Gradient Map / Alternative Colors

OMG YES

i feel like to him it was hilarious how absolutely no one could figure out that he was Touya and that’s why he’s being so obvious about it

“how sad, todoroki shouto” is basically the same as “HEY LIL BRO, YOU MISSED ME?”

also the concept of dabi name dropping touya around the league is hilarious

just

dabi: hey did you guys know endeavor has a son?

shigaraki: bitch we literally fought him

dabi: no but like,,,, another one. named touya

compress: oh that’s quite interesting! do you know more about him?

dabi: he died lmaoooooo

spinner: yeah we could use that against endeavor

toga: oh noooo how did he die?

dabi: burned alive 🤣🤣🤣 can you imagine????

shigaraki: …ok but the irony-

if there's one thing I know about Dabi it's the fact that he was so fucking annoying about his hidden identity.

*staring dead in the eyes* 'How sad, Todoroki Shouto...' (he cried himself to sleep about this later)

'I guess it's nice to meet you for the first time, Endeavour, OR IS IT? 😏'

he stalks Fuyumi one day and when she notices he cryptically announces this was a fateful meeting 'WASN'T, TODOROKI FUYUMI?' staring her in the eyes with Enji's trademarked shade of blue eyes and promptly leaves.

sends his mother rindou flowers to the hospital, signed with his name, and she assumes it's Enji who is losing it this time, but she guesses she can appreciate the thoughtful gift from her regretful husband (?)

he runs into Natsuo at the store one day and instead of running to the exit he makes sure to brush shoulders with his and take off his hood, pushing up his dyed hair so that the white roots stand out more and goes: 'Fancy meeting you here, Todoroki Natsuo'.

'??????'

then Fuyumi and Natsuo are shocked by his broadcast not because never in their wildest dreams did they imagine their older brother alive but because they were convinced they hallucinated the League of Villain's Dabi actually being their deceased older brother Touya and now they aren't sure what to think about the audacity this fucker had to approach them like that and leave without elaborating.

but with the League? can't torture his backstory out of him. he name-dropped Todoroki Touya at least 7 times around them.

NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

He is too hypnotized to listen

returning to the mha fandom after escaping toxic relationships wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card

mha’s ending should’ve been bittersweet

i know what you’re going to say “but Atlas, it kinda feels bittersweet already”

yes, yes it is. Izuku and Uraraka failed at saving Shigaraki and Toga (even though it was their main goal), the Todorokis aren’t doing better either, and basically no one in the league has been saved (even though “saving people with a smile” was literally Izuku’s dream)

no need to scroll for too long to see people complaining about the ending. i guess the only ones who’ve truly won are the bkdk stans.

[here i’m basing that ‘bittersweet’ feeling on the fact that the main goals haven’t exactly been accomplished + my own feelings tbh]

now, how do we make it better without changing it too much?

the main issue i personally have with the ending is that it’s trying so hard to be a happy ending when, as previously said, it feels bittersweet

and that’s where my main point is: in my opinion, the ending would have been better if it had been an assumed bittersweet ending

lets say we keep it all the same: Shigaraki, Kurogiri and Toga die, Touya is in the hospital, Spinner and Compress are in jail. so the heroes won but Izuku, Ochaco and Shouto feel like they’ve lost.

we had a conversation between Izuku and Ochaco, i wish we had heard more of Shouto’s feelings in the epilogue (it feels like Endeavor stole the spotlight in Shouto’s story but that’s a whole other subject)

what would’ve been great is a conversation between those threes (and maybe Bakugou too) and the teachers/pro heroes.

war heroes or not, they were just kids. and i think that the adults could (and should) help them deal with these feelings, especially eraserhead and present mix (that way the whole shirakumo/oboro plot gets a proper conclusion too)

that wouldn’t have been the best obviously. but it could’ve been a good start for the students to say: we failed, but we’re going to honor their memory by preventing this from happening again.

and then comes the time skip, in which we put more focus on the new generation of heroes doing more and really make a change. in canon, we know Ochaco and Shouji are working on it, i think it could’ve been more though. one example that comes to mind is the heroes ranking. giving more rewards to make sure no one else turns like endeavor feels weird. heroes aren't supposed to behave like toddlers???

the whole "we failed this time but we'll keep working to make the world a better place" is interesting imo, but it would have been accepted by the fandom if it had happened with another villain.

what i'm trying to say is: if izuku had failed to save another vilain in the middle of the story but had used this experience to do better with shigaraki, it would have been interesting. but here, it just feels like a failure with an epilogue to create an illusion of a happy ending.

people using generative ai to write fanfiction for them is CRAZY. stay up until four in the morning hopping back and forth between your pinterest boards, a random synonyms website, and google docs where you’re stuck in the middle of a sentence deciding whether to refer to a character by their name or hair colour as the lord intended.

PSPSPSPSPS NEW ANIMATIC GO WATCH

i just read the last chapter of mha

the izuku in me might make a post of all the thoughts i have (good and bad)

somehow i’m not as disappointed as i thought i would be

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IZUKU 💚🎂

hoarfrost and i