"will You Match My Freak" No. I'm Freakier Than You. This Is A Competition And I'm Winning

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Take a Jay Ferin in these trying times

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Reference from @mellon-soup!! They do a whole heap of cool pose references on tumblr, TikTok and Pinterest. My go to for pose references and understanding anatomy!

”you can just make an oc” you dont understand anything. the character needs to mutate naturally until unrecognizable. like all evolutionary processes it takes time. you can’t force it or it doesn’t take. you must endure weird ooc thematically discordant versions of a guy until they bud off into beautiful new life. have patience

The Legend

MAVBO MY BELOVED❤️

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I'm so glad people actually talk about this!! The whole first episode is spent building up Izuku's backstory just for it to never matter outside of him not knowing how to use his quirk.

The worst part is that 1) mha isn't known for having shitty backstories, many of the characters are known specifically for their well written stories (the todorokis, most of the league, even the relationship between bakugo and izuku before and throughout canon) so it's incredibly frustrating to see the main character's hardly affect him after a while

and 2) that the original plot WAS that Izuku would stay quirkless and use weapons to become a hero. I'm not sure how true this part is, but I've heard that the reason it was changed is because one of the editors convinced horikoshi that the main character not having a superpower would make it boring.

MHA: Izuku Midoriya

I know I'm kicking a hornets nest here, but I feel like Izuku was more interesting as a protagonist before he got a handle on One for All. Like, way back when he was still breaking his own bones on the regular. It just feels like he got super powerful and it doesn't have a cost or stakes for him anymore. (I'm not saying it doesn't, I'm saying it doesn't feel like it.) It also kind of undermines who he started off as.

Like, he was a smart and goodhearted kid who wanted to be a hero, but didn't have a Quirk. On that premise, I would have expected him to Batman or Iron Man his way into heroics. Instead, they kind of Green Lantern/Blue Beetle it. Which is fine, sort of. Except GL and BB origins are usually good people going about their business and suddenly granted power they feel obligated to do good with. It vibes differently for a kid who desperately wants to do good and is suddenly given the powers of Superman (and later everyone else in the justice league). Comparison is getting away from me.

Giving that power to an untrained, unprepared child feels like Izuku is being taken advantage of. And he kind of was. There were better options, for both passing on the Quirk and training the recipient. But narratively it also helps give Izuku seemingly impossible expectations to live up to and a very short timeframe to do it in. It keeps him an underdog, even with access to unholy levels of power. And we were introduced to MHA as an underdog story.

As Izuku struggles to become the hero we (the audience) know he can become, we also watch him lose the rose-tinted view of heroics. The system is corrupt. Its not just a few cowards who don't help because of a bad quirk match-up (I have strong feelings about the sludge villain incident), its built into the system. If the story had stayed more on that, I think I would have enjoyed where it went. You can have the most powerful hero in the world and a corrupt system will still leave them the underdog.

But instead they make it more of a legacy 1v1. All Might v All for One, then Izuku v Shigaraki. Which might be easier to illustrate and finish, but it less narratively satisfying. I get that this is battle shounen, and they're all about their big power-scale-shattering fights with their arch enemies, but was it weird I was sort of expecting better by a certain point?

I literally cannot explain my VISCERAL NEED for the Gilly Shirt

I NEED IT

I had to.

hey guys here is my little crazy man hodge podge. im insane about him

any way . how are yo u guys

erm bonus creature one too . guh

Skullslice AU

The albatrio meets while Chip is still in Reubens gang.

- Chip is meaner, less joking around, gets angry a lot easier but is actually just scared. He wants to escape he just hasn’t gotten around to it yet. (Reuben keeps guilting him into staying.)

-Jay is still a spy for the navy but she isn’t given the choice of choosing her own missions and has to work up to that. She has been assigned to as a spy in Price’s gang to gather information and keep peace with the gang and navy relationships. Originally she only became close to Chip because she knew that he was close to Price.

-Unfortunately when Gil was banished skullslice was the first place he found. He originally came out swinging because evil and got himself captured. Price sent Chip to kill him but he managed to fake his death and keep him in hiding but Gil can sense an evil on Chip so it makes it very difficult. Chip manages to get Jay take care of Gillion. Jay admits to Gil that she is a traitor right away and after knowing Chip eventually convinces Gil that the reason why he is “evil” is because Reuben is making him that way. Gil wants to apologize to Chip but Jay tells him not to say a word of what they discussed in private. Chip is bitter and argumentative at first but Gillion seems way too apologetic and unresponsive to it. Eventually they all get closer. There is a lot of tension but Chip is the best friend they can have in this situation and Chip is starved for any affection that isn’t from his brother so they ignore their circumstances. One day Chip comes down with more bruises than usual and confesses to Gil that he wants to leave Reuben. Gil, trying to help, says that Jay is a spy and could probably help him escape. Chip, lashing out, says that he should’ve killed Gil when he was told and they dual. Jay interrupts and Chips anger is redirected towards her. Jay admits everything to them. Jay tries to apologize but gets overwhelmed and instinctively runs back to Reuben to tell him everything. He immediately sends people out to find them and says that for going behind his back he will have to kill both of them. Chip miraculously finds them before anyone else and they make their great escape to sea. Chip forgives Jay because she gave him his dream. Jay doesn’t want to go back to the navy she wants to find her sisters killer so Jay and Chip made a deal that he will help her them as part of his crew. They don’t look at eachother the same at first but get the chance to become friends all over again but the right way. Gillion feels tremendous guilt for ruining their friendship and swears that he will make it better so he stays with them. Then even after he learns that as a crew they can do good together and fuck shit up.