no discourse from me, just reblogs

this is Mineta, one of the franchises' many side characters, describing how he "fell for" the main character, Deku. Now while there has been some debate over if this translation is accurate, fan translators have dug into the original text and found that the verb he's using here in Japanese is almost always used to mean "fell in love with" so while this may not pan out in the long run, this appears to be Mineta coming out as either gay or bi.

to put into context how funny this is, BNHA has a massive shipping community (mostly centered around various combinations of the male leads) who have been begging for gay representation in the series for YEARS. There are people who have gone to Johnlock levels of trutherism for some of these ships like it's that insane.

But Mineta is NOT one of those characters that people like shipping with the other boys. In fact, Mineta is, by far, the most hated character in the whole series. Mineta is nearly universally regarded as being annoying, unfunny, and awful. His entire personality is that he's a lecherous pervert who will take every opportunity he can get to peep on or sexually harass the girls. People fucking DISPISE this guy. There are well populated tags on AO3 for him being either dead, absent from the story, or replaced by another character. Also he looks like this:

Let me just laugh at their pain if only just for today

cause you know what, I hope this is canon. I hope Mineta IS in love with Deku.

I hope Deku is in love with him

And I hope we die

Ah yes I too love Shouto ‘I would kill a man for you if you asked, Midoriya’ Todoroki

(Original post by @ bnhajourney)

Some of these are with situations and dialogue, others are with similar poses alone

Also, these are completely out of order so sorry about that lol

SPOILERS FOR THE MANGA

Standing at the beginning of their stories

Foot juxtaposition

Knowing what they must do

Fighting a teacher/potential mentor

Told to stop by ghosts but not acknowledging them

Looking up in contemplation, thinking their thoughts

Looming threats

Inspired by Heroes

Melancholy in the rain

Teens down on their luck :(

Met the doctor at an early age

Homeless and hungry

God I’m So Tired

Gotta defeat the big bad guy, btw I love my friends

Immobilized after USJ and got motivational comments from their teachers

I’M NOT GIVING UP SO FIGHT ME ALREADY speech and poses

BONUSES

Thinking about each other twice in the same lil compilation

My wish for chapter #319 🥲

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