thanks for the venom -- fic recap
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onceand_forallOh Shinsou. Shinsou Shinsou Shinsou. My baby, my love. My sweet little angel who can do no wrong. I love you. And this fic was 100% just bashing you, but in a thoughtful way. I hope it did you and your pessimistic nature justice.
Click HERE for all of my thoughts from this universe. There's a lot of them.
THE BACKGROUND
I keep doing this thing where I make up a whole new storyline in this world and just forget about the others (Sorry Shouto. Also sorry Mirio because I keep thinking of new parts for him and just, am I ever going to write it? Will this series EVER be over? Who knows!!!!! That's the fun in writing fic.) So I just love Shinsou and I am so fascinated to explore what happens with him when he doesn't have someone to break out of his "Oh woe is me" headset. Esp when he is faced with Izuku, who in his POV (and other's) gave it all up after a life of just good things. Good quirk, good friends, good grades.
A lot of this series is based on people thinking that Izuku just has it good and has always had it good. Before this, we've always gotten Izuku's POV, or Katsuki's, and they both know that that isn't true, not at all. And so Shinsou is the first time we get to see what other's think, and boy boy boy. Are they wrong.
I really want Shinsou's whole arc and eventual friendship with Izuku to demonstrate how wrong perceptions can be. Guess we'll see if I can actually pull that off, haha!
THE COMPLEX
Shinsou, as one of my commenters points out is "someone who has wallowed in his ignorance and *glorified* in it". And they're right! He really is so ignorant and has created his own reality to work with. One where he is the poor, beaten down kid who has to fight by the world all by himself, tooth and nail, to get to where he wants to go. And then is only afforded that by not even his own work in the end. It's just by chance, by luck. And boy does that make him mad. He'll eventually realize a bunch of things, including the fact that he did not do any of this by himself (HELLO HE HAS GOOD PARENTS IN HIS AU), and that luck isn't a bad thing! You need luck! Hard work isn't all there is, there's luck too!!
And of course he'll realize how he and Izuku have more in common than they do not. I am just in LOVE with the miscommunication trope between them where they don't realize that they are actually the same! It's all about the preconceived notions ruining everything, babey!
AIZAWA
I am TRYING to make Aizawa a good guy, or at least not a horrible guy. He's just a human who makes mistakes, you know! But god, it seems that whatever I do drives a deeper hole for him. Sorry, Aizawa. You're number one in my heart and hopefully this story will redeem you in the end.
I really see Aizawa as knowing that he failed Izuku and being pretty furious with himself (And others, because wtf why was he not informed that Izuku's quirk just came in? Why wasn't he informed that All Might literally handed a teenager a heavy af legacy with enemies and ghosts and shit?) for not realizing it. And so see Shinsou and is like, okay this kid reminds me of myself and I already failed a student this year, hell if I'm going to do that again. And this really creates a rift between the Izuku and Hitoshi, very much unintentionally. Bc now Hitoshi feels pitied and Izuku feels like he got the short end of the stick, again. (Sneak peak into Izuku's head: what made Hitoshi so much different than me? Why could he get the help and not me?)
That being said, I really need to pull myself together and figure out Aizawa's part. I know it takes place in their second year, literally post Todoroki stabbing Bakugou! Fun times. But beyond that, not really sure what I want to write it about... so we'll see what happens, lmao.
CONCLUSION
So yeah, in conclusion Hitoshi is stuck up so far up his own ass that he can't see even a small glimmer of the truth. This is a product of a lot of things, including and not limited to: his inferiority complex, his "me against the world" mindset, his inability to make friends, the UA rumor mill, the broken 1A class. He'll grow though, I swear! We just need to establish a baseline to watch that growth :^)
Anyways, this was forreal my favorite part to write. I'm obsessed with Hitoshi's narrative in this series (And Hitoshi himself. I recently just dyed my hair Hitoshi Purple, it was a great time.) Can't wait to write more of him!
thanks for reading,
once
find me other places: twt | tumblr | cc | ao3
Click HERE for all of my thoughts from this universe. There's a lot of them.
I keep doing this thing where I make up a whole new storyline in this world and just forget about the others (Sorry Shouto. Also sorry Mirio because I keep thinking of new parts for him and just, am I ever going to write it? Will this series EVER be over? Who knows!!!!! That's the fun in writing fic.) So I just love Shinsou and I am so fascinated to explore what happens with him when he doesn't have someone to break out of his "Oh woe is me" headset. Esp when he is faced with Izuku, who in his POV (and other's) gave it all up after a life of just good things. Good quirk, good friends, good grades.
A lot of this series is based on people thinking that Izuku just has it good and has always had it good. Before this, we've always gotten Izuku's POV, or Katsuki's, and they both know that that isn't true, not at all. And so Shinsou is the first time we get to see what other's think, and boy boy boy. Are they wrong.
I really want Shinsou's whole arc and eventual friendship with Izuku to demonstrate how wrong perceptions can be. Guess we'll see if I can actually pull that off, haha!
Shinsou, as one of my commenters points out is "someone who has wallowed in his ignorance and *glorified* in it". And they're right! He really is so ignorant and has created his own reality to work with. One where he is the poor, beaten down kid who has to fight by the world all by himself, tooth and nail, to get to where he wants to go. And then is only afforded that by not even his own work in the end. It's just by chance, by luck. And boy does that make him mad. He'll eventually realize a bunch of things, including the fact that he did not do any of this by himself (HELLO HE HAS GOOD PARENTS IN HIS AU), and that luck isn't a bad thing! You need luck! Hard work isn't all there is, there's luck too!!
And of course he'll realize how he and Izuku have more in common than they do not. I am just in LOVE with the miscommunication trope between them where they don't realize that they are actually the same! It's all about the preconceived notions ruining everything, babey!
I am TRYING to make Aizawa a good guy, or at least not a horrible guy. He's just a human who makes mistakes, you know! But god, it seems that whatever I do drives a deeper hole for him. Sorry, Aizawa. You're number one in my heart and hopefully this story will redeem you in the end.
I really see Aizawa as knowing that he failed Izuku and being pretty furious with himself (And others, because wtf why was he not informed that Izuku's quirk just came in? Why wasn't he informed that All Might literally handed a teenager a heavy af legacy with enemies and ghosts and shit?) for not realizing it. And so see Shinsou and is like, okay this kid reminds me of myself and I already failed a student this year, hell if I'm going to do that again. And this really creates a rift between the Izuku and Hitoshi, very much unintentionally. Bc now Hitoshi feels pitied and Izuku feels like he got the short end of the stick, again. (Sneak peak into Izuku's head: what made Hitoshi so much different than me? Why could he get the help and not me?)
That being said, I really need to pull myself together and figure out Aizawa's part. I know it takes place in their second year, literally post Todoroki stabbing Bakugou! Fun times. But beyond that, not really sure what I want to write it about... so we'll see what happens, lmao.
So yeah, in conclusion Hitoshi is stuck up so far up his own ass that he can't see even a small glimmer of the truth. This is a product of a lot of things, including and not limited to: his inferiority complex, his "me against the world" mindset, his inability to make friends, the UA rumor mill, the broken 1A class. He'll grow though, I swear! We just need to establish a baseline to watch that growth :^)
Anyways, this was forreal my favorite part to write. I'm obsessed with Hitoshi's narrative in this series (And Hitoshi himself. I recently just dyed my hair Hitoshi Purple, it was a great time.) Can't wait to write more of him!
thanks for reading,
once
find me other places: twt | tumblr | cc | ao3
