"Look At Me"

the real reason shigaraki wants deku dead

Sculptures by Eva Funderburgh. ~ Large Cloud Cow, 2007. Woodfired Stoneware. Photo by Steve Sauer. ~ Cuckoos #1: Discussion over an Egg, 2009. Burnished and Saggar fired porcelain.

"He's a hopper for sure!" -Tsuyu

important discussions

His character page said Nighteye was designed like this to be the Japanese counterpart to All Might's American image...but there may be more to it than that.

He's got this gangly/snake-like body and a shady salaryman image when the the most significant act of this character was to try to coerce a teenager into a contract intended to make him give up on all of his dreams.

Also, there's that One for All fire imagery again. Nighteye seems to view All Might/One for All as this all encompassing bright and shining light. Yet he despised and couldn't understand that this almost divine shining light was also a flame of martyrdom. He didn't grapple with the idea that One for All was a kindling spark in the hopes of a better future for most of it's history because he had only ever seen what he believed was the perfect version.

Kaminari playing with Ojiros tail during the principals ples speech

And so they had a sing off

I feel like a thing I wish was more generally acknowledged across fandoms is that "I don't find this character sympathetic" and "This character was not intended to be sympathetic" are obviously connected but are, ultimately, two completely different statements that may not overlap at all.

Ultimately what you think about any given character is a completely subjective issue that has no right or wrong answer. The narrative may be trying to evoke sympathy for them, and you may just feel that it flat-out was not successful in doing that. You may look the author straight in the eye and say "Nope, I see what you're trying to do, but f*ck this guy actually, he's The Worst and that's all there is to it". And no one can tell you that you're wrong for doing so.

But when it comes to picking up on what the story is trying to do, whether you ultimately think it did a good job or not, I would argue there's at least some measure of objective reality. And I feel like people sometimes end up conflating them, so you end up with these posts like "I can't believe people sympathize with this character when the story clearly just wants you to hate them!" and it's like... yeah, I think people sympathize with this character because the story is very clearly and intentionally painting them as sympathetic. I could point you at a dozen different scenes that are clearly meant to evoke sympathy for This Character. You don't have to have found any of it compelling, but at a certain point recognizing it's there is a simple matter of reading comprehension.

todoroki’s costume should have retractable ice skates

i’ll admit, i don’t know anything about dabbing

but i feel like bakugou would do this

(it’s probably not good for his ears)