Latest Posts by certainaestheticfictionmuffin - Page 6

mom says its my turn to hold the baby!!!!

You ever think that whenever Endeavor stubs his toe, he shakes his fist at the sky and shouts something like, "Damn you, All Might"?

Inspired by this

In pinterest I found a photo with kids sailor dresses and thought about Todoroki children.

this is actually like redraw of my old fanart from 2021, when I had just started watching the anime (haven't read the manga) when I drew them. So I didn't know their age gap, that touya in this age allready had white hair and of course didn't know about their height difference

this one part from harrow the ninth always made me really upset. so i made a four page comic out of it!

I can finally show you guys my piece for @bnhaquirkzine  ♡ and it’s also this boy’s birthday, good timing, haha.

Happy birthday, Shouto  ♡ ♡ ♡

☁️ A Memory ☁️

quick redraw of that Endeavor panel in Vigilantes

Happy birthday, Touya

🔥 // Ch 186

oldest child

if you want my quirk you have to defeat my 8 insane successors

What if

We know that Rei found out about Touya in the hospital, but was Enji brave enough to tell her about their son's death himself? I doubt it, but still...

C&A !!

[Failure]

>>BNHA / MHA Spoilers!<<

Drew this in reaction to Chapter 350! If Touya heard Enji call him an almost perfect creation, I get that he wasn‘t ecstatic about returning.

fun fact, the font used for this is called „I know a ghost“

This is from the anime so I trust it less, but they’re making the same expression both while looking at their father

Some Happy Todoroki AU EnjiRei because I love them and they’re silly 🔥❄️

[Happy Birthday Touya]

Comic I made for Dabi’s Birthday this year! Weee 

the road to hell is not covered with good intentions but even hell needs light

touya saying 'i wanted to make you happy' in a mocking, sarcastic way, but the pause and the crack in his voice betraying that impression. please end me.

A Coward Called Endeavor

I'm wary of wading into the discourse because I'm seeing the unhinged bs my friends are getting, but from my viewpoint I think people miss something important about Dabi-Enji-Shouto and Enji's role in saving Touya -

Enji only tried to be an actual father for one of them and it wasn't Shouto.

No, I know that sounds crazy but we had a toddler whose immediate reaction to seeing his father was being upset and alert that the father would bully his mother. Shouto has never seen Enji the Father, he's only seen a monster named Endeavor.

That's important. Natsuo, heck, Fuyumi to some extent since she was really Rei's girl, none of them had this:

We only see this smirk head on in the manga, but I think this anime shot put it into perspective for me what I'd been mulling over for years, too uncomfortable with the simple truth of what's going on here:

The only Todoroki child who had Enji as a father was Touya.

For a brief few years, Touya was the apple of his eye. And, no, he wasn't replaced with Shouto, not in Enji's eyes. Because Enji uses the word livestock for Shouto. Because Enji was an aggressor from the beginning with Shouto. There was never a moment where this simple sort of moment, a little boy looking up into his father's prideful face as he copied his movements, happened between any of Enji's children besides Touya.

That's why Dabi's like this. It's harder for him to forget Endeavor when he isn't Shouto; he was never "an extension" of Endeavor's drive, but for a short period, he was treated as his actual son before he was thrown away.

So - what does this even mean? Why is it important that the only one with an actual "father" until Endeavor got some sense knocked into him via seeing the Pillar of Peace crumble is Touya?

Because it means Todoroki Enji is a fucking coward, that's what.

We know he's ran away from facing his failures time and time again, but never is more indicative of his cowardice when he got too scared to be a father and decided he wouldn't be. You see, that's why the other three didn't have him as a father - he doesn't know what being a father is. It's likely his own father died on the job, and so the associations of fatherhood in Enji's mind are just... being a hero. Being good at your job, so your kids can be proud of you. The actual parenting, the supporting your child, all that was too much for him.

This is Enji giving up, tail between his legs. He doesn't know how to be anything but "Endeavor", so he's not even going to try.

I really feel like people missed Rei calling him out here. He's running away from his duties and responsibilities to be a father. He fucked up with Touya and doesn't know how to fix it, so he runs off, and ignores all his other kids, and then just trains Shouto like a tool and an extension of himself. He lost his mind and saw his youngest as a simple extension of himself, like a hand or a leg. But when he looked at Touya, once, he saw a person.

A person he failed so many times. Failed to father, then failed to save.

I have a lot more to say about this on Dabi's point of view that also discusses the nuances Western readers aren't getting (like the ie system and his place in it), but when people say that they don't think Endeavor needs to do anything in this Dabi-saving discourse, I think they're forgetting that time and time again we've been shown that Todoroki Enji is a coward and if Horikoshi is serious about any resolution to this man and his "redeeming", it's about time he finally stops being one and faces his fucking son.

All of this has been leading up to him realizing it's nothing but himself that has caused this. That his own cowardice and hatred of himself has torn apart his family. That it's not about him as a hero.

These are the words of a man ready to finally start start being a dad, guys. Took him a quarter of a century.

A caveat: many of us have issues on the Doylist aspect of all this. I've said a few times that most of you are less upset about how Endeavor is being redeemed but the fact he's being redeemed at all, and I get it! The question is always about whether we need more narratives in media of abusers getting redemption, of victimized children reconciling with their parents. I agree fully that those of us who choose to not reconcile, who are unable due to the parents' beliefs or decisions anyway, are underrepresented in media. I know we want to see people like Dabi move on, stop hoping for a man who never knew how to show love for him to love him and apologize. Most of us, in real life, just give up and find love and healing outside of our parents. In many ways, it's healthier to go minimal or low contact with parents like Enji.

But I think that's not the story Horikoshi wants to write. He's writing what is essentially a trauma vent-work and wish fufillment all in one. In his fantastical world, families like the Todoroki one can reconcile, abusers can apologize and strive to make amends. It might be because he wishes this was the case more so than the reality that abuse victims know. He's made missteps with the Todoroki narrative yes, but I don't think what amounts to wish fulfillment on Horikoshi's part is bad-writing just because it's wish fufillment. It's just a very "happy-ending" solution to issues that in real life aren't going to usually see them and I think a lot of us are sick of them.

So, just keep that in mind when people say Dabi needs Endeavor involved. Enji created this problem, he has to fix it, not Shouto. You can't have a Touya at peace with his family if Endeavor gets to shirk his responsibility and keep being a coward.

Endeavor remembering his dream and interpreting it as foreshadowing for his and Touya’s tragedy

He’s never at the table because he never can be if Touya isn’t there. To him his dream will come true just as is, him not there, Touya not there. That’s it.

But as a reader you can literally feel the empty spot waiting to be filled by Touya

I love how Hori made Endeavor’s character interpret clear foreshadowing for Touya coming home (to a reader) as the literal opposite foreshadowing of neither of them ever going back. And then Rei is the one to stop all of that.

Endeavor interpreting his and Touya’s lives as a tragedy while Rei and Shouto refuse to let tragedy continue by keeping on going even when it seems impossible or inevitable

Enji Todoroki and Touya Todoroki or Endeavor and Dabi

I'm a keep peddling my propaganda after I saw hints that the new Season of Invincible is gonna deal with Mark being scared/worried hes gonna be like his father

I'm still so obsessed with this horikoshi sketch.

not because it's endeavor, I don't particularly care, but because. like. like.

this is exactly like horikoshi's sketches of his muscular girlies, who he clearly likes a lot. and it's so funny to me.

exhibit a and B :

miruko's upside down but like you see it anyways

and horikoshi doesn't like. draw his other male characters like that?

even aizawa, who's pretty muscular (when he's not wearing his magic jumpsuit that makes him look skinny old and sickly, probably a rational deception /j) isn't drawn like that. which might be related to horikoshi originally wanting to make aizawa all of his own flaws/things he didn't like about himself (long messy hair is the only one that comes to me rn I swear I'm not making this up) but still, aizawa definitely deserves a hot sketch of his muscly arms too. even more than enji even

BUT the endeavor sketch does look like the same style as (on top of the nana and miruko sketches, sketches of pretty muscular women) horikoshi's cute girl sketches :

like. go back to the endeavor sketch I don't have any pictures allowed left but. everything on this sketch looks like horikoshi tried to make him look hot very deliberatly. the tank top. the half lidded eyes. the shading. the pose. why the fuck is he fixing his hair. whats going on. it looks so incredibly seemilar to the nana sketch to me - also the miruko one but again. shes upside down.

anyways im not sure what my point is. horikoshi likes muscely men maybe. horikoshi is an enji simp and thats why he hasn't killed him off yet /j. idk.

Some todoroki siblings for the soul

About that post where you were responding to a bad take made on Twitter about Endeavor. Honestly what could Hori possibly write to have Enji finally step up as a father? I find Enji really compelling as a character, but the dude has literally had so many opportunities to step up as a father and he just,, hasn't??? Even when Touya was trying to kill himself he barely made an attempt to stop him before deciding to just die alongside him (which I suppose made since for his character but the wrong choice nonetheless). It's to the point where when he FINALLY does step up, I genuinely feel like it won't mean a damn thing. Like he's pushed all the real work dealing with Touya onto his family, which is the ONE THING they asked of him. I honestly wouldn't mind any of the guy's *continuous* failures if they didn't fall back on Shoto somehow every single time 😮‍💨

To me that’s why it’s an essential story beat. Shouto’s whole “become who you want to be” and “you are not bound by his blood” cannot happen as long as he keeps shouldering the burden that rightly is Endeavor’s.

Now the rest of the family stepped in a little, but if Enji sincerily wishes for a future where Shoto can choose to be with his friends and where he keeps his eyes on Touya, he needs to understand that the way to do it, is not by beating villains.

He’s lack of taking responsibility is why Shouto is not with his friends. Him prioritising his hero role over talking to Touya is why Touya is burnt so badly now.

So if there is a call for back-up to Deku (which I think there will be with the Warp Gate still in play), I think Endeavor the hero would go (feeling like it’s his duty as No 1), but a father may choose to stay with his badly injured son and family and take care of them.

So basically, for me it’s two things: Enji chooses Touya over the logic of hero work. And he tells Shouto that it’s not his burden anymore and lets him join his friends (by stepping up he allows him a real choice instead of being stuck with picking up the pieces).

While I don't like forming super specific theories on what will happen in this series, I personally suspect Shoto and the Todofam in general are ultimately not going to get a bleak ending. I just think that after the story showed what it looks like when a dysfunctional family DOESN'T love the especially troubled oldest kid and are willing to wash their hands of them completely as with Toga's family, I can't see the Todorokis getting a 'realistic' gloomy ending when it's already happened with so many other characters in similar situations. ESPECIALLY after what Shoto and Rei were willing to do.

(plus, this seems more obvious to me after the Todofam Cuddle Pile Of Primal Devotion, and how this type of thing never happened with the other screwed up nuclear families in this manga. Exceptional narrative actions tend to create exceptional narrative outcomes).

caught up w after school lessons for unripe apples 🍎🍏