happy womens day everybody
something i’ve been turning around in my head for a bit: i think it’s different being disappointed when a character with no clear motivation or set of values takes a turn you personally didn’t want, versus when a character who DOES have a clear, established motivation and values has those aspects abandoned. there were so many people who were upset with the direction hox’s character took, saying it wasn’t right for him and he should’ve stayed with the LOV, but honestly hox betraying them was always a possibility and there was no established characterization that ever implied he wouldn’t side with the heroes. just because there was a lot of fanon and theories about it doesn’t mean hori “took” something from y’all or wrote badly just because you didn’t like it.
there’s more argument to be made that, for example, deku’s characterization is less consistent and the writing might be weaker with him. deku IS someone with more-or-less established motivations and values, who tells off shouto’s abuser early on but in the late series only seems to take a conciliatory approach to the todorokis’ situation. there’s at least a case to be made that deku turned way too much from his earlier stance on the issue and it felt manipulated in order to support the abuser’s redemption.
these two cases are just not the same.
this chapter bringing up lady nagant as a villain too just makes me want to ask... why. why is she a villain? is it because she:
killed people for the heroes/hpsc
killed the person who was threatening her (the hpsc president)
momentarily allied herself with AFO despite hurting no one while taking his orders
because uuuuhhh i can think of another character who has done basically all of these things and yet isn't treated like he's indebted to society. so care to lay it out for me, horikoshi? what is lady nagant's crime?🙃
I have issues with Tomura being called "Tenko" by fans, but I think I'll make a post about it rather than reblog some angrily-charged posts that I made while complaining about the chapter leaks
Also!! Feel free to unfollow me if I ever make anyone uncomfortable about my rant posts!! Even if it's a mutual break etc. I get it ngl. Especially since this MHA epilogue left the fandom so polarizing in the end. 💀