I Have So Many Thoughts About This Absolutely Bonkers Concept That Has Manifested Itself

i have so many thoughts about this absolutely bonkers concept that has manifested itself

One For All - Shadow Figures

In Chapter 193, in Midoriya’s dream, Horikoshi hides two of the past users of One For All from Midoriya and us readers… for some reason. Maybe, it’s because we would recognize them?

And sure enough, Tumblr user @chonideno pointed out in this post that two figures in Midoriya’s dream look similar to Bakugou and Kirishima. The more that I look at these shadowy figures, the more that the similarities stand out to me, too.

Take the figure on the left.

This figure has similar hair style as Bakugou, has some sort of piece around his neck, and is wearing gauntlets on each hand.

Now, take the figure on the right.

There are baggy pants and some sort of belt-buckle shape on the stomach, as well as a face mask and high-spiked hair. And, possibly the most iconic part of the silhouette – Kirishima’s shoulder gears.

Of course, there are differences. The figure that looks like Bakugou is missing his headpiece. The figure that looks like Kirishima has a different headpiece that allows his hair to stick out a different way. But even still, the similarities are striking. In my mind, it’s too similar to be coincidence.

So, how could something like this be possible? Some people have theorized that it is their future selves. Horikoshi has mentioned that there will be a time skip in the series, so us seeing Class 1-A as pro-heroes is actually quite possible. This would also explain why the hero costumes are slightly different.

However, unless time travel comes into play, it wouldn’t make sense that characters in the future would be past users of One For All.

Unless that’s not who Midoriya is seeing at all.

Midoriya mentions that someone in the line-up of past users is missing. There is already some sort of discrepancy between the past users and what Midoriya is seeing in the dream.

So already, we know that things are happening in this vision, that Midoriya does not understand – including the identity of these hidden figures. They’re in shadow, which Midoriya points out. He attributes their lack of clarity to how far away they are.

But what if that’s not why they’re hidden?

Midoriya is only at 20% of his One For All power. The first user of One For All says so himself.

And only about 20% of Midoriya is visible – just enough for his eyes to be uncovered, allowing him to see the vision in the first place.

The rest of him is in shadows, just like these two figures. So, what if these two figures are hiden not because they are far away, but because they have not yet received One For All? What if they are future users?

I don’t know what would happen in the future for Midoriya to pass this quirk to Bakugou or Kirishima rather than to someone younger than him. Seems like it must be something bad. It also might suggest that, since they are the last figures that Midoriya sees, that they are the final users of OFA. Also, if this is the case, this means that not one, but three past users of One For All are missing.

The plot thickens!

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scissorloidz

4 years ago

[ 10:14 a.m. ] • bakugou katsuki

bakugou katsuki was originally about to head back to the dorms when he heard a rustling beside him. it came from the lush green bushes that lined up the walls of his highschool campus. and behind the greenery was a badly hidden figure sitting on the ground. it was a good morning, the sky was a vibrant blue and everything was pleasant. and you were too big for the small bush you tried to obscure yourself with. it made bakugou snort as he dug his hands to his pockets and looked at you. normally he wouldn't bother but you were an interesting person to him and you were — as much as he hated it — you were his friend.

“what in the fuck are you doing?”

“shut up!”

when you raise your head, his crimson eyes meet your teary ones. you were frowning and looked terrible, biting your lower lip hard to stop the sob from coming. it startles the blonde student a bit but he suppresses that.

“are you crying?”

“no!”

he crosses his arms over his chest and smirks at you, knowingly. “not yet. why don't you just go to your room and cry there, stupid?”

“the tears will fall before i even reach the door, stupid!”

“that's on you then, idiot.”

“what are you even doing here, bakugou?”

he fights the urge to blush from embarrassment. funnily, like you, he's also battling his emotions. bakugou forces a pout and nervously pats the tip of his shoe against the pavement, “just didn't want to be with the other extras yet. you?”

he curiously watches you sigh and look at your hands, “i want to disappear. i just... i miss my home. i like it here but i miss my home. but i can't go back, right? so, i want to disappear and let time pass and wait for all the trouble to go away and return home.”

before you even have a chance to look up and scream at bakugou to not tell anyone about your homesickness, a jacket is thrown to your face. it covers your whole head and neck and you stare at pure black, with the scent of men's cologne and fading sweat.

“here, you can disappear now. just for a while, though. i’m just lending you my jacket.”

it was unexpected of bakugou, which kinda clears up the tears in your eyes.

“go on, cry you big baby.” bakugou urges. “cry while you can. it's stupid.”

“me?” you sniffle.

“yeah, it's stupid of you trying to hold it back when in the end it's going to fall out anyway.”

tears start to roll down your eyes and you sniffle more, “can i – ?”

“ugh, fine you can wipe your tears with it. just shut up now and get on with it.”

“are you gonna stay with me?”

“yeah.” he says. “just for the jacket.”

“okay. thank you, bakugou.”

“tch.”

when you finish crying and pull the jacket down, bakugou’s got a water bottle and a few squares of tissue. “here. you look shitty.don’t you fuckin’ dare tell anyone about this.”

“okay,” you nod, smiling a bit. “that was good, by the way. the crying. can i disappear in your jacket again in the future, bakugou?”

“eh, we’ll see.”

[ 10:38 a.m. ]

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scissorloidz

3 years ago

(Spoilers for SDR2 and possibly DR3 after the cut. It’s also a pretty long post)

hehehehe,,the gang’s all here. the remnants,,

Keep reading

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scissorloidz

5 years ago

On kiribaku becoming canon and their evidence:

So I posted this on reddit earlier, but wanted to have it here where more KRBK shippers are, since I just ended up compiling a lot more than I thought I would.

Fair warning: A pretty big text with a compilation of kiribaku moments ahead.

We would all love kiribaku being canon, and I think it's not as much of a longshot as some may lead you to believe.

Honestly, if one of them was a girl, this would most certainly be canon, like, just in the anime we have:

Them becoming friends slowly in the background, leaving us with good development between them that is so seamless it can hit you hard once you notice how close they've become if you hadn't noticed before.

Them arriving and leaving the pool together while walking in the sunset.

They support and compliment each other (both on personality and quirks, like come on).

Kirishima can just lean on Bakugou or side hug him all the time and Bakugou lets him with no problem, which considering who we're talking about is a pretty big thing.

Kirishima can seem even more agitated than Deku about Bakugou being taken, and Deku is the one who idolized him since childhood.

The whole "It has to be you" thing and the precious hand holding (including that little scene after the rescue, where Kiri tries to grab Baku's hand again).

On Kiribaku Becoming Canon And Their Evidence:

Kirishima bought expensive night vision googles in case they were useful for the rescue even though they had Yaomomo with them (this boy goes through extremes just to ensure his boyfriend's best friend's safety)

Kirishima is officially the one Bakugou considers an equal, and considering his conflicting inferiority and superiority complexes (making him perpetually place people as above him or beneath him) is vital information.

Kirishima is esentially Bakugou's first real friend (as Deku was considered more of an incomprehensible nuisance and his childhood troop seemed more like his followers who just put him up on a pedestal and followed what he did).

Kirishima has jumped in front of danger for Bakugou's sake quite a bit of times (including a time in the movie).

Kirishima is a central piece in Bakugou's character development.

Bakugou was the one who told Kirishima he was strong and gave him his confidence back, reminding him of what he said at the start of their friendship.

Kirishima unlocked fucking UNBREAKABLE because of Bakugou's encouragement.

Going to extra stuff:

Bakugou's favourite hobbie is hiking, and we're shown he takes Kirishima with him sometimes, thing he doesn't seem to do with other characters.

The whole festival thing, with the narrator outright assuming Bakugou must have given his coat to a pretty girl who was cold, only for it to be revealed in another picture that he gave it to Kirishima because as usual, he didn't have a shirt on.

On the movie Bakugou could have taken anyone to I-Island and took Kirishima as his plus one. They share a room. Kirishima bought suits for both of them, with the most detailed one with white roses being for Bakugou, and they decide to go to the party together.

In a BNHA Smash connected directly to the movie, Midoriya notices the white roses in Bakugou's suit and notes that they mean deep respect and "I'm the one for you", which prompts Bakugou to send an explosion his way (not to Kirishima who gave him the suit, mind you), which makes the flowers turn red (from blood), after which Mineta appears to say that red roses mean "beautiful and passionate love".

They are usually seen together in merch stuff.

There's this tumblr post talking about japanese fan's reactions to one of Horikoshi's drawings which I find at least hilarious:

https://exbrodokills.tumblr.com/post/187710597637/here-it-is

There are discussions regarding Kirishima's character sheet and the translation of him liking "tough guys" (here's a podt by aitaikimochi explaining the meaning of the translation: https://www.google.com/amp/s/aitaikimochi.tumblr.com/post/171127708911/amp) where even translator such as aitaikimochi have gotten into, and they have mentioned that there's a japanese stereotype of a type of gay guy who is obsessed with "manly behaviour" and usually stay away from women, prefering tough guys instead, which is interesting to say the least.

Some of the light novel episodes which show more slice of life moment feature some good kiribaku moments, with a prominent one being this one wich details their study date (it seriously seems like fan fiction, not even kidding, and this is supposed to be sort of canon):

https://www.google.com/amp/s/aitaikimochi.tumblr.com/post/171236111166/amp

Also there's a chapter where Kirishima tells Fatgum about Bakugou being extremely happy, and another one where they are arm wrestling between classes and they cheer for one another heavily.

(Honesly, just go through aitaikimochi's whole kiribaku tag, there are some pretty interesting things there)

Here are some analysis on their possible coding, if you guys are interested:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dxO6Y0yK_wxOJDmRsBYvsVWKwsH7tKc92skxJ--R1m4/edit?usp=drivesdk

(Bakugou's one link can be found at the end of that one)

And in BNHA Smash, there are quite a lot of things, and we must not forget that the whole thing still gets approved by Horikoshi before being published, some of my favourite things are:

Kirishima inviting Bakugou to spend christmas together, with the translators noting christmas in Japan to be a romantic holiday in the same panel.

In one issue, Jirou falls for Kiri and him being oblivious just leaves her for Bakugou.

Once Bakugou becomes a shoujo boy after being his with a quirk and just involuntarily talks in flirt, and in one moment Kirishima outright flirts back.

Bakugou works his ass off to repay Kirishima for the night vision googles they used in the rescue.

Kirishima is literally described as the chicken soup for Bakugou's soul!

An interesting thing I found out is that in the chapter where all of 1A minus Bakugou turn into animals, one scene originally had Kirishima (as a dog) getting jealous of Kaminari and Midoriya petting Tsuyu (as a cat - yes I know, a cat) and giving all their attention to her, however, Horikoshi himself changed that scene, noting he didn't think their character relations worked well in that scene, and made it so that the one that ended up in smash contains Kirishima (as a dog) getting jealous because Todoroki (as a koala) has climbed up Bakugou's torso and won't let go. I saw this all in a tumblr post a few months ago, which showed the original scene in a book (I think it was in italian and was translates below) but I can't currently find the link, sorry, if someone finds it, It'd be appreciated if you could reblog with said link.

And in regards to meta stuff, the show already has some LGBT characters in it, with Magne and Tiger being trans and Toga being bisexual, so it's not as much of a lost cause to hope for this as it would initially seem.

(Please kirimina shippers, don't take offence because of this, it isn't my intention to insult your ship, I simply want to analize what has been given to us, so please try to take this lightly):

We should also take into consideration Krishima's first version in the sort of "beta" for the manga (where Midoriya was Yamikumo).

His character sheet mentions he's quite the delinquent and entered UA to impress a girl. Obviously his character evolved tremendously since then, but the girl was most probably intended to be Mina's equivalent. This was later changed to him liking "tough guys"/"hard liners" and his thing with Mina became more of an "I admired your bravery and heroic spirit when in middle school even if I hardly knew you", later seeing each other and establishing more of a little friendship. However, it hasn't really moved further from there, and Kirishima has already established much stronger bonds with our favourite exploding boy. All changes in characters are made for a reason, and Horikoshi clearly changed his mind on Kirishima's motives for wanting to be a hero and his relationship with Mina.

So yeah, all in all, this ship is great, it's precious, adorable, helps both characters grow, is balanced and has good chemistry. So even if after all these things they don't become officially canon, we still have so much canon material for them in the present I'd honestly still be happy, these dorks make me smile and melt my heart, so I hope they both have good endings.

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scissorloidz

4 years ago