yes found family is my comfort trope

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

The fundamental misunderstanding here is that Some People think Nancy’s arc is about being a girlboss when in fact Nancy’s arc has always been about Barb. Nancy thinks that she killed Barb, she thinks her negligence, her recklessness, her joy really is what got her best friend killed tragically young and so since has taken on all the responsibility to solve any problem, to always be working towards an answer, to never relax or enjoy herself again.

She breaks up with Steve because of this, because “we killed Barb” and because he tells her she should relax, let go, move on. Jonathan offers her a place where her hypervigilance and action is not only encouraged but needed. He is, in the kindest way possible, a bit of a project for her to work on when she needs one.

The thing that is really important to me though, that I hope the show recognizes finally, Nancy and Steve did not kill Barb. Having a stupid party and being a teenager and having sex is not something that deserved a punishment. And Nancy getting to realize that, getting to engage with Steve and enjoy it again, to not see them both as culpable, and to not have to continue to punish herself for any joy, would be the best sign that she is finally healing. Frankly Jonathan can’t provide her that healing and closure about Barb because he also thinks that she did something wrong that night, he thinks she wasn’t acting like herself, just like Barb did, he maybe reaffirms her belief that it was her fault in a way that is validating in the moment but that doesn’t let her start to recover.

I watched it like 3 times and realized that...

For one, Katsuki actually walks closer to Izuku. In the manga, he is by the door the whole time. So seeing him walk to Izuku really got me. He needed to be closer.

Then there's Izuku telling him "this isn't like you". In the manga, Izuku does look like he's trying to hold it together seeing Katsuki cry.

In the anime, he starts to cry.

I actually like this small change of Izuku shedding tears trying to tell Katsuki to calm down because before (in both manga and anime)...

He looks "accepting" that he will be Quirkless again, but you know that he is hurting, at least a little.