#detnerat

1. The Power of "Meta-Language"

One of Re-Destro’s most brilliant moves was rebranding. He didn't use the word "Quirk"—a term that implies a weird accident or a biological quirk of fate. He insisted on "Meta-Abilities."

The Logic: By calling them Meta-Abilities, he framed them as a natural human right and a part of one’s identity, rather than something that needs to be "regulated" or "suppressed" by the government.

The Result: This intellectual framing allowed him to recruit doctors, lawyers, and politicians who felt "stifled" by hero laws, making the MLA feel like a sophisticated civil rights movement rather than a gang of criminals.

3. The "Cell" Structure

Managing 100,000 people is a logistical nightmare. Re-Destro didn't manage them all personally; he used a highly decentralized cell structure. * Sleeper Agents: Most MLA members lived normal lives. They were your neighbors, your mailmen, or your local shop owners.

Radicalization: He used his ancestor Destro’s autobiography as a "Bible." By the time a recruit was brought into the fold, they weren't just followers; they were zealots willing to die for the cause. This level of loyalty is incredibly hard to break, even under interrogation.

The "Billionaire" Paradox: Re-Destro’s greatest skill was making himself indispensable to the very society he wanted to overthrow. By providing the technology heroes used, he became a "load-bearing pillar" of the economy. If the government took him down, they risked a financial collapse.

4. Why He Ultimately Failed

Despite his skill, Re-Destro suffered from "The Specialist’s Trap." He was so good at organizing a revolution that he forgot how to handle a force of nature. He prepared for a war against the government (logic, laws, and tactics), but he wasn't prepared for Tomura Shigaraki—a man who didn't want to change the world, but simply delete it.

[Villains]

Meta Liberation Army 

*I originally uploaded these to my side-blog, but I decided to delete that blog and put them all on my main. In turn, I also fixed some of the old profiles so they would look cleaner, as well as I’ve added the ones I’ve missed.

People with heteromorphic-type quirks! Of course they would be the first group of people that comes to mind when talking about Lifestyle Support Items. Customized clothing, specialized cosmetic products - gotta provide those things when a significant part of the population has a form that’s different from the ‘typical’ body type of furless, four limbs, no other appendages, upright bipedalism, meat-based form.

I really like this worldbuilding example of the malleability of norms and how many things in the world are social constructs. What’s a ‘typical body’ if, say, more than 50% of the population grows an extra limb? Wouldn’t they be the majority, and therefore the norm? What’s considered ‘human’? Who gets to receive ‘human rights’, then?

Those are still questions asked in the series, even after nearly two centuries of quirky humans. And because those ideas are still being debated, the targeted subjects of those questions are affected depending on the resulting answers.

IZUKU MIDORYIA INTERACTING WITH RE-DESTRO, which could have given us a Ra's al Ghul and Batman relationship (as well as looking into the parallels that Re-Destro and Izuku share). Also, All Might and Re-Destro butting heads over Izuku's mentoring (this would have given All Might more character development & explore the whole mentorship trope). This would have also been a good place to finally confront Bakugou and Izuku's pasts with one another, while developing them both further. (pt.2)

Not only that, but it would be a perfect way for the story to explore supply items & how effective they really are to the hero industry, along with the normal civilian life. Finally, learn more about Re-Destro, & his main members, to form some kind of connection to love/hate them like with Overhaul & his goons. Of course, the LoV vs MLA would still happened. However, the MLA's loss to the LoV would be more impactful, as well as prove to the audience just how strong the LoV really gotten. (pt.3)

A... prickly chapter;;

So the fights in Deika have been presented in the media and true to how mass media works in real life, there are lots of holes in the stories released and in the heavily edited videos of the fights shown to the public. We are treated to the sight of the villains finally getting stuff they deserve: new clothes, treatment for their injuries and sushi for Mr Compress! It seems that they’re back to their usual selves, nary a trace of the traumatizing near-death experience they just went thru. Then again they’ve been through so much worse

I just love seeing them interact. And learning a little thing like Dabi hating fish is really nice as a villain Stan. Maybe he hates it cos it’s not soba noodles lol

ReDestro takes them to the stage and introduces them to the cult. Shigaraki, along with Father who has inexplicably survived the disaster, is named the new leader. They have been rebranded in a different way, completely removing “villains” from their namesake and I have to wonder how this will impact how they’re viewed in society. If you pretty up the name of an evil organization will they be more accepted? Will the world turn a blind eye? Will the heroes have a harder time apprehending them?

Look at the previous LoV’s rockstar entrance tho, compared to the sullen Detnerat group on the dark side of the stage!

Apparently they’re now commanding officers of this large group. I love their headshots here, we can tell a lot about how they’re feeling. Mr compress is probably chill with this, Spinner’s nervous about facing the hordes of people, Toga is cute and confident with her new eyepatch, Twice is fired up, Dabi has that measured indifference about him

Meanwhile, Detnerat remains to be quiet and subdued and whut Apocrypha/Geten is a woman!??? A beautiful one at that? And she’s,,, a NEET who only cares about power wow I really did not expect that, wow Hori, wow 😲 I hope they focus on her more in the next chapter, I am prepared to fall in love with her omg

And now, the part of the chapter that’s hardest to read—blatant confirmation of what Hawks has done and what he is up to :( that has to be Jeanist right. I doubt that there’s any way that it’s not him. Hawks did what he had to do and it barely mattered in the end because of what happened in Deika and Dabi knows it. Looks like he’s reveling in the fact that Hawks committed a sin for him

Other interesting things: he didn’t hide his identity at all in this rally and pretended to be a supporter of the liberation army. Fans are all “oh you’re here I didn’t expect that haha” so I suppose it isn’t that big of a deal to meet a big name hero in a place like that. Apart from him and sliding go how many other heroes are there?

It’s cute that the two of them are so close and smiling??? DabiHawks is real oh my god. But the cost of that is Jeanist’s life and I’m not sure how to feel about that

It’s interesting too that Hawks is concerned about the LOV’s sponsor behind the scenes, and that apparently he reports back to Endeavor too? So This tells us that his target isn’t really just Shigaraki “and the rest of the gang” per se, but the force behind Shigaraki. This happens after Shigaraki’s scene with Dr Ujiko (sans John-Chan huhuhu:)

So, it’s established that their main, main target is AfO (aka the real Shigaraki) so I wonder how the heroes will deal with this? I wonder what Hawks will do if or when he learns about everyone’s background story. Or even just Shimura Tenko’s. Will he face them with mercy or not? Will he relate to the villains now that he’s gonna rub elbows with them? Ooooof

The city of Deika is mostly destroyed and the outside world doesn’t know why. The rest of the MLA’s 116,510 followers stationed outside of Deika don’t even know. That provides the Leauge with an amazing and terrifying opportunity.

If they want, they can keep Re-Destro alive and use him to assume the appearance of normalcy. Deternat continues as normal with Re-Destro as the figurehead -- a puppet for the League. His influence draws more people to the MLA (which is now really the League). In order to inflate that influence, they they release a statement about how a dastardly villain group (perhaps the League, perhaps another) stormed the city and the good people of Deika were unable to fight back because of quirk legislation. This draws even more sympathy for the MLA’s cause and grants the League more people to use.

In the background, the League now has access to all of the MLA’s resources and then some. They have all their money (including government funding for the heroes), Trumpet’s political party, Skeptic’s satellites, all of the MLA’s followers and sympathizers, and all of Deternat’s products. They’ve also gained Gigantomachia’s trust and whatever it is that the Doctor promised them. This on top of their access to the Doctor’s skills and resources, his nomus, John-chan’s teleportation, Shigaraki and Toga’s upgrades, Stain’s followers, and AFO’s leadership, skills, and quirks (once he gets out of jail). And no one knows about it. They can easily accumulate even more power before their next major clash with the heroes.

The League was already successfully creating chips in hero society. But now they have such a massive advantage over the (real) heroes that there’s no way they can reasonably put up a fight for long, especially since they probably won’t know the severity of the situation for a while longer. Their budgets are comparable but technology and future public opinion is squarely on the side of the League -- including the UA traitor, who now has access to an entire library of new stealth equipment to choose from.