Well OBVIOUSLY they just need SOMEONE to possess the body and walk it off a cliff. This couldn’t possibly go wrong.
when this popped up in my inbox, i honest to goodness cackled
(dead air au by @ecto-hazard)
and then tenna blips away.
i imagine after this, spencer possesses his own body and tries to pretend that nothing is wrong. they fail utterly. their body is rotting and the bleeding never stops. i'm entertained by the idea of spencer getting clingier with stan for a period, because "helping" him is a big comfort for them--but their dynamic shifts to where stan has to help spencer nearly as much (or more) as spencer helped him. said idea of which making spencer more emotionally unstable, because "that's not how it's supposed to work".
it takes some time for tenna to show back up, but i imagine it'd be to intervene in that developing dynamic before it roots in utterly. it would not go well either.
Assassins for one honestly makes so much sense?? Because the holders are harboring OFA until it’s strong enough to take out AFO. But like, why would they WAIT? How many fewer generations would live in fear if they can kill him just a little faster? Cultivating the SKILLS necessary to kill someone in addition to the quirk is like, the most logical conclusion!!
Yoichi: I'm entrusting my power to you, grow it and then kill my brother with it
Second: I think its going to take a lot more to kill him than just that
Yoichi: well then you better get started on growing your assassin skills too then, duh
Hello, would you happen to have some cool facts about one of my absolute favorite guys, the robber flies?
It's hard to share general facts since there are 7500 species described so far worldwide! Did you know? Some of them can live up to three years, which is pretty dang long for a fly. They're predators, of course, and paralyze their prey after catching it with their toxic saliva! RIP to those poor unfortunate bugs. But my favorite thing about them is that they have something called a mystax, which literally means mustache. Here's a good pic:
Adorable :) Photo by cathcart
It's thought that their fancy little mustache is to protect their face from flailing prey!
Here’s a question: do you think the dark worlds are destroyed when we seal the fountains? And what happens to darkners we don’t recruit?
i don't know and it really scares me!
the elements of their dark worlds remain, if ever so slightly changed depending on what is done in them. fighting spamton neo results in one of the computers in the library having crashed in the light world; not saving tenna in chapter 3 likewise manifests in the CRT that founds him being destroyed. however, i'm willing to call them special cases that prove the rule since the both of them are uniquely capable of perceiving the light world in some way, a feat best ascribed to world bosses and shadow crystal holders (as far as i understand). outside of them, nothing much exceptionally changes once you've entered and exited a dark world as far as we're aware. (as far as i'm aware, only having 2 chapters under my belt.)
i don't think the dark worlds are destroyed upon the sealing of a fountain, but i do think something of them can potentially be lost. to elaborate: i think dark worlds, upon creation, are influenced by whoever opens them. the darkners may remain the same for the most part, but my headcanon/theory is that the world will look or behave differently depending on how the lightner feels about the location or the concepts and objects within said location.
it's why people assume characterization of dess through the first two dark worlds we see, through the lens of dessknight theory. (i'm still a krisknight believer though but i believe both theories can exist somewhere in the middle.) i think there's a lot one can interpret about kris through c3, and i'm excited about c4 in part because i want to see what it says about susie and how my theory/reading interacts with the narrative there.
i wholeheartedly believe that if susie were the one to open c3's fountain, the aging and tacky veneer of TV World would be a lot more downplayed... and, potentially, toriel would be more centered in the narrative...? because everything in the dreemurr household is newer to her, and while toriel is still very much the queen of the household, susie i think sees her as a lot more of an active force in the world she resides in. kris meanwhile loves their mom but seemingly tries not to centralize or involve her too much in what they're doing. (random aside, but in c1 when you're talking to toriel, she mentions to kris that they don't seem like themself. their mom notices something's up with them already. i can see them really not wanting to drag their mom into this whole dark world mess; i wouldn't with my own mom.)
and how a different fountain opener affects the darkners within beyond just perception... i think, especially if a dark world has been opened with them before (which i think is the case), they'll retain their histories and their memories, they'll just necessarily be... altered going forward. i'm not wholly sure what that entails. but i'd like to emphasize that a dark world having existed beforehand likely matters in this equation, and i think there's evidence of that in-game what with kris' pre-existing save file and darkner's repeated mentions to pasts that maybe shouldn't even exist. queen used to be just as much as herself ("just as bad" as quoted from cap'n, but she used to give sweet sweets as claimed by sweet), but ever since c2's dark fountain opened up (and due to the knight's influence...?) she's been acting like an evil villain. those sorts of changes.
and, it seems the passage of time does matter to the darkners, as proven by c1's main conceit and i think c3? to which extent it does, and if it's affected by how the lightner opening the fountain feels about the passage of time... i'm not sure. clearly a lot.
but what happens to the darkners when a fountain closes... i think it's simply that they are inert or unobservable by us until they're brought into proximity of a dark fountain. they clearly have consciousness of how they're affected by the light world, evidenced by their reactions to being placed in castle town... but it's possible they're only given this consciousness through being knowingly interacted with by a lightner in the first place. and maybe inert isn't exactly the word...
the best way to describe it, i think, is like a video game. when you first play the game, all the characters and world are new and you're still meeting them and developing your opinions and interpretations on them. and so long as you still have that save file, that world you opened keeps existing and marching forward in time with you. but if you play something like animal crossing, that passage of time is likely is going to allow the game's programming to keep making changes and choices without you while you're gone. and if you want a totally new town, you'll have to completely restart the game, and scrap everything that came before it... but you'll still remember the characters you met and the things you did, would you not? and, potentially, the game would remember those things too unless you really wiped the slate clean.
i wonder if there's a game that plays with this dynamic. possibly one whose title is an anagram of another game... one that's now over 10 years old...
Shigaraki wants to be a hero. All For One despairs.
"I'm going to be a hero." Tomura said. It wasn't earnest, it wasn't hopeful, it was desperate. Ragged. Like he was not there, behind the wide red eyes and shaking hands. "I'm going to be a hero, I have to be a hero, I have to!"
His voice became shrill, going louder and louder over All For One's attempts to calm and question him.
Eventually he just put his hand the child's mouth. "Stop. Why on earth do you think you could ever become a hero? Think, Tomura. No heroes came to save you. No one would accept you as a hero saving them."
Tomura takes a few shuddering breaths, and AfO let go of his face.
"I have to be a hero, I have to make up for what I did." Tomura looked down at his hands, with the gloves Sensei gave him. "Grandma was a hero, she had gloves like these, I'll be a hero like her, I'll save other families. I can't trust other heroes to do it, so I have to."
All For One decided it was just a break down due to the trauma and messing with his memories with a quirk, and that he'd be able to fix it later.
He was wrong. Tomura took to training, and acted like he was paying attention to villainy lessons. But when he was fifteen, applied to 1,457 hero schools, and had Kurogiri warp him to 213 exams before All For One realized and stopped him. He got accepted into over 40 of them.
Izuku: Gran, do you know why Aizawa-sensei was acting so weird around you? And why he keeps asking me how I’m doing?
Gran Torino, who knows exactly why: Ah, he’s probably just an old fan! I’m something of a big name for underground heroes, you know. Best not to bother him about it, wouldn’t want to embarrass him!
Izuku, who’s new life mission is to sneak a Gran Torino autograph into Aizawa’s office: ok! :)
Aizawa, on finding a signed note from Gran in his room with no clue of how it got there, would immediately assume he has days left at best
Ah but does All Might know Gran is a (former?) assassin? With an actual kill count?
Does Aizawa meet Gran and silently panic over the fact that the (insert edgy villain name here) is within twenty feet of his problem child? And is still alive?? And has a hero license????
All Might has no clue, he just thought Gran was prepared to kill AfO 257 different ways, just like Nana and he were. Gran is amused by this, not to mention relieved but he won't say that, but even more amused by how Aizawa reacts the first time he sees Gran and in dawning horror realizes that somehow there's a third danger here, and this one has absolutely, without a doubt or chance it's just theoretical like with the problem child, killed a lot of people
Not needing sleep for days on end is a lot, though! Imagine having like seven hours per day where everyone else is asleep, you’re restless, and you can’t make any noise? Izuku could get ahead on homework, at least.
But I’m imagining him scurrying around campus like a bored little cryptid and causing many, many heart attacks.
This boy got adhd and now he has six, seven hours a day with nothing to do and no one to do it with! He gets his homework done but like there's two to five hours left, and Toshinori told him he's not allowed to train in that time because his body still needs rest time even with more energy
But hey this means tons of extra time for dadmight shenanigans as the two become the campus cryptids!
