So new chapter and Yeah I listened to Nate's MHA song collection and it got me a spark for the first few seasons of the show again and you know what, the show peaked at The U.Smash and fell off after the only good scene after was Bakugo vs Deku 2.
Now MVA was alright but honestly would be better if it was a spin off instead of the single arc we had of it.
Overall Rankings:
MHA season 1&2=7/10
MHA season 3-6=5/10
MVA=6.5/10
Vigilanties=7.9/10
Top 5 characters:
1:Hawks(Cool Guy and has drip)
2"Bakugo(honestly understandable motives)
3:Endeavor(Didn't deserve the hate and super hot)
4Gentle Criminal/La Brava(Honestly want more from these two)
5:Mirio(They did him dirty in the manga)
Honorable mentions:
Aizawa(Ruined his character after season 4 just read Vigilanties.)
FatGum(Real N'wah)
Mina Ashido(Bubbly,I want her and Kirishima to be happy.)
Kirishima(Endless dick jokes and a Manly Man who likes Pinky.)
Little bubble fuck Mineta(Sillly little guy sad he got brainwashed because he was the only one who acted like a teen in puberty.)
Ragdoll(She's Based and Cunny and has a cool power.)
Toga Himiko(My fetish for crazy blondes and 2 good fights still won't fix her boring character.)
Chisaki/Overhaul(Cool power shame he didn't last longer. Want him to come back as the main villain if they ever make a sequel series with Eri as the MC.)
=====================================================================The screen opened with panning shots of a modern city before zooming in on a group of kindergarteners.
Crying noises sounded as the camera panned down to a little bunny-eared girl looking up at a younger girl while crying, a black-haired girl stood in front of the beaten up form of the older faunus girl ready to protect her even if she was also on the verge of tears.
The black-haired kid held back tears, shaking as she said, "That's mean Firecracker. Can't you see she's crying? If you keep going, I-I-I'll never forgive you!" bringing up her shaking arms with tears in her eyes the young girl glares at the group of kids her age in front of her
Three kids stood in front of the two kids, the leader a blond girl in the center starting to smirk.
"You're weak! That means wrong Briar"one of the kids' a blue haired boy who was thin and a little taller than the blond haired leader yelled as his fingers started growing and his fingernails sharpened into points.
"Yeah Mommy says Branwens are super strong," said a chubby boy who had green hair with pink streaks while showing a pair of octopus arms growing out of elbows.
"Even though you're quirkless and weak…" the blond girl with pigtails in the center says with a grin as she punches her hand,a small pop and smoke coming from it, teasing. "...you're pretending to be a hero, Briar?"
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"Quirkless?" Blake was unsure of the exact meaning but from what she could see it was analogous to not having a semblance though she would hold her assumptions as they didn't line up exactly enough for her.
"Yang!"Ruby yelled, shocked that her sister would try to beat her up..okay she was shocked that Yang was doing it while not training.
"Quiet down will you!"Weiss, covering her ear from the outburst next to her, bonked the shocked Ruby on the head with her family's secret technique, the highly coveted and tsundere approved Schnee Slap.
"I swear to Oum you all can be as loud as a VTOL." She sighed again, Now that the shock of the on screen Yang's actions was over they started asking each other questions.
"Why would Ruby not use her semblance or I guess quirk to do something I know she was all zippy and zoomy back then?" Yang asked
"Well they said Quirkless right so what if she doesn't have one?" Blake responded thinking that if Quirks were like this world's version of a semblance then Ruby simply didn't have one like her parents.
"Maybe unlike me this…um Little Ruby what if she's like Jaune and just hasn't found hers yet?." Ruby pointed out. After all he hadn't found his semblance out for a while and was still getting a hang on it maybe this Ruby was just like him.
The other girls, not having a better explanation, just nodded their heads. It made sense after all, plenty of people never unlocked their semblance until later in life so there was no reason this Ruby they saw on screen couldn't be the same.
"Why are they so antagonistic towards Ruby? I know it's not you exactly and we all know this is not really like you. But would you have any guesses?" Weiss asked Yang who twirled her hair a bit while thinking.
"No.. I have no idea. Me and Rubes have fought before when we were little but something about this just feels wrong." Yang, while a little upset at what was on screen, was sure it was just some stupid kid stuff. Maybe Ruby and Kid Velvet had messed up her hair or destroyed a toy or something.
Yang wanted to believe it was something childish like that and not something more serious. No one else seemed to focus on it but she picked up on what the kids called her.
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Ruby gasps as the three kids lunge at her. The sun shined on Ruby as she laid on the ground, beaten up while the other kid continued crying.
"All men are not created equal." Ruby started narrating while looking up at the blue sky.
Clouds passed by as she continued narrating.
"This was the reality I learned about society at the young age of four."
A foot splashed in a puddle, Ruby running down a street.
"And that was my first and last setback."
A giant stood in the middle of a railroad, roaring while Ruby stopped running, staring in awe at him.
'Ruby Rose Age:15{Pleiades Middle School Student}'
A huge crowd had gathered, watching the giant.
"That's a huge villain!" Ruby exclaimed.
An opening plays.
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[You see the sunrise a new day upon you, You bite your nails and your knees start to tremble.The time upon you to show them what you can do.]
[And Soon they will know that THE DAY HAS COME!!]
A yellow glow is shone in a starry background as Ruby is on the ground, looks up at the light surrounding her and slowly stands back up reaching her arm towards an unknown silhouette.
[Late into the night I hear it storming, An end to the rain is what I pray and I'm hoping, Now i feel the pressure of the city. Oh how it eats me whole.]
The Silhouette is revealed to be All-Might as his head slowly turns to see Ruby; she cries and sticks her arm out as far as she can. When that is shown to not work she gets up and stumbles her way as the music picks up.
[So many names and faces, sleepless nights spent in unknown places and everyday i walk straight into the great unknown.]
Ruby is seen on a snowy cliff overlooking her home in Patch. As she's watching the snow fall she looks more and more lost before a crow comes by and drops off a flyer showing off a team of newly graduated cat themed heroes. As she looks up from the flyer she is shown running back towards her home excited. Behind her while running is a slideshow of different notebooks labeled 'Hero Studies'.
[I'm not to blame I'm gonna take a stand! You say my name!]
The scene moves again to show multiple colored silhouettes appear on the screen each showing a symbol some the girls were familiar with and some not.
It then showed a child version of Ruby and Yang walking through a forest when two birds a crow and a raven flying above them each dropping a feather and as each feather falls past their vision they both look up for them to have shadows of their teenage selves behind them.
Both turned back to look at the one beside them. One pair looking at the other one with a sense of longing the other a barely suppressed rage The screen zooms in as they raise their arms towards the other. One pair open/One pair close.
[I'm telling you to reach out and Finally take my hand!]
Before it could be revealed which is which, the screen switches to Qrow, now older with a few grey hairs, clutching a stomach wound using harbinger as an impromptu cane limping down a blood soaked hallway before meeting gazes with an equally old and wounded Raven who was leaning against a pile of broken swords .
[Colliding fists are what's gonna make you,You grit your teeth or they're gonna break you.]
The two stop and glare at each other before they punch each other. As they punch purple static is shown as it is revealed to be a video from a camera as a masked figure is watching them on retro television.
[The time is upon you to show them what you can do. You're breaking the mold to show you are not them!]
The masked figure then casually touches the tv as it turns to dust carried by the wind as they walk into a black portal with purple energy surrounding it. As they leave multiple people are shown to follow the figure through however before they can fully cross a giant hand is seen chasing after them.
This giant hand is zoomed out to reveal All Might as he reaches is hand out again this time a success as a massive whirlwind follows and launches several of the villians back as they are soon revealed to be just casualties of the punches shockwave hitting a much larger villian.
The villian was a giant purple and black bird like monster that caught Allmight's punch before delivering its own. Allmight takes the punch to the face but smiles as him and the monster continue trade blows the screen shifts again.
This time a dusty old bar is shown. The person manning the bar is a mist creature whose head is the same colors as the portal. As the mist figure raises his hand the screen is shown dyed in his colors.
A new army of villians is seen coming through another portal to interfere with All Might's battle but before they can reach them.
[Will we break through? I don't know, don't know!]
A much older Emerald is shown throwing a large scarf around several nameless villians and easily dispatching them before turning back and looking at the several figures now emboldened and beginning to descend from the sky with her.
[The bells are ringing come out and play now!]
The first is Jaune who while holding his hands together is shown to glow and float before releasing his hands and making several villians stumble with a quick burt of wind.
The second is Sage bearing engines in his legs who with a round house kick knocked several of the villians down.
Not long after a Panicked looking Dove is shown rapidly picking out his own hair and throwing it at the villian who at first laugh but are then shocked when they can't move as the hair pinned them to the ground.
Dove, Now crying, is soon caught by Illia's tongue as she leaps back into the air to catch him before she vanishes into the dust cloud as a huge wave of ice is seen trapping the remaining villians.
Atop that ice is Whitley who now has a burn mark going down half his body.
Exhaling from the effort of unleashing such an attack Whitley is given no time to rest as a smaller version of the bird monster moves in to attack him.
Being unable to dodge Whitley doesn't panic but smiles as the attack is blocked by Sun whose body is covered in a yellow rock like armor which kicks up ice and dust around them.
[The time is upon you to show them what you can do!]
Angriley swiping its hand the bird monster is confused when the smoke from its attack is cleared and instead of Whitley and Sun a flaming Yang is shown catching the monster off guard which let's Yang have the opening she needs and begins hitting the monster with rapid punches before sending it sky high with an exploding uppercut.
She grins as she looks back towards a now running Ruby who jumps up and winds back her arm which then begins to flash and line up perfectly with Allmight's swing as at the same time they both punch and storms appear which blow away the clouds and dust that had previously covered the battle field to finally reveal the clouds and sun.
[Because THE DAY we've waited for has come!!]
The sun shines upon the crowd of Heroes as they walk forward the screen shifts to the front of a highly advanced school with all the students in battle positions ready for the next threat with Ruby at the forefront and Allmight standing both behind and above them.
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At a hospital, Ruby narrated, "It all began in Menagerie, in Qingqing City. There was news that a baby that gave off light was born. At first they thought it was one of the rare times when a semblance manifested at birth." A silhouette is shown watching over the glowing baby with a clipboard and aura reader while others are then shown testing the baby with various medical devices.
"But this was different The glow was actually biological and linked to the babies D.N.A soon this once in a lifetime discovery spread around the world and slowly but surely the Grimm which had plagued the world were all defeated unlike Aura and semblances these biological powers were strong and would never run out as long as a person lived." The world which was mostly covered in a black ooze representing the grimm was rapidly cleansed and a montage of a grimm free remnant was shown. Cities were slowly being built and children were at play as hunters hung up their weapons and picked up different jobs.
"But the peace that was fought for would not last long as a few months after the world unified and settled the land that once was unknown to us the Void Century occurred. No one knows how it started.
Soon the unified remnant was split apart into seven nations and conflict was had." The world is shown split into seven nations with people screaming and blood and darkness filling the screen.
"That is all we know about this time as all but one record from that time was destroyed or unusable but even if no one knows what started this gap in history worldwide everyone knows what ended it. It was the rise of a new profession." A golden glow is shown washing over the darkened screen as a group of seven silhouettes of various shapes and sizes jumped into the pool of blood and bodies and slowly it started disappearing.
"A new profession came to pass one that replaced the Combat schools and Grimm Hunters of the past. And slowly a new peace was made, a new age of the world was created, one that gave rise to the Symbol Of Peace. A symbol that spawned generations of children who wanted to be in that new profession"
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"Even without the Grimm it gets worse huh." Yang sighed wishing for a drink to calm herself down. When a small strawberry sunrise appeared in her hand she shrugged before downing it one gulp.
Realising what happened she looked over at Ruby who was obviously upset. Just as she was about to excuse the drink Yang followed her sister's gaze and saw it was solely on the screen.
This caused her to squeeze her temples. She knew people wouldn't change for the better as a whole even without the Grimm. Unlike Ruby who even after everything still believed in others,unlike Yang she still had hope after all.
"Hmph of course these fools messed up" Blake who believed that anyone not even her would be able to rule with that power wasn't surprised that they failed.
Weiss didn't have any commentary as she was doing her best to console the shell shocked Ruby who could only mumble at the news of her worldview taking a heavy blow..
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The giant villain from before started waving his arms around, knocking over a wire tower.
"That profession is…" Ruby gets interrupted by a hero catching said wire tower.
"Oh, it's Death Arms. He carries out justice through his great physical strength-The Punching Hero!" a civilian beamed.
"Heroes" Ruby's narration ends as she starts running towards the crowd. She squeezed through all the civilians so she could get a better view as a new hero arrived, five girls fangirling in response, "You can do it, Kamui!"
"Get away!" the villain yelled, waving his arms at Kamui.
Ruby finally made it to the front, asking, "Who's fighting?" She looked over and saw a flash before Kamui Woods formed a shield of bark, taking down a robber who tried to escape while the giant shark rampaged.
While Kamui started fighting the villain, Ruby gushed, "Kamui Woods! The young and talented rising star! He's so cool he even took down that thug using a 1900 without even looking. "
Seeing a hero and an antique in action led to Ruby rambling about her two favorite topics.
"It's even more amazing with how old the gun must be since the cartridge for this pistol was manufactured in Europe until the beginning of WWII.
The cartridge has a bullet weighing approx. 85 grains which may be steel or cupro-nickel jacketed. The powder charge varies with the type of powder used, the European standard being about 3.5 grains of DWM standard powder, producing a muzzle velocity in the neighborhood of 326 m/s.
While this is a cartridge of considerable power to use in a blow-back action, the pistol design itself is so sturdy that it tends to be very reliable through the years." Ruby's rambling was interrupted when the person she first asked about the situation put a hand on her shoulder and responded.
"You were the one asking, but you gave a perfect commentary, kid. You're a pretty knowledgeable kid, aren't you? Not a lot of folks who can recognize a breechblock relic from a couple hundred meters. Let alone something from a few centuries ago." a civilian with a camo shirt and snail antenna on his head asked while Ruby looked away, embarrassed.
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"Oh, you have no idea." Yang had a brittle smile while Blake chuckled painfully as both of them and innocently asked Ruby about her weapon Crescent Rose before and had to listen to several hour long lectures about how and where each nut and bolt was manufactured. That was before they even got to the entire week it took the pint size leader to explain how the thing was put together and worked.
"Never Again." They both shivered and whispered as everyone who had to suffer through Ruby's rants besides Qrow and Penny agreed to just let her do her thing and only ask about things that were important about the repairs and upgrades she did to their weapons.
"Blake, surely you are exaggerating, learning can't be that bad." Weiss said, slightly unsure herself, She had never needed anyone but herself or Winter if she was available to perform maintenance on Myrtanaster.
However Ruby had indeed asked her about maintenance and minutiae before and while that conversation was anguishly long it was because they had to try their best to ignore the apathy the farm was trying to force them into. Though Weiss couldn't stop herself from doubting that Ruby's usual lectures would be more amped then back then if even her sister was nodding.
"Yes, someone who gets it! I knew your were my #1 bestie Weiss! "Ruby's lips twitched like an enthusiast who was just asked by a regular person about the thing they were obsessed with.
Weiss knew she should calm her down. If Ruby gets too excited according to Yang it will never end. But the strictness she normally displayed might have made Ruby displeased and possibly cause more trouble with the big shock the screen just delivered.
Weiss who just ran away from the coldness of Atlus to rejoin her team.Wanted to be as gentle as possible with Ruby. With her thoughts finished she made her plan to distract Ruby while distracting her from any more blows.
"Um Ruby, why don't we talk about um…Penny she's amazing right?" What was 'gentle'. How could I act like that? It was on Weiss's mind when she remembered Ruby and Penny were in her own words 'Super Friends but not as close as you who is my bestest ever friend!' so a chat about the two and their times together would be pleasant enough to distract the tiny team leader from her obsessive ranting.
"You have now entered the second stage. No need to ask me anything. I'll tell you all about the super awesomeness that is Penny's weapon." Ruby said hopping up from her seat in manic glee as she rarely had the chance to talk with anyone about weapons with everything going on.
"Ah, no need, I'm sorry. For reminding you" Weiss, seeing the glint in Ruby's eyes and the exasperated face and shivers of her sister finally understood what she meant and very suddenly wanted out of the situation. Ruby did not let her escape.
""Penny's Blades operate on the same principle as Amity and the Launch Terminal. In order for her to control them all, they need to communicate with one another. Since Floating Array is a part of her body, it would appear that the swords and Penny were in constant communication with each other, making the chances of the strings getting tangled unlikely if not impossible. And since Floating Array is technically one blade that separates into several others, it may even be possible that the strings can pass through each other and/or reconnect through some type of Atlas tech i just can't work out but i have time thanks to your sister and you tooootally lettering me see her weapon later"" Ruby hopped up and down in excitement bouncing around the room and grabbing whatever she could as improvised props to illustrate various minor points while explaining the intricacies of her super friend.
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"I was wrong, so please talk about something else." Weiss's head felt as if her years of training were being swept away though she respected Ruby, Hearing about what it felt like for her fingers to feel Penny's inner workers intrigued but disgusted her. If only she knew what she started.
"Ruby Please I'm begging tell us about literally anything else" Blake reached out and finally caught the red reaper who looked confused before something in her mind clicked causing her eyes to gain a silver shimmer.
Seeing this Blake panicked and tossed her over to Yang who lazily caught the little missile. Struggling to keep her sanity Yang used to hearing one particular lecture over the years and feeling that she could suddenly use some sleep asked Ruby to tell everyone about her baby instead.
"Good Thinking Sis! You should all know how she works incase we need to come up with new manuvers!" Ruby then began organizing different food and drinks from the theater into an almost perfect replica of Crescent Rose.
"The problems I had when I first made Crescent Rose is that its barrel telescopes, and its recoil is too low for the caliber of bullets she uses. And you just can't ignore those kinds of things with an anti-material rifle.
So Dad told me instead of a shotgun like Uncle Qrow that Crescent Rose should be a powder-assisted coilgun. If it's a coilgun, the bullet would be able to travel the length of the barrel, despite the inconsistent bore, so long as the magnetic field holds it steady. Essentially, it can operate without a fitted barrel the same way that Amity doesn't actually touch its rails.! At first I was upset because my boring was exactly how it was in the blue print i made but then i realized he was right it was inconsistent for a shotgun but perfect for a long ranged rifle so then I-"
"Have mercy." Weiss decided to never doubt her teammates agin as this was torture.She would rather go back to her training days than sit though more of this. But no matter where she went she could never leave Ruby's sight so she would be followed and be forced to listen with the volume Ruby was yelling at.
"What do you mean with 'Have mercy'?That's useless for that part especially since I haven't even started the scythe at that point. There's still so much to talk about. The reason why she uses bolt action instead of a pin trigger and her amazing war scythe functions!"
"Oh Brothers or Oum, make it stop." Weiss, even knowing the childish and cruel nature of the brother gods was now wondering if being nothing would be better than this. While Ozpin had said nothing of Oum she asked for his presence anyway as even pondering the unknown was making her mental burden lessen.
She had gone through years of training to resist for torture at the hands of the enemy but even getting beaten and sleep deprived was better than sitting through this in her opinion.
"Oh, I also prepared some lines for her.!" Ruby then began repeating what one liners she would use when she upgraded Crescent Rose again and what she would say to make her weapons spirit happier when being forged.
"Ah, no, that's fine, anything else really." Blake, trying her best to hide behind her chair, wondered if cleaning up and burning the bodies of her old White Fang comrades was better than this and decided that at least doing clean up had some feeling of closure. While Ruby's mad ramblings left her feeling empty, Truly the things she would do out of love for her friends and Yang.
'Why did she pull back when it was her who asked? She couldn't just be nervous could she. Yes she actually wanted to listen to me more.' Ruby was engrossed in teaching but was more fired up when Blake's response was diluted by the cloud of perversion that was in Ruby's mind after not talking about her favorite things since Beacon fell.
"She still has some settings I meticulously crafted after deliberately looking through Harbinger and laboriously disassembling all of Signal's weapons and watching videos of old Vytal Festivals frame by frame!"She grabbed the shoulder of her bestie. That was about to run away and sat her in front of herself as she started explaining even more things to Wiess…
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"Longer than a bayonet, simpler to handle than a rifle, sturdier than any other tool. Not only that, but they are extremely cheap and easy to make, so they're perfect for mass-producing. Plus, I don't have to worry much about damaging Crescent Rose's Rifling-." Ruby, still excited and now making wild gestures to actuate her points and going at speed that would make Oobleck dizzy continued her lecture for hours more.
"Enough Please..."After ranting to her for five hours about this and that, Blake had enough and ended up covering her ears and shook her head as if he was out of her mind.
Yang, to the shock of her partner, was able to sleep to the overly loud sounds of Ruby talking about Penny and Atlus androids.
Weiss who was at first intrigued and greedily absorbing the details for further use in case they were needed in Atlus maybe for training
Deciding to not be rude and thinking perhaps her teammates were exaggerating she began to ask and answer something for Ruby while not especially versed in robotics she had her own history of fighting and dismantling Atlus machines while beside her sister especially when conversation became dry between them after Beacon.
That enthusiasm waned when she started talking about her own weapon and was completely dead and buried with her grandfather when Ruby went on an extensive lecture about shovels and their brief but valuable use in warfare.
Blake had eyes that were completely glazed over and after five hours of what felt like torture had a demand for Yang
"Remind me to destroy every farming tool on Remnant when we return. I never want to hear about Scythes and Shovels again." Yang, who was woken up and still mentally exhausted, just put a hand on Blake's back in agreement. Blake, desperate for release sprawled herself out on her girlfriend's lap exhausted and decided being concussed was better than this and with a very romantic and steamy couple of mutual headbutts the two knocked each other out.
Seeing the two lovebirds sprawled out on one another Weiss could only absentmindedly clutch her teeth as she dreadfully listened to more of her Leader's lecture which gracefully after another ten hours finally ended because Ruby needed to go to another 'Idol Meeting'.
By the time she returned she found the rest of her team asleep.Figuring it must be around that time she wrapped herself in her cape and fell asleep next to Weiss.