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This is just something I decided to do for fun because I really got into the concept of monofloral honeys. Especially monofloral honeys that could be infused to provide further symbolism to each cake I have presented. I also may have been inspired by a certain someone making Tenya an orange juice cake in a school briefs novel. Orange juice cake just sounds so basic, even if it probably tasted good. I wanted to see if I could improve on the concept based on Tenya's other likes and did it for the rest as well. I guess I'll leave it up to everybody else to decide how well I incorporated the characters into their cakes and/or if they would actually taste good in real life (or structurally work, for that matter).

Yuga Aoyama

Crème brûlée mille crepe filled with cream cheese mousse between each layer. The top crepe layer is covered with caramelized cream (the crème brûlée aspect), while the border exterior is covered with torched meringue. The top is also piped with a torched meringue border. The border is also decorated with edible glitter.

Mina Ashido

Cherry soufflé cheesecake covered in marshmallow crème frosting. It’s also topped with kuromitsu drizzle, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, pineapple slices, and pomegranate seeds.

Tsuyu Asui

Plum yogurt castella that’s covered in blue chantilly with a green chantilly top. The middle of the cake has a butterfly pea kanten layer, filled with tapioca boba pearls and star-shaped lychee jellies. The top is covered with strawberry slices arranged to look like a water lily. The top is also drizzled with plum sauce.

Tenya Iida

Rotweinkuchen-inspired chiffon cake, decorated with vanilla buttercream piping with candied orange twists. On top of the cake, inside the piping is red wine syrup-soaked orange wedges circling the top. The middle layer consists of sorbet made from orange juice. The sides of the cakes are hidden behind dark blue buttercream frosting (flavored with freeze-dried blueberries).

Ochako Uraraka

Chocolate castella cake made with strawberry-infused cherry blossom honey and adzukicha-steeped milk. In the middle of the cake is a yokan layer with chopped strawberries and chantilly above it. On top of the cake is a sakura gyuhi sheet with cream piping circling the edges of it. Decorating the piping are strawberry slices and pomegranate seeds. In the center of the top is a rose-cut strawberry on top of a dollop of cream. Chantily also covers the sides of the cake. Pomegranate seeds also decorate the bottom piping of the cake.

Mashirao Ojiro

Black sesame castella made with banana milk and peach blossom honey. In the middle of the cake is yokan made with lotus paste. It’s covered with white chantilly with piping, topped with banana slices on the top. In the middle are peach slices formed to look like a lotus blossom.

Denki Kaminari

Dried, thin, lime round-infused lemon blossom honey castella cake with a triple-layered imo yokan middle (purple, yellow, and green). White chocolate chips were scattered on top and baked to the top of the cake. In the middle is a toothpick with a candied lemon twist sticking on top of it. Half of it is covered with lemon chantilly, giving the appearance of a half-opened wrapper. On top of the chantilly is black currant syrup, drizzled in the shape of a lightning bolt.

Eijiro Kirishima

Red velvet castella that uses cocoa nib-infused chestnut honey and chocolate milk for flavor and red shiso extract for red color. It uses cream cheese chantilly mixed with black sesame and a little bit of charcoal for a volcanic aesthetic (like Mount Kirishima). Garnished on the top with candied sakura blossoms. Lastly, in the middle of the cake is a mango ice cream with chopped strawberries.

Koji Koda

Carrot/brown sugar castella made with alfalfa honey in the batter. In the middle, the cake is layered with cream cheese chantilly and chopped strawberries and banana slices. On top of the cake is cream cheese chantilly decorated with strawberry slices, banana slices, blueberries, and bunny-cut apple slices.

Rikido Sato

Two baumkuchens with a Tottori pear ice cream in the middle layer. Strawberry slices line the exterior of the ice cream layer. The cakes were made with acacia honey that was infused with vanilla beans, almonds, and wisteria blossoms. The top of the cake has a hill of chantilly with purple sweet potato puree, wrapped around the cream like a mont blanc. The mont blanc is decorated with sablé cookie crumble and one yellow, candied chestnut to top it all. The rest of the cake is covered with yellow, roasted chestnut, buttercream frosting and vanilla buttercream piping. Finally, the sweet potato puree hangs off the sides of the cake like wisteria vines.

Mezo Shoji

Pancake batter chiffon cake with German buttercream frosting, flavored with a soy sauce, dulce de leche mix. The cake is also topped with tempura sweet potato wedges, sliced Amaou strawberries, white chocolate shavings, chopped candied ginger, and crushed pistachios. The middle of the cake contains squid ink ice cream.

Kyoka Jiro

Cocoa beet castella made with hojicha-infused plum blossom honey. The middle is filled with cream and black currant jam. The top is piped with cream and topped with strawberry slices, drizzled with kuromitsu that looks like EKG lines.

Hanta Sero

Cinnamon and edamame chiffon cake with a coconut milk kanten layer filled with orange wedges in the middle. The whole cake is covered in tofu frosting flavored with coconut milk and mango. The top of the cake is covered with more orange wedges.

Fumikage Tokayami

Black cocoa castella that uses apple-infused apple blossom honey. In the middle, sandwiched in the middle of the cake, is apple/cherry juice kanten, filled with blackberries and apple slices. On top of the cake is a hill of chantilly dollops with a yellow chestnut on top. Around the mound of cream is a circle of four, rabbit-cut, apple wedges. The rest of the cake is covered in black chantilly, piping included.

Shoto Todoroki

Sobacha baumkuchen made with a mint and ginger-infused buckwheat blossom honey. The cake is topped with tokoroten made with sobacha-steeped buckwheat milk. The milk kanten noodles are decorated with dark chocolate shavings to look like zaru soba. The sides of the cake are covered and piped with a buttercream frosting. One side of the frosting is colored deep red, while the other side is lightly tinted blue. The red side of the piping is decorated with raspberries and sugar crystals that look like fire. Meanwhile, the blue side is decorated with blueberries and sugar crystals that look like ice. The cake comes with a bowl of plum/yuzu syrup, for the tsuyu sauce pun. Two pocky sticks are also present for chopstick representation, which can theoretically be used.

Toru Hagakure

Caramel sauce-soaked chiffon cake with layers of purin, white chocolate ganache, and coconut water kanten sandwiched between the layers of soaked cake. The exterior of the cake is covered with chantilly and topped with white strawberry slices, konpeito, and mint leaves in the center.

Katsuki Bakugo

Bombe Alaska made with Amaou strawberry shortcake baumkuchen (technically more like a roll cake slice in the shape of a baumkuchen, not an actual one), Miyazaki mango ice cream, and topped with meringue that was made with chili-infused sugar. The baumkuchen-shaped roll cake is flavored with chocolate and some charcoal for color. The chantilly filling is salted caramel, filled with chopped strawberries. The cake uses kōrēgusuto to set it on fire before consumption.

Izuku Midoriya

Honeydew castella, made with pistachio-infused clover honey and dark chocolate chips baked into the top. In the middle is chantilly with chopped strawberries and under that filling is yokan. On top is a chantilly piping topped with nine strawberry slices, drizzled with dark chocolate ganache. Finally, there are also nine green apple wedges cut like rabbits on the top, circling the center. Chantilly covers the sides of the cake to keep the layers hidden.

Minoru Mineta

Fukure-gashi, made with vanilla, lemon juice (to replace vinegar in classic recipe), and kudzu honey. Shōchū-soaked, dried, black currants are baked into the batter. Similar to berry chantilly, it’s sliced to have cream and fruit layers. However, these two layers consist of chantilly with pureed, stewed Kyoho grapes folded in it. For the exterior, the cake is covered in a German buttercream frosting, while the top of the cake is drizzled with more of the stewed, Kyoho grape puree. There are also rosettes bordering the edge of the cake that’s topped with Kyoho grape agar jelly balls.

Momo Yaoyorozu

Black tea castella (Gold Tips Imperial, Makaibari brand black tea), made with brown sugar and hyakkamitsu (early summer wildflower honey). The top of the cake was brushed with golden syrup. Decorated on the top is chantilly piping, Shimizu Hakuto peach slices in the middle, 8 rose-cut strawberries on top of the cream, and edible gold leaves decorated near the strawberries. In the middle of the cake is a chantilly filling and chopped, honey-roasted, Ōgontō peaches folded in. The sides of the cake are also covered in chantilly. Finally, on the bottom is more piping, decorated with more edible gold leaves.

Hitoshi Shinso

Aquarius ♒️

✨ Virgo ♍️ Leo/Loke ♌️ and Cancer ♋️✨

✨Aries ♈️ Taurus ♉️ and Capricorn ♑️ ✨

✨Scorpio ♏️ Gemini ♊️ and Sagittarius ♐️ ✨

So, this has been bugging me for a while, but oh my gawd, we need to get the story straight on Shinji's freaking hairstyles. Because I care far, far too much about this and need to get it off my chest.

Why do I care so much about this? Well, I have a degree in Japanese. And another in Japanese pre-modern history. And I used to live in Japan. And I went to a Japanese university, and uh...

Yes, I'm wasting my education. Moving on.

So what's the deal with Shinji's hair? Let's start with his TBTP arc hair, which is CRAZY. Oh my god.

I think a lot of people who only give Bleach a passing glance fail to see Ichigo's true character growth. It's not about what his goals are or who he's trying to protect, but rather, it's about how he achieves it.

Ichigo is very self-sacrificing in the first third of Bleach. He believes that if the mission is successful, then it doesn't matter how broken or close to death he gets. The mission, saving Rukia (and hurting/killing as few people in the process), is all that matters.

Then, when a part of himself (his inner hollow) emerges, and says "hey yeah no, I'm not letting you get yourself killed and I'm also not letting you hold back against your enemy", Ichigo immediately rejects it.

It's not until he defeats his inner Hollow that we see Ichigo really dive into a fight with the intent to kill. The problem is, once his Hollow is defeated, he thinks that's it. He's freed himself of that part of him and he can go back to being self-sacrificing.

We see this throughout the Hueco Mundo arc. It's why saving Orihime parallels saving Rukia. Ichigo naively thinks he can suppress a part of himself. He bottles it up until it explodes, coming back to haunt him in his fight with Ulquiorra, etc. He learns that side of himself isn't so easily tucked away, and if he recklessly endangers himself, he could end up endangering his friends too. At his own hand, no less.

Then Ichigo discovers he can commit the ultimate sacrifice. Final Getsuga Tenshou. He can throw away these powers and the parts of himself that he doesn't like, and he can get rid of Aizen all in one go. He's lucky that it worked, but only because Kisuke was there.

Then, once Ichigo is powerless, he learns that's not what he really wants. Life doesn't "go back to normal". The can is open, and there's danger out there beyond just Aizen. And Ichigo can't do anything to stop it unless he gets his powers back.

So he does. Then he cuts down the threat to his friends and family. And he doesn't hesitate this time. Yes, he still has compassion for his enemies (he even goes to the Soul Society to ask for Ginjo's body so he can give him a proper burial), but he's learned not to hold back and he's learned that new threats will appear and he'd rather have the power to face them head on.

So then comes TYBW, and Ichigo is facing battles head-on without hesitation. He goes straight to the "bad guys" with the intention of cutting them down. He learns the truth about who his Inner Hollow is, and he accepts it. He's even willing to accept whatever consequences may come from training in the Royal Palace and becoming stronger. He accepts his power and potential fully, and learns that he has what it takes to protect his loved ones with his strength, and not with a sacrifice.

Ultimately, he heals the part of himself that thinks his life is worth less than other people's. He heals the part of himself that blames himself for not protecting his mother (when he was 9!! Like come on Isshin, put the kid in therapy!! Anyway...) He grows into someone who knows his self worth. And I think, for me at least, that makes him one of my favourite protagonists of all time. Because can't most of us relate to feeling worthless at times? And don't we also wanna overcome that?

Leading to Caitlyn breaking the estrange sister out of prison only to learn she is a highly regarded figure in the Undercity due to her and her sister’s adopted father being the former mob boss in charge. However, he was killed by the current mob boss after said prisoner’s sister severely injured their adopted father and killed their two brothers in an attempt to save her family by using the Hextech crystals they stole from Caitlyn’s family’s beneficiary and really her only friend from the current mob boss’s first human-shimmer monster.

And all of THIS essentially boils down to a shouting match between the mob boss and sister fighting over who loves the insane teenage girl more, despite the fact that she has kidnapped all of them and has made it very clear that she is a very dangerous and unstable individual.

Oh, and this family drama will have major consequences for not just the Undercity, but Piltover and a good chunk of the world; because said mentally ill teenage girl is a genius who figured out Hextech and created a shark rocket and has just fired it at the council, because she has once again accidently killed her father and now Caitlyn’s mom is definitely going to die, because Caitlyn didn’t want to shoot the mentally ill teenager because Caitlyn is falling for her sister.

And again, all Caitlyn wanted to do was interview some random thug and prove herself as a detective and now she has untold amounts of trauma to deal with.

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Caitlyn: I’m going to interview this prisoner and prove myself as a detective.

He starts out with sneaking into a university, something that could that could get him arrested but it pays off. He meets a disgraced academic with a theory he likes and is immediately on board with breaking and entering and tampering with evidence on the off chance that this’ll work out, and it does, beyond his wildest dreams. He decides to go visit Zaun in the middle of a blockade and manages to get the Shimmer he needs and not get shot. He does a highly dangerous experiment with the Hexcore, and his leg gets better. He does an even bigger experiment….and his lab assistant gets disintegrated right in front of him, and it becomes clear that the Hexcore has become dangerous and he can’t control it or destroy it.

Despite some peoples displeasure, Zoe not being talked about or referenced in previous seasons of Miraculous Ladybug still makes sense given her families personalities and behavior. Audrey would barely remember her daughter existed and have no real interest in keeping her in mind as she continued to prioritize her own life. Chloe in particular would have no desire to talk about, let alone mention, the sister from New York she never wanted. And so long as Zoe never set foot in Paris, Chloe wouldn’t need to consider her being part her life and part of the Bourgeois family, that is of course until the day Zoe herself requested to live in Paris. Chloe was willing to accept Zoe, but only if she lived up to her standards of being exactly like her and their mom. This of course did not play out as Zoe decided to just be herself and not pretend to be someone she is not to gain other peoples approval.

  Andre, their family butler and anyone else in the Bourgeois family who knew of Zoe’s existence, would not dare talk about Zoe as it would only bring up memories about the messy drama that likely happened long ago when it was revealed Audrey had an affair, and a child to prove it.

(we suspect it was an affair given Zoe’s age and how Andre and Audrey have been married for 20 years)

Although Audrey and Chloe are now on good terms, thanks to Marinette helping them mend their bond and realize they have a lot in common as mother and daughter, the same can not be easily said for Zoe as Audrey has been shown to favor Chloe in any given situation, even sending Zoe back to New York simply because Chloe decided she didn’t want her to live with them. Implying that although Audrey loves Chloe, things may be much more complicated and messy when it comes to Zoe and her former relationship with Zoe’s father, Mr. Lee. 

Unfortunately, as of now, Zoe can not easily form a connection with Audrey and Chloe, but thankfully, despite not being his biological daughter, Zoe did manage to form a connection with Andre as a result of their shared love for the theater( Andre’s love for directing and Zoe’s love of acting) and because of their similar situations where they inevitably realized that in order to be loved and approved by their families, they would need to give up their dreams as well as their true selves.

Zoe may have chosen to break away from this fate but Andre remains stuck, not only because of his fears of displeasing his family, but because his position as mayor continues to become a priority in his life as it provides his family the happiness of gaining the privilege to use his position of power to do what they want and get what they want, and as we all know, Andre is willing to do anything to make his family happy, even if it’s at the cost of his own happiness.

There is still a lot to see of Zoe and her interactions with the Bourgeois family, especially in terms of what kind of an affect she will have on them now that she is staying in Paris. As of now, what we have noted is that Zoe’s presence appears to be causing Andre to develop a little more back bone and learn to reject his families requests, where this will all lead and what the show has in store for Zoe is something we will have to wait and see.