shigaraki:

the LoV is a big example of how the hero society fucked up. tomura walks in broad daylight, dirty and frightened, asking for help from anyone but nobody helps him because they are so used to rely on heroes to do everything that they don’t even aid to a 5 year old child. toga’s relatives encouraged her to repress herself to the point she broke, rather than helping their daughter through therapy, support and reassurance. jin feels rejected by the society because he isn’t a “good” and “worthy” victim enough to be helped and accepted. magne and spinner too don’t find a place in the society - like spinner turning to admiring stain who points out the flaws of the heroes, much like dabi, he relates to stain’s words and drives himself by them. magne alike the others follows tomura because what freedom he is bound to give. 

hawks is the outcome of the hero society’s brainwashing youths into murders that call themselves “heroes.” after he had murdered jin, he still held himself above, the one right, the more compassionate one among he and dabi - like the comments about dabi’s expression. hawks and dabi are direct foils to each other, both the product of a fucked up society that doesn’t care for it’s people as greatly as they state they do. 

horikoshi multiple times showed us that the LoV is not just some cartoon villains. the biggest parallel is to the Lov - to tomura - is without doubt eri. with a destructive quirk, she was raised by monsters that abused her. let’s say the overhaul arc did not happen, then she would have remained with chisaki. she would have never gotten quirk therapy and growing up, she could have very well become another “villain.” but alternatively, she was spotted by people who will give her guidance. this doesn’t diminish the fact the hero society is an immense problem as a whole. the only difference within eri and tomura is that tomura was not saved by someone who gives a fuck. he was given a hand ( yes pun indeed ) by a sharp mad man with big schemes, and tomura didn’t get better. he stepped out his father’s toxic home ( and remember why in the first place was tomura’s father such a disgusting piece of shit? what drove him to abuse his own son? yes definitely Not the hero society’s faults ) to something worse.

What I mean is that Shigaraki doesn’t become a pillar, he needs the support of the others around him to be functional and actually get stuff done unlike All Might who tends to push people away and do everything himself to make it look like he’s invincible. What I like about bnha is that there is this undertone message seen through the villains that you can’t do it alone. Essentially that’s where All Might failed. He became the single thing holding society together and once he was gone shit starts to hit the fan.

But Shigaraki on the other hand, he knows he needs a team. He knows that he has to put his faith in other people in order to get the job done (as seen in that one scene where Toga and Twice are questioning why he’s giving them a task to fuck shit up with Overhaul and he’s just like “because I trust you”). All Might asks people to put faith in him, Shigaraki takes it one step further and puts his faith in other people.

Whereas All Might is empowered by the people, Shigaraki empowers people. Its even obvious with the way All Might trains Deku (or at least when he’s starting out). During the Sportsfest, All Might wanted Deku to show the world he was here, just like Toshinori did during his first Sportsfest. He wants Deku to be the next Symbol of Peace. But thats not right, he’s just trying to groom another All Might. A real teacher teaches a student how to be themselves, not just another version of the teacher.

Shig s young, so he’s not exactly looking for a successor, but the way he interacts with the league, its not like he wants them to be like him or conform or agree to everything he says. He understands their pushbacks and all. Shig helps the league be themselves. That why you get some pretty wide ranged personalities in there. I think the big reason I like Shigaraki is because he doesn’t want people to rely on him, he gives them a avenue to be something more than what they are. 

Much like Deku to his classmates, the league sees Shigaraki and wants to be better and to do something. Unlike Deku tho, Shigaraki isn’t there as their competitor, he acts as their pathway. 

I don’t know if any of that makes sense but this is just a longwinded way of saying you can’t do it alone. Not because you actually can’t, but because the world is bigger than just you. 

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