Sun-sanji - One Piece Is Real

idk if that's just me but i ADORE all might in canon. like he's generally a good dude who dedicated his whole life to other people. he's trying his best to bond with his students and become good teacher. he didn't stop helping people even after been injured. he made sure that people were as secure and protected as it was possible.

listen i can see why so many kids in mha are inspired by him

AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH MELISSA SHIELD--

(i love them so much)

but on the other hand (in fanon) I HATE THIS FUCKER SO MUCH YOU HAVE NO IDEA

author on ao3: all might pass his power to middle schooler not having previous experience with tutoring and did not run this decision with his guardiand and did not inform his teachers in ua

me: FUCK HIM

author on ao3: all might crashed izuku's dreams and left him alone on the rooftop

me: THIS BASTARD

author on ao3: all might didn't stop bakugou during training even when he almost killed izuku

me: SHITFACE

autor on ao3: all might watched how izuku crashed his limbs while using OFA and didn't ask other teachers for help

me: gimme knife I'm going to dismember some old men

i know that these are all canon events and all might doesn't have to be always right i understand that. BUT when it happens in fics (even without all might bashing) this shit hits different you know

Dragon having a midday nap but he’s just curled up on the office couch under his cloak and someone comes in looking for him only to find an indistinct green blob with spindly legs sticking out of it that’s snoring a little bit.

sorry i don't think i would ever recover from opening for season seven and my flashbacks of 2014 tokio ghoul

here's the thing about my perspective of bakugou. i don't think that he has overly drastic character growth or doesn't deserve izuku's forgiveness. like he's still a 15 y. o. boy who doesn't have good connections to his emotions and insecurities.

tbh i feel he and izuku have the same amount of self-doubt but they express it differently.

i personally do not like bakugou that much because he just doesn't fall to the category of my type of character but in the same time i don't like when people portray him as overly violent destined-to-become-villain person.

i see the same pattern with izuku. yk media where he's portrayed as nice sweet guy who can't possibly hurt anyone. like yeah i get where it comes from but let's not forget how absolutely feral 100% insane he can be.

let's not forget about bakugou who in the end of the day is just a kid with pockets full of insecurities, self-doubt and mistakes.

katsuki and izuku come from the same place but in a different way.

so i do not like bakugou

but i can sympathize with him

so i saw some posts about how izuku too easily overcome his quirklessness after receiving ofa, right? mostly people in and under those posts say that it's a shame that we don't see the difficulties of re-thinking his identity and this situation is kinda unrealistic. well i can understand the upsetting feeling of not receiving an interesting point of character's self-discovering and stuff but i have a thing to say about how this thing will make sense (possibly).

so let's make an assumption that quirklessness in the world of bnha is some kind of disability. as far as i know we don't have clear statement in canon but it make sense, right? like if you search the word "disability" you will find something along the lines "the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society". sooo in REAL world quirklessness isn't a disability because... well non of us here superpower, right? BUT on bnha world quirks are seen as an extension of human being like leg or hand. so it will be logical to assume that person without quirk can't be seen as fully capable as quirked one within society.

let's not bring the paranormal liberation front stuff because it's a topic for different post and I'm already getting far from point of this one.

so izuku is disabled in the beginning of the story, yeah? then why the hell he overcome his disability with a simple snap of fingers and why did it make sense?

now i will be coming from my perspective. I'm disabled and was like this for good chank of my life. and what usually come with it? disability becomes a part of person's identity. not only for people around disabled person but for them too.

now my rambling make even less sense but wait I'm getting to the point.

from interaction between izuku and bakugo + tone of voice of izuku's teacher in aldera we know that deku suffered from bulling BECAUSE of quirklessness. moreover when izuku asked all might can he become a hero, all might didn't ask him about his skills or why he feel a need to be a hero, no. all might just write him off solidly because of izuku's quirklessness and let me be honest: i believe that that wasn't the first time deku was given such "reality check".

can you smell that? oh yeah the good old ✨trauma✨

why did i wrote that i'll view this situation from perspective of my personal experience? well, i was bullied because of my disability back in school and guess what? most of the adults in my life didn't give me a chance to prove myself before they decide that I'm useless.

and that's the main reason why my disability become the thing that I'm activity trying to hide and don't let this abomination become a part of what make me who am i now.

can you see where I'm getting? izuku viewed his quirklessness as a thing that made his life harder and what made other people see him less of a human. so when The Miracle happened izuku just signed with relief and went ahead leaving behind the thing that made him miserable.

the last part of this ungodly long post: why do i believe that izuku doesn't let quirklessness become part of his identity and rather ignored it? well this is the part where i stop pretending that i have some Absolutely Logical Conclusions and become delusional. so we all remember that for the good part of plot izuku keep telling that he's gonna be hero like all might. well make sense because of ofa and all this razzle and dazzle with all might's successor, right? BUT this also can be applied to quirkless izuku. he WANTED and WAS GOING to become hero like all might, and i see it as if he didn't come in terms with his inability to become Just Like All Might. according to this statement izuku was ignoring differences between him and other (quirked) people. this make me believe that deep down he refuse to accept disability as part (or ex-part according to canon events) of himself.

is it healthy? no.

does izuku have a healthy image of himself? probably not.

did i just come up with unshaped pile of thoughts at night before bed and decide to vomit it straight into the internet? yes, i did.

projecting my height diff obsession onto sanji? absolutely

I find it interesting that over time, Luffy began to clearly divide the people around him into his own and others'.

The East Blue saga is different from all the others, so we don't take it into account, but the rest of the major arcs are fundamentally similar to each other and the main similarity is that there is always some character of the location who will interact with the crew.

so, the first such character is Vivi, and, in fact, everything goes as usual: acquaintance, a request for help, the way to the villain of the arc, a fight, and everyone is happy, BUT Vivi is literally the only character of the location who was accepted by the Mugiwaras into the team as an equal member (even in the pauses in the middle of the episodes, she stood among them) and who later did not become a member of the team, but retained this connection.

neither Luffy nor the rest of the team showed such willingness to accept a location character into the team, no matter how close they got (neither Connis, nor Rebecca, nor Yamato, although the situations were quite similar)

my take: Mugiwaras and Luffy in particular began to grow up long before water 7 and timeskip, this process began after the first big adventure on the grand line

i CAN and WILL headcanon half of the mha characters as aroaces and neither you nor god can stop me.

me, giving paper medal with word 'aroace' on it to my favorite character: i give you the greatest honor that i have.

me, making myself a salad at 3 a.m. before going back to study until sunrise: is THIS how aizawa feels when he comes back from night patrol in the middle of a school week...

it's really funny for me when people claim that without romantic relationships you cannot possibly be happy. i have a story for this one.

so in my first year of uni i was really invested in my appearance like clothes hair a little bit of make-up all that stuff. and during that year a lot of people (and i mean A LOT) were trying to talk to me or ask for a walk or number. like i wasn't able to get home without talking to anyone. as a not really social person a wanna say that was a freaking nightmare.

you know when it changed and i could finally live peacefully? it happened when i stop putting myself together like i would die if i wasn't looking perfect and when a cut my hair.

all those people suddenly disappeared and i tell you this.

i was never happier in my life.