Nerds?

The New Caledonian crow, who knows how to specifically build a tool in order to build another tool, never engages in play. These motherfuckers are smarter than some people with the right to vote, and they are Extremely Serious Birds. They don't have time to play, they got work to do and kids to raise.

And then there's the kea, straight-up titled "clown of the mountains", that has a specific vocalization for "playtime!". Scientists decided to try what happens if they play the Play Call for two fully-grown adult keas that are together in an area and can clearly see there is no other, third kea to make the call, and they just go "great idea, disembodied voice! it's TIME TO FUCKING PARTY!" and start wrestling.

Humans aren't the only animals with advanced language learning that have Plexin in their genome. We can actually find homologous plexin between humans and PARROTS!

Using genomic alignment search tools, we can actually break down the sequence of human Plexin and directly compare it to the Plexin found in parrots. (This was actually a project I ran for an upper division genomics class, and running the program literally takes like... ten minutes.) I wanted to see how similar the plexin gene was between humans and parrots, so I queued up the human sequence against all of the available records from parrot genomes and sorted by greatest percent identity (i.e., which bird species had the closest plexin to ours?)

It was this funky dude right here:

THAT'S RIGHT BABY! The kea, notorious for being a straight up motherfucking prank god, carries Plexin with a 79.42% identity comapred to humans'.

THIS LITTLE ASSHOLE HAS A HOMOLOGOUS LANGUAGE LEARNING GENE WITH US!!!! A GENE THAT IS THOUGHT TO BE CORRELATED TO HIGHER LEVEL LEARNING AND INTELLIGENCE!!!!! AND THEY USE THEIR INTELLIGENCE TO WREAK HAVOC ON TOURISTS

They goof around too, dangling upside down off shit just ‘cuz!

They prank the SHIT out of other animals in ways that put them in explicit danger but serve no actual purpose

They’ve been seen RIDING other birds???

In two weeks we’ll find out more of his backstory, but until then, given what we know about Touya and Shouto, the first and last Todoroki sons, as well as how their father’s actions reverberated throughout the whole Todoroki family, these final panels of 349 not only mark the start of an important chat between two brothers, but illustrate the parallels between Touya and Shouto.

I’ve analyzed the Todoroki family before as someone with Todoroki-esque trauma, but I haven’t really gotten into Shouto and Touya. Shouto and Touya are both, of course, carrying highly visible physical scars to match their emotional ones. However, and I’m sure this has been said, but it’s interesting that Shouto’s scar is smaller compared to the full-body impact of Touya’s because it’s semi-reflective of the pain they carry. This is not to compare their pain, because they both endured very different situations at the hands of the same man, and everyone responds differently to trauma, etc. What I mean is that Shouto’s scar being smaller than Touya’s is interesting in that it symbolizes a few things.

First is the way their father’s behavior impacted them. Shouto’s scar is more localized which is indicative of the way he was isolated from the rest of his family while being his father's soul focus growing up because was their father’s masterpiece as Touya says. Their father focused exclusively on Shouto, obsessing over him and his path, while neglecting his other children.

Meanwhile, Touya’s body is fully scarred because his father’s focus on him increasingly disappeared with each sibling. More specifically, his scars illustrate the way his pain, from being told he could be a hero to being told he wasn’t good enough again and again with each sibling that was born to basically replace him and make up for his failures, all while being neglected and essentially told by his father to stop trying to get his attention, manifested. His scars stretch across his face and limbs because Touya, whether intentional or not, shouldered not only his own pain and anger, but the pain of each sibling and each subsequent neglect of that sibling. His own pain burned and his anger at his father only grew until it literally began to eat and burn away at him.

Which brings me to the second parallel.

Second is how long the two have lived with the pain. Both Shouto and Touya were isolated from the rest of the family at one point of their lives, and that’s guided how they live with their trauma. While this isn’t the strongest symbolism, it’s worth noting that Shouto is younger—a teen while Touya is in his late twenties—and, though he and Touya have been living with their trauma for roughly the same number of years, he’s had less time to live with it than his big brother who’s been marinating in this for just over two decades.

Furthermore, in this way, Shouto’s seen less of what’s been done to his siblings, especially Dabi, and had a negative reaction to their father’s No. 1 hero expectation because of what he endured (and, sure, his mom too) being his father's perfect pancake, so to speak. He was isolated, placed in a different bracket of treatment, and has trauma the other siblings don’t. Touya is similar but on the opposite side of this. He has seen his sibling’s pain and was there for all of it, held his father’s No. 1 expectation and had it squashed, and has a negative reaction to their father’s No. 1 expectation because he was the ‘failure’.

Finally, and this is the one that upsets me the most as someone with Todoroki-level trauma, the scars symbolize how they’ve been able to handle their trauma. Shouto has the support system and has been in situations where he’s been able not only acknowledge his pain but, with the help of friends like Izuku and Class 1-A, actually start the long task that is unpacking trauma and working through it. Dabi, as far as we’re aware, hasn’t been able to do this because he’s been alone. Sure, the LOV was there, but he hasn’t exactly had the resources, namely a support system, that Shouto has to work through it. He’s been shouldering it alone, living in this pain, burning through his anger, and it’s literally showing to the point where it can very likely kill him.

Which is why it’s so important that we’re seeing that Shouto understands this, knows that there’s still time for Dabi to have that support system, and is here to offer it to him and try to help his brother address it. It’s also why it’s so important that Dabi is willing to tell Shouto everything.

People call it 'trauma dumping' when in reality it’s just a healthy form of reaching out for support and letting it out instead of keeping it bottled in where it can cause even more harm to him. It’s especially important here that he even acknowledged that he’s Shouto’s “big bro”, and the fact that he’s allowing Shouto past the metaphorical fiery fortress he’s built (and literal too in this case) is major.

[my brain only registered Midnight Man and I am SO HYPE FOR IT BLESS YOUR HEART ANON]

Asa Emory/The Collector

Knifeplay is his passion. This man is brutal with his weapon (hehe) and will use it. You better be into masochism because he’ll make you stick your tongue out and slice the tender flesh, making you count each gash and drink up your own blood

Brutal dom. He’ll make you cum several times only to make you wait until he says so at the very last moment. He’s nearly unfair in his treatment of his sub, pushing their limits and bending them in ways (both physically and mentally) that they nearly aren’t sure they can keep up with. He believes in them, though.

Serious self control. The man can pace himself and make it so that he lasts far longer than his partner could ever dream of. He will be the last one to cum and it will be ferocious and needy as he does so all over you.

Surprisingly talkative during sex. Though he’s a quiet man by nature, you’ll get the most out of him when he’s fucking you into a surface. Gentle dirty talk and swift commands that leave you more turned on echo from his lips and its amazing to hear his voice as often as you do when you fuck. He’s doing it so that, every time you hear his voice, you think of him fucking you and get turned on. 

Pyramid Head/The Executioner

Man has himself a size kink. Everyone is basically smaller than him he loves it. Being able to throw his s/o around in his arms and control them like a rag doll, positioning them however he wants, and admiring their body from whatever angle he choses is a big turn on.

Into period play. You can fight me on that one. He likes feeling his AFAB s/o bleed around his fingers and the extra liquid helps his dick slide in so much nicer. He has a lot of lube around too if you’re AMAB too so don’t you worry.

Loves bending his s/o over things while he fucks them. He loves the way it makes them squeeze around him and he likes having one hand on their hips and the other around the back of their neck as he all but breeds them into the surface.

He has a tongue and he will use it to eat you out. It’s a long, black, sentient appendage that crawls from the cracks of his massive head. It’s thick and throbbing, way more unnatural than any other tongue you might see, and does a wonderful job of reaching into your deepest places and curling in on you oh-so sweetly. He loves nothing more than to taste you and drool inside of you. 

Yautja/Predator

Two Words: Praise kink. Yautja’s love to hear how much they’re pleasing you, whether it be with your moans or your words, any sort of positive reinforcement for them makes their pride swell and their urge to fuck you faster all the stronger.

Loves to fuck after fighting. They spar with their partner, that much is known, and the more rowdy and dirty a fight, the more they want to get down and dirty. Pinning you down into the ground and having their way with you is one of their favorite things. Likewise, if you pin THEM down and have your way with them? Oh baby~

Bruises and bite marks go both ways. They LOVE to litter you with marks and scrapes to show how much they’ve pleasured you, but will purr and be putty in your hands if you sink your teeth into their skin and drag your nails down their back as well. They want to be claimed by you equally. 

Huge cuddlers after sex. Yautja are as clingy as puppies when they’re basking in the after glow of your sexscapades with you. Their arms are wrapped around you, clinging tight and purring against you as the two of you relax in your sweat and blood. Tends to be the first to fall asleep as well. 

Midnight Man

Big into fear play.  He knows what scares you and to see you writhing under him in both fear and arousal turns him on all the more. He wants to hear you scream in both ways. 

Always bites when he kisses. This entity is cheeky in his kisses and loves to inflict pain on you during them. It’s quite common to feel his teeth sink into your lower lip as you kiss, drawing blood only to have it be licked away by his tongue. He finds it very erotic when your blood is smeared on his own lips after. 

Slow, steady, and teasing. This man knows how to work your body better than you do and he will do everything in his power to make you a writhing, edged mess ready to beg for him. He’s cruel in that he loves to torment you, even more than Asa will, and laugh at your pain before granting you what you want.

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