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Obviously, she was a shit mother. She deliberately neglected Ashley, (which definitely led to her being so fucked up as a person) parentified Andrew while also blatantly favoring him, she’s cold, cruel, manipulative, and wasn’t there for either of them when they really needed it. Not to mention literally leaving her children for dead and then profiting off of their deaths as a miracle solution to pull herself out of poverty.

And yet…. In a way, I feel for her. She kinda got what she deserved in the end, granted she got the most extreme version of what she deserved, but nevertheless. She was only 15 when she had Andrew, literally a child, yet she speaks about having both her kids as if it was a choice, calling Andrew an “easy child” and assuming she could handle a second because of that.

She’s 37 years old, that’s still so young, and based on the way she dresses and speaks she clearly reached her age of stagnation as a teen, when she got pregnant. Now all she wants to do is live in a nice home, have kinky sex with her husband, grow a veggie garden and make friends in her community. A simple, happy life. The kind she probably didn’t think she’d have as a teen mom who was likely raised in poverty, given their standard of living and the fact that she had a kid while she was still a kid herself; an occurrence that’s unfortunately far too common in lower-income/high poverty areas.

It has a lot of funny and sad heartfelt moments!

(Also midnights death is more sad)

Heavy topic.

While tokoyami finds his alignment more in touch with literature, dark shadow is drawn to art. So of course Mrs Midnights art history class is their favorite. They love Mrs Midnight, she is always so sweet to them and even lets them be out during class. They have made lots of drawing to give to her and chat about all different time periods, styles, and regions of art. She also has a sadistic side and “enjoys tormenting her opponent” which dark shadow also has fun doing >:)

She has a reputation for being a very good listener and open to all kinds of problems. When someone is struggling with something embarrassing (such as nsfw, lgbtq, and romantic topics) she is someone that it feels ok to talk about those things with. We know she gives good advice and uplifts and inspires her students. Tokoyami has probably talked to her about such subjects before although he’s too focused on his hero work than to worry about romance.

While the audience usually sees nemuri in the light of her hero persona I like to think she is much more calm and motherly towards her students in one on one interactions. She is the fun and free spirit of UA which contrasts aizawa’s strict nature.

Nemuri adores shadow because they are cute and feisty. She loves their enthusiasm and vigor and how much they love participating in class.

She thinks tokoyami is to mature for his age and want him to have some fun and relax more, act like a kid. She tries to encourage some playfulness in him with the help of shadow and get him to be a little more reckless. It’s not very effective but toko tries to take her advice as much as he can. Maybe he does a couple things to be a bit more rebellious now.

She also tells him not to be so afraid of consequences for mistakes, has a lot of fear for hurting people and that seems to control a lot of his actions. Once again he’s not going to get over his traumas immediately but he’s slowly working on them.

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I don’t really wanna write about her…loss but I suppose I can say something.

They were devastated obviously upon the news. There is guilt because they went to save hawks instead of rejoining their class and if they had been there would she have lived? Did she have to die in order to save hawks? but mostly there is grief, intense loss. Tokoyami disassociated as first and focused on being rational and calm, he tries to comfort his classmates…and shadow. Shadow cries, cries, and cries and is also so very angry, angry at who did this. It takes time for them to heal and gain some semblance of normalcy again. They can’t think about their favorite class without hurting and missing her so much.

Toko only allows himself to break down when he is in his room. Sometimes this frustrates shadow but they are familiar with Tokoyami’s suppression at this point and doesn’t hold it against him. He thinks he has failed by not listening to her as well as he should have. He regrets not getting closer to her before she was gone. It hurts, shadow holds him while they cry, maybe they are holding each other.