ko-fi request for @/hellish.atrocity on instagram! bakugou being annoyed while hawks is happy and chill
looking back at my initial reaction to this moment when it happened in the manga, i can't believe i didn't immediately realise that it wasn't supposed to be taken positively. as someone who's been preaching about shigaraki being an unreliable narrator for years, it's really weird that at the time i didn't realise that the contradiction in what hawks saying ('i had support') and what he's thinking about (his toy. he didn't have any real support, only himself and his dream) is intentional, and didn't notice that his speech-bubbles are shaky. he's not really fine or alright, but he's convincing himself that he is to keep going.
pause. the Shigaraki-Rapunzel parallel specifically in the context of AFO making his hair grow long and luscious just because he can and then stealing his freedom and his body. Then his long white hair being cut and turning back to black, signifying Tenko regaining his autonomy and getting a fresh start.
Wiping my feet, putting on indoor slippers from my backpack: So, so. I can't stop staring at the Miruko and Hawks art. The OFFICIAL one, where they're wearing highschool uniforms because WE STAN BIRDIE-BUNNY FRIENDSHIPS. Just. Let Miruko adopt a dumb bird, please. When she saw this cheeky ass bird child, she thought he was funny but she did not at all expect to adopt a baby bird as a little sibling-ish person thing. He's a mess but she'd kill for him. Thanks, Bellamy-senpai!!
Rumi is a genuinely cool and popular upperclassman who thinks it’s absolutely hilarious that the new kid Takami seems very cool on the surface but is actually just, like, a complete disaster in reality. He has absolutely minimal practice interacting with people past uncomfortably canny surface level social signaling and pretending like his inability to smile is because he’s too cool to do so, and is way too enthusiastic about using pop culture references for someone who seems to have accidentally wiped the ‘childhood media’ folder from the hard drive of his brain. He is most honest when he’s being an asshole, which is hilarious because he pulls it off with exactly enough shit-eating gravitas that nobody ever calls him on it, so she thinks they’re going to bond over that... but it turns out that once she cracks him open like a walnut, he’s stupidly easy to bait into feeling bad with some crocodile tears. At least he is when he’s not emotionally manipulating Rumi’s class rep into begging some extra credit for Rumi off of their teacher because he’s just so worried that she lost points because he made her help him with some family stuff, and he’d feel so bad if it was his fault that her grade suffered -
She wrestles him into the dirt after school for that, because fuck you, ‘Hawks,’ don’t project the bug he has up his ass about getting a single B onto her. She’s not the one that got raised in a test tube or whatever, she can damn well fight her own fights without any little freshman rats sneaking around behind her back!
It’s more ride-or-die than she expected him to be, though, and before she knows it she’s more than ready to return the favor. She graduates before him, and it’s a happy occasion as any until she realizes that she’s probably his only genuine friend in the whole school that knows him beyond his stupid facade of superficial idol-like popularity. It’s not the whole reason that she registers herself under her own agency (because like fuck is she going to sidekick for anybody!), but it doesn’t hurt that doing so means she’s technically legal to send internship request forms to high school students.
A DabiHawks fancomic by TheGreatAnso
CW : violence, blood / bruises
This is a comic based on the lyrics of the song Race, by Alex G. You can listen to the song while reading it, headphones are recommended since it’s weird garage music, if you want to hear all the lyrics. Some panels are just redraws of (beautiful) canon panels from the manga.
It's still valentines day somwhere😭❤️
Fallen
Captions are hard