Gifts

I'll stay right besides you

The appeal of a villain friend in fiction is more often than not the thought that someone out there would choose you over the entire world.

The members of the League of Villains were anyone's priority. They felt replaceable or even worse, they knew they were replaceable. They weren't pretty enough, strong enough, normal enough, cool enough. They were wrong in the head, were too violent, too weird, too creepy.

All the rage? The hurt? They were told to swallow it because it was making people uncomfortable.

Stain was their inspiration, but he wasn't the one to pick them. He wasn't the one who looked at them and told them "you have a place". That was Giran. The manga tells us that Giran was putting together a sort of friendship group for violent outcasts like them. That he formed the League for them to have company, a reason to fight for, to exist.

There's a sort of catharsis that fictional villain friendships give that you can't find somewhere else. A sort of short-lived relief that comes when someone sees you being mistreated and decides retribution is needed. Wouldn't it be wonderful if revenge had no consequences and the damage it caused was at once lasting and non-existent?

That's what fiction is for. You put all your feelings there and create scenarios where you purge those feelings. No one gets harmed and you come out of it cleaned, renewed, with a clear head.

So when Tomura Shigaraki creates the League of Villains, it is an instant click for people who had been wronged and are seeking catharsis of their negative experiences and feelings.

The League of Villains punishes someone with torture and failure for misgendering and hurting their trans friend. A shonen manga does that, a gender where nonconforming people are a joke by tradition. Do you get what that means to some readers out there?

Tomura claims to hate everything and everyone, but when Toga asks him, he admits that they are his exception. He wouldn't destroy something they loved. His prioritizing their wishes and their likings. There was no one else above them for him and no one was as important to him as they were.

Suddenly, they are someone's number one people and not out of manipulation. They recognize in Tomura a man who really cares.

Tomura was shown to live in total neglect. He had poor hygiene, was isolated almost completely from the outside world, talked with maybe three or four people tops, ate whatever, liver whatever. He didn't care about his living conditions. It was only when the League asked for clothing and food and other stuff that he began to care. For them.

He wants them to live, to succeed, he wants to hurt anyone who hurts them, to protect what is precious to them.

And now we got confirmation that they matter more to him than his own past.

Tomura would destroy the world simply because they asked him to, because they promised to. He would destroy himself trying because he must be their hero. Remember how every time a villain would question him about his motivation or his ideals, he would talk about his hatred or his need to destroy. We've gone past it and at his very core we found that the thing that truly fuels him is the desire to be a hero.

For them.

It's really something to see people wondering why a reader would be fond of Tomura Shigaraki or the LOV in general. Is it that hard to understand?

Again, that's the appeal of a fictional villain's friendship to real life victims:

To be important, to be picked, to be prioritized, to be felt, to be seen, to be understood, to belong to and be considered, to be irreplaceable. To be all those things to the point the weight of it shatters the universe.

So much love outplacement in someone's love— to matter so much to someone —that to see you hurt would make them want to destroy the world.

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lol Wash is my favorite as well!!!

Wash is not my favourite. Wash is my everything.

katsudeku/dekubaku gifs compilation to make (my) someones day, just a little bit better part 2

This is just honestly me, missing ✨actual✨ ktdk canon interactions (plus them talking with eachother) moments in the manga...

So here's my favorite anime gifs of Izuku x Kacchan yayyyy🙈

part 2 yaaaaaa 🗣️

Because, I was being bored & depressed random again 🙃😢🤧😔

cue dkbk emoji montage 🧡💚🥦💥🐺🐏🐰😼

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We all know Mark looks like Hughes, but Lucy has always reminded me of someone else…

he'd begrudgingly agree that he has taste in music

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@kakashiweek 2024 day 3 - Secrets

There are some things that can only be said out loud when it's between friends who have signed a contract in blood. Such things are very serious, especially to ninken. It's in a ninja dog's nature to value loyalty, trust and companionship and when a summoning contract is signed it's a bond for life. A bond like that is very good to have when you're the sort of person who's uncomfortable talking about his likes, dislikes or dreams for the future with people, but still has lots of feelings going on inside.

It's not that Kakashi and Pakkun have regular, in-depth, heart-to-heart conversations about important topics. They're not those kinds of dogs. Sometimes though, every now and then, there is something on Kakashi's mind that needs to be said out loud to a friend. Pakkun will listen then, nod sagely and offer whatever wisdom or helpful advice he can. He doesn't always have words good enough to put Kakashi's mind at ease but paw pads are usually better than words anyways.

Pakkun has very soft paw pads that can soothe all kinds of worries and banish the most persistent of bad thoughts. He can often tell when Kakashi might be in need of paw pads during missions and will happily jump up on his head or shoulder and hold on with steady paws of loyal companionship. People might think Pakkun rides on Kakashi's shoulder because he's lazy or tired, since his legs are so short, and all those things are true, BUT he's also offering Kakashi support without anyone knowing. It's a very effective secret ninken love tactic <3

Ok, I can see you're not an idiot...

I wish I could say the same, Lawrence, but this is disappointing as hell.

i really cannot stop thinking about arranged marriage victorian au with bakugou where he kind of. just. takes you from your shitty fiancé.

his family has money and he's a well-respected vet from the war and he's a little reclusive but everyone in town knows him and you've never held much conversation, but he's seen you for years, sewing dresses for his mother, and it only takes one look at the split in your lip and your puffy, tear-filled eyes to march right up to your parents to offer—more.

whatever your piece of shit fiancé offered them, he promises three times as much: money, security, safety. he'll take care of you and them; the estate is big enough, there's two other homes on the bakugou land. it'll be a scandal, but—he's been to hell and back and this is nothing. he'll put your fiancé six feet in the ground if he says one word of objection—in fact, he's hoping he does, just to give him the reason.

it's a no brainer, for everyone involved, and he's not afraid of the heat it will bring, the changes that will come into his life. he never thought he'd be a married man, honestly, but he's not afraid. he's not.

at least until he's standing in front of you, with the scars on his face and tremors in his hands, choking on his proposal right before your eyes.