#shimura tenko

[akseedragon]

Holding her hands over the dirt, she sticks her tongue out in very serious concentration as the seed sprouts. It twists into a little bonsai tree with leaves the color of Tenko’s hair. “Ta-da!” Yurika cheers, picking up the pot and holding it out to him. “Woah…” Tenko reaches out to touch the leaves. “It’ll stay small forever, but you still have’ta water it, ‘kay?”

The lineart for this piece was drawn by the lovely @halloweenclown, and it was colored by me! Chapter Eight of Her Child's Monster is posted!

[bnhatiktokedits]

[pinkie2054]

[thatoneweirdocreature]

[moocifer0715]

I've been in a massive art block and so I decided to redraw one of my old Shiggy pieces!

I'm including the old one down here along with a ramble because I genuinely love this original piece. It was my first dynamic lighting piece, I can see the beginnings of the way I currently render hair, and I just genuinely had a ton of fun drawing it. The new one was a struggle because I'm dealing with a really bad art block at the moment, and trudging through that was hard. But, I still love how the new one came out!

[delawaredetroit]

Shigaraki: "I feel like...there's nothing that can stop me now. As long as I keep...my dreams...my origin...within my heart."

BNHA frequently calls back to characters’ origin, but until Act Two it was a theme exclusive to its most determined hero characters. Once the story passed the act that depicted heroism as fantasy, Act Two described the reality of heroism - a reality where villains may also find the determination to achieve their dreams from their origin. Shigaraki consistently failed to achieve most of his goals in Act One in part because he lost sight of his origin. Act Two Shigaraki’s arc involved reconnecting with his origin and finding his own dream. He mostly succeeded in his endeavors after finding his goal and origin until he was possessed by All for One’s larger scheme. However, even then Shigaraki wasn’t fully consumed solely because he gripped on to his origin as Shimura Tenko.

[shiori01]

your art of clara and the jester is so cute! I love reading about your OC even if I’m not familiar with the game.

(on another note. if you ever drew Tomura holding a baby I’d probably die.)

Thank you gurl 💜💜💜 kskdkskdk

It's been awhile hehe... Sorry for the late answer, and I recommend you to play the visual novel If you have the time. I think you'll like it, though there are contents that may possibly make you uncomfortable.

He's an unc now

[delawaredetroit]

It’s unfortunate because this is such an important theme, but Shigaraki isn’t exactly the most effective messenger for it. Shigaraki barely interacted with hero society while he was in All for One’s care until his villain debut. And by that point, of course society would reject someone whose modus operandi appeared to be destruction for the sake of self-satisfaction. Society didn’t reject Tenko as much as they refused to protect him in his moment of need.

It was Kotaro and the Shimura Household who rejected Tenko, and if anything, Kotaro was the one expressly rejected by hero society. Kotaro, like Kota and Twice, was an orphan because of the endless conflict between heroes and villains. Society abandoned him to his fate and left Kotaro without the space to more productively air his grievances with heroes/hero society. He took out that rejection on his own family and Tenko/Shigaraki internalized that rejection from Kotaro.

But Shigaraki must represent this theme because he is Izuku’s villainous foil. Before obtaining One for All, Izuku was rejected by hero society because of his quirklessness and his embodiment of heroic ideals without a quirk. Izuku was given an impossible opportunity to achieve acceptance, but his foil must be someone who stews in those feelings of rejection and lashes out at society. It’s notable that no one responds to refute this speech from Shigaraki, but the paneling makes it clear that Izuku is listening. He can’t forgive him, but Izuku was attempting to understand here.