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MHA Scenarios - First Meeting (Part 3)

All Might

There was an ache in your shoulder despite the painkillers. It was persistent, a constant reminder that your time in U.A. was beginning to lower your reaction speed. Perhaps you should consider returning to a full-time career in the hero world instead of taking random jobs here and there.

Sighing, you finished up with your costume and opened the door to find none other than Principle Nezu waiting for you.

“Great timing!” he chirped. “I was about to come and tell you that you’ll be sharing your second-year physical training class today.”

“The class that begins in twenty minutes?”

“That very one. When I found out that you had injured yourself, I thought that it would be best for you to take on an assistant of sort.” Nezu hummed softly to himself, as if wondering if he should continue. “And perhaps it will be a good experience for Toshinori to see how one can balance their time.”

You chuckled, catching onto the principle’s plan. “I don’t think a hero of All Might’s stature would have anything to learn from somebody like me.”

“There’s no doubt that he’s the better hero –“

“You could put that more nicely.”

“But you have far more experience teaching,” Nezu finished. “You take it easy to ensure your continued health and even though you whine about your lack of excitement, you never go out and chase it.”

That was true. Every year, you told the principle that you would be quitting and each time, he would laugh and tell you that you never would. You blamed the students. They were way too easy to get attached to.

All Might was waiting at the training grounds, his hands on his hips and a smile on his face. The latter looked almost painted on. He absolutely towered over you, seemingly taller in person.

“We haven’t met properly before,” you said, giving your name. “But may I just say that I have endless respect for your heroic accomplishments.”

He laughed proudly. “Thank you. Nezu says that you got injured during a fight with a villain, is everything alright?”

There was something about his voice that you didn’t quite like. It just sounded so patently fake. Perhaps that was why you hadn’t been surprised when the news about his true form was shared amongst the faculty. It seemed to you that it should have been a given. Nobody spoke like he did in their day to day lives.

“It’s a shoulder injury,” you said. “In a similar line, you can drop the All Might moniker for a short while if you want. This class is incapable of arriving less than ten minutes late.”

“That’s alright! I’m sure this is a far more useful form.”

“Suit yourself,” you said with a nod. You rolled your shoulder and winced. “I’m going to need to have you taking over the majority of the hands-on training if that’s alright with you? If I push myself now, I’m just going to do more damage to the muscles.”

All Might gave an affirmative and then pondered your words. It was unsurprising when he seemingly vanished into a cloud of smoke, dropping the vast majority of his muscles and showing a far-more human façade.

“Perhaps you’re right,” he acknowledged. “Some rest before teaching would be easier on my injuries.”

You smiled. “The last thing you want to do is let these students think they’re strong enough to take you on just yet. Don’t need that going to their heads.”

Endeavor

It was an accident that led to your first encounter with the recently elected number one hero. And it had mostly been as a result of a very long day filled with endless bad luck.

You had been walking through the parking garage after having coffee spilled on you, losing your keys, and nearly breaking your ankle when an escalator stopped working. It was overall an awful day. And it was about to get even worse.

It must have been as a result of some kind of villain but the exact situation escaped you. All that you knew was that somebody got thrown from out of nowhere. They flew into one of the pillars and cracked it. You jumped and immediately rushed over to them. It was only once you were right beside him that you realised the fire was part of him.

“You’re Endeavor…” you breathed. “Are you alright?”

The hero stood, clearly shaken. A deep scowl covered his face. He was much, much taller than you had thought he would ever be. “Get out of here before you get hurt.”

Before either of you could do anything else though, the ground seemed to tremble, much like an earthquake. You looked up wearily. This was the ground floor so it wasn’t like you could fall through anywhere.

And then the ceiling started to crumble.

You barely had time to react, just screwing your eyes shut and hoping for the best. A wave of heat washed over you. Dust filled your lungs and you coughed as all around you, a cacophony of collapsing rubble filled the air.

An unnatural silence took over.

Slowly, you opened your eyes. It was far too dark with a flickering light illuminating a large cavern of rubble held up by a few of the pillars that were still standing. Powder swirled around you, filling your lungs and making you cough heavily. Then you noticed the reason that you hadn’t gotten so much as a scratch.

Endeavor stood over you, shielding you entirely. He showed no visible discomfort but as you stared, you realised that part of his suit had been ripped and blood trickled down his side.

A few seconds passed and he moved away. In the tight space, he was unable to even stand straight. “Damn it,” he cursed. “There’s no way that Hawks can move any of this nonsense. We’re going to be stuck here until rescue teams arrive.”

You sunk down slowly, sitting against something sharp and putting your hand over your mouth. “I’m going to die,” you whispered. “There’s no air here…”

“Don’t be dramatic,” the pro-hero snapped. “We have plenty of time before the air runs out. If it was just me, I could blast through here in no time.”

“Why can’t you?”

He stared at you as though you were stupid. “Either I would risk bringing the rest of this concrete down on your head or you would stand too close and get burnt. Somehow, I don’t think you would prefer either of those options.”

You shook your head and tried to hold back tears. This day had been worse than any other in your life. Should you call your family and friends? Was it worth worrying them just to hear their voices? Endeavor didn’t seem worried so maybe you should just trust that you would get out and everything would be fine. Or maybe you would die and –

Your thoughts were cut off by him suddenly appearing in front of you. “Relax,” he said. “If you panic, you’re just going to make the entire situation worse.”

“We’re trapped under concrete,” you said. “We could die.”

“You’re not going to die. Now stop being pathetic and find a way to occupy yourself that doesn’t cause a panic attack.”

You swallowed and took a deep breath. “Alright. Alright.”

He nodded, moving considerably further away and then his flames flickered off. And that was your first meeting with Endeavor. Surprisingly, you ended up speaking until you were rescued.

Eraserhead

It had all begun years ago.

You remembered distinctly how you had been sitting in the garden and watching the bees happily buzz past. It was a warm day with a slight saltiness to the air. A perfect time to enjoy the summer as though you had no worries in the world.

Conversation filled the air and you perked up, recognising one of the voices. You had only managed to stand up when a blur of blue hair slammed into your side, pulling you into a tight hug with a happy shout of your name. Laughter filled the air as you nearly fell, unable to even hug back.

“Oboro!” you giggled. “I thought you were only getting back next week!”

He finally let you go and shot you a smile that made the sun look dim. “I was but then my parents said my friends could stay over! Come meet them.”

Oboro had been your closest friend for years but since going to U.A., you had seen less and less of him. That wasn’t to say that you hadn’t kept in contact of course but you missed him greatly.

His friends were… not what you expected.

The exceptionally loud blond was Hizashi Yamada and his quirk was volume-based. He greeted you with a booming shout, apparently having been told about you several times before arriving.

But Shota Aizawa interested you far more. He didn’t speak much and you never did find out his quirk when you were younger. When you’d asked why he wanted to be a hero, he just told you that he liked it. The rest of the week, you developed a bit of a crush on him and spent most of your time trying to impress him.

When the week ended, you didn’t see him again for a very long time and the next time you saw him, it was under circumstances you had never even imagined.

You were wearing a veil to hide your face. There was no dramatic rain or dark thunder on the day of the funeral. Rather fittingly, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. You liked to imagine that was Oboro’s final gift. A beautiful day to celebrate him.

Yamada had put his hand on your shoulder, subdued and quiet for the first time. He was a pro-hero now and you often saw his face on magazines.

Soon, he left to speak to others and you remained by the grave with only one other.

“Being a hero is more dangerous than I ever thought,” you said, not sure why you were speaking but feeling the urge to regardless. “You and Yamada have to stay as safe as you can, alright? He would want that.”

Aizawa glared at you from the corner of his eye. “How would you know that?”

“Because you were the most important people in the world to him,” you said. “Of course that’s what he would want.”

Aizawa didn’t speak anymore but after a while, he turned to leave. Before going, he paused and looked as though he wanted to say or do something. You met his gaze. It felt as though he could see straight through your veil, revealing the tears that streaked your face. The atmosphere wasn’t uncomfortable. It was just sad.

Still, standing there and just existing helped you to remember the loss wasn’t just your own. When Aizawa left, you turned back to Oboro’s gravestone feeling less alone in the world.

You were going to miss him like hell but you wouldn’t be remembering him by yourself.

Fatgum

As a solitary and underground hero, it was quite rare that you were contacted for big jobs. Rarer still that you took them instead of passing them on.

But something was different about this time.

This time, you had a personal vendetta drawing you to one of your least-favourite jobs – working with other heroes. It wasn’t that you didn’t get along with them but many weren’t in it for actually helping people. That put a bad taste in your mouth.

The job wasn’t technically being led by you purely because the information had come through a larger agency. They hadn’t wanted to pass it off to you alone so now you were sitting in the briefing room, listening to them going over everything that your investigations had revealed. No credit given, of course.

You stood toward the end and offered a simple warning. The villain that you were after had little concern about causing collateral. If anything, he relished in it. Your warning was primarily targeted at some of the heroes whom you knew dealt more with casual villains.

Many of them got overwhelmed when they came up against drug dealers and sex traffickers instead of pickpockets.

And then everybody dispersed, each having their own orders about how they would contribute to a safe arrest.

Leaving you alone. At least, you thought you were alone until somebody spoke behind you.

“Do you know what always calms me down? Taiyaki.”

You startled, though you didn’t let it become noticeable. Instead you turned to find yourself absolutely dwarfed by the BMI hero, Fatgum. Somebody you had always known about but never gotten a chance to meet.

“Do I really look that stressed?” you enquired.

He chuckled. “Not to be rude, but you definitely do.”

You sighed and looked at the documents in your hands. It was probably best that you didn’t have a mirror on you. “I’m worried about this case,” you said. “This guy has slipped through my hands a few too many times.”

Fatgum nodded. “I know how that feels but don’t worry too much. Everybody here is a capable hero and together, we’ll get him for sure.”

You raised an eyebrow. Perhaps a few were capable but not everybody.

“You’re too cynical,” he reprimanded though there was little malice to his words. “You should try to trust the rest of us. At least for long enough to get a little sleep.”

You reached up and touched the bags that had formed under your eyes. “Thank you for your concern but I’ll be perfectly fine.” You shoved the documents into a small bag and slung it over your shoulder. Once you dropped them off at home, you could head back out and see if anything had popped up.

“It’s still pretty early,” Fatgum mused. “What are your plans?”

“I’m going to go and see if any of my sources have found new information.”

“Uwabami was meant to be doing that tonight accourding to the schedule,” he pointed out. “But you’re probably not going to be taking the night off. Why don’t you join me for my patrol? You can keep an ear to the ground and also not continue exhausting yourself.”

Sighing, you glanced over your shoulder at him. “We hardly know each other. Why are you so worried about me?”

He shrugged. “Too many heroes drive themselves crazy with this kind of stuff. Come on. My work study students are great, you’ll love them both.”

There was a reason that you didn’t take any of those on but admittedly his two students were entertaining.

Gang Orca

It was all for the sake of the cameras.

You had to remember that when you were getting up before the sun rose. Everything had to be absolutely perfect about your appearance. If it wasn’t then your little ruse would be seen through by every reporter with half a braincell.

Then you had to get to the setup site and speak with the marketing team secretly. You stood with the team leader to one side, discussing everything like old friends over a cup of coffee.

“Essentially, what we’re looking for is a very breathless and awe-struck victim,” he explained to you. “When you speak to the media, try and make it like you never even thought of Gang Orca much before but now his rescue has made him into your favourite. We’re trying to build a greater trust with the public especially amongst children.”

You pulled a face. “I don’t much like working with kids but for a small increase, I can become quite the lover of them for a short while.”

The guy smiled. “You’re one of the best, otherwise I wouldn’t have hired you. You can get your increase.”

“Thank you. Now let’s get to work.”

You made your way to the ‘accident’ site. The costume team ripped your shirt and you had some fake blood dotted around your head. Nothing to make your injuries too severe but enough for some pity.

And then you climbed under the wreck and waited.

Approved photographers snapped their pictures as you were rescued from your metal prison by the tall Gang Orca. His strength alone was enough to pull the door free. He held his hand out to you while using his other to lift the car high enough to help you out. You made a show of crawling free and then stumbling a little.

With one hand on your head, you leaned against him and stared up with a grateful expression. Cameras flashed and he checked the wreck once more before leading you away for ‘medical treatment’.

Once out of view of the media circus, you straightened and wiped some of the fake blood away from your mouth. “Thank you for the rescue,” you said.

Gang Orca didn’t seem very happy about it at all. It was good that his hero image didn’t need too many smiles.

“I’m going to guess that this wasn’t really your idea?”

He sighed. “No. I don’t like the need to fake rescues when there are real people who should be getting help from a hero.”

“But those people aren’t getting paid to better the public’s opinion of you,” you said. “Twenty minutes here can be what knocks you off lists like ‘scariest heroes’ and similar stuff. That way, you get even more opportunities to save people.”

You couldn’t tell if he was grimacing or not but he definitely appeared to be. It made sense. While some heroes relished in the easier work, many didn’t like the media part of their jobs.

“If you’re happy with it, I’d like your autograph,” you said. “It’ll help me sell the whole situation a lot easier.”

“Alright.”

“For what it’s worth, I don’t have a warm opinion of the media either,” you said. “They’re vultures who benefit from the fall of good heroes. What I, and others, do helps stop the best from being sidelined just because they’re intimidating or unmarketable. You’re in this for the right reason but the news organisations don’t care about that.”

He sighed deeply. “It’s unfortunate that you’re right. Of course, that doesn’t mean I have to be happy with these kinds of arrangements.”

“Few people are.”

Hawks

Being a photographer was competitive work, especially in a world where people could have quirks allowing them to grow cameras from their bodies.

You had to go the extra mile in order to compete with them and carve out a name for yourself. Either you had to be there first or you had to see something that nobody else did. A good intuition never led you astray.

And so, when you found yourself walking down the right street late one afternoon, you just knew that it was time to take out your camera.

The event was nothing catastrophic. Indeed, it seemed that the main danger was people’s stupidity. A fire had started on the bottom floor of an office building and instead of waiting for first responders to do their jobs, people were choosing to make things more difficult by climbing out of windows and stuff like that.

Soon enough, heroes were on the scene and you had your camera ready.

Naturally, Backdraft was the first to arrive and you got some great photos of the rescue hero doing what he did best. The light from the flames perfectly illuminated the hero and made the entire situation feel a great deal more dramatic than it was.

The second hero was a young woman whose name escaped your mind. She assisted the civilians as best she could but, no sooner did she help one down, and the person was practically taken from her arms.

Bright red feathers flew across the scene, darting into the building and pulling every person free by their clothing. They were lowered safely to the ground though many stumbled.

You didn’t lower your camera but you cursed out Hawks under your breath.

Never, in your wildest imagination, did you expect to hear him respond.

“Well, that’s not a very nice thing to say.”

You startled, just about dropping your camera on the ground in shock. He was perched above your head, atop one of the streetlights, a smirk on his face and his visor down. His wings were shorter than usual and the only way you could tell he was even helping with the incident.

“You ruined my photo,” you said. “And she had him, you know?”

“She was moving too slow. The poor guy would have been stuck in the air for several minutes longer and that’s just not good on the heart. Besides, I can make up for your lost photo if you snap a shot in the next three seconds.”

You scoffed. “A photo of you sitting on a streetlight? From this angle?”

“What? Not dramatic enough for you?”

“Not unique enough, more like. You’re the most photographed hero in the whole of Japan. The internet is teeming with images of you from every possible angle, distance, and situation. I’ve seen them all.”

For some reason, that seemed to get to the pro-hero a little and you were surprised when he landed beside you. You were very rarely this close to a pro, your bravado disappearing now that he was actually standing there.

“So you’re saying I’m not worth a photo?”

Part of you felt like saying that he was and quickly taking one but your pride didn’t allow it. “Not when there are lesser-known heroes here. They don’t have crazy stalkers willing to chase them around the city for any picture.”

“And aren’t they luckier for it,” he sighed. “Ah well, your loss. I’ll see you around.”

With a flap of his wings, he was gone and you watched him go, fighting the urge to snap a photo the entire time.

Midnight

Some would call you shallow but interviews were one of your favourite parts of being a hero. Getting to answer questions and engage with the people who admired you was an experience that you just adored. Not only that but they were often the best place to clear up rumours or speculations so long as they were edited well.

With a reliable broadcaster and positive outcomes on all of your latest jobs, you were extremely excited to be offered an interview. You knew there was an ulterior motive of some kind but you hadn’t been sure as to what.

But still, you arrived early, dressed in your hero costume, and had your makeup done up as best as it could be.

And then you watched the interview before you and you quickly realised that the broadcast was doing a segment. One focused on hero costumes.

Your own was quite unique, a step away from the usual appearance of heroes. Personally, you loved it.

The public however was divided on whether it was fashion forward or just a flop.

And clearly that was why individual heroes had been chosen.

Being interviewed at the moment and practically being drilled on the ins-and-outs of her costume was nobody other than Midnight herself. She looked absolutely amazing as ever. A natural on the stage and in the field.

You had to admit however that you didn’t feel comfortable with the questions they were asking her. She answered smoothly but mostly in deflection.

The other heroes around you agreed with your assessment. This felt like an attempt at creating a media circus. Few were interested in participating anymore.

The moment Midnight gave her leave, the producers began gesturing at you. You gave them a look and turned around with the rest of the heroes there.

Midnight was in a bad mood but she put on a smirk when you made eye contact with her.

“We’re leaving,” you told her. “None of us were told that this was going to be working off controversy.” You wanted to apologise that she had been the first to get interrogated but you didn’t know how to do that.

She laughed. “You weren’t expecting there to be a catch?”

“I mean, I was but I thought they were a little better than running a segment that’s so clearly focused on… well…”

“Sex appeal?” Midnight asked.

You awkwardly rubbed the back of your neck. “Yeah. It probably should have tipped us off that we were all around the same status. No real big names aside from your own have worked with this broadcast channel.”

“And nobody will again once I speak to a few contacts,” Midnight said, a hint of bitterness finally seeping into her voice. “Guess that will teach me to give new places a chance. They’re all looking for the big ratings instead of actual interest. Maybe I should just go into being a teacher full time at this rate.”

“Aren’t you already doing that?”

She shushed you. “Not if I don’t say it out loud.”

You laughed and stuck by her as your group exited the building, ignoring the clamoring from the higher-ups who were desperately trying to convince you to stay. The type of people who would take advantage of being able to pressure people into things. Lovely.

“Don’t you hate how rude they are to you?” you asked her. “I get so furious sometimes and my questions are always tame compared to yours.”

She shrugged. “At some point, you get used to it. I don’t think there’s a question out there that would shock me anymore.”

You really hoped you never reached that point.

Mirko

The villain pulled experimentally at his cuffs. He twisted around and began shuffling when he met your eyes.

“Where exactly are you trying to go?”

He grumbled something under his breath and stopped moving. You raised a hand to your head and sighed. At this rate, you were going to wind up with wrinkles. One of your favourite outfits had been destroyed by this little altercation and nobody had even bothered to show up yet. Somebody had called emergency services, right?

“Stop moving, I can hear you,” you snapped.

The villain would have been a greater threat if you hadn’t happened to be shopping in the area. Your quirk was the perfect match for his own and it allowed you to quickly take control of an otherwise dangerous situation.

Now you sat on a bench, him tied to the nearest building support bench, and you waited for somebody to arrive and take him off your hands.

There was a thump somewhere to your right and you lazily looked up from your phone. Only for your heart to kind of stutter.

“Aw, come on! I was told there was going to be some excitement over here!” Mirko complained. “What gives?!”

The rabbit hero was absolutely gorgeous with white hair and legs that went on for literal days. She was the epitome of everything you aspired to be as a hero. What she did was on her own terms and she fought for the thrill of it all.

You had just never expected to actually meet her.

“I’ve dealt with it,” you said once you had gotten over your shock. You gestured towards the villain. “No problems here.”

Mirko bounded over and stuck her face way too close to his. Her nose seemed to twitch in excitement. “You don’t seem so tough,” she scoffed. “I got the call and it said that this was setting itself up to be a good clash! Are you just that good?”

Her eyes fell on you, bright and teasing. A strand of hair fell in front of her face and she huffed it away without breaking eye contact.

“I am,” you said, mostly joking but feeling unable to deny it.

She threw her head back and laughed. “That’s a good answer. I like your confidence.” She eyed what you were wearing. “Your costume could use some work though.”

You chuckled. “It’s actually pretty similar to yours when I’m not interrupted while shopping. I’ve always loved your style.”

She nodded firmly as though that was a given. Then she looked around and raised an eyebrow. “If this moron interrupted your shopping, then what are you doing hanging around with him? You have things to get back to, don’t you?”

You gestured around. “I do but the police haven’t shown up yet.”

“Don’t worry about them,” she scoffed. “I’ll bounce this guy down to the station for you. Don’t waste time just standing around.”

She turned back to the villain just in time for you to both see him run around the corner. He nearly tripped but managed to keep his footing. You glanced at one another and Mirko laughed heartily. “You stay here,” she said. “I can deal with cowards in well under a minute. They always do the same things to ‘throw me off’ or whatever.”

“I’ll come with you,” you said. “It’s technically my fault he got away. And I could always learn a thing or two from the best, right?”

She grinned. “I knew I liked you. Let’s see if you can keep up though.”

Natsuo

On a good summer’s day, there was nothing better than the beach. The waves gently lapping at the shore, soft clouds drifting across the sky, and few children due to the earliness of the day. It was well worth getting up early to watch the sun creep its way over the ocean and begin what was scheduled to be the hottest day of the year.

Not that you would be outside when it hit noon. By that time, ice cream and a nice spot of shade became necessary.

For now though, you waltzed along the beach and enjoyed the sand beneath your feet. As you walked, you kept an eye out for shells though there were scarce. People came every day to collect this time of year.

In a way, that made you sad.

But the lack of shells did mean that you didn’t need to watch where you were walking quite as much. At least, that was your thought process. Shells cut your feet and there were none so why keep an eye on the sand.

The answer is broken bottles.

It was a sake bottle, probably stolen away by some kids to be drunk where their parents wouldn’t see. The searing pain made you think you’d stepped on a jellyfish. Cursing, you jerked your foot away, blood running down into the sand below.

A small wave washed up, taking the bloodied sand away to reveal the culprit.

Struggling to balance, you hopped away from the bottle and sat down, lifting your foot to see the damage. It was a rather deep slice that made you feel quite woozy. Sand was already sitting around the injury and your only option to wash it off was the very salty sea.

“Sorry, do you need some help?”

You glanced behind you to see a guy standing on the boardwalk. His hair was pale and his expression kind. Something about him seemed oddly familiar but you weren’t sure why.

“I stood on a bottle,” you said. “It’s alright.”

He rubbed the back of his neck. “Do you need some help getting off the sand?”

You were going to deny the offer but your entire leg felt like it was on fire. The pain was undoubtedly because of your brain flicking through reminders about the danger of stepping on glass. “If you’re alright with it.”

He made his way down to where you were sitting quite quickly and glanced at your foot. “That’s going to need stitches,” he said. He offered his water bottle to you. “You should clean it off and then put some pressure on it before we move it.”

The cut hadn’t seemed that bad to you but you hadn’t really been looking carefully. “Are you sure?” You still took the water though, hissing as you poured it over your cut.

“Very,” he said. “Do you mind your towel getting blood on it?”

“No.”

He used the towel to put pressure on the cut and then helped you stand, hobbling your way off the beach. Once there, he quickly listed off the nearest hospitals.

“Are you a medical student by any chance?” you asked, trying to keep your mind off the pain.

He blushed. “Sorry, is it obvious?”

You laughed. “Just a little but that’s okay. It was good that you happened to be nearby then. Can I get your name?”

He hesitated but then said, “Natsuo. Don’t worry about my family name.”

Curious now, especially given how familiar he looked, you were tempted to push. But you didn’t and instead thanked him again for his help. He turned out to be correct, of course. You did need stitches.

Present Mic

You stretched before going into the office. Everything was sore – an unfortunate result of your late night. It couldn’t have been helped. Train wrecks were rarely planned.

Principle Nezu greeted you warmly when you arrived and then asked you to sit down. “As I’m sure you’ve heard, there was a recent incident on the grounds. Thirteen was badly injured and we’re in need of a new teacher with expertise in natural disaster management.” He smiled at you. “I thought you would be the perfect match.”

You raised an eyebrow. “I was under the impression you were going to try convince me to take a work study student.”

“I’m sure you will one year,” he joked.

“Unlikely but you can always offer.” You sighed and turned your gaze out the window. “I have little care for children. This will be a temporary position, yes?”

“We’ll see how it goes.”

You gave him a look but the principle just sipped at his tea. He already knew that you were going to accept – if only because you had always been a close friend of Thirteen’s. Taking over one class wasn’t going to kill you.

“I don’t have any experience in this,” you reasoned. “Other schools must have teachers who can come and cover classes?”

“None who are as experienced in the field as you are. So I’ve organised with Hizashi Yamada to take you through his methods of teaching and you can convert them over. He’ll be here soon.”

You sunk further into your chair, rubbing the bridge of your nose. “What would you have done if I said no?”

“Been very disappointed, of course.”

Present Mic was a hero you had always admired but you hadn’t ever expected him to be as loud in person as he was in the media. You just about jumped out of your skin when he entered the room dramatically, calling out a greeting.

Nezu gave the introductions and informed you that before doing an actual class, you had a week of acting as an assistant instructor alongside Present Mic.

“Should I invest in earbuds?” you joked.

He laughed but then actually lowered his voice as though you had reminded him. “Don’t worry. If I yell too much in class, Shota tends to come and glare through the doorway until I quieten down.”

You chuckled. “Do you have similar teaching schedules?’

“No but he claims that he can hear me from anywhere in the school. It’s the best way to find him actually. You just yell until he shows up.”

“I’ll take that as lesson number one in how to teach at U.A.”

“Lesson number one is to not take Nemuri’s flirting seriously,” he corrected. “I know it’s very flattering to think that she’s interested but she’s not. If it makes you uncomfortable, you can tell her to stop but she doesn’t always listen. It’s part of her image, you know?”

You raised an eyebrow at Nezu but he just shrugged. That didn’t seem like it was too professional but alright.

You took a deep breath and tried to pretend that this was just going to be temporary. It wasn’t like Nezu had been trying for years to get you involved at the school.

Temporary.

“Which subject do you teach?” you asked as you followed Present Mic from the office.

“English. No crazy action or anything which means you have to work double time to keep the students interested. You’ll have it far easier.”

Nobody really prepared you for the fact that Class 1A didn’t know how to do things the easy way.

#mha #bnha scenarios #bnha x reader #all might x reader #endeavor x reader #aizawa x reader #midnight x reader #mirko x reader #natsuo todoroki x reader #present mic x reader #fatgum x reader #gang orca x reader #hawks x reader

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Endeavor - The Dangers of Biased Memories

One thing i really like about MHA chapter 291, is that it paints a very clear picture of how endeavor thinks about his past actions. Namely he truely does regret them, but he simply isnt able to see his own past actions in their true light.

Its a very human thing to do, but it also goes to show what Endeavor’s big problem is. He isnt able to understand that everything about his past, from its very foundations were wrong, and thus, he isnt able to really, truly change in regards to his view on hero work and his family.

Endeavor just isnt able to understand that it was his obession with hero work that destroyed him, his wife and laid the foundation for a broken family, and that if he truely does want to make ammends with his family, he cannot simply just be a better hero. being the best hero was what destroyed him in the first place, and its what his son called him out on in chapter 290. the past doesnt forget, and if youre not willing to fully accept it, consider it, and actually introspect and understand what you did wrong, you will never change.

As he sees his son before his eyes again, Endeavor flashes back to happier times, at least in his perspective. His son happy to be training with his fire power.

it is however, a lie, one that endeavor is telling to himself. there was never a point where Endeavors awfull motivation wasnt tarnishing everything he tried to build, both with himself, his abused wife and his children

This is where the road of his pushing Touya to become the best hero he could possibly be ended up, with a emotionally destroyed teenager who had an extencial crisis once he got old enough to truely comprehend what his father was doing. and in the end, he destroyed himself pushing himself as far as he possibly could, just like endeavour wanted.

yet, rather than confront the fact he was wrong from the very beginning, and that his very fundamentals were rotten, endeavor pretends in his own mind that there was something noble in his training of touya.

He just isnt able to accept that While he may or may not have treated Touya as harshly as he later would todoroki(my guess is that he did, but we just arent shown it here, because this is his own flashback and he isnt focusing on it) He didnt have a shred of noble motivation for doing any of this. Touya was when it came down to it, a means to an end.

The reason why Touya mattered to endeavor, as compared to his daughter who he tried to distance from her big brother from the moment she was born, was that he had a quirk more powerfull than his own, and thus had greater potential.

that was his only motivation. as we were shown time and again with shouto in the earlier chapters of the manga.

He made it perfectly clear that he only made shoto as a means to an end and that was the end of it.

however, faced with Dabi, he just isnt able to admitt this very, very ugly fact about himself. he WANTS so badly, to be able to think that there was something noble about him as a father to his son, who’s death he blamed himself for.

He tries to tell himself in his own mind that he would have been willing to let go of his obsession, hatred, and all of it for Touya’s sake, when what actually happened proved that it just wasnt the case.

When Touya dissapeared, Endeavor did the exact opposite, and doubled down making shoto his “masterpiece”. And now, rather than take responsibility for his actions, and acknowledge his part into the making of the monster before him, he tries to desperatly justify himself, and rewrite the past in his own mind by not focusing on the bad stuff.

It’s an incredible human thing to do, but it also proves that endeavor hasnt really changed all that much fundamentally deep down. he still refuses to take full responsibility for his actions and acknowledge that he was, in fact, wrong. hundred, percent, no argument about it wrong.

And as long as he isnt able to do that, he is never going to be able to truly grow as a person.

#endeavour #enji todoroki #dabi #touya todoroki #my hero academia #mha #chapter 291

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A Katsuki Meta

Howdy, I am back on my shit again after Atsushi’s twitter post of Horikoshi’s drafts made me cry for two hours and sleep for three.

Let’s get to it!

While there is obvious symbolism in this draft of Katsuki letting go of his past self, you have to appreciate just how much planning has been dedicated to this series, and how Horikoshi has managed to take a character that could’ve strictly followed a checklist of stereotypes for a hot headed, short tempered deuteragonist and build him to become just as complex and important as the protagonist.

He kept true to the promise he made when the chapter releases were still in the single digits:

Katsuki’s character is one of the easiest to mishandle. He was introduced as a bully, and maintained an explosively vile personality throughout a good chunk of the series. His most obvious traits are the marks of a FOIL to Deku, and he could have well stayed that way and still ended up becoming a good pro, with the usual AHA moment that a deuteragonist like him experiences: a moment where he learns that power isn’t everything.

Except he didn’t have a moment, he had several. He was kidnapped, tossed around, ripped to shreds, challenged, loved, trusted, admired, understood and practically reborn. The fact that he’s managed to stay true to himself after everything means he always had the makings of a great hero in him.

I wouldn’t say I’m a person who’s particularly capable of insane and correct deep level thinking, and on top of that I’m INCREDIBLY EASY to impress. For me it’s like:

You know how Earth needed to be at the exact distance it is from the sun and have the perfect atmosphere to create life? Katsuki’s story is much like that.

If anyone else but Deku had been telling the story, if Deku hadn’t been as persistent, strong willed, and caring as he is, and if everything that happened to Katsuki didn’t happen in the exact order and manner it did, he wouldn’t have been as great as he is now. And while that’s simple enough to say, it’s truly such a beautiful thing to bear witness to.

We’re 300 chapters and nearly 6 years into MHA and we’ve seen.

Katsuki go from refusing to work with others to becoming a great team leader.

His focus has always been on one thing: victory. In almost every situation, he’s had his eye on the win. It wasn’t always the case when Deku was involved, because Deku was so different from him in a way that made him feel threatened. And it’s something that has most likely been on his mind for a long time.

He’s become more comfortable with his vision since his fight with Deku, and it was probably liberating in an emotional sense too. His fight with Deku didn’t just realign and solidify his own views on life, but made him more accepting of himself and absolved him of some of his heaviest insecurities.

Katsuki letting go of his superiority complex to better himself.

In the days leading up to his fight with Deku, he was also fighting an internal battle for “being the reason behind All Might’s end.”

I wouldn’t argue that he was feeling guilty. While it was surely part of it, it shouldn’t be minimized to only guilt. The expressions on his face throughout the fight were incredible, he was angry, frustrated, confused, scared, quite clearly as he claimed, he just didn’t know what the hell he should do, so he fought.

By the time he interned at Endeavor’s agency, he was already well aware that he had faults, which is a huge step for him, and he was beginning the process of pinpointing those faults.

His unwillingness to work with Deku dissolves

After reaching a certain point in the manga, it’s become hard for me to imagine a time when Katsuki full on rejected Deku. In the first few volumes Katsuki got worse before he got better. He was in a comfortable position bullying Deku in middle school, but when he started to experience failure, when he witnessed Deku becoming stronger at a faster rate than him, he couldn’t even enjoy the fact that he was going to school where his favorite role model was teaching.

Now, after everything, Katsuki was opening up to Deku. They started training together to help Deku gain control of OFA. And not just that, Katsuki was invested in the long term. While he shared the secret of OFA with Deku long before anyone else found out about it, he later started to shoulder some of the weight too, and he was good at it.

He called small might out for keeping secrets from Deku, claiming Deku trusted him with his life, but he wasn’t as easily convinced, pointing out a detail in the descriptions of the past users that might’ve gone over Deku’s head. He’s always been brilliant, but now he’s using that brilliance to actively try to become involved with Deku’s burden.

He’s changed in obvious ways, but in subtle ones too.

After so much time, this panel is still really hard to look at. If you’ve ever suffered at the hands of bullies, you probably feel like there’s little satisfaction in their story even though so much has changed between them, there’s still a long way to go, there’s still a huge piece missing. Deku is way too forgiving, I don’t think he ever held anything against Katsuki for the way he treated him in the past. Katsuki is still hard with words, since the last time he bullied Deku, he has never said anything he doesn’t mean.

Katsuki has never been the type to lie. He doesn’t beat around the bush, he doesn’t pretend to be somebody he’s not, and while that part of him hasn’t changed, the way in which he delivers has. His heart has changed, and while I don’t recall a moment where he hasn’t been able to live up to his big claims, his confidence has changed from being used to mask his insecurity, to a healthier confidence that can lead, support, protect, and save.

To think that this moment is the moment that solidified Katsuki’s path to greatness, the fact that his capabilities and brilliance have always made his future bright, he’s gone above and beyond his own expectations of the world and how it works. In the world of scientific journals, there is always a gap in the knowledge of the scientific community, a gap in the understanding of how the world works. When you find that gap, something incredible happens.

He let go of the past. Katsuki, who envisioned a life where he made it big because he knew he could. Katsuki, who was always self driven. Katsuki, who loves the taste of victory. Katsuki, who categorized the world and people around him in terms of power. Katsuki, who believed only the powerful could become strong.

Deku was the one thing in his life that didn’t fit in his picture of the world. To him, his understanding of how the world worked was defined by the strong, the weak, the good and the bad. He couldn’t understand how empathy and vulnerability could make someone strong.

I’m really excited to see where Katsuki goes from here. There’s still so much for him to discover, and he’s so, so close to the end stage of his metamorphosis.

#bakugou katsuki #bkdk #bakudeku #katsuki bakugou #ktdk #katsudeku #my hero academia #mha #bnha #boku no hero academia #Katsuki meta #kacchan

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Thelreads, MHA 252, Replies Part 1

1) “That`s what we gonna do tonight, let`s see what the new arc shall bring us, on Chapter 252: The unforgiven

Huh. Interesting tittle… Is it about Endeavor?”- Yes, though more about himself coming to terms with his permanent status as this. Thankfully it has a happier ending than the film did.

2) “Yep, it`s Endeavor. And well, I should`ve expected we still would have some things to deal with here, how Naive was I to think the new arc would already begin…”- Well, I don’t think we’re far off it, given we’ve ended this chapter with hitting all the points the arcs brought up to address, with thematic and skilful advancement all round.

3) “JESUS CHRIST ENDEAVOR, HAVE YOU NO MERCY FOR THIS POOR ASSHOLE? LET HIM GO, YA BASTARD, YOU`RE KILLING HIM!

Oh, and Natsuo as well, since we`re already on the subject.”- Endeavour can’t answer the phone right now, please call again when he’s not currently having an existential crisis over realising how bad a father he is that he almost lost two of his kids thanks to his poor character.

4) “OH MY GOD BAKUGO JUST FUCKING SLINKED AWAY FROM HIS GRASP

THE GRACE, THE NIMBLENESS, HE COULD`VE BEEN PART OF YURI!!! ON ICE WITH ALL THAT DEXTERITY”- Bakugou keeps himself in peak physical form in order to always kick maximum ass as a hero, and accordingly, he could perform in any national athletic event he so desired to- he just feels that there’s nothing that stands out in the world of competition than the career of a hero, which, we’ve seen both the good and bad sides of throughout the story.

5) “Yell Heah Todoroki, you were the mvp on this fight, taking down the trigger-tripping foe all on your own. And even better, he`s not obsessed with you right now, so that`s a second victory this night.”- Ending’s world is just crumbling around him right now. You’d almost feel sorry for the guy, him having seemingly realised that Endeavour’s a changed man from the guy who he deeply wished would kill him and being in denial about his ‘light of hope’ no longer existing. Guess he’ll have to stick with more mundane suicide attempts next time.

6) “Alright, Bakugo suffered, Shoto was badass, now for Midoriya to get the praise he deserves for unleashing the darkness and managing to control it on his first try since the class fight.”- And again, Midoria is the only one who actually checks up on the civilians caught in the crossfire, though I guess it’s more justifiable here, because he was the one who actually handled most of the bystanders Ending almost ended and Natsuo is currently having a much-needed hash-out with his old man. 7) “oh wait, the fuck? You`re not going to be a fucking tsundere and say how the challenge is still going? You`re gonna accept the victory? Just like that? Deadass?”- I kinda got the impression Bakugou didn’t really accept the win, and was about to claim he didn’t actually count said victory against Endeavour himself before he man took the wind out of his sails. He just wanted to rub in the fact that Endevour slipped up and technically dropped the ball right to where he was ready to catch it, but Endeavour is in the exact opposite state of mind to have any kind of pride of self-respect right now, so he just lets Bakugou verbally walk all over him without caring a damn, which is honestly even more insulting for Bakugou. A challenge is a challenge only when both sides care deeply about not losing, and Endeavour’s just not in the right mood to think of himself in winning terms right now. 8) “And now, let`s resume the drama, because Natsuo there won`t just be smiles and forgiveness because his life was saved. A good act won`t erase a lifetime of sins.”- Plus the fact that Endeavour literally didn’t do jack to save him back there. Like, ok, I think he understands that he was too afraid to take action and knows that it’s a sign that his old man has changed a lot form who he used to be, but still, deeds, not words. 9) “Oh what- where are you trying to get at Endeavor? Are you implying you couldn`t save him because he would be mad, thinking he now own you his life, or because you felt that even if you saved him he still wouldn`t forgive you?”- Honestly, the fact that Endeavour realised, deep down, that he’d only be chaining his son’s spirit further down by saving him and that’s what actually gave him pause, realising that for all he was the greatest hero in Japan he could never save his own flesh and blood without worsening the already-twisted bonds they share, is a pretty sobering thought. It’s not just fear that held him back, it’s regret that he’s suddenly made plainly aware that his dream of being a part of Natsuo’s life is just that- a dream. He can never truly save or help his son any more, and in fact his attempts to do so would only hurt him down the line, so the only thing he can do for him is to stay away. He wanted to rush forward to help him, but he knew in that moment that he was the only person in the world that Natsuo’s heart would never allow to do so, and that really cut him deep. 10) “Also, ~not trying~ well you certainly had a weird way of showing it, doing exactly that. Well, you might not have had the intention to be a bastard, but that`s exactly what you did, and honestly you can`t believe how glad I am to see you saying that you fucked up big time and you tried to make yourself as the innocent one.”- Endeavour never started out meaning to hurt his family so badly, things just got all twisted and distorted over time that he could no longer see the harm he was doing- in fact, he’s heavily implied to have willingly ignored the evidence that he’d taken things too far because he wasn’t able to accept the harsh truth and doubled down on his choices out of a warped desire to be ‘right’ in the end and have it all worth it- and now he can see that he’d been blinded for too long, and that he should have tried to make things right a long time ago, but that ship has sailed and all he can do is watch it move on without him. 11) “Oh yeah, even if he said he didn`t intended to, that doesn`t change the fact that he did, and more than that, considering that Natsuo and Toya were really close, Natsuo knows how deep his father`s cruelty went, so he won-

CAN Y`ALL KEEP THE FUCK DOWN ALL THAT HONKING WE`RE TRYING TO HAVE SOME ANGST HERE FOR FUCK`S SAKE, DRIVE AROUND THEM IF YA ARE IN SUCH A HURRY”- Perhaps a sign of how institutionalised people have become to random acts of villainous violence over the years. Now the dust has settled, all the drivers around them are focused on their evening commute, rather than seeing if there’s anything they can do to help the victims of this near-accident and ignoring the obvious drama playing out in front of them. The villain is beaten so now everybody can move on with their lives and these guys need to get out of the road! 12) “Oh no Natsuo, that`s fine. The thing is, you are in fact as caring as Shoto, but you care about your siblings and your mother, not the monster that made them suffer. You are a caring person, you just don`t care for a monster, and that`s totally fine.”- I think perhaps some part of Natsuo does care somewhat towards Endeavour, but it’s a small piece of his uncontrollable id and he’s ashamed of it, so he rejects it and Endeavour both by pushing him far away so he doesn’t have these twisting, conflicting emotions warring within him all the time at the sight of his father. Part of him agrees with Fuyumi, wanting things to go back to being a nice happy family, but the other half of him cannot accept Endeavour as a part of that imaginary household, and he feels guilty for standing in the way of his sister’s dream, because he understands emotionally how she feels about the whole situation as well, far more than he’s comfortable admitting, because that would also be admitting one piece of him does want a good father in his life, and he cannot achieve that desire because his only choice is Endeavour. Despite seeing how much he’s becoming the kind of person now that Natsuo wouldn’t mind calling ‘dad’ once in a blue moon, Natsuo cannot forget what he used to be, and cannot bring himself to pretend like that angry, abusive monster never existed and never hurt the family. Even if he knows logically that Endeavour feels regret for his old self, he cannot allow either of them to forget that old Endeavour, no matter how much it hurts them both as a permanent divide between father and son.

13) “MAN THAT`S SOME FRONT-ROW FOR THE DRAMA RIGHT THERE WHAT THE FUCK SO YOU`RE THE ONE THAT`S HOLDING BACK THE TRAFFIC AREN`T YA?”-He’s kicking himself for not bringing his phone with him to record all this juicy soap-opera drama unfolding before him. 14) “OH-

HOLY SHIT

HE SAID IT

HE FINALLY SAID IT

HE GAVE UP THE FORGIVENESS, HE KNOWS THAT`S BEYOND HIS REACH. HOLY SHIT WASN`T EXPECTING TO HAVE THAT ONE BE HANDED LIKE THAT, BUT MAN AM I GLAD THAT HAPPENED, NATSUO DESERVES TO BE FREE FROM THIS BURDEN”- A good father does what he can for his children, takes their burdens away and makes them his own. Endeavour’s made their past a hellish one, so the very least he can do is try his best to make their future as happy as he can, no matter the cost to himself. @thelreads

#bnha #my hero academia #thelreads #chapter replies #mha252

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Enji Todoroki/Endeavor - The Social Disaster

MHA’s one of the main subplots is the Todoroki family story which we all know it as ‘Keeping Up With The Todorokis’. This subplot is deliciously complicated and the root of these complications is none other than Endeavor or Enji Todoroki himself.

And I’m going to explain why I call him ‘The Social Disaster’.

After failing to surpass All Might, Endeavor started his stupid breeding experiment where he’ll create a child to use it as a weapon to surpass All Might and become the No. 1 hero and the first weapon he created was called Touya Todoroki. At the very beginning of the training sessions with his son, Endeavor filled Touya’s head with dreams of becoming No.1 hero, be greater than All Might, that he was the destined one to carry out his father’s legacy etc. And then one day Endeavor stopped everything and just gave up on Touya, saying – “No, you can’t. You’re worthless, you can’t do this one thing I told you that you’re gonna be able to do your whole life and so you need to just get the fuck out of my face. Stop doing it. Go be an accountant and just give up.”

From birth Touya was told –“You’re gonna be this great thing. You’re gonna be this Hero Hokage.” and then Endeavor’s like – “Oh sorry, you’re not going to be that Hero Hokage.” and we see that Endeavor’s spending the whole time telling his son like - “Go hang out with your friends and go be normal.” And Touya says – “Well, everyone at school wants to be a hero too.” To me, it’s kinda looping back into Deku’s situation in reverse, like where Deku wanted to become a hero but he was quirkless and Touya also wanted to be a hero, but he can’t tolerate his own flames.

And then Endeavor came up with this shitty idea like – “Oh, you know what will make him stop, if you get him a fucking replacement.” which is maybe the worst idea I’ve heard in my whole life of how to resolve a problem like this.

To me, Endeavor has seemingly no understanding of how people work beyond just – “Oh, this is how I solve criminal cases.”

During his engagement with Rei, he looks and talks like such an awkward idiot and I feel like the way he treats Touya and the way he tries to handle his situation, just proves that how bad he is in understanding what he is doing and how his intentions affects reality.

Even though he is a grown-ass adult and he should know, it's interesting to see that there is this sort of consistency because I believe the implication is that it is his social idiocy that also caused him the No. 1 spot that he could never really become the people's man like All Might because he just doesn't know how to be a man of the people like All Might. And this is how it infects all parts of his life.

He's telling Touya to stop out of concern for him like – “You need to stop this because it's just not good for you.”, which is a very sweet sentiment. But at the same time, we get the panel of where he says – “We got to have another kid to make him stop doing it because then he will give up.” And Rei says –“No, we're not going to do that.” And his response is –“No, we gotta do it because he is never gonna be the one to surpass All Might.”

Then they have Natsuo and we see Touya’s reaction to it and it’s obviously that he’s not taking it very well and then we just see Endeavor getting more and more angry and Rei is getting more and more sad and defeated by the whole situation and when they have baby Shoto, the faces of Endeavor, Rei and Touya physically upsets me. We get to see Endeavor looks really excited, Rei's just like –“I’m done, just stop.” And Touya is so devastated because he realizes that this is the one that's gonna be better than him.

Shoto got what they wanted out of him and we see Touya saying like –“I can still do it.” and the end result is just the dad saying like; it's not even like –“Let's do things together other than being heroes.”; it's more like –“You got to give up on being hero, go play with other kids, go to school and get the fuck out of my face. I gotta train this other hero child. I don’t have time for this shit.”

Endeavor has a line of logic within his brain where he's like –“I can’t fix Touya for what I have done to him cannot be undone because I don’t have the capabilities, so I will just move forward and hope that he copes up.”, which is a terrible and stupid idea, but it is nonetheless align of logic within him.

There’s a certain set of values, ideas and goals in him and he follows them through and they were all terrible and reprehensible. But it still shows that there was an internal logic to him that it makes him even more monstrous without taking that terrifying humanity away from him.

Endeavor is just a person who has done terrible things, with an actual logical line of thought behind it even if it is logic that only makes sense to him.

There’re a lot of obvious parallels we can make between Touya and Deku (they’re not subtle about it and it’s kind of in our faces). Well it's just interesting to me that like Endeavor his whole obsession is like –“I gotta be better than All Might.” And then even in situations like this where he has this protégé that he gives all this hopes and dreams to like –“You're gonna be great, you're gonna be a hero, you’re gonna be the greatest.” And then the child has this power that his body cannot handle and he can't do what the dad told him to do, Endeavor is just like –“Well then, you suck kid. Get a new job, idiot.”

On the other hand, even though All Might is far from perfect in a lot of ways of course when it comes to this but it’s the exact same thing but he understands that like having these aspirations and these dreams even in someone so young is so real. And we know that All Might feels bad about what happens to Deku, but at no point does he tell him like –“Okay, give it up kid. You still can’t do it more than 5% without breaking your arm. Give it up idiot. I’m gonna give it to somebody else.” Like at no point does that even cross his mind. Rather All Might tells Deku –“Look, you gotta work to do. You’re not up to that level yet but I’ll help you and I’ll do it with you.”

And that’s true that Touya wanted to be better than All Might which wasn’t realistic but he was also a child and rationality and setting realistic goals comes much later than being a fucking child. But Endeavor was so obsessed with his own shit that it was hard for him to get over his own hang ups and look through Touya’s problems. Touya could easily still be a hero if he accidentally singes his skin a little bit sometimes that’s not even close to the kind of damage that Deku does himself every time he fights anything. So, it’s not unrealistic to be like –“Okay, yeah I’ll help you and we’ll take it slow. We’ll help you get over your power and then when you get to school or whatever, you can get help from the tech department and make you a heat shield or whatever.”

There were many ways that he obviously could’ve worked around it but Endeavor didn’t give a shit about that because that wasn’t his goal. He’s goal wasn’t to nurture Touya rather his goal was to find a way to get past All Might. He didn’t give a shit about trying to take it slow or trying to help Touya to accomplish anything other than what he wanted and once Touya couldn’t do that, he’s like –“Get the fuck out of my face while I train this replacement child.”

Endeavor is a kind of a person who makes every single mistake it could have made, like starting right from the point where he buys a wife to the point where he tortures Shoto during training sessions. Like you all can tell that he almost like wanted to be a parent when he was like –“Oh, I need to protect Touya from his own power.” He vocalizes a sweet sentiment but also he’s the reason Touya is like this and he can’t just run away and that’s why I like what Rei says as well it’s like –“You just keep running away. You keep creating these problems and you just keep running forward to All Might but also you keep running away from what you have done.” And I am so happy with how Rei is characterized like she is so much more spunky and so much more like assertive than I thought. Like she actually talks back to Endeavor and even in the hospital scene, she has like a presence and says –“You know we will do this. You need to get yourself together and we need to atone together, but most of all you because you were a piece of shit.”

And I also like the little thing at the end where Shoto was like –“I talked with Mom before we came here and I told her that I was going to be the one to stop Touya, but no, we’ll stop him altogether.” To me it sounded like it was Rei’s idea where she was like –“No, you can’t let this piece of shit make this your problem.” I mean Endeavor was always running away. He ran away from Touya and all this stuff happened. He was ready to do it again in the hospital, saying that –“I can’t fight him, he’s my son and I can’t do it.” But Rei was like –“No, get up and take some fucking responsibility for your problems.”

And I love that it was Rei the one who came to that conclusion, because even Shoto was ready to be like –“Dad can’t do it. I’m destined to stop my brother.” And she was like –“No, it’s this asshole’s problem. He did this and yeah all of us could have done more but you can’t let him sit in a bed and wallow about being so pathetic. He needs to get up and he needs to solve this.” And there's no better character it could have been to have been the one that came to that conclusion.

And this is what I love about MHA that how sincere it is and what I mean by that is moments like these where it doesn’t really go out of its way to play into any specific tropes when it comes to this abuse storyline and instead just gives you hurt people moving past and making decisions that sounds reasonable. Like the fact that Shoto didn’t just go on the avenger mode but instead talked it over with his mother which usually doesn't happen in shounen manga/anime. When you decide on making a revenge plot in shounen, you just do it. You don’t go and talk to someone important in your life and seek emotional counsel in shounen. So yeah, I love that Horikoshi sensei is giving us mature and realistic contents like these.

Then in chapter 302 we see Rei asks Touya like –“It almost seems like you don’t want to really be a hero, like you don’t seem like you actually care about becoming a hero. It just seems like you’re obsessed and stuck because Endeavor is your dad and you feel like you have a legacy to live up to but he is abandoned you.” And of course Touya’s responses were like –“Fuck you, mom. I fucking hate you.” But she was right. If Endeavor just hadn’t been such a pig headed shit in dealing with the problem, Touya either would have grown up to the point where he realized it was not worth it or if he really wanted to be a hero, Endeavor could have actually helped foster him into one if his entire end goal wasn't dependent on Touya being the best one.

Did Touya need to be the greatest hero ever created?

No.

Because in their last real conversation, before Touya ran off to the mountain and got burned up, he said and acknowledged the fact that he wasn’t as good as Shoto right now, but he said –“One day, I might become great and you’ll be proud of me.” Touya wasn’t even there saying like –“Oh, I’m the greatest thing ever born. Look at my awesome fire. Oops I burned the mountain down.” It was just him being like –“Look, I’m still trying. Look at this cool thing I did. Acknowledge this one thing that I did.” And Endeavor’s only reaction is – “Shut the fuck up, kid. You fucking idiot. How many times I tell you not to do this?”

But when Touya does get burned up, it shows us Endeavor’s face in horror running to the mountain which again is so bizarre. Honestly I’m starting to wonder if we will get an Endeavor back story ‘cause his set of morals and values is so fucked up.

The issue is Endeavor does care, but he just doesn't understand how to care. Like on a base level, he has the positive emotion of caring about Touya’s well-being and that is about where it ends. Endeavor has no comprehension of what that means or how to do that in a good way.

Every idea he thinks of how to fix it is stupid and he's even obsessed with the notion of like –“When Touya uses too much of his fire, he burns himself. So, I guess he has to never ever use his power ever forever from now.” I mean this goes beyond ‘I'm socially awkward around ladies’.

I almost think Endeavor’s previous family was just nothing prior to him and he fucking hated that. This is probably edge dark turn for what they might end up doing but I’m going almost like the Hawks route like –“Dad was a drunk, mom didn’t give a shit and they fought all the time. I was the scared repressed kid, but then at school or whatever it turned out I was actually pretty awesome and I became popular to some extent by both like athletic and corporate events. I was cool for that aspect so I’m used to being around people but I have no understanding of how they work at all.” That’s my assumption.

Even when he keeps trying to apologize to his family it always comes off like –“Yeah, I’m a bad guy and you hate me, so I’m gonna buy you a house that I won’t live in.” I mean, you’re still not really trying are you? You’re just moving the problem ‘cause you just like –“Oh, they’ll just be happy without me. I just suck. I’m just going to go away.” But like, you’re not helping them heal up or whatever. You’re just like ‘I’m going to be nice now’ but that doesn’t make all the horrible shits you did go away.

Endeavor doesn’t have an understanding of how humans work just because of how he is, but now I’m really curious to see if there might be more behind that. I just want to see why he’s so obsessed with All Might, like where that came from.

The character he’s obviously a parallel to is Bakugo and with Bakugo, we do get to see that since his youth Bakugo equated being a hero and the triumph of being a hero with being as good as All Might. That is very light as far as his motivation goes but it’s a motivation nonetheless.

With Endeavor, we’ve only ever gotten as far as like –“He is strong and I’m weaker and that pisses me off.”

It's almost idolization in a different way where we’re like with Bakugo, it’s like –“That’s my goal. I want to be just like All Might.” Whereas with Endeavor, it's like –“That's my goal 'cause I’m pissed off that I’m not the best of the best.”

They both idolized him in similar ways and Bakugo obviously feels more socially adjusted than Endeavor. Even though Bakugo’s a dick, he’s aware of things and is surprisingly emotionally literate. Like the scene where him and Deku get in trouble after they fight in end of season 3, they're like cleaning the house or whatever and Bakugo makes that little reach out of like –“Hey, the fighting style you’re using is messed up for these reasons, so you should try doing this.”

Like that alone is way beyond anything I would ever expect that of Endeavor. Endeavor’s response when they were cleaning the house would have been like –“Don’t worry, I’ll move my room to a different floor, so we won’t have to talk anymore.”

Endeavor’s a fucking weirdo, I swear.

And also Endeavor’s like actual motivations of becoming No.1 hero are almost intentionally omitted from the whole Todoroki family subplot and it’s so uncanny. I’m really hoping that Horikoshi sensei actually does something with that cause I think it feels so shallow compared to how much time we've spent on it now exactly and I feel it’s intentional and we are going to get something more about Endeavor. It feels like one of those gaps that an author leaves specifically so you can question it until it fills you in.

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I keep re-reading MHA 299 and I know many are upset Hawks is standing up for Endeavor but... I get the whole chapter was setting up that Hawks is going to commit suicide by heroically protecting Endeavor. He doesn’t want to look at the alternative because it just adds to the tragedy of his life, but also because he wants to die. He probably feels he doesn’t HAVE to investigate it at ALL because what does it do for him? He’ll be dead and it won’t be something he has to worry about.

Hello, it’s nice to talk to you again! :) So I’m not sure if this is the response you were looking for cause I just sat down, began writing and it kinda went off topic? I’m not entirely sure, but thank you for sending your thoughts and opinions in!

I read over Chapter 299 a few more times and I’m not sure if I really interpreted it as Hawks wanting to die. However I think I can kind of see what you mean by he’s going to commit suicide in the sense that (depending on the outcome) the action of Hawks going to help Endeavor is “suicide” in that it is his choice.

I think the root of my interpretation lies with my opinion that while Horikoshi does work with heavy and difficult subjects, I can not see him ending the story of Hawks’ with death. While I think he could die in a metaphorical or symbolic way (something I believe has already happened when he took Jin’s life) when his story ends, a physical death is not impossible.

Just to express my train of thoughts easier, the following panels are not in the exact order of how they appear.

"Endeavor’s in Trouble”

I can see how you could interpret what Hawks says as him “standing up” for Endeavor but I did not really read it in that way. Standing up for him implies that he is in a way “okay” with what Endeavor has done in the past, and if we get more on Hawks’ thoughts later it will be clearer on where he stands but if this is all we get, I’d argue that he is not “letting things slide,” because it’s Endeavor.

All we currently have is that Hawks states, “Endeavor’s in trouble.” I think he’s most likely referring to Dabi here.

I guess you could argue that he may commit metaphorical suicide by choosing to help Endeavor. If we want to continue pursuing the Icarus narrative: then even after falling and after gaining his freedom, Hawks chooses to head towards Endeavor, or the sun again.

So as you convey, this is the controversial page.

“Even if what Dabi says about the Todoroki family is true... I know things are different now.”

The inclusion of Hawks’ memory of Shouto and Endeavor is very, very important here. It appears in the middle of this sentence. I’d argue that Hawks here was not brushing off or ignoring what happened in the Todoroki household, and again this is mainly because of the inclusion of the memory which happens during the Endeavor Internship arc. This is how he is thinking through the situation. Seeing as we get a glimpse of Hawks’ past memories, I’m sure that he has been contemplating about everything that was revealed by Dabi. Especially considering that Hawks most likely can relate to Touya to a certain extent.

Hawks’ hero career involved a lot of him having to collect information, analyze information and reach a conclusion in order for him to act upon it. Perhaps that is why when he states, “I know things are different now,” it comes off as very bold. I think the boldness of his statement is what may have upset people but I think it has to do with the way he’s been trained to think.

The secret missions Hawks had to undertake while working for the Hero Public Safety Commission required one to detach their job from their individual feelings and thoughts. He must not let sentiments get in the way.

Sentiments

As always, I like to include definitions of words I find very important that could be understood differently based on who you are - what are sentiments? A couple definitions that come up in the dictionary are:

1) an attitude, thought, or judgment prompted by feeling, 2) an idea colored by emotion (Merriam-Webster) and 3) exaggerated and self-indulgent feelings of tenderness, sadness or nostalgia (dictionary)

We see that feelings and emotion get in the way with his job when Hawks confronts Jin. Hawks had a connection and relationship with Jin that he did not have in his life. As we see below in Chapter 265 even Dabi points this out, “Looks like sentiment tripped you up after all, hero!” Yes, ultimately Hawks takes Jin’s life but I do believe he was hesitant and did not want to. The dialogue between the two has Hawks expressing that he believes that Jin is a good person who was dealt an unlucky hand in life.

While he does convey that he wants to “save” Jin by helping him but after already assessing the threat he believed Jin posed and with the arrival of Dabi, Hawks weights his options and chooses to take his life.

From a detached, cold reading of this scene, Hawks does mess up. His hesitance distracts him and makes himself vulnerable to Dabi’s attack which badly burns him, and he loses a large portion of his feathers.

Now I’m only going to focus on the fact that Hawks takes Jin’s life and the thinking that went behind it. I’m not here to discuss in depth about my thoughts and opinions on the matter however I think by the end of this post, you may have an idea on where I stand.

What is a hero?

Okay, my wording here is confusing but I’m going to try the best I can to convey what I’m trying to get at. There is also the idea of the two concepts of heroism that float around the manga: 1) working as hero as an occupation and being able to fulfill that role, and then 2) one who we label as a hero/heroic in how they think and act. For both we think of saving, strength, power, charisma, etc.

Then there are the other qualities we tend to associate with the second concept of who/what a hero is: being selfless and compassionate, having moral integrity, showing concern for others no matter who it is and being understanding of others’ perspectives. There are others as well but these are what come to mind at the moment.

While the qualities I list above can be associated with heroes in general, in BNHA there has been an effort to differentiate at least two different concepts of heroism. The biggest example was with the introduction of the character Stain. If the reader had not been questioning hero society beforehand, Stain told us directly to think critically and refrain from being passive like the characters in the story. Due to the emergence of quirks, there were those whose quirks deemed “unacceptable” by society, their existence often leading to a difficult life or being labeled as a villain. The demand for heroes created the concept of the hero as a job.

And so heroes became celebrities. They are rich and influential, and they cover the cities with their faces to sell and endorse products. Even the physical copies of the BNHA manga have ads of various pro-heroes selling products in the back. There’s plenty of other criticisms that you could talk about such as the Hero Billboard Chart.

While the older pro-heroes seem to have lost or never embodied the meaning of what the reader may argue as “being a true hero,” we see that there is a difference with the students, but first let’s go back to Hawks and Twice again.

Yes, Hawks attempts to save Jin but the outcome is that he takes his life instead. Definitely not what the act of saving is supposed to look like. As seen above, Hawks had already verbalized that he may have to kill Jin. I’ll also throw in that I felt like Hawks was looking down at him in pity (like he does with his parents) and determines that Jin is need of saving. Hawks reaches that conclusion himself. But that is not what happens. Instead he decides that the death, or “sacrifice” of an individual is worth it if he can save hundreds or thousands of others. In this way you could argue that he has successfully acted to fulfill his job as a hero. But, as many people were wondering:

Aren’t heroes supposed to save everyone?

Perhaps one of the defining qualities of a hero is that they chose to save indiscriminately or most importantly, whoever they can reach.

In the same arc we get Midoriya who is faced with a very similar situation. Shigaraki poses as a significant threat to the heroes and the rest of Japan. Midoriya knows that Shigaraki can wipe out all of those he holds dear to him and the rest of Japan if he is not stopped. Midoriya sees firsthand Shigaraki’s terrifying and destructive powers, his friends, teachers and allies being critically injured. He is with the knowledge that the people in his life and millions others may lose their lives.

When faced with such a horrifying outcome, would stopping Shigaraki be enough? I’m assuming that taking his life would have been a very tempting option. To take a life to save millions of lives.

But even after all that we get this page spread of Midoriya’s final thoughts before he loses consciousness at the end of Chapter 295.

Midoriya chooses compassion.

The juxtaposition of Midoriya’s thoughts and image gave me chills when I first saw it. We see the outcome of the conflict: a quiet, lifeless city in ruins with the dust in the process of settling. This is the result of Shigaraki’s destruction. The reality that there are thousands of civilians who got hurt, are critically injured or even dead hangs heavy in the air. When society chose to ignore Shigaraki and the heroes chose to label him as an evil, unredeemable villain, Midoriya has chosen to look directly at him.

Based on the first concept of what a hero is/does according to hero society, Midoriya dues not fulfill his duty as a hero after failing to defeat Shigaraki, however based on the second concept because he chooses compassion he has begun to embody the ideals of who a hero truly is.

Hawks is tripped up by sentiments but acts to finish the job the way he sees fit.

exaggerated and self-indulgent feelings of tenderness, sadness or nostalgia

He tries to be compassionate and understanding but isn’t. He has an image of Jin he created himself that is not the true Jin, hence why they are mere sentiments. He chooses to focus on his mission because he does not actual understand how Jin was feeling. This results in him looking past Jin’s life to protect the lives of millions of others. In contrast, Midoriya recognizes Shigaraki, the person who is standing immediately in front of him. In its purest form, to be a hero means to save indiscriminately and to save those you can reach.

Being a hero as a career in BNHA becomes tricky as it means to defeat and take down villains, and choosing who to save as Hawks demonstrates.

However to save someone like Shigaraki, Dabi or Toga (who were all let down by hero society) requires someone to take the more difficult path to reach a hand out with selflessness, compassion, and understanding. It seems that Midoriya, Shouto and Ochako will be the ones to extend their hands to them.

“Starting With my Origin”

Children often are only able to understand and grasp basic concepts. A hero is someone who saves you, or puts a smile on your face. We get a glimpse back in to Hawks’ childhood, to that innocent concept of heroes that Hawks had.

As they say, “Never meet your idols/heroes” mainly because they are not actually who they are portrayed to be. The world looks very simple when you are younger, black and white, but as you grow and experience more of life, you start to begin to see just how complicated things are. There are way more gray areas when you begin to look closely.

Similarly, Hawks does not see him in the same lens as he did in his childhood. He understands that the image of Endeavor he had when he was younger is not who Endeavor actually is. I don’t think that Hawks’ decision to want to go help him was made without thought. He takes in information and contemplates on it until he makes a conclusion. For someone who was actively seeking out more information, I’m wondering if all he has is what Dabi has stated. We have to remember that the information we have as the reader is not the same as the characters in the story. I’d also argue that he is not ignoring what Dabi has said but taking into consideration the past and whether Endeavor is working to change.

Now that he is most likely no longer working for the Hero Public Safety Commission, he is free to do as he please, and as seen earlier, he chooses to walk towards Endeavor. The team up between the two in Fukuoka, and the ambush against the League of Villains and Meta liberation army may have strengthened their relationship but Hawks wanting to help Endeavor this time does not stem from hero work.

Wanting to help Endeavor will put him directly on the path towards Dabi.

Like you, some people believe that he may as in consequence for his actions, he will ultimately crash in to the ocean like Icarus, and die. The final fall. Perhaps his mistake will be that he will choose to pick Endeavor over Dabi, or find himself in a position where he may believe he has to take Dabi’s life away as well.

Others believe that Hawks has had his Icarus fall already but will learn from the consequences of his actions. He’s died, but has been reborn like a phoenix. Shouto will be meeting Dabi again as well, and as we’ve seen, like Midoriya, he sees Touya as a person: his brother. He even identifies himself to him. I’ve seen people talking about and hoping for a team up between Hawks and Shouto so we’ll see what happens if they do.

I’m going to bring the very last page back, but most of Chapter 299 has to do with Hawks’ childhood. His mother would ask him about why he was born and what the point of his wings were for and Hawks’ answer is to save people.

“Starting with my origin, so to speak... Endeavor’s in trouble.”

We get a focus, visually to Hawks’ back. The origins of what allowed Hawks to save and be a hero: his fierce wings quirk, and it looks his wings are healing and growing back. I think you could also see it as him referring to Endeavor as well. The hero who saved him when he was a child, could also be seen as his origin.

During the High End vs Endeavor fight in Chapter 190, we see some of Hawks’ insecurities. Hawks is/was insecure about his back, and that is where his wings are. This was during the time when Hawks was working as a hero because it was his job. He did have that desire to save people but it was only a muted motivation behind what he did: he worked as a hero as a job first. I’m wondering if things have changed.

Putting this all together, I think I’m currently leaning towards the second possible outcome from what I listed before. If Hawks can go back to his origin and become someone who tries to embody the true heroism. Of course he’ll stumble but it’ll still be a drastic change from how he had been living before.

While I understand that many people are upset about these panels, I think we have to wait to see what will happen. To be honest, while I’d personally prefer the second outcome, I think I would be satisfied with either outcome.

As the reader, we certainly can argue that Hawks is a tragic character however I’m not sure if Hawks considers his life as “tragic.” I think he will continue to do what he can as I feel like he defines his purpose based on what he does.

So will Hawks be tripped up on sentiments again, or will he be able to think and be understanding like Midoriya?

As for now, I think it may be the first.

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bakubabes-tatakae · 3 years

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✨Huge congrats on 5K! That’s incredible and I think you should be so proud! ❤️ I was hesitant to steal a spot for your letter event but I’ve seen you reblog it a few times now so I hope it’s okay to send a request.✨

Can I get a letter from Hawks (mha)? I was thinking it could be written as if we’d just gotten together after being friends for a long time 👉👈 Maybe we met through a friend that works at his agency. My name is Cindy and pronouns are (she/her). I’m a teacher irl so maybe I’m a teacher at UA for this 😊

Other information about myself? I’m a Libra (ISFJ) 🤷‍♀️ my love language is “acts of service.” In a relationship I like someone who treats me like an equal. We’re a team so I don’t like being babied or spoiled by my partner, even though I like to try and do nice things for them. I want to be someone they can rely on. I also like someone who can challenge me to be better. I like witty banter a lot but can get flustered easily by a lot of compliments.

Sorry if that’s too much, I wasn’t sure what kind of description you needed. I think this is a really cool event though and I really appreciate that you’re willing to do this for people 💖💖

Thank you so much Cindy. 🥺❤ I'm happy to do these, I've had so much fun doing them so far. 💞 I really hope you like it. 🥰

My Independent Birdy,

I hope you’re well. I know you’re pretty busy over at UA so I’ll keep this short and sweet. I wouldn’t want to keep you from your work. I’ll never be able to thank (pro hero) enough for finally helping us get to where we are now. There have been so many times that I watched you while you were at the agency visiting them and wished I had the courage to expose my true feelings.

But I’m glad that I finally did and I’m so happy that it worked out. You’re the perfect person that I needed in my life. We challenge each other and that’s the exact kind of stimulation that I need to keep succeeding. I thank you for always pushing me to be the best Pro Hero that I can be, and I’ll continue to push you to be the amazing teacher that you are. I might not always seem like I’m the most serious of people when it comes to that stuff, but I’m trying to be better at that. Something you’ve been helping me achieve.

I couldn’t ask for a better person to be a part of my team. We’ll make the best couple. A power couple might I be so blunt in saying? I can’t wait to see what kind of chaos we can cause together in the hero world. Respectable UA teacher meets the number two hero. I can hear the headlines now. We’ll show them just what it means to be an amazing duo.

I wanted to leave you this letter to tell you that I’ll be heading out on a mission with Endeavor soon, we’ll be going undercover for a little while so I’m not sure how much contact I’ll be able to have with you in the weeks to come. They’re going to be doing their best to make us blend in with the crowd. I hope they’re prepared for a challenge because these wings are hard to disguise. They seem to be prepared for anything so we’ll see how long Endeavor can really stand being in my company.

I’ll send as many letters as I can while I’m out, even if it’s just to tell you that I’m alright. I wouldn’t want you worrying too much about me, but just be sure not to tell anyone about this. I’ll send the next letters under my alias, so be on the lookout for that.

Endeavor is being impatient and calling for me so I’ll talk to you again soon. Try to enjoy the next couple of weeks and take care of yourself. I’ll be back before you know it.

Stay Safe,

Keigo

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starlight-in-any-other-form · 3 years

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MHA EP 89 - Thoughts

Be forewarned - I am a manga reader, and these thoughts are contextualized both by what I am reading currently and what I had already read. No explicit spoilers though!

I know this is a filler episode to reintroduce us to the characters (which I personally find pointless, as this is season five, but go off I guess) and give a previously-on. It’s not supposed to be plotty or have any character development.

It was definitely fun and a lighthearted reintroduction to the series - I just wish the pacing of the anime didn’t cut up the pro hero arc to do so.

Ok, here’s my breakdown:

Positives:

Well, it did its job - each character in 1-A was highlighted, as was their quirk. And, as a plus, there was no creepy journalist this time!

We got to see the opening and the ending - I take a while to digest whether I like them or not, but the animation looks really cool!

Momo was a good leader, making most of the plan like the awesome strategist she is.

It was also fun to see the students use new combination moves and cooperate together.

I also love that look between Deku and Todoroki early on - checking to make sure Shoto was really okay.

Everything about Mirio’s helpless civilian act was hilarious to me (until you realize he thinks he’s entirely helpless and useless without a quirk because Hero Society values people almost entirely on the basis of what superpower they developed age 5 :) )

Negatives:

Worst things first: this absolutely destroyed the pacing of the pro hero arc. If the odd break between seasons sliced it in two, this put the second part through a blender and spit out pieces in a random order.

The consequences of the pacing decision wrecks the suspense originally present in the manga. Instead of seeing Dabi striding out of the shadows towards an already wounded Endeavor being barely supported by an exhausted Hawks, and having no idea what is coming next, we now know that a day later schoolkids will be happily discussing the fight, and Endeavor will be fine (although in the hospital).

Also, the Big 3 (2? Mirio was really just vibing) were taken out way too easily. Watch Amajiki against the Shie Hassaikai, then watch him here. Of course, he has a reason, - he doesn’t want to do this anyway. Nejire was taken out way too fast for being as talented as she supposedly is, but that probably surprised absolutely nobody. BNHA is Shonen, and it treats its female characters like crap, even in a random school filler episode.

Speaking of characters being treated like crap: Bakugou. Did whoever wrote this (I don’t think its Horikoshi - he has enough on his plate, but absolutely correct me if you know) forget Deku v Kacchan 2? It seemed really weird to me that Bakugou would do the exact same thing that caused him not to get his provisional license in this training. As he is doing his best to compete with Deku for Number One, and as his feral-gremlin nature does not cancel out the fact that he usually contains a few brain cells, I think Baukgou would try to do something more productive or work a little bit with classmates other than Kirishima and Kaminari.

Right in the Middle:

Amajiki’s reaction to pretending to be a villain was hilarious, but I feel like it has trivialized how far he has come. The hilarity and the way his social anxiety is played for laughs cancel each other out, making this moment neither positive nor negative for me.

Just Things:

Why does UA have such a large budget? Why? Does hero-ing pay that much? Do alumni donate to UA like they do in American colleges? Does the HPSC give Nedzu as much money as he wants so he plays principal rather than taking over the world?

We will never know...

Also, we know the students will get winter outfits literally the next time they are featured - why didn’t they have them here?

Overall:

This was a random, fun, completely unnecessary filler episode that messed up pacing and characterizations enough for me to give it a below-average score.

BNHA EP 89 is a 3/10.

This is my first time posting a mha thing, so let me know if there is anything else I should tag!

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I'm at training camp MHA. And this overworking the students doesn't seem like a good idea to me. How can they know it's improving their quirks and not just harming bodies? Why do they assume they'll toughen? Endeavor still overheats, he couldn't overcome that limit, and Midnight's gas still works worse on one gender. Why would they be sure Sero using his tape constantly would make it start coming out stronger? That overloading Denki would change his capacity? Not stamina, actually change quirk.

Canon explains that quirks are like a muscle. To strengthen it you need to keep using it but not overusing it to the point of harm.

How do they know they are doing that with their quirks?

Ragdoll. Her quirk allows her to “see someone’s weakness.” While the exacts of how that works are never given it does suggest she knows when someone is getting into the hurting-themselves range.

Endeavor still overheats but maybe after enough training he overheats at a much higher temp or can produce more flames before he overheats. We aren’t given this info.

Midnight’s gas still works better on men but with training she was likely able to produce more, over a wider area, and maybe strengthen it overall. (I haven’t read Vigilantes and don’t know if this is covered or not.)

Sero using his tape constantly isn’t about making it stronger, it is about making more.

Kaminari is a whole can of worms I don’t want to touch because his quirk doesn’t really make sense the way it is explained in canon.

We can see how well the method of “using the muscle a lot to build it up” worked in Kirishima. In his middle school flash back he could harden but not very much. By the time he got the UA he could make himself much harder. By season four he has “Unbreakable.” Using his quirk made it stronger and as he continues to train he will also be able to hold the harden states longer.

That said, quirks are magic and Hirokoshi can make them work however he wants and there are times where he conflicts with himself about it. So try not to take things too seriously, it just causes headaches.

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man i never realised how much bullshit there is in mha canon that pissed me off until i sat down and thought about it. like even forgetting abt the sexism, perverted behaviour, abuse apologism, like some of the general mechanics of the world just,,, piss me off??? completely????

like i just remembered the bullshit thing that happened when the league fought that redestro guy and his followers i think. the whole 110% boost?? and i just. hate. everything. about it. the execution, the idea behind it “fear of death caused her quirk to evolve” and i just. oh god does it make me pissed.

it’s the idea of power of friendship makes you powerful except flipped on its head and turned inside out. it’s whipped out at that exact moment because horikoshi needed a way to throw his readers off w a twist in how the world works without throwing in yet more development of ofa.

i would 1000% be on board with this idea if it was introduced in a different way. because yes the power of friendship trope is a trope that’s been heavily used, but it’s a good one. maybe i’m salty that horikoshi gave it to the villains while he continues to criminally underdevelop the rest of ua outside of bakugou and todoroki. yes that’s including izuku, because horikoshi keeps doing my son dirty but only in personality wise, bc in canon he does not have the personality that fans interpret him as having (but that’s a whole other rant).

how abt the concept gets introduced while following some of the less spotlighted characters? using the licenses they got and thus far have not actually used them???

tsuyu getting backed into a corner after being separated from who she was working with, the villain has her completely immobilised as they plaster themselves to her, holding her tightly as they threaten to crush her to death. as she’s trapped in a corner and trying to keep her cool while pretty sure she’s going to die, the villain suddenly recoils when she manages to bite him. the villain promptly gets sick, and she can capture him.

the adrenaline of death made her quirk turn her ability to secrete a mildly irritating toxin into making her actually venemous. her bites make people incredibly sick.

or how about hagakure. she’s interning with a stealth hero and helps on a reconaissance mission. she and the hero are trying to infiltrate a den of villains so that they can gather intel before joining forces with another band of heroes to bring them down. only as they’ve infiltrated, they’re unable to intervene when a villain kills another villain. hagakure lets loose a horrified gasp and the villain now knows there’s someone in the room that shouldn’t be. hagakure is invisible, as long as she’s quiet she’ll be able to escape without the villain catching her.

...but the hero she’s interning with will be caught. and they’ll likely be killed as they’re not physically powerful. hagakure has the horrifying realisation that she’ll probably have to see her mentor get killed in front of her and she’ll have to not react in any way otherwise she’ll be killed right afterwards.

in her panic she grabs her mentor’s arm, and suddenly the hero is invisible just like hagakure, along with her costume and equipment. to two manage to get out of there, but hagakure can now make other people and things invisible when she touches them.

or even hey!! let’s go with an adult this time. hear me out, what if, this happened to aizawa? if you didn’t want to bloat the overhaul arc even more than it already was, then maybe not then, but what if aizawa was working on a job in conjunction to his students and who they’re interning with? maybe he has to watch as his kids get overpowered and the only thing saving them is how long he can keep his quirk going? it’s a game of waiting, the moment he blinks, that’s his kids dead in an instant.

it’s inevitable, he knows he’s going to have to blink but the longest he’s ever kept them open is around two minutes on a good day. he’s pushing it and he knows that he’s going to have to blink very soon he won’t be able to control when he does.

except when he does blink he finds his quirk still was active. he keeps his eyes open as long as he can afterwards, but only twenty seconds later he has to blink yet again. his quirk still holds.

eventually, the situation is resolved and when they go back to ua, and after some extensive testing with the help of present mic and midnight, they find that if aizawa only blinks his quirk stays active. it’s only when he closes his eyes for longer than a second does his quirk shut off.

like. great. it’s, it’s nice so have villains that evolve and stand on even ground with the good guys on the evolving and leveling up w/e. it’s good! it extends the time where a villain will be an actual threat to the protagonists, makes them harder to beat and keeps them as a solid adversary.

but hey horikoshi? you know you have other characters besides todoroki and bakugou you can develop on, right? how about the teachers? how about any other pro hero except endeavor who’s a utter piece of shit and so mind-numbingly boring. does he have a personality except “hates all might”? how about you just maybe think about your characters as more than just extras. treat them like they’re people, their issues and interests don’t get pushed aside or forgotten if they’re unimportant to what you want to do. give. some. DAMN depth to your characters outside your faves i am BEGGING you horikoshi.

#shut up danni #mha #it's time for another installment of 'danni gets pissed off at horikoshi again'#......you know i wasn't even doing ANYTHING related to mha and i thought of this #i was reading a yuri on ice sick fic #sigh #oh well #anyways here's a take i'm p proud of #pls reblog this and validate my anger #i just get so annoyed when i think of how much potential horikoshi is throwing away because he doesn't care #or when he does develop his female characters it's always ALWAYS halfhearted in how they're developed #and very often overshadowed by their male companions also getting major major development #but! that's another separate rant on horikoshi's sexism #danni’s hot takes

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ladyloveandjustice · 4 years

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Saw the My Hero Academia Heroes Rising Movie!

It was a lot of fun (and the animation in the second half was AMAZING eye candy) but also KINDA STRANGE in some ways.

The previous MHA movie was set between the second and third season, so I assumed this would be the same and be set between the third and the currently airing one, but this actually seemed to be concurrent with wherever the manga is right now, and referenced several events that haven’t happened in the anime yet, and featured characters that haven’t appeared yet. Not like super huge spoilers, but like, for instance, Todoroki quotes something I GUESS Endeavor must have told him in the manga but hasn’t said to him in the anime yet at a dramatic moment? even that dude who caused all the controversy with his name reveal recently factors in and appears for a few minutes. So if you’re an anime-only like me, fair warning for that.

There were also a lot of hilariously contrived things in this movie including the entire premise which was like

UA: so we’ve been roasted in the press and lost the trust of society for being irresponsible supervising our students who are currently being targeted by a villainous organization that will take any opening to attack them. what do we do?

Aizawa: well I think we should send the entire class of first years to an isolated island with ZERO adult hero supervision,where the nearest help is like a thousand miles away and they can easily be cut off from communication with the outside world! Also we should task them with protecting the entire populace, and do absolutely nothing to check up on them or keep the League of Villains from following them and attacking. This is a cool island with no crime on it usually so, y’know, it should be fine.

UA: brilliant!

It did make for some cool fight scenes and having all the peeps in class 1A get to show off their powers a bit, which is something the first movie didn’t do very well. The first half of the movie was very obnoxious in the ‘guys fight, girls are in charge of evacuation and don’t get to fight bc we’re not going to bother to hide our sexism here’ but the second half had all the kids teaming up for cool combo attacks which mitigated it a bit.

also Bakugou and Deku’s contrasting ways of dealing with the two little kids they were protecting WAS side-splitting; at one point poor Deku has to crawl on Bakugou’s back and SHOVE HIS FINGERS INTO HIS EYES and prevent him raging out at these small children and it made me laugh so hard, as did the little girl saying “OH HEY IT’S THE MEAN ONE” when Bakugou arrived to rescue her.

BUT HEY SPEAKING OF BOTH COOL FIGHTS AND REALLY CONTRIVED THINGS, THAT ENDING.

in an article I skimmed, Horikoshi mentions the movie is basically an idea he considered for the final arc, and I was like “huh I wonder how that works” but when you watch the last half of the movie YUP it’s truly a bunch of climactic shonen final arc resolution events happening that are then immediately undone and it’s just SO awkward and hilarious. spoilers under the cut

Basically, Deku and Bakugou fight a villain who is basically All for One except it’s A Different Dude.

Deku is all: KACCHAN I WILL SACRIFICE ONE FOR ALL AND GIVE IT TO YOU SO WE CAN LIKE, BOTH HAVE IT FOR A WHILE AND BEAT THIS GUY WITH DOUBLE POWER AND THEN IF WE LIVE YOU’LL JUST HAVE IT I GUESS

Bakugou: wtf really. (his conflicted, upset and uncomfortable expressions here were REALLY detailed, like I said the animation was gonzo, but it was honestly rlly weird to see him experience a lot of emotions at once IM NOT USED TO HIM HAVING MORE THAN ONE)

DEKU: YEAH WHY NOT, JUST FUCKIN’ TAKE IT, YOU GET TO HAVE EVERYTHING JUST LIKE WHEN YOU STOLE MY LUNCH MONEY

Bakugou: oh shit...we’re going to slowly reach and have our fingers brush each other and struggle until we finally clasp hands aren’t we...

Deku: YEAH THAT’S RIGHT BITCH!!! AND WE’LL MIX BLOOD WHILE MIGHT U TOUCHINGLY PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND

Bakugou: fuck. Kirishima can’t ever know about this

Deku: NOW ACCEPT THIS HAND, AND THUS SYMBOLICALLY YOU ACCEPT THE HAND I OFFERED YOU WHEN WE WERE FIVE OR WHATEVER, CULMINATING YOUR ARC AS MY RIVAL AND GIVING YOU THE POWER TO BECOME SUPER SAIYAN

Bakugou: oh no you’re not kidding I look so stupid.

Deku: That you do, Vegeta. NOW ARE YOU EXCITED TO BREAK YOUR ARMS!!!

Bakugou: didn’t you spend like, a whole episode realizing you have legs??? what happened to that? but yeah actually i am i have always wanted to show i can break my arms with these powers way better than u ever did!!!

Deku: honestly I couldn’t have chosen anyone more deserving than u to feel this pain

anyway they fight together and then pass out and All Might arrives ten minutes late with starbucks: what the fuck did you do young midoriya

Deku: I’M SO SAD I SACRIFICED MYSELF AND MY DREAM.

All Might: NOT AS SAD AS ME IF YOU GAVE MY POWERS TO YOUNG BAKUGOU! THAT MEANS I ACTUALLY HAVE TO SPEND A TIME WITH HIM NOW. DO YOU KNOW HOW ANNOYING THAT WILL BE FOR ME

Deku: sorry

All Might: oh thank god i guess Bakugou passed out conveniently before the powers fully transferred so you still have them or whatever

Deku: wow that is incredibly convenient.

All Might: alternately maybe my mentor was doing me a solid from beyond the grave and stopped the power from transferring to someone obnoxious with the other One for All-ers. Thanks Hero Mom :’). always looking out for me.

Deku: uhh when i proposed a similar theory about the people connected to One for All helping me you said it was stupid-?

All Might: YEAH WELL THAT WAS WHEN YOU SAID IT WASN’T IT??? SHUT UP.

Deku: anyway in the trend of convenient happenings, when Bakugou woke he remembered nothing about this fight...

Bakugou: Assagdsfasfasdasd WHY ARE MY ARMS BROKEN???

Deku:... so our relationship in the main series isn’t affected and -

Bakugou: WHY ARE MY ARMS BROKEN IN THE SPECIFIC EXACT WAY DEKU’S ARE ALSO BROKEN???

Deku: ...and the status quo can remain!

Bakugou: you know what. I’m not going to question this any further. because i don’t ever want to remember the fact i held hands with a nerd. god i love repressing.

***

Like can you imagine if Horikoshi had gone through with this, what a depressing ending this would be without the reset???. “all that stuff about this being the story of deku becoming the greatest hero lol we pranked you’ I’M GLAD HE CHANGED HIS MIND but also it tickles me that he apparently thought at one point that holding hands with Deku was the ultimate endpoint of Bakugou’s character. I hope in his original plan Bakugou had held hands with everyone else in Class 1A at that point and Deku was the Final Step.

Anyway, ridic contrivances aside it was a fun movie and it was very fun to see it in theatres with everyone very excited and cosplayers and all that. JUST PREPARE TO DRINK IN THE SHONEN, CUZ THEY AIN’T HOLDIN’ BACK.

#my hero academia #heroes rising movie #nev watches mha #reviews #my reviews #this isn't coherent enough to be a review but whatevs

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comicgeekscomicgeek · 3 years

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Their Hero Academia – Chapter 71: Past Endeavors

Presenting the next installment of my on-going, nextgen, MHA fic! Earlier chapters can be found here

“So this is public transportation,” Izumi said. “Interesting.” She had been on the U.A. buses before, but this was quite different. Certainly, there was a more interesting variety of people riding the subway, including one homeless man who seemed deep in conversation with what appeared to be thin air.

“It’s just a subway train,” Chihiro told her. Her Cords were retracted in the confined space of the car, but animated. She’d warned early on that a crowded car at this time of day could come with its share of “perverts.”

“Not a very good one,” Mineta said, pouting a bit. “No one’s tried to grope me or take an upskirt photo! Aren’t I good enough for these sleezebags? It’s enough to give a girl a complex!”

Chihiro buried her face in her hands. “Why are you like this?”

“There’s several theories.”

Izumi was grateful for the company. Though she was determined to see this through, she had worried she would back out if she did it on her own. And she was well aware that she was what Chihiro called a “sheltered rich girl,” making the journey more complicated. This was her first time riding the subway, after all. Chihiro had insisted on accompanying her and Mineta had insisted on coming along as well.

Perhaps she should have asked Katsumi. But her dear friend was also quite volatile. The likelihood of violence breaking out when she met her grandfather was not insignificant.

She did feel a bit guilty though. Izumi had asked their driver to take her into the city, with instructions that she would call for pick-up in a few hours, under the pretense of meeting her friends. None of which was a lie. She had met up with Chihiro and Mineta. What she had been untruthful about was that they had then taken the subway, which was not a question that had been asked, so it was not a lie. Their destination was not far, only a pair of stops past the station they had boarded at, but she desperately needed to keep her actions hidden from her parents.

She was also slightly in disguise, wearing clothes that Chihiro had brought her. They were casual things, jeans and a t-shirt with the name of some band on it. Her hair was mostly stuffed up under a lime-green hat with cat ears. As the daughter of two prominent Heroes and part of two extremely well-known families, she has spent a considerable portion of her life in the limelight, even if only at the edges of it. The story of her illness had leaked as a child and made numerous headlines as well, even if the details were sparse. To say nothing of how much of Japan had seen her during the Sports Festival. Despite coming in second, Mineta was drawing less attention, perhaps because she seemed to desperate for it; offense as a defense, as it were.

Izumi was going to see her grandfather, Enji Todoroki, also known as Endeavor, and he had been the Number One Hero once upon a time. Even as the Heroes of her parents’ generation had been ascending, he had continued to hold a place in the Top Ten. But mysteriously, about eleven years ago, shortly after she had recovered from her illness, he had publicly confessed to the numerous mistakes he had made and the abusive behavior he had engaged in with his children, then retired from his Hero career and from public life. She could not remember the last time she had seen him.

But with a little bit of ethically dubious help from Mineta (She had been able to guess her father’s password for Hero-Net resources, which had gotten them a location), she now knew where he was. And she had so many questions for him. Questions she could not ask her parents, for she did not believe she could trust them to be honest about this. She loved them dearly and knew that they loved her, but if what she suspected was true, then they were absolutely keeping secrets from her. It cast the specter of doubt over anything she might learn.

Because her grandfather’s retirement coincided with the capture of a Villain called Plague, a Villain with the ability to unleash devastating diseases. A Villain who had escaped from custody not that long ago. Plague, who had, by all accounts, previously turned himself in voluntarily…

There were too many coincidences and things happening at the same time. She was certain she had been one of Plague’s victims, though whether that had been intentional or not, she could not say. But her illness tracked to the exact time of his rampage across Japan and matched the symptoms exactly. Her grandfather was the best chance she had for getting real answers.

Of course, the real question was… answers to what? Was it enough to know whether she was a deliberate victim or simply an unfortunate bystander? Did she want to know what part her grandfather had played in it all? Did she want to know if the escaped Plague was still a threat to her and her family?

She wasn’t sure. Izumi only knew that there was too much about the circumstances of her own life that she did not know. The events of her past still cast a shadow over her future. Her illness had exasperated her already somewhat frail constitution, making it the reason she still struggled with stamina and endurance. She was proud of her accomplishments and all she had overcome. But if she did not have those limitations…

Chihiro gave her a slight nudge. “Hey, we’re here. It’s our stop.”

***

The house before them was a simple, small, one story affair, in a nice neighborhood. It and its lawn and garden were well kept. It was a far cry from the spacious and sprawling house her father, uncles, and aunt had grown up in. Aunt Fuyumi and Uncle Tensei lived there now, the house having been left to her when her grandfather had retired from public life and Hero work. And it was smaller by far than the estate her immediate family lived in, a truly large mansion with expansive grounds and even guest houses. When she was younger, some of her friends had joked that it must have had its own postal code. Or, as Chihiro had said, “its own phone number.”

To think that her grandfather had been so close all this time and she had never known it, only a few subway stops away from U.A.

“Well,” Chihiro said, “here we are.”

“Right where anybody could walk up,” Mika said. “Kind of expected a big fence or something, based on all the stories.”

Izumi’s heart thudded in her chest. “This may have been a bad idea,” she said. “Perhaps I should have called first. Maybe we should come back another time. We do not even know if he is home.” She took a slight step backwards.

“Hey.” Chihiro put a hand on her shoulder. “Look at me.” Izumi turned her head to look at her friend. “You want to go, we’ll go. Strategic retreat, no shame. But you already came all this way. Might as well give it a shot.”

The path to the door was made of carefully carved stones. As with everything about the house and garden, it suggested the occupant had taken great care to make everything just so. That matched with what little she knew of her grandfather, a demanding man who sought perfection in all things.

As they stood in front of the door, Izumi looked to her left and right. Both of her friends gave her a small nod. Carefully, she raised a hand and knocked on the door, once, twice, three times. It was a solid, heavy door, and the knock sounded out loud and clear.

“He must not be home,” she said after a moment. “We should go.”

“Hold your horses,” Chihiro said.

“Hey! Buy me dinner first!”

“Not what I meant, Mika.”

Suddenly, Izumi could hear the sound of heavy footsteps near the door. After a moment longer, the door opened and her grandfather stepped into view. Enji Todoroki was a large man, taller and broader than her father. His former red hair had gone grey with age. He still had a deep scar over his left eye and she could see burn scars on his face, hands, and peeking out from the collar of his shirt and going up his neck.

“What do you want?” he began, his eyes narrow and harsh. She suspected he received very few visitors.

“I,” she began, then faltered. She had been so determined when she had made these plans, but now she found all her confidence failing her. Where was her determination to prove herself? Where was the strength she had found to challenge Katsumi and her classmates at the Sports Festival? Why could she not form the words?

“Out with it!” he growled, so harshly that this time, all three of them took a step back.

“Hey!” Mineta snapped. “You can’t talk to us like that!”

“I’ll do what I like with unwelcome and uninvited girls on my own property,” her grandfather growled.

“Please,” Izumi said softly. She reached up and pulled off the hat, letting her dual colored hair cascade behind her. “Grandfather. I just wish to talk. There are things I must know.”

His eyes widened as recognition dawned. “Izumi…!”

***

It had taken considerable convincing to get Chihiro and Mineta to leave. Both girls had insisted on staying with her, but while her grandfather was willing to speak to her, he had been unwilling to entertain her friends. This was understandable. There had been a weight in her request to talk, one that betrayed the important and deeply personal nature of the conversation. But ultimately, she had convinced them to return to the small shopping district they had passed on their way to her grandfather’s house. She would let them know when she was ready to rejoin them.

The interior of Grandfather’s house reminded her very much of the traditional Todoroki home, Japanese-styled with tatami mats. There was more furniture than she would have expected of a man who lived alone, but she also recalled that Aunt Fuyumi had a closer relationship with him than her own family did. It was something both she and her father made a concentrated effort not to speak of, lest their own relationship become damaged. She realized somewhat belatedly that she could have gotten her grandfather’s whereabouts directly from her aunt, but that would have been uncomfortable and awkward for all involved… and might not have yielded the results she wanted. Aunt Fuyumi might well have respected her father’s wishes that she not see her grandfather.

She sat on the small couch, sipping tea that Grandfather had provided. He sat opposite her with tea of his own, in an armchair. “Thank you,” she began, “for visiting me in the hospital. And for the rabbit.”

His eyes softened slightly as he set his teacup on a side table. “You’re welcome,” he said. “I knew you were out there when those Nomu attacked. I was worried that…” He trailed off, not finishing that thought.

“I pushed myself, but I endured,” Izumi said, with some degree of pride. “Chargebolt and Grape Juice did the fighting. I merely acted as containment.” Her thoughts raced back to that morning. She had been so certain that all she’d done was seal Uncle Denki and Mister Mineta into an icy tomb. But they had held the line until Uncle Izuku had arrived to the rescue.

“You should be proud,” Grandfather said. “I watched your performance at the Sports Festival. You’re stronger than I ever could have dreamed you would be. Especially after…”

He seemed to realize how his words sounded, as though he disbelieved how someone with her weaknesses could succeed. “I’m sorry,” he went on. “That sounded harsher than I meant it. I’m truly, truly proud and pleased by your successes.”

“Thank you,” she said. “But it is the “after” and what caused it that brought me here today.” Izumi sat down her teacup and folded her hands in front of her, drawing herself up to her full seated height.

“I need to know about Plague. About what he did, what he did to me. About what caused you to retire and bear your sins publicly. And why these rifts between you and Father now exist.”

Grandfather frowned. “I suppose I should have expected this sooner or later.” He looked down, as though deciding whether or not to tell her anything or perhaps whether or not to simply throw her out. “But you deserve the truth, to know the whole truth of yourself. It is a long tale and not a particularly pleasant one.”

She simply nodded. “I’m listening.”

***

“You’ve heard of the Hatamoto Program?” Grandfather asked.

“The program by which the government recruited talented and powerfully children with useful or powerful Quirks,” Izumi said, “training them outside the traditional Hero Schools so that they could then exercise more direct control over them than the average Hero.”

They had learned about it in their Hero History class. Hawks, now the Deputy Commissioner of the Hero Public Safety Committee, was the most well-known graduate of the program, though there were others. The majority of them were retired, with only the most recent graduates still active. The original League of Villains had leaked the details of the program to the public during her parents third year of U.A., in an attempt to discredit the country’s Heroes. How much that had succeeded was a matter of debate, but it had succeeded in getting the program shut down.

Grandfather nodded. “There were other programs as well. One of these was run by an organization known as the Iga Group. They were not strictly a governmental organization, in order to provide a layer of plausible deniability should it or its agents be exposed, but for all intents and purposes, they were just another arm of enforcement. Their mission was to capture and contain anyone whose Quirk was deemed too dangerous to the general population to be allowed to remain free.”

It should not have surprised Izumi as much as it did. Quirks which were dangerous to others were something society struggled with to this day. She knew there were many people who received special support equipment or other accommodations from the government because of their Quirks and the problems they created. There had been a boy in her elementary school who had to go for weekly appointments where he was able to safely discharge the radioactivity he could generate.

And the limited information she had been able to look up about Plague had included accusations of the same thing. It had never been proven one way or the other, but after Uncle Izuki had talked the man into turning himself in, a great number of people thought missing had suddenly re-entered society. It seemed there was more truth to it than she expected. It was a sobering thought. Even if it wasn’t done anymore, to think that people could have been stripped of their freedoms just because of their Quirks…!

“Though they had their own agents,” Grandfather continued, “they also employed some Heroes, to help with what they deemed particularly dangerous acquisitions. Myself included.”

At that, she let out a soft gasp. “How?” she demanded, the forcefulness she’d been lacking before returning suddenly. “How could you?”

There was a small flicker of flame across his face as her grandfather’s eyes narrowed and his jaw set itself hard, his fists clenching. He took in a breath and the flames died down, the rest of his posture relaxing. “I thought it was the right thing to do,” he said finally. “You must understand, this was a different time. I was barely twenty when they first asked for my help, newly minted as the Number Two Hero. Even with All Might having… made considerable in-roads in bringing justice, there was still a lot of danger and lawlessness. I thought that if someone could not control their Quirk, if it made them a danger, then they had to be stopped. As simple as that. I was good at bringing people in. They were usually committing acts of accidental Villainy anyway. It looked good on my record. It fueled both my goals and theirs.”

He shook his head. “As has often been the case in my life, I let my ambitions get the better of me. I thought I was doing necessary work that All Might, with his smug, smiling face and “pure heart” wouldn’t dare touch. I thought, “at least in this, I am better than he’ll ever be.’”

Her grandfather’s rivalry with All Might was well known. It was the very reason for the existence of her father, her Aunt Fuyumi, and Uncle Natsuo, which meant, in some way, she owed her own life to it. The two had allegedly been on better terms once, though she did not know if that persisted.

“And Plague was one of those people you captured for them?” she asked.

Her grandfather nodded. “He was. At the time, he was not yet a true Villain. He wasn’t calling himself Plague yet. He was a child, about the same age as Shoto, with dreams of becoming a doctor or a scientist. His Quirk was registered as “Disease Generation.” It caused him to store viruses in his body that he could release or alter. Until then, he hadn’t been any trouble. But he lost control one day and unleashed something that wiped out his entire village before help could arrive. At the time, the choice to take him in seemed obvious. In hindsight… perhaps he deserved compassion. But I had been working with the Iga for a long time by then and did not question their judgement. So we captured him. In his panic, he fought back and infected several Iga agents, but my flames ultimately brought him down. And he was taken to the Iga’s offshore prison.”

He looked down again. “Not long after that, All Might was forced to retire after battling All for One and I became the new Number One Hero. With it came a certain degree of additional scrutiny that the program could not afford and they cut ties with me. I put them from my mind and focused instead on the challenges ahead of me.”

Izumi nodded, unsure of how else to respond. How many innocents had her grandfather burned and subdued, whose only crimes were having a Quirk someone at the Iga had deemed dangerous? How could he so casually have put it behind him? Even in Plague’s case, it sounded as though it had been an accident… Where did the scales of justice fall for such a thing?

“Time passed,” Grandfather continued. “And I began to realize the harm I had done my family. Becoming the Number One caused me to reflect upon what I had done to them. Little by little, I did begin to reconnect with your father and Fuyumi. Natsuo never forgave me. And, of course, Toya had been hiding in plain sight the whole time, eventually turning on his League of Villain allies in order to protect his unborn child with that psychopath.”

A cousin she had never met, just as she had never met her Uncle Toya. She had herd her father speak of her occasionally. All she knew was that her cousin was a criminal, the daughter of her Uncle Toya and the former League member known as Himiko Toga.

“Things were strained, I admit,” Grandfather said. “But they were… slowly getting better. I was allowed to attend your father’s wedding. I was even allowed to spend time with you as a child, though I am sure you were too young to remember.”

She shook her head. “I don’t. I’m sorry. Just flashes and fragments.”

He looked defeated at that, but nodded and moved on. “To be expected. By the time you were four, I was already being surpassed in the rankings by Deku, Lemillion, Ground Zero, and even Shoto. And rather than being offended by it… I was proud. And then, Plague escaped from Iga custody, in the company of two others that had been captured, a man called Manticore whose Quirk made him into a monstrous and uncontrollable beast and another called Bloodstorm with a blood-bending Quirk called Hemokinesis. It’s still never quite been determined how they did it.”

He leaned forward in his chair, his tone becoming somehow even more serious. “But they held Japan in a state of terror for months. Many people were laid low and sickened by bio-terrorism, with Bloodstorm and Plague working in concert while Manticore provided the muscle. With it being well known that Shoto was my son and that he had a family, it was not hard for him to find the perfect way to strike at us, at me. He infected you.”

That was it then. No more questions about it. She had been a target, not merely an unfortunate victim. And only then, a target to cause her grandfather pain and distract the Heroes like her father. The weakness that she still carried with her, all the times her body had failed her, it was all his fault. She could already feel her cheeks flushing with anger.

“It was your fault,” she said flatly. The words simply spat out of her, a powerful accusation.

Her grandfather’s eyes widened and he looked down, shame written all over his face. She could no more have hurt him than if she’d struck him with her Quirk. “It is,” he said. “I’ve carried that with me every day since then.”

She should have left then and there. But there was regret in her grandfather’s voice. How dare he treat it as something he could simply feel sorry for? He carried it with him? What about what she carried with her? Izumi was angry. Angrier than she could ever recall being in her entire life. She stood.

“Do you know,” Izumi demanded, “how I have suffered because of you?” She could feel the room growing colder around her and the heat inside her own body starting to rise. “How often I am left with barely the strength to even stand? How difficult it is to regulate the two aspects of my Quirk? How hard I have to fight for my place among my friends? How my parents treat me as some fragile China doll, confident in me one moment, afraid I might break upon the slightest breeze the next? Do you know?!”

Frost had collected around her feet, spreading out across the tatami mats, stopping less than a centimeter from her grandfather’s chair, traveling around it and completely encircling him. She could feel the heat inside her, a glowing red center. She could hold it for now, but her anger seemed to stoke it, demanding its release. She had such a perfect target right in front of her.

He looked smaller now, so very defeated, his arms hanging limply at his sides. He did not look her in the eye. “You have every right to hate me,” he said. “It was my fault. He targeted you because of me.”

She was breathing hard now, her muscles clenched tightly. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to draw every last iota of heat from his body, to do something. If only he would yell back, show some anger of his own, react as anything other than a punching bag. She wanted Katsumi here. Her friend was so such less inhibited than she. Katsumi would have already torn the old man apart.

But Izumi… Izumi was not that person. She would fight with all her might, for her friends, for justice, for what was right. But she would not strike a man who would not fight back, no matter the wrong he had caused her.

All the same, she should have left. She had confirmed her suspicions. But there was so much more she needed to know. “I am not certain I hate you,” she said after a long moment, sitting back down. A little bit of vapor came with her words and she had to focus a moment to cease leeching heat from the environment. “But I do not particularly like you in this moment. But I need to know the whole story. What happened next? How was I cured? Why did this cause you to retire?”

Her grandfather nodded. “You deserve all the answers,” he said. “I’ll do my best to tell you them.

“After you became ill, it already began to strain things between Shoto and myself. I had told him what I knew about Plague and the others and the part I had played with the Iga. He assumed, correctly, that you had been targeted because of me. Shoto and his friends doubled-down on their investigations, even as the cases grew and you grew sicker and sicker. Plague grew bolder, breaking into television broadcasts. His virus had not killed anyone yet, but he claimed he would escalate it if those responsible for stealing his life did not confess their crimes. Eventually, Lemillion was able to put together enough clues to find where the three of them were hiding out.” He closed his eyes for a moment, at those reliving those memories. How much guilt did he feel? It couldn’t possibly have been enough.

“Plague was ahead of us. He sent Bloodstorm and Manticore into the heart of Tokoyo. Shoto, Ground Zero, Lemillion, and Ingenium took them on. It left Deku and myself to battle Plague. Just as well. I suspect Shoto would not have trusted himself to fight alongside me. I suspect more of their friends would have joined in, but they feared what might happen elsewhere with that many Heroes mobilizing. The second League of Villains was already beginning to make noise, splitting their attention.

“Plague was hiding in his old village. It had been abandoned since then… but he had remade it, built himself a lab where he could unleash his virus on the winds of a coming storm. When Deku and I arrived, threw everything he had at us. A viral load that dropped me to my knees in a moment, puking my guts out. But Deku… that boy just put everything he had into resisting, sparking like a damn emerald firecracker. I tried to burn it out of my body, raising my temperature, but it was all I could do to keep conscious. He hit Deku with so much they say the soil where he stood is still loaded with viruses.

“All the while, Plague was screaming accusations. About how he’d been kidnapped by the Iga and myself, when he’d just been a kid. About how the Iga Group had experimented on him and tortured not just him, but everyone that had captured. I didn’t want to believe it. Didn’t want to believe I’d been a party to such horrors. Any illusions I’d had that I was doing the right thing… shattered.”

There was sadness in his voice, even some measure of sympathy. Perhaps he really had thought he was doing the right thing. Her grandfather had once tried to undo the harm he’d done to his family. He was capable of guilt and remorse. Izumi was not always the best judge of people’s emotions and behaviors, but she believed him here. For now, at least.

He shook his head. “And Deku… Deku told Plague he believed him. He even promised that he would look into it, that if it was true, he would smash the place open with his own hands. But only if Plague offered a cure for his virus that was ravaging the country. His sincerity must have reached him, because Plague agreed… on the condition that I confessed to my complicity as well. In that moment, I would have agreed to anything. Deku countered that by that point, it might be too late. But he promised again to investigate Plague’s claims and personally assured his safety.”

Grandfather sighed. “Plague was reluctant, untrusting even still. At that point, broken, the fragile relationship I’d built with Shoto shattered, I had nothing to lose, not even my pride. I begged him to at least save you, even offered up my own life. Deku talked him down to putting a stop to it all. Plague agreed and administered an antidote to me and gave Deku a formula.”

Izumi had a faint memory of what had happened after that: Uncle Izuku rushing into her hospital room, giving her mother a formula of some kind. Her mother must have manufactured it, personally. After that, she’d begun to recover. But she had already been somewhat fragile, something she had inherited from her grandmother, Rei. Others who had been cured, she had discovered, had recovered fully, with few lasting effects. But she still walked in the shadow of that illness.

Her grandfather continued. “In the aftermath, we turned Manticore and Bloodstorm over to the authorities. As best as I recall, they got Anima in to talk to Manticore, to see if there was anything human left under that Quirk. Bloodstorm though, was nothing but a psychopath who went straight to Tartarus. Deku claimed custody over Plague, said he was needed to save lives. He was the Number One Hero by that point; they trusted him.”

It must have been serious then, for Uncle Izuku to have believed him. But it was also no surprise that Uncle Izuku had been able to talk Plague down either. As the Symbol of Hope, he’d made it a point to do things different, to fight when he had to, but to use other methods whenever he could. It was one of many things that made him incredibly popular and incredibly valuable.

“We regrouped to take the fight to them. Lemillion and Ingenium had been injured, leaving only four of us. Iga’s prison was located on an island off the east coast of Japan. And its head was a powerful man named Jinpachi Kitagawa, who had a geokinetic Quirk that let him control magma. He was a military man, who fit in well with the early days of Quirk laws. But the times were already starting to change, and his obsession with protection was turning more to madness in the face of it. When Deku, Shoto, Ground Zero, Plague, and I arrived… he must have known his time was over. He set his forces on us immediately and even joined in the battle himself.”

Her grandfather touched the scars on his hands. “His lava was hotter and more powerful than my flames. I could not stand against him. But Shoto could. His ice, his mother’s Quirk… It proved to be exactly what was needed that day. He saved my life, though I could tell he was tempted to simply let me die. Maybe he should have. But we won.”

He shook his head again. “The inside of the prison was more horrible than I could have possibly imagined. People half-starved, attached to more wires and machines than I could have believed. This was nothing else than outright torture and experimentation. Kitagawa was… a very sick man, with some very horrifying ideas about how society should function and who should be at the top, making the decisions. But he had whispered enough in the ears of the right people and operated for long enough that I doubt the government was fully aware of the extent of what he was doing. They didn’t want to know. They only wanted the problem Quirk users removed. Plausible deniability.”

“That does not explain your retirement,” Izumi reminded him. She was horrified by what she was hearing, but was failing to see the connections.

“I’m getting to that,” he said. If her interruption bothered him, he didn’t show it. “Things after were… not good. The government was able to keep the affair on the island hidden. Kitagawa was going to be thrown in the darkest depths of Tartarus. But Deku wanted everyone they had released, as quickly as possible. The government tried to argue, but he threatened to go public. They threatened to ruin him. He didn’t care.”

Her grandfather gave a small laugh. “Too much of All Might in that boy, related by blood or not. They caved. The government, including the HPSC, got everyone involved to keep it under wraps in exchange for acting expeditiously, while they quietly set about cataloging and releasing the people who had been kept there, along with disbanding the Iga and evaluating what to do with its employees. Some of them were loyal to Kitagawa personally, and would be imprisoned. Others… thought they were just doing a necessary job. And many of the most fanatical and loyal scattered before they could be caught, including several of their science staff. Deku wanted to go public, of course, but was ultimately convinced that such a revelation would shatter the fragile peace of society.”

He let out a low growl. “But Kitagawa did not plan on going quietly. He would break whatever he could, tear down those who had stopped him. The only thing that could head it off was another scandal. I was injured, feeling my age. If anything had taught me that this was now a young man’s game, it was this. And so I manufactured the scandal that would occupy the public and the media’s attention. Confessed publically to the wrongs I had done my family and declared my retirement from Heroics and public life. Perhaps not quite what Plague wanted from me… but I suffered the scorn and fall from grace all the same. Plague surrendered himself to custody voluntarily, recognizing that he had crossed the same lines that had been crossed in his original capture. I understand that these days, universities and labs occasionally contacted him for his expertise.”

Grandfather let out a long sigh. “It was just as well. After finding out exactly what I had been a part of and how it had nearly led to your death, your father wanted nothing more to do with me and wanted me to have nothing more to do with you. The least I could do was make sure you grew up in a world that did not give itself over the chaos of the bad old days. Like a good compromise, it left no one truly happy. It was one of the last times your father and I spoke.”

He certainly made it sound like an act of self-sacrifice… but Izumi was not so sure she could forgive so easily. Not with everything it had cost her. Not with everything he had done, all the people he had hurt, by his actions and by his ignorance.

“He has escaped,” she told him flatly. “I overheard it while doing my Internship.”

That got a reaction out of him, his eyes going wide and his flames flaring for the briefest second again. They were weak and flickering. “Impossible,” he said. “He would not…”

“I only know what I have heard,” she said. “It seems only fair that you know. Information for information.”

That was probably harsher than she should have been. But the emotions roiling inside her demanded an outlet. The blame for so much could be laid at his feet. She needed time to process it all. She needed to decide if she would confront her parents about this and the fact that they had kept it all a secret. She needed… she needed, very much not to be here.

Izumi stood again. “Thank you for your honesty, Grandfather.” She turned towards the door.

“Wait…” he began, rising slowly out of his chair. “Izumi…”

“Yes?”

“Could I… would you… ever consider… visiting again?” Despite being a big man, he looked small, pitiful, and broken. He was reaching out to her, desperate for some kind of connection.

“I shall consider it,” she said, truly not knowing the answer. She opened the door in time to see Mineta, head down, horns pointed, about to charge it.

“Mika!” Chihiro called out. “Stop!”

Mineta skidded to a stop, hooves clattering on the stones. “What? Aw, I wanted to break down the door!”

Izumi stepped outside, pointedly closing the door behind her. “Why were you going to break it down?”

“We’ve been texting for the last half hour!” Chihiro said. “You didn’t answer!”

Izumi shook her head. “I turned my phone off. I wished to be uninterrupted.”

Chihiro’s Cords pointed accusingly. “Don’t do that, okay?! We were worried!”

She nodded. “I shall try not to worry you in the future, thank you.”

“Did you get any answers?” Mineta asked. “Do we need to administer an ass-kicking to a senior citizen?”

“I do not think that will be necessary, but thank you,” Izumi told her. “But to answer your question… yes. And also no. But I know now what made me. I just have to figure out if it changes who I will become.”

“Can we figure it out on the way back?” Mineta asked. “Because there was a really nice ice cream shop on the way with a couple really cute guys behind the counter…”

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oh-my-god-maurice-the-ladybug · 4 years

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GUys

So I wrote this fan theory in class a couple days ago, for MHA.

It’s a ligit (?) essay, and also my first one. As it is my first, I might not have worded or phrased or sentenced it correctly, so if it doesn’t make sense I apalogise.

Also, it’s just a theory, so please don’t claim it’s cannon unless it’s a headcannon or something

Tagging @imasleepdeprivedtransboy because yeah. If you want to be tagged in the future (?) for things like this please ask, I won’t know unless you do.

(pssst, it’s under the blue line)

In the universe of MHA, quirks are theorized to have been caused by a virus caused by mice, causing some sort of reaction within human DNA to cause a mutation, leading to superpower-like abilities. This, while an entirely fictional event for a fictional universe, is strikingly similar to the 1350 even known as the Black Plague, which was spread by ship rats, who carried fleas that held the deadly virus, which could have likely caused a similar event earlier in the MHA timeline. While this is a completely pointless and unproductive endeavor, in this essay I will prove to you that the event that kickstarted quirks was not the first of its kind in the MHA universe.

First, we must establish the timeline of events that I am working off of to establish my theory, the timeline starting in 1348, at the start of the Black Plague’s outbreak. The Plague is known to have spread along trade routes from China, ending up in southern England, reaching northern England in 1350. During the rapid spread of this plague, 4 million people died. The plague also resurfaced again, the dates being 1361 through 1363, 1369 (nice) through 1371, 1374 through 1375, 1390, and 1400. This gives enough time for a gene to develop, or perhaps resurface, which could contribute to superhuman powers. However, in 1450, we have the start of the “witch hunts” (which lasted through 1750 with quite a bit of buildup before this), caused by a number of factors, including poverty, a lack of education, social crisis of the time, and various epidemics. During this time, around 40,000-50,000 people died, although the actual number was probably never documented. Many gruesome practices emerged during these witch hunts, including, but not at all limited too, Sleep Deprivation, Water Torture, Pricking and Scratching, and Pressing. There were also people who profited off the witch hunts, doing things like charging for exorcisms and selling the body parts of the deceased (gross, I know). Then we go on, with a couple more outbreaks of the plague documented in various places, spanning until the start of the series, of which the exact date is not disclosed.

Now, it’s known that humans do have the ability to mutate, and there are two major types of mutations, Hereditary, or mutations that are received from the parent and are present throughout the entirety of a person’s life and body, and Acquired, or mutations that appear some time during a person’s lifetime and are only present in certain cells of the body. Although there will be some focus on Acquired mutations, we will mostly be focusing on Hereditary, as it is more relevant to my point here today. Hereditary mutations, also known as germline mutations, are created when a mutation occurs while both the parent’s DNA are mixing, causing a mutation in the unborn child, which remains present in each of their cells. Examples of this include hemochromatosis, a hereditary disorder in which iron salts are deposited in the tissues, leading to liver damage, severe diabetes, and bronze discoloration of the skin, and cystic fibrosis, a disease caused by viscous mucus clogging up pancreatic ducts and bronchi. While these may not seem like really great examples of this type of mutation, please remember that these are only two examples and that they were at the top of my google search page, so there could be good ones out there if I had bothered to do ten more minutes of research.

So, if we take this into consideration, a Hereditary gene mutation that passes down from parent to child doesn’t seem that far off, because it’s already a reality for those of us who live in the real, actual world. Since MHA is very science fictional with how it goes about it’s hero-ing and plot in general, I am going to safely assume right here and now that it would be very, very easy to apply this real, actual layer of fact to an otherwise fictional universe.

Anyway, the rest of this theory will revolve on the idea that quirks are a type of hereditary mutation, which matches up with the in-text context clues given, being that quirks apparently are passed down in a family, that quirks are different from person to person (like genes, with a few exceptions), and that they seem to mix under certain circumstances. They can act like Acquired genes, for sure, but they still count as hereditary because, even if they pop up later in life, they are still inherited by the parents as dormant genes.

So, going back to the Black Plague, we can see the parallels between it and the unnamed illness that is credited with kickstarting quirks in MHA. First off, the two were both spread by a member of the Rodentia order, as both mice and rats are classified in this category, and, although we don’t know what the illness was or how it spread, we can probably assume the order in MHA started out with fleas or ticks and was spread by some form of bite, as we see in the Plague, which was spread by the fleas on the infected rats. They also, even though this is a stretch, probably killed a lot of people, and in the case of the Black Plague actually killed a lot of people, because no one would really notice a “plague” or “new illness” or even try and research it unless there was some danger involved. (Even if the danger is somewhat small-- See: Coronavirus.)

Now, believe that, in the MHA universe at least, that, while very rare and probably not well understood, that there is a possibility of developing a quirk later in life. I say this because I believe Midoriya said something about “suddenly mutating a quirk” to his mother at some point, although I couldn’t find it on the wiki so I could be wrong about that. Even so, it would be impossible to deny the lack of suspicion placed on Midoriya at the beginning (except by Bakugou, but that was more of a “that bastard lied to me” sort of reaction), and even when he does get suspicion placed on him, it’s not because he was quirkless, but because his quirk is very similar to All Might’s. It’s not even touched on by any higher ups, even in the hero coalition (I believe that’s what they’re called), so there has to be some probability of this happening for this to be ignored throughout the series, especially once Midoriya starts doing things that could potentially cause people to look at him with more scrutiny.

Using this information, it can be very easily understood that there is some sort of gene that controls if you get a quirk or not, separate from the actual quirk gene, which could potentially be activated under extreme circumstances and/or stress.

Now, having established all the background information, we can safely say that, while probably not as pronounced as a fucking glowing baby would be, the stress of the plague could have probably caused some babies and adults to have an active “quirk gene”, causing them to have what, at the time, would have been called magical abilities. People wouldn’t have really noticed or cared at first, because things like necromancy and paganism had been around for centuries at this point and had been integrated into the culture. It was the norm, after all, before people started going ham with cristianity, because a lot of Europe had been at least partially touched by Rome at some point, and even before that there were still paganistic beliefs dating back very, very far into human history. People would not really have cared back when there were, you know, bigger problems to attend to. Like illness, and death, and other things like that.

Over time, however, just as those with power grew alongside those without, the church got more involved, it got more controlling, and thus just a little, just a smidge, just a teensy bit biased towards those members of the population that had powers. They were never directly the cause of anything, but they sure as hell influenced it. Religion has always been a big player in culture, and culture a big part of religion, after all, this goes back far, far into the past, especially around the 1400s, where clergymen, nobility, and the children of the rich were the mostly only ones getting an education. There were even laws banning serfs from getting an education in some places. Once the witch hysteria took hold, and publications such as the Summis Desiderantes Affectibus (1484) and the Malleus Maleficarum (1487) were circulated around, it was basically inevitable that those who had developed powers over the past 4 and a half generations (about as many generations as the amount that had passed in MHA, if you remember, although the population of “quirk-having” people wouldn’t be nearly as big due to lots of factors such as child and infant mortality, illness, lack of food, the amount of people dying young before they had any kids, and medical practices at the time, and also because I see most of the people who had “quirks” as being among the lower class at the time) would be the first ones to take the hit. They were, after all, different from the “normal”, non-power-having humans, so, in the minds of a medieval person, they were obviously up to some shady shit and were in cahoots with the devil, which was seen as a bad and terrible thing at the time, a common thing to be accused of.

This decimated the population of empowered people, due to the 300 years of continuous hunting by people who just didn’t understand what was going on. Most of the people who would have otherwise not done any harm were hung, burned, and drowned, and those few families who did survive must have hid what they were, mostly out of fear for what would happen if the authorities found out. Hell, even people who were “quirkless” could have been wrongfully accused, but no one would have seen the difference. Genetics wasn’t a thing back then, so it really wouldn’t have mattered to anyone at the time, not that they would have checked people even if it did.

Afterward, those families would have passed down fear throughout the generations, from parent to child, even as witch hunts faded into history. It’s part of their history, the reason they don’t share their power with anyone, the reason they hide. After all, fear is one of the best motivators, anyone could tell you that. Some families do inevitably die out over time, that fact is inevitable, but there will be some that persevere, through normal, healthy means or otherwise. Even when “quirks” finally surface as the MHA characters know it in universe, they are still so scared to come out, so scared to admit what they are due to both the immediate fallout of such a thing coming out and what they were most likely told all their lives. Even years later this fear is felt, because it would still be fresh 4 generations later, that’s not that long a time when you’re comparing to the time they would have spent in hiding.

It just makes sense, and all the reasoning provided above gives reasons as to why this wouldn’t have been stated in cannon. If your family has lived in and passed down fear over the generations, probably getting worse as the years went by if it was straight word-of-mouth, you would be less likely to share what they were afraid of with the world, even years after others had come out with the very thing your family was afraid of. It’s not like all that fear, built up over years and years, would evaporate instantaneously.

Even so, we can take this idea a bit further. We know that there were plagues before this (not really even all the Black Plague in particular). Going back farther, to my good old fallback Ancient Greece, we see that there was a plague in Athens at around 429-426 BC, and that’s just one example of the probable thousands of illnesses that were most likely running around at that period of history. And you know what else those Ancient Greeks had? Demigods. Oracles. Demigods who were stronger than everyone else, Demigods who had cool and unique abilities, Demigods who were nearly impervious, Oracles and people who divinated one’s future. Move forward a bit to the Romans, and what did they have? Stories of people with very proto-quirk-esque powers, doing very, very superhuman feats, much like we see in MHA. These, however are just two examples of the thousands of stories of humans with superhuman abilities, used throughout history. Hell, even supernatural entities could be explained within the

MHA universe by using this “proto-quirk” theory, because it’s stated in cannon that sometimes quirks can affect you physically. I have no way to prove this part though.

Anyways, this is just a theory (an ANIME theory) so please don’t take it too seriously, and thanks for coming to my TEDTalk. If you have any questions, ask them, I guess. Remember to Like and Subscribe, and to Ring That Bell for notifications.

Peace out.

Sources (In No Particular Order):

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/mutationsanddisorders/genemutation

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+died+in+England+between+1348+and+1350&safe=active&ssui=on

https://www.britannica.com/event/Black-Death

http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/fire-5-real-torture-methods-tell-witch/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_for_witchcraft

https://bokunoheroacademia.fandom.com/wiki/Quirk

https://www.medicinenet.com/genetic_disease/article.htm

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hemochromatosis?s=t

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cystic-fibrosis#

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodent

https://bokunoheroacademia.fandom.com/wiki/Izuku_Midoriya/Synopsis

https://study.com/academy/lesson/how-religion-contributes-to-cultural-change.html

https://spartacus-educational.com/YALDeducation.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summis_desiderantes_affectibus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum

https://www.bl.uk/the-middle-ages/articles/medicine-diagnosis-and-treatment-in-the-middle-ages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_medicine_of_Western_Europe

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/medm/hd_medm.htm

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323533

https://www.thoughtco.com/medieval-child-surviving-infancy-1789124

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics

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thequietmanno1 · 2 years

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Thelreads, MHA 253, Replies Part 1

1) “Oh no. This ain`t good. The following chapter didn`t had a name on the folder left by my sister. Oh boy this definitely ain`t good, I know what this type of shit means, I remember the last times we had chapters that I couldn`t know the tittle.

Well, I suppose there`s nothing to do but jump in the pit of despair that is to follow. Follow me, into Chapter 252, and together we shall find the light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully it won`t be the oncoming train.”- Good idea to trust your first instinct, shame it couldn’t protect you from the revelation we’ve been building up for months towards, ever since you started Vigilantes. It wasn’t an oncoming train, but the lorry convoy and its cargo of retrospective agony instead.

2) “Oh boy, back at U.A. are we? Already over the Endeavor business, and back into business with the true horror of a teenager`s life: math homework.”- Better than the other alternative of getting abducted and spending your adolescent years getting remodelled into a sentient monster at the behest of people you’ve never even met, all to suit their purposes. Shirakumo might still be around inside Kurogiri, but he’s spent a long time walking around under All For One’s commands- perhaps even longer than he was alive as a human being even.

3) “Not gonna say that it had just begun, right? Midoriya, the amount of shit you guys went through was enough for at least three lifetimes, don`t try to tell me it was nowhere close to reaching its lowest moment”- Oh, we’re well past the beginning stages, but it is kinda a sobering though, realising that all the chaotic mayhem and gradual worsening of the situation has occurred so rapidly in only a little under nine months’ worth of time. Sure, All For One and the league kicked things off, but such a rapid change in the stability of the country indicates just how fragile it was all along, and how paper-thin the lie of true peace and safety was that All Might fought and bled to uphold for the ordinary people who just wanted a life of peace, even as his own efforts further frustrated and oppressed those who sought a different type of peace outwith what society would grant them.

4) “Also, I already see what this is gonna be about. Jesus that`s a bit more comforting, knowing that this is going to be a new year`s chapter, goddammit the lack of tittle worried me for a moment. fuck`s sake, stop tricking me like this”-The moment you feel most relaxed is the moment the trap is sprung and the pain is delivered nice and fresh.

5) “Well, you see, Bakugo realized the real victory was all the friends you made along the way. Midoriya learned of all of endeavor`s weakspots and good places to dispose a body in case Todoroki needs some help.”- Shoto learned that forgiveness is not something that is easily obtained or granted on a whim and that he needs to work on some more hot/cold one liners for putting villains down.

6) “Calm down Aizawa, the day just got started and the kids are on their way to the killing ground, don`t tell me you came all this way to give them some shitty news or something, we don`t need this kind of negativity on this house.”-Well Aizawa’s got some fairly shitty news coming his way shortly enough and it renders him so negative he can’t even stay on campus anymore.

7) “…

I have a slightly suspicion that we`ll see very little of the new year`s eve this chapter, by the way things are going. It wasn`t this the reason I was denied the tittle, right?”- You see the outline of the trap but not the exact mechanism by which it will active…

8) “…

God fucking dammit Ida.”- To be fair, learning how to act loose and easy-going is something that’s quite hard for Iida to do and very important if he wants to get along with a sizeable number of sidekicks like Tenya did- which, I always kinda assumed he’d be aiming for, if he wanted to surpass him as a hero.

9) “Oh good, they called him to talk before he snapped and- well, snapped Kaminari and Sero`s necks”- Oh, he’s about to snap in a very different, not-funny way….

10) “Huh, new costume? I don`t see anything different, but then again, I`m not that good with details- HAGAKURE CAN YOU PUT A SHIRT PLEASE? THIS IS A CHRISTIAN WEBSITE, BEHAVE YOURSELF!”- I think she’s added wider, more antenna-like protrusions to her helmet, possibly for allowing Radio communication, as well as large gauntlet-like ‘cuffs’ she can store her new wire tool in alongside other, more important objects…

11) “And Uraraka apparently got some new equipment alongside her costume change. A heavy wire on her wrist… I do wonder, is she going to make her own version of Black whip? Is she going to incorporate a medium range weapon on her arsenal after Midoriya started using one as well? Well, that will be answered after we see what is that Mina just dropped.”- Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but thinking about it, Uraraka’s quirk is basically perfect for web-swinging anyway and cuts out the nasty side-effects of gravity pulling you down if you don’t find another anchor point to grab onto fast before you hit the ground. Plus, with her gravity nullification, she can either grab objects floating away from her and reel them towards a target or hold onto civilians and use the wire as a guiding line to move them to a safe location, such as down off a high-rise building that’s on fire. Of course, that was all secondary to having the excuse to get a large enough compartment added to her costume to have a very important gift by her side at all time when she needs a morale boost…

12) “Oh, I remember that, isn`t it the gift Midoriya got her?”- Mina and the other girls recognise it too, meaning we weren’t the only one watching that little gift exchange with interest…

13) “oh yeah, it was that, and mina, as the absolute shipper that she is, immediately connected the dots on what it was and why Uraraka had it. Yeah, we all know the reason for that as well wink wink ;) ”- It was to give us a final dose of wholesome shipping teasing before the rest of the chapter introduces the failed outcome of a teenage romance cut short by tragedy and literally warped into an unrecognisable form…

14) “Meanwhile, there`s no place for romance at the MANLY MAN LOCKER ROOM OF MANLINESS. HERE WE ONLY SPEAK OF MUSCLES, GUNS, POWER, and the crushing weight of expectations caused by toxic masculinity and the difficulty on opening up about it to other people due to the fear of not conforming to society. ALSO CARS AND GUNS MOUNTED ON CARS.”- Fittingly, Bakugou shortly thereafter demonstrates an insecure teenager’s reaction to feeling like he’s getting overshadowed by his competitor and getting rendered insignificant in their personal race to become number one- excessive use of violence to demonstrate his disapproval, remind everybody that he’s there and plenty strong already and vent his frustrations with himself for feeling weaker than Izuku, even if momentarily. Truly, this boy is a psychologist’s field day.

15) “OH JESUS FUCK BAKUGO

YOU FUCKING KILLED HIM LIKE THAT?!”- And we can take this as proof that Bakugou regularly bolts a sharp piece of spiky metal to his face as part of his costume for no other reason than to look cool and imposing, even though it’s gotta be pretty heavy and cardboard would probably do the trick just as well. This kid goes the extra mile to look like his idealised image of a manly hero, so it’s no wonder he gets along so well with Kirishima.

16) “HOLY JESUS THAT WASN`T EVEN A GAG THAT HAPPENED FOR REAL”- Luckily, it seems the next piece of OFA’s powers that Izuku’s unlocking is the ridiculous durability All Might demonstrated from getting blasted through multiple buildings with only minor damages to show for it, allowing him to tank impalement with barely a reaction once the shock wore off. Kid’s gonna be nearly bulletproof by the time he fully masters his abilities.

17) “OH MY GOD HE`S STILL GOING ON EVEN THOUGH HE DIED”- They eventually needed surgery to get it out, and whilst Izuku’s mostly fine, they have to leave a piece of the mask stuck inside his brain and now he can no longer count backwards from 10.

18) “ALL MIGHT PLEASE THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR JOKES, YOUR SON DIED AND BAKUGO DOESN`T EVEN REGRET IT, DO SOMETHING PLEASE!”- Or it’s precisely the time for jokes, because poor Aizawa is not in a good place and somebody’s gotta keep the kids occupied and unaware of their teacher’s grief until he’s had time to process all these revelations and compose himself.

19) “Urgent business, eh? Was it something related to Eri? Well, it doesn`t look like it, since he`s out of school right now… I don`t know, something fucky is going on, and I`m already getting scared.”- This dates back to before he became a certified dad, and in fact, is mostly the reason he even became one in the first place. The Skeletons in your closet don’t normally come out and say ‘hello’ on their own, and with this particular zombie, Aizawa doesn’t even know what to think anymore- hell, the man’s so shaken he can’t even drive himself to the prison, even though he’s gotta own some kind of motorised vehicle and a licence if he wants to get around.

20) “Oh, you got Mic to drive you around? dammit aizawa- and you even complain while he drives your ass around, fuck`s sake man, let him be a responsible driver.”- At this point, the unanswered hope that it’s all a mistake and the horrible, horrible reality they’re in where their childhood friend got frankenstiened together into a tailor-made monster by somebody they didn’t even know existed until a few months ago isn’t real is the only reason Aizawa isn’t having a full-on mental breakdown, and the warring desire to confirm in and at the same time, reject the truth is making him irritable. Beyond even the horror of what’s become of Kumo, he’s seen All For One in action, and knows exactly who did that to his friend. Aizawa’s past shows that he’s well aware of his weaknesses, and even if he wants to enact vengeance for the desecration of his old friend, there’s nothing he can do against somebody as awe-inspiringly powerful as All For One himself, especially since he’s currently locked up and absolutely isolated from the outside world. He can do nothing about this messed-up situation, so the only thing he can do right now is pray that it’s not real… but Horikoshi and All For One have no kindness to spare. @thelreads

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