I Have The Urge To Punch A Few Adults

I have the urge to punch a few adults

(and hug all the kids).

bnha chapter 338 - a summary

The more I think about it, the lamer it would be if AFO was just a “bad guy” ™, it doesn’t really fit the dlow of the story either. Sure there are people who’s motives aren’t shows to the reader or understood by Izuku, but if we’re really finally going to a point of: marking people as villains is a bad thing and society needs to change, that should include AFO.

So I propose a solution for the ending of AFOs ark that sets Tenko free of him, but doesn’t make him “just” the worst villain of them all.

AFO is clearly connected to his brother, this is the one thing we know about him on a personal rather than a professional (I want to be the evil overlord) level. There is a clear possessiveness about it and Yoichi is obviously a victim of his brother, but what if Izuku and Tenko worked together to deal with the relationship betwen them and the connection between AFO and OFA. At some point Shigaraki Tomura will have to split from Shigaraki [AFO] again, freeing him from AFO, but that doesn’t solve the issue of AFOs presence. While I absolutly believe Tomura would kill him, I think that Tenko would still want to be a real hero who’s first notion isn’t killing.

Izuku states he became the greatest hero and huge parts of heroism are sacrifice, so what if Izuku just gives up OFA, gives it to Tenko, because Izuku is at the point where he understands, that he wants to save everyone, but he personally can’t save everyone, that there are things he can’t do. So someone else will have to step in. That someone being Tenko.

Now depending on whether or not AFO is currently still in Tenkos body would give different versions of the outcome, but I’d say for practicality they are completly split. And Tenko goes and gives OFA back to AFO, uniting the quirks and the brothers again.

An image of Tenko getting backed up by the pervious users of OFA, especially Yoichi and Nana to hand the quirk over to AFO, knowing that Tomura will kill AFO afterwards.

AFO gets reunited with OFA, the brothers get reunited AFO gets one final moment of what he wanted to give him somewhat peace, but Yoichi doesn’t have to stay with his abusive brother, the other users of OFA don’t have to stay with their killer because Tomura ends it, killing AFO his father figure just like he killed his father. 

This was entirely inspired by this discussion by @haleigh-sloth​ and @mettywiththenotes. Also I want god like Tenko, just complelty overpowered, more than ever with AFO and OFA in one person, even if it’s just for a moment. And it would be fitting if Izuku starts and ends the manga quirkless, because you don’t need a qurik to be a hero.

So I made this into a whole analysis that also gets into the paralell with Hawks, thanks for the inspiration! And while it doesn’t go so much into quirk discrimination, it’s a bit more detailed about Tokoyami’s name and inspiration. Link is tagged if that’s something that interests you =)

I wanted to answer to your addition to my post, but for some reason, it's not working (tumblr is acting up again and a ton of things aren't working, not just with different blogs, it's a mess, so I don't know if it's because of your privacy settings [that would be fine]or because of tumblr [that would not be fine]). So here's a bit about Tokoyami: From what I know crows and ravens have a very positive background in japanese mythology. The so called Yatagarasu (eight-span-crow) s a very positive mythological creature and crows are quiet positivly regarded because they kill rodents. They are seen as cleaners after death, a sign of rebirth and heavenly.

Which is in stark contrast to a lot of western versions where crows are seen rather as a sign of death itself and not what comes after.

Considering bnha plays in Japan Tokoyami would be regarded more positivly in contrast to a western view.

And if you look at general background of the name Tokoyami, the similiarity between Marvel/DC comic characters that HK loves to draw inspiration from, you can see DarkShaddow in a non-satanic light. Venom and Raven are heroic characters with similar problems to Tokoyami and if you look into japanese Folklore and the Enerna and Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, it seem more like a general "night Crow" interpretation.

All in all Tokoyami seems a lot more threatening by a western view than a japanese view.

I still think that Tokoyami suffered from some quirk discrimination while growing up, but because crows have a positive meaning in Japan it would be a lot less than Shoji, Gang Orca or Spinner.

@sethmacenzie Thanks a lot for your reply, that's really interesting to know. Japanese culture is really interesting and complex, it's good to know corvids in general are so positively viewed there (I like these birds a lot too). I do admit that, as a westerner, that's also how I was judging his character, where corvids are popular, but have more negative connotations. It's also true, that it looks like Horikoshi took inspiration from both Raven's and Venom's characters to create Tokoyami (we're not entirely sure of that, but it's a possibility), because their powers are kinda similar (Idk much about Raven, but some people keep comparing Tokoyami, or rather, his quirk Dark Shadow, to her powers, so I guess it must be true). As you said, it's more than probable, that Horikoshi didn't have any real villainous or negative ideas in mind for Tokoyami's character, during his conception, he just wanted a cool, edgy and powerful character, with a bird head, and that's what he did (and again, Tokos head isn't even a corvid, in one of the light novels it's described as a mynah bird). But something I'm still sure of, and it's a headcanon that no one can change my mind about, is that Tokoyami did definitely face some discrimination as a child. Not as much as Shouji and Gang Orca (because it's been canonically confirmed that these 2 were and probably still are, bullied), but Tokoyami must have gone through it too. He looks different his quirk is highly unstable, and reliant on his emotions, which just makes it even more dangerous. I realize, I made a mistake by describing it as "Satanic", because that's definitely not what Hori had in mind while creating him. Thanks for all the cool info anyways, that was really nice to know!

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trying to find a new piece of media to consume like, it has to be new, it has to be familiar, if it stresses me out even a little i will die, i want there to be a specific kind of conflict but i don’t know what kind, i want to be utterly engrossed, i want to watch it in the background, i can’t concentrate, i am hyperfixated, i want to be challenged, i want to be comforted, i want to be disturbed but in a comforting way, maybe i’ll just watch the first three seasons of great british bakeoff again

Slight addition: spousal abuse is illegal in Japan.

I made a whole long af post about what the current (stand April 2021, in contrast to the article from 2019) legal system is based on Japan. (It was an answer to a post, but the links are in there.)

But as stated it absolulty is true, that it doesn’t work. Japan has an insanely high amount of abuse within families that the gouvernment has finally  acknowledged, but so far failed to actually make a system that effectivly protects the victims.

Basically the gouvernment said: yes there is abuse, “yes we now have laws against it” but they never got around to change anything that would actually help the victims.

So spousal abuse and child abuse are illegal, but the Japanese legal system is terrible and people don’t get convicte unless they confess and the police activly psychologically torture people to get confessions, something that would never happen to Enji.

i aint been reading bnha or vigs for the last like ten months what did naomasa do?

muzzle a crying child and say that the child's "crimes" (you know, of being coerced and threatened into complying into being a spy by AFO) constitutes villainy.

with vigs he outright told his own sister to shut up because he was going to call heroes in to deal with PopStep, who had been posessed, as villain, which means siccing Endeavor on a fucking minor. By the way, Enji, of course, lost such control of himself that arc that he technically burnt a bystander alive.