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[breakandbuildfiction]

DPxOPM Idea/Prompt 9

Danny takes advantage of the Hero Association’s need for recruiting more heroes and his ability to duplicate, along with his ever-growing assortment of powers, to register as multiple heroes with the Association and pull in multiple paychecks. This becomes an issue when several of his heroic personas catch the attention of the Blizzard Group, bringing several recruiters of the B-Class mafia to his front door, each of them looking for a different hero.

[endermitten]

oh, Fubuki... 😰

[opmforever]

weeping | opm manga ch. 192

[daisymerollingg]

Are those lash curlers??

help???

[badjohnspeakeasy]

At least Tumblr has my back.

[theomnicode]

Saitama and his inner circle

Saitama:

Or so he would think, because while Fubuki has a group of people working for her, Saitama does not have such. Ironically, Saitama may be bit of a fool to even come around in interest of having some kind of competition, bit gullible to believe that Fubuki would give him a fair competition that he chose to come and seek out but alas, all the chances he gives her are voided by the contract she tl;dr'ed him into not bothering to read.

Also Saitama:

Does not have underlings, but has allegiances many would die for.

Bit gullible he may be because he wants to believe in the good of people's better nature, but naive or simple-minded? Not really.

If Fubuki isn't intentionally playing fair, neither is Saitama. A very varied group you could even bring into "do you wanna be a millionaire" or anything kind of competition at all.

He's just a bored man seeking intellectual challenges, that's all.

Oh and best part about Saitama group? No morally evil ulterior motives unlike Blizzard group who's innate allegiances can apparently be on shaky grounds. Ironically, Saitama not being so trusting in people ascertains their true character and loyalties far better.

Genos is once again, right on money. Numbers are no replacement for individual prowess and character. At least Fubuki group needs to do a far better job at screening people if they have real enemies like this. Fubuki knows this too. I wonder...if it is the fear of Tsukuyomi group that drives Fubuki up the wall to force recruit Saitama if she must. She must know through her sister right?

Meanwhile, she could legit just have asked and told Saitama. But trusting people with sensitive or even pertinent information doesn't seem like a thing she likes doing and it'll get people into trouble. Loads of more trouble.

Apollo got away with information and is right out there, next to Saitama and Tatsumaki's fight, just biding his time.

Fubuki too, is playing chicken with her emotional blind spots; not trusting even her own group members enough which lead to this. Poeple who are with her, protecting her and working for her. She's responsible for 14-year old Lily too and brought her into this kind of situation...really awful going out there, Fubuki. ONE is not sparing her in this arc, because her moral high grounding has to stop if she's to become a real leader. She has a LOT of explaining to do, for sure.

Funny, if she just asked, Saitama would handle Apollo for her, no biggie. But now Apollo and Tsukuyomi organization have a huge upper hand again.

One thing can be said about Saitama's inner circle however which probably cannot be found from elsewhere: trust and loyalty that comes with it.

If Fubuki trusted her group as much as they trust her, then she would find the loyalty she seeks too and she could have the inner circle in her group actually help her manage her own group better and screen newcomers.

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(I for one, I'm ready for tsukuyomi organization exposition)

[nyxrev]

Details

Just some stuff I noticed, from small to serious.

旦那 (dan'na)

K so I found it funny Black Sperm calls Saitama “dan'na” bc the term can mean different by its context, eg. an honorific for husband, patron, or master, etc. I believe it's translated to English as “Boss” which is most fit but when I first read it I automatically associated it with “master” of the more softer nuances and not the rougher casual “hey boss” sort of vibe, so I was surprised like, huh BS is unusually deferential to Saitama, esp. bc the rest of his speech pattern is fairly casual. But, makes sense bc he's seen enough to know. Also makes sense bc on one hand, rn he has to pretend to be a benign, goofy “monkey” …idk how ppl see a black teletubby n just believe it's monkey but s'ok, story logic… to get by heroes, hence the casual goofy monkey speech, but on the other, he absolutely does not want to cross Saitama, so he chooses to refer to him politely.

旦那 - Jisho.org

master (of a house, shop, etc.)​

husband​: can be used to refer to your own, or smb else's husband (add honorifics). Some other ways of address: 夫 otto, 主人 shujin,

sir; boss; master; governor​: used to address a male patron, customer, or person of high status

patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy ​(パトロン)

alms; almsgiver:​ Buddhism, usually written as 檀那 for Buddhist context

As you can see, a non-exhaustive list of what it can mean. With automatic association to house -hold and patronage nuances, my mental image got mildly confused for a moment. Like can you really see an obeisant, nice little BS who humbly serves Saitama with utmost formality??

I feel myself make an uneasy face I cannot quite describe.

Also it was good to see him ask about Manako, but I do want to know if she's alive and safe.

Homewrecker? No it's (unlicensed) Demolition. Opennenoorn Get Out

^after the scene when Forte got hit, Fubuki told Saitama to go with her and said:

あなたの住処を破壊した張本人に会わせてあげる

Basically the reason she gave for their excursion was, “I'll let you meet the person responsible for the destruction of your residence.”

Whom I thought was Psykos bc at the moment, we saw parallel scenes of Tsukuyomi guy at her cell and Tatsumaki had not arrived, but Saitama doesn't know Psykos yet, so when Fubuki made her speech, Saitama confused without so much as context to who all the ppl on scene are, then Tatsumaki arrives most destructively, he must have thought it could be absolutely no other than the “chibi” who threw Genos on a wall.

Which is why Saitama went “I see, the one who destroyed my home was…(Tatsumaki) ಠ ◡ ಠ##”

But I had to wonder who did Fubuki really mean to refer to with “the person who destroyed your place”? If Fubuki meant Psykos how would Saitama react?

Fortress Haven or Death Maze?

Hige Coffee: lit. Beard Coffee (lol)

Well it's good to see Max and Shadow on break, but an emergency call cuts it short, and amidst the commotion, one of them (I assume it's Max) laments the place is so big it's easy to get lost.

What can I say, it's almost like the new HQ, with its concentrated yet puzzled pyramid structure, complete with a moat of self-isolation, remotely omniscient surveillance, a manufactured façade of paradise with luxury security atop seven hells of hidden disasters eager to be released, and so on…almost like it's a direct visual representation of HA's operation hierarchy: centralized system of power and economic monopoly, yet rife with office politics, factions at tension, dysfunctional management, corrupt unstable foundation, and unsavoury secrets to hide.

Cohesively staffed, an impregnable fortress. Yet improperly managed, an exit-less death maze.

And I say it bc the place is not only complicated and spacious but also uniform. Its grand Jenga-Lego stack of cluster structures look so similar, if not literally the same, from every angle, if you rotated it on a turntable, I couldn't tell the sides from each other nor which faced NESW at first.

Of course, part of why they got lost is, it's newly built, heroes just moved to residency, obviously, it's not out of expectation for heroes, or anyone who's never step foot there for the matter, to be unfamiliar with exact floor plan details of such a vast, complex structure, its design sleek at best and dystopian at worst.

But I must wonder, for I feel like it will become a problem later, HQ's isolated vast complexity… If it doesn't fall apart from its core first, what with overpowered resident, destructive visitors, and let's not forget the basement full of a nasty little monstrosity of pets the corrupt executives keep for cash flow they don't use to pay heroes.

Air and Blue Fire: Cyborg Surgery?

On a scale of beneficial to suspicious, question.

Notice the text right next to Air? It's an SFX.

キュイーン kyui—n (onomatopoeia): like a whirr sound effect, low sounds of machinery at work, usually small technical ones which contract or spin. For example, camera lens… how ominous, don't you think?

While Forte is eager to get out of bed and make a quick work of the noisy monsters who disturb his already bad day, blow off convenient steam, it looks like Air can't even emote natural, human facial expressions, and it unsettles me so!

If you look long enough it almost looks like he is controlled like a puppet Σ(-᷅_-᷄⁉︎)

As for BlueFire, I can't tell if it's an empty sleeve or a prosthetic arm but hopefully he got an arm with extra spicy flamethrower fingers so he can be extra terribly efficient. He'd probably max his specs to roast evildoers out of spite. I sense one step to Genos. Same age, similar personality.

Japanese-to-English SFX Translations, translate sound effects from Japanese to English @ The JADED Network

Bonus: List of Every Hero Present

aka. faces you see the last moments of your life, if you happen to be a mischievous monster at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Top panel: Golden Ball, Spring Mustachio, Red Muffler, Funeral Suspenders, D-pad, bottom L hat prolly Gun Gun, Shooter, Smile Man, Skunk-Boy Gasmask, top L corner Eyelashes, Mohawk Hacker, Brass Knuckles guy, Great Philosopher, Magic Trick Man, Darkness Blade, Bones, prolly Blue Fire's back (front of Bones), All Back Man? (didn't he quit?), Butterfly DX, Kusari-Gama, Mushroom, Horse-Bone, Twin Tails, can't tell who the mop of dark hair next to her is but prolly Blizzard member, Tank-Top Al-Dente, Tank-Top Rockabilly, another two Blizzards by the suit,

Bottom: Eyelashes, Brass Knuckle, Spiked Club Blizzard, L- Max, Genji, Stinger, Tank-Top Mask, Tank-Top Racer, Crescent Eyebroll, Green, Wild Horn, Skunk Boy Gasmask, Tank-Top Al-Dente, Tank-Top Rockabilly, a sliver of Darkness Blade, Heavy Kong.

Fubuki Group? More like Mafia?

Look at how they stand. Look at how they walk. Look at their formation. If each of them were as strong as Needle Star got, fought as well as the support team cooperated, if equally valued and given opportunity to contribute their expertise, they truly would be formidable, fearsome foes, and reliable allies Fubuki can trust to hold their own and not constantly worry about. Of course part of the problem is Fubuki's own insecurities but we know she has the potential to be a great leader if she put her focus on the right path and used her power to maximum beneficial strategy

Counted around 33 members without Fubuki or Saitama. Rowdy Suit Gang. Mountain Ape n Lily stand out and you can see them from far away.

Extra Bonus: Spot the Spy 6-6

Nah cuz I really need to talk about the cursed Tsukuyomi guys. I brewed some praises n some toasty roasty jokes. I need to cook some wacky, juicy conspiracy about them. Just a little gentle speculation.

[morrbiid]

Exactly how it happened