alright lemme just list my thoughts cuz there are a lot (enough that i have to split between beginning and end note)
1. i was gonna apologize for the delay, but...nah. this chapter is extra fucking long, and there were a variety of legitimate reasons i couldn't update on time. plus, y'all probably don't even notice that i have genuine deadlines for myself (the one for this chapter was thursday, july 17th).
2. after this, canon events will be either briefly mentioned/thrown out altogether. everything past the hideout raid arc will almost definitely be thrown out.
3. this chapter is probably pretty poorly edited, sorry. i wanted to get it out to y'all asap, so.
4. next update is probably gonna be in two weeks, i'm taking the extra time to start making solid plans of where i want to go with this story. i mostly have ideas, but i think now is about time for me to organize them into a pretty solid outline.
"You can do it," Uraraka says with a determined smile on her face, giving Hitoshi a sharp nod. "Just remember, he knows your quirk."
Hitoshi gives her a sly smirk, "Does he, though?" Uraraka responds with a raised eyebrow. Leaving her off with a shrug, Hitoshi turns his back to her and heads off to the first match of the tournament. Awase might have been in his cavalry battle team, and he might have seen Hitoshi's quirk in use every step of the way, but that didn't mean he knew what exactly that quirk was.
It's as Kayama-sensei said. Misdirection is the key.
Hitoshi isn't a strong guy. He might be cunning, but he isn't particularly intelligent on the battlefield. He's got pretty much nothing going for him except for his quirk, and even that can turn into a bit of a one-trick pony, if he doesn't take great care in how he presents himself.
Awase is the perfect guinea pig for something that he's trying out. Hitoshi's quirk might be activated by someone responding to his own voice, but...If Awase sees Hitoshi strike a conversation with a person, and use his quirk on them long after he's gotten a response...Well, it's on Awase if he concludes that the activation for his brainwashing quirk is something like brushing someone's skin or making eye contact with them. Sure, Hitoshi risks a few seconds by delaying the activation of his quirk,
And right now, standing in front of Awase? It feels exhilarating. Thrilling. And Hitoshi knows he's got this in the bag, because Awase won't look at him. It's a kind of control he's never felt over his quirk, one where the person he's speaking to doesn't know what to expect from him. People can avoid his voice, they can avoid speaking to him, but they can't avoid his entire existence. So they're forced to make a guess at what the activation condition for his quirk is, and more likely than not, they'll guess wrong.
Maybe he's being a little cocky right now, but it's not like Awase isn't doing the same. "My quirk isn't useful for much when I've got nothing out here to work with, but..." Awase starts, getting briefly interrupted by Cementoss' slow cue for the beginning of the battle. "I saw you looking in each of those people's eyes when you commanded them around. We're both fighting quirkless." The 'You're not in the heroics course like I am, so your basic fighting skills must be worse than mine,' is left unsaid, but Hitoshi is sure that the sentiment is lying somewhere underneath Awase's words.
"So you've figured it out," Hitoshi says, a satisfied grin creeping over his face. "Let's fight, then." And with that, the two of them rocket forward, Awase tugging off the blue and white headband on his forehead.
Awase Yosetsu, Class 1-B, from the heroics course. Awase clearly doesn't see his own quirk as something to hide, as he was quick to reveal it before the cavalry battle commenced, so that the four of them could make a proper strategy. Bonding. The ability to fuse objects together at an atomic level, provided that he is touching both objects. Hitoshi has a feeling that Awase's quirk isn't completely useless in this current scenario, especially when that headband seems a touch wider than it was during the cavalry battle.
Hitoshi has had some training in combat thanks to Kayama-sensei, but it can't stop Awase from disappear from his sight in the span of a moment. Shit. He still hasn't made the connection to Awase's mind.
Blue and white cloth wraps itself around Hitoshi's mouth and nose, and he is briefly seized by terror. The worst moment for him to figure out the opponent's strategy is when he's already been ensnared in the trap, but such is the unfortunate life of Shinsou Hitoshi. In a desperate move, Hitoshi speaks a muffled few words against the cloth on his mouth. It's barely enough, but...
"Got you," Awase says. Hitoshi can feel the connection snapping to the front of his mind, visualizing it as a fine thread between himself and Awase. He gives the string a mental tug, and is satisfied to find that the string doesn't snap. If it can't handle a brief nudge, it can't handle an entire command.
Hitoshi doesn't have much time to pull this off, though. Not with the way Awase's fingers brush against his cheek. He can feel his lungs stuttering, as their only sources of oxygen get cut off by the headband that's bonded to his face. Hitoshi turns to look Awase in the eye, deciding that, even in this desperate situation, it's worth it to not leave Awase with any questions about his quirk.
Short words. The command has to count. "Release quirk." Awase probably can't hear it, the words whispered through cloth, on used up oxygen, but that's the thing about his quirk. His target doesn't necessarily have to hear the command. The verbal commands mostly serve as the trigger to send a command from his mind to his target's. Hitoshi isn't even sure if it's necessary, but that's the way he best knows his quirk.
It doesn't matter how it works, though, because it works, and Hitoshi is left taking in lungfuls of air in order to prepare for his next command. He might have had his air supply cut off for only a few moments, but speaking while not breathing really took its toll on him. At least he has all the time he needs. As long nothing jolts the mental connection that he's holding onto in his mind.
He speaks the moment he has the ability to, "Walk out of the arena." What an anticlimactic ending, he thinks, watching Awase step out of the arena in a daze. He has to say, though, Awase put up a good fight. He wasn't expecting much of a struggle from his part. The thought that he might be underestimating the hero course students briefly crosses over his mind, but he shrugs it off. There's still a point that he's got to prove, to the hero course, to Yuuei, and to himself. That he's got what it takes to be a hero.
"And would you look at that, Shinsou Hitoshi wins with an unexpected forfeit from Yosetsu Awase! Could this Gen Ed nobody be a dark horse of this tournament?"
"Huh?" Izuku says, confused. "He just walked out? Clearly some sort of command-based quirk...But what does he need in order to give a command? Otherwise he would have just done that from the beginning. Plus, that would be too powerful of a quirk."
"I'm sure you can figure it out in the next match," Daichi says, pointing to the TV with another bottle of apple cider in his hands, "But the next match is starting."
"Oh! I want to see the youngest of the Iida family in action!" What follows certainly doesn't live up to Izuku's expectation. At some point, he loses the heart to watch Iida Tenya being subjected to the horrors of Hatsume Mei's advertisement, so he just flips his laptop open and browses some of the Yuuei Sports Festival threads on The Guard's Archives. Apparently a very intense game of extreme duck duck goose is occurring on a tilting platform in the second year Sports Festival, and it's going on a lot longer than expected. That's one reason to be glad he's watching the first year Sports Festival, he doesn't have to wait past 3 PM to eat lunch.
At long, long last, the Iida Tenya vs. Hatsume Mei match ends, with Hatsume stepping out of the boundaries. What a power move.
Next is Shiozaki Ibara and Kaminari Denki, which is a match that's delightfully short compared to the prior one. Kaminari releases an amount of electricity from his body that's beyond impressive, but it's quickly deflected by a shield of vines from Shiozaki. Kaminari is then held up in the error by a terrifying spiral pillar of vines.
Kaminari's quirk seems pretty straightforward, but what about Shiozaki's? There are so many things to explore there, like how she severs the vines from her hair, or how she still has control over the vines. And if she can control the vines that sprout from her hair, can she control other plants too, or just those vines? How did she control the growth of her vines even after they'd been severed from her head? How many vines could she produce? If the vines got damaged, what would happen to her?
Unfortunately for Izuku, these questions would probably remain unsolved until later matches, or even until later Sports Festivals if the following matches were as short as this one. Izuku types the questions down, though, and gears up for the next battle.
Both of the competitors for the next match are both ones that Izuku has his eyes on. Everyone probably had his eye on Todoroki's powerful ice quirk, and Izuku had no doubt that he'd be a very strong hero. As for Sero, well. Izuku is curious about the applications of his quirk. The matchup is extremely unfavorable for Sero, though. A tournament with this setup puts those with quirks that work best with other objects at a disadvantage, because the stadium is completely clear. Sero could use his tape to immobilize Todoroki, but Todoroki has already shown himself capable of generating massive amounts of ice in a short amount of time. Todoroki could easily immobilize Sero first.
That is exactly what happens. Izuku is kind of sad to see the match end so quickly, with Sero frozen inside a ice structure that fills the stadium. He didn't even get a chance to see what kind of strategy Sero would employ.
After the ice is finally melted, Yaoyorozu Momo faces off against Ashido Mina. Yaoyorozu quickly and effectively takes down Ashido by wrapping her up in tape. Ashido spreads acid along the floor, but somehow, Yaoyorozu steps on it without a problem.
"It's Uraraka's turn now," Izuku says a little nervously. He has no idea who Aoyama is, or what their quirk is, but hopefully Uraraka can deal with it.
The two step onto the stadium, and Izuku vaguely remembers who Aoyama is. He's the person who was using the lasers in the first event. The laser seems to only be a highly concentrated beam, so Uraraka's main course of action should be to dodge those. He can't really think of any strategies to take beyond that, because he doesn't know much about her quirk beyond the fact that it's a five-point activated quirk.
Uraraka seems to have it figured out, though, because she leaps out of the way of a laser beam as soon as the match starts, and quickly moves towards Aoyama. Aoyama moves back to maintain his distance, probably because his quirk is more of a long-distance one. In the process, though, he gets closer and closer to the boundary line until he's forced to confront Uraraka.
Who slaps him hard on the face with her hand. And just like that, the outcome of the match is decided. Uraraka uses a strong kick to send him flying into the walls of the arena.
"Aoyama is out of bounds," Cementoss' voice says, projected by his mic, "Uraraka Ochako moves onto the second stage."
After that is Kirishima Eijiro vs. Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu which is...honestly more amusing than anything. Their quirks are so similar that they end up passing out from exhaustion, probably quirk exhaustion. It's announced that it'll be settled with a wrestling match.
As for the next match...Well, honestly Izuku is kind of rooting for Tokoyami instead of Kacchan. Am I a bad person for wishing my childhood friend to fail? He thinks guiltily, before shaking the thought out of his head. That's not it! Tokoyami just looks like a cool dude with a very powerful quirk, that's why Izuku wants him to win.
It doesn't matter what he wants, though, because it winds up just being a terrible matchup on Tokoyami's end. The match comes to a quick conclusion after a large explosion from Kacchan reduces Tokoyami's companion shadow to...a shadow of its former self. Ahaha. Ha. Haha. (Izuku never claimed that he was good at making puns.) Honestly, he should have figured that Kacchan would win.
Afterwards is the tiebreaker between Kirishima and Tetsutetsu, which he uses as an excuse to eat a bunch of chips from the enormous chip bowl. An arm wrestling match isn't all that interesting. When Midnight makes the call, "Kirishima Eijiro has won the tiebreaker, he will move onto the next match," Izuku comes to a realization.
"How come Midnight wasn't the referee for Uraraka's match?" Izuku asks, turning to look at Daichi and Fumiko.
Daichi grins, "Why don't you figure it out yourself, kid?" Izuku huffs. Sure, he did ask them for minimal information, but sometimes he wanted to know things. He's starting to regret not taking advantage of the information that Uraraka's parents had, information that few others had access to.
Izuku decides to retaliate with his own discoveries, "She can nullify the forces acting on an object if she touches the object with five fingers. I'd say it's just gravity, but with the inertia that Aoyama had, as if he was unhindered by things such as air resistance until he hit the wall...Am I right?" He finishes off a little nervously, tapping his fingers together. It isn't too hard to put together, but he doubts that any of the competitors will get the chance to figure it out, unless they too saw the footage of her in the obstacle race.
Daichi clicks his tongue, "Damn, kid. Do you have an analysis quirk or something?"
He chuckles nervously in response. "No, I just...like doing this. It's been a hobby since I was five or six." He never really...said anything about his quirk to the Urarakas. It wasn't like he was trying to keep the information from them, but direct questions about people's quirks were usually considered rude (though that never stopped Izuku). It just never came up. Honestly though, he's not sure he would tell them he was quirkless if they asked. He doesn't want to risk what the three of them have right now.
"Hm...You've got anything on Shinsou?" Daichi asks, pointing at the TV.
Izuku whips his head towards the television, almost yelling, "What, they've started already? Wait no, Iida is already walking out of bounds! Nooo, I missed it..." He presses his face into his hands when the match ends with Shinsou winning. "I'm not too sure for him, though. It probably involves verbal commands, he was talking to other teams in the Cavalry Battle when they handed over their headbands, I don't think that he's just very persuasive. There's not enough to go off of."
After taking his moment to briefly mourn the missed match, he sits attentive for the next three matches.
Todoroki and Shiozaki both have very powerful quirks capable of generating large amounts of matter for their respective elements, but it ends with Todoroki winning. Unlike his fight with Sero, he started by frosting over the arena, which prevented Shiozaki from properly rooting her plants into the ground. Whatever did get into the ground quickly wilted, probably from the frost damage. Strangely enough, the match ended with Shiozaki passing out.
Uraraka wins the next match against Yaoyorozu with the same quick action she took against Aoyama. Yaoyorozu ends up to overwhelmed by the speed that Uraraka uses to produce anything substantial enough to protect her from Uraraka's approach. One fronthand slap and another backhand slap is all it takes to end it. Maybe if Izuku ever winds up talking to her, he can bring up making her movements less obvious. Or something other than just slaps.
"Oh, she's in the top four!" Fumiko exclaims, "Didn't I tell you, Midoriya, she'd be on the podium!"
Daichi stops her optimism in its tracks, "Now, she's still got one more match to go. Whoever wins between Bakugou and Kirishima..."
And in the end, it's Kacchan who wins against Kirishima. Of course it is. Izuku wants to say that he believes in Ochako's ability to win, but...
In Izuku's mind, Kacchan is still held up on that enormous pillar of heroic admiration. He can't lose, because Kacchan doesn't lose. It's a core tenant of the universe, something as unquestionable as water being wet.
Sure, Izuku had the faintest hope that Tokoyami would win, but it was just that. A hope. A foolish fantasy. He can't say the same for Uraraka, a person he's heard enough about to feel as if he actually knows her. Not for Uraraka, who's future quite possibly hangs on this battle. How far does she have to go to enter the heroic course? Does she have to just prove herself? Does she have to get onto the podium? Does she have to win the entire tournament. Too much hangs on a match against Kacchan. Again Kacchan who never backs down, Kacchan who takes on the world with his middle finger raised, Kacchan who doesn't fucking lose.
He's so wrapped up into his anxieties that he barely processes Shinsou getting grand-slammed by Todoroki.
Four weeks ago, Ochako probably might have been scared shitless at the thought of facing one of the top candidates of the Sports Festival. Not now, though, because that was then, and this is now. Now, she has a plan.
Bakugou better be prepared for what she's going to rain down on him, because she cannot afford to lose. She doesn't care what kind of superiority complex he has. If she misses her chance at this Sports Festival, then that's entire potential year, two years, all years of learning to be a hero lost.
The battle starts with a bang, predictably. Rather, it starts with her trying to get close to Bakugou, only to be be blasted away with the simple redirection of his palms. She's set on a collision course with the ground, so she decides to roll with it. She places her hands on the floor as she stumbles, pushes off of the ground a little with her feet, and lands on her shoulder so that she can use the momentum to roll back up on her feet. That solid hour of being pushed onto the floor by Shinsou so that she could learn to fall properly doesn't seem so useless anymore.
No matter, she thinks, brushing the dust off of her face and ignoring the sting of her palms as she looks for the best path for her to take. She has to think quickly, before the dust fades away.
There. Right in the previous line of fire, a path of rocks trailing up to Bakugou. She keeps low to the ground as she walks forward, letting her finger pads skim across the rocks. The rocks are barely hovering above the ground, not high enough for one to realize that they're even floating.
Another blast sends her back, as soon as Bakugou pinpoints her position. Good. He has to keep them coming, otherwise Ochako will have nothing to work with. She knows her only chance of winning is getting close, against an opponent whose quirk seems almost built for keeping her away from him. The only matchup worse than this than she can think of would be if she had to go against Todoroki's long-distance ice attacks. Which she will, when she wins.
Get close. Touch some rocks. Get blasted away. Fall, and stand right back up. Rinse, and repeat, and rinse, and repeat, and rinse, and repeat. It's exhausting, it's terrible, it hurts, but she needs to do this for herself. She needs to do this, to save people (so that they aren't left alone, trapped under a pile of rubble, crying for help). And she's sure she's got ten times the hero in her than this guy with hellfire in his eyes, someone who's blown up enough in the cafeteria for even the third years to know that he's bloodthirsty, antagonistic, and shamelessly so. If she can't even prove that she can take on this guy, then what are her ambitions to be a hero worth?
She's straining herself, she knows it, but that's what a fucking hero does. There was no savior for her on the day of the entrance exam, nothing but the zero point robot's safety mechanism pausing its hulking foot right above her body. But she likes to think that if someone ever did come to help her, that it would be someone with enough heart and passion to rush into danger, just to save her on pure instinct, regardless of the sacrifice it would cause them. That was always the kind of hero she imagined herself to be, under her motivations to become a hero just for the money. It's no longer just about the money for her, and, honestly? It might have never been. Because who tries to join a career that takes three years of education to get the first paycheck, when there were more immediate ways to get the money? It's not just about the paycheck, because if it was, then she'd be the kind of hero to leave neighborhoods like her own riddled with crime.
No, now she's becoming a hero so that she can prove to herself that the hero she wants to exist does exist. Ever since the Yuuei entrance exams, she's started having her doubts about the matter.
Hey, maybe if she punts this self-absorbed asshole into the stratosphere, he'll pull his head out of his ass long enough for him to see the world around him.
Her plan is...Kind of convoluted, if she's being honest with herself. Using herself as a distraction just to set up another distraction that will let her slap the goddamn guy and levitate him out of bounds? Ochako has heard a lot about Recovery Girl, and she really hopes this battle doesn't have to get to the point where she has to go to the infirmary, because she might not make it out of that interaction alive.
It seems that she won't have to, though.
Kayama-sensei has had a whole lot of advice to impart to Shinsou and herself in the short span of two weeks. Among the more helpful tidbits she gave them were the words, "Some battles will be hopeless. But your opponent has limits, so find them. And if you can't find them, flee."
Ochako sure as hell isn't fleeing, but she doesn't even have to consider it. Clearly Bakugou was expecting to get her out of the way with a few quick, strong blasts, not unlike what Todoroki Shouto did to Sero Hanta in the first round. Because the blasts are getting smaller and smaller. She's actually glad that Bakugou Katsuki seems to have hit a limit of his own, because she's pretty sure she's hefting a solid 2.5 tons of rock right now. Just beneath her limit. She stops trying to gather more ammo for her final attack, because any more will definitely make her pass out. Plus, the small blasts that Bakugou generates are hardly enough to cover up what she's doing. Maybe whatever fuels Bakugou's explosions has run out?
"Come and face me!" Bakugou yells. Maybe she's tricking herself into thinking that it's desperation she's hearing in his voice, but...Hell if she isn't hearing it. In a spur of the moment decision, she makes a change to her original plan.
Eyes closed. Take a steady breath.
Ochako's eyes snap open, and a field of rocks raises into the air, forming a ring of rocks around Bakugou. Operation Meteor Belt, begin.
Honestly, it's a bit like over-glorified target practice. Light taps on the rocks are all it takes to send them hurtling towards Bakugou, who is forced onto the defensive. Bakugou's hands are crossed in front of him, darting out to blast the rocks that fly towards him. She uses a kick to send one of the rocks onto a slightly different path, to confirm that Bakugou is paying more attention to the rocks than to her. After that, she varies the way she hits the rock, going from hitting the rocks straight on to using different body parts and different angles. For this to work, Bakugou has to be paying more attention to where the rocks seem to be coming from, than to where she is.
Why? Well, simple. She's closing on him. Between the rocks being pelted towards Bakugou without air resistance or gravity holding them back, and the stationary rocks that are floating on the air, he can either choose to get hit by the rocks or blast his way out of her trap. Since he's chosen to sit still, all she has to get close enough, and...
"Boo," she says, slapping him on the back. Bakugou turns back with a nasty snarl on his face, and sends a blast towards her that has her slamming into her own rocks, but that isn't enough to save him.
Ugh. Ochako can feel her stomach churning, the weight of what she's holding up finally hitting her. But she can't release everything she's holding up, not yet. She's almost there.
Bakugou flies up into the air, but he's still technically within the bounds of the arena. She doesn't have to worry much, though, because it's his own quirk that eventually leads to his downfall. The guy might be able to maneuver in the air with his explosions, but Bakugou seems not to have factored the lack of gravity into his equation. She can't blame him, few have enough experience with being under zero gravity circumstances to know how to adjust accordingly. It's kind of funny seeing him fly into the audience, though.
Meanwhile, Ochako crawls to a spot where rocks don't hover dangerously above her. The moment she's declared the winner, she forces her hands to make the necessary gesture for her to release objects from the effects of a quirk. Her hair falls over her face, and her vision starts getting really fuzzy. The word "release" is barely whispered, completely lost in the loud cacophony of the cheering crowd.
Ochako falls unconscious before she has the chance to revel in her victory.
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Forum: The Next Generation
Thread: 1st Year YSF Discussion
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[Admin] RedDeadSea - 1003 rep
alright ya lil shits don't let last year happen i will not fucking hesitate to ban.
[Member] feredae - 34 rep
Oh sweet lemme start this off by saying holy fuck class 1-a almost dominated that competition, 11/16 of the people who made it to the tournament were class 1-a?
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[Regular] canidaecreep - 247 rep
I mean, we could deliberate on the different strategies that Class 1-A and Class 1-B took as an entire class, which ultimately led to 1-B's downfall, but if you want to talk domination, then I'm going to quickly yank the topic of this discussion to the part that actually matters. The Wonder Duo of the general education department, Shinsou Hitoshi and Uraraka Ochako. Shinsou Hitoshi, experiencing a crushing defeat at the hands of Powerhouse #1: Todoroki Shouto after a series of easy victories, only to put one over on Powerhouse #2: Bakugou Katsuki, and climb his way to third place. Uraraka Ochako, keeping her quirk carefully concealed from her opponents, claiming her stake on the top two positions of the competition in her fiery battle with Bakugou Katsuki, where she proceeded to kick his ass. Aaaand then she was too injured to continue to the final round, but damn girl, you've got spunk.
I mean. Holy shit. A general education student making it onto the podium? There have only been five recorded instances of that happening, two of which I don't have on hand right now (I'll edit this post later once I look back at old Sports Festival results). Shino Sosaki, Aizawa Shouta, and Emi Fukukado, two of which have gone on to become the known heroes, Mandalay and Ms. Joke. Interestingly enough, these all occurred within four years of each other, during the start of the golden age of heroics. Two general education students making it onto the podium, though? Completely unprecedented. I do think that the results of this competition will spark a rather profound discussion. Who knows what direction that'll take, but hopefully mainstream media will start to discuss more of the things that we like to talk about here. As in, the constant "Yuuei is a giant pile of administrative fuckups piled into a single heroics school" debacle.
Honestly, I'm all for the Wonder Duo. When's the last time you've seen two people actually cooperating during an obstacle race, because it sure doesn't happen often. Whoever they are, they're familiar with each other. They both seem pretty resourceful with their quirks, as well. The look in Shinsou's eyes when he was facing off against Todoroki, the utter relentlessness that Uraraka used in attacking Bakugou...That's the kind of stuff I'd like to see in the heroics industry more. Catch me praying for them to transfer to the heroics course. It's a shame that we never got to see Uraraka v. Todoroki. From what I understand of the general education to heroics transfer process (as little as it is mentioned), the more opportunities you have to prove yourself, the better. You could hypothetically get in even if you got out in the first round, but it isn't very likely. That missing battle might be the difference between her making it in or not. Still, she got to second place, which is impressive enough in and of itself.
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[New] SyllphicIllusions - 5 rep
wait did yuuei ever release anymore information on why she wasn't able to participate in the final round? i think they said something about her being in the infirmary, but damn that sucked, i rly would've liked to see a gen ed kid in first
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[Member] inualia - 13 rep
anyone else exist for canidae's posts
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[Member] yellowmeownace - 792 rep
im working on my yearly breakdown of quirks rn but while i still have the thought on the top of my mind, canidaecreep, re: uraraka v todoroki, imo she...probably would have lost. her matchup with bakugou katsuki was definitely not in her favor, because his blasts are capable of being long range attacks that are great at keeping her away, but her advantage in that battle was that...at the end of the day it looks like bakugou is more of a close range fighter. he can keep her away with his quirk but he obv couldnt keep that up for long
todoroki though? long range all the way, his whole schtick seems to be keeping people away whereas uraraka probably needs to be more close range. the thing she set up in her battle against bakugou probably wouldnt have worked as a "long range" attack against todoroki bc at the end of the day she still has to get close in order to use her quirk. plus todoroki could easily construct a defensive dome like he did in the cavalry battle, unless there are some limits to his quirk that hes yet to reveal with the sheer amount of ice hes managed to produce over the course of the entire sports festival...but more on that later lmfao
and tbh if yuuei doesnt transfer those two over to heroics (provided that they want to) ill flip. the worst part is we cant even know if they got transferred until the next sports festival bc yuuei isnt v public about the transfer process. i think they more than proved themselves, especially uraraka
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[Member] Deku - 29 rep
SyllphicIllusions she couldn't go to the next round bc of quirk exhaustion, i think? it looked like she was using her quirk for a solid ten minutes so it might be a time limit (or maybe a weight limit)
i might be wrong tho don't trust me on that ;w;
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[Member] yellowmeownace - 792 rep
Deku yea i was def thinking something along those lines. i dont think its a time limit cuz she probably would have started using her quirk later on but u can see that she starts touching rocks in the first minute of the fight
anywhooooooooo more on that in my next post (im almost done i swear)
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[Member] kissmyass123 - 73 rep
brb stanning bakugou you can fight me on it if you want to (๑･`▱´･๑)
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[Member] feridae - 34 rep
kissmyass123 Yeah, no fucking duh you do i was waiting for you to drop in here and say that you're so fucking predictable (and not in the good way)
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[Member] yellowmeownace - 792 rep
ALRIGHT THE MOMENT NYALL HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR it is...yellows kickass quirk conversation (i tried alliterating, i really did)
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whoops that was a long post maybe ill start an individual thread for everyone else again sorry for this mess of a post. oh, and expect a much more detailed breakdown on what i think the results for todoroki v uraraka would have been (spoilers: the end result for the tournament would still be the same, if u didnt gather from my above post)
OOOOOOKAy now its 4:30 am GOOD NIGHT
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[Member] kissmyass123 - 73 rep
feridae dude do you want to fight because i know your goddamn address, i will cut you bitch
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[Member] feridae - 34 rep
kissmyass123 Everyone knows you're the most inflammatory users on this website, the only reason you're still around is because you're buddy buddy with one of the admins
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[Member] feridae - 84 rep
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"wait wait i...lmfao GOOD NIGHT"
And yellow i know we generally love you but this is a mess and also go the fuck to sleep
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[Member] free-glee-fighter - 25 rep - BANNED
Quote from yellowmeownace:
"ALRIGHT THE MOMENT...be the same)"
dude nobody knows what the fuck this says if ur gonna post at least make it make sense
and what makes you think that a.) awase's quirk is bonding objects when we hardly saw anything of anything and b.) at least offer some proof that hatsume's quirk is what you said it is if youre going to know her family which by the way is a bunch of famous inventors that i doubt the likes of you would know, it's much more likely something related to inventing based on her family
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[Member] yellowmeownace - 792 rep
free-glee-fighter look i was gonna go to sleep but then i saw you here and...do you want a smackdown because i can give you a smackdown! it makes perfectly good sense, you just arent trying :^)) awases quirk: did u see sero hanta trying to steal the headband away from him? unlike every other headband, it wouldnt come off. it was stuck there. not to mention, the odd placement of his headbands on his neck, that wasnt the placement of headbands resting on the neck normally, that was the placement of headbands hanging off of something, notably his neck. it probably isnt bonding objects to his skin only, though, based on the shinsou v awase battle. he let go of that headband, and it stuck onto shinsou until he...i guess ordered awase to release his quirk (at which point he touched the headband and shinsous face again). it might just be skin tho i dont owe u any fucking proof, thats between my family and the hatsumes. also quirkist much? like daaaamn ur thinking is outdated if you think that someones quirk has to be related to their profession, u kno thinking like that is the reason that 85% of japanese ppl end up picking professions where their quirk is beneficial (source) which is thought to be connected to why 70% of japan's working force says they regret the profession they picked (source + discussion threads 1, 2, 3 and 4) do you know anything about making shit cuz...as a Robotics Kid™, hatsume's quirk is useful as SHIT for engineering stuff but clearly you havent tried getting a nut onto a bolt thats in a low visibility, hard to access area. my poor lil fingers could have been spared if i had her quirk and thats just ONE situation where its useful
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[Admin][Regular] RedDeadSea - 4003 rep
i told you guys. i fucking TOLD YOu! why do sports festival threads always end up devolving to shit?
free-glee-fighter banned, bitch. you know the forum rules, no bigoted behavior, and all ideas are to be at least considered. the guard's archives prides itself on the environment it works to foster, where everyone's thought are at least considered. whether it's obvious things like "endeavor is a shitty hero who would be earning himself lifetimes in prisons were he not the #2 hero" to more bizarre shit like "ingenium gave information to the league of villains that allowed them to infiltrate yuuei" (which. is a popular theory, strangely enough). whatever it is, we consider it. especially when it's from yellowmeownace, our friendly insomniac friend that is widely respected for his analyses and brutal smackdowns. be glad that he was probably too sleepy to give you the full dose of his fury.
feridae please don't fight with kissmyass123, and i'd appreciate if you would not accuse the administrators of favoritism.
kissmyass123 while they are partially to blame, feridae is right. you more or less are one of our more...antagonistic forum users. you've already gotten 2 warnings. don't make me ban you, get your shit together, and make up with feridae, whoever they are to you. watching the two of you bicker all the time is a giant headache for us.
yellowmeownace ur doing great, kid. just. keep doing ur thing. although, i'd tell you to keep the smackdowns to the pms, but i've already told you to do that like...10 times. and honestly, they're pretty entertaining to read?
i'm locking this thread, so let's try this again.
Link to 1st Year YSF Discussion, Try #2
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- THREAD LOCKED -
apologies for the excess of line breaks on the last part, it's the only way to make it accessible on this goddamn website. it looks so much nicer on ao3 because i have it all formatted and everything but here i had to use the line breaks just to distinguish between different posts. this website doesn't even let me use the at symbol, goddamnit. and the bold parts aren't showing so it's really hard to read, sorry!
in case it wasn't clear in the final part, uraraka wasn't allowed to fight in the final round due to quirk exhaustion, and todoroki automatically got first. and shinsou won against bakugou. making the final rankings 1. todoroki, 2. uraraka, 3. shinsou.
more thoughts listed out!
1. i made uraraka win against bakugou, i know. just. deal with it aksdjaslkd
2. if uraraka or shinsou seem ooc, well. whoops? i've never really written them. although, i will say that uraraka's perspective/motivations/etc. are different from canon due to changed events, if my writing failed to highlight that.
3. i kind of regret writing this arc because it's like. half of the story now. but it helped me think about shit, helped me flesh out some secondary characters. i would appreciate if u let me know if you'd have preferred me to skip over it!
4. i actually. wrote a whole thing for yellowmeownace's rant on everyone's quirks (the part where it says "Show spoilers"). again, on my tumblr, meowdiriya, under the tag "#tjof". honestly, y'all should read this on ao3, it's so much nicer.