seeing him up there...

They started messaging. Cachét complimented his drawing of a human-bug threesome and asked for a print. Three years later, Cachét and David got married. The human-bug threesome drawing hangs on the wall of their home.

[ID: Ema Skye's shocked sprite shown next to an edited tweet. It says, "My worst nightmare is Spotify randomly throwing out a Gavinners song whilst I'm driving and then I crash and die but it keeps playing so the police thinks I was a Gavineer and then thousands of Gavineers across the globe mourn me on Twitter with 'i guilty love you' messages". The sprite is semitransparent, like Ema is saying the tweet. /end ID]

No other operating hero, no matter how bad the situation, has killed a villain. We know because Ending told us that the closest thing to a hero killing a villain known to the public was Endeavor killing Hood; and we know he’s not lying because if there was anyone else he would’ve just gone to them instead of the guy who’s only technically killed someone. 

And I just want to point out how much that hurts the idea that Hawks was justified in his kill because of how bad the situation was. Like, thousands of heroes, each averaging with dozens of encounters with villains a month; a countless number of villain raids that could easily lead to the situation Hawks found himself in…and somehow only Hawks ever found himself in a bad enough situation where he “had to kill”?

Not only is he the classic shounen protagonist in every aspect, therefore existing to undermine Izuku's existence, he's also just really fucking aggravating in the same way Bakugo is (not acknowledged for what he is and overstays within the story).

In the greater scheme of the story, he is treated as what All Might's successor should have been. It is NOT deconstructed nor used to emphasize the issues with All Might's propaganda-focused image at all. Instead, it's treated like a fact - so much so that he ends up becoming number one AND gets OFA.

Edit - "gets offered OFA," I know he doesn't take it or gets in in the epilogue. Typo on my part!

Even if you ignore that aspect of his character, IE how he legit takes away from Izuku, what remains is a person that should be a paragon hero - except he's overly favored and fucking annoying.

Mirio, due to being favored, gets a suit designed just for him and his quirk. Characters like Hagakure, Yaoyorozu, and even Midnight do NOT get this and it's genuinely a bare minimum within the story - it's established that UA could've given them better or connected them with people who could and simply didn't. Worst yet, UA provides Bakugo with a pair of fucking GRENADES and yet can't give Hagakure actual clothes?

Mirio's personality is also a major factor in my dislike of him. He is all the things that makes All Might's propaganda work and nothing that would make him a proper paragon. He sees no real issue with the world around him and he knows and acknowledges that he benefits from it. He does not see this as a problem. And it's lowkey implied that he, or someone like him, caused someone to quit and become a villain (Neijire's words aren't direct enough to confirm this, but for the context of the moment, that's the vibe I got) - which makes sense because this is the same dude shouting "POWER" after beating a bunch of FIRST YEARS (that pissed me off something fierce, but not the point of this post).

Even when he loses his quirk, Hori creates a path where he remains both in the story and relevant without suffering for his new status - this is legit after beating Izuku down for being quirkless and emphasizing how him being quirkless made any heroism impossible. Because Mirio lost his quirk mid-fight and yet still fought Overhaul AND won. Izuku would have never been given that victory and it pisses me off that what should've been a side character is given this victory.

And then the one thing that endears him, his bond with Eri, only further makes me dislike him overall. In shounen, characters like Eri bond with the protagonist after being saved. Why is Mirio being given the bond that she should've had with Izuku? That genuinely grates on me because it's bad enough Mirio is there to begin with. Izuku isn't allowed to be a proper protagonist ever and it's not Mirio, it's Hori, but come on!

And I don't want to say I hate him, but the fact that he gets so much screen time when he's meant to be part of a TRIO and neither get much time beyond gags, praising him, and a beauty pageant, yeah, I have beef with him for sure.