#ch296

So I just remembered where I’ve seen this guy before:

He was helping evacuate people at Kyushu during the High-End fight.

And it's similarity to real life grief. Let me be clear right off the bat, the pain is not the same, not even close, obviously, but there are some similarities.

In catholic funerary mass there is a sentence that translates to "let the dead bury the dead"

Let the pain of death closer in time overshadow and console you from the deaths that happened before.

I was reading a fan comic the other day, I really liked it, but I reblogged it on private because, well because the pain in it rang hollow now.

In part of course it's because he has a chance to come back and she doesn't, but really it's because the dead bury the dead.

Death is also unbelievable, and I mean that literally, you cannot believe it, you have to look for some meaning in it. Even more so with fictional grief, because... Well chekhov's gun right?

I have been looking for meaning in Midnight's death, I am not sure I have found it all, or even in part. But I have been looking.

What I have found for now is sad, and unsatisfying. But maybe, just maybe, the meaning of her death is the death of heroes as celebrities.

Think about it, she is the one who vets hero names, hero personas. She is also the one that leads the hero PR class (with My.Lady). Aizawa says his job is to teach them how to survive, her job is to teach them how to stay in the spotlight.

The last chapter was all about the misguidedness of going into hero work without accounting for the sheer trauma one will live through. Not necessarily in the way Stain attacked heroes, where heroes who look for or accept fame are false heroes. More in the way that a generation raised under Allmight's protection might not have factored in and now is victimized by the reality. Like Icarus flying toward the sun.