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God I hate it when I just have a word stuck in my head, why would I need to use Roaring as an adjective in any scenario?
Could you imagen the, what the fuck?! moment when Creati, the hero know for spawning things into existence, pulls a knife out of her belt, like she didn't make that, she had it on her, she is using a pre-made knife to kill you, you have gotten to the point where she doesn't really want to think and just wants to beat your arse, well done random villain.
Momo stopped thinking.
Villain: "Ha, you seem to have out of juice Tenya, not so fast now, let's put you in the same place as your brother, in the hospital!"
Ida: "Call an ambulance then, but specify that it's for you." He says pulling two large knifes that look suspiciously like ice skates from the side of his boots.
Enemy: "What the fuck is stabbing me, oh god is that a floating knife! AM I BEING KILLED BY A GHOST?!"
Toru: "Worse, a naked woman with a knife!"
Enemy: "WHERE WERE YOU HIDING THE KNIFE!?"
I like to think that one of the lessons Aizawa taught class A is "always have a knife".
You never know when you'll need a knife so never not be in possession of a knife. As such every member of class A has a knife hidden somewhere in their hero costumes. His gift to them when they graduated were custom engraved knives with their student number on them.
Not on board? Ok. Just imagine how funny it would be tho.
Villain: "Number one hero Deku! I am punch proof! The more you hit me the stronger I get! How will you defeat me now-"
Midoriya: "Knife."
Villain: "Wha-" *gets stabbed*
Midoriya: "Knife."
Hero: "Oh no! We're tied up! However will we escape!"
Tsuyu: "Knife."
Hero: "What?"
Tsuyu, pulling a knife off the bottom of her foot with her tongue: "Knife."
Groupie getting a hug: "Are you using your quirk or are you just happy to see me?"
Kirishima: "It's a knife."
Groupie: "...What?"
Kirishima: "Knife."
Villain, completely insulated in rubber: "You're a one trick pony chargebolt."
Kaminari, reaching down into his boot: "Oh boy are you wrong my dude!"
Hero: "You need to calm down."
Bakugou, reaching down into his V-neck: "Listen here you son of a BITCH-"
Hero: "WHY DO YOU HAVE A KNIFE!?"
Kouda: "Stop scaring the pigeons! They're a domesticated species that we abandoned back into the wild. They're sweet creatures who are pets by nature!"
Douchebag: "Or what?"
Kouda: "..."
Douchebag: "..."
Kouda: "..."
Douchebag: "oh my GOD HE HAS A KNIFE-"
love the incorporation of Hawk's shirt, do you think he'd let Fumi have one of his swords?
Since Shoji got a new hero-outfit in the last chapter, I wanted to try and tweak Tokoyami's as well. Not sure this is one I'd settle on, but I do like the idea that his cloak can be more easily opened to give him more maneuverability or in case he needs to take it off.
Also, Dark Shadow gets a grown-up form too and you can't convince me otherwise!
These are basically the same person right?
The vibes do some heavy matching, maybe I should draw Kyouka in Marnie's outfit, could be fun.
Deku Beyond
I like to imagen that whilst the new suit has the lot of OFA abilities in it each one had a different amount of time allotted to it.
Smoke, Day 1 it was easy as, done on lock down.
Float, yeah flight controls were down boosters in the boots, cape acts as stabilizer.
Those three were easy, the rest had some crazy stuff behind the scene.
Black Whip, genuine advancements in chemical engineering had to be made there to even get it to work, had to call in the MHA equivalent of ol'Peter Parker to get that job done.
Fa Jin, How the hell do you even make that, that's converting kinetic energy to more power, simple the suit adsorbs that shit like a sponge, Black Panther style, imagen punching him the impact spreads out glowing red and you get punted with double what you just hit him with.
Danger Sense, a suite of electronics to even get it that close, proximity sensors, heat identification, lidar and radar, they had to pack so much in to even equate to that quirk.
Gear Shift, How how would they even get it to be able to alter the speed of objects, no it's just a hyped up magnet system powered by the Fa Jin kinetic set up, can be used like the railgun, maybe like the force, doesn't work on none magnetic items yet.
Oh and super strength, that's basically just Izuku's, just has the Neuron Amplifiers like the Batman Beyond suit, only due to his absolutely ridiculous physical abilities he's got a cruise missile in his hands now not a 50.cal.
So when combing through the training footage it becomes rather difficult to gauge what the suits effectiveness, you have this film of him demolishing a building with a blow, and it turns out they didn't have the NA's on, Izuku one tapped that building with his pure strength, the only difference the armor was making was it acted as boxing glove.
Still think that suit is less Iron Man more Beyond Batman.
Who with Who?
A Fun idea that I am so sad that no-one has taken advantage of is the idea that everyone genuinely can't tell who's dating who between Jirou, Yaoyorozu, Todoroki and Kaminari, the massive Bi-energy that emanates from that group is as thick as a thundercloud, and it doesn't help that they are all so comfortable with each other.
Like Denki will throw his arms around all of them, pell-mell, he vibes in Momo's room, Shouto discusses the meaning and intricates of lyrics with Kyouka (his conspiracy theorist brain would love picking them apart), Momo and Kyouka are almost joined at the hip most days chatting away, and Denki and Shoto are just vibing doing what ever crosses their mind (talking about Western heroes at the moment).
Like this group is so fun it's formed of two of the most sunshiny smiley people in the class with the two socially kinda awkward sarcasm duo.
It's such a fun crew and I love the fanon interactions, like we get plenty of all three of them with Momo.
But what does the dynamic between Kyouka and Shouto look like, I think it would be really funny if those two interacting is the complete opposite of what everyone expects, that being a sullen staring contest over coffee but no, it's these two dorks gushing about their interests and their SO's like you walk into the common room and you hear Shouto excitedly talking about the little jump, bounce and smile that Momo did when she saw him that morning, and Kyouka intently listening nodding furiously.
One stupid little headcanon I like is that both are so enamored by Thomas The Tank Engine, Shouto likes it as the expressions are super easy to read and Kyouka loves the soundtrack, since basicly no-one comes into his room they haven't realised that he's been building a model railway in there, and there are some suspiciously high-priced models in his collection.
Denki wanders in one evening as he can't sleep (weirdly a common fanon thing with him, must be all the extra electricity keeping him up) to see Shouto running his trains and they just sit and watch them like Ash and Kristofferson.
Okay we are working this out, who has string!
It's just fun that there are two sun's and they just pull around their moon's who are completely enamored by their smiles and are so obvious about it but then everyone else is going full Shouto mode and are grouped together in the common room with several balls of thread (Borrowed from Mezo) which have been spanned across it trying to work out how the hell this relationship works.
To top that whole bit all of the four walk into the spiders nest of Blue, Red, Purple and Yellow threads, holding hands (Yes in the order just mentioned) with befuddled faces, the rampant hushed shouting dials down, Mina is melting at the image presented.
"ahh, Polyonomy" Utters Fumikage in the most deadpan tone possible. (He knows that's not how the relationship is, as does Katsuki but both of them are doing this for shits and giggles and are really committed to the bit.)
They all hand Ochaco 1000 Yen in defeat (mock for two of them), Shouto is processing the walls of string with an impressed expression, Momo simply looks confused, Kyouka is red in the face, and Denki half explodes into a peels of laughter whilst pointing at Momo and Shouto, then back at himself and scream laughing again.
The Gods have descended.
Another stupid idea that I need to draw is simply the idea that Momo has accidentally taken on most of the Class Rep duties and now is spiraling mess trying not to cry and the other three latch onto this, with there now being the living embodiment of a thunderstorm inhabiting the inside of the classroom, the floor is vibrating, it smells like ozone and is muggy as hell, several people are standing in the doorway, Katsuki is halfway under his desk, Aizawa doesn't even want to try erasing one of them as Denki is being handed permissions slips and reading them (How is his Dyslexic ass doing that?) Kyouka is ordering people to sit down and Shouto is giving her a back massage (Very nice hands) the idea that those three teaming up can create the physical environment of the inside of a Thunderstorm is a terrifying prospect, Aizawa ain't questioning he's doing the roll less he get a live performance of Thunderstruck.
It's so funny that they three are some of the chilliest people in the class but then it's the full force of Wall Socket, Surround Sound and Thermometer turning into forces of nature when their bestie get's insulted or starts crying, I'm calling this dynamic the MomoMilitia.
Those three will fight god for their friend at 3am, they will win.
Thank you for coming to the inane ramblings.
I find it so funny that I came to this website to talk about trains but now I'm consumed by the teenage superheroes that are very cool and very silly.
What's even funnier is that I've been getting super into it, as it's ending.
I have bad time management if you can't tell.
Anyway you poor souls are going to get more rambings.
Japan playing the Haikyuu!! theme song after beating Argentina in volleyball is so iconic
Yo some love for 1-B, love the guys, they are so silly.
The superior UA class (in Monoma’s humble and in no way biased opinion, at least)
YOU ARE NOT BEATING THE TRANSFORMER ALLAGATIONS!
I feel like at least once during a training exercise while in full hero gear, Kaminari straight up asked Iida if he can change into a semi-truck because his hero costume reminds him of Optimus Prime
The sly hawk got him monologuing.
Hawks tricked him into a classic villain monologue to stall for time hahaha you fell for the oldest trick in the book AFO
SUMMARY: Jirou and Denki's likes are far and between. Jirou likes Denki and Denki likes Jirou anyway. A/N: I was listening to Wild Side by ALI when I thought of them and you should too. (Actual a/n: It was so fun imagining all of this! I based them off some actual events between me and my friends. The homeless one is an actual thing my best friend and I do lmao, sit outside the mall's store and eat while our gang illegally take our photos and call us beggars) WARNINGS: Some mild swearing and a lot of probable inaccuracies for the sake of the plot and because I haven't finished MHA yet
It is wonderful my life
Jirou likes the name Jamming Whey and Denki likes the name Jirou-Jack.
Obviously the both of them detest the nickname the other’s given, or so everyone thought, based on the poking from Jirou’s end and dramatic sighing from Denki’s. Not that it stopped them from calling each other that at all opportunities. It was endearing to watch to the class; it was a trifle odd for the Bakusquad, for when they tried to use it…
“Um, what?”
“Sorry bro, but that ain’t for you to use!”
Mina thinks it’s funny, how it’s like a codename for only each other. Suspiciously so.
Please could you kiss my name
This round’s exercise of heroes versus villains is different.
The villains were Todoroki and Momo, so Jirou and Denki would have to play it smart to win. Inside the building it had seemed like a good idea at that time to split up. Now, not so much, when Jirou found herself stuck in Todoroki’s ice as he handed her the device Aizawa had given them to stay in contact with each other. Momo, no doubt, was nearby to catch her partner unaware.
“Call Kaminari to come out.”
“…Denki, the bomb’s in the room down the hall. The door to the left.”
But then suddenly it’s Momo and Todoroki on the floor, shocked by Chargebolt’s electrical attack. Jirou breaks out of the rest of the partially melted ice herself and grudgingly slaps her partner’s hand when he raises it, hopeful for a high-five.
Todoroki twists his head around, surprise evident on his face. “How’d you know it was as trap? Jirou didn’t say anything suspicious.”
Denki bursts out laughing smugly. “She’d never call me Denki willingly - it’s always Jamming Whey…” his shoulders slump. “Unfortunately. But anyways, we won, Jirou-Jack!”
“Shut up.”
Momo wonders if that day was when Jirou finally accepted the nickname, because for once she didn’t object to it.
Todoroki admires how in sync they are.
When the music's over?
Jirou likes rock and Denki likes electronic.
They argue about it a lot. The usual which is better, yours make no sense, it's much more superior that whatever you call that music. Sometimes during study nights the books and work are forgotten, pushed aside, to make way for their heated debate. Their friends roll their eyes and ignore them; it's almost a ritualistic thing at this point.
Only Mina thinks there's something more to it - to the rest the noise just dies down when one of them whips out their phone and forces the other to listen to their music. So what if they were sitting really close to each other and occasionally lean their heads on the other's shoulder? They're sharing an earbud after all, and the wire required them to be close.
(They're sulking, the rest think, because they see the eyerolls and shoulder shoves.)
(They're in denial, Mina thinks, because she sees them smile at the same moment when it hits the chorus and hum together.)
Turn off light, it was such a sweet time
Momo thinks she’s come up with a solution.
Jirou and Denki stare at her blankly, bewildered by her sudden excited announcement that study night. She says she’s heard them arguing about what music to choose a lot; Jirou replies they do it all the time and Denki adds that it’s normal. Momo nods but repeats what she says. She hands them both her phone.
“Jazz? Yaomomo - what?”
“I thought you were the sort to listen to classical shit. This ain’t my type!”
“No one cares about your opinion right now, Jamming Whey.”
“No, no, I just thought that if the two of you can’t agree on either one of your genres you’d like to try a third option. A compromise, sort of.” Momo smiles, believing she’s provided a resolution to their squabbling. Jirou’s not, though she tries to - she’s going to miss -
“What’s with that face, Jirou-Jack?”
“Don’t elbow me!”
“We can still share earbuds…or you could just plug your jacks into my phone.”
Jirou smiles, but it’s with an eyeroll as Momo looks hopefully on. Denki plays Momo’s choice, holding the phone uncomfortably close to her face like a kid showing off his crayon drawing to his mom. “I’m still choosing which one though!”
They still argue over the music, unsurprisingly. They’re openly sharing the earbuds now, surprisingly.
Could you pray for me, my friend?
Jirou likes movie night and Denki likes the popcorn.
Most of Class 1-A is already gathered in front of the TV, sprawled on the sofas or lying on the ground. She’s a little way from him, squashed between Momo and Mina. Denki pretends he’s not staring at her when his neighbor Kirishima points it out and Bakugo explodes telling them to just pick a movie already. Most of them vote for horror.
Jirou gets up. Strange, because he knows she likes movie nights. Then he remembers, she doesn’t like horror, but her pride wouldn’t allow others to know. Denki himself wouldn’t have known if he hadn’t deduced it by her actions over time and gotten her to admit it. Her friends attempt to persuade her to stay, but she feigns tiredness.
“Why don’t we watch something else? We’ve already watched this movie like what, three times already? Boo, we literally all know what’s going to happen!”
Of course he gets pummeled by the pillows but after a little more convincing they agree to change it. He claims he needs to use the bathroom and runs out.
It's starting over time
Jirou’s not yet to her room.
He catches up and makes her turn around, ask why she left, tries to wheedle her to stay. Denki already knows her so well, so Jirou says she doesn’t like the movie. But he’s convinced them to change it, something he think she’ll like, so reluctantly she follows him back. It’s really hard to say no to Denki sometimes, Jirou thinks, then sighs as she remembers that no, it’s actually ALL the time.
They get back and find their seats been taken. No matter, he shoos a few legs away from the ground near the couch and practically forces Jirou to sit next to him. The movie’s a murder mystery; Denki worries the gory parts might affect Jirou. Unconsciously an arm slips around her shoulders and maybe he shifts a little closer. But Jirou feels it. An eyebrow is raised and Denki jerks his head back to avoid the earphone jack, tilting his head back with a protesting look.
“Get your arm off me.”
“If you get scared-”
“If you try anything, Kaminari, I'll poke your eyeballs.”
“I wasn't!”
But they end up cuddling anyway; Sero helpfully throws a blanket over them because that’s what happens every movie night, somehow.
Taking overnight
Jirou likes to sleep and Denki likes distracting himself.
It takes his mind off the fact it’s nearly 1 a.m. and if he lies down on his bed he’ll just overthink everything and probably count down how much hours of sleep he’s losing and he’s going to be so sleep deprived and tired tomorrow and then he’ll get scolded by Aizawa for not paying attention in class and be stupider than he already is and he wishes he could close his eyes and why is it so cold in the room, all his senses feel waaay too alert and man does he want some ramen-
He tries a few other things like finishing some homework or reading but his eyes don’t feel like they’re working right. Or rather they are, but everything is blurring together. Denki leans back, listens to some music and scrolls on his phone. A bad distraction but a distraction nonetheless.
But now he can’t keep his mind off wondering if he could text Jirou and just…dunno, talk? Gossip? Ask her if she wanted to get instant ramen with him? Probably because one of her songs somehow crawled their way into his playlist right now.
She’d probably yell at him for waking her up and order him to go make ramen himself. The thought seems funny to him, but then again everything is funny at night. He opens up her chat because insomniac + a-need-for-company = no self control.
(Somewhere in the back of his mind he wonders why Jirou is the first one he thinks of.)
>>hey you up?????
>>can’t sleep 💀💀
>>would anyone be mad at me if i got up right now to make ramen
>>kinda want a juicebox or something lmaoo
>>CANNOT MATH RIGHT NOW 😩😭🥴
>>sorry to wake you
Denki throws the phone to his bed after deleting everything but the last message.
Taking over blue time
He’s in the midst of actually going out to get that juicebox when there’s knocking at the door.
Denki throws open the door, electricity at the ready in case a ghost really existed and was paying a visit to all those naughty little boys who aren’t abiding by bedtime.
It's Jirou, actually, who's paying a visit.
“…hi?” His brain and mouth feels numb but he attempts to be normal. “What, couldn't sleep until you saw my handsome face?”
Jirou's face gets more annoyed and disbelieving that she was even here in the first place. “A face that's about to be punched.”
“Aw, you do miss me~” Denki yanks her inside, unable to stop his grinning. He slams the door shut. “But seriously, why’re you here?”
“Just because you deleted the text doesn’t mean I didn’t see it.”
“…oh, yeah…about that.” Denki awkwardly scratches his neck. “We don’t gotta get the ramen or anything. I’m just having trouble sleeping then.”
Perhaps not so much now, when he suddenly found his eyes about to close themselves while his head was tucked under Jirou’s and his arms looped around hers, both somewhere in the stacks of blankets and pillows and plushies lying on Denki’s bed.
“Not a word, Kaminari.”
Not that he could manage one, finally dozing off with her.
(It’s a little hard to explain to Kirishima the next morning why Jirou’s plushy is on his bed.)
If you heard that screaming, shout in your mind
Jirou likes fries and Denki likes hamburgers.
There’s not really anything to argue about for this one but they do anyway, comparing which fast food chain was better. Usually it winds up with Denki defending his honor while Jirou pokes fun at how his big mouth came about by having to stretch it to fit all his beloved burgers. Nothing different this time round as Class 1-A heads out to another shopping trip together.
Denki doesn’t want to go into the stupid store. He’s hungry. Jirou snorts and says he won’t die of starvation like he says. He whines about craving a greasy, fat hamburger. Jirou elbows him; he lingers outside the store, at the window, declaring he was going to stay outside until they could eat and if they find his corpse lying out there it was because they wouldn’t let him have lunch. Tokoyami helpfully points out that it’s still morning.
He stays out there regardless, ignoring the scoffs and snickers from a certain someone that he looked like a homeless tramp.
A very hungry tramp, Denki argues. I want a hamburger. Maybe a soda.
Taking over the shine
“Hey.”
“What…aw, hey, you got me a burger! I’m saved!” Denki eagerly peels back the wrappings, taking a huge bite and beaming at Jirou, who’s plopped down next to him. She points out the lettuce in his teeth and sips her drink, holding her own burger.
“I didn’t see you come out of the store?”
“There’s another exit at the back. Passed by a restaurant and well, you said you were hungry and I didn’t want you complaining anymore.”
“Didn’t you say I looked like a homeless tramp sitting out here?”
“…now there’s two homeless tramps.”
Denki bursts out laughing and Jirou scolds him for spraying out hamburger. You never heard me say that, she says, and Denki stores it away in his memory as he takes the drink from her proffered hand. Jirou unwraps her burger and makes a face. “This better be as good as you say.”
(Later the Bakusquad catch them feeding each other fries; Jirou complains Denki opened the wrong packet of sauce.)
Taking over the shooting star
Jirou likes the solitude and Denki likes socialising.
Which is why despite the numerous asks from her friends if she needed them Jirou declined, preferring to spend her quarantine from the flu in her own room by herself. It wasn’t too bad - she could just do whatever she wanted in bed: scroll on her phone, practice a little music, catch up on assignments…if it weren’t so damned COLD.
She’s already sneezed about a bajillion times already and the bin’s full from tissues. No matter how many layers of blankets she was trying to burrow under she just wouldn’t heat up. Maybe her tolerance for the freeze had just lowered after hanging out with Kaminari - the man was quite literally a walking electrical heater.
Speaking of Kaminari, Jirou just might have to borrow Bakugo’s nickname of Dunceface for him, because who the hell gave him permission to barge into her room like that?!
Jirou throws a plushy at him. “Get out.”
“I’m not here to pass you your homework though…you know I don’t even understand any of it myself.” Nobody asked but he plops down next to her. “I heard you were sick!”
“Less sick and more of in danger in getting frostbite,” Jirou grumbles, hugging herself and shivering.
So of course he just hauls her ass to the door and basically kidnaps her to the kotatsu.
All I was talking about was music
“Better?”
“Maybe.”
Denki smirks and pulls her closer. She doesn’t even bother fighting it, finally warming up from the combination of the kotatsu and him. Probably the stifling three thousand blankets Denki piled on them as well. At least he had the decency to kidnap her rabbit plushy as well; he paired it up with his worn, dumb Pikachu one. The one where she had won for him at an arcade to get him to stop his sulking. Hah.
“Let’s play music! My turn to pick!”
“I’m the sick one, Jamming Whey.”
“It’s my phone!”
“You’re literally borrowing-”
They both rolled around for a while before someone’s elbow, finger, knee, something touched the screen sufficiently for the phone to recognize the command and start playing. Start playing Momo’s music choice, specifically. Jirou sighs and Denki shrugs. They let it play and huddle under Mount Blanket. The plushies are kidnapped inside.
“Warm enough yet?”
“Yeah.”
(And that's called jazz!)
YOOOOO
Assorted time skip content
I'M SORRY SIR NIGHTEYE THAT YOU BITCH I THOUGH YOU DIED!?
Everyone is saying “please not a time skip for the last mha chapter,” but, here me out:
Pro Hero Great Explosion Murder God DynaMight reaches his hand out to his Hero Parter: totally quirkless Midoriya Izuku wearing awesome support gear
Funny twitter meme pokemon scarlet violet arven version
-Clear Afternoon-
Ferb's mind wandered as it often did, thinking about what he was to do later that day, these thoughts were interrupted by the sound of an approaching train.
Picking up speed, a Stone Compound rushed past, the rhythmic chop of the exhaust made it clear that it was a Three Cylinder machine, the large green engine thundered past, red and white carriages slicing behind it.
Ferb's mind focused back in on their previous thoughts.
Sodorgust: Day 2 Express
Pictured here is the reaction of Horikoshi wondering why the hell a group of people wearing purple and yellow have arrived on his doorstep welding various weapons'.
Man, the age of the Hero has finally come to it's end.
So tones of thoughts about MHA at the moment and I want to break down my thoughts, on some stuff.
So spoilers.
Izuku becoming a teacher just feels right in a way, he spent all that time studying and learning from all the other heroes and has this massive bank of knowledge concerning quirks as a whole, he learned what seven eight quirks, and fought some absolutely mind boggling enemies, but also has the emotional intelligence to help people, not sure how well he's going to be at discipline, but he could body if he wants.
This is the thing people do tend to forget since he was using One For All practically at all times he's still ripped as fuck, he got first in the sports festival race, quirkless, by the end of the manga he has to be superhuman, and just because he doesn't have OFA doesn't mean he lost all of his gains, he would still hurt man, and he still has that 'I will fight a building, and Win' mentality and yeah he's insane, he just doesn't have an ICBM at his disposal anymore, but he will still rock shit like a 50. Cal. I would maybe put him on at least Nightwing levels of physical, he is going to have to be weighted like Aizawa to stop him from boding his students in the practical exams. Yeah it's noted that having a quirk makes it easier to be a hero, but keep in mind I still think he would throw absolute hands in a quirkless fight, and you think he stopped training himself physically, nah, he's a Gym Gremlin he's been putting in work, so when he gets that new suit, that is MHA's Batman, not Iron Man, that is Batman, specifically Batman Beyond.
"A hero isn't a hero because they have powers a hero makes themselves worthy of the power"
I saw quite a few people stating that whole it's nice to have rich friends angle concerning the new suit but this quote works fantastical, at every turn, Izuku earned that power and respect, he earned the right to be called a hero, simply in his world being were he was at wasn't enough, so his friends gave him the edge he needed to stay in the game.
Also would just like to note symbolically he still might be the greatest hero, he is MHA's Booster Gold, he's on the side making sure things are running well like he genuinely inspired his classmates in such a special way he created a whole new ideal of how heroes must act, even if they don't all get the time to interact and chat you know for a fact that most of them are thinking about what he would do, you have reached legend status if you've still got your ideals being replayed in other peoples heads.
Speaking of ideals, I think the final fun thing that MHA has been building up to as it's final big message is one of my favorite observation.
'You cannot do it all alone'
Which yeah it sounds completely reasonable that you wouldn't be able to do everything by yourself but it's really been how that fact has been built up, All Might was Japan's Atlas, holding the sky up never faltering he could never break, bend or buckle and when he did, when the weight became to much he fell, he broke and when he did so many heroes had to come and shoulder the weight that All Might was holding, and it was massive and that is the genuine flaw with the ideology behind One For All is how funneled power and responsibility is onto the holder, all that stress would make you go grey, much like what holding the sky would do to you in PJO, so when Midoriya stepped up to become the Ninth, he had so much power thrust upon him, and he really didn't know how to use that, and he fell into the deeply unhealthy ideals of All Might is ridiculous self sacrifice that idea that there has to be a person standing at the precipice, a great burning flame is such a bad way of looking at it, depending on one man.
And through MHA this ideology is gradually unlearned, with society putting more value on becoming the greatest or waiting for someone stronger to solve your problems for you, 1-A has learned to trust in each other and grow and learn, there doesn't need to be a number one.
Lifting the sky alone is a struggle, all that weight on your shoulders, no matter how strong you are, you are going to buckle and eventually break under its ever pressing force. But when many hands, many legs, many people standing shouldering the sky, when you buckle. Someone will always be there to give you time and security to stand back up.
That is how the world has to be treated going forward not as one person shouldering it all but everyone holding it and getting a little grey, and that is what everything seems to have been working towards and we see bits and pieces of this in 430, but then it's undercut almost immediately by the Hero Ranking.
Now I hate that this is kept in universe as that genuinely hubristic, yes it's nice to strive for the goal of No.1 it's a nice thing to say "I'm the No.1 Hero in the country!"
But genuinely that causes more trouble than it's worth, that stupid board, and it's weird that they haven't gotten rid of it or have people oppose it, if anything I think Shoto should be vehemently against it, that stupid ranking board is what created the absolute cluster fuck that is the Todoroki family, it gave birth to quite frankly the most dysfunctional and destructive family in Japan with an list of issues longer than the likely price tag of their house. It caused Touya to go absolutely bonkers simply begging for love and attention, and he became Dabi and caused a Heat Wave felt across the fucking planet, like genuinely get rod of that stupid thing, all it does is fuel egos and create Icarus', yeah you got Endeavor out of it who as a hero did incredible work, but that constant strive for No.1 broke him as a person, he became like Batman, absolutely devoted to the mission and forgot everything else.
This is why I am so in favor of something like Young Justice's Disordered Episode, let me see that moment where Shoto realises that he cannot under any circumstances become his father, that devoted to the mission that he becomes the worse sort of man.
Like please just get rid of the Hero Rankings, nothing good will come of it, all it does is fuel egos, and it's been noted you really don't need a No.1 because that gives you a target of what you need to focus on, and that leaves you blind to everything else.
In my final bit, I think the symbolism of as the embers die out having Izuku be the one to light new torches with those die embers, and cultivate them to bright burning flame is a fantastic way to end.
He is that brazier that cultivates new flame, a fitting thing for him to do.
therapist: cunt dracula is not real and cannot fuck you.
cunt dracula:
thinking about mha ending without being able to see all of the characters grow and reach their own individual happy endings. ship or not idc. i just want them to be happy
i still want to see Class 1-A, now 2-A, graduate. i want to see the big three become official heroes
i want to see happy moments after all of the battles they've went through
nearly all of the characters in mha have supplied immense happiness to the fandom for so long. I want them to have that much happiness (if more than that isn't possible) for themselves
the complaint about Denki's hair is so real
The second part of me struggling and learning MHA art style... Mostly struggling
Batman; Gotham by Gaslight
Within the annals of cultural, pop cultural, and historical crime, there are few whose macabre methods could reach the bloody depths that 'yours truly,' Jack the Ripper, managed to plumb.
Five brutal deaths were all it took for that deadly name to resound for Five centuries. The echo of the deed has so scarred the psyche of man that Man collectively found 'champions' of their own to face the blood-soaked beast on the battlefield of 'what if' in an attempt, perhaps, to find a semblance of cold closure on one of the most famous cold cases in history.
A murderer must be hunted by a detective, and there is no more excellent detective at DC's disposal than Batman to solve the mystery of Jack the Ripper. It is a contest between legendary figures, a Dark Knight on a quest to capture a monster, two ghosts playing a grisly game of hide-and-seek through the foggy alleys of a Victorian-era Gotham lit not by neon ...but by Gaslight.
Ironically, even though Batman is DC's greatest detective, barely any detective work is done in both the movie and the original comic it is adapted from. Any investigative work done by Batman in both mediums to uncover the identity of Jack is brushed over, and the reveal of the killer's identity had nothing to do with anything Batman had done throughout the narrative.
Ultimately, Batman is almost railroaded into solving the mystery, and the climax is somewhat underwhelming and blunts the effect of the twist reveal of Jack the Ripper's true identity.
YES. Commissioner James Gordon IS Jack the Ripper. This risky reimagining elevated this adaptation to a height that its original comic did not achieve. The twist shocked the system for any DC fan familiar with Batman's relationship with Gordon. It is also expertly hinted at throughout the film for any sharp-eyed viewer interested in a whodunit, as the narrative presented many possible suspects, but Gordon was the only one who would have fit all the facts of the mystery. The twist was further muddied by the inspired decision to design Jack the Ripper to be as angular as possible, while Gordon had a softer, more rounded silhouette.
This culminates in a climactic showdown atop a burning Ferris wheel, which was ironically begun by a knocked-over gas lamp. At the end of a brutally animated brawl, Gordon allows himself to be consumed by the fire of the burning wheel. He is a good man driven into hellfire by his hellish desires. Was he the last evil of a bygone age sacrificed for a better future? Or was he just the latest in a never-ending cycle of self-destruction, doomed to go around in a wheel until the wheel eats itself alive?
Whatever the case, Gotham by Gaslight turned a throwaway 'what if' comic story into a film that embodies everything that makes a Batman story great. The film shows that, even if lit by gas, Gotham is still a city that needs its Dark Knight, regardless of what the city deserves.
