Kind Of Fits The Narrative Though.

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.

Currently re-reading some bnha stuff and this still hits so bad:

This poor child is so worried for Deku because he knows that being a hero can get you killed, this is just hearbreaking.

my only advice to all the girls out there is to wear weird shit. just do it

“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.

Leaned a slightly different version of 54321:

5 things you can see, 5 things you can hear, 5 things you can feel

Then you 4 things you can see, hear, feel

Going all the way down 3-2-1 until you only say/ think of 1 thing you can see, 1 thing you can hear and 1 thing you can feel.

You can use doubles, you can make noise, you can say everything out loud or just think it and if you can not see anything imagine the things around you and you can touch yourself or put gentle pressure on your body to feel a new feeling.

Anti anxiety.

I am here to remind everyone, that this was in chapter 19 of bnha: