Mr Compressor.đđ§Ą
this is certainly not a Horikoshi, but I tried to repeat the quick sketch of Mr. Compressor..
soulmate au where your mark is your soulmate's name, but as they write it. it changes as you grow older; goes from shaky hirigana to kanji, the characters flowing like ink across your skin. it settles eventually, with only tiny deviations, and you pay it little mind.
until it goes from todoroki touya to dabi.
just learned that thereâs a âbest chapterâ poll
the only correct answer is chapter 290, hope this helps!
In case it wasn't obvious by now, I was very invested in the Todoroki family storiline and one of the things that sadden me the most about chap 430 is this image.
We've Enji, or maybe I should say Endeavor, Rei is pushing his wheelchair as he goes somewhere, we don't know where, some want to think he's visiting Touya but it's not said and, around him there are 3 men and a woman.
It's not his children, it's his sidekicks and Hawks.
The final chapter doesn't touch what happened to Natsuo and Fuyumi, we've to assume Fuyumi is happy with her work and Natsuo with his marriage.
We don't know if Touya is still alive but, anyway, he's going to die. Even if we assume he died happily he had said smiling was why they lived their lives. He could keep on living out of anger and grudge but not out of smiles and happiness?
Fuyumi has fought for all those years so hard because she wanted back her family and she basically get nothing, not her old family as Natsuo leaves and Touya dies and it's not even hinted she has a new one as it was Natsuo the one who got a girlfriend as soon as he entered university and marries her basically a year and a half later.
Natsuo is just rushedly married to this character of which we don't even know the name. We don't know if, in the end he visited Touya again or not, we don't know if he ever managed to overcome all the anger and pain he felt inside for how his father ruined the family.
Shouto became a Hero, but his mother is not with him to support him but she is with his father. We don't see his siblings around him, cheering for him. We don't know which effect had on him to reconnect with Touya only to lose him. We're only told he became a good Hero so people don't call him anymore Endeavor's son, forgetting people also looked poorly at him for being Dabi's brother. How did he overcome that? Evidently it somehow disappeared as all the first years are already all his fans and even Dai said all the kids wanted to be like Shouto... but, at the end of the day, we aren't shown Shouto having a good moment with his family, his good moments come from being a Hero and being with his friends.
Even if we assume that, despite having to marry Enji out of duty to help her family, Rei had fallen in love with Enji while their family was having a good time before he turned abusive, and now that she had forgiven him and he stopped being abusive she's glad to be back with him... skipping this was very vaguely constructed she lost 10 years in a hospital and we can't see her with her children. She's supposed to be happy being with him with one of her children dead and one of her children keeping away from his father because just being in the same room with him makes him feel bad.
Mind you, I'm not saying Natsuo should forgive Enji or force himself to be with Enji or whatever but having a person that's related to you that makes you to feel bad just by being in the same room with you so that you've to avoid that person, is not something that's good. If Enji and Rei live together and Natsuo wants to visit his mother he has to make sure to do it when his father is somewhere else. In the past Rei was split between taking care of Shouto, who couldn't be with her other children, and taking care of Touya, Fuyumi and Natsuo, with the result Natsuo felt neglected because he was very small when all this happened and needed his mother... but likely she ended up neglecting Fuyumi and Touya too because you can't be in two places at the same time. Now, instead than having to take turns with Shouto, Natsuo have to take turns with Enji.
Ad for Enji... all his atonement for what? He doesn't manage to rebuild a relation with his children, apparently his sidekicks and Hawks have replaced them, they're conveniently of the right number. His children would have gotten where they were even without his atonement because all we hear is about others helping them, he only get the cool sentence, we see nothing of his struggle. But this is also supposed to be a happy ending for him. Who care if he doesn't have his kids? He has his sidekicks and Hawks his newfound family he would have had anyway had he focused on his work only.
The story tried it's hardest to make me think he cared about his family but then I'm supposed to think he's happy not having any of the sort apart for Rei and a new found family.
Horikishi had already established in the previous chapter Enji would have his sidekicks and Hawks' support, I didn't need a reminder of that.
I needed to see THIS image at the end...
...maybe including Natsuo's girlfriend as he could have introduced her to the rest of the family... or him holding his firstborn and letting Rei see her grandchild.
I needed to see Fuyumi finding someone with whom to form a family since she can't have her own back and she wished so badly for it.
I needed to have this being shown to me...
...or at least to see Touya out of that contraption as he died in peace, a smile on his lips since happiness somehow couldn't save him but grudge could.
I needed to be told something that Enji did that HELPED his kids, that made them be better. Not something vague, I need something concrete. Even if they would never be with him, since he's supposed to atone to them, I need him to make something more than just give them a new house and pay for the bills because he'd been paying bills through all his life so that's not new.
I would have been fine with him watching them smile from a distance or hearing from Rei how they were doing and smiling.
Mind you, I'm willing to believe in Horikoshi's mind Enji now is a changed man and very sorry for what he did and loves his family and yadda yadda but there's a reason why we say 'show, don't tell' and so far Horikoshi is more interested in telling than showing.
I get that in his mind Enji is a character more important than Rei, Fuyumi, Natsuo or even Touya, I would have been fine with all that I've mentioned being shown through his perspective because he cares about his family and so he's happy if they're happy.
If, in all that talking Midoriya does about reaching out to others, what he wanted to point out was Enji had continued to reach out to help his family even if they had cut him out of their lives.
But no, the good part is that his sidekicks and Hawks are reaching out for him. Okay, I can take this as the test trying again to point out Enji will never be a Hero, in the end he's not the one reaching out but the one others have to reach out to help but, again, it was established in the past chapter so I didn't need a reminder and it kind of steps all over his arc of trying to reach out for his family.
In the end the most he does is to just take it when they want to yell at him and let them live the live they want... I do think it's a great thing if an abuser were to realize what he had done to his victims and try to atone. It's kind of a miracle turned true... but there's just too little of it in this story.
Maybe I'm missing some deep cultural context, maybe Enji is doing something AMAZING for his family that Horikoshi thought he didn't need to show because it's obvious to Japanese readers but... but I wish he had shown it. Instead the moment Enji finally stop being a Hero and could do something for his family, the manga ends with his family disregating but I'm supposed to see it as a happy ending.
I prefer it had just been called a sad ending. Bad things happen, I can stomach them but honestly "Ano Hana" makes a much better work at portraying grief and atonement and the same goes for "Koe no katachi".
Horikoshi knew he was selling this manga also to foreign readers. I'm not saying he should have made his manga thinking to them but, if this atonement arc was so important, maybe he should have made it more understandable for us as well. This makes the diffference between a national mangaka and an international one.
HI I READ THE REBLOGS AND I WANTED TO JOIN THE OC YAP
if the condition for making the portal is visualizing the place,,, our oc could have a kind of smart watch or a tiny tablet attached to their arm
and itâs like connected to satellites so that they can look the places they want to go to (kind of like a personal google earth yk? đ)
and also maybe they could use it to track (with microchips they could attach to the people they want to track (kind of like momo did with the nomu at the training camp)
(also you can pair it with a pair of cool glasses)
Do u guys have any costume design/support item ideas for someone with a portal quirkđđ pls
Doodling my wife, a.k.a. FemKuna fanart study
slowly, surely â ft. todoroki touya
touyaâs body heals one day at a time, slowly but surely. he and his brother bridge the gap along the way, slowly but surely. you like to think maybe, thereâs a good chance heâll live a life outside of just dying now
before you read: fem reader ; chapter 426 spoilers ; established relationship ; post war ; touya lives and his body heals idc ; todoroki family dynamics ; fluff and healing
You never thought youâd meet his family.
Touyaâs family files in every day through the door for weeks into his room after the war. Youâre introduced to the people you never thought youâd formally meet in an unlikely circumstance.
Itâs difficult at first. Touya can only speak for a few minutes at a time every day. You have to share the sparse, little time you have to see him with the rest of his family. But you suppose itâs not so bad. You get a glimpse of the kind of brother Touya could have been, a side him you never got to see.
Heâs teasingâmakes a well-timed slightly inappropriate joke at Natsuoâs expense regarding his wedding. The blush on his brotherâs face and the chastising click of his motherâs teeth makes you smile a bit. He pretends to be bored when Fuyumi rambles about her new students, but he listens attentivelyâyou know because it surprises you all when he brings up a student she mentions in passing weeks ago. Heâs a bad influence, tooâhis suggestions for Shouto to cheat earn a wilting glare from you that makes him concede begrudgingly.
Despite it all, you like to think Touya could have been a good brother. Can be a good brother. You donât lose hope that maybe, amongst all the rubble, a small, fertile patch of soil exists.
It takes weeks. Months. Close to a year, even. One healer turns to two, two turns to three, and eventually, thereâs a handful of the best healing quirks slowly trying to fix his charred, weakened body. Your eyes fill with tears the first time you see the swell of his round cheek restored, earning a huff and roll of his eyes.
Always so damn emotional, he grunts. He closes his eyes and relishes in your touch when you stroke the skin with your finger, though.
His skin is never quite the same. That much, you expected. Itâs better than it ever was before, though. No more staples holding him together. No more deep purple and rubbery skin. Itâs textured and discolored, but not nearly as rough as it used to be. You donât care what he looks like, of course. As long as heâs with you and breathing youâre contentâbut he seems happy with the results.
He starts to feel whole again.
His family never stops visiting, either. (Except for his fatherâyou promptly tell him his presence is no longer required one day. He nods like he understands. As though he can understand. It enrages you, but he offers you a quiet thank you before he leaves. Thank you for taking care of my son. You hate him more after thatâfor being appreciative that you now do what he couldnât).
He gets moved to a proper hospital bed eventually. There are still tubes and needles hooked up to himâheâs not too happy about that. It makes sharing a bed with you hard. But he settles for letting you rest your head against his thigh, hand clutching his.
Itâs as good as it gets for now.
Slowly, surely, Touya for the first time, doesnât head for death. Slowly, surely, for the first time, he starts to heal.
ââââ
âIs Touya-nii sleeping?â
âNo,â you smile, turning to Shouto as he walks up to you, âheâs in there. Bored, actually.â
Shouto bends down, grabs the snack that drops from the vending machine for you and hands it to you.
Touya is right. He was raised to be a kind boy.
âI brought soba,â he says quietly. âI heard he can have solid food now.â
âHeâll appreciate it,â you beam.
Shouto lingers. You smile gently and take the hint, joining him and walking alongside the boy and make your way to Touyaâs room.
It hits you then, all at once. Shouto has never spent a moment with his brother alone. Not properly, at leastânot without trying to avoid being burned to death and not without having an unconscious, recovering Touya laid up in bed rest.
Soon, you hope, they can share a meal together without you in the room to ease the awkward tension.
âTouya,â you call, walking in, âyou have a surprise!â
âWe can finally use this bed for better things?â He asks, voice a raspy grunt.
You pinch the bridge of your nose, sighing in exasperation and making him snicker as he notices Shouto follow you through the door.
âNo,â you say tiredly.
âBummer,â he grins. Itâs cheeky and cute enough that you donât scold him further.
âIs the bed uncomfortable? Iâm sure we can get a better one,â Shouto offers.
Touya lets out an amused snort, and you let your shoulders fall in reliefâat least Shoutoâs cluelessness at times makes things less painful when Touya remains his shameless self.
Thereâs comfort in it, though. You suppose you donât mind it as much if his personality is still in tact.
âSo whatâs my surprise, doll. Itâs not nice to keep the sickly waiting, yâknow.â
âWhy donât you ask Shouto?â You roll your eyes.
Touya looks over at his younger brother. So much has changed in the last few months, you thinkâTouya looks happy to see his brother. Itâs a big step up from murder, for sure.
âYou shouldnât have, little brother,â he grins, âwhat is it? Our fatherâs death certificate?â
âOh, Touya,â you sigh, shaking your head, âyou never change.â
âI brought soba,â Shouto holds up the bag in his hand, âI thought we could share.â
The smooth grin on Touyaâs lips falter. Something flashes in his eyesâsomething close to regret. Maybe even sadness. Itâs gone as quickly as it comes, replaced with practiced amusement as he hums.
âGreat,â he drawls, âhospital food sucks, you know.â
Touya has more in common with his brother than he doesnât. It takes him good near two decades to realize as much. Maybe, if he had the opportunity to realize Shouto was his brother who liked soba just like him and not the son that replaced him in his fatherâs fucked up goals, he could have lived just to live instead of just to die.
But heâs living now, he supposes. Breathing and talking and seeingâand as of more recently, eating. (Real food, at least).
Thereâs still a chance to eat soba with Shouto, though. Maybe Shouto hates fish just like him tooâmaybe he doesnât. Maybe, in another life, he could pass his fish over to his younger brother at the dinner table when their mother isnât looking.
âIâll bring some more often then,â Shouto offers.
You smile as Touyaâs eyes soften. The glimmer with a little bit of excitement, even. A childlike sort of glee he never got to have.
âYeah,â he nods, âyou should. Donât expect me to pay you back, though. Your older brotherâs dead broke.â
âOkay,â Shouto smiles.
You settle in the corner, letting the younger of the two take the chair beside the bed. Shouto pulls out chopsticksâTouya huffs over getting the brown ones instead of the black.
Shouto trades without a complaint.
You hear Touya murmur, âdid you see the news lately?â
âAbout what?â
âAbout Endeavor, what else?â
âNo,â Shouto swallows, âI had exams.â
âI told you, itâs easy to cheat if youââ
âTouya,â you hiss, making the latter curl his lips into a slight pout.
âStudy hard, Shouto,â Touya grunts, rolling his eyes. âHit those books, I guess.â
âââââ bonus âââââ
âHow was today?â You ask quietly, sat on the edge of his bed, stroking through his hair. Itâs shorter than it used to be, regrowing slowly from the roots with the rest of his body.
âAre we back on this talking about our days bullshit again?â Touya sighs, âwe spent the whole day together, doll. You saw it all.â
âCâmon,â you hum, pinching his cheek, âindulge me.â
âSâfine,â he rolls his eyes, âthe little brat was good company, I guess.â
âYeah?â You grin.
He doesnât meet your eyes, looking off to the side as he shrugs. âYeah. Donât make it weird.â
âYou seemed like you were having fun,â you beam, stroking his cheek with your thumb. He rolls his eyes, leaning into your touch slightly.
âYeah, sâcause my only company is you. Gets boring.â He gives you a charming, teasing, smooth little smile that has you scowling at him.
âHow rude,â you huff, âmaybe I should leave you with no company at all.â
He chuckles, turning his head slowly to give the pad of your thumb a soft, delicate kiss. âIâm kidding. Youâre the best company a wanted criminal-turned-hospital-prisoner could have, doll.â
I would make a longer more detailed healing journey fic with touya but I already have a half written long fic for him that I seriously need to finish so it can wait. For now it will stay a short drabble
Finally watched the first episode of MHA vigilantes and I just LOVE the artwork. I love how it looks like an animated comic book pop art especially the onomatopoeia in every action from physical and 'smirk'. I can't wait for the new episode!
please let me write a âcrack treated seriouslyâ fic out of this T-T
dabi: why are you a hero?
touya: spite. why are you a villain?
dabi: spite.
touya: nice.
it has so much angst potential too though (like dabi realizing that, yes, he could have been a hero. it wasnât impossible. he could have made it even without his fatherâs support)
I love the idea of Dabi and au Hero!Touya meeting, like, it would be so???? I can't even comprehend what it would be like.
the line âyour worst sin is that youâve betrayed and destroyed yourself for nothingâ is so raw youâd think itâs from a destiel fanfic or even hetalia but itâs actually from dostoyevskys crime and punishment
why are so many people liking this omg
iâm so close to actually doing it
the way i could make an essay about how the average depiction on vigilante!izuku falls into albert camus' definition of 'rebellion' whereas villain!izuku (and just the League in general, even in canon) falls into his definition of 'revolution'