A Pack Of Good Dogs

A pack of good dogs

You know what, the recent chapters left me in the mood for some Hunting Dogs analysis.

As others (see the great analysis by @hamliet, @linkspooky and @blackandwhitemusician), they are introduced as a counterpart to the ADA on the opposite side of the spectrum from the Port Mafia: the servants of the government, representatives of a blind justice devoid of empathy or mercy, attacking whomever they are unleashed at without questioning it, putting law and orders above the people.

But doing a re-reading … the biggest proponent of this amongst the Dogs is Fukuchi. He is the one who declares openly that he doesn’t believe in the ADA’s guilt, but he still has to hunt them down until they die or surrender, even encouraging Fukuzawa to do the latter so the Agency can get a fair trial and the Dogs can switch to defend them.

But the point is, Fukuchi is the traitor, he is also the leader of the Decay of Angels, the very organization that committed the crimes that the ADA is framed for. That advice is not the genuine if misguided goodwill of someone that’s blindly devoted to the law, it’s a trap to worsen the position of the enemies, knowing full well that they won’t be able to defend themselves.

All of the other Hunting Dogs, even if in varying degrees, are a lot less devoted to this ideal of Law Above All.

Let’s start with Tachihara.

He’s the one we have known for the longest time, because of his infiltration in the mafia. He presented himself as something of a thug, a rude hothead who nevertheless managed to be part of a very special division, so he had to have some talent. He was also depicted as a true mafioso, loyal to his criminal family. So, the reveal that he was actually a spy came as quite the surprise.

As a Hunting Dog, he showcases quite a different personality: he’s more serious, posed, his speech more polite and respectful. The one thing that stays is his loyalty, and this is what creates his main conflict.

Hunting Dogs or Mafia? His dilemma arises from the fact that he got accomplishments and social relationships in both groups. He considers himself as defined by the orders he receives, and by obeying them, he acquired a respect for both the leaders he served, Fukuchi and Mori. Morality has no place here: while trying to understand if he truly is a mafioso or a government agent, he thinks to the bonds he has within the groups, at the standing he managed to acquire; the fact that one association ostensibly protects people and the other hurts them is not something he worries about.

Or rather- conventional morality. His ultimate decision is partly due to the fact that while he gives intense loyalty, he expects the same loyalty in return. The fact that Fukuchi was revealed as the leader of the Decay of Angels was the tipping point, because he had betrayed the Hunting Dogs that looked up at him so much.

Tachihara ended up acting on his personal feelings and values, not because of a blind obedience to the law.

Then, let’s take into consideration Jouno.

… where do I even start with him?!

Right from the beginning, he is introduced as rude, ruthless in his pursuit of criminals, downright sadistic in psychologically breaking people, even just suspects, to extort a confession out of them. He looks like the ideal image of a merciless legal system that only cares about locking up criminals under the pretense of absolute justice … except for a couple things.

First, Jouno is the first to acknowledge that se ne sbatte altamente il cazzo he has little care for justice, and nobody cares that he does, either: he just enjoys seeing people terrified, and as long as they’re even vaguely suspected, the public opinion will claim that he’s doing the right thing, the necessary thing for everyone’s safety, and hail him as a hero. Nice middle finger at the concept of torture and ignoring the human rights of people involved in crimes from the authors, here.

Then, the second part. Fukuchi sees this, has likely seen Jouno behave like that for quite a long time now, and decides he would be an ideal new member for the Decay of Angels, now that, with Gogol and Sigma dead as far as he knows and Fyodor in a jail all the way in Europe, the organization is dwindling down in members. After all, Jouno doesn’t care about justice, right? He’s also a former criminal to boot, he joined the Hunting Dogs just to escape jail (like Tachihara, by the way). As long as he’s given the chance to torment people, he should jump on any wagon, right?

No. Jouno briefly pretends to agree, to get him to lower his guard and try a surprise attack. Why?

Because, while he genuinely is a sadist and doesn’t care about justice, he likes saving people. Just that: while in the Hunting Dogs, he found out that the serotonin release he got from seeing people saved was greater than the one he got from hurting them. It’s a pretty selfish motivation and Jouno doesn’t try to pretend otherwise; still, it’s a very far cry from the idea of a blind justice that ruthlessly pursues the criminals, it’s something much more human.

Now, onto Tecchou!

He ends up partnered with Jouno in chasing the Agency, and he presents himself as a diametral opposite. Where Jouno has a no-nonsense attitude, he has a lot of quirks. Where Jouno is rude, he is always polite. Where Jouno is sadistic, he doesn’t enjoy violence one bit. Everything he does, is for the service of justice. He seems like a good candidate for the role of ‘law-obsessed antagonist’ … except he isn’t, either.

It’s the most evident when he and Jouno interrogate the cafe owner. The latter tries his usual psychological warfare tactics, figuring out that his employee Lucy is an ally of the ADA and he himself is an accomplice; he was about to make him confess by making him crumble, but Tecchou stopped him. His motivation? He admired the loyalty of Lucy and the cafe owners, saying that he wanted to see such noble characteristics rewarded. Those were good moral principles, and he wouldn’t have acted against those who displayed them; Lucy would have received no punishment.

If he had really put law and justice above everything, he would have thrown Lucy and the cafe owners in jail in an heartbeat, or possibly even killed them; instead, he goes by his own, personal principles.

Last but not least, we have Teruko.

Well, what to say about her? She’s basically the crossover between Jouno and Tecchou from hell.

She’s violent and sadistic, alright. She has a lot of enthusiasm both in physically fighting Sigma and in deconstructing his view of himself and the world in general. But she’s also very careful not to hurt civilians (something that isn’t exactly a top priority for Jouno) and has quite interesting ideals behind this attention.

She talks about people ‘built for violence’ - herself included - as beings that, without the existence of law and order, would dominate other people, and comments that this would just suck; thus, by becoming an Hunting Dog and placing herself at the service of the government, she becomes an embodiment of this order, of this principle of protecting those weaker; and this is the reason behind all of her actions.

So uh, we found her! We found the person for whom Fukuchi’s statement could be true! Still, she has a very interesting reasoning for her ‘sticking to law’; and the time we see her put this worldview into practice, it’s to protect people who aren’t directly involved.

All in all, despite having been their commander for likely years, Fukuchi doesn’t seem to really know his subordinates. Even of Jouno, of whom he noticed the actual disinterest for the law, he didn’t realize the better inclination until he was betrayed by him. That thing he went telling Fukuzawa was essentially a bluff to get him to surrender, and his subordinates have shown, time and time again, that they’re not the blind attack dogs everyone believes them to be: they’re people with their own minds and value, and I think that when push will come to shove, even the survivors, Tecchou and Teruko, will side with the Agency, the side that saves people, against Fukuchi and his tricks.

Thanks to anyone who bothered to read my ramblings!

Fyolai headcanons because I'm trash

1. Fyodor is usually cold and blunt, but around Nikolai he becomes passionate, in more ways than one, he talks more freely about things he enjoys, he laughs more (chuckles mischievously), and he's more willing to be himself in a way

2. Nikolai struggles to braid his hair, which leads him to pestering Fyodor to do it for him, which means rat man usually sees the clown without a shirt, early in the morning, late at night, etc

3. Fyodor is an anemic rat, and Nikolai takes advantage of this, whenever Fyodor stands up to fast and starts wobbling, Nikolai is immediately there to catch him

4. Nikolai often laughs so hard he cries, and Fyodor wipes his tears away while gently holding his face

5. Nikolai follows him around sometimes, giving advice and trying to scare Fyodor

6. They read together, you cannot convince me otherwise, these two write things together or write things for each other, much like Poe and Ranpo, Nikolai will write soliloquys and poems about how Fyodor makes him feel, whether it be good or bad, and Fyodor reads old literature to him

7. Nikolai makes Fyodor food on a regular basis, usually cake and sweets, because Fyodor surprisingly isn't very fond of heavy/bitter food, and occasionally this food will be poisoned or include some kind of prank, because y'know, it's Nikolai

8. Nikolai likes to sew (flashbacks to when he sewed that guys skin back on inside out) and he has definitely sewed himself plushies of Fyodor, and they are either adorable or horrifying, he loves them all. He stabs them occasionally, but he always makes more. He also once sewed Fyodor a Nikolai plushie, and Fyodor refuses to admit it, but he keeps it safe and out of harms way, sometimes he'll pretend to play chess with it, or talk to it, Nikolai cuddles with these plushies almost every night, and has at least 7 tucked away in his cloak for when he's away and wants something to do or something to comfort him

9. Fyodor told a joke once, and Nikolai was thoroughly devoted to him ever since, he adores the anemic rat, through all of his flaws and strange tendencies

10. (Bonus) Sigma takes pictures of them at various times, he knows this can be dangerous and potential blackmail if they ever got out, but he finds it sweet that the two have each other (really Sigma is struggling with his "humanity" and he cherishes the moments Fyodor and Nikolai spend together because it makes him feel like he belongs with this strange family of two (borderline insane) husbands and their strange book spawned kid) He got one framed once, of Nikolai poking Fyodor on the nose, and both Fyodor and Nikolai keep a copy with them

@saintsprotecttheghoul and @thebgcharacter here you guys go 🏃 (I'll be reblogging this later because almost everyone is inactive djdbdjh)

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mistandpixelbluepaint

3 years ago

oh, to be dragged away from an apathetic state by an outgoing friend. to be thrown around from place to place by them despite my complaints. to start seeing the little glimmers of life through forced outings. to gain light again through them. to be separated from the one who taught me to live again. to meet Death as per fate's order and find happiness through this very same journey to destiny.

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mistandpixelbluepaint

3 years ago

At It Again But This Time With A Bunch Of Jokers And A Surprise Guest

at it again but this time with a bunch of jokers and a surprise guest

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mistandpixelbluepaint

3 years ago

you're... afraid of dying, arent you?

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mistandpixelbluepaint

3 years ago

Hello, @hairuko And I Bring You Sniperhual Lovechildren 😏❤

Hello, @hairuko and I bring you Sniperhual lovechildren 😏❤

The gal is mine, you can learn more about her here.

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mistandpixelbluepaint

3 years ago

movie night

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mistandpixelbluepaint

3 years ago

MHA ACTOR AU HEADCANNONS

is it four in the morning? ya. do i haven requests i gotta get done? ya. will that stop me? no.

first of all, the main ensemble cast of MHA gets along so well, but what many people don’t know is that while filming the first few episodes the original casting choice for Aizawa had to drop the show entirely due to family issues. Thankfully Aizawa didn’t show up much in the first few episodes, so many of the shots he was in could easily be refilmed and edited in after they had recast the actor, which was stressful.

After the family issues subsided the man who was originally going to play Aizawa still got to feature on the show as Yokumiru Mera, aka the man who runs the provisionary licensing exams.

A lot of the student actors can relate and share some personality traits with their characters, however it is more of a challenge for more of the outlandish characters, such as Mineta, Iida, Bakugo, etc.

“With [Mineta], you have to wrap your sense of reality. You gotta have an open minded view, and find something, anything that you can relate to yourself. For example, when I was younger I often valued my self worth on the approval of others, and Mineta kinda does that too, in his own way.”

“I’ve always been the type of kid to bend the rules, so Iida admittedly came as a challenge. I always saw rules as limitations, where Iida sees them as guide lines for success, but even that world view begins to shift after the Stain Arc— which is probably my personal favorite arc, by the way—. He walks the fine line between comedic relief and a serious character, which is probably what I love most about him.”

“I’m not gonna lie, I wasn’t the nicest kid in elementary. I bullied some kids. I’m not proud, but it definitely helped me in terms of figuring out just who Bakugo is. People put down others because they feel low themselves. They want to level the playing feild, make people feel like shit cause they feel like shit. Bakugo can come off as arrogant but he’s pretty insecure when you think about it. Pushing around Deku, calling his classmates extras or ‘creative’ nicknames, he does it not necessarily because he doubts his own ability, but because he’s scared that what he has to offer won’t end up being good enough. He’s powerful, sure, but is he most powerful?” “Do you think that keep him up at night.” “[Laughs] Maybe, I don’t know. He needs his beauty sleep though, so I hope not.”

The cast shares a bunch of inside jokes with one another, their personal favorite and longest running gag is the “Aizawa Smile”, which is basically the smike you made for your first grade picture day.

They’ll be shooting lines back and forth at one another and when someone blanks, they’ll slowly creep their mouth up into this horrendous smile

Iida and Mina do it the most, followed closely behind by Denki and Aoyama.

Speaking of Aoyama, he absolutely hates his utility belt

It’s so heavy!

And lowkey v itchy

not fun

Also, Aoyama wasn’t originally French, but after nonchalantly using french words in conversation, the creative team was like “this mans is onto something.”

The makeup process?

Awful

Mina and Koda have it worst, but Jiro and Hagakure don’t have much fun either.

While Hagakure doesn’t have to paint her body green, she does have to wear a giant body sock, which is equally, if not more annoying since breathing can be hard as shit to do in that thing.

“At first I thought her quirk was a thing she could turn on and off, ya know, like everyone else, but apparently not! I learned that the kard way...” “[Laughs] I still remember your face! ‘I gotta wear this for how long?!’” “[Stifling Laughter] Oh yeah, well I’d like to see you try. Let’s swag, I’m Ashido, you’re Hagakure.” “Oh, you’re on!!”

Sadly and for very obvious reasons they could not do that on show

However after countless begs to the coustume crew, they let Mina try on Hagakure’s body suit and do some typical action stunts in it.

Mina’s never complaining about the makeup again.

You can not breathe in that thing!

Todoroki’s scar is partially real, althought how he got it was completely different.

“Ok, this is embarrassing, so I was cooking with my mother when I was about 7 or 8, and we were boiling eggs. The phone rang, so she told me she’d be back and to watch the eggs. The eggs started to make some weird sounds so I tried to check up on the eggs, but since i was short, my way of checking was by tilting the put over. A good chuck of it actually splashed around my eye and not on it, but I guess it looks cooler with a full 1/4 of my face burnt. Sorry I didn’t get it right the first time [Laughs].”

His hair color is a dark brown, He wears a wig, but the heterchromia is real.

People have told him he looks like Zuko from Avatar and he humbly accepts the compliment every time.

He’s a big ATLA fan.

But he’s a cloest fan.

Sato is actually a novice/going on advance baker and chef.

The stuff he makes is pretty good, but it often takes him more than one attempt to het the recipe right.

Everyone loves it when he just pops on set w a bunch of goodies.

Momo in particular

Cause like

girl can’t cook

but she tries!!

Her and Sato actually became pretty close because of this.

Although no one will eat what she makes

No one can stomach it.

Mineta and Aoyama tried once and they almost got food poisoning.

Sero is actually insecure about having pointy elbows irl so playing Sero was pretty sweet.

He’s also very quiet.

Like you wouldn’t know he was there unless you’re looking for him.

It’s not cause he’s shy, the boy just doesn’t like vocalizing his thoughts

Or more of he doesn’t know how to.

Meanwhile, Shoji can be such a big chatterbox

Basically Midoriya but his mind hops from one topic to the next.

He’ll be in an interview answering a question about how he feels his character is being developed and what he wishes for his character in the future but then he’ll start talking about his favorite villians in the show and fun spoilery moments he can’t wait to see on the big screen and stfu Shoji you’re ruining the show >:( don’t say spoils!!

Shoji was born w a cleft lip, and he used to be insecure about it when he was younger but like...

fuck it, y’know??

Kaminari can actually be as stupid as his character at times

not that he means too

it’s mostly him just misplacing things he either

A. Just had in his hands

B. Are still in his hands

C. He passed off to someone else two minute ago

He’s literally so sweet though

Like he’s so close w everyone in the cast

and yes

Bakusquad is real

Except the true Bakusquad consists of Bakugo, Mina, Kirishima, Kaminari, Uraraka, Iida, and Hagakure

Which shocks no one after they released that one episode w all the behind the scenes footage cause they are all so competitive

They have so many miniscule challenges and whatnot going on

But let it be known that the Bakusquad isn’t like some sort of super elite group

They are just the ones who are always trying to one up eachother

Selfies happen all the time

Everyone w Everyone

Mid-makeup selfies

Post-shoot selfies where everyone looks and feels like a wreak

Script reading selfies

Cuddle selfies

Many of the casts memebers will just sorta

cuddle eachother

and it’s okay

sometimes you just need it

And it helps fuel the shipping wars

No one takes sides except on Toshinko

Everyone ships Toshinko

People just want Midoriya to have an active father figure in his life and whoops now he’s a legitimate father figure in his life haha

It’s sort of a joke ship, sort of a real thing??

Like when fans ask “What’s your favorite ship??” Or “What ship do you want to see become canon?” The answer is always defaulted to Toshinko.

The actors of Toshi and Inko are also married iro so that might be a reason too

Speaking of Toshi!!

He was almost an automatic shoe-in for his role, but they still had to find a guy to play his buff “alter ego”, All Might.

Which lead to them hiring his cousin, who was originally a full-time bathing suit model.

Eh, he had time to spare though.

Toshi and All Might are such a vibe

They’re the dads™️

Might make more cause honestly i eat this AU up >:)

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mistandpixelbluepaint

3 years ago

Do you ever think about Fyodor sneaking in Russian wine (illegal contraband but he's a terrorist; what's surprising) and getting drunk on it in front of Nikolai. His accent comes out when he drunkenly talks about world domination and Nik forever makes fun of him for it. He likes it and contemplates telling him, but he's a jester. Fyodor would probably think he's having a laugh.

Then, Fyodor calls him 'Nik'. Like he was an old friend. Something intimate and forlorn- something Nikolai himself didn't even know he felt.

Once Fyodor sobers up, and he realises what he'd done, he just agrees to never speak of it again.

Nik doesn't tell him it stings.

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