#isyh

[firesign-18]

Thank you SO MUCH to @miauiz for this amazinggggg artwork of Himiko in her hero costume 🥹🥹🥹

I am so chuffed with how this commission came out! Lia was so great to work with.

The design is from my fanfic I’ll See Your Heart and Raise You Mine - check it out if you like this 🥰

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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I had to draw one of my favourite scenes from ISYH, Ochako is such an amazing character and seeing her growth was so satisfying

Go read the fic on this link. It's by @firesign-18, i've finished reading the fic a few days ago and it was suuuuch a ride. I'll leave my thoughts below the read more 🥹

HI! if you're reading this..... i went a bit crazy reading this fic it was such an amazing work. If you haven't read it yet, don't read what I'm gonna write here.

I was recommended this fic months ago but I put it aside because there weren't that many chapters out yet and i just KNEW i needed a bunch of chapters out before starting it, cause i would have trouble not reading it all so fast after reading just the summary. That was a fantastic decision, it was so worth the wait.

I want to talk about it in sections so i can explain my thoughts properly :') There's so many aspects of the fic I loved and I wanna take the time to explain because I never really do it and this time I want to..

First the beginning and the little changes: We start off with our favourite, miserable Ochako (yay canon!), except this time it's even worse cause even less of her fight with himiko was recorded. I was kinda scared there but of course i shouldnt have doubted for a second. Anyway, Himiko is alive!! and the heroes got a way to salvage the footage of the tgck fight from Ochako's mind, so it gives her hope again :)

I wanna move forward a bit after Himiko is back because I wanted to talk about something I like to wonder a lot: how do you write a redemption arc for himiko toga post last war. I've read a bunch of fics with the same premise and I always love those who get a bunch of people to come together to help her achieve it. I love the UA involvement, as well as All Might, Miruko and Ochako of course. And the concepts of the strikes and conditions are very realistic, I liked seeing how we were gonna achieve Hero Himiko someday. All the process explained, I love when its this detailed!

I do wanna talk about another aspect before jumping into the tgck big stuff: OCs. I love OCs so much. There's Dr Ellie and the Spares who are the most important here. First Dr Ellie- whats not to like abotu her. She's been helping Himiko for a long time now, we grew to know her too, and she has a badass past, we were all gonna like her. Now the siblings: yeah i do think it's a big decision to make the villains OCs, and it really worked because they were so well developped. I went to a whole lot of emotions with them, from anger (*cough* chapter 43), through sadness and joy :') They were easy to sympathise with, and i just love how again, everyone decided the "save them" route. It really fit well with Himiko's story.

OKAY now tgck my beloved... i am so happy they got together-ish relatively fast because oh boy were they down for each other so bad. I love how it tackled their lives in relation to their future job as hero, this is a part I'm always curious to see. I really prefer when a future where Himiko is alive doesn't revolve 100% around Ochako. I want to see what she could do herself, grow with others and I think this fic accomplished this perfectly. I like that she's able to forgive herself and grow and imagine a future where she is thriving. Himiko means so much to me as a character and she was written beautifully. For Ochako, I love it soo much when she's strong and so skilled and she's pushing her limits. I loved exploring her grief and her hopes, then her struggles with selflessness vs trying to be a bit more selfish for a change. These two complement each other so well. That was such an amazing read, I'll probable have to read it again in a few weeks to relive it all.

Anyway I'm not sure who took the time to read all this, I don't usually do comments or something besides a few heart emotes here and there but for that fic, it was so good I just wanted to write something and now I've spent a long time writing :') It just hits all the boxes in tgck tropes for me so it was a blast to read!

(Also shout-out to possessive Ochako, i really love her being as crazy for himiko as himiko is for her....)

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“You know, when we fought at Gunga, when we were both dying, I so badly wanted to kiss you. I almost did but I just couldn’t bring myself to. I thought when I saw you again I wouldn’t be able to stop but I’ve been…I’m so scared, Ochako. I’m so scared of losing you. But all I want to do is kiss you. I want to kiss you every time I look at your beautiful face.”

Here's a lil something I've been wanting to make for MONTHS lmao

I've been INSANE about this scene of @firesign-18's fic ever since I first read it and I knew that if I ever drew something about it, it would have had to be this one. It was an odyssey fr 🤣 the timelapse is 10 minutes of sketching, moving, erasing, lineart, getting references, lineart, erasing, getting a different reference, doing it again, coloring, maybe this is better? lineart. lineart. lineart- BUT IT IS DONE. A month later. BUT STILL DONE.

I consider ISYH to be THE togachako manifesto and it deserves ALLLLL the love and kudos SO GO READ IT AND SHOWER KATIE AND ALL HER FICS WITH COMPLIMENTS!!!!!!!!!!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

flat (lol i can't do shadows) coloured version under the cut

[firesign-18]

✨💖I’ll See Your Heart And I’ll Raise You Mine💖✨

SO emotional to have this amazing art by @requirings that my lovely pal @cheeseofmysteriousorigin commissioned to say congratulations on finishing ISYH 🥹🥹🥹

Reversed below!

AND as if that wasn’t enough…they also had physical copies made and sent to me 😭😭😭

So very grateful to have such fantastic friends 🥹

Fic here if you’d like to have a read 🥰

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[firesign-18]

Happy birthday Shoto!

I forgot to share this on here, but this gorgeous art by @galettasss is for my fic Blood Moon 🥰

Fic here if you wanna read - it’s the sequel to my fic I’ll See Your Heart and Raise You Mine 🥰

https://archiveofourown.org/works/69657276/chapters/180709006

[firesign-18]

Back with more @miauiz x ISYH! This is from chapter 29 and Himiko’s provisional licensing exam 🥰🥰🥰

Fanfic here if you fancy a read 🥰

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58382794/chapters/148701250

Part of the scene below for context too!

And omg look at themmmm

[firesign-18]

Very excited to share the sequel to I’ll See Your Heart and Raise You Mine - Blood Moon!

Chapter 1 up now, accompanied by this amazing @miauiz cover art 🥰🥰🥰

Lots of subtext in this art - see what you catch 👀

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[firesign-18]

Now fully addicted to commissioning togachako goodness from the amazing @miauiz 🥰🥹🥰

This is from chapter 55 of my fic ISYH - link below if you want to read ❤️

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58382794/chapters/148701250