MHA OC Commission: Yearning for @ultimatefangirl-exe !
Nijiki has a crush on Burninâ and used to have a crush on Touya, and they love each other. Itâs the Happy Todoroki AU, not the Everyone is Happy AU lmao
Poor Jiki.
Meanwhile Kido and Onima are completely drunk beside her.
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BNHA and the brainwashing of children and its consequences
So not much time ago I wrote a post titled âHorikoshi and Shouto & Touya's relationâ. Below it two readers wrote their comments and the question those two reply raised felt like a goldmine of points to ponder so I couldnât help but make a post about them.
Was one of them brainwashed? Were they both? And whatâs going in their fight that pushed them to act like that? What pushed others to act like that?
The answers, if you ask me, are not as clear cut as they might seem.
Now, to spare you from having to track down the comments they are as follow:
@crazy-1201 said:
I hated everything about the Touya and Shouto conflict. Dabi was written to be such a scapegoat itâs crazy- because he will say something that actually has valid points and criticisms, just for Shouto and Enjiâs asskissing sidekicks to throw it back in his face that his opinions donât fucking matter at all. It was never about saving Touya, it was about shutting him down- and thatâs what makes all the supposed growth of the family feel like an absolute farce. Endeavor stays a narcissistic shit head who gets to throw himself a pity party, and Shouto comes off as a brainwashed clown.
@shou-chibi said:
He isn't a brainwashed clown wtf, he literally told Dabi if he ignored him and continued to be a hero anyway he would he a puppet. In the end Dabi ends up being a puppet of Endeavor because he does everything the old man wanted. That is the point of the story that Dabi thoughts about Shouto were wrong which is true.
Now, Shouto and Touya are two of my fave characters but the question those two reply raised is a goldmine so I couldnât help but make a post about them. Was one of them brainwashed? Were they both? And whatâs going in their fight that pushed them to act like that? The answers to me are not as clear cut as they might seem.
So letâs start with the discussion.
PART 1: DID ENJI BRAINWASH TOUYA AND SHOUTO WHEN THEY WERE KIDS?
I mean, for sure he wanted one of his kids to become the Hero who would replace him and surpass All Might but did he brainwash them?
Brainwash is a strong word, it means âpressurize (someone) into adopting radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible meansâ so we should ask ourselves âWas he THE SOLE REASON why they wanted to become Heroes or had he never interacted with them, they would have never harbored such wish?â
Hell no, BNHA presents us with an universe that has children from preschool to middle school declare they want to be Hero, ESPECIALLY TO BECOME A HERO LIKE ALL MIGHT (and surpassing him becoming even cooler than him). Being a Hero is the coolest thing a person can be, and all the children want to be cool and therefore want to be Heroes. Weâve plenty of instances in which weâre told an insane number of kids want to become Heroes, this is so much the norm that Dai is confused when, due to Hawksâ changes to the ranking, his classmates start wishing for works different from becoming a Hero because theyâre presented with other works that are also equally cooler (note how all the kids who say they donât want to become a Hero in his class mention thatâs because they want to be like another person they judge cool, they donât talk about them liking a side of that job or having talent for it, they just say âwe want to be like this cool personâ).
We only have few notable exceptions of kids who donât want to be Heroes for very specific reasons (think Kouta whoâs traumatized by his parentsâ death⊠and then he will change his mind and go to U.A. high⊠or Eri whoâs so impressed by Jirou that she overcomes her trauma and decides to become a singer).
When Touya expressed his wish to become a Hero he had no reasons to feel differently from the other kids his age. The most likely situation is that even if Enji has said nothing in this regard, he would have still wanted to be a Hero, especially because his father is a Hero and children that small (Touya is three before he starts to burn) would feel even more prone to become a cool Hero like their dad. Children that small are often prone to mimic their parents and think they wanna be like them. So yeah, Enji didnât need to say the words or do anything, Touya would have still wanted to become a Hero like his cool dad with whom he had a very good relation at the start. Long story short, in regard to Touya Enjiâs behavior very likely felt supportive and encouraging, but it didnât dramatically change his mind and lead him to wish for something he would have never wished had his father been different. So, no, Enji didnât brainwash him into wishing to become a Hero.
Shouto comes out a bit different. Maybe he started wanting to be a Hero same as all the normal children but then, at 5, we can see he is traumatized by Enjiâs behavior and so he has a good reason NOT TO WANT TO BECOME A HERO like is absolutely not cool but very abusive father. Itâs not Enji the one who changes Shoutoâs mind and make him wish to become a Hero again, like any other child Shouto is impressed by All Might, heâs a fan of All Might and when his mother help him make a distinction, telling him he can be a Hero like All Might and doesnât have to be a Hero like his father Shouto naturally returns to wish to become a Hero. Like All Might. Still, Shouto wants to be a Hero. Here, especially here, thereâs no brainwashing from Enji either.
Thos two kids arenât brainwashed by Enji, they donât come to wish to become Heroes because he âpressurize them into adopting radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible meansâ.
He doesnât need to, they naturally want to become Heroes.
So the kids arenât brainwashed?
Hell no, theyâre VERY brainwashed. By society.
In a normal world small kids donât all wish to pick up the same job. Theyâve different ideas of what they want to do once theyâll get big, of what theyâll like/will be cool to make. Some of them will assume their parentsâ job is a cool option because many small kids want to do what mommy and daddy do, some will want to do the job of a person that seems cool to them, a sport star, a singer, the owner of the candy shop so they can eat all the candies in the shop (or so they believe), the teacher so they can tell other kids what to do, a manga/anime character and so on.
They donât really have the ability to know what it means to do that job and if theyâre cut for it, it seems cool to them and so they want to do it.
The norm would be that since children are different people exposed to different experiences in a class all the children would do different jobs, some might be a little more common but⊠all the children wanting to do the same job? Thatâs not normal.
BNHA, as said before, is a world that blast everyone with images of HOW COOL AND AMAZING Heroes are, they donât just do their job, they do commercials, theyâre on television, theyâre overly paid, theyâre praised at every turn as the coolest thing ever, the ones that can do everything, even use their Quirk openly and in a cool way, the ones that dress in those flashy costumes and are constantly praised, their billboard chart is a huge event, the sport festival of a Hero school is more popular than Olympic games.
Kouta, who doesnât like Heroes, is viewed as strange until Midoriya is explained why Kouta doesnât like them and then the storyâs goal become to persuade Kouta Heroes are actually cool and he should like them more than focus on Koutaâs trauma.
Touya and Shouto grew up in a world that said that Heroes are the coolest thing everyone should aspire to be, people like Midoriya who are Quirkless and therefore get no right to aspire to be Heroes compared to people who have a Quirk that allows them to retract their own body parts into themselves, or to heal people with a kiss, because this sort of abilities undoubtedly allow you to defeat Villains in ways a Quirkless person could never do, are mocked and discriminated.
All this pressure brainwash them in the same way as it brainwash all the other children, they might also have what it takes, they might have the Hero spirit but the mass is brainwashed into thinking being a Hero is THE VERY BEST THING a child might long to become, that itâs odd not longing for it or not to like Heroes, that who canât become a Hero is unfortunate or, worse, inferior.
Now⊠itâs true that we see that, in the last year of middle school the kids have to face such conditioning and see if they can realistically become Heroes, if they can be accepted into a school and which one that would be.
In Chap 1 we see that Midoriyaâs class as a whole wants to become a Hero but only Bakugou and Midoriya will try for U.A. High as itâs too hard to get into a Hero school, chap 144 also shows Kirishimaâs classmates reconsider their wish because they donât think theyâve what it takes to become Heroes and the spin off âTeam-up missionsâ Chap. 26 will show us kids going to the prospective students day at U.A. High and coming to term with the fact they are interested/have what it takes to go to U.A. High or not.
Societyâs brainwashing of children is not so strong that they canât realize they just canât become Heroes because they donât have what it takes or that they just arenât that interested in becoming Heroes. âTeam-up missionsâ Chap. 26 shows how Sanda Raito was told by everyone he should become a Hero so he went to U.A. High prospective students day thinking he would become one, only to realize heâs not really interested in such thing even if everyone is pressuring him in that direction.
After all society isnât interested in brainwashing children that hard they wonât become anything else but Heroes or die trying, society needs people to also make other jobs but the fact that society is still SATURATED with Heroes, tell us that the pressure, the brainwash, is still consistent enough it lasts in many kids.
However coming to term with their brainwash and let it lead their life or decide for another course was meant to happen later in the life of those two children had they grew up like normal kids.
However they donât get that luxury.
PART 2: IF HE WASNâT BRAINWASHED WHAT LEAD TOUYA TO BECOME THE TOUYA WE HAVE IN THE FINAL ARC
Touyaâs Quirk begins to burn him and Enji follows the doctorâs direction and agrees Touya canât use his Quirk, which means he canât become a Hero. From when Touya is three and a half to when he supposedly die on Sekoto Peak, Enji will, VERY, VERY POORLY try to persuade him not to become a Hero. Itâs 10 years. If Enji had any ability to brainwash a child, Touya would have stopped wanting to be a Hero, he wouldnât have continued wanting to be one. Touyaâs most definite trait, something thatâs even more obvious in the Japanese society is that HE REFUSES TO DO WHAT HIS FATHER TOLD HIM. Heâs not brainwashed, heâs challenging his fatherâs authority. At three and a half.
But why is he doing this? Isnât he doing this due to Enji telling him he has to surpass All Might?
Itâs more complicate than that.
Part of the blame for Touyaâs actions goes ON SOCIETY, society who told him that being a Hero was the coolest thing he could do, society that taught him all the normal kids wish to be Hero so not wishing for it is odd at best, abnormal at worst unless youâre in the Quirkless pitiable situation, society who likely pressured him, like it did with Tensei, in following his fatherâs footsteps because thatâs what a firstborn do. Touya doesnât live under a rock, he lives in that society thatâs not supportive of people who canât become Heroes.
The other part goes on Enji (and Rei), who doesnât know how to properly handle the situation.
Yes, they had told Touya he was born to fulfill his fatherâs ambitions but that was the moment to backpedal from it, reassure him he was worthy even if he couldnât and BE EVEN CLOSER TO HIM SO AS TO REASSURE HIM WITH ACTIONS HE HAD WORTH AND GIVE HIM SUPPORT FROM A SOCIETY THAT WOULD TELL HIM THE CONTRARY. Instead Enji, not knowing how to handle things, makes himself scarce.
Why?
Itâs not just because he doesnât know how to handle things, and itâs not because he doesnât love Touya. The story wants us to believe he loves Touya even if heâs bad at showing it.
Enji believes that if Touya wants to become a Hero itâs solely due to him and completely misses how society around Touya is different than it was when he was Touyaâs age. It was All Might who basically made everyone and their mom to wish to become a Hero⊠but Enji, despite being younger than All Might, itâs still old enough he spent his childhood without the symbol of peace. All Might went back in Japan when he was in middle school, Enji didnât live the hype for All Might as a child, he grew in a society that was still struggling and in which being a Hero was very likely not as incensed as it was after All Might came back and began single handedly dismantle crime and Villains. He tells Touya to play with the other kids to forget how he wanted to become a Hero, unaware of how the most popular game among kids is âplaying Heroesâ. In this heâs like Kotarou, he doesnât understand the pressure from society his kid lives.
Since Enji thinks heâs the sole influence in Touyaâs life, by pulling out from Touyaâs life he thinks this will be enough to dissuade Touya to continue. Enji canât wrap his mind on how, despite him telling Touya to stop and Touya getting hurt, Touya insists in continuing to train.
He also misses how his pulling out of Touyaâs life passes the wrong message. Instead than making his son feel free of pressure, it makes his son feel rejected. One day his father supported him and his dream and believes he would be able to do great things and would spend time with him trying to help him become a Hero⊠and the other he tells him he canât become a Hero and doesnât support him anymore nor spend time with him anymore.
Touya feels rejected, a child psychologically need his parents to pay him attention and now Enji isnât paying him attention anymore. Touya lives the rejection poorly, it leads him to believe heâs rejected because now Enji thinks less of him, before Enji told him he would be the most amazing Hero now he tells him he canât be⊠to Touya itâs like telling him heâs nothing, that heâs a failure even if Enji never tells him the worlds. He would have taken it bad even if he had never known his father wanted him to become a Hero, even if Enji never had other kids, those things only made it even worse.
The point was never to show Touya he canât become a Hero (by having other kids who could), itâs to persuade him itâs okay not become a Hero, that heâs still valid, but Enji misses this, partly also because since he has his own psychological problems and feelings that make him feel heâs less.
So Touyaâs goal begins to shift.
Before he had this childish idea he wanted to be a Hero because society told everyone being a Hero is the best thing ever and to him in particular that since heâs the firstborn of the Number 2 he should follow in his fatherâs footsteps and Enji encouraged and supported those beliefs, telling him he would be even greater than him, than All Might, then he just starts to wish to go back to what for him was âhis normal lifeâ, a life in which his father appreciates and encourages him and spends time with him and heâs a ânormalâ kid who can aim to be a Hero.
Itâs not because Enji brainwashed him in thinking he could be the best Hero, itâs because his father is neglecting him, itâs because society is telling him he is different if he canât be a Hero, that he has no value, that heâs a failure. Heâs a kid, he needs help in handling and overcoming this and he gets none.
Meanwhile he grows, he grows and begins to question things, to question his father, to question their Hero society. Those questions will grow up to shape his opinions about Heroes, which he will toss at his father in Dabiâs dance.
Isnât Enji also at fault for not paying them attention just because heâs not perfect? Enji is obsessed with his role as Hero and made his children with a purpose, does Enji represent all the Heroes? Are they all like him? Enji doesnât care for him, for his pain, which will lead him to think he doesnât have an empathetic bone in his body.
Enji had them because he couldnât stand being Number 2, which will lead him to think his father is addicted to the limelight.
Enji is focused on how he is a Hero, how he belongs to the Hero world and Touya isnât, which will lead him to think he wallows in his own small-mindedness and self-importance.
Ultimately Enji wonât come to Sekoto Peak and wonât save Touya so heâs not a Hero. Heroes are fakes, as Stain said, they donât exist.
Touya is not yet where he will be when Dabiâs dance will take place, but heâs walking that way.
He has lost his wish to be a Hero for the sake of being a Hero, he has lost faith in Heroes, in them being cool, in them being good. Yet he canât stop.
Reiâs question is not so off the mark, he has probably stopped wishing to become a Hero since Heroes are so uncool, so cruel⊠but the other option is to accept heâs nothing, that his father will never look at him again, that society will never view him as more than a failure. Heâs isolating from his classmates, heâs desperate to prove his worth, to prove he can be cool and worth of love too, not just Shouto.
Touyaâs reply to Rei is all about social roles. Rei had to sacrifice and marry Enji because, as a daughter of the Himura family, she was expected to sacrifice for her family. Touya, as the firstborn of Endeavor, canât just shrug it off the same way she couldnât. Japan is big on childrenâs duties toward their parents, on the role of the firstborn.
Rei claims there are countless options for him but Touya canât see them. Sheâs just telling him to give up on Enjiâs love and appreciation, on the idea of being a normal kid with normal aspiration that society will, at best, look with pity, she canât show him another path in which he could have all he had before.
Things arenât as bad as Touya sees them, in truth itâs not like Enji doesnât love him and societyâs pressure will lessen as he grows because deep down society knows not everyone can be a Hero and that we need people who arenât Heroes but Touya is too young to know it and in a too bad psychological headspace.
With Shouto her words worked because Shouto could see in All Might the person he wants to be and by seeing in All Might the person he wanted to be he would still be allowed to live inside what society appreciated, but Touya has nothing of the sort. It was his parentsâ duty to provide him that and they instead just told him HE should search for it.
Ultimately Sekoto Peak will happen and Touyaâs faith in any chance to get back what for him was the ânormal lifeâ will break. He stopped believing he can win back Enjiâs love and appreciation but this breaks him too, this leaves him with nothing, not even hope of happiness. In his mind Enji destroyed him so heâll destroy him back and then⊠they can restart together. Touya is suicidal, he wants to die with his father and be reincarnated.
At this point none of the things Touya believed was something Enji willingly wanted him to believe and none of the things Touya is doing was something Enji wanted him to do.
Enji told him to stop, Touya not only never stopped but he became a Villain and is trying to destroy society and his family, starting with Shouto and finishing with himself and Enji. Thereâs no way Enji wanted any of this.
Touya is the opposite of brainwashed by Enji even though heâs obsessed with having back his father because thatâs the only form of happiness heâd ever known. In a way the image weâre shown in chap 352 is wrong, deep down Touya isnât a 13 years old boy, heâs still a 3 years old boy who longs for his father to love and validate him as he used to do back then.
PART 3: IF HE WASNâT BRAINWASHED WHAT LEAD SHOUTO TO BECOME THE TOUYA WE HAVE IN THE FINAL ARC
Rei had persuaded Shouto that it was okay for him to become a Hero because he could become a Hero like All Might but⊠then Rei snaps, scars him and then sheâs hospitalized. If Touyaâs trauma and leading force was his fatherâs neglect, Shoutoâs trauma and leading force is being stripped of his mother.
He forgets he wanted to become a Hero like All Might and decides his life will circle around him rejecting his father, spiting him. Itâs the opposite of Touya whose life circled around gaining his fatherâs appreciation, but both has stopped wishing to become Heroes for the sake of becoming Heroes and had started acting with a different goal that circles around Enji.
Touyaâs plan to gain Enjiâs love back was to prove his father he could become the Hero Enji wanted and go back on being taught by him, as he only wants to learn from him (because for Touya Enjiâs training lessons are the moments he bounds with his father).
Shoutoâs plan to get back at Enji is to prove his father he can become the Hero Enji didnât want, a Hero whoâll surpass All Might using solely ice (when Enji wanted him to use his fire and wanted him to use his ice solely to cool down), a Hero who wonât learn anything from Enji (because for Shouto Enjiâs training lessons are the moments in which he and his mother got abused by him).
Same as for Touya, thatâs not what Enji wanted him to do, even if itâs similar to what Enji wanted him to do. This is moved by spite, not by brainwashing⊠but itâs not good for Shouto.
In attempt to deny Enji heâs denying half of himself, heâs denying himself possibilities and, at the same time heâs mimicking Enjiâs behavior, his anger, the fact he refuses social contact with the others and measure all in terms of a race to the first place.
Again, itâs not due to brainwash, itâs more âHe who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.â
In order to fight Enji, Shouto embraces his mindset to use it to hurt him. Shouto is young, he doesnât understand well what heâs doing and this is partially the result of Enjiâs influence but the starting points were Shoutoâs choices and goals, which are clearly not what Enji wanted.
It doesnât last though. Midoriya gives Shouto a wake up call on how Shouto is forgetting he wanted to become a Hero (like All Might) and now is focusing solely on wanting to get revenge on his father.
While Horikoshi will go a bit back and forth with this, the idea is that from this point on Shouto will focus on his own wish to become a Hero like All Might and will try to do his best to let go of his anger toward Enji.
Ironically, in order to become the Hero he wants to be, heâll have to accept he can learn from Enji how to be a Hero (Iâm not really fond of how the story handles this but the idea behind it is not wrong per se) so heâll intern under him. Twice. Which was what Enji wanted⊠but again, heâs not doing this because Enji wanted him to.
All this is not easy, Shouto fights and stumbles trying to find balance, trying to find a way in which his heart can cope with his negative feelings and march forward, trying to discover how to fully use his Quirk.
Should he use his ice? Should he use his fire? Can he use one and the other?
The very first battle with Touya shows him his fire isnât up to the match, Touyaâs fire is hotter. However at the same time Shouto finds a way to use his Quirk, it was never about using his ice or his fire or his ice and his fire but using them both at the exact same time. Phosphor is a mix of the two, a cold fire that allows him to keep his temperature stable while he uses his coldest ice.
If being a Hero is all about using their Quirk in order to do so, Shouto has finally found a way to use HIS power and therefore to fully accept himself and find his place in society.
Shouto doesnât want to be Endeavorâs upgrade, he wants to be his own Hero. He wants to be âSHOUTOâ. By using different abilities than his father he also remarks this.
A person observing from outside, a person who doesnât get to hear Shoutoâs thoughts, a person like Touya, might misunderstand.
Shouto is doing plenty of things that are exactly the things Enji wants or that Touya believes Enji wants (Touya believes his father AGAIN didnât want to face him hence he sent Shouto) or that are done the same way as Enji would do them.
Touya legitimately thinks heâs doing them because he knows his father and sees how Shoutoâs actions match and therefore comes to the logical conclusion that his actions are moved by him. Itâs a possible conclusion.
However, just because heâs doing things Enji wants or in his same way, it doesnât mean Shouto is mindlessly obeying to him. Shouto thought at all heâs doing and came to the decision that such things were also what he wanted. Rejecting someone completely to prove youâre different doesnât mean youâre thinking for yourself, it means youâre still taking his thoughts and blindly turning them over in a failed effort to differentiate. Shouto thought things over and decided. He wasnât being a puppet, he was taking his own decisions that accidentally match with Enji.
Ironically the one Touya blames him for is the only one that doesnât match with Enji, Enji didnât want Shouto to face Touya, this time he wanted to be the one to face Touya, Shouto had to persuade him of the contrary. Far from being a puppet, he took his own choice but, and here I blame Horikoshi, he didnât explain it that well to Touya.
Shouto tells Touya he isnât doing this on anyoneâs order but made the decision to stop Touya. Skipping that it was decided (by Hawks) that Shouto should stop Touya and that if it had been decided differently Shouto would have obeyed for the sake of the battle, just Shoutoâs words donât really prove to Touya heâs not a puppet, who has internalized so much what Enji wanted that he thinks itâs his own wish to do so.
Shoutoâs next sentence works better to prove heâs different from Enji.
What Shouto is fundamentally saying is heâs there because he wants to look after Touya, so as to stop him. Instead than just telling him to stop and leave like his father used to do, Shouto is there to stop him.
TOUYA ACCEPTS THIS REPLY, he accepts Shouto is there out of his own will. Itâs all about his next speech, the mindless soldiers arenât the movers and the shakers, this is about people having feelings and urges that starts firing off. He acknowledges that Shouto, like the League, has feelings and urges and thatâs why heâs there.
The two will argue again, Touya criticizing Shouto, AND THIS TIME ITâS SHOUTO WHO AGREES. He agrees he had a time in which he had lost his way and had to fight to find it back. Shouto admits heâs not perfect, he made his own mistakes but now he has found his standing, his way.
Even if the two will keep on arguing, we can see that Touya accept Shouto is his own person, a person thatâs very different from him but a person anyway. It doesnât make them friends, it doesnât make Touya like Shouto or Shouto understand Touya but at least theyâre facing each other like two distinct persons who acknowledge each other as moved by their own wills, not by Enjiâs will.
PART 4: WHAT THEN ABOUT THE POINTS TOUYA MAKES?
The problem is that the story doesnât really care about the point Touya is making because itâs extremely focused in rejecting how heâs handling things, using the Heroes to do so, to carry on this âmoralâ.
This is a story that claims that when society kicks you in the nuts you shouldnât complain but keep silent and be the best version of yourself and⊠bad things eventually will go away.
We see it MARKEDLY with the conflict with Spinner and Shouji in which Shouji insists the discriminated Heteromorphs should just put up with abuse or theyâll made matter worse and be the best version of themselves and not use their rage to rage against society but do like Shouji, wear a mask to hide his scars so as to put society at ease that heâs not angry about the abuse he received, accept someone might call him in gross ways, focus on the good moments and shine bright to illuminate society (because they might end up in class A who accepts them and will help them make tons of wonderful memories).
We see it with the conflict between Uraraka and Himiko where weâre told Himiko should have just put a lid on her emotions (because she might have met Uraraka who would have accepted her).
We see it with the conflict between Shouto and Touya where Shouto tell s him he should have just gotten angry with his family and not with society, that he needs to cool his head and stop (because unknown to Touya now all his family is ready to finally looking at him and showing him they care, though Shouto doesnât tell him that).
We see it with the conflict between Tomura and Midoriya where Tomura is told to let go of his rage (because eventually Midoriya might have held his hand when he was abused and distressed).
So it doesnât matter how right a Villain is in his complains, the story insists with a âit doesnât matter, you canât react like that, you should have put up with itâ.
Again, this is not being brainwashed by Enji or kissing his ass, this is the message of the story that believes one shouldnât rage, especially against society, but just put up with it until we wait for things to surely be better (or us to commit suicide or be killed or die. Whatever happens first).
Touya isnât ignored because heâs being a scapegoat, no one is blaming him for the Todoroki familyâs issues, or for societyâs issues. Theyâre just saying it doesnât matter his reasons, he couldnât act like that. And while I agree no one can go around destroying society the option BNHA proposes, to just put up with abuse, pain and misery until theyâll magically go away just feel either absurdly naĂŻve or disgustingly convenient.
PART 5: AND THEN WHAT ABOUT SAVING TOUYA?
It was all about STOPPING Touya, it was all about STOPPING Himiko, it was all about STOPPING Tomura, it was all about STOPPING the Heteromorphs. Saving was a bonus, Midoriya even say the possibility of killing Tomura isnât off the table even if he doesnât want to do it, but he insists he wants to understand what caused Tomura to snap. Uraraka also wants to understand what caused Himiko to snap and Shouto wants to know why Touya didnât come back home. And thatâs it.
Someone noticed right from chap 302 how in a manga that rambles so much about saving people, despite Horikoshi wanting to paint Touyaâs family members as loving him and despite Touya being clearly suicidal and therefore in need of saving NO ONE TALKED ABOUT SAVING HIM, THEY JUST TALKED ABOUT FIGHTING AND STOPPING HIM.
The story prioritizes saving the nameless civilians over saving the Villains. The Villains are bad, they need to be punished, to suffer consequences for their actions, they canât be saved, if not spiritually. This is the moral of the story. The Villains has crossed the Moral Event Horizon when theyâve attacked society, theyâre past saving.
Also, @stillness-in-green has a wonderful post discussing how theyâre past the age of saving.
Anyway, either because they crossed the moral even horizon or because they're too old or because their death is good for cheap emotional sadness, thereâs no saving, if not of the spiritual kind.
And in a story that talked so much about saving and would like to claim it has a happy ending thatâs not an uplifting at all, at least as far as I'm concerned.
miharayama kana is the scorched earth hero: scoria. sheâs been one of endeavorâs top sidekicks for nearly a decade. sheâs the oldest of the flaming sidekickers, sort of acting like the big sister in the groupâs dynamic.
she has a lava quirk, officially known as magmatic pressure. her body works as a high-pressure furnace that turns minerals to magma for her to release or âventâ as she sees fit. itâs like a volcanic environment inside her and she has to find a way to release what she is generating.
BEHIND THE NAME:
âmiharayamaâ literally translates to âthree plains mountainâ or âhole mountainâ; referring to the central cone of the izu oshima mountain, mount mihara
âkanaâ meaning âpowerful,â âcapableâ
scoria is a pyroclastic rock of basaltic or andesitic composition that comes from the ejection of lava from a volcano that cools rapidly.
(onima, burnin, and kido were traced, only my oc was drawn completely on my own. her design is inspired by starfire in the dc animated universe as well as lavagirl)
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