#dexrants

I love the DFO interpretations where AFO genuinely and truly loves Inko and Izuku with all his heart and would do terrible things for them. This is because I feel like Izuku, and Inko to some extent, have been screwed over and unfairly bashed both in-universe and out. Their world’s society and culture absolutely FAILED them and the way fans shit on them for being kind characters working through their flaws is honestly so gross to me. So I feel like having a husband and father who absolutely adores them, sees past these shortcomings, and recognizes their worth is oddly comforting and cathartic to me.

As someone once said “A hero would sacrifice you for the world, a villain would sacrifice the world for you”, and that level of devotion and love is just one of those things that even if it’s unhealthy or not necessarily morally right, it just appeals to me so damn much.

Not only that, but I feel like the concept of an AFO who really does love his family holds a mirror to the kind of culture that permeates the society the Midoriyas live in. If someone practically revered and upheld as a role model, like Endeavour, is an abhorrent man to the people he should’ve loved and protected while someone who’s the fucking Symbol of Evil adores them to no end…what does that say about Hero Society and the culture it’s bred and kept alive? What kind of culture would consider an abusive and controlling patriarch as someone to look up to? What would drive someone to go off the deep end to the point that they obsessively cling on to the few people who gave them positive attention while not batting an eye at condemning everyone else?

All in all I like the “DFO who really does love Inko and Izuku” take because it feels like a fresh air towards the mistreatment of two characters who don’t deserve it (at least I don’t think they do) and because I feel it fits in with the themes that BNHA has…or at least seemed to have until the ending where the status quo remained…

THAT FEELS LIKE SUCH A SLAP IN THE FACE TOWARDS IZUKU! THAT PRECIOUS GREEN BOI DID NOT GO THROUGH HELL AND BACK JUST TO BE CRUELLY DISCARDED LIKE THAT 😭

I’ve read the fanfic that this post referenced and holy shit was OP ever right about how a simple yet cool concept that is Baelor Breakspear getting a dragon hatched invited a whole-ass debate thread with people asking “wHy dOeS hE dEsErVe a DWAGON!?” or trying to desperately find reason as to why Baelor is not a good man (smh). Like...Baelor already had a horrible death in canon, can’t you just leave the people who want him to live up to his potential alone? People just wanna see this man live and prosper despite his asshole grandpa and uncle actively trying to undermine him. Damn, was Baelor having his head burst open not enough for you? 

Or this reddit post in r/Citadel asking for fic recs where Sunspear or Dorne gets burned down because they want to see the Dornish “get put in their place”...you know, the descendants of the people who were ENSLAVED. OP really asked for the brown people to be burnt for daring to fight back against the power-hungry descendants of the PEOPLE WHO ENSLAVED THEM. I’m sorry, but as someone who comes from a country that has been colonized by multiple countries and is still reeling from the long-term trauma it has caused, people do not owe shit to their colonizers or anyone who is still trying to perpetuate the different systems that they made.

Then there’re those who cry about how Daeron II “gave the Dornish more than they deserved.” I’m sorry...what? Dorne was literally just forced into submitting to the Targaryens by his dad’s cousin. They suffered immense losses because another Daeron wanted to play at war and decided he’s gonna continue his ancestors’ tradition. No, not the one that is fucking your sister, but the one that is making people bow down to you via giant fire iguana. Daeron the Good was aware how much his namesake fucked up Dorne, and did what he could. The Dornish needed to heal and be respected, not burned and be colonised all over again. 

Yo, okay...so the top picture is a part of my decidueye x tsareena doodle dump...and the bottom picture is from a post I found in the Pokemon amino that was submitted by someone with the username of “Tsaridueye”....where I wasn’t mentioned...or credited...

Y’ALL someone just traced my drawing, posted it, and passed it off as their own without crediting me as the original artist