A redraw of a previous post of mine that I wanted to refresh for the anime's final episode (had this planned for episode 170 all the way back in December but I got a little sidetracked and put this on the backburner for a while)
💬 15 🔁 1158 ❤️ 7121 · "I guess I thought... we'd be competing... and I'd be on your heels... for the rest... of our... lives..." - Kacchan
The thing basically everyone gets wrong about Makima Chainsaw Man is that she's not some kind of seductive femme fatale, nor is she some of terrifying yandere girlboss. She's some lady who works at an office. She's an NPC. Her suit is too big for her. She's got a dopey smile. She ate a corndog and cried at a stupid movie. She's Literally Just Some Guy.
And then also she did all that shit.
She's just some loser with power over an impressionable child. And everything that came afterwards is what it takes to convince the average reader that teenage boys being groomed and abused is bad, actually.
It does not take a femme fatale mastermind to manipulate and abuse an impressionable child. It doesn't take a girlboss to ruin a kid's life.
Like, she's a primordial demon and all that, but she is also just some lady who goes grocery shopping.
You want to create a series primed for optimal transformative work? Leave the most burning questions unanswered but drop just one or two really disconcerting stray bits of dialogue. Make the setting campy with just a few Troubling Coincidences no one fully addresses. Let the audience catch a few worms but keep a forest of barren hooks looming ominously in the distance. Give the fans a sandbox and fill it with landmines.
Tenko knew Katsuki had always been a rough kid with a smart ass mouth and the pride of someone much taller than him
There's no "but" to that sentence. Tenko thought the kid was bad news, but, much to his annoyance, his little brother Izuku seemed to look past these obvious flaws and followed Katsuki along with his other lackies
"Kacchan is amazing!" Izuku would say both to Tenko and to Katsuki's face. Tenko swears he saw Katsuki's head get bigger after the praise.
You'd think that having a friend like Izuku following you around would garner some special treatment. That Katsuki would see Izuku as his BEST friend, much like how Izuku says they are
You. Would. Think.
But no. Katsuki was all too eager to put down Tenko's baby brother just to make himself seem better. And no matter what Tenko tells Izuku or their mom, Izuku was all too eager to defend his friend and sing his praises
Tenko gave up at a certain point. They were basically babies. Surely one day, Izuku would grow out of it, so Tenko stopped interfering
That was, until Katsuki started getting more physical
All it took was one shove, and Tenko came marching over to set things straight. He didn't care that his mom would probably be disappointed in him for using his quirk like this, but at least all he was doing was lifting Katsuki up and away from his brother
and hitting him
In Tenko's defence, Katsuki threw an explosion at him first
Through the whole little fight, though, Tenko managed to get Katsuki to yell out what was bothering him and why he was being such an ass. Which led to Izuku crying out about how he "Never looked down on Kacchan! Not ever!" and how "I want to be a hero and save people by Kacchan's side!" all while he cried rivers
Which led to even MORE yelling and thrashing from Katsuki. Tenko had to fly the blond home to tell on him to Auntie Mitsuki, with Izuku running after them
THAT got Katsuki to quiet down real quick
In the end, their moms all got together for lunch to talk about what happened
Katsuki huffed and puffed through the whole thing, but did apologize (after a lot of yelling between him and Auntie Mitsuki), and both Tenko's mom and baby brother seemed all too happy to get things resolved (Much to Tenko's confusion and annoyance)
Not much has changed after that
Katsuki was still a cocky little runt, and Izuku still followed him around with stars in his eyes
Tenko thinks their friendship is weird. Always will
But after watching Katsuki beat up a bunch of older kids to defend Izuku, Tenko doesn't think the kid is all that bad
And besides, Tenko's found a new way to entertain himself outside of video games: Making fun of Kacchan
Slice of Life AU where Touya, Tenko, and Keigo are AU students and the big three
LORE DUMP:
Tenko is Izuku's adopted older brother. He has his original quirk and encouraged Izuku to go to UA to study to be a quirk analyst. Tenko is the main reason why Bakugo and Izuku are "best friends" still (As Izuku insists they are much to Bakugo's annoyance). He sorted out that misunderstanding at the river pretty early on and gets Bakugo to back off by saying Bakugo has a crush on Izuku and is just pulling his metaphorically pigtails
Bakugo denies this. Izuku thinks it's funny. Is generally just happy that him and Kacchan are on good terms
Both are friends with Shoto (Izuku says they are but Bakugo refuses to acknowledge this) through Touya and Tenko being friends
Touya is studying to be the number 1 hero purely to spite his father and shit on his career. But also because he wants Shoto to have a REAL hero to look up to (Their parents are divorced)
Keigo is still under the hero commission. He's an orphan but he works hard to be where he is now because he wants to be a hero for kids who were just like him. Though he says he wants to be a hero cause he wants to build a society where heroes have more free time
Oboro teaches class 3A and has dubbed Tenko his favorite student. Sees great potential in the kid though he's upset that Tenko's favorite teacher is still Aizawa from his first year. Aizawa finds the kid annoying but also saw great potential in him, but he cannot stand Tenko being his biggest and only fan cause he's so cringe about it
Izuku is in the general course and is pretty popular purely because he knows the big three. Tenko brags about his little brother being a genius quirk analyst and it inspired a lot of hero students to visit the general course and support course more often
Shouto visits Izuku often to talk about his quirk and how he can utilize it better. Brings his new friends along. But every time, without fail, Bakugo is always there first, already yelling at Izuku for one thing or another and arguing with him. Shouto tells his friends that it's normal and that those two are his bestest friends (Touya thinks it's hilarious when he says it ironically)
Keigo and Touya are pretty popular, Tenko is popular by proxy but likes to hang back away from the spotlight. He's not embarrassed by his cringe he is, shame means nothing to him. He just doesn't like the attention cause it takes focus away from what's important: League of Ledgends
He's been trying to convince the other two to call their trip the League of Flier or something along those lines, and he gets shut down every time
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