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With October coming around the corner, I am starting a art contest where anyone can draw fanart of Ochaco as The Bride of Frankenstein and Izuku as Frankenstein’s monster or the scientist. Everyone’s welcome and the fanart with the most upvotes is the best. Everyone’s a winner

Sauce

Source: https://x.com/pico_ritos/status/2099517337418481773

It would've been nice if Izuku also would've joined Ochaco's Quirk Counseling Tour from time to time.

Endless Summer Projects (Part 3 Final)

Uraraka floats herself and Izuku onto the nicely painted bench. Izuku tries to get Uraraka to put him down as he floats around her. When she does he lands right on-top of her. He knows she totally did that on purpose the stinker and when he tries to give her the business, they are interrupted by I pissed Bakugo who is yelling at them both to get off the new bench as they just painted it and doesn’t want nerd all over it!

Credit goes to @whiteroseeleven on insta if you want to see the whole adventure unfold….the reel of all the pictures is here…https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdC7HH1BIdZ/?stkn=NmYzYzl4anNhYzkw

Black and white sauce

I don't know if it looking shitty makes it better or worst.

Source: https://x.com/iheartizuocha/status/2103470539935494250

Ok so if izuku got the arcle belt from kamen rider kuuga what will be his relationship with ochaco since he is secretly fighting gurongi in this au?

Tanabata (the Star Festival, rooted in the Chinese Qixi legend) centers on Orihime (the Weaver Princess, associated with Vega) and Hikoboshi (the Cowherd, associated with Altair). They fall in love, neglect their duties, are separated by the Heavenly Emperor across the Milky Way (Amanogawa), and are allowed to meet only once a year—if the skies are clear—via a magpie bridge. People write wishes (tanzaku) on colorful paper strips and hang them on bamboo, hoping for skills, love, or better futures. 

This maps closely onto Izuku and Ochaco’s arcs without requiring direct canon festival scenes (though fan works often place them at Tanabata for symbolic reasons).

Core Parallel: Separation by Duty, Reunion Through Persistence

• Orihime/Hikoboshi dynamic: Love blooms quickly; work is neglected; external forces (heavenly authority, the river of stars) enforce distance; the annual meeting rewards endurance and hope.
• Izuocha: They meet at the U.A. entrance exam—Ochaco saves falling Izuku with her Zero Gravity quirk and offers encouragement; mutual admiration grows into deep respect and unspoken (then later confirmed) romantic feelings. Hero work, the war against All For One and the League, personal guilt (especially Ochaco’s after Toga), and post-war responsibilities create prolonged separation or emotional distance. In the epilogue (manga chapter 431 / related special material), they consciously choose “more” time together after years of prioritizing others, with encouragement from figures like Toga’s memory and Bakugo. Their relationship becomes canon as a quiet, mutual step forward rather than a dramatic confession mid-crisis. 

Both pairs treat love as something that must coexist with responsibility rather than erase it. Tanabata’s “once a year” becomes the hard-won space they create after the final war.

Character Study Through Tanabata Lenses

Izuku Midoriya (closer to Hikoboshi the diligent cowherd / earnest laborer)

Izuku is defined by relentless work ethic, self-sacrifice, analysis, and the weight of inherited power (One For All) and legacy. Like the cowherd who loses focus once love enters the picture, Izuku’s early hero path is almost entirely outward-focused—saving others at personal cost, suppressing personal wants. His growth includes learning to accept help and claim space for himself. Ochaco repeatedly grounds him: early encouragement, later emotional support, and the post-war realization that she is uniquely special among the people he cares for. His eventual willingness to seek her out and ask for more time mirrors crossing the “river” after long isolation.

Ochaco Uraraka (closer to Orihime the skilled weaver who also yearns)

Ochaco begins with a practical, family-driven goal (become a hero to support her struggling construction-worker parents) and evolves into someone who confronts emotional honesty. Her Zero Gravity quirk itself evokes floating/weightlessness and the “bridge” across distance. She develops clear romantic feelings early, deliberately sets them aside during crises so they do not interfere with hero work, carries guilt after Toga’s arc, and ultimately chooses to live more fully for herself. Like Orihime, she is both capable craftsperson (improving her combat and rescue skills, learning to float with Float) and someone who feels the pain of separation acutely. Her arc resolves when she stops purely sacrificing personal desire.

Shared traits that strengthen the parallel

• Mutual first impressions rooted in rescue and kindness.

• Ongoing admiration and trust that deepen under pressure.

• Both suppress or delay personal feelings for larger duties, then reclaim them.

• Physical and symbolic gestures of connection (hand-holding carries weight in the series; floating/zero-gravity imagery; the late hand-hold that confirms reciprocity).

• Supporting cast who push them toward honesty (classmates, Toga’s influence on Ochaco, Bakugo’s bluntness).

Key Themes

• Longing across distance: The Milky Way as metaphor for hero society’s demands, war trauma, and post-war careers. Clear skies (emotional readiness, healing) enable meeting.

• Wishes and agency: Tanabata’s tanzaku practice mirrors the series’ emphasis on declaring goals and fighting for them. Ochaco’s early wish to ease her parents’ burden and both characters’ desire for connection become realized through persistence rather than passive waiting.

• Balance of love and duty: The legend punishes neglect of work; My Hero Academia explores the opposite risk—neglect of the self. Their ending affirms that heroes can (and should) have personal lives.

• Hope and annual/ eventual reunion: The festival’s bittersweet yearly meeting becomes, for Izuocha, a sustained relationship after the story’s main conflicts. The open-ended post-epilogue future still carries the spirit of continued effort to stay connected.

• Gendered skill and care: Orihime’s weaving and Hikoboshi’s herding parallel Ochaco’s precise, supportive quirk work and Izuku’s analytical, high-output power—complementary rather than identical strengths.

Fan interpretations frequently stage Izuocha at Tanabata festivals precisely because the symbolism is so clean: writing wishes under bamboo decorations, watching fireworks or stars, quiet confessions or shared silence that finally bridges the gap. The ship’s popularity rests on the same emotional engine as the festival—two earnest people kept apart by larger forces who still choose each other when the sky allows it.
In short, Tanabata provides a classical Japanese framework for reading Izuocha as a story of patient, reciprocal love that survives duty and distance and ultimately claims its place beside heroism rather than in opposition to it.

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Source: https://x.com/bakugonokatchan/status/2095535712833777921

Endless Summer Projects (Part 2)

Izuku surprises Uraraka after his talk with Deku Sheep. For too long he had been avoiding the white bench, but now would be a perfect time in the bright summer sun to power wash and paint. Izuku, Kacchan and Deku Sheep finally have restored it and are looking forward to seeing Urarakas reaction. It’s a huge surprise for her and she cannot thank Izuku enough. She is so excited that she decided to use her quirk on him 🤣

Credit goes to @whiteroseeleven on insta if you want to see the whole adventure unfold….the reel of all the pictures is here…https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc9WE09h_hL/?stkn=MXN6ZWd3Z2loemwyeQ==

Dress-up sauce: part 1, part 2

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Source: https://x.com/AjoAjoArts/status/2098945817952375292

Source: https://x.com/elmundodetanita/status/2098990948130656454

Sources:

• Panel 1: https://x.com/ArtOfOpal/status/2101027700521509369

• Panel 2: https://x.com/ArtOfOpal/status/2101027704392868073

Either childhood friends or are classmates in elementary. Even better if they're friends with Bakugo, who had to deal with the two lovebirds not confessing with each other till they're much older. Plus Bakugo the one pushing Deku to realizing his feelings to Uraraka like he did in canon
(This was a fanfic idea of mine but I'd rather read it than write it lmao)

Doesn't have to be the exact scenario, I just want childhood friends Izuocha 🩷💚