mha sideblog

My rough hasty scanlation:

That’s what Shigaraki is thinking at the moment - he’s thinking about Spinner’s feelings, Spinner’s enjoyment. He’s gonna build the horizon, because a member of his League wants it, because someone he cares for - at the very least to a degree enough to consider their desires and feelings - will like it.

So Shigaraki is currently the incarnation of destruction— but he’s partly doing this for someone else’s sake - A friend, a teammate, whatever Spinner means to him. He’s destroying the world that created that awful house; he’s destroying the world where he’s witnessed so much rot. He’s destroying the world because this is not a world where the League, including himself, has a future in, much less a bright one; where they can live easy lives; where they can be themselves in.

Shigaraki Tomura destroys not because he’s “ruin itself”, as the vestiges says, but because he wants his friends to be happy. He’s doing all this because of the connections he’s made with other people, because he values that connection to want to do right by them… and that is literally one of the most human thing a person could possibly do.

And hopefully, Deku caught that. I think he did, because he flashes back to Shigaraki in Chapter 379, talking about what will save him - “the destruction of everything stemming from that house”; he flashes back to Uraraka in Chapter 342, saying she doesn’t know what Toga considers ‘normal/reasonable/right’.

And Deku says, from what I can make out, “it’s all connected.” Deku’s been looking for something that made villains turned out the way he did (Chapter 305), that makes Shigaraki tick (Chapter 308), that explains the crying boy - and maybe, he’s finally found it from Shigaraki’s words.

tho i’m biased of course. cuz this makes spinner very significant <3

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Other point: Shigaraki wants to create the horizon that Spinner is excited for, because that’s what he believes at the moment, because it’s what Spinner had wanted a few months ago, when they last interacted before Shigaraki went into surgery/then got possessed/all those shenanigans.

However, last we saw Spinner, Spinner’s deepest desire - what he valued most, what spur him to move when he was at his limit, what he requested for Kurogiri to save - is gamer time with Shigaraki his friendship with Shigaraki.

Endeavor dying would have been AMAZING if Shoto were the central character in the Todoroki subplot. The main reason this is so is that Endeavor would be out of the way. Shoto would have full reigns on how he wants to handle Touya (the "final villain" of the Todoroki subplot), and the rest of the family can play a role in this as a supporting cast.

However, Shoto is NOT the central character in the Todoroki subplot. Or, at least, he used to be, but he's not anymore. He's not allowed to have a final fight with Touya because Touya needs to still confront Endeavor. Regardless of how that fight ends, whether it's Shoto saving his brother or knocking him out, Shoto isn't allowed to end the conflict until Touya and Endeavor interact.

At the start of the series, it was really obvious that Shoto was the central figure (and was our pov character) for his family drama. During the sports festival, HE'S the one who shared the backstory. The flashbacks are framed around what HE saw. HE is the one taking a step forward to fix his family, and it starts with reconciling with his mom. At this point, Endeavor is what I'll call "the instigator". He is the cause for the family drama, and though we may not know Touya at this point, Endeavor has already released the future final boss of the subplot into the world.

In the Pro Hero arc, Endeavor becomes his own central figure as a pov character into the world of pros. He then overlaps with the Todoroki subplot by wanting to atone and remove himself from the role of the instigator. The thing is, he can't. What was done cannot be undone, and the most he can do at this point is try to make things better for his family moving forward. At this point, he and Shoto can coexist as central figures because the final boss has not yet been introduced.

The second Touya confirmed his identity, either Endeavor or Shoto had to stop being the central figure. Having Touya need to fight two heroes before being able to come to any end just feels sloppy, and since Shoto was given the first fight, it makes him seem like the less important figure. Even Touya doesn't care! He spends a good chunk of the fight talking about how he'd rather fight Endeavor. This makes Endeavor into the central figure as he is now the one to end the fight. HE'S the one the final boss has been waiting for, not Shoto.

The thing is, this started as Shoto's story, so it would have made sense for it to end as Shoto's story as well. Even if it meant killing Endeavor to force Shoto to be the ONLY central figure (probably to Touya's dismay) it would have allowed Shoto the space he needed to lead the ending he deserved, rather than be pushed to a side character.

sucks to suck, huh?! 🍓💉

old version from a year ago!!!

Dabi 🔥