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this is why hawks' misison fails
I think enough time has passed that we can finally talk about how utterly useless and disappointing the final act of Dabi's arc ended up being.
The most disappointing thing of all is how fucking cool almost every setup was. Enji finally seeing the full extent of the damage he did to his son, his mind almost gone and his body about to blow up, and deciding to sacrifice his own life. Dabi developing an ice quirk, like his mother's. Rei coming there using her powerful ice quirk to save both Touya and Enji's lives, because she felt responsible for her part in driving Touya to this point. Fuyumi and Natsuo following Rei because they couldn't sit idly, while their family members are risking their lives. Shouto going above and beyond his limit to save Touya's life and then praising Touya's natural talent the way no one ever did.
This picture. The eerily happy what could have been, what both Touya and Enji wanted, a happy family where they both are accepted and loved, where Touya is healthy and doesn't hurt himself. Except he is missing an arm now, a new self-inflicted injury transferred from the real world, where the family is as far from happy as they could be. Enji is also missing an arm, the mutual self-sacrifice which was payment to getting Enji to finally fully see Touya and accept him, accept his own role as the parent responsible for this child of his.
This was the exact moment. That first frame is such a masterpiece it's much more thought provoking than the entirety of what followed. Look at your son's disfigured face. See the monster that you created. The fire that you have ignited. It's hotter than your own Hellfire and it won't ever stop burning, as long as either of you is alive. There's no end to this hurt. It's been hurting him since he was a child, and now it has spread to you. You did this to yourself.
And one thing I can tell for sure is that these chapters are going to go hard as hell in the anime. These surrealistic frames, followed by blockbuster-worthy action sequences. But what comes after that? And then nothing. It's like Horikoshi made these chapters specifically to work well for the anime adaptation. Because there is no resolution or even conclusion to any of the things that happened here.
Enji and Dabi losing their arms had so little meaning Horikoshi himself forgot about it and gave Enji the missing arm back in chapter 425. We never get to see the state of Touya's body after the war, so him losing his arm also loses his meaning, as he is covered in a full-body metal restraining jacket. Did they provide him with a prosthetic? If not, are they going to? Is he even going to notice the missing arm, or did it truly not matter? Or perhaps he somehow grew his arm back, the same way he grew his melted eyeballs back? Who even knows.
What about the family? Rei clearly cared a whole lot, enough to risk her own life to attempt to save Touya from certain death because she knew there's no point to rely on Endeavor , but now that the heat of the moment is over, how does she feel about what happened? Does she insist on getting to visit Touya more often? Does she reflect on her own experience of spending ten years in isolation and try to give Touya his freedom? Did Shouto share the story of Touya coming back home after his death with her and his siblings? How does she feel about it? How do they feel about their dearly missed brother willingly choosing to abandon them?
On that topic, how do Fuyumi and Natsuo feel about Touya at all? We do get to hear about Fuyumi's desire to talk more with Touya, but what does she want to talk to him about? Does she want to share her own life with him, to tell him about her old job and the kids she was teaching? About the many family dinners she had been organizing for their family despite it falling apart? Or does she want to ask him about his life? Is she at all curious what he had been up to? Does she want to know how he ended up a villain, why did he keep burning himself despite almost dying from it as a mere child? Would Touya himself want to talk to Fuyumi, or does he still think his sister will never understand him? If so, will she try to push through and repair their sibling bond, try to show him that mending their family is possible and she wants to see him a part of the healed Todoroki family, eating dinner with the rest of them?
Natsuo... I don't even know where to start. Todoroki Natsuo when he first appeared in the manga and Todoroki Natsuo from Dabi's dance onwards are two wildly different characters and the development that made him change so much is skipped entirely in the story.
The entire point of Natsuo's character conflict was being unable to let go of the past, when the rest of the family was demanding he puts the past behind them and looks towards the future. Why exactly was he so fixated on the past? Two reasons. One, his father's neglect of him and abuse of his brothers. He is indignant about what Enji put Shouto through, still angry about Shouto being isolated from his siblings despite the younger freely interacting with him and Fuyumi for quite some time since before the manga plot had started. He outright says that his father had killed Touya. And that's the second reason, his close bond with Touya. While the rest of the family, even their mother, have been able to grieve and let go of Touya, Natsuo has been haunted by him ever since the day of his death.
Their relationship was a toxic one, that is true, Touya was traumadumping his extremely unhealthy feelings on a little kid who was too little to process or sympathize with what the was going through. But from the way Natsuo talks about Touya after his death it's obvious that Natsuo cared a lot about him, still cares. He is indignant about the unfairness of what happened to Touya precisely because he knows the most out of all family members about what his experience was like. It's pretty clear that the reason he stubbornly refuses to forgive and accept Endeavor the way his mother and siblings did, despite genuinely believing himself to be a bad person for it, is not just because Enji was neglecting him as a kid but because since he was a kid he was exposed to the horror of what Touya's life was like. He was watching a person begging to be helped hurt himself everyday and he didn't know how to help him or stop him. Hell, it's pretty straightforwardly implied that his career choice was impacted by his inability to help Touya, who was covered in burns at all times, and Rei with Shouto.
So with all of that in mind, Natsuo's resolution feels fairly... bizarre. As far as his reunion with the dead brother he was bitterly mourning for 11 years, the one who showed up back from the dead expressing the exact same sentiment Natsuo has been trying to express to his family, 'The past never dies', goes, it's this:
This wouldn't even be so bad if there was some followup to this. Natsuo was highstrung with nerves, he was terrified at the thought of both of his parents and his brother dying for real this time (except it's Fuyumi who gets this line). Natsuo apologizing to Touya for saying this, after the climax of the battle is behind them. Anything. Because this framing with no followup at all makes it seem like Natsuo's feelings about his oldest brother is just being annoyed at him for constantly causing trouble to others, because he was venting to him so much when they were kids. If his were any other character, this claim would hold some weight, after all the dynamic was genuinely toxic, but all Natsuo did for the entirety of the Hellish Todoroki family subplot was causing others trouble by his inability to cope with his feelings. You know, the same thing Touya is doing right now, was doing as long as he was in the Todoroki household. Hypocritical much?..
Then we get to look at the final pages of the Todoroki family's conclusion, and it's all about Natsuo once again disrupting the fragile family harmony and peace by announcing he never wants to see Endeavor again. Also he is getting married. For someone who was so held back by the past for 200+ chapters, this sure is a big leap of faith into the future. What caused this development? Touya reappearing back into his life? Did Natsuo make his brother the symbol of that past that was holding him back and decide to abandon him, never see neither him nor Endeavor again?
Maybe so, maybe not. Does he hold hard feelings against Touya, because the real living Todoroki Touya is too different for him to accept as the brother whose ghost had been haunting him for a decade? Is it being a villain that he can't forgive? Or is he simply unable to cope with everything right now and puts off the conversation with his brother because that would be too hard right now? Isn't that the same thing Rei and Enji were doing for Touya's entire childhood?
That's the thing with this ending, you can ask a million questions and make up endless interpretations but you won't get any answers or reasonable conclusions to any of these character's stories, save for Endeavor.
And what is his ending? It's this.
He has moved on! Doesn't matter what happened to his original family, because he's got himself a new one. He is moving towards the future, surrounded by love, support and acceptance. It's the same thing as this picture!
Minus the inconvenient and explanation-demanding children subplots. That would require too much space and effort and the story needed to be finished asap. So? Why resolve the Todoroki family mess when you can give Enji a whole new family of his own? What happened to the other, original children? Who even knows. Who cares? Definitely not Enji, he has new ones.
What about Touya? Well, he was already accepted by his father once, that's enough for him. About his family? As far as we know, they left him all alone, crying, dying. About his missing arm? About his ice quirk? About his relationship with his siblings? With the League of Villains? The the living villains, Spinner, Mister Compress, his cousin Geten, Skeptic? Who even cares. Definitely not this story.
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OMG YES
i feel like to him it was hilarious how absolutely no one could figure out that he was Touya and that’s why he’s being so obvious about it
“how sad, todoroki shouto” is basically the same as “HEY LIL BRO, YOU MISSED ME?”
also the concept of dabi name dropping touya around the league is hilarious
just
dabi: hey did you guys know endeavor has a son?
shigaraki: bitch we literally fought him
dabi: no but like,,,, another one. named touya
compress: oh that’s quite interesting! do you know more about him?
dabi: he died lmaoooooo
spinner: yeah we could use that against endeavor
toga: oh noooo how did he die?
dabi: burned alive 🤣🤣🤣 can you imagine????
shigaraki: …ok but the irony-
if there's one thing I know about Dabi it's the fact that he was so fucking annoying about his hidden identity.
*staring dead in the eyes* 'How sad, Todoroki Shouto...' (he cried himself to sleep about this later)
'I guess it's nice to meet you for the first time, Endeavour, OR IS IT? 😏'
he stalks Fuyumi one day and when she notices he cryptically announces this was a fateful meeting 'WASN'T, TODOROKI FUYUMI?' staring her in the eyes with Enji's trademarked shade of blue eyes and promptly leaves.
sends his mother rindou flowers to the hospital, signed with his name, and she assumes it's Enji who is losing it this time, but she guesses she can appreciate the thoughtful gift from her regretful husband (?)
he runs into Natsuo at the store one day and instead of running to the exit he makes sure to brush shoulders with his and take off his hood, pushing up his dyed hair so that the white roots stand out more and goes: 'Fancy meeting you here, Todoroki Natsuo'.
'??????'
then Fuyumi and Natsuo are shocked by his broadcast not because never in their wildest dreams did they imagine their older brother alive but because they were convinced they hallucinated the League of Villain's Dabi actually being their deceased older brother Touya and now they aren't sure what to think about the audacity this fucker had to approach them like that and leave without elaborating.
but with the League? can't torture his backstory out of him. he name-dropped Todoroki Touya at least 7 times around them.
there's this trend on twitter of drawing miku from your country so i did miku from my country
read 'the guy I was interested in wasn't a guy at all' and now all I can think about is an au where fem!shigaraki fucking hates the guts of the arsonist guy who joined her League of Villains because he's the exact type of villains she hates most: a rude and condescending misogynistic asshole (what right does he have to swagger around looking like he owns the place when he refuses to express an ounce of respect to her, his rightful leader, and is ugly as sin?!).
what tomura doesn't know is that dabi's experience as a scarred teenage girl on the streets with nothing to her name besides a dangerous quirk has led to her hiding her gender and acting as off-putting as possible in hopes other villains leave her alone and don't bother her about her body or appearance.
Bakugou and Todoroki are the only characters that have the same level of zero fucks to give.
Bakugou beats tf out of everyone, rude to teachers and any authority, cannot care less if someone is offended by what he says.
Now, for Todoroki... Imagine with me. Bakugou says smth fucked up, calls his mom stupid etc.
Shouto just looks at him and calls him a slur, deadpan, loud and proud, in front of everyone.
He has no shame, that boy probably doesn't even realize what exactly he's saying. They'd all call him out on it but guess what, he still wouldn't care. because he also doesn't give a fuck.
And you know what, I think Bakugou would respect it. bc when tf is Todoroki actually saying anything out of malice? He's gonna fight if he's actually pissed off enough and Bakugou does the exact same thing.
両面宿儺
Just wanna try that magazine thing.. ✨
hii !
the third chapter of can you melt a frozen heart? (or will you let it burn down?) is out! it's titled 'and i'm a witness watching it' , hope you enjoy!
Preview:
Shouto still did not like the League of Villains. He, once again, stood against a wall, however, this time Touya stayed close to him. It reassured him. Touya literally radiated heat, so Shouto could feel him by his side. Call him a baby but he felt untouchable with his big brother near him. More than a bodyguard, Touya acted like a hero in his eyes. If All Might could maintain peace in Japan, Touya could maintain safety in Shouto’s life. * “So, why is the troupe gathered?” Mister Compress asked from the bar where he sat, stimming with a duo of marbles in his hand. Toga commented how she thought they were a league and not a troupe. Shigaraki got up and - oh god that hand was truly disgusting. Anyway, Shigaraki got up and stood before everyone while scratching his neck.
“UA’s organizing a training camp for the first-year students. We’re gonna sabotage it.”
" This too shall pass "
I believe that good will always overcome evil, just as spring comes, and with it eternal life, overcoming the bitter cold of winter. We will overcome this genocide very soon with God's help and your continued help and support. One of the advantages we achieved during the war is to convey to you our voice, which has not been heard for many years, and to reveal the nature of this occupation and its actions that have been covered up for hundreds of years.
I would like to introduce you to my simple Palestinian family, who lived in peace in a very beautiful house consisting of a ground and upper floor and a charming garden that we renovated shortly before the war, but the occupation had a different opinion regarding the barbaric bombing of civilians and homes. The occupation destroyed our dear home, which reminded me of my father, the dearest person in the world. My life, may God have mercy on him. The occupation killed every happy and even sad memory by bombing our house.
This is my aunt with my younger brother Ahmed, in his last year of school before university. My aunt's house was next door to ours, and she had been single for years. She was not married, and since we are a small family, I have no uncles, It was always my duty to check on my aunt and provide her with everything from food, drink, medicine, and everything else. Before I went to university every day, I always liked to go there to have breakfast together, chat and get her approval before I went to my studies. every memories the occupation destroyed it.
This our beloved home before and after Israeli bombing 💔
My priority is to help this kind old woman, when the Rafah crossing is opened, to leave the Gaza Strip safely for Egypt. I do not care about the homes destroyed by the occupation. Money can be compensated, but the soul cant be compensated. Iwant to see my aunt again. I want her to be with us again. This is really what I want. I want to send her money so that she can support herself in the northern Gaza Strip. The prices are crazy, folks, especially the food prices.
this is my friend Ali Al-Tababi, and my name is Ghazi Sheto, he was closer to me than many people in my family. I met Ali at university, and we had a goal: to graduate and work together. I will stay up all night to make this dream come true. He was always at my house, playing, studying, sleeping together and going to university together. We were conjoined twins. Ali and all his family members they are all died because of Israeli bombing.You can see the massacre of the Tabatabai family. May God have mercy on them all. I want to fulfill my dream and my friend’s dream and bring my aunt to Egypt and build my house again if possible.
We asked for 30 thousand as compensation, less than a little for what we lost in the war. Frankly, our homes cost half a million dollars, but I asked for 30 thousand so that I could bring my aunt and protect her soul from being killed and so that she could do that. Come to Egypt safely and give her food and drink while she is stuck in northern Gaza, but unfortunately I have only collected $500 so far.
These donations will go to my aunt, the old woman stranded in the northern Gaza Strip, to give her the opportunity to travel, protect her life from being killed, and secure her daily sustenance of food and nutrition. I ask everyone who can help, do not hesitate, because we really need help. Thank you all, and I hope you don't suffer as I do. We suffered, especially my weak aunt.
i Hope you all good thanks you for our support towards our cause 🙏🤍
the urge to write a social medias fic and learn coding to html and css the shit out of it
Drew something inspired by this !!
me: chapter 10 shouldn't be too long, it's mostly dialogue and exposition for the future also me: *make it over 4k words long*
hearing “I’m proud of you” when you’re having a hard time hits different
i regret making shouto a science nerd now that i'm having vivid flashbacks of my middle school science teacher
joining bc it’s fun
i saw this and wanted to join!
post your picrew + the last song you listened to
(np tags 🏷️🤎: @amiableness @mischievousmoony @msmk11 @lupinsweater @stevie-petey @kaylasficrecs @aastonishment @pretty-little-mind33 @saturnitystar) + anyone else wanting to join
Merch drop
me when touya is being a dramatic mf
My favorite scene from any intro ever. He has such a flare for the dramatic,, I'm gonna kill him.
the bois in question
just started decorating my apartment and i love how at first it looks kinda cute with pink dishes, candles, flower pillows
kinda giving pinterest vibes yk?
and then you turn around and you see my dabihawks figures and my league of villains poster
me when i have to write about science
(i’m the one who decided to make shouto a science nerd)
i am this close to start making smaus just for the fun of it
I need a four hour loop of the intro of hot gum (she version) thank you please sofia
So Dabi and Toga joined the League together and Dabi and Compress work together really well, like know one another’s moves and can communicate great in battle. And Dabi is Tomura’s lieutenant and basically the guy actually in charge of planning and coordinating while Tomura’s got the vision and the resources. So I propose that the loyalty of the League is split between them. Cause like, what if Dabi joined and brought other recruits with him. Toga and Compress definitely, maybe Magne and Twice too. And that’s part of why Tomura lets him get away with so much and put him in charge of recruiting. Cause let’s be real, Dabi fries way too many people for him to keep that job if doesn’t already have some successes under his belt.
Anyway this post is a mess and I’m just gonna keep typing my train of thought about this and see where we end up now.
I just really love the partnership between Tomura and Dabi. It’s kinda hidden and definitely never explicitly stated, but Dabi is indisputably Tomura’s right hand man. Kurogiri follows his orders. But Tomura respects Dabi, and Dabi respects Tomura even if they suck at showing it. They listen to each other and are able to work together, sharing responsibility and trusting the other to be able to handle their shit. There’s still some friction of course, Tomura doesn’t trust Dabi’s interests to always align with his own and Dabi is only following Tomura because their interests align at the moment. And with like half the League being more loyal to Dabi than Tomura he’s gotta be a bit worried about a coup. That fear fades with time once he establishes that he actually cares about the league and shows it better than Dabi but it probably really affected their relationship at the beginning. Thus Tomura’s clumsy attempts to assert dominance over him
Also Dabi and Compress are totally tight. Pretty sure they were partners in crime before joining the league. Like imagine the possibilities with their quirks. Evidence disposal, theft, smuggling, intimidation, scams together the two of them could do anything! Compress has his anonymity, Dabi had his incredibly recognizable and scary face… they would be great.
drew this helpful diagram for mha fans who don't understand what a character arc is
I couldn't help myself.
allow me to answer my own ask bc i need to add my personal favorite
i love a dramatic bitch
favorite dabi moment? (doesn’t matter if it’s a serious or silly one)🙏
All of them, I love my man wife💕 buttt I am partial to these scenes
The first time we see him verbally express guilt🙏 my bbg u did nothing wrong. BUT ALSO HE LOOKS SOO PRETTY. He always looks better when he's being genuine.
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Literally any of the scenes with his lil smiles oh my GOD MY BABYY
Really any part of his reveal, Dabi's dance is my fav episode throughout the whole series (butttttt when his fight with shoto is fully animated that might change)
Then also the couch scene. I don't have to add a pic, you KNOW what I'm talking about. I actually love any scene where he's crying cause like,, idk it's just such a break from his asshole persona. It's a meeting point between Dabi and Touya. ALSO UGH AFTER HIS REVEAL WHEN HE'S JUST,, HIMSELF??! The best ever tbh. I love how loud and obnoxious he gets, total opposite of how he was in the beginning.
casually writing my fic (auto promo: link here) to ignore the outside world
i just wrote shouto saying “spill the tea” and for some reason this is so funny to me
Shouto with the biggest poker face who ever poker faced: “spill the tea bro”
THEIR HAIR! STUDIO BONES I LOVE YOU!
