A Look Back At The Family In Ashes.
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.
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INSTANT SHUTDOWN!
Bakugo, after winning: Heh, ever get tired of how much you lose, nerd? That makes what-the hundredth time I’ve shown you up in class?
Izuku:
Izuku: You were born the same day as Hitler.
Bakugo:
Class 1-A:
Todoroki, looking on his phone:…Oh my God, he’s right.
So according to my LNWR James, you guys like silly alt takes, well then, have another one.
LMS Patriot Henry, this idea came from someone else AU, and honestly, looks good, I think in that one Henry was an early prototype of the Patriot Re-Builds, and had issues, but don't quote me on that.
Still haven't made his post-Killdane version, as I have been spriting every, single, 6Ft 9Inch LMS Express engine Since the Large Claughton.
If you want to look at that it's here- https://www.deviantart.com/tsdra90n
I love my MHA OC because normally you go the hero route, and he is strong enough to do that, but he spends his time in developing costumes and hero suits, so he's support course, but is more a Tailor/Chemist rather than the standard Engineer that the rest of them are.
The second this exchange student was on the premises and made aware of the costume situation, he lost a part of himself.
The funny part is that Wyn-Swep is genuinely just me as a character loosing my mind over costume design and policy, I'm making shit up to explain various new costume design developments, made this thing called a Cell Fabric Integrator, or CFI to explain the DNA costumes without having characters to get massive haircuts, might do some posts about Lysander and how the Second Year heroes are the bane of his existence and how he really shouldn't have transferred.
He's a brilliant little British man losing his mind because no one seems to be considering ease of access and comfort in hero suits.
You can accually read him interacting with Class A in my Fic Peizoelectic.
Wonderful Segway Midnight, granted he doesn't appear proper until Chapter 13, but has one or two references made to him before hand.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/58726714/chapters/149650363
Go have a read.
Don't blame him Spiderman is awesome
Fanboy on Fanboy violence (ft. Spider-Man)
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Icons, truly
Saving this one for later
Don't think I ever posted these, but I was pretty happy with them, he kinda looks DCAU style-ish, not sure why might be the eyes.
Hey remember this hero who appeared in Rising, who looked an awful lot like a Kaminari?
Well I do, she's labeled in the Credits simply as AA, which is a pity because she has an awesome design and seemingly neat quirk, some sort of electrical whip that she summons from between her hands.
Well I decided to draw her, and go with the popular fandom theory/in-joke, that's she's Denki's mother. So here she is.
Now I'm shit with human anatomy, I draw trains most of the time, so she looks rather funky.
I've named her Arashi, meaning Storm or Tempest, fitting of the Kaminari matriarch, her name Catanary is a miss spelling of Catenary, but I think it's better as Catanary seeing as it's three A's being Triple A as in the battery and in reference to her (In my writings) Three Children.
Speaking of which that's what the numbers up top represent, the age age which she had them all, her oldest Citron at 25, Denki at 29 and her youngest Eureka at 35, so she's doing really well for a 45 year old hero who had three kids.
In terms of personality I think she would be reasonably close to Jirou in that regards, they do have similar eye-designs, she's a sassy more reserved woman, who has a tendency to make fun of her kids for silly things they do, she even had a few self image issues in high school, but you wouldn't note that from the raw confidence she radiates, even at her height of 5'7.
She used to be one of the billboard sweethearts when she went fully pro at 21, but she met her soon to be partner at 22 and was interspersed when she wasn't raising at least one kid her longest run in the spotlight was when she was 32 which was about the time that Jirou got to see her on TV and the like, became one of her favorites, lost interest at seven so hadn't fully grasped her last name, and didn't realise she and Denki were related until second year.
I think she's pretty fun, and of course she'll be appearing in Peizo, she's just too cool not to.
And hey if anyone of you who are better at drawing humans want to have a crack at drawing her, please do she has such a lovely design that sadly went to waste for small scene at the start of a very good movie.
Should I or should I not do a big KamiJirou post discussing why they mirror each other so well?
Ahh well I'll so one anyway, at somepoint.
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