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sleepysaurSoooo first of all, I am still not sure if I'd feel safe with MHA fandom. That said... I still have thoughts and preferences that have grown out of this series.
So we'll start with the big topic: shipping. It's kinda sad how a story like this has fierce shipwars, from what I saw when I was still on Tumblr. Seems like this ought to be a perfect series for multishipping. But I guess its intended audience is more likely to take shipping SUPER DUPER SERIOUSLY? Who knows.
Anyway, I said earlier that I thought Midoriya and Iida were my most likely ship. They are still a ship, but only in certain ways. Fanart of the two would be welcome of course, and I think they'd make for good fluff too. But mostly it would be some rather vanilla content... unless we're talking porn, in which case vanilla is bad. No vanilla porn for this pairing please. I will be very disappointed in the internet if people haven't made stupidly ridiculous porn focusing on Iida's legs.
He has a few extra holes. I'm just saying.
Anyway, canon and canon-compliant futurefic is one thing, but I've gotta tell you, one interesting part of this series is the massive potential of "what-if" stories. And from there you can probably justify pretty much anything.
And it turns out a good few of the "what-ifs" I've been contemplating kind of naturally lead to Bakudeku. So I guess I'm shipping it after all, eh? Look at me, I'm all problematic and shit. Guess I can't interact with all the moral people in the fandom, woo. (Speaking of what-ifs, "what if Bakugo learned about One For All at the same time Midoriya did" is an obvious AU and there must be fic for it already out there. Anyone got recs with in-character Bakugo?)
And talk of AUs brings me to my other topic... the setting.
I think this is a pretty good setting to play with. It's a lot like other superhero settings, sure, but I think it's a pretty good one. That most people in this setting have superpowers without any explanation besides "people started developing superpowers one day and now it's normal" really helps. Superpowers are fun, but figuring out reasons to justify each of your bazillion characters having unique superpowers is less so. And if you're so inclined, you have the freedom to explore the nitty-gritty of what society is like when most people have some sort of superpower, too.
Also you can do so many fusion fics with this. I think I'd rather see UA-AUs (heh) than Hogwarts AUs, that's how much I love the thought of fusion fics with this setting.
So... yeah. I know what content I would like to look for in this fandom, at least. Producing would be a lot scarier, but maybe one day.
So we'll start with the big topic: shipping. It's kinda sad how a story like this has fierce shipwars, from what I saw when I was still on Tumblr. Seems like this ought to be a perfect series for multishipping. But I guess its intended audience is more likely to take shipping SUPER DUPER SERIOUSLY? Who knows.
Anyway, I said earlier that I thought Midoriya and Iida were my most likely ship. They are still a ship, but only in certain ways. Fanart of the two would be welcome of course, and I think they'd make for good fluff too. But mostly it would be some rather vanilla content... unless we're talking porn, in which case vanilla is bad. No vanilla porn for this pairing please. I will be very disappointed in the internet if people haven't made stupidly ridiculous porn focusing on Iida's legs.
He has a few extra holes. I'm just saying.
Anyway, canon and canon-compliant futurefic is one thing, but I've gotta tell you, one interesting part of this series is the massive potential of "what-if" stories. And from there you can probably justify pretty much anything.
And it turns out a good few of the "what-ifs" I've been contemplating kind of naturally lead to Bakudeku. So I guess I'm shipping it after all, eh? Look at me, I'm all problematic and shit. Guess I can't interact with all the moral people in the fandom, woo. (Speaking of what-ifs, "what if Bakugo learned about One For All at the same time Midoriya did" is an obvious AU and there must be fic for it already out there. Anyone got recs with in-character Bakugo?)
And talk of AUs brings me to my other topic... the setting.
I think this is a pretty good setting to play with. It's a lot like other superhero settings, sure, but I think it's a pretty good one. That most people in this setting have superpowers without any explanation besides "people started developing superpowers one day and now it's normal" really helps. Superpowers are fun, but figuring out reasons to justify each of your bazillion characters having unique superpowers is less so. And if you're so inclined, you have the freedom to explore the nitty-gritty of what society is like when most people have some sort of superpower, too.
Also you can do so many fusion fics with this. I think I'd rather see UA-AUs (heh) than Hogwarts AUs, that's how much I love the thought of fusion fics with this setting.
So... yeah. I know what content I would like to look for in this fandom, at least. Producing would be a lot scarier, but maybe one day.