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THE HUSBANDS!!!!

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He always wanted to be a hero. He wanted to help those that went ignored by everyone else. The unpopular kids, the rejects... The villains.

Despite all that's happened to him, this remained a core part of his character under all the angst and grief. Tomura wanted to help the people that needed it the most, and he only knew how to do that through destruction.

He wanted to be a hero for the villains, the people that he thought needed a hero the most, and sought to destroy everything bad for the League of Villains. Tomura wanted to help those that got forgotten by society just like him.

But AFO only taught him to destroy, so Tomura believed destroying all the bad stuff was the answer. Except that wasn't the real solution (unfortunately), and it led to his abrupt end. Just like how ignoring societal issues won't help, sometimes destroying everything won't help either. But that's what Deku did in the end anyways, huh.

Tomura's abrupt departure is tragic. He could've done a lot more, but he's a villain and villains will never have a place in a society run by heroes. He saw the flaws, but in the end required other people to solve them instead.

Tomura Shigaraki really did try his best until the bitter, sad end of this entire series.

Hear me out, I know he’s a murderer and his sense of empathy is wack but think about it. He’s a victim of abuse, not just from AfO but from his own father, and even though he doesn’t remember it the scars are still there, metaphorically and literally. And with the jailing of AfO his pattern of behaviour changes quite significantly. Previously to Kamino, Shigaraki’s targets included All Might, whoever happened to be in the path of his rampaging Nomu, and several U.A. heroes-in-training. Post Kamino, his targets have been Overhaul and his gang, the Church of Racial Cleanliness (yikes), and the Meta Liberation Army. What do these groups have in common? The first were literal child abusers selling a kid’s body parts for money and power, the second were a discriminatory group heavily rooted against individuals with heteromorphic quirks (of whom Spinner is a member and has suffered firsthand growing up), and the third is run by a guy who literally believes that a person’s worth is wholly determined by the strength of their quirk, going so far as to claim that shitty quirks = shitty personality overall. They’re all groups from which discrimination, abuse and an overall suppression of who you are will arise. Whether or not he realises it, Shigaraki is creating a world that is safer for likely thousands of children and teens to grow up in. He claims he exists only to destroy, but he’s inadvertently destroying exactly the sort of rhetoric that made him who he is. Where AfO taught him to use his anger against heroes and hero-hopefuls, when left to his own devices that anger gets turned against the sort of people who reflect his own trauma. Not to mention the fact that the League do not have the most powerful quirks, or the strongest connections. But each of them has been cast out, abandoned, a victim of abuse in their own right and he hand picked them.