#lady nagent

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Hawks: I always looked up to you, Senpai. I heard all about you during my training.

Lady Nagent: I murdered the hero commission president.

Hawks: Yes, exactly. It’s what all we HC kids dream of doing with our career.

Hawks: They really stepped up security after you left though.

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BNHA Chapter 314 "We Live in a Society"

So we rejoin Deku's fight with Lady Nagent.

Weren't YOU, Deku?

Oooh, seems someone's really making Deku think.

WOW. this arc is somehow getting darker.

HO-LY-SHIT. Blood on their hands and all. OK Hori you've got my attention again.

Yikes. This is starting to get disturbing...er.

But our empathetic hero Deku's gonna fix that!

Oh HEY!! I see you up in that corner Touya. Deku starting to think about that whole sitch now?

All right the Overhaul rematch will begin next week. Or well, the At-Most-Overhaul-Getting-Flattened-in-2-seconds by Deku.

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BNHA Chapter 313 “So That Just Leaves #2, of course.”

Fierce All Might! Been a while since we saw him. (fierce, I mean)

LOl deku’s internal thought process.

Oh no he’s hit!

OK so that’s 6th...Nana was 7th, All Might 8th, Sense danger 4th, Blackwhip 5th. So that just leaves 3 and 2. (I’m starting to fear that we do indeed know what 2 is already anyway)

Oh and 3rd right away! So yeah, just 2nd. Which is totally not Explosion and totally not Bakugou. (Dammit I hope it’s not Bakugou).

And yes this fight and this arc is still going for yet ANOTHER chapter. Am I the only one getting sick of watching Deku futz around with minor villains for month after month of story time? MOVE THE PLOT FORWARD DAMMIT.

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Headcanon:

Honestly it lives rent free in my head that Toga could have been picked up by the hero commission and ended up being raised like Hawks and Lady Nagent.

Her quirk allows her to disguise herself as other people which is perfect for intel gathering, espionage and assassination. All the shadow work that the HC had Lady Nagent and Hawks doing would have fit her perfectly. Imagine how easy it would be for her to do an infiltration job like they had Hawks do with the PLF.

And she had a bad home life like Hawks did, so they could have easily convinced her parents to give her up.

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Deku: What was hero commission training like?

Lady Nagent: They were always calling assemblies. We had the same speaker every year when I was a kid, his name was Detective JJ Bittenbinder.

Hawks: YES! He was a child homicide expert and you’re seven years old and you’re sitting five feet away from him. He’s still got blood on his shoes.

Lady Nagent: He was the weirdest goddamn person I ever saw in my entire life. Bittenbinder came every year with a program to teach us about the violent world waiting for us outside the school gym, and that program was called Street Smarts!

“Time for Street Smarts with Detective JJ Bittenbinder. Shut up! You’re all gonna die. Street Smarts!”

That was the general tone. He would give us tips to deal with crime.

Hawks: He came one year for assembly. He goes, “Okay, when you get kidnapped…” Not if, when. I thought I was going to be murdered my entire childhood.

People were like, “What are your top three hero agencies?” I was like, “Top three agencies? I thought I would be dead in a trunk with my hand hanging out of the taillight by now.”

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Moral Injury in MHA:

Moral injury isn’t really commonly addressed in media outside of shows on combat vets, so it’s really cool to see how well it’s written. It’s very common, almost ubiquitous, in those of us who worked the pandemic.

So first off, what’s moral injury?

Here’s an entry from the national center for PTSD: (TLDR: A moral injury is where your moral framework is shattered when you witness or are asked to carry out tasks that conflict with your core beliefs.)

“In traumatic or unusually stressful circumstances, people may perpetrate, fail to prevent, or witness events that contradict deeply held moral beliefs and expectations. Individuals may also experience betrayal from leadership, others in positions of power or peers that can result in adverse outcomes. Moral injury is the distressing psychological, behavioral, and social aftermath of exposure to such events.

In order for moral injury to occur, the individual must feel like a transgression occurred and that they or someone else crossed a line with respect to their moral beliefs. Guilt, shame, disgust and anger are some of the hallmark reactions of moral injury (e.g., "I did something bad.", "I am bad because of what I did.")…Another hallmark reaction to moral injury is an inability to self-forgive, and consequently engaging in self-sabotaging behaviors (e.g., feeling like you don't deserve to succeed at work or relationships).

Lady Nagent:

I adore this character and her whole arc is a metaphor for moral injury in first responders.

With Lady Nagent, we see both sides of moral injury. Not only is she asked to act against her morals in line of duty, she also experiences having her views about humanity/the world shifted toward the extreme negative.

(This is called a trauma stuck point. So for example:

People are mostly good, but sometimes make mistakes or act out of fear. -> Everyone is capable of horrible evil and people inherently can’t be trusted.)

Hawks:

We also see this in Hawks when he is asked by the commission to infiltrate the LOV. These are both characters who are asked to violate their principles in the line of duty and they both suffer for it psychologically.

There’s also some of this in Iida’s arc with Stain, but not as much as we see with these two^

In combat vets, moral injury is often associated with wartime experiences. But it is also common in healthcare: for example seeing hospital admin sacrifice patient care/safety, having to bite your tongue because facts that can save lives become politically unpopular, or having to work way outside your scope of practice.

Or in other cases, having to provide services to people you find objectionable. A common one in natural disaster response is having to put sex offenders (legally must be sheltered, but can’t be put in a congregate setting with access to kids) up in hotels while children sleep in cots.

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Horikoshi: writing a series that explores the impacts of trauma and PTSD on the individual, family, and society with incredible accuracy and poignancy in conjunction with a beautiful meditation on the complexity of morality & the need for empathy to solve society’s ills

People on the internet: this character is irredeemable

Me:

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When Lady Nagent and Hawks finally sit down to compare notes and childhood traumas: