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!!please do not separate!! will !! cause !! destruction !! (❤ω❤)ノ🔪

following the fact that he also gave this child a quirk that would instantly make him a target for literally the worst villain of all time, without telling him of course (all of this without the consent of his guardian of course)

especially since Izuku is such an overt fanatical hero-worshipper, like talk about a lack of informed consent ... this is your DadMight, what?

also shounen-logic aside, giving izuku an extremely destructive quirk on the day of the entrance exam (where he'll probably have to use it and has zero training in using it) full well knowing it can pulverise his entire body ... like, this is not it fam, this is not peak dad-material

Like Shouto refusing to use his fire because it scared him / he didn't want to be like his Father (his abuser), and this hurting himself is standard for a victim of abuse to feel. He will do anything to distance himself from his abuser because we, as people, don't like to be hurt and distancing oneself is a common defense mechanism.

Then, in literally the same arc, Bakugo is chained and gagged on live television, and it's framed as comedic. How is physically restraining a minor at all comedic? This isn't to say you cannot have humor in your story if there are heavy subjects, it's simply that the narrative that frames 'abuse as bad' also frames 'abuse as comedic'.

How is the audience (of mostly impressionable minors) meant to see how extremely damaging End*vore's literal crimes of domestic violence, child abuse and child neglect are; when in the same brush traumatizing another child is just a 'funny gag'?

This can also be said about Izuku's 'anxiousness' often being played up as comedic relief, when it's actually a result of years of bullying and grounded in a very real fear that someone will hurt him for simply daring to exist.

How did Aizawa personally promise to protect the students of 1-A to each of their guardians after the USJ incident; but then allow unknowing minors to 'intern' at an active and literal warzone without their guardian's permission. (Though if those guardians had given permission, call CPS.) 

I don’t know how anyone could think it’d be safe to allow children to be at the outskirts of an active warzone, and not realize how deeply traumatizing that will be.

Look, if none of the traumatic incidents had lasting consequences, then I wouldn't be up in arms about it and making this post. But we have multiple storylines which depict a traumatic event and do have conclusive effects on multiple characters emotions, motivations, and next actions. Incidents that have changed the lifestyle of multiple characters; such as after the USJ incident, Bakugo's kidnapping, and Eri's entire life.

If multiple incidents are depicted as traumatic and inconclusively bad; then the severity of those that aren't are immediately being downplayed. It's a conscious choice to have your villains suffer continuously with no relief or sympathy*; while heroes who are also literal criminals be the focus of sympathetic redemption arcs.

We know that a defining feature of Hawks is his willingness to "sully his feathers" for his cause, aka "the greater good". And in 290 we found out Dabi is willing to do so as well.

Remember Dabi only started to kill people after Enji became the Number 1 Hero (in the same chapter, in fact); and, per his broadcasted confession, we know that Dabi wants the public to view all his murders as done by "Endeavour's flames". It's also shown, per the chapter with snatch, that Dabi is troubled over the deaths he's caused (can't find the metas i read abt this, link me if u do).

It means Dabi has taken actions he doesn't believe in, that go against his moral code for his cause, which is "the fall of Endeavour".

But, besides that I think it shows a rarely seen view into abusive relationships: the layout of that abusive household before it becomes so "clearly" abusive.

I'm not going to delve into Enji's mental hoops on why he was so desperate to become the most powerful person in Japan, because 1) I frankly hate him and 2) it doesn't absolve his actions.

The household dynamic though was prime real estate for abuse and neglect. Let's not forget that Enji bought Rei to fulfill his aspiration of defeating All Might. I think Rei even supported it to an extent (not to victim blame!!) - that's just probably a reason she wanted more children, to support Touya in fulfilling Enji's aspiration.

From the start, Enji didn't want a family for "warm and fuzzy" reasons. His family was an extension of his lifetime aspiration. His children were vehicles to that aspiration, which meant that 1) he doesn't see his children as their own people, rather as extensions of himself; and 2) with a level of dehumanisation, because it's not a child it's a potential answer to his life's work.

To recap on the household front, the most powerful person in it views his wife, who he bought like an object, as a supporter/enabler to his dream; and his children as weaker extensions of himself who, if only they'd do as ordered, will fulfill his lifetime aspiration. And if they can't are inherent failures.

To put is simply Enji doesn't see his family as people (dehumanisation 101); so why should he treat them with basic human decency? Why should he be a parent to objects?

The idea that Enji "lost himself" when Shouto was born is frankly ridiculous. If anything he actualised himself: charging full-speed ahead is his most hero-worthy quality in his public image.

The extent of Enji's abuse and neglect didn't sprout fully-formed at Shouto's birth: this was always going to happen because Shouto's quirk is the entire reason Enji had a "family".

To note, Touya seems to look back at that time (before Enji self-actualised) fondly (c.291) but he is definitely an unreliable narrator (and a child at the time); and no matter how cute the pictures look that was always a bad household.

That got me thinking about how the only person Dabi refers to with respect is Doctor Tsubasa (he actually used a respectable honorific for him, which he does with literally no one else)

Miruko: *exists*

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