i mean… least fave character who matters, I suppose. I think he’s an excellent character; I just am generally… unhappy with parents who ditch their kids lol. It’s not that he isn’t a great character because he is; it’s just that I have personal grumpiness towards that particular trope. I do think he did better in the end, so that’s good.
Hi I’m the anon about how Endeavor shouldn’t be forgiven and
that hero trainig schools should be stricter in choosing their students.
And here I want to mention two students at UA, Bakugo and Mineta.
Bakugo abused several kids weaker than him, who were crying and begging
for him to stop. He also continually undermines Deku and I find this
hard to be called ‘friendship’. He also shows rude behaviour and word
choices to others.. (I ran out of space again, I’ll continue on the next
ask..! Srry..
As for Mineta, spying on women’s changing room and climbing over walls
to see his fellow classmates naked is sexual harrassment. In Japanese
manga such scenes are often viewed as comedy but it’s actually a crime.
Even Kouta, a young child, told him to be a human before a hero. In
conclusion I found that there were several ppl unsuited for hero work
despite their own beliefs and appropriate power. So I was curious what
you thought about them hamliet! Sorry for the long ask..!! Thank you so
much:)
No need to be sorry! Sooo this is a complex ask! I have to answer it from multiple aspects, looking at each character, if that’s okay?
For Endeavor, I do relate. I personally find him extremely triggering as a character because of a history of abuse, and Natsuo reading him the riot act in 192 and refusing to believe or forgive him was a favorite moment for me. I will be honest and say I would prefer him not to be redeemed because IRL abusers do get their stories told much more than victims, so seeing it again is a bit like “ugh” to me. But within the story, what I want and feel doesn’t matter, and he’s clearly been set up for a redemption, so I can only hope that Horikoshi plans to make Endeavor fully realize the extent of his crimes (likely though Touya being Dabi) and quite possibly make a sacrifice to save his son–but deny him the glory in it (I think regardless it’s likely to come down to Shouto to save Touya). I’ve written quite a bit on Endeavor. Here’s a link to one such meta.
For Bakugou… he’s actually a favorite character of mine–third to Shouto and Dabi, actually. He’s not likeable and he’s a bully, but he’s well written, and he’s learning to grow. I absolutely cannot blame anyone for disliking such a character for his absolutely horrific behavior, but I think the themes and development and perspective he offers the series (check out this video if you want a short summary) are vital to the series working as a coherent narrative. I also think his foiling with Endeavor is important and I can only hope Horikoshi focuses more on that because Bakugou is not likely to be a full villain like the foiling with Daku-Shigaraki Shouto-Dabi Uraraka-Himiko and Iida-Stain. Instead he could become a hero to the public but an absolute dick to everyone around him–which he kind of is already, but he’s a child who can change and is changing, albeit slowly. The video only covers through the kidnapping, but another recent manga example is in the empathy Bakugou showed Todoroki when Todoroki alluded to being abused during the remedial exam with kindergartners. Anyways, all that to say that I like Bakugou’s narrative and think the school is doing a decent job of reining him in.
Mineta on the other hand… I can’t stand his inclusion in the story. He has nothing to offer whatsoever beyond playing off sexual harassment for laughs, and I do not understand how anyone thought he was a good idea. Like, we’re all clearly supposed to dislike him and not root for him to get a girl, but the thing is he;’s not remotely funny: he’s distasteful at best and downright offensive often. Unlike Endeavor and Bakugou, who offer something to the story in terms of themes of redemption and improvement and foiling each other (and also Shouto among others), he offers literally nothing.
I can’t really make moral judgments about how things should work in a
fictional story with BNHA’s perimeters though, since it isn’t really aiming to
offer its audience any kind of moral lesson. BNHA is solid entertainment
and some touching, sometimes beautiful, and encouraging moments, but
it’s not offering a moral challenge. If this were the real world, hells yeah, please institute some kind of ethical test, or at least be stricter. Like threatening expulsion for those who sneak out to save their friends is laughable when Mineta hasn’t been threatened with anything that I’ve seen. But I don’t know if the series is aiming towards making that argument.
As for whether Endeavor should be a hero, I totally agree, but I think Dabi is going to pretty clearly explore that within the text (fingers crossed it’s done well), and Bakugou I do think the text is condemning his behavior (could do it better, but it isn’t endorsing his bullying).
Killua tea! Chocolate chai, peppermint, and spearmint. It’s sweet and flavorful, and as someone who loves mint, it’s definitely a favorite!
Due to the continuous rain these days, I had to postpone my artworks posting several times due to taking off the modem from going on (turn off), even my own PC. It’s because the raining always come with lighting and thunder, that my workplace has its own switch shuts down due to the yesterday’s raining. When the rain starts, its better everything sensitive to the weathers being shut down.
For Inktober 2018 Challenges:
Day 27: “Thunder”
This scene is inspired by @hamliet-san’s story –”The (Mis)Adventure of Goat”. Originally it should be other characters from other fandom, but I tried making the Arima family first and it seemed suitable to draw them. Except the thunders are almost invisible…
Arima and Eto were with their small children. Eto was just giving birth to her son Shiono, at that time her hair was a little bit longer. The house was currently out of electricity due to the storm, as they carried the crying children, the couple looked at the window worriedly where thunders stroke the dark sky.
Nozomi was 2 years old at that time, thus the reason why she was crying while being held by Arima.
Lovely!!!! Eto is just like “peak writing weather… but kids.” She can’t wait to tell them spooky stories during thunderstorms when they’re older.
Endeavor’s goal was not actually to have a child with two quirks necessarily! It was to have a child who could surpass All Might–hence the evaluation based on quirks. Touya presumably had a quirk that potentially could, but the side effects, so to speak, of said quirk prevented that from being possible. Shouto, on the other hand, had powerful fire and powerful ice without the side effects… hence the perfection. Oh, Endeavor.
Yeah, I agree. I am curious as to how and when the Todoroki family will realize though, because I feel like it should be before a confrontation between Shouto and Touya and/or between Endeavor and Touya. We’ve already had the initial confrontation there, so next time they meet the circumstances should be different (ie Endeavor is likely imo to know who Touya is). Perhaps Hawks will be instrumental in that.
Chapters: 9/12 Fandom: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Ash Lynx/Okumura Eiji, Sing Soo-Ling & Lee Yut-Lung, Lee Yut-Lung & Shorter Wong Characters: Lee Yut-Lung, Sing Soo-Ling, Shorter Wong, Ash Lynx, Okumura Eiji Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Redemption, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence Summary:
Yut Lung grew up as a pawn in the Lee family. Determined to topple his brothers and grasp a new role for himself, he is accustomed to playing every person he knows. When he is warned about Golzine’s intentions to inject Shorter with Banana Fish, he chooses to free Shorter instead, and then finds himself in a new game, one he may not know the rules to.
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