#1) it shouldn’t matter and they’re highly skilled individuals so this is just someone making rude gossip

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Being a subtle work place relationship did not last

Grey continued to steal his coats even when they went into the men’s store to get her nice pants and such

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Ranking The Top 15 Strongest One Piece Characters

Ranking The Top 15 Strongest One Piece Characters 323 hours. That’s approximately how long it would take for someone to completely catch up to the ONE PIECE anime. When a show goes on for this long, it’s for a ton of different reasons. Innovative storytelling, creative world-building, and an engaging protagonist all play a role. However, one thing that makes ONE PIECE truly special is its cast of characters. Over the course of 20 years, creator Eiichiro Oda assembled a cast with over 1,000 characters in it. These characters cover a number of areas, but our focus now is their powers and abilities.

In the ONE PIECE universe, characters can eat something called a “devil fruit.” When this happens, they are granted a special ability. For example, when protagonist Monkey D. Luffy ate the gum-gum fruit, it gave him the properties of rubber. Luffy could stretch his limbs at will and was even immune to lightning damage and the sensation of pain. With so many characters possessing interesting abilities like this, it’s fun ruminating over who the strongest ONE PIECE character is.

Before we get into the list order, I want to talk about my ranking system. When creating this list, I envisioned the ONE PIECE universe as a giant battleground. The person ranked #1 here is, in my opinion, the last person who would be left standing on this battleground. The person ranked #2 would only lose to the person ranked #1, and so on and so forth. Also, we’re only including anime characters. Sorry manga readers, but you might not see your favorite character here or ranked to your liking.

So, without further ado, let’s get into the character rankings.

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  15. Caesar A lot of you might be surprised Caesar made this list at all. At this point in the ONE PIECE anime, Caesar is essentially a meme character. Luffy’s crew, and fellow pirate Capone “Gang” Bege, always belittle Caesar and call him a loser. Part of this is because his devil fruit power has been restrained for a while now, and he is at the mercy of other stronger characters. However, it wasn’t too long ago in the story that Caesar was the main antagonist of the Punk Hazard arc. People have forgotten exactly how dangerous this guy is, so let’s take a look back at his accolades.

Caesar ate the gas-gas logia fruit, making his body gas. A seemingly useless ability unless matched with genius intellect, and luckily, Caesar has that. He’s acute enough to recognize air is oxygen, a type of gas. As a result, he can physically manipulate the air around people. If Caesar wills it, he could cut off an opponents air-flow and kill them within minutes. It doesn’t matter how strong you are; that technique is impossible to block. Caesar’s also shown ingenuity with the simple castanet instrument. He fills this instrument with explosive powder, clamps them together, and uses his devil fruit powers to fan the flames throughout the air.

Caesar hatching another plan. | Image: Crunchyroll Caesar has many more abilities. However, he doesn’t do much fighting due to his cowardly nature. He goes to extreme measures to avoid fighting, but his devil fruit abilities alone earn him a spot on this list.

14. Trafalgar Law Coming in at #14 is one of ONE PIECE’s most popular characters, Trafalgar D. Water Law. It’s a superfluous name for sure, but the “surgeon of death” isn’t a person you want to make an enemy of. Like Luffy, Law is a member of the worst generation. He earned this title by committing countless heinous acts against the government and quickly accruing a bounty of 500,000,000 bellies (5,000,000 USD.)

Law is a ruthless individual equipped with the op-op fruit, nicknamed “the ultimate devil fruit.” With this fruit, Law can create a giant spatial sphere called the “room.” And within this room, Law can control anything he wants. It gives him an undeniable edge over anyone he can fit in this sphere.

Law traps a Navy soldier in his “room.” | Image: Crunchyroll However, Law’s biggest downfall is dealing with foes outside of his rooms. He’s adept with a blade, but not enough to stand up to skilled swordsmen like Mihawk or Zoro. His gamma knife ability, which destroys a person’s internal organs, is certainly powerful. But, it requires a lot of energy and is difficult to hit unless the person is trapped in his room.

Law has potential. There’s no doubt about it. But I ranked him low due to his a few weaknesses in his game.

13. Doflamingo Donquixote Doflamingo, more commonly referred to as Doffy, is one of the seven warlord’s of the sea. This elite group of pirates is so powerful the World Government in ONE PIECE actively turns a blind eye to their misdeeds. The power of these warlords range quite a bit, but make no mistake about it, Doffy is a force to be reckoned with.

He’s a towering specimen, standing over 10 feet tall with an overall imposing physique. He’s able to use the “color of armaments” Haki, a difficult technique that only skilled fighters can use. Doffy is also blessed with the Conqueror’s Haki ability, which only one in a million people can use. This ability can be used to defeat thousands of enemies at once without moving a single finger.

These abilities make Doffy a dangerous fighter, but he also has the string-string devil fruit to further augment his strength. It might sound like an underwhelming power, but these are no ordinary strings. They’re strong enough to support his tremendous size and weight, allowing him to use a make-shift flying technique. He can also use them as stitches to heal his internal/external injuries, and create copies of himself to fight. Last but not least, Doffy awakened his devil fruit power, allowing him to perform more advanced moves. For example, he can turn buildings into string simply by touching them.

Doffy manipulating others like puppets. | Image: Crunchyroll Doflamingo is extremely powerful and can hold his own against any character in the ONE PIECE universe. However, I believe he’d end up losing most hypothetical fights against everyone listed ahead of him.

12. Sabo Sabo is second-in-command of the Revolutionary Army. This organization directly challenges the corrupt officials of the World Government. It’s home to some of the most dangerous fighters in the world, and Sabo made them look like total chumps as a kid. He fought his way to the top of the organization, and as a teenager, is already strong enough to fight Navy admirals. His battle with Fujitora was brief, but people shouldn’t overlook the fact that Sabo stood on even ground with him.

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Arguably the most impressive part about their battle was that Sabo didn’t even have full control of his devil fruit yet. The flare-flare fruit is highly lauded for its destructive abilities and is the perfect fit for an anarchist. He recently acquired it earlier in the Dressrosa arc and was merely feeling out his abilities. He’s already shown the ability to use armament Haki as well, which will catapult his strength further.

As the story continues, Sabo will only continue to hone his abilities. He’ll be absolutely lethal when he finally fulfills his potential.

Sabo the Inheritor. | Image: Crunchyroll 

11. Kuzan Kuzan is one of the original three Navy admirals, although he eventually forfeits this position. He arrived rather early in the series while pursuing Luffy’s crewmate Robin. However, Kuzan had to go through Luffy first if he wanted any piece of Robin. Even though Luffy has taken down strong foes at this point, Kuzan made him look like an amateur. It’s not just Luffy though. Kuzan has taken down giants and even halted emperors with his combat prowess.

Since he’s above the rank of a vice-admiral, Kuzan can use armament Haki. He’s also gifted with the ice-ice logia devil fruit. He uses this fruit to control, create, and become ice. So to Kuzan, it doesn’t necessarily matter how big you are. He can freeze you. It doesn’t matter how far away you are. He can freeze the environment around you, or manifest his ice into projectiles to track you down.

Kuzan is every bit deserving of his admiral rank. He is strong enough to fight for ten days against Admiral Sakazuki, whose magma-magma fruit directly counters his. ONE PIECE fans up to date with the series will enjoy seeing how his uncertain future plays out.

Kuzan showing off his devil fruit powers. | Image: Crunchyroll 

10. Issho Issho joined the ONE PIECE cast of characters in the Dressrosa story arc. He replaced Kuzan’s position as a Navy admiral after he leaves his position. As a Navy admiral, Issho is one of the strongest fighters in the ONE PIECE universe. He mostly relies on two overall abilities when fighting.

The first is his devil fruit, which has yet to be named. It does, however, give Issho the ability to manipulate gravity. This lends Issho an advantage heading into any single fight. He can raise gravity levels so high that people can’t even stand up. Conversely, he can make objects have no density and manipulate them as he pleases. We saw his powers on a grand scale when he manipulated the density of a meteor and sent it hurdling towards Dressrosa.

The second is his Haki. Issho himself is blind but uses “color of the vision” Haki to accurately predict enemy attacks.

Overall, Issho is an absolute powerhouse. However, he is still blind. It’s an unfortunate, self-inflicted handicap that will hinder his efficacy on stronger opponents.

Issho preparing for combat. | Image: Crunchyroll

 9. Shanks Shanks’s combat abilities are a bit of a mystery. However, we know enough about him to give him a high ranking on this list. For starters, he’s one of the Four Emperors, making him one of the strongest pirate captains in the world. His power and reputation are highly feared, and we see this a couple of times throughout the series. For example, Admiral Sakazuki fought through many powerful people, even warlords, to get to Luffy in the Marineford arc. However, he didn’t even attempt to challenge Shanks when he arrived on the battleground. Even fellow emperor Big Mom noted she would have to form an alliance with Elbaf’s army of giants, which is famed as the strongest in the world, to have a chance at killing Shanks.

So, we know at one point that Shanks was an immensely powerful pirate. We don’t know, however, if he’s still a fighter of that caliber. Shanks lost an arm protecting Luffy when he was a child. He’s undoubtedly a weaker fighter, and even his friendly rival Mihawk questions if he’s still in any condition to fight.

When it comes down to it, Shanks’s pedigree alone earned him a spot on his list. However, the uncertainty of his current fighting condition places him in a mid-tier position.

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8. Mihawk If you’ve noticed a trend on this list, it’s that almost everyone has eaten a devil fruit. Mihawk, however, has no such ability. What he lacks in this department, he more than makes up for in sheer power. Mihawk, aptly nicknamed “hawk-eyes,” is the world’s strongest swordsman. His swordplay is so great he can take down master swordsmen with a mere dagger and minimal effort.

He’s also advanced his abilities so far he can overcome any swordsman’s natural enemy: distance. Through sheer power, and possibly armament Haki, Mihawk can fire beam-like projections from his blade. These projectiles are so powerful they’re capable of cutting massive steel ships and even glaciers in half. With this kind of power, it’s no wonder only Shanks of the Four Emperors could match his swordplay.

“Hawk Eyes” Mihawk. | Image: Crunchyroll 

7. Borsalino Like Issho, Borsalino is one of the three Navy admirals. He’s a bit of an oddball, and honestly one of my least favorite characters. But, I have to give credit where it’s due, and there’s no denying how truly powerful Borsalino is.

He ate the glint-glint logia fruit, and gained the ability to create, control, and transform into light at will. Borsalino is capable of shooting laser beams from his hands, fingers, or feet (which are capable of causing massive explosions). He can also travel great distances almost instantly, and attack enemies in their blind spots. When you combine this with his armament Haki, Borsalino can take down powerful foes in a matter of seconds.

There aren’t many weaknesses in Borsalino’s game. You’ll be hardpressed to find people in the ONE PIECE universe capable of combating his agility and devil fruit abilities.

Borsalino leveling cities with tiny finger blasts. | Image: Crunchyroll 

6. Charlotte Linlin (Big Mom) Big Mom, the only female member of the Four Emperors, was first introduced in the Fishman Island arc. Luffy, in his typical brash nature, expressed his desire to kick her butt. We didn’t know much about her then but her insane power was revealed during the Whole Cake Island arc.

Big Mom, as her name might suggest, is an absolute behemoth of a person. She stands at 29 feet tall, and her body is so sturdy that she’s only been cut once in her whole life. Her power is off the charts as well. As a 5-year old child, she single-handedly defeated many of Elbaf’s strongest warriors.

Although she’s 68 years old now, people still fear her name. Showing your fear, however, is the last thing you want to do in front of Big Mom. Showing fear activates the condition of her soul-soul fruit, which allows her to freely interact with another person’s soul. She can remove years from a person’s lifespan, or kill them in one fell-swoop if she wants.

Big Mom’s only weakness is to those who aren’t afraid of her. It’s a big one though, as Navy admirals and new world pirates won’t be afraid of her. Her overwhelming strength, size, Haki, and use of Prometheus and Zeus are still enough to take down ONE PIECE’s mightiest foes.

Big Mom’s immense size measured against Germa 66. | Image: Crunchyroll

5. Whitebeard No list would be complete without Whitebeard. For a very long time, people considered Whitebeard the clear-cut favorite to be the new pirate king. The only reason as to why he never became the pirate king is because he found it rather low on his priority list. Nonetheless, he was unequivocally the strongest man in the world. Part of this was from the tremor-tremor fruit, but Whitebeard’s strength is deeper from that.

Like Luffy, Whitebeard gathered his strength from being hell-bent on protecting his friends. He took an excruciating amount of pain during the Marineford arc to defend these convictions. This includes 267 wounds (mostly from Navy admirals), 152 gun wounds, 46 cannon shots, a point-blank stabbing, and a fight against the entire Blackbeard pirate crew. It took all of this to bring down a 72-year old man.

Whitebeard standing tall. | Image: Crunchyroll 

4. Sakazuki Sakazuki is the current fleet admiral and replaced Sengoku after he stepped down. As such, he is the strongest military power in the world and is a one-man army of sorts. His magma-magma logia devil fruit is one of the strongest on record. It allows Sakazuki to control, create, and transform into magma at will and is even strong enough to burn fire.

The power that burns fire. | Image: Crunchyroll Above all else, Sakazuki is cunning, manipulative, and dangerous. So much so that Blackbeard of the Four Emperors fled on sight after hearing Sakazuki was aboard a Navy ship. Part of that is Blackbeard’s tendency to panic in the face of elite enemies, but it’s also great planning on his part. He recognized any encounter with Sakazuki would likely be drawn-out, and if he’s not careful, could result in his death. Sakazuki’s extremist ideologies also make him a formidable foe. He’ll fight to the end to protect his belief in absolute justice, and purging the world of “unclean pirate blood.”

Right now, Sakazuki is painted as the central antagonist of the series. The inevitable showdown between him and Luffy is likely years away but it’s something fans can’t wait to see.

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3. Monkey D. Luffy It’s about time we got to our beloved protagonist! Luffy has kicked up a storm everywhere he’s sailed to. At first, he didn’t have much more to his game than out-punching opponents. However, Luffy seriously stepped up in the Water 7 story arc. He honed the abilities of the gum-gum fruit and developed techniques likeGear 2nd and Gear 3rd. In the Dressrosa and Whole Cake Island arcs, he took things up a notch by developing and mastering his Gear 4 technique. Luffy also has the same Haki powers Doflamingo has, which theoretically qualifies him to fight the world’s strongest opponents.

Luffy activates his Gear 2nd technique. | Image: Crunchyroll And if that wasn’t enough, Luffy has limitless energy, and the gall to fight anyone regardless of their badass reputations. He won’t take anyone slandering his friends and has several lethal fighting techniques. However, arguably Luffy’s biggest strength, as noted by Mihawk, is his ability to draw people to him. Luffy has a penchant for turning doubters, haters, and immensely strong people into his close allies. His actions speak louder than words, and part of this is what makes him one of anime’s most fascinating protagonists to watch.

2. Magellan “Magellan is #2? Are you out of your mind?” This name might surprise a few at first, but let’s remember who we’re talking about here. First off, Magellan is endowed with the poison-poison fruit. This turns him into a toxic human, which is perfect for his career choice. Magellan is the chief warden at Impel Down, a prison home to the world’s most dangerous criminals.

Throughout this list, we’ve seen some amazing abilities. Magellan needs to be able to counter all of these should they ever be imprisoned at Impel Down. It just so happens that Magellan’s absurdly strong venom serves as the perfect neutralizer to any foe.

“Ruler of Hell” Magellan. | Image: Crunchyroll To Magellan, it doesn’t matter how strong you are. If you punch him, his poison will kill you within minutes. It doesn’t matter if you’re faster than him. He can manifest his poison into different shapes, like a hydra, to catch you as you run away. Magellan only needs a few drops of poison to kill you, making him incredibly dangerous. The only way someone could possibly beat Magellan is if they could nullify his devil fruit powers. This train of thought is the perfect segue into our number 1 slot.

1. Marshall D. Teach (Blackbeard) Maybe not a shocker, but come on. Let’s be honest here, Blackbeard is an absolute freak of nature, even by ONE PIECE standards. He’s a gargantuan human being (11 feet tall) and has a massive body. The latter allows him to store not one, but two devil fruit powers. This much potential power kills any other person foolish enough to try eating multiple devil fruits. Blackbeard, on the other hand, can balance his two devil fruit powers with no ill-effects.

Furthering his case for this #1 spot are his actual devil fruit powers. The first fruit he ate, the dark-dark fruit, is lauded as the strongest devil fruit ever recorded. It turns Blackbeard into a man of darkness, as he can literally manifest himself into dark matter. Furthermore, his devil fruit can temporarily nullify the abilities of other devil fruit users. To this extent, it doesn’t matter what awesome powers you might have, Blackbeard drowns everything in his darkness.

If, by some miracle, you can survive this ability, then you deal with Marshall’s second devil fruit, the tremor-tremor fruit. This gives him the ability to cause quakes. Blackbeard can cause earthquakes by slamming the ground, or by even punching the air and reverberating nearby objects. With all of these ludicrous abilities, it’s no wonder Blackbeard is the favorite to become the new pirate king. So move over Whitebeard. There’s a new favorite to become king of the pirates.

Blackbeard stating the obvious. | Image: Crunchyroll Only the Strong Survive in ONE PIECE As mentioned earlier, this list isn’t categorical. ONE PIECE has a near infinite cast of characters. As a result, one person might value a certain character higher than someone else. They might feel that Whitebeard is the strongest pirate, and there’s certainly a case for that. Germa 66, Marco, Vice-Admiral Garp, and Silvers Rayleigh all make legitimate cases to be on this list too. But, at the end of the day, it’s all fun and speculation. Even so, I’d love to hear your opinions about who the strongest ONE PIECE character really is.

Comment below with your personal rankings, and let me hear your opinions!

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(pt 1 of 2) So I've got a character (A) that gets snagged by this group of mercenaries/assassins in the hope of drawing out this other character (B) they've been trying to kill. B is telepathic, so the group is hoping that by torturing A he'll have to come and save her. It doesn't work, and A goes through about three days of torture (beatings, mostly) before she's rescued by another character, C.

(pt 2 of 2) C and A are from different races that are mortal enemies, but C saves A because torture is something he wouldn't wish on his worst enemy. Granted, he does the bare minimum to save her, but could that sort of thing be enough to shake A's firmly held beliefs about C's whole race? Secondly, how do I patch things up between A and B? I've got a lot of people being unreasonable, especially in the short term, but I'm not sure how reconciliation should go, since A is mad and B is ashamed.

Whenit comes to strongly held beliefs I don’t think there are many firmanswers.

Evidencealone generally doesn’tshake our beliefs and we have a marked tendency to pick and choosethe evidence we cite, emphasising and giving more weight to thingsthat support what we believe. We do this even when we’re aware ofthis effect. It seems to be a universally human trait.

Butevidence coupled with emotional appeals canchange people’s minds. People can also gradually change over time.

Thekey word here is ‘can’. It is possible.That doesn’t mean it happens every time.

Thingslike de-radicalisation programs domake a measurable difference in the broad sense. But they don’treach everyone they interact with.

Andthe things which trigger a change of heart are not always fastacting. They can be things that gnaw at a person over a course ofyears, gradually prompting them to shift their stance.

Essentiallyyou could choose to take this either way. You could have A’s viewof C’s people changing, either abruptly or gradually. But you couldalso have A write the incident off as an exception to the rule orotherwise dismiss it. Either response can happen in real life.

Let’sstep back from the success rates of organisations like After Hate fora moment and address this as writers.

Ifyou wantA to have a massive change of heart then however quick the change itcan’t feel like it comes out of nowhere. The readers have tounderstand the process A goes through emotionally.

Whichmeans the reason behind this has to be more than C’s actions: itneeds to be the feelings and thoughts those actions prompt in A.Otherwise the change is going to come across emotionally flat.

ShowA struggling with these thoughts and feelings, swinging betweendoubting what they were taught and what they experienced. Don’t betempted to make this change easy and don’t be afraid to show Afalling back on old, toxic patterns occasionally.

Movingon from these sorts of hateful idea isn’t easy. It means aconcerted choice every day to address your own toxicity and dedicateyourself to being a better person.

Thatsort of introspection, judgement and emotional work is always inprogress. People often slide back a little even if they’re makingprogress over all. That isn’t unusual.

AndI honestly think that this change will read better if it involvessome internal struggle. The best way to present that will vary withhow you write. If it’s from A’s point of view you can show it asis. You might be able to work it in to conversation with C.

Youmight find having B pick up on it works as well, because that thengives you a way to tie these separate sub-plots together. It mightwell be easier for A and B to argue about how A feels about C/C’speople then it is for them to address their problems with each other.

Whichleads us to A and B’s relationship.

HonestlyI think this is something you should be tailoring to the charactersbecause the ‘right’ answer is going to vary with the individualsinvolved. It might be helpful to unpack some ‘logical knowledge’vs ‘emotional assumptions’ on the part of both characters though.

Let’sstart with A.

NowA probably knowsthat rescuing her wasn’t just a question of skill or bravery. Arescue mission is a difficult and risky prospect, highly likely tofail and extremely rare in reality.

She’dknow that B would find it difficult to rescue A. If B doesn’t havean organisation backing them up then a rescue would have been almostimpossible to pull off successfully.

She’dknow that a rescue attempt could result in B being captured andtortured too. She’d know that an unsuccessful rescue attempt couldeasily lead to A herself being killed.

AdditionallyA would also be aware that torture was warping her perception of theworld. A would probably not always be awareof where She was being held or many of the details of herimprisonment.

Ifall B has to go on for a rescue mission is A’s thoughts then A mustknow that B would have had trouble finding her.

Awould also know that the more B connected with A’s mind the moreimpaired B would be. Because B would also be experiencing thedisorientation, confusion and delirium the pain of torture causes.This sort of confused thinking would leak through and create animpairment even if B couldn’t experience A’s pain.

Bwould also know, logically, all the reasons they couldn’tpractically have rescued A.

Bwould be in the unfortunate position of having a second-handexperience of A’s trauma throughout. The threat of torture is veryreal here. It’s immediate. B’s fear of that is legitimate andshouldn’t be dismissed.

Butthat logic doesn’t trump the emotional side of all this.

Andthe emotional side is that B probably feels like they let A down. Aprobably feel betrayed and hurt and abandoned. They bothprobably feel isolated from each other and like it’s harder totalk.

Neitherof these sets of feelings are logical or rational. But there’s anextent to which that doesn’t matter.

Ithink the best way to address it is directly. Which doesn’t providean easy resolution.

Thething is- most torture victims don’texpect to be rescued. They are not in a position to…. think there’sany possibility of rescue. A’s position here is unusual and thatcomes in part from her being privileged enough to know powerfulpeople. Contact with other survivors might help A realise this andprocess a little of how she feels emotionally. It might help heremotionally accept that the expectations she had of B wereunreasonable.

Havingthem talk about it, the reasons why A expected something and thereasons B couldn’t provide it is an important first step. But thisisn’t something that’s going to resolve overnight. Oneconversation, even if they do listen and understand each other, isn’tgoing to resolve everything.

OnA’s side it’s a case of rebuilding trust. I think that’s ofteneasier to write because we see so many examples of it in literature:trust lost and rebuilt. It’s something that’s best built upslowly over time with a lot of actions on B’s part rather than withsome kind of ‘Big Damn Heroes’ moment.

Agood starting point would probably be helping A with her recovery.Consistent help with the little things she’s struggling with (whichinitially may include eating, getting dressed and moving about) wouldgo a long way.

Shemight not forgive B quickly or at all. She may stop relying on B toprotect her. But care is important too. It’s possible to trustsomeone with some things, some aspects of life and not others.

Partof this depends on how deep you want their reconciliation to go. It’sperfectly possible for them to completely rebuild their relationshipso it’s just as strong as before, but it would take more work thenrebuilding something shallower.

Ithink in some ways B’s side of this emotional problem is harder. Acan meet other torture or trauma survivors and learn that theexpectation of rescue is a fantasy out of most people’s reach. Shecan gradually come to trust B again if they both communicate honestlyand B takes the time to try and care for her, to try and build thatfriendship back.

ButI get the impression B has lost their trust in themselves and that’sa lot harder to regain.

Angerruns out of steam eventually. And sick angry people still need to eator help getting out of bed.

Shamecan eat at someone for the rest of their life.  

Myhonest instinct is that if these were real people they’d both needtherapy. A lot of therapy.  And while that’s not something that wecan work in to every setting emotional support definitely is.

Bis going to have to forgive themselves for what happened. A big partof that means accepting their own powerlessness in this situation,which is a terrifying thing. It create a sort of emotional push-pulleffect, forgiving themselves means accepting something incrediblyfrightening so it’s easier to avoid those feelings and hold on toarrogance.

Itcan sometimes be easier to tell ourselves we’re cowards or badpeople then it is to accept our own limits.

EarningA’s trust again may not necessarily combat these feelings, B mightcontinue to feel unworthy of that trust.

Thereare a lot of ways to write a set up like this convincingly and well.I think you’ll get the best results by trying to tie thecharacters’ progress to both the overall story and the charactersas individuals.

They’reprobably going to go mess up a few times. They’re probably going toheal at different rates and be ready for different things atdifferent times. Try to be aware of how other things that arehappening in the narrative might effect the characters emotionally.Because the other things going on in their lives could be useful toprompt this kind of emotional growth.

WhenI’m trying to reconcile characters I often try to think about whatthe root of the problem is. It’s often not what the characters areexpressing or consciously aware of as the ‘problem’.

Inthis case I’d guess that it’s ideas of safety and security on A’spart and ideas of duty and bravery on B’s. Those ideas are thingsall of us can understand but the ways they’re expressed areparticular to your characters.

Ihope that helps. :)

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I’m Leaving Tumblr.

  Dramatic? Probably, but it’s come to my attention (again, and again, and again) that a great number of people feel uncomfortable in my presence, so I’d rather the title sum up the post. You can read this and try to see things from my point of view, or you can move on with your lives. Either way, I hope this doesn’t cause much drama for anyone not involved, and I hope everyone regardless of involvement has a good day/night.

First, I apologize if this post seems robotic, but after countless anxiety attacks , multiple lost friends, and a few instances of self harm due to everything that’s been happening around me, I find myself lacking the emotional energy to put more ‘pep’ or ‘enthusiasm’ into this post. I’ve been on Tumblr since Red Thread was at its peak, however many years that may have been, and roleplaying, meeting people here, and developing characters that mean the world to me has helped me grow as a person. It brought me out of a near 2 year long depression that included an extremely abusive relationship, being left behind by all my close local friends, and a failed suicide attempt. Writing on tumblr introduced me to my best friend, many dear friends, and my current romantic partner. It’s seen me through a really tough job, two cross-country moves, and some of my worst and lowest points. But with the word ‘racist’ following me at every turn, I no longer feel welcome or supported by what was once my favorite hobby and best coping mechanism.

The reason being labelled a racist has effected me so deeply is because I come from a multi-racial home. I am half Puerto Rican, one quarter African American, and one quarter white. I have tan skin, very hispanic features, and very curly, thick hair with dark brown eyes. I don’t look white. I grew up in a rural area where I was one of very few people of color in BOTH of the schools I attended, and I’ve never lived in very diverse areas in all my 21 years. I don’t believe I was treated any differently because of it, I never had any race-specific issues in my childhood, and I’m very lucky because of that. Sure, I’ve had a few ‘playful nicknames’ but nothing that ever hurt me as much as being bullied about my height, weight, or chest size.

My Grandmother is white and my Grandfather is black - they got together in the 60′s and dealt with a great deal of prejudice and hardship due to being an interracial couple. They and my mother raised me to look past what people look like on the outside - weight, height, gender, age, race, religion - they believe, and I believe that it shouldn’t matter. People should be judged and valued or ignored based upon their personalities. In a near-perfect society, that’s how everyone would feel, but ours is far from perfect. People of color are faced with violence, hate, and even murder on a daily basis all over the world - not just in America - and by no means has it ever been my intent to diminish that, I simply am deterred by conflict because it hurts me to see. 

Now that I’ve described myself, the way I’ve been affected, and my views on race and in/equality, I will explain my experience as a “racist”. For months, I’ve been blocked, shunned, and ignored due to this. I spent MONTHS not knowing why people were blocking me, why all of a sudden people I had been writing with and even admired for their graphic and literary skill were suddenly ignoring me and treating me like I was less than a stranger.

Because no one told me.

Not until sometime around perhaps September or October, when someone was finally kind and considerate enough to step out of their comfort zone and inform me that I’d made a comment about Black Panther without thinking about my wording. On Twitter, I said something to the effect of ‘Black Panther has too much black power for me’, something along those lines. What I should have said was: Black Panther was a good movie, and I liked Killmonger as an antagonist until he began building a highly advanced army of thousands of near-superpowered warriors and devastating militaristic technology to declare war on what was clearly intended to be Caucasians as a race. At that point, I became uncomfortable because racial war of any kind isn’t something I would have paid money to see in a theatre, had I known it was going to be included. But I didn’t say that because twitter has a character limit, and I didn’t think anyone wanted to read an entire thread of my review of what was, all in all, an excellent movie.

Another individual recently followed suit and gave me a few more examples of why people believe I’m racist and discriminatory.

1. I’ve used the “n” word on multiple occasions.          This is not true. I am incredibly uncomfortable around the use of that word, in any form, even it’s reclaimed version. I don’t like it. I don’t know where or when I would have used it before, but even as someone who is African-American and has multiple African-American family members who say it ‘affectionately’ to refer to each other, I have not EVER said that word. Not as a joke, and certainly not as an insult.

2. I hold people who speak English as a secondary, third, or otherwise language to a higher standard than those who do not.

       No. If anything, it’s the opposite. I strongly admire and respect anyone who speaks more than one language, as someone who only speaks English and very broken Spanish. I formerly had an RP partner whose first language is Spanish, and is very proud of their heritage. My father, who I’m no longer in contact with due to estrangement and abandonment, primarily speaks Spanish and I had no quarrel with him because of that.      Some contradictory things you may have read can be found here and here. These are screenshots from the rules page on an old blog of mine that I would rather not explicitly name, for the sake of privacy for people who used to interact with me. In these screenshots, I say “[Does] Understand that English is not everyone’s first language. It’s okay if you have some errors with grammar or spelling, as long as you’re making the best effort that you can.” perhaps that can come off as me saying ‘you have to try really hard if you want to write with me’, but in fact, it just meant that I wanted some manner of effort to be present. I.E., if I write 2 paragraphs, at least write one in response, rather than a single sentence. Could I have worded that better? Absolutely. But since realizing that can be perceived incorrectly, I removed it from my rules page entirely to avoid offending anyone.

        In the other screenshot, I mention not tolerating anyone who is ‘cis or heterophobic’. This ties back into my ideal of not seeing people for who they are on the outside, but rather, who they are on the inside. I’ve had great friendships with people who were either cisgendered, heterosexual, or both, and it upsets me to see all the jokes about ‘down with cishets’ and the hate that the LGBT+ community sends their way. I understand that being a ‘cishet’ doesn’t put them in any ‘legitimate’ danger like being LGBT+ does, but it doesn’t feel good to be judged for being LGBT+, so it doesn’t seem right to judge ANYONE based on sexuality or gender without personal experience. If someone has been repeatedly hurt, offended, or otherwise wronged by individuals of those designation, I understand, but mob mentalities frighten me. 

I’ve apologized for these accusations, and explained my reasoning and my ‘side’ behind them, and there’s one last thing I’d like to address. My being perceived as acting like a victim. This, I can’t contest. Perhaps I have been overly dramatic over this hole thing. Roleplay is a hobby, at the end of the day, and while it may not be a great one, I do have a life outside of Tumblr and Twitter. What I don’t have, however, is friends. My only friends are miles and miles away, and they’re few and far between. The ones I did have began telling me I was a racist, to me, seemingly out of nowhere. I had no clue when these things began to spread because again, I wasn’t confronted. I’ve lost two people I consider to be good friends, and I’ve been doing my best to keep to myself ever since. I stopped reaching out, out of fear that people would find me obnoxious or abrasive, not knowing how far my reputation had spread. The absolute last thing I wanted was to hurt anyone, so when I vented to my friends I asked them not to make a big deal out of it. I didn’t want them with the label as well. I didn’t want to see them ostracized, or to be the reason they lost a hobby they enjoyed. When one of them went against my wishes and said something on their blog, it was deemed ‘public drama that didn’t belong on the dash’ and I was TERRIFIED that they would end up losing the chance to interact with others. Thankfully they didn’t, but that’s the example I have. No, something like that didn’t necessarily belong on the dash, but they were simply trying to look out for me while watching me have an anxiety attack and contemplate dropping all of my muses and completely deleting all social media. I’ve moved twitters multiple times due to trust issues this whole ordeal has caused for my own mental health. I’ve hidden behind locked accounts because the thought of people who are triggered by public drama having to see something of this scale was at the forefront of my mind. In short, if it seemed as though I was playing the part of a victim, it’s because I have, for months, been confused and hurt without understanding what was going on. When I tried to move past it and remedy my mistakes, I was pushed away and hurt even more by people I called friends.

To sum the entirety of this long post up, I’m upset. Far more upset than perhaps I’ve conveyed here, because I’m doing my best to remain logical and fair. I understand why anyone who has heard these things about me would block me and would want to avoid contact - I wouldn’t want to interact with a racist either. But I’m not a racist. I’m not judgemental. I’m open-minded to a fault, it seems, and my ideal of perfect equality is unrealistic in the world we live in full of murder and segregation. If anyone would like to talk to me in more detail about anything they’ve read here, they may do so at my open twitter which is solely for responding to inquiries about my reputation, my tumblr blog here, which will no longer be active, or my personal discord, which is mad dog!#6346 .

There are likely many issues I forgot to address, or simply don’t know about, but I’d like to thank anyone who read this far. Your attention means more to me than I can express.

[creightonbeatrice1994]

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Everyone knew secondary gender dynamics were bullshit. They didn't mean a thing, and even if they did mean something to other people - like his friends, or parents, or doctors, or teachers - they still meant nothing to Bakugou Katsuki, which resulted in a zero-sum game, as far as he was concerned. Secondary gender dynamics were like your blood type, or your zodiac sign. They were something that boring people talked about when they had no real accomplishments to their name. As far as he was concerned, one’s secondary gender dynamic was an interesting but largely irrelevant bit of trivia. Alpha, beta, omega, none of it mattered, except to pathetic people with nothing better to think about. Secondary gender dynamics didn't mean a goddamn thing to Katsuki. They couldn't mean anything, because if they did, then Bakugou would never have what it took to be a true hero. Secondary gender dynamics were the only things separating him from heroes like All Might, Endeavor, even fucking Best Jeanist. Heroes like Eraser Head or Present Mic didn't share his dynamic, either. But that was fine, because secondary gender dynamics didn't matter, despite what the media, popular culture, and commonly accepted wisdom stated to the contrary. Bakugou knew this because he knew himself. He knew he wasn't some pathetic weakling or simpering fool. When he wanted something, he got it. When he thought something, he said it. None of his dynamic's supposed weakness or desperation would ever gain so much as an inch of ground in the battlefield of his life. Still, if people saw Bakugou’s behavior as evidence of an individual expressing qualities generally equated with an alpha dynamic, that was fine with him. After all, it would be no worse than if people went around assuming his blood type was AB or some shit. Besides which, who fuckin’ cared what they thought? Well. Maybe he cared a little.

It seemed like most people were obsessed with knowing the secondary gender dynamics of everyone they knew. Katsuki resented this - sometimes people would point to him and say shit like, “Of course he’s so strong and aggressive. He’s an alpha.” Bullshit! He was awesome because he’d worked his ass off from day one, not because of some stupid biological programming. He was determined to be the best, and it was infuriating that people - especially the media, after the disastrous conclusion to the UA Sports Festival - would write off his skill, determination and work ethic by ascribing it to a secondary gender dynamic they'd only assumed based on circumstantial evidence! Fucking. Bullshit. Acting like an alpha must mean he is an alpha, which explains why he's so fucking good at acting like an alpha. Fuck! What sort of twisted logic was that, anyway?

He couldn't even escape the dynamic theorizing at school. Being high school students, Bakugou and his classmates were reaching the point of maturity where their dynamics were becoming more obvious, and locker room talk began to center around the topic of who in their class would be likely express certain dynamics. The whole idea of it was fucking gross, in Bakugou’s opinion. Everyone deserves their privacy, a person should be able to exist without having people follow them around, theorizing about their dynamic.  Of course when it came to making verbal predictions of who would present what dynamic, the repeat offender was grapes-for-brains, but as the year wore on Katsuki found himself encountering more and more conversations about dynamics. Even in public spaces where it should be highly discouraged. Fuck. Bakugou shouldn’t have to be the one telling people when their public behavior is inappropriate.  But somehow, he seemed to be ending up in that situation more and more often. Like the time Kaminari told Kirishima what he’d learned from spying on the girls as they filled out paperwork for their annual health checks.

“I can't believe it!” Kirishima bellowed, showing no recognition that he was using his outside voice in an indoor space. Library windows rattled as Kaminari jumped back, not expecting quite this reaction to the juicy bit of gossip he'd gleaned earlier.

“I'm just telling you what I saw,” Kaminari protested. Kirishima shook his head in amazement. “Yaoyorozu never struck me as the alpha type,” he declared, gesticulating wildly. “Hell, I would have put money on her being a beta!” Kaminari shushed him, though Bakugou figured it was a moot point. The whole library had probably overheard the exchange. Not that he cared - he wasn't the one embarrassing himself. But he was starting to tire of their idle chatter.  “Oi, rocks-for-brains,” Bakugo growled, tapping his textbook pointedly. “Quit yapping about useless bullshit and answer the fucking question!” Kirishima looked chagrined. “I was just-” “Wasting my time,” Bakugou interrupted. “If you and low-watt bulb over here want to gossip and giggle like a pair of nosy old women you can do it on your own time.” Kirishima appeared properly cowed. He leaned over his textbook, making it about two sentences in before Kaminari commented in a stage whisper, “Turns out Jiro’s an alpha too.” Kirishima's head jerked up again. “No way!” he shouted, “Seriously?” “I'm just telling you what I saw on the health check forms,” Kaminari assured him at what had to be top volume. “Would they lie on their forms?” Kirishima mused in what could nearly be considered an inside voice. “Why the fuck would they lie?” Bakugou demanded irritably, only to realize, much to his chagrin, that he'd somehow been tricked into joining the conversation. “...secondary gender dynamics are all fuckin' bullshit anyway,” he added, mentally patting himself on the back for the smooth recovery.

Kaminari sighed gustily. “You would say that,” he bemoaned, “We all know you could have any omega you wanted.” “Maybe,” Bakugou conceded, “But it'll be because I've become the greatest hero of all time,” Bakugou added with a snarl, “and not because of some body odor bullshit.” “They're pheromones, not anything gross like that!” Kirishima protested, “They don't stink, just… smell funny.”

Maybe to someone like Kirishima, Bakugou thought darkly. But Bakugou’s own secondary gender dynamic couldn't smell much of anything beyond surface level smells. Which basically meant that hulked-out alphas reeked fuckin’ constantly. Betas tended to assault the nose less frequently, and omegas were usually fine except when they got close to heat. That was the extent of Katsuki’s smell powers - everyone smelled bad and could use more showers in a day. The worst of it was that alphas and betas could smell things, things like honesty and trust and fear and loneliness, but all Bakugou ever managed to smell served only to remind him of dirty old gym socks.

People with a secondary gender dynamic like Katsuki’s didn't have the sense of smell needed to sniff out subtleties. It's why they were expected to rely on others to negotiate. It’s why people with other secondary gender dynamics were told to ‘take care’ of people like Katsuki. How could one be expected to survive if they couldn't smell a lie, pick up a whiff of aggression, or recognize the heady scent of arousal?

Personally, Katsuki figured his technique of "explode first, ask questions later" got the job done just fine. He didn't need to smell anyone's pheromones if he could just as easily decide he didn't like their face, or the look in their eyes. And he usually did just fine, thank you. Even if these oh-so-important pheromones all just smelled like body stank to Katsuki. He himself showered several times a day to keep the smell of himself as mild as possible, but others were not so thoughtful. Whatever. His inherited nitro-sweat was at least a convenient excuse for the frequent showers. He’d have a harder time explaining that everyone, including himself, smelled like shit half the time. God, he hated people who refused to shower regularly.

“Do you think Uraraka’s an omega?” Kirishima asked Kaminari, changing the subject.

Bakugou growled and slammed his book shut, rising to his feet. “God dammit, why do I even fuckin’ try ?” he snapped.

“Where are you going?” Kaminari protested, suddenly oh so concerned with their study session.

“To finish my homework in the peace and quiet of my own goddamn room,” Bakugou answered sharply. “Have fun finishing up your gross conversation.”

“Hey wait!” Kaminari protested.

“We can focus on the homework now, really!” Kirishima added.

“Good,” Bakugou dropped his book back on the table with a loud noise. “Question nine.” Mercifully, the rest of the afternoon continued without further mention of dynamics. None of the three noticed Izuku Midoriya watching them thoughtfully, half-hidden behind a towering stack of books, a slight frown creasing his brow as he considered one Bakugou Katsuki.

Time wore on, and across the school, students began to exhibit signs of their dynamics in earnest. Alphas went into rut, omegas, heat. Excused absences abounded, though several members of class 1-A had yet to display evidence of their dynamic. Fortunately for no one, Mineta had devised a plan to identify all the omegas in their classroom. He was explaining the plan to Sero and the other few students loitering in the classroom after lunch but before students were expected to be back in their seats.

As per usual, Katsuki was at his desk, arms folded, a look of bland disinterest and vague irritation on his face. He may have looked calm to his classmates, but inside, Katsuki was caught up in a maelstrom of emotion. Regretfully, he was not exempt from the bullshit biological changes that adults saw as a “rite of passage” from childhood to adulthood. As he neared the age of presentation, he was finding it harder to avoid acknowledging his secondary gender dynamic. Gritting his teeth, Katsuki was preoccupied, trying to forget the fact that his mother had called the night before. She had asked if he wanted her to accompany him to his upcoming screening with the family doctor. He did not.

Caught up in the thoughts swirling around in his head, Bakugou didn't really pay attention to what was going down in the room around him. That is, until Mineta started waving his arms around, making a proper spectacle of himself. That was enough to draw Bakugou back into the conversation, if only to tell the purple-headed bastard to fuck off. He was prancing around, proudly showing off some weird cylindrical object in his hand. Upon closer observation, it looked like a can of hairspray. What the fuck? Bakugou sat up, intrigued enough to listen, at least for the moment.

“Now, this,” Mineta lifted his aerosol can demonstratively, glancing between the few people in the room (most of whom were still pointedly trying to ignore him) and wiggling his eyebrows, “is a little thing I got my hands on last week.” He smirked. “It's from an adult store. It has pheromones in it that will trigger an omega’s rut!” He waved the can tantalizingly. “All we have to do is spray it around the room before the girls get back, so that when class starts-”

Katsuki had heard enough, standing suddenly. “You can do what, rape our classmates because you can't keep your pathetic beta dick in your fuckin’ pants?” Bakugou interjected, seeing red. He marched towards Mineta menacingly, palm extended. “Hand it over.”

“No way!” Mineta clutched the aerosol can to his chest defensively. “Do you know the trouble I went through to-?!”

Bakugou let a few small explosions dance across his fingers, feeling the rage bubbling up inside him. “I don't fuckin’ care.”

Mineta scowled. “It’s a harmless prank!”

“Harmless if you're not a fuckin’ omega,” Bakugou countered. He stared at Mineta, eyes sharp as flint. “Don't make this difficult,” he snarled, and lunged forward, ripping the can from Mineta’s feeble grasp. Just as he was about to toss it across the room into the trash can, Mineta made the stupid decision of trying to grab it back. Instinctively, Katsuki incinerated the can, which exploded in a whoomph of sickly-sweet scent that smelled like the taste of almost-burnt marshmallows. The contents of the aerosol coated him, filling the air with the smell of a cotton candy stand that had caught fire. Bakugou swore creatively and effusively, running to open windows and air out the classroom.

This was how those classmates returning to the room found them - Mineta, howling pitifully about the loss of his beloved aerosol. Sero and Kaminari, exchanging awkward glances. Bakugou, throwing open windows, trailing expletives wherever he went.

Ashido was the first to arrive post-incident. “What the hell?” she exclaimed. “What happened here? And why does Bakugou smell like the Wonka candy factory exploded all over him?”

“It fucking did,” Katsuki growled, before stopping to point at Ashido. “You an omega?”

Ashido scowled. “Not that it's any of your business, but no.”

“Good,” Katsuki said. “I’m going to go take a long-ass shower, you make sure this room gets aired out. Grapes-for-brains thought it would be a nice prank to fill the room with heat-inducing pheromones.”

Ashido glared at Mineta. “You didn't.”

Katsuki pushed past Ashido. “I need to scrub this candy stank off me,” he growled. “If Aizawa asks why I’m late, blame the purple shithead.”

He hurried down the hallway, trying not to spread the odor around more than was absolutely necessary to get him to the showers. He made it to the locker rooms and, after a split second of hesitation, went into the shower while still wearing his clothes. After all, they smelled as bad as he did, so he washed them first, then peeled them off to wash his body.

The water was warm, but Bakugou was boiling, practically incandescent with rage. How dare the purple snot attempt to out his classmates like that? It was more than just rude, it was infuriating. Bakugou slammed his fist against the shower knob, cutting off the stream of water, panting heavily. The room was filled with hot steam, the thick moisture that hung in the air felt almost as suffocating as the awful sweetness of Mineta’s “prank” substance.

Katsuki growled low in his throat as he towelled off, reluctantly tugging on his gym clothes because who the fuck stashed an extra set of clothes at school? Not Katsuki. He also wasn't about to ask if there was some secret stash of extra uniforms lying around here, either. He didn't particularly like his uniform anyway. It hung loosely on his frame for a reason, and that reason was to minimize sweat. While he could actively excrete large amounts of nitroglycerin from the palms of his hands, it didn't change the fact that his skin excreted, all over his body, trace amounts of nitroglycerin. And that wasn't exactly a stable substance, so from a young age Bakugou’s father had taught him how to dress to minimize sweat and found him a pretty awesome spray-on antiperspirant that he used quite liberally.

The steam clouds were finally dissipating, though the room remained uncomfortably warm as Bakugou began towel-drying his hair, scowling at the empty locker room like he suspected it wanted a fight.

Across the room, the door to the hallway opened and Kirishima poked his head inside, catching sight of Katsuki. “Yo,” he said hesitantly. “Mister Aizawa sent me to find you.”

Bakugou paused, staring blankly at Kirishima. “You found me,” he said slowly. “Is that fucking all?”

Kirishima let himself into the locker room, shutting the door and sinking down onto one of the benches in the middle of the room. “Are you okay?” he asked hesitantly.

“Yes. Why?” Bakugou glared at Kirishima. “Do I not look okay?” his heart pounded furiously in his chest. Hard-headed freak, looking down on him like he needed to be fucking comforted.

“Kaminari told everyone that you confronted Mineta,” Kirishima explained, “And then ran away, which didn't sound like you, so we got worried, and…” he shrugged expansively, as if to say ‘here I am’.

Bakugou growled under his breath. His classmates were all a bunch of nosy motherfuckers. “I just wanted to wash away the stank Purple Balls put on me before it ended up fumigating the whole fucking classroom,” Bakugou explained slowly, as if speaking to a small child. A bead of water trickled down his forehead. Why was this room so fucking hot?

Kirishima but his lip. “For what it’s worth, Mister Aizawa sent Mineta to detention,” he said. “And he said he was proud of you.”

“I don't need his approval,” Bakugou snapped, wrapping the towel around his neck and slathering his underarms with a generous coat of antiperspirant. “I know when I did the right thing, I don't need some asshole following me around trying to tell me what I did was right or wrong.” He swiped at his face with the towel, trying to mop up the beads of sweat beginning to crawl down his temples. He tossed the towel aside, growling in frustration. “Why is it so fucking hot in here?” he complained, tugging at the collar of his gym clothes.

Kirishima glanced around, looking confused. “It’s not,” he said, eyeing Katsuki. “You do look flushed, though,” he decided.

Katsuki cursed under his breath. “If that grape-flavored munchkin’s crap made me sick I am going to make him wish he was never born,” he decided, eyes snapping like fire. He grabbed a water bottle, holding it to his forehead, relishing the cooling sensation. Maybe he just needed a cold shower.

Kirishima looked thoughtful. “Why would Mineta’s prank affect you if it only targets omegas?”

Bakugou lowered the water bottle slowly. “It blew up in my fucking face.” Anything that exploded in your face had the potential to cause problems. Katsuki should know, he had a lot of experience with things exploding in his face.

Kirishima shrugged. “If you say so.” His eyes were calculating, sizing up Bakugou like he was beginning to see something he’d never noticed before.

Bakugou didn't like the look in his eye. “Just say whatever the fuck you're trying to say,” he told Kirishima with a scowl, wrapping his still-dripping school uniform inside the towel before cramming the bundle into his gym bag. He hated it when people talked in circles.

“Are you an omega?” Kirishima asked suddenly.

Bakugou didn't stop packing his gym bag. “Wouldn't you like to know,” he scoffed haughtily.

“Bakugou,” Kirishima pleaded, taking a step forward, “Please. Man-to-Man, I swear I won't tell anyone. Are you?”

Bakugou zipped up his bag and rose slowly, staring Kirishima dead in the eye. “Go fuck yourself.” He flung the gym bag over his shoulder, marching out of the locker room. His ears were buzzing and he felt dizzy. He was hot, hot like when he stood at the center of a maelstrom of fire. But he wasn't exploding anything… yet. There would still be time to blow up shit later. Though, he was pouring sweat, and that wasn't good. Without his costume to collect the excess sweat, he would just be dripping soggy Nitro everywhere he went. He slammed the locker room door shut with a bang, striding down the hallway, guts churning with white-hot rage. Fucking Mineta was going to pay for this. Katsuki was going to wipe the floor with that little creep.

The locker room door swung open and Kirishima hurried out after Bakugou. “Look, dude,” he said, “I’m sorry, that was shitty of me-” He laid a hand on Bakugou’s shoulder, and his touch sang through Katsuki like a soft voice carried on a cool breeze.

Bakugou gasped, finding himself melting into the other boy’s touch. He slowed, the dizzying pounding of his head and heart slowing as his body began to sink into an almost-trance. He wanted to press into the cool, soothing touch, but instead forced himself to pull away, stumbling away from Kirishima on legs limp as wet noodles. “Who said you could fuckin’ touch me?” he snapped, though Kirishima seemed to be paying him no mind.

The redhead was staring at his own hand like it had bitten him. “What was that?” he wondered aloud, before reaching out and grasping Bakugou's forearm.

Katsuki felt the same cool sensation, like ducking into an air-conditioned convenience store and chugging a cold bottle of tea in the middle of summer. His knees wobbled. He stumbled back, yanking his arm out of the other boy’s grasp, but Kirishima reached towards him again, eyes glazed over. Bakugou punched him in the face, knocking the other boy to the floor. Then, he ran. He ran past his classroom, past the nurse’s office, past the dorms. He kept running, lungs burning, arms and legs pumping, until somehow, he was home.

He scrabbled in the mailbox for the spare key and let himself in, dropping his gym bag on the floor and heading for the bathroom. He was really hot now, practically feverish, and as he began to rinse himself off outside the bathtub, he began turning the knob colder and colder, trying to chase away the heat that seemed to be burning through him like a raging wildfire. Finally, in desperation, he climbed into the bathtub and began filling it with icy water, ducking his head under the tap to try and cool his face and scalp too. Once it was full, he lay in the cold bath, fire burning him from the inside out until his mother got home and saw his gym bag lying in the middle of the floor.

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Why Don’t Men Read Romance

This article is a lot better than the title would indicate, speaking also about why women don’t read WWII books and the like. As a “men” of sorts, I feel uniquely qualified to talk about why I don’t read romances. Keep in mind, I’m going to tell you why I, an individual, don’t get down with romances, not why men, as a whole, avoid them. But if you want to take what I say and assume there are kernels of truth in there in regards to a large segment of the male population...I’d say you’re probably right to consider it. 

By the way, blanket statement: This is my opinion, but I don’t necessarily recommend others live this way, and it’s not my opinion that romance is inferior or bad or whatever. I read books with titles like “Tumor Fruit,” so I’m the the transparent-est of glass houses. Just know that this is my opinion of the little bits of romance I’ve experienced, not a demand that anyone else change their reading habits.

1. They’re Boring

I find most romantic subplots in movies very boring. Creed? Terrible. Nobody should fall in love with their loud-ass neighbor. That person is rude and inconsiderate. Avengers? Why are Hulk and Black Widow in love all of a sudden? When did that happen? And is there not enough stuff going on that we really need that?

Usually, to me, the romance part of a movie is the most boring part, the piece I could do without, and I tend to like movies that have little to no romance. I just re-watched Beetlejuice for the 1000th time, and there’s very little romance. Army of Darkness? Not much romance. 

I also find sex scenes boring. What can I say? The 80′s are over, and I think the most common nudity in movies these days is male butts. I find male butts boring, I find it mostly awkward to watch people on a screen have pretend sex. Sue me.

And I’m not really a fan of “how we met” stories, either. In real life, when I know the people. Once in awhile you get a good one, but most of them are same-y. I know they’re very exciting for the people who lived them, but for me, meh.

Being boring is no great sin, it’s just something that keeps me away from romance. I’ve been bored by the majority of romantic plots and subplots I’ve experienced, so taking a deeper dive seems antithetical. 

2. Predictability

I hope I’m not saying something hurtful to people who like romances when I say they’re predictable. I mean, they’re sort of meant to be, right? The Happily Ever After and all. 

I don’t really like reading a book or watching a movie and trying to predict what happens. I think it’s a weird way to experience something, honestly, because...it’s a fictional story being presented to you. OF COURSE you can make predictions. Because you’re not really predicting what happens, you’re predicting how someone would tell a story of this type. You’re predicting fiction writing. It’s not a huge achievement.

I know I’m wrong about this, but this is how I experience stuff. Most people love uncovering a mystery, and as far as I’m concerned, go for it. 

That said, I find it hard not to read and predict with romance. I think you’re meant to think ahead of what you’re reading, wonder how the story goes from Point A to Point Happily Ever After. I feel similarly about mysteries, too. Predicting plot isn’t interesting to me, so plot contortions aren’t all that thrilling for me.

The things I like either tend to have very unusual, unpredictable plots, or tend to be less centered on plot, more on characters, writing style, and so on. 

3. There’s Just Other Stuff I’d Prefer

I don’t know who these people are that don’t have a thousand books that they would really like to read. I have such a long list of books that I’d LOVE to read, and romance isn’t on that list. I suppose it could be, given the right options, but I’m just not looking to add a genre, honestly. If my reading habits were a marriage, I’d say that we’ve been pretty steady for a good decade now, I’m very happy, and I’m not really looking for anything else. 

Point being, it’s not like I’m avoiding romance and reading nothing. I’m reading other things I’d prefer. 

When I finished library school, one of the things I was most excited about was reading whatever the hell I wanted without a sense of obligation. This hasn’t always worked out, but I try to read things I like anymore, avoiding things that I feel like I “should” read. 

Some might feel this makes me an inferior librarian, that I’m not able to make recommendations outside my taste, but I haven’t found that to be true. In 15 years, I don’t think I ever recommended books to anyone who I would say had remotely parallel tastes to my own (Tumor Fruit, remember?). Additionally, I think a better method, rather than trying to read everything out there, is to find go-to people you can rely on. Even if I read a couple romances a year, I’d never compare to my co-worker, who read these things by the dozens, spoke the lingo, and knew what was happening in the romance world. 

What I’m doing is giving myself permission to read stuff I like, which is what I’m always trying to instill in other readers anyway. 

Not a popular librarian opinion, but hey, I wasn’t blessed with a high tolerance for books I dislike, and I would be happy to test my skills against other random librarians in a random genre recommendation contest. I don’t think I’d be the champ, but I think I’d be comfortably in the middle. 

4. That Stuff is For Girls

While I’m on unpopular opinions...

While I understand that gender lines are being blurred, moved, and erased, you have to understand, I didn’t grow up that way. I’m a guy. I wouldn’t call myself manly, but I tend to like more traditionally masculine things. 

Hey, I have no problem with other people being wherever they find themselves on the gender spectrum, I’m happy to hang out and have a beer with whoever, and I certainly support efforts to make things like books more gender neutral in terms of their covers, marketing, and so on. If I had a dudebro friend who liked romances, I would probably be curious, but whatever!

But I’d be lying if I said romance doesn’t seem designed with a female audience in mind. 

Yes, I’m aware that romance is often at the forefront of developing new authors, storylines with non-traditional romances of all stripes, and basically mixing it up and experimenting with narratives. 

That said, most of the writers are women. Even of man/man romances. Most of the readers are women (between 85 and 90% it appears). So, most times, even a romance intended for a male reader (or, to move away from a binary, intended for anyone other than a traditional female reader), is very likely coming from a female writer working within a very female-influenced tradition. I don’t have a problem with women writing men, even straight women writing gay men. I just highly suspect these narratives aren’t created to please me and people like me.

We shouldn’t be surprised that men aren’t reading a ton of these. They’re not really intended for us. It’s the same way I feel about, I dunno, Frozen. That’s obviously not intended for me, so I don’t have much interest in it, and that’s fine. Would it expand my horizons to watch Frozen and sing along? Maybe. But most likely, I just wouldn’t enjoy it. Because that’s not the goal its creators had in mind. 

5. Rejection or Passivity? 

And keep in mind, this isn’t me refusing to watch Frozen. This is me, in a 2019 world of infinite streaming possibilities, choosing other things without Frozen even entering into the equation. As an adult man with no kids, I’m not really presented with the choice to watch Frozen or not. Likewise, I’m not really presented with the choice of a romance novel that I’m turning down. 

This really is a key concept. There’s a world of difference between, say, refusing to take my son to watch Frozen because “it’s for girls” and me not going out of my way to watch Frozen because it’s for girls. Turning down a romance novel as opposed to just never picking one up. 

I’d have to reach out to romance as opposed to romance reaching out to me, and that’s probably not going to happen. There are plenty of forms of entertainment designed with me in mind, and I’ll probably enjoy the (Tumor) Fruits of those labors. Because I have a higher chance of enjoying what I read. 

It’s always a numbers game with books, always a gamble. I’ll invest X time in hopes of getting either Y enjoyment or Y+B enjoyment plus information. Or B-Y, information minus enjoyment. There’s a lot of equations at play here. It turns out this is a bad metaphor because it makes things more complicated instead of less. 

Anyway, if a book isn’t designed to please me, it’s a lot less likely that it will. So, when I’m betting on a good return on my time investment, the likely winner is something that’s geared towards me. There, that was a lot simpler.

~

There ya go. That’s why I don’t read romance. Argue with me if you’d like, but you’re really arguing a matter of taste. Romance novels are not to my taste, and that’s why I don’t read them.

Whether you think what I’ve said applies to men in general, I’ll leave that to you.

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Originally posted on Porch.com

Call it the HGTV effect, or blame the viral influence of Pinterest. Young Americans are increasingly interested in home improvement, whatever the reason, and many are taking matters into their own hands. According to one recent survey, millennial homeownersnow spend about $26,000 annually for home upgrades each year. And much of that spending is for DIY projects: Retailers have seen an uptick in purchases among young customers buying supplies.

But does this enthusiasm translate to real home improvement know-how? After all, older generations are always faulting millennials for their lack of humility and focus, essential ingredients for DIY success. Can baby boomers and Gen Xers still teach the digital generation a thing or two about homeownership?

We decided to find out, asking members of each generation to assess their handiness around the house. We then put their assertions to the test, asking which repairs they’ve actually done. Finally, we quizzed them on basic home maintenance knowledge to see who possesses the real expertise. Our findings? Millennials think they’re adept at a variety of home improvement tasks—but in experience and knowledge, the numbers show differently.

Each Generation’s Self-Perceived Skills

While a significant portion of each generation claimed it was pretty handy, no group touted its home improvement skills more highly than millennials. This confidence was particularly apparent among that generation’s men, of which 78.6 percent identified as handy. By contrast, fewer than 70 percent of Gen X and baby boomer men said the same. Similarly, a greater percentage of millennial women claimed the “handy” mantle than in any other generation.

Based on millennials’ self-assessment of their skills, their generation’s reputation for being hopeless at home maintenance may be unwarranted. Young Americans have held off on buying homes longer than generations prior, so they may be used to calling someone else to handle maintenance. Indeed, among respondents, millennials had far lower rates of homeownership than older generations—leading us to wonder how they learned the handy skills they claim to have.

Are millennials exaggerating their proficiency when it comes to repairs, or do they get too little credit when it comes to practical skills? To find out, we ask for more detail about their handy habits, including who takes the lead when something breaks.

Who Fixes It?

When something at home stops working, calling a professional can spare stress and uncertainty. But for the majority of millennials, that path seemed too easy—or costly. Fifty-five percent preferred to handle repairs themselves, compared to roughly 43 percent of baby boomers and Gen Xers. Home improvement retailers are hoping this DIY ethic persists among millennials as millions leap to homeownership after holding off for years.

Gen Xers, conversely, relied on their spouse or partner for repairs more often than other generations did. Baby boomers were the most likely to hire a professional, though, perhaps because they’re growing old enough to be more hesitant to safely perform some repairs themselves. Recently, contractors nationwide have benefited from a surge in baby boomers remodeling their homes to accommodate them better as they age.

Comparing Repair Resumes

Calling oneself handy is one thing, but acquiring a record of successful fixes is another. When we asked each generation what repairs they’d performed in the past, millennials had the most limited track record, despite their self-professed competence. In fact, for 13 of the 21 repairs studied, millennials had the least experience. When they did surpass other generations, it was often due to their superior tech savvy: They were most likely to have set up a wireless router and mounted a TV, for instance. Millennials were also more likely than their older counterparts to perform some other varieties of “adulting” unrelated to home repairs, such as an oil change or cooking for a dinner party.

It might be easy to dismiss the gulf between millennials’ DIY confidence and their experience as mere arrogance. But perhaps older generations have simply had more time to experience all the challenges of homeownership and reassess their own skills accordingly. After all, if you’re only familiar with simple fixes like installing a showerhead,you might draw the erroneous conclusion that all home repairs are as easy. So in addition to quizzing participants on what they have done in the past, we asked them what they knew about home repairs.

Bungling the Basics?

To further study differences in DIY knowledge among generations, we quizzed respondents on basic facts that informed home improvement projects. In this regard,nearly 1 in 5 millennials could not correctly identify the difference between a flat head and a Phillips head screwdriver. Among baby boomers, by contrast, less than 10 percent made this error. Even on slightly more difficult subjects, like naming the purpose of an auger bit, the oldest generation surpassed younger counterparts. Nearly two-thirds of baby boomers could do so successfully, compared to just 61.2 percent of Gen Xers and 51.4 percent of millennials.

Younger folks did outperform older Americans in one respect, however: knowledge of the metric system. Among Gen Xers and millennials, about 7 in 10 correctly identified the number of millimeters in a centimeter, whereas a smaller portion of baby boomers answered this correctly. Perhaps we can cut them some slack: It’s been several decades since baby boomers may have absorbed this content in grade school.

Toolkit Troubles

Individuals with repair experience should at least be capable of naming common tools, even if they’re less than an expert in wielding them. Sadly, sizeable segments of millennials could not identify a range of common instruments: Just 73 percent could correctly name a C-clamp, and even fewer knew what to call a hacksaw. Here, knowledge improved with age in all cases. Gen Xers were slightly better at naming every tool, and baby boomers were the best.

Even when asked to identify the purpose of a Spackle knife, just 84.2 percent of millennials could do it. Compare that to 93.3 percent of baby boomers, and the future of America’s walls starts to look a little grim. Millennials were more inclined to guess the tool was used in painting than other generations, perhaps confusing it with the more slender painting knives often used by television’s favorite painting instructor, Bob Ross.

The Demographics of DIY Knowledge

When we consider the results of our quiz in their entirety, it’s clear DIY knowledge declined with each successive generation. This was true among both men and women, as each gender experienced an inverse correlation between knowledge and youth. Regarding both know-how and experience, millennials overstated their DIY abilities when asked if they were handy.

Interestingly, those who lived in mobile homes scored best on our DIY knowledge quiz, outperforming even those who lived in houses. Given the special difficulties that upkeep of a mobile home can entail, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that this group was well-informed. Homeownership of any kind was associated with higher scores. In fact, those who rented performed even worse than those who lived with their family. Perhaps that cohort is forced to make repairs around the house rather than chipping in on rent.

No Shame in Calling in the Experts

So maybe some of us tend to overestimate our skills around the home—if your DIY optimism turns disastrous, applaud yourself for the initiative at least. As with any other skill, repairing or remodeling a home requires practice, which you can only gain by making a mess or two. But when things start to get overwhelming, don’t let pride prevent you from getting the professional assistance you need. After all, doing it yourself doesn’t feel so great when the job’s done wrong.

Of course, when you call in the pros, you want to make sure they have more experience and skill than you do. That’s where Porch comes in, with competitive quotes from trusted home improvement professionals. We even offer handy cost estimates for common projects so that you can budget with confidence. Sometimes the only thing better than doing it yourself is realizing you don’t have to.

Methodology

To compile the data above, we surveyed 1,010 respondents aged 18 and older from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. The participant gender breakdown totaled 540 women, 469 men, and one individual who identified as neither. Because the data we present rely on self-reported abilities and histories, they may not be perfectly representative samples of all generations and genders. These data are meant solely for entertainment purposes, although we made every effort to represent the data as accurately as possible.

Fair Use Statement

Feel free to use our images and information for noncommercial purposes. When you do, we hope you’ll attribute us by providing a link back to this page. As all DIYers can attest, it feels good to get some credit for your work.

Guest Contributor: Evan Dunn

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The scholarship features educational costs, ebooks, food, in addition to houses. Then there are lots of different issues: Would certainly athletes earn otherwise with regards to the hobby people participate in? How can you measure the genuine valuation on an advanced athletics staff, in particular when it’s building the teachers additional well-known general along with attracting plenty of scholars? Exactly where would certainly your money even come from? As the general athletics industry grows over time so would the college sports surroundings. There exist a new brand concerning becoming an amateur as well as a specialist according to this specific kind of reaction by the NCAA. Over generations, Split My partner and i some athletes have already been tipping its basis into their sport activity many people previously worked so hard pertaining to every day, each and every time. Therefore, undergraduate sportsperson should not be settled.

This percentage should pertain to virtually all participants, even going to those on full sports activities help me write a thesis scholarships and grants. NCAA expresses that an individual is never entitled to sports activity if someone have got ever obtained cost or maybe stated that (Fifty-eight). Paying off the university athletes may perform a lot of very good, even if it had been just some lodging, getting on and also foodstuff allotments each month in exchange for their work specifically its abilities and abilities. Order your whole concepts in groupings in addition to create simple information in order to create distinct areas in addition to subcategories. could make annually. Accusations are actually produced upon individuals getting repayment. “Should College or university Student-Athletes Get paid?” U.Azines News Digital camera Weekly, Some Economy is shown, This year.

Any decimal summarize is another well-known file format, as well as it’s really the same as the subject matter one particular. Sporting events isn’t finer quality than lecturers. Inside of a acreage the place equitability plus value are usually highly valued, you have to question why apparently school sports athletes are most often having the shorter conclude of your cling. Even now, colleges and universities employ their particular sports achievement to market his or her education plus tempt possibilities job seekers. It is a advantage to discover the possiblity to perform for the collegiate place, not to say always be awarded an athletic scholarship. The experts , once additionally pronounc that the NCAA can be somewhat insecure meaning their “age-old” foibles will be worked out with the top echelon associated with gamers as soon as scams emerge from several battler having unbalanced positive aspects. The debate displayed by simply NCAA in which good agreement instituted at the beginning of the period, the particular sports athletes obtain scholarships and grants seeing that reimbursement will never be renegotiated causes it to become extremely hard with the scholars being paid.

This content in addition claims that a college can certainly current market its good results with activities for you to alumni as well as donors to ensure that the crooks to get money for first time methods in campus. In certain instances, professors might require you to such as a bibliography, specifically when crafting an outline as the academics mission. It may be pricey, thus a school scholarship is really a kind of fee for school athletes as well as their exclusive an opportunity to acquire informed. “Should College or university Some athletes Get paid to learn.” Different, 2011. As Hartnett (2014) information, as being a college or university sportsman is more than just a full-time occupation.

A issue outline demands one to create this quick time period and also phrase to spell out every area.

People shouldn’t shell out individuals should they aren’t prepared to get the job done.

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Persuasive composition on the key reason why school runners really should be paid

College sporting events aren’t the jobs simply because they’re simply just specific actions;

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Even if this supplier most likely are not scholarly, the content mcdougal gifts can be legit because of his level of schooling. One example is, no person will pay some sort of journalist when he establishes job interviews in a university radio stations section. This system associated with school player can also be looked after an essential element regarding informative enter in such a way the fact that undergraduate sports athletes explore your student’s community. The actual colleges as well as sportsmen be more competitive as the years move down creating greater activities plus much more profits generation. This particular susceptibility can result in those to be http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/cuonline/OnlineCourses a little more prepared to change their particular procedures in the near future.

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The particular games are generally classified below institution sporting events the place individuals would be the individuals to participate in these types of functions. Nowadays, complete scholarships or grants tend to be granted towards the many talented sports athletes instead of the desperate undergraduate who cannot afford college degree; colleges and universities appeal as a result of specific sport packages which makes it more difficult to attain the grant (“Federal pupil aid” a par Half-dozen). Here’s a quick look at each side. When studying with the university, students not simply will get the chance to play the favored sporting more detail events at a much better level but will also make a college education.

College sportsmen are certainly not professional

This argument provides lasted for over a millennium along with the reasons for this particular idea usually do not maintain water any further. The larger the earnings a lot more likely a coach will continue which has a college since funds speaks. Being a university student-athlete is really a full-time career, bouncey between the weight room, the actual court/field, instruction, and film sessions. In the usa, scholars pay back around 10,500 per semester. Students admittedly be aware that even if people disobeyed the teachers many people still gotten being compensated a ton of money. Players perform difficult to bring sales revenue to the university still they aren’t paid value. That’s exactly why pupils shouldn’t get paid for actively playing athletics within their institution.

The actual creators of these studies in this exploration are typically not less than college degree college students. A new graduate pupil bakes an close supplemental 1 million additional within their life. The following distinguishes your contests on the skilled activities. If and when they elect to pay out its players, there will be very very little still left in order to aid the opposite courses. As an example, your “Flutie effect” is utilized to spell it out a blast at the in class programs following a massive activities win. A post posted online in ncaa.web claims that scholarship grants an average of have ended 100,500 a year (The Sport Break up, 2002-2010). These include significant concerns the particular school will facial area that could lead to the specific sport divisions associated with educational institutions turning out to be firms as an alternative to helping runners experience an education.

How to create a powerful argument

I feel that it will be incredibly difficult with the teachers to help impress self-control after learners that happen to be getting covered their services over the keep track of maybe in the sector. This variety of format requires anyone to compose a brief word to go into detail each individual major thought and also theme sentence. What will the NCAA are saying with this arrangement? The National School Athletic Connection, which in turn claims that the item “is a member-led corporation specializing in your well-being as well as life long good results of faculty athletes” (NCAA, 2018), simply proposes of which undergraduate players are students-not staff members, understanding that activities including the big-money-making bonanza that’s the NCAA contest never oblige the same “students” to miss classes for region public video game titles which pull in big advertisement sales for your schools. Most persons imagine that colleges and universities help to make out of cash with aid from sports entertainment.

Disadvantage to be able to modest universities

Most of us enjoy for your a person activity as soon as all the hours of exercising bond along with the play will be sleek. The institution assists the gamers as a section of staff through providing these grants therefore producing education cost-effective. The talk with paying out institution runners has elevated the headlines for many decades in addition to keeps growing a result of the increased gross income your fresh players generate for their educational institutions along with the global financial rate of growth evidenced in the industry generally. In addition, the kids purchase the privilege traveling all over the world. All of us have fun with to the a single game if every one of the hrs with training agree as well as our own play is usually sleek. Analysis: That source is a well-liked origin as a result of lack of information within the supplier along with the lack of knowledge from the article writer.

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Call it the HGTV effect, or blame the viral influence of Pinterest. Young Americans are increasingly interested in home improvement, whatever the reason, and many are taking matters into their own hands. According to one recent survey, millennial homeownersnow spend about $26,000 annually for home upgrades each year. And much of that spending is for DIY projects: Retailers have seen an uptick in purchases among young customers buying supplies.

But does this enthusiasm translate to real home improvement know-how? After all, older generations are always faulting millennials for their lack of humility and focus, essential ingredients for DIY success. Can baby boomers and Gen Xers still teach the digital generation a thing or two about homeownership?

We decided to find out, asking members of each generation to assess their handiness around the house. We then put their assertions to the test, asking which repairs they’ve actually done. Finally, we quizzed them on basic home maintenance knowledge to see who possesses the real expertise. Our findings? Millennials think they’re adept at a variety of home improvement tasks—but in experience and knowledge, the numbers show differently.

Each Generation’s Self-Perceived Skills

While a significant portion of each generation claimed it was pretty handy, no group touted its home improvement skills more highly than millennials. This confidence was particularly apparent among that generation’s men, of which 78.6 percent identified as handy. By contrast, fewer than 70 percent of Gen X and baby boomer men said the same. Similarly, a greater percentage of millennial women claimed the “handy” mantle than in any other generation.

Based on millennials’ self-assessment of their skills, their generation’s reputation for being hopeless at home maintenance may be unwarranted. Young Americans have held off on buying homes longer than generations prior, so they may be used to calling someone else to handle maintenance. Indeed, among respondents, millennials had far lower rates of homeownership than older generations—leading us to wonder how they learned the handy skills they claim to have.

Are millennials exaggerating their proficiency when it comes to repairs, or do they get too little credit when it comes to practical skills? To find out, we ask for more detail about their handy habits, including who takes the lead when something breaks.

Who Fixes It?

When something at home stops working, calling a professional can spare stress and uncertainty. But for the majority of millennials, that path seemed too easy—or costly. Fifty-five percent preferred to handle repairs themselves, compared to roughly 43 percent of baby boomers and Gen Xers. Home improvement retailers are hoping this DIY ethic persists among millennials as millions leap to homeownership after holding off for years.

Gen Xers, conversely, relied on their spouse or partner for repairs more often than other generations did. Baby boomers were the most likely to hire a professional, though, perhaps because they’re growing old enough to be more hesitant to safely perform some repairs themselves. Recently, contractors nationwide have benefited from a surge in baby boomers remodeling their homes to accommodate them better as they age.

Comparing Repair Resumes

Calling oneself handy is one thing, but acquiring a record of successful fixes is another. When we asked each generation what repairs they’d performed in the past, millennials had the most limited track record, despite their self-professed competence. In fact, for 13 of the 21 repairs studied, millennials had the least experience. When they did surpass other generations, it was often due to their superior tech savvy: They were most likely to have set up a wireless router and mounted a TV, for instance. Millennials were also more likely than their older counterparts to perform some other varieties of “adulting” unrelated to home repairs, such as an oil change or cooking for a dinner party.

It might be easy to dismiss the gulf between millennials’ DIY confidence and their experience as mere arrogance. But perhaps older generations have simply had more time to experience all the challenges of homeownership and reassess their own skills accordingly. After all, if you’re only familiar with simple fixes like installing a showerhead,you might draw the erroneous conclusion that all home repairs are as easy. So in addition to quizzing participants on what they have done in the past, we asked them what they knew about home repairs.

Bungling the Basics?

To further study differences in DIY knowledge among generations, we quizzed respondents on basic facts that informed home improvement projects. In this regard,nearly 1 in 5 millennials could not correctly identify the difference between a flat head and a Phillips head screwdriver. Among baby boomers, by contrast, less than 10 percent made this error. Even on slightly more difficult subjects, like naming the purpose of an auger bit, the oldest generation surpassed younger counterparts. Nearly two-thirds of baby boomers could do so successfully, compared to just 61.2 percent of Gen Xers and 51.4 percent of millennials.

Younger folks did outperform older Americans in one respect, however: knowledge of the metric system. Among Gen Xers and millennials, about 7 in 10 correctly identified the number of millimeters in a centimeter, whereas a smaller portion of baby boomers answered this correctly. Perhaps we can cut them some slack: It’s been several decades since baby boomers may have absorbed this content in grade school.

Toolkit Troubles

Individuals with repair experience should at least be capable of naming common tools, even if they’re less than an expert in wielding them. Sadly, sizeable segments of millennials could not identify a range of common instruments: Just 73 percent could correctly name a C-clamp, and even fewer knew what to call a hacksaw. Here, knowledge improved with age in all cases. Gen Xers were slightly better at naming every tool, and baby boomers were the best.

Even when asked to identify the purpose of a Spackle knife, just 84.2 percent of millennials could do it. Compare that to 93.3 percent of baby boomers, and the future of America’s walls starts to look a little grim. Millennials were more inclined to guess the tool was used in painting than other generations, perhaps confusing it with the more slender painting knives often used by television’s favorite painting instructor, Bob Ross.

The Demographics of DIY Knowledge

When we consider the results of our quiz in their entirety, it’s clear DIY knowledge declined with each successive generation. This was true among both men and women, as each gender experienced an inverse correlation between knowledge and youth. Regarding both know-how and experience, millennials overstated their DIY abilities when asked if they were handy.

Interestingly, those who lived in mobile homes scored best on our DIY knowledge quiz, outperforming even those who lived in houses. Given the special difficulties that upkeep of a mobile home can entail, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that this group was well-informed. Homeownership of any kind was associated with higher scores. In fact, those who rented performed even worse than those who lived with their family. Perhaps that cohort is forced to make repairs around the house rather than chipping in on rent.

No Shame in Calling in the Experts

So maybe some of us tend to overestimate our skills around the home—if your DIY optimism turns disastrous, applaud yourself for the initiative at least. As with any other skill, repairing or remodeling a home requires practice, which you can only gain by making a mess or two. But when things start to get overwhelming, don’t let pride prevent you from getting the professional assistance you need. After all, doing it yourself doesn’t feel so great when the job’s done wrong.

Of course, when you call in the pros, you want to make sure they have more experience and skill than you do. That’s where Porch comes in, with competitive quotes from trusted home improvement professionals. We even offer handy cost estimates for common projects so that you can budget with confidence. Sometimes the only thing better than doing it yourself is realizing you don’t have to.

Methodology

To compile the data above, we surveyed 1,010 respondents aged 18 and older from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. The participant gender breakdown totaled 540 women, 469 men, and one individual who identified as neither. Because the data we present rely on self-reported abilities and histories, they may not be perfectly representative samples of all generations and genders. These data are meant solely for entertainment purposes, although we made every effort to represent the data as accurately as possible.

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Feel free to use our images and information for noncommercial purposes. When you do, we hope you’ll attribute us by providing a link back to this page. As all DIYers can attest, it feels good to get some credit for your work.

Guest Contributor: Evan Dunn