#hero's asks

Follow-up to this post.

Oh Celine is one hundred percent teaching that kid all the tricks she learned when she was younger, as well as all the ones she never got to do after she became an idol.

She considered it payment for the hell that was raising a half demon toddler by herself.

Ironically, the ones suffering the most in this situation are Mira and Zoey. Cause they really want to love and pamper their wife while she carries their child (also they think she's hot as fuck with a baby bump), but right now the person currently inhabiting that body is their mentor and also kinda mother if you squint (Celine is kinda sorta Rumi’s mom in a way which kinda sorta makes her Mira and Zoey’s mother in law [don't think to hard about it]) and that just feels weird as shit.

Second place is Rumi, who is now learning exactly what 15-20 years (I'm guessing on the exact timeline) of raising a child, being an idol, and hunting demons will do to a body, especially one belonging to someone with very low self-preservation (please Celine if you won't see a regular therapist than at least see a physical one).

And, funnily enough, the one suffering the least is actually Celine. Sure, pregnancy isn't exactly a fun time for the body (speaking as someone who has never been nor possesses the ability to become pregnant), but those downsides are negated by the fact she's currently in a body that's 20 years younger and much better taken care of (keep in mind that this would be several months to at least a year post canon and Mira and Zoey have made damn sure that Rumi actually takes care of herself).

Look, by the time that kid is old enough to talk to and understand people, Celine is both A) retired and B) been through several months of therapy, so she is significantly more relaxed than she was back in the day. Which means she is much more willing to let her mischievous side out.

So yes, that kid is going to be getting into all sorts of trouble, much to Rumi’s dismay.

Ooh this actually gives me an excuse to talk about one of my personal Celine headcanons.

I don't think Celine is an alcoholic. However, I do think she is someone who turns to alcohol (among other things) in times of great emotional distress. And she pulls herself out of that distress by focusing on her responsibilities and pushing her emotions aside.

Hold up fam you just might be cookin here.

Blonde

Former bully

Explosive temper

Willing to sacrifice themselves for their best friend

Bad bitch

In love with their best friend(s)

Class A retaliates on Midoriya's behalf, takes it too far, and MoralParagon!Midoriya comes in to save the day

DamselinDistress!Midoriya is rescued by everyone and is maybe even adopted by All Might or Aizawa, because, for some reason, Inko is always portrayed as abusive in these fics.

EvenMoreOP!BAMF!Midoriya exacts his revenge on everyone that's ever wronged him, Bakugou, Class-1A, All Might (?), Inko (??), etc., etc.

And all of the ones that I've come across in these categories reduce all of the characters involved to such one-dimensional beings that they're just so...uninteresting.

I could also talk about how a lot of them have weird plot holes or contradictory stances (for ex., one I read recently spent a long time arguing that Bakugou's quirk is unsuited for heroics bc his quirk is combat not rescue-based & dangerous if not controlled properly but by that same logic characters like Mina, Denki and even Shoto's quirks aren't suited for heroics). Or about how, for some reason, a lot of these authors will go and criticize other fanfic authors' writing choices on how to handle the issue of consequences (like why have I seen multiple people argue in the notes of their fics that the consequences don't count if therapy is also attached to them?? Especially when mandated therapy/counseling is a thing, particularly bc there are mountains of research demonstrating that punishment alone is wholly ineffective for facilitating change or preventing repeat behavior, but I digress).

However, what really gets me is when the author says that they're taking Horikoshi's outline for his arc and "executing it better" while also taking the stance that Bakugou is incapable of changing and should never have gotten into UA or been allowed to become a hero, which is just something entirely different from what the outline of his arc was. More importantly, is that to me when the author does this it's just telling me that the author believes that affording people the capacity to change and allowing them the opportunity to be redeemed/rehabilitated is conditional on a set of arbitrary factors (factors like: does this person have any kind of "value" to society, how sympathetic of a person are they, how likable are they, etc., etc.) which is the exact same stance that Horikoshi took when he killed all the villains and it’s just so ironic to me when people do that.

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