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You know what the moment it was revealed Izuku was left with the embers back in 424, I knew he was going to become Horikoshi's previous protagonist from 2008... Jack Midoriya.

I'm sure almost everyone has heard of Jack Midoriya, right?

Well, guess what, you are today!

Let me just point out something that I noticed when it comes to Horikoshi and his concepts and characters. Some of the characters are characters from his previous works and maybe he has used a certain concept before. Izuku Midoriya and his story is no different. It's been told before but in a different flavor.

(I kid you not that every time I think I'm done finding every character and concept Horikoshi has used before, I'm not done. I'll probably make a post of a list!)

For those who don't know, Horikoshi had an one-shot manga published back in 2008, which is 16 years ago, called My Hero. Already seems familiar, doesn't it?

Well, it should be. My Hero Academia is like a more revamped version of that story, just expanded with more added themes and characters and a different setting.

In summary of My Hero, Jack Midoriya is a salesman who wants to be a hero, but due to being anemic and failing his Hero License exam (yes, that exists), he can't become one officially. However, it doesn't stop him from trying! Throughout the story, Jack does still try to be a hero, using the gadgets the company he works for makes. Spoiler alert, by the end of the story, he is recognized as a hero. Especially, by the one person he has looked up, Snipe aka the real Positive, the mantle Jack used during his vigilante run.

Now, how does this may relate to Izuku Midoriya?

Throughout the story, it seemed that a quirk, a good one, is what was needed for someone to be a Hero. Izuku was born Quirkless and his dreams of being a Hero seemed fruitless, nearly shut down when his role model, All Might tells him so. (Which Snipe does to Jack.) However, after trying to save Katsuki, All Might sees that Izuku does have the ambition to be a Hero and Izuku inherits the One For All Quirk from him.

Now I know some of you said that was pointless for him to have a Quirk and then lose if he was going to become a Hero anyways using gadgets.

But, folks, that was it. There is a point. And the point is... it was pointless.

Here's what I'm getting...

One theme I think is often looked over is "be your unapologetic self" and another could be "work with what you have".

Izuku never needed a Quirk to be the best Hero he could be because he already had Heroic qualities, but he did need a Quirk to see that.

One For All was a Quirk that needed to be gone. It was a curse disguised as a blessing. It worked so to challenge Izuku into becoming the Hero he always meant to be. Just as Jack Midoriya did in his story.

Now that Izuku is Quirkless, he now can become that Hero. He still has room to grow and learn from what he did fail at in the past to be better in the future.

It wasn't something he was going to learn overnight just as society isn't going to change overnight.

While MHA has some fantasy elements, just like many other stories before and after, it is a reflection of the real world sometimes. One reality is that it takes a long time to finally understand something.

In real life, it takes people years to understand "Hey, that's not right" or "maybe I should change this about me".

The characters of MHA are no different.

"Society hasn't changed, there's still discrimination, there's still rankings and---"

Well, yeah. Again reflection of the real world.

And just because the changes aren't seen, doesn't mean that they can't happen or that they didn't happen.

The last chapter gave us glimpses of what transpires over the eight years. What if those events have changed? Even not then, what about later?

"What about the talk between Katsuki and Izuku?" Just because we didn't see it, didn't mean it didn't happen. It was revealed Katsuki put in a lot of money for Izuku's Hero equipment, so that's a sign for me that they did talk some more because knowing Katsuki, he wouldn't have just done that unless he knew Izuku would be okay with it somehow.

Hell, they still had two years of high school left together. You're telling me it's impossible that they didn't have a talk?!

Sometimes I feel like some of you decide "this sucks" is because you just don't have the patience to try to decipher the message yourself. You want it handed out to you.

Not me, I want a writer to challenge my imagination because that gets my mind working and really engaged with the story. I might not understand it, but it's not that big of a deal for me. I'll still try to understand and if I never get it, I'll just move on.

Really my overall take from "Izuku being Quirkless again but still a Hero" among other things is that yeah, work with what you have. Just because you receive something that may be a blessing, it will also curse you in some way. The things and changes you want won't happen overnight, it takes time. Izuku was already a Hero, or at least one in the making.

And honestly, Izuku wearing a suit (because he's a teacher) and still being a Hero with gadgets just visually is like a reminder of "I'm not forgetting where I started" from Horikoshi.

It's wholesome in a way that he went back to an earlier work and still used his intended concept for Izuku (he wanted to make him an adult but had to change it to Izuku being a high schooler) of his last chapter. Full circle! My Hero may not be Horikoshi's first work (yes, folks, it's not), but it's familiar.

And I know some of you may not care for my opinion because I'm sure this post made you feel some kind of way (not my intention, but damn it, I'm tired of not expressing how I feel), but I know some of you might.

My overall thought of the finale? It is not as bad as some of you make it out to be. I'm sure there are worse endings out there and it's not like Izuku didn't become a Hero. It's not like Izuku didn't have people by his side because he did.

"But he was lonely." Well, you would, too if you couldn't hang out with your friends. But they're adults now and busy. Izuku is busy, too, he's a teacher.

"But Izuku's feelings!" Cut it because this is the same fandom where some of you don't care how he feels. He cries, it was annoying to you. Oh, but when he was neglecting himself y'all sure was like "yeah so badass".

I see myself in Izuku with how he treats his emotions. He's expressive, but he also tends to keep in his feelings. He even keeps them from us, the audience.

"Eight years it took him to be a Hero again!" Back to my original point. Izuku was always a Hero. You don't have to go out there and fight to be one. You don't need a Quirk to be one.

Overall, I don't hate the ending at all. It have easily been worse.

Sure I would have loved more Miruko, but I'm glad she's alive and some other Heroes didn't get the spotlight like that anyways. She is still a minor character, so I'm not actually upset. 😆

Was there ever an analysis or theory you have read for a fandom you are in and it is really good but some parts of it are inaccurate/incorrect/incomplete etc. but you press "like" on the whole thing anyway instead of spending time reblogging talking about how you mostly agree with them but then list the small ways you add/correct/disagree with them about their post . . .

*inhale* *exhale*

So now its saved in your "likes" and you just see it as a post you mostly agree with but not fully and you just want to take/remove certain parts of that analysis or theory (or mostly just inject some of your thoughts into a reblog, just adding your take, or at least part of it, on the analysis) but you just don't?

If I had done this I would have had a lot more posts on my page.

Maybe I should just so I could voice some of my thoughts on the matter instead of just letting it bounce around in my head.

Don't want to stay complacent anymore in my regrets and make my thoughts known and speak for myself!

What has Ochako Uraraka's character arc been really about.

It was right infront of our eyes this entire time. The true potential of Uraraka's arc!

I have said it many times that Ochako maybe one of the most complex characters of MHA but since her arc never got expanded upon that much, we never had a clear vision of the kind of Hero she was gonna be...

But now, after 350+ chapters we can finally see a clear arc.

Ochako's debut takes place in the 3rd chapter of MHA where she helps Deku from falling on his two feet to falling from literal sky. She saves the hero who saved everyone, already!

And when she realises that Deku for zero points, what does she do? She goes straight to the office and advocates for his sacrifice or if I put it, fighting for the justice.

Yes guys! Even before she realised what she wanted to do, even before she declared that she wanted to be a hero, she was already fighting for rights of other people, she was already protecting those who protect others and after 350+ chapters we realise, this is what Ochako's character arc has been all about!

Even though she stated that she wants to become a hero to support her family, her real Dilemma has been about what's right and what's wrong. And yeah, don't even get me started on that love interest plot point, geez!

Ochako has always been this passive hero admirer in the background. Coming from a small town, a little girl who used to be more happy to see the reactions of the bystanders rather than the hero himself meaning she was always vary of the effect heroes have on the psyche of other people.

So she considers every step she takes, very carefully. Even during the Kamino rescue she was the one to persuade everyone to not go because she thought of what Bakugo would think of this ordeal. She thinks that this is how heroes are supposed to act.

But she doesn't know that passiveness is not always the answer. Sometimes you have to be authoritative and take the command in your own hands which is why it is one of the greatest developments in VH arc as we see that her hesitation is now gone.

The icing on the cake is when she calls back this exact moment while rescuing Deku stating that she's not the same person as before meaning that it was indeed a very important aspect of her character!

Because she thought it was the right thing to do, only to regret later when she realises what happened later and well, this happens again as she fails to save Nighteye and for the first time in forever, she realises that she's already done past doing heroism only for money.

It was the first time she realised the weight, the responsibility heroes have on their shoulders and decides that she's up for it. She will no longer be just a passive bystander anymore.

And then comes the JTA where we see the glimpse of the central idea that her arc has been built upon "Who saves the heroes?"

Ochako is naive.

She's what? A fifteen-year old girl in her highschool or so? It's obvious, she has never faced any real life villains before coming to UA. She has been throught a tough life and money issues but she has never been in the shoes of someone that has been wronged by the society, say Toga.

Instead, despite the poverty her parents actually loved her. Despite their business not going so well, they manage to pay for Ochako's expenses in UA (and Ochako being the nice daughter she is still uses a fliphone). She has friends who always support her in everything and when compared to Toga, it almost looks like a blessing.

Not that it is, because we see how much they are suffering and technically they are not even 2nd years! But from a villain's POV that's not the case, so when Toga looks at Ochako, she envisions Ochako as a hero with perfect life!

Whereas, what Toga gets?

Horrible remarks on her appearance and behaviour? Being told to not be herself? Her parents abandoning her completely? No friends and family. She doesn't even go to school cause she's already a runaway.

All because of what?

Her Quirk?!

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But Ochako being the person she is cannot simply empathize with someone like Toga.

She is surrounded by heroes who inspire her to work hard. Be it her loving parents who are willing to overlook their own profit to make their daughter's dreams come true , or her friends who trust her blind folded or her teachers to support her each step of the way.

From witnessing the horrors of USJ in their mere first week, to when she saw All Might going down on TV to seeing Deku desperately trying to save Eri.

She has seen it all. The plight of a hero who puts on a smile for everyone else's sake. So her first question becomes, "Who saves the heroes?"

She asks this question to herself again as she goes up against the angry mob fighting for Deku, again. Just like in the Entrance exam where Deku saves everyone by demolishing the Zero point robot but sacrificing all of his power to gain some points for himself.

And after 300+ chapters, it's still the same!

The same old Deku fighting desperately for those in need. However, this time around their is no CCTV to record good heroic actions and it's not the fair Jury of UA who knows everything.

Instead, they're up against an ignorant mob who doesn't know what Deku has been through.

Instead the system is angry and seeing him as threat and even now it's upto Ochako who has to do the advocating.

So she rises to the challenge and with everyone's help convinces the angry mob to let Deku stay at UA.

So she's already on her path to becoming a great hero who will fight for the other heroes but

Are heroes the only ones in need?

During her own speech, she realises this question! Are heroes really the only ones in pain?

Nope! Because she remembers Toga was crying.

And that raises her questions as she wonders if she knows Toga Himiko at all? Like I have said before, it's easy for Uraraka to reach out to her fellow heroes because she has been there making Toga her biggest narrative challenge.

She is a simple, practical and naive girl who is surrounded by good people/heroes all around her.

So she takes it upon herself to fight for the rights of everyone she cares about. She's a practical girl who takes her job seriously. She's like they're heroes, they're good people, I'm fighting to protect them and if you're not one of them, get out of my way or I'll take you down right here, right now!

She never even looks outside of her horizons as she doesn't needs to but seeing Toga crying definitely made her question a lot of things...

Despite being naive, she has faced unjust a lot of time, be it when the crowd started booing in her battle against Bakugo or when the mob wasn't letting Deku in UA just for their own selfish reasons.

She has also seen that heroes are not some knight in shining armor and they may not be able to save everyone.

And anyone can be hurt and fighting, not just heroes but villains too.

We don't know, so we can't judge.

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And like principal Nezu said, she's just one step away. One step for the mankind, a giant leap for humanity. He explained that due lack of understanding and intolerance, we are just always one step away as humanity struggles to make progress down it's path.

Issues shift: war and events happening rapidly without letting them catch a break

Voices clash: war happening everywhere

It feels like an impossible journey. Well it really is, considering it took 340+ chapters for Ochako to finally in understand Toga a little better.

But taking the first step is always hard and we know Ochako has already taken that step, in the right direction and now she is carving the path for the other heroes to follow.

Becase Rising at the time like this will lead to the birth of a true hero.

So what kind of Hero is Uravity gonna be?

The kind of hero that will gravitate to reach out to a lost child and fight for it's right to smile in the society!

Not for heroes, not for villains, but fighting for what's right!

I've finally formed a thought that's been bugging me since the spoilers came out.

And that is the Eyes of Afo.

We can responsibly assume, based on Dr. Garaki's words, that Afo has some real (his own) eyes (and voice and smiling face).

And now we can assume that the current eyes - without color and pupil - are not his real eyes.

Earlier I had assumed that they were, of course, a quirk. For disguise, for a more appropriate image of the Demon King. But also don't forget that the Eyes are the mirror of the soul. And the most likely thing is that Afo wouldn't want anyone to look into his soul and know what's going on there. And the role of the Demon King does not imply the presence of a soul.

But then how and when did it happen? Surely we have met these eyes before in chapter 193, the anime version gave us the “red” eye color characteristic of the Villain.

I would like to say that in the early years Afo had a normal human eye with a pupil, but in profile, unfortunately, we can't see whether there is a pupil or not. But since Afo, as the composition then shows us, is among humans - it is logical to assume that the eyes would be pupilless - soulless eyes. Or maybe not; maybe there is a pupil here, but it just merges with the shadow, like Izuku's here, for example.

And based on that, we can already conclude that Afo's familiar eyes are a quirk. And perhaps the sight of real eyes was only available to a select few - Yoichi as his brother, and Doctor Garaki as his personal doctor.

But from the Doctor's words about Afo's real appearance, we can also conclude that Afo hasn't taken his real appearance for a long time. A very long time.

And I daresay that this switch to “permanent villain eyes” was at or about the time of Yoichi's death.

The composition is constructed so that Afo looks up at the Second, and we cannot see whether there is a pupil in his eyes.

However, we are further accentuated precisely by the eye, and we can see irregularities around the edge of the iris - as if the iris ring is subject to some kind of interference. And the eye becomes what we see in Afo's restored face and when Afo takes control of Tomura's consciousness.

And as a result: On the day that Afo is confronted with the Second's death - defying audacity, which is like saying that Afo will never win and get what he wants, (maybe Yoichi had just died before that point - covering his friend from a fatal blow, for example, or Afo realized that OFA's quirk with Yoichi's vestige had already been passed on to another person - which means his last chance to get his brother back was disappearing right before his eyes), Afo and lost the self he was with Yoichi, locked the real him deep in his soul, and he's been smiling ever since. And the smile doesn't reach his eyes.

Something that surprised me was that during the fight that All Might and AFO have after Izuku and his friends rescue Bakugo, at one part during the fight AFO really looks like a hung man. This makes it that the fight is more twisted and terrifying.

AFO really describes the worst part of Japan society because his whole appareance represents the workaholic system (the suit), how it can push you far enought to destroy you (having the same position as someone who hung themselves) and and how japanese society values others only for the role they play in it (AFO's personality and how he values others only for their quirks and how others can be useful to him and once they're no longer useful, he discards them). That freaked me out even more when I saw that.

It's interesting to think that, in some way, Touya is what Zuko would have been if he hadn't had Ursa and Iroh's support and never left the Fire Nation and that Azula is what Shouto would have been if he hadn't had his mother's support and if he hadn't met to Izuku.

If Zuko had stayed in the Fire Nation, and by extension not had the experiences of other people, and had Ursa to love him and Iroh to advise and support him, he would have sought Ozai's recognition to extreme degrees until he injured and nearly killed himself and at the same time he would have wanted to take revenge on his father in the worst possible way for the abuse towards him and his family as Touya did.

If Shouto hadn't met Izuku and hadn't had his mother's support, Shouto would have only seen himself as a tool of is father which would cause him to focus on his personal goal to surpass Endeavor to an obsessive degree that would make Shouto become extremely perfectionist and would have repressed and controlled his emotions an extreme degree to achieve his goal that would make having relationships with others irrelevant and in case he wanted to have relationships with others he wouldn't be able to socialize or express himself with them in a healthy way just like what happened to Azula with her personal goal (be recognized by her father Ozai and unconsciously, by her mother Ursa).

Zuko and Dabi were the failures who wanted their fathers' love and recognition while Azula and Shouto possessed great power and talent that their fathers wanted to make them the perfect tools for them to achieve their ambitions.

Himiko and Eda: Search for Love, Fear of Rejection

Although they may seem different, Eda and Himiko are very similar and here I will explain why:

They both have the flaw of wanting to live a selfish life that benefits them but this stems from the fact that they have tried to fit into a society but have failed because that society rejects them for not fitting into its ridiculously high and idealized standards.

On the one hand Himiko's parents saw their daughter as a monster only because she used her quirk for the first time when she was 4 years old and despite the fact that they scolded her, they never corrected her because if they had really corrected her they would have explained to Toga why she was sucking blood from a dead bird was wrong but instead she was immediately tagged a freak and told to behave normally, repressing her quirk and her emotions.

Remember that children don't know what is good and what is bad unless someone teaches them and her parents never taught Toga that but rather gave up on her calling her a freak. Then when they took her to her quirk advisor they did the same as her parents: they didn't address the problem properly (teaching Himiko about empathy and how to use her quirk properly) and told her that she be repressed and treat her as a monster.

On the other Eda was cursed by Lilith with the Owl Beast and ended up hurting her father by accident. This caused her mother Gwendolyn to despair of getting a definitive cure for Eda but this made Eda believe that there was something wrong with her and see herself as a freak for hurting her father and for not being like the other witches (they are normal because they don't have a curse like her)

and she ran away from home because she felt rejected.

It's true that Gwendolyn loved her daughter while Toga's parents gave up on their daughter but this doesn't take away from the fact that their actions of wanting her daughters to be normal caused both Toga and Eda to see themselves as monsters and made them both believe that others would see them that way because of their conditions (Toga's quirk and Owl Beast curse).

What makes them different is that Himiko kept repressing herself to fit and be accepted in but she reached her breaking point that led her to attack a boy from her school and hurt others because she has internalized what everyone thought about her (that she's a monster that likes suck people's blood and kill them) while Eda was afraid that something similar would happen to her, so she decides not to tell Raine about her curse which leads to their breakup as a result.

The reason Eda didn't have a breaking point like Toga was the fact that she had people who loved her even though her relationships with them became complicated and problematic (Lilith and Raine) and now she has people who love her despite her condition and they taught her to have empathy for others (Luz and King) while Himiko had no one who loved her or anyone who she can tell about how she felt or about her quirk and although she had friends,

both them and their parents didn't love her but they loved the mask that Toga put on 

until she couldn't take it anymore 

and the few people who really love her as she is, 

she loses them in the worst possible way.

This is so bad that Himiko pretends to be the people she admires and Eda does not relate to anyone because they think that if they reveal things about them, the others will reject them.

And this fear of rejection is worsened by the society in which they're because these societies stigmatize them for their physical conditions since these conditions don't allow them to fit in it, in addition to not seeing them as people but denying their humanity and seeing them and they want to use them as if they were a symbol. Hero Society will never approve of someone like Himiko because her quirk isn't flashy, or pretty, or used for direct combat but is like that of a villain and Curious wanted to use Toga as a symbol for for the cause of her organization but denying her autonomy and humanity while Belos uses Eda's curse as a supposed Titan's punishment for those who don't fit in the Coven System, denying Eda's humanity and branding her a monster. This leads them to be constantly running away and hiding because they know that if they're caught they will be killed because they don't see them as people but as monsters that must be eliminated.

Both also have a strong desire to be loved because while Himiko disguises herself as others just to be like them and feel what they feel and that way no one rejects her, Eda simply gave up that desire in the first place.

Eda begins to improve as a person thanks to the positive support of Luz and King and for this she manages to reconcile with her family and with Raine and I think Toga could improve as Eda if the heroes see Himiko's humanity and give her that positive support so that she can change for the better and this is possible because we saw a hint of this with her relationship with Twice and the League as they saw her humanity.

Something that surprised me was that during the fight that All Might and AFO have after Izuku and his friends rescue Bakugo, at one part during the fight AFO really looks like a hung man. This makes it that the fight is more twisted and terrifying.

AFO really describes the worst part of Japan society because his whole appareance represents the workaholic system (the suit), how it can push you far enought to destroy you (having the same position as someone who hung themselves) and and how japanese society values others only for the role they play in it (AFO's personality and how he values others only for their quirks and how others can be useful to him and once they're no longer useful, he discards them). That freaked me out even more when I saw that.

It's interesting to think that, in some way, Touya is what Zuko would have been if he hadn't had Ursa and Iroh's support and never left the Fire Nation and that Azula is what Shouto would have been if he hadn't had his mother's support and if he hadn't met to Izuku.

If Zuko had stayed in the Fire Nation, and by extension not had the experiences of other people, and had Ursa to love him and Iroh to advise and support him, he would have sought Ozai's recognition to extreme degrees until he injured and nearly killed himself and at the same time he would have wanted to take revenge on his father in the worst possible way for the abuse towards him and his family as Touya did.

If Shouto hadn't met Izuku and hadn't had his mother's support, Shouto would have only seen himself as a tool of is father which would cause him to focus on his personal goal to surpass Endeavor to an obsessive degree that would make Shouto become extremely perfectionist and would have repressed and controlled his emotions an extreme degree to achieve his goal that would make having relationships with others irrelevant and in case he wanted to have relationships with others he wouldn't be able to socialize or express himself with them in a healthy way just like what happened to Azula with her personal goal (be recognized by her father Ozai and unconsciously, by her mother Ursa).

Zuko and Dabi were the failures who wanted their fathers' love and recognition while Azula and Shouto possessed great power and talent that their fathers wanted to make them the perfect tools for them to achieve their ambitions.

Himiko and Eda: Search for Love, Fear of Rejection

Although they may seem different, Eda and Himiko are very similar and here I will explain why:

They both have the flaw of wanting to live a selfish life that benefits them but this stems from the fact that they have tried to fit into a society but have failed because that society rejects them for not fitting into its ridiculously high and idealized standards.

On the one hand Himiko's parents saw their daughter as a monster only because she used her quirk for the first time when she was 4 years old and despite the fact that they scolded her, they never corrected her because if they had really corrected her they would have explained to Toga why she was sucking blood from a dead bird was wrong but instead she was immediately tagged a freak and told to behave normally, repressing her quirk and her emotions.

Remember that children don't know what is good and what is bad unless someone teaches them and her parents never taught Toga that but rather gave up on her calling her a freak. Then when they took her to her quirk advisor they did the same as her parents: they didn't address the problem properly (teaching Himiko about empathy and how to use her quirk properly) and told her that she be repressed and treat her as a monster.

On the other Eda was cursed by Lilith with the Owl Beast and ended up hurting her father by accident. This caused her mother Gwendolyn to despair of getting a definitive cure for Eda but this made Eda believe that there was something wrong with her and see herself as a freak for hurting her father and for not being like the other witches (they are normal because they don't have a curse like her)

and she ran away from home because she felt rejected.

It's true that Gwendolyn loved her daughter while Toga's parents gave up on their daughter but this doesn't take away from the fact that their actions of wanting her daughters to be normal caused both Toga and Eda to see themselves as monsters and made them both believe that others would see them that way because of their conditions (Toga's quirk and Owl Beast curse).

What makes them different is that Himiko kept repressing herself to fit and be accepted in but she reached her breaking point that led her to attack a boy from her school and hurt others because she has internalized what everyone thought about her (that she's a monster that likes suck people's blood and kill them) while Eda was afraid that something similar would happen to her, so she decides not to tell Raine about her curse which leads to their breakup as a result.

The reason Eda didn't have a breaking point like Toga was the fact that she had people who loved her even though her relationships with them became complicated and problematic (Lilith and Raine) and now she has people who love her despite her condition and they taught her to have empathy for others (Luz and King) while Himiko had no one who loved her or anyone who she can tell about how she felt or about her quirk and although she had friends,

both them and their parents didn't love her but they loved the mask that Toga put on 

until she couldn't take it anymore 

and the few people who really love her as she is, 

she loses them in the worst possible way.

This is so bad that Himiko pretends to be the people she admires and Eda does not relate to anyone because they think that if they reveal things about them, the others will reject them.

And this fear of rejection is worsened by the society in which they're because these societies stigmatize them for their physical conditions since these conditions don't allow them to fit in it, in addition to not seeing them as people but denying their humanity and seeing them and they want to use them as if they were a symbol. Hero Society will never approve of someone like Himiko because her quirk isn't flashy, or pretty, or used for direct combat but is like that of a villain and Curious wanted to use Toga as a symbol for for the cause of her organization but denying her autonomy and humanity while Belos uses Eda's curse as a supposed Titan's punishment for those who don't fit in the Coven System, denying Eda's humanity and branding her a monster. This leads them to be constantly running away and hiding because they know that if they're caught they will be killed because they don't see them as people but as monsters that must be eliminated.

Both also have a strong desire to be loved because while Himiko disguises herself as others just to be like them and feel what they feel and that way no one rejects her, Eda simply gave up that desire in the first place.

Eda begins to improve as a person thanks to the positive support of Luz and King and for this she manages to reconcile with her family and with Raine and I think Toga could improve as Eda if the heroes see Himiko's humanity and give her that positive support so that she can change for the better and this is possible because we saw a hint of this with her relationship with Twice and the League as they saw her humanity.

Do you remember the incident with the bird?

Many believed that Himiko killed the bird

but in reality the bird was already dead when she found it.

What if, just like the bird, the incident with Saito it was a misunderstanding?

We never see Himiko stab Saito with the cutter, we only see Himiko with the cutter in her hand

so we can assume that she attacked him... or she just found Saito injured on the floor and Himiko just grabbed the cutter already bloody and when he saw the bloody wound, Himiko couldn't hold back any more and took the opportunity to suck Saito's blood.

It must be remembered that Saito was fighting with another classmate,

so said classmate could have been the one who attacked Saito with the cutter and Himiko simply found him already injured on the ground with the already bloody cutter.

Because what we see with Himiko with the cutter is what people think she did

but what actually happened was that Saito was already injured, Himiko only took advantage of the situation to suck his blood.

Do you remember the incident with the bird?

Many believed that Himiko killed the bird

but in reality the bird was already dead when she found it.

What if, just like the bird, the incident with Saito it was a misunderstanding?

We never see Himiko stab Saito with the cutter, we only see Himiko with the cutter in her hand

so we can assume that she attacked him... or she just found Saito injured on the floor and Himiko just grabbed the cutter already bloody and when he saw the bloody wound, Himiko couldn't hold back any more and took the opportunity to suck Saito's blood.

It must be remembered that Saito was fighting with another classmate,

so said classmate could have been the one who attacked Saito with the cutter and Himiko simply found him already injured on the ground with the already bloody cutter.

Because what we see with Himiko with the cutter is what people think she did

but what actually happened was that Saito was already injured, Himiko only took advantage of the situation to suck his blood.

TW: abuse; violence (?)

okay so bnha fans that hate endeavor are mostly kids/teenagers that suffered from psychological and/or physical abuse from their parents and therefore hate enji because they see their fathers or mothers in him. (WHICH IS VALID). In other words ppl hate abusers because they were abused/had experience with abusers. (I’m not saying that every enji hater had a difficult childhood, but like it’s just the majority of people).

And because of that I have a theory that if those people had experience with serial killers, maybe if one of their loved ones were killed in a horrible way, they wouldn’t like dabi that much.

Please, don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to justify endeavor’s or dabi’s actions, but i just kind of wanted to compare them; ppl really think that killing 30+ innocent people simply because your father was abusive is not as bad as abusing your wife and children. Again!! I’m not saying that “endeavor did nothing wrong” or anything like that. I just feel like some people forget about the fact that dabi is a literal serial killer and kidnaps, tortures and murders people for fun and they try to justify his actions by saying “his childhood trauma made him do it” or something like that?? Like, dabi doesn’t seem to be depressed or anything, he pretty much just enjoys killing people and being a villain. Honestly I wouldn’t mind if he just killed enji because in that case at least he had a motive, but killing random innocent people just because you can?

My point is; i feel like enji and dabi are on the same level of doing horrible things. enji ruined five innocent lives and dabi ended at least 30. you either hate both of them or love both of them. it’s kinda hypocritical to love one and hate the other one.

(I’m probably gonna be cancelled for this)

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.

Something something there were others with quirks before The Glowing Baby, but because it was flashy and harmless it made the perfect First Quirk story and that trend of holding up the flashy and “good” quirks of society while shadowing all others has been an issue since the beginning…

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What is your thought on Bakugou redemption arc,do you think it's good,or it's bad writting in some aspects?

Thanks for the question, @birekuden.

There are just to many things to say but anyway, lets start. I will talk about why i dont like the way story portrayed Bakugou in another post, here, i will talk about Deku and Bakugou’s relationship.

Bnha is a story about abuse. In hero society, there is a system that support abuse & violence and many people are victim of this system. Narrative also shows how much wrong it is.

Bakugou is also abuse victim and victim of system, just  like others. Yeah, maybe his mother loves him but still, the way her mother treats him is abuse.

Also the way society treats Bakugou is the reason Bakugou is like this. Bakugou has very toxic mind, it hurts both himself and others.

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