Jirou Was A Fan Of Present Mic Growing Up, I Don’t Make The Rules.

Spoilers for the Vigilantes Manga specifically the School Days Arc because that's what I have to talk about with Hizashi mostly.

Alright here we go. Starting off with the screenshots from my Twitter (a portion is cut out of one because the response was from the OG just talking about how Hizashi was just a boy/kid when they lost Oboro)

(link to the og thread I qrted for this discussion below ⬇️)

Okay let's talk about this. I didn't say a lot in regard to my actual thought process but I have got to talk about it.

First of all: The way in which Hizashi is completely fucking shattered. He's partially mask off in terms of like his entire mental state being shifted into hell. He literally looks about ready to bawl his goddamn eyes out, like he's going to entirely lose himself.

He does technically lose himself, he loses more Hizashi Yamada, the loud "happy" teen with a voice quirk. It's his persona he has aside from Present Mic which I want to say at this point does in some way exist. Maybe not as we know it in the main manga but pretty damn close.

When I say he forced himself to glue the pieces of himself back together and "cope", I mean like he's literally gluing himself back together as he's putting back on his smile. He physically is forcing himself to be happy just for a moment. He goes into the mentality of "I need to be strong for others (Shōta), everything will be okay" when it isn't okay.

It isn't okay here and it isn't okay fifteen years later when that façade entirely crumbles again. I always bring up when I in some way write about Hizashi in general pre-timeskip, post-war that he wears a cracked mask with pieces falling off of it. He really does and this mask probably started earlier in time but ended up becoming worse once Oboro literally was dead in front of him.

He puts up the front when his world view is crumbled, shattered to pieces in front of him that he's still happy-go-lucky in a sense. It's jarring because many people in this situation would've outwardly shown how devastated they are. He starts off that way too and as everything progresses, he doesn't give himself the time of day to process what's going on and for the next fifteen years, he still doesn't give himself that.

The shock and horror we see here? Yeah he gives the same when he's faced with the horrible reality that he's losing his "friend" (Kurogiri/Oboro) again and watching it happen in real time.

Like I have so many thoughts on this y'all got no idea. This ain't even the half of it-

I wanted to make two quick posts today (both will be coming within the next hour) that has to do with both Easter and Trans day of visibility! No art associated with either since I am getting slammed by school work again but I do want to acknowledge both. 💜

Rq I'm gonna cross post (this will make it's way onto Bluesky eventually I PROMISE FOR THOSE OF YALL WHO ARE PROBABLY STARVING FOR YAPPING-) this here so y'all can see the reason why I named Present Mic/Yamada Hizashi "Ear Piercer" in my Villains AU.

This came from my strawpage hence why I'm putting the screenshot here:

Answer -

Quick tldr: Villain!Mic's name in this AU is Ear Piercer! He uses it as a means of tricking his enemies into not knowing what his quirk is.

(Below is my ramble because I cannot shut up sorry anon!) so for those that wanna hear the long one, it's under the cut!

Long answer:

My villain!Mic's name is actually Ear Piercer! For people that haven't heard of him, the name serves as a means of throwing them off of his quirk.

Cuz some people think "oh Ear Piercer? Must be a dude that has a quirk that physically pierces something" not "Ohhh he pierces people's ears with Voice".

He thought it was obvious at first because he also wears a mask similar to his directional speaker but apparently not!

The first like several fights when he announced himself, some heroes and villains prepared by covering their faces or other body parts instead of covering their ears like they would had he announced himself as Present Mic.

He uses this to his advantage of course.

Also he chose his name like he did with Present Mic. He wanted something related in some way to his quirk without calling himself what his quirk is.

Doodle from yesterday. Hizashi saved my motivation. Thank you Hizashi.

I'm about to become insufferable (I'm writing up my HCs for EMic family dynamics).

Heads up to those that don't know: Hitoshi both does and doesn't live with Shōta and Hizashi because in my brain, he lives with some family members! He lives with his uncle, aunt and four cousins in which his family is known for having varying types of emitter quirks! The only one that doesn't have an emitter is the "technical" second oldest cousin, she was adopted and has a transformation quirk.

I'll add names and quirks in another post but to give the jist (I haven't posted this to Twitter yet, heads up anyone who follows me there) his parents did pass away in an accident and that's why he lives with his uncle and aunt instead of his parents or in the foster system.

So his dynamic works as his dad's older brother is taking care of him with his wife and he helps take care of some of the younger kids when they can't. It's not a requirement, he doesn't get hurt physically but he does have a hard time as he along with his older cousin have to take care of three other family members.

I'm also drawing out the family trees for Aizawa, Yamada and Shinsō family lineages specifically. If anyone wonders, Eri does also stay with EMic but she is also taken care of by other members of staff when they can't fulfill duties as parents because, y'know, Hizashi has three jobs and Shōta is sometimes very busy.

Anyway I'll expand on a lot of this in another post because I'm about to ramble too much. I love their family dynamic and other stuff dearly!!

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I'll elaborate more on this when I'm out of class but I have to put it out here before I entirely forget about it.

Had the most awful (/pos) drawing/partial animatic idea just because of one post on Twitter and listening to "The Winner Takes It All" by ABBA:

Young Shōta being the "winner" during the time when Oboro passes with Oboro being the "loser" and Kurogiri being the "winner" when he gets destroyed during the war while Hizashi is the "loser".

And it's not using the main part of the song for "the winner takes it all, the loser has to fall" oh no it's the outro portion for like animatic purposes.

3baka are spinning around in my head like a microwave. Again, I'll elaborate on this more later when I get out of class but man I had to put it somewhere.

Y'all getting a WIP. Long hair in a ponytail Zashi mood. That's the mood I'm in tonight.

Jirō Kyōka everyone! It's my way of celebrating getting her in Ultra Impact cuz I haven't drawn her before.

Btw this is pre-final war hence why she has her other earlobe and earphone jack! I'll be figuring out post-final war for her ear when I can but in case anyone wonders why she has her ear.

One last update before I color them because he is such a joy to draw with long hair-

I only have the anime ref up btw because I somehow forgot how to draw his sunglasses?? What a concept

Y'all getting a WIP. Long hair in a ponytail Zashi mood. That's the mood I'm in tonight.