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To paint y'all a picture, I'm pretty much sure after all the chaos and falling out of heroes and all the heroes that are throwing in the towel, that the kids are all going to pick up the mantle and show the nation true heroism again.

And once everything is said and done, Shigaraki is defeated/apprehended/ neutralized by a concentrated effort of all of them combined, but LED BY the duo of Deku and Katsuki working in perfect tandem, and Katsuki providing protection while Deku focuses on the whole OFA/AFO aspect of the struggle. (A sidenote: I actually also had an idea of Katsuki being like Katara when Aang meditated into the Spirit World; protecting Deku's physical body if Deku pulls Shiggy back into the Vestige world to duke it out and try to reach out to Shiggy)

But the picture I want to paint, is AFTER that, Katsuki and Deku pull each other up(also hello parallel to Katsuki wanting to take that hand!). Holding hands, they emerge from the rubble, throwing their other fists into the air a la All Might's signature pose, and for everyone that bears witness, they yell together "I AM HERE!!"

But then! All the other students stand up and join them and theyre just ALL SHOUTING AND POSING, and its not for them so much as for the people. And its not JUST one person being a monolith of a man like All Might, its a dawning of the new generation of heroes that refuse to quit, even when things have gotten their darkest.

And somewhere in this scene, "I am here" becomes " WE ARE HERE" and spreads across Japan as broadcasts go out and more people see. And civilians gain courage and former heroes gain courage and villain movements get pushed back by their combined forces as more and more people stand up and say "I AM HERE/WE ARE HERE"

And not only is it like the ultimate culmination of their built up symbolism of being two halves of All Might, and the ultimate trajectory of their deeply interwoven friendship, it also calls back Aizawa saying to Joke in the Provisional Exam arc, when he called the two of them the most influential students in his class, the ones that inspire ALL the rest to be their best. It pegs them for the leaders of the new generation.

And I think, with their very unique experiences and takes on the world, they're going to be great at it. 💖👏

You were born of a sacrilegious union. Your green dragon mom never figured the knight she seduced while masquerading as a noblewoman was a silver dragon in disguise. You’d no idea either, born a human orphan. When your dragon blood awoke, so did the dangers which all your heritage entails.

So i hear you like snakes. How do you feel about hognose snakes? Ever heard of them?

Yes, they are fun and adorable and silly

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” my mom said as my 3rd grade bully repeated everything I said in a caveman voice.

I just can’t get it out of my head how Shouto, who was introduced as “The Boy born with everything” - the perfect quirk, a rich family, groomed from an early age to become the strongest hero - by his mere existence is indirectly causing the collapse of hero society. 

In a way, his birth is a culmination of many things that are wrong with hero society - the over-emphasis on strong, flashy quirks, the ranking system which assigns worth to heroes based on results and popularity, disregarding their moral characters and makes heroics a zero-sum game rather than a team effort for the greater good. 

And it’s so ironic, because the entire Todoroki-family is a mini-version of hero society.  The children with weak quirks are immediately discarded and ignored (and let’s not talk about how both Fuyumi and Natsuo end up in professions where they truly help people), Touya is strong, but his body is imperfect, so no matter how hard he works, he can never fulfill Endeavor’s ambition to become No. 1., for which he is cast aside, when the “perfect child” is born. And how that causes resentment to the point where he turns not against his abuser, but against his fellow victim. 

And how twisted that Touya is every way the one true heir of Endeavor. He is completely wrapped up in his selfish goal, using people around him, including his own family (both his birth family and his found one) as mere stepping stones and puppets to further his goals, just like Endeavor taught him to. He is in every way the creation of “old” Endeavor’s values. 

While Shouto who rejected and resisted Endeavor’s attempts to mold him kicking and screaming every step of the way, who never subscribed to his father’s goal ends up being the one standing shoulder-to-shoulder with him, in almost matching hero gear,  looking on with horror as Touya is dancing on the ruins of everything Shouto was born to protect. Because heroes save everyone. 

And I’m guessing the question will be asked again. Who is everyone? Does it include abusive fathers who destroyed your family? How about villainous brothers who murder innocents out of spite?

It's not lost on me how the Titan willingly showed Luz his language to share their power with her right from the beginning, as soon as she'd proved herself a friend to King, on a day she needed a little help to connect with him how he needed her to

The way the phone glitched when it was cracked always stood out to me as strange, and now we know why. That was the Titan intervening through reflective surfaces to share his magic with Luz for the very first time

Then we see this even more clearly with the Ice glyph, how he literally moves the stars around to show her another bit of his language with her, right as she's getting discouraged about only knowing one spell and she needs some help to get into Hexside and truly become a witch

I doubt that Fire glyph would have appeared if anybody else had caught that grudgby ball. If it would, then witches would know all about at least that glyph in particular. But nobody recognized how Luz did magic. The Titan intervened again and showed her how to make fire

And there's something kind of poetic to me that Fire is the last glyph Luz learned to become a witch fluent in the language of the Titan, and how fire is connected to humanity as one of the very first things we learned and the mastery of which helped define us as a species hundreds of thousands of years ago

When she finally learned Fire, she knew all the basic ingredients at last. She had finally stepped out of the realm of humans and had become, in her own way, a full-fledged witch. Her mastery of the element is what signified the birth of a human witch. There's a lot of symbolism to unpack in there

I'd say the only glyph Luz discovered on her own would be the one for Plants, given how they're more interested in magic than science I doubt many witches would've looked so closely at a flower before, but it's possible the Titan intervened yet again and rewarded her for her curiosity

The original human witch claimed he could speak to the Titan, but he was actually speaking to and protecting Luz from the very beginning

“I FORGIVE YOU!”

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Wilbur eats sand

Tommy eats mud

Interesting family dynamic

Phil come and get your children there arguing