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Long hours and shoe-leather will see this one right.
One day I’ll send you out for a routine inquiry and it’ll turn out to be just that. But I won’t hold my breath.
proud to say that I have never once in my life figured out the whodunit in any crime story I've read or watched. I just let the facts and clues wash over me, absorbing absolutely none of it. I am the audience they think of when they throw in red herrings, in case you've ever wondered "who would fall for this obvious false lead". it's me. I am the idiot viewer/reader. not once has an obviously framed clue revealed anything to me. my head is completely empty when I consume these stories.
THIS!!! I love this SO MUCH! There is so much untapped potential in this series and I want it to be improved on so, so badly.
Ah fuck it Changes I would make to mha if god came down, pt 2
Fuyumi Todoroki should have been a hero and the more I think about this the more I will die on this hill. A) there's a severe lack of important female heroes and while Fuyumi is a side character I would have her take Endeavwhore's place in almost ALL of the times they fight Touya, both to give her more presence and because Touya being 'taken down' in any capacity by his abuser kind of sickens me. B) I want Enji a lot less present in the Todoroki plot than he currently is, even if he still gets some kind of a redemption. Fuyumi being a hero could both take his role physically and ALSO would give Shouto an actual reason for wanting to be a hero. C) I've always wondered like... why exactly Shouto would continue wanting to be a hero as he distanced himself from his father. His admiration for All Might doesn't seem like a good enough reason if his entire life has just been so isolated to only a few people and the major presence in his life his is abusive father who he's only ever seen misuse the power he has as a hero for his own gain. Fuyumi being a hero would actually give Shouto another hero role model to look up to, another reason to only use his ice, and give him a CONTINUED reason to want to be a hero. D) Also, Fuyumi's supposed to represent the 'fawn' response to abuse, and so her actively trying to do exactly what her dad wants and make a hero of herself and STILL be overlooked and discarded by him could really hammer in how Endeavwhore doesn't actually give a shit about any of his kids, even if they do what he wants; unless they're strong enough to beat All Might *with fire* like he wants he doesn't care.
I'm changing the entire entrance exam. It emphasizes entirely the wrong thing - killing things - above what heroes are actually supposed to focus on: saving people. If your hero school and society puts such an emphasis on 'taking down the bad guy' as opposed to saving people as heroes are supposed to do, that should actually be a point of discussion. That said, even if hero society still emphasizes defeating villains and looking cool for the camera above saving civilians, I'm changing it anyway:
Paper portion is the same as we get very little detail on it. My only change is UA students are tested on three foreign languages as well: English, Chinese, and Korean. They're expected to have a high level in all of them, mainly to add emphasis on just how hard UA is to get into (1 in 300 acceptance rate is fucking INSANE)
Practical portion!! This is completely revamped. Instead of the robots, current UA students are used as stand in civilians during a villain attack in a simulated urban area (a la the canon exam). There's only one giant robot, a few smaller ones, and the zero pointer. Students are put into groups of ten and are tasked with working together to rescue as many people as possible and take down as many villains as possible. Villain points are still emphasized over rescue points (which can now be gained from rescuing civilians and taking down the zero pointer, though very few do the latter), and the UA students are given pathways under the simulated area they can escape to if need be for safety. The practical feels more well rounded and realistic this way.
Also, this gives Shinsou an actual reason to be pissy about not getting into the hero course; the reason he got so few points in the practical was because as soon as the other people in his group found out about his quirk they refused to work with him, tanking his chances of almost any villain points (the mini villains are also robots). It also actually shows discrimination against people with 'villainous quirks' in hero society, something Horikoshi bought up but conveniently forgot about.
Kaminari doesn't have Whey Mode, it's a huge weakness and it's insane no one ever takes it seriously because of how big a safety risk it is for him. He can give himself nerve damage or kill himself if he uses his power too intensely, yes, but that's it.
Iida Tensi actually dies after being attacked by Stain.
Inko Midoriya is told about One for All and All Might's identity. She deserves to be in the know and it gives both All Might and Izuku another person for their support systems; she's the main character's only parent and yet she's so uninvolved in everything. It's disappointing. She would get more of a chance to voice her worries to both Izuku and Yagi, and she and Yagi could actually develop a friendship, which in all honestly Yagi really needs.
Momo is Class President and Tenya is Vice President.
Also like... Momo actually gets a chance to show off how powerful and strategic she is before we see her weaknesses hurt her. She's one of the most potentially powerful character in the fucking show die to her ability to literally create anything and yet we barely see what she's capable of before she is functionally rendered useless due to the author's inability to write female characters. I do like her arc about how her insecurities can get the best of her in the worst times and overcoming it but I want to expand on that. I want several scenes of her being academically and physically fantastic, top of her class, winning spars and overall seeming like the perfect up and coming hero, and THEN in the Sports festival, where she's one of the last few players, that's when we see her freeze up for the first time when one of her plans goes completely out of wack. And then, later (bc I'm putting the first villain arc as the Stain arc so USJ happens after that) when they're attacked for the first time, totally unprepared, she freezes up again and is saved by Jirou. This establishes her weakness - when she's in a situation she hasn't planned for or can't control she freezes up and that gets the best of her. Her arc is then learning how to better improvise in the heat of things (possibly becoming closer friends with Midoriya due to his ability to do exactly this) which she gets to show off during the Final Exams.
Also GIVE NEJIRE MORE PLOT TIME. Her, Mirio and Amajiki are meant to be a TRIO. I want her to get just as many fight scenes and emotional scenes as the other two, and let her be an inspiration to some of her younger classmates as well who also may have less conventionally strong Quirks, like Uraraka or Hagakure!!
Speaking of which: let Ochako be overpowered god damn it. Gravity manipulation is ALWAYS op (just look at Chuuya from BSD) and yet Ochako's never allowed to be just as powerful as she really should be. She has the potential to be one of the strongest characters in the series - she could basically neutralize as many hits or weapons as she could touch, could crush people into the ground with gravity, make herself or other people faster by making their feet lighter, or any other number of things but we never get to SEE IT!!
Also Ochako's foil is now Twice and Hawks kills Toga instead. I love both of them but Twice is unquestionably the more interesting character between the two from a narrative stand point and makes a very good foil to Ochako.
Hawks should have been used as a scapegoat for the Commission. From the beginning we've seen how he was basically brainwashed and conditioned to see everything they did as right; yet even when given chances to go against them that people in situations like his did take he continued looking up to them and supporting their actions. Like maybe after Dabi released the video of him killing Twice; the Commission uses him as a way to be like "hey, see!! We're the good guys!! He's the bad one so he's gone now!" Hawks killed for them and believed in them till his end and his reward would be either dead or as good as, a scapegoat for a mission they gave him. A tragedy of his own making, because he had chances to step away from them but chose not to. It would also be used to show how while the Meta Liberation Front aren't the good guys... well, neither are the HPSC. Like, at all.
Nana Shimura was a vigilante not a legal hero
And I've reached post character limit. Damn
Lately I’m really into bmha, I love each and everyone of the characters. So it was really hard to find out my favourite 6 but…here they are!
Endeavour (DILF)
Hawks
Kirishima (cutie pie)
Shinsou
Monoma
Inasa (too funny)
Do you want me to do more bnha fanart?
Hell yeah. Thankies
Endeavor from Boku no Hero Academia is a Catboy! requested by @catboysupremecy! 🐾
You know those theories about the doctor stealing Midoriyas quirk when he got his quirk diagnosis, and quirks can be either parents power or a combo, well now all I'm thinking about is Midoriya re-gainig his ability to breath fire and Todoroki losing his fucking mind like-
Todoroki: Midoriya are you Endeavours secret love child
Midoriya: WHa-
Todoroki: BROTHER?!
Midoriya: NO WAIT-
@class1akids You somehow always come up with the description to make me realise a lot of things about MHA👍
Hawks is interesting to me because it's kinda like he decides things for everyone and assumes that he is always right/smarter than others but he couldn't understand twice and understimated how he felt for the LOV and is now assuming things abt how endvr should or shouldn't react to dabi like ????? Even his feelings of guilt for his family are confusing because i don't think he really understands how any type of relationship works? Tbh he just knows how to be a soldier. Idk hawks is weird lmao
I don't see Hawks deciding things for others as hubris / assuming he's always right, but more as a coping mechanism. After all, he is also a child abuse victim and someone who had no healthy ways to process his experiences growing up in the institutionalized setting he did, as part of a government grooming programme.
Hawks was trained to believe that cutting ties with his parents, his past, his identity would make him a better hero - and even if he had no agency in that process - he is restructuring it as something that he himself decided - perhaps to feel some control over the situation.
But I think the way Hawks never addressed his past, never really faced the fact that his father hated him and his mother was willing to basically sell him - all of that are part of his subconscious.
To the point that he sees his own self-worth only in terms of how useful he can be to others.
To me, Hawks' and Endeavor's relationship always felt fundamentally a kind of child/parent framing, where Hawks projected a lot of his yearning for being protected / accepted onto Endeavor (at first the doll/fantasy version). And even upon meeting the real guy and seeing his flaws up close, it feels to me that Hawks is trying to save him because it's the only bond resembling a familial one that he has (even if it's largely built as a defence mechanism) and he hopes to find himself if only he could help Endeavor become that shining ideal again.
And I think it was with this in mind that Hawks used his influence over the battle planning to ensure that Endeavor wouldn't face Touya, because he correctly surmised that Endeavor wouldn't be able to fight his son and would just accept Touya's rage (and quite possibly die in the process).
What Hawks didn't factor in though is that it wasn't Endeavor's role to fight Dabi. That's not why the Todoroki family wanted him there. It wasn't meant to be a hero vs villain fight. His role would have been to face Touya, face his past mistakes, and not to leave him alone on Sekoto peak once again to burn himself to death... and who knows? Maybe, if Touya saw proof of Endeavor's change, things wouldn't have escalated the way they have.
But Hawks still operates purely in a villains vs heroes logic, having shut away the part of himself whose literal family is a pair of villains, or the fact that he himself could have easily fallen into villainy.
So even as Endeavor crumbles, Hawks tries to rationalize his decision, holding onto hope that he can keep Endeavor on track, and when Endeavor is wounded, Hawks is ready to pay with his life for miscalculating.
I'm not holding my breath that Hori will dive deep into Hawks' character, but the narrative generally makes it clear that not facing the past is a weakness. Quirk awakenings / upgrades happen when people look back unflinchingly and find a way to move forward in full acknowledgement of the past. It doesn't need to mean forgiveness, but it means accepting the fact that it happened and trying to make some sense of it.
So I'm hoping that his interaction with Tokoyami (whose support of Hawks is very similar to Hawks' support of Endeavor) will allow Hawks to let his true identity/feelings (even the ones he believes are weaknesses) more to the surface, and instead of trying to protect Endeavor from facing the past, he will instead look at those things he himself locked away - be it the issue of his parents or killing Twice.
This very interesting post by @haleigh-sloth on how Shouto doesn’t voice his victimhood got me thinking - and maybe somewhere deep down he feels like he doesn’t deserve to view himself as a victim. After all - his birth was the final straw that tore the family apart. He was the masterpiece - the end goal that somehow justified the means in Endeavor’s eyes.
It just stands out to me how Shouto - who fiercely asserts to the outside world that he’s not his father, that he’s different - when it comes to his family, he says things like this:
“my and my father’s prisoner”, “direct your rage at us”.
He’s basically putting himself in the same box as Endeavor vis-à-vis Rei and Touya - like he’s sharing in Endeavor’s sin by the fact of his existence.
And it’s just so sad to me - but I guess with Shouto having been treated his whole life as an extension, a property of Endeavor, it makes sense that these boundaries become blurry. A sense of self doesn’t develop overnight - especially not for someone who spent his childhood in extreme isolation, deprived of familial and social bonds, playtime and other opportunities that are essential for children to grow an independent identity.
So I feel like this could be a reason why Shouto has a hard time with recognising his own victimhood.