Fan Jambles

[dimetrodone]

I’ve seen several people try to do serious spec bio/society building based on Omegaverse, but what I want is someone to do that in a society that had ruffs or side-blotched lizard style polymorphic males

[mcgravin]

Paracerceis sculpta is a marine isopod with polymorphic male forms α, β, and γ.

The α-males are large and dominant, and maintain a harem of females to mate with inside the cavity of a sea sponge.

The β-males mimic the female form, tricking the α-males into letting them "join" their harem, sometimes to the point of allowing the α-male to mate with them. Then the β-male can mate with the females whenever they feel like while the α-male guards the entrance to the sea sponge.

And the γ-males are small, fast, and have relatively humongous testicles. While the α-male guarding the entrance to the sea sponge is distracted mating with a β-male, the γ-male dashes inside and ejaculates everywhere as fast as he can before he gets caught.

Show me that in Omegaverse.

[forswornka]

[clytemnestraaa]

always such a struggle when you get to the sex scene part of the fic you're writing and you're not horny at all. i don't know. their things were touching. without ANY underwear. the end.

[kaleidoramblings]

#i've never been horny writing sex scenes?#is that abnormal?#i can tell the characters are tho and that fuels me#this isn't about me after all#once i'm 100 words in it's the characters' show#i am but a vessel

Tags by @notscaredoflions

Yeah...

[writingwrite]

hey guy.... remember when i said i would make that comic.... i didnt... but i did make some awesome bara fanart of dorohedoro of course anyway i may be back idk i think so

[xekstrin]

Boyfriend: wait but I thought you could change from alpha to omega? Like you get hit with a pheromone and bam become that and you fuck, but the rest of the time you’re androgynous

Me: … I think you have confused omegaverse with the seminal piece of science fiction literature The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

[xekstrin]

Nationalism is a societal evil

[l-art-stuff-l]

[ image ID: tags that read “wait what is left hand of darkness about” /end ID ]

[xekstrin]

Yeah it’s the same guy

[kaleidoramblings]

I'm not even joking when I say that I've been misappropriating the term "kemmer" for Omegaverse for years now, to use as an umbrella term for both heats and ruts because I got tired of referring to "heats and ruts" or "heats/ruts" all the time and I wanted something snappier and less clinical than, like, "mating cycles".

[dykeferatu]

now i don’t know enough about omegaverse to say anything definitively but from what i have seen it certainly looks like it emulates insects much more than wolves.

[dykeferatu]

like if you’re looking for an animal with strictly defined castes and extensive use of pheromones you are looking for ants i think

[rybesome]

This is an excellent point and the Omegaverse genre has little resemblance to actual wolves. However, insects don’t strike me as any more similar. Ants and other colony forming insects do have strictly defined castes but the actual mating only occurs once and the majority of individuals never mate at all.

A taxa that does exhibit more than two sex morphs is, surprisingly enough, birds! Both the ruff and white throated sparrow have four sex morphs with distinct behavior and social niches! Unfortunately, this does lack the pheromone aspect as well as the hermaphroditism present in the omegaverse.

Hermaphroditism, biologically, is the ability to produce both male and female gametes. It’s not known to be present in birds or mammals, but does show up in aquatic species such as clownfish. All clownfish are initially male and the largest one of a group becomes the dominant female. Cuttlefish have so-called “sneaker males” that present a female color pattern to mate with a female in a larger male’s territory.

Unfortunately, I don’t think there is a perfect real world analog to omegaverse sex dynamics. To me, it strikes at a speculative biology angle for completely decoupling sex and gender into completely different axis, playing in the space of how biology and society intersect.

OP im so sorry for putting omegaverse analysis on your joke post I just have an obsession with evolutionary biology and media analysis

[tamsywindsup]

"But please take care of him. He's my partner." || Dorohedoro Season 2 finale, ep 23

[kaleidoramblings]

Spoilers for Dorohedoro Chapter 62/Season 2 Episode 6

ngl i'm pretty disappointed in the anime adaptation of the Risu possession scene :v

[cpericardium]

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

[cpericardium]

[cpericardium]

[kejule]

I personally don't read first perspective like that, to me, it's someone else telling me what they did, like in a diary or something. What I DO have that problem with is FREAKING SECOND PERSPECTIVE STOP TELLING WHAT I'M DOING I'M NOT DOING THAT YOU DARE TELL ME WHAT TO DO?!

So yeah I don't read second perspective.

[kaleidoramblings]

I feel the need to defend second person perspective, the most misunderstood and unfairly maligned perspective. I blame the prevalence of xReader for the spread of this perception, but the truth is: SECOND PERSON NARRATORS AREN'T INHERENTLY TALKING TO YOU AND YOU'RE MAKING A VERY SIMILAR COGNITIVE ERROR TO THE PEOPLE IN THE OG SCREENCAPS WHEN YOU ASSUME THAT THEY ARE.

Reader-insert fic (I remember calling it "you-fic" Back In The Day when it was still uncommon) is a very specific subset of (typically) 2nd person narration where the writer inherently intends the reader to insert into the narrated role.

Most 2nd person literature does not have this intention. Even interactive fiction like Choose-Your-Own-Adventures is less rigidly referring to You, The Reader than reader-insert is. CYOA narratives are generally more in line with video games or tabletop RPGs. You can just as easily engage with CYOA from a "player" perspective (the narrator is the GM, addressing the character you have taken on the role of) or a "master" perspective (you are the GM/narrator addressing the character and describing their actions).

If you see two people having a conversation and somebody uses the term "you", do you assume they're referring to you any more than you assume that somebody using the term "I" is referring to you? If you pick up a letter addressed to someone else, that talks about things "you" did with the letter-writer, do you think "Well, I didn't do any of those things!" or do you think "Wow, the person this was addressed to sure got up to some shit"? Do you assume "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is accusing you, the audience, of something?

Look at it this way:

1st Person Narration assumes the involvement of one (1) party. That is, it is a firsthand narrative of events. The firsthand narrator could be addressing an audience (which may or may not be the reader), but it can also be framed as diary/journal entries, or as bodycam footage, or as if you, the reader, are an invisible entity observing someone's perspective from inside their head. There are many ways to style a 1st person narrative, but in all of them involve describing events from the perspective of the person experiencing them.

2nd Person Narration assumes the involvement of two (2) parties: a person who experiences events firsthand and a person providing secondhand narration of those events. Since there are only two assumed parties, the narrator can only address their narration towards the person experiencing the events. Generally, the first party (narrated character) should NOT be assumed to be the reader unless the writer explicitly states otherwise, and the second party (narrator) should not be assumed to be talking to the reader.

There are also many ways to style a 2nd person narrative: it could be a character A explaining to character B events that character B experienced (maybe B has amnesia, maybe character A wants to compare B to a summer's day); the narrator could be an invisible entity observing someone's perspective from inside their head and providing running narration back to them, and YOU, the reader, are an invisible entity inside the narrator's head.

And for completeness: 3rd Person Narration assumes the involvement of three (3) parties: a person who experiences events firsthand, a person providing secondhand narration of those events, and third party to whom the secondhand narration is being told. The third party can be the reader, but doesn't have to be. The 1st party HAS to be a diegetic character in a narrative, otherwise there's no narrative. The 2nd (narrator) & 3rd (audience) parties may or may not be characters that exist within the narrative.

2nd and 3rd person narration are BOTH secondhand narratives! The only difference is if the narrator is addressing the 1st party or a 3rd party.

SO YEAH. You don't have to like 2nd person narratives. You can feel like 2nd person narratives are trying to direct you, even when they're not intended to be read that way. But maybe don't judge people for not being able to separate themselves from the character in 1st person perspective when you can't separate yourself from the character in 2nd person perspective.

"I'M NOT DOING THAT-" YEAH YOU AREN'T, HARROW THE NINTH IS DOING THAT, THE NARRATOR IS TALKING TO AND ABOUT HER

[kaleidoramblings]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers: Prime Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Barricade/Bumblebee (Transformers) Characters: Barricade (Transformers), Bumblebee (Transformers) Additional Tags: Hate Sex, Seduction, Canon-Typical Violence, Top Bumblebee (Transformers), Bottom Barricade (Transformers), biting off more than you can chew, unholy junction of p'n'p and sticky, leaning more p'n'p, there are no fluids and the cream pie is data, i am contractually obligated to never write the same robot sex twice, Age Difference, DIRTY COP TAKES MASSIVE LOAD FROM YOUNG HOTHEAD, One Shot, fanart at the end Summary:

Barricade can admit when he's made a mistake. And, having found himself pinned in the dirt with fingers hooked deep enough into his throat to make his voice crackle with static, being stared down by an Autobot who looks like he'll tear out his t-cog and feed it to him any second now, Barricade is very much aware that a mistake has been made. --- Bumblebee doesn't blow out Barricade's brains, but he does blow his mind.

[penny-anna]

anyway been writing omegaverse this week for the first time in uhh *checks notes* 11 years and have to say something i find interesting about it is that it's this like. frankly very normal fetish thing that's just breached containtment to a bizarre degree?

[penny-anna]

on 2 separate occasions i've had conversations with people where they've mentioned something they don't Get about omegaverse and I've been like 'well it's like that bcos it's a fetish thing' and they've been like 'it's a what??'

it gets treated as this like stock fandom AU and i'll see people like 'i don't understand why anyone wants to read this' and i'm like yes that's bcos it's pretty intense* fetish content & you don't have the right assortment of fetishes for it? there's a bunch of other similar Stock Settings that just haven't breached containment.

*intense as in like, Density of fetish content involved rather than intensity of fetish if that makes sense?

[beesechurger1909]

im alright with fetish ideas 'breaching containment' because then its less stigmatized but like its still fetish content and its a little perplexing how people could read omegaverse stuff and not realize its fetish content?

[penny-anna]

SO i think i've observed 2 separate but related things going on:

firstly the aforementioned demographic of people who have somehow genuinely failed to clock that it's a kink thing

but also a second demographic of people who seem to have taken its like. prominence in fandom spaces as a sign that they're somehow 'expected' to like it? i've not really seen this attitude with any other kink.

ppl will talk about it the way they might talk about say high school/college AUs or coffee shop AUs which are very common and i guess are sometimes presented as things that everyone finds fluffy & relatable? when in reality it's more like idk. piss kink. it'd be pretty weird to read a piss kink fic and go 'ewww why does the author expect me to find piss sexy??' well they don't. they expect people who already think piss is sexy to read the fic.

[penny-anna]

In the name of historical accuracy here is the actual origin point on omegaverse:

Obviously there was a process of development leading up to it but this kink meme prompt led to whats generally accepted as the OG. Ultimately the brain child of this anonymous poster. Have they ever identified themselves??

[penny-anna]

An important thing to remember here is that while I appreciate why some people find world building heavy omegaverse puzzling or irritating, the fact that someone is writing primarily or exclusively SFW social commentary w world building omegaverse does NOT mean it's not a kink thing for them. Maybe world building is their kink. You don't know.

[yourveryownhusband]

“Maybe world building is their kink” feels far too accurate for comfort

[kaleidoramblings]

As an enormous xenophile, taking a strong spec-bio approach to Omegaverse is 100% because it makes it sexier for me, personally. For me, the more fantastical/underdeveloped the Omegaverse is, the less sexy I find it overall (case in point: not a huge fan of 'fated mates'), and the more biologically and socially plausible (by sci fi/spec bio/alt history standards) it is, the sexier I find it.

Basically:

OG Source: Oglaf

I'm also queer as fuck, so I think it's extremely fun to really dig into the fact that Omegaverse can have six baseline genders and multiple levels of queerness and genderqueerness.

Are m/m alpha/alpha and f/f omega/omega couples considered more gay than m/m alpha/beta and f/f beta/omega couples? What about same-sex beta couple? Are m/f alpha/alpha or m/f omega/omega couples considered gay or straight? What about f/f alpha/alpha couples and m/m omega couples?

Do alphas, betas, and omegas of each sex all have distinctive gender roles and socially acceptable gender presentations, or do some of them overlap?

Characters in Omegaverse can be doubly trans! Is it considered more socially acceptable to transition if you transition in a way that maintains your Socially Assigned Reproductive Role? (ie. omega woman <--> omega man or alpha man <--> beta man).

Some people see Omegaverse as being reductive of queerness (transplanting heteronormative gender roles onto same-sex pairings), but I see the potential for Omegaverse to be SUCH a celebration and exploration of queerness if you're willing to dig in and go wild with it.

I just like my aphro-kink + breeding kink + mpreg/fpreg kink better when it comes in a juicy wrapper of world-building and spec-bio.

Just like how if I decide to design a species of sexy bug-people for horny purposes, I will also be considering their world, their evolution, their history, and their various global cultures. Or why I will build an entire narrative and setting around an idea like "I think a relationship between a person and a sapient gun would be hot" or "actually physical symbiosis is extremely sexy".

[abyssalaerlocke]

I spent a year working on an abo system with 20 genotypes, and almost as many phenotypes.

Spreadsheets, punnett squares, graphs of population demographics, and worldbuilding ideas about how to socially, legally, or biologically make f/f pairings less common or less fertile — because otherwise you watch all the male genotypes take up less and less of the population as the Y chromosome gets outbred.

Alternatively, AUs where the Y chromosome's been deliberately bred out of a human-pet population, and they're now gendered according to secondary sex (the remaining males are in a weird position, where the way they're gendered has changed in their lifetime)

Alpha, beta, and omega, all have sterile phenotypes. When alphas were being drafted as soldiers, sterile ones were drafted for heat centers, for omegas whose alphas were off fighting, when effective contraception wasn't readily available.

Deltas are sequential hermaphrodites in that they can change between secondary sexes — their hormone balance shifting in response to the pheromones they're exposed to. They don't always know what they are. Those that do most commonly consider themselves "always delta, not an alpha, not a beta, not an omega" and refer to their states as alphan/betan/omegan. They sometimes take intimate partner(s) to push and maintain a certain state.

Alpha and delta females have unique anatomy (retractable penises) that make their secondary sex easily identifiable from birth. This results in higher expectations that aren't put on most until they present as alpha much later — but if they have an older male sibling that could later present as alpha, their position as heir is in limbo and may or may not be suddenly taken from them.

[kaleidoramblings]

You are so valid. I adore seeing people go whole-ham with their personal takes on Omegaverse.

If there's deltas, are there gammas? Or is the letter given the slip like everything between beta and omega in standard Omegaverse? I suppose given that a capital delta looks like a triangle, it is a very appropriate letter for someone that shifts between three secondary sexes (I like to use the term "morph" both for conciseness and in relation to animals like ruffs with their three male variants, and white-throated sparrows with their two color-linked, sex-independent reproductive behaviors).

My go-to base setup is for humans to have three sex chromosomes (standard genotypes: XXX (female phenotype), XXY & XYY (male phenotype). Morphs "present" partway through puberty. XXX and XXY can present as any morph, but XYY (barring intersex or intermorph conditions) can only present as beta or alpha.

What morph someone presents as is a complex mishmash of genetic predisposition, epigenetics, and environmental factors between birth and onset of puberty. One of the most important factors is the ratio of pheromones a child is regular exposed to (ie. if you grow up surrounded by mostly alphas, you're less likely to present alpha), where populations passively self-regulate towards a 1:2:1 alpha:beta:omega ratio, though certain stressors can suppress alpha & omega presentation (resulting in long periods of history where alphas and omegas were significantly more common amongst the nobility than the peasantry).

Basically, humans are typically born with four immature gonads (one set of ovaries, one set of testes), an underdeveloped vaginal passage & proto-uterus, and a fairly undifferentiated labioscrotal swelling and clitorophallus. Gender is typically assigned at birth based on urethral positioning: if the urethral opening is below the phallic bud (most common in X-only individuals) then it's considered a clitoris and the child is gendered as a girl; if the urethra runs through the phallic bud (most common in Y-possessing individuals) then it's considered a penis and the child is gendered as a boy.

Puberty usually starts with sex-linked development. For X-only, the ovaries mature and the body experiences estrogenic effects (uterus & vagina develop, breasts bud, hips widen, etc.), for Y-havers, the testes mature and the body experiences androgenic effects (testes begin to migrate through the inguinal canal, penis growth, facial hair, etc.).

At some point during puberty, morph-linked development begins. Depending on sex and morph, the immature set of gonads either atrophies: Y-alphas & betas lose their ovaries and resorb their undeveloped uterus/vaginal tract; X-only omegas & betas lose their testes. In X-only alphas the testes mature and they develop a phallus (with a seminal tract that's distinct from the urethra) and experience some androgenic effects. In Y-omegas the ovaries mature and their uterus and vagina develop among other estrogenic effects.

A person is officially considered to have "presented" when their reproductive pheromone glands develop enough to start producing morph-specific pheromones.

I could go on, but this already got longer than I originally intended, haha.

[penny-anna]

anyway been writing omegaverse this week for the first time in uhh *checks notes* 11 years and have to say something i find interesting about it is that it's this like. frankly very normal fetish thing that's just breached containtment to a bizarre degree?

[penny-anna]

on 2 separate occasions i've had conversations with people where they've mentioned something they don't Get about omegaverse and I've been like 'well it's like that bcos it's a fetish thing' and they've been like 'it's a what??'

it gets treated as this like stock fandom AU and i'll see people like 'i don't understand why anyone wants to read this' and i'm like yes that's bcos it's pretty intense* fetish content & you don't have the right assortment of fetishes for it? there's a bunch of other similar Stock Settings that just haven't breached containment.

*intense as in like, Density of fetish content involved rather than intensity of fetish if that makes sense?

[beesechurger1909]

im alright with fetish ideas 'breaching containment' because then its less stigmatized but like its still fetish content and its a little perplexing how people could read omegaverse stuff and not realize its fetish content?

[penny-anna]

SO i think i've observed 2 separate but related things going on:

firstly the aforementioned demographic of people who have somehow genuinely failed to clock that it's a kink thing

but also a second demographic of people who seem to have taken its like. prominence in fandom spaces as a sign that they're somehow 'expected' to like it? i've not really seen this attitude with any other kink.

ppl will talk about it the way they might talk about say high school/college AUs or coffee shop AUs which are very common and i guess are sometimes presented as things that everyone finds fluffy & relatable? when in reality it's more like idk. piss kink. it'd be pretty weird to read a piss kink fic and go 'ewww why does the author expect me to find piss sexy??' well they don't. they expect people who already think piss is sexy to read the fic.

[penny-anna]

In the name of historical accuracy here is the actual origin point on omegaverse:

Obviously there was a process of development leading up to it but this kink meme prompt led to whats generally accepted as the OG. Ultimately the brain child of this anonymous poster. Have they ever identified themselves??

[penny-anna]

An important thing to remember here is that while I appreciate why some people find world building heavy omegaverse puzzling or irritating, the fact that someone is writing primarily or exclusively SFW social commentary w world building omegaverse does NOT mean it's not a kink thing for them. Maybe world building is their kink. You don't know.

[yourveryownhusband]

“Maybe world building is their kink” feels far too accurate for comfort

[kaleidoramblings]

As an enormous xenophile, taking a strong spec-bio approach to Omegaverse is 100% because it makes it sexier for me, personally. For me, the more fantastical/underdeveloped the Omegaverse is, the less sexy I find it overall (case in point: not a huge fan of 'fated mates'), and the more biologically and socially plausible (by sci fi/spec bio/alt history standards) it is, the sexier I find it.

Basically:

OG Source: Oglaf

I'm also queer as fuck, so I think it's extremely fun to really dig into the fact that Omegaverse can have six baseline genders and multiple levels of queerness and genderqueerness.

Are m/m alpha/alpha and f/f omega/omega couples considered more gay than m/m alpha/beta and f/f beta/omega couples? What about same-sex beta couple? Are m/f alpha/alpha or m/f omega/omega couples considered gay or straight? What about f/f alpha/alpha couples and m/m omega couples?

Do alphas, betas, and omegas of each sex all have distinctive gender roles and socially acceptable gender presentations, or do some of them overlap?

Characters in Omegaverse can be doubly trans! Is it considered more socially acceptable to transition if you transition in a way that maintains your Socially Assigned Reproductive Role? (ie. omega woman <--> omega man or alpha man <--> beta man).

Some people see Omegaverse as being reductive of queerness (transplanting heteronormative gender roles onto same-sex pairings), but I see the potential for Omegaverse to be SUCH a celebration and exploration of queerness if you're willing to dig in and go wild with it.

I just like my aphro-kink + breeding kink + mpreg/fpreg kink better when it comes in a juicy wrapper of world-building and spec-bio.

Just like how if I decide to design a species of sexy bug-people for horny purposes, I will also be considering their world, their evolution, their history, and their various global cultures. Or why I will build an entire narrative and setting around an idea like "I think a relationship between a person and a sapient gun would be hot" or "actually physical symbiosis is extremely sexy".

[zappadoodlecat]

I really love your Destiny art. I first found it on pillowfort and it really influenced a lot of my headcanons about Eliksni. I don't like a lot of the more popular fanon about them and your stuff is so weird (positive). The way you headcanon their sex organs is basically how I write them because its just so neat. Like yeah two dongs are great... why do you need them? Well obviously to fuck yourself lol

the sex organ chart was a significant cooperation between @kaleidoramblings , @schniggles and i, although i didn't have the foresight to name them at the time as the post was actually mostly for our personal reference, lol. i didn't think a niche specbio anatomy exploration would actually gain much traction and i'm glad you enjoyed it!

does remind me, i should probably do an updated eliksni sex-ed at some point since we've moved onto the eliksni having a three gender system for a while now...

[schniggles]

You and @kaleidoramblings developed the gonopods/pore idea just before we met, I think! All three of us innovated the tri-gender system ::3

[kaleidoramblings]

I just think crab dicks are neat. uwu Apparently Nemesis Calling was formative to me or something idk

Also I never pass up a chance to have fun with xenobiology, reproduction, sex, and gender. Pretty sure talking about Eliksni sex/gender is how you met us, @schniggles 😂

[kaleidoramblings]

Never getting over how Paint the Town Blue and Rebel Heart were wasted on an Act where Jinx doesn't go apeshit even a little, despite having plenty of reason to.

Jinx in S1:

"I'm worried Silco thinks I'm weak." [blows up Enforcers about it]

"I think my sister chose a cop over me." [blows up Enforcers about it]

"I accidentally killed my dad and I'm turning my back on my sister." [blows up the Council about it]

Jinx in S2A1:

"My sister turned bluebelly and is helping her cop girlfriend gas the undercity." [attempts dual-sororicide and blows the Grey into Piltover about it]

Jinx in S2A2:

"My emotional support child who I supposedly developed a deep familial bond with was arrested by Enforcers and taken to prison." [makes quips at and gives the finger to an Enforcer about it?]

Seriously though, a person with zero mental disorders and no abandonment issues would've shown more emotion over having their child/sister arrested than Jinx, notorious overreactor, did. We get one (1) moment of seeing her haunted by her hallucinations and then... nothing. Cool as a cucumber, not even particularly serious, cracking lighthearted jokes and exchanging quips. Who even is this!

And why the hell has Jinx been lying low and refusing to go even a tiny bit ham on the Enforcers when Isha actively wants her to do so. One of Jinx's fundamental character traits is that she has A Person, and she wants to be of value to that person by fulfilling their goals (even if it's in ways they didn't ask of her). So why is she ignoring something Isha really wants her to do! Who even is this!!

And it's not as if Jinx is acting like (kid) Powder either, because you know what Powder did? Build bombs to use on Enforcers. With nails in them!

[sandraharissa]

I feel like ‘revolutionary symbol […]’ arc would have worked way better with Jinx than with any other character cos Ekko/Sevika/Vi already want revolution/improvement and are already doing it, so them getting that arc would be a very straightforward thing to do.

Jinx would be the one the most challenged by being on such an arc and it’d be fitting and meaningful, to have her start being less self-centered and selfish, to understand what her whole family was talking about their whole lives and begin to care about the revolution not just to gain their approval, as Silco’s legacy: all the bad things Silco did was for independence and her, she could have kept alive the good parts about him and the good he wanted to do and leave the rest behind, and he was the one who cared about revolution/independence the most. This shit is writing itself.

[kaleidoramblings]

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Boku no Hero Academia #013 Title: What They Say Pairing/Characters: Bakugō Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirō. (Secondary appearances by class 1A and UA staff.) Rating: Teen | T Warnings/Tags: Chooses not to use Warnings Strongly features canon-typical child celebrity and endangerment, graphic mention of injuries Summary: Kirishima Eijirō’s doing just fine. He helped Bakugō Katsuki escape the League of Villains! They made it to safety! He acted braver than he ever thought he could be. Sure, he can't talk to his old friends, but he's got Bakugō. He can't go home yet, but at least he gets to see UA. He's involved in a police investigation of the Shie Hassaikai, but that's a good thing.

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