kids (for better or worse).

❤️‍🩹- Angsty headcanon

Hitsugaya - I don't think this is an original take at all, but as the designated "tensai" character of the series, I think Hitsugaya is rather isolated. He didn't really have a childhood where he got to play with children his age, and then he went straight into the academy, full of people older than himself. Now, he has what is arguable the most Grown Up Job in all of the Seireitei, and he still doesn't get many opportunities to let his guard down and just act silly. Even while everyone else around him gets to carouse and relax occasionally, he's afraid if he joins in, he'll just be seen as childish. So he hangs back, and watches everyone else have fun, all the while wishing he could join.

Hinamori - Prior to Aizen's defection, Hinamori used to regularly make up excuses to visit Hitsugaya. Whether it was bringing over baked goods that she made "too many of" or asking him whether he'd read any good books lately, she really just wanted to make sure he was taking care of himself. But afterward... she didn't seek him out for a long time. She told herself it was because she didn't want to make him worry about her (he already has enough on his plate), but a small part of her was haunted by the look of hatred and ferocity he had in his eyes when he impaled her during the Winter War. Logically, she knew those feelings weren't meant for her, but she still couldn't get it out of her head that they could be. After all, she had accused him of some terrible things, and even attacked him. It wasn't out of the realm of possibility that he might hate her.

Matsumoto - After Ichimaru dies, birthdays are very difficult for her. Not just because he's the one who gave her her birthday, but also because it's a reminder of the passage of time, and what once was. Normally she loves any excuse to celebrate, and birthdays are a great opportunity for it, but she's never happy on her birthday. She uses to occasion to drink even more than usual, because it's better to be overly inebriated than to think.

😋- Funny/stupid headcanon

Hitsugaya- At some point, maybe when life gets less crazy and people stop invading Soul Society Hitsugaya wants a pet cat. He thinks they're cute and soft and he enjoys their quiet company. (I don't know if this is really based on anything, I just feel it's true in my heart of hearts)

(Yup, we did indeed steal an Arakawa cat for this, and we regret none of it. Let it never be said B3 didn’t commit to the bit.)

Hinamori - Not sure if this is funny/stupid, but Hinamori is insanely good at puzzles. Not just jigsaw puzzles, but also logic-game ones like sudoku and kakuro. She likes to do them on her breaks, and she's always the first to complete the sudoku/kakuro puzzles in the latest issues of Seireitei Communications. Her unmatched superiority at puzzles is also why she's so good at using kidou spells and weaving them together in innovative ways.

Matsumoto - No one has ever seen Matsumoto with a bad hair day. And this is because they do not exist for her. Her hair is just like that naturally, much to the chagrin of Yumichika. Sure, she takes care of her hair, but doesn't have any special regimen or products that she uses.

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whipplefilter’s answers

Brevity is not the soul of my wit.

😋- Funny/stupid headcanon

Hitsugaya - This is something I think about a lot… and the stupidity of this HC comes from how often I think about it, lol. But like, the scene post winter-war where Hitsugaya is training bankai in a cave. I get the reasoning for this, but when rock is subjected to stress (for instance, the volumetric expansion of moisture contained in/between rock as it becomes ice) it cracks, and Hitsugaya has definitely brought that cave down on himself at least once. I mean, he obviously knows how ice works. I don’t think it was a surprise. But lol how embarrassing? (Maybe it was a BOGO thing—built-in kekkai training too?) Just out here CAUSING EROSION...

Hinamori - Some time after the publication of the Seireitei Communications Birthday Edition (and Hinamori’s heroism in getting it fit to print), one of the regular staff approached Hinamori about collaborating on a new artistic feature. Hinamori stopped dead in her tracks, put a hand firmly on the editor’s shoulder, and smiled. "Absolutely not," she intoned, so coldly that it was not until hours later, in the comfort of his own quarters, the editor thawed enough to burst into tears, wholly incognizant of the reason for them. Unless it has already been proofed, polished, and published, Hinamori is never touching that magazine again.

Matsumoto - Junrinan Grandma sometimes makes off-color jokes about Matsumoto being a home invader (Matsumoto’s sudden appearance inside her home in the dead of night to have a heart to heart with baby Hitsugaya was their first introduction to each other). Given the somewhat shaky reputations of shinigami to many Rukongai residents, Matsumoto honestly cannot tell if the jokes are really jokes or not. Hitsugaya refuses to clarify the matter, which leads Matsumoto to believe that it probably is a joke and not that serious, except then Hitsugaya regarded her very seriously and said, "You’d trust my interpretation of a joke?" and Matsumoto is pretty sure that’s a joke (...right?), but in any case, the saga is ongoing.

❤️‍🩹- Angsty headcanon

Hitsugaya - I simply cannot believe that reconstituting your body to augment its ability to function as a sausageskin for bankai power is actually good for you. I don’t think that that TYBW form was the organic, intentional way Hyourinmaru’s bankai is supposed to go. My headcanon is that after pulling that off under duress, it takes years (possibly ten of them) to "undo" the messiness of its aftermath. Patience is a virtue, but I think the angst comes in because during that time Hitsugaya really had no way of knowing that Soul Society *was* going to see peace for the duration of those ten years. And if they didn’t, he did know he wasn’t going to be able to meet the demand. His epilogue smile as he’s talking about that peace is one of very personal relief.

Hinamori - Whenever she messes something up, or isn’t quite good enough at something, or even just has an off day, there’s a >50% chance someone around her will attribute it to her trauma at the hands of Aizen. This is more damaging to her than it would be for someone to see her faults as entirely her own. Her reactions/responses aren’t always healthy, and it can be a compounding vicious cycle.

Matsumoto - Contending with her "greatly diminished" lifespan as a result of Mayuri’s zombie cure is really hard for her. For all the regular reasons that any other shinigami would share, but it also feels like it moves up the deadline for things she might want to experience, and hadn’t previously given much thought to—romance, marriage, children. This is especially difficult because, well. Who’s she going to talk to about these things? Hitsugaya?? Basically all of the women she knows are younger than her, and it feels like all of these life events are probably even further from their minds than they had been from hers. It’s isolating.

💛- Brotp

I wanted to talk about potential pairups that I think would be interesting, even though they may not actually be my dyed-in-the-wool 100% brotp. …BUT MAYBE THEY WILL BE IN MY FUTURE.

Hitsugaya & Zaraki. We talk about Hitsugaya and Byakuya, but Hitsugaya, Byakuya, and Zaraki spent a LOT of time together in the reigai arc and I think the OT3 needs to be acknowledged. I think Hitsugaya and Byakuya like working together because it’s easy for them to understand and predict what the other will do. However, they are both amenable to working with Zaraki because he is actually also easy to predict, albeit in a... completely different way. Also, Zaraki has never once asked a personal question of anyone, which to Hitsugaya merits some commendation.

Hinamori & Sasakibe. I can never quite tell what the protocol is for seeking an audience with the Captain Commander, because sometimes it seems like there’s a lot of pomp and circumstance around it and sometimes Hitsugaya is just like "yeah, I went and dropped off a report." So do random shinigami just like, wander into his office to shoot the shit sometimes, or do these mystical reports need to be personally walked over midday, Captain-to-Commander, with no intermediary, because access to the guy is a big deal? Anyway, my point is, Hinamori sought an audience with Yamamoto, and asked for AND GOT permission just to talk to Hitsugaya on the incredible Fancy Worm TV, and I feel like there’s a story there. I’d love to know more about how that all came to be, and what it was like for Sasakibe and Hinamori to witness each other in the wake of Aizen’s betrayal (of Hinamori, of Yamamoto, of Soul Society).

Matsumoto & Rukia. I feel like Matsumoto might be someone Rukia used to actively avoid one-on-one time with, because Matsumoto’s exuberance can sometimes make Rukia feel a bit inadequate and more wallflower-y than Rukia has imagined her ideal self to be. Plus, Matsumoto is one of Renji’s Friends and Rukia basically only knows her in the context of Many of Renji’s Friends Mutually Getting Shitfaced. But they become closer once Rukia makes VC and Matsumoto is the one to welcome her into the fold. Re: my Angst HC above, I imagine Rukia’s pregnancy with Ichika also opens up a new dimension of Matsumoto and Rukia’s relationship, especially since birth/pregnancy amongst shinigami seems rare to begin with. 

#not to be embarrassing on main but i entertained myself so thoroughly with these i have read this pos like 5 times #wow all my faves in one place--thank you for the ask!! #oh no not POS i meant post ToT my keyboard seems to think otherwise #i talk about hinamori and sasakibe as a brotp in this post and i've now completely sold myself on the idea goodbye #we're sorry this took so long to answer but we had many thoughts #also we made a whole Hitsugaya cat image for this ask #we will have to find additional uses for it because it is very cute #ask game #hitsugaya toushirou #hinamori momo #matsumoto rangiku #bleach head canons

[juriyuna]

Nagisa Momoe!

favorite thing about them: She's such a sweetheart! She's so nice to everyone, and so cheerful despite everything that happened to her. And I love her design-- her magical girl outfit is adorable, and Bebe is probably my favorite "mascot"-type character ever.

least favorite thing about them: The bare midriff on her design looks a little strange in contrast with the rest of her being totally covered. It doesn't bother me; just seems like kind of an odd choice?

favorite line: "I've been screaming in pain for a while now, you know!" in her Magia Record MSS is the best. Quotable dialogue lol

brOTP: Nagisa+Sayaka is an underrated brOTP. Madokami's two somewhat boneheaded secretaries who somehow manage to get the job done anyway, haha.

OTP: I don't ship Nagisa romantically with anyone in canon because she's so young, but someone made future!AU art for Mami/Nagisa as adults (Nagisa is taller than Mami now and works as a cheesemaker), and I thought that was cute. :')

nOTP: I have a vague recollection of seeing Kyubey/Nagisa art before and :/

random headcanon: She ends up being taller than most of the Holy Quintet (except for Kyouko) when she grows up. Sometimes she forgets that she's not as small as she used to be and knocks things over, though...

unpopular opinion: I don't think this is "unpopular" anymore, but I thought she was a fine addition to the main series! Some people complained that she was just added to pander to the Charlotte fans, but... Rebellion wouldn't be the same without her.

song i associate with them: "You'll Be In My Heart" (Phil Collins) reminds me of Mami and Bebe and I... ;_;

for one so small, you seem so strong my arms will hold you, keep you safe and warm this bond between us can't be broken i will be here; don't you cry

favorite picture of them:

#this beb counts as a picture of nagisa right? #asks #hc post #momoe nagisa

[redheads-not-warheads]

nobara kugisaki, tenya iida, osamu dazai, momiji soma, mikorin mikoshiba, kenma kozume 😌

nobara

Sexuality Headcanon: lesbean

Gender Headcanon: girl but in a she/they kinda way

A ship I have with said character: nobamaki supremacy

A BROTP I have with said character: yuuji and nobara besties

A NOTP I have with said character: nobara with men (nobara/yuuji/megumi ot3 or bust)

A random headcanon: her and inumaki go on shopping sprees together and are the fashionable ones in the group, her and yuuji help each other dye their hair, she's bitter about megumis eyelashes, she hates on mai but also is down to clown

General Opinion over said character: QUEEN SHIT she is so powerful and cool and I just think she's neat I love when women

tenya

Sexuality Headcanon: bi

Gender Headcanon: cis boy he/him

A ship I have with said character: okay highkey I have a lot lol I ship the ot3 dekusquad but he would also be so good with hatsume, sero, todoroki, shoji, tokoyami, and hot take bakugo

A BROTP I have with said character: tenya and deku

A NOTP I have with said character: tenya and momo that's mlm and wlw solidarity

A random headcanon: I think tenya is bad at cooking even when he follows recipes directly, he has way less patience than most of his classmates, little spoon

General Opinion over said character: an underrated boy that deserves love!!!

dazai ~ah!

Sexuality Headcanon: bi but with a heavy preference for men, he really only likes women for the attention and would never emotionally settle down with anyone

Gender Headcanon: wiggly hand gesture he/him

A ship I have with said character: chuuya/dazai but also oda/dazai

A BROTP I have with said character: dazai and kunikida but like....;)

A NOTP I have with said character: dazai/atsushi

A random headcanon: oof listen this man would not hesitate to murder anyone for atsushi and I think he probably has but would never tell atsushi, steals candy from ranpo, responds to texts from akutagawa with "new phone who dis?", the man is the biggest switch

General Opinion over said character: baby boy you are so cringe I want you

momiji

Sexuality Headcanon: pan

Gender Headcanon: trans boy momiji is something that can be so true he/him

A ship I have with said character: I simply......dont?

A BROTP I have with said character: momiji and tohru

A NOTP I have with said character: momiji and tohru lol

A random headcanon: momiji is part of an elaborate multiverse where there are actually several versions including the swimming momiji and host club momiji

General Opinion over said character: a very nice boy who didn't deserve any of the bad things that happened to him and I hope he gets his little family one day

mikorin

Sexuality Headcanon: bi bi bi

Gender Headcanon: nonbinary he/they

A ship I have with said character: anyone he can get, mayhaps everyone in the show

A BROTP I have with said character: nozaki and mikorin

A NOTP I have with said character: mikorin and chiyo if only because they seem like bros and wouldnt be compatible

A random headcanon: he definitely suggested that he and nozaki should kiss under the guise of manga research (nozaki fell for it)

General Opinion over said character: I just think he's neat and so cute and also we love a mikoshiba sibling

kyanma

Sexuality Headcanon: gay gay homosexual gay

Gender Headcanon: genderfluid any pronouns

A ship I have with said character: kenhina

A BROTP I have with said character: kuroken and akaken

A NOTP I have with said character: idk if this is a thing but kenma and lev? like it's funny but they're just friends

A random headcanon: picky eater, cant drive and refuses to learn makes kuroo drive everywhere, dresses for comfort not fashion, sleep deprived (canon?), comfort items, animals love him for his chill personality, afraid of bugs makes kuroo deal with them, personalized playlists (many for shoyo)

General Opinion over said character: such a good boy, kinnie moment, such a good player too, I know everyone loves kenma but they still underestimate him, catboy

#omg thanks bestie! #long post

[avatraang]

2, 10, 20, 23

from this salty ask game

2. Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?

OOF... I'd say Z*kka and T*ang 😅 Ever since I saw Z*kka arise as a popular ship I didn't understand it. Mostly because a LOT of the content is OOC, but whatever lmao. I just see them as a solid BroTP; it would take a lot for me to view them as more (mostly like... I'd have to write my own fic for them probably LMAO). As for T*ang, i love them and i love them a lot together, but for some reason they've never struck me as a particularly romantic pairing. They have big sibling energy to me. HOWEVER my views on this will be challenged when I have to write them for my aang x everyone series, so MAYBE my opinion on them will shift. i am narcissus and changing my own mind by writing a fic about a couple is my pond (just look at azulaang lol).

10. Most disliked arc? Why?

HELAINA this one is hard TT.TT most disliked arc... i'd say...probably momo? he didn't really change much except get marginally more obedient.

but no, REAL answer goes to Ty Lee's. Granted she is a side character, but even characters like Haru who really only have one episode get a solid arc. I love Ty Lee's character and love everything she represents, I just wish the hints of her arc would've been dropped as solidly as Mai's. it kinda seems like we go from Ty Lee being scared shitless of Azula, to that scene in BSS where she and Mai side eye each other, to Ty Lee choosing Mai over Azula. With Mai we see the hints dropped a lot, from Mai constantly giving Azula the stink eye to her straight up just not doing shit for Azula. If I'd seen just a couple moments -not even full scenes- of Ty Lee not bending over backwards to please Azula or of her doing something for Mai not because she's scared of Mai but because she loves her, or even of her just doing something nice for a complete strangers, then it would've made Ty Lee's choice and by extension her arc of joining the Kyoshi Warriors much more solid in my book. I have a VERY hard time critiquing atla, so this answer was difficult for me. It's also such a nitpicky thing but WHATEVER, this is a SALTY ASK GAME after all!!!

20. What is the purest ship in the fandom?

KATAANG. these two are so fuckin' sweet man. Everything about them is so pure. Neither of them are perfect people, both of them are jealous and bitter at some things and have anxieties and fears etc., but they have this deep understanding of each other and want to communicate that is just so pure and so intimate and attractive. I don't ship kataang as much as many as my friends do, but even I can see the pure love between these two. the are twin flames! this ship is THE purest one!

23. Unpopular character you love?

i was trying so hard to think of an unpopular character before i realized that SADLY the main character of the show is pretty unpopular in fandom. I absolutely adore Aang. Why fandom hates him is beyond me, I see so many takes that just baffle me. It always seems like they just forget certain elements of the show, are ignoring them entirely, or are viewing the show from a strictly Western lens instead of from the lens of the show. Aang is not perfect. He's nuanced as hell. He can be insecure, he runs away from his problems, he's jealous, he can be angry, and he is impatient. BUT Aang is also the most loving and understanding character on the show. He is kind, compassionate, righteous, just, he never gives up, never gives in. He's funny, he's fun, he loves to laugh and loves to make others laugh. He is powerful without being a tyrant. He is humble. He is spiritual. He is peaceful. He is a friend to all regardless of how they've treated him. Like I said, I love this boy. I don't understand and will never understand the absolute rancid takes that fandom produces about him. What can I say? I'm an Aang Stan.

Thanks for the questions Helaina :) U really out here tryna expose me! love you <3

#praetorqueenreyna #ask meme #ask game #ask #salty asks #WHAT A RANGE OF QUESTIONS #HELAINA DOES NOT COME TO PLAY #thanks for entertaining me my dear! <3

[purekesseltrash]

I know all the answers already,,,, BUT I GOTTA ASK ABOUT OUR BOY SHOUJI FOR THE CHARACTER ASK ♡♡

MY BABY BOIIIIIIII 

 1: sexuality headcanon - probably gay but I could see him being bi. 

 2: otp - shoutoko, of course. 

 3: brotp - him and tsu but also, him and momo are just. It's so cute. I can so totally see them being bros. He would be respectful of her just because she's a person and he doesn't seem to be the type of dude who would be wowed by her money or whatever and she would probably be a chill and interesting person to talk to. I also imagine that he and Jirou are probably pretty good buddies after their work study with Gang Orca. And of course, Shouji and Ojiro have to be buds. 

 4: notp - I saw Shouji/Mineta art and I felt nauseous 

 5: first headcanon that pops into my head - he is such a fucking hick. He knows no cultural references and gets super spooked by super urban areas and jaywalking to him is just terrifying. But also he'll casually talk about working on farm equipment and driving trucks at 8 years old and everyone will just look at him in horror. 

 6: favorite line from this character - him manipulating midoriya into helping him save Tokoyami is just a masterclass in manipulation, such a savvy boy 

 7: one way in which I relate to this character - I too love to bench press 

 8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character - the fashion choices. oh god the fashion choices. Baby, a cameo poncho? BABY?! 

 9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave? cinnamon roll with a bowl of chili

[thefallen-empire]

My Hitsuhina Headcanons

ah yes, the sound of quarantine driving me so far down the rabbit hole that I am back on tumblr :’) 

(no seriously it’s been years since I’ve last posted any of my own personal posts)

Anyways, because of the return of Bleach here’s some fluff/daily-life/nuanced headcanons that I was thinking of when scrolling through the Hitsuhina tag the other day:

edit: it’s under the cut because I kind of went a little overboard

Hitsugaya has his own favorite pen. Hear me out, this paperwork chaser who takes the time and effort to make sure that everyone knows his paperwork is the best probably has not only his favorite filling system and tabs for his binders, but his own favorite pen that doesn’t break no matter how hard he grips it and slides smoothly on paper without leaving smudges.

(hinamori probably gave it to him as a birthday present I sAID WHAT I SAID)

Hinamori strikes me as the type of person that has a monthly/weekly planner. You know, the ones that have the month all out as a calendar but break down week by week so you can plan out what items you’re gonna do per day for the whole week.

Hitsugaya is the one to have a DAILY planner. (I might have an obsession with planners but hear me out). Those bad boys are when you’re SO busy that you just need to see your daily life on paper and see what you’re planning for each hour of the day. He does this because otherwise, he  thinks he won’t be able to meet deadlines

Hitsugaya is the type of person to want to get things done 1 week before the deadline. With Matsumoto as his Lieutenant, he quickly realized that was impossible and now only wants things done 6 days in advance.

MATSUMOTO GETTING HINAMORI DRUNK aka my favorite trope and Toshiro getting so SICK of having to carry the both of them back to the barracks. Matsumoto only does this once she knows her captain can actually carry the both of them (and she knows he doesn’t actually hate it) 

He just fukin grabs them both under each of his arms and carries them back because he has 0 patience. (also adult!toshiro has my whole heart)

He drops off Rangiku first and tries to pick up Momo to drop off at the 5th division but she’s OUT (like a light)

So he just sorta is in his Lieutenants room with 2 passed out females drunks and has no idea what to do (passed out people are sorta heavy and he really doesn’t want her to throw up on him)

He leaves Momo in his room then, it’s nearby and it’s a lot closer than the 5th division’s barracks.

my 2nd favorite trope is them sharing a bed together but my paperwork bb wants to get an early start so he sleeps in the office

but he makes sure to put water and medicine near his bed for Momo to drink when she wakes up

It takes a solid 100 years for Toshiro’s body to age properly. We saw in Isshin’s flashback, Toshiro was still a little kid and in the epilogue, 10 years had passed but he still hasn’t grown much. Idk shinigami aging makes 0 sense to me whatsoever.

Shinji helps Momo get her bankai (because this brotp NEEDS MORE MOMENTS and is SEVERELY UNDERRATED) and she surprises Toshiro with it when she gets it.

He’s so shocked when he sees her Bankai but then smiles because she’s so powerful and he’s so proud of her.

I like to think that Hinamori’s Bankai isn’t just her dressed up and throwing only two flaming cannon balls with the bells (like her zanpakto in that filler arc) 

it’s more about control over fire, and she can create multiple fire balls but can also control when they “snap” and explode and also the shape of them.

yeah add your own thoughts but I just always wish we could see more of the little details of how they live and interact with each other. :(

#hitsuhina #hitsugaya toshiro #hinamori momo #bleach #headcanon #mine:bleach #bruh this was a shit dump really #anyways im gonna go cry over finals now ahahahahha

[vs-redemption]

who are your favorite top ten my hero academia characters & ships? talk about them! ~tat!

From Cindy: Hello again Tat! Sorry, I’m a little late with posting this. Thank you for being patient. Now I’m wondering about your top ten characters and ships from my hero and black clover now. 

Again, I’m not a huge shipper so I just wrote a few that stand out to me. If anyone wants to know my thoughts or feelings on a specific ship, feel free to ask. I’m pretty much cool with anything as long as it’s legal.

Top 10 BNHA Characters

Shoto Todoroki

Todoroki will always be my precious sweetness. I really don’t think there’s anything I dislike about him. He tried to be a grumpy bean in the beginning but that didn’t last long. I admire him for wanting to be a hero even despite his tragic/horrible upbringing. I mentioned this in a different post, but I’ve really enjoyed watching him develop a sense of self and come to the realization that it is okay to open up and rely on friends. He’s willing to learn and change and grow and that’s amazing. He’s come so far in his relationship with his classmates, and his relationship with his father. I’m very proud of him! Of course, I also love the way he takes everything too literally.

Katsuki Bakugo

Another character I could write an entire essay about. Basically though, I love Bakugo’s raw passion and determination. We all know his personality is a little rough around the edges, causing people to compare him to a villain or question his goal of becoming the best hero. And unlike Midoriya, Bakugo doesn’t have the overwhelming support of family, friends, and even All Might. Despite all that, he never wavers. He continues to run full speed ahead and I admire both his independence and confidence so much. His growth as a character has been incredible too. He’s become more aware of his own shortcomings and the reasons behind them and has tried to improve upon those shortcomings without any prompting from other characters. I also love that he follows the rules and is more responsible than most of the other kids in class 1A. Plus, he can cook!

Tokoyami Fumikage

Underrated badass bird boy. The story focuses heavily on Midoriya, Todoroki, and Bakugo, but I think people forget that Tokoyami got third place in the sports festival. Without him, Midoriya wouldn’t have even made it to the individual fights that day. I love his admiration of his classmates. It was so cute that he hyped up Denki, recalling the way they’d bonded during the culture festival. Even just the whole thing where he figured out Hawks was in danger and escaped Fat Gum’s fat to go rescue him shows how smart and strong he is. He’s best boy.

Hawks

I know Hawks is a very controversial character, but I’m on the side of supporting him (sorry). When you think of his position when he was first introduced, he was a young, attractive hero in the number two spot with the second highest popularity rating. When he accepts the mission to go undercover with the villains, he agrees to not only put his life in danger, but also give up his reputation and trust with the public. Plus, his dedication to keeping people safe and alive is probably stronger than any other hero. The Hero Commission straight up tells him he’ll have to sit back and do nothing while innocent people get hurt, but he still refuses to let that happen by saving all those people with his feathers during the High-End nomu fight. Plus, he was able to find a way around killing Best Jeanist, and tried everything he could to avoid killing Twice. If you hate him for the things he’s done… I’m pretty sure Hawks is going to hate himself more than anyone else ever could.

Present Mic

Sometimes I forget that Present Mic has a radio show on top of his other duties as a teacher and pro hero. Does this man sleep? His work ethic must be insane. I think I really started getting into Present Mic when Todoroki and Bakugo were doing the makeup license exam. He really could not sit there and watch without providing some commentary. It was cool to see him use his quirk in a real fight during the recent arc. I wouldn’t mind seeing him doing more hero stuff in the future.

Neito Monoma

His chaotic energy brings me mass amounts of joy. Not only that, how could I possibly dislike someone who is so proud and supportive of his own classmates? Does he do it in an obnoxious way? Absolutely. But I can’t fault him for bragging about and advocating for his classmates when he knows they deserve more recognition. Also, can we talk about how amazing it is that he got into a UA hero course at all with his particular quirk? Monoma is a badass and I wish more people agreed with me about that.

Best Jeanist

Best Jeanist is my favorite pro hero. This guy really saw how savage and out of control Bakugo was and said “I really do not want him at my agency but someone has to do something about this…” Also, even when he was face to face with someone like All For One, he didn’t let the fear overtake him and decided to leave himself completely open to the full force of the attack in order to save the lives of all the other heroes around him. I have mad respect for him for having that level of bravery and resolve. Even in the most recent chapters, he shows up after so many heroes struggled and single handedly restrained Machia and the entire league of villains. So cool.

Momo Yaoyorozu

I don’t hype Momo up enough but when I think about all the things she’s done up until now I get really excited about her. I know her confidence took a huge hit after losing to Tokoyami in the sports festival, but she’s come a long way since then. I liked seeing her get the acknowledgement of Todoroki during the final exam against Aizawa. She also had a lot of badass moments in the provisional license exam against that tea drinking girl. I also really liked how much her teammates relied on her during the joint training, and her whole little rivalry thing with Kendo. I felt so bad for her in the current arc too when Midnight put so much pressure on her with the decision to either fight Machia or flee.

Shota Aizawa

Aizawa is another character that I should seriously talk about more. It’s no wonder he looks so exhausted all the time because he spends every second of his life looking after and caring for everyone with every fiber of his being. He doesn’t show it on the outside really, but he makes it clear through his actions. I like that Aizawa is one of the only people to really understand Bakugo too. He was so fast to defend him during the Sports Festival and publically criticized anyone who questioned Bakugo’s resolve to become a hero after he got kidnapped by the villains. The more you learn about Aizawa, the more you realize how amazing he is. Even the tiniest things, like finding out he re-enrolled the students he expelled to teach them the meaning of “loss” so they wouldn’t hesitate or fear it when they encountered it in the real world. I mean, I could list a million examples of why he’s amazing, including Shinso, Eri, and the whole war arc in general. Gosh, he’s incredible!

Eijiro Kirishima

Kirishima is another precious boy. I have a little bit of a bias because he has the same birthday as me, but there are plenty of reasons to love him beyond that. I think I saw him described before as the one to bridge the gap between the other students in class 1A, and I think that’s pretty accurate. He gets along with everyone and has such a positive and encouraging personality. I was honestly kind of surprised to learn that he had so many insecurities and self-doubt. I remember losing my mind over his “unbreakable” form, and I loved that he got to ‘redeem’ himself in the current arc by jumping in and saving Mina when he’d failed to have the courage to do so in the past before he went to UA.

 Top 10 6 BNHA Ships/BroTPs

Todoroki x Midoriya

I totally understand why people ship this. Midoriya played a huge role in helping Todoroki move past some of his mental obstacles that kept him from being as powerful as he could be so of course it’s not too farfetched to think he could develop deeper feelings.

Todoroki x Bakugo (brotp)

I really did not understand why people shipped this for the longest time. But after the makeup provisional license exam and internship with Endeavor I can at least appreciate them as friends. Bakugo is still so aggressive and offensive and Todoroki is standing there like “look at my best friend, I love him.”

Todoroki x Momo

I know they don’t interact as much but I do like Momo’s admiration and respect for Todoroki, and I do like the way Todoroki become more aware of her and showed concern for her self-confidence during the joint training arc.

Midoriya x Uraraka

It doesn’t really seem to be going anywhere anymore, but I do think it’s cute that Uraraka gets inspired by Midoriya’s drive to be a better hero and that she uses him to inspire her to reach for her goals. They both had the cute “getting flustered around each other” thing going on and that’s fun.

Bakugo x Uraraka

I think this ship gets a lot of criticism, right? I don’t understand why though. Sure, it’s never going to be canon but I liked that Bakugo saw Uraraka as a worthy opponent during the sports festival. Uraraka is a (not so) secret badass. I love that she did her internship with gunhead and learned all sorts of martial arts. She’s bubbly and cute, which is a nice contrast to Bakugo. But she’s also strong and determined which I think he can respect.

Denki x Jiro

This is like… really adorable. Denki praising Jiro when she was all insecure about her music was so cute. And the way they were thinking of each other and rooting for each other during the war arc. I can definitely get onboard!

#Tat anon #chat with cindy #mha #bnha #shoto todoroki #katsuki bakugo #Tokoyami Fumikage #hawks #keigo takami #present mic #hizashi yamada

[azuwulastan]

ty lee

Why I like them:

Because she's a mix of being very sensitive and sweet and also being a thrill seeker/mean girl. So many hidden depths to her character and imo its quite ambiguous as to what is going on in her head at any given time. I love that there are so many different ways to interpret her character and shes also really cute

Why I don’t

This was really hard to answer but if she was real she would probably think im a frumpy dyke 😭

favorite episode (scene if movie)

That scene where she's teaching the bear how to walk on its paws. I think abt it all the time. also when she teaches azula how to flirt

Favorite season/movie

Hard to choose between bk 2 and 3 bc she's so funny in bk 2 but bk 3 is where we see some more depth to her character

Favorite line

"(Laughing) you probably would do something horrible to them" also when she calls mai's aura dingy i scream like... she's so funny

Favorite outfit

I wish we saw more of her outfits! Her default one is cute though

Otp

haha i mean.. tyzula bc i think their dynamic is very interesting and its awfully tragic no matter how you interpret the actual nature of their relationship. but i would obviously prefer she is in a relationship she is happy and fulfilled in after spending a lot of time growing, learning to love herself, and not being subject to bullying and controlling behaviour

Brotp

Ty Lee & Momo seem like kindred spirits to me. You know how momo normally hears weird garbled sounds whenever someone speaks? Him and ty lee would just have a normal conversation (everyone would be like 👀) and that helps lead her on her journey of self discovery to learn she is descended from air nomads

I do like mailee brotp but i also can easily imagine them totally drifting once azula gets locked up. Like some relationships are bound to a particular context but? Im not sure. Its really hard to tell what mai feels towards anyone besides zuko tbh. And even then its hard to say lol.

Suki is another obv choice but she's not very fleshed out in the series so im still getting my thoughts straight on that one

Zuko is another interesting choice but his one interaction w her was him being mean to her so... hes probs too insecure abt her relationship w azula to trust her

Head Canon

She is a total scatterbrain, gets really angry when woken up prematurely, shit self esteem (poor baby), #ty lee is a mean girl, is a lesbian but is still figuring that out during the series, she's an empath, she would be soo much fun to get drunk with, she spent a lot of time as a child dancing with her door shut, i could go on

Unpopular opinion

She probably had a lot of ambivalence abt being a kyoshi warrior and i think she joined them to run away from something (up to your interpretation) but it also helped her grow as a person a lot . So its was an overall positive experience but not so clear cut. Idk how unpopular this opinion is tbh.

A wish

She gets to travel the world on her own terms, bc she wants to and not bc she's running away from something or forced into it

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen

Make her azulas healer with no regard for her own feelings or character

5 words to best describe them

Pink!, sensitive, underrated, thrillseeking, exuberant

My nickname for them

Acrobat i guess. Sweet sugar cakes was also such a projection. If anyone is a sweet sugar cake it is ty lee lmao

#thank you! #i was hoping someone would say ty leee lol #ty lee

[quirkless-and-embarrassed]

Todoroki Shouto

I felt like doing a character meme!

Favorite thing about him:

Is it cheating to say everything? It is? Okay… I love how he’s painfully kind while also painfully bad with people. I love how he swore not to use his fire half, and he took that oath so seriously that he felt pulling Midoriya aside to apologize and explain (in depth) was necessary. I love that his hand trembled when he went to see his mom—especially that he was so afraid of being like Endeavor, he couldn’t bear to show his face to her for years in case she mistook him again. I love how he learns from his mistakes, whether it’s combat-related like blocking his field of vision against Stain or emotional like realizing how his spiteful focus on Endeavor has blinded him to the needs of people around him. I love how he doesn’t feel the need to posture and act like he has the answers: he can openly admit he doesn’t know and that he needs to reflect more to find the right path for him. I love how rude he is. I love how he unquestionably leapt to Midoriya and Iida’s aid in Hosu. I love his fight against Midoriya.

Least favorite thing about him:

Hmm…most of my problems are with Horikoshi, not Todoroki. I like that Todoroki’s reaction to Endeavor vs the nomu was complex, that he was afraid for Endeavor, cares about him, and is ambivalent about the idea of Endeavor’s “redemption,” but I wish his love for his dad had more of a foundation—from what Horikoshi shows us, I have no idea why he cares about Endeavor other than a vague, dissatisfying “he’s my dad” feeling. Why are Todoroki’s feelings more complicated than flawless loathing? What’s the basis for his ambivalent affection towards Endeavor? I wish I knew more.

Okay, for about Todoroki specifically in-universe…I guess I wish he would talk a little more. He seems like he struggles with finding a middle ground between saying nearly nothing and oversharing.

Favorite line:

That’s a nasty scar you got there *SLUUURP* and are you All Might’s lovechild. I also loved it when Todoroki glared dramatically at Endeavor and then failed hard at introducing himself to the kids.

…And I love the line where Bakugo stridently claims no, he will not tell stupid Deku his brand-new, top-secret hero name, and Todoroki cluelessly asks, “Could you tell me, then?”

BROTP:

Midoriya, Bakugo, Yaoyorozu, Iida—I think those relationships really speak for themselves <3

This fic made me love Todoroki and Kaminari, please give me Todoroki working on his sense of humor and he asks Kaminari for help, only to repeatedly and ignorantly roast Kaminari while attempting to learn.

Also, Asui and Todoroki are really underrated; I feel like they’d have understated but interesting chemistry. They’re both exceptionally blunt, and unlike some of the others, Asui is perceptive+grounded enough to notice how awkward and uncertain Todoroki is (instead of the coolest, handsomest boy in class image). I’d LOVE to see them talk about their siblings, since Asui is the oldest and she takes care of her mini frog siblings, and Todoroki is the baby of the family who’s trying to figure out his relationships with Fuyumi and Natsuo (and eventually, Dabi). Oh, and Asui has more respect for authority than Todoroki does, so also seeing them clash over that would be interesting.

Or! Maybe Todoroki finally, accidentally catches Hagakure in one of his area ice moves and feels really bad about it, so Hagakure teaches him to watch out for her by making a game out of sneaking up on him. She also exercises some teenage flirtation in his direction and he has no idea.

Or imagine Jirou trying to figure out if Todoroki has feelings for Momo and accidentally becoming friends as she susses him out and realizes he’s an irredeemable dork instead of ice prince badass. She’s appalled he doesn’t know much about music!

OTP Rarepairs:

Todoroki/everyone basically, so it’s more interesting to talk about my todo rarepairs than run of the mill ships. 

Todoroki/Shinsou is cute…they both enter class 1-a with the attitude “I’m not here to make friends” and get hit with a match versus Midoriya in the Sports Festival—oops! They both became heroes partly from antagonistic spite, to defy Endeavor / the stereotype of brainwashing, which throw long shadows over who they fear they could become, and despite being on the quiet side they’re both pretty dramatic. Idk much about Shinsou’s backstory, but he definitely has a bit of a depressed, wary aura about him together with his fiercely idealistic, “I will never be like that” attitude, a combination that would resonate with Todoroki.

Probably at first Shinsou would be pretty cold to Todoroki, since even after being accepted into class 1-a he’d have some lingering resentment for those who are naturally blessed and admission was a slam dunk, and, in an effort to prove himself against the quietest of the strongest students, he’d make it his mission to provoke+brainwash Todoroki. Despite himself, Shinsou gets attached as he tries to figure Todoroki out, and he realizes the sorts of obstacles this “naturally blessed, slam-dunk admission” student had to overcome to get here.

In short, I’m a sucker for it ok, brotp or otp i’m down, but also in this case the romantic element of seeing themselves in each other gets to me bad.

Second rarepair, Todoroki/Hawks—hear me out ok!! These two would have the funny elements of Hawks/Endeavor but without Endeavor’s grossness. Even after he makes pro, Todoroki admires Hawks as the number two hero whose playful, casual MO is radically different from his own, more solemn style, and Hawks delights in being obnoxious and pokes fun at the straightforward, a bit dense Todoroki every opportunity he gets. Todoroki recognizes Hawks’s playful demeanor and knows he’s joking, but…being a dork…he doesn’t know what to say, so he just responds with total seriousness. Hawks is perceptive enough to know Todoroki noticed the joke, and Hawks’s awareness of that transforms Todoroki’s awkwardness into a dry, deadpan sarcasm, and the two of them can actually, like…have banter.

Working with Hawks semi-regularly, Todoroki has to rise to the challenge of meeting Hawks’s quips with enough insight and empathy to intuit the bleaker truths behind Hawks’s facade as this guy who doesn’t want to work too hard. Todoroki grew up as Endeavor’s tool, Hawks grew up as the hero commission’s tool; Todoroki responded with defiance, Hawks responded with salty compliance; Todoroki prioritizes his personal moral compass over the law/government, Hawks prioritizes the government over both his moral compass and the law; and Todoroki admires All Might, whom Hawks professes not to be so fond of, while Hawks admires Endeavor, knows Dabi, and all the obvious issues that brings up—so I think these two have tons of common ground to build a rapport and also clash with each other in ways that would be interesting for their development. For example, Todoroki can tell Hawks it’s your power and encourage him to take hold of his own destiny instead of being used, and Hawks can help Todoroki work on the shortage of social acuity he inherited from Endeavor.

I love the brotp but the otp has such comedic potential fused with such tragic potential, like by taking hold of his fate Hawks makes some choices Todoroki can’t forgive, and by helping Todoroki learn to connect to people Hawks opens him up for a world of pain when things go south, I can’t resist.

NOTP:

As long as the execution is good, I’m good. A ship that I hate in one person’s hands, I might love in another’s.

Random headcanon:

Todoroki is the #1 cockblocker in Class A. Nobody kills romantic tension like Todoroki wandering in, oblivious to what he’s just interrupted.

Also, Fuyumi gave him The Talk.

Unpopular opinion:

Hmm…not sure how unpopular this is, but while Todoroki understands that Endeavor abused Rei, but I don’t think he understands that Endeavor abused him too. Clearly Todoroki understands that it was bad, but now he’s one of the best students in one of the best high schools in the country instead of on a psych ward (Rei) or in the ground (Touya), so he doesn’t realize just how bad it was. Sort of a, “I was strong enough to take it, so it wasn’t really bad, not like how he was to my mom.”

Also, I love tododeku and I love dadzawa, but I’m frustrated by the number of fanfics that portray Todoroki as meek and crushed under Endeavor’s boot, in need of rescue.

Okay, one last one, because I’m not sure how unpopular any of these actually are. I think Todoroki is actually pretty anxious to fit in with his peers? Like he seems pretty aloof and doing his own thing, but I think it’s more due to uncertainty over what to do than because he’s that naturally withdrawn.

Song I associate with him:

Unbreakable by Miracle, Ember by Katherine McNamara, and Brave by Riley Pearce come to mind.

Favorite picture of him:

OKAY HERE ARE A FEW

VS Midoriya – Todoorki’s whole awakening, self-actualization sequence is beautifully, beautifully animated. I love the flashes to black and white and the graceful, profound arc of Todoroki raising his left hand.

Ch43 – His haunted expression when he extinguishes his fire, forfeiting to Bakugo.

Ch63 – He looks so sweetly earnest when he realizes he screwed up by disregarding Yaoyorozu’s opinion, and he immediately takes action to fix it.

Ch112 – His badass expression when he and Inasa wordlessly team up.

Ch164 – His sour, cross expression when Endeavor embarrasses him.

I had to make some painful choices on which scenes to leave out, but I think five is enough.

I’ve also done these questions for Bakugo, Uraraka, Endeavor, Amajiki, Sir Nighteye, and Shinsou!

#todoroki shouto #shoto todoroki #bnha #nerd mumbling #todoroki #text #ask meme #todoshin #todohawks #kaminari #asui #hagakure #jirou #shinsou #hawks

[ccsthemovie2]

for the character thing (if you're still doing it): kaito?

livin on the edge formatting with the bad internet (as kaito would want) in the askbox itself . clearcard spoilers because obviously. all spoilers are game here cuz im all caught up.

Why I like them:

short answer: lulas from ccs discord. that is all! 

LONG ANSWER: 

lulas presented a read to me that i really like, which is that kaito is just a single dad doing his best! unfortunately his best involves evil magic. thinking of clear card’s conflict as like, the cartoon trope of fighting a deadly animal just to have everyone stop and go AHHHHHH...IT WAS PROTECTING BABY ;w; makes him a lot more interesting. 

also. kaito is distinct from most other antagonist figures or conflicts in ccs in that sakura isn’t the end that any means are acceptable to get to, but the means that are being used to reach an end (likely, akiho). he won’t pull his punches with her the way eriol would back down if she was going to Literally Actually Die.

i wish- i know the wish part is later but wishes will be covering this whole answer probably- that clear card was about the conflict of her being suddenly decentered from a story she has always been forced to be the center of by the antagonist force- the way she’d gotten used to it, learned how to use that center role with love and kindness, and suddenly not being it anymore. unfortunately if anyone’s pushing sakura out of the spotlight in clear card i think it is her own team. woops.

i also think it’s awesome that he hexes eriol’s wifi lol

Why I don’t:

he came off as very bland to me, it’s hard to really get a read on his personality at first glance? i think characters are at their best when just a quick look at them can give you a standout trait, and if you feel like it you can go in deeper later. a lot of what he does feels like reusing traits from other characters, like being all smiley but actually causing problems!! or being guy who makes the food be good!! (this is ccs, EVERYONE makes the food be good.)

except we just don’t feel as much of his connection to the world for it to work out, for us to know WHY he’s like this. like we’re told parts of his backstory (in a very odd way, ccs-speaking!) but it doesn’t explain why he uses these particular mannerisms and not....idk something different, in a way that’s satisfying to me i guess. he’s connected to the worldbuilding of magic but ccs has never been about that as much as one bubble of magicians In Particular. 

i guess what i’m trying to express is i wish his personality felt more pushed to an extreme, more over the top in a way i could grab on to. i know people often like subtley to mean complexity in characters but i am a big fan of being more up-front i guess?

Favourite episode (scene if movie):

WIFI CURSE WIFI CURSE

Favourite line:

idk honestly i cant remember

Favourite outfit:

unfortunately i think he just has the least interesting style in ccs. maybe his magic association mask? it’s pointy.

OTP:

i do not know. 

BroTP:

AKIHO IS HIS ADOPTED DAUGHTER.......... kaito sees her and goes i want to protect it i want to tell my friends and neighbors about it. 

i wish i felt like i knew anything about momo’s personality beyond, idk, “smug” and “are you sure you want to do this kaito” and “chocolate good”. so that i could talk abt their bond more. but momo just barely feels like a character to me. i am pinning all my hopes on a theoretical BIG MOMO.

Head Canon: 

gacha game enthusiast. thats why hes shaking sakura till the card he wants falls out its the same to him.

Unpopular opinion: 

idk enough of what ppl say about him lol

A wish: 

okay so you know how so far twice now ccs arcs have ended with “the antagonist was right all along, now they will explain how and all of you will go OHHHHHHHHHHHHH”? i BADLY want kaito to do that, i badly want eriol to be SEETHING in a chair in HIS OLD HOUSE eating cookies kaito made and hearing how kaito is actually right all along and watching sakura and friends all go OHHHH. 

An oh-god-please-don’t-ever-happen:

akiho/kaito endgame. unfortunately i dont have high hopes for this not happening. :(

5 words to best describe them:

it is now yesterday *click*

My nickname for them:

discount eriol if im feeling mean anime doofenschmirtz if im feeling nice

#ask

[ruiyuki-archives]

Star Tear AU - Alt. Timeline: Todoroki ver. [Part 1]

This is an AU I wrote on the todomomo discord server eons ago. Anything posted to this blog will be transcripts of old original work and not really edited, save for formatting. I have no guarantees if I will ever finish these AUs either so these will only be kept as an archive.

Original transcript posted to tdmm discord: Aug 2020

Momo ver. Alternate timeline: Todo ver. Part 1 || Todo ver. Part 2 || Todo ver. Part 3

Star tears in which Todoroki falls for Momo first.

shortly after the exam with Aizawa he doesn’t know what he’s feeling but just admires her strength and quick thinking

and him hanging out with Deku and Iida at lunch means Todo hears all the nice and good things Momo does when she and Iida to discuss class prez stuff

which intensifies this ??admiration?? and respect more

and he just?? Holds onto those feelings unable to figure out what they are until idk maybe holidays where 1A and 1B throw that holiday hotpot party

and Momos really cute lookin’ in that Santa hat she made with the festive turtleneck

and so that feeling inside Todo grows into something more??? bc "oh shit she cute".... and Todo’s blushing while looking at her from afar. Probably.

so Todo talks to Fuyumi abt it and Fuyumi’s like: “I think you like her Shouto”

and he writes to his mom abt it and Rei's like: “she sounds like a lovely girl Shouto”

and he texts Natsuo abt it and Natsu's like: “aw little bro has a crush”

but all the while this is happening, Momo's gotten closer with Iida over class prez stuff and hero stuff and everyone in 1A (read: mina and hagakure) think iimomo might be a thing???

ofc Momo denies it and making excuses politely like "no no ofc not we're being responsible class prez and vice prez" but she’s kinda stuttery while doing so, so no one buys it

and no ones brave enough to ask Iida except Ochako but he gives some straight laced answer like "i admire her work ethic and respect her as a hero and vice prez" but he also has some tint of blush across his cheeks

so idk fast forward to graduation where Todo's been holding onto these feelings for Momo since first year and iimomo is still very very likely

so its all cherry blossom petals flying around and congratulatory celebrations

and when Todo sees Momo amongst the sakura trees smiling like he's never seen before (bc they're finally officially heroes!!) he thinks she’s beautiful

but just as he's about to approach her, Iida approaches her and Todo can see she's blushing and he knows its really not good to eavesdrop on one of his best friends and the girl he likes

But... he's curious.

or so he lies to himself.

Ofc what he hears isnt what he ever wants to,,,,

cuz Iida just confessed to her.

and she feels the same.

and a star tear slips from Todo's eye as he walks away.

he stops mid step as he touches his cheek bc he didnt even realize he was crying

but what are these tears??? What’s happening?? He's never had these before bc even though Todo is an emotional crier, he doesn’t cry that often.. only when he is completely overwhelmed with emotion

so he has this dumbfounded expression staring at his fingers as these star tears are twinkling out of his eyes catching sunlight and sakura petals

until he hears "Youre a fucking idiot" from a few steps away

Bakugou. 

(Baku really likes eavesdropping ok its not the first time lol)

Baku: theyre called star tears.

Todo: You know what these are?

Baku: it happens when you like someone and that person doesnt like you back, idiot.

Todo: ... oh.

Baku: get that shit sorted or you'll go blind

(And for those who are curious, yes maaaayyybe Bakugou has a case of the stars in this timeline too, that’s how he knows. To whom? I'll let you decide bc honestly, I just want todobaku brotp bonding over unrequited love)

so now Todo thinks he might be fucked. One of his best friends confessed to the girl he likes too and she likes him back and now Todo has this disease that might make him go blind and might get in the way of heroing (which they've all secured post graduation positions by now) and what can he do about it?

nothing, says the doctor he sees. The disease is not curable and the only way to stop it is to have your feelings returned else you'll go colour blind and then completely blind, so he's told.

ya he's really fucked.

maybe its a good thing then, that he doesnt cry often. It makes it easier to ice over these feelings, freeze them in time with the memories of U.A.; of his last congratulations to her and her smile at the end of the ceremony an hour after he overheard that confession

maybe its another good thing that right after graduation, everyone went off to their own positions as side kicks with agencies across japan, focusing on heroing

but its 3 months after graduation that Iida tells Deku and Todoroki that he is seeing Momo when they meet up every Friday to catch up

its 6 months after graduation that its publicly announced in Hero Magazine that Ingenium and Creati are dating

its 9 months after graduation that he sees Iida and Momo attending the Hero Association's rising stars gala as a couple and are seated at the same table as them

(Bakugou is scowling at him across the table.)

Todo tries. He really does. To be happy for them.

but he's angry at himself that he can't be happy for them. That it saddens him to see Momo glowing under the ballroom lights but its not himself to make her shine like that, its Iida. That he sees she is the one to make Iida genuinely happy in the way his eyes light up when he smiles at her.

and all three times Todo goes home, lies down alone in his room, an arm slung across his forehead as the star tears leak from his eyes.

he starts to lose seeing colour at 12 months.

after 24 months he needs glasses for colour correction (and ironically gets a sponsorship with the brand. The fashion magazines print headlines for weeks "Hot-Cold Hero Shouto Fall Fashion! See page 7 spread for his newest spotted specks and turtle necks")

at 36 months Iida breaks the news. Iida's gonna propose to Yaoyorozu and wants him, Deku, and his brother to be his groomsmen

she said yes.

and a part of Todo washes away with the star tears flooding him room and twinkling against the tatami.

he tries to stay out of the wedding planning as much as possible. He'll go to the tuxedo fittings as requested and still keep up hearing the updates when seeing Iida and Deku for their weekly get together on Friday nights. 

But for anything involving Momo's presence, there will always be a "sorry i have a mission that week", "sorry im visiting my mom", "sorry Endeavor needs to see me about the agency"

... all excuses Bakugou knows, but the others pay no mind. They are rising heroes near the top of the billboard by now

month 48. Wedding day.

she's stunning. Gorgeous. A near goddess walking down the aisle on her big day.

but she's not walking down for him. No its for iida.

there was the ceremony, the cheers, the congratulations, the reception. Fairy lights around the dance floor and along the walls, champagne glittering after the sound of a cork

Todoroki stands off to against the wall as the night dies down, a glass in hand, watching the newly weds grace the dance floor.

someone slides up beside him, he feels the presence. Bakugou.

"She's beautiful isnt she?"

"Yeah."

. . .

a star tear falls from Todoroki's eyes, twinkle hidden among the fairy lights and champagne glitter.

she's beautiful, but maybe its a good thing I can't see

somebody said: what if she knows everything that had happened and the reason why he couldn't continue his career is bc of her?

me: ok you’re asking for it

Momo, 3 months pregnant with iimomo baby, announces with Iida the news to their friends

the soon to be parents want to choose godparents for the baby so Iida gets to choose the baby’s godmother and Momo gets to choose the godfather

and ofc along with the announcement Momo asks Todoroki to be the kid’s godfather

he can’t say no to her.

the same week later Todo and Momo's agencies are requested to deal with this one villain case while Ingenium's agency deals with another in another town (later turns out the cases were connected)

small talk, civil, very professional between Momo and Todo when they’re in the debriefing

at this point Todo's pretty much completely blind and uses some special contact lenses from Hatsume to help "see"

but the contact lenses can only do so much as to detect light movement and shadows and it reallllllllly doesnt work well when he's using his fire 

so Todo already had tossed around the idea of running away to the mountains like Roy did in the FMA 2003 ending, "mysteriously" retiring bc really his vision cannot keep up

until this last mission with Momo

and really its been nearly a decade now since they last worked together side by side (not since U.A. he thinks).. so just let the blind man be selfish one last time

and so smth smth missiom happens, Todo and Momo fighting side by side

but Momo senses there’s something off with Todo's movements? His reflexes are slower.. it doesnt seem like he's prediciting the opponents moves like he used to.. he's more so reacting and retaliating than attacking..

she chalks it up to that they havent fought side by side in a long time and his style must’ve changed and really, she doesnt know him anymore... not like she used to

smth smth 3 months pregnant Momo gets hurt, knocked unconscious for a bit

Todo saves her

and when she comes to, while Todo's holding her, star tears fall onto her cheek from Todo's eyes. 

She's shocked. Reaches up to gently graze a finger tip at his left cheek.

"Todoroki-san, these are?"

and again its like Todo didnt realize he was crying. He jerks away from her hand and brushes her off with "its nothing”. Changes the subject with "are you ok?"

Momo: yes.. i think so

Todo: and the baby?

Momo, sitting up: we're ok I think

Todo, moving away: good

the mission concludes and they meet up with Ingenium’s group to wrap up the two ends. Todo slips away before Iida and Momo and approach him

theres no activity from Todoroki for the next month

neither Iida, Deku or anyone else in 1A know where he went except the Hero Association's vague comment on "Hot Cold Hero Shouto has taken a sudden indefinite hiatus"

(Only Todo’s family knows and Endeavor asked the Association to say "hiatus" instead of "retirement" bc Enji wants to believe in his son making a comeback. He didnt stop Shouto from taking off)

and ofc Momo upon hearing this is so confused??? Her last mission with him was the last time she saw him and he was crying. Why was he crying? Strange star tears twinkling and landing on her cheeks? What even is that phenomenon?

its too many questions and ofc Momo's gonna investigate. For the sake of her friend.

so she digs up all the texts she can find on star tears. Internet search all the possibilities. Consults the doctors at the hospital. Even asks Tenya if Todoroki has been acting strangely during their weekly catch ups.

but Tenya tells her Todoroki hasnt been the the meet ups since after their wedding

so she asks anyone in their pro hero circle of associates she can think of. Tsukiyomi, Burnin', heros from his agency, anyone she can think of that has worked with Todoroki before and could comment on his behaviour

no body knows. No body noticed anything different either. Sure there were some off days but the Hot Cold Hero Shouto was always on his game being one of the top 3 heroes on the billboard charts

she searches and searches, splitting time interviewing colleagues and researching the possible star tears phenomenon

until eventually her search takes her to...

Bakugou.

Of course.

Momo, pleading: please Bakugou, you know something about him dont you?

Bakugou, who at this point had been very careful trying not to get cornered knowing her investigation: save it pony tail, you’re about to have a baby. Go have people harass you about that brat in your oven instead of harassing other people

Momo, nearly begging: please. You and I both know he's strong and a good hero that would not suddenly retire. Whatever he is doing, he might need help.. please tell me Bakugou.

... theres something about pregnant women that you cant say no to.

Bakugou, relenting: tch. The half ass is somewhere in Yokohama

and thats all she needs nearly running waddling (as fast as a pregnant woman could) out the door

Bakugou, calling out after her, still reluctant: when find that half ass, i suggest you throw him a gift. Literally. Throw it at him. He deserves it.

she finds him along the port, watching the sunset in Yokohama (its really not that hard to find someone with heterochromia and two tone hair in a city, especially if youre a hero that knows what methods heroes will use to go incognito)

and for some inkling of a feeling, Momo takes Bakugou's advice. She has a carton of strawberry milk in hand.

Momo, a few feet away from him: Todoroki-san, it's been a while.

Todo, turning his head in her direction: Yaoyorozu...?

Momo, sadly smiling: the sunset is beautiful here isnt it?

Todo, brows furrowing: .. sure. Yaoyorozu what are you doing here--

Momo, interrupting him: --i brought some snacks. Strawberry milk, you liked this while we were in school right? Catch.

she tosses it at him.

he tries to reach out.

But he'es completely off. And misses

Momo, sad: Todoroki-san. You're blind, arent you?

Todo, guilty: ah.

Momo, tearing up: will you please tell me?

he still can say no to her and confesses his story

and when he's finished telling the tale of star tears, the stars above are twinkling too

she's crying and choking and sobbing through tears and its intensified by baby Iida with pregnancy hormones

But the last thing she manages to croak out at the very least is still wholly her

She apologizes

“Im so sorry Todoroki- san. I cant love you that way.”

“I know.”

END NOTES:

red is the last color Todoroki wanted to lose because it reminds him of Momo

during missions, as long as he could see her, “that’s ok” he thought. she is the only one he sees in color. that is okay with him

to him, Momo is his shining star. And there’s something tragically poetic of him losing his sight to the stars if its for his shining star Momo

He leaves the last stars in a tiny little jar like those paper stars as a gift for her with just the words on a note "goodbye Momo" the day after she finds him in Yokohama

Momo has the jar of stars forever on her bedside and looks at them with this melancholy expression. Baby Iida grows up and asks mom: "what is that jar of stars?" 

Momo responds: "a gift from someone that was blinded by love"

Bakugou in this timeline had a case of star tears too but I'd like to think he got his feelings requited so he never went blind to contrast Todo

So thats why Baku is (begrudgingly) sympathetic to Todo cuz he thinks: “that could’ve been me”

The ending shot of a blind Todoroki in a dark room, all alone, eyes closed, thinking back to Momo's shining smile from UA surrounded by star light with a sad smile on his face and it fades to black

> archives masterpost

#todomomo #todoroki shouto #momo yaoyorozu #tdmm star tear au #ruiyukis unfinished aus #sorry not sorry #for spamming the tag #this ones my baby #angst angst baby #oops heres a bandaid for your heart #buckle up yall it just gets worse from here

[recurring-polynya]

A lot of people complain about not understanding the tagging system on AO3. I feel like I have it down pretty well, but one thing I always waffle on is side ships.

There are two major purposes to tags-- finding stuff you like and filtering out stuff you don’t like. Even this is a teensy bit difficult, because I write the slowest of slow burns, so sometimes things are shippy to me that you would need a Geiger counter of some sort to detect the actual romance. However, as Certified RenRuki Trash, I feel pretty comfortable that people who are looking for Renji/Rukia are gonna be happy to find my fics and people who don’t want to see it are not gonna be reading my stuff anyway.

There is not a lot  kind of a lot of peripheral romantic relationships in my fics (I started to say there wasn’t and then I made a list and realized I was A Liar) and I rarely, if ever tag it. I did tag Rikichi/Hanatarou in my latest fic, because, even though it was minor, it was a plot point, and there were numerous scenes about it, and they kissed onscreen. Also, there are only 4 Rikichi/Hanatorou fics on AO3, so I might as well throw a bone to anyone wallowing in pasty sidekick4sidekick hell.

Byakuya/Hisana is also a thing that is obviously both canon and relevant to my work, but the only time I’ve tagged it was when I had actual flashbacks to them interacting.

I guess here’s the thing: I, to my shame, will read almost anything that is tagged Renji/Rukia, as long as it isn’t preceded by one of my Big NoTPs. I am so thirsty, I will take the smallest crumb anyone will throw me. For the most part, I come away fairly disappointed, but there are a few times I have found really great fics these way. I would love it if someone read my fic and felt the same way, but I would hate it if someone read something of mine and felt like they had been falsely advertised to. Obviously, I would like it if more people read my fic, but that isn’t my driving motivation here. I just want people who would enjoy them to read my fanfics.

I don’t think any of my sideships are the ones that people get worked up about, so I worry less that someone would read one of my fics and halfway thru, get super pissed because Shuuhei is flirting with Izuru, but... maybe? I don’t know! The last thing I want is anyone to read my fics and be mad about it.

I wish AO3 had, like, a minor/major tag modifier, I feel like that would solve a lot of my problems. I don’t use those much, though, because they cause work for the tag wranglers and/or they don’t work in the filters anyway. Sometimes, I try to just add extra descriptive tags, like the classic “everyone has crushes on everyone else because teens.” I do my best, but if you have any opinions, I’d be interested in hearing them.

Bonus, because I love talking about my fanfic, under the cut are all the side ships that are more or less explicit in my mainline fic.

Ikkaku and Yumichika are effectively married, except that aren’t into institutions. They are extremely low-key about it for the most part, unless they take you into their inner circle and then it’s too much information all the time, RIP Abarai Renji.

Ukitake and Kyouraku are soulbound, a thing I have defined as part of my personal World-Building. They are together on a level that transcends friendship and romance. They have been together for going-on one thousand years, and I feel like they go through phases of being more or less romancey and being close to each other and going off and doing their own things. Their relationship is a source of comfort and power and healing to them. They have a bunch of extremely sweet combo attacks and they can do gonzo stuff like cast kidou together. It’s basically the Old Married People Power-up because I am an old married person and I do what I want.

Urahara and Tessai are as married as two dead gay dudes living in Japan in 2002 can be. Probably Shinji got ordained online and they had a big party. Maybe when they get un-banished, they can make it official and Yoruichi is going to be a giant runny mascara disaster.

IchiHime is gonna happen, as per WDKALY. Rukia and Renji both ship it hard. This is the one relationship that I know people might take issue at, but I’ve only ever referred to it in the most passing of ways, it’s canon and I’ve already marked the fic as canon-compliant, and also, I feel like the intersection of people who are pro-RenRuki and anti-IchiHime is pretty small, but maybe I’m wrong.

Back at the Academy, Momo had a crush on Renji. She is very, very over it. Izuru had crushes on both Momo and Renji. He is... mostly... over both of them.

Renji and Shuuhei used to date around the time Shuuhei became a lieutenant and Renji was still in Squad 11. It was a surprisingly healthy relationship between two himbos who were Going Through A Lot Right Now. It ran its course and Renji broke it off, claiming that he needed to knuckle down on passing the Lieutenant’s exam, but it was really because they’d started hanging out with Kira again, and he could tell that Kira and Hisagi really wanted to hook up.

Kira, Hisagi and Matsumoto are not really in a relationship, but they end up having sex with each other a lot. About once a year, Hisagi and Kira will Forget What Happened Last Time and try to have a relationship. It will last approximately 24 hours, the Izuru-Renji-Momo group text will blow up, and they’ll get banned from the Seireitei Waffle House, again.

I am never going to write Hitsugaya with anyone. There’s not even a tag for this, and it would be overkill to tag this, but if anyone is reading my stuff in hopes that he’s gonna get some action eventually, it’s not gonna happen. It’s not that I think he’s ace or anything (and there are some characters that I think are), and I love this weird, neurotic babyman a lot, but I just got nothing for him, romance-wise, even aged up. He does develop a deeply strange BroTP with Byakuya and I tag it every time because Hitsugaya & Byakuya is the most important relationship in Bleach and I don’t want anyone to miss out.

#bleach fanfic #ao3 tags #sometimes i get thirsty and wonder if i would get some Big Numbers if I tried writing a different ship #but then it's like naw #i am who i am #i try not to talk about who i ship and who i don't because i don't wanna hurt anyone's feelings #but if you want an opinion you can always feel free to ask

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If you’re still doing the list thing, Momo, please?

my bby!!!

send me a character and i’ll list:

favorite thing about them: she’s so sweet and kind and she’s so selfless and smart!!

least favorite thing about them: how her boobs are this close to popping out of her hero costume, but really, that’s nowhere near her fault.

favorite line: when she was so excited to have a study session with her classmates, that she started talking excitedly to herself 🥰🥰🥰

brOTP: oh man, that could be a lot of people. momo and deku, momo and the girls, momo and ojiro, momo and everyone?? give her all the friends!!

OTP: momojirou, saimomojirou, fem izumomo. depending on the ship in question, i could ship her with quite a lot of people, i think.

nOTP: probably todomomo. sorry but i just don’t feel it ono

random headcanon: momo used to be afraid of rollercoasters but once she tries one out?? she finds that she loves the rush! :D

unpopular opinion: she should be class president instead of iida, fight me.

song i associate with them: i will forever associate her with that’s my girl by fifth harmony.

favorite picture of them:

#Anonymous #bnha #yaoyorozu momo #thanks lmao thinking about momo really put me in a good mood uwu