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villainsandvictimsalliance · 1 month

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Rereading the manga, I notice something really interesting. If you go back to chapter 59, you'll find All Might explaining how AFO and OFA as quirks were born. That's the first time Toshinori explains the history of AFO too.

The interesting part is the way he tells the story of Yoichi, the first user of OFA. It reminds me a lot of Tenko's story. It can be just me, but please read it for yourself:

" The man had a quirkless little brother / the man had a quirkless younger brother.

The little brother was small, and frail, but he harbored a strong sense of justice...! / This brother was small and fragile, but he had a strong sense of justice!

His brother's actions panged his heart... and he opposed him / and the deeds of his big brother pained him... So he opposed the tyrant. "

( A quirkless little brother asking why the world is so unfair finding out he actually has a quirk when he decides to oppose his abuser? Of course, here the difference is that Yoichi was older than Tenko when it all happened. He was not a confused 5 years old trying to understand why and how.... )

" Yes... He who was thought quirkless, did in fact possess one prior. / Yes... It turned out he hadn't actually been quirkless from the start.

Though neither he himself nor anyone around him had ever noticed / thought neither he nor anyone else has known it. "

That means there is a previous instance in which a young man thought quirkless had indeed a quirk: Yoichi himself!

It also makes me think about how Tomura/Tenko's control over decay depends on his emotional and psychological state.

The night his quirk awakened, we saw that Tenko had no control over it; everything that touched the ground he had contact with decayed. After he was "rescued" and after he was given the hands of his deceased family, AFO noticed that Tomura had unconsciously restrained decay so he would only affect the things he directly touched. Later on the story, Tomura was able to expand his quirk, evolving to decay without using all his five fingers during My Villain Academia. He was able to decay things at will during the War arc!!!

Could it be possible that Tenko had unconsciously repressed his own quirk for years before the night he killed his family?

Maybe when he tried to repress his own feelings about what was happening at home, Tenko also repressed decay without knowing. If he kept all his negative feelings in check as to not upset his family, it'd be an option.

If we wanted to reaaaally go crazy theorizing, we could even make a case about how Tenko having a previous quirk before AFO implanted decay on him is a possibility (within the frames of the bnha narrative). I'm not going there, but I think that fic authors would appreciate the prompt.

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sattosugu · 1 year

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Your blog is so cool and pretty!

Aw Shan ty so much.

Same to you my friend. I love reading your analysis and metas about bnha. I hope you are having a safe week so far. *hugs* stay safe and hope you and your family are doing well and staying safe. ^^

#mutuals: shan

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I must say, I've seen the first season of Vanitas No Carte, another anime that Studio Bones is responsible for, and I was so mad.

Vanitas No Carte looks AMAZING. It was so pretty, thanks also to the style of the mangaka. But still. Many other giants right now has an animation that leaves you out of breath.

Like you say, Kimetsu No Yaiba for example. The dedication they put into the Rengoku arc, it was not just a thing, but a whole group work that end up in a masterpiece. They really managed an arc as a movie and it worked so nicely.

Another detail of them is that they worry about their villains. Treat your villain right and it's gonna take the story to another level. Don't be afraid to make people love them, hate them, until they can't stop talking about them.

In the end, Studio Bones really dissapointed me with My Villain Academia :((((

I DIDN'T KNEW VANITAS WAS ANIMATED BY BONES???? That series is B E A U T I F U L. From the colors, the movement, the way the characters are designed to follow their mangaka's vision. To know that this happened only to boku no hero shows that they thought the villain arc was something minor like filler, and that the studio is biased over their source material, which shouldn't be. If anything, everyone was expecting this season to see MVA. The fact that they erased the first chapter and the league's interactions is so awful, they wasted the panel of Tomura decaying the logo, which then falls to show the mansion behind in a way that makes kinda obvious that Hori draw that with the animation in mind.

The league is such a tight little family. You have those incredible parallels between characters, but now i really think that's ruined. Even if the war arc turns out to be amazingly animated, because we already lack the basics of their interactions. Anime watchers only don't really know that Shigaraki choses to kill only if necessary or that the league runs with the costs of Compress arm before they get rich. They don't know anything about Spinner's vision, or that him and Tomura are kinda friends, or the way the league trust each other to be honest and why they follow their leader. When the war comes and Sako choses to do what he does, it will be kinda hollow. So will be Spinner trying to keep Tomura alive and so on. So yeah, even after seeing that propaganda about the war arc i'm already not impressed (this is minor and stupid, but the trailer that show you Tomura in the tank, the suit he's wearing is already different from the one in the manga...so go figure)

Details like that give me little hope.

#darling shan #meta talking #bnha

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godofvillains-a · 2 years

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@villainsandvictimsalliance

((Honestly Shan is one of the nicest, chillest people I have ever met on this hellsite. Like seriously... If you’re into BNHA villains and metas about them and all that kind of jazz, I’d give them a follow. Even talk to them. One of the kindest and welcoming people I have met. <3

#Ti speaks #positivity

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villainsandvictimsalliance · 1 year

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Let's talk about the insane idea promoted by the hero society that self-sacrificing and sadness is better than hurting others and feeling rage. Or in other words, how dying for other and repressing your feelings even if they destroy you is better than becoming violent and letting your rage affect the course of the daily basis.

For the hero society, submissive individuals were better. Depressed as in being unable to act was better. Passive behavior was better. It's easier to feel pity and hold some mourning for the victims before moving on as if nothing happened.

Take Deku. If he had died by suicide only a few would care. He was an unimportant quirkless kid with no real potential to be a hero. Or if he had died saving Bakugo he would have become a martyr, a quirkless kid who got to be a hero for a day before tragically dying. The end.

That is why Aizawa is mad with All Might when he sees Deku. He could have died in the UA entrance test, it was impressive but what about Deku's life. That's also what Recovery Girl told All Might in the UA Sport Festival. That's what Deku needed to learn when he started using kicks instead of punches. Self-sacrificing shouldn't be idolized by the hero society. Ultimately, it is murder in the hands of the authorities who enforce such idea.

Take the League of Villains.

Ugly victims don't get help.

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Ask Tenko. Walking alone on a busy street, with blood on his hands and eyes totally lost. No one helped him. He was not a cute kid crying like Eri, he was monstrous like. His accident was not one caused by a victim. It was the abuse of his father and tje unfortunate awakening of his quirk that ended with him murdering his entire family.

If he had stayed sitting silently, unable to weep or talk or cry, he would have died and no one would have known. Society would be happy because there's no Shigaraki Tomura, right?

Touya died on a forest fire and life moved on. His dad became even more abusive and reached the number one spot on the hero charts. Like the past never happened.

Toga's neglected childhood pushed her to the point she exploded and drank the blood of someone, but because she was already a monster like looking child, she wad regarded as a danger and his parents erased her presence from their house. If she had died on the streets or gotten captured, people would just think "good, one less psycho, we can keep going with our days".

Visually, it's easier to sympathize with a crying victim full of sadness and wounds. Some animal instinct of who knows. I don't. BUT it's way harder to sympathize with someone who shows their hurt by being very disruptive, loud, angry, violent. Especially if they can't cry, singe people equals crying to regret or pain. If someone is unable to cry, there must be something wrong with them.

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The League of Villains goal in the narrative at the beginning of bnha is less Stain-like (there are a few bad apples in the basket we need to purge and everything will be good again) and more of Shigaraki's own ideology: society is rotten to the bone, even the greatest of heroes is corrupted and the cycle of violence is being used by the hero society as an excuse to control the public.

Funny. It was not a lie. With Lady Nagant's story and even with Hawk's we were witnesses of how the hero society was indeed rotten. And we saw a few paragraphs above why All Might was part of the corruption, if with good intentions, but still an important part of it.

There are two main responses to trauma in bnha. The hero society prefers the one that doesn't make them look bad.

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So, what's the kick?

What happened with the League of Villains would have happened eventually with any other group of individuals. It was a natural reaction to a failed system, one AFO took advantage of in order to further his plans.

There was the Meta Liberation Army, where many or his members were pro-heroes btw. There was the situation with Overhaul and the whole issue with the quirk repressing drug. You had Aoyama, the hospital full of kids Touya woke up to, etc.

In order for a change to happen, a reactive factor was needed. Individuals who were not afraid to threat the commodities of the population, their peace of mind, people willing to ne disturbing and people able to shake the hero society foundations. It's not coincidence that those individuals were the same victims who, after being passive for so long, decided peace was not an option.

Am I justifying the actions of the League and blaming everything on the heroes ? No, I'm not.

Killing is killing. Murder is murder. We're not going machiavelli on here and saying they had no other choice (both heroes and villains).

What I'm saying is that both sides were equally right and wrong. Many heroes and villains got used by bigger players in the game. Ultimately the fight started being between the institutions of power around the world and AFO. In Japan, it was the Hero Commission.

Like in any other war, many heroes and villains killed each other thinking it was the right thing to do in order to help society reach higher ground, get better, heal, be safe, whatever. Brainwashed for sure, loyal to a cause that's not loyal to them.

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The kick is in balance.

You can't take the blame of other actions and punish yourself for it. You can't make others responsible of your own actions either. You shouldn't be putting your life above others and you shouldn't be putting their lives below you.

Learning to separate the responsibilities, to notice the shades in which anger and sadness mix, to be able to say "we all matter equally" and know it means a victim can be an abuser too and deserves help as much as they should be hold accountable for. These are the struggles of bnha.

Good communication to avoid mindless violence.

There's where Deku and Tomura meet, in the middle of those lines. There's where Shoto and Dabi meet, where Toga and Ochako meet.

The Messiahs vs The Judas, assigned a role to play by society, either die or be killed tragically. The moment they can shed of those roles and see each other as human beings, that's the moment things will start changing for good.

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villainsandvictimsalliance · 2 months

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The itch for destruction, the hands of repression and my theories on AFO's involvement in Shigaraki Tomura / Tenko Shimura's past:

For all I prefer to interpret the hands around Tomura as AFO's way to control his grief and turn it into a weapon, there's another option to it.

According to the canon, Tomura was using the hands to keep himself in check*. Supposing that what AFO said is true and Tomura's itching is his urge to destroy*, then he was using the hands to remind himself of what he did to his family and why he couldn't let himself be left unchecked*.

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AFO, talking to Tomura:

" You carry an urge for destruction that you yourself can't even control. That itch is simply your body letting you know that your urge can't be contained any longer. "

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AFO, talking to Doc Garaki:

" He wears the hands of his family as if he's restraining himself, reproaching himself. With his memories locked away, all that's left are residual emotions. He's insecure. Just look at him. He doesn't even realize he's holding back when he's using his quirk. "

Those panels raise several questions.

For example, we already know how suspicious it is that AFO was the one able to find Tenko. Chances are that he had been observing the Shimuras all that time, but then why didn't he kill them before? What was he waiting for?

Another suspicious thing is that the hands of the Shimura were in perfect condition.* Tenko killed them at night. He says he flew from his house, he ran away. *

No one, absolutely no one showed up.

It happened in seconds, of course. The backyard probably looked like a war zone or something.*

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He decayed the house completely, to the point it was split in two when he left. He decayed the sidewalk in front of his house and if you look closely, the house next to the Shimuras too.

The question is: how was AFO able to search within that disaster for each individual hand of the Shimura family members before anyone could get there to clean it up? Those hands looked almost fresh, as sick as it sounds.*

You're telling me that AFO found Tomura— who was not speaking between, he went mute for a while after what happened that night— and he "coincidentally" found a way to get the hands of the Shimuras like it was nothing?*

My theory is that AFO manipulated Tenko more than we are allowed to know up until now.

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Doc Garaki talking to Tomura:

" These are your family members' remains. "

Did the police ever get there? To erase Tenko's existence just like that means that AFO had to either pretend Tenko died too or somehow he managed to erase the Shimuras altogether. What was said to Tenko and Hana's school? Or Kotaro's workplace? To the neighbors?

Were there any neighbors even? A house gets demolished at night with people screaming and no one even panics thinking that a villain can be attacking them?

Of course AFO had cops on his side. It's just a bit insane to me to think it worked out like clockwork just by accident.

Theory aside, it makes sense that the memory of his family kept Tenko anchored to his morals and the rights and wrongs of society.* He was a good kid, he wanted to be a hero to help people. He is also the type to hate injustice to the point he can't shut up about it. No matter how many times his dad punished him for following the hero ideals, he kept trying.

(I wish I could add more than 10 pics, but you should absolutely re-read My Villain Academia and pay attention to Tomura's general hesitation when it comes to hurting people— before AFO).

Like I said, there are several moments of Tenko avoiding his "destructive" side and holding the justice he knew from his childhood close to his heart.*

If what AFO says is true, then he repressed his memories in order to keep his quirk from being too aggressive towards others.* It was a defense mechanism that tells us that Tenko didn't want to hurt people, because he was fighting the urge to do so.* He was even becoming self-destructive in order to contain his urges.*

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Panels show Tenko wondering on a street with his hands clasped together to avoid touching anything and therefore decaying it.

AFO talking to Tomura:

" What is that you want to do? "

Tomura talking to AFO:

" ... The two punks that hit me earlier... I want to kill them. "

AFO talking to Tomura:

" Aaah, poor child. What are you so afraid of? Just follow your heart. "

( notice that the encounter of Tenko and the two punks happens BEFORE Tenko had the hold amoral combo with AFO.

The panels show how Tenko almost reaches to decay the people who just hurt him, but he forces himself to back down, close his hand in a loose fist and leave it at that).

Like you could notice in the last image, it was AFO who gave Tenko the impression that he could give in to the urge to kill and destroy because it was okay.* Previous to that moment, Tenko was full of hatred. There are several panels of Tenko saying "I hate them all " the day he got his quirk and the Shimuras died. The difference is that he only killed the Shimuras because he couldn't even control his quirk and he killed Kotaro in particular with purpose, but while he was practically blind with the rush of all that was happening.

Never before Tenko killed someone premeditated. Never before he planned it.

When AFO gave Tomura the impression that the itching was because he wanted to destroy* and it was okay to destroy to get rid of the itch*, that's when it all went to hell.

It's a dangerous thing to tell an impressionable 5 years old who just got out of an abusive home in the most traumatic fashion. Especially because Tomura's hatred got mixed with the guilt over the way he killed his family. He was convinced that the fact no hero saved him was justice for what he did. He was throwing up over it. He ran away from home, scared because he was the culprit. He was 5 years old, I must remind you all.

AFO falsely liberated Tenko from his guilt by giving him the freedom to destroy*. It was clearly not the solution because Tomura's itch would only go away temporarily after destroying whatever was annoying him.

Listen, we all want to destroy things that annoy us on a daily basis. The problem with Tenko is that

A) He is very very little.

No one explained to him that he was allowed to feel pleasure over the fact his family could not abuse him another, while he could also feel guilty because that was not the way he wanted things to end. He lost his family. No, even worse, he killed his family. Even if they hurt him, he also loved them. Those feelings can coexist within him, but he shouldn't confuse one thing with the other.

B) All kids have tantrums.

If any 5 years old was given that type of power and I promise way more incidents like that would happen. They are kids for a reason, they don't know better. It's the job of the adults around them to teach them how to tolerate things and live in society.

Laws are there for a reason too. They are meant to keep people in check. No, you cannot murder everyone because you are stuck in the morning traffic. No, you can't murder your boss because they're an asshole. You cannot erase everything that bothers you from the Earth. Why? Because it won't make you happy in the long run. We need to learn to coexist with our surroundings, annoying as it could be.

AFO did the opposite. Just look at the way he speaks to Tenko. Even working on the assumption that Tenko always wanted to kill, it was AFO's manipulation who set him on the villain path.*

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AFO talking to Tomura:

" Otherwise, you'll be the only one suffering.

Integrity. Morals. Ethics. All of them are just social constructs designed by some guy who wanted harmony in the world.

There's no need to let yourself be held back by them. In the end, what you yourself want to do is the most important of them all. "

We know AFO is not the most reliable narrator and neither is Tomura, right? The bnha manga is currently on chapter 414. We're at the point where Tomura and Deku just started seeing each other's memories. Hopefully, the manga will soon clarify / reveal the truth and this meta would be obsolete.

Take this purely as a couple of people creating theories for fun, because they want to entertain themselves in hypothetical scenarios. Okay?

Time to close this endless meta post by saying I think AFO was wrong about the nature of the itch. It does come from a form of desire to destroy, but I think it's Tenko's reaction to seeing injustice and not being able to do something about it. It started at home, when he was unable to change the way his dad treated, when no one would defend him or try to stop his dad.

When Tenko killed the Shimura's, his hatred grew to everyone because he found them unfair. You could say hypocritical too. He learned to hate himself for killing his family, learned to hate the heroes saying something and doing something else, especially All Might because he is the symbol of heroism, but wasn't there to protect Tomura from all the pain. Isn't he "all mighty"? He hated Deku for the same reasons / for being a copy of All Might.

It's a twisted version of Deku running to save someone without even knowing what he's doing. an instinct none of them can deny. Where Deku's instinct was nurtured and taken care of, Tomura's was taken advantage of and corrupted almost beyond recognition.

But that's an entire meta I'll post later, so I hope you all enjoy this rambling. No idea if it makes sense, for which I apologize.

Any asks, to the inbox as always <3

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villainsandvictimsalliance · 2 years

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What is a smile to a war? : bnha 367

Have you ever wanted to die? Wish for the world to end? Have you ever lose yourself for a couple of minutes and felt like you wanted something really bad to happen to yourself or everybody else?

Has someone ever made you laugh in one of those cases— and just by that you realized how much you didn't want any of it to happen?

You were just upset.

Hold this concept in your mind, would you? Because the heart of the pro-hero thesis of bnha is that a hero not only saves your body or gets rid of the villains threatening you— they also save you from yourself sometimes, from the darkness within you; they prevent future tragedies with the force of their kindness.

Kid Deku watching a video of All Might's debut:

And he's smiling!! Mom... no matter what kind of trouble you're in... he'll save you with a smile.

⠀When we were first introduced to Deku and his admiration for All Might, the one thing the story made emphasis on was All Might's smile. Why?

Because if you're afraid and you see the person rescuing you smile, you relax, it makes you feel better, it tones down your fear and anxiety.

It gives you hope.

I won't be able to put all the panels I wish I could show you to support this meta, so I'll rely on your good memory about the manga, okay?

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During the Hero License arc, we learnt that being a hero is much more than just knowing how to fight. We already knew part of it from All Might's first session (take care of the situation with the minimum amount of damage to both the property and the people surrounding the fight).

We learnt that the way a hero saves a person matters. Their words, their attitude, how they carry themselves and how they approach the victims and situations, it all matters.

With Bakugou and Todoroki we learn that the job of a hero also implies daily services, like helping kids and guiding others, stuff Iida Tensei (former pro-hero Ingenium) used to do.

That's an idea that finds its development along many arcs, the maximum point being after the War arc, with Ochako's speech. When heroes were giving up, she reminded them it was not only about defeating the greater evil, but also about wanting to see everybody smile together again.

It is an echo of Nighteye lessons to Deku and Mirio, of course. An echo we see in bnha 367:

A world without smiles or honor... has no... bright future.

⠀As you know, my thesis is based on the idea that the major problem with the hero society was how they forgot what a real hero was, but not because everything was exclusively monetized (it was still part of the problem, I gotta admit). No, the major issue was exposed by Tomura Shigaraki in his first speech in front of the UA staff and students:

Violence became comfortable for the bnha world, mundane even, to the point heroes stop trying to find the root of the problems so they could treat it and the civilians stop trying to help because they thought it was the heroes jobs, not theirs. Serious issues were getting overlooked, the system was getting corrupted and the effort of the heroes was shallow, superficial, even if well-meant.

Tomura/Tenko in his thoughts:

Everyone just passed by, pretending not to see, thinking that some hero would save the day. Who decided to make the world this way?

AFO "rescuing" Tenko, kneeling down to hug him:

You'll be okay now... I am here.

⠀Let's take Nana Shimura as an example; she was a great hero, we all know, the one who trained Toshinori and taught him that the people who smiled when they were afraid were the strongest. However, she was not perfect and she shouldn't be regarded as such. She failed her son and her family, something Kotaro was right about.

Can a hero talk about justice if they sacrifice their families to save others? Why some lives matter more than others? Why are heroes allowed to decide who lives and who dies, instead of helping everyone they can equally in the measure of their context?

Bnha narration:

People... are not born equal.

What is a smile to a war?

You could ask what is the sacrifice of a kid for the safety of the world, right? A life for the safety of the entire planet?

For Endeavor, what were his children and his family for the glory of his name and the glory of the hero industry, for example?

What is Tomura to AFO? Toga to the media?

What is Deku —a quirkless kid— to an entire society of people with quirks and cool abilities?

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We learned it through Kota in the Summer Camp arc and with Eri in the Overhaul arc. Both kids. One of them was a direct victim like Tomura of the hero society, the child of a broken family who had many reasons to hate what pro-heroes were; the other was a kid victim of the discrimination of quirks, a baby abandoned by her mother and used by criminal organizations for power and gain, just exactly what AFO did to Tenko/Tomura.

Deku could save Kota and Eri because he individually cared about them. No one told him there was a problem, he was actively looking. The same with Bakugo at the beginning, Deku didn't need a reason or a command, he didn't need the title or the suit, not even the quirk. He was doing the right thing.

Deku helped Kota because Kota was upset and he wanted to change that. He payed attention to Eri because she was crying. Same reason he found his way to help Bakugo, Todoroki and Iida.

What are they to Deku's journey of defeating AFO? Nothing. And everything.

Tomura talking to Doc Garaki and the LOV:

Every living, breathing thing just rubs me the wrong way. That weight in my heart is never gonna go away. So why not destroy it all?

⠀During his fight with Endeavor, AFO asked Hawks what was evil, what could be categorized as "wrong", why everybody got so easily offended. Then revealed that his main motivation of being a villain was because he wanted to make everyone bitter, everyone, inspired on those comic books villains.

In a way, it means "I am bad, everybody's bad too"

On the other hand, Tomura's motivation to destroy it all comes for the trauma of not being rescued. Why? Didn't he deserve it? Why people wouldn't help him? Isn't it because he must play the part of a villain?

Tenko asked his mother why his father hated him. Tomara also asked the UA staff what was the difference between villains and heroes using violence, the same way Toga asked Uraraka why people wouldn't help or save them (the villains).

There is real inequality in bnha: you have people like Spinner, Shinso, Hawks, Toga, Deku, Aoyama, Dabi, Tomura, Shouto, Hatsume, Aizawa... The list keeps on growing.

There are differences. Preferences even.

If you're a pretty metahuman to be used by the hero commission or a filthy "mutant" with a weak quirk, if you have a spooky quirk or a "villain" quirk, if you're quirkless or your quirk is not flashy enough or powerful enough, if you look creepy or are not "hero material", if you are hero material even if you don't want to be one...

Inequality. Discrimination. Society prescriptions.

AFO almost won, he almost made everyone mad and bitter, including Deku in bnha 367.

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Go read what Nighteye told Mirio again.

The fight against AFO (and what he represents) isn't a fight of just weapons. It was a fight with the hero society itself.

Their indifference, their apathy, their prejudices...

A smile matters in a war because why the fuck would you fight for if the only thing your gonna leave behind is a bunch of broken people who wish they were dead.

Why would you rescue Eri if you're not going to fight everyday with her trauma so that she can be happy? Why would you leave Kota to live in pain and anger without his parents when you can make his life full of light again?

What about the Cultural Festival arc?

Or rescuing Deku from his suicidal mission?

Going for Bakugo and Iida and fighting for Shouto to melt his heart??? Shouto going for Dabi???

This is why what Hawks did to Twice was wrong, because he forgot the principle of a hero:

Every lives matter.

Every smile matters.

The reason Tomura doesn't see a future is 'cause no one has ever showed him otherwise. No one saved him back then and no one has saved him (yet) in 20 years. No one told him he deserved to live and be happy, no one ever stopped and tried to make him smile or laugh or ask him if he had friends or if he liked dogs.

AFO killed Tenko the day he put those hands on him and has been dragging his body around in a parade— and even when Tomura was screaming about pain and injustice and screaming about the problem of the hero society, no one listened to him, no one tried ro reach him.

Dead.

Except Deku sees him.

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Every moment of the manga, every mission and arc, every panel and interaction, it has brought us here: to Deku asking AFO if Tenko/Tomura is still in there.

What is Tenko's smile to the bnha war?

Maybe the end of it. Maybe the defeat of AFO. You have a wounded animal that will try to attack you because it's in pain. Here are your options: you can kill every wounded animal you encounter or you can go search for the cause of their pain and treat it, so the next generations won't arrive at your door full of desperation and rage.

Everyone can be a hero, because everyone can do the right thing, everyone can make others smile, everyone can save someone one day just by telling a joke or being gentle.

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A smile can prevent a war.

Which is more powerful than any weapon which could stop at war.

In summary, bnha is about a society ruled by violence and miscommunication learning that if they don't reach for each other, if they don't try to understand, if their only solution is to erase what make them uncomfortable... they're doomed to dissappear.

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villainsandvictimsalliance · 1 year

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At this point the only thing left to do is to sit everyone one by one and explain slowly and with detail why and how Tomura isn't a reliable narrator and what it really means.

The reason it took Deku so long to reach Tenko wasn't arbitrary. It was not an accident. It was planned by AFO since day one and he succeeded to isolated Tomura from the world, rendering his efforts to communicate completely useless.

This (meta?) post is pretty long but you couldn't get it shorter, since I needed to connect a lot of the dots most people seem to be missing.

So here it is. Enjoy.

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— Let's talk about Tomura Shigaraki:

He was an abused five years old kid (I think?) who got his quirk after a beating from his father. The quirk in question is a mutation, not something common anf certainly nothing expected by his family. Besides, he had bottled up years of abuse and trauma, got the bad luck of decaying his dog first and reach a point of stress where that turned his hair of color. He couldn't even speak.

We know Tomura started thinking of himself as a monster when he was alone on the streets, after what happened with the Shimuras. We know too that he was in shock, unable to speak due the severity of his physical and psychological trauma. He was also blaming himself for his family's death (even when he had no control of his power or emotional state at the time) and he thought the reason no one would save him was because they thought he deserved it, because he was evil.

He was five years old.

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If that it's not enough to convince you about him being an unreliable narrator about his own nature and past, let me keep going.

On the chapters where we see his past, we can notice how AFO's point of view is clearly twisting the narrative. He retraumatizes Tenko (to the point of having the kid pucking and shaking on the floor) in order to shape his mind into a new identity: Shigaraki Tomura. AFO located the hands of Tenko's dead family over him to keep him unstable enough to need AFO constantly, incapable of healing. He gave Tenko a new name, dressed him in black, convinced the kid that he'd find peace in destruction (not mentioning that it wouldn't last for long) and sent him to kill.

From that point on, Tomura became a prisoner.

Which in other terms means the Tomura you met at the beginning of the manga is what AFO wanted everyone to see. A manchild, someone to don't listen to, a madman, a menace with no real purpose, a loser, too anxious and unstable.

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Say you want symbolic proff, right?

AFO gave his surename to Tomura as a claiming mark of that being his next recipient. It wasn't paternal, it was a man shopping for a new body once his was old and dead. If you payed attention to the manga, you could recognize how Tomura's clothes slowly changed into AFO's clothes. His hair overcame multiple changes until they reassembled AFO's and he got surgery that not only made him suitable for the AFO quirk, but also made him look bulkier, like AFO. There are other details like Tomura being drawn in parallels to certain AFO's stances, or Tomura losing even his pupils, and big facts like Tomura being outright possessed, c'mon.

The placements of the hands (something I have repeated multiple times) is not accidental either.

They hands on the back of his head is keeping it down, along with that one on his shoulders, arms and neck. Keeping him in place. Grounding him as chains would. They get destroyed when there's no need to hold him back anymore (funny enough in the same fight his clothes change to look like AFO's and when Gigantomachia accepts him as his master).

The hand on his face is special because it's the thing he hates the most, Father. The symbolize a will keeping him away from the world, blinding him, suffocating him, covering even his mouth. People won't listen or see Tomura for what he is and it is Bakugo who knocks that hand for the first time. Not because Bakugo was seeing him, but because Tomura was being really vulnerable there. Tomura destroys Father several times, but we keep seeing hands overlaying his face as to symbolize he is not free yet.

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We start seeing Tenko and the real Tomura with the League of Villains, on Overhaul's arc a little and mostly on My Villain Academia.

I'll make a quick pause to mention from MVA on, Tomura goes most on the manga on a state of mind that is... Like dude. Fainting or severely sleep-deprived to outright possessed in various degrees. He's unpredictable to say the least but it allows us to break into the chaos of his mind.

Okay. Continuing.

With the League, we start seeing a side of himself that is more than a bloodthirsty criminal. We see that he cares about them, he's loyal. That doesn't come from AFO. We see he has hobbies, worries about the League and he pays attention to them. He trust and encourages them and values them closely, and doesn't hold them accountable for their own mistakes.

He gets his revenge for Magne, promises Toga he wouldn't destroy what she loves, compliments Twice and doesn't punish him for recruiting Overhaul and holds him down before panicking and warns them about a dangerous situation so he could protect himself (uffff!), plays games with Spinner and doesn't get mad when he complains about Tomura's leadership and values them just as much as everyone else on the League... Tomura priority was also to fulfill Mr. Compress wishes about food and find them some money, and he trusts Dabi blindly with operations, even shortly after their first meeting.

He seeks Deku to talk (in the most twisted way possible but c'mon, raised by AFO) and doesn't fall short on making rational criticism about the hero society. He explains his trauma to Ujiko and the League enough to make Spinner cry, noting that Spinner at that time was probably the most human of them all, the healthiest mentally.

Horikoshi intentionally makes you see how complex Tomura is so he can culminate with him tragically losing his consciousness and body to AFO on the War arc. Deku finally sees beyond AFO's disguise because he could connect with the Vestige world, but to everyone else? No clue they couldn't use or understand. It was all AFO.

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Tomura's character is driven by the desire to find peace and closure about what happened that night with the Shimuras.

For 20 years AFO (basically the only person in his life beyond Kurogiri, who was a nomu himself, and Doc Ujiko, who doesn't count) convinced him he would find peace if he destroyed (everything). Tomura did as instructed, only to find AFO was tricking him into becoming his new body.

There's a lot about how he strikes some hard truths about the hero society on the process, but essentially what we see is a misconception. He tells people "I want to destroy" and people says "so you must be evil" and they fight.

Because Tomura can't openly say "I want to find forgiveness for something I did on accident when I was five and I want to understand why no one helped me back them" so people could say "then you are searching for peace and acceptance and you are upset because society failed you, let's rehabilitate you".

You can't ask him to judge himself. You can't ask someone who doesn't understand the situation to judge him either. But we, as readers, we know everything and are outside the narrative, that's why we're supposed to root for him finding closure. We're supposed to root for Deku reaching him because that means Deku successfully breached the gap of miscommunication between victims or the system and the heroes that are supposed to help them.

Deku saving Tomura is a representation of the new era of heroism triumphing and defeating AFO's manipulation once and for all. It's supposed to represent hope for those the light couldn't reach and instead fell om AFO's hands, hope for the forgotten and invisible, a world where a quirkless kid can protect the ones who are like he were.

BNHA is a story about how dangerous miscommunication is, about how big problems come from little problems who accumulated over the years, how victims become abusers and abusers can be victims, how a smile is worth everything but we need to fight for all the smile around us, not just our own.

It is a story about duty and recognizing we are to blame and we need help and we need to accept our responsibility and deal with the consequences of our actions if we want things to get better.

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Tomura is an unreliable narrator because Deku is suppose to teach him all of that, like he taught Eri or Kota or Bakugo or even All Might.

AFO is the real villain because he doesn't want to be taught, he chooses to be blind. He ready once upon a time a story and decided everything was fiction and he could make up stuff and force people to believe it, if only he had enough power and influence to do so.

The story is not suppose to hand this to you word by word! You're supposed to make an effort to understand it. Yes, to understand every character including and especially Tomura Shigaraki.

I can't state this enough, but if you don't understand it now that I've explained it at length, better treat this manga as just another fighting story. Don't try to analyze the message blatantly ignoring what Tomura Shigaraki as an unreliable narrator means to it.

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Time to point out that the Twice speech in the anime is a perfect mirror of Uraraka's speech under the rain at UA.

Twice said he just wanted to protect everyone's happiness.

Uraraka said she wanted to see everyone smiling again.

But Uraraka's speech comes to her after talking to Toga, after the recriminations of how heroes don't care about villains, how they'd refuse to help the one out and down. And at the same time, the first to say those words was Twice, who go his reaffirmation when Dabi told him it was not his fault that heroes don't care.

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The future the UA kids are defending right now, it's a future that came from the League of Villains. The League really pressured them to understand what was wrong with the hero society and you know what? No one knows it. No one knows all the ways the League has rectified the heroes, no one knows the sacrifices they've made. It doesn't erase their fault or crimes or how much they've kill and destroy, but it'd be equally unfair to give all the glory to the heroes.

There's a reason to the contrast between the League and the UA, it's just that most fans are willing to ignore it all.

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So apologies if I missed a post regarding this, but what your thoughts on the canon LOV regarding “found family?” Especially in the newer chapters, I’ve seen meta writers different pov’s of how they are a found family, or that they were never one (I think you may know some of them lol.) I know you do many head canons of them being one which I absolutely love reading. The way I see it is in a sense they could be one, but obviously not a healthy one in a way you would see one normally act. With today’s chapter on Toga’s “love” for the LOV, I’ve seen opinions of how that solidified their disconnect, but they also say they cared for each other in the first place. Which I agree, but in a way I find they do have some form of “care” for each other, but since they are all so mentally unstable right now, they can’t really help each other out since they need someone to help themselves first, hence the kids they are paralleled to (if that makes sense?) But I feel it doesn’t take away the fact that they are friends in a way. I would love to see the LOV at the end of the manga be together again, but build a healthy friendship together and truly start to understand each other, because it is Toga’s turmoil right now in this new chapter even though she does care for them. I guess looking back at what I wrote it isn’t a “found family” perspective I’m viewing, but just friends that are to broken to see each other until they are healed. But anyway, what are your thoughts on the topic and new chapter?

I'm currently not in the best condition to be riding this meta, since my right hand is broken and the cast doesn't allow me to properly cry like I wish I could. I'll try to do my best with the voice to text function of my phone board, so please forgive me for whatever crazy mistakes or misspells I'm about to make.

First of all, I think the complications come from what every person believes is the definition of a "found family".

For me the trope doesn't have to be pure or be innocent, you know? A found family is not the "healthiest" version of a family. What it means for me, it's a group of people you decide to stick with because you feel you belong with them. You feel better with them, you decide to take their side for wherever reason instead of your biological family or whatever. In turn, those people's welcome you in. They give you a place among them, they treat you like you're one of them and they value you.

I don't know when along the line people decide found families were only for heroes and "stable" people characteres? And honestly doesn't make sense. Found families started with the weirdos, the outcasts, the ones who didn't belong or felt like rejected by society. It was for the ones who were deemed dangerous, even. For me it is more a villain/anti-heroes trope on its roots.

Important addition: having a found family doesn't erase the importance of the biological family. It's not a game of one or the other, okay?

So, what that being said, let me deep dive in the complex dynamic of the League of Villains and why they are my favorite bnha group <3

There are different levels of affection.

That's a fact.

Among the big kinds, there's romantic affection, platonic affection for your close friends, familial affection, etc. There are the little specifics, like the affection you may have for your pets or for your belongings, or for your favorite movies or foods, that affection you may have for your teachers or for your neighbors... I think you get me.

Toga's struggle comes from not knowing the difference between the affections she feels. She doesn understand the variations in her dinamics with different numbers of the League of Villains and even with different heroes. Of course you can argue that she grew up with her biological family and with her classmate and friends— so she must know, right? I will say no, because her love is (in her mind) tied with her quick. We know she pretty much repressed her quick for all her childhood and for half of her teenage years, until she ran away.

She knows when she's not feeling affection but does she understand that not all her love is the same?

This chapter tell us that she wants to feel as strongly with Tomura and Dabi as she fell with Twice. She was hoping for it, she was upset when she couldn't use the quirks, she's crying because of that. There's definitely affection there. Even when the member's of the LoV weren't mentally stable or good relationships of any type, there's manga evidence that they care for each other. The went out of their way to do stuff for each other that wasn't really justified even if they tried to lie about their intentions.

I've said before that Spinner is the best example, but he's far from being the only one.

The manga paralleled Overhaul and Tomura in the way they treated their subordinates. Overhaul did not care, they were sacrifices to be made for him to achieve his goal. Tomura took it personal, as the League did. Compress and Tomura reacted immediately after Magne died, not just in their defense, something Tomura confirmed when he told Overhaul Magne lost wasn't the equivalent of one of Overhaul's dead men, she was worth so much more. Toga threatened Tomura when she thought he'd treat them like Overhaul treated his people. Jin and Toga want to take revenge on Magne's behalf and corrected Overhaul when he misgendered Magne on purpose or because he really didn't care. Tomura and Compress cut both his arms for it. Every member of the LoV helped ruin Overhaul.

That's just one arc —not even the arc that solely focus on their dynamic, I must mention.

I want you to think about how many mangas create a whole arc to explore the dynamic of the group of villains. An arc just for them, because the heroes has nothing to do with the arc!

My Villain Academia aims to get the readers and watchers to be more invested, more emotionally involved in the dynamic of this group of villains. Direct parallel to class 1A and Deku, to the plus ultra value, to the origin story explanation of the MCs. Twice overcame his greatest trauma to save Toga. Toga was fighting following Tomurq's values and that's the arc that made a Spinner is so close emotionally tomorrow. That arc was strategically made to give greater impact to all that'd later happen in the War Arc: Twice's death, Toga's despair, Mr. Compress sacrifice, Dabi's big reveal, Spinner desperation to save Tomura and Tomura losing control of his own body.

I can continue listing every single evidence that Horikoshi wrote the League of Villains to be a very fucked up found family, but I prefer to invite everyone reading this to re-read the manga and try to see for themselves.

So there's affection between the members of the League? There is, canonically. It's not a take, the manga says it itself. Is it enough to make of them a found family? Following my definition, it is.

Most members were rejected/isolated by society. They decided to join the League, they decided to stay with them, they sacrificed themselves to save their teammates... So listen carefully: the League was a pit of Insanity, but the only member who actively purposely tried to harm his partners was Dabi. Threats were a common thing, yes, but only one person went as far as to use the League and let one of them died and state he didn't consider himself as part of the whole .

Dabi is a tricky case, since he felt affection but he wouldn't let it get in the way of his revenge or his very suicidal, self-destoying fantasy-plan where he gets to punish his father and at some extent himself to death. Seriously, with how similar is his case to Sasuke from Naruto, I'm not surprised the fandom found a way to misinterpreted his whole character. That's another post, tho.

Like I say, we know the League wanted to be with each other, respected each other in their own way, were willing to protect and cheer and listen to each other... They had alternatives they could— no, would have taken if they wanted to.

It's NOT healthy, they were all making it worse. They actively made each other worse. A fact.

They ruined each other.

And I want people to finally get that love can destroy. Genuine love has no morals, it is not a person taking decisions, it doesn't subscribe to your belief system or culture, it has no agenda of its own. Affection, as a sublevel of love, is just the same. You'd do anything for the people you love and I'd do anything for the people I love and we could kill each other, start a war, whatever, all because we held our love higher than others' love.

Back to square one: Toga's affection and quirk.

Twice was genuinely gentle. It was easy for him to feel affection, to consider someone a friend. That was his downfall with Hawks, both loyal to the end to a group of friends or a cause.

That's not Toga's case. She's emotional, she's selective, she doesn't know how to connect with others after so many years repressing herself. She's desperate to become someone else in the sense she's desperate to connect.

As much as Dabi and Tomura connected with Toga, they weren't that close, were they? Their traumas couldn't allow it. Like you said, they were incapable of moving forward, getting closer. On the other hand, Toga's relationships with Ochako and Twice felt personal.

Twice got past the only thing holding him back, cementeing his friendship with Toga MVA. They were absolute best friends, no doubt.

During the War Arc, Toga and Ochako held a conversation that changed them both forever, a leap in their character progression. But even in the MVA arc, Toga's absolute desperation and desire to more like Ochako drove her to achieve a new quirk level.

The League is Toga's found family. Look back at the War Arc and how they worried about her. Look at how Tomura has treated her through the manga, at Dabi cheering her up and burning her old house. That's more than anyone ever did for her, as fucked up as it is. They care about her.

However, they've reach their limit.

There's no much they can improve in their current state. There's not getting closer, not evolving in their dynamic. In the villain path, the only thing left to do is die for each other.

Enter the heroes and redemption, in the sense they all need to heal if they want to ever continue their relationship.

Now, I believe Tsuyu's theory is roughly explained. "Not enough love" could be simply "not enough intimacy / not as personal as it could be". As a demiaro-demiace, I personally hate when people express love differences in terms of more/less. I don't believe in best friends, don't believe that romantic involvement means "being more than friends", etc. It's stupid for me.

I'm not looking forward to the discourse this will generate. The LoV dynamic is my favorite 'cause it's messy and complex and has many layers and grey areas. I don't enjoy when people erase those facts so it'd match their opinions.

Still, I hope this answers your post? This took me way to long to write with one hand and the voice to text function. Sending you all my love and thanks for sending me this!!!!

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Endeavor character study :

Endeavor might not be a good person but I think it's very interesting what he brings to the story as a character.

You have a man who is obsessed with a dream, not very different from the men we see and know in real life. He's obsessed with being successful in his profession, to the point he carefully arranges his life around it.

He marriages a woman who can further his career by providing him with talented kids. In return, he helps her family regain their status. Rei and Enji's marriage is a story of details, of micro aggresions, of a business deal and flowers and later on, abuse so intense you end up losing yourself to it.

Enji gets a traditional home that reflects on his tradicional values, contrary to the American like identity of All Might.

He attended UA on his student years, the most prestigious hero academy around. He is not a rich boy of golden cradle, but he works for his money and for his reputation as a pro-hero.

The doctor tells him the risks of seeking a perfect child the way he is doing, by purposely mixing his fire quirk with Rei's ice quirk. He ignores it 'cause at this point in time, he's not worried about loving and caring for the health of the wife he practically bought, nor is he worried about the health of his future children. He has only one goal in mind and that is to become the best, better than All Might.

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From down there, it goes predictably.

He teaches his obsession to his first born, who happens to get all the consequences that the doctor told Enji about. That obsession leads the kid to killing himself by accident, but Enji was too busy with his hero job to do something serious about it or even take the time to understand it.

His second and third children are pushed aside because they have only the ice quirk, instead of both. They are practically isolated. They lost their older sibling and now been separated from his younger sibling and his dad won't even pay them attention. They are, in other words, failures to him

And his youngest is everything Enji wanted and was looking for. Still, Enji is so lost on his mind and big goal that he starts abusing Rei to the point she burns her son by accident, because she thought he was Enji. The kid was isolated from his mom then and there too, staying with his very abusive and insane dad, training since he was a toddler to be perfect. What Enji truly got was his wish, but Shoto hated him. The kid could be the number one hero, but Enji had destroyed him and his family in the process.

Enji ends up alone, with no relationship to any member of his family.

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Through the manga, we know him as a bad man, someone who is pushing Shoto to a braking point. Later we get to know him as the second pro-hero on Japan's ranking, the first after All Might retires. It doesn't make Enji happy at all, surpassing him because All Might couldn't fight anymore.

With the responsibility of the first spot, we see him growing as a person. He acknowledges some of his mistakes, he gets to work with Shouto and his friends, he gets the addition of Hawks and he becomes more human as a character. He's no longer one-dimensional with his hero obsession, now he has kids (barely) and partners in the hero profession. He gets fans, he corrects some of his way, we all know the drill.

That, of course, until Touya returns right when he was repenting a little.

With his biggest mistake back, Enji is paralyzed. He had faced the consequences of the decisions he took that lead to Touya's death, but he did it in a time he mourned probably, but didn't —couldn't understand what he had done. He was blind.

Facing Touya, he's forced to realize death was not the worst case scenario. His son is alive and he's the villain that almost got one of his interns dead. He's part of the most evil villain group and he is, more than anything, his son. The flames, the rage, the obsession. Enji doesn't comprehends yet, but after the War, he cries (finally) and remembers all that happened. It's a minuscule starting point.

He moves on to try and make things better by helping Izuku, but he lies to Shoto again and he once more puts his hero job first. Now, he's kinda a sorry ass of a man, defeated, lonely, he has lost.

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And Dabi, like always, arrives perfectly on time to confront his father.

This is what leads to Endeavor's fight with AFO and the current situation, where Enji has admitted he is guilty and needs to make himself responsible for all his actions and life choices. No other than AFO himself let's him know of how much he had fucked up Touya, who is fighting Shouto as they speak. Endeavor then dreams of a future of kids who had become pro-heroes unlike him, of a new generation with better choices. He let's go of his dream and decides to finally start protecting the dreams of others, including his son. He risks his life for it, to the point he's half gone already.

It's not a starting point, not even the middle, more like a realization point of how viscerally wrong he was and how the world is worst because of him. He even kills his younger self in a symbolic panel, acknowledging he was pathetic and abusive.

They are both in such bad shape the story doesn't guarantee they can survive their fight/talk. Shoto is there too, but at this point it is between Touya and Enji. Touya is Enji's consequence and no one else can answer for it.

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If Horikoshi goes down the being kept alive road, we could get the resolution of the Touya-Enji plot and maybe both of them alive, healing and going separate ways to deal with their past crimes and body conditions.

If Horikoshi goes down the death road, they could both die maybe together as cause and effect, or maybe apart but after finding closure. Who knows

Maybe only one of them will be allowed a second chance, maybe the other will sacrifice himself to allow it, maybe Hawks will be the one ending like a sacrifice lamb for the sake of the Todorokis.

Either way, it's been a journey for Enji.

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How is All Might part of the corruption of Hero Society?

Do you know the road to hell is paved with good intentions?

Listen, I'm gonna start investing terms here in order to explain this better but there's active and passive corruption.

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One is about actively knowing and participating on it, by one or other way. Some examples are Lady Nagant, the Hero Commission, Endeavor, Hawks, etc etc. They do something they know they shouldn't do because it's bad, like killing people who has done nothing yet in the name of justice or crossbreeding to get the perfect child.

The other is the passive type, that means you are doing something wrong but you're not exactly aware, or you have all the best intentions but what you're doing is harmful, or you did that all your life because society convinced you it was good, but you haven't realize how fucked up it was until you saw it in someone else or someone else pointed it out for you.

Passive corruption is about being ignorant, naive, even highly traumatized or brainwashed. It's very dangerous, can happen to even the smartest and can occur in masses.

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All Might's corruption is passive.

With the spot of the strongest hero comes the responsibility of the role. His image determined a lot of aspects of the hero society and he as an icon, a celebrity, was used in many ways that are not exactly innocent. When Tomura gives his first speech at the UA attack, he talks about this.

All Might became the symbol of commodity, of the indifference of the general public too. He was so strong, the hero society got lazy. It was said in the canon, don't look at me. His presence was very good for many reasons, but it was also a decisive factor of the ideal of a hero changing.

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When it comes to his actions, one of the clearest examples comes from his mentorship with Deku. All Might (the figure) endorsed the tendency to self-sacrificing among the pro-heroes. It might be epic for the narrative, but it is deeply harmful as a practice.

Aizawa and Recover Girl corrected that on Deku, who later helped the kids from his class with it.

If you died, it's over not for you but also for all the people who loves you, all the people you need to protect, all the people you can saved. Putting yourself in harms ways can be tempting, but a hero shouldn't go down that road. The 1-A class reminded Deku of that when they went to rescue him on his rogue era, after the War. You are not alone and you have a responsibility to fulfill. No dying on the job if you can avoid it.

It's not directly All Might's fault. He was told that he needed to put himself as a shield to protect society from AFO, the way Nana Shimura did.

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And speaking of Nana Shimura, her lesson of smiling because everything will be fine it's very cute, but taken to the extreme can be dangerous. Sadly, the concept got corrupted on the process and ended up helping to dehumanize the heroes. They are human too, they need saving too, they cry and get angry too. The shiny perfect image along with the entertaining quirk became the stereotype of pro-hero and people with less attractive visuals and spooky quirks suffered because of it.

You can argue that I shouldn't blame All Might for all of it, but I can argue back that you can be part of the problem against your knowledge or will.

The difference is that All Might corrects his ways through the manga.

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I love love love how Plus Ultra for Deku goes hand in hand with him learning to protect himself.

It was said by Aizawa and Recovery Girl, how a hero couldn't be that self-destructive because it'd end badly. It was emphasized after the War arc, when Deku got saved by his friends and they got mad about him leaving them behind. It is a constant even now on the current arc, with the Vestiges helping him stay focused and reminding him he can't just go all out and sacrifice himself.

If you die, it's game over. You can't help anyone else, can't rescue others, can't contribute to a happier society.

Even from the first chapter, when Bakugo told him to kill himself and All Might rejected him, something in Deku knew it was not the solution. Giving up wouldn't help, it'd mean nothing.

But moving forward and beyond, learning more about his own abilities and trusting himself, that'd do it.

Who else would have saved Bakugo if not him?

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It's a little dumb how many people forget the importance of Uraraka for the manga and how much she means to Deku, specially.

The first person who believed in Deku without having a reason to was her.

Not Inko or All Might or Bakugo or Iida, who first doubted him and then apologized for it.

But Ochako, who saw an stranger falling and immediately went to caught him, who said "let's do our best!" and who gave him the meaning of his hero name. Because yes, Deku as a hero came to full life with Uraraka.

Bakugou gave him the impulse, Inko gave him the suit, All Might gave him the quirk, but the person who gave meaning to what Deku meant, to his hero name, the person who shaped his hero identity, it was Uraraka.

The first interactions of Ochako and Deku were catching each other when falling and saving each other from danger. Actually there's nothing Deku gives Ochako that Ochako hasn't given back!

And this is not just Ochako being used to further Deku's narrative, hell. This is Ochako being an inspiration to Deku as in Ochako being an inspiration to one of the greatest heroes in the world. This is the power Ochako have over people when it comes to inspiring them to fight more, do more, do better, give all they have.

Let me explain better: Midoriya is suppose to represent the common people, right? The quirkless, the discrimanted ones, the people who shouldn't be able to become heroes, the underestimated, etc.

The first thing we saw Ochako doing in the manga was inspired Deku and her peak point, at leats until now, was after the UA kids rescued Deku from almost dying in mob, when Ochako floated above UA and gave her speech to the public, convincing everyone to believe it heroes but also that the heroes were people too, people who needed to be saved, who needed support.

Being a hero is not just about fighting. We saw it in the Hero License arc. It is also about making people feel safe, controlling the situation, being able to keep things calm to have the time and figure out how to solve the problem. Ochako is an outstanding rescue hero because she not only is able to do all of that with the public, but also she allows her colleagues and friends to perform at maximum too.

Ochako brings support to all her friends and that's nothing to laugh at. While most of her friends are more passionate and have more wild responses when in danger, Ochako is able to keep her cool and analyze what she must do. Her quick and well thought responses are the reason why she could mitigate the wave of violence and hatred of the civilians outside of UA, something no other pro-hero was able to do, even with years of experience.

So to minimize her importance for the manga and how much she has grown as a hero? Yeah, that'd definitely a stupid choice.

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You know bnha is really wrapping all lose ends and getting ready to close the story when you get both Enji's redemption arc and Bakugou's redemption arc back to back.

— First element : recognition.

What I did was wrong. I was a (partially) a bad person. I shouldn't have done it. I did it for awful reasons. I have to deal with the consequences of my own actions and improve my mental health. Also I have to make up for all the hurt I caused.

This is the beginning of everything. Be recognizing how vulnerable they are, how wrong they've been, the characters can change their behaviors or starting walking towards the path to redemption.

— Second element : actions.

Both Endeavor and Bakugou took the protecting role, facing the enemy face to face. They know they can't demand people to forgive them or forget, but they can actively help other instead of being an obstacle. Right now we have both Bakugo and Enji giving all they have in a fight. Bonus because they are holding themselves accountable and yet they don't have a victim complex. Endeavor is not making himself a martyr right now, he doesn't want to die. Neither Bakugo. They are not the center of their narratives anymore. They are part of it, but not the center.

— Third element : purpose.

Bakugo and Enji know why their purposes were wrong, or at least they started to get it. Here both of them arw genuinely trying to help. It is personal, but I because they are enraged and fired up, but they are also thinking about others. They are not thinking "I need to be the number one". They are at war, members of a team, playing their roles. The main character complex is over. See how they speak about others, how they are more aware now of their surroundings and the people in their lives.

— Fourth element : self knowledge.

They know who they are now. They know who they were and who they want to be. People can't plant ideas in their heads or confuse them anymore, not like before. In being more sure in themselves now they have better control over their actions and that is why their quirks have reached incredible levels. They are in control of the situation, the more they can. They are not trying to control everything at the same time, just doing what they know they can do.

They have matured now, which proves the story is getting ready to present to us the big finale.

#Shan's bnha rants #Shan's mha rants #Shan's mha meta #Shan's bnha meta #bnha #mha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #Bnha 358 #Bnha 357 #Mha 358 #Mha 357 #Endeavor #Enji Todoroki #bakugo katsuki #Bakugou katsuki

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