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Hey guys, Have some of my Hyperfixation.

Serosetsu.

Based of this video.

https://x.com/blahuiniblah/status/1957172613932777872

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Gazerbeam / Simon J. Paladino

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I'll be real their rooms are fun but I always feel like Kaminari's screams more one large handbrake turn from raiding Snipe's closet and going full Cowboy.

Meanwhile Mina's looks like she held up a Jazzercise Studio, caught a few big cats, dyed them Pink and then skinned them to assert dominance.

And on that final note, Danke DanDaDan for more Gyaru's.

I don't know why people say that kaminari & mina are canon gyaru, I haven't seen information about, but there's actual gyaru character! (she was gyaru and probably finished being gyaru after 8 years)

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I've seesawed on making a post like this on Twitter because you get tons of Denki and Mina in gyaru fits but none of Setsuna, who has it in her bio!

I don't know why people say that kaminari & mina are canon gyaru, I haven't seen information about, but there's actual gyaru character! (she was gyaru and probably finished being gyaru after 8 years)

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I'm creating a folder that's just Ollie making fun of Bruce/Batman, that's it. I've got enough content to justify starting it

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I am realising the probable reason this post is getting traction is because of the Incredibles uptick of late.

More MHA Rambling

Do you think some of the superheroes from the Incredibles existed at one point, like not exactly everyone of them but like there are some heroes that existed and had similar powers and designs to the ones we've seen in the franchise.

Like say someone has gone to the support course to request some gear and they start suggesting capes and the whole room all at once yells 'NO CAPES!' If I were to be writing characters talking about older superheroes I would totally take beats from the Incredibles.

'God Denki's like that old American Hero, what was his name, the one that had to cool his head before fighting a pretty villainess, the radiation one, YEAH GAMMA JACK, that's the one.'

'Hey Bakugo you really should have gone with the Dynaguy name'

'Hey No! That would be disrespectful to the original!'

I think the general idea of using the really good Incredibles superhero names as background references would be really funny, as it's always really fun to hear about the older heroes in MHA, when we do it's usually one of the previous AFO holders or Crimson Riot.

Anyway, ramble over.

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Meet the parents!

rlly like them with the trope where her parents absolutely love him and shes the only one embarrassed abt it

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My favorite thing to explain to people is that a Steam Locomotive is the closest Humanity has ever gotten to creating a machine that feels like a living creature.

They eat, drink and breath, their temperamental and will disagree with you, they can be fussy eaters if you don't stoke them right they might not go properly, I'd go as far to say that they can throw tantrums.

And each of them has a personality and sound that's distinct, and many have nicknames to go along with their actual names.

They call these little guys Terrier's because the sound of them hard at work sounds like barking, so many trains have an utterly animalistic quality, you can tell by how we described them, how we personified them.

We called them Iron Horses.

People called them, firebreathing monsters, Dragons, when first created.

Mythic Firebreathing creatures and one of our most trusted companions our slang terms for them, these creatures that focus the use of Water, Earth, Fire and Air to their function, we didn't have Dragons, so we made our own, and they moved us at 70MPH whilst moving 600tons.

not sure why obsession with trains is seen as an autism thing when i think any reasonable human being with joy in their heart should be at least a little obsessed with trains. decently reliable public transport? with a rhytmic soothing motion but steady enough on long distances that you could read or draw while riding? getting to see the sights as you speed past? 10/10 best way to travel.

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that took me damn near a decade but I found'em!

How wonderful! Such cute! ^v^

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You know In this art style I do see why people think he looks like a Lesbian.

Took a small break from Led Zeppelin and OC’s to draw a young old man, that is pretty rad!

I wanted to do Top Gear concept art

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Bakugou is not a leader, he's not a team planner or a strategist, he does the bare basic and because it's him it's seen as really impressive. You know what his plan was?

Charge in, if he get's caught his team helps him, if they get caught he helps them, an utterly basic concept, he doesn't actually form a strategy, SERO FORMS MORE OF ONE THAT BAKUGOU!

I want to repeat that, Sero did more strategic thinking in that match, THAN BAKUGOU!

Firstly he forms a defensive web to catch inbound attacks, once that fails and Bakugou acts as clean up he, Sato and Jirou go to work making quick work of Awase through the use of Sato's strength freeing Bakugou and Jirou's Heartbeat distortion stunning Awase, and Sero wraps him up, leaving Bakugou to go and fuck them all up.

Now all he does is that, Fuck them up, he throws Kamikiri around, Stun's Bondo and run's the fuck away, meanwhile Sero is working out how to take down Tokage, from what he knows she can control and is currently using multiple parts to disorient Jirou, he also knows that she's a recommended student like Yaoyorozu and like her probably has a limited amount of energy she can expend so starts tying down as many of her detached parts as possible to force her to regenerate and bring them back it, when he knows that she has started to do that, he tags her with a Flash Grenade that Bakugou gave them.

Which is not a strategy it's an item.

That Flash alters Bakugou like he's a moth on Ketamine and as such he beelines and full face blasts her, all the while Sero tied up Awase and Kamikiri and likely Bondo as well AND near single handily set up the win con against Tokage!

All Bakugou is really good for in a Team Setting is being the Wolverine of the group, attracts attention away from the team getting the leg work in, whilst he get's the other team focused on him and worked up allowing for the others to blindside them.

Bakugou has no time for Team Play of interesting strategy other than blow things up, could not be my GOAT!

Also Momo outstrips Bakugou any day of the week as team commander and strategist.

The idea that Bakugou is suddenly a better team leader than Iida or Momo is absurd. It's not believable.

Saving Jirou is realistic as part of the win to save save to win theme and a great step forward for Bakugou. He learned the value of saving even if it is mostly in the context of viewing saving as a necessary condition for victory.

Bakugou's prior unwillingness to be saved put many lives at risk in Act One from the Sludge Villain to his kidnapping by the League of Villains. Being willing to be saved during the Joint Training Arc is amazing character development for him.

But flawless teamwork when he doesn't even respect his teammates enough to use their names is not believable. Valuing saving does not suddenly make him a good team player. Iida and Momo have had whole character arcs about their roles as leaders. Bakugou is just getting past not viewing his peers as beneath him.

An imperfect victory due to Bakugou's lackluster people skills that drives him to improve would make more sense here. This could have been achieved by one of Bakugou's team being captured early on because of their lack of faith in him, and then the rest rally around him to win the match after they witness his growth.

This match as written confuses the themes between teamwork and saving and undermines the arcs of other characters like Momo and Iida. It also causes stagnation for Bakugou's character in that he gets what he wanted, complete victory, on his first try. If Bakugou is a deuteragonist, he should grow alongside the protagonist, but the manga's inability to let Bakugou lose once he starts to put in an effort is an obstacle to his character growth.

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GA's last name is Queen

Come one DC.

ngl dc should just make the whole arrowfam queer. it's the title who's main character's hobby is calling his villains fascists, is anti-cop, and is just extremely loudly left-leaning. who could they possibly lose in terms of green arrow fans if they just threw in that they're all somehow queer.

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WHAT DID THE MYTHBUSTERS DO!?

Random DC stuff

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Class A Pokémon Teams, Round 3

It has almost been a year since I made the first post surrounding this idea to which I say no way in hell, but in any case during that time the teams majorly expanded from the original 1 to 3 right up to full teams of six.

Laying out the ground rules I put down for myself here.

I don't like mono typing or falling all the way into one style or category because of how MHA Characters are designed it is super easy to have their teams fill niches based on their designs or quirks  alone, Eg: Kaminari being fully Electric, Ashido being Poison or Tokoyami as pure Dark, it works well if they were Gym Leaders but they aren’t here, their trainers so their teams should logically cover weaknesses, or even provide coverage that they themselves can’t provide if they were to still have quirks, take for example Todoroki who’s only really capable of using Fire and Ice as his ‘Coverage’ so why would he take Pokemon that are in a sense the same ‘Type’ as him, so he’d want at least one Grass Type so cover his weaknesses to Ground, Rock, and Water. This also allows for far more diverse team compositions if I'm being honest and I like that better.

So starting with Minetas I decided to go by Dorm number.

I’ve seen all sorts given to Minoru and he’ll either have a joke team or one that lines more so with his personality, but here it’s a mix, but also taking into account how they would interact should they be in anime, which is why I’m not against him having a Lopunny, as a storytelling device it can work really well, with them having intense distrust towards Mineta because how he acts but overtime his intense loyalty and care that he shows others, which we know he has allows them to evolve into a Lopunny, it’s a storytelling device that sucks you in via the perceived notion of who Mineta is, also all of his team have a way to knock him out or drag him away from harassing a girl.

Bonsly-Tripping, Shroodle-Poison Jab, Wimpod-Tripping but Golisopd can just pick him up and use Emergency Exit, Gulpin Not much other than maybe latching onto his head ala many of James Pokemon, and Froakie sticks his feet to the floor or thwacks him as a Greninja.

Izuku fundamentally has the hardest teams to pick because of how many interpretations there can be but here I’ve tried to keep it reasonably close to who he is, normally he gets given lots of Fighting types which I don’t mind but there are just some easy things to get from that, starter wise I see him given Sceptile rather often which I think suites Sero much better, so my picks were between Bulbasaur and Scorbunny, the former being his voice actor Daiki’s favourite Pokemon and the latter is Goh’s semi starter Pokemon, Daiki voices Goh in the anime so I choose the latter as a more direct reference.

I had fun designing Yuga’s everyone knows you need a Furfou, that’s just the law but from there it’s honestly a toss up of various different choices, not often Kalosian but enough that get close to him aesthetically, I really wanted to push the idea of him not being what he seems which came out really well, Rookiedee uses fake eyes, Snivy’s animal and typing referring to a hidden enemy a Snake in the Grass, Staryu is thought to be an alien, whilst Spritzee is based in part of Plague Doctors who used perfume to keep the smell of bodies out, in this case it's like he's trying to mask the evil he's been surrounded by via AFO, which is why he has a Mimiku, the disguise.

One trap I see people fall all too often into with Fumikage is choosing to give him an All Dark type roster or give him a ton of birds, which is to say I get it but Murcrow is not his style, Fumikage has rep as a Chunibyo, otherwise known to America as Eighth-Grader Syndrome and is used to describe adolescents with delusions of Grandeur, I’m saying that he has delusions of grandeur, but he’s dramatic as hell, so we need some of those traits, as well as some swordsman and samurai motifs being as he is Hawk’s ward. I'm also considering him giving his Honedge to Eri at the Christmas party, I think it could be pretty cool.

For the character with such a connection to animals he sure is reasonably hard to give a team to, I went with a Forest Guardian vibe to the team composition, but also Pokemon that had peaceful designs or connotations but are by no means to be underestimated. Most if not all of them refer to his growth, Gigalith with his horns, and Unfezant in particular becoming a reference to his Domino Mask and gained confidence.

I didn’t want to fall in to heavily with sound and music, so no Toxtrity or Audino despite matching interests and quirk, so I went with Pokemon that are tangentially sound related, but not overly so, Jirou has always given off the vibes of Marnie, who is music adjacent, I mean come Jirou owens half of the stuff Marnie wears. Ekans is a really fun choice because it's meant to represent her face paint, Jirou paints a variety of little shapes on her face when doing hero work and Arbok can change it's hood pattern depending on environment so her's would have a combination of all the different paint markings.

I feel that Kaminari always gets the short end of the stick in these sets giving him a mono electric type team, to which I ask why? If he still has his quirk he needs one at most because he is the electric type he doesn’t need a Pikachu because he is a Pichu, and one of his key traits is making sure that his weaknesses can be accounted for so why is that not shown? So in this case the electric types he does have are there to help him learn to use his quirk better. I really see him as a bit of a Hoenn boy hence half his team comp being Pokémon found in Hoenn, Pansage is really funny to give a Motormouth like Kaminari as Pansage represents Speak No Evil.

Iida was hard to do without falling too hard into a camp of giving him Pokémon associated with Speed, but I feel I covered most of the bases, and don't tell me it wouldn't be so cute seeing a little Piplup trying to imitate his trainer's serious demeanor and arm chopping habit. What I did do is give him Pokemon that are solid and dependable Mudbray being the best example.

Ojiro also fails into a similar camp as Iida and Kaminari as being given a really singular themed team, but here you can see I did no some fighting and some Monkey mon's Tyrouge and Aipom are par for the course but his bottom set are more based on being Cool, Gliscor is one of the Coolest Pokémon to exist so why the hell not and we get some Gligar Man imagery in there. Zigzagoon is in slight reference to what he thinks is cool as a style which we see in Your Next, being basically Present Mic's outfit, you can’t tell me he wouldn’t think Piers or Sidney are the coolest guys ever.

Hagakure's team is kinda girly and I think that's totally fine Sobble was the choice but I was also super proud of Ducklett's inclusion, the Duck to Swan of finally seeing her visible is a neat story idea tied into her team comp. I wanted to include the concepts of something being hidden and lights, hence Budew who hides its little coloured bulbs.

Shoji's team was well. It was hard to not fall into the standard pitfalls of I don't know giving him a Machamp, when he is the Machamp so I went with some more interesting choices. I think Shuckle might be the most incongruous choice but I find it charming. Charmander has the same sort of backstory as Ash's being abandoned Shoji rescues it from the rain, you know the deal.

I had so much fun with Uraraka's team Comp, firstly Clefairy gotta have the pink, but you don’t want to overload it, I see that all to often with to many Pink Pokemon on her team  and Munna is a really common choice with her for some reason, I'm not sure why but sure. Now Litten it's an odd choice to a point, well it's not she's constantly depicted as a Cat and Incineroar as a Heel Wrestler fits her Grappling style same with Clobbopus, the latter along with Swablu are in references to her Mentors, Gunhead and Ryuku.

If I didn't include a Rockruff I would have been shot, but my choices for him are semi awkward or require a change in fighting style, I would have given him Garchomp but realised a bit late, maybe Crimson Riot had one. They also have this semi- Delingent look to their designs, plenty of Red in all of them which wasn’t entirely intentional but works with several of them having crest-like heads further tying into his design.

Accidentally but his and Bakugou's last names in as opposed to their firsts, sorry boys.

No Bakugou's team is composed without the inclusion of headstrong but powerful Pokemon, I like to believe that he takes great pride in having a smart Rhyhorn which also contrasts to Midoriya's Skiddo as a ride on Pokémon, all of his Pokemon have some sort of tie into people in his life that he admires or respects, or in the case of Clauncher he names his moves after a Howitzer a type of field artillery gun, what’s it’s evolution name?

Ashdio wasn't to hard honestly, I'm not 100% on the Snubbull but everything else is staying, the Oricorio is to make light of her and Kaminari's two brain cells of which Pom Pom is seen holding, I didn’t want to fall into the trap of making her whole team Dance or Poison related but I think the mixing of concepts is pretty well done.

Yaoyorozu's Team is pretty good in layout and concept. I don't think I have to explain it too much, I will say that Squirtle is the only starter that she should ever be given considering Blastoise. I like its layout in that it’s very clear that there are her friends, they all do something or are related to her life as a woman of a high class family.

I didn't know how to get much out of Sato's team, I think what I gave him is fine, nothing to special, it covers the bases of him being the strongman cook of the group, it’s funny because whilst he has practically nothing to do in the MHA anime in Pokemon he makes a strong contender for one of Ash’s Gym leader tagalongs, hell he and Brock have the same hair style.

Okay Todoroki normally ends up having a Team of Half Fire- Half Ice, to which I ask why? If he still has his quirk in this hypothetical set up it make sense to me that he would limit the number of fire types on his team hence the part Normal type Litleo, but also the rejection of fire is present in his use of Vulpix and Ponyta, two Pokémon known for their fire typing, but aren't fire type in these forms, and Poliwag? I just like it and it provides some added coverage.

Sero got a pretty neat team I think, so for some reason people will give him a ton of Bug Types, so I didn't. It doesn't super fit his vibe. I know he’s a Spider-Man analogue but you don’t need to go all in. Scraggy is a must on any of his Teams, Fittle is there for his wild card nature, it's also pretty damn stylish, Panpour is here to round out the elemental monkeys with Sero getting the most laid back and chill of the three. Now I don’t know if I did this intentionally or unintentionally but his team kinda matches Tokage’s vibe? Two Lizards and then Flittle and Panpour which could be in reference to Garau Fashion? I know I ship Serosetsu but that was not intentional on my part, but a fun story telling opportunity.

And rounding us out quite literally look at Tadbulb and Natu, is Asui with her part frog team, I do she her given all Frog teams, which why? She is the Frog so why would you stack her team with them? Seel was a last minute inclusion but works out with the Zoo art showing her with one, and it's also a Selkie ref so that's mega cool.

I'll be honest I made the trainer cards at about two in the morning so there a bit funky but I love them anyway, there are some silly goofs, such as the fact that Shoji's Pancham shouldn't be able to evolve by in-game rules but considering there are 120 Mon's here with exactly one species overlap, I'd say I've done pretty good here.

1B, maybe I might do that at some point in the future.

Also if you'd like to read the extended reasonings, follow this link here to my Google Doc.

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I've come to the conclusion that Momo is the only person who can use a Back Scabbard, by that I mean just, pull one out.

figure study & rough color of my girlies 🤓

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Yo cuties.

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wooahahah!

Lovely artists I referenced when drawing Rikidou Satou from My Hero Academia - @Locketofbirds (Tiktok), @Justalittlebitartsy (Tumblr).