Personally, I Feel Like Maybe Parts Of Dabi Are Fire Proof To A Certain Extent And Thats Why All Of His

“Personally, I feel like maybe parts of Dabi are fire proof to a certain extent and that’s why all of his skin wasn’t burned during the accident. “

This is the exact reasoning my boyfriend brought up for: why do Dabi’s internal organs not burn as well. They technically should, his lungs should be in horrible condition as well as any tissue under the burned skin.

He was 3rd and 4th degree burns, that would mean the flames should have gone to the bones, muscles and tendons and since they found a piece of his jawbone- it did. But only in that one area.

By all accounts Dabi should not be alive in the first place, but if he survived he should have had horrible inner damaged, which he doesn’t. So there is a huge chance that most of his organs or general inner body is actually perfectly fire proof to his blue flames, meaning they are even stronger than Endevours.

Just that his skin isn’t.

That would also mean that Endevour could have probably just gotten him some cooling support items to stop the burning. 

And I’d love the irony that Endevour did have the “perfect child” he wanted, that had stronger flames and a more fireproof body (on the inside) on the first try and was just to occupied with himself to notice.

I remember back in 2016 when I started reading the BNHA manga and Dabi appeared for the first time I thought it was obvious that he was inspired on Frankenstein’s monster. And since we’d already seen the nomus who very clearly were artificially made, it wasn’t far fetched at all that dabi most likely was a revived corpse or something. Dabi having a connection with the doctor has been for years a very popular theory, do you think his body might have been altered? I mean, horikoshi is no medical expert but there’s no way some parts of touya’s skin could have been completely spared. It might be possible that part of his body is not his original, yk what I mean?

Hey there! Ahhh, that is all a possibility! I personally don't see how Dabi being a nomu or having synthetic body parts would add to the story though. In fact, this plot point could be misconstrued and used as reasons why his abuser is being "falsely" accused or "over-accused". As in, it would further invalidate Dabi's trauma because nomu!Dabi isn't really Touya and some could argue that Nomu!Dabi was brainwashed to hate hero society and his father and his childhood "wasn't that bad." And on top of that, Dabi being a nomu or being stitched together with other body parts seems kind of too macabre and horror-ish for the Todoroki family plotline, who have already suffered so much and are still mourning and missing Touya. Also, we already have that exact story line with Kurogiri and Aizawa. As a side note, this is also why I don't know how to feel about Dr. Ujiko having something to do with Dabi. I feel like it would leave an opening for more doubt to be cast on the culpability and responsibility of his abuser.

Personally, I feel like maybe parts of Dabi are fire proof to a certain extent and that's why all of his skin wasn't burned during the accident. BNHA doesn't exactly follow our IRL scientific or medical rules so I don't think the concern is HOW he isn't all burned, but WHY he's burning. I feel like Dabi's new and old burns are a symbolism of how MUCH Dabi was/is suffering and how much self hatred and low self worth he has because of how he was treated by his abuser.

This is really, really  good on a psychological take.

It is extremly common for abuse victims to:

1. still love their abusers, especially if they are blood related. Because of social expectencies children are often told to love their parents no matter what and they pick up on that, so even abused children often have love for their parents, that in no way deserve it. Besides the biological basis that babies need other humans or they die, and then bond to these humans. And little moments that give them hope that their parents love them back, tends to solitify that. And those little moments together with the abusive upbringing also leads to the believe that the abuse is justified (of course it’s not) and sometimes that can lead to overlap with the way they view other abuse victims. So Enji abusing Toya through training, still gave Toya feelings of love, because he interpreted that as love from his father, and wanted more of that training and repectively more love from him.

Wheras Fuyumi and Natuso don’t seem to realize they were abused as well, because they were mostly “just neglected”, unlike their brothers. Shoto only speaks about what Enji did to Rei, not himself either.

Dabi is the only sibling who outright told their father that he is to blame for the abuse their family suffered, no one else.

Big difference between Hakws and Best Jeanist, who are looking elsewhere for the culprit. And Enji trying to shift the blame onto his own abuse victims.

Keigo on the other probably interepreted the Endevour doll as a sign of love from his mother, leading to his idelazation for Endevour, without ever knowing him.

2. go back to similar abusers. You brain has a tendecy to go back to what it knows, even if that is a bad thing and that is extremly hard to overcome. And children who were abused have a high tendecy to not realize that they were abused (Fuymi, Natuso, Shoto are all examples of that) until they are adults, somtimes even way later in live. Mind you Keigo is only 23 and he has been in an unhealthy enviroment since he was born, he just swapped his parents for the hero commission.

Wich Endevour it is of course different. Because Hawks new Endevour the pro hero, but not Enji the father. So his idolization came as a child, meaning Hawks saw Endevour as you said: as am idol father figure, a hero come to rescue, but not the real person behind that idol.

And now that he hears about the real Enji two things happen: first of all, the human brain does not like contridicting information and Enji being a horrible abusive parent for over 20 years is extremly against the picture Hawks has of him. And second: this is as you said something Hawks probably wanted from his father: a change, to become a good parent and have the happy family he wanted.So he jumps to devend Enji as a person. Even though as a parent both Enji and Hawk’s father were horrible and neither of their sons was at fault for this.

I'm going to say a thing that can be seemed... a bit (read: very) controversial by some people. But. Do you think... that maybe. Just perhaps. Keigo, somewhere deep inside, hoped that his own abusive father will 'change'? (I mean, he clearly has some weird views concerning his parents, just remember how he apologised to his mother, even though she absolutely did NOT deserve any apologies) But, well, he didn't. And later he was caught by Endeavor, whom Keigo began to look up to and eventually came to see him as a father figure of sorts. But... now that he knows that Endeavor was also an abusive father himself, but who has 'changed', do you think that maybe that's why Hawks now supports him even more and refuses to critique him? Because now he's literally a dream-version of his own father? Or am I reaching too much into it? upd.: This also might be the reason he doubts Dabi's words so hard and can't see that 'the reason for Dabi's hatred' is standing right next to him. I feel like Hawks believes to some extent that it was his own fault his parents abused him (he's wrong, of course) and he was just a bad son, so admitting that Dabi's creation was entirely Endeavor's fault would mean for Hawks to accept that no, his parents didn't abused and neglected him because he did something wrong and deserved it, they abused and neglected him just because they were pieces of shit and he shouldn't be excusing them.

12 central traits of heroism featuring My Villain Academia

Psychologists have also identified the traits of heroes. Elaine Kinsella and her colleagues have identified 12 central traits of heroism, which consist of:

brave,

[Bravery is the ability to confront something painful or difficult or dangerous without any fear. It’s a quality, not a state of mind; it doesn’t need a cause to awaken it. Someone is brave—full stop.]

moral integrity,

[Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions.]

conviction,

[conviction (kənvɪkʃən ) Word forms: plural convictions 1. countable noun [usu N that] A conviction is a strong belief or opinion. ]

courageous,

[Courage, on the other hand, is the ability to confront something painful or difficult or dangerous despite any fear. It’s not a quality, but a choice; a person feels the fear or pain or danger, but chooses to persevere anyway. Unlike bravery, courage is driven by a cause; the courageous person believes that cause is worth standing up and fighting for, despite all the clear reasons not to. It takes a great effort, because what’s on the other end merits it. ]

self-sacrifice,

[sacrifice of oneself or one's interest for others or for a cause or ideal]

protecting,

[to keep someone or something safe from injury, damage, or loss]

honest,

[ To be honest (= To tell the truth) ]

selfless,

[ concerned more with the needs and wishes of others than with one's own; unselfish. ]

determined,

[ showing the strong desire to follow a particular plan of action ]

saves others,

[1: to stop (someone) from dying or being killed : to rescue (someone) who is in terrible danger 2.informal : to help (someone) in an important way —often used to thank someone for his or her help]

                                                                                                                                                                                            inspiring,

[inspiring(Adjective) Providing inspiration; encouraging; stimulating.]

and helpful.

[adjective giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service]

Anyone else think that Mr. Compress would be a better fit villain for Uraraka than Toga? From what we know he is the great-great-grandson of the peerless thief that stole money from wealthy pro heroes and gave it to civilians and that Atsuhiro himself follows his path of exposing the corruption and injustice of the pro heroes. By the way Oji Harima is still considered one of the worst crimials even though the guy is literally the Robin Hood of BNHA.

- Used to be a magician who was barely scraping along. Is what HK said about Mr. Compress’s past, that is so far (bnha 315) all we have of his past.

And considering his theatrical ways you’d think he was a good magician. 

My guess here would be that he wasn’t allowed to use his quirk (who he definitly has full control over, so no need to persume he’d be a threat to accidentally injure someone) so he was stuck doing card tricks we have in our world or something similar. That lead to him seeing pro heroes getting money for using their quirks, despite doing actual damage even (I mean Mount Lady in a big city, really?), while he had to find ways to live a basic live, because he wasn’t allowed to use his quirk for magic tricks to make a living. Which lead to him persuing his great-great-grandfathers ways of taking money, just more in a Jesse James way of stealing from the rich, but keeping for himself.

Which leads me back to Uraraka.

Her driving focus of becoming a pro hero is to help her family financially, to the point where she skips meals to save money. While her want to become a hero was already there for other reasons, this is her motivation: to keep her family financially secure, because pro heroes make good money.

Besides the fact that Uraraka’s backstory is an early sign of flaws within the hero society it would make her be a perfect antagonist for Atsuhiro Sako, who’s literal lineage is: pro heroes make too much money, while civilians are too poor to live.

On the other hand someone who has control issues with his quirks that lead to others being endangered like Tokoyami would be a better fit for Toga (also Hawks killed Twice, Tokoyami is Hawks student, would make for some amazing conflict).

Kind of fits the narrative though.

Like when Rumi lost her limbs the next cover was her with cool prosthetics like a showcase of “how strong she is”, whereas any of the League Members who lost limbs got prosthetics, but Compress’s arm was acting up during Maschia’s fight, Re-Destro’s legs weren’t strong enough to keep up with his quirk at all times and did Giran even get anything for his fingers?

This is really mimicing of the real live that bnha often does with the celebrity treatment of pro heroes.

So the girls have to have pretty/sexy over functioning costumes, there are billbords everywhere and any pro hero who overcomes something is called a role model and strong for it, or they get away with comitting crimes without any trial.

Just like in real life celebrities get called strong and a role model for basic living, but when a civilian does it, it doesn’t matter or they have to take care of themselves, being in a huge disadvantage. Or when a famous person gets a legal sentence they are usually way lower than those of civilians.

A fighter that does horrible damage to their oponent loses their limbs?

Being a pro hero you’ll get a cool cover with your prosthetics.

Be a villain? You’ll be denied basic human rights, even though you are in no way capable of fighting anymore and not a physical threat to anybody.

This is very mimicing of the real live where the rich, wealthy or famous people get their lives back with a lot more ease even after traumatic experiences, while normal people have their lives destoryed/ made harder or even ended.

And it does give the villains right. They keep losing to this rigged system that they are trying to fight, so they have to push harder and they do. They are not in a place of privilege so any fight they take on, they are at a huge disadvantage from the get go -> See Deika.

Deternat has resources, they start the fight, Giran loses his fingers for not giving up the League, Toga gets blown up, Twice his arms broken, Shigaraki breaks his leg and loses his fingers, but they kept standing up and fighting. Which does really show of their dedication to themselves and gives you great reason to root for them. And because they keep fighting more priveleged people you want them to win and you start rooting for them.

So if they can go up against the Meta Liberation Army with all their resources, they can go up against the society that is activly working against them in all ways.

And on Hawks: keeping his wings is kind of forshaddowing on him getting out of the Twice kill for now. I remember very well the chapter he got burned and everyone was discussing about this being Hakws great turnpoint, but it wasn’t, so far Hawks has no turn point, only deepening his issues, which can be frustrating to read. And his wings are the first sign that nothing really has changed. Or as Dabi put it: he didn’t do enough yet.

The pro heroes still have their ways of getting away with things no one should get away with and so the damage done to society wasn’t enough yet.

But what makes it so frustrating to read for a lot of people is because we see this in our normal lives all the time. We see priveleged people using their  position to help themselves instead of those who could use some help.

I don’t know if this is intentional or not as being part of pro hero society, but it does fit the narrative very well.

That being said: from a writing perspective I’d love for the heroes to have a big impact that really changes them in a way that isn’t fixable because for far (315) we see some slight learning from Deku, which is realistic, but kind of boring to read to be honest, when the villains always have such drastic consequences for their lives in comparison.

(Oh wait, that is a sign of privelege again, to have the time to grow.)

Is anyone else like... a lil bit annoyed by the repeated reversal of consequences for the heroes? When they brought Eri in I was like this is a cool concept but I like that her powers are too unstable to be basically used as an undo button for characters' injuries, but then the Mirio thing happened and there's no guarantee she won't be used that way again, and now apparently Hawks is getting his wings back too. Even stuff like Enji and Jeanist losing lungs feels like a moot point bc they still fight no problem - in fact Jeanist coming back at all sorta feels like another example of the problem.

It kinda feels like only minor characters/side characters/characters whose literal only purpose is to die actually face concrete consequences, especially on the heroes' side.

Idk, maybe Hori's handling of Aizawa will prove me wrong. We'll see.

Imagine if they had children.

You casually walk around and then a shot is fired, the bullet is small, so you don’t see it but then the last thing you see is a boulder right in front of your face.

And 3km away a very well dressed person is making a theatrical bow at your death.

Villains and the arm thing