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Serious question.
Do you think we’ll see the parents/family of each of the guys???
Like, We’ve been TEASED with Ace’s brother, that I’m starting to think it’s just a reference to that Alice in Wonderland park character in Japan and nothing else….
Jack’s family, Ruggie’s grandma, Falena, Maleficia, Ms.Rosehearts, Just now Vil’s dad is in the picture which I am really happy but now I’m wondering about his mom, and so Deuce’s mom.
I mean, some HAVE a silhouette!! It could mean they do have a design in the making/ready to show. They could’ve shown us Falena in the Tamashina (hope I said that correctly) event, but didn’t (prolly to make Leona not so σ(▼□▼メ) and it’s understandable)
Anyhow, any idea/headcannon about this? Who do you want to see first?
I'm wondering if everyone might eventually get a travel event? like they've now introduced with Vil's that it doesn't have to be specifically hometowns, so that opens things up a lot! (especially if they have to figure out how to do three separate Coral Sea visits) (how would that even work otherwise)
but yeah, I hope everyone gets a chance! there's a lot of backstory characters I would LOVE to meet. :D :D :D though I do think some of them don't really suit the more light-hearted tone of the events (pretty sure you're right about that being why Falena wasn't in Tamashina-Mina, that would've just been. too much for Leona.) so like...we're probably not ever going to meet the Rosehearts. or Maleficia (although I maintain that this would be THE funniest possible way to introduce her outside of the main story, and actually I would love this a lot, can we please Twst) (I need to see her to put Malleus in a froofy little outfit and tell him what a handsome boy he is). but they've sprung surprises like Kifaji on us, and honestly anyone who shows up and tells embarrassing stories about characters' childhoods is good in my book!
characters off the top of my head who I most want to meet: literally any of the Zigvolts, Azul's mom, Ace's brother, Che'nya's grandfather (<- I think he would be a good one for Riddle) (please just any non-terrible adult in his life), any member of Rook's family because I need to see how they managed to produce him, and...really just whoever they can come up with for Silver.
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#tapis rouge#tamashina mina#i think it's just those two#(i am very very sorry about how long it took to reply to this)#but yeah i don't know if everyone is actually doable! i just want to ~believe~#though silver would also have one of the zigvolts honestly#(they are the only reason lilia managed to actually raise him without silver like. falling through a manhole looney tunes style.)#so let's say he gets sebek's mom and sebek gets his dad. just because it would make sebek VERY annoyed.#god i want to meet azul's mom though. everything we know about her makes her sound AMAZING#i want her to feed me lunch and teach me how to take no shit#ANYWAY i do also wonder about vil's mom...#i had been thinking we might learn something about her during tapis rouge. but nope! not a mention.#i guess we did establish that vil either went with eric or was cared for by the house staff when he was traveling#so i dunno! it doesn't necessarily mean anything she might just be a busy lady doing busy things#i just wonder!
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When I read about the relationship between Jonathan and Mina on jstor or spark/cliffnotes, it's always "their marriage is sexless, the only time it was not was when they had their child" and the reasons aside from "stoker hated sex with women" or "they are too spiritual, they see sex as lowly carnal desires" is that "They never write about having sex in the book". And I'm like. Why... would anyone... put anything regarding their bedroom activities on the How To Hunt A Monster Files. Not only that, it's been edited for every one among them to read. Why would Mina put "his dick game strong last nite" on the groupchat. Are readers suffering from object permanence? Do I disappear to you mid-peekaboo??
Mina: “Almost done with the manuscript. Hmm. Should I leave in the part where you [REDACTED] my [REDACTED] until [REDACTED]?”
Jonathan: “Maybe trim that down to me being like a new man. Perhaps leave out the bit where you [REDACTED] me until I [REDACTED] and needed the cane to get around for the day as well. Not vital to the narrative, after all.”
Mina: “True.”
Jack, listening through the wall, white-knuckling his lancet: “Dear Phonograph, the audience and I are being robbed.”
#for the record: My renditions of the Harkers get voluptuous as hell And My Readers Will Know It#jonathan harker#mina harker#dracula#dracula daily#re: dracula
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In Regards To Your 2024 Summary:
Holy shit it’s been another year????? The hell?????
Also! Your art style is gorgeous and that being found in 2023 and then refined throughout late 2023 and the entirety of 2024 really shows, as does your growth in panel layouts, perspective, and — as you said — experimentation. If you ever post your animation or video game art I’m looking forward to it.
As cheesy as it sounds, being able to laugh at funny comics and look at all the details of your art really made my 2024 brighter, even when things were hard. Including looking at your older art— it doesn’t need to be new to be enjoyable! I’m glad your art is well loved and it’s a privilege to have been here since the (near) beginning. I hope you take care of yourself in 2025 and beyond!
You and your art bring a lot of people a lot of joy never forget that <3
Thank you so much for keeping up with my art journey throughout these last two years! Two years!!! I am baffled at how that feels both too long and too short!
Admittedly, my art summary didn't manage to capture the fact that I did a lot of comic layouts that I'm really proud of. I also drew more backgrounds and made some very detailed works (*Dungeon Meshi spoilers for these examples*).
The growth is lot more evident when comparing my 'best' comics of 2023 to 2024:
Sometimes the growth is vertical, sometimes it is horizontal - and damn, sometimes it goes out of sight into the Z-plane. But it is always happening!
#art summary#ask#The privilege is honestly mine; to be able to create comics and have had people rooting me on since the beginning really means a lot.#To everyone who the potential I couldn't and continues to stick around: Thank you so very much.#I cannot emphasize enough that I do see you. I do notice those who regularly like/reblog/comment.#I notice when people who haven't been around come back and mass like/reblog posts.#There are some people who have only *ever* liked my posts or have only ever lurked! I notice! I am so thankful!#At the risk of also sounding cheesy; I'm honestly happy to give back whatever I can to my audience.#Knowing I have brought people a little bit of joy to their day with my silly comics makes every long night worth it.#I probably make a longer post about it in the future; but last year when I made my first comic redraw-#-was the same day I got the news that someone very beloved to me passed away. I was in such deep grief I couldn't respond to comments.#But I still read them and I mean this earnestly; even though I was smiling through tears -#everyone's kind words truly helped make a pretty dark month a lot brighter. I probably would have crumbled without the support.#What really gets me is this: it was never directed at trying to cheer me up. It was just earnest kindness towards a stranger making comics.#If you've ever wondered 'hey does PD-MDZS know how much I appreciate their silly comics?'#know I have also sat here and thought 'Hey does this person know how much I appreciate seeing them in my notifications?'#Which also includes you! Mina BNHA you will always be associated with the cool person who's been rooting for me B*)#I wish everyone a wonderful new year; may all our creative endeavors be something we see as an exciting discovery.
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sorry but something about kit going back to la after not being there in three years has me holding back tears bc what do u mean that city used to be his home :’(
#like little kit would never know he would be moving to the uk at 15 and getting a family that wasn’t just his dad#oh i am sick#kit herondale#johnny rook#jem carstairs#tessa gray#mina carstairs#the dark artifices#the wicked powers#tda#twp#tsc
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my anime protagonist irken bbygirl 🩵
#mina arts#oc: callie#irken oc#she gets drawn when her creator doesn’t know what to draw. comfort OC#everything I’ve drawn which is very little for the past 3 months has a blue outline. shrugs loudly.
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spoilers for chapter 429
idk if you guys remember but ochako does have parallels with All Might, specifically as the side who saves. It’s not that he feels the same for them both or something like that, they serve to represent the type of heroism he naturally goes to; his friend is not his love interest, from his perspective she’s out there having a crisis over not being able to save her, and Izuku reminds her that she is a hero bc she is his hero -she saved him multiple times, and she should be able to feel like a proper hero.
This conversation is not about the nature of their relationship, is about heroism; Izuku relates to a conflict between being a hero who saves and failing to save someone, and doesn’t want to see Ochako ending spiraling because she couldn’t also fulfill that role as expected. She’s his hero not because he loves her romantically -he’s a nerd I’m sure he would be way more nervous and blushing if he was confessing anything he thought was romantic- but because she’s able to go and do what All Might does to Izuku, save him physically and emotionally.
He knows she hides her feelings in order to not be a burden, yet he doesn’t talk about his own feelings outside of his guilt in heroics -what does he feel about losing OFA? About his own failures? About the people he personally lost? He can’t talk for others and claim Ochako is everyone’s hero, but he can speak for himself, and that’s his personal perspective -she is a hero to him, she’s his hero. And then the class appears to make sure she’s able to get support and understand she’s not alone, and she’s important to them too.
but Izuku doesn’t get support. Izuku cries a little and talks a little about himself, but he doesn’t get supported. If this was meant to be romantic, I don’t understand why he would hold back what’s inside of him.
the end of the chapter reveals that boy is going to be helped by that woman who regretfully ignored Tenko, and they both witness it and are happy about it while hearing izuku inspired that change, and iida wonders what’s up with them -this is the conclusion to their relationship. In their hearts these two are saviors who struggle to be heroes who save others, and they are happy there are appearing more people who want to be heroes like them. Heroes who save. Save like All Might.
That grandma for example, interpreting the narrative as what I think is intended, would be that boy’s All Might; she’s his hero.
Izuku and Ochako are heroes who save, and Deku is here to remind her at least she did save him many times, that she is still a hero because she is his hero. I don’t believe is meant to be interpreted as romantic, not that Izuku sees that phrase as it neither -after all, he said he does want to be like All Might and feels good to imitate him, but he doesn’t love him.
Ochako’s All Might hair moment, the parallels with Toshinori telling him he can be a hero, the trying to save from black suffocating quirks, the we can do it and do your best…
Do I need to remind you heroes arent a romantic thing for Izuku Midoriya?
#grrr talking#bkdk#dkbk#bakudeku#dekubaku#I’m not saying I’m happy with the chapter#I have my criticisms#But I don’t want to keep seeing ppl say this is romantic and “izu///ocha canon we won bkdk dead”#First of all no it’s not even if it was canon we would still ship them and make content about them#Second of all this chapter was about ochako getting comfort not a boyfriend#Are we really sitting there believing they are together when ochako doesn’t struggle nor think about her crush at all#And her character goes way beyond liking him or not#And izuku hero nerd midoriya calls her his hero bc he sees all might savior qualities in her???#Bitch where’s the romance#And you know what? I don’t get it now#Bc ppl were all like “yeah it’s platonic” when izuku said he admired all might but katsuki was just right there closer to him#But now they see the whole “you are my hero” as a romantic confession? Fuck off#Personally I always felt kinda strange about that scene in bk vs dk 2#It focuses on the closeness and and it’s strange bc izuku doesn’t strive to be like him at all#He doesn’t want to be the victorious hero side nor want to be a angry and disrespectful when he gets angry#He just is#So. Yeah#ochako is part of the saving chain and she saved him multiple times since the beginning#This is his experience with her and she deserves to be acknowledged as the hero she is#Even if nobody else sees her as that including herself he sees it#She deserves to hear it#When she saved him during black whip with shinso’s help everyone else saw a romantic moment#Mina teased her about it and made things weird for them always trying to look into it as a romantic gesture#And it wasn’t. That was ochako being the hero she is and Izuku confirms that to her#She is a hero not a love interest
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#first time reader here and idk WHAT is gonna happen next#all i know is if i never hear my good good friend jonathan harkers voice again#im jumping into the book#and bashing that bitch counts head in myself#anyway#happy shovel day to those who celebrate#shovel day#get shoveled idiot#dracula daily#re: dracula#dracula#bram stoker#jonathan harker#count dracula#mina murray#mina harker#lucy westenra
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"It's not too unlike him to wander off for a time, no? Try not to worry so much."
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[BALLAD] [DAWNTRAIL] [PART ???]
#ffxiv#ffxiv oc#nira'sae#minasha#gpose#ballad in gposes: dawntrail#ballad screencap series#look. the thing is. THE THING IS.#nira'sae is a fuckin BITCH about using their linkpearl#they'll answer it (because they'll get an earful if they don't)#and since only a small handful of important people have access to it#but MAKING CALLS?#they don't do that. i could count on one hand the number of times they've actually made outbound calls#so when they DO? it's. unheard of. for mina to not pick up#he'd drop anything to answer that call.#so... why. isn't. he?#we know :)
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This is an RE: Dracula (Bloody FM) appreciation post 💕💕
#I LOVE THEM#first of all love me a good full cast production of anything and Dracula was practically MADE for that kind of production#taking the idea of Dracula daily and going but what if it were an audio version?? as a man who loves audio books I’m obsessed#the suspense builds SO WELL I am just like Mina I am so worried for my boy Johnathan where is he!!#is he well?? I don’t know!! it’s been so long!!#and then of course there’s the content warnings#massively appreciated because some of ‘em are things I handle much better with warning and you don’t really get that with audiobooks often#I just. love them.#only possible complaint adjacent thing is the ads but even that!! yall need sponsors I totally get it#and they’re only ever in longer episodes and they usually keep the majority at the end#I simply adore this silly little story and the way it’s being presented#Dracula daily#re dracula#not a quote#not cosmere#my post
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Do you know when in the timeline the Phantom Bride story takes place? ( I love your comics btw)
thank you! :D :D :D
the events tend to be deliberately ambiguous about when they're set, probably so it's easier to schedule them, and to accommodate players who might be at different points in the main story. though I think you have to have finished episode 2 in order to play events, so most of them are kind of...in this nebulous chronological space of somewhere post-episode 2?
that said, the more recent events (I think starting with Fairy Gala IF) have been set after episode 6, since they have Ortho as a student and in his college gear. so there is a bit of a split there that Ghost Marriage/Phantom Bride falls into!
so basically...somewhere between episodes 2 and 6, and that's about as far as I think it can be nailed down! beyond that, whenever your heart tells you is right. 💙
#twisted wonderland#joseimuke games are serious business#twisted wonderland spoilers#(in the tags)#events assume you know everyone and are friends with them already and work from there#(which does lead to some fun scenarios of yuu being like 'WHOS THAT' at a character you have 15 cards of)#though i did notice in tamashina-mina that leona was exclusively referring to malleus as tsunoyarou#which is 1) AMAZING#and 2) was he just feeling clever that day or does he find out about tsunotarou at some point#quick i have to know before the timecops get here
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Friends. Fiends. Fellow Dracula Dailiers and assorted undead.
I have some hypotheticals for you:

(Explanatory ramble below the cut)
Short version: I would love to have some real Dracula merch.
Long version: I cannot stand the fact that there is no real Dracula merch*. The Vampyres is obviously all on me as far as getting things made, being my own skinny little indie book. But it’s genuinely driving me nuts that the only Dracula stuff around is from Universal, Coppola’s fanfiction, or Castlevania, and none of it features the actual protagonists of Dracula. There’s nothing for the book! Nothing for Jonathan, period, and Mina’s stuck trading spit with Gary Oldman on Hot Topic t-shirts. Hell, Dracula himself isn’t even Dracula! He’s always Count Suaveman Sexypire instead of the bat bastard I know and loathe. It’s miserable. So, I want to give this a try.
I’ve submitted a request to Makeship to see if they’ll collaborate with me for a campaign. It turns out it’s a bit of a ‘cool kids only’ deal, so there’s every chance they’ll pass on it, (Tumblr wasn’t even an option on the What Social Media Do You Hail From, Content Creator? bit of their questionnaire, so that’s telling.) But they’re supposed to get back to me with a Yes or No in ten business days, so we’ll see what happens. If they pick up my project, that would allow the plushie of choice to be crowdfunded without a major monetary blow to anyone and a guarantee of a good quality product. If it doesn’t reach its goal within the campaign period, everyone gets their money back.
If Makeship doesn’t work out, I’ll go sniffing around for other options. Maybe see if there are any good stationery makers to check out too. Feel free to send recommendations my way!
So yeah. That’s about it.
I just want to fill the void where a cuddleable little Harker and a strangleable little Dracula should be is that so much to ask?
*Not counting the cool stuff @re-dracula has in their shop. Thank you for the coziest coolest foul bauble of a t-shirt.
#you ever see something so cute it makes you unreasonably angry that you can't scoop it up and lovingly hug-crush it into pieces?#that's the feeling I had designing these#anyway#this is a testing the waters situation#seeing what folks would be most eager to support#and if/when I can get anything rolling merch-wise I'll know what to focus on#jonathan harker#mina murray#mina harker#dracula#quinn morse#the vampyres#c.r. kane#my art#dracula daily#re: dracula
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I like how in these past two entries Dracula is just There In the Background.
He's a flying bat, maybe a bird, he's that figure on the seat over there in the distance with the glowing red eyes. This is so different from how he menaced Jonathan (where he was the creepy old man that is Actively Keeping Me Prisoner yet still wants to have nightly chats) or the Demeter crew (where he understand the Nothing is Scarier trope and generally keeps out of sight till the end).
This time, he's just chillaxing in the background because we've had those two instances of different flavors of horror, and now we are thoroughly terrified of him, so just seeing him in the background is enough.
And this kind of tickles me in a weird way because I do so love when you can see the danger. It may not be actively menacing you. In fact, it may be moving away from you. Honestly, you don't even know if it has noticed you, and it's still TERRIFYING.
Like, sure, the idea that the monster is watching you and you not realizing it is scary, but sometimes you watching the monster is worse.
#dracula daily#re: dracula#dracula#i should amend#Mina is not experiencing this#the audience is#this trope works best if you know that the monster far outclasses you#cause then its less “im stalking the monster to initiate combat”#and more “oh shit am i hidden? did it see me? is it going to come after me?”#i mostly get this in video games and ttrpgs obviously#but it can be done well in a book#jurrasic park (the book) has some moments of “oh shit do the dinosaurs see us”#and theres that bit in the movie where they run into the trex hunting on the open plain#the trex isnt actively menacing them#but its terrifying cause if it notices them they are screwed
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imagine when Ty goes to see Kit at the beginning of tlkof and he’s walking through halls to get to Kits room and he sees children’s art on the walls and Ty asks if the drawings are Mina’s and Kit responds with “Only some of them, the others are mine, i’m not a very good artist but Mina likes it when i draw with her”
this isn’t really about Ty and Kit it’s mostly just abt how Kit spends time with Mina and i think this would be a cute way to sorta tell the readers that Kit loves hanging out with Mina
#aggghhghghgahhdjwbwnslahdkagsk#i’m so excited to see Kit and Mina#i know they’re gonna be such good siblings#i really hope we get to see some teasing in the book where mina makes fun of kit or something#the shadowhunter chronicles#the wicked powers#kit herondale#ty blackthorn#mina carstairs#the last king of faerie#kit rook#kit x ty#tlkof#can yall tell i’m excited for mina 😅
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on one hand: i love a good time jump in my media because it gives me the best sandbox to play around in. you know point a and point b, but how they get there, what happens in between is up to you and it's so fun. on the other hand: i have questions and i need to know everything
#this can be about a lot of things but specifically is about andor right now#we have so many big time gaps to play in this season which is great. but also i want to know things!!!! i have questions!!!!!#right now i just really want to know more about mina-rau. and also i want to know about dedra and syril's whole thing i'm fascinated#this unbearable itch to know more is going to get me to write at some point which i suppose i should be grateful for#but again. the questions..... tony. come here i need to talk to you
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Between Jack trying to explain to Arthur how Van Helsing's words translate to him diagnosing Lucy's mysterious illnes, and Van Helsing's absolute monologue titled "My friend John is a loser who will never get a girlfriend" this entry set the new growing relationship of Lucy and Van Helsing in a very clever way.
This is the first time (in the context of the book) that we see someone that is not Mina talk to Lucy, and use the tricks that she uses to direct a conversation. It is incredible that Van Helsing not only noticed Lucy's talking skills even if she was struggling thanks to the blood loss:
"though I could see that the poor girl was making a hard struggle for it. I believe Van Helsing saw it, too, for I saw the quick look under his bushy brows that I knew of old."
But also knew exactly what he needed to do to make Lucy at ease so she could talk freely about what is happening without feeling the social pressure to perform. Lucy is someone who hides her actual state to not worry the people around her, so she probably felt so much dread of having to explain to two people her suffering. As we know Lucy hates talking about herself.
And what does Van Helsing does when he noticed this?
"Then he began to chat of all things except ourselves and diseases and with such an infinite geniality that I could see poor Lucy's pretense of animation merge into reality."
Van Helsing put himself both into the role of orator, and Lucy's role of addressee at the same time, leaving her to be just an observer in a conversation that is supposed to be about her. It's a very nice action from Van Helsing, and an even better first impression from Lucy's perspective.
Then, after Van Helsing gives that outstanding monologue about Seward's lack of understanding about young ladies, Lucy is finally relaxed enough to be honest with this old doctor that came to see her. Plus, Lucy knows that she can be truthfull this time because Van Helsing built the correct situation in where she can talk freely.
#Lucy may always be ''on'' with her social mask#But I like to think that since she knows that both Van Helsing and Jack are doctors then maybe she drops the pretense a little bit#Which makes way to the truly charming Lucy only Mina has seen for most of her life#And so Lucy gets a grandpa#dracula daily#dracula#lucy westenra#abraham van helsing#jack seward
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Everything about the battle at yokohama was Amazing, I love all of your thoughts and world building in pez dispenser. If you have time (and feel like it), could you explain ‘this entire sub-analysis on Idaten’s internal culture and how it intersects with broader heroics standards’. (i was ENRAPTURED by your hero economic analysis)
ps. when i saw in the tags about how the class just. broke down. and asked for their parents, it was like sucker punch to the face, i couldn’t imagine how the actual heroes felt when they saw them. if the public saw that side of class 2a, would they lay off? probably not, but damn. your world building and ideas are just. so good
So my decision about Idaten and its subculture actually hinges on one question about canon: Why did Stain go after Tensei?
Stain was all about attacking people who had committed some kind of perceived failing of heroics. But Tensei seems to be legitimately above the board. He didn’t seem to engage too heavily in the consumerist culture around heroics. He did good work. He was a good hero. So what about him made Stain decide to go after him?
I didn’t want it to be an “IDK he thinks all heroes but all might is fake” thing because 1) that cheapens the character and 2) it doesn’t match what canon shows. Don’t get me wrong, he was a lunatic who thought he needed to kill a fucking kid over his extremist ideals, but he let Izuku go the second Izuku established he conformed to his moral system.
Stain kills when he perceives a reason to. That doesn’t mean he’s always right. But he needs an excuse first.
I decided that there was one detail about Idaten that would be his most likely motive: the number of sidekicks he had.
Tensei is canonically taking up his parents’ mantle. This is a family business he’s heavily suited to and excels at. He has working beneath him a much higher than average number of sidekicks. And we know from canon that he’s not the type to take advantage of his team. Fuck, he seems to emphasize taking care of his team and working together above all else.
But we know that from canon. Stain doesn’t. What he sees, from the outside, is a young hero who took over his parents’ agency and is bolstering his own career on the backs of his sidekicks, which is what so many heroes were doing at that time.
Because stain is an extremist. He doesn’t once consider that maybe Tensei is the exception to the rule. He didn’t think to ask the sidekicks who he was, in a way, taking action on behalf of what they thought of Tensei.
Which is consistent with his character. It took him less than five minutes to decide “yeah I need to put down this grief stricken fifteen year old boy” do you????
Iida becomes the kind of hero that meets his ideals. Stain would have killed him the first time Iida gave him a reason. He’s shown to not always be right or do due diligence to determine if someone is even consistent with his crazy fucking moral system. He was just wrong when he went after Tensei.
And a big reason why he was wrong is because Idaten, as a culture, is far from the typical agency experience. It’s just that no one knows this, because Idaten is shown to be all about maintain a strong and confident facade. It’s not releasing its fucking employment contracts. The public only gets the calm, in control demeanor of the team. It doesn’t see how the sausage is made.
Do you know that millionaire ceo who realized his employees lives sucked and voluntarily took a huge pay cut so that way he could raise all of their salaries to a huge degree and the company as a whole got much, much better because the workers cared about it now and they made more profits and his salary eventually increased too as the company improved and all of his employees loved him? And he published the results thinking maybe other ceos would follow them after it was proven to make their companies more successful? And literally not one single one of them did?
Yeah that’s Idaten.
We talked in the earlier post about how heroics culture, for the most part, is abusive and built on the backs of sidekicks who are being widely taken advantage of. Idaten just… isn’t. Their compensation is incredibly fair and above board. People get credited for busts based on who was in charge of that particular bust or went above and beyond. They genuinely take care of their team, which is consistent with how Tensei seems to treat his team in canon.
For the most part, the sidekicks don’t want to even leave Idaten and become big name heroes themselves. They are all so genuinely happy and fulfilled that most of them happily spend their whole career as a sidekick.
But that’s the exception, and not the rule. And from the outside, Stain saw another sidekick farm propping up a pretend hero.
Which is one of the reasons why all of the Idaten sidekicks got together to hunt him down like a sick dog when he escaped. Tensei was babygirl to them and Stain hurt babygirl. He besmirched babygirl’s name over something he didn’t even do. Tensei didn’t even coordinate that mission the sidekicks made a group chat without him and went out to kick that fucking guy’s ass.
Idaten is a model of what heroics could be if it wasn’t focused on self profit and promotion. It made sacrifices to be this way. But it resulted in a team of excellent heroes who are all able to focus on protecting society without going home and feeling like they got fucked.
Stain has this mental image of heroes who should be helpful and good and save everyone without any personal incentive. But when you’re breaking your fucking back and going home to a shit apartment while your boss does 3 hours of work per day and has five houses, you start to ask yourself why you have to fucked for society to be safe. The sidekicks’ “greed” took the blame for the meltdown with Tartarus, but really, people should have been pointing fingers at every single agency head who refused to treat them fairly.
Idaten is this sparkling model of a business that is incredibly successful because the company heads are actually fair and good. They are the exception. And they are operating within a system where many of the other agencies are treating their talent like disposable cogs in a machine. The system needs to be regulated to force everyone else to act like Idaten—Idaten’s independent success is not a sign that the system works on its own.
As to your second question—no. The world saw little snapshots of Class 2A melting down in the aftermath and it got traded around like every other moment. Someone took a picture of the moment I talked about with Iida just sitting on the curb and crying when his brother’s men came to relieve him of command, and it was just another famous picture of many on the internet do that incident.
It was just—a horrifically public event. All of the kids had to be hospitalized in the aftermath. The world knew that. Izuku took a hit during his big fight with Mirio against the major villain team. He got stabbed, and it was poisoned. He knew from the villain’s history that the poison they produced was slow acting, though, so he quietly took Todoroki aside, had him cauterize the wound, and kept fighting until more heroes came. There’s a fuck ton of photos of him lying down on the sidewalk with his head in Todoroki’s lap in terrible shape waiting for the ambulance to come get him. And the world took that as a “Look At How Strong He Is, All Might Reborn, He Fought All Night With That Terrible Wound And He Still Prevailed” not “wow, that actual child had to fight for hours through the night not knowing if he’d live long enough to make it to a hospital.” Which is like. What happened. Izuku didn’t tell anyone but Todoroki that he took the hit. They both knew that if he didn’t get the antidote in time, he was dead. And they also both knew that there was no way he was going to be able to have even a shot at a hospital until morning, so they just had to keep going.
The world also took that as fuel for the ongoing ship war around Izuku and Todoroki, that they are only marginally aware of. Which like. Would not be comforting, that that’s what they took from a picture where both of them were legitimately afraid that Izuku was going to die.
The world knew they were young. They knew they were a bunch of amazing kids who had done something spectacular. To a lesser extent, they knew that those kids struggled in the aftermath. But that was never going to save them from the media machine. The fact that this fell to kids who visibly struggled in the aftermath was picked apart and used as a bat to hit opponents with in the debates that followed.
The picture of Iida crying on the curb with his brother’s sidekicks around him is considered one of the seminal photos documenting modern Japan’s heroics. It is the kind of thing that is probably going to end up in a textbook down the line.
Iida hates that photo. He hates that he had one moment of vulnerability in the aftermath when he managed to keep it together the entire rest of the event, and people still pass it around like a trading card. He had worked so, so hard not to lose it, and right when he thought it was safe to, it got posted on the internet.
When Iida sat on the curb and started crying, he was barely standing. He was injured himself. Momo had a tremendous fight that left her in terrible shape, and everyone was afraid that she was not going to make it. Izuku had just revealed, by the way, guys, This Happened, and now everyone was afraid he wasn’t going to make it. Bakugou was like two days out of the medically induced coma Uraraka put him in when this happened and apparently the doctor’s warnings that he could only be on light work was a hard requirement because he was completely non responsive for the since the fighting stopped and now everyone was afraid he wasn’t going to make it. The entire class was concussed, exhausted, and wanted their parents.
And he just really, really wanted his brother. He wanted his big brother to come in as the hero he had always admired, sit down with him, and tell him it was over. That he did good, and he could rest now. His brother’s sidekicks were the closest second available to him.
That picture made Iida feel like he had failed. He hadn’t held it together, and he hadn’t had the same strong facade as his brother always did. His anguish became another thing for the world to chew on. And that was true for all of those kids at that fight.
#pez dispenser debris#the medias never going to be easy on them#they will be righteously angry on their behalf don’t get me wrong#but the media is not going to get together and say ‘you know what? let’s respect these kids privacy. we won’t post these photos’ which is#what they wanted#like it was just bad#Mina had a breakdown in the hospital because she couldn’t get the blood out of her fur#Yagi had to hold her while she cried#kirishima called his moms sobbing because he was GAY and had a BOYFRIEND and what if they had to put his boyfriend BACK IN THE MEDICALLY#INDUCED COMA. Uraraka really struggled because she called her parents trying not to cry and was wondering if maybe she could go visit or#they could come visit her but she’s fine if they can’t she knows it’s expensive and things are tight right now. Tensei sent out an Idaten#assistant to personally arrange and pay for their travel and set them all up in a rented house for a few days so Uraraka could be close to#her friends but have her parents and he never said a word about it. Iida’s friends had taken such good care of his brother that Tensei did#what he could to take care of them.#but the kids struggled. they had a huge amount of guilt and self doubt over the calls they made in the field because maybe they could have#been better heroes. but they had been the best heroes they could have possibly been expected to be#shinsou DIDNT ask for his parents in the aftermath and just sort of sat silently in his hospital bed staring at the wall and it’s what made#Aizawa realize he couldn’t go back to the foster home again. UA took custody Shinsou still hasn’t told his classmates because he’s worried#they’d ask questions. shouto also didn’t ask for his parents and it made Aizawa Stress over why and how it fit in with his other concerns.
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