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myheromedia · 3 months
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One for All
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thealiveshadow · 4 months
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i'm sorry, PREGNANCY SUBTEXT??
YEAH! There’s tons of pregnancy subtext regarding the lore of OFA and AFO. I think the most obvious one is AFO’s fucked up obsession with his brother and how he believes Yoichi to simply be a “thing”. But also in the nature of Yoichi’s quirk works. It was empty before, but then AFO “filled” it with his own power (or one might even say seed) which he himself described as an action of making Yoichi “his”. of Afo has also called himself the father of OFA (so I wonder who’s the mother 🤔 Hint: It’s Yoichi) In the original Japanese, when it was described that the OFA quirk was beginning to grow and kick in Midoriya, the same kanji was used to refer to when a baby grows and kicks in its’ mother’s stomach.
Also Midoriya being the ninth and final holder, and how long does it take for a child to grow in its mother’s womb? 9 months.
There are also Greek mythology parallels such as with Cronus and Afo. Cronus, who married his sister, Rhea and had a child with her called Zeus, who then defeated his father. One for all being used right now to defeat its “father”. Another parallel is how One For All sucks the life force out of its users, the same way a child sucks the nutrients out of its mother.
Credits go to @helga-grinduil and @aaawunder for finding these parallels, thanks a lot, now this is all I think about for days.
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vaisydalley · 9 months
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I literally died but have revived to make one thing clear…
En DEFINITELY has a closet full of the same outfit in different colors:
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Blue, purple, green, fucking ochre he has it all
He has the entire fucking color wheel in that closet and nobody can stop him
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I am LIVING for the idea that bnha will end with a panel of middle school bakugo standing in front of a grave with just the line, “Or that’s what it should’ve been.” Implying the fact that Izuku committed delete self on that rooftop and ofa and afo never existed.
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yotsubashi-and-co · 1 year
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why the fuck, bones? his aura was BLUE, IN OPENING AND ANIME... WHY THE FUCK YOU COLORED HIM IN RED? IT'S EASY TO FIX
Blue Smoky Man > Red Edgy Goblin
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foxyteah · 1 year
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god i wish i could write because i have an unhinged bnha idea that has been pestering me like crazy
it's a time travel story that should have been like any other, with everyone laying their fate in Izuku's hands so he can go back to his much younger self in order to get OFA earlier and start changing things in advance. It's a gamble if OFA will be sent back with him or wake up in All Might, but they have plans if the second happens
and OFA's users are all for it, let's go let's do this, so when they find themselves in the past and with a Toshinori who is still blind and deaf to their attempts at communication, the users are optimistic and waiting like "ok we can figure this out y'all our boi will seek us out just follow the plan"
except days go by and Toshi's phone with the old number he gave Izuku doesn't ring, and there's none of the agreed code messages for "I'm fine" or "let's meet here" that they agreed on, and steadily the users start to feel dread as they realize
OFA IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAME BACK
cue pandemonium at the mental dinner table
i mean the OFA users could just let the past play out like before and wait for Izuku to come to them at 14 and then be much more open to the boy receiving multiple quirks and, having learned how to communicate with him, they could teach him all about using those quirks in the year before UA...
but fuck that noise these people are going Plus Ultra on this and getting to their boy ASAP
and so these unhinged adults start banging on the metaphorical wall separating them from Toshinori's consciusness until All Might's quirk starts having weird fluctuations and malfunctions every time Japan or home is mentioned, and he starts having vague feelings of homesickness and nostalgia (i.e. bleedthrough of several people yelling at a soundproof wall to get back to Tokyo asap) so after a few weeks of this Toshi caves and decides to visit Tokyo, and then there's several funny instances of OFA users basically riding backseat and yelling at the driver to turn left or right to get to their boy, except the driver is extremely hard of hearing and oblivious
but finally somehow their plan pays off and just having All Might in the vicinity signing autographs attracts fandoriya like a fly to roadkill, and the moment their fingers brush OFA decides MMMMMM YEAH GOOD ENOUGH WE'LL IGNORE THAT DETAIL OF TRANSFERRING VIA DNA WE'RE JUMPING SHIP RIGHT HEEEERE
and that is how OFA gets passed down without either party being aware of it
All Might goes on his way to discover a few weeks later that his quirk's power is declining, and then needs several hours more to realize OFA IS NOT FUCKING THERE ANYMORE HOW DID THIS HAPPEN AND WHERE
meanwhile Izuku starts having dreams of seven people (bc All Might is alive and thus just a non-responsive lump of shade) and these seven people introduce themselves as his quirk, as ghosts of past heroes who will teach him and help him channel their quirks... starting with something less dangerous and completely blocking off super strength until there's no danger of a bone explosion, i.e. probably until he's 14
and thus we have an All Might running around worrying how his quirk was stolen and maybe he can find if anyone has updated their quirk to include 'super strength' in the quirk database, meanwhile we have lil Izuku excitedly presenting his brand new awakened quirk called 'Seven Paths of Hero', and now Kacchan can absolutely suck it because with seven HERO ghosts being his mentors whose quirks he can channel he absolutely has a HEROIC quirk
Izuku never gains knowledge of his future self but that's alright, the OFA users will make sure he's ready, and they'll guide him and help him prevent a bad future even if Izuku doesn't get why he sometimes has to go on errands for his mentors or do certain things like throw smelly bottles (Banjo: "it's called a molotov cocktail") into bars or basements that smell like a hospital room
whatever the case, Izuku is happy about his quirk and how talkative it is, he has friends in mentors who dote on him, he's learning loads, he's not teased anymore, and he can't wait to become a hero!
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mornlucc · 1 year
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I used my free time to be very productive 💪
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babygirl yoichi
(I know, I'm late to this trend mb😔)
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harmonyludwig · 1 year
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*SPOILERS FOR SEASON 6 OF BNHA*
So I thought, in one of the last episodes, in the scene where Uraraka defended Midoriya so people at UA shelter won't throw him out and will accept him. What would happen, if Inko ran out of the crowd to Izuku?
Just imagine: rain, Izuku arrives at UA after all the scene with "I'm sorry Izuku" & the class capturing him, and people shout at him for making UA not a safe place. And then, when Uraraka is ready to jump to the roof.... "THATS MY SON"
Inko runs from the crowd towards all worn out Izuku, hugs him tight with her head on his chest and cries "IZUKU, MT BABY... WHAT HAPPEND TO YOU ? WHY WASNT I THERE TO PROTECT YOU? My poor baby boy..."
She sobs while Izuku just hugs her and breaks into tears himself. Bakugou comes along and pats on her back to try to calm her. I see two outcomes:
1. All the other parents ran to their kids. Mitsuki to Bakugou, Uraraka's parents to her, all the other parents or friends of the heroes and students just make it a hugging and crying mess. And then 2.
Or
2. People understand that this boy, even though he is covered in dirt and blood , looks like a villain, has multiple quirks and is being chased by AFO, is still a normal boy. He has friends, a mother, a life that was stolen from him just like from them and he is trying his best to get it back. He just... Isn't as lucky. Instead of hiding in the shelter with everyone, he tried to save them and risk his life and the happiness of his mother.
Just... Wow
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stillness-in-green · 2 years
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AFO is a victim of the biological determinism of his own quirk--like Toga, but moreso.  But damned if I could tell you how the greater narrative about Hero Society and inequality benefits from that. 👀 oh??
Ahaha, well, that's more a "looking for Watsonian answers to Doylist questions" theory than one I'm ready to seriously declare for, BUT.  It is a theory I've had at the back of my mind for somewhere in the neighborhood of two years now, since I first brought it up in discussion with a friend. 
It's largely a theory aimed at addressing why All For One is Like That, beyond a handwave of, "He was just born Like That.  You know—a monster."  I'd say there are two main parts—the biological determinism, and the vestige mechanics.
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Firstly, we know that people can be influenced by their quirk.  The standard bearer is, of course, Toga, whose quirk gives her an innate attraction to blood that her trying to suppress for a decade eventually led to tragedy.  She's an extreme case, but Re-Destro makes the observation as well, that there is a connection between one's personality and one's quirk.  Think of something like Bakugou's explosive personality, or La Brava's stalker tendencies.
Re-Destro obviously overstates somewhat; there are plenty of characters whose personality and quirk seem to have no notable connection (say Tamaki for example), as well as characters who seem to have a personality that matches their quirk, but may also just be playing up that personality up as part of their social persona (Present Mic).  Still, it wouldn’t be very hard to read a certain amount of compulsion into AFO. There's even some decent evidence for it, in AFO's interactions with the Pussycats!
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I could also see his compulsion being—let’s say, enabled by whatever his and Yoichi’s circumstances demanded of him back when they were young.  In such a dangerous world, with the social order having completely broken down, what was he supposed to do?  Just lie down and let them both be trampled over because, without using his quirk, he was as defenseless as his brother? Not likely!
Of course, him telling himself it’s for his and Yoichi’s sake as an excuse for doing what he wants to do anyway doesn’t excuse his many crimes, no more than Toga’s compulsion and family circumstances excuse hers.  Also too, whatever faux-altruism he might once have claimed, he’s clearly long shaken it off by now.  It’s always been notable to me, though, that he did once try to make excuses for his actions.  In the OFA dream flashbacks, he talked about bringing order to a world gone mad; he framed giving and taking quirks in exchange for favors explicitly as a middle ground he was graciously taking between just stockpiling all the quirks he liked and not bothering with social networking at all versus using his quirk only for the sake of others and asking nothing in return.
He’d clearly already gone full-tilt megalomaniac even then, but all the Demon Lord talk was much more vague, only coming up at the tail end of the dream, and only in the form of a stray reference to, “that comic you used to read.”  That was all likely over a century ago, though, and a hundred years is a lot of time to go all-in on the evil overlord thing, especially after his brother was no longer around to make justifications to, and especially after being defeated by All Might.
Secondly, as regards the vestige mechanics, we know that carrying too many quirks can cause mental breakdowns, even catatonia.  AFO, of course, has some natural resistance to this due to the nature of his quirk, but how much resistance does he have?  Particularly given what we now know about quirks having vestiges, what’s the effect on AFO of spending over a hundred years filling up his hind brain with other peoples’ voices, instincts, memories and wills?  How much can we really say that the present AFO much resembles the person Shigaraki Yoichi’s older brother once was?
To be clear, I don't think this idea is very well-supported by the canon.  As far as the story as we have it is concerned, AFO has just been bad news from the start, at least until Yoichi condescends to tell Deku any different.  Likewise, AFO is clearly capable of being discerning about which quirks he takes and which he doesn’t; he further doesn’t seem to have any reluctance to giving quirks away if it suits his needs.  So I don’t think “biological compulsion” is a thing that has a strong sway over him, and any claims he makes that suggest otherwise (as in the images above) are just him being a big chortling sophist.
In terms of “how I’d treat it if I were to write the fanfic,” however, I think it would be interesting to treat All for One (the quirk) as something of an addiction meeting an addictive personality. To wit, AFO was always going to be susceptible to his quirk’s influence, but once he started using it, his ability to resist the impulse eroded further and further over time.  The same thing happened to his mentality—as he fell farther and farther, he threw away the excuses he once relied on and just embraced his hedonistic desire to possess.
As to how this fits the overarching themes of HeroAca?  Well, I don’t really think it does.  For starters, it would have required a take on Deku and One For All that was much less simplistic than the one we wound up with.  If the narrative had really leaned into the idea of OFA as a “cursed” power, if Deku had run into much more serious opposition from the previous bearers over his “save Shigaraki” notion, that would have paralleled an AFO who was ultimately a slave to his own desires better. 
(I’d also want that version of the story to examine All Might’s “Pillar” ideal and his decision to pass OFA forward even after he seemingly defeated AFO. Have Deku question how much of those decisions were really Toshinori Yagi’s and how much were the influence of One For All seeking to propagate itself forward and transform its bearer into a selfless vessel for service, a literal "One" to serve "All," regardless of the pain endured by the vessel. Look, too, at All Might's paternalism, of his and Deku's tendency to deny other people their say in what burdens they would choose to shoulder! There's so much interesting you could do with OFA if it weren't so damned idealized.)
The story we have, though, isn't a psychological horror about subverted identity hiding in the skin of an optimistic shonen action comic. It's about the impact of superpowers on society at large, about structural complacency, quirk-based prejudice, the correct actions of those who have power and those who lack it, about legacy and about what is meant by terms like “winning” and “saving.”  I think quirks with compulsive underpinnings like Toga’s are an important facet of that story, but shouldn’t be the explanation for the man shaping up to be the ultimate face of The Opponent The Main Characters Must Overcome.
Thanks for your interest, anon!  Other anon(?) who asked about the AFO Retcon Theory, that one’s going to take a bit longer, but I will do my best to get it put together in a reasonably timely fashion.
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lumilasi · 2 years
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Chapter 49: Kicked out
The clocktower receives surprise visitors, whose presence is unwanted. As a result, Sensei has to kick them out, including his sibling.
back with this one for a change. Also we’re about the enter the final phase of this story. I’m debating whenever Sensei should tell Tomura the whole truth right away, or leave the twist until later. Both ways would work depending on how I wanna go about it
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ayzscream · 1 year
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assassyart · 2 months
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rest in pieces, one for all yaoi
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ofa-on-crack · 4 months
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It's been awhile fellow people.
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vaisydalley · 1 year
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I’m curious, what would the OFA users wear for Halloween?
if they would even celebrate it lol
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amaranthdahlia · 4 months
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if you want my quirk you have to defeat my 8 insane successors
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yotsubashi-and-co · 1 year
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IT'S TIME FOR CRAZY THEORY!!! 🤪 WHAT IF 3rd OFA USER IS IIDA's ANCESTOR!!!
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