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Hawks and Tokoyami moments together but the last one is so cute! 😍

Hawks and Tokoyami 

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Update on Tokoyami's Tribal Wardrobe

So I was completely off base when it came to my initial impression of this illustration of Tokoyami. I though he either was dressed in an everyday feathered headband with no war associations or an arrangement of elements to give the impression of a warbonnet or roach headdress, but I knew I was missing something which becomes obvious as I moved past the silhouette and looked at the individual elements.

Elements of Tokoyami's garb:

Single feather

Woven fiber bands

Patterned cloth

Exposed plant fiber ends

What are either tusks or horns, large amounts of woven hoops, and a medallion plate carved from either precious metal or stone.

It was right around the obvious plant fibers that I started raising an eyebrow and questioning my assumption. While it's not unusual to find woven plant materials in any number of Native American tools and everyday items it is unusual to see them so prominently visible in any of their headdresses.

Tip-off #2 was the prevalent hoop ornamentation which, though it occasionally shows up, is almost never a part of any tribe's garb I could find and never this prevalent.

The final nail in the coffin I was looking in the wrong place were those tusks/horns. The only instance I could find of horns being used in Native American headdress of any kind were in plains nations' buffalo warbonnets. However, even then they only ever contained two, perched on top of the crown as it would sit on the animal, and whose horns to begin with are far too narrow to be whatever these are.

What Tokoyami is wearing cannot be American.

Using my clue of large tusks/horns and how many of them are displayed in this wardrobe I thought of places with woven ornamentation like this that would also have easy enough access to animals with large enough tusks or horns to use so many. Immediately my thought shifted to Africa and with a bit of searching I found it.

This isn't tribal American, this is tribal African - likely one of the tribes of the Surma people located in Ethiopia, perhaps specifically the Mursi tribe!

Mystery one solved! But here's where I hit another snag in my research.

Pictures have been easy enough to find, but I'm having trouble finding credible sources on their culture and any particular significance of the elements beyond it's a masculine, warrior's garb and the fact that these people apparently value jewelry which is why there are so many shell beads. I may have also found information that their religion includes a higher power connected to the sky that may manifest itself as a rainbow or bird, so maybe there's that.

I'll try to keep looking and come back if I find more. If anyone else out there is willing to help me out it would be appreciated.

underrated duos nobody talks abt😣😣

I humanized the birds (Tokoyami and Dark Shadow)

If your wondering why I made DS a girl, well

Yeah

Also you literally can't see them on Dark Shadow, but she and Tokoyami have matching earrings :)

1st Universe!!

A little dark baby!

Hiiii! Welcome to "Me discovering that I can talk about my random thoughts on Psychology and MHA cause those two have been hyperfixations for years and Tumblr is the best place to talk like that" !

"Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn" Part 6 : Class 1A 3/4

1st, Shoji. I would say that Shoji is a Fight too, like many people in class 1A. I'd say he is because of the Dark Shadow situation in season 3, that he handled with calm and reactivity. BUT he has a bit of Flight and Freeze. Flight because if he can, he will listen to orders and flee the situation that he is in. Freeze because if he knows that someone has a plan, he will wait for them to say it (Midoriya with Dark Shadow or Momo with Saiko Intelli). What we can see in all the situation though is that he won't fight for no reason.

2nd is Jiro. She is half a Flight, we can see it in season 1 (when she hides with Momo), and even how she throws Denki to the villains instead, we can see that in season 3 (?) when she is against Saiko and let's Momo decide or also when she tries to escape the singing situation at first in season 5 or Mic in another season. But she is also half a Fight because she was ready to deal with Class 1B before Bakugo arrived, she also loves to tease him and Denki and all the times she shocks the pervs.

3rd will be Sero. Sero is pretty much a Fight. We know he never keeps his voice for himself, and says spontaneous stuff without sometimes thinking about it (Momo and how her quirk works in season 3). But he also apologize when he notice he said/did something bad. When faced with Midoriya in season 6, or with Midnight in season 2(?), he's also not scared to go close to them and fight. He also loves to tease Bakugo with a death wish as topping.

For the 4th one we have Tokoyami. He has a bit of a Freeze in him, as we can see with how he calmfully but still unknowingly looks at Hawks when the latter gave him his bird enigma with percentages and all. Or how he tries to avoid everyone going into his dorm. But with Dark Shadow reacting to his feelings, we can see he's a good Fight because of how Mina get attacked (in the second movie), or anyone else, and how he reacts by letting Dark Shadow got wild.

And last for today is Todoroki, but I already explained his situation in the first part.

Thanks to have been there for my little talk, if you have anything, professional or not to say or ask you can gladly interact I'l be very happy! ♡♡♡

Part 5 : Class 1A 2/4

i wish we got more tokoyami uraraka bestie content they couldve been gay bffs

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