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My Villain Academia here I come

King Pin

it's interesting that bnha attracts many "fandom isn't activism" types (it's a big fandom, so of course they come here) when bnha IS imo very concerned with instilling a sense of ethics within its readers. bnha IS a series where the protagonist is right, the flawed characters on the protagonist's side "get better," the good guys win and the bad guys answer for their crimes. "fandom isn't activism" but good lord bnha is guiding you down the most lawfully sanctioned route.

yes, bnha goes through the trouble of characterizing the bad guys and showing the reasons behind their actions, but it insists that the bad guys should still be held accountable. which is fine, plenty of stories do, but bnha is: (1) really ethically very simple as a story because of that, and (2) stymies its own emotional storytelling because it's fundamentally more concerned with drawing lines in the sand that "good" and "bad" guys can't cross.

for example: good guys can never overly identify with the bad guys or put the harm bad guys have done on the back burner. we have to remember endeavor, natsuo, and shouto are more worried about other people's lives, even as touya is burning to death in front of them. there's no lapses in judgment, no wrong decisions, no selfishness, nothing crazy, no one making insane gambits that put others in the line of fire to save their loved one, no one to say "fuck the world, you're the one i choose." only villains do that.

it's love at its safest and most sanitized for capitalism, love that is only self-sacrificial, love that doesn't interfere with the law, love that doesn't upset the social order, love that never implicates the world. at this point, even deku going berserker mode over bakugou's death would be more interesting, but that impulse is immediately suppressed and he follows the plan to fight shigafo, without even going to bakugou's side. in ten years they'll be married with a child and they'll miss its 13th birthday in a row because they have to bust a trigger smuggling ring. please god it's so fucking bleak.

so, yeah, i believe in the villains' relationships more. they make disruptive, unhinged, terrible decisions out of love and i love that for them. spinner puts the hand back on tomura's face, dabi burns down himiko's house, spinner wants to save tomura by walking into hell with him, himiko wants to pay back twice's death a hundred times over, and she knows what dabi will try to do and she lets him do it. it's fucking unhinged and i am invested!

people really are out here giving takes like "fandom isn't activism so the characters i like aren't really cops, but the LOV make each other worse so they have to be saved from themselves by paw patrol" as though that isn't the most vanilla take on the gotdamn earth... i don't want the shit that's been workshopped by therapists and lawyers for maximum correctness, give me some crazy deranged shit that'll determine the fate of the world.

For the longest time, I always wondered why Shouto's left side was his fire side and why his right side was his ice side specifically. Dunno why, I just did. But when I was washing my hands the other day I thought, Wait....... Is the order of his Half Cold Half Hot supposed to correspond to the temperature on a fucking sink??!??! Cuz the left handle on a sink faucet is the hot water and the right handle is the cold water??!?!??!! I have no idea if that's actually what his design is referencing, but if it is, then it's fucking hysterical.

ever since i've read 299 this is all i could think about

13 yrs. Touya under care of Ujiko [theory]

I really like hori Noumu design it a perfectly mixture of hideous and cute

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I don’t think Ujiko is a good person, he really twisted and a mad scientist type. but I think he have soft spot for all his creature [aka. noumu] like it his child/possession.

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I wonder if Noumu is cuddlable? or even comfortable to cuddle or not [but it made out of flesh so maybe it smooth for texture?]

Just Endeavor being ugly and unhinged

with awful personality

Today i learned how to spell coyote

Behold: an angery lizard

I personally am not fond of when people talk about spinner like he isn't human (like specifically saying human is a different thing than what he is) , or when people assume his quirk would effect his genetics in a way that makes him sterile. Like?? He has a very normal mutation quirk. He isn't an animal with a quirk, he's a human, and he has a lizard quirk that just happens to affect his appearance. Tsu has a frog quirk and I don't ever see this about her, and we all know why. Her dad looks just like a fucking frog and I'm guessing since he managed to sire multiple kids he's firing on all cylinders so why the fuck would Shuichi's quirk make him sterile?? He's just a normal ass person with a snout and scales. (I am not counting you monster fuckers with egg fetishes, I understand why that is a plot point often for y'all lol).

But for the rest of you, how can you miss the point about heteromorphs so fucking hard?