I wish Curious wouldn't have died, and that we could have seen more of the five lieutenants. They had deep real world roles but were still quirky enough cartoon stereotypes.
I think Geten died -and was supposed to die- when Cementoss ambushed him in a mass of wet cement. He looked like a corpse in the manga, as if they pulled the cement away from his face too late. Cementoss made a grim comment, "No matter what happens you should stake your own life on your job". He might have felt awkward about taking out a child (Geten is an adult who looks like a child in my imaginings), even if the 'child' was a mass-murderer who killed countless people with his indiscriminate ice.
Side note: I thought it was funny Dabi was so indignant over Hawks shooting Twice in the back, like.....my dude. There's a war going on. Taking out Twice saved countless innocent bystanders. He had to go for the same reason as Trumpet and Mustard.
They decided to bring Geten back to narrate the Himura back story to explain Dabi's sudden phosphor ability manifesting. I wish they'd do more with him, Compress and Trumpet, like maybe something based on a fanfic on AO3 where the MLA did a prison break. They'd wait to see how the battle with Shigaraki goes then make their move.
MHA Villain Speculation - The Curious Case of Trumpet
Now for another reason why I made this seperate blog: to post my just weird, gut feeling-ish theories concerning the Villains and their roles in the MHA series! No real evidence, just me speculating based upon how they were handled in the series.
And for our first entry we have everyone's...well, someone's favorite politician Villain! Representing the Meta Liberation Army it's Koku Hanabata AKA Trumpet...
And what I think of his weird treatment and what the 'original plan' in my eyes was supposed to be.
So I'll put it out there right off the bat: I do not think that Trumpet was supposed to live past the MVA Arc.
Now, that is a pretty big thing to claim and don't blame people for being skeptical. After all Trumpet's faction, the Hearts and Minds Party, is a major aspect of the PLF if they were to win, being the driving force to steer education, and thus the future more towards what the organization wants after Shigaraki destroys everything. It's even brought up again after his arrest and how the party was dismantled...
Yet, with that in mind, I can't help but feel this is something akin to a band-aid meant to involve someone who wasn't supposed to last as long as he did.
So why do I feel this way. Well, from the get go, MVA ends with a bit of an awkward note when it came to the MLA executive side. No matter how you slice it, the fact that Hori planned only for Curious to die out of the named five is just very weird in hindsight. After all, if the plan was for the MLA to join the LOV, then why not have her stick around as well? Why just kill one? It's just an odd detail, I'm sure everyone else would think so as well.
Well, what if she wasn't supposed to be alone? Given how much of a forefront he played in the Revival Celebration, from spurning the MLA soldiers to attack and even welcoming the League when they come to Deika City with Curious, (especially in the image above), I feel as though he was supposed to die in the event as well. If I were to be specific, I think the initial plan was for Spinner to prove Trumpet's view of him and his 'weak Quirk' wrong by using the strengths of his Quirk to get close enough to kill Trumpet. In turn, Spinner is able to lighten Shigaraki's load since Trumpet's death removes the effects of his Quirk to the soldiers of the MLA and makes them fall even easier for Twice's Sad Man Parade to handle.
But something happened. I think, ultimately, the plotline had to be scrapped as Hori went into Shigaraki's ordeal with Re-Destro. Perhaps it was to preserve the pace or maybe its because there may have been pressure from editors or the like to hurry the arc up, whatever the reason was, the fight was scrapped and Trumpet was spared as a result.
If that's the case, then it goes a way to explain the oddity concerning his placement in the PLF. Namely, the fact that he doesn't get to be a Commander of a Regiment (which is bizarre when you consider that Twice was the sole Commander of the Black Regiment, even though Trumpet easily could have been a Co-commander of it). Re-Destro made sense since he was the leader of the MLA as a whole up until Shigaraki, so he's pretty much the Vice Commander of the entirety of the organization as a whole.
But Trumpet? He just gets nothing, and while you can argue It's because he's a working politician, keep in mind Skeptic was a Commander while also being an executive of Feels Good Inc. He could certainly have been both, and likely be a good fit for Brown or Black. It's odd, but if you consider he wasn't supposed to live past MVA, then it starts making sense. He was supposed to be dead, so Hori didn't really have a set Regiment to give him, and by the time the First War came around, he opted not to really bother with it.
And on the First War? If you consider he was supposed to be dead at this point, than his involvement makes his role in it star to click...or rather. Lack of it. He doesn't do anything. Geten, Re-Destro and, especially, Skeptic had major roles to play in the War and Trumpet easily could have had a part in leading the army about or boosting them with his Quirk. Turning 16K people into a very dangerous force to contend with the Heroes! Yet-
He's taking out off-screen without affecting a thing. But why? Well, another reason I think Trumpet was supposed to be bite it in MVA, beyond giving Spinner his moment, has to do with Incite.
It's one of those Quirks that would fall into 'One-Shot Villain' tier on the latter of how tricky it is to write around. Think of Mustard. His Gas, while it worked for the Training Camp arc, would have been a nightmare to use in later arcs if he were to stick around given how effective it is as neutralizing enemies, require someone to be there with gas masks, and he can't really work with his allies since he could knock them out too - as much as I love Mustard, its very understandable why he couldn't stick around.
Trumpet also fits the bill since his Incite can very easily stack the favor in the Villains without much effort. With one speech, those thousands of soldiers can be buffed to prove an even more dangerous threat to the Heroes by being so caught in a frenzy they refuse to go down, and if worked in conjunction with Gigantomachia, I could see them even pushing back the Heroes to have even more escape!! Add that to having powerhouses like Geten and RD around, the aforementioned Giganto, Advisors (in theory), and the League (especially Shigaraki) fighting and the cards become too stacked for the Heroes to win. But if Trumpet were dead? The canon story becomes a lot more smooth as the soldiers have no one really giving them that boost to be as dangerous as they would be in MLA, and makes most of their capture make a lot more sense.
But, since he was left alive? Well, Hori's answer to that awkward fact, seemed to be just 'pretend he's dead' and just stick him in a panel for later, and be done with him. Which...was an option XD
On the matter of the Hearts and Minds Party, I also argue that the PLF could still use it even without Trumpet being around. He can just be a martyr for them to promote Liberation even more, which makes sense since Trumpet did that with Curious himself. Heck, a cool thing I think could have worked out is for both Trumpet and Curious to have successors in the MLA since their spots are vacant. For example,
Chrome and Diva, for lack of names (Hori please give these guys names), could have been selected to take up the mantle left behind by their predecessors, having been part of their party/Shoowaysha, respectively. That being said, given the PLF reshuffling, at the current moment, they were stuck as just #1 Advisors to the Commanders until a proper time to name them could be met. Give a bit of depth to them.
But that, seemingly (they haven't shown up yet after all), isn't the case! What we are left with is just Trumpet being the most 'there' Villain in the PLF until he's beat which pretty much has him at the bottom of the heap of MLA effect on the story. Yes, even Curious beats him in my eyes since her vestige/ghost still haunts Toga even in the Second War. At best, Trumpet got a passing mention of his own party being dissolved...which is even worse since now since its just confirming it can't be used any more XD
Now, do I wish Trumpet was dead in story? Not really, I wished all five of the MLA executives not only lived, but got some sort of story to head into the Second War - instead of just Skeptic (even though he is the GOAT~). There's a lot you can do with politician villains in stories, so seeing him pretty much reduced to the side was disappointing. But that's life, maybe he can appear in the jail that's holding Compress and Geten? But that's just hope on my end!
Though anything is better for Trumpet than essentially being a Walking Dead determinant character~ 'Yeah, this guy lived....but aside from some minor dialogue doesn't do much and is fated to be gone anyway'. Poor guy!
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seeing that comic with Sneasler gifting Ingo his brother in her basket really makes me think that she probably straight up would do that. This guy looks like her Warden, smells similar, so this means they must be related even if he's a "Shiny Version" of him.
Pokemon are pretty clever but I still put the most of them into the intelligence of a 5-7 year old child
this would definitely be a cute reunion...
speaking of...
how would you imagine the reunion would play out?
Looking back at other people's AUs for the past couple of years, I kind of like the "Emmet was there the whole time" scenario. -Like there's one where Ingo is rescued because Pearl Clan members could see his black coat in the snow at night. Emmet goes unnoticed but is rescued by a pack of zoroarks who recognize him as one of their own (without him dying and actually turning into one. -Too depressing). Since Ingo travels to the Coronet Highlands to be Sneasler's warden, then works at the Training Grounds, they never get a chance to run into each other.
After the protag defeats Volo and is working on completing the pokedex, they run into Emmet at a zoroark outbreak and note how similar the wild man traveling with them looks like Warden Ingo. Meanwhile, Ingo is happy with his life in the village. He is well liked and has a lot of friends, but he has an unresolved emptiness inside knowing he will forever be an outsider both in Hisui and to the memories of his former life always on the verge of coming clear but never actually.
Protag brings Emmet to the village where they have an awkward reunion. They don't really remember each other, or their past lives so don't have anything to say about it. Both have a lot of new stories to tell about their ordeals in Hisui, like why Ingo is covered in scars and wears a Pearl Clan tunic, or why Emmet has frost bite on his extremities and reflexively makes oddly animalistic sounds.
Another possibility would be that Ingo ended up at the Pearl Clan settlement, and Emmet ended up stranded on an island on that section of Cobalt Coastlands that's blanked out (that should have been an expansion). This version of Emmet also doesn't get found and returned until the protag is near completion of the pokedex. He is amazed at cool Ingo looks after living as a rugged survivalist, whereas he was taking it easy on a temperate tropical island.
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