#pro dabi

I usually don’t make predictions. I am bad at it tbh (even if I had said it that BJ return would be used by the author to undermine Dabi’s speech). Today, we have the exit of the prison... I don’t really know what to think of it. My biggest problem is that imho, OFA is... totally out of the most interesting part of this manga. I have tried to take an interest in him. I read theory, meta to try to find something and I can understand why thematically he is used. But to be honest, I find him boring af. He is cartoonish. A demon lord ? REALLY ? Who cares about this when there is so many problems in this society that doesn’t involve some fantasy shit per se ? I don’t. I don’t at all. 

I would like to see Shigaraki destroy either AFO or simply influence (or both). And not to make him the ultimate big bad, just to have him flourish even more as a character. 

I see a lot saying that D/eku has to make because he has OFA and he is the hero who wants/has to save everyone but... it does not have a personal impact for him. Okay, you may say he destroys the one who hurt his mentor but... what would you take between someone who just destroys his mentor nemesis and a victim who destroys his abuser who groomed him ? I would take the second one because it is way more interesting and complex imo. Of course, it will not happen because D/eku is the protagonist and Shigaraki is the antagonist but... Shigaraki has a bigger potential because his relationships with others, his backstory and his character is more complex, and most importantly : handle with more complexity. 

In a way, D/eku could be as complex as him. His place in society was very particular and he could have become really nuanced and interesting. Yet, the narrative does not let him be that. He could have understood the discrimination better than anyone but he doesn’t. He could have understood how the hero society is difficult and not that “black and white” but he does not. It is as if a potential complex character had been put into a case, the “Your typical shonen boy” (which is surprisingly changing but you see what I mean).  My worst fear is that something similar happen to Shigaraki.  That the author sacrify Shigaraki’s complexity to AFO’s one. That he would suppress his personnality and simplify his reactions (and his speeches) to make it a more “black and white” character to have a Bigger AFO, you see ? 

For now, what I see in MHA happening is a magic trick. To distract the readers of the questions and heroes’ nastiest flaws in order for the author to control the narrative in the heroes’ favor when he was the one who set up them up to fail. Just like when he piled up the revelations after Dabi’s one to distract everyone from the biggest problem, you know ? 

Oh, of course, I don’t say that there will be no negative impact for the heroes. I am just saying they will be softened and, maybe even worse, use at their own advantage. 

I will not really predict how the prison break will go, etc. I like the League. I will probably like the potential new members of the League but just a bunch of random villains who are just evil (don’t get me wrong, I LOVE just evil villains (I am an Aizen stan since my early teenage years don’t come at me lmao)) but in MHA, they are not done that well and they are not interesting that much.

But I will put that here as a part of a larger bingo : Dabi’s reveal will be used to make End/eavor shine even more for the reader. I don’t think he will deny what happened. I think he will say it is true. But it will be presented as the bravest and most amazing act, thus pushing his narrative forward as heroic whereas Dabi’s one will be seen just like BJ presented it. I hope it will not happen. But eh... I kinda lost hope in the author’s motivations behind his story.