#papagiri

[papagiri]

The clouds looked lovely today. How often do people take time to look up?

[papagirii]

Kurogiri~

Hope you’ve been taking breaks for yourself…

Of course. I have been pursuing knitting lately. Master Tomura has been quite the model.

[chimaerakirin]

(Chapter 221)

The Doctor complains that Kurogiri spoils Tomura.

The thing is, the Doctor helped create Kurogiri. He knows exactly what Kurogiri is designed for. He knows exactly where the limits of his free will are. How much initiative and independence he can show, and what order his priority list is set in.

"I am the one who protects Shigaraki Tomura."

Kurogiri was designed as a butler, a bodyguard, a babysitter. He would have been instructed to take care of, not care about.

(And considering it's all but outright stated that the Doctor turned his own grandson into a Noumu, we know how low his standards for the acceptable treatment of children are.)

So the Doctor bitching that Kurogiri babies Tomura suggests, a solid two hundred chapters before the proof, that Kurogiri is not and never has been a childcare robot. Kurogiri wasn't told to love Tomura, but he did anyway.

[midgardianqueenreturns]

Hot take: Kurogiri being a nomufied Shirakumo actually makes him a better father figure to Shigaraki in retrospect. I see a lot of people say they think that revelation ruined his character and/or his relationship with Tomura and I will admit that I too used to be in that camp, but I’ve since come to realize it actually did the opposite. Why?

Think about it: Tomura and Kurogiri’s relationship was never completely positive; Kurogiri was complicit in AFO grooming Tomura and left him to bleed on the floor. If he wasn’t a nomu, he’d have full agency over those actions and it’d be harder to rationalize them while still believing he really cares about Shigaraki. Since he’s a nomu, however, we can rationalize these as him being unable to disobey AFO; he literally couldn’t go against AFO and that’s why he was complicit in his treatment of Shigaraki. An argument can also be made that he left Shigaraki to bleed on the floor because AFO was speaking to him and as a nomu he had to listen to him first and couldn’t do anything else. Sure, those are just interpretations, but the fact remains it’s easier to rationalize his bad caretaker moments if you remember he’s a nomu.

“but that also means he had no agency in being a good caretaker for Tomura!”

Not entirely. Yes, he was programmed to raise and protect Shigaraki, but he was not programmed to care about him. He could have protected Shigaraki without caring about him. But he does genuinely care for Tomura and no, those feelings are not programmed, Aizawa literally recognized Kurogiri’s desire to protect Tomura and insistence that he cannot abandon him as part of Shirakumo’s nature. Kurogiri truly cares about Tomura. We can debate over how much he was able to show that, but he did have agency in caring for him.

This is why I believe the revelation Kurogiri is a nomufied Oboro makes him a better, not worse, parental figure to Tomura in retrospect. I hope this makes sense.

[tobitheninjakitten]

my only contribution to this fandom

[blue-usagi-kun]

boogie woogie woogie

[lyrick-buffpuff]

Flufftober Day 3

I just posted day 3 of @flufftober​ 

Enjoy some Papagiri & Tomuson fluff- a sick fic. 

This my second box from the @badthingshappenbingo​ [Hurt Caretaker] 

[nishie-kumo]

I like fatherly Kurogiri, too. I'm sure that he is so sweet to little Tomura.