#while league-eri au's are cute and stuff

[mettywiththenotes]

How do you think an interaction between Tomura and Eri would go? I have my own post about it that I'm working on, but I would love to hear your thoughts!

Hmmm hard to say

It's hard to imagine Tomura around little kids

Sometimes I imagine that he'd accidentally scare Eri with how he looks (not just looks but. The Villain Vibes. plus yknow she saw him destroy half the city on tv, thank you very much for that core memory all might) and he'd be all "...whatever" about it but still feel sorry for her, maybe even try to make her feel comfortable afterwards? Not get too near and let Eri have her space

I think he'd be cautious around her. You could put it down to him just not knowing what to do around kids or being afraid he might hurt her somehow, whatever

I do think Eri would be at least a little scared of him at first but if Tomura were to behave carefully, she wouldn't be tempted to run away. Or maybe she'd just find him both scary and strange for a while

I don't know how exactly they'd get to any bonding

Sometimes I like to imagine that Eri, for whatever reason, is self conscious about her scars. Maybe she's trying to hide them or she's upset and clinging to whoever she feels safe with, however she shows it. And then Tomura just shows her his scars, the ones on his face and such, maybe just as a "hey I'm the same, I have scars too, a person who was supposed to take care of me did this" thing

(Tho when I imagine that scenario, I also think about Izuku being in the same room and watching this, and maybe showing his own scars too on his arms. Just the 3 of them talking about it and Izuku is the balance of positivity about it, because I doubt Tomura would have a lot of positive things to say about his scars. So Izuku would be the one to say "these are proof that I've lived, and that's the same for you! for Shigaraki as well!" etc ndsfnisdjk)

Honestly not sure how Tomura and Eri would interact if the League were still together (you know those League-Eri au's?). I always imagine them meeting in scenarios where Izuku has already saved Tomura and the two just end up interacting somehow (maybe through association with Izuku? the I Was Saved By A Teenage Hero And Now He's My New Brother club)

Part of me thinks Tomura would also have a little bit of awareness about what she thinks? Idk, maybe it's just me jumping to conclusions but those comments he made in his backstory narration about kids being simpler and sneakier and saying "when you're little, a grown ups words are absolute" tipped me off to that. Maybe he wouldn't have an exact knowledge about it, but he'd be able to guess with how he felt when he was younger? If that makes sense

I do think, despite how distant or awkward Tomura might be with Eri, he'd be kind to her too. Again, the whole "I know what it's like to be that scared as a child" thing coming into play. This also ties in with the above paragraph, how he could relate to her in a way?

If we're to go with the After Tomura Is Saved scenario I mentioned before, with how Eri seems brighter in canon now and a little more eager to do things, I think she could also help him improve somehow. Not in a huge way, but just. in small ways. Maybe seeing someone much younger than him recover from a similar situation could help Tomura feel better and want to do better

Finally, I can't help but think Eri would love to braid his hair. Imagine Nejire taught her how to do it and now she can't stop, and she sees Tomura's long hair and she's like 🤩. And if Tomura is okay with being touched, he'd let her do it while he's playing a game or something. He doesn't really pay much attention to her actions until she's all done and he's looking in the mirror and he's like "hm. oh 😳 huh"

(I'm living vicariously through a 6 year old. I wanna braid his hair so bad)

Sorry this is kind of a messy scattered way to lay out my ideas but. thems the thoughts

#while league-eri au's are cute and stuff #i just love to imagine tomura meeting eri after he's been saved #mostly because it would involve izuku somehow (at least i like to think it would) and #idk its nice to think about tomura interacting with eri and bonding with her and izuku seeing that #seeing how it affects eri #seeing how much calmer tomura seems #and thanking every star in the sky that he decided to save tomura #that he gets to see this - something he never thought he would #seeing him hang out with a little girl and tell her she's not alone #and being like 'holy shit i never realised that they're. the same' #idk idk nobody touch me im emotional #thank you for the ask!😊 #asks with metty #bnha asks #tomura shigaraki #eri #god im sorry i keep repeating words and stuff #im just not really in the mood to make this look presentable nsdfindsjkfsd let the thoughts ramble

[shaaknaa]

So... I have this AU right? I'm not gonna post it til a do a bit of research and can do the big reveal (which will take place during the second Bakugo v Deku fight, unless it stays vague in which case it will be post-Eri). Problem is, a lot of stuff stays the same, so if I wrote it properly I'd just be rewriting canon. And like... I'm not here to rewrite canon just as it was with slightly different dialogue every 10 episodes. Fuck that.

Proposed Summary: Inko and Mitsuki are dating and Bakugo has Opinions.

....

"Hey Deku!"

"Ochiko! What… did you just call me?"

"Oh, I thought it was a nickname? Bakugo calls you that all the time. I thought it was cute! Like 'I can do it!"

"He calls me that to give me a hard time."

"Oh… I can stop if you'd like?"

"Nah, you're right. It's kinda cool. Besides," he sighs, "I prefer it to some of the other things he calls me."

"Izuku…" Iida started. "If you have a problem with Bakugo I can talk to him. Try to get him to stop-"

Izuku laughed. An honost to God amused laugh. "It's fine Iida. Kacchan knows exactly what the problem is. All you'd do is restart the drama I'm trying to delay."

"Are you sure? Maybe if you have someone to mediate?"

That just brought Izuku's laughter back up, "Iida, if all goes well it'll just resolve itself while he's avoiding me. Otherwise, you'll find out eventually."

"He's avoiding you?" Asked Ochako. "But he yells at you as much as everyone else!"

"He's not very good at it, but I can tell."

…..

"Umm… Kacchan."

He let out a long sigh, "what?"

"We uh… need to make a plan to pass the test. Could… could you…"

He'd been doing his best to not talk to Deku for months now. Ever since They'd started their *separate* training for UA entrance exams. Katsuki took a deep breath, "I wanna fight All Might. You're not stopping me."

The way Deku's face lit up almost made Katsuki forgive him. Almost. But he'd set aside his anger to win.

"Yeah! Let's win this Kacchan! We'll pass with flying colors." Of course the nerd went for a hug.

"Of course," he scoffed. "I'm taking it."

…..

"Oh! Hello all of you, good to see so many of you visiting."

Kirishima turned around and saw two women. A short somewhat chubby one with long green hair, and… Bakugo's Mom? Bakugo was just kidnapped by the League of Villains, shouldn't she be with the police?

"Hey Mom, hey Aunt Mitsuki."

Aunt?

"Oh Izuku! Are you doing alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Mostly just worried about Kacchan."

Kirishima was going to follow everyone else but at that he turned back and did his best to gesture a warning about what he was walking into.

Deku clearly saw him, but chose to ignore his warnings.

"We all are," Deku's mom said. "But we're going to have to trust that the heroes can save him."

Kirishima decided now was a good time to leave, but before he could Bakugo's mom grabbed his shoulder and grinned menacingly, "I'm sure you're worried too Kirishima. Why don't you stay a while."

"Oh, I wouldn't want to impose…"

"It's fine… Right Inko?"

Deku's mom smiled the kindest most worried smile he'd seen in his life, "Of course, come sit down."

He couldn't say no to both those smiles.

After a while Deku's mom left to go to the bathroom and Bakugo's mom turned to the both of them, "I'm going to make myself perfectly clear while we can't worry her. You two are not allowed to do anything stupid. Do you hear me?"

Kirishima froze, not knowing how to respond. Fortunately Deku seemed capable, "Of course not Auntie. If Aizawa caught us we'd be expelled."

Bakugo's mom looked Deku straight in the eye, clearly not buying it, "you know how he gets when you usurp his role as protector."

*That* got Deku to shift nervously and grumble, "it's not like he asked any of us before he took the role."

"*Izuku*."

Deku sighed, "*fine*. Yes, I know how he gets." Deku then somehow gathered the balls to look her straight in the eye. Stubbornly. Like some sort of suicidal mule.

She smirked, "good. I'm glad you've finally learned about plausible deniability. You're not allowed to get injured again too soon."

The rest of the visit was a blur. Before he knew it he was outside meeting with everyone else.

"So Deku…" Kirishima whispered at him. "Bakugo's mom isn't going to report us, is she?"

"Nah. She always said that you can report someone doing wrong, but if they're just breaking rules then snitches get stitches."

"What?"

"She thinks our mischief is adorable."

"….*what.*"

#bnha #mha #bakugou katsuki #midoriya izuku #deku #bakugo has opinions #inko/mitsuki #crack #au #fanfic

[makeste]

I was glad to see you enjoyed my Top 10 ask. You did mention you had a ranking for the arcs - would you do a ranking for them? Like, worst to best? (My guess (of the arcs you've finished): Internship arc, Hero Killer Arc, License Exam, USJ, Intro Arc, Culture Fest, Battle Trial, Pro-Hero arc, Final Exams, Sports Fest, Camino Ward, DvKp2; since you haven't liveblogged Joint Training Arc yet, no clue.) Just curious.

good morning evening everyone, and welcome to another Wednesday episode of “makeste tries to answer asks from two months ago while on the bus.” this one is a bit of an interesting challenge since it involves ranking and that always takes me a long time, but as you said, I did have an ongoing ranking of the arcs in my head, so we’ll see. at the very least the ones at the beginning and end shouldn’t be too hard, and you can probably guess them already. (in fact, you actually did.)

(ETA: yeah this took me two sittings to do, so I ended up posting it on the ride home lol. I just like BnHA you guys. almost as much as I like talking about how much I like it!)

okay so here goes.

14. Basement arc - yeah so let’s just go ahead and get this over with. this is the one and only BnHA arc that I actually dislike. fortunately it’s an outlier and suffered from a bunch of one-time issues, most of which stem from the fact that Horikoshi was apparently trying to write a longer and darker arc than usual. well he succeeded! and thankfully learned his lesson. and at least this arc gave us Eri and Mirio and some good Kirishima flashbacks and Chekov’s Quirk-Be-Gone bullets and the Highway to Hell. hopefully the anime can improve on the rest.

13. Provisional License arc - okay, so it might surprise a few people that this arc is all the way down here. let me explain. this is a perfectly fine arc, and I like it well enough, but it’s a bit longer than it needs to be, and not that much happens in it aside from our introduction to best boy Yoarashi Inasa, and the Great Toga Conspiracy (which is admittedly excellent). there are some great moments (Aoyama doing his best impression of “THE BEACONS ARE LIT” from RotK comes to mind), but overall it’s fairly forgettable, and it suffers from being placed directly in between my two absolute favorite arcs, which means I have a tendency to overlook it, which isn’t really the arc’s fault.

12. Hero Killer arc - this one is interesting because I really lost patience with it during my first read-through, but strangely enough when I watched it in the anime I actually really enjoyed it. it was also much shorter than I remembered. I’ve belatedly realized that reading it while doing commentary really slowed me down, because for the parts that I wasn’t feeling, doing the commentary took a long time and also left me dwelling on a lot of the things I didn’t like. but in actuality, Stain’s Annoying Rants aside, this is a pretty enjoyable arc full of Big Hero 6 flashbacks, hot revenge-driven Iida, Gran Torino’s introduction, Deku learning full cowl, Bakugou’s Best Jeanist internship, and Todoroki saving Deku and Iida’s lives by being glued to his phone when he really should have been paying attention to his own internship. get off that social media already Shouto.

11. USJ arc - this is a great arc, but it just feels small compared to everything that happens afterward. but it’s fun to look back on because there are lots of little hints for future developments to come. the traitor theory, for instance. and this is also our introduction to the League and to Tomura and the Noumu. and that final fight between All Might and the Noumu is still one of my favorite scenes in the whole series, especially in the anime. it’s so fucking good you guys. shit.

10. Intro arc - just FYI, I lump everything from the first chapter up until USJ into one arc since it’s easier. anyways, so this is roughly on the same level as USJ, but gets a slight edge because there are some iconic moments here. namely, the first chapter (which is still one of the best shounen intro chapters I’ve ever read, if not the best); Kacchan VS Deku 1; the entrance exam; and our introduction to the rest of class 1-A, particularly Ochako and Iida. oh, and Aizawa! gotta love how he starts out all ready to expel some bitches only to wind up falling in love with the whole class. fatherhood agrees with him.

9. Band AU arc - I actually love this arc. I just love all of the ones above it on the list a bit more, and I can’t really justify it being any higher than this. but it has The Band and the Babysitting Squad and Mirio being the best big brother in the world and Eri being just ridiculously, astonishingly cute. Gentle and La Brava are also great villains, if not quite my favorites. there are a few questionable plot holes in the arc, and it lacks any sort of big impact on the rest of the series, but it’s basically a canon filler arc and it’s so much fun and I can’t wait to see it animated.

8. Fanfic Lodge arc - you guys this arc started out so fucking cute and ended up so fucking tense. and this was our intro to the League of Villains proper, including Spinner, Twice, Tuxedo Mask, the prodigal Todoroki son, and my best girl Toga. Deku VS Muscular is still hard for me to read (his liiiiiiiimbs) but it’s one of Deku’s best moments regardless. and the angst at the end of the arc is almost unparalleled. god I love it.

7. Final Exam arc - a.k.a. the one where all the kids team up with each other to shoot their teachers in the fucking face. this arc has it all: Momo character development, Bakugou character development, TodoMomo, BakuDeku, and Aizawa being a total badass. (and All Might too, but he’s kind of overkill tbh. which is its own kind of awesome though.) there’s so much good stuff in this arc that this description is a bit vague because if I got any more specific we’d be here all day. it’s just a lot of good stuff that I like.

6. Joint Training arc - dudes I love this arc so much. class B and their array of ridiculously awesome quirks! class A and their impeccable teamwork! Bakugou joining the OFA Scooby Squad and showing off his new WIN AND RESCUE COMBO! Monoma! Shinsou!! SIXQUIRKS!!! god there’s so much great content.

5. Endeavorhawks arc - this arc would be even higher except that it’s a bit short (though it’s perfectly paced, so that might actually be a plus) and it doesn’t feature as many of my faves. but Hawks’s intro + our intro to The Great Noumu Conspiracy + Todoroki Family Drama + some of the best character development I’ve seen in a shounen manga (god I still can’t get over what a ballsy move it is to try and redeem Endeavor) = solid gold. and it’s so well done. and caps off with one of the best plot twists in the series to date, which sets up what promises to be one hell of an interesting arc later down the line. just. it’s so good. possibly the best-written arc to date, even if it doesn’t quite top my list.

4. My Villain Academia arc - and this isn’t even done yet!! and it’s still already this high!! Tomura flashbacks! Toga flashbacks! TOUYA FLASHBACKS???! (we’ll see??) creepy cults! my new favorite character One-Handed Giran, the biggest badass in the whole fucking series! worldbuilding for days! Dr. Robotnik! more Noumu shit! etc. etc. this arc has been non-stop goodness and I almost feel spoiled at this point.

3. Sports Festival arc - the most fun of all the arcs. I have rewatched the cavalry battle in the anime like a bazillion times. there used to be this show on Nickelodeon called Wild & Crazy Kids where kids teamed up for all these zany competitions (water balloons were usually involved), and I fucking loved that show, and parts of this arc kinda have that same kind of spirit. it’s just fun. and then to top it all off we have our Shouto character development, as well as Bakugou’s little character arc that he also has which is excellent. not to mention what is probably Ochako’s most badass moment to date. love it.

2. Kamino arc - guyyyys where do I even start? this arc is perfection. good VS evil. All Might taking a stand even when he’s got nothing left in the tank, because the world needs him and he won’t let them down. the sheer visceral terror of AFO’s introduction. my favorite character getting fucking kidnapped and being brave AF and his friends rallying to save him yesssss. and the reveal of All Might’s secret, which is arguably the most powerful scene in the series. I get chills every time. “my heart is still the heart of the symbol of peace.” if All Might had announced at that moment that he was starting a new religion I would have been like “yeah okay.” I would follow him to the ends of the earth. how can one man be that selfless and brave. anyways this arc is absolutely incredible and objectively one of the best in all of shounen.

1. Deku VS Kacchan Part 2 - nothing to see here, just two boys who’ve known each other since they were in diapers, who’ve done everything together and have always been together but have never actually understood each other until now. just the two of them finally opening up to each other, because the one who always tried to act so tough actually isn’t that tough, in truth, and in spite of everything, he trusts the other enough to let his guard down around him this one time. just two rivals, sorting out their shit and figuring out what it all really means. and their dad, helping to facilitate the whole thing because he knows that one day, somewhere down the road, this bond between them will mean absolutely everything. is this really even an arc?? it’s only like six chapters, and only one event actually takes place. but do I care?? yeah, no. Deku and Kacchan’s relationship is the series to me, so yeah. to me it counts as an arc. and not just any arc, but the best arc.

so there you have it! I hope I haven’t accidentally left something out lol. but this should hopefully be a pretty definitive list, at least for now. looking back at all of this really makes it sink in just how good of a story this is, though. damn.

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