#Shan's mha rants

[villainsandvictimsalliance]

Whenever I remember that Tenya almost went full vigilante mode for Tensei I want to scream so bad like it's not even funny.

Bnha somersaults its way into saying "maybe heroes are just good citizens with the power to do good things" and "maybe heroism is not in the big notorious acts but in being kind and fair in the day to day details" AND THAT'S ALL TENSEI.

AND THAT'S WHAT MOTIVATES TENYA TO GO FULL BLOODHOUND ON STAIN.

I'm not denying that the world needs the big ass heroism acts like defeating AFO or saving a city or all those flashy notorious feats. All Might is very needed, because there are threats that are too old and developed and have accumulated too much hatred and damage over the years. You cannot always prevent those things from happening and to believe so would be naive, right?

What I'm saying is that those big events are the lowest percentage. They are the consequences of a systematic failure.

Take two of the biggest evil plots in the manga: AFO planning to still OFA and Overhaul with his quirk-erasure bullets. Both plans depended on an abused child being used as objects, Eri because her quirk was the base of the bullet working and Tomura because he was just meant to be AFO's new body in the future. In both cases, AFO and Overhaul were cornered after losing the child they were using for their plots. In fact it was the kids resisting the abuse that contributed the most to their failure: Eri prevented Overhaul from hurting Deku and Tomura prevented AFO from escaping his decaying body.

In that sense, the little unknown pro-heroes taking care of their neighborhood's children do a lot to prevent cases like Tomura or Eri from happening. Hell, AFO and Overhaul were also kids who went the violent route to survive.

Ingenium's silent heroism is probably the best example of what a hero looks like. They don't seek fame or glory. They regard heroism as their duty, their responsibility. No matter how little the act is, it's still important to do it.

At this point, we must admit the Tenya's crisis over what happened to Tensei is not only about their bond as brothers. Yeah, that was Tenya's big bro, but it is no less than when Deku and Bakugo saw All Might fighting AFO for the last time— the last moments of their role models.

The Iida brothers' crisis was deep rooted in the main issues of the story, so I'm still baffled at how people just tend to ignore it.

Before Stain, the "League of Villains" was just a minor threat. Dabi was a nobody with no real crimes to his name. Toga was just a lost little girl trying to survive the streets. Spinner didn't even think about being a villain. Before Stain, things were bad, but no one really thought they could change the status quo, you know?

The USJ incident was not the big deal because 1) how was attacking kids the answer? and 2) going for All Might was expected, since he was almost invincible and the biggest hero in the world and blah blah blah.

When Stain started attacking minor pro-heroes...

Stain was the opposite of Tomura. He admired All Might and saved those kids, but went after the pro-heroes with less powerful quirks. He gave the population a sense of control. It's like he said "hey, you don't have to go after All Might to change the system and why would you? The real problem are the ones on the lowest part of the pro-hero chain".

Suddenly, they could go against pro-heroes and win. Divide and conquer. Suddenly, there was a ladder to climb. Suddenly, you could target not the institutions responsible for the rotten ideology of your society, but the people who enforced the ideology with their daily work.

Stain defended his posture by saying that those people didn't want to be real heroes. They just wanted the money, the fame, they were not really committed to their duty.

And then attacked Tensei, of all people.

If big crimes are built from little crimes that are accumulated over time, what would happen if you decided to eliminate the people taking care of the little crimes?

The crisis of belief in pro-heroes was triggered by Stain. When Stain pointed out at Ingenium (the one in the suit was Tensei) and accused him of false heroism, it's when shit started to go south. He created the idea that pro-heroes should be punished if they don't perform correctly and that they deserve to die if they don't have pure ideas of their job— or whatever.

Tensei being the victim is supposed to show how hypocritical Stain is. Tensei is probably one of the only pro-heroes that never did anything wrong in the manga and one of the best family men to be presented. A man who was loved by everyone for being good in every sense of the word.

Stain projected his own fantasies on Tensei in order to accomplish his witch hunt, not truly caring to figure out who the person was. He just attacked for the sake of attacking, which explains why he was so popular: anyone could do the same and project their issues on him, fighting different battles disguised as just one cause.

When Tenya went after him, it could only make sense. The little of the Iidas is too righteous and noble, quick to judge and act, prone to making mistakes and getting carried away by the looks of it all. So easily his justice turns into revenge and he falls into the trap Stain set. Who knows what a hero student killing Stain would have caused...

At this point it's obvious I'm just ranting for the sake of ranting but 😭😭😭 give the Iidas the respect they deserve please.

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[shanaraki]

Forget it now I'm listening to Beetlejuice. Kwhdndljdnd.

#Watch me thinking about an mha / bnha au with this #I already have a spn au #But shhhhh #Shan's personal rants

[villainsandvictimsalliance]

I'm the greatest Stain hater out there. I get why he's a well written character and he does bring a lot to the story, but I can't stand his face. Worst bnha come back ever to me. Of all the characters I wanted to see again he was not one of them.

He has a cool quirk and cool gear and cool outfit and whatever his ideology makes also zero sense and he's a professional bootlicker of a fake utopic past based on true heroism. His ass doesn't know what he's talking about.

He insisted that only the strongest people could be heroes, but if that was true the world would be screwed. Humanity can't survive on big heroics alone. You can't wait for things to become big to deal with them, you can't deploy a few heroes and hope for them to do all the work. Heroism is team work, not individual work. Heroism is a thousand acts of kindness in a day. What is so bad about heroes getting paid? They are people like anyone else, they need to eat. If they do hero work 24/7 they need an income. The answer is to change the laws so to better regulate the hero work, but why would you start killing people?

"They are weak", "they've become complacent", "they're soft", isn't that the ideal? All Might smiles because he's terrified of risking his life everyday. The dream is to reach a point where heroes like All Might don't have to sacrifice themselves in order for life to be peaceful. "But Stain actually lowered the crime rates by killing heroes!", he also took the lives and dreams of so many, crushed the hearts of so many families, he even drove more villains to the streets. Worst villains. Toga? Dabi? They were inspired by Stain. Maybe at first Stain's method worked, but it made things so much worse later.

Stain's ideals are all over the place. When you hear Dabi talk, for example, his interpretation is so far from what Stain originally stated. Stain would kiss the ground All Might walks on. Dabi believed there were no heroes, not even one. Yet, Dabi declared himself as the final manifestation of Stain's ideal.

Stain's biggest achievements were 1) saving Deku, 2) delivering crucial information to the hero side after breaking from jail and 3) his role in fighting AFO during the final showdown. I'd be tempted to add his little speech to Tenya, if Stain wasn't the reason why Tenya almost went full villain on him.

Again, I'm not saying he is not an incredible tool to move the narrative forward. His design is cool. He brings a much needed contradicting morality to the manga. All of that. I recognize why people would adore him. It's just that I hate him with my entire heart. Can't stand him. Find him annoying.

That's my personal position about it.

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

Touya needs his family and his friends, we all get that right? He needs both things in order to heal, because he can't just simply make his family the center of his world again and he cannot simply stay with a bunch of people who are equally as traumatized and in need to care as him (unhinged and toxic, they won't help him recover, not own their own).

But also: Touya needs new people in his life. People to make new memories with, people to know the new him and see him this way and not as the memory of all he did and went through.

He needs to learn how to trust in the world around him once more. At least he deserves the opportunity, you know? If he doesn't want it, okay. But I'd to read more fanfics about Dabi finding new people to be around too.

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

You know bnha is really wrapping all lose ends and getting ready to close the story when you get both Enji's redemption arc and Bakugou's redemption arc back to back.

— First element : recognition.

What I did was wrong. I was a (partially) a bad person. I shouldn't have done it. I did it for awful reasons. I have to deal with the consequences of my own actions and improve my mental health. Also I have to make up for all the hurt I caused.

This is the beginning of everything. Be recognizing how vulnerable they are, how wrong they've been, the characters can change their behaviors or starting walking towards the path to redemption.

— Second element : actions.

Both Endeavor and Bakugou took the protecting role, facing the enemy face to face. They know they can't demand people to forgive them or forget, but they can actively help other instead of being an obstacle. Right now we have both Bakugo and Enji giving all they have in a fight. Bonus because they are holding themselves accountable and yet they don't have a victim complex. Endeavor is not making himself a martyr right now, he doesn't want to die. Neither Bakugo. They are not the center of their narratives anymore. They are part of it, but not the center.

— Third element : purpose.

Bakugo and Enji know why their purposes were wrong, or at least they started to get it. Here both of them arw genuinely trying to help. It is personal, but I because they are enraged and fired up, but they are also thinking about others. They are not thinking "I need to be the number one". They are at war, members of a team, playing their roles. The main character complex is over. See how they speak about others, how they are more aware now of their surroundings and the people in their lives.

— Fourth element : self knowledge.

They know who they are now. They know who they were and who they want to be. People can't plant ideas in their heads or confuse them anymore, not like before. In being more sure in themselves now they have better control over their actions and that is why their quirks have reached incredible levels. They are in control of the situation, the more they can. They are not trying to control everything at the same time, just doing what they know they can do.

They have matured now, which proves the story is getting ready to present to us the big finale.

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

If Spinner has siblings, I really want him to leave the League behind a little and go with them. More to remember who he was and where he came from, because AFO messed too much with his head and he needs to find his way back.

I think all the League should take some time. Not totally out of touch, but in spaces that encourage their healing and not their bad habits. And then, once they are better, they can reunite again.

They can also write to each other, find their words. Or send each other gifts or postcards, Idk. They can go through it not totally apart, but I think it'd be sweet if they get better and go back together to find out how much they missed their friends.

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

I'm once again thinking about how even after being found by AFO and all that happened the night the Shimuras died, Tenko kept on rejecting violence and holding himself back.

It was AFO who insisted that he should take action and let the hatred in his heart take over. Which as a clue tells us that in his heart, Tenko still wanted to be a good kid and don't hurt other people, neither act on his anger. He'd rather swallow it down and keep himself silent. Maybe it was a reminder of what he did to his family and he wanted to avoid doing it again...

Until AFO, his new savior and parental figure, broke it all down by placing him on the worst path possible.

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

Hmmm, wondering if Dabi thought Tomura would treat him like a second hand version of himself or a replacement, since that's how AFO treated Touya and AFO raised Tomura after all.

Wondering if that surprised him, when Tomura left clear that they were all equals. Wondering if Dabi saw how different it was for Bakugou, that even kidnapped it was always real, the intention behind Tomura's acts, his words.

Wondering about Dabi's thoughts as he grew to understand Tomura and see the differences between him and AFO, and wondering about he ever wondered himself where was Tomura when he burned down the hospital. If they could have met before. How was Tomura's childhood like being around Doc Ujiko and AFO and Kurogiri. If he was as lonely as Dabi feels, if he kept himself alive from pure hatred too.

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

Dabi dressed in white and blue is also Dabi using the colors of his mother, not his father. Using the white of the ice and the snow, the one who relates him to his siblings but not to his father.

It also reminds me of the white of people who is slowly losing their minds due to the abuse, the white of hospitals but in a satiric way. His chest is bare, his heart and lost innocence exposed along with the burns and scars on his body. It's like he's saying "well, ain't I insane?" and making fun of it.

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

I really think Dabi, Tomura, Toga and Spinner deserve a house to live in. Just hear me out.

I'd adore to see Dabi back with the Todorokis and Spinner being able to see his family again, and I adore the fanfics where Tomura and Deku become like brothers and the ones where Toga finds another family too. That's because they deserve to feel safe around people who supports them and love them, as much as they deserve help when correcting their ways and paying for their crimes. It's gonna take some time for them to heal mentally and physically, and dealing with the experience of being in jail can also be a whole deal of its own.

But we can't just ignore the fact that Toga, Spinner, Dabi and Tomura made a life their own already and they made a home of their own, a place where they were accepted, even if not in the best terms. What the League went through together, what the League represents, that's something that cannot be erased in favor of returning the four of them back to society. There's still so much other wouldn't understand, experiences no one else would get, except each other.

Tomura can't never go back to his family, and I don't think Toga would want to do so. And even if Dabi and Spinner want to and can do it, things will never be as if nothing had ever happened. Being surrounded by things from their past is gonna be hard, and it's gonna take some determination to make everything work out.

In that light, I think at some point it'd be a relief for them to have their own house, their own home. They lived with each other in the worst conditions ever, so the daily interaction wouldn't be a problem. And they are a family. They look after each other, they care, they worry, they love each other and went against the world side by side. Nothing creates a bond like going through trauma together, so what they have won't fade away just that easy.

They're gonna need supervision, of course. But it's important for them to keep their independence. After all they fought for, losing their right to be themselves and choose for themselves would be a tragedy. They were fighting to exists, to be who they are, to have a voice, to be respected, to be visible, to be acknowledged... That's why, for example, you cannot deny Dabi because you want Touya back. You cannot deny Spinner in order to get Iguchi, or Tomura because you want Tenko better. They need to be accepted as a whole, without it meaning people should forgive or excuse their actions. Things are what they are.

So... That's it. They deserve their own house.

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

The fact that Toga has no villain name because her fight is not about being a hero or a villain, but just existing. She just fight for her right of being alive, she never thought about becoming a villain, the accident just happened and she was forced to living in the streets and surviving and running away.

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

I know I talk a lot about Dabi and Tomura, but God knows how much I adore Toga Himiko.

Within the League of Villains, she really knows how to use her words and she's not afraid of expressing how she feels, what she wants and how she see things.

She knows her limits and respects them, she tells people on their faces if she likes them or hates them, she worries about her friends and has no mercy with her enemies.

It's completely adorable how she and Tomura talk and understand the other. Maybe they don't do it that much, but Toga is not afraid of questioning Tomura and he answers honestly, openly.

She is grateful for Mr. Compress and Spinner worries and she is quick to come back to them or reassure them that she knows what she's doing.

It's amazing how Dabi and Toga both were so patient with Twice and how they both accepted Twice and all his commentaries immediately, along with the rest of the League.

And with Dabi, Toga knew how to keep her distance if that what he wanted, but also never lost a beat when it came down to joking around Dabi or acting like a little sister.

Toga talked freely with Tsuyu, Ochaco and Izuku, telling them about her feelings and how she saw the world. Also she's smart enough to know when to retreat, because she finds great value in her own life and fights for her right to live well, be loved, be taken care of, etc.

She's fast and strong, the one who learned how to erase her presence and hide from the cops. She was so young and yet she learned almost immediately how to survive. She fights for others, she knows what she wants, she is able to go into the enemy ground without getting nervous or messing it up and she's a free spirit, more than anything. She even knows how to dress and act for others to underestimate her.

Toga Himiko is really one of the best characters around on bnha / mha, and she deserves to be one of the principal villains on the series. Her story is really interesting and her actions are deeper than people think.

I just love her a lot.

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Dabi: *Doesn't have a big body count until he joins the League* *Waits for Tomura's allowance before killing people* *calls Tomura boss* *It's quick to go back to the League whenever they call him* *It's the one gifted with nomus all the time* *keeps holding on into Stain's ideals even after the dude is long forgotten* *takes off his shirt to show his scars on national television* *dances in the back of a giant while he traumatizes back his dad* *ask very shakespearean about it* *likes everyone to know he's very edgy and prefers to suffer alone* *has two families ready to help him but doesn't take the chance because he's really traumatized* *has a breakdowns over a friend's dead and deals with it via killing people* *gets asked to bring some sense into Toga but it's too busy not having common sense himself* *goes James Bond villain hiding on public telephone while contacting hawks* *looks bored every time they have a mission but gets immediately excited when he gets to fight people*

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

Oh how wonderful is that Shouto decided to use his own name as his hero name, implying that he wants to be the same man whether he's on hero duty or just a normal citizen, contrary to his father who was a person as Endeavor and totally another as Enji Todoroki.

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

So that's for homes that are not longer there, parents that moved on, empty rooms with memories of being lonely and afraid, corrupted walls and little kids being denied.

The fact Tomura, Dabi and Toga have all go back to the house of their childhoods, even if only in their memories, to remember why they left. And after that, the streets. Running away. Figuring out how to live alone. Following strangers. Surviving the law. Growing taller each year, changing clothes, being hungry, getting sick and having to heal theirselves, remembering each night how they could be in a bed safe and sound, but their families screw them up and there's no bed for them, if they go back there's only jail, or getting denied again.

Seeing how the media talks about them, or not. How everyone lives on without them, like they didn't existed. And maybe they are suffering now, but they are free to. Free to make the expressions they want, dress how they want, talk how they want. Free to say what they want, use their quirks, explore their identities. Free to hate and rage for the abuse they had suffered, free to process their traumas and how bad they were treated.

And then, finding an unlike place, with unlike people. Fighting together. Dying together. Saving each other, avenging each other. Keeping something to remember them, mourning, taking care of each other. Being accepted for who they are, sharing dreams, sharing stories, overcoming things together. And even if not everything is healthy or great, it is the best they ever had. A chance to fight for themselves. A chance to fight for each other.

So that's why it is the League, after all. They are all together, an alliance, them against the world.

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[villainsandvictimsalliance]

AFO non-existent parenting skills include:

Grooming children.

Taking children who already had families.

Neglecting the health of his kids.

Giving them Trauma™

Using them as replacement of Yoichi.

Only talking to them through screens.

Possessing them.

Sending them to die.

If they don't die, he congratulates himself.

Reminding them society hates them.

For all we know he doesn't even cook.

Keeping the mad doctor treatment for when they are older, in case they have already enough hatred inside.

Gifting them the dead hands of their family.

Giving them as company other dead children who went through extensive torture to become a total different being.

And more!

#The way I hate that man #How can I even put the trigger warnings in this one #All he does is a trigger warning #Fuck you AFO #shan's mha rants #Shan's bnha rants #AFO #All for one