#kudou: ... why are there two

[shih-coulda-had-it]

the 5 + 1 fic where kudou and bruce pass ofa like a hot potato should be titled "you, me, and the ghost of yoichi"

[amaranthdahlia]

happy holidays everybody ! i dont have anything on theme to celebrate with, so instead have this months worth of kudoichi art :] !

[i recently got an ipad for christmas so im practicing using a stylus for the first time and also procreate :D this is one of my practice sketches]

[two types of people after the end of a month long gay situationship]

[so i have this kinda cheesy headcanon where since kudou called afo demon lord in chapter 407, what if he ....... hear me out......... calls yoichi 'angel' ...... atleast by accident]

[redraw meme from twt]

[all of these is to contribute to a rarepair poll from twitter (which btw, they won, only after a series of botting from the other side and drama lmao)]

[some miscellaneous stuff]

[below are some kdch au doodles]

[tallichi has hit the 2nd tower again]

[kudoichi fankids from an undisclosed family au about kdch being katsuki's great grandparents, which is not related to any of the family aus ive posted before (bc god am i Obsessed with designing fankids, these two arent even the only ones, theres 5 more kids that i havent drawn yet. and if ur wondering why that amount, this just to follow the ofa user count. and to also reinforce the thing where the much older generation had so many kids back then LMAO)]

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[vam1mav]

|| THEORY TIMEEE ||

|| DAMN- ||

|| Imagine Afo having almost the same goal as Endeavor at some point: Combining Quirks. ||

|| What if Afo wanted to have a quirk that didn't have the same weakness as his, he wanted to have an All For One that could steal quirks from distance, and what better way to do it than having an heir? ||

|| But to have an heir, he needed a woman with a quirk that could attract things to her, and that's where Inko comes in ||

|| Her quirk was just what Afo needed, and on top of that, she was manipulable, she was perfect for the plan, but then a problem came in to ruin everything: Hisashi Midoriya ||

|| Most likely by that time they would be married and happy, and just that, was a problem for Afo but when he realized that Hisashi worked in Koga Construction, something came to his mind. ||

|| Afo began to monitor Hisashi and learn his behaviors with people and especially with Inko, and one day, Afo summoned Hisashi to "build" something for him, and when Hisashi arrived... Afo killed him. ||

|| After getting rid of the body, Afo using the Quirk to change appearance, he changed his appearance and took on Hisashi's. (Evidence that Afo does have a Quirk like that in the photo ↓) ||

|| "Hisashi" returned home with his wife, and after a month or more time, he convinces her to have a child ||

|| And well, then Izuku was born ||

|| It is more than obvious that the plan worked, since in the manga Izuku currently shows TOO many signs of having a quirk ||

|| So the question with this theory is... What happened? Why didn't Afo steal Izuku's quirk? ||

|| And don't tell me that "Maybe his quirk was like Yoichi's and they couldn't tell it was really there" BECAUSE THEY KNEW. ||

|| In this publication we are taught some human biology, and, in short, The Doctor Gairaki, lie, THIS BALD SON OF A BITCH LIED TO INKO AND IZUKU IN THEIR FUCKING FACE. ||

|| But why? Why Afo ordered the Doctor to lie?? Why not steal the quirk and say that Izuku was quirkless??? ||

|| For this I bring two possible reasons: ||

1) Izuku's quirk CANNOT be stolen by Afo so he just compressed it and waited for Izuku to decide on his own to be a villain so he could tell him the truth later, and then make him his true successor and the Prince of Demons.

2) Afo ended up becoming fond of Izuku because his appearance and behavior is similar to that of Yoichi, but as we already know...

someone died for using their quirk for the first time.. Soooo Izuku using his quirk didn't seem like a very good idea to Afo.

|| Either option can be possible, it could even be both! (I say this because Afo HAD MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO KILL IZUKU OR INKO AND NEVER DID ANYTHING TO THEM WHEN THAT PLUM BITCH KILLED NANA'S HUSBAND AND THE WHOLE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF KUDOU-) ||

|| But well now we just have to wait to see how the Dad For One Theory will become canon ||

|| And remember! ||

|| Have hope that the theory will become reality! If Horikoshi already did something like this with Tomura/Tenko and with Dabi/Touya then the theory is not so crazy that it cannot be canonized! ||

|| Horikoshi never disappoints the fandom!! ||

✧ Credits to @gothicayomi and @zelyres for they incredible theories!✧

[newoctopus]

Another little dcmk snippet- this one kind of just snuck up on me at 1am and I had to write it down before it disappeared forever. Another character study really, I just think Ran should get a little dunking on her best friend. As a treat.

——

Ran figured it out way before he did, which was a little bit embarrassing considering his entire career. But in defense there had been no signs.

Or what few signs there were could also have been attributed to heartburn. Or Heiji having an overactive love for everyone in his life. Or just looking for any excuse to visit Tokyo even at two in the morning. Or-

Oh good god there really had been signs hadn’t there. He was never going to live this down.

Ran had been standing there presumably watching this full revelation play out on his face and now was looking unbearably smug.

He was done. Finished. This was the end of his reputation and his ability to ever lord anything over Ran ever for the rest of his life. People thought HE had a good memory, they had never seen Ran with the opportunity to tell him she told him so.

And if she told Sonoko? He was cooked. Sonoko had once created an entire group chat that she invited everyone they knew to titled “Kudou Shinichi doesn’t know how to change a tire”. The chat showcased about fifteen pictures and a twenty minute video of him trying to figure out how a fucking car jack worked in reality rather than just theory. He had grease smeared across his face. There was an inexplicable cut on his leg from the jack whacking his ankle. He said the sentence “this made so much more sense when I read about it” about six times in the video alone- a phrase multiple people in his life still quoted at him any time he didn’t know how to do mundane things due to the devastating combination of having only read about them and not considering them as important as the rate of decomposition of a body submerged entirely in seawater.

Nobody of course asked the question he considered far more important which was “Sonoko why didn’t you help your supposed good friend Shinichi out while he was slowly experiencing a mental breakdown on the hottest day of the year trying to replace the tire to your car?”

But that was neither here nor there. Add this to her repertoire? He wouldn’t survive the ridicule.

Ran was still standing there. She was used to the sometimes sixty second long silences from him as he went through seventeen different layers of mental math, so instead of looking impatient she just looked like she was waiting for the shoe to finish dropping.

“Heiji’s in love with me?”

Ran raised both eyebrows meaningfully.

“I should…probably act on that?” He hazarded and her lips twitched just a bit at the corners.

“You’re…not going to tell Sonoko about this?”

Ran actually had the gall to laugh at that, then toss him the most unsympathetic sympathetic look he’d ever seen. “Shinichi you don’t actually think she doesn’t know.”

He grimaced. Ok well that was a problem to deal with later. Hopefully much later, though in reality more likely this evening, but-

“Ok, um, well” he said, kind of faltering through it as he worked out the next steps live “I should, I should go find him. And talk to him. Probably.”

Ran smiled a real smile this time, it lifted the corner of her right eye slightly more than the corner of her left eye, an asymmetry he always found oddly comforting. “I think that would be wise.”

[myheroblogs]

Yoichi and All For One are IDENTICAL TWINS (and what it means...)

Okay, I know this acc has kinda been dead for over a year or two by now and I haven't exactly caught up with MHA, I only started reading the last 3-4 chapters, and I wasn't planning to revive this acc after being inactive for so long, but I discovered something that I CAN'T keep quiet about.

In the newest chapter, further detail on Yoichi and AFO's backstory is revealed (Yes! The chapter I've been waiting for!), and surprisingly, AFO and Yoichi are TWINS! I think very few people really thought of the concept, so it was unexpected in general.

I assumed they're fraternal twins, because while they're twins, the anime showed them having different eye colors... (Yoichi has green eyes and AFO has red eyes)

...Until I realised that isn't actually possible.

Because TTTS (twin to twin transfusion), can only occur in IDENTICAL TWINS.

In other words, yes, Yoichi and AFO aren't just twins, they're IDENTICAL TWINS. Anime may be wrong about eye colors again (like how they were for Iida's).

And while it's both unexpected and funny to think about all this (I mean, c'mon, that means Yoichi could've had the exact same face as his brother-), a lot of people may have missed the very BIG implication that this has.

Remember, identical twins share the exact same genetic makeup. After all, they are basically what should've been one person but got split into two somewhere in the early process.

But aren't y'all forgetting...

...that QUIRKS are also genetic?

If AFO and Yoichi are identical twins the entire time, with the EXACT SAME GENETICS, then that would mean that the quirks they have, would be identical as well. Because quirks are also genetic.

All For One and One For All are the SAME QUIRK by nature.

You may be wondering, "if they're the same quirk, why do they seem to function differently?" Yes, OFA can pass itself on, AFO can't, etc.

Well, while they are identical twins, they did suffer through TTTS, with Yoichi as the donor twin.

This probably messed a lot with Yoichi's development, and thus, his quirk. After all, while identical twins, are well, identical, a lot of factors can change how their genetics are expressed (some are expressed more than others). TTTS would've been a big one for AFO and Yoichi.

Notice when looking at OFA's functions (minus the stockpile), it's a significantly weaker version of AFO? AFO can just take and give through close contact with another person. For the transfer to even work for Yoichi, he has to transfer through DNA (blood, or eating hair??), and the only way it can even store quirks if said person inherited the quirk and passed it on like hot potato. I wouldn't even be surprised if Yoichi's quirk could only story a certain number of quirks.

The functions of Yoichi's original quirk got so messed up, it had to evolve into being able to pass itself on for it to even function itself. So much so that literally no one realised he had a quirk, maybe even Yoichi himself until after his death.(Im in the camp that Yoichi died passing on the quirk and it was Kudou who discovered the transfer ability and made the plan to defeat AFO)

So yeah, Bakugo was correct about OFA being the same as AFO all along. Except he was wrong about it being due to AFO creating OFA. It's actually because the original quirk holders were identical twins, meaning the quirks they have would also be identical. But things happened, which caused the quirks to work differently from each other.

EDIT: As another addition to this post, this also explains why OFA and AFO are so intricately linked, that the two users can start seeing into the other's vestige realm. To the point that when they both come into contact, it merges their vestige plains into one. Or perhaps, it's actually two quirks temporarily merging into one.

Since identical twins are basically one split into two, then two identical quirks having contact with each other is the same as two merging back into one again.

[codenamesazanka]

I'm thinking. I'm thinking. it would be cool if all of my dislike and criticism of Deku's actions in this final war arc (and maybe before) was actually supposed to be the intended feeling. That he was supposed to be read as an arrogant little shit with no plan and failed at saving Shigaraki all along. Saving Shigaraki was his ego talking - him wanting to save that Crying Child, because it makes him feel good to be a Hero... in the easiest way possible. He pried open Shigaraki's lid with no regard for how questionable such an act is. He never understood Shigaraki at all.

Deku has the potential to be a great hero. When Yoichi and Kudou talked about his great qualities, it was because they can sense the seed of it at his heart. But it hadn't been cultivated. He does have a drive to save, but it was too early to call it that. He does believe everyone has the same heart, but he hasn't actually come to that conclusion himself. That's why they needed to speak about his own feelings for him. He's 16 years old and thrown into a war. How can anyone have proper development and meta-cognition in such a scenario?

I'm thinking. It was Stain who spared Shigaraki and told him he sensed the seed of a warped conviction inside of him, when all readers saw at the time was an erratic manchild. But Stain was right. Shigaraki's conviction grew and developed and became such a noble desire, but 'twisted' - A Hero, but for the Villains.

Deku just had the high of his life. What if he's about to enter the lowest? He failed to save someone. Society is getting rebuilt and where it goes from now on is absolutely crucial. He's "quirkless" again - that personality is gone so who is he now?

I'm thinking. There's a reason why his agreement with Overhaul hasn't been resolved yet. I'm thinking Compress and his vigilante ancestor's dream of reform can't be just ditched like that. I'm thinking how Deku can fail so incredibly at not realizing why Shigaraki stayed the leader of the League all through the end, and how Shigaraki tells him 'ganbare'.

I'm thinking about Shigaraki, and how he's a fair guy. But he's a Villain. He sensed Deku's intention, understood just how sincere it was, and can respect that. And the guy did just helped heal his childhood trauma. And thus, he's holding Deku responsible for making sure his destruction is permanent, and leaves with a semi-sardonic 'do your best'. I think that's actually just like him.

I'm thinking about Uraraka and Shouto getting two sad looking panels in this semi-celebratory chapter where All Might calls Bakugou and Deku the greatest Heroes. They were the two who actually considered the suffering their Villain went through. They acknowledged the whole of their Villain, their agency and desires, and they supposedly saved them. But there's no celebration for them. Maybe it's because they've seen the truth and can't be unaffected.

I'm thinking about Spinner, who saved Deku from a teammate at the camp raid because he believed in Stain who believed in Deku to be a true Hero. And then Spinner became Shigaraki's most devoted friend and Shigaraki left a message to him, via Deku.

I'm thinking maybe Horikoshi got out all the battle shonen stuff they wanted out of him and now he can do his own thing. He sucks at fight scenes and great at character writing and darker material.

The issue to this thinking is that this hope is sooooo dangerous. I had a similar thought that Endeavor, after the Touya reveal, was going to get some brutal atonement. I thought post-Jaku would be a really cool chance to examine the issues of Hero Society, and that Tartarus being recognized as a human-rights violations would end up somewhere. I loved what I felt was the subtly realistic built-up of the Heteromorph arc, and I still love it, but then it ended up the way it did. I thought AFO's tragic backstory getting revealed could be awesome. I've clowned myself again and again. I guess this is the latest clowning.

And none of this actually saves Shigaraki or brings him back. Rather, his death and last words is pretty much required for this brutal realization and haunting on Deku and the story.

Worse, this all has the potential to make me think Deku is interesting. What am I doing to myself. 🤡

[stillness-in-green]

Hey, I was wondering. Did you also find it weird that the first time Yoichi talked to Deku he didn't properly introduced himself and jumped right into his backstory? He didn't even tell his own name. Not only that, but after finishing his backstory he took Midoriya's hand into his own. After he just talked to the kid for the first time. What makes it weirder is that, as stated, he didn't even introduce himself first.

Not—particularly?  Okay, so like, I love me a Creepy OFA and a Yoichi with some dark spots, as I’ll discuss below the cut, but my thoughts tend to go in different directions than this.  Forgive me if I’m misreading you based on my experience with fandom parlance, but your usage of “weird” here comes across to me as implying suggestive, even scandalous, motivations from Yoichi, a kind of sensationalistic Stranger Danger, and that’s just not a read I ever took from the scene in question.

Though Yoichi may not have known this, Deku didn’t need to be talked through who exactly he was seeing.  He figured out who Yoichi was within seconds of the dream starting, between already having been told the story of OFA’s origin with the two brothers, recognizing All For One’s voice, and AFO and Yoichi addressing each other as Brother.    

Yoichi said at the end that he wanted to show Deku more, but Deku was only at 20%.  Deku’s low integration with the power limited how much and how long he could interact with the vestiges—that limitation came back up in Banjo’s first appearance and was still in effect until Vestige!AFO “forcibly drew [the vestiges] out” during the war.  With the OFA vestiges stated to be far more latent and vague prior to Deku, the dream encounter was probably the first time Yoichi ever managed to directly address one of the bearers!  If that connection was still patchy and Yoichi didn’t have a lot of access to Deku’s mind yet, he might not even have known that Deku had already been told the story of OFA’s origin.     Presumably, then, Yoichi was trying to get as much across as he could in as little time as possible—hence leading with a version of the backstory that quickly communicated who he and AFO are, why AFO is a bad dude that Yoichi is against, and how One For All was first created.  He just didn’t have time for more details than that, and every second he wasted on introductions would cut into other things he could be showing Deku instead.    

I don’t think he shows untoward initiative in taking Deku’s hand.  Deku was already reaching out—indeed, he was reaching out for Yoichi, albeit the Yoichi of the past.  Deku also doesn’t drop his hand when the dream fades and Vestige!Yoichi staggers out of the dark, which he easily could have if he were feeling wary.  Instead, his hand is still extended when Yoichi reaches back for it, telling Deku both to be careful and not to be afraid.  I think the touch is intended to be reassuring.

No, it’s not how you’d want to behave with a stranger in real life, but the mindscape isn’t a real-life space and Yoichi isn’t some rando on the street.  He’s the driving voice of One For All, the fateful power entrusted to Deku, and a man who spent nearly his entire life under AFO’s thumb.  Given those factors, I don’t read Yoichi as being particularly suspicious there, or hold it against him that he gets right to business.

None of that is to say, though, that there’s nothing sketchy about Yoichi!  I think you can read quite a lot into him that the canon would rather you not, and can go even farther than that if you’re willing to put your own spin on things for AUs or the like.

(Hit the jump.)

For starters, I’ve never liked the tendency of the OFA bearers to refer to each other by number rather than by name, something that starts out kinda sporadic but gets exacerbated considerably in the endgame.  It makes them feel militaristic, even self-dehumanizing, which is particularly galling when Kudou starts intoning piousness about peoples’ quirks being embodiments of their individual wills and desires.  Hey, Second, if you think AFO should be afraid of quirks because of the people behind them, maybe try using those peoples’ names.

I also desperately wish we could have had a version of the story that was willing to explore Yoichi as a hardliner making sweeping proclamations about how an oppressed minority should use their meta-abilities when he himself doesn’t have one of those meta-abilities and therefore is at very little risk of being killed by an anti-meta mob. My ideal Yoichi would hear about Stain's crusade and say, “He's going a little too far, but he's not wrong.”

Seriously, I’d love it if BNHA would acknowledge Yoichi as being legitimately, admirably far-sighted about his brother’s machinations, but also that he only has the luxury of that long-term outlook because his brother is attending to all his basic needs.  Yoichi doesn’t have to worry about food or a place to live, he’s in no physical danger with his terrifying older brother looking out for him, and he has no dependents of his own.  That’s all because his brother is keeping him locked in a vault against his will, of course; I’m not saying he should be fawning and grateful to AFO!  It’s just that he comes across as very strict and inflexible when he fails to recognize that not everyone can take for granted the sustenance, shelter and safety he is so ready to reject.

I wish the story could acknowledge it as a character flaw, that Yoichi is so sheltered and isolated that he can’t empathize with people who will make bad bargains if it means helping their loved ones, people who are living every day in fear and are desperate for a way out of that fear.  Heck, I’d like it even more if Yoichi could empathize with that (he’s got all the reason in the world to both love and fear his brother, after all, and they did grow up on the streets!), but his own unbending viewpoint leads him to assert that it’s more moral to starve to death than accept a deal with the devil, and so that’s what everyone should be willing to do.

And of course, that’s all just about Yoichi as an actual person, which the thing in OFA definitively is not, no matter how the story treats him.  During the mindscape conference post-war, he says outright that he and the other ghosts within One For All are, with the sole exception of All Might, just quirk vestiges, not real souls.  Every day, I wish for a version of BNHA that was willing to take that distinction seriously!  I’ve got tons of thoughts on how OFA could have been made creepier and more of a challenge for Deku to overcome simply by treating it as a power instead of a person, a power with its own dictates and drives, a “will” detached from a conscience or true self-awareness.

As a bonus, this would also have let the endgame have its cake and eat it too with Demon Lord AFO.  Allow the real man nuance and affection for people, a motivation for his megalomania that goes beyond “Because that’s what my favorite comic book character did,” maybe even (how shocking!) a willingness to entrust his fortunes to his chosen heir.  Save the cartoon villainy for the quirk, which manifests with AFO’s face and mannerisms but is really just a mindless drive to consume, no more sapient than an AFO-themed chatbot.

That’s what I’d have liked All For One and One For All to boil down to, really:  one a quirk that exists to devour and the other a quirk that exists to destroy the devourer.  And somewhere in all of that, the Deku who wants to use One For All to save and the Shigaraki who wants to use All For One to destroy have to center and find themselves.

(Ahem.)

That’s my oversharey thoughts on Creepy OFA and Yoichi as an actual human being with objectionable traits and uncomfortable belief structures.  But canonically?

I suppose Yoichi and the others in OFA being hardline anti-AFO militants—which they sort of are and sort of aren't, because their writing lacks consistency—could feed into a willingness to come on stronger to Deku than is entirely kosher. I wouldn’t call that behavior “weird,” though; I’d call it “urgent,” or possibly “anxious.” If I wanted to argue that Yoichi willfully chose a narrative that would discourage sympathy for AFO, maybe I’d throw in some words like “peremptory” or “dissuasive of asking inconvenient questions,” but even those suggest a level of calculated, dogmatic malice towards AFO that I just don't read Yoichi exercising there. His focus is on explaining the origin of One For All, not demonizing AFO—he could surely dig up much worse memories, if that were the aim! If anything, the memories he chose gave more room for a nuanced AFO than the full story did!

Whatever I think of Yoichi's rhetoric, in any case, he certainly didn’t come off to me as some kind of closet pervert or underhanded groomer because he took the hand Deku had already extended towards him in a gesture of comfort and solidarity.

   

Apologies again if that's not what you meant in calling him weird, but please understand that these days that is the context I most frequently see people using “weird” to not-so-subtly imply.

[anime-fan-05]

Me again! I hope you are doing a great day today, I will like to request something again for ‘My Happy Marriage’ I would like the same people ( Arata Usuba, Kiyoka Kudou, Kouji Tatsuishi, Kazushi Tatsuishi and male Miyo ) from my last request, in which when they confess their feelings for the reader ( the same reader like last time. Sweet, shy, awkward with bad communication skills) and the reader would say yes. Also can you write how dating them would be?! Thank you a lot for the last request and also for this one too! Hope you have a great day! :)

Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon ~With a sweet, shy and awkward reader who has difficulty communicating~

Manga/anime: Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon

Warnings: nothing

S. Miyo

Miyo confessed without speaking, and so you did to accept the confession: after he kissed your wrist, you smiled sweetly at him and gave him a delicate kiss on the cheek; he had never blushed as much as he did that day

Your relationship in one word? Adorable: the people who see you together on the street during those few dates you two can indulge in always compliment you on the beautiful couple you make, even years after your engagement you'll be shy and embarrassed by any form of affection, your way of conversing without speaking is adorable...

Miyo's favorite activity with you is sitting next to you and enjoying your company: he could actually spend a day doing that

Miyo's first love language is certainly acts of service: he isn't good with words, he has no money with which he can buy you gifts, unfortunately he can't dedicate much time to you and he's too embarrassed to give you physical affection, so, when you two decided to be together, he decided he would do everything to be useful to you

Neither you nor Miyo use nicknames: you're both too shy. Typically you two use your names with the suffix -san, and he'll blush and not know how to react if you call him without the suffix

K. Kiyoka

After Kiyoka's sweet confession speech, you blushed heavily and remained silent for a few seconds; then, you approached and hugged him, hiding your face in his chest to prevent him from seeing your blush, and whispered: "Kudou-san, I… I want... to be... with you... and... I'll try to talk to you more..."

As your boyfriend, Kiyoka always tries to get you to talk more and to open up more to him. The first step was convincing you not to call him by his last name; after days, he managed to convince you to use his name, and the first time you did it was also the first time you saw him blush (so much he had to cover his face with the sleeve of his kimono)

Your typical dates are at home: since he comes home exhausted from work, Kiyoka loves to have dinner with you and then lie in bed and wrap his arms around you

I think Kiyoka's first love language is quality time: he's very busy with his work and doesn't have much time to dedicate to you, so he does everything he can to make the few moments you spend together unforgettable

Kiyoka generally calls you by your name, but in front of others he often calls you "tsuma" (wife) and his response when you asked him why he had called you that was: "We're getting married soon anyway, so it's better for others to know you're already engaged."

T. Kouji

After Kouji's confession, you both blushed furiously and were silent for a few minutes, until you gathered the courage and said your answer: "Kouji-san, i-if you're okay with... b-being together with a-a... person... like me... I... I accept... your feelings because... I love... you a lot... too..."

Since he has been your boyfriend, Kouji has become even more kind and understanding towards you: if you don't want to talk, he doesn't force you, if you feel embarrassed about something in front of others, he does everything to divert attention from you, even going so far as to make himself ridiculous, if you stumble due to your clumsiness, he always catches you...

Kouji's favorite dates are the rare walks you two take together; he likes them so much because he's happy you decide to go out with him despite your shyness

I think Kouji's first love language is acts of service: he does everything he can to make you happy and wants to be helpful to you in every way, for example helping you with housework (he doesn't care if someone makes fun of him because he's doing activities not suitable for men of those times)

Kouji's typical nicknames are quite traditional: he usually calls you "dear", "love" or "darling"

T. Kazushi

After confessing to you, Kazushi wasn't embarrassed at all, you were the one flushed and speechless; due to your embarrassment, you ran away, but the next day you returned to him, responding to his confession: "Kazushi-san, I... I love you too..."

Even as your boyfriend, Kazushi continues to tease you in search of your reaction: he gives you nicknames that embarrass you, a lot of physical affection, which always makes you blush... Once he even discreetly tripped you and then caught you when you fell ("We certainly don't want to ruin your beautiful face...")!

There's no date Kazushi prefers more: for him it's enough to be with you, since he's happy you're overcoming your shyness by being with him

I think Kazushi's first love language is physical touch: he loves a lot to hug, cuddle and kiss you, especially because he loves seeing your red and embarrassed face and you trying not to faint because of his attentions

Kazushi's favorite nickname to use for you is "tsuma": he mostly uses it to embarrass you, and he calls you that with a sly smile on his face; however, if you called him "otto" (husband), he would widen his eyes and blush slightly

U. Arata

After you both confessed, you were inexplicably calm, since you had freed yourself from your feelings, but Arata was much more embarrassed than you: it took all his self-control not to become the equivalent of a walking tomato

Arata takes his role and task as your boyfriend very seriously: for him, he must protect you, make you happy and prevent you from being sad, and to do this he must make you talk to him more. In fact, he always tries to give you stimuli to make you talk more and overcome your shyness

Arata is an individual who prefers to spend his time with you at home, since his family prefers to stay hidden. He doesn't care what you do, but he's happy if you talk to him, even for a little while, because you show a sort of trust in him

Arata's first love language is certainly words of affirmation: with his sweet voice, he compliments you every time you show more confidence or improve in your approach towards others; even his reproaches are sweet and full of compliments, which he tells you unconsciously

Before he was your boyfriend, Arata only called you by your first name, but then he started calling you mostly "my dear", because it's a nickname that's comfortable for him to use and not too embarrassing for you to listen

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[fractiflos]

Incorrect Quotes #2

Yoichi: Kudou annoyed me today so I told him that I can’t wait to see what he has planned for our special day tomorrow.

Bruce: There is nothing special about tomorrow.

Yoichi: But there is something special about watching the color leave his face as panic takes over

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Yoichi: Can you please just apologize to Bruce?

Kudou: Fine, but I have to warn you that this may make me a nicer, better person and that is not who you feel in love with

-

Bruce and Kudou flirting with each other yet again

Yoichi: And you two are sure you're not dating?

Bruce: 100%.

Kudou: Of course not! Why would you think that?

Yoichi: I wonder why that possibility would even cross my mind, Kudou. I fucking wonder.

[pikahlua]

So many plotpoints I just don't understand in this arc. Why have bkg die? Why have him fight afo? Why have izuku lose his arms? What purpose has any of it served???? At all???????

Todorki and ochakos fights were handled so well and streamlined and benefited their characters and arcs but bkgs and dekus have been a mess all bcus hori is a coward who won't just let them fight together bcus ig save to win and win to save meant nothing at all

Why have bkg die?

I think it's pretty clear from the way that whole thing was framed that the purpose of Katsuki dying was symbolic. This is a staple of Japanese drama running all the way back to kabuki. It is a trope for a main character to die to shed their mortal incarnation and come back to life as their deified form. Katsuki's death runs perfectly parallel to Tomura's from the PLW arc right down to the part where they are both responsible for their own resurrections. It's probably one of the best cases I can think of where a character's death actually did further that same character's arc without fridging them for the sake of someone else.

Why have [Katsuki] fight AFO?

Because AFO was set up as a "what if" scenario or cautionary tale for Katsuki, the other side to his "villains and heroes are two sides of the same coin" storyline. AFO in his physical form has a different character arc and story utility from AFO the quirk vestige. He provided a lot of backstory that allows us to infer the subtlety of how Katsuki is likely some sort of reincarnation of Kudou, the mechanics of which we will never need to revisit because they're unimportant. It was about karma and personal growth. It was about showcasing how Katsuki is an heir to many legacies, All Might's included.

Why have Izuku lose his arms?

Again, it's symbolic. It's been foreshadowed pretty heavily that Izuku would risk losing his arms in reaching out to save someone. This was a demonstration of his willingness to take on that risk. It also provides a moment for Eri to get in on the "everyone contributes a little bit to the fight" action all the other characters have been allowed to have. We don't even know yet what state Izuku will actually be in when this is all over, so it'd be premature to jump to any major conclusions about all of this. The story may still have a lot to say about this.

What purpose has any of it served???? At all???????

To entertain me specifically.

Todorki and ochakos fights were handled so well and streamlined and benefited their characters and arcs but bkgs and dekus have been a mess all bcus hori is a coward who won't just let them fight together bcus ig save to win and win to save meant nothing at all

Bold of you to assume you've read the final chapter in the story yet.

[dracrownian]

Did I just sit down and write a follow-up scene to that wip I shared last night?

Maybe. It's possible. Enjoy!

(takes place just after the end of the FBI serial murders, literally the same night/early morning as the previous scene.

Assume that Akai did not disguise as Okiya went he went out to shoot a grenade in midair. Because Okiya getting caught with a sniper rifle would've been a bad time, probably.)

In which Hiro gets some revenge. Kind of.

��Can I just say,” Hiro starts once it’s only himself and Akai left in the library. The rest of the FBI has gone back to wherever they’re staying – likely the hotel Rei has been staking out for the last several hours – and the Kudous and Conan-kun went to bed. Only the two of them are waiting up for Rei to arrive. “I’m really glad you and Rei have worked things out. You know, despite how messy things got between you two years ago. And the part where you faked your death and didn’t tell him.”

Akai peers at him, brow furrowed. “Thank you?”

With what he hopes is a convincingly friendly smile, Hiro adds, “I just hope it isn’t too awkward for you to stay here tonight, what with Okiya-san living here and all.”

Akai’s expression goes from slightly baffled to very concerned in a matter of seconds. Hiro pretends he doesn’t notice.

“I was so worried about him. He was inconsolable at first, when he heard you’d died; I wasn’t sure he’d ever recover from that. And then he comes to me one day and tells me thinks you’re still alive, and I thought he’d finally cracked from all the pressure and the grief. I thought you were just another person added to the long list of people he loved who died too soon, and it was getting to him.

“So, imagine my surprise when he starts dating Okiya-san. Seemed like just what he needed: a nice, normal man who gave him some kind of escape from his work, even if he could never be himself fully. It’s not like I expect them to be a love for the ages or anything – Rei will need someone he doesn’t have to hide himself from – but I’m grateful that he’s had a distraction for now, at least. Try not to cause any trouble, alright?”

“I’ll… do my best?” Akai replies haltingly, like he’s weighing his response very carefully. Good.

Rei steps into the library before Hiro can continue – which is a shame, really, because he was just about to wax poetic about how he hopes Akai and Rei can still be friends after all this. Really make Akai squirm.

Rei takes one look between them, notes the tension in the air, and narrows his eyes at Hiro. “What’s going on?”

“Nothing at all,” Hiro lies with a smile. “I was just telling Akai how much I like your new boyfriend, and how perfect I think the two of you are together.”

“First of all,” Rei begins, tone vaguely annoyed. But Hiro can manage Rei’s annoyance. “Okiya is not my boyfriend-”

“He’ll be so disappointed to hear the news of your break-up.”

Rei gives him a withering glare in return, but continues as if he hadn’t been interrupted. “Second, you don’t like him. You told me that there’s something weird about him and that he gives you bad vibes.”

“Did I say that?” Hiro questions, putting on a faux-innocent voice. “That doesn’t sound like me.”

The face Rei pulls tells Hiro he’s not buying it, and, to be fair, he shouldn’t, because Hiro did, in fact, say those things. And he was right about Okiya, at any rate.

“None of this matters anyway,” Rei says, “because Okiya is Akai.”

Hiro raises a hand to his mouth, pretending to muffle his obviously fake gasp of surprise. “You don’t say? Well, this is embarrassing.”

“You… already figured that out, didn’t you?” Rei asks, resigned to accept whatever he thinks Hiro’s up to.

Hiro grins at him in return, dropping all pretense. “The minute I saw Akai, yes. It explained a lot – a bland grad student never seemed like your type anyway.”

“We’re not-” Rei cuts himself off, wisely choosing not to argue that point again. “So, if you already knew, then why talk to Akai about Okiya?”

“I think that that’s between myself and Akai,” Hiro answers with a shrug.

“Message received, Morofushi-kun,” Akai says, meeting his gaze only briefly before returning his attention to Rei. “It won’t happen again.”

Rei, displeased with being left out of the loop, huffs in exasperation. “What does that even mean?”

“It means that Akai and I have reached an understanding, and that’s all you need to know.”

[kudoichiz]

kudoichi.

Kudoichi are an absolutely beautiful and amazing yet tragic pairing, I can't stress enough just how much they mean to me and how they quite literally changed the way I think - uh so ig have my attempt at my takes/reasons as to why I ship them.

Kudo and Yoichi to me embody genuine love, care and compassion which is something I don't see represented much in various media or even in real life - or at the very least I just doesn't resonate with me. Their story as I mentioned is so beautifully tragic I just feel the need to sob violently whenever I think about them. Kudou reaching his hand out to yoichi, a stranger, someone related to all for one - his mortal enemy gives us so much information about him as a character and kudoichi as a pairing.

Kudou, a resistance leader who had the intentions to kill or at the very least harm whoever/whatever was in the vault {him having his gauntlet ready, his narrowed gaze and his initial threatening domineer, etc.} stopped the moment he saw yoichi, his gaze quite literally softened and his first instinctual reaction was to go and help him, to reach out to him. It's not a stretch to say that Kudou was a kind person/was willing to help people out, that is after all a characteristic that I believe leaders possess/should have. But given the circumstances - a war, in the enemies base, unknown person, Kudou should have been at least a little weary of Yoichi. But he wasn't. Kudou let his guards down the moment he saw yoichi, which to me is indicative that he trusted yoichi, trusted that he was a good person from looking at him. Kudou reaching out to yoichi is so significant to their relationship also, if he didn't reach out ofa wouldn't have been born . Not only that but it was a moment that gave yoichi hope - he calls Kudou his hero, he views him as a saviour. From this one singular interaction kudou already trusts yoichi, and yoichi sees him as a hero - if this is what can be derived from one interaction what about the two months they spent together?Horikoshi didn't give us much on what went on during those two months but Kudou and Yoichi were clearly close to each other: the conversation they had about all for one, Kudou crying when yoichi died..

Now I want to talk a bit more about moments in the manga because most of my reasons as to why I ship them comes from the manga panels themselves and the way they're drawn and the text and not just their story.

Let's start with hands. Horikoshi himself stated that hands could express emotions just how faces do and it's so clear to me. Their hands are drawn so gently, it shows not only Kudou's domineer towards yoichi but also now caring he was. The hands are drawn to indicate that kudou didn't rush yoichi, even if they didn't have a lot of time to waste. Yoichi so slowly yet gently going to hold Kudou's hand shows this. But it also shows that he also trusts him, it shows that willingness in this moment. Kudou wanted to save yoichi but yoichi also wanted to go with Kudou.

Kudou and yoichi were actually so close to each other when you think about it. "victory meant life, and defeat meant death" it's clear that kudou was desensitized to death at least to some extent, as he views it as something almost natural to their cause, he also didn't have time to mourn any deaths. Over time a person just starts to get desensitized to it yet when yoichi died Kudou started tearing up. Yoichi meant a lot to Kudou, his tears indicate that he felt strong emotions towards him. Something I think about is Yoichi's name reveal being said by Kudou. This implies that they were close enough for him to know his name and regularly call him by it, so regularly that he's the one to eventually reveal his name, ik bones cut this out to make AFO the one to reveal yoichi's name in the anime but this just goes to show that Kudou was closer to yoichi than AFO was . Kudou was closer to him than his own family.

This is another thing I think about a lot. How Kudou views yoichi, these are from Kudou's pov/in context with Kudou. Yoichi is always drawn inconsistently and I think that's on purpose. It seems as if he's drawn prettiest whenever it's in context with Kudou implying that that's how he saw him.

Also. Kudou and yoichi blend into each other here. And their vestige colors come from the same shade, just different hues. They're eachother's half, no at this point they are one. This reminds me of "yoichi's will is now within me" and how Kudou carried ofa because of yoichi unlike the other users that had the power to defeat AFO. Kudou wanted that's sure, but he continued because it was yoichi, because of yoichi's will.

The first thing he thought of btw!! He was so close to yoichi that he could sense him, his quirk factor inside of him .

Also this panel. The implications here are that Yoichi was no longer all for one's, he became kudou's. Kudou was also referred to "the man who stole Yoichi away."

Also: Kudou becoming softer when he talked to yoichi shoes how much he cares, and how his domineer was always so gentle towards him.

This is a very scattered post ik but I have more to yap about, the ofa transfer. Yoichi didn't know about the quirk but thanks to kudou and Bruce researching it it was concluded that DNA and consent was needed to past down OFA. The transfer had to have happened mere seconds before yoichi died since he had to consent to give his power. Yoichi fully trusted a man he knew for two months to accidentally give him OFA. Such trust is hard to build over two months. Also the implications of DNA needed and the accidental transfer are crazy when you think about it. They really were close. Very close to each other.

Erm anyways idk I would have gone into more details but writing this is alr overwhelming but I can yap more if there's questions.

[shih-coulda-had-it]

I’ve lied, I actually do have some thoughts about a Redwall-esque AU. I have many thoughts. wc: ~640

//

AFO and Yoichi are albino weasels. AFO leads a gang of ne’er-do-wells, raiding Mossflower Woods and/or Salamandastron. Yoichi wants out of the gang, but given that a significant number just splintered (this is Kudou and Bruce’s rebel faction), AFO is keeping Yoichi under obsessive lock and key…

Until Kudou (a fox) and Bruce (a sea otter) lead a raid and find Yoichi. They kidnap him. Despite a rocky beginning, they come to an agreement that AFO ought to be stopped. But the rebel faction isn’t enough, and after it’s clear that AFO is rampaging in order to get Yoichi back, the first three members of OFA (they’ve rebranded the rebel faction) flee...

And encounter Hikage, a solitary wildcat. Hikage looks extremely intimidating, but he’s easily spooked. For whatever reason (Bruce threatens him), Hikage takes them to Salamandastron where Daigoro (he’s a badger. I don’t know what you were expecting) rules. Everyone looks sideways at how Hikage and Daigoro interact. If there was ever a star-crossed cross-species romance…

Daigoro, being a badger of Salamandastron, agrees to lend martial aid to OFA’s cause. But it’s not enough to simply wreck AFO’s gang/headquarters, and Yoichi’s soft heart won’t let Kudou and Bruce (and Daigoro) commit to scorched-earth tactics. Fortunately! Daigoro's hosting a little red squirrel from Redwall Abbey, En!

En can't really speak for Redwall, but he can promise to lead them to the Abbey so they can talk with... honestly, whoever's in charge over there... It's probably Nedzu. Hikage stays behind in Salamandastron because much of Redwall's population would abandon ship if a wildcat + a fox + a white-furred weasel strolled up to the door. Daigoro won't let them go alone, though.

He sends two hares with them: Nana and Sorahiko. They are, separately, fantastic at their jobs and keeping it professional and courteous. They are, together, infuriating. The sparring sessions from Salamandastron back to Redwall are the stuff of legends. This merry band is traveling through the countryside, bickering and bantering, when they stumble across a ruined home and an orphaned mouse.

They intend to entrust Toshinori to the Abbey, but Toshinori bonds with Nana and Sorahiko rapidly, and the little scrapper wants to stay with OFA. Anyways, so OFA rocks up to Redwall Abbey, and what do they get caught up in? A riddle!

Much like I am, practically none of the present members of OFA are inclined to solve riddles. Fortunately, there is an extremely precocious Dibbun who's been on the case: Izuku (he's also a mouse). Izuku, for reasons of being Baby, is not allowed back to the trip to Salamandastron, but he is integral to OFA unearthing star-metal (meteorite).

The trip back to Salamandastron is not without trouble, however. AFO's gotten word about this rebranded rebel faction, and the white weasel that leads them (Yoichi: WHY AM I BEING CALLED OUT, I LITERALLY CALL KUDOU 'LEADER'), and his gang ambushes them. They recapture Yoichi, give Kudou the scar on his face, and then... I don't know. Injuries for all, even Toshinori! Coin-flip on whether AFO kidnaps Sorahiko, too.

Everyone (save for Yoichi and probably Sorahiko) limps back to Salamandastron. Daigoro forges weapons and various pieces of armor; Hikage absolutely does not want to be involved in this final battle, but he's the most familiar with Mossflower Woods, and Daigoro sweet-talks him into a scouting mission.

Nobody wants Toshinori to go with them to the Woods. He may not be as Baby as Izuku, but he's like, Just-Graduated Baby. En volunteers to babysit at Salamandastron (he is NOT a warrior like the rest of them!!), but Hikage raises a fuss about not being one either, so Daigoro throws his paws into the air and says, "We're all going! I'll take a reserve guard from the Long Patrol, and that's it! We're all going!!"

Cue final battle.

[class1akids]

lmao because someone said dabi won, he is the true hero of the todorokis like shoto ?? what kind of win is this when it’s full of regrets

I wouldn't mix winning and being the hero - even if Hori somehow plants this idea that a true hero always wins and saves with All Might and then further muddles it with the "perfect victory" stuff, where he has to twist the story in illogical ways to achieve that rather than have the hero side earn it.

Like when Bakugou dies - Edgeshot sacrifices his life to save him - this is framed heroic, but in the end he doesn't die, just becomes a worm - because the story said that Bakugou will get a "perfect victory", not because anything Bakugou did to save Edgeshot.

Counterpoint: Kudou frees and saves Yoichi only for Yoichi to die anyways a month later and Kudo himself losing and dying when he tries to take on AFO. AFO wins - so is he the "hero" all of a sudden? Is Kudo any less heroic because both him and Yoichi are dead?

But back to Touya: I'm glad that Dabi, the villain gets to kill Endeavor, the hero - his creator. It's fitting I've pointed this out in the initial chapter reaction.

But I don't think the framing is heroism, but rather retribution / consequence that Endeavor never would have gotten from the world. Dabi's actions are motivated by revenge, rage and he doesn't care at all about how those actions affect his fellow victims or the by-standers. That's why he's not a vigilante.

What's more, the Todoroki family was on a path of healing already when he intervened. Shouto already freed himself from Endeavor's abuse and mindset and was building bridges with his siblings and mom, Rei was already on her way out of the hospital and Endeavor himself already regretted his past actions and was trying to atone. The family likely would have chosen for Endeavor to "get away with it" and move forward.

Dabi's revenge takes that choice away from them and makes sure that Endeavor is utterly destroyed in the fire his selfishness created. But Dabi's goal was to destroy more, not just Endeavor himself, but everything and everyone he held dear, including fellow victims and civilians.

Shouto's actions (assisted by Rei, Fuyumi and Natsuo's intervention also) help to stop Dabi from taking anyone else with them, when he saves the family and the civilians. But he doesn't reach Touya's heart until it's too late. Still, he's acting selflessly the whole time, trying to save everyone, without choosing who gets to live or die. He reaches for everyone, the villain of the family (Dabi), the abuser (Endeavor), the fellow victims, the civilians. To me, this is what makes Shouto's character really heroic - that he's able to continue to reach out in compassion and without judgement, even to people who really hurt him.

In the end, the two people who end up worst off are Endeavor and Touya himself. Endeavor's hero career is destroyed, Enji is in a wheelchair and Touya's body is completely destroyed as well and his future is to look every day in the eye the man for him he destroyed himself. It's really tragic. Especially because they have both moved away from their past selves: Enji already felt the weight of his sins and wants to atone and Dabi's rage is slowly washing away, his hatred is subsiding, leaving there only Touya who at heart was a good kid and wanted to be "enough" for his family.

To me, it's a really bitter ending (with not much sweet) where everyone loses. There is already so much damage in the past that the family can never be fixed into a happy family, but it is not lost completely either. The siblings will keep in touch with each other and with their mother. Enji will try to step up as a father for Touya and likely will keep ties with Fuyumi and (maybe a bit with Shouto). But unless a miracle happens, the 6 of them will never sit down and have a dinner together.

I think Shouto is still the hero - both in the sense of winning the fight and saving lives and hearts, but also in the sense that he tried to save his family with mundane acts of kindness like visiting his mom and giving his father a chance to be better.

In the end, he has more family than he had at the beginning of the story. But with the narrative focusing on Shouto's "found family" in conclusion

I guess Hori wants to express the original "emancipation" idea of Shouto's arc. That he doesn't have to be defined by his origin. Even if the family in the end is not an ideal picture, but is broken, Shouto himself can move on. He has made friends and allies and has an emotional support system in place to help him through whatever the future holds for him.

And while he's not cutting out his family like Natsuo did, he's distancing himself now. He paid his dues (not that he was obliged to - he could have walked away from the start). He's letting his parents to step up and carry most of the weight (as it should be) from now on, while he can focus on his own goals and be released from the curse of the family hero.

He will carry with himself the pain of "what-ifs" and "could-have-beens", but he faced every single member of his family, made sense of it as much as he could, tried to reach for them with an open heart.

[rhythmic-idealist]

Thinking abt the top 10 stupidest breakdowns vestiges 1-3 witnessed Hikage have

One day he got so stressed out about accidentally burning his thumb a tiny bit while stoking a fire that he cursed out every single item he owned and chucked the log that was still failing to catch fire into the river. And then two hours later was like okay, I’m normal again, and IIIIII’ve inconvenienced myself greatly

One time he put his box of matches in a pocket he forgot he had, and then spent a week thinking someone had stolen from him, why is someone out here with me why the HELL is someone out here with me why can’t I sense—

Sometimes he looks at Kudou in vestigespace and thinks “that man saw me sob myself hoarse because I had a splinter but was really tired and didn’t want to deal with it”

Daigoro “control your heart” Banjo meets his predecessor and goes okay, sure, but I don’t think you’re a very fair point of comparison, we aren’t all the picture of emotional self awareness and discipline. And somewhere deep internally Hikage feels himself going ahahahahhahahahaha

[kaishin-fic-rec]

Writing about Thieves and Fair Maidens (kaishin)

by: Theonlygamergost

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45598489/chapters/114739213

chapters: 6/6 words: 28,068

Summary:

On the Kaitou KID fan forum, a KID x reader fanfiction begins to be posted soon after Kudou Shinichi returns from his total real years in America. Becoming the hot topic for KID fans, task force and general public alike. Kaito thinks nothing of it, or well, he thinks about Shinichi a lot. Little tantei-kun was dashing, but Meitantei? Meitantei is drop-dead gorgeous. Oh, and Chi-san has a real knack for writing cliche romance stories.

Lil note:

Canon compliant, post-canon

Few weeks after the return of Kudou Shinichi, a particular Kid X reader fanfiction begins to garner attention, from Kaitou Kid fans to book critics, praising for its brilliant story and writing. Kaito becomes alarmed at certain details author-san had added for the phantom thief, and Shinichi unconsciously writes an self-insert fic.

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Rating: Teen And Up Audiences No Archive Warnings Apply

Pairings: Kudou Shinichi/Kuroba Kaito, Hakuba Saguru/Nakamori Aoko

Others: Post-Black Organization Takedown (Meitantei Conan) Pre-Relationship Getting Together Pining Mutual Pining Slow Burn Kaito is slightly horny for Shinichi The opposite is also true but subtler Jealousy Jealous Kuroba Kaito | Kaitou Kid Flashbacks Love story (literally) fan fiction It’s a fan fiction ception I write a fic about two characters where one characters writes a fan fiction for two characters For once it’s beta read! Banter Bickering Love Confessions Kaito ties a lot of people up I don't know why it wasn’t planned Apart from one time maybe two I swear it’s not a kink It’s just a convenient way to trap people!