plus ultra !

It’s almost as if they forgot that Iida is not only one of Deku’s best friends, and someone who was inspired by him a lot (paralleling the Stain arc, the Kamino arc), but he is the CLASS PRESIDENT (at Deku’s initiation, no less).

In a chapter called “Form Class A to OFA”, where the entire class working together to respond to all of Deku’s extra quirks and to chip away his mental resistance all culminating in a final super-combo to launch their class president at Deku means that the Class as a whole has reached Deku.

Why are people making this into a ship war or a who is Deku’s closest bestie competition? This is not only there to parallel Deku using Kirishima to save Bakugou, in which case, sure Ochako or Shouto would have been good choices too. 

But this is more. This is about class A showing Deku that 19 quirks combined can keep up with OFA, that they don’t want to be protected, but want to fight with him and that they have all grown to be true heroes who will meddle whether Deku wants it or not, just like he meddled too, way before he became as OP as he is now. 

Iida who is the most class-focused character and the literal face of Class 1-A is the perfect focal person to represent all of them in that last moment and honestly the best choice to get that message through to Deku. 

Baby Kags chewing a volleyball before he can walk vs Shouto learning to glide on ice before crawling normally. 

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

I am absolutely loving these past three chapters. 2nd OFA user turned out to be even better than I expected but what exactly did I expect? Of course he'd think Deku having people standing alongside him would be better, he lived through war, band of brothers is his deal.

Well, and especially iideku since is one of the ships with more moments but with less fandom??

(proportionally talking, I know there are less popular ships, but still)

I mean, all these happened

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