#headcanon chat

[unbloomingmoonflower]

@meepsthemiqo I have been listening to Dreamcatcher a lot and now I see Sua as Asami--

[newamsterdame]

@franeridan said: Tbh I have a feeling 11yo Bakugou would sit on the stool fighting with the hat until it put him in Gryffindor only because that's the house of heroes even if the hat wanted to sort him somewhere else so to me seeing him sorted anywhere that isn't Gryffindor has always felt weird since I don't think he would accept anything else haha

yes, this is exactly what i had in mind. 

like, i sort of have this entire scenario built up in my head where bakugou is a muggle born wizard and midoriya’s mom is a witch but his dad wasn’t (he thinks he’s a squib for like, literally his entire life until he finds out he isn’t/acquires magic a different way), and so bakugou initially hears stories about the greatest wizard ever from midoriya. and so when bakugou figures out that he’s a wizard and going to hogwarts, he has already Decided he’s going to be in the same house that all might was in, and heaven help the hat that tries to stand in his way. 

i also just like the idea of mirroring bakugou and midoriya as some sort of outsiders to the hero community, of them achieving magic as an accomplishment, so that bakugou’s resentment of midoriya for getting into yuuei crosses over into the au. 

[breathoftheheadcanons]

Ok so I just read your post of Zora courting rituals and honestly I was thinking of the idea of like Zora Pearls being this super rare thing that everyone lusts for in BOTW but only super rich Hylians have them and then maybe they're not even real? It was just nice to see someone else using the idea of pearls in the Zora culture because I felt a bit weird about it but hey it was my headcanon dang it

All headcanons are good headcanons! I’m glad you think the same as well!!

That is a great idea though, with the richer Hylians having the pearls. Especially since there are canonically rich Hylians in the game! The husband is so rude though–

[newamsterdame]

What are your Hogwarts sorting + personality type headcanons for bakugou, mirio, kuroo, and kenma?

ok, so baseline disclaimer here– i think hp sorting really depends on perspective, and what you consider to be a character’s defining traits. so like, for me, i’ve always read that as being a character’s core motivations, and i get that like, for most characters you could make a good case for several, if not all, of the houses. but having said that–

bakugou is a gryffindor. he definitely has the ambition to be a slytherin (he wants to be no1 above all else) and the intellect to be a ravenclaw (no3 in grades, natch), but i think his single defining factor is his desire to be a hero. and his definition of “heroic” is a little bent, but ultimately he really wants to win, and that kind of reckless drive for glory screams gryffindor to me. i think given the choice, he’d want to go for the overtly heroic house and turn up his nose at being in slytherin. i also imagine that he’d be muggleborn, in a hp au, and consider the slytherins snotty and pretentious. so. yeah. gryffindor bakugou all the way. 

mirio is a bit harder to place, especially since we haven’t seen a lot of his character from his own perspective, yet. there’s always the option of placing superhero characters in gryffindor, since they all have a few of those traits to motivate their heroing. but i could easily see mirio being a hufflepuff? he seems to be really good at connecting to people and has that strong loyalty to amajiki, even though we don’t know whether that’s his defining trait or not, yet. he also has the kind of eccentric tendencies i associate with ravenclaws. but at base, right now, i’d say either gryffindor or hufflepuff. 

kuroo is fascinating to me because he’s displayed basically the traits of all the houses– he’s loyal to his team and has a bit of thirst for glory; he’s obviously really smart and he’s known to be cunning. but for all of that, i’d ultimately put him in slytherin, because i think he most often deploys his intellect and confidence in the service of a greater ambition. the catch is that he’s trying to achieve nekomata’s ambition (and has made it his own), but i think that still counts. 

kenma i always consider cerebral (i give him telepathy in all my powered aus), and i think his ability to analyze and think is so central to his character that i can’t imagine him as anything but a ravenclaw. he can definitely be cunning, but i don’t think he has particular ambitions, and though he forms strong bonds i don’t think he considers himself as central to those relationships. so yeah, ravenclaw, without a doubt. 

as for personality types, you’ll have to specify. give me a category and i will sort :’> 

[newamsterdame]

Tell me about kagehina at hogwarts. Their houses, best and worst classes, gimme your head cannons

for kageyama i go back and forth between slytherin and gryffindor. slytherin because i think he is easily blinded by what he wants, hence his troubles at kitagawa daiichi. i think he’s also got the reckless courage of gryffindors, and a lot of those traits, but i think right now i imagine him as more of a slytherin because it’s hard for him to take other people into account in his decision-making– he has to be taught how to do that. naturally, his inclination is to act for himself, to get himself the win, and to use the people around him to get there even if he doesn’t do so maliciously. 

hinata, i think, is a pretty classic gryffindor. i’ve seen the inclination to put him in hufflepuff, but i don’t think his relationships and loyalty necessarily drive his decision-making. he wants excitement, action, and glory, and to me that screams gryffindor. i think he’d be the kind of social hogwarts student who’d have a bunch of friends in all the different houses– kenma in ravenclaw and asahi in hufflepuff and eventually kageyama in slytherin, etc. but yeah i’m pretty convinced of this one. 

i think they’d both be really into quidditch, although i can’t think of what the direct correlation to a setter would be on the team. kageyama, i think, would naturally excel at intuitive magics like charms and transfiguration, things that would be hard for others to get right away? but at things like potions, where you have to follow recipes and be exact, he’d be hopeless. hinata, i think, would be fascinated by just about everything and have little pockets of knowledge. like, there are probably specific charms and potions he’s really good at, but he’s not an expert or a natural talent at any particular subject. 

i’d make kageyama a muggleborn to underscore his natural talent (and to make him more of an upstart in the eyes of slytherin prefect oikawa), and hinata i think would be from a half-blood family? i like the idea of their middle school blink and you miss it rivalry playing out for the entirely of their time at hogwarts– so maybe one of them is a chaser and the other a keeper? and the slytherin/gryffindor rivalry going really strong all the while. then, i’d have them both end up in the same profession and have to be partners. either they end up on the same professional quidditch team, or maybe they’re aurors together? i rather like the latter idea, actually… anyway, at that point they’d have to play out their karasuno development. 

[newamsterdame]

@franeridan said: ...man that's such a good concept honestly 

i think so! and like, then you could have midoriya and bakugou meeting the pureblood group (todoroki, yaoyorozu, and iida, at least?) and bakugou looking at todoroki and saying-- that kid’s had so many advantages but i am going to be beat him in every conceivable way!! 

like, tbh, i generally prefer to write my own universes when it comes to magic and not just borrow from other works of fiction, but hp lore is so ubiquitous that it’s perfect for small one-off scenarios or just like, imagining aus for the fun of them.

[newamsterdame]

bakugou is such a gryffindor and i totally agree, people who just throw him into slytherin aren't really considering his true motivations and personality

i mean, i definitely get the argument for slytherin! like, he is really ambitious and cunning, and obviously has no problem brushing others aside in service of his goals. but i also think it’s very easy to sort every mean-spirited character into syltherin while never going any deeper than that, and to me that’s just a generally boring way of looking at characters! like, tons of other houses can be mean-spirited! the hufflepuffs were really awful to harry in goblet of fire! lots of people can have a tendency to be bullying or selfish, but that might not be their defining characteristic. 

but yeah, like i said, to me bakugou’s most central trait is his drive to be a hero and his pursuit of acknowledgment, which seems to me much more gryffindor-y. and i think, if someone were writing this hp au, it would make for a more interesting story, as well!