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@decayn .

               tomura doesn’t ask  ,  but dabi finds he’s neither surprised nor bothered  by that particular fact  ,  arms moving apart from one another to accommodate the man crawling between them just to settle himself atop his legs like a cat wanting both  all  the attention and  none  at all .  he waits until tomura is situated  ,  limbs contorted into some weird position because he  ,  for whatever reason  ,  can’t sit like a normal person but rather insists upon  curling  himself into dabi’s chest  ,  legs half - hooked around him like some weak restraint and head somehow managing to place the  back  of it against his collar bone despite the rest of his body being turned at an angle .  he doesn’t look comfortable  ,  but he supposes he is or he wouldn’t be sitting like that to begin with .  weird  ,  but acceptable .  so rather than question it he instead wraps a single arm around his waist  ,  loose and easily pushed aside should the other wish to and leans his chin down to settle it atop tomura’s mop of a head .  well  ,  tomura’s comfort might be up in the air but dabi at least feels fairly  cozy  here .

                there’s murders on the news  ,  wanted posters  &  media coverage  drenched in blood  /  ash  /  decay  ;  there are dangerous lurking ‘round every corner and no one has the excuse of  ‘ i didn’t know ’  with the way things have been lately  ------  and maybe that’s why it seems  funny  ,  seeing this girl out this late  ,  all by her  lonesome .  ‘  no one worried ‘bout you ?  ’  he could ask  ,  as if that’s not a  terrifying  greeting for a  variety  of reasons  ------  but he doesn’t say that  ,  doesn’t  need  to if what tomura’s informants mentioned to him is true .  a question that answers itself .

so , i have this stated in my rules but i want to state  &  expand upon the idea that this blog  does operate  under the  ‘ todoroki theory ’ .  that said  ,  i want to address some  stark differences  between my portrayal and what i’ve seen commonly assumed regarding the theory because it  matters  when interacting with todoroki rpers  ( which i’d like to do !  but i also want everyone to know what’s goin on , u feel me ? )  so with that said  ,  let me get into it

i .  i do not believe shouto  &  dabi share the same mother .  i am vehemently opposed to this idea in fact  &  will  ignore it if it turns out to be canon .  they are  half siblings  ,  dabi is endeavor’s son but his mother is someone else entirely .  with this  ,  his mother  was never endeavor’s wife .  meaning i  personally  hc that endeavor had affairs  /  illegitimate children in his quest to produce an offspring that would be a viable heir .  i feel like this is implied from shouto’s comments  /  behavior here and there but regardless , this man is a  piece of shit  and i really don’t think cheating is so far fetched lmao .

ii .  dabi did not grow up in the todoroki household .  because his mother was not endeavor’s wife  /  fiance  /  what have you  ,  she instead lived in a house  (  that he paid for  )  alone with her son and endeavor more or less  ignored them  in the three years it took dabi’s quirk to manifest  ,  sans the occasional visit to check on the health of his son .  after dabi’s quirk manifested  (  which is  ,  as seen  ,  a fire quirk though i believe this mother’s quirk was  mild telekinesis  which gives him bonus  control  over his fire  )  he forced dabi to come live with him for long periods of time  ,  permitting him to see his mother every other weekend at which point she would become angry at the physical state of her child who was often battered to no end  ,  not to mention in a bad state mentally .  when she attempted to stop him from taking dabi or argued  ,  she would often be met with his anger  ,  which extended to physical abuse as well as verbal .

ii : a .  as a related note  ,  i don’t think any of the todoroki children know  /  remember dabi  except for fuyumi  who i personally hc as being around dabi’s age  (  dabi is 23  ,  for reference  )

@decayn .

honestly like , i think about it a lot and like ... dabi  is  an asshole , and is also a murderer and not someone i’d ever sit here and call a  ‘ good person ’  but i also think like ...

he’s relatively easy to get along with if you’re not an enemy ?  not that he isn’t rude and won’t do dickish things but they’re dickish in the way that like ... some people just  are ?  i’m not sure how to explain it but he’s not  vile  ,  he just lacks manners  ---  he talks and behaves like your average run down , apathetic asshole basically ?  if he’s friends with you his rudeness is about the same as a friend’s would be , where they drag you for fun and fully expect you to drag them back. 

and then there’s the fact that he’s fully capable of being kind or at least encouraging , something he shows blatantly in the ambush / kidnapping arc when twice is ragging on the others for things not going perfectly and dabi replies that they did their best and they should be sure to thank them.  he also notes that everyone gathered there are top tier villains , meaning he has no problem acknowledging the success and skill of others  ---  he even notes that aizawa is as impressive as to be expected  ,  albeit he’s being condescending and shitty when he says it since they’re not teammates.

@charspit

              “ Are you — Tomura’s friend You two usually hang out by the arcade together? ”

   why was he doing this ?   questions ran rampage within his mind  —- dumb, idiot … that’s what they’re saying, right … ? ( they’re not saying anything, no one has noticed ). rejected from u.a., rejected by his best friend, no where to turn other than what he was told was called the league of villains ( villain … ? yeah, right —— he was hardly cut out to be a hero, let alone a villain ). there was a bitter sense that had built up from the pit of his stomach, rooting itself into his heart, and seemingly taking control of his entire life; and he’s hurt, a pain so severe that he could hardly muster the will to get himself out of bed. had this league not seen potential in him, he’d probably be rotting away in the comfort of his bedroom. 

and he’s silent; caught in the wild fires of his thoughts ( this wasn’t his fault, it wasn’t his fault, it’s not his fault ) … set out on some sort of task to collect supplies. he didn’t bother to pay attention to instructions, however, as anxiety had deemed worry and stress a higher priority at the mention of him having to accompany another member of this league. still, they set out, and he was sure of the fact that he would be told what to do at some point today.

/ @charspit

                the kid’s got talent  ------  got  anxiety  too  ,   and  that’s  where the world of hero’s found fit to  dump him  on the doormat of every other quirkless  ‘ loser ’  who couldn’t fit their golden molds .  why waste time showing someone their  potential  when you’ve got a hundred other  brainwashed idiots  lining up to fill their pockets  ,  bask in the limelight  ,  pretend they  give a shit  with a  big smile  for the cameras ?  

he glances down  ,  toward the kid  ;  society’s a  bitch  huh ?

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         IS THIS GUY FOR REAL?  his hands squeeze & pale around the textbook he’d been pretending to study, sitting up nice and tense to better acquaint himself with the severity of the situation.  a stupid part of him wants to bear his teeth, show his guts, lay all of his cards on the table ——  but there are too many civilians.  kids.  casualties. 

SOMETIMES,  THAT STEP FORWARD IS A SHUT TRAP.  “  hey. don’t do this here.  ”  what’s that stuck in his throat, anyway?  ouch.  “  i’ll play along, anywhere but here.  please.  what do you want?  ”

                ❛  damn .  you must really think you’re hot shit if you’re tryin’ to make demands of me right now .  ❜      amusement laces tone  ,  lion clearly unconcerned with the requests of a meager lamb  ;  kid must think he’s  stupid  ,  or maybe he’s just idiot  himself  ?  ------  well  ,  doesn’t really matter .  either he’s wrong or he’s lacking brain cells and both work in dabi’s favor .      ❛  but nah .  think i like where we are .  pretty cozy  ,  actually .  ❜      legs cross  ,  loose  ‘ 4 ′  made with knee  just  nudging the red head’s leg  ;  your space is his space now .

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                ❛  yeah .  they can get pretty similar though  ;  depends a little on what you’re fixin’  ,  for both .  ❜      is his casual reply  ,  exhaling cigarette smoke  ;  like a bandaid  ,  he thinks  ,  but for something  inside  ------  would help if it wasn’t deadlier than the void he’s trying to fill with it  ,  but he’s never planned for a long life .      ❛  puttin’ a bandaid on a paper cut’s the same as puttin’ some tape on a bike tire  ,  more or less .  different tools but same kinda thinkin’ for jumpstartin’ a car versus jumpstartin’ a human heart .  two wires and a lotta zapping .  ❜      

but that’s not what tomura is getting at  ,  is it ?

                   ❛  ---  but that’s about where the similarities stop .  pain in the ass too  ,  yeah ?  shit’d be a lot easier if we could just pour some’a those  ‘ feel good ’  chemicals in our heads like we do gas in cars an’ call it a day .  ❜      he says it like a joke  ,  lets the corners of his lips curve upward in a bitter sort of  smirk  ,  tugging at burnt skin and piercings in familiar discomfort  ;  he says it like a joke  ,  but it’s really not one .  but they  both  know that  ,  neither of them stupid enough to believe there aren’t people out there that would  kill  for such a solution to their inner turmoil  ------  themselves  among them  ,  if not now then at some point in the pasts neither of them have felt it necessary to divulge to the other .  another drag  ;  his cigarette is almost gone and it’s getting colder outside  ,  even by  his  standards  .  they’ll need to step back inside soon  ,  lest tomura freeze to death  ,  skin and bone and everything  ill suited  to withstand temperatures of lower than 30 celsius .