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first meeting

i wonder what he's so hopeful about.

wonder what he's dreaming about? more evil schemes?

A Cycle

Child Abuse is a cycle.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. And just because it’s a cycle doesn’t make it excusable, it just make it more understandable.

Chisaki Kai.

Shown isolated, his (assumed) guardians/parents arguing in the background. With toys, and a couple ‘boy’ decorations on the walls of (what I believe) is his room.

He’s alone, and in a negative environment. (Literally he’s focusing on the old theory that quirks come from a disease instead of playing with his toys)

No ‘real’ positive stimuli. (By real, i mean actual interactions with people that will teach him how to act in the real world, plus show him that he’s actually supposed to talk to people, and physically touch them, and play with toys etc…)

(Kai doesn’t even attempt to look at the adult female and balding male figuresin the background, either he can’t hear (which is unlikely with glass) or he’s just so used to them fighting that he doesn’t pay attention anymore. He just doesn’t care about it anymore because hes so used to it?)

His lack of real stimuli growing up leads exactly to the man we are shown. He has ‘learned’ that touch is bad, that showing emotion is bad, and that all debts must be repaid, regardless of any morals or rules. However, thanks to the Yakuza he was raised in, he’s also become excellent at covering those tracks. At covering up his past and his feelings.

Eri. 6 years old.

She’s given a nice clean room, big bed, 'girly’ decorations on her wall, and brand new toys. (Though, as we know, she doesn’t even know how to smile anymore, let alone 'play’ with anyone or anything.)

(Similar situation to young Kai? You betcha)

Kai is giving her what was given to him, as he barely 'knows’ what children want from a caregiver:

Sweets, and that’ll get her to trust you? Yeah alright, whatever you think big guy.

Shaggy Yakuza member has a point, children don’t come with a manual, you (caregiver) must learn through trail and error what works and what doesn’t for a child, though of course suggestions and guidance from others obviously helps.

Kai, however, isn’t a man who knows what children want. He’s become Overhaul, what happened to him as a child has been pushed aside for his main goal right now, pushing the Yakuza back into the light and rise in infamy once more. Those feelings he once felt as a child have been buried deep, even in the panel where he tells Shaggy Yakuza to give her sweets, he’s cleaning up a quirk destroying bullets inside his hands. He gives a simple answer, and just as he wishes, the conversation is left at that.

Eri’s then shown inside her huge bed, not even bothering to cover herself up, thinking about how different Deku’s touch was from anyone else. The hands of someone who cared… I don’t wanna even know how long she’s gone w/o proper care, even before being left to her grandfather Pops by her hateful mother. She’s says so herself that no one has ever touched her in such a caring way before, no one. Not even her own mother.

Children remember a lot of their life up until they reach about age 6-7, so it makes sense if y'all wanna say thats she’s just forgotten about her mother caring for her or something. But it makes a lot more sense storywise that she’s… Probably never been in a very good place. From her home with her mother who called her a monster to the 'home’ with the Yakuza, she has traded one evil for another against her will. She couldn’t do anything to stop it.

Eri has accepted that though, it’s better to just bear through the pain until it’s over, and then repeat. She’s been told that her quirk destroys things, that she hurts everyone, she’s accepted that she isn’t good anymore. That what Overhaul has in store for her is her only use… Though we know she does still try to escape sometimes, as she does meet Mirio and Deku in that back alley…

Overhaul threatens her with just one simple tug of his glove, and she comes running back. To prevent him from hurting Deku and Mirio. Much like an abusive parent will rug on their belt to remind a child of the spanking they’ll recieve later on, she’s been 'conditioned’ to know that when Overhaul takes his glove off, pain ensues. Pain that she cannot stop. Though she probably felt really good about preventing others from getting hurt, like an sibling who will take the abuse of a parent in place of the other child/ren to prevent them fron getting hurt as well…

Overhaul however, I don’t think, didn’t learn this type of conditioning out of no where. It’s a thing people learn fron example, and as awful as it may sound, weve all been knew that Kai had an awful childhood. If he ended up on the streets, and no one even came looking for him, it’s pretty obvious that his parent/s didn’t care enough about him to really look. (Or I guess you could say that he killed his guardians and that’s how he ended up on the streets? But Nighteye never mentions Kai having any criminal record, so….)

It’s my belief that Chisaki Kai was emotionally neglected, much as we see done to Eri, and that’s what led to his personality as we’ve seen him as a grown up. Though, he does have his moments of blowing up… Much like a child who was never taught how to deal with emotions would. Much like he is that child.

Now let’s talk: Manipulation.

Shaggy man here does it pretty well, telling her that if she tries to run away again/doesn’t listen, that’s she’s gonna cause him to die. That it’ll be her fault. He’s just renforcing the manipulation tactic of, 'just listen and no one else gets hurt’. She should just suffer alone and by herself right? Make it less painful for everyone else around her? Someone as 'destructive’ as her should be grateful that she’s being given such new toys n the such…

Chisaki Kai, a young boy shown to be found on the street, quiet and weak, but he himself has chosen to be found there, or else he would’ve found a place to hide or have run away.

Eri, a young girl thrown into the Yakuza by a mother who didn’t love her. She didn’t have a choice to be found or rescued or anything! That’s ehy she attempts to escape, because unlike Kai, she feels no debt to the Yakuza for taking her in after her mother abandoned her.

Both came from broken families, and both ended up in the Yakuza. Both have 'destructive’ quirks that can actually be used for a lot of a good, aka Overhaul curing people of any and all diseases, and Eri’s ability to heal wounds that woukd otherwise hurt a whole hella lot/even kill at any other time.

Neglect of a child is child abuse.

Physical hitting/spanking/touching a child in a negative way is child abuse.

Both are awful, and both of these two characters have suffered through it.

Chisaki Kai however, wasn’t 'rescued’ (parallel to Shigaraki maybe) by a hero or even heros like Eri was. He was taken in by the Yakuza, the only place he’s ever known as home, and he’ll die for it.

Eri gets a chance to improve and learn to deal with her issues and become a normal young girl. She gets to learn that her quirk can be used for good, she gets to experience smiling, and playing, and having fun and being a child.

Kai didn’t get that chance. And he never well.

While Eri was with him, he repeated what was done to him (plus more)… the cycle continued.

(As always, I’m not saying it’s like 100% of children who were abused becoke child abusers, because there are cases where the exact opposite happens, but it’s very fucking likely for abused children to grow up and become child abusers themselves.)

Think of like… spanking vs no spanking debate. People who spank their children will most definitely say that they were spanked as a child and turned out fine. I’ve never met s single person in all of my life, seven connected families who spanked their child just because they could. They were always spanked as child themselves. Then you look at those who don’t, and it’s almost always because they hated being spanked as a child so thet don’t wanna do that to their own.

Now that that’s out of the way….

It’s really fucking creepy how worried and caring Kai looks/acts when Mirio and Deku meeto him… He’s either learned that over his years at the Yakuza, or it’s something he picked up from his mother long ago and has since become masterful at?

I dunno, my theory/'version’ of his childhood is:

Once his quirk shows up, his father hates it, maybe not his mother at first but eventually she does, and the father leaves at some point with a huge argument. She argues about hos dangerous Kai’s quirk is and what they should do, and Kai’s father leaves because he doesn’t wanna deal with it like a deadbeat dad.

Leaving with the mother carrying the ideal that he could destroy her at any moment, which leads to her neglecting him because she doesn’t wanna get near him. Kai is forced to leave his home shen he begins to starve from his mother’s neglect, and she never looks for him out of our guilt/maybe she even committed suicide, and that’s how Kai ends up on the street?

Anyways, we know Kai is found by a man after he is homeless, and the flashback with Kai as maybe pre-teen age walking with (probably) Pops under a umbrella means that Kai has been with the Yakuza a long time. He cannot remember a caring touch, because he’s never recieved one, just like Eri. He cannot remember touch at all, because his mother never wanted to touch him due to his quirk. Due to Overhaul.

Haha anyways this is big n long and kinda a mess, stay comfy tho.

A small edit of chisaki in its female version 🤭👌

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 😭🤚

Chisakii is backkk 😭😭😭😭☝️☝️

ITS ALIVE!!! AAAAHHHHH I'M HAPPYZZZ AAAAAAAAAA CHISAKI IS BACK AAAAA WAITED 3 YEARS FOR THIS 😭😭😭😭

Ideas to save my child from the well xD

Okay, I was thinking... if they left a vague ending for Chisaki, why not expand it to give him one where he can have his redemption?

Honestly, I have my own idea that I really liked but I have barely developed it Xd, and risking possible criticism... I share it with you but in a good summary :>

Firstly, Chisaki stays in prison for several months, being regularly scolded by his father... Chisaki completely loses his hope and questions everything, and also feels reliving his past traumas of being locked up.

During all this, a heroine and her team (of several) belonging to an agency outside of Japan, become interested in him because of his quirk. Since Chisaki's quirk is multipurpose and quite useful as a counter to the dangerous quirks that several of this agency have.

This heroine visits Chisaki and offers him the opportunity to be on parole, as well as to receive psychiatric treatment and help him in the possibility that Chisaki can activate his quirk without depending on his hands, and therefore recover his arms, taking the risks that the project does not work.

However, unlike Chisaki, this heroine has enough hope that everything will turn out well and that Chisaki can rehabilitate himself and do good for society to compensate for part of his crimes.

And although pops feels this opportunity towards Chisaki is unfair, the latter accepts... and, at first he planned to get his way and escape to plan something with the aim of getting Pops to forgive him, but... little by little he allows himself to be softened by this heroine who shows him patience as hope to move forward... Finally he is convinced and decides to change and truly realize his mistakes...

For the first time, Chisaki feels that he is doing something right... his insecurities, phobias and past traumas are gradually overcome, and although the guilt of his actions prevails, he feels the support of the heroine to do good for the rest of his life, building a strong emotional bond over the years...

We can leave it there, and if the idea is a bit vague, I didn't develop it completely because... I dont know I'm too lazy, but that's the general idea... however, we could add that both stay together in the end 🥺

Silly headcanons I like to think of Chisaki

• From my perspective, if Chisaki had any type of ideal woman, it would be those who have a strong and independent character, likewise I feel that he would have a well-hidden taste for tall and strong women.

• I'm sure Chisaki would be one of those men that when you walk past him you can smell his perfume from meters away (it smells good, but it's also exaggerated).

• He would be the ideal customer to buy a stone as a pet XD except that he would carefully disinfect it before putting it next to his nightstand with some not-so-motivating phrase.

• Has a diary, but more than a diary it looks like a book of complaints.

• Has a very extensive and strict skin care routine.

• On a day at the beach, he will spend the entire day under an umbrella, with dark glasses and a magazine with the latest scientific advances.

• Drinks tea with lemon on a rainy day.

• He likes praise but he doesn't show it.

• If someone turned him into an animal, it would be a toucan or a crow.

• He often wakes up in the early morning with nightmares about his terrible childhood in the orphanage where he was probably experimented on.

• Most of the time the shie hassaikai's kitchen smelled like coffee.

What other headcanons would you add?

(I feel strange being so active here, but well, I'll say goodbye for two months or more, or maybe I'll upload more of something in my sadness for Chisaki)

Only for curiosity

Just out of curiosity, what would it be like to fuse with Chisaki? I mean, not a fusion where he has control, but one where both minds merge and the rest... will it be Steven Universe type? Would it be easy or difficult to defuse? Would thoughts or memories be shared? Would there be any change in each person's psyche after that? many questions... very few answers...

You too...Pops... :"v

Hey, I was researching again, and seeing all his opinions... and bro... Damn, old man! What crossed your mind, thinking that it was okay to leave the care of your granddaughter to a person who still had traumas, unstable and violent tendencies?

Damn, I come from a dysfunctional family and seeing those outbursts in Chisaki... it was so familiar... and obvious at first glance to know that Chisaki was like that a lot of the time under his "polite person" mask.

There is LITERALLY no way that Pops hasn't witnessed many of the outbursts in Chisaki. And yet he had the nerve to point him out for not following the right path when Pops most likely didn't really make an effort to correct it from the beginning, or didn't have the brains to do something.

We could say that he "tolerated" Chisaki beyond what was stupidly allowed, or rather... HE NEVER gave him the necessary importance to know the type of person he was creating.

With that situation, let's look at another important point. Her daughter, who after what happened with Eri's father, he made no effort to try to support her or help her cope with what happened and prevent her from abandoning her granddaughter.

And what was the best thing he did? Talking disparagingly about his own daughter, and then calling Chisaki's babysitter, evading much of her responsibility and without having thought of something more logical like seeking some help outside of Chisaki to know how to deal with Eri's quirk.

There is simply no excuse not to see Pops as a rather irresponsible and hypocritical person.

Could someone PLEASE make a fanfic or one shot of Chisaki x heroine reader?!

It doesn't matter if it's forbidden love! a saw type of death or do that to survive! or one where Chisaki is rehabilitated and we form a very beautiful relationship with him! I don't understand why this type of fanfic is more popular if there can be a lot of tension and passion involved! AHHHH!

Scenes that describe the despair and sadness of seeing Chisaki crying in her last appearance:

I think many of us know the Fairy Oddparents cartoon, but there is an episode that I especially like because of one scene.

"Chip's teeth" in a part where Chip is interviewed, he tries to communicate even without having teeth, and the interviewer interprets it as there is a child in a well and says he is going to save him.

Exactly that would be me. I put the dialogue that is in Latin Spanish, but I imagine that the dialogue in English is similar (I think).

-"What?! A child in a well?! I will take the child out of the well!"

On the other hand, I would put the Godfather scene, where Vito sees the body of his son:

-"Look how they massacred my boy..." :"(

“Thanks for trying to protect our honor, Chisaki.”

Look at hims! Such a good blorbo!

Mimic just annoying overhaul lol.

Sounds like somebody needs a better insurance policy. What’s the copay? Is there an extra charge? Dabi needs to know.

i have a lot of overhaul 💐🐺

they're helping me study for my exam (kai has a preference for weber and durkheim, but touya can't stop chanting marx's name)

he wants to play with you—will you play with him?

he hates when touya leaves the car on but not actually running because look what it does. but, in touya's defense, i also sit in the car blasting music with him.