Never Fading Brainrot

This just looks like Deku and Tomura are battling it out, right?

I wanna compare it to this touching scene of little Deku and Tenko: ⬇️

In both pictures, the two of them are leaning their foreheads against each other. In the manga cover, it seems more aggressive, like they're headbutting each other (which is the expected assumption as they are literally in the middle of a fight...) but in the scene w/ their child selves, it's more of an act of gentleness. Deku leans his forehead against Tenko's to comfort him as he's crying.

But couldn't you then say that, at a deeper level, this form of comfort that Deku gives him is reflected in the manga cover too, as Tenko and Tomura are the same person? So in the manga cover, the act of leaning their foreheads against each other has a double meaning - on the surface level, it's the aggression that comes with a fight, but symbolically, it could also be Deku comforting him. To the outside world, their fight just seems like any other fight, as only Deku could see Tenko crying inside Tomura's core. But this "fight" was rlly Deku's mission to free and comfort Tenko. He isn't fighting with violent intent. He's fighting to SAVE.

Now for their hands, which has another double meaning! In the manga cover, they seem to be wrestling with each other (again, as expected during a fight...) but their hands are interlocked. Ppl may interlock hands when they wrestle (I'm not sure, idk much about wrestling lol), but interlocking hands can ALSO be an act of care and gentleness. Deku is showing Tomura (and thus Tenko just before he loses his arms to Decay) the kind of gentle care that was absent from his life. It's soothing to him. He starts crying cos he can't fathom it. How could someone be so kind to him when, to his understanding, he was born to destroy?

And then Deku loses his hands... but he doesn't care. Not if it could get Tenko to realise that he isn't a creature born to destroy, no matter what AFO intended him to be, but rather a PERSON. A child whose life was full of neglect and absent of love. This is why Deku was the perfect person for this fight - he will never ignore a crying child, even if said crying child is trapped within an evil, modified body. He doesn't give in to the prejudice that Hero society has against those who are seen as "villains".

OFA was the tool that Deku used to achieve his goals, but his weapon is love. Showing love to those who need it or have never received it - that is the way he won this war, and that was the only way TO win this war.

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APT - OC animatic. In which Grace attempts to text her husband. Set after they get seperated.

This sentiment that contradicts the hero side’s certainty in their righteousness is so important to the moral conflict of this arc, and it’s immediately undermined by giving that questioning role to a comic relief character whose most notable character trait is harassing women.

Honestly, Mineta’s constant undermining of the violation of bodily autonomy as horror theme does a disservice to what otherwise could have been an interesting minor character who has misgivings about the field he signed up for due to a combination of his intelligence and cowardice.

[Fight scene where The Heroes and also Shigaraki are trying to defeat Overhaul.]

"Oi, Sir Nighteye, you like jokes, right? What did the unstoppable force say to the immoveable object?"

"...What."

"Get, 'em, Player 2."

But, if we're taking timelines into account, the only way i can make it work as a twist is by making it a Future Fic or Aging Up Eri, both of which may have various implications.

Now i'm thinking: AU where Midoriya never becomes a Hero. Maybe AFO's on the loose causing terror, Maybe AFO was killed when All Might thought he'd killed him, but All Might was killed on the job or forced to retire. Either way, AM's absence or AFO's prescence causes chaos. Queue the "Saviors" of the hour: A seemingly perfectly legitimate pharmaceutical company has found a way to suppress peoples' Quirks temporarily OR permanently so of course the government pays for the mass production and deployment of this "miracle" and it becomes standard issue for police and Heroes alike.

Idk how yet, but SOMEHOW an adult Midoriya ends up getting into hot water with the Japanese Mafia and meets this extremely broken fifteen-year-old girl and immediately decides to save her.

everyone lives AU in which, 10 years or so after chara first falls into the underground, reports begin to surface of another human roaming the ruins... and of course prince asriel can't leave well enough alone.

(bonus: their respective punishments)