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An Ambush Simulation comic.

Fair warning, this is not one of my usual lighthearted ones. If you’ve read the fic, you’ll know the scene, but if you haven’t, be warned there is brief domestic violence and some blood. Nothing more serious than what's already in My Hero's canon.

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Ah, yes. The inciting moment for The Summer Camp Ambush Simulation.

Addressing the reason why things escalated so quickly, since the answer is not really given in the accompanying fic either, we need to look at Endeavor’s point of view. He’s invested twenty-three years into his goal of trying to complete his perfect successor. He has almost succeeded with Shouto, except the events of Hosu City nearly jeopardized that beyond repair. Shouto is his last chance. He can’t have another kid, it’s unlikely he can train a grandchild to succeed him. (You can’t tell me he didn’t consider that.) Shouto being charged with vigilantism and having that black mark could have ruined everything he’s worked so hard for.

And now Touya, his past failure and current problem child who has been charged repeatedly with vigilantism, is stepping between him and Shouto and mouthing off. He’s interfering, just like his mother did.

Old 'habits' die hard.

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I thought about cutting the comic short with the brothers heading to the bathroom, but I thought it was important to also include Touya's toxic behavior. Yeah, he has PTSD, abandonment trauma, and who knows what else, but acting like this isn't healthy either.

In Chapter 2, Touya fixates on the fact that Endeavor hit him. He barely pays attention to the fact Shouto was there.

In Chapter 3, Shouto is the one whose pov provides the whole picture. He was being scolded and then Touya stood up for him. Touya has never stood up for him, nor does he really understand why he did it. During the confrontation, Endeavor hits Touya. Endeavor has never done that before. Two of Shouto's 'normals' got overturned in the span of two minutes. He's confused, but he still tries to do the right thing by his hostile sibling.

And rather than accept his help, Touya lashes out at him again once the shock wears off. As he is in canon, he is still spiteful, self-destructive, and a bit self-pitying and returning home after the coma in this AU did little to change that because the core issue is Endeavor being a bad parent.

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And if there's any confusion as to why Shouto sees Rei briefly after Touya is knocked to the floor, this is a bit of dialogue from the fic it's from:

"I spent my entire childhood listening to my mother crying because you hurt her over and over.  I refuse to live through that again with my brother."

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Fun fact: I did not draw these pages in order.

Through the whole bathroom scene, all I could think was, "Shouto...baby...gloves."

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"Make some friends and forget about being a hero."

So a little fanart from the burning letters scene in chapter 18, I loved that moment. I'm currently re-reading and wanted to draw it.

@pain-in-the-butler Hope you like it!

(I know Ciel wasn't standing in that scene but I didn't know how to draw him sitting down without ruining the composition, so let's ignore that)

Short chapter but interesting nonetheless.

First of all, Vladis is a BD confirmed. Not that we had any doubt left, with him possibly being Lord Polaris and needing blood transfusions, but the confirmation here means that he's been dead for a long while because he has no idea who Queen Victoria is.

This means Vladis died before 1837 for sure (most likely even further before) implying his conflict with Seb is really an old one.

So when did Modri died ? A century ago or more ? That will be interesting to find out.

Another confirmation : Victoria is able to differentiate between the twins.

Like it was discussed before, that's one more hint in favor of the RCMT.

Agreed with Ciel, it most certainly is no coincidence that Victoria would be here, in a hotel full of BDs and members of the Aurora society when she's shown great interest in the BD project (ch84).

Have I mentioned enough the repeated comical pattern about demons and their favorite animals ? If not, that's here [x][x]

^ me upon realizing that Victoria might end up speaking about Albert's death next chapter, and we will have further confirmation that Brown is a demon "manipulating" her sadness through that Albert doll or, even better, we might finally get hints that Claudia P is more or less involved in the events of his death.

1- She will talk about her husband's death.

2- She will make a whole analogy to death and how she is old and close to death.

🎄✨🐰🎁

O.a: Yana Toboso

Kuroshitsuji colored by me