Im Not Opposed To People Making Tsubomi A Lesbian But I Do Find It To Be Kinda Shallow When People Reduce

love when this happened

there was entirely too much effort put into this and now all of you have to look at it

So in your mind Bakugou, a child, should have died? Really?

Bakugou is a fictional character.

The parasocial relationship and puritan crap I keep seeing is just weird.

But if you actually want what I think should have happened with Bakugou? I said it before: his arc should have ended with him being mid-rank and completely content with being a secondary hero. No agency, no top twenty position.

Bakugou is set up as being what society thinks a hero should be. Strong, fit, Flashy Quirk.

Yet as we know he's not a good perso. He makes fun of the guy who doesn't have a Quirk which is treated as a disability. He uses rude nicknames which kinda are Quirkist to. Commenting on the physical appearance of mutant characters who are said to suffer from discrimination due to said appearance. The fact he not only purposely triggers a side effect of a Quirk but seems to mug Kaminari for money to give to Kirishima despite the fact he is a rich kid. (I can’t remember if its said the money is his or not but its one of those panels I never know about.) The aggressiveness, the rudeness- it adds up.

What should have happened if we want to make Bakugou go through character development to be a better person is that he 1) faces more consequences for his attitude then he does in canon (IE: he is called out for the insults and name calling. A few angry comments from Shouji, Tsu or any of the mutant characters should have occurred. He gets called out and when he doesn't change people avoid him. He is ignored by them unless they are working with him or he needs help. Its made clear they do not want to be around him.) 2) faces actual punishment for his actions towards Izuku or others (IE: Kaminari makes a complaint about being forced into whey mode, Bakugou gets a warning or something. He receives punishment for nearly killing Izuku during the battle trials and ignoring a teacher. He is disqualified for trying to attack Todoroki after his match at the sports festival, not that mess of a situation) 3) Is not in any way an ‘important’ character.

The third one is tricky so I'll explain. It goes beyond the ‘Izuku shouldn't be have to be friends with Bakugou like he kind of is’ issues I have.

By this I mean Bakugou should be redundant as a character and the narrative shows it. He should find himself sinking while everyone else climbs higher. His Quirk SHOULD have actually drawbacks we see. Not just the mention of wrist issues. We should see him hurt himself and need to take a second. He should have frankly lost the sports festival to Uraraka and not gone on. And part of that SHOULD have been his Quirk not working how he wanted it to. Because the world relies on Quirks and Bakugou is hyper reliant on his.

Make it clear that's why. Then I want Bakugou to not be at the top of the class. Why? Because he is the normal fish who moved from his tiny pond to a big old ocean. Yes, he’s smart but take it from someone whose brother was smart in a small town: that don’t mean shit when your teachers suck.

Bakugou can be top ten. I just want him to have to face the fact he isn't the top of the class. The big dog on campus because everyone else is just as driven as he is, and some of them are smarter or faster or more skilled then he is.

This should end with Bakugou making his realization after the final exams where he hits Izuku and is flunked for it. It should have been noted and due to the fact in a real situation like that you'd end up probably arrested or investigated, he fails.

This should have been the turning point. When we actually see Bakugou break down. When the class has stepped away from him. When the only one sticking around is Kirishima because the guy honestly thinks Bakugou can be a better person.

Key phrase: CAN BE. Not that he is. I want it to be clear Kirishima sees good in Bakugou and wants to bring it out. Not that Bakugou is secretly a tsundere.

This is the turning point became it leads to the LOV attacking the camp looking for Bakugou because they see him like them. I want them to have noticied his antics in the festival where he is aggressive and loud. I'd like for Aoyama to have been feeding info about recruits. I want Bakugou to hear they want HIM as he's villainous and this should shake him.

He isn't kidnapped. Someone else is. Tokoyami actually to bring focus to mutation and Quirk discrimination.

I want Bakugou to truly have to look at HIMSELF as a person. And realize he isn't what he wants to be. A hero.

This leads into him eventually becoming a much better person as he works through his shit. Its going to be messy. And I want him to struggle through it. While doing so he slowly fades into the background. We turn attention to Uraraka, Todoroki, Tsu, Aoyama and Iida as the secondary characters to our protagonist Izuku.

We get to know them, we get to know Aoyama as he integrates himself into their circle. We have way more of a punch for the traitor.

In the end I want an apology from Bakugou to Izuku that is meaningful and honest and then… he goes off, becomes a hero ranked like 150 and is happy. He's buddies with Kirishima and a few others, he goes to the reunion with a hi. Maybe the offer of a team up or not.

And I think that would have been the perfect ending to his arc. From the bully to the atoner.

Gosh I hate grind culture. My little sister just started medical school and all of her orientation leaders are like “you absolutely cannot have a life WHATsoever you WILL have to give up EVERYTHING besides this program say GOODBYE to your hobbies and relationships” and now she’s calling me feeling guilty for running and going to the grocery store and that’s just WRONG! And that is exactly what I was told starting law school as well, and rejecting that mentality was the best thing I ever did but it was so hard not to buy into. Anyway if any of you are in an intense academic program PLEASE take time to sleep and eat and exercise and maintain your relationships and keep up your hobbies! you are not a robot who exists solely to study and I promise that living a life and staying physically and mentally healthy is not going to make you fail

Could you tell some of the differences between ENFP and ENFJ? I know they're really different but as far as Ne vs Fe goes, I feel like sometimes they can *appear* similar in social situations

Generally, you’ll know you’re around a person with Ne in their stack when you have 654 different conversations in the course of an hour and wonder how you effortlessly went from cream cheese to inner-galactic travel. The person with high Ni is still trying to figure out the deeper implications of a single event or theory six months after the high Ne has abandoned the topic and moved on. 

The primary observational difference I’ve noticed when you have an ENFJ vs. an ENFP involved is the ENFJ is tuned in to all the ‘mind games’ people are playing with you (FeNi), whereas if you present a problem to the ENFP, they head straight for tert-Te “fix it” mode.

Someone brings up a problem they are having in the group and the ENFJ realizes swiftly this is a cry for attention and they want affirmation and/or are aiming for sympathy, so the Fe-dom goes along with it by empathizing and/or discreetly steering the conversation in a more positive direction. Healthy ENFJs are patient with others and can usually figure out diplomatic questions which will help others through their emotional turmoil; the most skilled ENFJs are able to point others toward self-empowerment through these questions, without ever putting themselves at risk of being ‘blamed’ for the other person’s choices (because all the ENFJ did was ask questions and pose potential motives; they let the individual draw their own conclusions; Fe gives them this tact / skill, and Ni supplies them with what they believe is ‘behind’ this person’s actions, as well as an ability to think ‘how will this play out in the future if this goes wrong?’).

The ENFP, being ‘disconnected’ from the emotional environment (Fi), will assume the person brought it up because they want to fix it, and start going through a litany of possible fixes rather than simply saying, “Aww, I’m sorry.” FiTe is not terrific at extended bouts of extroverted sympathy, especially if the person brings up the same problem multiple times over a long period of time but rebuffs any suggestions on how to fix it. (Being a strong Te type, the ENFP may decide this person only wants to complain, not change, and since Ne wants forward momentum, this person has become a ‘lost cause’ in the Ne/Te looper’s eyes.) Since their emotions are internal, ENFPs are more comfortable with ‘fixing the problem’ than ‘talking it out’ (INFPs, being better connected to their own feelings, have a deeper capacity for understanding and are more comfortable with ‘comforting’ others). Ne gives them many different ideas for why this person is making this choice and/or venting, but unlike the Ni, who has a fixed idea, Ne changes its perception with each new piece of information.

Because ENFJs have Ti, they are far less willing to just ‘give up’ on a situation and may engage in trying to ‘fix it’ long after they should have given up; their low Ti does not know when to quit. Since ENFPs have higher Te, as Ne-doms they will run through a bunch of possibilities in a short amount of time and then may give up much sooner, because they can see no more potential and their Te simply decides, ‘this is not working, call it quits.’ They lack a Ti desire to ‘completely understand’ in favor of ‘rapid action.’

Unhealthy ENFJs think they know what is best for you and will try to force their ideas about your life onto you and/or argue you into agreeing with their consensus while often being judgmental about other people; unhealthy ENFPs will try and bully you into being proactive with your problems (Te) and have little respect for your feelings in the process.

Both (healthy) types are dreadful with details and restless / often want forward movement, in search of constant new intellectual stimulation, and care a lot about other people’s reactions to their choices, but ENFJs are more easily able to be diplomatic and ENFPs are prone to  occasional (unintentional) bluntness.

- ENFP Mod

I Hate Yoriichi X Muzan (and how Yoriichi is depicted)

TW !! : talks of SA, mentions of inc3st, slight spoilers

Besides them both hating each other and dying with those feelings of mutual hatred, I despise Yoriichi x Muzan solely because most of the fans I've run into romanticize r@p3. For some reason, they just love the idea of Yoriichi gr0p1ng and forcing himself on Muzan, and apparently I'm supposed to find this either romantic or funny.

I've hated Yoriichi before (I dont anymore, currently I just don't really care for him) because of his fans. He's always depicted as this creepy dude who has no problem torturing his own BROTHER under the pretense of 'making forcing him to be brothers again' and straight up SAing his enemy. Not to mention the way they make Yoriichi so obsessed with Kokushibō makes me wonder if they really just ship the twins together.

Like I'm all for the trope where siblings would do anything for each other but the way most of the fandom depicts Yoriichi's love for his brother looks more romantic than platonic which is concerning.

And I hate it because Yoriichi is this sweet, kind man who's lost his family and just wants to live a peaceful life. He's not the type to r@p3 someone for whatever reasons you could think of. AUs where canon characters have different personalities are cool and I actually love them, but making them a p3d0 or SA someone when they canonically aren't that type of person is just 🙁

Idk maybe I'm the weird one for not finding SA funny but that's just me ig 🫠

The Rengoku siblings~~

I think I finally realize why the writing in BNKA always puts me off in some way, something I've been saying for a while but never got a chance to go into detail.

The writing in BNKA feels like narrative manipulation.

I've come to this conclusion after seeing how the fandom reacts to certain moments and compare them to earlier scenes. And that was when it all clicked for me to come up with this word.

With how the unholy three started out (Bakugou, Aizawa, and Endeavor) then seeing their personalities and how others view them take a complete 180 to view them in a better light, that's what I'm referring to as narrative manpulation.

With Bakugou starting out as a bully and supposedly "changing" so others can say "Wow what a great guy he is!" And praise him to the moon and back... it's literally middle school all over again for him.

With Aizawa coming across as unfair and uncaring only for the narrative to prove he's right every time and have others treat him like he's japanese Einstein.

And with Endeavor starting off as a horrible person and the main conflict for Shoto to overcome... only for his family to welcome him back with open arms and say "We're all to blame for what happened!" just to lift some of it off of him and make him seem like he meant well.

The one common thing about these three is Hori having them express negative emotions and crying and the fandom eats it all up. Claiming that they've gone through development and that they really do care and are more than what we were led to believe. And then have them act the exact same way like nothing happened.

And that my friend... is narrative manipulation.

Hi @theloganator101 👋,

100%.

All of the writing in MHA is narrative manipulation but especially with those three.

Bakugou, Aizawa and Endeavour have narrative manipulation, their own in-universe simps, characters not reacting to them as they should and retcons to soften them and make them more palatable to the audience.

Bakugou and Endeavour are easy and extreme examples so I'll begin with Aizawa first.

With Aizawa, this has worked so well that you rarely see people critical of him and only those who have fully and critically looked at him in canon without #Dadzawa colouring their perception.

His students should dislike / hate or at the very least be wary of him. A teacher who sleeps all the time, pulls "logical ruses" lies and expels on a whim would realistically cause the mental health of his students to plummet. Yet all of 1A (including Izu who he seems to very much dislike) love him for some reason...

He's praised as logical, "harsh but effective" yet his fellow teachers should HATE him. Through the amount of students he's expelled I've heard some people theorising that he has expelled OTHER teachers students. Imagine how angry you would be as a teacher to find one of your students careers destroyed because a fellow teacher expelled them for a bullshit reason. Not only that but logically Aizawa's expulsions would have destroyed lives, destroyed careers before they fully lifted off the ground even made villians.

*There's also the fact that he's not shown to be a great friend in canon either, yet Aizawa is surrounded by Shirakumo, Yamada or Kayama who aren't offput from his behaviour. And even has a respect from All Might (despite the fact that Aizawa has been shown to dislike him.)

* - I'm not blaming Aizawa for being depressed or low key here. That's understandable. However friendship is about give and take. We don't see Aizawa being supportive back to his friends, we see them support him only. And when there's an opportunity to show Aizawa being supportive like to Mic after Midnight's death, Hori doesn't take it. Hori instead makes Aizawa shut Mic up. Additionally, when you like someone and are friends with them - you make the effort to show you like their company, you like being around them, you engage with them. Aizawa acts annoyed by his friends most of the time he's with them on screen, like he's grudgingly tolerating them at best.

Then there's Bakugou who is praised as the second coming of Christ, who lost nothing for suicide baiting a quirkless kid (our MC) and abusing him for ten years! Instead Izuku still calls him "Kacchan" 🤮, Bkg has made friends who are staunchly "anti bully" in Mina and Kirishima (who look stupid or hypocrites for being friends with this POS), Aizawa even praises and favours him for some reason despite Bkg's power being astonishingly one note and Bkg having so much of an awful attitude for heroics the villians thought he was a good recruit. 😬 Bakugou is the worst written character I have seen in a long time - a true Gary Stu.

And finally we have Endeavour, the child abusing POS himself who gets a tragic backstory that none of us wanted to see (his father dying as a kid), we have blame shifting on to Rei and Touya with their respective insanity (also now blame shifted on to Rei's incestous fam by some fans) and some even saying "Endeav had Touya's best interests at heart all along" which truly makes me scoff. If Endeav had Touya's best interests he would have taught Touya to cool himself off, he would have found another interest for them to bond over and sent him to therapy. Not ignoring his spiralling son until he died then got saved by All For One.

In addition, Rei's entire character being used as an "Endeav is not that bad" mouth piece makes me sick, Endeavour broke this woman, physically, emotionally and sexually (depending on your reading but she didn't look consenting to Natsuo and Shoto's births) abused her. So this choice with her character doesn't even make sense, she couldn't even see Shoto, she burnt her child because he looked like Endeav! Why doesn't she loathe this man like she should?! It is sick. It's even sicker of Hori to make her say "We are all responsible for what happened." Like that isn't the most delusional and victim blaming shit to say to your children who couldn't have done squat against their hero father.

Then there's Shoto and his story being overshadowed again by his abusive father, his friendship with Izuku being made about forgiving said abusive father. Shoto deserved so much better than this.

TLDR - the victims of the story should have been allowed to show the impact of their abuse / teaching malpractice that they have dealt with.

Aizawa should have resigned his teaching job (that he didn't even want in the first place) and got therapy as well trying his best to make it up to all those whose lives he ruined.

Bakugou should have been expelled for being an abusive asshole and being too dumb to hide it.

Endeavour should have had the Todofam HATE his guts and no one in his corner coddling him when he cries about Dabi then later Dabi should have finished him off instead of sprouting ice randomly.

The fact that Horikoshi had ALL the opportunity to have a "power of friendship" moment with the League coming together and breaking Tomura out of the possession/mind control and going on to band together against AFO but instead chose to kill them off or imprison them without any closure is my villain origin story

the important thing to know about a gender swapped mob psycho is that nothing actually changes at all