ollie

oh you wanna make Mic look stupid, Horikoshi?

Two can play that game.

I love his beard.

i wasn’t sure initially but after he made the comment about “boys don’t cry” i’m way more convinced. aizawa was like this as well early in vigilantes before he was forced to face it during that time he spent under that awning w koichi but i don’t think hizashi ever fully got that moment even after shirakumo was revealed to be used for kurogiri.

it’s well known that hizashi focused on aizawa because of how he shut down when it first happened and because of that, hizashi never truly faced his own feelings; but, i think it’s deeper than that. hizashi has become so used to doing this for aizawa that genuinely can’t stop even after aizawa is showing signs of getting better with his own responses. part of him doesn’t want to face it probably.

i’m thinking about how gentle and compassionate she was with eri, finally providing the motherly love that sweet child deserves. and yet the universe saw to it that yet another mother figure to eri disappeared without saying goodbye.

i’m thinking about her “folks”, still alive in the horrific way some parents must outlive their kids. the ones who loved her enough to keep her kimono after over two decades of being unused, because the garb was precious just for having been a temporary part of her.

i’m thinking about her love for her friends and the students, her heart always open for others. how she always made the effort to connect, because at the end of the day, what else is there that humans truly need?

im thinking about the grief they all still held for shirakumo, and the magnification of that ache for aizawa and yamada as they lose yet another loved one too soon. the glue that held them together, cruelly taken and leaving no time for proper mourning.

i’m thinking about the vigor for life she always preached, and all of the years she should’ve had left to be filled with the plans she was making. i’m thinking of her hopes, her dreams, and the brighter days she hoped were ahead.

i’m thinking of the unnatural order of things, with recovery girl having to bury her student being the same sort of twisted fate as a parent having to bury their child. i’m thinking about how it wasn’t supposed to be like this.

im thinking about kayama.

i’m thinking about all of the teachers, and recovery girl and nezu, who will remember her when the cherry blossoms bloom the next spring. how her absence will be glaring and gutting, the pain still too fresh and so wrong.

i’m thinking about aizawa, and how after all of these years he will be faced with an abandoned sushi once again, without shirakumo and kayama to step in and care for the cat this time.

i’m thinking about the students, likely the first experience of true loss for most of them. i’m thinking about the kindness, encouragement, and patience left behind. the fond memories, the valuable lessons, and the warm compassion she provided. i’m thinking of all of the things that will be cherished by those who loved her that must live on in her wake.

This is so, so very true. Nemuri, especially in the anime, got done so dirty. Viewers as well as canon characters so very often dismiss (or are not aware) of how caring and nurturing and smart and capable and lots of other things she is. She is not just Midnight, the R-Rated Hero. No, she is Nemuri Kayama: friend, daughter, teacher, mentor, person who not only brought Eri an extremely (emotionally) valuable traditional piece of clothing from her own collection but taught her a bit of reading and writing (if I remember correctly from the Light Novels).

And Horikoshi very often did a LOT of the women dirty in MHA in general (hence why there are quite a few fix-it fics for that problem - something I love to see. Or at least, fics in which female characters are explored more thoroughly and in depth).

She's a positive character that knows very well how to utilize her "advantages" and image, while still keeping her morals as an absolute priority - teaching and protecting kids, ensuring (or at least trying to do that) that they can live their youth to the fullest and experience a lot of positive things in life. Just as she wishes for her friends and colleagues.

I was hoping all of last and this week to see Tokoyami’s family, but they didn’t appear, so I took it upon my own hands to draw what I imagine to be his bara bird dad. Headcanons about him under the cut!

Mostly just Mic this time because Aizawa is hard to draw ヽ(；▽；)ノ