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What’s your guess to the year? Keep in mind that Tiger was born on a leap year and Hawks said that quirks have been around for the past 2 centuries.

Incredibly belated answer on this, but it, uh, turned into a project. Because of course it did. Hope you find the result interesting, anon!

To get started, the Tiger thing is easy to look up, which I did, but does anyone have a citation for this Hawks line?  I feel sure I would have remembered it; it’s exactly the kind of worldbuilding detail my HeroAca chat would have jumped all over.  On the other hand, we might not have heard about it if it was in e.g. the World Heroes’ Mission movie or TUM or something.  (To be clear, if that is the case, I’m probably going to disregard it.  Vigilantes is the only spin-off in my heart, and I certainly value it above the material the anime sees fit to thoughtlessly tack on.)

That aside, I did actually hammer out a timeline for myself back in 2020, in which I set BNHA’s current action (designated as Deku starting UA) as kicking off in 2180, with the glowing baby born somewhere around 1980.  I peppered the time between with significant births, deaths and events, generally giving myself an unofficial “these dates rounded to the nearest five years” sort of leeway.

Back in 2020, however, we hadn’t yet had that Oji Atsuhiro reveal, nor the tidbit about Shinomori being, at eighteen years, the second-longest bearer of One For All.  I’ve been needing to revise for a while now, being something of a pedant about my MLA timeline, so this ask was a good opportunity to revisit it.

Hit the jump to join me on a ~magical number-crunching adventure~!

Note that this is a cleaned-up and formatted version of what started life as me brainstorming and hypothesizing until I arrived at my conclusion.  It has a few detours and cul-de-sacs because I was working it out as I went.  If you just want the TLDR, it’s as follows: 

Having considered all the new evidence, I would put the glowing baby’s birth circa 1985 and Deku’s freshman year in 2139.

    Front-End Dating

Let’s look at the beginning of the timeline first, as it’s the one that involves somewhat more guesswork.  There are a few reference points in looking at the timeframe for the glowing baby, if you’re willing to get unbelievably anal about worldbuilding details Horikoshi may or may not have even thought about.  I am absolutely willing to be that person, so when I first started ironing this all out, there were two hard dates I went looking for right off the bat: the invention of the taser, and the first Japanese publication of Marvel comics.

Point 1: Tasers

The existence of tasers is mentioned in a stray comment during Deku’s dream flashback to All For One and Yoichi: the quirkless man who gains a spike quirk from AFO is mentioned as carrying one for self-defense.  Tasers were invented in 1993, ergo, that scene must have taken place sometime after 1993.

It’s possible—even probable—that the scene could take place significantly after 1993, for two reasons.  First, we don’t know how long it took quirks and the chaos they brought with them to become widespread.  If it took decades for the world to realize what it was dealing with, the taser could have existed for years before the scene in question.  There’s also the matter of the technological crash brought on by quirks.  If said crash took place over an extended period of time during which tasers were still in development, it’s possible that they wouldn’t have been completed until sometime after 1993, taking even longer to reach civilian/black market availability.

Could the advent of quirks have sped up the development of the taser, answering the suddenly widespread demand for a self-defense/less lethal police weapon?  I could see it, but it would be a departure from what we’re told about other technological developments in that period.  it’s also worth noting that the very first taser available for sale, circa 1976, used gunpowder as its propellant, leading to it being classified as a firearm.  It’s therefore unlikely that Japan, with its extremely stringent gun laws, would have had much access to it at all that far back.  The 1993 date refers to the modern, non-firearm electric taser.  1976 is an interesting date, though, as I’ll discuss in the next section.

The taser gives us a starting point.  Assuming that its development wasn’t an aberration in a time of collapsing norms, the OFA scene post-dating it must be likewise post-1993.    

Point 2:  Japanese Publication of Marvel Characters

If you look at the narration about the origin of quirks in Chapter 1, you find a handful of silhouettes, fictional characters who represent the “fantasy” that became “reality.”  Since the narration is delivered by Midoriya, not an omniscient narrator, we can assume that those media properties did exist in-universe and, further, that all of them were viewed as fantastical prior to the advent of quirks.  Therefore, even the newest of those characters must have first publication dates that predate the Advent.

Of the lot of them, the Marvel characters are the newest.(1)  Spider-Man’s first appearance was in 1962; Wolverine’s (if the figure with the sideburns and claws is intended to be Wolverine) in 1974.  Marvel comics were even being localized and published in Japan by the early 70s, which would have begun familiarizing at least some people with those particular “fantasy” characters by that time.  Ergo, quirks must not have come about before the mid-1970s.

Knowing that also helps shore up the taser point by keeping the historical timeline on track up at least through its initial 1976 creation.    

Heretofore Unnumbered Point 3: The Technology Crash

My last consideration when I was originally running the numbers was the developmental crash brought about by the Advent.  Specifically, the world of My Hero Academia generally reflects a modern-ish Japan, so I default to wanting modern technology—and modern social reforms—to still feel modern to the characters.  Thus, the point at which society stopped developing needed to predate the full flush of the Digital Revolution, which really began to hit its stride in the mid-to-late-80s.  It could perhaps be the case that some developments were brand new and subsequently lost along the way, or simply never reached their full potential due to the spreading chaos of mysterious superpowers, but modern digital technology needed to not exist in any widespread form prior to the bottom falling out.

That’s my working window for the start: The glowing baby should be born no earlier than the late 1970s, the world should be recognizing the danger and starting to turn its attention towards the new problem by the late 1980s, slowing the development of other technology, but with total collapse not yet having come about by the early 1990s.

That’s the front end.  Before I get to the back end, let’s look at the middle: How long after the glowing baby’s birth was All For One’s?    

Bridging the Gap

The Shigaraki Brothers & Captain Hero

All For One provides an immediately accessible reference point for the timeline at large.  He’s over a century old, so quirks must be so as well.  However, we can assume that he isn’t past or closing in on two centuries, else that’s how Gran Torino, in talking about him, would have described him.  Whatever AFO’s age is, it needs to be something that’s in keeping with that estimation.

One thing to emphasize here is that we don’t know how long it took quirks to become a widespread, fully acknowledged issue.  If they started appearing all over the world in large numbers within a matter of months, that makes my calculations different than if it took years for enough quirks to surface in enough countries for them to become the subject of widespread panic.

Another thing that’s unclear is whether the brothers are themselves in the first generation—and therefore that they grew up watching the world spiral out of control—or whether quirks had already existed for quite some time before they were born, and they never knew anything but that widespread chaos.

One thing that gives us a lens on those issues is Yoichi’s beloved Captain Hero comic.  While the Captain could be from any number of periods in which that image of an American-style superhero exists, the Demon Lord is a bit more specific.

Particularly in Japanese media, that fantasy Demon Lord (Ma-oh/Maou) archetype was basically invented wholecloth by Dragon Quest, especially Dragon Quest III and its villain Zoma.  DQ3 came out in 1988 and had manga tie-ins in print that same year, therefore we can assume that comics inspired by this type of villain have to post-date 1988.

The Captain Hero comics are also another example of a piece of media described by a character (AFO) as “fantasy” that is now being reflected in “reality.”  Because of that fantasy/reality proviso, we can further assume that heroes as a job class didn’t exist at the time of the manga’s publication—which would make sense, since AFO in the dream flashback highlighted that the world was totally without order, whereas heroes being codified were a sign of the chaos beginning to settle somewhat, so obviously they wouldn’t have existed at the time of the flashback.

This gives us a somewhat limited window.  If the comics can’t predate 1988, but I still want to stick to my guns on the, “Panic about quirks superceded the nascent Digital Revolution,” qualifier, it pretty much dictates that the world was in full-tilt collapse by the end of the 90s.  This also lets me scrape by on my taser window of 1993.

In any case, seeing as Captain Hero depicts a pre-quirk vision of popular J-fantasy, to say the least, the comic’s fairly retro by the time the brothers are talking about it as adults.  I might even go so far as to say that they probably weren’t new-new when the brothers were reading them as kids.  They have the feel of something old, like maybe a collection the brothers’ father owned, or that they bought on the cheap somewhere just to have some meager entertainment in their lives.

Where does all that leave us, then?  I would probably call the Captain Hero comics something that came out in the late 80s/early 90s, some publisher’s attempt to capitalize on Dragon Quest’s popularity and those American superhero comics that had been floating around the edges of the zeitgeist for a decade or so.  They were probably published right in that nebulous period when the glowing baby had been born, and there was growing unease with the mysterious powers popping up around the world, but since there wasn’t yet a mass panic, entertainment companies were still trafficking in a lot of their usual fare; elsewhere, the taser reached mass market readiness.

Then, the bottom dropped out.  Media pivoted to be about what meta-abilities were and what they meant; old-fashioned things like Hero vs. Demon Lord comics plummeted in popularity and wound up in bargain bins(2) or put into storage.  In this fashion, some of them eventually find their way into Yoichi’s hands.  If he or his big brother actually bought them, they’re probably no more than a few years old—say maybe 3-5, which would put Yoichi reading them in the mid-to-late 90s.  If they’re something of Yoichi’s parents’, and AFO and Yoichi were born quite some time after the glowing baby, that could make the comics older, anywhere from a decade (if Dad was still around collecting when the brothers were very young) to closer to 30 or 40 years, if Dad bought them in his own childhood and just held onto them).

For myself, I prefer a read that the collapse was pretty fresh when the brothers were growing up, and some math further down the line in this analysis has led me to the conclusion that AFO and Yoichi were pretty early in the history of quirks, meaning that the collapse had to be pretty rapid in order for both of those things to be true.(3)  That being the case, let’s go with the more conservative read and say those comics were less than a decade old when the brothers picked them up.  That, then, leads to the next part of this analysis: How old are the brothers?    

Back-End Dating

I’d peg AFO as being in his early 30s during the flashback, and Yoichi in his late 20s; I assume that at that point, both of them were still appearing as their natural age,(4) which gives us AFO as 30-something during the events of dream sequence when he forces the quirk on his younger brother—the genesis of One For All.    

One For All’s Age

I’m going to jump around somewhat here, broadly working backwards, but circling around as necessary and tallying as I go.

Bearer 9, Deku

Easy-peasy.  Deku has carried OFA for a year and change—he received it in late February and the manga is currently in late spring/early summer of the following year.

Running tally for age of OFA: 1 year.    

Bearer 8, All Might

All Might has carried OFA for 40-ish years—possibly a few more, but not so many that Yoichi, talking about this in Chapter 304, would be better suited to say, “For over 40 years, Yagi maintained his grip on One For All,” instead of simply, “For 40 years, (...).”  All Might’s in his mid-to-late 50s now; he was still in school when he got it from Nana.  He was possibly in middle school when they first met, judging by his uniform, but presumably he wouldn't have been able to go to UA without it, so he must have had it by the time he started there at 15.  He was clearly seeing himself in Deku, so it wouldn’t surprise me if he was exactly 14 when he met Nana, and 15 when he got OFA just in time for entrance exams.

Running tally for age of OFA: 41 years.    

Bearer 7, Nana

Nana carried it for at least a few years, but we've never been explicitly told which she got first, OFA or her husband and kid.  You can make a good guess if you do the math, though, so here's some math+guessing:

The mothers in the series whose ages we know (the mothers of Deku, Bakugou, Tsuyu and Jirou) all had their first child in their early-to-mid-20s.(5)  Let's assume Nana was the same and put her at, say, 24 when Kotarou was born.  He then died at 32 (having turned so only recently), meaning that, had she survived, she would have been around 56 at the time of his death.  Tacking on the time since the Shimura Massacre using Shigaraki's age, that would put Nana at 72 today.    

All Might, again, got the quirk ~40 years ago; if he was echoing his own experience in the way he raised Deku, he would have been 15 at the time.  That would have made Nana 32—and Kotarou 8—at the time she gave Toshinori OFA.  She was killed when he was 18, his senior year.

Kotarou looks noticeably younger than 8 when we see him as a kid being given up.  He looks much closer to Tenko's ago, or his obvious parallel Kouta's, those ages being 5 and 6 respectively.  So I think we can assume Nana gave up Kotarou at least a few years before giving Toshinori OFA, which would certainly explain her surety, in the letter, that the fight would be the death of her.  If Kotarou was, say, 6, that’d make Nana 30 at the time she gave him up.    

We don't have any further idea how long Nana was carrying OFA herself before the transfer, only that it was less time than Shinomori, and not long enough to start taking a heavy toll on her(6) despite her being several iterations down the line from him.  I would guess it was fewer than 10 years, as 10 would put her at only 22 when receiving it, and I would tend to think that she wouldn't have had a kid if she'd known the full extent of what she was dealing with—she obviously saw the state En was in when he passed it on, after all.    

So, let's assume she'd already been a hero, trained and licensed, and already married with a young son when she came across En and didn't realize the extent of what she was getting herself into.  Some time between Kotarou's birth and turning let's-call-it-6, she takes the quirk, gets the world’s worst wake-up call when her husband is killed, and gives Kotarou up to the state.

Let's say it takes a year or two to realize the full extent of excrement you've stepped in with AFO.  Two years with a mysterious new quirk she got off a dying stranger before the mess led her to give up her son (at 30) would put her at getting the quirk at 28, when Kotarou was 4ish.  If she gave Toshinori the quirk around 32, that means she would have carried OFA around 4 years.

Running tally for age of OFA: 45 years.    

Bearers 6+5, En and Banjou (Take One)

En and Banjo are big question marks.  We have no idea how long they each carried OFA, other than, again, "for less time than Shinomori."  So to start narrowing down a timeframe for them, let me look to something else: heroism in general.

We know that Banjo, two bearers previously to Nana, was a professional hero—Lariat.  Heroism, then, must have existed in his era.    

We don't know specifically how long Pro Heroes have been established in Japan, but we can make at least one educated guess: Harima Oji was active when, quote, "the present system was just beginning to settle into place."  Thus, heroism has been around for the generations following him, as well as some years prior to his own vantage point.  That factoid gives us four generations (his child, grandchild, great-grandchild, and finally his great-great-grandchild, Sako Atsuhiro) plus however many of Harima’s own years heroes have existed for.  

A generation is usually considered around 25 years, which tracks with the known parental ages in the series.  So if the stretch of time between Harima's child's birth to Sako's birth can be estimated to 75 years, plus Mr. Compress's age of 32, that means it's been at least 108 years since Harima's child was born.  We don't know when said child was born relative to his criminal activity—maybe Harima had already become a father by the time he was thieving; maybe the family came later.  Let's just round it to 110 years that we can say with relative confidence included heroes in them.    

Heroes have existed for at least/around 110 years.  Our estimate of OFA's lifespan, meanwhile, currently stands at 45 years.  As noted earlier, it seems pretty apparent that heroes did not exist at the time One For All was first created; AFO’s climb to the top happened in those early chaotic years before the legislation of heroism.  So that leaves us at least 65 years we need to fill between Nana getting OFA and the very first licensed hero, and then an uncertain number of years between that first licensing and OFA’s creation.

Keep that 65-year figure in mind; we’ll be using it going forward.  For now, let's put a pin in En and Banjo and move on.    

Bearer 4, Shinomori

Shinomori is easy.  He carried OFA for 18 years, and says his own times were awful—he must, then, have been much closer to those chaotic years (which would track with Shinomori’s direct successor Banjo saying that the Japan Deku’s sojourning in post-Jakku reminds him of his own time).  18 years off our remaining 65 leaves us with 47 years OFA must have existed such that it at least parallels (and ideally predates) the Hero Institution.

Running tally for age of OFA: 63 years.    

Bearers 2+1, [?] and Yoichi

Skipping Bearer 3, another big mystery, for a moment, if AFO would rather his brother be dead than free, and if AFO wanted to both take back that power and take some really horrible revenge for stealing his brother away, I'd be shocked if Yoichi and Strawberry Bakugou made it as much as a decade between them.  Let's call it a decade for ease of rounding, though, and add 10 years to our tally.

Running tally for age of OFA:  73 years.    

This brings us down to the three bearers we have the least information on: #3, Banjo and En.  We still have 37 years to account for to get us in the ballpark of that Year 1 of Heroism, and more would, again, be welcome, as I assume the first hero didn’t get sworn in on the very eve of OFA’s creation.  (It might be thematic, but it runs you square into Destro and the original MLA, and evidence I’ll go over later would put them later in the timeline.)

Moving on, let’s take a brief aside to consider the vestiges’ appearances.  It might seem likely that none of the early bearers carried OFA for very long, given that they all look the same in the OFA mindscape as they do in the scene where 2nd and 3rd kick down the vault door hiding Yoichi, suggesting they died without having the chance to get significantly, obviously older than they were in that moment.

On the other hand, we don’t know enough about quirk metaphysics to say that the appearance of the vestiges would match their living appearances.  Given that we know there's a certain amount of connection between All Might and his vestige, it could be that the vestiges mirror their living selves' appearances until the end.  We can't really call Vestige Might definitive, though, because he's the only one that isn't a quirk vestige, but rather just an impression of All Might's (literal) personality.

Perhaps, then, the others’ appearances are imprinted when they're first incorporated into One For All and then they just stick that way?  Or is it more about their self-image, the age they tend to think of themselves as being?  Or is it the age that marked the most important part of their lives with OFA?  The lines beneath Nana’s eyes kind of come and go, but they’ve never been consistent enough that I’d call them a definitive sign that the vestiges’ appearances are fluid.

Deku’s fluctuating appearance—both how much he’s covered in mist and even his age, as shown when he talks about how he wants to save the little boy he felt inside Tomura’s rage—would seem to point towards a fluid manifestation, but Deku also can’t be considered definitive because he, like All Might, is both still alive and not appearing in the mindscape via his quirk, because he doesn’t natively have one.

So comparing the bearers’ appearances in flashbacks versus their mindscape selves is a dead-end.  What else do we have?    

Bearer 5, Banjo (Take Two)

I might guess that since All For One seems to have largely lost track of the bearers during Shinomori's time—seeing as he died of "old age," rather than at AFO's hand—it's possible that Banjo had a very good run before AFO caught up to him.  OFA was weaker back then, so the effect it had on Banjo's power levels might not have been so noticeable in a sea of heroes that it jumped out right away, especially with Yoichi's "voice" still being ill-formed.  Banjo's also by far the oldest looking of the lot, give or take Shinomori's difficult-to-measure signs of age.  That being the case, let's give Banjo 15 years—fewer than Shinomori, but long enough to take a good chunk out of our remaining span.

Running tally for age of OFA: 88 years.    

Bearers 6+3, En and [?] (Take Two+A Tweak to Nana’s Numbers)

That takes us down to 22 years to split between En and Mr. Fa Jin to get us to the bare minimum point where heroism would be brand new circa OFA's creation.  It's pretty much a toss-up, how one imagines that going.  My last point of evidence to consider, then, is Banjo’s statement that AFO tried to steal OFA from both him and En, and it didn't work.  They clearly survived to pass on the power, however, and not to anyone under AFO's direct control.  So, is it possible that, by this point, AFO was coming to understand that he couldn't just neatly steal OFA?  That he needed to adjust factors somehow?

That being the case, while I expect he would have tried to keep Banjo and En around (the better to have them available to test out new methods on!), he might not have been in full search-and-destroy mode, because he didn't have a solution yet, so it didn’t really hurt him to let OFA's bearers run about for a while, meaning En could have had a pretty good stretch of time with the power.  Heck, that might even have had an effect on the amount of time Nana had as well!  I estimated two years between getting the power and realizing the extent of her danger, but if AFO was in full cat-playing-with-its-food mode by then, it might well have been longer.

On the other hand, if AFO lost track of Fa Jin-san such that he was able to pass OFA to Shinomori without being detected, it would seem he slipped AFO's net as well, so he could also have had a pretty solid run.

Twenty-two years left, but En—if his appearance is even remotely relevant—is the clear youngest outside of Izuku, and I don’t see him and Banjou having a senpai/kohai relationship if En was a literal child at the time.  So to avoid having to hang too much time on him, let's wick a year or two back to Nana, reflecting that perhaps AFO’s danger was not quite so immediately apparent as I first supposed, and make her OFA run 6 years instead of 4.

Running tally for age of OFA: 90 years.    

That gives us 20 years remaining between En and 3rd that we know need to exist to get them back to even Harima Oji's time.

Let’s go ahead and assume that En was at least 18 when he got the power from Banjou—while we can imagine situations outside of official, professional relationships, Banjou was a hero, and En called him senpai, so the Occam’s Razor explanation is that En was also a licensed hero when they were forming that relationship.  If En was a licensed hero, he’d need to be old enough to be issued that license.  Even if he didn’t go to a hero school—that many years in the past, did hero schools even exist?—I have to think he’d need to be at least 18.  And we see how old he looked at the time of his death: exactly the same way he does in the mindscape.  I’d guess he’s around the same age as e.g. the twenty-somethings in the League, so at best I’d call him 25 at the time of his death, giving him a maximum possible run of 7 years.

That leaves Fa Jin-san 13 years with OFA to meet my scaffolded-out-into-thin-air bare minimum.

Running tally for age of OFA: 110 years.    

So, OFA has to be at least 110 years old to even get the point of its creation back to Harima Oji, and that’s reachable while staying within the bounds of what we know.  I personally still think it’s still a bit on the short side, however.  Again, the OFA dream very much gave the impression that AFO was running around attracting the masses in the full-tilt chaos years, not the ones where the Hero System had already been adopted and was beginning to settle.  So let's bump it back 10 more years—before Harima, and anywhere between that same 10 years to only a few years prior to Destro and the original Meta Liberation Army, depending on how contemporaneous Harima and Destro were.  We can scratch those 10 years together from, for example, stretches of months (like Deku’s three months on top of his base year) that the above analysis is too broad-strokes to cover, as well as granting an extra year or two here and there to bearers whose numbers we can only guess at.

FINAL TALLY FOR AGE OF ONE FOR ALL: 120 years.    

Shigaraki Yoichi and AFO’s Ages (Interim Answer)

Recall that I estimated Yoichi at the time of the dream as being in his late 20s.  Tack that onto our age of OFA, and we get just a bit shy of 150 years from the time of Yoichi's birth to Izuku entering UA.  This would make AFO a few years over 150—over 100, but not so close to 200 that you’d expect Gran Torino to say that instead.    

Putting It Together

I estimated the Captain Hero comics as being from late 80s/early 90s and supposed that they were less than a decade old when Yoichi and AFO first picked them up.  Chapter 333 gives us a quick flashback from AFO to Yoichi reading them; Yoichi in that panel looks less than 10 years old himself.  So let’s ballpark the comic and Yoichi as being around the same age and put their publication and Yoichi’s birth in 1990.  Adding on the previous ballpark of “a bit shy of 150 years” to get from Yoichi’s birth to today, that puts us at “a bit shy of 2140”—or of 2141 for the manga’s current events!

Now we can use Tiger’s age+birthday to settle on a final number.  Tiger’s birthday is, as stated, February 29th—he’s already had his birthday for the year and is currently 32.  If 2141 were exactly correct, that’d put him being born in 2109—not a leap year.  Luckily, the estimation is “a bit shy of 2141,” so let’s bump that birth year back by one to have him being born in the nearest leap year of 2108.  32 years later, he and we find ourselves in…

|| The current year is 2140, with Deku’s first year at UA being 2139. ||    

Going back to the beginning, then, to try and backdate the glowing baby, my suppositions are as follows: 

 •   AFO and Yoichi are from relatively early in the Advent period, within the group of people deemed the first generation.      •   “A generation” can be ballparked to 25 years.      •   Yoichi was born in 1990.  Being of the same generation as the glowing baby means his birth needs to be within 25 years of the baby’s birth.  25 years back from Yoichi’s birth would put us in 1965, which is much too early, so it must be a narrower window.        o We also know All For One is younger than the growing baby, if possibly by very little.  If AFO is 3-5 years older than Yoichi (again, early 30s versus late 20s in the flashback dream), that’d put him being born sometime in 1985 to 1987.        o I don’t want to push the baby’s birth any further than 1985—the collapse being rapid means I need to keep it as close as I can to my taser datum in 1993—but let’s aim for a middle way and call AFO 4 years older than Yoichi, born in 1986.  That puts us with a final analysis of…

|| The glowing baby was born in 1985.  Quirks are 155 years old. ||    

Checking My Math With Doc Ujiko

If AFO is currently 154, then even assuming Ujiko’s Life Force quirk had a retroactive effect, AFO should look in his mid-70s, which he clearly doesn’t.  However, I’ve long figured that AFO had to have been running on a life-extension quirk of some kind even before he met Ujiko.  Even just working with what’s explicit in the manga, he looked more or less the same when he fought All Might as he did when he fought Nana 40 years prior, and more or less the same as that when he created One For All far longer prior still!  A simple “2 years lived=1 year aged quirk” wouldn’t explain that continuity of appearance, and AFO certainly doesn’t seem to suffer from Ujiko’s reduced vitality.

Also, Ujiko is, per Mic, over 120 (thus presumably under 130).  He presented his Paranormal Singularity Theory to the world 70 years ago, during a time when the world was “struggling to end the turmoil and reclaim peace.”  Assuming my numbers are right, 70 years ago would put AFO at 84 years old.  One For All would have been created 50 years prior.  This makes AFO around 30 years older than Ujiko.(7)    

A (New) Finalized Rough Timeline

Note: Years are estimated, favoring five-year increments for ease of calculation.  Most events could be tweaked earlier or later by a year or two.  It does not include the One For All bearers; recall that I wedged in an extra decade to their time, to be distributed in chunks of months or more generous year allotments than my first pass.  Not having specifically divvied out those years, they’re not represented below.

1985:  The glowing baby is born

1986:  The child who will become All For One is born.

1990:  Shigaraki Yoichi is born.

~2015:  The child who will later call himself Garaki Kyudai is born.

2020: One For All is created.

~2032:  Harima Oji’s child is born.

2070:  Soon-to-Be-Garaki Kyudai presents his Paranormal Singularity Theory.

~~~generations pass~~~

2139:  Midoriya Izuku receives One For All; begins first year at UA.

2140:  Manga current events.

...Et voilà!

P.S. If the Hawks line turns out to be in the main canon, I will cry. And then I will do my best to adjust this accordingly.

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1:  Of the ones I could identify, at least.  Others include Superman, Ultra Man, Devilman, Kikkaider, etc.

2:  Entertainingly enough, this would offer a parallel between Yoichi clinging to his reduced-price comics and young Takami Keigo with his clearance-bin Endeavor plush.  Sometimes, it’s not what a thing is, it’s what the thing represents that makes all the difference.

3:  Specifically, I’d initially wanted AFO and Yoichi to be at least in the second full generation, with the collapse happening gradually over the course of the first generation and accelerating into full meltdown as the second generation began to appear.  I would later roughly define a generation as being 25 years, however, and a 25-year gap between the glowing baby and AFO proved to be flatly irreconcilable with the math that came out of backdating One For All and the history of professional heroism.

4:  Since Yoichi was never under the effects of an anti-aging quirk, if AFO already had one back then and Yoichi didn’t, Yoichi would have appeared to be the elder of the two.  That Yoichi still looked younger suggests that, if there was an anti-aging quirk on the table at that time, it was still very new.  More likely, though, AFO simply hadn’t found one yet.

5: In order: 26, 22, 26, and 21.

6:  At worst, she looks to have just started developing lines beneath her eyes, visible in some of the scenes of her towards the very end of her life and not present in her younger days.

7: Ujiko would have been in the vicinity of 55 at the time, and thus physically appearing merely in his upper 20s.  About the same age Yoichi was, way back when…

i'm sorry, PREGNANCY SUBTEXT??

YEAH! There’s tons of pregnancy subtext regarding the lore of OFA and AFO. I think the most obvious one is AFO’s fucked up obsession with his brother and how he believes Yoichi to simply be a “thing”. But also in the nature of Yoichi’s quirk works. It was empty before, but then AFO “filled” it with his own power (or one might even say seed) which he himself described as an action of making Yoichi “his”. of Afo has also called himself the father of OFA (so I wonder who’s the mother 🤔 Hint: It’s Yoichi) In the original Japanese, when it was described that the OFA quirk was beginning to grow and kick in Midoriya, the same kanji was used to refer to when a baby grows and kicks in its’ mother’s stomach.

Also Midoriya being the ninth and final holder, and how long does it take for a child to grow in its mother’s womb? 9 months.

There are also Greek mythology parallels such as with Cronus and Afo. Cronus, who married his sister, Rhea and had a child with her called Zeus, who then defeated his father. One for all being used right now to defeat its “father”. Another parallel is how One For All sucks the life force out of its users, the same way a child sucks the nutrients out of its mother.

Credits go to @helga-grinduil and @aaawunder for finding these parallels, thanks a lot, now this is all I think about for days.

Looking at all of the takes this chapter, and I thought about this Tokyo Ghoul quote that Eto Yoshimura wrote in her book “Dear Kafka”

"That time, so that no one (not even Father) would notice, I secretly rewrote the summary.

What cannot change can only be broken. 

This is so to me, who left behind everything necessary inside the womb."

(There’s also this translation, which I think fits better into what AFO’s character, even if there are only a few words that were changed: “Then I, hidden from everyone (particularly father), stealthily rewrote the outline. Things that cannot be changed, can only be broken. From the view of I, who left all needed things in the womb.”)

And how this quote in a way truly summarizes, especially the last line, the way All for One thinks of himself and a way we, the audience, can view the way he thinks of himself. For example, the first line can be used in reference to how he changed the summary of the comic books him and Yoichi read together, in order to better fit his own wishes and desires. He doesn't accept the fact that Hero had defeated the Villain in the end, and decides to simply stop reading when the villain had won and become the Demon King, hereby rewriting the summary of the book to fit his own needs and desires. (So in that context, it should be "(not even Brother) would notice", but we'll let it slide this time for the sake of coherence) He then tries to LARP that twisted idea and that's how you end up with the current AFO, a man who thinks of himself to be the Demon King of comic books, and does what ever he possibly can to bring that reality of the summary of the comic books he rewrote.

I think the second line of the quote also is an indication of the way AFO thinks. To the core he doesn't believe that people cannot change, evidenced by the way he reacts when Lady Nagant is now fighting on the side of the heroes and when he starts losing to what he defines as a ''bunch of extras". He does not anticipate people to step outside of the lines that he drew around them and when they do go outside of those ideas and change (you know how people do) he throws tantrums and and refuses to acknowledge the fact that each person has their own autonomy and character, far beyond any neat little box he has put them into. And what he cannot change he wants to break. He wanted to break Yoichi by forcefully bestowing a quirk onto him, he wanted to break Tomura by grooming and manipulating him for the majority of his life into believing that he was simply born evil, and he wants to break all of the "extras" such as Stain, Jiro, Hawks, and Bakugou who go against the stereotypes he has placed them into, because to him these people can not change their so called "true nature", and therefore can only be broken.

Lastly, the third line, which I have been waiting impatiently to get to. I think this last line, truly shows the way AFO thinks of himself. In the chapter, All For One is shown to have cannibalized his mother as soon as he was born, and has been described as someone who simply took from others, without any regard, because he thought that anyone who could not give him *something* was useless. One could say that this is an indication of how All For One was evil from his birth, and therefore has no redeeming qualities. BUT this is My Hero Academia, good sir, where everyone is human. While framed in a horror like and grim way, it important to look past that and see the AFO/Yoichi backstory through the lens of BNHA's themes, which are all about humanizing villains and are against dehumanization in general. Imagine being newborn with a dead mother with no source of nutrition, and you have to eat her. You grow up with no one to protect your child self, no name, no sense of identity, no social security net, no one to help you differentiate between right and wrong, you are constantly being hunted for simply existing, and you are responsible for someone who is far weaker than you and have to find ways to protect yourself and him as well. So, of course you are going to grow up twisted, with disturbing ideals and cruel habits. But AFO and a lot of the MHA fandom doesn't see those factors, or refuse to acknowledge them. That's why I think this third line really displays AFO's mindset how he thinks he was evil from the womb. All things necessary to interact and engage with the world in a healthy way, such as the ability to show affection, to be caring, to be understanding, to have the methods of socialization, and have a acceptance of the autonomy of other individuals, and to be able to face and understand you own feelings in general, are abilities that have to be learned, they don't simply come to you in dream at night. But All for One does not think that, rather he refuses to humanize himself, and continues to play the role of the Demon King in the story he is trying to write, forever convinced that he was born like that from his mother's womb.

In summary, I think this quote from Eto Yoshimura really provides insight into the character AFO is and what he thinks of himself. He rewrote the summary of the comic books him and Yoichi read together, he doesn't believe that people can be changed, only be broken into what he wants them to be, and that he truly believes he has been evil from the very beginning, and any kind of "humanlike" trait he could have, was all left behind in his mother's womb.

Men will literally try to create a whole world filled with copies of the brother they view as a “possession” in order to make up for the love and comfort that their dead mother was never able to to them, instead of just going to therapy.

You know, I find it sort of ironic that the same people who were saying that Caleb was disrespecting Horikoshi’s work by mistranslating the Bakugou’s line at the end of chapter 405, are the same people who are kind of doing the same. Katsuki, in fact, does have parallels with AFO and Endeavour. And you know what, Izuku has parallels with Yoichi and Touya. Bakugou was a bad person before, but as he grew and matured he became more aware of the world around him and now he has changed into a better person who wants to be a good hero. Pre-development Bakugou was a direct parallel to AFO because of the way they viewed their society and the people around them. However, post-development Katsuki is a direct parallel to Kudou. That is the beauty of his growth, he was able to mature and just like how Kudou took Yoichi's hand in the vault, Bakugou is able to the do the same with Izuku, by taking his hand in this war and helping him win against the villains. Just because certain characters parrallel each other, does not mean they are those characters, it just means that they have similarities to each other, therefore you can ship them however you want. But, when you blatanly refuse to acknowledge the growth the Katsuki's character had, and thus don't see the amount of care, effort, and work that the author put into paralleling characters to match with each other, than you yourself are disrespecting the authors work.

The LoV + Hawks based on things I’ve heard at Christmas dinners, a Christmas special compilation

Bubaigawara: You look like you wanna go home

Keigo: That’s irrelevant

Keigo: I always want to go home

Dabi: *evil cackling with a fire torch*

Shigaraki: TURN IT OFF

Hawks: THAT FUCKER DOESN’T KNOW HOW

Toga: You ever think about sucking your own di-

Kurogiri: Please watch your language in here

Kurogiri: You can talk about that in the backyard instead

The whole LoV: *most off-tune singing of literally any Christmas carol ever*

AFO: I’m completely fine with heroes

AFO: as long as they mind their own business and stay away from me

Kurogiri: why are you staying here by yourself?

Spinner: *points to heat lamp*

Spinner: Warm.

Hawks: hey guess this, why does Mrs Claus keep checking Mr Claus’ phone?

Dabi: because he’s a hoe hoe hoe

Hawks: you know what, I like yours better

Hawks: the answer was because he always seems to know where the naughty girls are at

Reasons why AFO never could have picked up Hawks…

AFO: Your parents don’t love you. Why don’t you come with me?

Baby Hawks: Suspicious bitch

Why kys when you can kill someone else?

- AFO to Shigaraki at some point, probably

fuck it *domesticates your supervillain*

I absolutely Love the fact that people argue that DFO is impossible, that it would be bad writing for the story and only has superficial evidence. As if edgeshot becoming bakugou heart didn't happen like three chapters ago.

Ik I'm dumb but why is everyone focusing on afo's eye color when we basically got a face reveal

Like his face at least the top half has been covered to the point you can't make out his face kinda but now we kinda can tell how the dude looks like.

like he looks hot but scary hot yk like that one hot boss who could fire you without a thought type beat dumb af and tired so

if I'm wrong or sound stupid please correct meeeee(＠_＠;)

YOOOOOOO

To that one person who wrote the fanfic about AFO being yandere for his brother, I might have judged you too harshly back then. I thought you were a pervert but you were really a prophet. My bad

At least I can say I was always a fun of undercut/side shave Izuku fanart

To that one person who wrote the fanfic about AFO being yandere for his brother, I might have judged you too harshly back then. I thought you were a pervert but you were really a prophet. My bad

*SPOILERS FOR SEASON 6 OF BNHA*

So I thought, in one of the last episodes, in the scene where Uraraka defended Midoriya so people at UA shelter won't throw him out and will accept him. What would happen, if Inko ran out of the crowd to Izuku?

Just imagine: rain, Izuku arrives at UA after all the scene with "I'm sorry Izuku" & the class capturing him, and people shout at him for making UA not a safe place. And then, when Uraraka is ready to jump to the roof.... "THATS MY SON"

Inko runs from the crowd towards all worn out Izuku, hugs him tight with her head on his chest and cries "IZUKU, MT BABY... WHAT HAPPEND TO YOU ? WHY WASNT I THERE TO PROTECT YOU? My poor baby boy..."

She sobs while Izuku just hugs her and breaks into tears himself. Bakugou comes along and pats on her back to try to calm her. I see two outcomes:

1. All the other parents ran to their kids. Mitsuki to Bakugou, Uraraka's parents to her, all the other parents or friends of the heroes and students just make it a hugging and crying mess. And then 2.

Or

2. People understand that this boy, even though he is covered in dirt and blood , looks like a villain, has multiple quirks and is being chased by AFO, is still a normal boy. He has friends, a mother, a life that was stolen from him just like from them and he is trying his best to get it back. He just... Isn't as lucky. Instead of hiding in the shelter with everyone, he tried to save them and risk his life and the happiness of his mother.

Just... Wow

Chisaki theories:

(First of all, if there is something that is not understood in my publication, my apologies 😭 but English is not my first language)

I'm quite excited to know what else is revealed in the manga regarding Chisaki.

And reading various entertaining and tragic theories about my boy's possible past, I thought... what if Chisaki's adoptive father is some kind of relative of All For One? I find AFO's resemblance to Pops and Eri curious. On the other hand, and perhaps more far-fetched, let's not forget the similarity of the horn of the mother of all for one with that of Eri.

There are many particular things around this topic, and I think that maybe Pops is not a bad person, and knowing what AFO did with the orphanages, he dedicated himself to rescuing children and making them part of the shie hassaikai (except for the precepts of death who It was Chisaki who integrated them into his group, and in a certain way imitated that "compassionate" behavior).

Likewise, I think that Pops accepted Chisaki as he was (thoughts and phobias) because of everything he suffered as a child, and also, despite being disturbed when he found out what Chisaki was planning with Eri, he offered him a second chance to meet the right path, but from there we know that Chisaki put him in a coma.

And speaking of which, what is Pops' quirk? I think it's something that was never revealed. Finally, and being my own wish, I hope that Chisaki does not die and has a redemption by doing the right thing 😭🤚

Everybody asking who Izuku’s dad is. What about Aizawa? We also never saw a single image of Aizawa’s parents in the show? Why is the main character more important than Aizawa? So now it’s my turn to do a picture reveal as to his dad.

AFO is Aizawa’s father. My proof?

They spend most of the series in a hospital bed, both have elder doctors on speed dial(recovery girl and Garaki), and they wear life saving equipment around their necks, and people get scared when they smile. This is undeniable genetic, DNA evidence that they are 100% related.

My photographic proof:

See the genetic similarities? Yeah. I thought so.

I don't know what I drew, but something cute. On the right is AFO, and on the left is Shigaraki. ( gray hair because white background, sorry), and I haven't been here for a long time, so.... yeah =_)

The Identity of Deku's Dad

Has anybody else been so hyped after reading the latest chapters of MHA (418-422) because of the hints that the identity of Deku's father will be revealed soon?

In chapter 422, The U.S. president is shown, stating that all American heroes are to come to Japan, so perhaps Deku's father might be on that list of people arriving to help out.

I know there is still the possibility of the reveal being Dad for One, which is an interesting theory in my opinion, but the other chance that it might be an individual who works with heroes or is one of them also seems very intriguing.

It could also be the president himself, given how he is always in the shadows, but I honestly feel there is a slim chance for that to be true.

I can't be certain how Horikoshi will put the puzzle pieces of who Izuku's father is together, but I feel the president panels might be a piece of the puzzle somehow. His face is in the shadows...

...but again so was AFO's face for a long time.

I still feel really strongly about the DFO theory. On one hand I do see how people might be displeased by it, because AFO does insert himself in a lot of characters lives and influences them from the background, but precisely because of that I find him a very interesting and fleshed out character. So desperate for attention and love, even when he has it he doesn't know how to respond to it. He is also quite a charming character, which I feel you would have to be to impress the lovely Inko Midoriya. She is just too amazing, I also feel that he would be drawn to her as well because of that. Or perhaps because she bears resemblance to a certain Shimura? But again, Inko is very different to Nana, as in, she appears much softer as a character than Nana does, and I feel AFO would crave that from a person given that he wasn't taken care of and had to help his brother out and grew up in a very feral state and an incredibly hostile environment for anybody, let alone a child. Even though he does end up using people, I do think that that is because of his defense mechanism and constant living on survival mode affecting him.

AFO is also someone who doesn't want people to know the real him, his weaknesses and inner thoughts, his human side. The memories he does share with Deku and Tomura are only to traumatize them and break them up; in short: they are carefully curated.

If DFO does come into play, I feel that Tomura/Tenko will have a hand in the reveal. Perhaps helping or saving Izuku from within the vestige world? Maybe he will be able to help by seeing Izuku's memories and altering them like Deku did for him, because in the case that does end up happening, Deku will be the one needing a helping hand in coping with the reveal, and who better than the boy who that man was a father figure to as well. And in the end Deku and Tomura could also together "defeat" AFO by seeing his memories and saving the defenseless child he once was.

This is probably overthinking, but I wanted to share my thoughts with you guys. I love trying to guess what will happen and still being surprised by Horikoshi's amazing execution each time. I would love to read what you guys have to say on the topic.

Why I think Dad for One is canon (A long-ass essay)

Just putting my two cents on this theory. I saw someone recently post an analysis and a bunch of proof, and I thought some things were missing/not clear. Just wanted to voice my thoughts before this theory is confirmed or denied.

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Just a warning: I found most of these points while doing research, so some of them are a bit repetitive and not my original ideas; I just wanted to put all the proof in one place. Also spoilers ahead obviously. 

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Part 1: Who is Hisashi Midoriya

·       Inko’s husband

·       Father of Izuku

·       Has a fire breathing quirk

·       Took a work post abroad

That’s literally all we know about him. He is only mentioned in the series once (Chapter/Episode 1), when Inko visits a pediatrician who asks about him, which is how we found out about his fire quirk.

The name “Hisashi” comes from the Japanese phrase “Hisashiburi”, meaning a long time (since the last time) or first in a long time. This could insinuate it’s been a long time since he has seen his family; or, since we know All for One is 150+ years old, the phrase could insinuate he’s been alive for a long time.

I also want to point out the Kanji in this name. Horikoshi likes to sneak in easter eggs or certain hints in the names of the BNHA characters. This is what I found:

The kanji used to write the name “Hisashi”:

·       久: “long time”

·       永: “eternal”

·       尚: “still”

·       彌: “complete”

·       長: “long”

·       寿: “life”

·       昶: “long day”

 It clearly emphasizes the “Long time” part.

I want to point out another aspect in his name, the “Midoriya” part.

There could be 2 possibilities:

1.     Either All for One made up this last name

2.     “Midoriya” is actually Inko’s maiden name she gave him and Izuku

Now I see a lot of people saying it’s common for Japanese men to take their wives last names’, but I don’t see anyone posting proof (from the series) about this. We don’t know how common this is in the BNHA universe; until I came across this:

So we now know this is a common practice in the BNHA universe. It doesn’t seem far fetched that All for One wanted to forget about his past/past family and have a new family. I think him taking the “Midoriya” from Inko was like a new beginning for him. He didn’t want to associate his new family with his criminal activities or his past.

Part 2: The Quirk

Hisashi Midoriya has been confirmed to have a fire breathing quirk.

Now why fire breathing?

I guess its simple and wouldn’t cause too much trouble. He didn’t want anything flashy in case it attracted unwanted attention.

All for One has AT LEAST one fire-based quirk. We see proof of this throughout the series.

In both photos, AFO is using a fire quirk. So we can now confirm he has at least 2.

Bonus point: Notice how AFO never specifically uses fire breathing. This is because he would damage his oxygen mask and respiratory support. He can’t use this quirk. How ironic and well timed is that?

Part 3: His “work” abroad

I heard many people say they think Hisashi works in America, which I think is highly likely.

We know AFO has been overseas. Especially America. In the manga panel above, is an image of the Chrysler Building in New York. Different angles but its clearly the same building. AFO could be sending letters, payments, packages to the Midoriyas from New York; to make it look like he was working a normal job in the US.

Part 4: Izuku and genetics

1.     I want to point out Izuku looks more like his mother then father. We know this because he gets most of his colors and features from his mother. This isn’t really surprising, as we see other main characters, like Shoto Todoroki and Katsuki Bakugo who get most physical features from their mother. Denki and Jiro are other examples.

2.     Izuku does indeed have some resemblance to All for One. Not just in one panel, but SEVERAL. Here are just a few examples:

I don’t see any other person in the same poses as Izuku and AFO. Coincidence? Also, a young AFO bears very strong resemblance to Izuku. I honestly think he cut his hair shorter as he got older.

3.     The x-ray: Let’s assume the x-ray the doctor shows in episode 1 is real. As generations pass and evolve, the extra joint in the pinky toe disappears. It appears to be unnecessary. Let’s assume both Hisashi and Inko are forth generation users. They both would not have this feature. How is it possible that Izuku inherits it? AFO is a first-generation quirk user, it is 100% certain he has this extra joint, therefore passing it onto Izuku.

4.     All for One is very likely to have a quirkless child. More then 80% chance. Quirks back in his time were extremely rare. I know there are many other quirkless people (Melissa, Aoyama, Jiro’s father), but its very rare and unlikely. The quirk gene should be dominant.  You see most of the older generation having more quirkless individuals then the new generation. There is a 20% quirkless population worldwide. Don’t forget that Dr. Ujiko runs several orphanages and hospitals worldwide. There is a chance he helped AFO steal quirks from children or even babies, later making them think they are quirkless, increasing the quirkless population.

5.     Izuku is very plain looking. In chapter 363, we see AFO’s true face. According to BNHA logic and even a lot of fans, he looks very plain, any ordinary guy you might see at a Home Depo on a Sunday. In a world where quirks make a person unique, this is a bit surprising. You see every character has a unique feature connected to their quirk. Both Izuku and AFO are just plain looking characters.

6.     Ever notice how much Izuku gets injured when using OFA? More then he should? Maybe its because his body isn’t evolved enough to be able to handle such evolved quirks (Quirk singularity). If this is true, Izuku being a first-generation user makes sense. AFO’s body cannot handle how strong quirks have gotten, which is why he used Tomura Shigaraki as a vessel. Izuku must have the same body type.

7.     Usually, people who use more then one quirk become brain-dead monsters. That’s why Nomu exist. Izuku has like, what, 7 quirks now from the previous users? How does his body handle all these quirks?

8.     Parallel to Yoichi Shigaraki: Yoichi (AFO’s brother) and Izuku are very similar. They both have a strong sense of justice, strong willpower, both love/want to be heroes, and both are OFA users who were previously quirkless. The series started with AFO and his family and will end with AFO and his family. Family is clearly an important theme, otherwise why give AFO a brother he loves? As Izuku looks like AFO, Tomura looks like Yoichi. Izuku and Shigaraki mirror AFO and his brother.

Part 5: The doctor

These two are the same people. You cannot tell me otherwise.

He goes by many names, so lets just call him Dr. Ujiko. Dr. Ujiko was Izuku’s pediatrician, and the one who diagnosed Izuku quirkless. He is also AFO’s doctor and partner in crime. Now, why take Izuku to this specific doctor? That is a very odd coincidence. According to his wiki page, Dr. Ujiko is famous in the area for being the head of several hospitals and owning several orphanages. Meaning he is an important man. Clearly, many people would want to take their children to him.

We see in chapter 301 Endeavor and his wife visit Dr. Ujiko. We know this because they are in the same building Inko and Izuku were in. Endeavor is an important hero and has a lot of influence, of course because he was desperate for a perfect child, he would only go to the best doctor.

Inko does not seem to have any influence or important backgrounds, how did she get an appointment with such an important man, who is well renowned and has celebrity heroes as his patients?

Hisashi Midoriya of course. He would have enough influence and know the doctor well enough to convince him to diagnose his son. AFO must have told the doctor about his wife and his child, and out of curiosity decided to take Izuku in as a patient. Maybe even agreed and conspired with AFO about the diagnosis.

Bonus point: I notice how Dr. Ujiko asks “What is your husbands quirk?” in the anime and some translations of the manga. A lot of fans say if he knew AFO was Hisashi, why would he ask such a question? AFO has many quirks, he likely does not know what quirk AFO told Inko he had.

Part 6: Parallels with Tomura Shigaraki

It has been confirmed that AFO and Tomura are a dark parallel to All Might and Izuku. Izuku was taken under All Might’s wing, a hero. Tomura was taken by AFO, a villain.

Wouldn’t it make sense, if Tomura’s ancestor was a hero, and Izuku’s ancestor a villain?

I heard a theorist say: “Tomura descends from a hero, while Izuku descends from a villain.”

Its literally a perfect parallel. 

Part 7: AFO vs Izuku

There is almost NO direct interaction between Izuku and All for One.

Back to Kamino, when AFO revealed himself a few minutes before All Might appeared.

All for One KNEW Izuku and his friends were behind that wall. Because his stole Ragdolls quirk: Search.

“Search allows the user to monitor and observe up to a hundred people at a time. This includes knowing their locations and weak points. The individuals being observed are visualized through the Quirk as star-like vestiges and can allow the user to know their location up to even miles away. Search also permanently stores the information gained after its usage”

Why not attack Izuku or kill him and his friends when he had the chance? He has had so many opportunities. He killed all other previous users of OFA, why is Izuku an exception? Especially when, unlike All Might, it’s so easy for someone like AFO to kill Izuku because he has no control over OFA and not on pro-level yet.

When AFO is later arrested, All Might asks if AFO wants to kill Izuku. AFO laughs and doesn’t confirm it. All Might made up that theory himself. AFO’s demeanor changes; it’s like AFO avoids talking about Izuku. For someone who is is very chatty, All for One is awfully quiet here.

Bonus point: One thing I really can’t understand is why AFO talks shit about Izuku in the manga later (Chapter 287 specifically). Calling him “Worthless”, “Weak”, “Unworthy of the power”. He literally makes fun of him in the OFA world. Not something a father would do. However, what if he was just trying to break his spirit? Maybe destroy his self-worth in order to take him in and manipulate him into hating heroes? (lmao poor Izuku his dad is literally talking shit about him. Dad of the year y’all)

Part 8: The Horikoshi interview

In 2018, when asked when Izuku Midoriya’s father will make an appearance, Horikoshi said this: “Deku’s father will be revealed in the future,”

Key word: Revealed

He said REVEALED not introduced.

Meaning we have seen his father; we just don’t know it yet because it hasn’t been revealed.

I believe Horikoshi is a smart man; he clearly thinks before he speaks, and he has been definitely PR trained. Was this a hint? Foreshadowing?

Part 9: Fucking Star Wars

The most common annoying-ass argument that people bring up when it comes to this theory.

In all honesty, its just very cliché and repetitive. I think that’s why BNHA fans are against this theory. Horikoshi would just be plagiarizing Stars Wars at this point.

I also heard arguments like “We already have a Star Wars reveal, the whole Dabi saga and Tomura is Nana’s grandson”.

I think Horikoshi might pull the “I am your father” card as a final homage to the famous franchise. He had taken so many names and ideas from the franchise what will stop his from doing this?

Here are just A FEW examples of him using Star Wars for BNHA (I found these on the internet since I know nothing about Star Wars) :

·       Tatooine Station. A story has to start somewhere.

·       Hosu, Tokyo. A harsh place in both stories.

·       Wookiees. The furriest shopping mall ever!

·       Kamino. Makin’ copies!

·       All for One. Darth Vader doppelganger.

·       Mustafu: Named for Mustafar, the site of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s last battle. 

Its so blatantly obvious the man doesn’t even try to hide it. Literally took the same names. Did the Star Wars creator not sue him for copyright?

Also Parallels to the characters:

·       Deku is Luke

·       All might is Obi-Wan

·       Gran Torino is Yoda

Star Wars story in a nutshell: A teacher figure (All Might), takes in a nobody (Deku) to fight evil, and turns out the evil is his father (AFO).

Horikoshi has taken so much from Star Wars, why would it be surprising that he pulls this? We have had so many plot twists, surprises, and reveals throughout the story. Why wouldn’t he add more shock factor?

Part 10: Extra easter eggs and theories

1.     All for One’s prison number is 1541. The 41 stands for “For One”. What about the 15?

 2.     Tomura and Izuku have similar red shoes. As a child and young adult, AFO gave Tomura the red shoes when he was found under the bridge; could he have bought Izuku the same/similar shoes from the same brand? Maybe an American brand?

3.     In episode 76, when Deku fights against Overhaul, AFO’s theme plays.

4.     There is never any mention of Hisashi Midoriya after chapter/episode 1. Why? Whenever Izuku is in danger/on the verge of a tragedy, he calls for ‘Mom’ and ‘All Might’. Are Hisashi and Izuku not close? Wouldn’t a father overseas call his son or have a relationship with him? (As a university student who’s father has been working overseas for 5+ years I would know) Izuku doesn’t even acknowledge his father, not even in his thoughts. Hisashi has never once visited his family. Is this because of AFO’s injury he can’t see his son or wife?

5.     It makes no sense to introduce a new character so late. As of writing this, we are in the final war arc (chapter 364). 

6.     “Wouldn’t Izuku recognize his fathers voice?” I think this is because Izuku was so young when his father left that he does not remember. Also, AFO uses a breathing mask. His voice is very strained especially after All Might left him disabled; he might have damaged his speech or vocal cords.

7.     Izuku is the only one who was able to talk to the vestiges of the previous OFA users.

8.     I heard a lot of people say “I doubt AFO would want to conceive a child”. How do you y’all know that? We don’t know what his moves are or what he’s thinking. His relationship with Inko and Izuku is either a loving one or an experiment. Who’s to say he doesn’t have other children out there? As long as he’s a man it’s possible. We don’t even know who he is, just that he wants to commit evil. That’s literally his personality.

9.     If Hisashi is clearly an absent figure, why even mention him? Why not say he died or divorced Inko if he’s not that relevant? Unless he’s important in the story later?

10.     The fascination with quirks. I have yet to see anyone other than Izuku mumble and be so fascinated with quirks. Oh wait-

11.     A conveniently ironic tale indeed.