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[blondeaxolotl-twstocs]

Mama eel and her annoying ass twins

[fivefootoh-andtrains]

@blaiddraws hitting me over the head with feelings about submas parent ocs. I'll have you know that little snippet of yours got me good. So, here's me coping lmao

Briar's getting their son ready for a festival! This being Ingo, he's absolutely thrilled and excited, even if his face isn't showing it.

[thejestofit]

I like drawing in pen..

I'm trying to get back into doodling since I sort of have more free time now?

[sinnabum45]

Learning how to cook 🍜

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[Image description: two page colored comic of a character from Dragon Ball. Yamcha is a toddler standing in a child safe step stool next to his mother with eggs on the counter. His mother is cooking and telling Yamcha the importance of learning how to cook. She explains how food keeps you alive and that it’s the best way to connect with people you love. Meanwhile, Yamcha is happily helping by giving her an egg and his mom pats his head. A bowl of chǎo miàn is set onto the table. Yamcha is now a preteen and he sits alone in his hideout with his bowl in front of him. He looks at the bowl with a downcast expression. He begins to eat and points out that his cooking was too salty. End description.]

Thoughts:

I like to think that Yamcha became a good cook out of necessity and that his parents taught him how important it is to know how to cook. It’s also one way of remembering his life and parents before being orphaned 😭 While he does grow to like western foods later when he moves to West city, he will always prefer noodles over a burger 🙂‍↕️ (Same tbh— 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️)

I also HC that Yamcha looks just like his mom 🥹

[brok33329]

I finally finished this aaaaa

She is so gorgeous I love her, gotta give her a name soon :3...

Lore wise this shoot was taken in 1987, a few months before she met Derby's father in the United States

The original image is under the cut

[puttersmile]

Bubbafam/ Bubbapham

Mom: Safarina (Safari) Pachaplum: She is wise and endlessly curious, Safarina is a safari guide with an excellent sense of direction. She never loses the trail, or her temper.

She’s a natural leader, always charting the course with a map in one hand, a journal in the other, and a compass wrapped in her trunk.

She has a gentle voice but has a steel-strong will and a deep love for nature and knowledge. Her partner Jamunji grooves through life but Safarina plans and prepares. She is always ready to teach and learn.

Dad: Jamunji is a laid-back, rhythm-loving mammoth with a cool look and a warm heart. He's always wearing shades and is the soul of the jam session, He is a calming presence to those around him.

While Safarina handles the planning and Bubba gets lost in facts, Jamunji trusts instinct and flow. He may forget the plan but he never misses the beat.

Both parents really love their little Bubba and Bubba loves them. But I think between the two of them, Bubba connects with Safarina more. When he was little he'd follow her like a shadow, trunk wrapped around her tail, as she taught him many things on the go.

But Bubba does have a talent in music that he's never told anyone about.

[simplefanatic]

Another little unoriginal oc of mine, did end up making another oc that i like more lol, took some stuff from my last one and idk, i love Kris, they're my kid, my baby

I love Kris's mother too

[grimmijaggers]

Haruo and Akihime Todoroki

For the 100th chapter of My Father’s Warmth, here’s a yap session about my take of Endeavor’s parents!

Haruo and Akihime Todoroki.

(first off, credit to MHA-Admin for the template)

We’ll start with Haruo and Akihime’s backstories, their Quirks, and I’ll finish it off with why I designed them this way.

Haruo is a humble, non-confrontational guy (which Fuyumi takes after the most), and very easy to bully. Considering the era he grew up in, lots of people were dying and he witnessed/experienced many tragedies, which made him fearful, overly cautious, and very mousey. He tries to take up as little space as humanly possible, which therefore makes him a target. His parents died in a freak accident as many did during that time, and he was raised by his already aging grandparents (their son was his father). His grandfather, an older man with a strong sense of samurai honour despite not being one himself, had a heating Quirk and was a walking furnace essentially; he was often exasperated at Haruo’s ‘unmanly’ meekness. Haruo takes after his grandmother in terms of personality and Quirk.

His Quirk, ‘Candlelight’, is just that, he can emit a small flame in the palm of his hand. He’s quite wary of setting things on fire, thus is big on safety precautions.

Even as a child, Haruo had to help around the house a lot because neither of his grandparents could really do much as their got older. They both died the year he turned sixteen, he had to become completely self-sufficient, moving from their old, rented house to a tiny, rented flat.

Backtracking a bit, Haruo was always a hardworking, good student, helpful and kind, but often the butt end of jokes and generally quite shy (he’d often get mistaken for and treated like an adult due to his height and maturity, something that would later happen with Enji). So when he joined high school, he was instantly entranced by Akihime who is the complete opposite of him. Being around her made him feel safe and more confident, and he really marvelled at her ability to be so assertive. Which she noticed, and she appreciated the attention. Their relationship was genuine but based on teenage impulsiveness and infatuation, and it didn’t help that Akihime was using the relationship as a way to rebel against her strict parents who expect the best out of her.

Akihime’s parents built a business focused on textiles from the ground up, which while doesn’t make them high class, does generate a lot of money and gave them a false sense of importance that they pushed onto Akihime. They set certain standards, what type of people she could socialize with, what she could wear, what her interests should be, etc. Despite being a model student, perfect grades, great reputation, class representative, Akihime in her teens got enough of being told what to do and started pushing back. She got her ears pierced, she dated Haruo, she played basketball as an outlet for her Quirk since her parents wanted her to suppress them for appearance’s sake. Quite literally.

Akihime’s ‘Bottle Up’ in concept works the same as Redestro’s ‘Stress’ but is much less impressive and relates only to her own emotions. The more she bottles up her emotions, the more physically athletic she is (hence why she can compete in height sports like basketball while being 5’1”) and the more black she gets in her hair. If she doesn’t stifle her emotions and lashes out instead (usually screaming because she was never taught to manage her emotions healthily due to her parents looking down on Quirk counselling), her hair goes blonde which her parents saw as “degenerate”.

Despite that, Haruo initially found it charming, because he liked how honest and herself Akihime could be, meanwhile, Akihime liked that Haruo let her be herself around him and was so genuinely kind to her, not wanting something from her to better his position. She was there for him when his grandparents died, helped him move and was very supportive. One thing led to another, and Akihime accidentally got pregnant with Enji a few months before graduating high school. Her parents were NOT pleased of the news and disowned her on the spot because she didn’t want to get rid of the baby (another form of rebellion). They never liked Haruo because of his meek mannerisms and lack of social status, and didn’t want a ‘bastard child’ in the family tree.

Despite that, Akihime tried to convince herself and Haruo that things would be fine. They were not fine, because right after their on-the-low-Shinto wedding after they graduated, all her supposed ‘friends’ and classmates abandoned them too, and her pregnancy was not easy. The fear of the future, not to mention the physical changes, the general resentment of being abandoned and just life as it was made her emotions flare up and she became verbally abusive to Haruo who tried his best to provide for her, as well as breaking things in fits of rage. She became unable to physically move the further along the pregnancy went (which would’ve been helped by her Bottle Up but, you know, lashing out), so Haruo picked up another job as an elementary school coach on top of the previous one (nightshift at a warehouse) to try and make ends meet but it just wasn’t enough. Akihime’s mental health spiralled and snapped after Enji’s birth. She had an extreme case of Postpartum Depression and was completely unable to connect with Enji, even refusing to nurse him.

Haruo tried being supportive, but he still had to work. Not even a week after Enji’s birth, Haruo found Akihime’s hospital room where she was still recovering in empty, with newborn Enji still remaining. She’d left, and the hospital couldn’t (or wouldn’t) tell him where she’d gone or if somebody had come for her. He tried calling her family home and business, but it’s like they disappeared off the face of the earth. Even their house was on sale.

Understanding and accepting best he could that Akihime had abandoned him in turn due to not being able to deal with the uncertainty of their future together, Haruo became a single father. He sacrificed his nightshift to have time for Enji, and even though he’d been given permission to bring his newborn baby along at his coach job, he was looked down on for being a single father by his then boss and older colleagues. The landlady of his flat also had it out for him because Akihime had been rude to her, and Haruo struggled to pay rent on time. Haruo sent Enji to daycare as early as he could when he made enough money and thus started the downward spiral of his unintentionally neglecting Enji.

Haruo worked hard to provide for Enji, to keep a roof over their head, food, clothes, all that, but by working himself to the bone and becoming overwhelmed with the expectations from his colleagues, taking up responsibilities that weren’t his, working overtime and such, he became more and more absent. Even when he was physically present, emotionally, and mentally, he was elsewhere. Which Enji noticed more and more as he grew up. In his own effort to be useful and help his dad, he started doing chores around the house, which Haruo kind of noticed but was too exhausted half the time for it to click. Enji also noticed how the other adults bullied or belittled his father, especially his colleagues and the landlady, which made him grow bitter towards them and stand up for his father on his behalf. Mainly by being intimidating.

On top of all that, Enji and Haruo lived in a time with no All Might, and the crime rate was HIGH. Whenever a catastrophe near them would happen, Haruo would grab Enji to run home and cower behind the couch. Enji never understood why they couldn’t do something about it, fight back or move away, and all Haruo ever seemed to do was apologise and admit to Enji he’s a weak man who isn’t much good at anything.

In canon, I interpreted Haruo’s death as happening when Enji is in his first year of middle school. A villain attack happened and he and one of his students were crushed in the collapsing rubble, which Enji witnessed when he ran towards the scene (Haruo’s elementary school). From then on, Enji is completely and utterly alone, the sole memories he has of Haruo is an overworking man who faked a smile all the time and died because he was weak. Enji internalised that, gave into his bitter self-hatred for his own weakness, and put on a façade of being scary and intimidating to contrast the weak exterior of his father.

In My Father’s Warmth, well obviously that’s very different and I have an entire fanfic about it. Haruo gets a second chance at life and realises that if a villain won’t kill him, his current lifestyle will so changes for Enji’s sake.

NOW, SUMMARISED BACKSTORY OVER, so let’s look into why I designed Haruo and Akihime the way I did.

Starting with Akihime, I wanted to keep with the ‘children being copies of their mothers’ trope that Horikoshi has going on, so the hair tufts and eyes are the same as Enji’s (and thus Natsuo’s), while still being completely different (different colour palette, body shape, height etc) to make it harder for her to connect with him in her PPD. I also decided that the Todoroki feistiness should come from her, and the whole ‘big emotions’ thing does too. So Touya’s struggling to control his flames due to his own emotions comes from her. Akihime is an ‘all bark, no bite’ character. She’s assertive and bossy when she feels in control, but as soon as she gets insecure or things do go her way, she crumbles. Her foundation is built on sand and she’s as unstable as her emotions. She’s where Enji gets his ‘runaway from my responsibilities’ trait; when things got too much and too overwhelming, Akihime cracked under the pressure and ran to avoid her problems and forget the past.

In contrast, Haruo has the “I can't hold a candle to you” mentality (get it? Candle, candlelight- yeah you get it), where he doesn’t think he’s good enough and all things that go wrong have to be his fault in some way. He’s a meagre flicker in the dark void, insignificant and weak, but is somehow always stubbornly, desperately keeping on until it can’t. Haruo is where Enji’s stubbornness comes from; for all his weakness, he’s too stubborn to just keel over and just give up. There’s a tinge of heroism in him, because he could’ve abandoned that little girl when the building collapsed on them, but he didn’t and tried to save her. Enji gets that from him too. ALSO I’m going with “the good die first” phrase/trope for Haruo. He was too good for this world so canon had to get rid of him.

Thus, Enji is a combination of the two. In truth, he’s a lot more like Haruo, but has his mother’s feistiness, strong voice, and competitive spirit, so he can stand up for himself and back up his talk with action and results. However, he has huge insecurities like the both of them, and, well, *motions to canon*, Akihime was a yeller too and she broke things out of anger.

The grandkids all have some of Haruo and Akihime’s traits too. Haruo’s gentleness, people pleasing and stubbornness is all there, Shoto and Fuyumi are the most like him, Fuyu’s a teacher like he was (also glasses), Natsuo has his fashion sense and stature, and Akihime’s hair is where Natsuo’s hair pattern comes from. Her big emotions, competitive spirit and fear for the future/abandonment are big in Touya, her rebellious edge is in Natsuo and Shoto (especially S1/2 Shoto) and both of Haruo and Akihime’s hardworking mentality is in all four of them. Also Haruo hates fish and gets carsick like Touya.

If we include my fifth Todoroki child, Miaki, she’s basically a mini, calmer Akihime.

ALSO THEIR NAMES. Haruo means ‘spring male’, like Natsuo means ‘summer male’, because he was born on the 20th March, Japan’s Vernal Equinox Day that celebrates the start of Spring (can also be the 21st of March). Akihime means ‘autumn princess’, because she’s her family’s heir and she was born on the 23rd September, Autumnal Equinox Day (can also be celebrated 22nd). And also because she has that princess treatment mentality.

I decided to have Enji be raised (and emotionally neglected) by a struggle single father for the following reasons;

-I interpret Enji as growing up poor, like Uraraka. I view him as a 'self-made' man, Quirk, hero reputation and all, including financial status. Enji doesn't give "old money" vibes, or even new money. He has no interior design skills (the Todoroki Abode is "default traditional Japanese" you'd see in a catalogue, and his Agency Office, what is that combination, he better not have picked that), and his clothes are just as plain, HOWEVER he has that darn tacky gold necklace (which, hot, but bro). Everything "expensive" about him is either in default setting, or it's his Agency. Yes he has a chauffeur, but that's more for efficiency. Unlike Iida or Yaoyorozu who unintentionally flaunt their riches as if they're the norm (look at their rooms), the Todoroki don't emit that

-I've always gotten the vibe that Enji never had a female figure in his life, and only his father is mentioned so, idk, Enji gives 'raised by a single father' vibe. He's too "a man's man" to have had any female influence in his upbringing.

-Enji to me gives "abandoned", "had to fend for himself" and "had no guidance" vibes, so dead single father it is. The idea that he does have a living mother out there SOMEWHERE who just up and left and never looked for him makes it all the more angsty and tragic for me, so yes.

-Angst. So much angst. I’m weak for doomed father-son tropes, and oh BOY do the Todoroki provide it. I wanted Enji’s downfall to stem from his lacking relationship with his father to mirror his and Touya’s.

Aaaaaaaaand that’s Haruo and Akihime :D

Two flawed kids who rushed into a relationship and cracked under the consequences of their genuine mistake. TBF I’ve probably missed something, so if you wanna ask me questions or to elaborate on something, feel free to ask!!