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BnHA Chapter 238: Shigaraki Tomura: Tattered Goth Remix

Previously on BnHA: Young Shimura Tenko killed his whole family, as angsty young misguided antagonist characters sometimes do, and then proceeded to wander the streets feeling all sad about it until All for One just happened!! to come across him and was all “oh you poor thing it looks like you killed your whole family by accident, let me just adopt you and raise you to be my own personal killing machine.” We got some more flashbacks showing just how this transformation took place, plus some answers about the hands that kind of just raised more questions though tbh, and watched as little Tenko made his first premeditated kill after a number of effed up AFO pep talks. AFO then rechristened him “Shigaraki Tomura”, and we learned that Shigaraki is actually AFO’s own last name. The chapter ended back in the present day, with Tomura reflecting on how his family’s death wasn’t really a tragedy after all and ended up setting him free. We’ll have to agree to disagree, kid, but in the meantime have fun fucking up Re-Destro and dealing with Gigantomachia’s rampage!

Today on BnHA: Re-Destro tries to smash Tomura at 100% and absolutely nothing happens. So then he summons a bunch of robot armor bits like fucking Iron Man, and levels up to 150%! Tomura could not care less, because he’s leveled up to be one of those “yawn, is that all you got?” bad guys now, and while RD desperately tries to intimidate him, we briefly check in with the rest of the League. Everyone is freaking out at how quickly Machia is destroying the Liberation Army, and Compress calls Ujiko and frantically begs him to warp them all to safety. But Ujiko is all “nah” and says he wants to drive Tomura into a corner. Meanwhile Gigantomachia finally takes out Dairy Queen, since Dabi was doing fuckall, and the chapter ends with Tomura possibly killing Re-Destro?? To be honest it’s really unclear. For all I know the dude just dropped dead of a heart attack from all that stress. In fact, now that I’ve typed that, I kind of think that’s what did happen. Anyway! The point is I’m pretty sure the battle is finally over.

(All comments are my unspoiled reactions from my initial readthrough of the chapter. I did a quick edit for grammar and clarity immediately afterward, and added one or two ETAs in the process, but aside from that there are no changes.)

so I mentioned this in an ask post a couple days ago, but this recap is a day late because I was out of town this week. consequently I’m behind on my asks and other things as well (I know, what else is new), so I’m sorry about that!

also! @temperatezone informed me that there’s yet another BnHA spinoff coming out, and that the preview chapter debuted last week! so I went to check it out, and holy shit, it’s a manga all about the U.A. kids teaming up with various pro heroes!!!!??!! between this and the new anime season coming up in just two months (it’ll fly by) and BakuDeku: Heroes Rising coming out in December, I feel like I’m being fucking spoiled with BnHA content. and I didn’t even mention the 2nd light novel which just had its official English translation released last month! so all in all it’s a lot of good stuff, and I desperately want to recap chapter 0 of the new spinoff as soon as possible, but it’ll probably be a few days unfortunately, unless I decide to be very irresponsible and do that instead of the piles of work I should actually be doing. we’ll see which impulses actually win out sob

fortunately Jump is on a break next week if I recall, so that’ll give me some time to catch up. anyway let’s start this thing before I manage to procrastinate anymore! so the new chapter is called “Liberation”, probably after a certain army

and the chapter is picking up where we left off before, with Tomura taking his Father Hand out of his pocket and saying he doesn’t need it or any of his other hands

ooooooh

maybe the title isn’t referring to the Liberation Army after all! or just one of those cool double meaning things

oooh man

god but that is satisfying. is there anything more satisfying than seeing a character you’ve been rooting for finally reach out and take control of their own destiny? ahhhh yessss that’s the good shounen shit right there

lol Re-Destro

he finally scared you into using your ~full power~, huh? punk

don’t mind me I’m just appreciating how much of a total badass my boy here is

your move, RD. personally if it were me, I wouldn’t want to fuck with him anymore! but hey your funeral bud

hmmm

the last few chapters have been so well-drawn that I’m starting to think I was maybe getting spoiled. I wonder if Horikoshi will re-do these later for the volume release

anyway so it seems like what’s happening is that RD is trying to hit Tomura with another Almighty Bitchslap and Tomura is not having any of it, basically

oh wow

and this isn’t even the Gigantomachia damage. will there be any pieces of this town left larger than a toothpick once all is said and done here?? stay tuned! but the answer is no

so the rest of this two page spread is just more panels showing vague high-contrast images of the destruction. we’re also briefly cutting to Gigantomachia! and to Dabi, who is still fighting Pinkberry, and like, dude, come on. finish him off already

and now the dust is clearing after that latest clash, and would you guys fucking look at this dramatic bitch though omfg

Shigaraki Tomura: Tattered Goth Remix. you look like the cover of a Bauhaus album. thank god this arc isn’t set somewhere stupidly dark, like, say, a basement

lmao Re-Destro is so mad

once again I would like to point out that you invited him here, you overconfident dishrag

so now Tomura is casually conversing with him

Tomura did you burn one right before this battle. you’re so fucking chill all of a sudden. gotta say that if someone had asked me “what do you think it would take to get Shigaraki Tomura to mellow out” before this arc, I probably would not have answered, “hmm, well maybe flashbacks to his horrific childhood and the violent deaths of all of his loved ones”

well at any rate, watching Re-Destro progressively freak out while Tomura makes more (ﾟ⊿ﾟ) faces is my new form of sustenance, guys

“you seem a bit rattled. a bit ill at ease. perturbed. something’s got you in a tizzy, huh.” ⊂( ・ ̫・)⊃

(ETA: okay but rereading this here, he keeps talking about his heart pounding, and then he goes and summons a fucking robot suit that actually raises his stress on purpose. so like, I don’t know? but I vaguely recall reading a theory on reddit a few weeks ago that RD was going to have a heart attack and it looks like it could really be the case. or not! that last page is really inconclusive.)

and now the Re-Destro flashbacks that absolutely no one asked for! of course!!

-- OH MY GOD

I’M DYING I CAN’T. SEND HELP

Iida I’m so sorry. all this time I have been teasing you and calling you a 40-year-old man, when this whole time it was actually Re-Destro who Benjamin Buttoned his way from his mother’s womb

is he related to the Alpha Kid from the adventures of the Babysitter’s Club? he can’t not be, right? what else could it be? two characters just happening to vaguely resemble one another in a purely coincidental manner?? are you even hearing yourself?! get out!!

um hey, so what the actual fuck is happening

...Krestro??

lol what. Horikoshi Muriel Kouhei, did you seriously just give this fucker Hulkbuster armor. do you just have a list of Marvel comics tribute shit that you check off as you go

so apparently this suit jacks his power up to one hundred and fifty percent! wowwwwwwww

but meanwhile Tomura is all just

what would it take to faze new Toked Goth Remix Tomura, I wonder

sob omg

goddammit now he’s going to want one. Ujiko you’d better get on it

oh my god you guys

I’m starting to feel really bad about all of these nice Twice clones who are being so helpful and are just going to end up dying in the end omg

also, if someone ever asks you, “should I read BnHA,” you can say, “well that depends, how much do you like scenes of characters with two broken arms getting piggyback rides from other characters?” and they’ll be like, “that’s really specific, does that... happen often,” and you can be like, “well it’s officially happened more than once, so”

like, it’s a whole thing now I guess. also, ouch

anyway so Real!Twice is concerned that Machia is having far too easy of a time kicking names and taking ass, and he’s trying to regroup with the rest of the League

oh my god Compress, seriously?

League of Ungrateful Sods, is what you guys are. he’s trying to help you guys out!!

lol Dabi you fucking liar

no you fucking weren’t, you were going to keep fighting him for a million more years. your fight was going to make Goku VS Frieza look like a 15-second Youtube ad. once again, you guys should really be more grateful here

(ETA: why did they even invite Dabi lol. all he did was fight offscreen and have zero (0) flashbacks. fucking tease.)

so now Compress is calling Ujiko and asking him to warp them out of there

what...?

he’s absolutely 100% making this up, right?

lol yeah now even Compress is calling him on it

right, Compress??

okay now Ujiko is straight up telling him no

oh, this is good you guys

Ujiko, I don’t know how to tell you this but while you weren’t looking, the dude hopped on a fucking golf cart and drove his own damn self. and now appears to have made himself pretty damn comfortable in that corner too

oh is Halo Top finally about to fucking die??

the cornerstone?? really?? holy shit, it really is remarkable how thoroughly unprepared these guys actually were in the end

anyway so now more action panels are happening

did Machia kill him? it looks like he survived but just went flying

and what the hell does Hanabata think he’s actually going to be able to do. drive his van at him? give him encouragement??

anyway I guess we’re wrapping this up now, and we’re cutting back to Tomura who’s saying something extremely cool

it is kind of like that. except that it’s bullshit

anyway so it looks like he’s touching the ground and using his decay again and holy shit is this it???

!!!!!

YOU GUYS DID HE JUST DISINTEGRATE RE-DESTRO OH MY GOD. JUST LIKE THAT!!??!

YOU GUYS I HONESTLY CAN’T TELL, ALL I KNOW IS TOMURA TAPPED THE GROUND, AND RE-DESTRO HAD A WEIRD PANEL WHERE YOU COULDN’T SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING, AND HE HAD A THOUGHT AND IT WAS SUDDENLY CUT OFF, AND THEN WE CUT TO GIGANTOMACHIA WATCHING AND WE COULDN’T REALLY SEE ANYTHING OMG

but can you imagine, though?? “one single strike”?! like oh my god, there wasn’t even any fanfare? if he really did just kill him that is pretty much exactly how I would have wanted it to go down tbh

at any rate, it’s safe to say life just got a hell of a lot more dangerous for our Actual Protagonist with this new power-up. shit. oh my god

well I guess that’s it! does that mean this arc is gonna wrap up next chapter. because I’m also going to be away the 16th, so I’ll be a day late in doing that chapter too. I s2g Horikoshi, if you finally cut back to U.A. on a day that I’m not able to read the chapter right away, I will... well actually I’ll be pretty happy regardless, but secretly I will also believe it’s some sort of conspiracy against me. so just know that

#bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha 238 #shigaraki tomura #re-destro #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #makeste reads bnha #dabi I can't believe you abandoned your boyfriend for this #just left him hanging there with a severed head in his backpack #on the plus side this really gives me hope for hawks's ability to fool the league in the future #apparently you don't actually have to kill anyone or do anything remotely useful and your fellow league members will still be fine with it #tomura and twice out here carrying the entire organization #twice buddy #they're not paying you enough

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One Of My Own (5)

Summary: Harry leaves Y/N for her sister

Warnings: angst and fluff

Word Count: 1930 words

And maybe it was stupid of Harry to impulsively visit Y/N at the slither of dusk, and even stupider when he put his key–that he never gave back to her–in the keyhole because she wasn’t answering the door. His mind was fuzzy and he wasn’t thinking clearly; maybe his knocks were too light against the wood of the door. He thought Y/N was ignoring him because he can clearly see a crack of light from underneath in front of his feet. It was the stupidest thing to enter her apartment, ready to softly call out her name. He can smell the food she’d always especially make for him—it wasn’t just his mouth-watering, but his eyes as well because the root of the intoxicating scent was centered on the stove. He couldn’t see the appliance because of two bodies blocking the way.

He really wished that he’d just waited behind the closed door and not witness the sight in front of him.

It was a heartbreaking sight, really. There was no denying that what Harry saw cracked and broke his heart completely. His faint state was now alert and his eyes had never been wider. The beating of his heart increased to a worrying pace, but he couldn’t stray his eyes away from the shocked faces masking the two people he cared about.

“Harry,” Niall breathed out, slightly out of breath from kissing Y/N. Niall’s blue eyes shifted from his friend to the woman in front of him, her own gaze cast on the floor beneath her feet.

“W-what’s going on here?” Harry asked, hearing his voice cracking at the edges. He swallowed harshly, hoping that some of his salivae would hydrate his severely dry throat.

Y/N stepped forward, placing her hands on her hips while she conjured up something to say to her ex-boyfriend. Harry watched her like a hawk. “What are you doing here, Harry? How did you even get in?”

The questions surprised Harry, and frankly; he was the one who let himself in her apartment. He had no probable reason to be in the same room as her, except for the fact that he had a key that opened her door.

He held up the silver key before placing it on the counter, sliding it towards her. Harry buried his hands in his head of hair, slightly tugging on the roots while he breathed heavily to calm himself. His heart was aching and his brain was going in circles; that wasn’t a very good combination because sooner or later, he would most likely be belting out his thoughts out loud.

The image in his head--their lips tucked against each other-- resonated in his mind; mocking him to an extent that rubbed him the wrong way. He knew he had no right to criticize their actions; they were all adults here, but somehow, Harry couldn’t stop himself from echoing that he had Y/N first.

“Is this why you had to leave today, Niall?” Harry spoke in a menacing tone, his voice dripping in a poisonous hatred that lingered, making the air tense. He could see Y/N’s eyebrows furrow in confusion and he mentally patted himself on the back. She glanced at the blonde boy; he didn't tell her this.

“So what if it was?” Niall challenged, standing up a little straighter to match up with Harry’s slight advantage in height. He brushed Y/N’s shoulder a little while he took steps forward to come closer to Harry.

Y/N was on the brink of panic. Although her appetite had been lost, she really had no energy to stop two grown men from brawling on her kitchen floor. Plus, seeing Harry had awoken some sort of vacuum in her; she didn't know if she still had feelings for him or if his presence was just something that bugged her. It was all overlapping inside her and she was definitely confused.

“Ni, stop,” She stretched her arm out to touch his chest, preventing him from moving any further. Y/N was glad when he looked down at her and nodded at her request. “It’s not worth it.”

“Ni? Didn’t know you guys were that close,” Harry scoffed, rolling his eyes to the side. It was no question that Harry was battling with a defense mechanism to care for the dull pain throbbing in his chest. It helped him feel a little less hurt.

Y/N whipped her head at him, her hair slicing through the air with how fast she turned. “You should leave.”

“Why? So you could go back to fucking each other?” Harry retorted, bitterness drowning the words he’d released.

“We weren’t fucking, H” Niall’s accent rung through but he was interrupted, “Shut the fuck up, Horan. I thought you were my friend.”

“I am your friend,” Niall said, confused at his accusations. Harry chuckled sarcastically, raising his brows suggestively.

“Friends don't kiss each others’ girlfriend,” Y/N coughed from the side. Harry stared at her with a shift in his eyes. “Ex-girlfriend,”

Niall was rendered speechless. There was some truth in his words and he couldn’t help but feel an ounce of guilt bubbling inside of him. He pursed his lips, in the thought of how fucked up everything really was.

“You’re one to talk, aren’t you?” Y/N spat, squinting her eyes into slits while she watched his facial expression go from one of being snide to realization and finally, guilt. “Weren’t you the one that kissed my sister? Left me for my own family?”

“I-i” He stuttered. There was no excuse for what he did. As much as he was itching to talk to her about what happened between, being put on the spot right now made him realize how fricking unprepared he was from the questions she would throw at him.

“You what? Got anything else to say,” She gestured to the exit of her place, “cause you can always just leave, oh wait,”

“See, this is exactly why I left you,”

Both Niall and Y/N held their breaths. Did he really just say that to her?

“Leave.”

Harry smirked at her, “Oh come on Y/N. I was only kidding,” And right now, he couldn’t even answer why he was such a taunting asshole at this moment. He wanted to wipe that stupidly, arrogant curve off of his face but he couldn’t do it no matter how much he forced himself to.

“I’m sure it was funny, wasn’t it?” She questioned with a fresh intensity within her. “Bet you laughed about it with Dani, right? Poor, stupid Y/N was a fool once again,”

Harry’s hardened features dwindled slowly from the somber tone of her voice, and he felt a smidge of empathy for her-- much more than what he felt prior. Niall, too, had gaped at her with his mouth partially open. She had never opened up to him fully, he understood-- but seeing her right now at her most vulnerable time; it only made him want to hold her in his arms and protect her from anything that was out to hurt her fragile heart.

“Y/N, that’s not what I meant--,” Harry waved his hands in a cross to emphasize his words.

“Then what did you mean? Did you even mean it when you said you loved me? I want to believe that you did, but you’re making it harder for me to have faith in you,”

“I did love you, Y/N! I do love you,” He gasped out, “I didn’t know why I did that and I swear to you I blame myself every day and night because of what happened to us,”

Y/N agreed with him; he should blame himself for their destroyed relationship. “I mean, who’s fault did you think it was?” She scoffed.

Harry flattened his lips in order to stop himself from saying something rude. “I get it, okay? It’s my fault, you don’t need to rub it in my face,”

“Are you hearing yourself right now?”

Y/N ranted--to both Niall and Harry-- about how she felt. Every word that she spoke held a determined aura to them that shook all of them to the very core. Her emotions were raw and most importantly-- they were valid. She was hurt--she still is-- because of Harry and she felt that he needed to see her broken and shattered because of his actions before she pulled herself out of the abyss and thrive without him.

“You left me for my own goddamn sister and you come in here acting as if you didn't! You have absolutely no right in telling Niall and I what we should or shouldn’t be doing because you’re not my boyfriend anymore,” She lowered her voice, “You’re not mine anymore and I’m not yours, so, please. Do us both a favor and leave,”

“Y/N, i--”

“No! I’m not gonna stand here and listen to you give me a bullshit apology when I could be doing other things,” And in a moment of grandeur, she gestured to Niall immobilized beside her, “You’re such a shitty person right now. I really did love you, Harry,”

“W-we could give it another shot,” Harry uttered, voice as deep as the Mariana’s.

“I feel like I’m talking to a brick wall,”

“But Y/N, we were good together weren’t we?”

“Us? We may have a past but we have no future together. You didn’t want me when we were together, what makes you think I’ll come back to you again?” She was deeply enthralled with his ability to stand by his words, whether they were lies or not--she didn’t know, but she applauded him nonetheless.

“I’ll beg on my knees if that’s what it takes. I will give you everything that you want, Y/N. Please,” He clasped his large hands in a silent plead.

Before, she would’ve taken him back in a heartbeat. Now, she couldn’t help but feel bile rise up her throat, a foul taste lingering on her tongue because Harry had become so desperate to not become lonely that he had thrown away all pride and ego just for a glimpse of love again.

“You’re pathetic, Harry.” She concluded, looking down on him as if he was the most unwanted person ever. And to her, he is someone that she wanted out of her life completely.

“You don't mean that,” Harry croaked, his voice actually cracking with pain, “You’re hurting me, Y/N.” Tears welled up in his green orbs and fell down his pink cheeks from the heat of his body.

“You hurt me too, Harry.” Y/N pointed out to which he nodded sadly, “Guess we’re even, huh?”

His gaze lingered on her face while he muttered a silent goodbye, walking backward and trusting his legs not to make him trip and embarrass him. He kept his focus on her, memorizing every detail on her face; what he would give to comb his fingers through her hair. He scoured her apartment, and with each corner, he visualized the memories they spent together. The flour fights in the kitchen while baking, the sweet spoon-feeding to taste Y/N’s new recipe-- he saw it all in a brief flash of a few seconds. Everything was in slow motion to Harry.

Flickering back his attention to her, arms crossed with a satisfied raise of her brows, he feared that it would be the definite last time that he would see her beautiful face. There was no way that she would let him come close to her, especially not now when he acted like such a jerk and an asshole when she was being true to her feelings.

“I guess we are.”

The door opened and softly shut. It was quiet.

“I’m sorry you had to see that,” Y/N shyly admitted, rubbing her hands on the side of her arms. Niall smiled at her gently and told her that it was okay.

He leaned in for a hug and she gladly accepted his warm embrace, “I’m so proud of you. Makes me wanna protect you more,” Y/N closed her eyes at the thump of his heartbeat, humming against his chest.

“Really?”

“Absolutely,” Y/N looked up at his face and maybe it was the lighting, but the light surrounding his head crowned him with a glowing halo. Y/N decided that despite the long way she had to get back on her feet again, she would be just fine. Especially with an angel standing by her side through it all.

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