He Says He's Going To Try Shoot A Former Member Of The SAS, I Don't Know If That's Bravery Or Stupidity,

I adore the idea of the various weird occurrences on the island are caused by Fey, that Owl, probably a Fey.

Percy's "Obscure Antecedents"

Ended up having to repost this because of mobile tumblr nonsense, but.

Fun thought: Percy having "obscure antecedents" is really interesting because someone could have just ASKED him when he was built. I feel like Sir Topham Hatt must have done so when he was purchased. In which case, why would that information be concealed from the Thin Clergyman? What motivates Percy (and supposedly Sir Topham) to be cagey about his past?

Well, here are some seemingly unrelated facts:

-Percy has been shown to have some fear of the supernatural, which seems to be pretty uncommon for engines. He also never really seems to grow out of it.

-Percy is pretty accident-prone, and it's not always his fault.

-Sodor feels pretty supernatural in various ways, and given its relation to the Isle of Man, there could very well be fey/fairies or ghosts or both.

My personal headcanon is that Percy was built around the early 1910's, perhaps a year or two before Thomas (which makes sense given that he'd had a rebuild before being purchased by the NWR and brought to Sodor in 1926 or so). More importantly, however, I imagine that he was finished on April 30th, between the hours of 3 and 4 AM. (For our purposes, we'll say April 30th, 1913.)

That's right: Percy was finished on the witching hour of Walpergeis Night. A decent chunk of his misfortune comes from the fact that he's, unfortunately for him, "fey-touched" or otherwise supernaturally connected.

Thus, he can instinctively sense the supernatural, as in it sends shivers through his frames, but he can't see them, and that almost makes it worse: he knows something's there, but he can't see it or otherwise sense it. Plus, when you're close to the supernatural, the supernatural often knows it. I think poor Percy just gets messed with by Things Barely Beyond His Perception sometimes and yeah, that can be pretty stressful. Perhaps Percy's rebuild(s) and oddly chimera-like composition was the result of previous owners quietly trying to break him of this connection/curse(?) by replacing various parts and hoping that enough replacement would dispel the effect. (It didn't, of course, but it was worth a try.)

Of course, Sir Topham, being a good Christian gentleman, would not let ANY of this information slip to the Thin Clergyman. Even if what Percy says is true (and the Sudrian in him says it just might be, even if the Christian in him doesn't want to believe it), nobody can know, especially a man of the cloth. For one, it might lead to unsavory rumors like "the railway is haunted" or "fairies are around." For two, the last thing they need is an exorcism or other such activities happening on their railway, as that would only fuel point 1. So, Sir Topham decides that this information is better left unrecorded, and he'll just pass it along to his son privately when the railway changes hands.

("But Te! Wouldn't the engines count as iron? Wouldn't fey traditionally be unable to do anything to them?" Strictly speaking, it's hard to say. However, even if we go with the most generous interpretation, that being "all iron/steel is bad for fey," I am inclined to believe that at the date and time that Percy was completed, the supernatural forces were strong enough that it didn't matter. Perhaps Percy should count himself lucky; if a human were born under similar circumstances, the supernatural would likely have a much greater grasp upon them. By virtue of being a creature of fire and iron, he inherently resists the worst of it.)

Man I haven't posted anything related to Piezo here in ages, sorry to like the maybe one person that was following me for that here.

Have this adorable Kamijirou moment

Genderbends more of your trains

Some days artists just get you, you know?

Denki and Jirou my beloveds

The extra time was probably getting all of the OFA functionality in it, Gearshift obeys no laws of physics, I assume the time was trying to get all the systems to work.

MEI HATSUME COULD HAVE BUILT THIS IN A CAVE!!!! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!!!

THE LITERAL FIRST THING SHE SHOWS IZUKU IS THIS MECH SUIT! IT WAS RIGHT AFTER THE SPORTS FESTIVAL SO BEING GENEROUS, IGNORING ALL HER OTHER INVENTIONS, SHE MADE A MECH SUIT IN 3 WEEKS.

BUT THIS SUIT TOOK 8 YEARS ALONGSIDE MELISSA AND DAVID SHIELD? BULLLLLLLLL SHIT

A look back at the family in ashes.

MHA has the distinct issue with the fact it's one guy writing it with a few editors chipping in, I think a lot of Manga and Anime could avoid some of their issues with just not expanding and using concepts.

Like there is so much in MHA that could have more done with it, there are more characters then there is time, there are 20 Students in the class, but I don't think we even know the reason they wanted to become heroes, what are the motivations for half of them?

Heroism has become this sort of sport in a way, competitive and there are so many of them, they have a ranking system, from memory, No Other Series Has a Ranking System For Heroes, because they don't need them, all other series have your Listers, A, B, C, D, there is no numerical title, and what the fuck does it mean to be No.1.

See that's what I want to see, why the fuck does being No.1 matter? And who better to ask that question in verse by Shoto, a victim of this sport, him and his brothers breed like Pokémon for their fathers selfish ambition to a title that in the long terms is really meaningless, a target really, what is being No.1 if anything but a status symbol, a don't fuck with me sign, the get out of jail free card. Like seriously did anyone ever explain what the fuck being number one even meant?

Why the fuck do Katsuki and Izuku even want that title, they just want it to be the best?

What I would have loved to see but I am so disappointed that we didn't get was MHA's version of Young Justice's Disordered, a final reflection and dissection's of the characters, the Todoroki's are their worlds version of the Wayne family.

Show me why Shoto is the better version of Endeavour, not just in power but who he is as a person, someone better, he wouldn't want anyone to endeavor what he and his family went through, he is MHA's Dick Grayson so desperate to become nothing like his father, taking the best parts of him making himself better, stable not one to create his own legacy through a child. He doesn't want another him, another Natsou, Fuyumi or Touya, he doesn't want another Endeavour as that name isn't a symbol of Enji's desire to become No.1 to Endeavor through everything that life throws, but no.

Endeavor isn't his title, it is badge of shame, it's not his. Endeavor is the title of the family, to hold out against him, Rei was endeavoring so much pain from seeing her family burn around her, eldest burning.

Fuyumi was holding out for the hope of a normal life, one she could enjoy and share with her family.

Natsou was holding out for the day he could leave to become his own person as far away from his family as he could.

Shoto Endeavored to even become himself he lost his childhood, but you can't lose something you never had.

And Touya, that poor boy so wide eyed and simply wanting his fathers love, his father to save him, but he burned his father frozen watching him, only to be saved by a demon who walked out of the flame.

This is MHA's Batfamily, and Touya has so much in common with Jason it hurts, they both just wanted their Father to save them, but they burned, Bruce tried to save Jason but he couldn't Enji froze, the two were brought back by demons, and had no qualms about murder, to kill to get that attention after they lost a portion of their lives.

But they never explore that, Horikoshi has had several chances to ask, how does it feel to die and be revived, to lose that time, but he never has.

If he had a few other writers to conifer with, you'd get something truly interesting, MHA needed more time in the oven, it has the hallmarks of a truly interesting story, but really didn't get the time to develop, so much was left unanswered, unwritten and unresolved, the status at the end of the series is the same, yeah it gets slightly better, but does it.

We still have people wanting to become heroes, we still have the rankings we still have people gunning for first, and what's that going to do?

Create another Todoroki family, and with Quirk Singularity that oversight of Hubris is going to start festering again, it may not be from the demon in the shadows, but rather the man in the mirror repeating the same mistakes that one man driven by the selfish desire for first made.

And this time they won't be facing Touya with an equal, but they might be facing Magneto with no answer.

This just make me think of the Rustage cypher.

You don't want that static with me homie its fatal

I've got much energy I'm plugged in without the cable

I feel like static electricity shocks from Denki would be fucking LETHAL

They didn't contact him, nah he was just hard to contact.

Right so had a thought about MHA's time skip, what if the reason none of them could get in contact with Izuku is because he was off doing his own Bruce Wayne training arc, like everyone is actively trying to contact him but he keeps saying he's elsewhere.

Shoto: "So I called him last week to ask if we could have some lunch at that nice Bistro, he said he couldn't make it as he was out of the country"

Momo: "Where was he?"

Shoto: "He said something about Monk's in Nepal"

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Katsuki: "That bastard Izuku is never even here where does he keep getting to!"

Hanta: "Last I checked he said he was in America"

Denki: "Where?"

Hanta: "New Jersey"

Denki: "Why the fuck is he in New Jersey?"

Katsuki: "Studying in Archam City"

Mina: "Didn't a new vigilante pop up in that city recently?"

Eijirou: "Yeah Green Finch, oh my god"

Denki: (Head in Hands) "He's working with the fucking Batman isn't he?"

Mina: "Ohh that's defiantly him"

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Tim: "You know that new guy Izuku is pretty great, but there's something about him that rubs me the wrong way"

Dick: "And that is?"

Tim: "He's a hero getting a higher education in Archam, where it has been proven that higher academia is one of the contributing factors to becoming a villain, so I'm very confused about his choice of actions from here on out"

Dick: "Okay yeah that does sound rather weird"

So I totally didn't spend 2 hours superimposing Denki's head onto ACDC Guitarist Angus Young.

Just figured that Denki would absolutely emulate his style if the band were to do shows unrelated to UA.