fatgum lost tons of weight in the heat of battle and turned into hotgum
hotgum is hot, but he is not the True fatgum. the true fatgum is fat. see:
free time shows the true self, and he’s fat in his free time.
you only see hotgum when he’s basically burned up all his fat with his fat quirk. that means he can’t use his fat quirk anymore. he’s running on empty, and that doesn’t feel good
a fatgum who isn’t fat is like a gecko that dropped its tail. like, yeah, he’s gonna be fine, but something bad happened and now he’s not in the best condition. a hotgum is a fatgum who needs to recuperate before he can go back to doing hero work. hotgum probably needs to go to the hospital
so it’s very weird to see fanart where hotgum is in a casual situation bonding with his interns or whatever, because in a casual situation, fatgum would be fat. i don’t think there’s a casual situation where hotgum would exist.
honestly after chapter 146 I really want it to be a running joke that Rappa will just seek Fatgum and Kirishima out to have a fight at the most random times. Like the two will be out on patrol and all of a sudden Rappa is blocking their path and says “FATTY! RED! LETS HAVE A MATCH!!!” and the two of them are just like “Didn’t we fight last month? How do you keep escaping prison???” Like he hasn’t joined another organization or anything he just does underground fights and then when he’s in the mood he’s like time to challenge my two favorite people!! Like it gets to the point that he is more of an expected nuisance than a surprise threat. The two of them are just like oh Rappa is back lets see if we can convince him to fight us on another day. Most conversations kind of just end up being like this:
“Lets fight!!!!!!”
“Rappa its the end of patrol we’re tired.”
“Who cares!”
“You wanna go at us when we’re 100% dontchya?”
“hm…”
“You aren’t the kind of guy that wants his opponents to be fighting him with a handicap right?”
“HELL NO!”
“Then lets rumble some other day ‘kay?”
“hm… ALRIGHT! I’ll see you two another day! Then we’ll see who lives!”
just moving along like everyone else 