[commander-revan]

Dabi, Akane, and Eris reveling in the chaos in the days leading up to the Final War. (art by my partner @konraddams)

I love this so much, this might be the last time they actually got to have some fun before everything falls apart again for them. I can't wait to get to this point in the story of my fic once I get some free time to write. (If anyone is interested I'll link the fic in question below.)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Rating: T

Word Count (so far): 47k

Genre: Slow Burn, Hurt/Comfort, Found Family, Childhood Friends to Lovers

Story Summary: "So, if you could kill any hero, who would it be?" Toga excitedly asked the group as they took a break from planning their mission.

"Any hero? That honor goes to Endeavor." Akane said, with unintentional malice in her voice.

Dabi, who had been quietly listening to the conversation while leaning against the wall, turned his attention towards her.

"Endeavor, huh? Now that's a tall order."

Akane Akiyama had spent her whole life trying to be a good person, a good hero. Even when she lost her Hero License, she still tried to fight to change the world for the better as a vigilante. But, when she sees Stain's message to the world about the corruption of heroes, she realizes it's time for her to actually take action and join the League of Villains. If she couldn't keep her promise to Touya, the least she could do was get justice for his death.

[xiaq]

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

[baja-bl4stt]

fuck dude i just wanna wrap him up in a blanket and keep him safe from the horrors of the world

[anarthology]

Just a matter of perspective..

[anarthology]

Ultra Impact

[krysasmellyrat]

Haven't posted on Tumblr in a hot minute.. Take this Dabi as a formal apology from yours truly

Rawr

[itsnothingofinterest]

Man, I still miss these guys so friggin' much.

Y'all carried your series and did not deserve the trash endings you got.

[netherworldpost]

;)

[itsnothingofinterest]

While the fate of the League is of course incredibly messed up, unfair, and infuriating; something that really grinds my gears is all the reactions to the League stans calling this unfairness out by going "well they had to die and deserved to, and they would have gone to prison otherwise anyway, it's not like there was any happy ending available for these horrible criminals," when, like...yes there was. They totally could have Vegeta'd it up in here; MHA is not a realistic series.

Like, Edgeshot survived using his own body to sew a guy's heart up by living as an eyeball with hair on a string.

Endeavor, the known horrible domestic abuser and outright rapist, is retiring publicly shamed (to an extent) but still to great wealth, recognition as a great hero, and with his entire free family having at least a positive opinion of the man.

And of course this latest chapter 429 implied that all those societal failings caused by the horrible MHA civilians neglecting or attacking people including children, the failings that created the League, the failings the League put their lives on the line to fix and utterly failed to fix because they all died completely ignored...got fixed anyway because Deku was so 'zomg inspirational' that suddenly the MHA civilians aren't horrible anymore. (Read in the tone of this video.)

In short, MHA is full of ridiculousness, injustice, and contrivance when Horikoshi wants a happier ending to occur.

But the League had to die because...because MHA is a deeply flawed story with bad writing and at best inconsistent morals. (And it kind of feels good to say that.) It wants at times to be realistic and even tragic, but it also wants to be optimistic and comic book-y to reward the heroes, and here at the end those elements do not mesh at all. It wrecks the whole thing to reveal that Hori might be kind of a hack.

[itsnothingofinterest]

Breaks my heart that Spinner says he could have saved Shigaraki, could have saved his hero,

As though that isn't what he did.

Spinner, you did something that in the end even Deku couldn't do, that his most stalwart defenders will say he had to kill Shigaraki because this alternative was impossible of him. You saved Shigaraki Tomura from All For One.

I hope you get to realize that someday.

[itsnothingofinterest]

Was sad before, think I’m mad now.

It’s infuriating how Spinner’s holding himself accountable for what happened to Shigaraki while Deku’s just got that neutral look on his face talking about Tomura like he’s sad about the collateral damage of the last fight, when Spinner did way more to save Shigaraki than Deku ever did.

Because it bares repeating; Spinner did what Deku never managed to, the impossibility of which is the commonly-used justification for why he killed the best character in this series: Spinner saved Shigaraki from AFO.

“Oh but Deku saved Tenko’s heart and eased his trauma,” he held Tenko's hands and gave a 2-panel speech about how holding hands is nice; I feel that’s already more than counter balanced by bringing back AFO. Let alone then murdering them together because that was just the easiest way to beat AFO I guess (the 'Plus Ultra' thing never really took root in Deku's head, did it?).

I'd feel bad for him if he didn't kill the best character in MHA and then act so unaffected by it; because this is just where his story ends: He’s a murderer and a failure, and he’s not getting better or improving things from here because this is the end of his arc and the series as a whole. I mean he could get a blip of progress at the end Hori could trick us into thinking is an upward trend; but the reality is that it's too late, he killed the guy he was meant to save, ‘Murderer and failure’ is just the note Deku's story ends on.

And yet he walks around looking so noble and sure of himself while the one guy who actually did something to save Tomura from the villain of his life is so wracked with guilt. I'm not saying Deku's unaffected or not feeling some guilt of his own; but as I've seen many folks point out, it's so disproportionate to what it should be, especially compared to Spinner. Deku’s only consequence being how he’ll “never forget Shigaraki” while Tomura’s real hero rots in prison thinking he failed him and is hated by everyone. I hate it here.

[ashen-crest]

I can do it. I can write a chapter. I am capable of putting sentences together. I know what a comma is. I am Aware of the Character.

[delawaredetroit]

For a person who believes his only purpose is destruction and whose goal is to destroy everything, it’s interesting that one of the first things he notices after waking up is his new ability to not destroy whatever he touches. The fact that he was happy about this change could indicate that he would have liked to interact with some parts of the world without destroying under different circumstances. This development also made it theoretically possible for Shigaraki to take someone’s hand for the first time since Hana’s death.

[cogogoggog]

It fucking kills me how the Todoroki family drama is treated by the other cast members even before Dabi's broadcast actually (how it's treated after is. a whole other can of worms). Shouto's hatred toward his father is common knowledge, Endeavor straight-up tells All Might to his FACE the only reason Shouto was even created was to be a hero that surpasses him, there's the giant scar over half his face, not to mention Shouto himself blatantly says stuff like, "the quirk training you beat into me" in front of multiple people. But then in response everybody around him goes, "time to put on my bestest oblivious face!" and it just kills me bro. Like ohhh my god. This child practically has a giant flashing neon sign on him screaming, "MY HOUSEHOLD IS ABUSIVE," but unfortunately everyone in the cast is playing a really competitive game of How Hard Can We Ignore This </3. Which is a really bad look for a cast of characters who are supposed to be heroes lol.

Hngghhhhdjdjjdd

[all-encompassing-hero]

"Well, Dabi himself said that he doesn't care about any of the people in the League and obviously he's never lied so— whats that? Dabi said that Endeavor forced Rei to have more kids? Well obviously he was lying about that. I mean, what kind of idiot would just believe everything that comes out of Dabi's mouth. What kind of idiot would think that Dabi was telling the truth. Now, let's get back to how Dabi said nobody in the League mattered to him which was obviously completely true and factual and definitely not a hint to him being in denial about his feelings because we all know that the only thing Dabi cares about is hurting Endeavor. He said so himself and he's definitely never lied."

[moodyvoid]

Spinner, thinking about Twice: normal image of Twice.

Spinner, thinking about Shigaraki: SHIRTLESS, BACK MUSCLES!

[xesamania]

"Your scars"

[whoreiaki-kakyoin]

“This character would be so possessive” okay and? And? Okay good! He can fuck me about it! Ooh, he needs to reaffirm that I’m still his and his alone? I hope the fuck he does! I hope he gets a little rougher about it and holds me tighter than usual!