Latest Posts by cunicularia - Page 3
ok hear me out; Keigo personally funds a gravestone for Jin after the war that he visits and maintains it as often as his schedule permits
he goes through periods of guilt where he feels like he doesn't deserve to face him and mourn like that so he won't visit for a while, but he always comes back with a pack of cigarettes and fresh flowers after not too long
(he also helps Ochako fund a gravestone for Himiko and they put it right next to Jin's)
A Theory about Shouto's and Touya's birthdays
I've been thinking again about the meaning of Shouto's and Touya's birthdays. What if Shouto's birthday is 111 because it's like the winning combo on a slot machine (getting three ones is a particularly good sign in light of Endeavor's aim to raise a son to be No 1) and Touya's birthday is 118 because he's only "almost perfect"?
And then I did some further research, and sure enough, the in the 18 in Touya's birthday the kanji for 1: ไธ (ichi) and 8: ๅ ซ (hachi) can be found in the following Japanese gambling phrase:
ไธใๅ ซใ =ย ichi ka bachi ka,ย โone or nothingโ, or literallyย โone or punishmentโ - i.e.: a high risk gamble or something like "go for broke".
As in the phrase:
ไธใใกใๅ ซใฐใกใใใฃใฆใฟใใใ
Ichikabachikaย yatte miyล.
Iโll take my chances.
So now I'm 99% convinced that Shouto's and Touya's birthdays are a refence to Endeavor gambling with the kids as if they were prizes in a pachinko slot machines / was playing child gacha?
(Also - Hori's sick sense of humour)
Have I shown my twicehawks baby? Donโt think so. This is tsubasa!! Her colors shift a lot when she gets older so try not to get too attached to mini Goldilocks over here X3
crazy how hawks meets a guy who's a lot like him and that guy burns his back really badly and almost kills him but he just brushes it off like it doesn't get followed up. i just know hawks dreams of that encounter every night for a couple of weeks
hawks finding out dabi's mom risked her life and got badly burned in an attempt to save her terrorist son's life, meanwhile hawks' mom sold him off to the government for some money
Toga and her two families:
scary | cute
restrain | free
repression | permission
distrust | faith
rejection | acceptance
thrown away | welcome back
you know I just now realized that I have seen a thousand posts about That One Jacket but I have never seen a single question about why Hawks is wearing high waters as part of his hero costume
what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if what if wh-
His poker face sucks now
๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ญ๐ฒ - ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฒ
Every day through December I will be drawing Hawks celebrating his birthmonth with characters from other series. Letโs make it a fun Hawkcember 2024! :) ๐ชถ
it's so fascinating to me that dabi & hawks are fraternal foils, yet there's nothing about their dynamic and constellation with endeavor that signifies fraternity, they're in relation to each other as sons of endeavor (emphasis on him, not them). their sense of worth depends of endeavor the patriarch, they center him the way a child centers their parent and it's crazyyy how endeavor indirectly sets up dabi & hawks against each other as filial rivals the way he sets up touya and shoto.
the difference is that touya & shoto have a more tangible rivalry going on while dabi & hawks compete with each other thematically, they have similar experiences with childhood neglect & abuse and choose polar survival strategies so to me, dabi vs. hawks boils down to the dialectics of which post-traumatic survival strategy (fight vs. fawn) leads to the parental attention their inner child desperately craves.
and tbh? idek who actually gets what they wanted or a "kinder" conclusion. dabi dies for the sake of revenge and hawks comes out alive, but it is ultimately dabi who gets to move on from endeavor and focuses on his little brother & the unconditional love he experienced despite everything he put him through, meanwhile hawks is still deeply attached to the endeavor he chose as a pseudo-paternal figure as a 5yo like he doesn't get to move on at all and doesn't receive the fraction of unconditional love that dabi does. it's crazyyy to watch hawks go through all of that and act like nothing happened, as if dabi's presence never challenged his stance on endeavor/abusive men/the way he copes with what happened to him as a child.
and ofc hawks can't do any of that, endeavor as a "redeemable" character only works if hawks is there to remind the reader of his good deeds, which only works if hawks doesn't get to progress and reflect. It's sad but also funny on a meta level because there is a very clear analogy between horikoshi reducing hawks to a tool that suffers from bad writing for the sake of another character's writing and the hpsc reducing hawks to a tool that suffers mentally for the sake of the establishment. (dog motif works so well for hawks but i digress)
idk, one thing i really like about the todoroki subplot is that it's good at showing how an abuser messes with a family's dynamics and renders it dysfunctional, there was no way for touya to be normal about his little brother and ofc he saw shoto's birth and his own death sentence, and there was also no way for dabi & hawks to have a normal relationship either because endeavor is an omnipresent patriarch in their fight. horikoshi barely scratched the surface of dabihawks' dynamic in relation to endeavor and completely ignored it the final arc to ride endeavor a little harder, but the implications are there and i won't let anyone ignore them!!!!!!!!!!!
hawks: where is shigaraki
dabi: hjngng wha