Kicking My Feet And Giggling At All The New Shoji And Koda Content Because Of The New Ep Rn

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

MiriTama angst

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.

He can and does

Do you guys think arm dude can glide around like Batman?

Gee, Pops. Who woulda thought adopting a severely traumatized child but never calling him son or even by his own goddamn name, ostracizing him from your "real family" (aka never referring to your daughter as his sister or Eri as his niece, only ever "my daughter" or "my granddaughter") and then raising him in an organization that's built entirely on loyalty, would go the absolute mile to make you happy and gain power to that organization. Who'd'a think it, right? it's definitely not like he's trying to prove himself to you. no not at all, never.

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.