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how it feels rn

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alternative mha 429

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More kris and soul art

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Here to feed the dwindling overhaul nation with a grain of rice

STAY STRONG PLS KEEP FEEDING ME im so hungry for overhaul content im famished

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i think chisaki kai was in some way supposed to be interpreted as eri if she wasn't saved. the child experimentation backstory, the utter lack of joy in anything, the loss of innocence. the way that when chisaki talks to eri it almost sounds like he's just echoing something that was once said to him. the way that even pops seemed to think that chisaki and eri's situations with their quirks were similar.

most importantly, was the fact that chisaki spent the entire arc wearing a mask. we never saw his mouth. even in the flashbacks where he wasn't wearing a mask, his face was blotted out by shadow. so here's the thing: the focal point of the subsequent school festival arc was "eri hasn't been saved yet, she hasn't yet learned how to smile". here's another thing: we never see chisaki smile. if anything, the very suggestion of a smile is preemptively invalidated by the fact that he's always covering his mouth up.

maybe i'm just reading too much into something that clearly horikoshi has no intention of touching on himself. but i've always thought that the significance of chisaki's mouth being concealed is that it's a metaphor for his inability to smile.

he's so far beyond the point whereas he could have been "saved", when he could have learned to smile and find the little joys in life, that he no longer even has a mouth to learn how to smile with.

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as much as i adore the shie hassaikai arc and think it was executed fairly well, one thing that will always stick with me is that they introduced a villain, overhaul—potentially with strong opinions about quirk discrimination and specifically in regards to how the quirkless are treated—and then had midoriya fight him and it never comes up.

i'm not saying that overhaul should have been a sympathetic bad guy or redeemed at the end of the arc (though i do think that's something that could have been pulled off, if horikoshi wanted to explore that route with him), but, that i think the shie hassaikai arc should have been a chance for midoriya to revisit his past—bullied for being quirkless—and then reaffirm something about his current beliefs.

here is a ragtag group of villains who pulled the short stick with their quirks. here is a villain boss who would prefer a world where everyone is quirkless. what would midoriya izuku—the formerly quirkless, quirk enthusiast nerd—say to these people?

overhaul had potential to be a villain who could challenge midoriya's thinking and force him to reflect on his childhood. but most of the arc focused on lemillion and eri, and only briefly touched on overhaul and some of the eight bullets' feelings in regards to their quirks, and how society orbits around quirks.

it could have been really interesting if, for all that overhaul is the absolute worst guy ever, he (against all odds) is the one person who feels strongly about quirkless people. and midoriya wants to say no, you're wrong and you're a villain, but he can't fully invalidate everything overhaul says because he experienced being quirkless firsthand.

and so midoriya must reflect and go: yes, you might be right about how quirks (something people are born with or without) unfairly dictate how people are seen and valued in our society. but that doesn't mean quirks are inherently wrong, and that certainly doesn't justify any of what you've done or what you plan to do.

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I think one of my least favorite things ever is when another villain-liker tries to moral-highground me for liking Chisaki. Like, dude, you say you don’t like child abuse so hate Chisaki—do you think I like child abuse??? More importantly, do you condone the actions of any of the villains you like?? No? Then why the fuck do you think I do?? Jackass

“O-Oh, b-but the other villains had tragic backstories!!” First off, a villain doesn’t need a tragic backstory to be interesting/compelling, and secondly, Chisaki’s childhood was definitely not sunshine and rainbows anyway??? It was revealed he was held in one of AFO’s facilities as a kid, and he lived on the streets for however long, and he was raised in the YAKUZA. Do you think those are normal, healthy environments for a child to grow up in??

“But Pops clearly cared about him!!” DID HE?? I’m starting to seriously fucking question that because I ain’t see that man actually give Chisaki all this love and warmth that y’all claim he did 😭 he was not the wholly innocent candy-sweet old man you guys make him out to be 💀

“He’s sadistic!!” He is quite literally the opposite. He hates fighting, he literally states it himself. Also if he was half as unforgiving/tyrannical as you guys say he is, all of his subordinates would be dead by now. Like, ten times over. He thinks of them as expendable because he thinks of all humans, including himself, as expendable because that’s what was taught to him as a child. Human lives don’t have inherent value to him because that’s the environment he grew up in. Yet he doesn’t punish Kurono for missing a shot that could’ve cost him his life, or Nemoto for missing multiple shots in a crucial battle. He also doesn’t berate any of them for being defeated.

The funny thing is, he actually got the most on his own case for his downfall. He doesn’t blame the heroes, and he doesn’t seem to blame the League, either. He doesn’t blame any of the other Shie Hassaikai members. He seemingly blames himself and only himself. And that’s really interesting to think about because it could imply/mean so many different things.

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u ever wonder if ur associated with a character forever to someone else. like. when ur scrolling ur dash and u see a url u don't recognize and after going to their blog ur like ohhh this is the Character person. yeah ok i remember now.

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wild chisaki headcanon: he gets really into sewing and threadcraft because fabric is super hard to overhaul

like--a human body? yeah, okay, super complex, but the main challenge is its complexity--every cell in a body is connected via chemical bonds. (blood is the exception, which is why ppl who are overhauled would tend to lose blood and get dehydrated.) but fabric? fabric?? doesn't matter HOW simple the chemical structure of the threads, the threads are held together by tension and weave, not chemical bonds! fabric may act as a single thing but to overhaul it's ten billion things folding in on each other! you'd have to overhaul each individual thread to fix a tear! and in the end it's really just faster/simpler/easier to sew or weave something the traditional way than to overhaul it. like he can overhaul it if he's desperate but he would rather not

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chisaki at every weekly 8pods meeting

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Chisaki: well well well, look who finally came crawling back. my one-year-old niece who I left at the store

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More MHA plot thoughts that burden my brain:

Yakuza Aizawa AU

After the sports festival and before he can be moved into the hero course, Aizawa ends up being scouted into the Shie Hassaikai for his talents and ability to keep Kai (his now younger brother) in line. With little choice in the matter now that his path to becoming a hero has been stollen from him, he commits his all into being a fair enforcer and right hand to the current head. When Kai gets old enough and is able to take over, Shouta still plans on leaving and following his dream to become a hero on his own. Unfortunately, the old head steps down due to his health and Shouta is forced to accept his new place as the leader. Despite his reluctance, he is one of the best leaders in this new age of quirks, sending Kai through hero school so he can become a more legal enforcer and have the license to use his quirk which helps with business. He also funds the Eight Bullet’s agency with Kai as the pro hero Overhaul, and his sidekicks all being reformed villains and criminals. It’s a not so secret secret that their agency is in the heart of the Shie Hassaikai’s territory and that no other hero agency dares to step over that boundary.

Despite all that, it is one of the safer areas to live in, and since Aizawa has become acting head, crime has decreased and drugs have been reduced and stayed out of schools and far from minors. Even the number of weapons have been reduced and the amount of quirked crimes have gone down.

Everything is going great until some moron decided to kidnap Aizawa’s adopted daughter in broad daylight from her school. Aizawa may seem like a fare, level headed man, but all common sense is out the window when his daughter is threatened. Heads will roll and blood will be spilt.

Meanwhile, far enough away to be an inconvenience, The Radio Hero Present Mic is off duty, just trying to go home when he comes across a very scared little girl under very strange circumstances. Of course his phone is dead, so he decides to escort the child home before their parents can worry.

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can you imagine how weird it must have been for the rest of the hassaikai when the oyaji took chisaki home for the first time. "is that a child?" "sure is" "where did he come from?" "i found him on the street :)" and you can't question him cuz he's The Boss. meanwhile this highly traumatized autistic child is staring at you like a feral cat and barely responds when you try to talk to him

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Honestly, I gotta say it. The more I think about Pops/the Boss, the more he pisses me off. Like, in the whopping three panels he featured in, and his long-winded run of one minute and thirty seconds (if that) of screen-time, he enacted the quite virtuous deeds of:

One: handing his granddaughter off to someone he knows to be violent and extreme, probably partially in the pretentious pretense of “teaching him empathy” since he never fucking bothered to do that himself, and probably couldn’t have been bothered to half-assedly raise another kid, either.

Two: doing nothing to genuinely help the person with violent and apathetic tendencies (as a child or adult), who blatantly exhibits multiple symptoms of multiple mental disorders/issues, and has since childhood.

Three: never teaching the child he took in from the streets (who’d clearly faced some form of mistreatment before being in his care) to not feel indebted to him for helping them/not feel like kindness has to always have an ulterior motive. Never even bothered to try asking/figuring out why this child even had that mindset in the first place, or maybe even was the one who actually nursed that mindset into full fruition. Never taking the time to actually sit them down and explain things to them, ask them why they think the way they do, try to get them any sort of actual help, never seemed to actually consider their perspective on anything. All that, and then he wondered why the child grew up to be so horrifically apathetic and violent, after they’d been showcasing those behaviors for literal years, and he’d done nothing about it outside of a hollow reprimand. Woah, crazy, ain’t it. Really came out of left-field, that one.

Four: deciding the best course of action when Chisaki showed his most concerning and dangerous behaviors yet, was to just… cast him out. Onto the streets again. Completely unsupervised?? Like, dude. What.

Five: having the goddamn nerve to act surprised when the child he brought up (in the yakuza) doesn’t care much about human lives and only searches for ways to make them useful—even at the detriment/harm of them, AKA the very mindset he willfully ignored and at least semi-encouraged in them.

Ahh.. but alas, what can we expect from a Yakuza boss who was disowned by his own daughter? :)

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Shie Hassaikai Textposts

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I think part of the reason why Overhaul is hated more and seems less deserving of “redemption” (atonement, whatever) than the league of villains is, besides the more fleshed out backstories of the latter, the observer effect so to speak. The civilians killed by league? We don’t know them. We can headcanon that they all were bastards and nobody would care. But Eri? We know Eri. She is also a child, which gives Chisaki extra points on “awfulness”. Personally, I think they both did terrible shit, but “death of one is a tragedy, death of millions (in not saying Shiggy outright killed millions) is a statistic”

Hi, I’m sorry it took me so ridiculously long to get back to you, but I promise it was because I was turning this that way and this way over and over again in my head. I feel you are right.

Chisaki primarily hurt characters who we actually get to know (Eri, Magne, Compress, Mirio, Nighteye) and more than that, he hurt them in permanent ways, entirely onscreen, something that was previously untouched in MHA. The LOV’s victims are rarely even shown, especially outside of the two-second scene where they get killed.

Something I rarely ever see people mention is how the LOV’s original plan was to kidnap Eri. You can say that maybe they were just going to keep her in the background while they did whatever/taken care of her. You could also say that they were planning to hand her over to Garaki so they could try to make the quirk-destroying bullets themselves. We have no idea what the rest of that plan was.

You see, Chisaki and the LOV are opposites in how they’re presented to the audience. The LOV’s “villainous acts” are typically vague and impermanent, whereas the reasoning behind why they’re a villain and why they do these things is detailed and patiently shown. Chisaki’s “villainous acts” are all onscreen and their consequences/pain happen to people we actually know, pain that we get to see. What actually happened to him in his youth and seeded these issues in him? We don’t get anything outside of strictly-plot-relevant details. With this, you have the perfect formula to have people believe that “this group” is better than “that group”.

It’s pretty clear Chisaki’s character is not meant to be understood in the same way the LOV are, because he is not like the LOV. He was abandoned, but he was also taken in, so he’s fine. His father-figure didn’t seem to outright abuse him, so his childhood was good. He was experimented on, but was he? And not anymore and we don’t get to see how he was before he was experimented on, so he’s fine and was always this way. He technically had everything the LOV members didn’t, so he never had anything significantly negative happen to him and he’s a jackass simply because he wants to be one.

Chisaki’s traumatic experiences were never explicitly shown, so they never happened. LOV’s bad actions were never explicitly shown (without a thorough explanation as to why they did them), so they weren’t that bad. Easy as that.

I have a lot of feelings towards the people who will scream at the top of their lungs endlessly about how the LOV members should all get perfectly happy endings, and then turn around and tear Chisaki to absolute shreds. I understand to an extent, but it is slightly ironic…

They’re all horrible people. Maybe they could’ve turned out better had their circumstances been different. That applies to all of them, the LOV and the Shie Hassaikai.

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I love my mutuals who are absolutely tearing pops to shreds since last chapter☺️ like yes darling rip this old man up for his hypocrisy and superiority complex, thinking that taking the highroad will excuse the fact that he did the bear minimum to reach out to clearly traumatised child he picked up off the streets and handing over his own granddaughter to said now adult child who has history of being violent