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Bakugou Katsuki’s attempted character sheet

Lately, I've been busy writing a KiriBaku Fantasy AU taking place in Final Fantay IX's universe (The Place I'll Return to Someday, I'd love hearing more advices on it!), and I've been working hard on getting Bakugou's character figured so I don’t write him too out of character and anticipate how he could act in another setting and with other experiences. This post is the result of all my previous metas, my thinking, and roaming through the manga to understand our Blasty McSplode the best I can. At first, I wrote it as a reminder to myself, and ultimately decided to share it because why not take the occasion to share that and maybe complete it even more if you notice I forgot something? Not about his flaws though, I’ve already written enough about these in a lot of other posts. But yeah, even if you’re not the writer kind, you can still enjoy this as a mere appreciation post for this character.

What do you need to think about when you want to write Bakugou :

Step 1

First thing to remember about him is obviously his passion, his ambition and his drive to be the best and win. You’ll rarely find Bakugou not being intense, good and proud about something in his life unless he’s been broken for reasons you’ll find later in this post if you didn’t already figured it out. 

It's no surprise to anyone, his very name giving it out for him. Since it's childhood, even before getting his quirk, Bakugou had thrived to be the best. So much it actually made him think he was in his right to bully Midoriya when they were younger, a whole society encouraging him to do so as well. Already leading other kids because his passion draws people in, he learned to affirm his own power in comparison to others who were always praising him, and even more after he got his extraordinary quirk. It messed even more with the expectations he’d have for himself later.

He is a fan of All Might and never stopped to be once he set his goals of being like him. His convictions were so strong that he stood his ground even in front of several dangerous villains and refused to lie about it even if it meant he was in danger. Nothing can hold him down and make him slow down on his drive to be what he aims to be, and unlike usual jackasses who let their strength compensate their lack of reasoning, Bakugou cares about his studies and grades and takes great pride in them. Part of why I love BNHA is because it doesn’t take its characters for idiots. Bakugou's so intense and competitive that despite his attitude, he's inspiring to everyone around him, making his classmates feel bad if they ever thought of taking it easy. 

His resolve is just that strong, but it's a double-edged sword when it's not built on very strong foundations.

Step 2

So secondly, you've got to take in consideration his insecurities, his anxiety and the mental health issues he's dealing with. I love Bakugou because he represents something very important for every generation : people, including yourself, expecting and putting too much on your own shoulders is toxic, as it ends up causing deep complexes about your self-esteem if you don't live up to it. Kids need to be told they’re allowed to fail and be unsure about themselves. Bakugou is passionate and intense, but his own expectations about what he should be doing and the gap with what he's actually able to do given his young age and lack of experience are harmful to him. 

At the beginning, it got to the point that even if he still thought he was better than anyone, he was so insecure about his own worth than he ended up having an anxiety attack when Midoriya, someone he never gave any consideration to before, won because he was more focused on the exercise.

Bakugou built his self-esteem by comparing himself to others. As long as he's on the top, he'll be okay. But when someone else rise, he feels like everything he is, everything he worked for is challenged. That way to think also lead Bakugou to quickly feel guilty over things that aren’t his fault : when you’re anxious, your mind become inconveniently self-centered and won’t let slip away any occasion to remind you you’re responsible for everything happening around you. It doesn’t help when your own family takes it on you for being kidnapped because you were too weak and ultimately being at fault for your idol’s downfall now does it.

Therefore, he doesn't know how to handle his excruciating pain and guilt when he thought he fucked up, and takes it on Midoriya, who doesn't know how to handle it either given how he admires Bakugou and can’t even imagine why he would think like that, given he doesn’t deal with those issues at all. There is so much miscommunication going on between them : they both project a lot on the other, and things will only get better when they'll both be ready to talk about it. To come back to Bakugou's mental health : this is what happens when kids are too quickly faced with a unrealistic expectations they can't face because it's so much harder than when they thought it would be. The transition between when you're still a kid having dreams about your future and suddenly you're a little bit older and you're faced with the crushing reality of the capitalist society who expects you to fit no matter how damaging it is to your physical and mental health and be usable until you're disposable is incredibly harsh and confusing. 

It's what broke All Might. He thought he could handle the Symbol of Peace's role alone, but couldn't do that just on his own. And as the entire society just laid on a single man's strength, it crumbled the day this one man couldn't hold it on his own. All Might's story warn us about how flawed thinking you can fix a society by yourself or individual acts truly is. When a system is failing, you need to fix it by replacing it with another system, and fortunately, this is what UA kids are currently learning. They have to do this together. In this ask, I wrote about how Bakugou could have ended up like Endeavor if he didn't found people he really cared for and who equally cared about him. Frustrated to not achieve goals a single person shouldn't even have to fulfill, and feeling guilty and worthless about it because people, including yourself, are putting unrealistic expectations on a single person. Understanding this is not something you can do on your own but with other people's help, because strengths don't compare but complete each other it what their story is going to show us. Since he got to get away from his family (that I wrote about in this post, more specifically about its toxicity and part in Bakugou's self-esteem issues) and lived with his comrades, he began to understand that by himself.

Step 3

It takes me to my third point. Don’t forget Bakugou is smart, mindful and has a fine sense of observation. I regret Bakugou being pictured in most fanarts and work of fiction I could read as his violent and explosive side when he's around people he respects, and cares for. When Bakugou feels comfortable or is deep in thoughts, he's actually pretty quiet. 

His hobby is climbing alone on mountains (and cooking to some extent) to give himself space to think, after all. He's capable of giving good advice, and I find this side of him to be underrepresented in the fandom when it comes to him. Heck, I even saw several artists produce fanart about Bakugou's being chained and muzzled on his pole after the Sport Festival and I was kinda upset about it. I mean, it was easily one of the worst moment of his life because of how humiliating it was ?! Bakugou is flawed and still need to work on a lot of things, but also has good sides, beside his passion. 

He did gave good advice to Midoriya after their fight. 

During his training session with Todoroki, Camie and Inasa, he even actually admitted to the kid one of his own flaw when he saw how it looked on the outside. Being surrounded by people who act differently makes him reflect on himself, something he probably couldn’t do at home.

Mental health issues aren't easy to fix, if they even do one day, but Bakugou's doing his best to improve and learn from others. A side he's actually willing to show some of his friends, and particularly to Kirishima, who he put on the same level as All Might, the man he admires the most. 

Even if Bakugou sometimes doesn't understand his own emotions, he actually waits for the best moment to tell them and isn’t afraid to explain how he's feeling (he even blames Todoroki for not exposing his emotions the same way he does). He can even be pretty cheeky when he wants. 

He never confronted All Might or Izuku about the bond he thought they had in front of everyone else, and always waited for them to be alone to do so, only for them to confirm it and knew they could trust him with it. 

Bakugou is someone who is reliable but still won't show any vulnerability because he considers it as being weak, and is still uncomfortable when it comes to being cared for, not admitting he was given help at some point (beside, he’s often shown shoving All Might when he tries to embrace him). But it doesn’t stop him to accept help when it comes from someone he actually trusts, like Kirishima.

So, to end up this post. Bakugou is improving, slowly but carefully, and I think the more he’ll grow, the more comfortable he will be with himself  as his self-esteem slowly rebuilds itself, and let people care about him. Even if it’s hard, he’s questioning himself and his beliefs, but it’ll be slow. Barely a year has passed since the beginning, but he already improved a lot since the first time we saw him. I do believe, because of how observant he is and the relationships he has and needs, he’ll become more kind, only privately though, and playful with those he’s close to. He’ll be able to work with Midoriya, and years later, will probably be able to talk about his experiments and prevent kids to do the same mistakes he’s done.

[urabiitii-deactivated20200818]

“I won’t let that happen…even if that’s what fate has decided! I will bend the future!!” 

“Nothing I’ve done up to now will ever be useless! I will always be Lemillion!”

Happy Birthday Deku and Lemillion! [7/15]

[plusultra-fox]

Endeavor’s recent character development, and a theory about it

Lately, we've all realized Endeavor was getting sort of a redemption arc. And, whether you think it's problematic or not, I feel it’s important to take a moment, think and talk about what it’s implying, directly and indirectly, for him and Todoroki.

! Note that I’m not discussing Endeavor’s writing, but what his character development is implying !

1. Endeavor as an abusive father

Unlike other parents in this or other series, Endeavor is canonically an abusive father. Endeavor being a terrible father who caused Todoroki to struggle and his entire family to be torn apart is openly exposed to us readers, and it’s great and important, because it’s not that common, unfortunately, for parents to be explicitly labelled as abusers when they hit their children, yell at them and belittle them. It's not because it's not explicitly said in canon that parents are toxic that they’re not, because we're used, and authors as well, to think violent behavior towards younger characters (note that I’m specifically writing about parent/children relationships), physically or mentally, is not all that terrible if this is their mean of communication, if the child deserves it or if it serves comic purposes. And don’t get me wrong: we need those representations, but we also need to understand what they picture exactly and what they should condemn.

Violent and toxic parents DO damage a child's mental health. Todoroki became cold as he grew up, quietly hating a father who wouldn’t let him be himself, living in his shadow by letting him weight so much in his life and choices, and he couldn't do otherwise given how Endeavor treated him.

Todoroki was right to feel this way, was right to hate Endeavor and wanting to have to do nothing with him even if he acknowledged he was a good hero. Midoriya telling him his powers were his only allowed Todoroki to change his mind and remind himself of what he once thought of : he could be who he wanted to become.

But, in a realistic way, Todoroki still struggled ; his issues were not magically fixed after a single conversation, which was a really great representation of how abusive parents can permanently damage their child’s life, because now it’s a part of who they are, whether they want it or not.

Endeavor is a part of Todoroki's story that is realistic, and it has permitted to show what growing with an abusive father was like and how it affected Todoroki’s entire life, something really important given BNHA’s popularity.

2. Endeavor’s growth and a theory about the purpose of all of this

That being said, Endeavor is now getting his own character development, and firstly, I do think his growth is interesting as I do for all the others characters. It’s a touchy topic, so be aware this is not what I’m challenging in this post. What I’m discussing is less Hori’s writing ability, which is great, than why he’s doing it.

Something else caught my attention, because I trust Hori and don’t want to think he’ll just do that for the sole purpose than Endeavor’s possible redemption. 

Dabi appearing at the end of the chapter might foreshadow an exposure of what Endeavor did, as some theories were about Dabi being one of his son. And I hope this is what Hori is planning. I'm quite uncomfortable watching readers being moved by Endeavor's actions, Hawk's admiration for him and Todoroki’s worries like it was just a touching moment and a moving demonstration of how Endeavor’s struggling. 

I do think Hori is planning to smash all of that by publicly revealing Endeavor's abusive nature so people won't trust him and hero's society will crumble even more after finding out, just as the League of Villains is expecting. 

3. In the end, what is this confusion about if it’s right or not to let an abuser his chance is telling us?

Now, what I want to challenge is why do we / should we find it moving? There is a difference between changing when you’ve been an asshole to someone you didn’t really know at the time, and changing after wrecking your own family so much your wife ended up in hospital after harming her son, probably getting PTSD, and driving your kids to distrust and even hate you.

I'll love the manga no matter what, but I’d find this choice disrespectful for people who’ve been harmed by abusive parent who were told they should forgive them, talk to them and see what's good in them when they damaged their mental health and self-esteem, and made their life a hell during years. Abusers are not just mean, they destroy one’s health and self-esteem so they can feel better about themselves. They can change, but they don't OWN understanding and forgiveness from the people they hurt, and if it ever happens, it’s not something beautiful. It’s a struggle, it’s a sacrifice, and it’s mostly painful, even if you are to find peace after all.

Todoroki's family now is his friends at UA ; it's the one he'll decide to make, and he doesn't deserve to feel like he owns anything to Endeavor. His reaction is realistic, I know it is, but I don't think it’s fair to him, as it tells us :

« Even if your dad's an abuser, if he's a great person outside / a hero and he’s improving, you need to care for him and find the strength to try and forgive him, because that's how it is and will make everything right in the end.».

You don’t get to wreck your own family and get away from treating people like crap just so you can become everyone’s super hero like none of that ever mattered. Endeavor isn’t achieving what he wants, as he got his place as Number One by default. But he’s slowly making his way, because he’s learning and trying to do better.

However, I don’t even know why we should discuss something as : should we look for reasons to defend abusers’ right to change and be forgiven on top of everything? Shouldn’t they just deal with it themselves on their own? For now, Endeavor has been doing so, but, if anything, it’s just the right thing to do. So I think we should question why we get the feeling we need to defend him. There are a lot more characters who would deserve this attention, some who aren’t abusers, and it doesn’t feel quite right for Endeavor to suddenly get this sudden affection (I know it’s because Hori’s great writing, but still). If you’re looking for a good character improvement, then look at Bakugou, Amajiki or Mirio who is bravely sticking to his path despite losing his Quirk. It would seem more fair.

Now about how Todoroki is handling / will handle this matter. I don’t want to sound patronizing, but in the end, you shouldn’t expect Todoroki to reconnect with his father no matter what, like it would be some necessary closure. The chapter when he got to move on from all of this was named Filial Independence ! Why should he go back and forgive his father? He’s free to do what he wants, and he doesn’t own Endeavor anything. Not his time, not his affection, not his forgiveness. Not after everything he did to him. After Todoroki struggled so much, I get that it would be ‘meaningful’ for him to be the better one, to have the upper-hand and forgive his dad. But we need to stop expecting abused people to forgive their abuser. It’s cruel. There are tons of people out there who actually deserve your attention. Why stick to the one who hurt you like you don’t deserve better? Your abuser can change and move on, they can find new people as well, they don’t need your forgiveness to be better, they need to think about it and stop being dirt bags.

There is no real reason to stick to people who hurt you. I can sense some good old patriarchal and capitalist intention behind this mindset. Still expecting people who suffered to be the one to forgive as well, not allowing them to be angry and stand up for themselves because that won’t be nice. Reminds me of tone policing issues that women, and mostly POC women suffer from. See what I’m getting at? It’s all about power and control over people who aren’t expected to have it, and shouldn’t have it. We’re expecting a son to be better and love his dad no matter what. And what are we expecting from the dad? Are we satisfied yet because he seemed to have changed a little?

So let’s drop that mindset once for all, and be careful with who we’re advocating for. Let people deal with it the way they feel is right, even if it means cutting their ties with their abuser and being forever angry with them. I know people can deal with it the forgiving way. But we need to do better, and promote other ways, because I’ve got the feeling forgiving is the way that’s mostly promoted, and it’s not right.

[plusultra-fox]

part 1) hi! i love all of ur posts about bakugou’s mental health, and it’s come to a point that the teacher’s are just now recognizing it for what it is, instead of just blatant anger and attitude. i was actually wondering about ur thoughts on mitsuki? personally, i like her character, but i don’t think she was ready to raise a child, with how she mistreats him. i’m sure she loves him, but her attitude is so harsh and demeaning towards him. i mean, she blamed bakugou for his own kidnapping??

Thanks a lot for thiswonderful ask, Anon. With the Kamino Arc currently airing, the scenewhere Mitsuki admonishes her son in front of Aizawa will soon beshown, and I’m really not looking forward to it. Because I think that Mitsuki is indeed toxic to herson and abuses him verbally here, no matter how sweet she wants to appear after that. We haven’t seen a lotabout her, but the few interaction Hori gave us were terrible enough, because we’ve seen how violent she can be, and how easily it can be accepted and overlooked. Like how I wrote it wasn’t funny for Bakugou to be muzzled and chained after Sports Festival, many people will surely find a way to say it’s just for fun and comic relief. Believe me, it’s not.

In this scene, Mitsukiand Katsuki might look like they’re bickering because they don’t knowhow to express they’re both relieved everything is fine, and it wouldseem to be a communication problem more than anything else. Butobviously the truth is, Mitsuki is accusing his son for hisabduction, and there is absolutely no reason to do that if your toppriority is to make your child feel safe after such a traumaticevent. It’s not that Mitsuki doesn’t care about Katsuki : shecares about him, or rather, she cares about what he’s representingabout her as a mother.

The thing you got to know about abusive parents is that they’re insecure and crave control and authority on their child. So naturally, whentheir child misbehave or aren’t conform to their expectations, theyfeel threaten, feel like they’re losing control, and feel likethey’re failures. Katsuki being naturally talented and strong-willedas he is, Mitsuki probably felt like she hadn’t really any control onhim, and instead of finding a way to establish bonds with him,because of course he’s his own person and no, you can’t act withevery child the same way, she preferred to ignore how she couldn’tfind a way. So she became abusive by damaging Katsuki’s mental healthand self esteem by being toxic and saying hurtful things like howterrible and out of control he is, how he’s causing everyoneproblems, and how’s everything is his fault, so she could feel shehad control over him and how he’s feeling. 

Parents can’t pretendthey’re not doing this purposefully. They’re aware those kind ofcomments hurt, otherwise they wouldn’t say it or would find somethingelse to say until it hurts and you feel like you’re cornered, so theycan feel they won and dominate you. I previously wrote ina post (I’ll eventually find later) how I like Izuku’s relationships with his mother and AllMight, because they were free from any kind of struggle forauthority. Something that should be natural ; a family isn’t aplace where parents should try to make their child feel worthlessunless they can be what they want them to be. Katsuki isn’t howMitsuki would like him to be : charming, friendly and obedient. And most of all, nothing is her fault. She always find a way to accuse a lot of things but herself. And what’s worst is, you actually believe her. I did first, I must admit. Then I thought, and saw how perverted it was.

Living in a home where you’re constantly reminded of how you’re notwhat your parents wish you were, no matter how interesting, kind orpassionate you can be in other domains, is exhausting, and most ofall, extremely damaging for your mental health. Of course if parentstake every opportunity to smack down their child to feel theircontrol on them, without looking the slightest interested in them asan actual individual, they’ll be deprived of any self esteem. It’s no wonder Katsuki felt guilty about All Might’s end : he’s been used, all of these years, to think everything was his fault. Mitsuki explicitly told him he was weak, and Katsuki uses her very own words to deprecate himself. It’s making him suffer so much he doesn’t know how to make his pain go away apart from fighting Izuku so he can be smacked, punished and can finally atone for what he thinks he did. 

Unlike Izuku, who had asafe space at home, and could feel loved even though the world seemedto be against him, Katsuki didn’t have that. In fact, it’s polaropposite : everyone acknowledged him at school, but his motherwas already disappointed by how strong Katsuki’spersonality was and how he couldn’t be what she wanted him to be. And every time hecame back home, he was probably yelled at and told again and againhow he was too much of an hassle to handle and how he couldn’t behavethe way he was expected to in society. It’s an aspect I never reallymentioned in my previous posts, because I already had so much towrite and unfortunately overlooked these pieces, but it’s not even a questionanymore at this point : of course Mitsuki’s behavior paved the way forKatsuki’s anxiety and inferiority complex, and if he had been in another family, like the Midoriya’s, he would have been very different. Still proud and keen to show everyone he’s very strong, but not feeling he’s worthless when he doesn’t succeed and probably less violent in his interactions with people he feels threaten by. When he evokes the way he’s been violently raised, even Todoroki tells him it’s not right. And Todoroki knows something about this, having been raised by an abusive father as well.

I’m physically uncomfortable for Katsuki here, who really doesn’t like the force physical interaction his mother is putting on him. See how she’s making him bow his head? How humiliated Katsuki can actually feel here?

Her deprecating attitudetowards him obviously lead him to think he wasn’t good enough, andthat he had to be an ideal version of himself he simply can’t be athis young age so he could be worthy. I can see in Katsuki’simpatience how he’s craving freedom. If he’s number one, then surelyno one would look down on him anymore. Especially not him, and nothis mother. But again, that’s because he thinks that once he’llachieved that, he’ll get rid of these feelings of unworthiness hismother gave him. I don’t think he’s aware his mother is toxic, sohe’s not aware she’s at fault for him feeling like this. Beingnumber one won’t change a thing if his mother can still find ways toabuse him verbally, what she’ll do if Katsuki still doesn’t hand overthe authority she’s looking for in their relationship. Finding peoplewho truly care about him, and are proud and genuinely happy for hisachievements will greatly change that. For that reason, it was abrilliant idea to create the dorm for UA’s students. Bakugou alreadychanged a lot since he began to live with his comrades ; it wasreally positive for him to be away from his parents. 

So that’s it. I hope Ididn’t forget any important elements, I need to get myself used to these analysis again. Wecouldn’t see a lot about Mitsuki, but even if we did, it won’t changeanything. Even if she appeared to be nice when talking about how relieved she was someone finally understood Katsuki, it wouldn’t change asingle thing. Abusers reveal their true nature when their control isendangered, and love to make everyone think how great and careful they are so nobody can say a thing to them, and they can continue their abusive behavior because for the abused ones, it seems fair. For Mitsuki, having Katsuki being the one kidnappedbecause he appeared to have a potential as a villain was actually a failure infront of Aizawa. This was her true nature, no matter how we could seeher otherwise. People always reveal their true nature in periloussituations ; it’s for such a reason heroes are heroes andabusers, abusers. Ones will try to save people, others will try tosave themselves and their authority by destroying what’s standing intheir way, even if it’s their own child. And it’s dangerous to thinkabusers love their family anyway. They don’t love them, but the veryimage it gives them of themselves. I’m saying that for Katsuki, butalso to everyone here who already experienced, or is experiencingsuch an ordeal. It’s sorrowful to understand your parents don’t seeyou and accept you as who you are because they are insecure aboutthemselves. It’s even moredifficult to accept it’s not your fault, it’s not you being weak,being not enough and being worthless. When you feel cared for andtruly loved, it doesn’t matter if you’re at the top or not. Feelinglike you’re enough doesn’t come from being number one, but from beingloved and cared for for who you are. Not necessarily loving yourself ; mentalhealth’s damages are difficult to overcome, and self esteem’s hard torecover when it’s been methodically destroyed. It takes time to learn to love yourself, but it’s okay,other people can do that for you if you let them. Because thosepeople actually exist. Katsuki is slowly discovering that with hiscomrades, and I hope everyone here will come to that as well.

[ladyautie]

I started to watch Atypical this morning. It seems like a crossover between the A Word and Speechless, but not in the good way. It feels like it’s trying to be Speechless, but it’s lacking the knowledge about autism and the desire to really put autistic people in front and not the families or Neurotypical people around them.

The mother is even more unbearable than the one from the A Word. She’s an overbearing bully, she’s sexist, she’s treating her teenager son like a freakin’ baby… she’s awful. The father is not better, all he seems to do is complaining and building himself as a tragical figure (boo hoo, my son doesn’t want to go to a ball game with me, boo hoo).

The sister seems a bit better, but I’m waiting to watch more of the show to get a proper opinion. As for the main character… He seems accurate at some points, but also super caricatural at others ?

I mean, there’s one scene where he’s in the bus, he’s thinking about something and it’s making him giggle out loud. That was relatable, it happens to me all the time. But after that, he feels the need to overexplain what he’s thinking about, as if it never happened to him before and he doesn’t know that people will just scoff at him or ignore him.

He seems like he just became autistic this day and, before that, he was neurotypical (I know it’s not possible, but it really feels like it). So, he doesn‘t learn about his mistakes, he seems to have never experienced ableism before and I don’t know, it’s really uncomfortable to watch.

Also, a lot of scenes seems to invite us to laugh at him, not to laugh with him. I don’t mind to have certain scenes like this, I mean, I find some of my experiences and autistic traits awkwardly hilarious, but, really, all the time ?

I don’t think I’m really going to like this show. It might do some good, but it just seems to me that we’re going to have a Sheldon Cooper-like, without the “genius” part.

I’m going to watch the rest of it and give you my full impression afterwards.

[neo-catharsis]

[dappledwithshadow]

Claude Monet Waterlilies  1908

[plusultra-fox]

Are they're any characters you wanna see make the return trip back into the spot light? I wanna see Tsu and Ochako do something with this arc because like where are my girls.

To begin with, I’m really sorry withhow late I am with this ask Anon. I read it and… completely forgot. I’lltry to make an interesting answer to make amends. I think you asked specifically about Uraraka and Asui, but let’s talk about girls in BNHA generally.

As in a lot of shonen, girls seems tobe given less screen time and show off time than boys. You’re kinda right when asking where they are, because it’s been some times wedidn’t get to see them, but one thing I particularly like in BNHA isactually how girls are very well-written and handled, even if it’strue it’d be good to get more perspective from them. From the girlsin class 1-A to class 1-B and pro-heroes, they’re all unique andinteresting, and already had moments to demonstrate they earned fairly their place at UA, during all the arcs so far (particularly Uraraka, Asui and Yaoyorozu). They’re their own person, and Hori is aware of youreveryday sexism, as he’s condemning people looking down on Uraraka because she’s a girl during the sports festival through Aizawa. It’s quite… peculiar,how he’s aware of that but still came with a character such asMineta, and that Aizawa didn’t already severely punished him forharassing girls when he knows what to expect from him (as Kouta waswarned about Mineta’s possible attempt to peek at the girls during their bath at their training camp). Anyway, let’s not talk any longer about him.

For this Intership Arc, we don’t get tosee girls a lot, but actually, as I kinda wrote here, it’s notspecifically girls that we don’t see much, but all of the students.Kirishima was the only one to get a lot of attention and characterdevelopment lately, Tamaki getting a little as well. It’s been somechapters that the focus shifted to villains, and particularly toOverhaul and Shigaraki’s fight for power. It’s been confirmed thatShigaraki saw through Overhaul’s attempt to seize authority becausehe looks down on the League of Villains, and during chapter 148 wehad a peek at one of their reunion, and Toga and Twice’srelationship. I’d say we even got quite an interesting view on Toga’scharacter, as she truly was here to back up Twice and helped him whenhe was on the verge of a mental breakdown. 

She was even very gentleand reassuring with him, and knew what to say to calm him. Even when she talked withShigaraki, as she was swinging her knife around, she made a point onher motivation and why she decided to do all of that ’In order to make this world a little bit easier to live in’. 

Considering everything she has said before to Uraraka during trainingcamp, and Izuku through the appearance of another student during theprovisional licence exam, she’s someone who can see throughpeople’s conflicted feelings, and who’s very smart and insightful. I’m sure sheherself has her reasons as to why she’s acting this way, but for now,Hori has delivered quite interesting sides to her. When you thinkabout it, even Mina got attention during Kirishima’sflashback. After all, she was the one being presented as bright, incredible andpromising, while Kirishima felt powerless and pitiful compared to her. 

When Kirishimatold her he was saying goodbye to his old self, Mina immediately saw through him andmade this promise between them. She was really mindful as she knewKirishima before but didn’t do any attempt to embarrass him oranything, and was very supportive even if they barely knew each other.

So we actually got some time where the girls shone or were revealed more!It’s true Uraraka and Asui were left out from the beginning, Nejiretoo, but it’s because they’re handling fights outside of thebasement. We didn’t get to see Mirio for some time, and neither didwe from the usual principal cast who’s being totally left out forthis arc. So I don’t think we should be worried about that, each character get their momentto shine in time and I’m sure it’ll come for everyone, girls included becausethey’re all totally awesome.

As to characters I’m myself particularlywaiting to see, with everything being said previously, it may beobvious but I’ve been really intrigued about Toga and Shigaraki. Iwrote some time ago that I thought the League of Villains had been kinda underwhelming, and I still think they had been, but things arechanging. Shigaraki’s really growing and it’s fascinating to watch such good character development honestly. I really want to see allthe girls having cool and meaningful moments, particularly Jirou,Mina and Kendou, even if she’s from another class, considering they didn’t get much time to demonstratetheir abilities like Yaoyorozu, Uraraka and Asui. I’m not forgettingHagakure, but I wonder if Hori planned something important and notreally comic-related with her. He’s a great author, but he alreadyhas a lot of characters to deal with so it wouldn’t be surprising;Satou or Kouda didn’t get a lot of development either, and sometimes you’ve got to make choices. Apart from the girls, I’m really waiting tosee what’s planned about Shinsou, because as I wrote there, he’sobviously gonna be an important character and I hope to see him makewonders, just like Denki, who was really cool during the provisionallicence exam. Finally, I’m obviously impatient to see what’s gonnaunfold for Bakugou and Todoroki. They still have things left to thinkabout, particularly about their hero and own identity, and I’m curious tosee what Hori planned for them.

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kirishima comes home (home is where the heart is) from the hospital

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Jardin de la villa Ephrussi de Rothschild - St Jean Cap Ferrat | de Provence et d'ailleurs

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Matcha Penguin - Down Time

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i’m callin this project good and done, 100 discrete boys, idk what you think but i had a good time so that’s all that counts right

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Chapter 146 Summary

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Infinity Rooms Yayoi Kusama

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Matcha Fox - Venture