scrimbip

[scrimbip]

Mothura my beloved

[scrimbip]

This is probably a weird note to end my time with MHA's run on; but I find it so strange how I still see people calling Tomura out on just being a destruction-hungry villain with supposedly no plan or follow up...as though he is unique for that simplicity. Especially after the ending we got. Like, Deku and All Might never really had a plan when they were reshaping society by beating up the enemy and everything worked out fine for them, but does anyone call them out for just using violence to mindlessly solve everything with no further plan? (Well, yes. Me. Right now.)

Because like, really thinking about it; how different was All Might's plan from the start of his career to take down AFO and become a symbol, and Deku's plan to end the villains and bring everything back, from Shigaraki's plan to end hero society and bring about a world accommodating to the League? It all seemed to boil down to the same basic premise of Step 1) Beat everyone & everything making things worse, Step 2) ...it all just kind of works out from there. (I guess All Might planned on being inspiring and uplifting, but then we could also count Tomura's plan to be imposing and...uplifting but for different people. Deku was winging it every step of the way though.) Everyone's getting on Tomura's case for doing nothing but destroying; but all evidence from when the heroes do it suggests violence & destruction works. And it just never fails to bug me when people call Tomura out for stuff that's fine when heroes do it.

Which, yeah, let's touch on how it did just work out for Deku that way for no logical reason, least of all anything he planned. He punched out the big bad just like All Might and now things are like a hundred times better than they were under All Might with no more Tenkos abandoned in the street. If stuff like that just happens if you punch out your enemies hard enough, then why couldn't that happen for Tomura? Maybe if he had destroyed the government & hero society it would've, idk, been so fear/awe-inspiring that all the villains would've been nice and cooperative under the PLF and everything would've been fine. Or something. No more contrived than what we saw with the old lady plot line, MHA is just a series where that stuff works out. Heck, one time it actually did just work out that way for Tomura:

Again, violence and destruction works in MHA. I mean; duh, it's a shonen manga.

Plus all this is ignoring the fact that, unlike those two, Tomura did have a follow up to the violence. He did have a step two, or at least one & a half, after "beat down all the bad guys in the country." Rather than just going "and everything will work out from there," he had his guys plan for the future so he could say "and Spinner, Toga, and RD et. all will make sure everything works out from there." (Admittedly, not much; but also, not hopes and dreams.) He did have a plan, it was just the plan from the Overahul arc, where he was last asked to have a plan: leave it to his allies.

And hey, that means it's actually better than what we saw from genius All Might and brainiac Deku. So why are we still, even after everything was over, acting like there's some expectation as a villain he didn't meet? I guess it's just in the nature of a 'tantrum-having man-child who wants nothing but destruction' to put more forethought into the future he wants to build than the society-uplifting greatest heroes.

That or maybe everyone had really detailed follow-ups for when they won that Hori never went much into, but that'd render this post a bit pointless so shhh.

[scrimbip]

( Makima panel but it's AFO )

[scrimbip]

why he look so mad

[scrimbip]

noticed a weird pattern with how bones adapts certain characters

[scrimbip]

Shigaraki is physically unable to keep a shirt on during a major battle.

[scrimbip]

himiko give tomura a cinnamoroll,,,,

guys he miss his dog :((

[scrimbip]

DFO stans explaining why DFO is canon, using the same two pieces of evidence (the creator being a Star Wars fan and Izuku & AFO doing the same pose in concept art sheets):

The total amount of actual evidence there has been for DFO in the series so far, close to the conclusion, with the would-be dad already having bitten the dust:

[scrimbip]

W.I.P

[scrimbip]

[scrimbip]

No, I'm not going to sleep on this. This won't leave my fricking mind alone even after we went over this in its entirety in the server.

Creepy ass bitch ass mf dumbass weirdo stalker brother lover ew-eth get in the vault you mf

At least I have the confirmation that he is indeed doing all of this just to get Yoichi back into his clutch and I've been writing him accurately.

But still.

Go touch some grass and dirt and trees and mud and stone and worms and air and

Just get out of your head, my guy, it's been like 200 years 💀 You really didn't need to go after every single user and then adopt a kid who looks vaguely like your brother, and then just... Obsess over anyone with white hair.

Idk about you guys, but I'm seeing a bit of a parallel between how AFO talks to Yoichi and Touya. Trying to get them to join him, calling them pitiful, as if trying to make them feel weak and rely on him.

It just feels different from how he talks to his subordinates; debtors. He talks to Yoichi and Touya like they need him. It's the other way around with his debtors.

Of course, these people willingly accepted the quirk exchange.

Sorry to turn this into a mini-analysis, but I have these three people (AFO, Yoichi, Touya) on my mind 24/7. I constantly think about their relationships and the parallels.

[scrimbip]

trying new staff: gouache (in scan is more horrible than irl 😓 sketches had potential 😢)

[scrimbip]

Saying "kill yourself" even as a joke is really gross

no I reclaimed it I’ve died before

[scrimbip]

10/10 AFO faces

[scrimbip]

I KNOW WHAT YOU DO HORIKOSHI🫵😾

I know those eyes and back...

[scrimbip]

In retrospect, Shigaraki’s trauma was foreshadowed even during his debut. (And wow that’s a sharp transition between scared five year old and All for One larping)

Also interesting that All Might and Bakugou had similar first interactions with Shigaraki: a rejection of him while triggering his trauma by forcing Kotaro’s hand off his face. Because truth is, the “Number 1 Hero who Always Wins” cannot save Shimura Tenko.

[scrimbip]

Cringe ass glowing baby