He Can And Does

He can and does

Do you guys think arm dude can glide around like Batman?

Gee, Pops. Who woulda thought adopting a severely traumatized child but never calling him son or even by his own goddamn name, ostracizing him from your "real family" (aka never referring to your daughter as his sister or Eri as his niece, only ever "my daughter" or "my granddaughter") and then raising him in an organization that's built entirely on loyalty, would go the absolute mile to make you happy and gain power to that organization. Who'd'a think it, right? it's definitely not like he's trying to prove himself to you. no not at all, never.

I hate when people say the Heteromorph prejudice was last minute

because remember our introduction to the MHA world was through Midoriya and guess what? he isn't a heteromorph or live in an area where hate against heteromorphs is common

like if you look at his classmates they mostly have mutation quirks, so it makes sense he would be ignorant to heteromorph issues, and even at the beginning of the series you can see hints of it

Spinner getting upset at being dehumanised by Dabi (Ik the caption is wrong)

Shoto calling the police chief a mutt like even everyone around him was surprised

Pony calling shoji a ugly octopus (I remember her being meaner in the anima, but I couldn't find it)

there's definitely more but you get my point that no the Heteromorph prejudice didn't come out of nowhere if you were paying attention

You ever think about how AFO probably has a lot of resource trauma considering his past, like I can't get over the fact that when we see a toddler-ish aged AFO he was noticeably more malnourished than his brother signaling that he probably only ate the bare minimum to survive in order to keep his sickly twin alive.

And I wounder if deep down that caused some subconscious resentment to from in him against Yoichi as they grew up. Like how some siblings who take the protector role in abusive environments can go on to resent the other sibling that they were protecting because 'they had it easier', that could probably explain why when they got older AFO seemed to overcorrect with him treating himself to luxuries whist Yoichi was kept in such poor conditions.

Like he still loved Yoichi and wanted him near him but he might've also resented him for the fact that he wasn't the one who had to constantly fight tooth and nail for them to survive. So, that's probably why he never took Yoichi's love for hero's and being kind seriously since he probably saw it as a result of his brother never having to deal with the 'real world' the way he did so just brushed it off as being naive.

And I just can't get over what that would do to a kid, like imagine a toddler coming to the realization that he has to starve himself in order to prioritize his siblings health. That's got to be traumatizing and I can just imagine AFO working to provide for the both of them even through illness, injuries or whatever because he new he couldn't afford to be sick or truly take a break and relax.

idk man it keeps me up at night.

THEY DID NOOOOO

Still love him tho

I don't think I'm mentally prepared for this face reveal to get animated chat

if studio bones fucks this up ifstg

MiriTama angst