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And if you read fanficion and like/don’t have an issue with Spinaraki I’d highly recommend “phantom pains” by ellipsificate (aka @robotlesbianjavert​) that dives really well into that topic.

But it has trigger warnings for physical assault, ampitation and obviously discrimination.

Something that frustrates me is the depiction of Quirkism and the death cult that hates people with Mutant Quirk.

The death cults are a caricature of bigots and hate groups that serves as nothing more than as a plot device. For me, it comes off as Hori only skimming the surface of a systemic problem while petting himself on his back. The death cult is simply a extreme manifestation or a parody of bigotry.

When people think of hate groups, they would think of people who openly hates minorities or wear weird ass garment to signify their hatred of a marginalized group. In reality, bigotry is something that can internalized even in the "best" of us.

Not every bigot is a death cult member who wears black. It can be simple as Dabi calling Spinner a "lizard" or Shouto calling that police a "mutt" despite it appearing harmless to the audience or the characters in the story.

And for me...the most dangerous villains in Spinner's story is not the death cult. The villains are the hero society. When Spinner's feeling is dismissed...I wonder how long did he have to tolerate this injustice. The people around him who overlooked his pain or minimized his experience...

But it doesn't matter...because he's a 'villain'...

Me: complete agrees with you.

Me remembers this from a Spinner Fan:

https://sethmacenzie.tumblr.com/post/645901722633584640/i-just-had-to-laugh-at-your-post-spinner-is-my

The people commenting on Spinner's appearance, especially regarding ships and stuff are always funny cuz, like,

Congratulations!

The "Creature Rejection Clan" would probably love you, lol.

"He's a lizard"

"He's ugly"

"It's not normal"

Hmm, interesting. I wonder where I've heard that before.

Like, people with heteromorphic quirks literally had to fight for their right to live and be considered humans (the discrimination is still there tho, given Spinner's backstory and the fact that most of the people who invaded the USJ has mutant quirks)

And then some of y'all go "Well, he's not really human you know he's a lizard so it's not normal but gross and blah blah blah"

I dunno, just saying.

On the note of Spinner meeting the UA kids in a more allied matter:

It would be the perfect moment for Shoji to take off his mask and tell the normal looking kids what it’s like to be an outsider for having a heteromorph or mutant type quirk. He’s not the only 1A kid with a non human apperence, but he’s the one that has to cover up his face. He isn’t “cute” or harmless looking like Koda, Tsuyu, Hagakure or Mina, he isn’t “passing” like Jirou, Sero or Ojiro and he isn’t non-threatening cool looking like Tokoyami, who I’m sure still all at least somewhat have experience with discrimination, bullying, name-calling or having to adjust to living in a world that wasn’t build for their bodies in mind, but I think Shoji would be the best to bridge over to Spinner when it comes to discrimination.

Maybe even get 1B involved, especially Kamakiri has to have experience with mutant based discrimination.

I’ll throw my two cents in.

Listening to Midoriya’s first words, “Not all men are created equal, I had thought it would be how Midoriya was going to bridge the gap between those that had quirks and those that were not born with quirks. That is why my answer was the first one. Because that was what I expected originally, and he would be a hero to all that way.

However, I definitely think a mixture of the first and second choice would be best. That can give us reason to allow Izuku to interact with all the characters in some way or another. He can have an arc of characters with “weak” quirks like Ojiro, Hagakure, Mineta, and Sato, a section with him and the mutant looking students like Koda, Shoji, Ashido, Tsuyu and Tokoyami, as well as tackle the flaws of society with characters like Iida, Ochako, Momo, Aoyama, and Todoroki, including tackling the quirk marriage part. Maybe Momo would be forced into one…and to add the more awkward tension, it IS to Todoroki, and they just have a long small arc of getting a better relationship and saying no to the forced marriage and finding their own relationships, if they ever do.

The teachers and Nezu can have a small arc of realizing how the students were treated like soilder or show dogs instead of young people, and so Nezu and the teachers could sit down and make tweaks to their classes so they can be heroes but humans as well. And there’s a contrast between how not just 1-A, but all of UA’s students act as opposed to the other hero schools.

I would be more open to villain rehab if the villains showed like they WANT to get better. Some of them do or show potential, but the LOV in general seem more than happy being murderous psychopaths instead of “troubled” souls.

Anyways, that’s how I thought it was going to go and how it could have tackled these topics, as well as hopefully add more Acadamia portions of “My Hero Acadamia.”

With MHA coming to a close, I thought I'd see what you all thought should have been addressed. There's no small amount of missed opportunities in the story, but I want to see what folks were hoping for when they started reading/watching

Fic prompt three! Or I think it's three... Anywho, it's a short one lol

✨Yandere Besties✨

I just want a one-shot of La-Brava and Toga Himiko meeting

Or maybe even a long chaptered fic.

Either way, I want them to leave kill the toxic men in their lives.

Put them behind them and have fun together. Bond and heal over their shared trauma of what happened with their quirks and crushes.

I want La-Brava to take Toga under her wing and teach her how to hack.

I want La-Brava to use her hacking skills to make it easier for Toga to get blood.

I kinda want them to run an internet cat cafe together lol idk!

Maybe they become vigilantes and go after horrible men and abusers.

I just want these yanderes to be besties and that is all.

Thank you for coming to my Ted-talk.

These messages really do get a lot longer than expected, lol.

I could go into more detail about a lot of things, but then we'd probably be at this like all day, lol. While that'd be fun, it's probably better to not do that, lol.

Just want to say that you're really cool! And it's really great talking with you! I don't really have many people to talk to about all this, so it's really nice being able to ramble about memories with someone!

I just realized that I typed Shoto with the u, which he didn't have in my canon, lol. So ignore the u, I'm too lazy to go and change it, lol.

I'm glad that you told Toga Himiko that her quirk doesn't make her evil. I remember that when I first met her after the training camp [I wasn't really involved in that fight anyways], I told her that I had been called tons of names and shit because of my quirk.

I was called "Monster" "Freak" "Evil" etc.

But the one that really 'stuck' was being told that "Not even a villain would want your quirk." So, uh yeah, that sucks. They were basically saying that my quirk was so useless and bad that no one would ever want it. It's what made it easier for me to see people with "evil" or "villain" or "useless" or whatever other word people said quirks as good and deserving of love and worth so much. Quirks are really just a tool in a way. It's how someone uses it that makes the person. Quirkless people are also worth so much, and I wish that people had seen that more.

I remember giving Toga some of my blood on that day that I actually met her [this happened before I was adopted. It was like right after the dorms were made] and saying something like, "I won't let someone starve if I could help them." Cause at least in my canon, she needed to drink blood to live, so yeah. Quirk diets or whatever you wanna call them suck [I had to eat more meat and sometimes needed to eat what would essentially be raw meat, it was slightly cooked but not quite rare, but it wasn't fully raw, idk. I just know it sucked cause of being scared of how people would see me.].

- Zuki Shay Lupo (They/it/hx)

Hello, I decided to come say hi and shit in an ask, lol.

I'm not good at starting conversations, but I would like to hear about any alterhuman or nonhuman experiences or memories or anything that'd you'd be willing to share!

- Zuki Shay Lupo (They/it) | a fellow noncanon MHA being/creature :3c

aaa hihi!! good to hear from you, i definitely feel you on the 'bad at starting conversations' lol!

the first thing that comes to mind a memory of playing video games with Tomura and Shuichi. I wasn't very good at it, but it was good bonding and i loved playing with them. I would only play the 'silly' games like Mario Kart or Smash Bros, they got too into the 'serious' ones for me. I finished in last place every time lmao, so i mostly spent my time teasing whoever was in second place. Dabi would sit with us too sometimes, either lazily scrolling on his phone or bothering the three of us, trying to help whoever would give him the most attention lol. The others joined in sometimes too, Himiko and Jin and rarely Sho and Toshi if they were hanging out. Himiko would shriek excitedly and bump us while Jin cheered her on and cursed her out. It was good.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to ramble lol!! Feel free to share any memories/thoughts you have :D

More bad memories from my life as Zuki. Cause of course my brain hates me.

Tw: abuse, school abuse[? Idk what to call it], muzzles, quirk discrimination, shock collars, bullying, I think that's it for this one?

When I was younger, my bio mother was told to use a muzzle and shock collar that "neutralized" quirks on me. Cause my quirk was "dangerous" and "needed to be controlled." These were supposed to be illegal to use on anyone, even the most dangerous villain. But of course, people didn't listen and used them on those with "evil" or "villain" quirks (especially certain mutant related quirks).

It kinda makes sense that a hero like my bio mother could get one, but what's 'interesting' is that once I got into middle school, some of the teachers also had them. I don't know where they got them, but whatever. My middle school and high school both used the muzzles and shock collars on me.

When I was in middle school, I was still very cautious and shit. I never fought back, I never started a fight, I never did any of that. But yet anytime someone attacked me, I got punished. They would put the muzzle on me saying something about how I was bad and deserved it and the same thing with the shock collar. But 'luckily' the shock collar was less often used.

In high school is when I started fighting back sometimes. It was still usually only if someone else was being hurt [whether physically or verbally]. When it was just me, I would usually not fight back. Sometimes, I did fight back when it was just against me fully, though.

This is all I'm gonna talk about rn.

- Zuki Shay Lupo (They/it/he)