I Cannot Stop Thinking About This Extra, The Little Feathery Face, The Fact That His Parents Obv Treated

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I have been seeing posts about how people who have been bullied project onto Midoriya and don’t accept Bakugou’s apology need to get over themselves and how sad it is they can’t move on. And…I don’t know, it just strikes me as insensitive and tasteless to just tell people to get over their trauma, like they can wash their hands clean of it simply. I was not bullied in school, but I have heard stories about how for some the bullying got so bad, they take their lives.

And to see people say, “The apology was to Midoriya, not to you, so just get over yourself”, when it can get to such degrees to a person makes me trust anything a Bakugou Stan says less and less. Trauma is trauma in my eyes, and some people can get over it, good for them, some can’t. So it’s okay to shit on their feelings? It’s like telling a victim of an abusive parent to get over it. Or an abusive relationship to get over it. Or a r*** victim to get over it.

Am I being overly sensitive? I just don’t trust individuals who tell strangers they have no idea what people went through how to live their lives as if it were that simple. If people are allowed to relate to Bakugou because of the one of two “positive traits” they personally see in him, then why aren’t people who were tormented and bullied like Izuku not able to relate to him and find the shit apology lackluster?

To me, this is what makes some Bakugou stans shitty people.

Like whichever character you want, I don't care. But how the fuck are you gonna get mad that people who were bullied hate his character? That's like telling victims of SA pr trafficking that they can't hate Endeavor. I was called the r-slur once for bringing up that out of everyone, victims of bullying have the right to hate on Bakugou's character.

Attacking real people- VICTIMS AT THAT- to defend a fictional piece of shit privileged bully is not what we should be striving for.

Izuku accepting/forgiving Bakugou is always the excuse Bakugou stans give. God forbid you bring up Izuku's lack of agency regarding Bakugou throughout the story. But even so, Izuku's a fictional character, one that's been proven to be biased and unable to advocate for himself. He's an unreliable narrator so him accepting Bakugou doesn't mean anything to me. Remember, he also defended Endeavor against Dabi.

I love him, but his POV is skewed when it comes to things like this.

No, you're not being overly sensitive. Attacking real people for not liking your favorite character (who reminds them of their trauma) is shitty

Expanding On Inko’s Segment From The “Izuku’s Emotional Neglect” post!!

I recently did a post about Izuku’s Emotional Neglect and it had a segment on Inko’s influence on him and like I wanted to add this part in but 1) I couldn’t find anywhere to put it that would still make the post flow well and 2) it would have made the post too long

Here is the original post [x], I recommend you read it before reading this!

The part I wanted to talk about was the All Might Visit scene in chapter 96, specifically this part

“If only my child had stayed quirkless (…) wouldn’t Izuku have been happier that way…?”

I know we talk about The Todoroki Family’s disconnect, but can we also talk about the Midoriya Family’s disconnect?

The way it is, Izuku sees his quirklessness as bad because of how it’s been treated in the past by his childhood peers/friends, his teachers, his mother and All Might. It’s always been implied to be bad and wrong, to be worse than having a “lame” quirk.

But Inko doesn’t know this. She doesn’t know how Izuku sees his quirklessness. To her, the extent of her idea must be “it was bad because he wanted to be a hero but you need a quirk to be a hero”, but that’s not the issue here

Izuku doesn’t want to be useless therefore -> quirkless.

Inko wonders if staying quirkless [therefore -> useless] would have been good for him.

My point is Inko doesn’t know how bad her son’s self worth is. She doesn’t know the gravity of her words in this moment.

As said in the original post, Inko’s language always implies his quirklessness as something deeply upsetting and bad. While she didn’t mean to imply it, to Izuku, her apology would have felt like a betrayal to how she acted before [she acted so upbeat and happy when Izuku would go on about becoming a hero, but when he asks her for the last time if he can become a hero, she cries and instead apologises. That would have felt like a big betrayal to Izuku]

The deeper problem here is that Inko and Izuku don’t communicate.

Izuku never told her how his quirklessness or her words made him feel, plus we don’t even know if he ever told her about Bakugou’s bullying or even the bullying in general! It seems like Inko hasn’t the foggiest idea of Izuku’s problems.

And in this scene, as you can see with the flashbacks, Inko seems to see his quirklessness as a lost opportunity for peace. She would be absolutely content with playing pretend as long as Izuku doesn’t run off into danger “like what she witnessed on tv”

[oh Inko… you’ve got a big storm coming]

And this isn’t to say Inko is wrong to think this. It’s not wrong of her to want her son to be safe. But the fact of the matter is that she doesn’t know how deeply her words effect Izuku, because this is the second time she has said something upsetting about his quirklessness. Not purposefully, but it still must hit Izuku deep.

So then we look at Izuku’s reaction to this

To her, she views it as a necessary evil. That she hates making her son upset and dragging him away from a place he loves, but she feels she has to do it in order for him to be safe.

To Izuku, this is the end of his dream, that panicked realization just before you wake up to reality. He eventually accepts that he can go to other schools, but I think this initial reaction is interesting.

“All my efforts reduced to zero! (…) I have to go back to UA, no matter what!”

Once again, I feel like it could be that familiar feeling of betrayal. That she’s taking away that dream of his.

Actually, that apology seems the same. She tells him “I’m sorry”, almost like a parallel to before.

To add more to the disconnect, let me also very briefly mention this

Because here, Izuku is promising things he can’t keep. This is more or less a “fake it till you make it” thing where Izuku PROMISES to work on getting stronger so he won’t worry his mother anymore but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh [war arc flashbacks and vigilante arc visions]

This is a disconnect with himself, because he’s still being reckless and not thinking about his own safety, but at the same time it’s a disconnect with his mother for not upholding his promise, with not thinking about how this behavior effects his loved ones

Izuku’s self hatred and self worth issues outweigh the feeling of not wanting his loved ones to be worried. It’s that constant need to prove himself worthy, not just to those he admires but to himself. Like saying “See, I am worth something. All those voices in my head telling me I needed to wake up and see reality were wrong, because I am worthy now.”

Unfortunately, even though Izuku IS stronger AND better than he was, he still sees himself as useless. This isn’t something a Hero Destiny can fix, this is a deep rooted issue that has been happening since childhood.

Anyway idk man, things turned out okay [kinda] but I think this scene speaks volumes to how Inko interacts with her son, the effect she had on him and how he views his quirkless, and how the two literally just don’t communicate effectively with each other

This isn’t to say Inko is a bad mother. She’s certainly trying her best and we can’t fault her for that. I’m afraid this is just one of those things where everything could be fixed if two characters just sat down and talked to each other [which ya know. can’t do that cause it would shut down the ~tension~ of the story]

Inko sees his quirklessness as sad, but also a lost opportunity to have a quiet life.

Izuku sees his quirklessness as something bad, the worst part of himself. When he’s reminded of it, he remembers how “useless” and “pathetic” he was, and tries to separate the quirkless version of himself from the “stronger” version, because he’d rather not remember that. In fact, it seems like he doesn’t want to remember it, or ruminate on it for long, because he can’t face how horrible it was. He simply wants to focus on the now, the better version of himself, because the past seems to be too hard to face.

It IS hard to face, especially with the amount of self hatred he has. As he is now, he can’t look at the past as someone who knows it shouldn’t have happened, he can only look at it as someone who still blames himself for being born quirkless.

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idk i started this as a doodle yesterday and it kinda took on a life of it’s own haha

I’m calling some BS

80% of the population has a known quirk.

So, logically, 20% either are quirkless or have quirks that are hard to discover, right?

Clearly wrong, as far as literally everything the anime (not sure about the manga) has shown us.

If a whole 20% of the population were quirkless, Midoriya may have been the only member of his class without a quirk, but not his whole grade. There’s more than 80 students in a grade in any given city.

If a whole 20% of the population were quirkless, there would’ve been various interest and support groups. Mrs. Midoriya could have joined a “quirk parents of quirkless children group,” and Izuku would’ve had lots of friends, perhaps more than Bakugo.

People of similar sub cultures/disabilities/interests/minorities find each other!

In elementary school, I was the only kid who’d ever heard of my father’s religion. At the school, at least. Frequently, almost every week, I would go spend time with other kids in my age group that were being raised by parents of that religion. We were less than .05% of the local population, religion wise. I still had like 20 kids with in two years on either side of my age.

Midoriya would have more. I’d be willing to lay money on there being a kid born on the same day as him, maybe in the same hospital, who was quirkless and lived in a reasonable distance to hang out frequently, if this were a real situation.

20% of a population does not just completely isolate themselves. Especially not from others with similarities that make them the minority.

Or to put this another way, 80% of the population has a quirk. 1 in every 5 people would not.

And let’s not even get into people connecting over the internet.

This has been a plot hole rant, there may be more in the future, thanks for reading! (Feel free to add on, or, argue, I guess, if you can find a way to argue that doesn’t boil down to ‘dramatic back story’ or ‘plot convenience’)

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On Neglect, Love, and Todoroki Fuyumi

Let the records state that there is nobody in the BNHA manga who I love more than Fuyumi. This essay is for her, just as much as it is for me, because there’s a lot to be said with her - a lot to understand, a lot to interpret, and a lot to still learn.

Please be aware of the warnings in the tags and as follows: I will be touching on child abuse and neglect, and how growing up in these situations hurts. I will be using my own experience as a baseline to relate. I don’t go into detail a lot of detail, but these are still topics that came up. Arm yourself if you wish to continue.

And here we go.

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u ever think abt how bnha has two characters who have been confirmed, canonly, to hurt children for their causes, and since one is a hero he gets to have a redemption arc but because the other is a villain, he has his arms mercilessly torn off and his whole life’s work stolen. i mean he deserves it lmao but it’s wildly a double standard in a rly meta way. like, sure, you could say the message is that “one is inherently a good person, thus he chooses to redeem himself, and that’s what makes him deserving of being a hero,” but that ultimately cannot be separated from the fact that he was introduced first and foremost as (1) a hero, and (2) a domestic abuser, and we can’t pretend that there is no personal code of ethics associated with being a hero in bnha that isn’t imposed by its own author. essentially what i’m saying is that there is a good moral judgment placed on being a hero and a bad moral judgment placed on being a villain by the narrative itself, and we can’t ignore that it influences the way these two stories are written. because heroes are good and there’s moral goodness associated with heroism, all faults of heroes no matter how heinous must be shown as worthy of redemption, because they deserve it by being heroes. it’s not because of who he is as a person that the narrative decides to give him this chance, it’s because of what his job is. villains, on the other hand, are forever tainted by their villainy and are not worthy of second chances, they should be immediately and soundly punished. and u kno what that just sounds super real for a sec🤔🤔

Fandom Problem #8125:

Not gonna lie I kind of hate how multishipping is often villainized in fandom.

Like say for example I want to ship two completely different ships. Only problem however is those two communities are in a ship war. So how do I fit in the fandom if shippers on both sides hate me for shipping both. And furthermore the lack of content for the specific polyship can also be disheartening as well. It seems like polyshippers are always excluded from fandoms and that frustrates me to know end. It would make shipping much less toxic. Plus nobody forcing you to ship it either we just a space where we have the ability to ship both without people being weird about it.

I swear if I told the Naruto Fandom that I shipped both Sasunaru and Naruhina I’d be executed on the spot.

I don't really just wander the Hawks tags because I feel like it's like 80% HPSC President Hawks at this point and while if that works for people that's totally fine but it's not a timeline I'm terribly interested in. I'll be a "the HPSC are corrupt as fuck and need to be radically altered or abolished as an organization" truther til the day I die.

I still hate how that was set up and completely walked back like "nah, this whole government child assassin business is great and necessary actually, this whole ending should not leave you worried. Don't be depressing! There is nothing evil going on behind the curtain!"