Hi, this is where I, Kira (she/they), am going to be posting about what I write, such as The Saber Project, my personal journeys, and whatever interests me at the current time.
SuleMio Week Day 1: Heartbeat/Cooking for Each Other
New Work Time! And, it's part of a fun little event! This is my first piece for SuleMio Week 2026, based on some of the earliest prompts, which you can check out on @sulemio-week-official 's page! I know it's been a while, but hopefully, all of this is a good effort to make me a little less rusty. Either way, I hope you enjoy, and do check out what everyone else is making!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
CW: PTSD, Light Panic Attack
Summary: On a seemingly innocuous morning, Suletta Mercury wakes up to find her wife missingâŠ
Preview:
Suletta felt herself begin to stir, a familiar weight around her waist missing. Usually, on nearly every morning, she would wake up with her wife clung around her waist, hair all tangled, a bit of her drool ending up on Sulettaâs night shirt. It was always so cute to see Miorine, publicly so put together, laying on her all messily. She loved it.
Though, it also put her mind at ease. The careful cling of her wifeâs arms made her feel connected, touched, loved. She hadnât realized that she had become so dependent on it over the past few years until just now, when it was gone. It made her feel untethered, floating through space.
Hello my shroomlings!! Back again with another... wait a minute, this isn't brisketsammich!! Don't worry y'all, they will be back i just wanna add in some different stories here and there! I hope yall enjoy!
My Hero Academia: World of Masks Chapter 8 is Suddenly Out
I kind of went into a writing rush this week, and suddenly, I have another chapter. I don't expect future chapters to be this quick, but hey, whatever!
Hi! I posted about it in my post about finishing MHA, but I've been working on this Kamen Rider/MHA fic. It's been fun to write, but I've forgotten to post about it here until now. Read it if you want, but it's ok if you don't.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
My brain broke. Let's talk about MHA's missed potential
Hey, uh, sorry I haven't posted here in ages. My anxiety issues and other mental health issues I'm not going to get diagnosed until the country I live in stops being so fascistic about it kind of spiked this year (I'm sure you can understand why), and I just needed some time to myself. In that time, I did a decent amount of things, I think, and one of those was finding my ass thrust right back into Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia, after an ill-advised purchase of the absolute masterpiece that is the SHF Deku.
Anyhow, I started reading it (My first exposure was seeing the first two seasons in middle school), getting far too many figures (That Revoltech Mirko is absolutely insane), and even writing a goddamn Kamen Rider crossover fanfiction about it. But, like, even still, MHA does suck.
Okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. To me, the series is, like a 7/10, that mostly stays at that point, but sometimes is a 2/10 and sometimes is a 10/10. That's probably why I can actually write a fanfic about it. Stuff I adore more (One Piece, Chainsaw Man, etc.), while better by magnitudes, are more like what I want it to be. MHA, on the other hand, in its failings, sparks my brainwaves to write my own stuff, more to my own tastes.
But, like, the thing is, it could have been better, you know. It's not so frustratingly bad that it feels irredeemable. It's not a Zack Snyder film. It's, like, seeing a kid almost do a cool trick, only to fall on their face in the final spin. Which is what makes it more fascinating to think about.
Let's stop beating around the bush, the reason this fails is because its ending refuses to be radical and revolutionary in its vision of change. Now, this isn't to say that a work can't be good while being generally politically centrist. The problem is that it walks right up to the line of this sort of political revolution, one that envisions a radical future, only to step back at the final moments in favor of the status quo.
Spoilers below...
This whole path starts pretty late in the series. It overall starts as a pretty standard modern superhero story. While it gains some political interest is gained through the Stain arc, it mostly focuses on character drama that feels more personal than political. There was potential for something more (The political implications of a person being "Qurikless," powerless in a world of superpowers, are really interesting, but never get brought into the story, making the idea more of a plot device than anything).
However, this all changes with the My Villain Academia arc. For context, the main antagonists, the League of Villains (Abbreviated LOV), have to go into hiding after the defeat of their main benefactor, All For One (Like, the most generic big evil badguy, on purpose on his part). They eventually encounter the Meta Liberation Army, a bunch of, essentially, libertarians who want the legal restrictions on quirks (This world's superpowers) removed, to create a sort of might makes right mentality. They clash before merging their causes. However, their clash creates a bunch of interesting backstories for these villains, making them more than just one-note cutouts.
Shigeraki went from a generic violent child to a person who was abused, made a mistake, then manipulated by the one person to reach out to them. Spinner went from a generic lizard man with a sword to a legitimately interesting bit of social commentary. And Himiko, Oh Himiko. She got, like, 2 chapters, but they took her from a generic Yandere to this tragic story of a girl abused for her neurodivergence, which then twisted her vision of self into something capable of her destructive tendencies. This, paired with Horikoshi's legitimate talent for illustration, something that brought me joy throughout the whole series, and makes reading the manga worth it on its own, left me legitimately speechless.
What this segment did was take the LOV and made them far more sympathetic, and, in a way, somewhat right. Sure, they are in a bad place, but you really want to see them get better, get some help, while also fixing the society around them. It makes them far more complicated and, honestly, better, characters.
This segment lingers over the second half of the story, making the reader question how good this world really is. Sure, the MLA, rebranded the Paranormal Liberation Front, are wrong about exactly how society should be restructured (Again, libertarians), but as it is now, society isn't great.
The story, then, never really lets up on the sympathy for the LOV. It gives Dabi his own backstory, tying into the abusive expectations of the hero Endeavor, that got pushed on his whole family, especially his youngest, Shoto (Though that story was already being fumbled by that point, I'm not going to get into it, but god, Endeavor really changes after his first appearance, and not for the good of the story). One of their own, Jin, gets needlessly killed, leading Himiko further into her own dark spiral, before she's pushed even further after what is, essentially, a call for help, falls on deaf ears, an Ochako Uraraka, who is, admittedly, a teenager who hasn't really learned more nuance past "good and evil."
From there, the story leads into its finale with one main promise. We get a scene of Izuku, the story's protagonist, and Ochako, bonding over how they want to save their respective villains, Shigaraki and Himiko. It sets the story up for this restorative, redemptive idea of justice, desired by both of its protagonists.
The story then kills both Shigaraki and Himiko.
They do get somewhat redeemed. Shigaraki's whole life is revealed to be a ploy of All for One's, manufactured to lead to this path, but instead of letting him forge his own path, it just has him die. Somewhat saved, sure, left in his own convictions as a "hero for the villains," but, like, exploded to dust. Himiko, then, gets the pep talk she needed from Ochako, the one human connection she really needed, someone to love her. However, she had also stabbed Ochako, leaving her bleeding out, almost dead. Himiko, then, gives Ochako her blood to save her, a touching gesture. However, this, somehow, kills her, in a world where Dabi can cling onto life after burning his entire body, where All Might can survive without half his organs.
It creates a story that, through implication, recreates that delineation of "good and evil," that earlier parts of the story found intentionally childish earlier, showing that the villains can only be redeemed by ceasing to exist. And that the heroes can't save them, only destroy them. It's a world that, honestly, sees heroes as what cops are now.
There's this whole discussion about how modern superhero stories are a form of copaganda, but for MHA's case, it feels apt. It envisions a world where, generally, heroes can survive, thrive, as beings that only violently deal with threats, rather than supporting the community. Sure, there are some support heroes, but so few of them get focus in the story, it turns combat heroes into the main focus. A main focus that rewards their ability to beat, to kill, a bad guy.
It doesn't have to be like this. Superman is such an overpowered character in part because his goal was to help people. Save people you can't think could be saved. That's why his best stakes come from helping people rather than fighting someone. (He's also a subversion of the whole survival of the fittest, eugenics-y ubermensch that was growing in fervor with the rise of the Nazi's, but that, again, is its own whole discussion).
The thing with MHA is that it gets so close to this ideal. But, then, it biffs it. Ultimately, killing these villains was an easier choice, as much as it feels more tragic. It is harder to find a way for them to repent, rather than just having them make an "ultimate sacrifice," or some bullshit like that.
Thoughts like this have been rattling around in my head a lot. It led me to write that fanfic, that I guess I'll link here. But, overall, MHA just leaves me disappointed, but willing to think about it.
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