Very True And This Brings Us To The Cover Of Bakugou Reaching For Kidzuku's Hand.

Very true and this brings us to the cover of Bakugou reaching for kidzuku's hand.

That means, that in a very special way, Izuku IS saving Katsuki. He's this goal that Katsuki wants to reach, this person Katsuki wants to save and be saved by (to remember/return to the river moment all those years ago perhaps).

At least, that's what I think.

Thinking about the plot parallels in bnha again, this time as they relate to Izuku's goals--because he's had a specific goal for a long time, and it's not just being the number one hero. Saving is Izuku's half of heroism, after all, and yet from his perspective, it could be said that he fails in one continual regard: saving Katsuki.

It seems to start with the sludge villain. He doesn't exactly fail; he has a positive effect on the situation, at least physically, and Katsuki survives unscathed and more or less emotionally intact. From a literal standpoint, Katsuki has been saved, but Izuku isn't directly the one to save him (and is indirectly the one who put him in danger).

Then training camp happens, and Katsuki is a victim again. And Izuku is frozen there in the forest, unable to keep reaching for him. (And when he plots the rescue, he can't be the one to enact it.) Katsuki is rescued in the end, but Izuku doesn't save him before damage is done--because this time, Katsuki is physically okay, but the psychological effects make themselves known at Ground Beta.

Then there's the next time. Katsuki takes the hit for Izuku, and this time, although he survives, he sustains physical harm. It isn't as though Izuku can prevent this, but Katsuki's only there because Izuku told him about OFA, and is only putting his life in danger because of Izuku. From Izuku's perspective, he hasn't protected Katsuki.

And then there's the final battle, a bigger, more catastrophic reflection of what happened before. Except this time, Katsuki doesn't survive. And once again, Izuku hasn't saved him.

Izuku wins to save; saving is what motivates him. And although he's been victorious time and time again, he has never decisively saved Katsuki from a true threat. This is a pattern his entire life.

His entire life, because it didn't start with the sludge villain.

It started with the river. Katsuki didn't take his hand, and Izuku wasn't able to help him. It's the start of Katsuki's internal conflict with weakness and victimhood, and the start of Izuku trying to be there for him.

Katsuki has to contend with needing to be saved. Izuku has to contend with failing to save him.

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1 year ago

why is everyone so pretty? what the hell. why is everyone so beautiful? stop


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2 years ago

EXACTLY!

Tigress lived her life trying to be better, meet expectation (until her teens when she was allowed to learn her own style of Kung Fu) and even aftwerward she wanted to help Shifu, her dad, further. She wanted him to have peace with the defeat of Tai Lung.

In the scene where Po is picked as Dragon Warrior we see Tigress' reaction. She's almost disappointed at the thought of being chosen but ready to accept it. And even though she hasn't been chosen, seeing it as her failure, she is determined to defeat Tai Lung.

And she was pretty close with the Furious Five to back her up. Tai Lung was just too strong though. I mean honestly teaching someone nerve acupuncture Shifu, really?

Sorry lol, i just love Tigress.

I believe we don’t talk about this scene as much as we should.

We all remember this scene, right?

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This scene takes place after Po’s training and the battle between the Furious Five and Tai Lung. It was clear who had won the battle.

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Here, we see Shifu recovering the Five’s nerves after they were attacked by Tai Lung using his nerve attack (which Shifu had taught him).

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This scene absolutely broke me. Because not only can you hear the disappointment in Tigress’ voice when she says, “I thought we could stop him…” but her face also indicates that she feels guilty for not being able to defeat Tai Lung, making it clear to her that she is not the Dragon Warrior. None of them were.

The title she worked hard for almost all her life. The only chance she knows that could finally give her the love and approval she’s been longing for was not meant for her…


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2 years ago

Din: i thought you were Mandalorian

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1 month ago

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40972884/chapters/102682032

Not quite what you're looking for but just as good I promise

Ugh I really wanna read some fics about Tim Drake feeling like he doesn’t exist in the Batfam and how being Robin was just a job he needed to do because no one else stepped up..

Oddly specific I know, but still. ☝️

2 years ago

Last night I had a crazy @$$ dream.

So it's raining outside, my dad decides to go fishing in the rain in the parking lot like a crazy person. He does this jokingly but brings his actual fishing stuff.

My mom, who is not my actual mom but is now Kirsten Dunst (as a redhead), comes out of the car and let's us kids play in the rain.

Then my dad's friend (a famous guy I can't remember now) also shows up and just starts talking to him.

Suddenly Thor and Lady Thor fly in and begin talking with my dad as well.

But none of that matters because freaking BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY SHOWS UP! He drifts in, parks perfectly, and is dressed like he was just at a fancy event. The man asks my father," What are you doing out here in the rain?"

"Fishing."

"Oh. Cool." And proceeds to CATCH A FISH. IN THE RAIN. (Then stomp on it to kill it but that doesn't matter because plot holes, fish is alive again). Mind you this is a parking lot there's no actual source of water just a bit of flood. This man appears andsuddenly a fish does and he just "hm, catchin fish in the rain" like it's nothing! We were gobsmacked, appalled, absolutely flabbergasted by this man (who we didn't even know in the dream.)

So now suddenly we have a group of five adults and five children and the adults decide "Hey wanna go danger driving?" "Yeah sure."

Apparently the music dictates the danger survivability. So no one dies until the second part of the dream.

The second part of the dream begins where the first left off. Danger driving (which I can only describe as driving in a partially destroyed car against other partially destroyed cars but where they have a slope so they crash into you and you try to dodge them). They all survive, of course, and decide to go to a park for the kids (which there are now like fourteen of).

One guy (the guy whose face I can't remember though it could've been Samuel L. Jackson) stays behind to take a smoke while the rest of us enter the sloped tunnel entrance.

Then, a glimpse. A mechanical head with ugly scars and crazy white hair sits in front of a computer watching us. Or more specifically, Bill Nye the Science Guy. The culprit turns around reveals himself to be...ALBERT EINSTEIN! (Whom looks more like the robot president from Inside Job).

The man was but a mere face mask for Bill Nye the science guy to wear when he had a horrible accident and had to go vegan because he couldn't eat meat anymore. Then when he recovered he built him a robotic head as an A.I. for Bill Nye the Science Guy. But he no longer wants to be that, a mere robotic head. He wants more!

So what does he do? He decides to build himself a robotic body and kill his creator and his friends. He merges with the body and picks up an axe (that looks a lot like stormbreaker) and goes hunting.

The first to die is the man who was left out smoking, head axed clean off!

Then we head back to my POV. Where I am holding my baby sister while climbing down the slippery slope. Luckily there are pools on the side for me to use as leverage and balance while my dad RUSHES ME AS IF I'M PURPOSELY GOING AT THE RATE OF A SNAIL.

I eventually get to the park. My cousins and sisters already there, the adults watching (not really) while talking amongst themselves.

When Bill Nye the Science Guy decides to go out for a bit. He lights a cigar (which he would never do in my heart) and never smokes it. Man just holds it in his fingers and observes the world.

Then his head is hacked off. Clean, one strike like the other. Albert Einstein (yes we're still calling him that) readily picks up Bill Nye the Science Guy's head and shoves it in a jar. He proceeds on with an intent to kill everyone.

POv back to me, we're all having fun till my uncle (actual uncle)'s head do flying off. Thor and Lady Thor try to fight him while everyone else runs away. The kids hide in the rooftops and the adults scatter.

Albert Einstein fights them off and hides only to find us and proceeds to try to kill us only for him to find I HAVE SUPERPOWERS! Specifically electricity.

So I fight the dude off and try to negotiate him because I gotta protect my cousin's and sisters. That succeeds because he realizes he can't defeat me since he's a robot and so I go to tattletale on the adults but that plan completely fails because "mom needs to be alive to watch after us" and the thors kinda ran away as in Thor got badly injured so now they have to go.

Anyway Albert Einstein doesn't like that so he tries to kill the kids again and I stop him but now there's no negotiating so I tell em "hey, you guys gotta go." And I hold him off there.

That's it, that's the dream. I dunno if I succeed if the adults are all gone, if the kids survive, or if I hold him there forever. Quite a dream wasn't it?

Luckily I went back to sleep (cause it was eight A.M.) and had another dream that was pretty cool and weird but not as weird as this one.


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6 months ago

Sometimes I think about the time I realized why Kubo's mom was so dazed for the first few minutes we saw her.

Which, by the way, is because she's a celestial being. Y'know...she's nocturnal. She's not fully awake till sunset.

(Ngl I thought it was because of her head injury.)


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4 months ago

If I had a penny for every best friend breakup that resulted in one of them becoming extremely angsty while longing for the other I would have at least two pennies.

Jayce "I thought you were done with Hextech...and me." Talis

Optimus "You have betrayed Cybertron and its citizens. And you betrayed...me." Prime


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