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Four children are mine
And I love my four children:
An arrow to ward away the darkness
aimed for the light of the dawn
The winter, who brings the night again, beautiful and longer
Next the summer,
who returns the sun at its zenith
Small is the new leader with clear sky and dusk rain in his eyes.
Four children are mine
And with four comes death
The arrow flies too high from the bow
The arrow flies but falls to darkness
From a shrine in the mountain, he aims for me.
My son haunts the mountain near the peak
I fear the mountain I cannot climb
I fear the arrow meant for me.
Winter settles quietly
Summer turns away from me
The leader makes a mirror of my heart
I tell my son I love him
And I look in the mirror yet I cannot face it but to watch it crack
My son is my spitting image
I tell my son I love him
I tell my son
Without looking into his eyes,
I tell my son I love him
As the arrow flies.
LINE sticker from the LINE store
Do you mind talking a bit about Enji and Rei? To me they have one of the most interesting relationships in the series, but discussions around them never really go anywhere. Pls I'm starving 😭
You'd have to be specific about what you want me to talk about lmao, there's a lot to be said.
I think their relationship is so tragic, because they could 100% work. "Right person, wrong circumstance".
In the right circumstance, Rei cools Enji's fire, and Enji builds her self-confidence. They balance each other nicely, like in My Father's Warmth.
But in the canon series, they're both so awkward, emotionally weak and have some many flaws that they're doomed to crash. With my interpretation, they both saw each other as a means to an end (especially at the start), Enji was enabled, and Rei was so cold. It's really interesting, because they WERE happy before Touya’s Quirk started hurting him, and Fuyumi is trying to put the broken pieces together. Both Rei and Enji neglected their kids (in the books, Natsuo mentions disliking Shoto because he took away their mother, and wanting Enji's attention), they blamed each other instead of working together before Touya's "death". Fuyumi replicated her mother's behaviour of "smiling through it without confronting the issue" and Natsuo replicated Enji's, "anger and running away", while Touya is the extreme of both (mutual destruction), and Shoto is the good of both that they have (which despite what the fandom claims, there's a lot of good in both).
They're both broken victims of the same society that the LoV wants to destroy, all the while being part of the problem (Bystander effect, a huge theme of the series). Generational trauma and all that (Enji with his father, Rei with the Himura)
They are so wonderfully nuanced and complex but ofc nobody is willing to talk about it because nuance is scawy.
I could go on, if there's something specific you want me to talk about, ask me!! :]
Rei - Pregnancy Study
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So this started off as a pregnancy sketch study, but it kinda turned into me thinking, "We need more art of Rei being a mood."
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Touya: I've been a menace since I was born.
Rei: You've been a menace since you were conceived.
If you don't mind me asking how come Teka and Yoshi don't fit your interpretation of Enji as a character? If I'm being honest, I'd just really like to hear your thoughts on them. I remember being obsessed with them because Enji was my fav character but no one ever made content of him so Acker was my saving grace lol. I'm glad I have ur todofam stuff now too <3
I interpret Enji as growing up poor, like Uraraka. I view him as a 'self-made' man, Quirk, hero reputation and all, including financial status. Rich parents doesn't suit him imo, he doesn't give me Iida or Yaoyorozu vibes.
Enji doesn't give "old money" vibes, or even new money. He has no interior design skills (the Todoroki Abode is "default traditional Japanese" you'd see in a catalogue, and his Agency Office, what is that combination, he better not have picked that), and his clothes are just as plain, HOWEVER he has that darn tacky gold necklace (which, hot, but bro). Everything "expensive" about him is either in default setting, or it's his Agency. Yes he has a chauffeur, but that's more for efficiency. Unlike Iida or Yaoyorozu who almost flaunt their riches as if they're the norm (look at their rooms), the Todoroki don't emit that. Idk how to explain it. Have money but dunno how to spend it and are actually quite careful with their expenses. Lots of "just in case things go south" savings account.
Again, super traditionally Japanese, very proudly Japanese, the antithesis of All Might, and from what I've seen, Teka and Yoshino aren't that.
I know Teka and Yoshino were made before Enji's backstory (i think), but I've always had a vibe that Enji never had a female figure in his life, and only his father is mentioned so, idk, Enji gives 'raised by a single father' vibe. He's too "a man's man" to have had any female influence in his upbringing.
I've always envisioned Enji as alone, so him having family outside of his kids and Rei is just a no. He has work colleagues and that's IT. No friends, no family, no nothing. Even Rei's mother was mention in Sports Festival flashback, yet Enji's? Nada.
Teka and Yoshino's personalities don't match what I view for the family. I based Haruo on a mixture of Fuyumi, Enji and Natsuo. S2 Endeavor was like that because Enji was ✨️mentally unstable✨️ and his obsession All Might is gone, he becomes like how I write him in My Father's Warmth. Teka and Yoshino don't fit that.
They're just not my cup of tea as characters, nor as a couple dynamic.
More than his backstory, I vue Enji's obsession with his weakness coming from his parent. They were weak, and told him not to be like them, and thus, Enji internalised that (especially after the accident). Teka and Yoshino don't give that.
Enji to me gives "abandoned" and "had to fend for himself" and "had no guidance" vibes as well, so him having a well-off, alive mother, no matter how good or bad she is, just doesn't fit.
I wasn't in the fandom until I started making my AUs (I was invested with DSMP for 3 years, still am), so I never joined the hype of Teka and Yoshino, thus never got attached.
And also I just don't like fanmade family member OC before we get the whole picture of the story, and other more nitty gritty and thematic stuff but that's the general take. Acker is phenomenal and I give em all the kudos for making such beautiful art and Enji content, but yeah, Teka and Yoshino just aren't my thing. Hence why I've got Haruo and Akihime instead (or lacking thereof because Haruo is dead and Akihime peaced out and acts like she was never married (the past never dies MUAHAHAHA))
plz don't take this as hate, it's not, it's just personal preference, I don't interact with the content and mind my own business ✌️
Enji, Toya, and the little bird guy
It’s lonely at the top
I just wanna see them as a happy family... please...
My first post on tumblr... and it has to be TodoFam 🥲
W/o filter
the road to hell is not covered with good intentions but even hell needs light
And it wasn't for love that you went back home
Warm Autumn Day
I guess in a way I do ship Rei and Endeavor….but only in regards to the small hope they might have had a good relationship in the early days. Maybe not a loving one and at this point not even a salvageable one, but a good one once. I like the idea of what it maybe was, not what it became.
What do we call this? Doomed ship? Sunken ship?
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Kinda touched on their relationship in this post here.
number 1 and number 2 ٩( 'ω' )و
featuring the lowest quality pic of the reference ever
Pls go like my Tiktok my account is barren and I worked hard on this
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTF6gsPSn/
I’ve been thinkin about the todorokis a lot lately
It Gets Worse | MHA Animatic [Hellflame AU]
My Hero Academia: Presence
Presence, full comic
In this comic, with everything that’s happened with the fucked up family dynamics and every terrible thing he’s done, all that gets put aside for just a moment.
They get one night. Let them have one night.
What tomorrow brings for them is another story.
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Further notes here
I need to see this movie ASAP!!!!!!
i was never as optimistic about the ending of bnha as some villain stans were, but i never thought it'd end so badly it left me wondering why horikoshi ever bothered to humanize the villains or make them complex characters at all.
like-- i expected that at least 1-2 of the 3 villains who were heavily foreshadowed and outlined by the narrative as people to be saved would be, you know, actually saved. i didn't think that was a high bar. i've been let down before in fandoms where everyone was certain a character would live and then they didn't, so i tried to keep my hopes low. AND YET.
what happened to tomura was upsetting, but i wasn't that shocked after how disinterested the manga has seemed to be in him for like, the past 100 or so chapters. a bit surprised, because you'd think if anyone would succeed in the 'saving' mission it would be the MC, but whatever. dabi, well, they've spent a lot of time showing the way his quirk destroys his body even before this arc, so that also sucked but at least it didn't feel completely out of left field.
........but they're not even letting toga live???
i just-- what have we even been doing here? when zero out of the 3 characters that were marked out for saving were actually saved, you have to acknowledge that something has gone seriously fucking wrong with the storytelling. not even just from the perspective of a villain fan but from the perspective of someone who likes stories to be thematically consistent or satisfying in any way.
you can set up an expectation of these characters being saved and then subvert that and turn it into a tragedy- if done well that could even be worthwhile and interesting. but you can't turn it into a tragedy and then just... keep trucking along with the happy ending messaging and act like anything in the manga has been resolved and that the characters have somehow successfully completed their heroic origin stories.
like, maybe i shouldn't have expected this much from a shounen- at the end of the day it is still a shounen so i didn't expect to feel that it truly satisfactorily wrapped up all the themes it brought up around societal ills. but i expected it to at least resolve those things in a shounen-y way where they punch the problems and help these specific people and then you can feel good assuming that the state of things will continue to improve in the post-canon world of the manga.
instead we got... uh, none of that. the story refused to answer a single one of the larger questions it's been outlining for the past 400+ chapters. in the end, it was all flash and no substance, which again could've been fine, if it weren't for the way the story seemed to spend significant chunks of time trying to delude you into thinking it had substance.
truly makes me wonder what horikoshi thought he was doing the entire time. can it really all be blamed on burnout? the most that can be said for this ending is that it is, well, an ending. fuck dude, it is that.
and that's just... such a sad way to end a project that took up 10 years of your life.
Headcanon that when Fuyumi manifested her Quirk, she accidentally froze the kitchen floor in knee-deep ice and Rei right along with it.
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Rei: So Fuyumi manifested her Quirk and, long story short, I need you to come home and melt me out of the floor.
Endeavor: ...can you get Touya to do it?
Rei: He's two. And he's a little upset about the floor situation because, and I quote, 'his legs don't work' because, 'the floor broke.' It took him forty-five minutes to Bambi-scramble across the ice in order to bring me my phone so I could call you.
Endeavor: All right, I'll be home in twenty. Stay put.
Rei: Duh. .... I can hear you laughing, Enji, and for the record, this had better not be an office story tomorrow.
Currently insane about the parallel Endeavor was created as a coping mechanism to protect Enji from the heartbreak about his father's death the same way Dabi was created to protect Touya from the heartbreak of Enji emotionally abandoning him.
And then how their endgame is Dabi destroying Endeavor, leaving Enji and Touya sharing a slow hell of grief.
When you’re the only one in the family that doesn’t have cold resistance
Endeavor:
People portraying Enji getting really angry when people insult him is kinda hilarious to me because canonically he gets roasted all the time and doesn’t do much about it lmao
Burnin roasts him
His driver roasts him
Shoto roasts him
Bakugo and Deku roast him
Hawks roasts him
Even Aizawa roasts him at one point
I think in one episode an old man villain calls him ‘everything that is wrong with society’ and he’s just like welllll
The only person he really tries to hit in response to an insult is AFO
This man has chronically low self-esteem and rarely tries to defend himself. It’s constant and he just sort of
The typos 💀 I just know Rei offered to respond for him and he insisted he could do it himself 😭