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I rlly wish that the western toaru fandom was capable of using their brain cells to understand that yes accelerator is a mass murder but he's also literally a traumatized child who was abused and groomed by academy city into someone who would kill 10,000 clones because he just wanted people to leave him the hell alone.

like people hate that accelerator got a "redemption arc" or whatever but it completely goes over their heads that accelerator's character arcs have never been about redemption, accelerator knows he can never atone for what he's done—and he doesn't want to.

accelerator's arc has been the story of an abused child being used by a broken and corrupt system created for a single man's selfish gain, and that abused child fighting not only to over come the role he was forced into by that system, but to change and create a new system that isn't broken and corrupt. and for that change to happen, the abused child will sacrifice all he's fought for and become an enemy of the whole world.

Accelerator

When the Dark Side offered him even the hope of a bit of light (not having to be so destructive), he was killing to kill 20,000 clones for it. When Last Order showed him even the tiniest ray of light, he was willing to (and almost did) die for it. I love him so much.

Have you read "off the deep end" or/and "Nyctophobia"?

I really recommend them.

The ‘To Aru’ reunion that seems like it won’t happen

The third season of A Certain Magical Index really hyped up the second confrontation between Touma and Accelerator, and like.. that is NOT the reunion I most want to see.

The reunion between Mikoto Misaka and Accelerator?! Now THAT will be fucking fascinating. (It’s also going to be heartbreaking for her to learn about the very existence of Last Order and Misaka Worst, which is some shit that, frankly, her sisters should’ve already been talking to her about. But there’s no evidence of that ever occurring, so… I guess she just… is clueless. THE FUCK.

(For real though, the Sisters are utterly failing to keep in any meaningful contact with ‘Big Sis,’ let alone tell her anything about anything. Including REALLY BIG things like “oh Accelerator is our homeboy now”)

Unfortunately, at this point I can’t find any evidence that they’ve ever shared a single conversation ever again in the light novels, so I … I kinda don’t think it’s ever going to happen. And if not, god DAMN, talk about a huge missed opportunity.

I guess we can hope for a good fanfic about it… ?

Guys I just had a thought!

So we all know that within accelerators abilities to control vectors. There was the reflection that was always active before he got his injury.

But theres a panel where last order is teasing him “asking how he can be the strongest esper if he cries when he gets shampoo in his eyes.”

With him of course yelling that he wasnt crying and that that was the first time it had happened

And the fact that we they first met and she asked if he dyed his hair that color to look intimidating he said and that his ability just reflected the suns uv Ray’s.

So here’s were my thought came in.

What if last order wanted to go to the beach and she drop accelerator along. After he sustained his injury to his brain. he still was able to use his abilities he just had to activate his electrode that allows him to use the misaka net work to run calculations.

So essentially my brains wondering how he would react to getting a sun burned since he normally wouldnt have to worry about that since his ability before would normally reflect the sun’s Ray’s. Or just you know normal stuff that everyday people would have to go through that he normally wouldnt have to deal with before.

I feel like it could make for a few interesting manga strips lol

@tsundelerator

Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.

Of fucking course

What sick bastard doesn’t

30 Days of Raildex - Day 14: Something that made you sad?

The VTOL craft with Mikoto stuck to its main wing shook as it slowly approached the fortress.

That was when her eyes met with that idiot’s.

That spiky-haired boy seemed to be utterly perplexed at seeing that escape method appearing before him out of the blue. Deep down Mikoto wanted to say “What were you even planning to do, you idiot?”, but she did not have time to get after him about that. She would lecture him to death later.

Mikoto made it all the way out to the end of the wing and stretched her arms out as far as they would go.

Would she reach him? Or would she not?

Her fingertips made it to the point where they were on the verge of reaching. But then the boy did something she had never expected. He shook his head. And then his hand, which he should have been holding out, stopped moving. (Wha—!?) Just as Mikoto’s eyes opened wide in surprise, the boy’s lips moved slightly. She could not hear what he was saying. However, she could tell what it was from the movement of his lips.

“I still have something I need to do.”

Another great tremor ran through the fortress. The fortress moved toward the earth much more and with much less stability than before. It was like a large ball rolling down a hill picking up enough speed that it could no longer be stopped. She had to retrieve that idiot from there. If things advanced more than that, she would no longer be able to reach him. Mikoto came to that conclusion mostly with her intuition.

But then the VTOL craft suddenly moved. It shook as if it were leaving the fortress. “Wait!! What are you doing!?”

“The trembling of the fortress has passed beyond a certain point, reports Misaka. If we remain close to it, there is a danger of crashing into it.”

“…!!”

While still stuck to the trembling wing, Mikoto held out her hand and manipulated magnetism.

She didn’t care if she had to force him.

She would magnetically grab his school uniform’s buttons, his belt buckle, or whatever she could and pull that boy out of that fortress.

That was what she planned to do, but the magnetic thread connecting her and that boy suddenly snapped.

“Eh…?” 

Mikoto stared blankly because she did not understand what had happened. But immediately afterwards, she figured it out. That boy had a mysterious power that could negate all of Mikoto’s abilities. He had severed his final lifeline.

He had lost his final chance.

Even though she had the power to take on a tank and even though she had the power to stop the firing of a nuclear missile, it was not enough to save that one boy. 

There were two moments in this particular novel I could say saddened me. The moment above ^^ and then this moment that had preceded it:

“Where are you going? says Misaka as Misaka asks a question.” Her eyes wavered as she looked up from within his arms.

Most likely, she understood what Accelerator was about to do. And because she understood, she was trying to stop him.

“You’re not going anywhere, right? says Misaka as Misaka checks to be sure.” “Don’t worry. It’ll all be over soon.” Accelerator did not say that he would be back or that he would be returning.

The monster with the black wings gently removed the small hands from his clothes one finger at a time. It was as if he were shaking off the final bonds that kept him anchored to the surface.

“No,” said Last Order in a small voice. “I want to always be with you, says Misaka as Misaka begs you.” 

“…Yes.” Accelerator admitted it. In the very, very end, he responded with a childlike smile on his face. “I wanted to always be with you, too.”

With a sound like cracks spreading across ice, the monster’s wings changed color. The ink-like pitch black changed to a snow-like pure white. Starting from the base and spreading to the tips, the outer color and the inner essence all changed in an instant.

That was his transformation.

With that mental change, he became a source that spewed forth a unique power into the real world.

Accelerator put his hands on Last Order’s small shoulders, lightly pushed, and floated up into the sky due to the recoil like an astronaut in zero gravity.

Last Order’s small hands stretched up into the sky toward Accelerator. But she could not reach him.

These are the two of the few moments from the end of the initial series that have stuck with me. These two protagonists - completely opposite in their views and their approach to the world - came to mirror each others actions in the end. They both chose to make a sacrifice, wasting no time whatsoever on deliberating on whether they should or not. They didn’t weigh their options - and in Accelerator’s case that means a great deal.

The parallel between them is only strengthened, when the two who (whom I feel at least - excluding Index) loved them most, presented themselves to their hero with a reason not to go on. 

In the end, both Accelerator and Touma chose not to listen to Mikoto and Last Order; not because they didn’t care about them, but because they cared so much for their and others wellbeing that the only thought that occurred to them was to go on and lay down their lives whilst all Mikoto and Last Order could do was reach.

It’s such a powerful parallel for me, and it provided a moment of clarity for me concerning how I truly felt about each of these characters…

Plus it was god damned sad. 

The ‘To Aru’ reunion that seems like it won’t happen

The third season of A Certain Magical Index really hyped up the second confrontation between Touma and Accelerator, and like.. that is NOT the reunion I most want to see.

The reunion between Mikoto Misaka and Accelerator?! Now THAT will be fucking fascinating. (It’s also going to be heartbreaking for her to learn about the very existence of Last Order and Misaka Worst, which is some shit that, frankly, her sisters should’ve already been talking to her about. But there’s no evidence of that ever occurring, so… I guess she just… is clueless. THE FUCK.

(For real though, the Sisters are utterly failing to keep in any meaningful contact with ‘Big Sis,’ let alone tell her anything about anything. Including REALLY BIG things like “oh Accelerator is our homeboy now”)

Unfortunately, at this point I can’t find any evidence that they’ve ever shared a single conversation ever again in the light novels, so I … I kinda don’t think it’s ever going to happen. And if not, god DAMN, talk about a huge missed opportunity.

I guess we can hope for a good fanfic about it… ?

us kamiichi stans talk a lot about this scene, primarily that famous “handsome” line that spawned a tsunami in shipmates, but i’d also like to point out how ooc it is for accelerator to willingly explain his thought processes in layman’s terms without any sort of prompting or hint of reluctance, and furthermore how accel regularly acts ooc and throws out everything he holds himself to be for kamijou touma’s sake or due to his influence

“I’ve been extreeeeeeeeeeeeeemely pissed for a while now, but if I lashed out at someone, I’d just kill them. Annoying, right? Well, I’ve grown enough to actually think about those things now. I’ve learned my lesson, so make sure to tell me I’m doing a good job. So you see…I’m so very, very thankful I found someone who won’t die when I hit them and who I won’t feel even a twinge of guilt for attacking!! I’ve got nothing but thanks for you, you piece of shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!!!”

— Accelerator, while punting a corrupt, wealthy, xenophobic, warmongering bigot of a politician over 1 km straight into Big Ben (Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 20)

Maybe I have this wrong but in your last post about Accel, you mention the possibility of Aleister being his father? That’s a theory of mine so I’d love to read your thoughts on the matter. Do you think Aleister could be the father of Index too?

haha i meant Aleister being a deadbeat dad more of a figurative sense. In the latest arc, Accelerator, Aleister, and Kamijou’s dynamic is likened to a classroom setting, and the parallels between them are highlighted.

“That logic may have been similar to Aleister Crowley’s when he parted ways with the Golden cabal over his anger at the thought of some unknown person being hit by the recoil and side effects of magic.”

“That darkness may have been the same kind of hell that Aleister had experienced long ago. When looking into the pasts of serial killers, it was unfortunately common to find they had been victims of horrific violence as a child.”

In other words, I guess I’d say by Kamachi’s intent, Kamijou parallels Aleister’s active noble intentions, whereas Accelerator parallels Aleister’s reflective tragic backstory. They’re both Aleister Crowley’s sons/students in the sense that they were raised and groomed by Academy City to be central to his plans, though his relationship with Accelerator seems a lot more akin to a son than a student. The text didn’t go that far so as to say anything about biological parentage.

After all this, I haven’t actually answered your question lmao

Since we don’t really know a whole lot about Accelerator’s background, I’m gonna withhold any conclusion on that theory. However, while I like the idea of them being related, with them both being androgynous-looking, pearly-haired geniuses, I’m a bit skeptical of the idea that he’s Aleister’s genetic offspring. The cherishing, papa bear sort of love he showed towards his confirmed biological daughters just seems too significantly different from the attitude he displayed towards Accel. I mean, he even referred to him as “vector control device” in OT13. Kamijou emphasizes that he couldn’t let Aleister go believing his daughter hated him, but Aleister didn’t seem to give much of a shit about Accelerator hating him. I think lack of parental instinct is a pretty good indication that Accelerator isn’t Aleister’s biological son, unless it’s unwitting, Aleister really just is that shit a father, he was a sperm donor, he’s rather sexist, or he just got that disillusioned along the way. Otherwise, I’d say that he’s more of a surrogate dad figure.

By the end of NT, Aleister definitely considers Accelerator close enough to a son to try to leave his biological daughter with him, only for Accel to react in shock and Aleister to backtrack on that, as making Accelerator a sixteen year-old parent of an infant would be a bit too much.

That said, I definitely think Index having similar features to Aleister is no coincidence. How often would one come across magical genius silver-haired green-eyed Brits with strong ties to both Lola Stuart and Kamijou Touma? Since Index is the titular character of the franchise but in Kamachi’s own words, “has been rather useless as of late”, having her be related to Aleister would be a good way to tie her back to the main plot. 

tbh, I’m sorta going off on a tangent here, but I think the questions of “What tf is Kamijou Touma” and “What tf is Accelerator” are both worth looking into, both based on similarities, abilities, and backgrounds. Both of them have abilities that are somewhat of an anomaly that are neither pure science nor pure magic, yet work on both. Kamijou can negate both magic and science, and Accelerator can reflect both as well; both are powers that are very nearly pure concept. Both have backgrounds that are rather dubious. In the very first volume, Kamijou brings up the possibility that he was adopted, and while it was played for laughs, it’s a very Kamachi thing to make it a Chekhov’s Gun. All Accelerator knows about his past is that his surname consisted of two kanji and his first name consisted of three.

I know I said this before, but assuming Kamachi isn’t bullshitting science, I think the fact that Accelerator sports an albino appearance despite being implied not to be genetically albino is worth looking into. It’s said that it’s a result of his abilities, but that would make it an environmental trait rather than genetic one, and albinism is very much a genetic trait. Not being exposed to UV rays shouldn’t produce that kind of result. The only explanation is that his DNA itself at some point just,, decided he didn’t need melanin??? And it would go into how Accelerator is crazy adaptable too, having developed ridiculously over the span of four months; having held his own against the Great Demon, fought a Magic God to a draw, and rewritten reality itself all within a single day of truly stepping into the world of magic; having enough assets to be able to reach Level 6 with just combat experience, without needing the calculation assistance and Personal Reality guidance supplemented in the Level 6 Shift done on Railgun.

Are the black-white/negation-reflection protags really even completely human tho, is something i’ve been asking myself for a while