note-a-bear: My mom sent this to me and i’m howling

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:27:55 -0400

note-a-bear:

My mom sent this to me and i’m howling

this poor cinnamon roll

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:31:58 -0400

this poor cinnamon roll

Sketch of Giotto for my friend that I was too lazy to finish

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:22:38 -0400

Sketch of Giotto for my friend that I was too lazy to finish

Kacchan and Deku - Surprising opposites (spoilers for anime-only watchers)

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 23:19:46 -0400

young-il-long-kiyoshi:

Something that I really like about Bakugou and Midoriya’s rival dynamic is how their fighting styles are both the opposite of each other and the opposite of what you would expect.

Midoriya is always muttering some strategy or other and he’s got his notebook full of ideas and different counters to fighting styles so you’d expect him to be really good at targeting weaknesses and having multi-layered plans and back-up plans to have a sure victory.

But it’s actually the opposite. His low self-esteem leads him to not care about his own well-being and the majority of the time he ends up relying on the brute strength of his Quirk alone and badly injures himself by being too reckless with his power. Like he does strategize, but he always seems to fail at accounting just how much damage One for All does to his body, and with his battle with Chisaki he completely disregarded the limits altogether by having Eri on his back. Which seems like a practical plan but not really a good plan if you think about the fact that he has a small, emotionally distressed child with a difficult-to-handle Quick on his back during the entire thing. A lot of the time he usually goes into the fight with some kind of sound, logical plan but then when it goes awry, he almost always finishes with a huge SMASH to end things quickly and usually ends up broken in the end. Yes, he wins, but yes, he’s done. Most of his plans come with too much risk to himself.

You’d also think that as someone who has spent a long time observing people, he’d be good at discerning emotions and the intentions of other people, but due to his big heart and naivety he lets his guard down a lot and is surprisingly reckless when it comes to defending others and acts before thinking. Like how he charged in when Bakugou was captured by the sludge villain. Or like how even though he knew what Shinsou’s Quirk was he just rushed in out of anger because Shinsou had insulted Ojiro.

I would have thought that Midoriya would have been smart enough to understand that Shinsou was just trying to rile him up, but nope. Just… just charged right in there screaming like an idiot. This scene was even more frustrating because a lot of us viewers expected him to know better.

On the other hand, Bakugou is loud and brash and always emotionally straightforward with what he approves and disapproves of. You’d think that he charges into battle recklessly without any regard to his personal safety as long as he can win, but he’s the one who strategizes for maximum efficiency.

His fighting style is incredibly self-preserving, with his costume designed to minimize the risks his body takes and his actual fighting style in the Databook is listed as “Hit and Away”, meaning that he gets one good hit in, then backs away and waits for or creates another opening to get another good hit in. Plus, he’s a quick thinker in battle and both discovers and targets weaknesses within a single fight, like with Tokoyami and Kirishima. And it’s not that he doesn’t take risks at all, but he usually thinks of the consequences of his actions before actually performing them. In other words acting after thinking. Like how he realized during his kidnapping that even if he blasted them all away with a huge blast, Kurogiri would have been able to counter him. So he didn’t do it and tried to think of another strategy.

He always seems really closed off towards other people and rarely gives a damn about what they think, but he was the only one who could tell that Shindou (from the Hero Exams) had bad intentions towards their class.

He’s also an occasional Mr. Exposition, explaining things like Quirk limitations or knowing about the rival Hero schools. And he’s surprisingly observant towards other people’s feelings. Like how he could tell that Kirishima was depressed and tried to cheer him up (twice) and more recently he seems to be keeping a close eye on Todoroki and his family problems.

And the best part is that even though their fighting styles and certain personality aspects are the opposite of what you would expect, they make sense.

Midoriya is a total newbie at using his Quirk and he’s always been on the sidelines when he was Quirkless so of course he wouldn’t be able to account for the damage he could take to himself, nor would he always be able to have a logical Plan B if his first plan went awry. And of course, if he’s never been in a fight before, he’d have a hard time both thinking and moving at the same time like Bakugou does. Which is part of why he froze up during the U.A. entrance exam. In a way, his weakness is similar to Yaoyorozu’s. Both great thinkers, but actions can be difficult to do at the same time.

Bakugou on the other hand is a veteran with his Quirk and possibly has the best practical Quirk control in the class. He’s also been in a lot of fights when he was younger, so he’d be better at finding strategies to win and he’d know how to minimize damage because he knows how much damage he can take. His thinking is almost completely instinctual, like an animal surviving in the wild. Like how he immediately knew that running away from All Might was impossible, so the best thing to do would be to fight (well, not the best thing, but the more practical thing. He probably would have been more clear-headed if anyone but Deku had been his partner).

So Midoriya’s body acts before he can think (as pointed out by All Might) and Bakugou usually acts after he thinks. Midoriya is actually the really reckless fighter who often injures himself and Bakugou is actually the really cautious, quick-thinking fighter (though he does make some questionable decisions when he’s lost his temper). And you’d never know it by looking at their daily behavior alone.

It’s such an interesting contrast, and I appreciate Horikoshi for writing it as such.

artsysnake: TrumpetOfJustice.mp4[Still Image] [Youtube]

Mon, 28 May 2018 22:13:51 -0400

artsysnake:

TrumpetOfJustice.mp4
[Still Image] [Youtube]

Sleepy reborn sketch

Sat, 26 May 2018 02:14:54 -0400

Sleepy reborn sketch

sabos:Gon + the five stages of grief fUCK I DID NOT NEED THESE...

Mon, 07 May 2018 19:57:23 -0400

sabos:

Gon + the five stages of grief

fUCK I DID NOT NEED THESE FLASHBACKS

huazzers: tdrk

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 19:43:21 -0400

huazzers:

tdrk

My finished block print of hibird and some examples

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 22:16:14 -0400

My finished block print of hibird and some examples

chameshida: Cat psycho 100?? Meow psycho 100???

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:35:09 -0400

chameshida:

Cat psycho 100?? Meow psycho 100???

Redraw of my first deku… My color improved but his face became...

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 21:21:57 -0400

Redraw of my first deku…
My color improved but his face became harder to draw

A sketch of hibird I did for the block printing assignment we’re...

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:38:11 -0400

A sketch of hibird I did for the block printing assignment we’re doing

couchtaro: He’s Just Such A Good Boy (audio source)

Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:30:32 -0400

couchtaro:

He’s Just Such A Good Boy

(audio source)

I…don’t like milk.

Fri, 09 Feb 2018 19:22:54 -0500

I…don’t like milk.

jaraxxus: truly

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:45:09 -0500

jaraxxus:

truly

Tfw you only got a set of standard rainbow color pencils so you...

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Tfw you only got a set of standard rainbow color pencils so you pretend skin color doesn’t exist

He so fab Drawing (hopefully) not bad

Fri, 08 Dec 2017 01:08:56 -0500

He so fab Drawing (hopefully) not bad

It’s hard to draw good looking people

Sat, 04 Nov 2017 12:34:57 -0400

It’s hard to draw good looking people

I did a Hibird

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:28:12 -0400

I did a Hibird

I now have the perfect way to explain my relationship with my...

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 21:21:45 -0400

I now have the perfect way to explain my relationship with my mom

Kana-chan

note-a-bear: My mom sent this to me and i’m howling

this poor cinnamon roll

Sketch of Giotto for my friend that I was too lazy to finish

Kacchan and Deku - Surprising opposites (spoilers for anime-only watchers)

artsysnake: TrumpetOfJustice.mp4[Still Image] [Youtube]

Sleepy reborn sketch

sabos:Gon + the five stages of grief fUCK I DID NOT NEED THESE...

huazzers: tdrk

My finished block print of hibird and some examples

chameshida: Cat psycho 100?? Meow psycho 100???

Redraw of my first deku… My color improved but his face became...

A sketch of hibird I did for the block printing assignment we’re...

couchtaro: He’s Just Such A Good Boy (audio source)

I…don’t like milk.

jaraxxus: truly

Tfw you only got a set of standard rainbow color pencils so you...

He so fab Drawing (hopefully) not bad

It’s hard to draw good looking people

I did a Hibird

I now have the perfect way to explain my relationship with my...