#endvr

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what the fuck. ndvr “spoke...about his family’s past. in complete detail” did he openly admit to abusing his family? we know he mentally abused rei to the point she had a severe breakdown, he neglected natsuo n fuyumi their whole lives, he physically n mentally abused both touya n shoto. has he admitted to that?

Also I don’t think either parent thought he was p-slur, they just didn’t know how to talk or handle him in typical traditional asian family fashion. I do see touya thinking this about himself though.

You know what I think they *all* needed family therapy because rei showed signs of being afraid of touya ever since he tried to kill shouto plus with her own diminishing mental health she wouldn’t have been able to properly help him with these feelings inside her. They were all messed up except for fuyumi and natsuo :’s sorry last one I just had a lot of thoughts with my own family as well

no need to apologize, i appreciate that you've chosen to share your perspective with me!! it's an unexpected gift :-)

endvr cld definitely use some rehabilitation. ideally, his behavior wldve been addressed much earlier on and spared us some of the heartache to come. obv setting his whole eugenics plot into motion after only like a year or two in second place was a major issue that spoke to how flawed his psyche was; but for him to so naturally fall into that, to aquire a wife to breed and to mistreat so many people with such ease, implies that he's already been in that mentality and been allowed to get away with things for so long that it was already second nature. that sort of deep, long-term mentality takes a Lot to unlearn and unpack, even if you're fully dedicated to it. he reminds me a bit of what bakugou used to be like, at the very beginning of the manga. if bakugou had continued to have his middle-school worldview validated, to have never made or friends with or had irl role models that were such good people, to have been congratulated for every misstep, i think he could've grown into an envdr- type character.

i think the best and the safest option for the family would've been to separate him from the others as early as possible. for him to get help and try to improve, and to create a support system for him that doesn't involve anyone he's forced into a subservient role. due to the fucked-up and firmly-established power dynamics in that house, i don't think there's any potential for him having a healthy relationship with rei or his kids unless he removes himself fully from the situation and doesn't pressure them to make any contact with him. he'd have to allow his family, for once, to interact with him out of their own free will. i also think that if he's going to make an honest attempt at improving, he needs to reflect upon + restructure his entire concept of heroics. aside from his ranking obsession/ inferiority complex, he fights to decimating the "bad guy" first and foremost, rather than focusing on helping the civilians or on de-escalation, and he causes a lot of unnecessary death and destruction as a side effect of this cruel and single-minded thinking. i don't think he'll be able to treat people better if he continues fighting humans so cruelly and indiscriminately (think of his vigilante vendetta), esp not when he's publically congratulated for these "wins". (i have a bit of a bone to pick with the toxic hero-civvie-villain culture at large but that's neither here nor there...)

yeah, vigilantes is a bit darker/edgier than the main manga, or at least it used to be. things have been getting more mature in the recent bnha chapters, but in the earlier stuff it seemed like bnha was geared to a younger/ more general audience and vigilantes was more for the older fans. i prefer to read vigilantes as equally- canon to the main manga, but i know some purists wld consider it au. i also take anything from the todofam's- esp endvr's- perspective with a grain of salt bc i know how ppl can warp painful memories in their mind. i've seen firsthand how an abuser can slowly warp their own reality to smth entirely different, to alleviate some of their guilt. i'm most inclined to believe natsuo's perspective, then fuyumi + shouto's, then rei + touya's, then endvr's. (i can explain my reasoning if you'd want bt it'd take a bit and half.)