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People often dismiss this theory on sight due to the preconceived notion that any form of timetravel will automatically fuck up the story and that the mere idea of Bakugo having OFA is a automatic turn off

If this theory were to come true then the time travel aspect wouldn't be a problem since it would be a one way trip, he wouldn't get OFA from Deku, he would get it from the first, and he would die fighting AFO during his time in the past since we see him in the vestige world

Now to explain how the time travel can happen well you see the manga has already given examples on how it can happen, Eri's father was supposedly rewind out of existence or was he?

Eri's quirk unknown variable that we still don't have a grasp on what it's fully capable of, and combined that with the possibility of quirk singularity shenanigans and quirk awakenings then I don't think the possibility of Rewind sending person back in time is that farfetched

So we have a unnamed guy that looks identical to a older Bakugo, with a unknown quirk that the hint for are the similar to Bakugo guntlets he used, said guy had chapter where he acted like a mature version of Bakugo while doing the same reaching out parallel

During chapter 318 he was the only vestige that wasn't visually worried about Deku because he knew what was going to happen and he throws out a line alluding to Deku needing people he can rely on just as Bakugo shows up

People often dismiss this theory on sight due to the preconceived notion that any form of timetravel will automatically fuck up the story and that the mere idea of Bakugo having OFA is a automatic turn off

If this theory were to come true then the time travel aspect wouldn't be a problem since it would be a one way trip, he wouldn't get OFA from Deku, he would get it from the first, and he would die fighting AFO during his time in the past since we see him in the vestige world

The manga has also already given examples on how it can happen with Eri's dad supposedly disappearing into thin air

Eri's quirk unknown variable that we still don't have a grasp on what it's fully capable of, and combined that with the possibility of quirk singularity shenanigans and quirk awakenings then I don't think the possibility of Rewind sending person back in time is that farfetched

So we have a unnamed guy that looks identical to a older Bakugo, with a unknown quirk that the hint for are the similar to Bakugo guntlets he used, said guy had chapter where he acted like a mature version of Bakugo while doing the same reaching out parallel that Deku and Bakugo have

During chapter 318 he was the only vestige that wasn't visually worried about Deku because he knew what was going to happen and he throws out a line alluding to Deku needing people he can rely on just as Bakugo shows up

Now that I've had time to fully digest the ending I'm a little more ok with it, it's not good but it's not that bad ether, most of my complaints still stand though

Having Mikasa's arc be about letting go of Eren and then having her spend the final chapter grieving him, having everyone praise Eren after wiping out 4/5 of the planet, all that doesn't sit well with me, and the stuff with Ymir is just plain awful

On the topic of Eren, nothing he did in this chapter is out of character because we never really see much of his inner thoughts throughout the story, Isayama does this to shock the reader with character shifts and story revelations but it ends up backfiring in this ending, this sacrifice would have hit harder if we saw Eren's internal struggle before all this, like most of the emotional weight from this finale comes from Eren and Mikasa's relationship but we don't even know Eren's feelings towards her up until the final chapter

And my biggest problem with the finale is that this ends up being a poor man's Zero Requiem plan, like sacrificing 80% of the population to remove the Titan curse isn't a fair trade, like humanity would have been better off if Eren wasn't "Born into this world", all he had to do was a show of force on Marley and everything would have been fine.

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