#ok post is long enough and im sure afo is going to be plotting more anyway when he realizes his plan backfired

[pocketramblr]

Ask Game AU: Where Nao grow suspicious of her husbands "friend" and his constant need to involve himself in their lives so she does her own investigation of the man.

1- Nao was glad, at first, that Kotaro was befriending people at work. He's always been slow to trust. With this friend, though, he wasn't. Kotaro ended up working later, and when he wasn't, going out to dinner or drinks with his coworker. Nao didn't want to bring anything up, didn't want to discourage him, and it wasn't like she had been abandoned to watch Hana all day by herself- her parents were there, and Kotaro wasn't out every single night. Just a lot of them.

2- Still, she doesn't say anything, until one night, Kotaro is back and in bed next to her, only a bit of wine left on his lips, when he brings up trying for a second child. She stares at him, and he withdraws, but she tells him it wasn't a bad thing- just, she had no idea he was thinking about it. They were both only children, and Kotaro had spent some years in a home with many other kids and didn't speak fondly of the experience. Kotaro tells her his friend brought it up, is all, and Nao nods, but is more worried.

3- Kotaro's office is hardly difficult to find things in. She discovers that he was the one to hire his friend, which she notes is weird, because he never mentions that detail. The address on record for him doesn't seem to be a place someone lives. The numbers on his bank account are... fine. But she doesn't find any trace of him online. She asks a few questions to Kotaro here and there, what his friends qualifications were, where he went to school. He's not even found there, on any list of graduates or alum forums. It's odd. but maybe he is just very private.

4- Hana brings up having a little sibling. Nao asks her if her father said anything, and she says no, they had a substitute teacher that day who'd told some stories and said he used to have a little brother. When Kotaro comes home late from work, he's unaware of what his daughter said when Nao asks if he's been thinking about it still. He says he has, and she says she still doesn't know. Two kids after all is a lot of work. and he's not home very often anymore.

5- Nao looks at the package of pills, the last row of seven, and opens her next box instead. She's done it before, once, for a vacation to the beach. She'd spotted a little then, but this time its more. Her birth control's been tampered with. Kotaro couldn't have done it, she'd just gotten the new box the day before she'd opened it and what'd he know anyway about it? What had that pharmacist looked like? Perhaps it was a defect, something she should notify the manufacturer about. She resolves to do so. Kotaro doesn't eat dinner with them that night, and when she asks how it went, he tells her that his friend told him such a funny story about his little brother, listen, he'll tell her and she'll laugh. She asks about the brother, Kotaro goes quiet and says his friend talked about him in the past tense. He's got enough dead family of his own to not press more than that. But really, the story was funny. Nao thinks about Hana's substitute- but clearly, Kotaro's friend was at work that day, must be another coincidence. In a line of many bad ones. Kotaro asks her if she'd like a second child. Nao thinks she might have, before all this. Now, she isn't sure what she'd like. Instead, she tells him that he barely sees Hana. is he really sure that he wants another kid? Kotaro goes quiet again, realizes she's right. He offers to take the next day off. Nao tells him she just wants him home on time for dinner.

+1- Kotaro agrees, and the next day Nao's parents watch Hana for an hour while she meets with her friend Shirota Akiho at the park. Akiho gives Nao a hug, and an unopened box of birth control. She tells her that her sister Beru's bridal shower is in a few weeks, and she can give her another box then. She agrees everything sounds weird- but Kotaro probably isn't to blame. Nao goes home. Kotaro on time for dinner that day. But he realizes when he reacts to Hana telling him she is playing heroes before bed (and Nao and Hana react to his reaction) that maybe he should spend more time at home before welcoming someone else into it.

#the pharmaceutical company like. tests her packages and is like 'hm yeah must have been an error in manufacturing with that sorry would you #like to settle this out of court' and then they can take another lovely little vacay #and maybe Tenko still comes around just... later #....... maybe two years later. sort of third year age while izuku's a freshman. maybe- #ok post is long enough and im sure afo is going to be plotting more anyway when he realizes his plan backfired #and nao isn't suddenly getting pregnant planned or unplanned and also kotaro is slowly warming up to the idea of his daughter having #fancies of being a hero. she's so young after all its no harm. they can talk more seriously when she's older. he wants to protect that #innocence longer than his own was protected #maybe afo can be fuming about kotaro not dropping everything to go on a date with him that he goes to kill some people to work out his ange #and that leads All Might right to him years early or something #that'd be nice ig #pocket talks to people #anon #ask game #hm. not sure what the warning for garaki tampering with nao's meds should be but if you know let me know #ask to tag

[marunalu]

Ok seriously, WHY is nobody talking about the fact that izukus hair is turning white???

Im saying it, THIS is exactly what afo wants to happen! Izukus fight against his classmates is supposed to parallel tomuras fight against re destro. In that fight tomura just like izuku hadnt sleeped or eaten for a long time and was under a lot of stress and pain. His memories about his past came back to him, his quirk awakend and he defeated re destro and his hair completly turned white by the end.

If we consider all the paralells between izuku and tomura its very likely to say, that the same will happen to izuku here. Like re destro did with tomura, something will piss izuku so much off (most likely bk because unlike the rest of the class, he thinks insulting, mocking and being aggressive towards izuku is the way to reach him in his current mental state) that he will snap. Tomura remembered all the shit and unfair thinks that happend in his life, so the same thing could happen here to izuku. Bk will be the catalyst to awaken either izukus very own quirk or the 2th ofa users. Izuku will not be defeated by his classmates or captured and being dragged back to ua here (the poem hori posted hinted that izuku will not be defeated in the rain and its raining right now) and because of all the negative emotions he stored up over the last 11 years of his miserable life his hair will turn completly white. Considering all the parallels and the direction the story seems to go, I believe this fight will end like this:

With a defeated bk and an izuku barely standing on his feet.

And ending with bk kneeling in front of him and begging for forgiveness for all the shit he went izuku through in the past (and also coming to terms with the fact that izuku is more powerful then him now), while the rest of class A stays in the background horrified and shocked about the things that just happend between this two.

Hori himself said bk WILL apologiez and it needs to be a powerful moment with the rest of class A as wittnesses and realizing that bk AND NOT all might like bk claimes is responsible for izukus nonexistent selfworth. Just THEN can bk finally and truly walk the path of atonement and redemtion NOT before. So that his character can really change for the better and become a better person without falling back to his old temper tantrum bullying asshole self. The question is: will izuku forgive him? Or will bk really have to work hard for it, like endeavour is still not forgiven even after regretting and apologiezing for his actions?

Abuse is abuse! Bullying is a form of abuse that can really fuck up a persons mental state. It doesnt matter if bk was just a kid or teenager, espicially if you consider that people YOUNGER then him are able to realize that his actions and behavior are terrible and wrong. And the thing is he is STILL bullying izuku. The reason izuku doesnt react to that is because he is USED to it. He endured that for 11 years! Izuku was always selfless. His selfworth is what he LOST after a whole decade of abuse. Selflessnes and nonexistent selfworth arent the same thing!

With 15/16 bk is old enough to understand what the diffetence between right and wrong is. Yes bk sacreficed himself for izuku in the war arc but EVERYONE in class A would have done that! What bk did was the bare minimum he is SUPPOSED to do as a future hero. His own feelings here also dont matter here. It doesnt matter what his reasons were zo bully izuku, because HE is the abuser and the damage he did to izukus psyche is STILL DONE! The ONLY thing that matters right now are izukus feelings - the feelings of a victim who suffered 11 years of terrible mental AND physical abuse (bk beat him up, used his quirk on him and destroyed his property) by bks hand.

And mark my words, shortly after that fight afo (dad) will show up to pick up his son and will mockingly thanks class A for doing such a wonderful job in making his junior snap and break, something all the villains he sent didnt manage to archieve over the last few weeks/months! Then when afo is about to disappear with an dead tired and injured izuku, the class will try to reach him in time, but fail and so we will get our parallel of the end of the training camp arc in which bk was kidnapped by the lov and a captured izuku will tell them to “stay away“ before he vanishes. Thats what Im sure (or hope) right now will happen. After that the real “safe izuku arc“ will kick in. This one is just a red herring to set the plot into motion. Bonus points if dad for one reveal will happen and the class will find out, because now they are faced with the dilema that their friend is the son of THE super villain of japan!

Also Im not sure if this post should be considered as anti bk, so I tagged it as such just to be sure.

#bnha #mha #bnha theorys #bnha spoiler #izuku midoriya #all for one #afo #dad for one #dfo #anti bakugou??? #bakugou faces consequences

[reflectiondetonation]

the other big issue is Creation is just too big a quirk for a secondary character

now i can’t really judge Lucas’ opinion the cast of BNHA is too big or not because i’m just not far enough (i did have some whiplash from one episode trying to introduce 20 people though, just like when i first watched IM@S) but we can’t pretend some of Deku’s classmates are secondary character

and that’s fine really. at heart the story is about the Dekusquad and the Bakusquad..... but mostly Bakugou and Shouto, since he gets to be one of the principal cast with most of his squad (hi Mina) being secondary characters (for the sake of this let’s just say the Dekusquad + Bakugou + Shouto are the main protagonists of BNHA)

ok anyways i’m rambling now so anyways, certain powers need to go to certain people

Deku does a good job at avoiding the anime shounen cliche of “our protagonist can do 50 billion things you need a long-ass wiki page and 30 articles to keep track of it” the dude has super strength. it works! that’s as classic a superpower as you can get! everyone else has pretty simple powers at the same time though. convenient, powerful, but simple and very easy to write creatively. sure, One for All, Combustion, and Half Hot Half Cold are the strongest ones but it’s not difficult to understand

they’re the protagonists with good, yet strong powers. but our antagonists have much more powerful abilities. All for One is the most ludicrously powerful Quirk shown so far and if i recall from the wiki, AfO basically conquered Japan using it. Handface-Dude-Whose-Name-I-Forgot’s disintegration Quirk is also super-lethal and powerful. Toga’s shapeshifting could potentially allow her to compromise the protagonists by assuming the form of someone they love and trust

why are final bosses in video games so hard? simple: to provide a challenge. and in a story like this, it makes sense the antagonists have the most powerful quirks: so they can serve as the ultimate obstacles to the heroes. could you imagine if AfO had access to Creation in addition to those hundreds of other quirks he stole??? he might’ve actually won that fight with SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOILERS

or any of the big villains! think about it!!!

Creation is a quirk that should fall among them. i’d never give one of my protagonists that quirk, it’d make them too powerful. Momo’s quirk should ultimately be in the hands of a very powerful villain, one of the main antagonists even. a villain who uses this quirk to pull a machine gun or a fucking bazooka out of her body! maybe she sneaks up on someone and pulls a syrgine out of herself filled with tranquilizer rounds or even a lethal poison?

so WHY does Momo, a secondary character who just doesn’t have that extreme an impact on the plot have it??? it boils down to having an excuse to write that fanservicey outfit without putting that quirk to good use. 

and it’s... frustrating honestly. i’m not making this post to argue about her outfit, there’s a million of those, but that’s earnestly what it feels like her incredibly powerful quirk is being written to do and it’s very frustrating to think about

#bnha spoilers #not even i'm just tagging just to be safe #if you disagree i'd like your two cents tbh