#kats asks

[k1tkatzzz]

I think you should draw me kissing sam winchester on the head

Best two asks to get back to back

[katsdynam1ght]

now why do you hate midnight. monoma anon again not asking to start something but asking to hear your thoughts out of curiosity

hi monoma anon im glad you’re enjoying this series

my dislike of midnight is slightly more nuanced… i recognize that as one of the few female characters in mha, her writing is like. kind of inherently bad, and she doesn’t get nearly the same amount of development or screentime as some of the other characters. and it’s a shonen manga, so, genre-wise… her role makes sense. off the bat, just know that i know all of those things and i think i would like her more if she were written differently/if i played around with her character and developed her on my own.

that said.

girl you’re wearing WHAT to teach high school kids??? your shtick is WHAT??? i don’t like her just on the premise of her behavior around children. i know, i know, anime tropes, sexy women (which is its own issue on a larger scale that i won’t be getting into here)… but man. she makes me so uncomfortable. her behavior is so sketchy. (i’m a bit sus of mt lady for the same reason… she’s slightly better but i’m still side-eyeing her…)

i know she cares about the kids and i know her whole persona is just that. but i feel like if that’s your persona, maybe you… don’t go into teaching… children…? man they changed LAWS because her fit was so skimpy. (then again, i love nezu, and nezu hired her, so… maybe i should be side-eyeing the rat too… i’ll decide this later)

i guess i just don’t really see the appeal to her. because like i said, she doesn’t get a lot of screen time or development, so all we really have is this whole shtick of hers that doesn’t sit right with me. if anyone can come up with a justification for liking her i’d be open to hearing it (i have seen some cute concepts of her helping the resident insomniacs get some rest), but in a strictly canon sense i am definitely not a fan of hers and i don’t feel like her character had to be the way it was. does that make any sense?? i’m rambling so much here lol

i appreciate you sending the asks!! i tend to have a lot of unpopular character opinions in this fandom but i always enjoy being able to talk about it without fighting. at the end of the day it’s never that serious of a thing, but some people get really heated when you say you don’t like something lmao (which, ok, fair enough, i would go to bat for my favs too)

thanks for letting me yap!

[that-bitch-kat3]

i have decided that i want to read more books this year so i’m opening it up to tumblr. tell me your favorite books! bonus points if it’s something you think i probs haven’t read yet!

[kat-124]

hallo…r u open 2 art trades….ur style is so nice i love it sm😭

AWWWWW YESS

ABSOLUTELY ! i havent done art trades before rlly but id be happy to ofc !! message me or whateva works :]

[blissfulparker]

i personally wouldn’t feel comfortable with a dad!tom x reader fic about them adopting a baby of a different race because then it would be obvious that the reader is white or not a poc. as a poc who reads fics, it’s already hard to envision myself and that fic idea would just make it worse

Hi, I understand and I myself am half black so I understand when In fics it talks about like “Tom brushes the readers hair” or like simple little things that the author doesn’t notice. I mean if Tom tried to brush my hair He’d ruin my curl pattern and it’d be a frizzy mess. If I were to write it, it would be more of tom trying to educate himself on African/extremly curly hair and how to take care of it. I understand how hard it is to envision yourself in certain fics where you feel the reader is always Caucasian. 

[the-officially-kat]

what's your favorite color(s)?

a few,

black, all shades of pink and blue, lavender, all pastel colours, red, iridescent

Inbox me (1) thing you want to know about me.

[katsdynam1ght]

REALLY interested in that fic outline you posted about ouo

great news! now you can read it for the low price of zero US dollars and a nice comment!

here’s the link! stupid oneshot of keigo trying to eat touya lol what a freak

[katsdynam1ght]

Do u think Dabi, Shigaraki and Hawks struggle with their (in some cases "dead") given names?

Tomura Shigaraki doesn't uses Tenko shimura no more.

Dabi doesn't goes by Touya until the end

Hawks was practically outed, kicked outta the comfort secrecy of and yet no one calls him Keigo

Do you think they look when someone calls out their past names?

hi hi friend! love this ask. thank you for sending it. and if you ask me (which you are)…

in short? yes. and no. and sometimes.

“tenko shimura” is a broken, lost, lonely little boy. he’s a child thrown to the wolves, torn apart, and swallowed. tomura shigaraki barely remembers who that little boy is. it isn’t his fault—he was manipulated, he was abused. he had his childhood taken from him, his future written in blood, and really, i don’t believe he had much say at all in any of it. but i don’t think tomura shigaraki would go back. i don’t think he can. if he tried, then that would mean placing all of the things he’s done—all his murders, all his agony, all his guilt—on the head of a child. a small, frightened child. that would be the cruelest act of all.

if someone called him tenko, i don’t think he’d really protest—but i don’t think he’d know how to respond, either. that life is so far away. even if he is to be redeemed somehow, he can never be who he was before. it isn’t him. he doesn’t want it to be. what’s done is done, and what’s dead is dead. let it rest. leave him be. (if he could go back, he would. he can’t. it’s better to leave.)

“touya todoroki” is the only reality that ever has been. sure—he died. he came back. he put his body to rest and crowned himself cremation. but “dabi” is just an alias—it isn’t like the others, who have whole new identities associated with their names. his new name wasn’t given to him; his old name wasn’t stolen. the agency to choose was his, and that’s an important distinction. for him, touya is as much a villain as dabi, because they are one and the same. it’s not a split personality—it’s just him all the way down. he owns that, owns himself. there’s nothing to miss or struggle with.

“keigo takami” is an interesting case. i’m working on a fic about this topic, in a way, so maybe someday you’ll see more of my thoughts in fiction form. for now, let me attempt to be concise. the name keigo takami was stolen from him, much the same as tenko shimura. (ask me later about their parallels, will you? if dabi and hawks are foils, then shigaraki and hawks are parallels.) i do believe there’s an amount of shame associated with the takami name, but i don’t think he avoids it like the plague as some people seem to believe.

see, to me, i think (out of necessity) hawks has become someone entirely different. he isn’t keigo. keigo isn’t him. they are, of course, the same man—but i think there’s a certain separation between the two personas. by choice, mostly. but also by habit. by design. it’s a complicated answer, as i said, because i don’t think hawks really remembers keigo until dabi says his name. you know? then it comes crashing back. being sold, stripped of his identity, shipped off to the public eye. as hawks, he feels inhuman, but human is all keigo can be. i do think he misses it. i think he wants it back.

(this, in my opinion, is the biggest catalyst of dabihawks on keigo’s side. how can he refuse touya when touya is the only one who really knows him? the only one who bothers to discover who keigo takami actually is?)

but the thing is—if dabi hadn’t done that, hadn’t called him by his name, then no. i don’t think hawks would long for it at all. if you ask me, hawks despises keigo. keigo is unsure of hawks. it complicates things when he’s forced to accept that both are the same person. (he doesn’t like himself.)

to answer your final question—“do you think they look when someone calls out their past names?”

i have to say again: it’s complicated. it depends. who’s calling? for what? and when?

generally, no—shigaraki doesn’t accept that name anymore. touya is that name, but he wouldn’t look out of spite. (if someone called him dabi, though, he would.) and hawks/keigo… it all just depends. maybe. maybe not.

you want to know the one that i feel most strongly about, though? a bonus for you, if you will:

all might.

toshinori yagi.

only a few people call him that, you know. i don’t think he prefers it. so much of his life has been spent in service of this dream, of being this symbol. without that, what is he? @revilloutionaire made a post about it a bit ago, but all might was quite literally suicidal for a time after losing his quirk. his identity is tied to his life as a hero. being toshinori is fine when it’s gran torino or nana—but it isn’t fine when it’s anybody else. he still needs to be all might. he still wants to be. if he can’t have his quirk, if he can’t be the hero he used to, then at least he can be another version of it. he can still wear that name and that honor. and he has to.

whenever i write all might in fics, even from his own perspective, i don’t call him toshinori. he’s all might. he thinks of himself as all might. toshinori is just a man—weak, frail, full of flaws—but all might is a hero. and he always will be. he’ll make sure of it.

he has to.

thank you again, my friend, for sending me this ask! names and identities are something i think about a lot in the mha universe, so it was really fun to spend some time rambling about it on here. if you want more elaboration on any of these or if you have other questions, feel free to send more asks!