Having Feelings About Shoji's Mask Again, Specifically After Seeing That He Chose To Go Back To Wearing

having feelings about shoji's mask again, specifically after seeing that he chose to go back to wearing the mask in the epilogue. like. smth smth idk the choice has so many dimensions To Me but it also may not be that complicated. he's emulating old school heroes. he's gonna be cool just like them. he's covering his scars so no one thinks he's operating from a place of revenge. he's masking both literally and figuratively. but then he chooses to take off the physical mask for his classmates, and explains what happened to him (the figurative mask). and then in the battle, the choice to unmask is taken from him in a way. but like. the fact that he's been hurt too seems to be instrumental in turning the tide of that battle. the fact that he owns his face, his professed 'ugliness' and says 'yeah this is who i am,' is such an instrumental part of that battle and of his character arc.

but now post battle we see him back in the mask and it's like. is he hiding his face again? is he putting up another (figurative) mask? or is it just that he doesn't owe anyone his face? is it a sign of trouble or a fashion choice? is it not that deep? i think a lot of it is up to individual interpretation but i do think that having him unmasked in the class portrait and masked in most panels we've seen is a definite narrative choice.

i think shoji, more than a lot of the other characters, operates very similarly to all might. he's actively trying to become a symbol, and actively hiding his scars and past traumas, ostensibly so that they don't disrupt the myth of 'coolest hero' he hopes to construct. i wonder, post battle, if he still wants to become that symbol. i also wonder if all might recognizes their similarities, and, knowing what he knows now about his own life, and especially after the successes and failures of mentoring izuku to take up his helm as the symbol of peace--would all might ever sit down with shoji and talk about what it really means to live your life as a symbol? i think it would be a valuable talk.

Kicking my feet and giggling at all the new Shoji and Koda content because of the new ep rn

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AAAAAAA Shoda content!

(So happy you're back but don't feel like you have to push yourself:))

Can you make a headcanon of shoda?

I love him but I don’t see a lot of him

Not proofread we die like men

He either listens to the most ear scratching music, smooth jazz or nothing at all and I cant decide which it is.

I mentioned before that I keep switching if he can cook or if he cant.

I have so many thoughts about him but they all contradict eachother lmao. Like I can see this man standing akwardly in the corner of any social event but at the same time the fucker can break dance and would be the life of the party if he wanted.

Hes probably very smart academically but because of that he can lack a bit of common sense.

Hes very gullible.

Like he watched mulan once and was convinced rin was secretly a woman for like a week and a half lmao (mostly because he has longer hair) (also ties into being gullible)

Shodas hair naturally spikes up hella bad like Kamakiris while Kamakiris hair is normally flat asf

Gif anime - mob psycho 100

wow yugen, inactive much? 🙄

You too...Pops... :"v

Hey, I was researching again, and seeing all his opinions... and bro... Damn, old man! What crossed your mind, thinking that it was okay to leave the care of your granddaughter to a person who still had traumas, unstable and violent tendencies?

Damn, I come from a dysfunctional family and seeing those outbursts in Chisaki... it was so familiar... and obvious at first glance to know that Chisaki was like that a lot of the time under his "polite person" mask.

There is LITERALLY no way that Pops hasn't witnessed many of the outbursts in Chisaki. And yet he had the nerve to point him out for not following the right path when Pops most likely didn't really make an effort to correct it from the beginning, or didn't have the brains to do something.

We could say that he "tolerated" Chisaki beyond what was stupidly allowed, or rather... HE NEVER gave him the necessary importance to know the type of person he was creating.

With that situation, let's look at another important point. Her daughter, who after what happened with Eri's father, he made no effort to try to support her or help her cope with what happened and prevent her from abandoning her granddaughter.

And what was the best thing he did? Talking disparagingly about his own daughter, and then calling Chisaki's babysitter, evading much of her responsibility and without having thought of something more logical like seeking some help outside of Chisaki to know how to deal with Eri's quirk.

There is simply no excuse not to see Pops as a rather irresponsible and hypocritical person.