Aizawa’s genuinely so funny like he actively avoids talking to All Might and sits several seats away from Miss Joke but as soon as The World’s Loudest Man shows up he’s like ah yes. Let me sit shoulder to shoulder with you. Yes of course I’ll go out for drinks with you. Have our desks side by side? That’s logical. Come help me deal with these reporters. We’ve been patrolling together since our 20s. Coming to sit with you at the sports festival? No problem. I don’t mind one (1) loud man.
Do you think anyone back in the day ever spoofed a pigeon?
Okay, so the way sending messages via pigeon works is that each pigeon is “homed” to a particular roost, typically some sort of tower. If you want to send messages to someone, you get them to send you a wagon full of caged pigeons from their roost; later, when you attach messages to those pigeons and release them, they’ll find their way back home.
So picture this: you’re a nefarious sort who wants to intercept messages between roosts A and B, but for whatever reason you don’t have on-site access to either roost – too much security, or lack of personnel, perhaps. So what you do is establish your own roost C, raise a bunch of pigeons, then waylay the regular shipments of caged birds between A and B, steal their pigeons, and replace them with your own pigeons. And here’s the important bit: you keep the stolen pigeons.
Now, whenever someone tries to send a message from A to B, or vice versa, they’ll unwittingly be using a pigeon that’s homed to your roost C instead. The message comes to you, you read it, then you re-attach it to a stolen pigeon homed to the message’s actual destination and send it on its way.
Pigeon spoofing.
I feel like whatever bird nerd was responsible for tending the pigeons might notice.
See, that’s why you intercept the pigeon shipments en route. The pigeon-keepers at roost B can’t tell the difference because they’ve never seen the pigeons they were supposed to receive, and thus have no standard for comparison, and the pigeon-keepers at roost A have no reason to suspect anything is amiss because the pigeons they get back are same ones they shipped out.
[shocked sports anime character voice] No way– ! A Pigeon-in-the-Middle Attack?
It literally just occurred to me now that Marvin the Martian dresses like a centurion because Mars is the Roman god of war. That visual pun has been sailing over my head for thirty-five goddamn years, and it took a shitpost about Female Presenting Nipples to clue me in.
Fandom in a Bottle 