Hello,everyone,my name is Dylan.I'm 22,proudly black & queer,the sassy one in the group.I write stories about the tv/book series,I've seen and I'm a huge fan on the supernatural,occult and other things like anime.
People are always hating on overpowers OCâs for mha but have they seen the cannon characters?
Shoto Todoroki: first episode he was in and used his power, bro froze a whole building. (Not to mention the sports festival)
Katsuki Bakugo: he can explode anything and everything. Go watch him in the war after he gets heart surgery.
Izuku Midoriya: bro has SEVEN. QUIRKS. SevenâŠ.thatâs kinda over powers
(Even if I hate him) Shigiraki: he can decay anything in his path also he took all for one.
(She isnât my favorite but, she needs credit) Ochaco Uraraka: watch her in the war, bro is overpowered.
The show is literally about people with powers saving the world, so what if an OC is overpowered? So are the cannon characters also, mha and literally any fandom if itâs not based on true events is an OC.
Qetsiyah really grew on me. Reading that there were plans to introduce a whole family unit and the writers didn't deliver / cut that out because it was too long was a shame. I rather had that rhan the repeat of the generic â€ïžđșïž
Like, yes, her romantic betrayal was what ultimately drove her to this, but Qetsiyah had all that power.... she's easily one of THE most powerful witches in the universe, and the lore as we know it in TVDU started with her and continued onwards through her line until we ended up at the Bennetts.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Qetsiyah got her revenge and punished two cheaters. It was something she wanted for 2000 years, which some would argue well isn't that enough?
I partially agree. She could've still held onto that revenge/plot around it. With her whole family and the Schism that came with her actions, seeing that playout would've been cool too. Also, the magical implications and beliefs of the witches and travelers had would have been nice.
It's why I wished to have gotten some clues here and there about Qet that hinted at the whole doppelgÀngers and the Other Side once they were revealed in early seasons. Now, I know the writers wrote themselves into a lot of inconsistencies, but Qetsiyah wasn't one of them.
I imagine things like Qetsiyah reaching out to her descendants in some type of way, or even through the Spirits.... because you can not tell me none of them knew what occurred.
If Qetsiyah brought forth the Original Sin and the world's first true Immortal, I would be down for that being a side story that sewed some type of discord in her line: those that do follow Nature's rule (against Qetsiyah's action) and those that didn't. It would be an awesome way to add some type of infighting of ideals / how magic within their bloodline is governed. They all existed on the Other Side. Qetsyiah could have been this mysterious force that sort of indirectly guided Bonnie, and then we got to S4-S5 where we get the full story and the face.
Another idea that comes to mind is that with her whole revenge, Qetsiyah would be this mysterious witch who made deals with her descendants to get one step closer to Silas. Like the way she asked the witch of the five to make the hunters, and maybe later those tattoos could've been made invisible by another one of her descendants, etc. I can also see Qetsiyah only reaching out to descendants who really need help or 'go against nature' and the Spirits don't answer them.
If she cheated on her man and hid the fact that Klaus wasn't Mikeals for all them years what makes yall think she could make an immortality spell on her own when she could barely do magic herself???
Season 1: a brief little "fling" with both Matt and Tyler.
Season 2: Start building a relationship with Tyler. Maybe they were there for each after his dad and grams died and they helped each other figured out their powers. They kinda remain friends with great chemistry.
Season 3: After Kol is woken (earlier than in canon) and he realizes that there is a powerful Bennett witch who almost killed his brother, he starts to pursuing his brother. They really have this really fun banter that mixed with magic lessons until the Mikaelson Ball. (Obviously she is invited). Maybe instead of Damon, Kol turns Abby into a vampire to save him and his siblings lives causing a unfixable rift in their relationship.
Season 4 - 5: Friends to Lovers Tonnie with a bittersweet ending. Bonnie, thinking she's not coming back to life, breaks up with him and tells him to move on. It's really sad
Season 6: Prison world happens. Kai has an obsession with Bonnie especially after the merge. Bonnie is almost tempted to give in but she is reminded of situationship with Kol.
Season 7: Bonnie in college. Nora is kinda Bonnie's sexual awakening. They have a little fling. Tyler comes back at the end of the season.
Season 8: Tyler and Bonnie rekindle their relationship and live happily ever after.
I could go on here and say my problems with st*rek lie in the lack of scenes together or the fact that their canon dynamic was more comedic/antagonistic than romantic, but honestly thatâs not even it. Idc when ppl ship characters that didnât have great chemistry, didnât get along, didnât even MEET in canon! idc! What I do care about is:
1) Pedophilia. Stiles is a teenager, Derekâs a grown man. Iâve seen debates about derekâs exact age but tbh whether heâs 22 or 26 or 30 doesnât change the fact that heâs way too old to date a high school sophomore. Period.
2) Stealing Scottâs personality. All the st*rek fics are chock full of Stiles being the nurturing âPack Momâ while Derek plays Dad when Stiles is unforgiving, caustic, and sharp-tongued 90% of the time. Itâs Scott who takes in strays and treats everyone around him with utmost kindness right up until they prove they donât deserve it. Even then, he still sometimes forgives.
3) St*rekâs prevalence. Okay, so weâve come up with a crack ship that doesnât have much basis in canon! Great! Why is it suddenly THE MOST POPULAR SHIP IN THE FANDOM BY A FUCKING MILE? I canât go anywhere in any teen wolf fandom spaces without the goddamn st*rek jumpscaring me. For reference, St*rek outclasses the second most popular ship on ao3 (which happens to be Steter for some fuckinâ reason) by MORE THAN 7X!
4) The delusion. Iâve seen lots of ships like Malia and Isaac where the shipping is a littleâŠtongue in cheek. The shippers are self-aware, they know there isnât much canon basis, but theyâve decided to go ahead anyways because this is fiction and itâs fun and it hurts nobody. Iâve seen ships like Scissac or Malira where the shippers are more delulu (admittedly me, lol) yet thereâs a decent canon basis to those relationships that make the hc shipping more understandable⊠but I have never (and I mean NEVER) witnessed such widespread CONVICTION about such a canonically weak ship. Never in my life in any other fandom (besides maybe the rpf weirdos) have I seen SO many people who are SO INVESTED in a ship with such little foundation, while not one of them is self aware enough to look around and admit that itâs really just a crackship!
Not going to talk much about the first, cause yeah, I don't see Derek, with his backstory ever going for a teenager, but I could at least still figure stories set in the future where Stiles is of age...
And I could even see why someone would ship a ship that canonically is more comedic or antagonistic. It happens, ships like that can be fun if done right.
But where it bothers me, is that they essentially give Stiles Scott's personality, and Scott's canon interactions with Derek. Where they have Derek treat Stiles with the interest and respect he treated Scott with in canon. And then act as if it's canon, as if their ship has the same basis in canon of ships like Destiel, or Merthur or...
That while they insult Scott for the very traits they love when they give them to Stiles, all along as they at best, turn Scott into a stereotype, removing his depth, intelligence and every relationship he has, (which they then give to Stiles); and at worst, they turn Scott into the bad guy. (oddly enough a lot of these 'bad friend Scott mccall' actually give Scott's Stiles' negative traits, like Stiles' judgmentalness, or Stiles' impulsiveness)
These same people either claim Scott is 'too perfect to be interesting', while writing Stiles as if he's Scott, while at the same time, turning Scott into a monster for the least thing he does wrong, while ignoring far worse behavior from any of the other (white) characters.
If they really like sterek 'oh so much', then why do so few fics actually write Stiles and Derek in character, starting with their actual canon interactions, and canon lack of respect, or lack of liking for one another?
And why do they then push that 'dislike' onto Scott and Derek's relationship, when canonically Scott forgave and trusted Derek far sooner than Stiles ever did.
Why ignore that Derek's pack had little interest in Stiles, and that Stiles left Erica and Boyd to die, while pretending Stiles is this packmom type of guy that he never was in canon...
ugh that ask really did have me thinking about the sheriff and how much i cannot stand that man.
like i'm generally very very lenient with characters that only care about one or a couple people. especially when the people they care for are ones that i also care for like stiles in this instance. but with sheriff stilinski, i just can not. It's a mixture of
a) the hypocrisy
b) that he's leveraging the law against characters I like (listen, if he was throwing peter into a prison cell, that's one thing. but it's not, it's kira.)
c) the whole white male cop that actively abbets his white male son's multiple crimes while crucifying everyone else thing is too close to reality for me.
and d) as an extension of the above, the way that teen wolf gives him a leniency that it doesn't allow any of the other parents in the narrative because of the color of his skin and his gender. And mind you, I tend to stay out of conversations around fandom racism because i don't come here to reflect on how fandom and media are extensions of issues i face irl. However in certain instances like this, it's impossible to avoid discussing that sheriff stilinski is given grace by the narrative. The way that he (and Chris) are allowed to single-mindedly protect his son and not be condemned by the narrative when Victoria and Lydia's mom are both seen as wrong for it, when Noshiko is needlessly rendered powerless. It's how we get to see Melissa care about Stiles as her own time and time again and Stilinski never extends that concern to Scott, or Lydia, or any of Stiles's friends or even Melissa who's his friend. The sheriff is allowed to take unsavory actions to protect his own but Noshiko and Ken, who have been fully informed about the supernatural world for ages, one of whom is a nine tailed kitsune, isn't allowed to do so. It's the same way that we never get insights into Boyd or Erica or Mason's families but we learn about Isaac's father. How we get an entire season of Argent family history and tons about the Hales and nothing about the McCalls. It's about how the dream sequence gave us meaningful looks into Lydia and Stiles's families and then that random thing with Roxy for Scott when the circumstances around Rafael leaving was right there for the picking, and just as important to his character as Stiles's or Lydia's mothers were to them (-don't argue with me about this, i understand that a lot of you have have analyzed that scene to hell and back and rendered some meaning out of it and while i appreciate the effort, we simply disagree on this scene)
Anyway I just wanted to rant a little bit because that ask had me thinking about it. And now i'd rather not think about it so I might just mute the notifs on that ask.
Ofc if you like stilinski, good for you, i really don't care, don't come into my inbox about it, please and thank you.
WE NEED TO TALK MORE ABOUT HOW MAD BOYD WAS!!! HECK WE NEED TO TALK MORE ABOUT BOYD!!!
(So this got kinda long. I did not realise I was this passionate about his character until I started writing, so buckle in)
The Teen Wolf writers fumbled hard with Boyd- he was such an underdeveloped character. We knew nothing about why he wanted to join Derek's pack other than that he didn't want to be friendless- which compared to Erica, who had a serious disability she was bullied for, and Isaac, who had an abusive asshole for a father, really isn't that big of a deal. They never explain why he's any different from the hundreds of other friendless high schoolers.
He also never gets the chance to really have an important part in any scene. Isaac and Erica had the lab scene where they tried to poison Lydia. They went to kill Lydia at school, at then at Scott's house. They tried to poison Jackson at the rave. He did do most of the talking when Erica and him were running away though, so good for him. But mostly he was just standing behind Derek as backup. I only remember three 1-on-1 scenes of him with Scott/Stiles.
(I can't find a gif of the ice rink scene cause that's how little this fandom talks about Boyd and Scott when it's unrelated to their favs. I also did not even remember that last scene until I saw a post of some idiot bashing Boyd for saying that he's not Stiles's friend after Stiles "spent the entire summer looking for him unlike Scott". Which. Wow the delusion.)
In Frayed he actually almost initiated a fight by almost attacking Ethan in the bus over Derek and Erica's death. But then who actually does it? Isaac! (I love that because ahhh scisaac obviously, but could they not have included something else for Boyd too?)
Motel California is by far the most in depth ep he got. We finally learnt about his sister and the guilt he feels for not saving her. I have no idea why they left that information out for over a full season (they definitely did not make it up just to give Boyd a reason for a suicide attempt despite the fact that Erica was already dead and they really should've focused on his grief over that more because she was his only friend and also because literally no one mourned her for more than 5 seconds) but whatever! He has a backstory now! Next episode-
He dies. Mfg.
(And they made it about Derek, and added a sprinking of Stiles too even though it would've made so much more sense to have Cora comfort her brother since they've been tense since their reuinion and they needed a bonding moment, but I'm glad she was crying over Boyd's body though because someone needed to do it)
And ok. Fine. Teen Wolf has a LOT of underdeveloped characters. Especially when they're women/poc. This is what fanfic is for. Let's see what they have!
DAMN 17000+ works for a black side character who appears for only 1.5 seasons? The fandom's outdone itself!
But wait...
The top relationship isn't related to him? His most important canon relationship has 1/4th the amount of fics that the fanon ship about two white guys has? How unusual....
I think you get my point.
I haven't read that many Hale pack fics for obvious reasons, but the ones I have come across portray him in the exact. Same. Way.
Fanon Boyd is calm. He is the level-headed, mature one (*looks at princeescaluswords posts on poc kid adultification*). When fanon Isaac has his sad meow meow moments, he reassures him. When fanon Erica acts like a sexy but chaotic cat, he smiles affectionately and restrains her. He stands stoicly behind Derek and nods assent. I mean, let's see what the internet has to say about fanon Boyd.
(The 1st result is AI. Because google is disappointing like that and I don't have time to go any deeper rn. Let it be known I do not support publicly accessible AI in any way!)
Oh boy. I know it's no secret that most Sterek fanfics warp the canon characters like hell to make their ship make sense, but oh boy.
"Gentle nature"- proceeds to beat Scott up when he tries to convince them not to kill Lydia, demolishes the opposing lacrosse team, talks back aggressively to literally everyone except Scott in that one scene in the ice rink- but he did just stand by while Derek stepped on Scott's throat 10 seconds ago so I don't think that amounts to much.
"Moral compass"- helps when Derek orders them to kill Jackson and then Lydia, nearly murders Ethan himself before Scott stops him, plots to kill Deucalion etc. Etc.
As he said himself, he only had one friend. That was Erica. A fact conveniently forgotten by the fans who think of him as-
God they really want that obedient beta fantasy don't they?
"Unwavering loyalty"- decides to leave Derek the minute he thinks there may be another pack in town.
"Understands/supports Derek WitHoUt QuEsTiOn"- Disobeys him and plays lacrosse, talked back when he tried to convince them to stay with him, basically told him he was a shit Alpha to his face.
"Compared to his impulsive packmates"? The guy who almost blew up in the middle of a bus of humans with no plan? The guy who flashed his werewolf eyes in public and alerted Gerard that Derek had bit him? Less impulsive than Erica/Isaac??? (He does seem to be more intelligent than them though, so at least they got one thing right)
(Side note- teenwolfwiki calls Scott Isaac's "foster brother"!!! Ahh i love it when they do that!!!)
Yup. The guy who had to be talked down by Scott and Isaac from murder. Yup. The guy who loses control on the full moon twice (not by his own fault of course) and tries to murder Derek and has to be stopped by Isaac and Scott. Totally.
At least the other packmates of the "Hale pack" have some resemblance to canon. Erica does flirt and Isaac does show signs of ptsd. It's still nowhere near their entire personalities though, which is what fanon makes it out to be, but it's still better than how they molded an entire OC with Boyd's face just becayse he was a bit quieter than the other characters.
Ok now that we're over with that shitshow of a fanon, let's talk about canon.
Canon Boyd was mad. Canon Erica was mad. Canon Isaac was mad. Canon Jackson was mad (because he was also one of Derek's betas- a fact the fandom conveniently forgets)
Them being with Derek did not soften them up or calm them down. It gave them the tools and power to release that anger on other innocent people.
Canon makes this pretty obvious with the way Boyd picks fights to be seen as someone important (beating up Scott, the opposing lacrosse team, almost doing the same to Ethan etc), the way Erica frequently goes on rants about how she was treated when she had her seizures (to Scott, Allison, and Stiles), the way Isaac is fully on board to kill Lydia because she rejected him once like, years ago, and the way Jackson- well- does everything (bullying Scott and Stiles, aggressively hurling lacrosse balls at trees, bitching to everyone). The fandom just has this cool way of keeping their eyes closed about what's actually happening on screen.
Derek's anger is what keeps him controlled. His betas are all extensions of that anger. Their anger is what allows them to accept the Bite without even being fully informed of the consequences (cause as Isaac directly says, they weren't)
Said Bite- a decision they made out of the anger they all felt at the world- is what led to 50% of Derek's pack dying. It's what made Jackson into a murderous lizard monster. It's what would've ruined Isaac and Derek too if Isaac hadn't chosen to join Scott because he wants to save people, and if Derek hadn't given up his Alpha status to save his sister.
C'MON GUYS THEY'RE PRACTICALLY BASHING YOU OVER THE HEAD WITH THIS IT'S SO OBVIOUS!
Boyd chose love- he chose Erica, and a life away from violence and anger- when he decided to run away. But by then it was too late. By then both of them had been cemented as Derek's betas because of their prior actions they did under his orders, because of their anger and thirst for revenge. The consequence of that is that the Alpha pack kidnaps them both.
When Boyd escapes, he could've run away again. He could've, like Isaac, gradually started to shift allegiance to Scott. But he needed revenge for what happened to Erica, and honestly I can't blame him but keeping with the themes of the show here, that's why he ended up dying. He chose Derek and his way of revenge again, and the Alpha pack killed him for it.
Boyd says to Scott, "I don't want to be like them, I want to be like you." What does he mean by that? Is he talking superficially he wants to be as good of a fighter as Scott, or maybe he wants to stand up for himself, for others, and for what he thinks is right the way Scott does?
I feel like it's the latter. Boyd and Isaac both initially agree to the Bite for a good cause. Isaac wants to be free from his abusive father, and Boyd wants to not sit alone at lunch anymore. They're good motives, but when they actually get said power they get sidetracked into their petty revenges.
Boyd is a victim- just like Derek, Peter, Isaac, Erica, Scott, Allison, Jackson, Lydia, and pretty much every main character in this show. He's also a narrative tool. Of the above characters I listed, think about who actually lived and why. There's a pretty obvious pattern. Boyd was mad at the world, and rightfully so after how it had beaten him to the ground again and again, but it's how he deals with that anger that makes him who he is (which is a consistent message of the show)
SO CAN WE PLEASE stop chalking up this character who, despite what little nuance we were given about him in canon is actually incredibly complex when you look into it, into some guard dog moral compass!?! Can we not explore Boyd's relationship with the Bite, with anger, with revenge, with love? His relationship with Erica, with Derek, with Isaac after Erica dies, with his late sister, with Cora, with Scott? What do they all mean to him from his perspective?
Uhm. Yeah I think that's it. Feel free to discuss with me in the comments/reblogs- but please stay respectfum thanks
I headcanon the Petrova Doppelgangers as South Asian. The Silas-Amara Plotline happened 2500 years prior to the main storyline in the Archaemenian Empire. Qetsiyah was a court magician from Egypt while Amara was the emperor's consort who hailed from the Indus Valley.
to think that there are millenials still clinging with all their fingers and toes to a franchise from the 90s-00s about magic in contemporary britain, written by a known rampant transphobe, while her majesty's royal coven - an adult book series about magic in contemporary britain, written for a millenial, socially and politically aware audience, by a trans author - exists?? insane
You know who manages to have an interesting conflicting dynamic between Scott and Logan without predicating the entire problem on a love triangle? X-Men freaking Evolution. Â
They have an innate difference of opinion about how far the X-Men should go in self-preservation against human attackers, because Loganâs very cold calculus is âhating us is one thing, but actively trying to kill a bunch of teenagers makes them the enemyâ and Scottâs is âif we so much as bruise a single human, theyâll take it as license to shoot on sight.â And theyâre both right! They are both absolutely correct! But they canât have it both ways and thatâs a much more compelling problem than just periodically screaming at each other over Jean.
So I had this idea about how Disney could have written Descendants and made it so EAH fans(including myself) and the Descendants fandom can both eat our cake.
Maybe idk make the main characters ACTUAL descendants of the Disney Villains rather than their actual kids. Like Regal Academy is what Descendants could have been.
It would not only explain the modernized world of this new story but also give for a much more interesting and intriguing story.
We could have Mal who Iâll be calling Mallory or Malissa for this living in the Real World outside of the world of Ever Realm (yes Iâm tying Sofia the First into this fight me) and sheâs brought to Ever Realm after itâs not only revealed that she is a descendant of Maleficent but also her bestie who Iâll be calling Petra is a descendant of Peter Pan and was asked by Prince Benjamin, a descendant of Beauty and the Beast to bring her to Auradon. Here she meets Evelyn(Evie), Carlos, and Jameel(Jay). Maybe Uma(who I would actually make a distant descendant of Ursula through Morgana)
But this is just me rambling lemme know if you think this would be a cool idea for Disney đ
I think this version of Descendants and Ever After High could coexist together.
Nothing about why Hope is a powerful witch makes sense, considering the Mikaelson and Labonair bloodline.
Her paternal grandmother wasn't the great witch everyone thinks, she went to her sister for a fertility spell, was always channeling someone and out of her seven children, only two inherited her magic gene. Hayley and Klaus both descend from the seven original werewolves bloodline, but that only means Hope should have been a crazily overpowered werewolf destined to destroy them all, not the death to all witches.
I get why Klaus was her father, due to being the original hybrid, but Hayley? She was a good mother, don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing her but the writing, and it's obvious neither of them had a strong witch bloodline. But do you know who did? Bonnie Bennett.
She should have been Hope's mother, it's what makes the most sense plot-wise.
do u think Inadu could take on the Bennets? Not just Bonnie but the entire bloodline?
If Iâm honest I never liked the Hallow/Inadu storyline. I hated how it turned the werewolves into abominations. I think pushing the narrative that this young native woman was obsessed with power to a point where she would be willing to murder anyone especially our leading white child is very telling on the writers. Just as much as that Nazi vampire plotline. The hollow to me was a mixture of Silas/Qetsiyah and Cade conceptual wise. That and well she or that history didnât serve anyone but Hayleyâs bloodline which in turn negatively impacted the lore we already had.
That being said, I am team Bennett first. The Bennettâs were the creators or are just about tied into anything. The hollow wouldnât stand a chance next to them. I have been in plenty fandom spaces where the Bennettâs are seen as the weaker bloodline because they were killed off or rarely shown combative. The issue that lies within the writing that no one discusses. If the Bennettâs were shown combative and acting or viewing themselves in a high regard the way other witches do the plot really falls apart. Why should all these immersive and powerful black women help our various characters? They arenât given a voice but since they are involved in terms of creation you think they canât snatch that back? The Originals relied on witches so much because vampires and werewolves werenât as developed. Klaus has an entire werewolf bloodline that is hardly touched upon.
Would you mind sharing your thoughts about mhaâs world building? I never put much thought into it positive or negative. Where do you think there was wasted potential? I am curious
OH BOY, OKAY. BUCKLE UP. This isnât really a cohesive essay covering all my thoughts, just some bigger points immediately coming to mind.
First things first, some context.
I have yet to run into any other fandom that lives off its own fanon the same way as the MHA fandom does. Itâs not even like how the HP fandom did it, where they completely threw out the burning dredges of canon they didnât like. Reading MHA fanfiction, thereâs a lot of broadly accepted fanon that still gets treated like it could be canon. Idk, itâs weird and fascinating.
As youâve probably figured out from my ramblings here and the random details I like stuffing into my writing, I care a lot about how fictional narratives can convey and explore societal institutions and conventions. Form should drive function, and everything should have consequences.
I am absolutely aware that MHAâs a mainstream shonen primarily functioning off the rule of cool, and thus isnât supposed to operate at the level I keep trying to bully it onto.
Anyways, short story of my love/hate relationship with this series boils down to: it keeps bringing up tiny details that implies that SOMEONE on that writing/editing team is trying to make this series deeper than an almost dried out puddle, and then abandoning all thought for more of the same old âwho can punch hardestâ boring shonen tropes.
Also, Iâm an American reading this without the full Japanese cultural context.
Hereâs the long story.
Inherently, My Hero Academia is telling a story of a society reaching its breaking point under the strain of its social politics, through the lens of a highly influential and powerful industry associated with law enforcement. From the beginning, the series introduces the concept of a social hierarchy constructed on the basis of having a quirk and its raw talent. Itâs a story of blind veneration and a country still not fully ready to accept a world of superpowers.
And to me, itâs extremely important to understand that for all that professional heroes are technically public servants, professional heroics is first and foremost an industry.
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Okay, letâs just start with quirks themselves.
To this day, Iâm still a much bigger fan of the spinoff manga than the main manga itself. I like the cast better, I love their interactions with each other, the plot makes sense, and it still has spent more actual panels discussing the impact of trying to accommodate quirks in universe than the main series has. Sure, Hori put in tidbits into the end of chapter extras, but thatâs it.
Vigilantes actually takes the time to discuss how people with non-humanoid quirk mutations can run into difficulty finding affordable housing and the inadequate government assistance on that front. This piece of worldbuilding actually has consequences on characters and as the plot progresses, the consequences actually have influence on locations that appear as settings.
The main manga just doesnât have this level of thought.
How do highways and mass transportation handle very large individuals and very small individuals? What changes to building codes and architecture has there been? What changes had to come to product design to accommodate different quirks? How do you as a society deal with individuals whose biology arenât close to the old quirkless standard? What happened to food production and distribution? How well are government agencies addressing concerns brought up among the citizens due to their quirks? What impact has quirks had on the medical system?
(Minor pet peeve, and this is more directed towards fanon. I personally hate healing quirks, from a logistical and ethical standpoint. Canon proves that repeated use and high stress causes quirks to evolve and change over time. If youâre medical personnel and youâre using your quirk on your job, that quirkâs going to change its effects and abilities over time. Hello? Do you have any idea what the short- and long-term side effects of your quirk fully are? How did you figure out its full benefits and drawbacks? Are you taking a risk with each new patient that something completely unexpected could occur? Do you know how annoying it is when you canât replicate or standardize procedures in a field like medicine where you need to carefully evaluate safety through scientific investigations? Do you know what using healing quirks sound like to me? Dangerous human experimentation, on both the patient and the doctor. AAAAUGH.)
I really want to know the political history behind the rise of quirks. What rate did it spread across the world and through generations? How did the politics around quirk rights shift over time? When did society stop using language like âmeta-humansâ or âquirked individualsâ and started assuming having a quirk should be the default for describing humans? When did quirks first appear in the Imperial family? What shifts happened in rhetoric across the political spectrum over time in relation to quirks? How did that influence legislation and law enforcement? How does that influence employment statistics and population demographics? How did what was considered âdesirableâ change with each generation and decade? What influence did quirks have on the international scene? What really happened during the period of chaos and violence in the earlier quirk years? What pressured the system to finally hitting its boiling point? What were all the influences that finally calmed that period down?
Hori, for the love of god, shut up about daddy issues and fuck you for turning AFO into a stupid, boring cartoon villain.
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If youâre going to introduce a corrupt government institution that has no problems abusing its power to order assassinations and partake in child trafficking, go all in. And I donât mean go all in the way the âHPSC Bashingâ tag on AO3 tends to. I mean stop treating the HPSC like some kind of singular monolith that didnât derive its power through its connections and influence.
If you have corruption in the HPSC, that means you have corruption in the Ministry of Justice. You have influence and competition with the police force. You have relationships with the courts and the judges ruling cases. You have the ears of politicians in the National Diet writing laws on criminal justice and prison infrastructure. You have sway through your own regulations and oversight on heroes and their agencies. You can steer the industry towards addressing one kind of crime over the other by dangling the secret ranking algorithm over the heroesâ heads.
You can create a society where the shiny surface covers over the reality of letting violent offenders go on light sentences, if theyâre prosecuted at all, so you can have enough repeat offenders to feed and inflate the apprehension and arrest performance metrics of heroes. You can create a society where powerful businesses can lobby with their money to influence patrol routes. You can create a society where the insular press clubs dutifully spread your party message across the country. You can actively craft a society that forces large portions of your population into crimes of desperation in order to feed the gaping maw of an oversaturated hero industry.
This is just run of the mill politics and dealmaking, folks. You donât need to turn towards torture and more cartoonishly evil entities to create conflict. Freaking â god, I hate whump. (EDIT: it occurred to me after posting that this is a great place for me to wax poetic about how much I LOVE, ADORE, APPRECIATE âmay death never stop youâ by slex on AO3 for addressing some of my points in a witty and engaging way. Superb writing.)
Of course, MHA also doesnât go into goddamn ANY OF THIS even in the background as flavoring that can color the plot in interesting ways. Hori, itâs not enough to just have Aizawa point out that his students are being drafted as child soldiers, and then move on. HELLO? HELLO?
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MHA, I swear, is your technology more advanced or not? You canât just throw in âDetnerat makes support tech and now itâs moving to hero gearâ and then bail. And the way itâs portrayed? As making all this custom gear? Tailored to each customersâ quirk? MAKES NO SENSE FOR A LARGE CORPORATION? How did you scale that?? How are your logistical supply chains not a profit killing mess? What on earth is your manufacturing and fabrication process like? How inefficient are your operations that no one freaks out or notices your prototypes being intentionally leaked to the black market? How did you even make those connections, youâre a bunch of â
Using the excuse that theyâre the arcâs villains is such lazy worldbuilding. Sure itâs in-line with the series LITERALLY going âUAâs Sports Festival has replaced the Olympics in importanceâ (w h a t, no, bullshit, get back here, STOP MOVING ON, HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE), but still itâs frustrating and itâs lazy.
Smartphones and vehicles?? Still look the same?? Even though chapter one implies itâs been around a couple centuries since roughly modern times?? Are holographs cheap tricks or not?? If they are, why arenât they more widespread? Why are there still plenty of normal monitors and TVs? If theyâre not, then why is UA able to jam them into their acceptance letters and itâs able to be some kind of bonus item among Kirishimaâs merch?
I swear there was no thought put into tech beyond pure rule of cool. Which creates completely arbitrary hijinks and aesthetics without a lot of internal consistency, for something that really should be extremely important in universe across society, not just with heroes.
Like at least ATLAâs consistent and thereâs logic going on with its tech. Theyâve pulled off some things that also raise a ton of question marks with me (again, putting all that fire right next to the airship fleets is a recipe for disaster), but thereâs at least an internal logic. Take Sokkaâs submarines for example. The thought behind their design makes sense in a world with waterbending.
MHAâs just like, âAnd now UAâs a flying fortress.â WHAT??
(Disclaimer: Like how I donât consider material outside the original shows canon for ATLA, I donât really treat the movies as canon to MHA either. If people try bringing up I-Island at me, theyâre just going to get a different giant but WHY rant.)
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Uuuugh, the Todoroki family situation.
This response is already clocking in over two thousand words, so Iâll save my giant rant about Horiâs and Japanâs stand on abusers for another day. Suffice it to say, Iâm extremely cynical about the various redemption arcs and why they occur the ways they do. I believe the driving force behind those arcs is highly motivated by real world profits and massaging the seriesâ messaging to conform to an easy to digest black and white mentality.
But, it always makes me. so frustrated. how fic proves again and again how the Todoroki plot can be an excellent lens into the trappings and failings of elite pro hero society. It can be a really engaging lens into the corrupting influence of power and the dangers of blind hero worship. It can discuss peopleâs choices when the system fails them and their different decisions on how to take matters into their own hand. It can show the dangerous and corrosive effects vigilantism has on a society (ugh, more personal beef from me against some fandom tropes, ANYWAYS) through some of vigilantismâs more extreme manifestations.
The implications and consequences involved here are pure Navi bait. And Hori and his team just.
The things going on right now in canon always, guaranteed, makes me so angry.
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Also, as a final insult to injury, Horiâs self-insert is basically Mineta, whose main character trait is being a repeatedly aggressive sexual harasser. Dude.
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Idk if you really got anything out of this, Iâve been obsessively thinking about different parts and facets of the MHA universe for over a year now. My thoughts are just all over the place.
I still havenât gone into the whole AFO situation from an organized crime perspective. Nor have I addressed the full impact of the ranking system on the hero industry as a whole, when you split heroes into a pyramid of the top elites, mid-tier, and bottom-tier groupings. Nor have I gone into all the wild potential and shenanigans of an elite, exclusive, and wealthy place like UA (thatâs a whole fic in progress right now). Or about what kinds of social insecurities and concerns craft the look and feel of each generation of heroes.
There is just so much that can be explored in MHA, and since itâs a mainstream shonen, all it cares about is punching people real hard.
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Touya Todoroki: His Sex Life
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â„ he is a sex addict, just to preface.
â„ his libido is ridiculous and once heâs in the mood, there ainât no stopping him.
â„ hooks up with damn near anyone with two legs and a pair of tits, is not picky in the slightest.
â„ Iâd be surprised if he never contracts an STD because heâs sexually irresponsible and disregards protection half the time.
â„ but with all that being said, heâs pretty damn good in bed.
â„ yes he likes doggy style and cowgirl, heâs a simple man.
â„ but oral is his go to. he likes good head, and will be fucking viscous if his partner ainât doing a good job. total head pusher. degrades the shit out of you.Â
â„ the type that makes you look at him the entire time.
â„ I canât see him being particularly kinky. he just likes good old fashioned sex. hard, rough, and fast.
â„ probably has a thing for inexperienced chicks, but it ainât a deal breaker at all, just a tiny fetish.
â„ which if you really wanna get him going, you just gotta stroke the hell out of his ego, fix him a cup of coffee or light his cigarette, and heâll bend you right over. the domestic shit will be his achilles heel.Â
â„ surprisingly isnât a fan of threesomes. Itâs too much work and he doesnât like his partnerâs attention getting split.
â„ one of his more perverted habits though is sneaking his hands down your pants or skirt when no one is looking and it always ends with you edged as fuck and him smiling from ear to ear.
â„ also he has a tongue and dick piercings, do with that what you will.
the tales of humans harnessing magic has been spun in many lengths. truth lies in the tale of twin sisters, dawn and dusk, who lived near two thousand years prior. dusk fell in love with a vampire and sought power in what her love could bring, while dawn found console with the earth, giving her entire being into the knowledge only nature could bring. in their lineage thus began to witch and wiccan lines respectively, despite how different either will claim to be.
believed to be the same by many supernatural creatures, witches and wiccans were often slumped together, called by the other names, asking for such things that could only be given by the other. it caused a riff between the magical beings, and though few exist, there are children of both lineages walking the globe, unable to tap into both parental sources of powers.
witches are commonly known for their spells and enchantments strengthen from a power that comes within, while wiccans are known for their capability in harnessing the earthâs natural power in order to enchant. both perform magical feats, but refuse to be compared to the other. while most ingredients for potions remain similar, there are key differences in the obtaining magic.
itâs believed a witchâs soul is tied to the magic within their wand - so if one was to get damaged it would affect the caster physically and/or mentally. there are eight ingredients to creating a wand (representing the eight phases of the moon). there is possibility to acquire a second wand, but it wonât ever be the same connection as it did with the first.
the powers, the limits & the deaths
â„ casts spells, enchantments and curses
â„ brews potions and mixtures
â„ witches are able to harness power through a wand, wiccans are able to use their fingers
â„ they are able to strengthen different types of magic, including but not limited to voodoo, charms, transfiguration etc
â„ wiccan magic comes from the earth and the elements
â„ witch magic is tied to harnessing power from the moon and the sun
â„ wiccans - think voodoo, diviners, seers
â„ witches - think spell casters, harry potter
â only slightly more resilient than the average human
â healing spells or potions will not work on big injuries
â magic is harnessed, therefore they can run out for a time if significant use
â can die any way a human can
â if their magic goes out, they are more prone to human illness
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