#pencilthoughts

Being a full-on hero and teacher’s gotta be pretty rough, and as a person who has picked up several bad habits from dealing with stress, I can’t help but imagine that pro heroes Present Mic, Eraserhead, and especially All Might would have their own outlets.

Hizashi picks at the skin on his hands and chews his nails down till they’re raw if he’s left to his own devices unchecked. It’s part of the reason he wears nail polish so much: fashionable and deterring.

Shouta clenches his jaw and grinds his teeth subconsciously when he grades papers. He can never tell if the resulting headaches are from Quirk strain on his eyes or simply tension headaches from his jaw. He can’t bite ice cream bars anymore.

Toshinori pulls at his bangs absentmindedly and on bad days he bites his lip until it bleeds, but he’ll assume the blood he wipes away is from the hacking cough he acquired since the incident. He’ll only be aware of it later when his mouthwash stings and burns against the wounds.

And over the years of working together at Yuuei the three definitely would have picked up each other’s bad habits and set up a little reminder system to get the others to quit it. Toshi learns to carry gum for the other two, Shouta will start up conversations if he sees his coworkers chewing on themselves, and Hizashi throws ridiculous high fives and other gestures to snap them out of it.

Greg doesn’t appear in this movie too much, but his face when Amethyst asks him to shift into Rose is heartbreaking.

It’s the face of a man who dearly loved his wife even after she made Steven. He truly loved Rose (Pink?) not just for her looks or for her royal status, and even though he does his best with Steven he keeps her photos around, he tells and retells their stories, he gives his all for his family and her legacy.

He’s trying so hard. He wants his son to get his friends back. He wants to believe he’s over her after all these years. But that look in his eyes when he sees Rose, even a fake Rose, that look of so much hurt and years of putting up a strong front for the sake of his son and the Gems.

okay so after replaying deltarune i noticed something about lancer and his hinted relationship with his father

implied abuse tw below btw

there’s a part in the dialogue where ralsei tries to explain how having all support enemies as a team is like having three glasses of milk for dinner, to which lancer replies, “and that’s um....unusual, somehow?”

a little unsettling how lancer literally finds the fact that having glasses of milk for dinner isn't strange at all

and then i started picking up more stuff

like the fact that he wants to join your group after you tell him just a couple compliments

and the fact that any responsible father would be apprehensive about the fact that their kid is running around town on a flaming bike. 

or how lancer’s allowed to smash people into blood, but not make a mess out of it. you notice how lancer’s more afraid of getting blood on the tiles than literally smashing people into blood?

and how he's so used to getting screamed at and threatened that after susie picks him up and tries to literally bite his face off he takes it as constructive criticism

and speaking of that, remember when susie fought him in the prison? he stood there. he never pleaded, he never dodged, he didn’t cry or yell in pain. he stood there and took it, almost as though he knew fighting back was useless. now i wonder where he learned that behavior? 

i mean jeez the poor kid

he’s never even had dark candy before even though he cartwheels all around the kingdom, he’s so afraid to defy his father he can’t even bring himself to pick a candy off a tree

have i mentioned the fact that he tries to defend his father too? even though it’s clear his father abuses him or at the very least neglects him to some degree? 

no wonder lancer considers rouxls kaard his “lesser dad” i mean cmon

Siblings can be little fucks

Like, you gotta love them but sometimes you just wanna yeet them to Madagascar

And I hold firm the belief that even Mr. Perfect Class President Iida Tenya, Mr. “No Running In The Halls and Take Your Feet Off the Desks Single File Please” tends to unwind enough around family to be a little shit toward Tensei sometimes

Everyone’s like “wow Iida is such a good role model, solid academics and good moral code, always willing to help out and just always the teacher’s pet” and Tensei is somewhere off to the side like “???? he woke me up last week by kneeing me in the crotch??”

And Aizawa would totally be in on this too, he probably got invited over to Tensei’s house all the time when they were in high school

…scream about high school erasermic because it’s 1:23 AM and I have nothing else to do

High school erasermic is a trope that comes up a lot, but most people go for the Useless!Gay Hizashi and Shouta, the Tall, Dark, and Handsome.

But imagine Mic in primary and middle school struggling to even learn about how his Quirk works and how in god’s name he can make it so that he can ask for permission to pee without shattering the classroom windows. and even through high school there’s this predetermined notion about him that he’s the loud, annoying blond kid whose voice cracks so hard it can knock a person out.

Imagine Mic picking up on murmurs in the classrooms:

“I wish he came with an off switch.”

“I hope he can pay for my medical bills for my shredded eardrums.”

And the ever-famous “Couldn’t that Aizawa guy do something about the noise with his Quirk?”

Imagine Mic clinging to Shouta because he’s convinced after all these years that his Quirk is not very practical in battle and that if his voice could get cancelled that he would be much safer.

Imagine Shouta initially being angry at being stuck with the Loud Boy but quickly realizing that this kid, nearly as socially outcasted as he is despite his booksmarts and funny jokes, is actually legitimately ashamed of having his Quirk.

Imagine Mic originally hanging out with Shouta in an attempt to make himself “safer” and in some subconscious, desperate hope that Shouta might fix him somehow. Imagine Shouta slowly showing him that there’s nothing wrong with having a voice Quirk.

“You just have to apply it in practical ways,” Shouta tells Hizashi. “If I can take down Tensei with a cloth strip and four minutes of intense glaring, you can think of something too.”

And as time goes by Hizashi gets more confident in his abilities to control his voice. Shouta, much to his surprise, never bothered to silence him much with his Quirk. It was more of short, encouraging words that brought him to where he was.

Encouraging words and a solid friendship.

And Mic learning all these different ways to use his Quirk to his advantage during battle, Mic gaining enough confidence to control his Quirk so he slips up less and knows how to handle himself when he does crack really hard. Mic realizing that despite Shouta’s outer shell of cactus bristles that Shouta ended up being the only person to stick with him and support him. Mic coming to terms with the fact that there was so much more to Shouta then what he let on during school hours.

And now ensue the hopeless!gay.png

WHO’S THE ONLY OTHER BIG LUMBERING CHARACTER WITH A REFERENCE TO A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

WHO’S THE ONLY EX-HERO WHO CANNOT SPEAK AND HAS TO USE MUSIC TO ACTUALLY COMMUNICATE, MUCH AKIN TO HOW ELEPHANTS TRUMPET

AND WHATS THAT FAMILIAR PHRASE WE ALL KNOW RGB TO SAY RIGHT BEFORE RECRUITING NEW HEROES

I just had a thought about this particular moment from the Market

So to break the continuity of the TPOH universe for a moment, I’d imagine that a whole lot of other characters we all know and love once traipsed through here too.

Some time ago the barebones sketches of Marvel and DC superheroes might have wandered the Market’s alleys, back in an era where Stan Lee was first starting to flesh out their stories and designs.

Or perhaps the inspiration for Sherlock? Did the detective duo strut along here when Doyle first set pen to paper?

How many of our other favorite cartoons and television shows and movies and novels have all had their characters pass through this market, fluctuating and taking form as their creators wove their stories into reality?

i feel like everyone has a headcanon or the other about shouta feeding stray cats or taking them under his wing, but like

shouta and kids, man

imagine him having to patrol around the sketchier parts of town and just seeing little settlements of children abandoned and huddled together in dark corners, children abandoned for their quirks, for their deformities.

sometimes he has to go on missions chasing those kids for stealing things out of pure necessity, and when he catches them they beg him to let them go because they hadn’t eaten in three days. he sees the older ones straining their quirks for hours to protect the younger ones from rain and the cold.

imagine shouta taking it upon himself to scout these areas the check on the kids and suddenly it just so happens now and again that tupperwares and packages of snacks and unspoiled food appear near their ragged little tents. it just so happens that forms for job applications start drifting into their alleyways. it just so happens that any event hosting massive amounts of free food suddenly has fifty copies of their fliers dumped all over the kids’ territory.

on christmas the kids receive a huge package. they tear it open to find a bunch of new tents and yellow sleeping bags catering to various sizes, some gift cards for food, and a note that simply says, “there's someone out there that cares. look after yourselves, there's always more chances down the road. merry christmas.”

and then imagine one day shouta’s looking over his roster for the new yuuei school year and sees a familiar face

it's the kid who got thrown out because her quirk was deemed too unsightly, too violent. the last time he'd seen her she was trying to hold down an illegal part-time job and still having to dig food from restaurant dumpsters

but now she sits in the third row, beaming. her face, though a bit on the thin side, is ecstatic, and she's here. shouta later finds out in her files that she got in through a scholarship application that took in talented children from regular schools.

and at the end of class as he's packing up his things he sees her standing beside him, holding out a bound book.

"thank you for believing in all of us," she says. she leaves afterward, and when shouta looks inside the book it's an album full of all the kids he's been providing food and supplies for and how they are

he finds out that a couple got adopted, a few found jobs, and others were like her and got into schools to hone their skills and contribute to society as heroes

and all of them are smiling, beaming at the camera