A. The Way Of Kings, The Titans Curse, Spirits End, The Crystal Shard, And Assassin's Apprentice. B.

I have more of these headcanons if anyone wants me to write them out. Give me a push and I will go gladly into that dark night.

“Hawks/Dabi did everything right.”

[Or: Dabi and Hawks are ideological masterpieces and picking a side explains your kind of moral-justice.]

Let’s take off our fandom-glasses for a moment and look at the gorgeous canon conflict between Dabi and Hawks and “the injustice of morality”.

Now, the goal is to destroy an ‘unjust’ society. Which will inevitably kill many innocent people. Though: Some of the leagues members are genuinely good people (Twice) or just got abused by the system (Dabi) and see no other choice. Dabi sees his action as “justice”, since he longs for revenge against the man/system who did him wrong. [- But this brings him in conflict with his understanding of moral-pain, as he knows the people he kills have family. - To the point where he cried blood.]

His moral ideology is the extreme opposite of Hawks’.

When Hawks joined the league, he acknowledged the problem of “injustice”. He saw the flaws of the system and felt genuine sympathy for Twice. But he is unwilling to risk a single civilian life for changing it.

The bloody fun starts when Hawks is gets confronted with the “Trolley-Problem”.

This is a version of an ethical dilemma from 1967, surrounding the question: Do I stick to the “moral code” by not hurting a criminal or do I choose the “best” outcome, by causing a criminal’s death?

In a survey around 90% of the respondents said: “It’s okay to let one person die, to save the larger number of people.” This is the natural human ideology of “Utilitarism” and also occurs in social animal-species behavior.

BUT If you make it more “personal”, let’s say: You like the person and you have to kill them yourself – And Hawks liked Twice. - Even if it still saves a thousand lives, the reaction is completely different now: Only 10% of the respondents would still do it. Because now it “feels” wrong.

Even if “not killing this person, because you don’t want to feel wrong” would lead to “letting thousand people die, but feeling right”.

Well, Hawks does not feel “heroic” - Even before he killed Twice, he had huge doubts about his own dignity.

[He jokes he doesn’t want to be No. 2. He thinks his back isn’t broad enough. He jokes he isn’t “Top-hero”-material. (ref: ch. 188; ch.185)]

Hawks is one of the most intelligent characters within the MHA Universe, and his way of approaching problems is not influenced by “situational factors” but by “logical weight.”

Hawks took the harder choice and forced himself to suppress his own moral instincts for this. [Remember, he saved Twice’s life risking his own out of pure reflex. Hawks is a selfless hero, to a point where Dabi relied on it:]

[In fact, Hawks is so selfless, that he sacrifices his own “wish to feel like a good person” so save the larger number of people. ]

“Ah. Cool motive, still murder.” Does the end really justify the means?

Let’s say (solely hypothetical) Hawks killed Twice – but Toga copies Twice’ quirk, and over hundred million civilians of Japan die nonetheless. Hawks has now killed a good man, without direct logical weight behind it.

Someone could (or will, because I’m fucking going to) conclude that the righteousness of Hawks action might solely depend on its success. ( – At least till we include numbers in Hawk’s imaginary litigation. Because Twices quirk included “exponential growth of fighting power”, the heroes’ chances of winning would run asymptotic to zero, which would result in the death of over a hundred-million people. Not taking the “risk” of beeing injustice would therefore have been illogical from Hawks’ perspective.)

So was Hawks ‘injustice’?

From Dabis point of view: “Well- Yes of fucking course.”

Because Dabi’s character personifies the exact opposite ideology: “deontological theory”, which focuses not on the product of his acts, but the intrinsic value of the act in and of itself. Dabi approaches problems complete and utterly “selfish”.  - No, this does not mean that he can’t do things for others out of sympathy- It means that he acts bird-free after his own instinctive moral-code and makes his decisions because he feels like they are the right thing to do. - Like a normal human - just a little more extreme. 

[See, Dabi recruited Hawks into the inner circle of the League, without trusting him - because he doesn’t trust the League either. (He said this and acted like this several times.) Just like Hawks, Dabi is a lonely and paranoid man. But other than Hawks, he is driven by the injustice he experienced. He uses on his own pain as fuel to fight for the things he right now sees as “good”.)

- Dabi got exploited and abused by the hero-system? -> He will destroy said hero-system as revenge, to create momentary “justice” for himself.

- Dabi gets the chance to benefit from a hero? -> He will recruit him without much caring for long-term consequences.

- Dabi loses a valuable ally/partner trough a hero? -> He will kill/torture said hero as revenge.  

Dabi is more “justice“ fixated than Hawks.

Dabi would never kill a man he likes for the “greater good”. (He also does not care about the “liberation”-ideology, or anything regarding the “freedom” of regular civilians. Which is shown in his fight against Geten and again in his monologue in chapter 267.) He only cares about the ‘injustice’ of the hero-system. Dabi clings to his “humanity” more than Hawks does and he reacts to his own pain with highly emotion-driven actions. He clearly does not care about the long-term effects his actions have on him- or everyone else. 

[Neither Hawks nor Dabi expect a long life, but both deal with it very differently.]

From Dabi’s point of view, Hawks is injustice, because he killed a good man, right here and now and the consequences – good or bad – do not matter. (“The action in itself was amoral.”)

[It is very interesting to see the reactions within the fandom, paralleling Dabi’s exact ideology to the point where some wanted Dabi to punish Hawks in the name of justice. Dabi’s moral-code is to lesser extents portrayed in many shonen-protagonists (e.g. Gon from HxH) – and sometimes criticized as immature.]

Actually, both sides can be reduced to:

Dabi’s: “Think for yourself and do whatever the hell you recognize as righteous right now.” and Hawks’: “Think for the others and do whatever the hell is necessary to bring the maximum good to society.”

…And I also think thats pretty fucking cool.

List of non-human characters that are absolutely whipped for the blonde love of their life

Crowley for Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Catra for Adora (She-ra)

Lucifer for Chloe (Lucifer)

Castiel for Dean (Supernatural)

The 10th Doctor for Rose (Doctor Who)

Venom for Eddie Brock (Venom)

Merlin for Arthur (Merlin)

That’s it that’s the tea. Feel free to add

I should be studying but have my take on this meme instead

Bonus:

‘Hey Blitzi.’ • Due to the release of Jurassic World 2 @aresuna, @2j3i0ru8 and I are working on a Bnha Jurassic World AU :D @aresuna and I just had the idea outta nowhere and @2j3i0ru8 joined us~ Basically this will be an AU where a lot of ships are gonna be in and the Bakusquad will be a huge part in this AU!

Bakugou is Owen Grady, while we turned the others of the Bakusquad into his raptors he’s taking care of (+ one special raptor and Kirishima will be not a part of the raptors, he’s gonna be the T-Rex, stay tuned ^^)

Kaminari is called ‘Blitzi’ here because in our AU Bakugou has German ancestors that’s why we gave him this name! Lightning = Blitz (in German; the 'i’ at the end is just there to let it sound cuter)

All the other characters are coming soon! :)

-slamming fists on table- Just! Because! A person! In! A same! Sex! Relationship! Is! The! Bottom! -breaks table- DOES NOT MEAN THEY HAVE TO BE CUTESY AND HELPLESS

Sorry to disappoint you Marvel but alt!2012 is ours.

It’s the best timeline we fanfic authors could have possibly asked for:

Loki escapes with the Tesseract for parts unknown

Steve learns Bucky is alive two whole years ahead of schedule

Tony now has to rethink keeping the arc reactor in his chest and might get it removed much sooner

Thor, now without Loki, the Tesseract or even the Mind Stone, cannot return to Asgard empty handed, which means he will have no choice but to stay on Earth and bond with the other Avengers while they all search for him

Steve is supposedly loyal to HYDRA, which could lead to important information being slipped to him and speed up Bucky’s rescue

If JARVIS was still uploaded to Stark Tower and keeping tabs on everything like he always is in the IM movies, he more than likely has footage recorded of future!Tony sneaking into the tower and dressing up as a guard, future!Steve entering the tower while Loki is still in custody proving that he wasn’t just Loki in disguise, and Loki grabbing the Tesseract and gtfo'ing outta there

Bruce Banner now has a connection to the Ancient One that he doesn’t know about, and while I’m sure she’ll try to avoid him to preserve the timeline, with how much everything else is changing it’s anyone’s guess as to what happens next

Random street camera footage of two Hulks existing at the same time??? One acting as normal and the other being oddly unenthusiastic about ripping the aliens apart and smashing debris???

The Mind Stone is no longer in HYDRA’s possession, so they can’t use it to experiment on the Maximoffs

With the Loki series still on the horizon and our collective knowledge of what happens in the future movies, the story is now in our hands.

This is literally the timeline of our dreams. I don’t give a shit what the Russos or anyone else at Marvel says: this timeline belongs to the fandom and no one else.

Edit: @ everyone reblogging this and laughing in victory about Wanda being gone:

you’re not allowed here you asshole

just for that, here’s a solution:

Wanda and Pietro aren’t subjected to the power of the Mind Stone, which allows their natural mutant abilities (superspeed equivalent to Peter Maximoff’s time-defying stunts in the X-Men franchise for Pietro, and the ability to warp reality as she sees fit for Wanda) to actually appear naturally within them during a time of great stress for them both.

“If you surface, they die.”

That one Langst story where Lance freaking drowns himself in order to save Keith and Shiro.  http://archiveofourown.org/works/11057385/chapters/24654354

I drew this for my friend’s story because it’s sooooo good and it’s been a wild feel ride of reading it.  What a journey it’s been since you took a shot in the dark and it’s reached over 14k hits! (congratz!!)  I’ve had a blast being able to collaborate with you on character interaction ideas whenever you had writer’s block or just wanted to chat for funsies :D  It’s been an honor and thanks for being such an amazing writer ; o ;

Size matters not. | by Brad Bartkus