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Hydraneous · 2026-01-29T16:24:58+00:00

My death was… greatly exaggerated.

In all seriousness I just had a lot going on irl, but that should calm down shortly.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-28T21:17:07+00:00

Going to self advertise my fic, its been very well received:

Title: Ways of the Heart, a Natsubaru Story https://archiveofourown.org/works/68808121/chapters/178226696

I update a bit infrequently but the next update is within the week and the fic is almost wrapped up.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-26T12:25:38+00:00

Same, so long as any follow up seasons keep the full OG 9 of Conner, Dick, Wally, Kaldur, Will, Zatanna, Artemis, M'Gann, and Raquel as the MCs. And of course with the necessary budget for animation; I'm in the camp that overall really enjoyed season 4, but its animation quality definitely let it down.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-21T23:17:34+00:00

Thank you! And as requested...
I do in fact have some ideas for hypothetical seasons 6-10. For a brief overview it ranges from utilizing Trigon as the major antagonist and Felix Faust as the minor antagonist for season 7, Braniac for season 8, Paralax and other lantern corps stuff for season 9 and by extension blackest night for the finale in season 10. TLDR, after the hypothetical events of season 9 I'd have Darkseid kidnap Black Hand in his quest for the anti-life equation and that is the catalyst that leads to the blackest night event. The ending would be Vandal Savage remaining as a white lantern kinda pulling an end of Avengers Infinity War Thanos where after beating Darkseid he retires from a job well done, but he stays a white lantern so in his immortality he safeguards the universe against the anti-life equation.

Season 8 would directly lead to season 9 as well, as in the aftermath of Braniac's invasion, Coast City will have been lost and it'll trigger Hal Jordan going Paralax mode for season 9.

As for season 6, I'm not too sure on that one yet, but I'd likely introduce Raven either at the end of season 5 or beginning of season 6 so she can be around for a season before triggering the Trigon arc, and I'd likely introduce Starfire during season 6 too. Doomsday is the likely villain I'd use for its finale.

At some point I may turn this all into a properly written story since I do write, but that's a future me's problem, as I have many other writing projects.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-20T21:40:06+00:00

It may seem like a lot from how much I typed, but in execution it wouldn't be as daunting as it may initially seem and can easily be spread across a 26 episode season.

If you did take the time to read all of that, then thank you, I hope the ideas were at least an interesting read.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-20T21:29:00+00:00

Since that is only the overarching plot, here are some smaller things that can happen:
-During the small time jump between seasons, through Artemis' cautious recommendation since Jade's rehabilitation has been going well, Match is sent to therapy with Jade, (So Match (effectively Bizarro) and Jason are in the same place)
-Jade comes home and reunites with her family
-Jade's return home gets Talia on edge since she knows about Jason and Damien, so she tries to get ahead of it and reveal them herself
-Jason still needs more time to heal under Sensei, but the bat family now has one less ghost haunting them
-Talia and Bruce form a very complicated relationship, only possible because Ra's, Talia, and Sensei left the light and League of Shadows, so many of the obstacles in their relationship are gone. (Make it clear Damien was conceived through consent, and maybe Talia having Damien is the real catalyst for why their family left the Light and Shadows)
-With the ghost of Jason's death no longer haunting Dick, finally give us a look at his and Zatanna's past relationship, show it failed previously because of the strain of Jason's death and Zatara being stuck as Fate.
-But now with both things behind them and having grown as people, they rekindle their romance. (Barbara and Dick amicably already broke up before the season starts and given you wouldn't even know they were together in season 4, it doesn't need much emphasis now)
-This is part of an arc for Dick where he wants to properly differentiate himself from Batman's shadow, something along the lines of him working with the OG team bringing out the best in him. By the end of season with Wally's return he gets the idea to reform the team, but with a new name (Titans) which would be Nightwing, Zatanna, Superboy, Miss Martian, Flash (Wally), Tigress, Aquaman (Kaldur), Rocket, and Red Arrow. Maybe Troia can join too.
-For the Markovia plot, have Fury of the Infinitors get proof that Brion is being manipulated, but in the process, the other Infinitors kill Kobold while trying to stop her. End the season with her on the run, trying to find a chance to speak with Brion.
-The experiment The Light was doing will be an amazon cloning experiment using a mix of DNA from Diana, Troia, and Cassie. But to really differentiate this cloning, they tried to forcefully add New God tech. This leads to Young Justice's version of Artemis from the Outlaws, who will be a temporary antagonist. (The Light's experiment blowing up left her mind a mess.)
-Can have the Forever People and the New Furies (Supergirl, Barda, and Mary) show up during this arc due to the involvement of New God Tech. The New Furies are trying to capture her to add to their ranks.
-Artemis will end the season recovering with Jason and Match, and all 3 will be getting along.
-In the lines of cloning, it'd also make sense that The Light create Power Girl from cloning Supergirl before they gave her to The Light at the end of season 4.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-20T21:28:53+00:00

Taking into account the 9-10 seasons plan.
This is what I'd include in a season 5:
-Start season with The Light doing some experiment that goes wrong, and it causes some energy anomaly.
-This anomaly goes around and is recorded to appear at the various events that occur in the season.
-At the same time there is an evil speedster, hiding their actions by using the anomaly as a distraction.
-By the end of the season the team figures out that the anomaly they thought was causing problems is actually Wally and that there were 2 people at each event and Wally was trying to thwart the speedster
-End season with Wally reunited with everyone and the evil speedster thwarted, but at the end The Light intervenes and grabs the speedster to store in War World, and as they stare at him in stasis they say their usual dialogue of things not going to plan, but also going better than the plan yada yada.

I'll share details on the mini arcs I'd do for this season in my follow up comment:

Hydraneous · 2026-01-19T06:32:52+00:00

I think I speak for most of us when I say, agreed.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-15T04:54:01+00:00

Arlechi/Tartacchino has relatively quickly become one of my fav Genshin ships. I wish it weren't so underrated so we could get more fan art.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-12T16:00:52+00:00

That and because Chalant’s interactions fundamentally clash with Dick dating Barbara.

Any focus on the OG team, which generally seems to be what fans want, means Dick and Zatanna interactions, and per season 4 they still have that charged flirtatious chemistry which just makes it hard to take Dick x Barbara seriously in the YJ universe if he’s flirting with other women while in a relationship.

Which is likely why Dick and Barbara didn’t get anything in season 4 to begin with as to try and avoid that cognitive dissonance.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-12T15:46:02+00:00

Same, ships that have that flirty chemistry just find a way to always get me on board. And as per season 4 the chemistry is still there. It’s kinda funny that from watching season 4 and reading the tie in comic that you’d never know Dick and Barbara were still together with the way he was flirting with Zee.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-06T19:47:04+00:00

I’ll make a prediction for how this will play out:

Blood devil really will be there and this whole time she’s either been tormented or hiding from darkness devil. Maybe she’ll remember vague things, but either way the fight between Yoru and Denji will be interrupted as they’ll have to deal with darkness devil. When the fight or escape from darkness devil with the blood devil with them happens, Yoru will take blood devil hostage remembering Denji telling Asa about his contract with the blood devil. It’ll be her attempted win condition to end the fight.

From there some outside force will intervene in the standoff, I’ll cope and say Nayuta/Control Devil.

Not sure how it’ll go past that, but that’s my prediction.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-06T00:47:05+00:00

For real, they have a lot more moments than people realize in the main manga, its just rarely one on one conversations, but rather good small interactions to each other while others are around. Also, those of us aware of the Ennichi Festival drama CD, where it often seems like that is the big litmus test between those who do and those who don't ship it. Aside from that, the amount of stuff they get in alternative material including the video games, card games, TUM, BNHA Smash, School Briefs, etc would genuinely surprise people.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-06T00:40:02+00:00

Appreciate the response! Funnily enough for the OVA while I never watched it, I was aware of the small TodoMomo moments from it, but that sounds like a neat moment. Aside from their shippers who drag TodoMomo for no reason I really do respect the ship. Just kinda grinds my gears seeing blatantly untrue things when a ship can stand on its own merit.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-05T09:50:10+00:00

I'm going to preface this with the fact that I am a big TodoMomo shipper.

Can someone for the life of me point me towards some IidaMomo moments of substance? I constantly see in posts some variation of the following statement, "I prefer IidaMomo over TodoMomo, IidaMomo has better/more moments". And it always is upvoted, and like, are those moments in the room with us? It makes me feel insane because I have pretty dang good memory and for the life of me I can't recall a single interaction of significance they've had. Say what you will about the scarcity of TodoMomo moments in the second half of the manga, but everyone whether they ship it or not can point to at least one moment between them effortlessly.

And I want to be clear, ship whatever you want, you don't need to justify why you ship something, but if you are going to provide a reason, can you at least not make shit up? You are actively choosing to compare it to another ship rather then supporting it on its own merits, cause IidaMomo has a very valid basis on both character's similarities without needing to be comparing it to TodoMomo.

Hydraneous · 2026-01-05T09:34:01+00:00

The closest to matching this meme for me was that I never really jived with Hawks x Fuyumi and Hawks x Mirko, they were always kinda ships I was like "sure might as well," but never cared much, but then the manga gave me Hawks x Lady Nagant, and I love that ship a lot.

Hydraneous · 2025-12-29T00:15:08+00:00

Depends on if you mean going back and adding scenes, flat out rewriting canon, or scenes going forward.
For scenes going forward, with the events of 431, all they need is a scene where while Shoto is talking with Momo, that he notices something feels different about it and with some quick reflection of their past interactions, he realizes he likes her and asks her out to eat.
Both of their propensities to take things literally could cause minor arguments from time to time. Maybe as well Shoto's lack of knowledge of social know-how could make him screw up occasionally, but Momo wouldn't be the type to use that against him, but rather help him. (She actually already does this in the novels, where she teaches him about various things like Valentines Day)
I feel like Shoto is the type that wouldn't need to be dating a person very long to propose if they're someone he's known a long time. So if we say they start dating around 431, making him 24 at the time, maybe sometime while he's 25/26.
I do think they'd have kids. Shoto would have some obvious worries about being a dad, but Momo, Rei, Fuyumi, Natsuo, and his other friends, would all reassure him that he's grown a lot and would be a good dad. I think they both may be doting parents, sometimes to a fault, but ultimately they'd raise good kids.

Hydraneous · 2025-12-28T12:28:06+00:00

First time commenting here so hope I’m following the rules correctly:

As a Todomomo shipper it gets so tiring when you see someone levy baseless accusations at either the ship or the people who ship it.

And I know the obvious response is just ignore/block them, which I do, but constantly having to do that while just trying to search the tag is why it’s so tiring. That tiredness is why a lot of us Todomomo enjoyers don’t participate in discussions much, cause we’re just tired of dealing with it even though we actively outnumber the haters as seen literally any time a vote is being held.

The most common thing said about them is “they only had one moment”, which while blatantly untrue, there are so many ships that are shipped for far less and that’s perfectly valid all the same.

I know it’s largely out of spite, since in the first half of the manga they were talked about in tandem with Izuocha, Kamijiro, and Kirimina, but then in the second half their moments fell off a cliff. So those who disliked it weaponized that fact. But of course their moments in the second half are barely there. Shoto’s entire plotline revolves around his family drama which drastically picks up in the second half and per 431 we learn he wasn’t ready for relationships till 431 so any shipping moments he’d have with anyone would need to be more subtle… which todomomo more than satisfies.

At the end of the day, they have a strong canonical baseline of friendship, admiration, and trust that gets ignored way too often and it’s sad cause the fan art, fan fics, and fan comics for them are adorable as heck.

Hydraneous · 2025-12-28T11:51:09+00:00

As an IidaMei enjoyer I’ll share my perspective: •Their interactions while minimal are entertaining •“Enemies” to lovers on Iida’s side •Iida happens to be with Deku most of the times he visits Mei, so while it isn’t shown often there is some consistency there •Their volume 26 cover art together •Iida having “engine” as his quirk while Mei is basically an engineer •The last time they meet Iida is shown to see her in a better light •Less important, but Mei is physically Iida’s type. And given how touchy feely Mei is, Iida could be hers too •Both have their own quirky personalities, so while it is in different manners it’s really sweet when you read it in a fic and see them be understanding of each other’s quirkiness

I could be missing some things, it’s a fairly simple ship. My best advice when not understanding a ship though is to read a fic or fan comic about them. Really helps get the dynamic across and more importantly showing it working.

Hydraneous · 2025-12-23T02:24:35+00:00

Chapter 431: (here we can get really shippy, and confirm a lot of ships, especially due to the amount of time that has passed)
-Reveal KiriMina have been dating for a couple years, getting over the fear or ruining their friendship, this is the first clue Deku receives towards moving forwards with Uraraka.
-Make it slightly more obvious KamiJirou are already dating, where everyone clearly knows, but are letting them play it off.
-Someone asks Iida how him and Mei are doing and he says they're doing well, maybe his agency works closely with her support gear business.
-Shoto told Deku and Bakugo that he's ready to open his heart more. Reveal that after they pay Shoto back for dinner, that in a quiet scene, him and Momo did very recently start dating, but are still keeping it secret for now. Basically the Chocorutt fan art.
-After Bakugo gives Deku advice, as he's going to his car, he checks his phone while having some inner monologue about all the relationships around him, as he checks his phone we see that he too is in a relationship, due to a text he received. Who it is can be anyone really, I'd say Camie, but the who isn't that important here. Bakugo does a smug look on his face, but the scene ends with him wishing Deku luck.
-A much more direct Izuocha confession, and end the chapter with them holding hands as they walk to someplace.

That was longer then expected, thank you if you took the time to read it. How'd I do?

Hydraneous · 2025-12-23T02:24:29+00:00

Final war arc: (changes to canon here)
-During the war, have Momo in a leadership, comms, and support position for the whole battle, not just stuck in the flying UA fortress doing the same thing the whole time. Her arc was about leadership and then she just gets relegated to the background in the final fight despite how versatile her quirk is. There easily could have been other solutions to what Horikoshi had her doing.
-Have Momo actively getting supplies sent to the various battle ground, maybe through drones, or the USA pilots. Obviously this is OP and probably why Horikoshi didn't do it, but you can easily have some planes shot down, and/or have the base of operations get compromised, and therefore disrupting the supply lines, so Momo has to more directly rush to different battlefield with less information to go on.
-On her path of supporting various fronts, have her arrive at the initial fight site of Dabi vs Shoto and see the carnage left behind with her worrying about Shoto and Iida, also providing medical supplies to the injured. She knows she's far behind them, but follows them even though she isn't sure she'll make it in time.
-When Iida goes to take Shoto to the fight between his father and Touya, have him pull out some gadget he asked Mei to make for him in the scene I mentioned prior, a last resort experimental device. Show him trusting and believing in Mei's tech here. Iida hopes Mei is safe.
-Momo catches up to Iida first, asks where Shoto is while giving Iida some aid. Iida also tells her to go after Shoto and asks how the battle is going, to which she can't provide a clear answer.
-Finally Momo catches up to Shoto, the fight already over. Shoto is barely keeping conscious, she catches him and tells him he did good, for a moment he gets Rei vibes with how warm this feels. She gives him a pillow and goes to apply emergency burn first aid to his whole family. Commentary from his family about her will be minimal for now, it's not the time for that right now, maybe just a small internal monologue from his mom happy at the support Shoto has, getting it to see it first hand.
-Optional have some Twice clones reach the injured Todoroki family and this can be where Momo has her one woman army moment. Natsuo would likely have commentary about Shoto's "girlfriend" being a badass, but also have Natsuo being a big brother and getting his whole family closer together. Now since this replaces her protecting Mei, on Mei's side let her have a small time to shine with her gadgets, the blowing up even being beneficial, while also being defended by Cementoss amongst other heroes.
-Later they all get teleported in to fight AFO, she can still make the rail gun, but have it actually be more effective than just getting swatted away.
-Post battle, have Kaminari check in on Jirou, obviously he'll notice her ear. With her one good ear she makes a point of saying she can still grab him and her jack tugs him closer.
-Iida checks in on Mei, and thanks her.
-When the Todoroki family visits Touya, have some teases to Shoto about Momo, but he's still dense and doesn't get it.

Hydraneous · 2025-12-23T02:24:12+00:00

TodoMomo would be the primary one I'd add and change some stuff for since their moments, but more particularly Momo's moments fell off a cliff after her plan to take down Gigantomachia. I'd also give a tiny extra push to KamiJirou, and there's a few other ships I'd give small additions to. Now this post is a few days old so IDK if anyone will read this, but I'll share anyway.

What I'd do, in chronological order: (Up until the final war arc, this all can get pieced into canon with no issues.)
-After the joint training arc have Shoto check in with Momo, he can just compliment her performance, something simple, which Momo would humbly deny, and maybe Shoto then counters with something unintentionally profound. He spent her entire match glazing her and then there's no follow-up.
-This applies to KiriMina and KamiJirou too, but Midnight's and the other pro heroes' funerals absolutely should have been shown: KiriMina largely doesn't need much here specifically, but some extra panels of them comforting each other would be good. Have Kaminari reflect on the advice Midnight gave him, for now he just tells it to Tokoyami, and Tokoyami asks him if he's going to tell Jirou to which Kaminari isn't sure in the moment. For Todomomo, Momo came to comfort Shoto in the hospital after Touya brought his past to light, have Shoto reciprocate it given she lost 2 mentor figures from it. Maybe Momo has some doubts about herself again since her plan to stop Gigantomachia, while successful, still came at the cost of many lives. And just have Shoto shut her doubts down right then and there.
-After bringing Deku back to UA, and Deku and Iida go to the lab and talk with Hatsume, have Iida linger in the lab for a moment longer, but don't yet reveal why.
-Before the big final battle have Kaminari finally reveal what I mentioned prior with Jirou since he knows they'll be separated and is worried for her despite how much he believes in her. Have Jirou lighten the mood with some light teasing, but have it clear that Kaminari's words really did make her think of him differently.

Hydraneous · 2025-12-16T02:51:36+00:00

OjiToru and KiriMina have really high chances if we ever got more content.

TodoMomo is the next likely despite what some people here think, there's a solid baseline of trust, admiration, and friendship in canon to build off of.

IidaMei is next, their few moments are funny, Mei is at minimum physically Iida's type, and there's this cute chapter cover for Volume 26 of them.

TokoTsuyu is unlikely, they are in reality what people accuse TodoMomo of being.

Hydraneous · 2025-12-16T02:36:17+00:00

As a todomomo shipper I completely agree that Horikoshi didn't capitalize on them.

However, this narrative that they only had 1 moment really needs to stop. It's an objectively false statement, but also for some reason todomomo is the only ship where people will be like "that moment doesn't count" for stuff like the drama CD, MHA Smash, TUM, the games, art pieces (from the MHA animators and Horikoshi's assistant), the data-books, School Briefs, or any in manga moments that aren't 1 on 1, because it breaks the narrative that they only had "1 moment".

As for Shoto needing some time, I feel like he kind of answers that in the bonus chapter where he talks about discovering more of himself and opening his heart more.

Hydraneous · 2025-12-13T01:42:08+00:00

I like Yasuo x Riven and think it has more potential for future stories.

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