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“We’re gonna look back on these in a few years and get all sappy, huh?” Graduation selfie from chp 2 of my fic Simpler Things🥰 Wonderful art commissioned from: @LoopVoid #izuocha #izch

sometimes all it takes is ONE person noticing you exist and paying your some kindness for you to claw yourself out of that hole, which is what the chapter is talking about and is what Okarun is made to remember at his lowest moment. Not strictly his romance with momo

immediately ascribing "relying on" to what the chapter is showcasing is crazy. Okarun pre-momo is shown to have literally NO ONE. To interpret him meeting Momo (which leads to him gaining friends and having a happier life) as him "relying" on her is so backwards

im still kinda shocked that dandadan just made suicical okarun canon, like that was always a personal hc for me but idk I never fully expected the series to actually go there

Their relationship has been stagnant for a while but omfg bringing it back to the start like this and contextualizing their first meeting through Okarun’s trauma is SO good 💔#dandadan252

Dandadan dropping a chapter that breathes life back into the manga every couple of weeks has been a rollercoaster but ugh this one was SO good I was waiting for some Okarun lore

OKARUN NOOOO 😭😭 #dandadan252

i like it when ppl write them having a child and it turns out rough because of their issues with being able to actually set time aside for themselves and their own family unit (glancing at you evie) idk I’m prob just projecting heavily onto my interpretation of their writing😭

None of this to say you CAN’T lead these qualities into a story about parenthood or having children of their own to care for, the interpretation and justification for it is there I guess, it just feels a little cookie cutter to me

I think those qualities are much more representative of them just being good heroes and people, and of “changing the future” for the better Caring for the children who could be mistreated and turn into a Shigaraki or Himiko, preventing that future

this is also why I really do not fuck with the “adopted daughter eri” stuff that happens kinda often I also don’t love the interpretation that since Ochako and Izuku are so good with children, it automatically means they’d want to HAVE children of their own

nothing against ppl who want izuocha to have kids but this is part of why I kinda dislike the idea, I don’t think their development hints at any sort of desire to have children of their own or be parents, so when I see it not properly explored, it feels a bit forced to me 🙂‍↕️

okay hear me out, secret forbidden zelink child raised away from the castle to preserve the bloodline 🤔

the widening of this never ending socratic seminar has made the average person, who doesn’t understand the concept of engaging with fiction past happily praising something, the drivers of the conversation. And that sucks!

regardless of how that depiction is handled, these things are, objectively, tools of authors and aspects of art that have existed for much longer than any of us. It’s not even that it’s wrong to dislike these tools or have disdain for them, it’s how that conversation is had