#FOR WHAT

[gerbits]

love yourselves. don’t pay for these packs.

#no cross compatibility?? l m a o #the whole point of an EP is to expand gameplay #and they're charging $40 USD #for what

[xanderindisguis]

can natural scarab just bug. buggin. buggout. bug

we got bug buggin' for bug real, bug.

#bug #scarab #lil man is eating a strawberry #so cute and for what #FOR WHAT

[andi-o-geyser]

We must protect her at all costs

#i have had her for 5 minutes and im literally crying she is SO CUTE #FOR WHAT #TO MAKE THE EMOTIONAL DAMAGE HIT HARDER #SHES FUCKING ADORABLE #also i think its hilarious stephanie is in the show because it means this meme could very well just literally be kima #which i find wonderful #keyleth #keyleth of the air ashari #tlovm #tlovm spoilers #critical role #vox machina #the legend of vox machina #legend of vox machina #tlovm s2 #passed through fire #lovm #andis thought geyser

[bvngchvns]

...😳

#bangchan #bang chan #stray kids #skz #skz talker #mine #don't look at me #why does he take it off like that #for what #for whom #help

[murkrowmania]

Bonnie fan post-ruin mood

#if i see him its ON SIGHT #BROKE APART BONNIE AND FREDDY'S PEAK ROMANCE #FOR WHAT #HATE #fnaf #fnaf ruin #fnaf spoilers #fnaf ruin spoilers #bonnie the bunny

[simplydm]

When in doubt, thank Pearlescentmoon

#for what #everything #pearlescentmoon #speak up dm

[alex-the-creature]

babe wake up new dumptruck pics dropped

#why tf is he so caked up #for what #miles quaritch #avatar 2

[lavenderhazes]

swifties all over the world crying over toe and taylor is out there exploding buildings and stealing paintings

#spoilers #for what #I have no idea #LMAOOOOO

[sinsofstardust]

Hey Alexa, play Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-A-Lot

#jake kiszka #all that ass #for what #??? #greta van fleet #gvf

[sapphic-agent]

Let's Talk About Shigaraki

I've had some time to collect my thoughts, so I think I'm ready to finally talk about Tomura.

Fair warning, this is more of a rant. Mostly because there isn't much to say except that Horikoshi hates this motherfucker, almost as much as he hates Izuku.

Tomura is a character whose autonomy and agency has been stripped by the narrative repeatedly. And that's not really uncommon in MHA (Izuku, Hawks, Shoto, etc.), so why am I pointing it out? Because Horikoshi's assassination of his character didn't need to happen. In fact, it feels like he bent over backwards to make sure it happened.

Anyone who's been around my blog long enough knows that the MLA arc is one of my favorites, I even put it in my top five MHA arcs. It did a great job of having Shigaraki progress as not only a villain but a leader and come into his own power. My one issue with it and what kept it out of top three was that it seemed to immediately undo all the progress Tomura made by making him want AFO (the quirk). Him gaining this quirk didn't tie into his goals at all and it flipped him from wanting to use his destruction to make a world for the LOV to be free in (Eric Vale's delivery of this scene in dub was fire btw, go watch it) to him just wanting more power. It was an extremely weird decision.

The PLA War further perpetuates this and it causes some confusion as to where Horikoshi was going with his character. Instead of a newly established in-control and ambitious villain, he turned Tomura into a puppet for All For One to use for his own benefit.

(Off topic, but that also felt out of character for AFO. Prior to this, he seemed to want Tomura to succeed and carve his own path, even taking the time to gently correct his outbursts and give him actual advice and guidance. You could argue that this was manipulation on his part, but it didn't feel like it at the time. Why would he want Tomura to be level-headed and calm if the plan was to use him as a husk for his own control? It felt way more like Tomura was initially meant to be his successor, not his puppet. This reads more like another Horikoshi retcon)

For some reason, it feels like the intention was to turn him into a victim for Izuku to save. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing... Except he didn't develop Izuku enough for him to be able to do that.

Izuku doesn't understand Tomura, he even admits this himself. He sees Tomura as someone who causes destruction for the hell of it. And you know what? He wasn't wrong going off his few interactions with him. But that's where we hit our problem; Izuku has not interacted enough with Tomura.

And honestly? There's no excuse for this. They're supposed to be our protagonist and antagonist. They're supposed to be parallels with one another. So why in the world do they only really have one intimate scene together?

(I have mentioned this before, but Izuku should have been the one kidnapped, not Bakugou. Bakugou being in this position provides nothing to the plot, especially because All Might would have sacrificed his power for anyone. Bakugou isn't a dynamic or integral enough character for this to benefit the character progression of Tomura or the rest of the LOV, but Izuku is. Him learning why they're villains would have really done so much for their characters, as well as his own)

This leaves their interactions during the Final War completely stagnant and stale. Izuku doesn't understand Tomura, and Tomura knows that. He sees Izuku as a goody-two-shoes with no understanding of how dark the world can be. Except Izuku does understand because he experienced it. But how would Tomura know that? And how would Izuku know how Tomura became a villain? There's no understanding between them which is why Izuku is unable to connect with Tomura like he did Stain and Gentle Criminal. Which is why him trying to save Tomura goes nowhere.

It didn't have to be like this though. Even if it was rushed, Horikoshi could have squeezed it in. He could have made the effort. He chose not to. Partly because he can't be assed to give either of them good development, but also because he avoids the shit Izuku went through like the plague. He hates to acknowledge it and when he does it's sugarcoated (and used for Bakugou's gain, not Izuku's own). Because of he gets into the nitty gritty of it, his favorite blond rat's "development" goes right out the window.

Horikoshi wrote himself into a corner here, which is why the Izuku vs Tomura fight is so lackluster. Their interactions mean nothing, so their fight means nothing. What's his solution to this?

To fucking kill Tomura and retcon his entire backstory to force AFO back into the plot.

The last shreds of agency Tomura had as a villain were ripped away. He can't even have his own tragic backstory at this point. Hell, Kotaro can't even own his own shitty decisions, blame is pinned on Nana even though him abusing his kids was his choice and AFO somehow had a hand in him having kids?? Ok.

(Abusive man not being held accountable without someone else- a woman- taking the shit for it, what else is new in MHA)

Also, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN AFO GAVE HIM DECAY?

In all fairness, this has been a theory for a while. But again, the entire point of his character in the MLA arc was that he took charge of his "cursed" power and made it his own. So AFO giving him Decay erases another part of his development.

(And to add to this, what exactly was the point of having him take a quirk away from Tomura? Why not make him born quirkless so a parallel can be drawn to Izuku (and even Aoyama)? What is it with Horikoshi and quirkless aversion? There are four characters born quirkless in the narrative even though they're supposed to make up 20% of the population: Izuku, Aoyama, All Might, Melissa. Only Melissa stays quirkless)

AFO just happening upon Tomura- desperate, shunned, and vulnerable- who just happens to be Nana's grandson makes him so much eviler and more despicable. Him seeing an exposed child and deciding to use him to be cruel to Nana's memory and Toshinori drives home his callousness. Making it so that he orchestrated it just takes away from that. Tbh, it just makes him look like a loser. So, both Tomura and AFO just suffered character assassination.

Back to killing Tomura, do you know how awful this comes off? This character claimed his own power and goals, only for that to be stripped by making him a puppet, the attempt to save him is drawn out and goes nowhere, and then he just fucking dies. Like he never mattered at all. Like trying to save him was a complete waste of time and there's nothing about him worth saving.

And people saying he deserved to die for his crimes, THAT ISN'T THE POINT. It isn't about what he did or didn't do. I couldn't care less about that. It's about how Horikoshi stripped him of agency again and again and then discarded him when he didn't serve the shitty narrative he created.

Tomura and Izuku deserved so much better than this

#mha critical #bnha critical #horikoshi critical #tomura shigaraki #shigaraki deserves better #shigaraki tomura critical #izuku deserves better #izuku midoriya critical #anti all for one #anti afo #he was great in the beginning only for horikoshi to do this to him #for what #can't believe mha has come to this #it's actually making me feel gross inside #long post #i kinda went off on a tangent here #i have a lot of feelings #anti bakugou katsuki

[londonknights]

fucking pardon me???

#toronto maple leafs #sheldon keefe #FOR WHAT #LITERALLY FOR WHAT #WHAT DID HE DO

[gasstationpopcorn]

#for what #FOR WHAT #joker out #bojan cvjetićanin #bojan cvjeticanin #misc.posts

[theyseethroughrobots]

dances on ur victims

#drawing #art #fanart #digital #drawingillustration #emh #everymanhybrid #habit #habit emh #evan emh #evan #feeding my many fandoms #for what #STWART

[sihtricfedaraaahvicius]

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[appetite4savage]

HE IS SO PRECIOUS

#for what #posting this in honor of our fallen joe hoes #def leppard #joe elliott #faves

[columboscreens]

#columbo #season 10 #its all in the game #i fucking Cracked Up when i first heard this line #it goes so hard #for what #columbo's heretical little sandwich