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I’m currently running on 2 and a half hours of sleep, a huge container full of coffee and absolute chaotic rage. Let’s fucking finish this last gods damn graduation exam and get out of this hell hole named high school!! LET’S FUCKEN GOOOOO!!
It’s french graduation exam tomorrow and let me summarize you what I know:
”Je suis désolé, mais je ne parle pas français. Parlez-vous anglais?”
Boruto Part 1: M.F.F
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MOTHERFUCKING FRIENDSHIP. Boruto and Mitsukis friendship is a chocolate covered marshmallow. Its sweet and pleasant and if i'm ever sad it's the first thing i’m going to go to. Mitsuki has no concept of personal space, social queues, or normal “human” behavior and that bother Boruto exactly zero percent. Boruto seems to genuinely enjoy how weird Mitsuki is and Mitsuki might actually feed off of Boruto's positive and cocky energy. Sarada is also a fucking delight when it comes to scheming and teasing her friends.
Where her father was a self proclaimed loner and her mother had an inferiority complex that drove her to always try and act arrogant and had a quick tempered, Sarada is willing to go along with schemes if they interest her, is quick to tease and take teases and never feels the need to talk down to a friend unless they deserve it.
Her dry wit matches well with Mitsukis blunt yet playful honesty. An the scenes were they team up on Boruto Are genuinely funny but also show how great they are as friends. Because Mitsuki is always on Borutos side, you know what Borut is doing is wrong when he chooses to side with Sarada. It's fun because we get to see Mitsuki and Sarada playoff each other and we also get to see Boruto without the support of Mitsuki, which he has quickly come to fall back on. Also Boruto's actual life goal of support my friends” is just the goddamn best. I loved Naruto's underdog story, how he originally wanted to be Hokage to prove he was good enough, to get attention and hopefully make friends. That's great, good motivation guy. But FUCK THAT! Borutos goals are so pure and come from such an interesting place that i can’t hate them. He doesn’t just want to support his friends because he cares about them, he wants to give the support he doesn’t feel he has. Boruto feels that his dad has abandoned their family- and he kind of has- and he doesn't want to make anyone feel that way. He wants to be the person who always supports his friends, not the one who leads them. Because leaders have things they have to do, goals they have to put before others and Boruto doesn't want to do that.
To further this point i really want to point out episodes 35-37, were we really get to see the power of MOTHERFUCKING FRIENDSHIP shine through in all the characters. This show has done ten times better than the original when it comes to introducing and evolving a large cast, though this has cost it in terms of pacing and advancing the plot.Or at least thats what ive heard as a complaint. I was to busy in my cloud of loving all of these characters to care. Also i”ve seen and read a disturbing amount of long running action adventure shounen manga, and i've become pretty numb to long over stretched arcs. Shounen anime is my second favorite type of any BTW, My first two being sports anime and magical girl anime. So you can imagine how little fucks i give that the overall plot isn’t going particularly fast.Any way, Those three episodes not only show MOTHER FUCKING FRIENDSHIP at its best it also highlights a really big problem with how the show portrays its character versus how the show -mainly the adults- talk about its characters.
SPOILER,SPOILERs,SPOILERS, GET THE FUCK OUT NOW!
*ahem* Kakashi is hosting the graduation exams this year, but before it he does several interviews were he asks the kids what they want to do and why they want to be ninjas. A large part of this episode is devoted to the fact that Boruto doesn't have a solid “reason” He says he wants to be a ninja because all his friends want to and he wants to support them in their goals and being a ninja is the easiest way to do that. He doesn't really have any plans of his own and is perfectly fine being the Mercy of the group. He originally says he wants to be better than Naruto but that isn’t the only reason. This pisses Kakashi off, he feels that Boruto not really having any plans means he lacks resolve and that can be dangerous on an actual mission. He feels that Boruto should want to become a ninja for some reason and that if he just waltzed into battle because he wants to be with his friends and beat his dad, without any goals of his own he won't have the strength to fight the really tough battles. Kakashi is WRONG. Everything the show ways shown us up until this points completely contradicts this way of thinking, Boruto would never risk a teammate or friend in any situation. His resolve to support his friends would only make him more valuable in a group setting. He has never been shown to be the type not to make up his mind when it counts and always feels responsible for the safety and care of those around him. The biggest reason he was so obsessed with solving the ghost incidences was because he was the only who could see them and felt obligated to help because of that fact. Boruto has never been afraid to ask for help or get advice when he needs it and nothing about his character has shown the lack the resolve necessary to do what he must for his team and village.
Though none of this matters because the conclusion the show appears to come to is that Kakashi is in fact wrong. After Boruto loses and the chips are down he states that he was wrong to become a ninja just to be with friends then figure what he wasn’t and that he inslt strong enough to support those goals. And Everyone says “FUCK NO BRO!” Everyone of Borutos friends tell him that it was his support that allowed them to grow and change as people and that if he wasn”t the way he ways they wouldn't be there.The problem with this is that the doubt he had wasn't there until kakashi said something. It's true that Boruto told Mitsuki it was kind of lame that he didn’t have high ambitions but he was fine with that. He’s just not the type to be overly ambitious, he's happy supporting his friends and knowing that they can fall back him when they need to. The show says that Boruto lacks the resolve to be a ninja, but it shows him to be reliable kid whos good to his friends and family -minus naruto- and who always tries to do the right thing. His friends also say that and they win against Kakashi by working together with Boruto.
Maturity: at the start of the first test, Italian, for over 500 thousand
Maturity: at the start of the first test, Italian, for over 500 thousand
(ANSA) – ROME, JUN 22 – After a “night before the exams” for many almost insomniacs, the written tests of the high school exams leave this morning for more than 500 thousand students. It begins, at 8.30, in Italian: candidates will soon be offered seven tracks of three different types: analysis and interpretation of the literary text, analysis and production of an argumentative text, critical…
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Maturity: at the start of the first test, Italian, for over 500 thousand
Maturity: at the start of the first test, Italian, for over 500 thousand
After a “night before the exams” for many almost insomniacs, the written tests of the high school exams leave this morning for over 500 thousand maturati. It begins, at 8.30, in Italian: candidates will soon be offered seven tracks of three different types: analysis and interpretation of the literary text, analysis and production of an argumentative text, critical reflection of an…
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Your last update for A Little Bit Genghis Khan involved a sniper!Izuku. Can we have more on that?
I’m so sorry for how long it took for me to get around to this. I hope you don’t mind, Anon!
A Little Bit Genghis Khan: Range (Extra)
There are people who don’t realize that Izuku is actually very good with a gun. They look at his uniform, at the reinforced legs and armored arms, and the very few, very small equipment pouches, and think, “This hero is all power and no finesse.”
Snipe would beg to differ.
He examined the videos of the support equipment training, and noted the students with the best marksmanship.
All Might’s boy can hit a target from a hundred meters without a scope ten times out of ten, a feat that even Snipe has trouble matching.
TLDWC - Ch103: Shovel and Bone (Graduation Exam)
This chapter can be found on AO3 Here
Summary: Bakugou Katsuki knows Deku is clever. He's had all his life to have Deku's cleverness rubbed in his face.He also knows that there is a lot of pent up anger toward him packed in that deceptively lithe frame.
"It's a logical ruse," Aizawa sighed the morning after. "Honestly, after all these years, you still thought only what happens inside the simulated city counted in the exam? Why would we tell you a full week beforehand if that were the case? The entire practical exam actually ran for ten days. You should know better by now."
He strides forward, tugging his uniform blazer back into position. Midoriya holds out his fist, extended thumb parallel to the ground and slowly turns his wrist to make the thumbs-down gesture. His next words are cold, satisfied, and full of malice.
"You lose, Heroes."
Katsuki is numb with terror. He knew this would be the outcome from the start, that against Deku, he couldn't win. But Deku as a villain? Deku would be unstoppable. Katsuki could do exactly what he'd done here, try to mitigate the damage, but in the end, it would be for nothing.
Deku as a villain.
This was inside of him all this time?
Bakugou Katsuki knows Deku is clever. He's had all his life to have Deku's cleverness rubbed in his face. Katsuki is good at studying, he's honed his battle instincts by getting into fights, but he knowsthat when it comes to thinking in a fight, his mind has nothing on Deku. Not Deku who aced Foundational Villainy and was interned under Nedzu after Sir Nighteye died.
He knows Deku is charisma on legs, he's seen how everyone gravitates toward him. Deku has always been a shadow king, even when they were children.
Katsuki also knows that Deku's first instinct when faced with an opponent is the most ruthless, and there is a lot of pent up anger toward him packed in that deceptively lithe frame.
Katsuki knows he can't win, but he can help the members of his team make a good enough showing to pass this exam.
He picks Mineta almost immediately. The Grapestain's perverted tendencies have been tempered with a hefty dose of respect for women; respect born from lessons beaten into him over the past three years by teachers, heroes, classmates and more than one villainess, but he is still a shameless pervert. He's just less likely to touch a woman without her permission, but their graduating class remembers how he was to begin with, and his name still leaves a nasty taste in the mouths of any girl who has been in Yuuei in the past three years. Mineta's mere presence will make the females in his team more vigilant, and they will have a lot of pent up aggression they can aim at Deku's team.
Katsuki is not above dirty tricks. He can't beat Deku in a game of quirks and brute strength, hell, he can't even beat him in a game of leadership; Katsuki knows his approach is brutish and blunt. He's a sledgehammer to Deku's scalpel, and they need to bring down Deku as fast and hard as possible before he can subvert anyone in Katsuki's team. Because Deku can and will subvert them and they will go happily because many of them are already half in love with him, they just don't know it yet.
So he welcomes Monoma when he approaches him. If nothing else, Katsuki knows Monoma hates Deku too much to ever join him, and Deku dislikes the other boy almost more than he dislikes Shigaraki, which says a lot about the boy because few people can make Deku dislike them as much as Shigaraki did. But Deku will try to subvert Monoma anyway, if only to fuck with the asshole's mental equilibrium. He'll do it because Monoma's ability to copy quirks is an asset, one he'll want taken out of Katsuki's hands as quickly as possible.
Katsuki throws powerhouse after powerhouse at Deku. Shitty Brainwashing boy's quirk is useless against classmates who have trained to work with and defend against his quirk. But Shitty Deku was smart, and no one fucking listens to Katsuki when he tries to tell them that Fucking Shinso is just a sparkly distraction hung in front of their noses. None of them can seem to realize how dangerous shitty Deku is, they can't see past his million watt smile for the mind like a bear trap under all that ridiculous hair.
Goddamn fucking Mineta during that stupid first sports festival. Goddamn fucking Mineta and his obsession with Yaomomo's ridiculously but necessarily skimpily designed costume. Yaomomo is not the first to betray Katsuki, but she is the most devastating. Almost everything she makes for them is fucked in some way once Deku has her in his grasp for all of three hours. three fucking hours! How did Deku even do that? Yaomomo has the strongest mind of any one he's ever met!
He throws in the occasional cannon fodder when Todoroki leads the assault. Oh how he regrets that when the girl from the Support Course with the weak telekinetic quirk "slits" the throat of every member of her squad on the morning of the first day and reappears in Izuku's team that same afternoon. When and how did Deku even get to her? She wasn't even important in the long run!
It turns out Hagakure was a double agent. She slipped into the heart of Katsuki's forces early on, convincing people that she was part of the team, when in reality, she had been one of Deku's from the start. She cut the electrical lines of every location they tried to camp in, forcing them to use Kaminari to recharge and power their equipment. That constant ill use wore the other boy down, until it took only a few well placed words to have him standing on Deku's side at the end.
Tetsutetsu is a sleeper agent. Shinso had used his brainwashing quirk on him from the start, having caught him the morning before the exam under the guise of wishing him good luck.
Shiozaki Ibara, like Tetsutetsu is a sleeper, also caught by Shinso the night before. She picks off Katsuki's team one by one with her hair.
There are a total of twelve double agents; and of them, only Hagakure was Team Deku from the start. All the others were sleepers, caught by Shinso and a Support Course boy with a telepathic quirk before the exam.
Katsuki tries to protest the act, though he has a suspicion the protest would not go through. He's not wrong when he is told that although the practicals were most intense for those three days they spent in the simulated city (Three days and four nights. The simulation started exactly at dawn, so both teams had spent the night onsite.) the final exam had started the day after the teams were chosen. They had been graded on their planning and foresight as well as their innovation in the usage of their quirk over the course of ten days.
Shoji leads the entire team into a fucking trap. Katsuki watches his team implode. He barely gets out of the site with his core members, Eijiro, Jiro, Itsuka, and Mineta. A handful of their teammates, including a rattled Monoma, for a total of twelve members of Team Bakugou make it to within a block of the Gate before they are confronted by Todoroki. Then he finds out that fucking Mineta is compromised too.
Katsuki is not proud to say he lost his temper. He lost his temper, wasted time, and they are caught in the last trap.
Notes: This is the last Graduation Exam Chapter. Farewell. We had a good run.
Guesstimating based on Class 1-A and 1-B, there might be around forty to fifty support students. So there's probably eighty to ninety students taking part in this exam. 11 sleepers are a lot, but I imagine Izuku might have chosen to err on the side of caution.
TLDWC - Ch85: Die Another Day (Graduation Exam)
This chapter can be found on AO3 Here
Summary: Team Bakugou is strong, but Team Izuku is relentless.
From the very start, Team Bakugou is plagued with minor inconveniences and petty annoyances. A nonstop low toned humming that some people hear but others don't, shoes swapped around, laces that snap at inopportune moments, lights that flicker, beds that are lumpy, food that is cold, or under or over cooked. They don't sleep well, waking to nothing tampered with, but their security dismantled, or their security dismantled and all their belts missing. It wears on them, and their team, full of conflicting personalities and and biases mean wedges are easily driven between them. Quiet whispers of truths and lies alike drifting into their ears. Things going missing. Suddenly being tripped.
"What is the point of keeping Mineta?" Todoroki asked at one point, "Think about it. Why would Bakugou keep Mineta of all people?" The dual quirk user vanished as a smoke bomb detonated at their feet.
Yaoyorozu realizes that it's an excellent point. Bakugou collected the strongest, most versatile quirks possible from their graduating class, but there was also Mineta, the pervert with the most useless quirk of all of them. Why?
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"You look like a drowned kitten, Denki," Ururaka comments idly from where she is floating in a rubber tire, "Is Bakugou trying to work you to death?"
Kaminari feels like crying, because it's true. Since this test started, Bakugou's had them running all over the city without stopping. He's powered so many electronics with his electric abilities almost nonstop the entire time and his nerves are stretched and raw.
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"Oh my, look who it is," Mina laughed, "If it isn't the copy cat. What's wrong? Bakugou so desperate he needs a mirror to reflect his vanity, now?"
"How dare you," Monoma said shrilly, "Just like a member of Class 3-A to use such tactics!"
"Dear me," Mina laughed, "Have I hit a nerve? You know it's true. You're just a body to be thrown at things, Monoma. IF you tried to copy the wrong quirk, you could potentially die. Isn't that what Bakugou wants?"
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"Why are you there, Rin?" Yanagi Reiko asked dully, "think. Why are you with Bakugou? What use are you put to? You're not a tank. Your scales are not impenetrable, but here you are...."
Hiryu Rin looked torn. Rekio had a point of course...
"One of us," Reiko chanted quietly, "One of us. One of us. Oneofus. OneofusOneofus. O N E O F U S."
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On the second day, people began getting picked off.
No one knew where or when it would happen. It was not uncommon for member of the team to be picked off in a wide open area or even from the middle of the group.
Every once in a while, a random person would find themselves blasted into the sky. Trapped in ice or adhesive or tangled in vines. Sinking into the floor without even time to scream.
Their own teammates suddenly turning on them and vanishing into the shadows.
No one could be trusted. Not even themselves.
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On the third day, the team imploded.
Their nerves were frayed from unrelenting assaults. Bad enough the enemy attacked constantly, but their own team leader was harsh, explosive in temper and vitriolic with his words, all too ready to lash out physically if things did not go his way.
Too many fallen comrades at the hands of teammates.
Too much false information leading them into traps.
Too many of their heavy hitters out of the game and none of their opponents' heavy hitters out.
Too many small fry left, only several handfuls of their opponent's small fry downed; sacrificed to move the enemy plans into the best possible vantage point.
Hitoshi Shinso, who had been part of Team Midoriya from the start, appeared at each conflict, speaking to Team Bakugou as a whole, casting doubts on the integrity of character for each of them.
No one from Team Bakugou ever saw Midoriya until the end of the exam.
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Those who were converted never forget warm smiles, gentle touches, whispers against their skin. They yearn for it years later, for kisses sweet like honey and a smile brighter than the sun.
Full Cowl crackles to life as Izuku leaps across the rooftops of the simulated city.
A siren blares to life.
"THE EXAM IS OVER!!!" Present Mic's voice echoes, "THE WINNER IS TEAM MIDORIYA!!!"
Izuku laughs, exuberant and joyful, as the wind ruffles his hair on his descent.
What a way to end his Hero Academia.
