if eri has white hair + red eyes and shigaraki had black hair that turned white and red eyes and aizawa’s quirk is just a lesser evolved/weaker/less mutated version of their mutations then what if… what if his hair starts turning white and he just thinks it’s because of the stress and shit he’s been through (since 30 is the age people start prematurely going grey) but in actuality it’s his quirk. like aizawa comes in to 1A’s second year of school and his hair is just stark white. what if.
so there’s this story in the third light novel–it’s the very ending chapter (you can read it here)–that’s based on the fantasy au ending from the anime and it’s a fairly normal story where izuku goes out to become all might’s apprentice and goes on an adventure and meets a bunch of his friends along the way. except it takes this really fucking weird turn once they meet aizawa and have him join their little group. still seems normal, right? well, then aizawa turns into this literal fucking demon. like i’m not fucking kidding or exaggerating, he turns into a demon and attacks the kids.
(a page later)
so from this description, we can assume that this thing at the end of the ending animation
FURTHERMORE, the light novel resolves itself by aizawa basically being the “final boss” and once he’s defeated, a curse breaks from over him and he turns back into “aizawa the hero” again.
which, bear with me now, sounds a lot like a plotline that you would see in DND.
there’s no real “context” to this story BUT the third light novel is entirely dedicated to life in the dorms. the first story is about the teachers going out together after talking to parents about the dorms, the second is about todoroki getting used to living outside of home, the third is about 1B moving into the dorms, the fourth is about tokoyami telling a ghost story that scares the shit out of everyone (and ends with class A almost killing mic because they don’t recognize him with his hair down), the fifth is about iida’s birthday in the dorms, and the sixth is about kouda’s bunny in the dorms. all the stories have to do with the dorms and the students bonding (as well as teachers bonding with them) EXCEPT for this story (the seventh story)
the chapter is also called “U.A Quest” which seems like a suspiciously PERFECT name for a dnd adventure,
what i’m saying here is that the story with aizawa turning into a fucking demon seems really strange and out of place UNLESS you look at it from the context of this being a dnd game… and aizawa being the DM and having the kids fight him as a final boss in the session.
I feel like that "You're the one who always gets in the way" from Aizawa held power. All my man lives for now is ensuring his students can grow up and live out their dream, give them something he couldn't have because of AFO (the league's bullshit) I don't know man, it just hit differently for me when he said that.
remember that talk all might and aizawa had right before everything in the war arc started? how aizawa told him that he needs to care about himself and he’s the one who has to make the decision to live, and how he makes a lot of lives better just by being there and being alive? remember how we all thought it was death flags for all might?
that was definitely foreshadowing for aizawa instead of all might.
aizawa is someone who willingly self sacrifices at every chance he gets. he has been eye to eye with death a number of times just within the manga and vigilantes. and every time he just… accepts it. he self sacrifices and accepts it. there was a scene in vigilantes where he threw himself at a villain and thought he was going to die and literally thought “this is the end of the line for me? that’s fine.” accepting death is second nature to this man.
but in this new chapter of the main manga, aizawa is saying that he doesn’t want to die and that instead, he wants to teach his students and see them grow up and graduate and become heroes and he wants to live.
it’s a huge change. at USJ he was fine with dying. now he’s actively fighting against it.
he’s doing what he told all might to do and choosing to live, because he makes a lot of people happy just by being alive.
I also want to add that I especially don’t see him dying now, because this gives him a logical character arc of learning to want to live again and even figuring out how to live for himself and not just for other people.
Him saying this gives him more room to grow. It gives him more possibilities.
And!!! Not only did bakugou think about how much his support has meant for him, but he specifically thought about the press conference, when aizawa did what no other adult in his life would do and unconditionally stood up for him on live national television. Aizawa refused to let anyone put the blame on bakugou for getting kidnapped and he without hesitation denied that bakugou was anything like a villain.
None of the other adults in bakugou’s life had done anything like that before. Even his own mother seemed to blame him for the kidnapping iirc.
Aizawa’s the only adult in his life who hasn’t had any automatic bias towards him (neither “destined to be a great hero” nor “asshole with the attitude of a villain”) and aizawa earned his respect to the point where bakugou readily accepts him as an authority.
What I’m saying here is… I think bakugou is sort of the epitome of someone aizawa has made better just by being alive, and I think aizawas support means a lot to him.
I think part of this is also the fact that aizawa never makes a spectacle of anything, which makes him come off as genuine no matter what. You can’t really think that Aizawa is doing something just to help others perceptions of him because he has made it extremely clear that he does not care about that. So aizawa might be the only adult in some of these kids lives that they can be absolutely 100% sure that he means what he says and does and genuinely cares.
today Meatball abruptly realized that there are refugee office plants in the kitchen (they have been there for weeks) and has decided his singular purpose in life is to eat them
we put up a 4 foot tall step-through baby gate when we brought the plants home, but it turns out he can actually squeeze his body through the bars. not in a dignified way, mind you. but he can
we have foiled him with a two-gate system: a short one with small openings that he can’t squeeze through, and the tall one that he can’t jump over. he is now sitting outside our kitchen door rattling the gates with his stupid little mitten hands like an animated ghost prisoner in a Spirit Halloween decoration
well my original game plan was opening the white gate and kind of shoving my body through the gap between the wood gate and the grey gate and i am excited to announce that this was not a good idea at all
update: was woken up at 7 AM this morning by Meatball repeatedly taking a running leap at the gates, bouncing off the top one, and then sitting on the floor outside the kitchen beeping confusedly
There is a YouTube channel from 2017 called “ge wfd” and they used to post a lot of short Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets clips with really weird titles. I thought I would share some of my favorites with you today.
It’s kind of a cross between a sport commentary and poetry?
Like each sentence has two parts?
It sounds like an ancient prophecy or something
This person is my hero, we should just use all of these for the chapter names instead of the real ones.
You are still here? Now it’s time to describe this drawing, yes? Well I think that cat!Hizashi would be pretty rare and expensive cat breed, while cat!Aizawa would be just a moggie. Maybe I’ll draw a short comic about them someday..