I guess I should have made this my first post but whatever. There's nothing to know about me besides I love Master Kohga, Twilight Princess, Sims 4, Dr. Pepper, and writing. Overwatch 2 is a terrible game that I cannot stop playing, curse you Overwatch for getting me hooked. Oh and I guess that One Piece has taken over my entire life for years now :/
I procrastinate a lot of times but I've finally managed to start writing my book and I want to get that half-way done before school ends and if I get it done and ready to edit before then that's great.
I will talk about whatever is literally on my mind that I want to post. And I'll try to remember this account exists. But I'll mostly talk about my writing here on out and maybe share some of it. If I find it good.
Warning those people who watch anime especially MHA, I do not like Bakugou Katsuki and I will voice my opinion on that very clearly. So don't follow me if you don't want to see me hate on Bakugou cause ngl I probably will at one point.
Last but not least, I love asking questions whether it's about me or just something random. No this isn't a way to remind me that this exists okay I just been busy with my book!
A lot of people defend this, saying everything's come around full circle. But in my opinion, him losing OFA was just a horrible decision.
I've already talked about how if Horikoshi was going to go the "he never needed a quirk to be a hero" route, he should have done that from the beginning. So I'm not going to go anymore into that. I also won't talk about how fucking stupid and contradictory the Iron-Man suit is. I also won't talk about how it's actually pretty fucked to take away the only power that the abused powerless kid ever had.
Why I hate this is because it's a conclusion to a non-existent arc.
Izuku, as a child, has been told all his life that he couldn't be a hero because of how he was born. And we almost never see him confront that or come to terms with it. We never get his feelings about his past or even reflection on why he was treated the way he was. He's never able to look upon the injustice, hypocrisy, and corruption of not only the society he lives in, the society that he himself is a victim of.
Izuku, for some odd reason, is never allowed to interact with the fact that he was quirkless.
All of his major feats were because of OFA. Not once did he get to beat a major villain without using his quirk. If Horikoshi had managed to have him beat Shigaraki without his quirk. Even though at this point Izuku had lost his quirk, he still used the last of it to defeat Tomura.
At the very end, Izuku still needed his quirk. Him being a hero without it means absolutely nothing
I maintain that his entire character arc should have been:
A) Some people shouldn’t be heroes. I think it would have been interesting to explore the idea of someone just not being able to be a hero because of their attitude. My more recent Drabble discussing the idea of some conditions automatically denying someone a place in the hero course comes to mind. But also- some people just do not have the right aptitude. And the idea of exploring Bakugou as a character who is so focused on the societal view of heroics (fighting and being the best) he fails at every other aspect leading to his removal from the hero course? That’s attractive as hell as a concept. It also drives home the theme of ‘society has commodified heroics and not has become an entire popularity game’ if we follow this idea. Because we get told he is ‘perfect’ for heroics with his Quirk. We watch as he struts about with his head in the air- and bang! He shows he isn’t right for heroics. UA is the best of the best. We know top heroes come from it. Is it that weird that maybe a kid who isn’t right for heroics just washes right out?
Plus this is also a way for Izuku himself to realize he is a good hero. His bully, the guy held up above all else, had failed where he succeeded. Izuku gets to be raised up and realize he has heroic potential, a true ‘hey Quirks don’t matter’ moment. Because OFA is useful but Izuku has always been heroic.
B) Ego is the downfall of man/Average fish from a small pond moves to a big lake. Bakugou is forced to realize he isn’t the best of the best. This would have been so nice to see. Bakugou’s entire character was/is built on being the best. Izuku looks up to him in canon because he was the best- in their shitty middle school Bakugou chose to have the ‘perfect’ hero story. (It’s canon it’s a third rate school. It means that for someone who is dedicated to studying/working out as Bakugou is canonly it’s not HARD to be at the top) So when they go to U.A… Bakugou is suddenly scrambling to keep up. And at first he doesn’t notice. He’s fine. Then he begins getting his ass kicked. Because working out enough to be at the top at a third rank school? Easy. Working hard enough to compete with people training to be heroes since they were kids? Harder. Even more so since his Quirk isn’t actually as versatile as others. Explosions pale in comparison to Creation or Half Hot-Half Cold. Even Engine is more versatile then explosions from his hands. Animal Voice, Pop Off- all these have more use then his. (sure he can fly but his only skill is in fighting which isn’t everything about heroics)
Bakugou tries to comfort himself with the idea at least he is the best in school but… well, again- average fish in a small pond. He finds himself struggling. The topics are more advanced then he’s used to, suddenly he is expected to follow an incredibly fast paced curriculum (because UA hero course focuses more on heroics, it makes sense the classes are fast paced to focus on heroics) and he can’t. He isn’t used to it, his way of studying fails him.
Bakugou finds himself in the bottom fourth of the class with no idea how he ended up there. And he’s angry. Unfortunately for him, his attitude isn’t doing him favours. He is told to sit down, to knock it off, stop yelling and blaming others. So when he fails his final exam for hitting Izuku (because he should have and I will die on that hill) he is so desperate to prove he is the best. So he goes out, ignoring orders to stay put, during the camp and…
He gets expelled/killed.
This would have been so cool to see. Just the idea of Bakugou being shown again as a way society fails people by propping them up for their Quirk even if they don’t deserve it. So good.
C) He learns that he doesn’t need to be the best. In a world where his redemption actually is one, I would love to have seen him perfectly content with being a mid ranked hero as long as he was saving people. This would feel so good to see, that he has realized that power isn’t everything, that being the best isn’t all that. Just Bakugou being ranked like 500, working at being the best hero he can but not participating in the rankings because he knows it’s garbage and he doesn’t need it.
That feels like so much more of a natural progression of his character. He starts as an asshole who is only in it for himself, to be the best. He wants to be number one. But he actually realizes to be a hero it’s not about that.
I think that would have been perfect. It’s showing that the hero system is busted and your rank shouldn’t matter. It’s showing actual change in Bakugou as a character as he works through his shit. He doesn’t need to be the best- he’s happy just being a hero.
Instead we got ‘oh yeah Bakugou is a top hero and doesn’t change at all’.
I don't need to, but I'll explain my Bakugou hate because I want to.
Long post. Beware
When I started reading the series I was the same age as the characters. Looking at my interests you can probably guess that I was bullied, but instead of getting all sad, I got angry at the people treating me poorly.
So as soon as Bakugou was introduced, I didn't like him. Seeing someone my age verbally threaten and physically attacking people without being punished just really put me in a bad mood whenever he showed up.
Then certain parts of the fandom got incredibly toxic, and suddenly the author is pandering to the worst of them
But the problem keeps getting worse. The entire world warps to kiss his ass. He got everything he wanted at every turn. He deserved nothing and got everything.
Immediately established as a long-term bully. His bullying is then retroactively justified by the world itself saying that Midoriya is worth less than Bakugou as a person.
Why did Aizawa, who was famous for expelling students, not so much as give Bakugou detention for trying to attack Midoriya on the first day of school?
Why didn't All Might punish him for using that gauntlet in the Battle Trials?
Despite all of his actions so far, just since being accepted into UA, the other students still want to be friends with him. They actively choose to spend time near him.
Why is it never mentioned how him(and Kirishima) attacking Kurogiri and getting in Thirteen's way is a large part of why the USJ played out how it did?
His speech at the Sports Festival
Everyone wanting to be on his team, but he doesn't know any of their names or quirks.
Trying to make an unconscious Todoroki fight back in the finals
Aizawa constantly excusing all of his behavior, circling back to my point about the world itself justifying Bakugou's shitty behavior
Attacking Midoriya in the Final Exam.
How did Sero fail his exam by being carried out but Bakugou passed?
At the Training Camp, he actively tried to go fight the villains that have openly stated were trying to capture him. Making himself an easy target and hindering the people trying to protect him
During the Rescue Operation he somehow managed to hold his own against the majority of the League of Villains on his own? Really?
He forced Midoriya to break curfew and just starts attacking him until Midoriya fights back. It's caught on camera and Midoriya somehow gets in the same amount of trouble?
And for some reason he gets let in on the secret of One for All after being such a monumental asshole since forever, despite the fact that even Inko doesn't know? Or literally anyone who would be, like, supportive of Midoriya?
He failed the Provisional License Exam, but don't worry there's a special make-up class just for the people that made it into the second half. Everyone who failed in the first half will have to wait for the next exam.
Oh wow, flawless victory in the Joint Training Arc by displaying teamwork out of thin fucking air that was really just him barking orders at the others.
For a while we just get his usual brand of egotistical asshole-ery and now being needlessly shoved into places where Midoriya's actual friends should be. Or even any of the other side characters. Horikoshi, give them some screen time
But then the war arc and the vigilante Deku arc all just get down on their knees to suck his dick so hard that his quirk evolves and his heart explodes. And I finally get a glimmer of hope for the series to finally stop shoving him down our throats, but no.
Edgeshot decides that this one kid is so important that he will sacrifice his own life to save Bakugou specifically and no one else is on his level of importance.
Going back a step; That apology was pure fucking lip service. Not a single goddamn thing changed in the way he acted afterward. He had a couple of "soft" moments when he wasn't actively screaming and cursing, but that's it.
And Horikoshi keeps fucking doing it.
Somehow each and every thing has to include Bakugou or be about how it's effecting Bakugou or has to mention Bakugou.
The majority of the (much more interesting) cast has been completely forgotten, and Midoriya's characterization got taken out back, given three rounds to the head, skinned, washed in bleach, and hung out to dry, but Oh Wow! BAKUGOU'S HERE!
I said it before and I'll say it again, I'd throw a brick at him.
These are only the broadest strokes of what happened too. If I reread the entire series I could write a massive in-depth character analysis, but that's too much even for me.
Monoma is just fanon Bakugo. like he is CANONLY how the fandom / Bakugo fans see Bakugo.
He has a serious underlying issue that's the cause of his rude behavior. he respects women, ie, defending Uraraka when EVERYONE was doubting her during the sports fest, and literally looking the opposite direction when that stupid fuckwad tricked the 1-a girls into wearing those cheerleading outfits. he's extremely insecure, and he's actually nice to his classmates.
Bakugo on the other hand was canonly spoiled as a child. he had a god complex that was shattered and that's the closest thing to a reason for his behavior. he simply refused to go easy on Uraraka just because she's a girl but for some reason the fandom makes it waaayyy more than it actually was.
but for some reason the fandom decided that Monoma was the bad one out of the two just because "he's annoying", and writes him as this homophobic, sexist bully who, in reality, is a good fucking character.
The fact that Izuku has chemistry with almost every other kid in ua but the most popular ship is with someone he's both afraid of, and the person who told him to khs??
Like. Tell me you've never been bullied without telling me you've never been bullied
Since I've been rewatching Kickin It and I just finished this episode. One, I still stand by this 100%. Two, Jack a better person than me because I would've said "Fuck you fake ass bitches," and joined the Black Dragons because that gi really did him justice. I'm sorry he looked amazing in that outfit but I'll get back on point. Like how yall all don and gon and basically call him crazy and turn your back on him and the second he's right it's all "Whoospie our bad! Would totally happen again in s3 when you have to defend Frank!" Of course this isn't really my full thoughts on the episode as my account ain't dedicated to me rambling on about what erks me. But this episode definitely made give a bit of a side eye here.
Update on Great Ace Attorney Chronicles I know I said he had a good life and all, but I didn't expect him to die! I feel guilty and feel like I manifested his death or smth. 😭
Been watching the theory channels since Matpat retired. It's for sure not the same, but I love the videos either way. They're all great, but my favorite so far since Matpat retired has to be the Kung Fu Panda one, but yet again, I'm biased cause film theory has always been my favorite theory channel.
KAZUMA FUCKING DIES HELLOOOO???? BRO I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU AND YOU BREAK MY HEART ALREADY!!!! WHEN I FIND OUT WHO DID THIS IMMA ACTUALLY KILL SOMEBODY. THEY GON ARREST ME FOR A MURDER I DID COMMIT. IT IS ON SIGHT!
Playing The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles the first trial and man they really out here trying to look like we belong in a mental asylum. Like they really out here trying so hard to deny that a woman was there 😭😭
I'm starting to doubt there was a lady fr. We may just be crazy
