I can't believe BP2 Grabber didn't taunt Finn more about having killed him. Killing him when he didn't have to. Killing him and enjoying it. The fact that killing another human being seems to be the one thing that doesn't haunt him.
"You liked the feel of me gasping for breath. We're more alike than you want to admit." Yada yada...
Because no, imho, Finney did not have to kill him by that point. The fact he jumped over the injured man stuck in a hole meant he was free. Even without a steak for Samson, pick up the discarded axe and intimidate your way out. But the climax is no longer about Finney surviving and escaping; it's about the Grabber dying (specifically, being killed).
I personally hate character death. I'm a loser who thinks it's often incredibly unnecessary, who thinks a much more ironic and satisfying ending would be locking the Grabber in his own basement. Until he is dragged out maskless by police and unable to hide as the Grabber. Unable to even cover his face with his hands as they're cuffed behind his back.
Aside from following the short story and setting up BP2 (which they didn't know they wanted to do yet), I don't get the point in killing him.
Unless...
Finney simply wanted to. And that actually is interesting, but no one talks about it. (No one talks about the fact he killed a man either, tbh.)
Birthday: November 8th
Star Sign: Scorpio
Compatibility: Ideal
Age Difference: 7 Months + 3 weeks + 1 day
MBTI: ISTP
Compatibility: Neutral
Height Adjustment: Ace 5'9" (-1")
Current Status: Married; Co-workers; "Parents" (no biological kids & only a couple actual adoptions, but there are a lot of students and students = kids)
Previous Status: Friends; Could Have Been High School Sweethearts; Rivals; Co-workers (there's a lot of different stages lol)
Library Stamps: #forgone conclusion, #sight for sore eyes
Librarian: Ace Chishiki
Cherubims: X
Birthday: May 5th
Star Sign: Taurus
Compatibility: Good
Age Difference: 1 year + 1 month + 3 weeks + 3 days
MBTI: ENFP
Compatibility: Good
Height Adjustment: Ace 5'9" (-1")
Current Status: Oboro is Dead or a Nomu depending on where in the timeline we're talking
Previous Status: High School Sweethearts; Hero Class Student and his Support Class Student
Name: Ace Chishiki
Occupation: Pro-Hero; Teacher; Quirk Tech Developer; Occasional Military Contract Work
Affiliation: U.A. High School; Hawks Agency; Genius Office
Hero Name: Overwatch (Previously in the USA: Oracle; Previously as a Student at UA: Delphi)
Birthday: June 28th
Age: 32
Height: 5'9"
Likes: Coffee, sleep, reading, being right, helping others, cats, dark places
Dislikes: Unwanted stimuli, too much of one stimuli, "owing" someone, anything that takes "skill", not knowing something, someone being "undervalued"/underestimated
Quirk: Empeiria
Fighting Style: Guerilla Warfare?? If that makes any sense; Likes hand-to-hand combat, but utilizes sniper rifles and small handguns as needed (when she's in the field; most of her "fighting" in Japan is done in the safety of her office)
Style:
The only "official" part of her Hero Costume, is the mask; everything else is just whatever she happens to be wearing that day
Overall Aesthetic:
Quirk: Empeiria
The innate ability to process information provided by the five senses and remember it indefinitely. This information can be actively recalled and applied "theoretically" to evaluate scenarios and their inevitable outcomes when considering all factors. From there, the information can be practically applied and put into the field. Information then continues to be processed, creating a continuous feedback loop, with situations updating down to microseconds.
Use of information can range from the determination of that day's weather to being able to calculate a quirk's flaws and strengths and determine a "final form" pending appropriate training scenarios and potential support gear/care items.
The quirk can be turned "on", as in the active recall of information, but it cannot be turned "off" as in information is always being processed and cataloged, even if the wielder does not wish it so. Sleep is difficult, and the quirk user is easily overstimulated by sensory input and must remain out of the field, working through observation as exclusively as possible.
Despite the presence of "perfect solutions" the quirk still requires a lot of trial and error, particularly when faced with previously unseen problems. It can also still require "practice" as the body is not always capable of meeting the demands of the information—see fighting and cooking specifically. The quirk ties the information processed to memories and as a result, emotions tied to previous memories and emotions related to the past can affect how information is able to applied in the present.
Synopsis:
First cousins by marriage with Present Mic/Hizashi Yamada (his grandmother married my grandfather after they were both widowed in their 60s).
Adopted sister of Twice/Jin Bubaigawara (my parents adopted him).
I skipped 3rd grade, so I end up in the same year at U.A. as the Rooftop Trio.
Aizawa and I are in the support course together—we have a friendly rivalry, and I introduce him to Hizashi, who introduces him to Oboro.
During the Sports Festival, Aizawa uses one of my discarded designs (what will eventually become his capture weapon) to give himself an edge, which catapults him into the hero course.
I'm already mad at him for using my design and not giving me a single ounce of credit, but then he decides to completely stop talking to me because he can't be seen hanging out with someone from a "lower" course.
He develops a stronger friendship with Hizashi, who has less time for me because Aizawa "needs him more".
I become the support tech for Hizashi, Midnight, and Oboro. I'm supposed to also have Aizawa, but I refuse to even look at him, so he requests to have someone else.
Oboro and I get really close and eventually start dating (there's a sub-plot about me infiltrating a quirk-based child trafficking ring run by my parents happening around the same time—technically my first interactions with Hawks) near the end of first semester of our second year.
Oboro then "dies" in our third year, as per canon. The aforementioned sub-plot comes to a head, and my parents use my grief about Oboro as an excuse to flee Japan to the US, leaving behind my adopted brother, Jin, whose OSDD/Quirk reach their precipice, and the trauma of us leaving in the middle of night and being completely abandoned (on top of everything else he endured at the hands of our parents), catapults him onto the path that leads him to the League of Villains.
I finish my high school education in the US.
I then go to college: I get a Bachelor's degree in Secondary Education; a Master's in English Literature; and then a PhD in Quirk Philosophy, where I meet All Might, using him as case study for my thesis on quirk adaptive technology.
Shortly before starting my PhD, I'm recruited by the US government, to be a "Hero" in title only—I'm a military asset that they use only for the highest-security-classified missions. They ship me all over the world in between my course work, often putting the lives of dozens of military personnel and hundreds of civilians in my hands. There's a team of six that work with me consistently because I handpicked them as being best equipped for my needs on said missions.
During the span of my education and my stint with the US military, I have a series of really awful boyfriends (some related to missions and others were just poor taste on my part)—one had a barbed-wire quirk that he liked to use during sex; another had a surgical quirk that allowed him to cut and sew body parts (though they could only ever be placed anatomically correctly) without bloodshed or scarring, but still caused immense pain—y'know, real pieces of shit.
Some of said boyfriends end up being problems when I eventually move to Japan on "loan" from the US military, in the hopes that my work in quirk management can help them in the aftermath of the War.
I'm 'enlisted' to the Hawks Agency about six months post-canon/pre-epilogue as a Hero; and subcontracted to the Genius Office for quirk-tech development and research.
Keigo and I very quickly develop an... unconventional relationship. I'm dominant in the bedroom in exchange for him taking care of everything else (it fits both of our needs for a variety of reasons), but there are no ~emotions~ involved. If that makes sense? It's very casual. (Side note: I do age him up 4 years for the sake of my personal comfort. Dabi/Touya also ages up as a result, but literally nothing else changes in this regard.) We sleep with other people all the time too 🤷♀️ (off the top of my head, we sleep with Midnight or Mirko as a third on more than one occasion; I have an ongoing thing with Best Jeanist and his wife; he sleeps with Touya more than is probably good for Touya's health).
But we also regularly butt heads when teamed up on missions together, so it's a good thing that from the start I'm not allowed to work in the field. I have to stay out of the field because of developments with my quirk (due to repeated exposure during my work with the US, all of my senses become overwhelmed very quickly, causing debilitating migraines among other physical symptoms, which dictate that I work in a very controlled environment).
The Japanese government/military should really be more concerned about the surveillance state that I've developed and have access to in their country.
Principal Nezu finds out about my return to Japan from Hizashi's big mouth, and threatens bribes the Hero Commission and the Department of Education into giving me a job at U.A. to help his war-ravaged students. (Nezu eventually comes to regret this decision, as I have a lot of opinions on the state of student education in Japan, and at Hero schools in particular. And I do not keep them to myself.)
Aizawa does not immediately recognize me, but I recognize him, and criticize his teaching style for a while, just trying to rile him up. Yes, I am holding onto a grudge more than a decade old (my life would have looked categorically different if he hadn't left the support course, or at least given me credit for the capture scarf). Yes, I also blame him for Oboro's death and subsequent Nomu-ization (he is still "alive" in the selfship canon, and a bit more himself, but he can't be separated from Kurogiri, or he will die permanently).
Eventually, Present Mic fesses up and tells Aizawa who I am—which rekindles an old crush that he apparently had from when we were kids!
Lots of other stuff happens (sometimes involving my ex-boyfriends, sometimes just my work in the US coming to bite me in the ass, and then sometimes involving my parents' crimes), retraumatizing Class 1A.
Aizawa and I have problems navigating a relationship because of these incidents AND because of the nature of my relationship with Hawks.
But eventually everything calms down and Aizawa and I get married and somehow end up with five kids that are legally ours, in addition to all of our students who might as well as be our children.
Important Notes:
Adoptive mother of: Shouto Todoroki & Neito Monoma (I adopt them before I'm married to Aizawa), Hitoshi Shinsou & Eri (Aizawa adopts them before we're married), and Himiko Toga (we retroactively adopt her together after we're married).
If they died in canon, odds are they do not die in the selfship. Example: Twice, Toga, Midnight, Shigaraki
I also ignore several bits of canon now that the manga is finished. Example: Hawks completely losing his quirk and becoming president of the Hero Commission; Deku losing the entirety of his quirk; Eri completely losing her quirk; etc.
There is effectively 12-ish years between moving to the US and moving back to Japan. The move back to Japan happens in the immediate aftermath of the end of the manga, before the time-skip & epilogue.
This is more or less just a way for me to keep track of the (eventual) relationships of legal children/other members of Class 1A for #sight for sore eyes.
Legally Adopted Children: Shouto Todoroki, Neito Monoma, Shinsou Hitoshi, Eri, and Himiko Toga
Shouto Todoroki: Engaged to Hanta Sero
Neito Monoma: Committed to Itsuka Kendo and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu
Shinsou Hitoshi: Married to (Retired) Denki Kaminari
Eri: is 15 years old in the current post-canon
Himiko Toga: (ALIVE) Dating Ochako Uraraka
And (some) other members of Class 1A:
Izuku Midoriya: Dating Mei Hatsume
(Midoriya still has use of most of his quirk)
Katsuki Bakugou: Married to Eijirou Kirishima
(Bakugou does retire relatively early, just not in the current post-canon)
Momo Yaoyorozu: Legally Married to (Semi-Retired) Tenya Iida; Committed to Kyouka Jirou
(Iida shifts to Quirk Tech after an accident that leaves him unable to be Ingenium)
I was going to do more, but I hit the image per post limit 😅
#hacezawa posting for @a-girl-cant-decide-on-a-name
I'm doing my best to summarize this, because it's a lot. Which is also why it's under the cut 🫡
Okay, so it ALL starts in my first year at UA. I'm in the support course, with Aizawa—bit of a rival situation, but mostly friends! We're cool, we're fine—until the Sports Festival, where he steals one of my discarded projects (what would eventually become his scarf) and uses it to give himself an edge, which catapults him into the hero course. (He also decides that he's "too cool" for me now and stops being my friend—hooray for high school boys 🙄)
Great. I hate his guts now 👍 He becomes friends with my cousin, Present Mic, taking yet another thing away from me. I become the support tech for Hizashi, Midnight, and Oboro. I'm supposed to also have Aizawa, but I refuse to even look at him, so he requests to have someone else.
Oboro and I get really close and eventually start dating (there's an irrelevant sub-plot about me infiltrating a quirk-based child trafficking ring run by my parents happening around the same time) near the end of first semester of our second year. Oboro then "dies" in our third year, as per canon. The aforementioned sub-plot comes to a head, and my parents use my grief about Oboro as an excuse to flee Japan to the US, leaving behind my adopted brother, Twice (who is still alive in my canon!).
There's a lot that happens in the next twelve-ish years—I get Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate degrees, featuring All Might as part of my thesis project for said Doctorate; I start working for the US military, in the field (which is an important distinction for later), and lots of awful stuff happens to me and because of my own actions or inactions. I also have a string of really shitty boyfriends, some of whom become a problem when I move back to Japan.
Japan contracts me from the US because of my quirk-management work. I'm 'enlisted' to the Hawks Agency about six months post-canon/pre-epilogue. We very quickly develop an... unconventional relationship. I'm dominant in the bedroom in exchange for him taking care of everything else (it fits both of our needs for a variety of reasons), but there are no ~emotions~ involved. If that makes sense? It's very casual. (Side note: I do age him up 4 years for the sake of my personal comfort. Dabi/Touya also ages up as a result, but literally nothing else changes in this regard.) We sleep with other people all the time too 🤷♀️ (off the top of my head, we sleep with Midnight or Mirko as a third on more than one occasion; I have an ongoing thing with Best Jeanist and his wife; he sleeps with Touya more than is probably good for Touya's health).
I have to stay out of the field because of developments with my quirk and because I would have killed Hawks 200 times over if I was in the field while we're partnered together.
Enter: Principal Nezu. He decides to contract me from the Japanese Hero Commission so that I can work at UA for my quirk-management work (specifically the former Class 1A, but the rest of the students also benefit from my presence). Yes, this is a trend. Aizawa does not immediately recognize me, but I recognize him, and criticize his teaching style for a while, just trying to rile him up. Yes, I am holding onto a grudge more than a decade old (my life would have looked categorically different if he hadn't left the support course, or at least given me credit for the capture scarf). Yes, I also blame him for Oboro's death and subsequent Nomu-ization (he is still "alive" in the selfship canon, and a bit more himself, but he can't be separated from Kurogiri, or he will die permanently).
Eventually, Present Mic fesses up and tells Aizawa who I am—which rekindles an old crush that he apparently had from when we were kids!
The transition from me bugging him to us dating is very unclear. And then, as you found out, we break up a lot! He holds some grand delusions about what a relationship should look like, and it's just not possible with me. I do stop sleeping with other people upon his request, but I can't give up Hawks. He needs me as much as I need him—unfortunately, at this point we have developed some feelings for each other, and Hawks is willing to share! But not give me up completely.
Meanwhile, my past from my years in the US (and my parents' crimes 👀) are catching up to me and threatening students, civilians, the world.... You know, normal superhero stuff 🤷♀️
Aizawa learns to love me as I am, I learn to let go of old hurt, and Hawks and Aizawa learn to love each other in their own way. It's not quite as romantic as Yami/Fuego (which in and of itself is not as romantic as Daichi/Suga or Mitsuya/Baji), but it's also not as platonic as Laxus/Loke or Rindou/Anyone Else. (Touya on the other hand decides to stop hurting himself emotionally and he and Hawks break up amicably and stay friends.)
Aizawa and I end up with several children: Toga, Shouto, Shinsou, Eri, and Monoma. Hizashi basically lives in our home, Hawks keeps his apartment for his privacy, and we have all of former Class 1A (and friends) over for Christmas/New Years.
I'm probably missing some things, but that's the gist of it!
Aizawa's first introduction to me is me criticizing his teaching methods. Hawks' first introduction to me is me having my socked feet propped up on his desk while I admire his view of the city (I thought it was my office).
