The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.
Oh yeah, that’s definitely one of the series’s pluses, the whole relationship between Izuku and All Might and it’s quiet little subversion of “Don’t meet your heroes.”
And I think the biggest factor in that is All Might himself.
Personally, I think the full phrase should be “Don’t meet your heroes, they might just be a person.” And most people might not react well to that, the fact that underneath what ever image they made for themselves about their hero, that they are just human, with flaws and mistakes, and not some flawless “Idol.” Double that if the person the hero ends up being is a huge jerk, as is most cases of this trope.
All Might, Toshinori Yagi, is a person. A good person, and it shines during his first meeting with Izuku. Like you said, the boy meets his hero both at his strongest and weakest, and both times he’s shown to be a hero in every sense of the word, as well as a good person.
After All Might rescues him, he sticks around to make sure he’s okay, which is even more kindhearted once you take his time limit into account, gives him an autograph without being asked, and then gives a farewell before jumping off.
And then, when his true form is revealed, All Might doesn’t threaten or push Izuku to keep his mouth shut, instead he calmly explains what happened to him and why he’s like this, as much as he can reveal to civilian at least, and asks, politely and humbly, for Izuku to not tell anyone for fear of what it might cause, to which he agrees.
And lastly, when All Might gives his, initial, answer to Izuku about whether or not someone without a quirk could be a hero, his honest and direct about it, no sugar coating with a half assed “maybe if you try hard enough”, but he’s not cruel about it either. He tells Midoriya that, putting it simply, it would be irresponsible for him to say that someone without a quirk could be a pro hero, simply because of all the dangers it presents.
He says this without any knowledge of Izuku’s character, true, but he since he doesn’t know anything about him beyond, “big All Might Fanboy with too big dreams”, this is the best answer he can give.
And he doesn’t leave it at that, right before he leaves, he acknowledges Izuku’s drive to help people, so he offers a different way to help people, being a police officer, while stating that their rep of simply cleaning up where heroes leave off is unfounded and that they do do a good job.
And knowing his friendship with Naomasa, we know he was perfectly honest about that, and that he offered Izuku that different path because he thought it was a good, slightly safer alternative to what Izuku wanted first.
And a bit later, when he’s alone, he expresses a little regret at having to crush someone’s dream like that, but resolves that it was necessary.
All this serves to soften the blow just enough that Izuku isn’t completely discouraged, as seen after he helps saves Bakugou, and he starts taking what All Might said to heart and try something else instead of a hero.
And then, of course, comes the famous “You can be a hero” speech, which many people have covered far better then I could.
All this helps Izuku not to idolize, but admire All Might, as both a hero and a person. Finding out the kind of person All Might really is doesn’t make him stop being a fan, it doesn’t erase all the good and amazing things All Might has done, it only enhances it.
Not for nothing that the relationship between these two is one of the most praised thing about this manga 😉
You know what I don’t get? When fanfic authors apologize for long chapters. It’s like? You gave me bonus content, for free, and you’re sorry about it? Bruh. I have already named my firstborn after you. Dude.
You know what else I don’t get? When they apologize for short updates. It’s like: look at these new words I gave you! Sorry I didn’t give you even more free words. Bro, that’s at least two words that I did not have yesterday. For free. Dude. Thank you.
And another thing: when people drop out of nowhere with a surprise update and then apologize for it taking a while. Like, dude, I wasn’t expecting anything, and you gave me words. I thought this fic was abandoned, but wait: there’s more. You just popped in and reminded me that this is a Good Fic that I should probably reread. You made my goshdarn day.
Basically fanfic writers are under no obligation to publish anything so when they do update it’s always a net positive because the story is longer now, and I have something to read, so thank you so much to everyone who writes fic at whatever pace or quantity they want.
A group of rough looking boys walked past me today and all I heard of their conversation was “he’s got that anxiety disorder bro so I went with him so he’d be more comfortable” and it made me realise the world isn’t all that bad
The pet store I worked at had a pen with rabbits near the front door. On every side of the pen were huge signs saying “You can pet me, but don’t pick me up!” One day two absolutely huge guys came in and one immediately reaches into the pen to grab a rabbit. Before i could say anything his friend grabbed his arm and asked him “did you see the sign?” He said “yeah! it says that you can pick them up but don’t pet them!” Then he went quiet for a moment and softly said “I didn’t read it right did I?” And his friend just puts his arm on his shoulder and said “its ok, i know you’ve got that thing where words get mixed up. Let just pet these cute lil shits” And I still haven’t gotten over that interaction.
I was walking my dog through Boston bc he likes the likes car rides. He’s a little thing tbh we call him short and long. So this huge scary man with a full beard approaches me like “hey can my buddy and I pet your dog? He gets nervous around dogs but your’s is so small I think it’s a good place to start.” Ofc I was like “yes he’s very friendly!” So this guy brings his equally big friend over and they sit on the floor while this man looks terrified of my tiny dog so big man number one asks “can I pick him up?” And i say yes so he picks him up and puts him on man number two’s lap and man number two is abt to freak out and his friend straight up just goes “hey man, it’s okay just relax I’d never let anything hurt you. He’s a good boy.” I’ll never forget it ever bc I know that man looked at me (5’3 , glasses, probably wearing a sweater vest) and my dog (kinda goofy looking little thing) and was like ‘ah yes the two least intimidating living things I’ve seen in Boston all day he’ll feel relaxed around them’ and went out of his way to help his friend. It makes me so happy
I love this
I was (of course it was) in NYC at the time, riding on the R train and this burly, tall, leather and black jeans with fuck off huge steel-plated knee-highs and a fourteen foot lime green mohawk gets on the train and sit’s down, his jansport backpack making this Ghu-awful THUNK as he sets it between his feet. And no one says anything. Everyone saw him because how could you not?
And he opens his bag and starts rustling through it and sets aside some YA novel that I don’t remember but that it had this absolutely lovely lavender purple cover. and then he pulls out his fucking knitting and just goes to town. Just, minding his own business, knitting away intently, listening to his earbuds.
And wasn’t a person on that train gonna say a DAMN thing about it. No one pointed or made any comments because this dude was built to crush motherfuckers. And he was knitting in public so you know he knew no fear and was happy and confident and then this little girl walked away from her mum and walked straight up to him and waved and her mother looked surprised (but not scared, this is NYC – we don’t know fear because we’re too busy). But the guy sees this little girl wave at him and just gives her the BIGGEST SMILE and waves back and takes out an earbud and says hi and they start talking about knitting and how he learned on his own and she wanted to learn and her mother didn’t know. But he suggested that there were knitting clubs and a lot of them were free and would happily help a new little knitter like her.
It was the single most adorable and heart warming thing of my life. Like here’s this dude with a Rancid t-shirt that looks like it was probably printed in someone’s flat fifteen years ago with an anti-nazi patch right over his heart and enough metal in his clothes to be worth recycling but a little girl waved and what type of nasty, heartless fuck doesn’t smile at kids? That ain’t punk.
“Doom Guy and Goblin Slayer are basically the same character!” False.
Doom Guy is Rip And Tear personified. He is an unwavering bulldozer that charges in and carves a path of carnage through demons. He is an unstoppable killing machine who genocides first and asks questions later. His modus operandi is “grab big gun, go to town”. This is inspiring.
Goblin Slayer is subterfuge and caution given a goal and copious amounts of hatred. His gear is all specially picked for the task at hand, given due thought to available space, specific usage, and pragmatism above all, dropping or throwing whatever he has in hand to replace it with a fallen foe’s weapon. Before even considering attacking a goblin den, Goblin Slayer will light it on fire, flood it, or fill it with poisonous gas. He is methodical to a tee. This is inspiring, in a different way.
They both want to snuff the light out of their targets, but their methods couldn’t be more different. They both are, however, the Goodest Boys.
Put it another way,
Doom Guy is a mini gun with its trigger held down five feet away from a crowd of targets.
Goblin Slayer is a sniper rifle (or bow and arrow if you wanna be particular) carefully picking off one target at a time from a planned position.
Both don’t stop until they either run out of bullets, or targets.
I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism
It is.
i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults
ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis
or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation
but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep
i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love sleep, i just love overwatch more
this this this this this
our society places almost zero value on sleep
on enough sleep
on uninterrupted sleep
on regular, predictable, cycling sleep
all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?
Reminder that
– Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep.
By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for.
Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.
– Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.
If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.
– According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)
– Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.
After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.
– Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.
Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch.
Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.
(points my shaking fist at high school) WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME
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