I've been thinking again about the meaning of Shouto's and Touya's birthdays. What if Shouto's birthday is 111 because it's like the winning combo on a slot machine (getting three ones is a particularly good sign in light of Endeavor's aim to raise a son to be No 1) and Touya's birthday is 118 because he's only "almost perfect"?
And then I did some further research, and sure enough, the in the 18 in Touya's birthday the kanji for 1: 一 (ichi) and 8: 八 (hachi) can be found in the following Japanese gambling phrase:
一か八か = ichi ka bachi ka, “one or nothing”, or literally “one or punishment” - i.e.: a high risk gamble or something like "go for broke".
As in the phrase:
一いちか八ばちかやってみよう。
Ichikabachika yatte miyō.
I’ll take my chances.
So now I'm 99% convinced that Shouto's and Touya's birthdays are a refence to Endeavor gambling with the kids as if they were prizes in a pachinko slot machines / was playing child gacha?
(Also - Hori's sick sense of humour)
what if more bird
For my third fic in the @hawksbigbang I pinch-hit for @scarletrain1724 ’s, fic Flap Your Wings Another Day featuring baby Hawks!
Wiping my feet, putting on indoor slippers from my backpack: So, so. I can't stop staring at the Miruko and Hawks art. The OFFICIAL one, where they're wearing highschool uniforms because WE STAN BIRDIE-BUNNY FRIENDSHIPS. Just. Let Miruko adopt a dumb bird, please. When she saw this cheeky ass bird child, she thought he was funny but she did not at all expect to adopt a baby bird as a little sibling-ish person thing. He's a mess but she'd kill for him. Thanks, Bellamy-senpai!!
Rumi is a genuinely cool and popular upperclassman who thinks it’s absolutely hilarious that the new kid Takami seems very cool on the surface but is actually just, like, a complete disaster in reality. He has absolutely minimal practice interacting with people past uncomfortably canny surface level social signaling and pretending like his inability to smile is because he’s too cool to do so, and is way too enthusiastic about using pop culture references for someone who seems to have accidentally wiped the ‘childhood media’ folder from the hard drive of his brain. He is most honest when he’s being an asshole, which is hilarious because he pulls it off with exactly enough shit-eating gravitas that nobody ever calls him on it, so she thinks they’re going to bond over that... but it turns out that once she cracks him open like a walnut, he’s stupidly easy to bait into feeling bad with some crocodile tears. At least he is when he’s not emotionally manipulating Rumi’s class rep into begging some extra credit for Rumi off of their teacher because he’s just so worried that she lost points because he made her help him with some family stuff, and he’d feel so bad if it was his fault that her grade suffered -
She wrestles him into the dirt after school for that, because fuck you, ‘Hawks,’ don’t project the bug he has up his ass about getting a single B onto her. She’s not the one that got raised in a test tube or whatever, she can damn well fight her own fights without any little freshman rats sneaking around behind her back!
It’s more ride-or-die than she expected him to be, though, and before she knows it she’s more than ready to return the favor. She graduates before him, and it’s a happy occasion as any until she realizes that she’s probably his only genuine friend in the whole school that knows him beyond his stupid facade of superficial idol-like popularity. It’s not the whole reason that she registers herself under her own agency (because like fuck is she going to sidekick for anybody!), but it doesn’t hurt that doing so means she’s technically legal to send internship request forms to high school students.
imagine overworking Hawks
hmph
tsuyu took ochako on a mall trip after this
inspo from this tweet lol
My Hero Academia is ending after 10 years this month
Thank you for 2 years of great manga 🤘🤘