#technically quirk meta

[comradekiwi]

do you think katsuki’s hands are sensitive bc no matter how fire-retardant his quirk makes his palms they’re still human skin. and constantly subject to intense heat

so maybe katsuki is shivering as much from touching izuku as izuku is from being touched by katsuki. like even a palm flat on izuku’s bare waist has them both in shambles — because they’re whipped and because katsuki’s hands feel like they’re on fire… to both of them

see because you’d think they’d be calloused right? from working out and all. but his mom’s side of his quirk is glycerin and the inherent constant moisturizing heals his skin barrier hella fast and thus. no thickening of rough skin..

not saying his hands aren’t rough because rough hands can be sensitive too. in fact sometimes they’re even more so, especially to gentleness in juxtaposition.

which is why izuku’s soft skin is katsuki’s undoing.

and katsuki’s hot palms are izuku’s. so when they’re together and exploring they’re both a shaking mess because wow the love of their life is touching them but also WOW they are so sensitive to it

just imagine izuku’s gentle hands on katsuki’s scars, a touch he now has a pavlovian response to, since izuku’s hands trailing over his are enough for katsuki to fall apart.

and (thanks min) imagine katsuki’s heated, cautious fingers tracing izuku’s sensitive scars, the contact electrifying for them both.

maybe katsuki can’t get enough of the feeling of izuku’s soft skin, and his bumpy skin, under his hands — it’s soothing, like an itch being scratched, like a buzz settling. (obviously izuku can’t get enough either, of kacchan’s burning palms on his bare skin, heating him to the bone.)

just thinking about katsuki’s hot hand palming izuku’s bare side and dragging up and they’re both trembling from it… izuku from the heat settling into his very cells and katsuki from the feel of izuku on his sensitive skin… and they’re both in awe of it, the rawness, how grounding and real and wonderous it feels all at once.

when katsuki massages izuku’s aching joints it does something to him, too, the feel of scar tissue under the pads of his fingers. sometimes it’s after training, so katsuki can almost feel the very ridges of his own fingerprints from sensitivity, and so izuku’s knobby fingers, bumpy scars, the spaces of babysoft in between — he can feel it all press into the valleys in between the whorls on the pads of his fingers, as if the ridges were mountains, or peaks stamping into the earth of izuku’s skin.

it’s a relief, to press his hands into izuku, as much as it is a relief for izuku’s aching form to be pressed into. for katsuki after too much explosion, it feels like hushing an overactive pain; for izuku after training or the cold, it feels like drawing out a smothered voice.

#bkdk #bakudeku #kiwi writes #decchan #katsudeku #bkdk fic #of sorts #drabble #bkdk hc #technically quirk meta

[prokopetz]

So help me, I love JRPG bosses with stupid meta strategies that exploit some quirk of the mechanics to ruin your day. Like, yeah, cast a spell that changes my primary damage-dealer's damage type to an element the boss is healed by, and I can't even remove it because it's technically a buff and all of the condition-removing effects specifically don't remove buffs. Give me a boss whose passive aura grants spell reflection to the opposing party, which in practice prevents me from healing myself but doesn't hinder the boss at all because literally all of their attacks are physical type. Go on, make it weird.

#gaming #video games #game design #tropes #jrpgs #violence mention

[mamashenanigans]

Official translation for 407 is out.

It actually humanizes AFO more it’s hilarious.

“Hubris: excessive pride or over-confidence.”

The first part here seems to reflect his Quirk. Also, Yoichi was the first person within his reach.

The second part is quite literally how a baby feels. Babies don’t have wants. They have needs. Nobody paid him any attention when he cried and screamed. No one could provide for him, so he distrusts them. And I’m no expert, but I do have an 11 year old daughter that I gave birth to and raised. Those first 6 months are ROUGH. And the biting when breastfeeding? I had to cry in the shower a few times.

(He may be keeping his mother’s Quirk sentimentally because technically she was the first to provide for him.)

The innate desire of his Quirk to possess coupled with the fact no one paid him any mind and couldn’t provide for him is the perfect mixture for a kid that is growing up wanting.

It’s also of note that keeping Yoichi around literally goes against his idea of distrust if you can’t give him anything.

The end chapter changes the last part of AFO’s thinking about Yoichi leaving him, but I still don’t think he outright killed him. In the panel of him using rivets to attack the anti-meta people, you can see a hand torn off from one of them.

Yoichi must have bled out after being taken away by Kudo and 3rd, else, why would AFO not know he killed him and was searching for him? I still can’t get over the look on his face when Kudo tells him that and also the earlier flashback of him straight crying while also looking at Kudo with so much hate.

JFC I still have a week until we know what happens.

Here’s my speculation:

-AFO tore off Yoichi’s hand in jealousy and is honestly caught off guard that he did it. This allows 3rd to grab Kudo and Yoichi and flee before he can do anything.

-Yoichi dies from blood loss with Kudo and 3rd, giving his power to Kudo beforehand.

-AFO is searching for Yoichi, somehow gets the name of the 2nd, and finds him.

-We see that little bit of humanity when he cries.

-He realizes how Yoichi’s Quirk works and there are quick shots of him tracking down the OFA users and killing them if they don’t have it. He finally gets to Banjo who he is able to grab to take it back and sees an image of Yoichi, realizing that Yoichi is “alive” within the Quirk itself. However, he could have possibly figured it out early on depending on how soon he meets Garaki.

-Oh, and Yoichi’s hand is with him. Extra points if he rubs it against his face because I have that image in my head.

-A page about AFO naming Yoichi. Need that.

#all for one #afo #my hero academia #yoichi shigaraki #boku no hero academia #bnha afo #bnha yoichi #bnha spoilers #mha407 #spoilers

[darkonekrisrewrite]

Toga Himiko’s True Quirk

 (Toga and Quirk Meta) (Long Meta, Permission to use anywhere given)

Toga Himiko’s Quirk is officially “Transform” but I believe that there’s a deeper twist, a hidden classification of her Quirk that better explains everything about Toga herself.

Toga’s action and the events surrounding her, and what she wants most as part of her Normal.

This change in definition for her would explain everything.

Quirks can be anything in Bnha’s setting but when they do correlate with something, the recognizable parts of their power, the host of the Quirk always has other qualities that pair with that definition.

There’s the Nature and Animal based Quirks:

Kamui Woods and Bubble Girl are both Heroes with Quirks based off of natural things: Wood and Bubbles.

The Rabbit Hero Mirko is, obviously, based off of a Rabbit.

But the important thing to note in these cases is the “Favorite Things” Part of their descriptions:

Kamui: Forest Strolls

Bubble Girl: Bathing

Mirko: Carrots

All things that connect with their Quriks.

Another important thing to note is that Quirks aren’t restricted to just “Real Things/Beings”:

The Hero Ryukyu’s Quirk is based off of a Dragon, a Mythical being, and what is her “Favorite Thing”?

“Anything Sparkly”

A trait very common among Dragons in fantasy; like Smaug from the Hobbit or Fafnir from the Norse Mythology.  (Not a direct comparison to ‘Wealth/Gold’ but definitely close enough to get the point across.)

Quirks influence the Host’s “Likes/desires”

Not only reflecting their physical appearance but also their internal drives, compelling them to certain things.

Now it could be argued that they only like these things because their Quirks gave them the idea in the first place and nothing more but I don’t think that’s true:

Hawks and Tsuyu (Hawk and Frog) both exhibit the need to Consume the things related to their Quirks: Chicken and Insects.

A more clear cut to see in Tsuyu’s case, since Insects wouldn’t be normal for her to want to eat as opposed to Chicken with Hawks, but the implications come across clearly:

The Host’s Quirk influencing their Diet.

How does all of this tie back in to Toga and her Quirk?

The Bakeneko

Even just the appearance is pretty familiar right??

And the Similarities keep pairing up perfectly from there.

First with the small examples:

They are said to lurk in the mountains when in hiding:

The league of Villains as a whole hid in the mountain areas during My Villain Academia.

The Bakeneko’s Tails:

Legends vary on the Bakeneko’s tail, in that with age it can split and become multiple tails, although technically becoming a different, nearly indistinguishable type of Youkai in the process.

But it’s also said that the Bakeneko’s Tail can summon “Ghostly Fireballs” that can Ignite Houses, burning them down.

Maybe a “Ghostly Fire” summoned through Toga’s “Tale” instead?

Now the much more clear cut Parralels:

They can walk without making a sound: With espionage being one of her most prominent traits, holding her breath and clearing her mind allows Himiko to erase her presence and allegedly vanish from her enemies' view. This ability isn't limited to ambushes, as it can be used in combat as well, disappearing if the opponent averts their attention from her, even for an instant.

Their Wild Nature that remains despite the gentleness they can show:

Having the Power of Necromancy, upon raising the Dead, will control them:

And finally, it is believed that a Bakeneko can transform if they drink the Blood of Murder Victims:

Everything fits, a Mythical Creature (like the Dragon), with its desires matching up to its defined being.

Likes: Bubble Girl - Baths, Kamui Woods - Forests, Ryukyu - Shiny things

Consumes: Hawks - Chicken, Tsuyu - Insects, Mirko - Carrots

Toga Himiko Likes and Consumes – Blood

Which ties in and gives even more weight to the fact that Toga never had a Choice in her existence, because this is what she is, in her desire for Blood being no more normal than any of the other examples listed above.

No person besides her has ever been shown to be unable to attain these “Favorite Things” connected to their Quirk aspects, as they’re all things that would fall under society’s acceptable “Normal”; such as eating Chicken or Carrots or taking Baths.

Or the things could be obtained secretly without any harm caused: Tsuyu likely eating insects in private when no one is around or Ryukyu getting Shiny Things as part of her very Lucrative Career of being a Hero.

The question Bnha may indirectly be asking: what would many years of depriving those “Favorite Things” do to someone’s mental state?

What would they become?

Toga Himiko is the answer.

#toga himiko #bnha meta #himiko toga #mha #bnha #mha meta

[itsnothingofinterest]

You know what? I actually like All might's chances for this fight.

I know first instinct is probably to think All Might stands little chance with just a gimmicky robo suit in place of replace One For All; but when you think about it, One For All wasn't the end-all-be-all that made All Might, All Might. Under his control, all OFA did was provide strength; and while that strength was incredible, it was matched by Muscular or Machia. And were they really on All Might's level? Not particularly. The strength is replicable, and everything else about All Might is still Toshinori's; so he's frankly close to at least Kamino level here. And that's without counting the student-inspired gadgets.

Meanwhile, while AFO is technically indestructible rn; he's only got like, what are we thinking, 15~20 years of Time-HP (AgeP?) left before he's turned into nothing? I think All Might can handle that.

And even from a meta perspective; I know a lot of people are thinking AFO's got to get to UA to get rejected by Shigaraki and beat by Deku but...both of those have kind of already happened. The one benefit of 2 AFO's in this war. Besides maybe getting his quirks stolen by Tomura and being left helpless for the irony points, there's not much new for AFO to do over there...meaning there's not much reason not to get his butt handed to him by All Might for the third time in a row here.

Of course I think my preferred outcome is that they both get warped over to UA so we can get an All Might & Deku vs AFO vs Shigaraki match going, because I think that'd be cool and would have a lot of potential for character interactions. But taking the fight as it is, I'd honestly put my money on All Might here.

#bnha #bnha 396 #all might #all for one #midoriya izuku #one for all #class 1a #shigaraki tomura #muscular #gigantomachia #paranormal liberation front #PLF #league of villains #lov #quirk analysis #bnha spoilers

[quirkwizard]

There's a lot I could talk about with Chapter 393. The connection between Uraraka and Toga, the back and forth they have throughout the chapter, the parallels between Izuku and Tomura's conflict. Heck, I almost made this whole meta about how this chapter ties back into ego as a concept. Out of everything though, the most interesting topic is was what Tomura said at the beginning.

The first line is interesting in what it implies. Whether it means they were similar in how they operated, without much of theatrics of the modern day, or that they were both people who used their Quirks how they wanted. Either way it's interesting to consider. Then there is the idea that this all came about from people labeling villains and then villains taking on this aliases as a means of survival. Not only is it a flip on the traditional cape dynamic, with heroes now operating in the idea with no secret identity and villains needing to hide it for preservation, it ties so well back into the ideas of the series. The idea of putting labels on people having an othering affect on them, something the eventually blew up into the mess it is now.

Then this is how it ties back to the characters. It could apply to most of the members of the League, having nowhere else to go and going with their aliases out of a sense of desperation or vindication, it mostly applies to Tomura and Toga. I've long held the belief that Toga didn't use her name for this same reasoning, but I do appreciate the greater depth this offers with the idea of survival. In her regular life, she needed to survive by putting on a mask, but now she's choosing to live her life on her own terms using her own name. Which I think helps tie the two more together. Two kids seen as odd or unnatural in their own ways that couldn't fit their mold, now using their own names to express their destructive desires. Though hearing Tomura say all this is a bit ironic since he technically is using an alias as Tomura Shigaraki, a name given to him by All For One to cement him as his villain protegee. All and all, I think it's some neat world and character building.

#My Hero Academia #Not Quirks #Toga Himiko #MHA Meta #Tomura Shigaraki #MHA Theory

[fan-dweeb]

(large spoiler) Ever think that quirkless Keigo is just gonna keep going with his model career?? Like he's not a pro hero anymore, so he just keeps the modeling gig?? I wanna know your thoughts on this lmao

Hii!! Small disclaimer, I’m actually not caught up with the anime, let alone the manga, at all, so most of what I say is based on snippets I get from fanfics and meta lmao

Hmmm this is really interesting. Short answer: I think with the way that Keigo has finally been set free (symbolically with losing his quirk, and literally from the HPSC (I think)), he’ll probably stop everything else related to Hawk’s job as well.

Slightly longer answer:

From Horikoshi’s perspective, Keigo has already served his original purpose as a character so it wouldn’t really make a difference either way canonically. If he does intend to have those ‘5 years from now’ snapshot, I feel like Keigo will be overseas travelling or something rather than modelling though, if just to be consistent with his theme of being set free. If not as a personal choice, ‘do it for the plot’ lmao. I do mean this quite literally though, because now he’s got so much potential for the ‘self-discovery slice-of-life’.

,,,, but I personally think this is a bit of a cop out choice for Keigo’s future.

I’m not gonna be the analyst who says ‘he never had a chance to make his own choices’ because technically he did. This doesn’t mean he made a good one, but if you step away from popularised fanon, he did agree to going with the HPSC because he wants to be a Hero and not because of his mum. This isn’t so much that I haven’t ‘read between the lines’, but that he never once looked at his mum or made reference to what would happen to his mum if he followed the HPSC. Unless ‘reading between the lines’ include fabricating entire dialogues under an assumption that Hawks was suppressing his memories, I think it’s safer to assume he just couldn’t care less loll. But that’s the thing; his whole life revolved around Heroes, whether as Keigo or as Hawks. Now that it’s been brutally and suddenly ripped out of his hands and NOT in the form of death like he was probably expecting? He has to find something else to do, whether it be modelling or travelling or being a librarian or whatever,,,,, that is, if we make an assumption that he can’t keep being a Hero.

Look, we know he wants to help people. Some might even say he’s kind (that might’ve been drilled out of it by HPSC’s cold blooded training, but hey, maybe it’s just buried really, really deep inside). If we look at this not from a story writing perspective but purely from the character Keigo’s perspective (a bit counter intuitive, I know but bear with me), I honestly think at some point in the far future he might try to pursue a career in Heroism/ the police dpt / the fire dpt (hAH irony)/ some kind of physically-inclined job that traditionally seeks to help people. I think most people tend to stick to things that feel familiar with them even if it’s an unconscious decision.

So how does this link to whether he continues modelling? (because I’ve totally been building up to a point and not just going off on a tangent lmfao)

I think a lot of the fandom sees modelling as Evil, whether this be because of the horror stories of modelling in real life, because of an understanding of mutant quirk discrimination, wing kinks, and thinking Hawks definitely didn’t like being seen in that light, or because of some mixture of other reasons. And I think that’s true in the sense that it probably wasn’t what Keigo had in mind when he first signed up to being a Hero.

With that said, I’ve seen a particularly well written fanfic (I forgot which tbh) where Hawks is explaining the importance of modelling in promoting a sense of safety in civilians, especially for Heroes with anthromorphic quirks, outside of just gaining popularity. Which I think is a really fresh and extremely valid argument. As such, modelling could be a very nice supplement to him regaining popularity or at least, regain familiarity with both the general public but also his roots of inspiring confidence and safety if he decides to pursue any of the jobs I’ve mentioned above.

There is a counter argument, especially for Keigo being a Hero, that the quirkist ideas are so ingrained him (subconsciously or otherwise by the HPSC) that being a Hero again, or just doing any job at all without a quirk probably never crossed his mind. And if he wanted to keep up with helping people, there are a multitude of other jobs he could do. (Which modelling still doesn’t quite fit but ehh maybe as encouragement to/ empowerment of quirkless people?). But, I think this is a rather naive and simplistic analysis of Hawk’s and Keigo’s character of a person too deep into fanon.

If there’s one thing Hawks fans can agree on, please let it be that he’s really freaking complex.

He’s seen the worst and the best of society. He’d just about experienced every facet of society possible as a person in the bnha universe besides being an Average Joe. And now, he’s about to head into the small undiscovered area of quirklessness. (We as readers get a bit of this from Izuku’s POV, but for Keigo this is about as novel as it gets). Speaking as a writer, whether modelling is part of that experience remains entirely on what you want to explore with Keigo as a character.

Lmk what you guys think as well!! (in comments/ tags/ dm/ asks, all are ok :D )

(note: apologies for the barely organised word vomit and non-answer at the end, this was typed impulsively from my phone lmao)

#lowkey completely forgot to touch on anything dabihawks #but I’m running out of steam so I’ll just leave it as it is for now #might come back to it as a reblog later if I ever find motivation lmao #anime #bnha #mha #bnha hawks #text post #bnha meta #character analysis #takami keigo #bnha keigo #hpsc #bnha quirks #bnha fanfiction #bnha manga spoilers #bnha fic #bnha prompt #quirkless hawks #ask

[asmo-cosmetics]

Okok I don't mean this as hate I'm just curious what demoncest game is Canon in the games (minus asmo's flirting/comments he makes to the bros!!) (Again I don't mean this as hate I guess I just never picked up on it +super behind in both games) (sorry for the long ask-/g

you're good, but i do want to point something out in your ask because i've seen it other places too – asmo's behavior is definitely incestuous lol. he's a member of the family flirting with other members of the family, and this is largely just seen as a cute-if-slightly-annoying quirk of his (which i add for the asmo-hating "the brothers hate it and think it's gross when he does that!!" crowd). anyway, just off the top of my head:

asmo is archetypically written as a brocon for lucifer. the main point of the "jewel of the heavens" story was to establish this, especially when simeon later accidentally lightly roasts asmo for making it his entire personality. like, the point of it is asmo is obsessed with being beautiful because that's how he can see himself as being useful to lucifer, to earn more of his love and attention.

lucifer's "punishments" for mammon are heavily implied to be sexual. during the retreat, when diavolo helps lucifer punish him literally all night long, mc and levi are (semi) joking about what the three of them must have been doing, and it's so graphic that simeon covers luke's ears.

also, can't forget mc is canonically the brothers' great-niece or -nephew. i know they tried to do some retcon on that one but come on now.

this one's kind of a meta thing but i feel like it counts so i'm adding it. one of the primary artists for cards of the twins is a career yaoi artist

but also just the twins in general. like. you are absolutely supposed to read them as shoujo twincest twins. i feel stupid even trying to argue this one because it's so obvious. if you tell belphie in season one that you have feelings for beel your intimacy with BELPHIE goes up. belphie describes his ideal life after running away as "belphie, beel and mc live happily ever after." they share a room. they have telepathy. i mean please.

satan and lucifer have this very fucked mutualistic oedipal thing going on. it doesn't come up often but it is weird as shit every time and i love it. every time lucifer reminds satan that he is technically his mother he says it in the same teasing/smug way he usually uses to flirt, and satan responds with embarrassment/blushing. "in your case, even more?" "why don't you just say 'lucifer, i need affection?'" etc

in one of the early early events i think p&c but i don't remember we get the iconic knowledge that leviathan finds humiliation "titillating!" which was in response to belphie insulting him that is what turned him on

belphie and satan's hatred of diavolo and psychosexual obsession with lucifer that are very much connected because talking about how much lucifer sucks and they hate him INCREDIBLY quickly devolved into "he's so obsessed with diavolo. i hate how he's with diavolo all the time. they're probably having sex. lucifer probably lets diavolo do anything he wants to him" like are you guys ok

belphie constantly talks about how beautiful asmo is with zero hint of irony like will just out of hand be like "my older brother who's stunningly gorgeous" as if that's a normal thing to say

everybody talks about lilith super normal you guys. especially belphie. whose very normal reaction to lilith having a human boyfriend who did not do anything wrong except die was to reverse course on his defining characteristic and develop a genocidal hatred of humans. also him holding mc and calling them lilith. it's giving yoosung mystic messenger saying you're just like rika but ok

in conclusion, very regular family

#feel free to let me know if i forgot anything #yes these are all real #asklog #obey me! #demoncest

[ratstuckinamarble]

I think the narrative problem with Clawd is he's mostly just.... there. Background characters get more wants and quirks than he has so far. That won't be a problem if you really like his design or the way he's acted, but for the people who aren't innately sold on the aesthetics and acting, it really doesn't give much to grab on to. We've had shots of Ghoulia playing viddy games with Frankie and Lagoona, Manny's been around whenever there's academics or book learning involved, heck even Heath and Spectra get enough one off lines to hint at interesting things about them and their families. Clawd though... he had that bout of being over-bro-tective... he... has been separated from his mom but isn't given a plot about pushing harder to get her back, or even standing in the way of the plan, out of fear for Clawdeen... he's new to school but Frankie's new to being ALIVE so it's hard to really make that a new interesting plot point... I've never MINDED him, still, I can't say I was ever excited to see him. Goobert being on screen got me cheering. You'd think it'd be hard not to make Clawdeen's second born but technically older long lost monster pest hunting brother an unexciting thing. So when he and Draculaura are given a pair of crushes on each other, outside of the meta appeal, it's just... meh?

(Especially compared to Clankie and how Deuce was handled- the slow hint dropping, the many hang outs and scenes together, shared personality traits they bond over, clear acts of caring and interest on both sides, Frankie and Deuce being good buddies completely separate of Cleo, the three of them getting an ep together just to SHOW how Cleo and Deuce are happily broken up and Frankie's blushing like crazy over Cleo...)

But who knows. Maybe Clawd and Draculaura will get a enough good moments going forward to smooth things over. It's not like the Monster High Generation 3 writers aren't GOOD at writing, obviously. Maybe they just focused on other stuff and this is the casualty of that. It could get better. Right?

You've made some really interesting points. Now that you say it, it really doesn't feel like he has much of a goal. While Clawdeen is constantly doing her all to get their mom back, he's mostly busy adjusting to the world, but like you said, that's already Frankie's thing.

And I've always found it strange that he isn't more upset to be separated from everyone he knew in Beheme. He's in a stressful situation! So why don't we really see him struggle? His cheery demeanor is sweet, but it's hard to buy that he'd never have his moody moments with how harsh we're supposed to believe Beheme was, and him getting separated from his mother and presumably other people. Wouldn't he worry about them not knowing what happened to him? Why do we never see that?

Something that also strikes me as odd is very much him "just being there". Because it always feels that way, despite him being someone from another dimension! But that's kinda it...? Why doesn't he get to have traits that truly make him stand out? It's a shame really, I remember being rather intrigued when he was first introduced, but that excitement fizzled away. When I think about it, I can list some traits and whatnot, but he fades into the background compared to how other characters grab your attention.

And comparing Clawd/Draculaura to other ships, they did get some level of build up, not in terms of crushing on each other (I'm hoping the show will let us know why they like each other), but we have seen them interact before this several times. But we don't know why they're friends aside from "he's Clawdeen's brother so they're in each other's vicinity". (This is actually an issue I have in general though, us not getting to see how a lot of friendships we know to be fairly recent started.) I wish a lot of the scenes they had together didn't feel so awkward. Please just make them caring about each other believable.

I am hoping to grow more fond of Clawd and less annoyed with this ship, maybe it is just a consequence of other aspects being prioritised until now. I do know the writers are capable of better things.

I'd also like to use this opportunity to clarify: I don't hate Clawd. I just think he's boring, which is doing him a disservice because I know he has the potential to be much more.

There's more I could say, but this is getting quite long. Thank you for your input anon, I appreciate how you looked for reasons he feels off to some of us. It certainly helped me collect my thoughts a little better.

#to be honest I find myself a bit bored by a lot of the boys who get more of a narrative focus #I don't know what it is #because I like the male backgrounders! #Manny; Finnegan; Barkimedes; Teez; they're all fun #I just want any characters or romantic subplots to be handled in a way that makes us care about them; and that's lacking in some places #ultimately; I think Clawd deserved better #monster high #monster high g3 #clawd wolf #rätposting

[ikibli]

A Dystopia is Utopia from Another Angle(BNHA HPSC POV)

The Meta Liberation Army, cause of so much death and suffering, is a thing because people wanted to use the superpowers they were born with without thinking of the consequences.

Flying if you have wings is all fine and dandy. But who's going to make every possible villainous use of a Quirk an enforceable crime that doesn't unfairly discriminate against people with certain Quirks? Who's going to clean up all of the accidentally destroyed buildings, and who's going to fix them, or pay for the repairs?

That's not even counting the purely legal or economic problems.

If someone can create gold from nothing and sells the gold, soon gold will be worth a lot less. And the American dollar is technically based on the gold standard...

If someone can clone themselves infinitely, do the clones count as employees or just the original? If the clones count, where do their paychecks or vacation days go? If only the original counts, then their boss doesn't need any other employees since they can just pay their one cloner employee a bonus to learn any new skills, thus thoroughly depressing the job market since nobody wants an employee that isn't a cloner and his company makes millions in profit from only needing to pay one employee. This is also assuming the cloner has a boss that isn't him.

If someone is about to be late to school and starts running at 80 miles per hour, do they count as a pedestrian, car, or cyclist? This seemingly pedantic question is important because of things like right of way, safety laws and who's liable for what in the event they collide with something or get run over. The insurance clauses for colliding with a car and colliding with a pedestrian are very different, as you well know.

The only reasonable solution to all of these problems is to just put a blanket ban on using your Quirk, for any reason, then hand out licenses, under the control of a responsible authority.

Then there's heroes. We all love heroes, don't we?

They help you when you need it, and they expect nothing in return except the smile on your face. Every schoolchild wants to be a hero- why would you dream of anything else unless it's to be an "everyday hero" like a doctor? Why wouldn't you want your name chanted in awe? Why wouldn't you want to use your powers to put a little good into the world?

Stop laughing, you were like that too when you were eight. I have the transcripts on my phone.

Heroes are famous celebrities. Heroes are emergency responders. Heroes are the police. Heroes are the military. Heroes are judge, jury and executioner for villains. Heroes are the righteous defenders of justice, here to stop the villain and save the day. No cost is too great for them (or others, but we don't talk about that) to pay in the service of others, but even if you die you can die satisfied you contributed to the greater good.

Oh, it's not like that? Your license is a chain, a burden? You wish you had said no in the beginning? You wish you could be assured you would make it to forty? You wish you could be with the one you love without duty getting in the way?

Well, that license is also the only thing keeping you from drowning in the tide of real life. We fed you. We housed you. We trained you to be the best hero you can be. And we can take that away at any second if you disobey.

Do you even think of what you would have been if we hadn't saved you? You would have remained a filthy, uneducated child living in a slum. You would never have made it to forty either way- you would have turned into a wretched villain and been killed by a hero if not by your own filth, if we hadn't saved you. Just like your father.

Yes, your father. He was a thief who ruined what he couldn't steal, and inevitably ruined that too. He died at age thirty-five, killed while robbing his fifty-eighth convenience store.

Don't worry, we erased every mention of your parents' existence from all but the most classified of our own records.

What do you mean, I'm a monster?! We did it for your own good! How would the people react to finding out a hero like you was related to a lowlife like him? Think about it.

Why am I telling you this? I thought you'd never ask.

I'm explaining this to you, so that you understand why we have to do this.

We're the Public Safety Commission, not the Public Happiness Commission. We can forgive a few mistakes here and there, provided you understand what you did wrong.

What we can't forgive is for you to keep making mistakes, mistakes that get people killed.

So, you're going to tell us every little secret you've ever kept from us. And if we find out you've turned on us...we'll have to terminate your employment. Permanently.

What do you mean you'd never tell me? Of course you will!

You're confused? Don't worry, I'll tell you.

You see, unlike my quaint little cousin in the police, I don't just detect the truth. I force the truth. Agent Orange, start the recording.

Now, Hawks. Are you loyal to the Hero Public Safety Commission?

No? I thought so. Why?

Oh, you have a boyfriend. How cute. How much do you know about any Commission secret projects?

Nothing? Good, we might be able to let you live then. What are the main and secondary weaknesses of each League of Villains member?

Congratulations. I see you've found a way around my Quirk. With video game slang, of all things.

Too bad I'm smarter than you.

What are the best three ways to kill each League of Villains member?

You're still trying to get around it? I thought you knew better than this.

What are the best three ways to kill each League of Villains member in real life?

Seriously?! I really hate people that make me get this specific.

What are the best three ways to kill each League of Villains member in real life without access to alien technology, orbital missiles, orbital space stations, intercontinental missiles, nuclear weaponry or a Quirk that allows you to manifest objects from video games?

I'm beginning to think it would be better to just tell the media what you've been doing and let them eat you alive.

What are the best three ways to kill each League of Villains member in real life with any combination of any number of the following things-any of the Quirks of any licensed hero, conventional firearms, conventional melee weaponry, poison, fire, explosives, any support gear that is possible to construct without the use of a Quirk-What was that?

The League of Villains coming to rescue you?

Ah, I see I've been outplayed. You truly didn't need to resist, all you needed to do was stall.

I see you've made your decision. Goodbye, Hawks. Let us never meet again.

#bnha #my hero academia #fandom analysis #spoilers #bnha spoilers #fanfic #creative writing

[anti-katsuki-lounge]

My issues with AFO's backstory is just the inconsistencies in it.

IIRC, Yoichi and AFO weren't twins when it was revealed that they were siblings. Quirks were called Meta Abilities back in their time, not Quirks. And I absolutely don't mind that AFO is evil for evil's sake (even if I wish for some more 3d characterization), but I find the whole "he was literally evil before he was even born" thing to be incredibly stupid, not to mention he literally tracked down the Glowing Baby and killed him/her because he was jealous of his/her popularity.

I know they mentioned that the two were siblings, and technically they never specified the age gap between the two so I can’t really criticize the choice that much, it is kinda weird that it’s only now that we’re learning that they’re twins.

The Meta Abilities thing imo is fine. Names change all the time.

Yeah, AFO’s just boring. There’s not much to him, and while that’s not a bad thing (just look at Joker, Darkseid, and comic book Thanos), but as I’ve said before, he should’ve taken a backseat to Tomura.

[papersong]

hello!

i'm invested in your chicago&tokyo fic and would love to hear literally anything you have to say about it! you could give a whole director's cut, a scene you wanted to expand on, or a snippet of ur fav scene rn and i will look at you with heart eyes <33 ur fics bring incredible joy and the way you write just feels absolutely tender and whole and so visual it definitely is something i strive for in my writing as well

i hope you have a good day and thank you for sharing your work! you've worked hard~

hiya~

i have an outline of the next chapter up in my discord server eyeball emoji

Meta thoughts: - I started this fic when I was living in Chicago, in a way it's a little memoir/love(?) letter to my city. maybe ill finish it in tokyo :3 - i wish more fandom portrayals of kyojuro reached beyond his Exuberant! personality to think about his exuberance-as-defense-mechanism/traditional-slash-conservative upbringing/general eccentricity—not just as a fun character quirk, but in thinking about "how did he come to be like this" and "what are the consequences of being such a weirdo in daily life" and "why do ppl like him so much" - kny isn't necessarily a fave anime, i write fic for worlds that are interesting, but I also have to see the opportunity for a story beyond what's already there. an imperfect story often creates room for reader characters to make a difference. - the reader character is probs my most perfect character (not as in mary-sue perfect, or writerly perfection, but as in "this is probs one of the most decent, mature, and moral ppl you will ever meet in fiction or life"). This "perfection" is plot important for [MASSIVE SPOILER] reasons. A theme I'm interested in, in this fic but also in general, is strength and courage and power taking different forms than fantasy but esp anime teaches us to expect. It's not fighting. It's not rushing headfirst into battle. It's not being able to kill and destroy. Strength is planning + leading to victory. Courage is being afraid and angry and broken but making the right choice regardless. Power is building people up and healing and growing despite everything.

Fun thought: - Anyone notice Sanemi developing a crush on reader huehuehue, I'm surprised by so many ppl secondary-shipping reader with Hakuji because I see them more as a boss/employee or older/younger sib relationship

Now! What you came for! My plan for the next few chapters below the cut.

MASSIVE SPOILERS:

Hakuji becomes a hashira (on technicalities. sort of.)

Hashira training arc: Hakuji gets to yell at all the hashira (probs offscreen.) he was the only one who's been an actual teacher. also the hashira suck at teaching.

Swordsmith village arc: Tanjiro + co kill Hatengu + Kaigaku. Muichiro lives! Reader gets kidnapped by Kokushibo.

Infinite castle arc: Reader kills Kokushibo by letting Yoriichi posess her. Screws up the infinite castle with her blood. Then, Muzan captures and eats her.

This is not how the story ends, I don't write sad fics, but I do like a cliffhangers so I'll let y'all guess how reader + co finagle their way out of this ufufufufuf

#papersong replies #anonymous #chicago & tokyo

[pikahlua]

On your meta about Bakugo's death. Yes but also no. The fandom keeps forgeting Bakugo wasn't actually murdered. Hori drew a great deal of panels explaining the moment and how Jeanist told him not to go and Bakugo decided he was going to be the one to defeat Shigaraki and jumped in, bursting his own heart by overusing his own quirk. AfO even talks about how his body wasn't able to keep up with his technique, things Hori wouldn't have put there if the goal was just say "oh, shigaraki killed bakugo." In that case he would have just delivered a fatal blow. Tomura's murder of Katsuki is meant to be his biggest cry for help. Tomura didn't actually murder him and that's the thing. For all the beating he gave Bakugo, the fact that his demise was overusing his own quirk while rejecting a direct order of the professional hero that was guiding him in the battlefield instead of whatever Tomura did to him says a lot more about Bakugo's own character than Tomura's chance of saving.

It is important to not change/forget that part of the narrative by saying Tomura killed Bakugo, because we are actually creating an event that didn't really happen in the manga, more so when the author explained right there what was actually happening for a reason.

It'd be nicer if you just ask me clarifying questions next time. Then I wouldn't have to do this.

You can't say Katsuki wasn't murdered because we don't KNOW what happened. The ambiguity is on purpose, clearly. We see Tomura LAND A HIT on Katsuki's chest right before his heart explodes. The question of what actually happened to him at this point remains unanswered. We cannot conclude either way if technically Katsuki was murdered or blew up his own heart by accident.

What we did see of Katsuki's thoughts says nothing about how he "decided he was going to be the one to defeat Shigaraki." All it shows is that he thought whatever he was about to do was key to Shigaraki's defeat. The conclusion to this arc could potentially reveal an unexpected goal behind Katsuki's actions.

I would argue the focus with Best Jeanist was not on Katsuki disobeying orders (which would also lead to a weird semantics debate) but on Katsuki's fighting display surprising the hell out of Jeanist. He thought Katsuki jumping in would be bad, but then Katsuki predicts Tomura in battle well enough to scare the shit out of him. Whether or not there is any emphasis in the story on how this was all somehow something Katsuki did to himself and Tomura was just incidentally involved is...also up for debate. We can't know either way without the conclusion.

I was obviously being reductive in my initial post you're responding to because I was talking about the SYMBOLISM. If I were to really get into the nitty-gritty, I would've called him TomurAFO, not Tomura.

Regardless of whether or not I would've referred to him as Tomura or TomurAFO, I showed the most important panels where clearly TOMURA perceives himself as having killed Katsuki. This was what was most relevant to my point. You can even throw in the scene where he mocks Izuku for being too late if you'd like. The main point was Tomura's "cry for help" part, not the technicalities of "murder." Tomura thinks he's a destroyer, he openly takes responsibility for Katsuki's death, and he calls himself "Izuku's villain" to emphasize how unsavable he is. It all ties back to that moment in his childhood when the old lady wouldn't help him as he was suffering.

#anon ask #ask pika #my hero academia manga spoilers #final showdown spoilers

[kingofthewilderwest]

Bill Monroe challenges Mcgucket to a dueling banjo session. Who wins?

XD Here goes an unnecessarily detailed answer, as one might expect from me.

Father of Bluegrass Bill Monroe (1911-1996) was a virtuosic mandolinist (also no slouch on guitar) who incorporated fiddling influences into his playing. Rather than an old-style shimmering tremelo, Bill Monroe attacked the strings in an impressive combination of rhythmic adroitness and dogged melody. His playing had rhythmic quirks bluegrass mandolinists tease on today, but I think it augments rather than detracts from his iconic sound.

Historically speaking, Monroe stepped the game up for virtuosity in American country music. Even when he was in his twenties, performing duos and trios with his brothers on the radio in a more old-time style, his technical alacrity caught attention. Monroe fashioned bluegrass with blues and even jazz influences, such as the idea of instrumentalists taking turns doing technical instrumental breaks, one after the other. Thus, not only did he have to be at a high standard, but he pushed everyone in his band to match it. This man regularly performed hundreds of songs at a whim with good ear and improv ability.

Now, Fidds, my beloved... how does he compare? We hear relatively little of Fiddleford McGucket's banjo picking in Gravity Falls. What information we could glean is contradictory due to animation and sound design inaccuracy. I apologize for upcoming jargon, but I'll explain. ;)

McGucket owns multiple banjos. All banjos he's owned lack planetary tuners, which tends to indicate a low-cost banjo beginners and non-serious players use. However, given as McGucket has dedicatedly played banjo since at least the 1970s, and is dedicated enough to own a collection, this suggests a more invested player. (Of course, you can play for years and be passionate and still suck, but there's a higher chance you're good, hah!) Looking at the meta context, the animators would have no idea they were connotating lower-end instruments, so let's go with writing intent: McGucket is the banjo guy playing with love and passion for decades.

McGucket is most often seen with open-backs, but also has had a Seeger (long-neck) banjo and a resonator. Open-back and Seeger banjos suggest McGucket plays in the old-time style, which is (often) based on repeated rhythms and chords. That we've never seen Fiddleford McGucket wear finger picks also matches old-time. Now, I love old-time, it's gorgeous. But. Old-time banjo doesn't... shred... so in a dueling session, this would be trumped by Monroe's more advanced approach.

On the other hand, McGucket has a resonator. Resonator banjos can and have been used for old-time styles, but in general: if you have a resonator, you're a three-finger style bluegrass picker. This is a very different technique than old-time and will start to put McGucket in the competition. It's also said in Journal 3 he loves listening to high-intensity bluegrass, and when we hear sound clips of McGucket playing, it's in the three-finger bluegrass style. They animate him wrong to be making those sounds, but those are the sounds they're evoking. So, given animation is always inaccurate depicting instruments and performance, bluegrass is the genre associated most directly with McGucket, the animators and maybe even composer might've had no knowledge of old-time and its sounds, and the soundtrack always evokes bluegrass-style banjo... the Gravity Falls team probably wanted to indicate McGucket played bluegrass-style banjo.

I'm not on a computer with speakers to listen to McGucket playing, but I distinctly remember A Tale of Two Stans. I can and have played that riff. I'll transcribe (more or less) it by memory rn.

McGucket is approximately playing the first few measures of Foggy Mountain Breakdown with the barcodes pulled off. He starts with the Foggy Mountain roll on a G chord, then descends to do a forward roll on an e minor chord. Without jargon, this means he's playing two very simple right hand patterns. These patterns are ones a baby banjo picker would learn in their first month playing.

And that's exactly what happened when you know how the soundtrack developed! Gravity Falls' composer learned some banjo for GF. He's doing what I would... learn baby-baby basics so you can record an instrument live. But this means that, because he learned juuuust enough to get the banjo sound in GF (S1 banjo sounds worse than S2 because of this learning curve, too), he can't depict McGucket as a skilled picker. He does an impressive job with the above measures given his inexperience (the tone is better than I'd expect), but the material itself is rudimentary.

Contrast this with Bill Monroe in one of his beloved instrumentals, Southern Flavor (he is the mandolinist who starts the song, first soloist):

Given what Gravity Falls put in the show, McGucket wouldn't stand a chance against Monroe. McGucket wouldn't get hired by Monroe. Obviously we have to do legwork to go beyond imperfect depictions - the limited knowledge and playing ability of animators and composer - so it's very fair to say McGucket is better than anything presented. But, even then, he's got zero shot competing against a professional who expanded virtuosity of a music style and forced musicians around him to get up to his level. Bluegrass had come into its own and many, many, many amateur players were playing breathtakingly by the 1960s and 1970s. But you ain't gonna beat the master who got 'em all there.

#I WROTE A REALLY STUPID WRONG NOTE IN THE TRANSCRIPTION BUT SHHHHHHHH NO ONE NOTICES #bluegrass #Gravity Falls #GF #long post #music #music analysis #analysis #my analysis #ask #ask me #Fiddleford McGucket #I swear I didn't say everything I thought on this matter either re: music #jayalaw #non-dragons #also: I have another music ask that I've been meaning to post since the day I got it #I'll try to finish it later today #if I'm still awake by the time work ends #shhhhhhh I didn't <.< and this <.< during work #what style McGucket plays is open to fandom interpretation therefore XD #I've seen some people headcanon him as an old-time player or both old-time and Scruggs-style

[ao3feed-kiribaku]

Of Irises and Lilies

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/vGM8j1J by InsertDragonPunHere Midoriya Izuku has a wonderful life. He is set to be the first valedictorian to graduate from the new UA Academy, he has a wonderful friend and soulmate, he has amazing parents who are also his soulmates, and he has three more soulmates (that he knows of) waiting to meet him! Sure the world is in a bit unstable since these "Meta Abilities" started showing up, but Izuku has a wonderful life! So of course it all goes sideways faster than you can say motherfucker. or Midoriya is from the dawn of quirks, dies, and comes back as a ghost. (with soulmates!) Words: 2570, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: Gen Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Original Characters, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Sensei | All For One, Yoichi | First One For All User (My Hero Academia), Second One For All User (My Hero Academia), Third One For All User (My Hero Academia), Class 1-A (My Hero Academia), Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Bakugou Katsuki, Bakugou Mitsuki, Bakugou Masaru, Kayama Nemuri | Midnight, Shirakumo Oboro, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Shinomori Hikage, Banjou Daigorou | Lariat, Sixth One for All User (My Hero Academia), Shimura Nana Relationships: Midoriya Izuku & Original Character(s), Midoriya Izuku & Yoichi | First One For All User, Midoriya Izuku & Second One For All User, Midoriya Izuku & Third One For All User, Midoriya Izuku & En| Sixth One For All User, Midoriya Izuku & Shinomori Hikage| Fourth One For All User, Banjou Daigorou | Lariat| Fifth One For All User & Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku & Shimura Nana| Seventh One For All User, Midoriya Izuku & Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Midoriya Izuku, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Kayama Nemuri | Midnight, Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou, Bakugou Katsuki & Todoroki Shouto, Kaminari Denki/Shinsou Hitoshi, Jirou Kyouka/Yaoyorozu Momo, Asui Tsuyu/Uraraka Ochako, Hagakure Tooru/Ojiro Mashirao Additional Tags: Dead Midoriya Izuku, Ghost Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku Has a Quirk, Midoriya Izuku Has a Ghost Quirk, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Bakugou Katsuki is a Good Friend, Bakugou Mitsuki is an okay parent, she's trying, Good Parent Bakugou Masaru, Dead Midoriya Inko, Dead Midoriya Hisashi, UA is haunted, dawn of quirks, I'm honestly surprised that isn't a tag already, this is me testing out gore, I'm trying, Suicide, Not implied it happens on screen, Technically it's murder????, quirks are weird and I don't make them any better, Ashido Mina is a Little Shit, Wingman Ashido Mina, Ashido Mina is a Good Friend, slightly Mina Centric?, she gets a lot of POV since I have a cool Idea for her, Heavy Swearing, I swear a lot and so do my characters, Death, Mentions of Death, Funerals, Other Additional Tags to Be Added read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/vGM8j1J

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #bnha #mha #kiribaku #krbk #kirishima eijirou #bakugou katsuki

[thyandrawrites]

I didn't miss that but him copying Phosphor does not mean that he has cold fire. In fact so far the opposite is being shown to us if you look carefully at the panels where he is using Phosphor. not only is his fire proven to be hot as he burns that sidekick but it's even burning him at a quicker rate. Phosphor is a technique derived from FF so Dabi even though he doesn't have an ice quirk still should be able to use it just that he can't create cold fire only hot.

The fact that he's burning the sidekicks admittedly made me doubt that conclusion too, but then again, if Dabi was using his regular scorching hot fire, he wouldn't need a special activation to cremate people. Why would he go through the trouble of emulating his brother's technique if he couldn't emulate its effects as well? Why not simply throw a wall of fire like he's done so far??

We were informed that he attempted the activation of Phospor himself in the moments before Shouto's attack landed, and also shown that something unusual is happening with his quirk here via the glow on his chest. Dabi's not just copying the aesthetic side of the move and planting a X on his chest for show.

If he was, and if the fire was indeed Dabi's regular fire, why would both Shouto and Iida act so shocked? Stunned into silence, eyes wide and pupils into tiny pinpricks? Dabi's been throwing massive blasts and burning people alive for this whole fight. It wouldn't he new or surprising.

If it was just hot fire in a X across his chest, why would Shouto comment on his brother's technical expertise, on the fact that he trained for years to hone his intuition, and didn't simply rely on throwing fireballs at people to kill them on the spot???

It might not be confirmed yet, but the phrasing here is pretty damn odd if this wasn't a damn plot twist.

Plus, there's Dabi's monologue here. Watching his dad's moves on TV worked fine enough to help him figure out how to emulate them, because Enji is a fire user like him. But why would Dabi be thankful that he got to face Shouto head on, getting a physical taste of how Phospor would feel, if not because he needed that input to emulate something as unfamiliar to him as his dormant ice genetic make up?

I'm not saying that Dabi has secret ice powers or that his Phospor is an exact replica of his brother's. Dabi might be a chimera too, but he doesn't conveniently have a ice side to balance his body the way Shouto does, and that's fine. Perfect balance is supposed to be Shouto's prerogative as the perfect split of his parents' powers. But the story draws attention to Dabi being able, against any prediction, to just steal his brother's ultimate move, and that poses the question: why can he so easily master a technique that was created with the exact purpose of stopping him?

And why is he able to copy a move that specifically requires an ice and fire constitution to even work??

Enji could not have used Phospor because Phospor doesn't just rely on heat. It's a technique that exploits Shouto's chimera genes. The same genes he shares with his brother, who has a body made for ice and a fire quirk.

Now, don't get me wrong. I could be completely mistaken here. I've never been that good at predictions. But for you to shoot the idea in the foot and argue against people speculating about it when you yourself don't hold the truth in your hands... Is rather mean? What's so bad about interpreting the story as it slowly unfolds, with the puzzle pieces we have so far? It's not "jumping to conclusions". It's developing an idea that is hinted at in the story and giving it a possible explanation. That's a lot of what meta boils down to, particularly when the text we are commenting on is still ongoing, and thus the clues we take as "facts" can always be reframed by new information we get later on.

I've been wrong countless times before. I won't claim my reading of things is always correct, or even force others to agree with me. But to say that people aren't allowed to have differing opinions or interpretations of a text is like, so pointlessly belligerent and the very opposite of what meta is about

#Please chill #Ali replies