Ramblings Of An Idoit

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so from this description, we can assume that this thing at the end of the ending animation

which, bear with me now, sounds a lot like a plotline that you would see in DND. 

there’s no real “context” to this story BUT the third light novel is entirely dedicated to life in the dorms. the first story is about the teachers going out together after talking to parents about the dorms, the second is about todoroki getting used to living outside of home, the third is about 1B moving into the dorms, the fourth is about tokoyami telling a ghost story that scares the shit out of everyone (and ends with class A almost killing mic because they don’t recognize him with his hair down), the fifth is about iida’s birthday in the dorms, and the sixth is about kouda’s bunny in the dorms. all the stories have to do with the dorms and the students bonding (as well as teachers bonding with them) EXCEPT for this story (the seventh story)

the chapter is also called “U.A Quest” which seems like a suspiciously PERFECT name for a dnd adventure,

what i’m saying here is that the story with aizawa turning into a fucking demon seems really strange and out of place UNLESS you look at it from the context of this being a dnd game… and aizawa being the DM and having the kids fight him as a final boss in the session.

that was definitely foreshadowing for aizawa instead of all might.

aizawa is someone who willingly self sacrifices at every chance he gets. he has been eye to eye with death a number of times just within the manga and vigilantes. and every time he just… accepts it. he self sacrifices and accepts it. there was a scene in vigilantes where he threw himself at a villain and thought he was going to die and literally thought “this is the end of the line for me? that’s fine.” accepting death is second nature to this man. 

but in this new chapter of the main manga, aizawa is saying that he doesn’t want to die and that instead, he wants to teach his students and see them grow up and graduate and become heroes and he wants to live. 

it’s a huge change. at USJ he was fine with dying. now he’s actively fighting against it.

Him saying this gives him more room to grow. It gives him more possibilities.

And!!! Not only did bakugou think about how much his support has meant for him, but he specifically thought about the press conference, when aizawa did what no other adult in his life would do and unconditionally stood up for him on live national television. Aizawa refused to let anyone put the blame on bakugou for getting kidnapped and he without hesitation denied that bakugou was anything like a villain.

None of the other adults in bakugou’s life had done anything like that before. Even his own mother seemed to blame him for the kidnapping iirc.

Aizawa’s the only adult in his life who hasn’t had any automatic bias towards him (neither “destined to be a great hero” nor “asshole with the attitude of a villain”) and aizawa earned his respect to the point where bakugou readily accepts him as an authority.

What I’m saying here is… I think bakugou is sort of the epitome of someone aizawa has made better just by being alive, and I think aizawas support means a lot to him.

I think part of this is also the fact that aizawa never makes a spectacle of anything, which makes him come off as genuine no matter what. You can’t really think that Aizawa is doing something just to help others perceptions of him because he has made it extremely clear that he does not care about that. So aizawa might be the only adult in some of these kids lives that they can be absolutely 100% sure that he means what he says and does and genuinely cares.

In short, as this reply says

There is a YouTube channel from 2017 called “ge wfd” and they used to post a lot of short Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets clips with really weird titles. I thought I would share some of my favorites with you today.

It’s kind of a cross between a sport commentary and poetry?

Like each sentence has two parts?

It sounds like an ancient prophecy or something

This person is my hero, we should just use all of these for the chapter names instead of the real ones.

My personal favorite:

Aizawa: Does anyone else have a connection to a villain that I need to know about?

He and his wife, Inko, used to be a super successful superhero duo, but after she became pregnant with Izuku, Inko decided to quit the superhero business for good, since it never really suited her in the first place.

She becomes a stay at home mom for a few years, but when Izuku starts going to school, she decides to take over managing the business side of her husband’s hero agency.

Izuku grows up running through the halls of the agency, begging hugs and sweets from the sidekicks that are always coming and going.

(His favourite is his father’s number one sidekick, Sir Nighteye, who’s kinda weird, but super loyal to his dad and always willing to take pictures and videos of All Might for Izuku to scrapbook, and he’ll tell Izuku all kinds of stories of all the villains he and All Might have fought in the past. He doesn’t seem to have a family, but he always comes and spends holidays with the Midoriyas, so that’s okay.)

During interviews and the like, All Might will gush about his lovely family for as long as anyone will let him, and thanks to that, the entire nation has seen Izuku’s embarrassing baby photos.

Izuku is 7 when his father becomes a part time teacher at UA, so Izuku stops running through the halls of his father’s agency (which he knows like the back of his hand, probably better than even his parents) and starts exploring this new and glorious place.

He’s never there during the day, because he has his own classes to attend, but the students get used to the freckly little guy just bursting into their clubrooms and disrupting practices. 

They get used to him cheering them on in his high pitched little voice.

They get used to finding him sleeping in the oddest places, or seeing various teachers carrying him down the hall like a sack of potatoes while he glares sullenly at anyone who catches his eye.

Izuku is 8 when he meets Iida Tenya, when both their parents are off fighting some big bad villain, and the 23-year-old Tensei, who isn’t yet allowed to fight villains of that magnitude, babysits them.

The two are already completely inseparable by the time they meet Todoroki Shouto a few months later, and forcefully drag him into their clique.

Izuku is 13 when he starts going to conventions cosplaying as his own father, just because he can’t get enough of the stupefied looks on people’s faces when he takes off his mask, only to reveal All Might’s son.

Izuku is 15 when he starts attending UA - he’s comfortable in his own skin, he has two amazing best friends with whom he’s attached at the hip, and two amazing girls (Uraraka and Yaoyorozu) soon to join their little clique.

Izuku is 15 when he meets Bakugou Katsuki, and he looks at the anger in the boy, the pride, and he pities him, that he never had adults around like Izuku’s parents to teach him to manage his ego.

Izuku is 15 when he notices how uncomfortable Momo and Ochako (and indeed all the girls in their class) are around one of their male classmates - Minoru Mineta. He sees the predatory smiles the boy sends their way, sees the way he harrasses them. And there’s no way Izuku’s about to let that happen in his school, and especially not in a course for heroics. 

Izuku is 15 when he reports the boy to the principal for sexual harrassment, and a few months later, after one too many warnings, Mineta is transferred to the General Education department (with one more warning before expulsion), and Shinsou Hitoshi joins their class in his place.

Izuku is 15 when really starts noticing how miserable Shouto always is to return to his home, how he sometimes has bruises and burns and scrapes that have nothing to do with any of their classes.

Izuku is 15 when Shouto starts sleeping over at his and Tenya’s houses more often than he does at home.

Izuku is 15, and it’s summer break, and he and his parents finally decide to clear out one of the rooms in their house they’d been using for storage, and convert it into a bedroom for his best friend.

Izuku is 16 and he’s about to start his second year at UA, and he has butterflies in his stomach. Because he and his class had become so tight-knit over the past year, and he knows some of them will be in his class again this year, but it won’t be the same, especially not without Aizawa-sensei as their teacher.

Izuku is 16 and when he arrives at school for his first day as a second year, he opens the door to find all his classmates from the previous year. They’re all staring at him with the same wide, delighted expression he knows he must have on his face as well.

Izuku is 16 when the door slides open a moment later, and he never thought he’d be so happy to hear Aizawa barking at them all to get to their seats. UA is changing its policy, he informs them. In order to foster a stronger bond between classmates and their teachers, Izuku and his classmates will all be staying together for the entirety of their three years at UA.

Izuku is 17 when he graduates UA, with top grades and countless offers to work as a sidekick at the agencies of various pros. He has 19 amazing brothers and sisters, who had helped turn him into the person he is today.