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{English vs. Japanese Translation Comparison for Spinner’s Speech to Toga (288) w/ Commentary}

Lately I’ve been revisiting League of Villains scenes from past chapters and translating them to distract myself from life being chaotic and emotionally abusive. Below, you’ll find the product of one of my many sleepless nights.

「トガ俺たちゃ偶々寄せ集まっただけのはぐれ者たちだが.........」

= “Toga, we are stray people who only met / came together / assembled by chance.........”

はぐれ / 逸れる (romaji: hagureru) means “to become separated from (e.g., one’s companions); to lose sight of; to go astray (as in off course); to wander; to become lost; to veer away; to deviate.” Essentially, it describes the situation of finding oneself alone and disconnected from self or others.

Are you familiar with the Parable of the Lost Sheep? I grew up reflecting on it, even though I’m not Christian and was not raised in a Christian household (the same allegory exists in other Abrahamic traditions as well). This next bit of exposition will borrow heavily from the analogy of the lost sheep, shepherd, and flock of ninety nine WITHOUT the religious overtones. For reference, I have included a screenshot of the Parable of the Lost Sheep as it appears in the Gospel of Luke.

Spinner is likening each of the League of Villains members to the one sheep that strays from the flock and then must contend with the harsh reality that on its own it is not likely to survive for long before it is discovered by hungry predators, suffers an injury, starves, or falls ill and dies. And yet, it cannot be assured that the shepherd, upon realizing one of his sheep has gone astray, will break from the flock (“All”), leaving the ninety nine, for the sake of searching for the wayward sheep (“One”).

This is an example of utilitarianism versus deontology in action. A utilitarian, like Hawks, would favor abandoning the missing sheep (“One”), effectively sacrificing its life, so that the shepherd remains with the flock (“All”), prioritizing the greatest *number* of sheep over the welfare of each *individual* sheep. Utilitarianism and its proponents measure the “rightness” or “wrongness” of an action by the “sum of utilities” (i.e., usefulness, results) produced rather than by considerations of beneficence, fairness, and justice. To a utilitarian, sacrificing one to save many is the “morally correct” thing to do—and therefore the “right” choice—because it would seem to benefit the *most* people (99 > 1), even if and when actions taken do direct or indirect harm to *some* people (the one sheep that had become separated from the flock and, under utilitarianism, would be abandoned by the shepherd to die). To a deontologist like Jin, however, abandoning the one for the purported sake of the many would be unthinkable, immoral, and unethical. Who is Hawks to decide for the missing sheep that its life has less value and importance than the lives of the remaining ninety nine sheep, who, unlike the one, have the benefit of the flock’s protection, even in absence of the shepherd? It would be harder for a predator to isolate and take down an integrated member of the flock than it would be to kill and devour the already isolated and defenseless sheep that strayed. A deontologist like Jin would argue that if it would be wrong to abandon the ninety nine, then it also would be wrong to abandon the one, because abandoning anyone is wrong. Wrong is wrong is wrong, regardless of circumstances. A utilitarian like Hawks would argue that it would not be cost effective to risk harm coming to the ninety nine for the sake of the one. A single sheep lost is a loss (in a similar vein to how being rained out of a highly anticipated football game is a loss), but it is a negligible one compared to the loss of five, ten, or ninety nine, which would cripple the shepherd’s profits and could cost him his livelihood. (Jin would sucker-punch Hawks in the jaw for running a cost-benefit analysis on LIVES). Where do you think that old adage “do unto others as you would have others do unto you” would fall between these two ethical perspectives? If you guessed deontology, you were right. “Treat others as you would like to be treated” is a deontological principle.

Circling back to Spinner comparing the main members of the League of Villains to sheep without a flock, he follows up his description of himself and the others as “stray people” by implying that they became for one another that which they had lost (or never had): a flock to return to, share experiences with, and find comfort, protection, and companionship in. When they first became estranged from their respective flocks, assuming they had ever had such a thing (I’m not convinced Spinner had ever had a “flock” before the League of Villains), they had no way of knowing they would ever belong to another (flock, that is, not person; people don’t own people). They could not have known they would not always be alone and wandering, hoping to avoid predators, struggling to survive without material resources or supports of any kind. After all, their assembling as the League of Villains when and how they did was random. They each had their reasons for joining the group and a few (Magne, Jin) might have even had “friendship, belonging” as one of their motivations for joining, but others (Tomura, Touya, Himiko, Spinner, Atsuhiro) were certainly not expecting to bond and develop close friendships with their comrades in arms turned found family.

“You’re not the only one devastated by Twice being killed.”

やられて means (romaji: yara rete) “to hit; to harm; to injure; to kill.” This is the action done to the sentence subject (トゥワイス : Twice). 悔しい (romaji: kuyashii) has several potential meanings, including “frustrated (over a failure, humiliation, or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed; regretful; sorrowful.” I tried to brainstorm for an English word that could carry the nuance of all or most of these definitions. I settled for “devastated.” To devastate is to “destroy or ruin (something)” or “cause (someone) severe and overwhelming shock or grief.” I’d say that description fits, particularly for Dabi and Toga, who had extreme negative reactions to Twice’s murder and were shown to still be grappling with the traumatic loss almost 100 chapters later in No.341.

“You’re not the only one devastated by Twice being killed” became “you’re not the only one feeling messed up... over Twice” in the official English translation, which not only greatly understates the intensity of the League of Villains' feelings about their friend’s (and Himiko's older brother's) death but also conveniently omits that Spinner was explicit about Twice’s fate. He was murdered, and Spinner did not tiptoe around that fact. Spinner's ability to verbalize what happened to Twice suggests that he is not in denial about it but that it is weighing heavily on his mind and heart, enough to have prompted him to call out to Toga when he saw her preparing to run off in pursuit of Heroes, Heroes like the Hero who killed Twice.

「敵連合はあいつにとって唯一の居場所で」

= “For him (Twice), the League of Villains was the only place he belonged / fit in / could be himself” or “As far as he (Twice) was concerned, the League of Villains was the only place he belonged / fit in / could be himself.”

The difference between the official English translation and direct Japanese to English translation might seem superficial at first glance, but at least in my mind, there is an important distinction to be made between them. Caleb had Spinner say that Twice “FELT” he “COULD” belong with the League of Villains, but “could” implies potential more than it does reality. Twice “COULD” belong with the League of Villains, or he *COULD NOT* belong with them. It “COULD” rain on Sunday, but it also *COULD NOT* rain on Sunday.

In Japanese Spinner doesn’t say “Twice FELT he COULD belong”; he says “Twice DID belong / fit in / could be himself.” For Twice, reality was that he had found in the League of Villains the unconditional acceptance, positive regard, and camaraderie he had searched for, empty-handed and broken-hearted, his entire life. The sole “condition” for Twice to “belong” and “fit in” with the League of Villains was simply for him to be himself. He didn’t even have to be “useful” to be accepted. Originally, Twice refused to use Double to its full capability because he was afraid of himself, afraid of losing control, afraid of disappearing, afraid of dying. Even though he had joined a fledgling crime syndicate and then plainly stated he was unwilling to contribute his “material” best to their cause, Twice was not shamed for it. He was not faulted for it. His feelings, his needs, and his boundaries were immediately and unequivocally respected by everyone. HIS best was enough for them even when it was not THE best. Who he naturally was was enough for the League of Villains. That’s what Hawks refused to hear (literally, he wasn’t listening) and failed to understand. He used Twice to gather intelligence on the League of Villains while undercover at the PLF mansion but never saw any of them for the complex, deeply wounded, but not unfeeling or compassionless individuals Twice knew them to be. Hawks saw “two-bit criminals” at best and “evil, demonic, abnormally depraved, subhuman” monsters at worst. He does not and will not or is unable to recognize the humanity in them that Twice saw.

At the end of the day, Hawks has proven that it is easier for him to ruthlessly mock and murder criminals than it is for him to listen to understand and actually help them. He’s quicker to kill than to empathize. Recognizing and respecting the humanity of others requires one to recognize and respect their own. Hawks’ actions demonstrate that he would kill adult “Keigo” before he would extend a hand to help him. Only a person willing to kill the humanity inside of themselves could have killed Jin, whose narrative purpose, as flagged by Horikoshi’s choice of his name and kanji, was to be a stand-in and representative for humanity, its duality, and the everyman. Hawks killed “Keigo” to kill “Jin.” Horikoshi even illustrates that point for us in No.264 by positioning the bottom panels to have Hawks’ feather blades, sharp and poised to strike, directed at HIM as he slaughters DOZENS of Twice clones, each one representing the same thing: humanity, its duality, and the everyman. Hawks killed Jin again and again and again and again... and every time he did, he killed part of himself, the part that makes him human.

But let’s not mince words here. While that moralistic, cutthroat, sacrifice-anyone-to-save-everyone attitude *hurts* Hawks, it *kills* people like Twice, and hurting isn't killing. (Yes, the HPSC instilled it in him and Keigo is a victim as well, but no, that does not mitigate the damage he, who is now an adult with the ability to make decisions for himself about how to behave and has long had the financial resources required to seek professional help, CHOOSES to inflict on others.) Hawks walks away from these encounters unfettered, without personal or professional consequence, and with his life, dreams, and opportunity to grow and heal intact, while the people he kills have their lives, dreams, and opportunities to grow and heal stolen from them by his hand. (Realistically, Twice was NOT Hawks’ first kill. Make no mistake, Hawks is an assassin for the HPSC. The “act” is being a cheerful, lackadaisical young man, NOT being a sanctimonious, remorseless state-sponsored killer for a corrupt government. THAT is the truth of the “Wing Hero: Hawks,” and it shows in how he thinks and operates. THAT DOES NOT MEAN HE CAN’T STILL BE ENLIGHTENED TO THAT WHICH HE HAS BEEN IN THE DARK ABOUT FROM HIS INTRODUCTION: THE ESSENCE OF HUMANITY, THE UNIVERSAL TRUTH THAT ALL IS ONE AND ONE IS ALL, AND WHEN ANY PERSON SUFFERS, ALL OF HUMANITY SUFFERS. HAWKS—OR KEIGO, RATHER—CAN GROW AND I BELIEVE HE WILL BECAUSE THE KANJI FOR HIS FULL NAME, LIKE EVERY CHARACTER IN THIS SERIES, AREN’T JUST FOR SHOW; THEY TELL US ABOUT HIS QUIRK, ABOUT HIS ARC, OR BOTH. KEIGO’S ARC IS TO *BECOME*, MEANING HE ISN’T ALREADY, ENLIGHTENED. *HE* IS THE ONE CLOAKED IN SHADOW, WANDERING AIMLESSLY IN THE DARK, NOT EVEN FULLY COGNIZANT THAT HE IS. *HE* IS THE LOST SHEEP, BUT HE *CAN* BE FOUND. HE’S JUST MOVING AT A SNAIL’S PACE AND MAKING AN ASS OF HIMSELF ALL THE WHILE. I STILL BELIEVE IN THE HERO—NO, FUCK THAT, THE PERSON—HE CAN BE. HE’S JUST NOT THERE YET. I’M ROOTING FOR HIM. I WOULDN’T THINK OR TALK SO MUCH ABOUT THIS GUY IF I HATED HIM. I LIKE HIM. I THINK HE’S BETTER THAN HOW HE’S ACTED ((AND KEEPS ACTING)). I FEEL ABOUT HIM LIKE A DISAPPOINTED PARENT DOES THEIR CHILD).

「そのボスが恐らく「俺たちが集まること」を望んでる」

= “The boss would probably like for ‘us to come together / assemble’ like [before]” or “I suspect the boss would like for ‘us to come together / assemble’ like [before].”

恐らく (romaji: osoraku) is an adverb that means “probably; (most) likely; in all likelihood; I suspect.” 望んでる (romaji: nozon deru) is the te-iru form (indicating that an action is ongoing) of the verb 望む (romaji: nozomu), meaning “to desire; to wish for; to hope for; to pray for; to expect.”

What is Tomura (probably) wishing on a star for? For the League of Villains to be together again like they were following their genesis. He is looking forward to a return to “normal,” to having fun and bonding over video games, magic tricks, general tomfoolery, and all-around hell-raising, like they did before everything went to shit, before the wars, before AFO invaded his body and mind and started abandoning his friends to be arrested or killed. (At the end of the PLF War, to punish Tomura for failing to steal OFA and defeat Deku and Endeavor, AFO deliberately left Toga, Mr. Compress, and Gigantomachia to be captured by the Heroes. Because AFO stated that all that mattered is that Tomura’s body and Spinner escape, and because it was Mr. Compress who concealed a compressed Dabi in Spinner’s scarf ((so he would not be further targeted by the Heroes or forgotten by AFO)) and pulled Skeptic loose of fallen debris, rescuing him, it is likely AFO intended to abandon them as well).

「勝手するのは敵の本領かってするのはおれたちのほんりょう」

= “Doing as we please / acting of our own volition is our (read as: the Villain’s / League’s) specialty.”

That “our” is like an energetic cord tying Himiko to the League of Villains. It says, “You are not alone. You belong and have a home with us.”

勝手に (romaji: katte ni) means “arbitrarily; freely; of one’s own accord; without asking (permission); voluntarily; willfully; as one pleases; spontaneously; (doing something) by one’s self; one’s own convenience; one’s way.” It describes actions taken by choice, free of external influences like peer pressure or fear of punishment (e.g., criticism, shame, or expulsion from the group).

Due to his own traumatic loss of a friend to a violent end, Aizawa strives to keep his students on a tight leash to decrease the chances of something bad happening to them. To a person like Tomura, who was being raised by his parents in a highly structured and controlled environment and then groomed by AFO to become “a new [him],” having someone dictating to him how he is and is not to think, feel, and behave would feel stifling, oppressive, and triggering. He would feel like a frightened (and angry) caged animal denied its freedom and agency. Tomura hates control, and he chooses to “lead” the League of Villains by, well, hardly “leading”! Every member is encouraged to prioritize their own wishes, needs, and ambitions, and *decide for themselves* the extent to which they will function as a collective or hive mind (“we, us, our”) or as separate but interrelated and interdependent parts (“MY side project furthering OUR shared objective of disrupting the status quo and taking down Hero society”).

Touya and Himiko also grew up feeling unseen, unheard, and smothered by emotionally immature / unavailable / volatile parents who for any number of reasons failed to balance their filial responsibility to keep their children safe with their children’s natural need to be accepted, embraced, nurtured, and supported without conditions to achieve their dreams and develop a strong, healthy, *integrated* identity and self-concept, pride in themselves and their achievements, and a positive sense of community and purpose. The quickest way to alienate and chase Touya and/or Himiko away would be to try to control them, whether by force (“I’ll make you do it! You don’t have a choice about this! I’ve already decided FOR YOU!”) or coercion (“do this or else!”). Despite both having survived alone on the streets for years, proving they are perfectly capable of “roughing it” and making their own way, and despite both periodically running off to pursue their own interest, Touya and Himiko have consistently chosen to remain with the League of Villains because they were able to find in it something they had not been able to find elsewhere: unconditional acceptance, positive regard, protection, support, and companionship. The League of Villains’ dynamics “work” because everyone is free to be their authentic selves and share only as much of their stories as they are comfortable sharing—and with whom they are comfortable sharing. For example, the story implies that Dabi revealed himself to be Touya Todoroki to Tomura and Himiko, but not to the others, some time before his broadcast aired; Tomura, Touya, and Himiko all make allusions to a “plan” that we learn during the PLF War involved Dabi publicly revealing his identity as Touya Todoroki and exposing the routine violence and deception of the Number One and Number Two Heroes to shake the public out of their complacency and blind trust of Heroes. Mr. Compress and Spinner are shown to be shocked by Dabi’s revelation, with Mr. Compress remarking that he was not aware of Dabi’s connection to Endeavor and Spinner admitting that he, too, knew nothing of it. Himiko does not speak of her past often and when she does, she speaks generally, giving few details (e.g., “life is too hard,” “it’s too hard to live being me,” “when I was little, everyone kept telling me to stop being me”), skirting the surface, avoiding the deeper emotional aspects of her story, how she felt, how she was affected.

In No.341 Himiko takes Touya, but no one else, to her childhood house, which has been ransacked, vandalized, and graffitied with horrific messages insulting her and calling for her and her family’s deaths. She leaves him to read every slight against her spray painted onto the exterior walls while she walks through the interior rooms of the house, revisiting painful childhood memories of being snubbed by her own parents and sibling(s). When she is satisfied that she is ready to let go of her past life as the ever-sad-but-always-smiling abandoned child Himiko Toga, she skips out of her family house, feigning childlike lightheartedness (i.e., masking), only to be literally swept off her feet (and have her old familiar mask blown back off) by Touya suddenly blasting the Toga residence with enough force to cause a powerful explosion of fire and compressed air to tear through the structure, shattering the windows and doors and crushing the brick and mortar of the parameter walls. The house collapses into the raging inferno and is gone moments later. Stunned, she stands wringing her hands like a shy child, gently cautions him against taking such aggressive action because they will get “in trouble,” and tells him he is very kind. He repeats the word to himself, choking on it, his voice fading before he can round out the ending. He clearly wasn’t expecting to be complimented, to have his noble act acknowledged, *to be seen*. She didn’t ask him to burn her house down for her and never expected him to. He did that unprompted. We know from No.350 that he had also returned to his family residence at ~17 years old. Like the Togas had rejected and abandoned Himiko, the Todorokis had shunned and forgotten Touya first in life and then again in death. He did not need her to tell him how she felt walking through the ruins of her house to know she was hurting because he had experienced something similar and could empathize with her. He destroyed her house because it had tried to destroy her (and maybe some part of him wishes someone had cared enough about him to burn HIS house to the ground for him). He knew she had returned because she was looking for something she could not hope to find and so playfully teased her for (also) having “a heart indulged in sentiment.” He saw through her weak attempt to deny being sentimental and also saw through her attempt to skip away from her house as if her heart hadn’t just been sent through a meat grinder. He saw her, and, albeit taken aback, she responded by subtly confirming she saw him as well.

As a character, Himiko had always been defined by a neurotic desire to appear “normal” at any cost. She studied her peers for years and adapted their mannerisms to camouflage herself among them as a “happy, smiling, totally normal girl,” despite never actually identifying with them (child and young adolescent Himiko are always depicted standing apart from others, looking out of place and out of sorts, the picture of a person trying desperately to at least seem to be like everyone else; she tried to wedge a square into a circle for over a decade, but ultimately, she could not “fit” where she did not belong). Prior to joining the League of Villains, while she was still on the streets, she became adept at reading people, predicting their next moves, and adjusting her behavior to manipulate outcomes to her advantage. This is how she survived. She learned that the people she was running from day after day—Heroes and police—treated high school girls just a little more kindly, so she began cosplaying as one. She never attended high school (after attacking Saito at their middle school graduation, she took to the streets as a runaway), so she had to have stolen her uniform off of an actual student at some point. Horikoshi wrote that she thinks of her school uniform as a literal “costume.” It is a part she plays, like she might play the part of a strict schoolteacher, but it is not an accurate representation of who she is and was never meant to be. To the contrary, it was intended to be a disguise, another way for her to mask her authentic self in a bid to feel safe. If you never let anyone close enough to see you—the real you, the timid, insecure you who fears she is simultaneously “not enough” and “too much”—then you never give anyone the chance to destroy you with their rejection. If you only ever show up in parts and pieces, then it is only ever parts and pieces that are scorned, rather than the whole. It is better to burn the edges of your paper heart than to burn the meat of it. Really and truly, Himiko is NOT “like the other girls”—she didn’t have the privilege of growing up loved, supported, and protected like they did—but she knows it’s to her benefit to pretend to be. Historically, it’s worked out great for her because everyone she has put on a performance for has fallen for her act... almost everyone anyway. All Might seems to have caught onto her game.

Himiko had always been defined by her obsessive need to appear “normal,” but she took Touya and Touya alone to her house, birthplace of her traumas, because on an unconscious level she must have been hoping (and a small part of her must have trusted) he would prove her parents wrong in their assessment that no one would ever, could ever accept and love her for who she is. He delivered and then some (overachiever, always dramatic).

Everyone in the League of Villains cares about everyone in the League of Villains, but they are not all equally close. Their relationship with one does not look like their relationship with another. The most obvious examples of that are Tomura for Spinner and Himiko for Jin. For them, Tomura and Himiko, respectively, are Special. However close the relationships between members, the League of Villains has never demanded or required emotional self-disclosure for its members to be welcomed, respected, mourned, remembered.

「ただし必ず戻ってこい」

= “But be sure to come back [to us], okay?”

Spinner’s parting words to Himiko before she runs off to confront Ochako are a plaintive request that she return safely to the League of Villains after she has done what she needs to do for herself. Remember: Twice has only just been murdered. The death of their friend is fresh on their minds and heavy on their hearts. Basically, Spinner is saying, “Don’t die and don’t be caught, please. Come back to us, Toga. We’ll be waiting for you.”

Take a good look at Himiko’s face in the first panel.

You might need to zoom in to catch it, but her mouth is twisted kind of like this ~. Her back is to the League of Villains and she is looking at Spinner over her shoulder with a cagey expression. She’s wary, not because she is afraid he’ll hurt her (of course not; he would never) but because she is anticipating that he will *scold* her, like “Mama” and “Papa” did, and try to convince her to change her mind, forfeit her conviction to ask Ochako her question. Did the Heroes recognize her brother Jin as a person, no less human than their own families and friends? If yes, then how could they justify killing him when Heroes claim to be the ones *saving* lives, not *taking* them? If Heroes save lives, and Hawks really is a Hero, then Jin must not have been a person to them. And if Jin was not a person to the Heroes, then it stands to reason that she and her remaining companions are also not people to them and will be killed.

Now look at how her demeanor changes when Spinner does not try to stop her and only asks that she return safely to the League of Villains.

Dabi and Mr. Compress join Spinner on the right side of the panel so that we understand that it is not just Spinner who will be waiting for her but all of them. Himiko fills the left side of the panel, her sincere, if a bit inhibited, smile reaching her eyes, her body angled back *toward* the League of Villains, an illustrative marker signaling that she has received the message and welcomes it, is relieved for it.

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Thelreads, MHA 288, Replies Part 2

1) “Welp, sorry miss, but he’s dead. If not literally right now, he’ll be in a few minutes, there’s a fucking mountain about to meet him”- Well, if the husband was real, then Toga almost certainly had to stab him too before getting a sample of his wife’s blood, so his odds of surviving are slim to none.

2) “….

no… it can’t be Toga, right? I mean, Machia is still a bit far, there’s no way she would get here that quickly considering he’s moving around 100km/h

…right?”- Toga’s drive to answer her burning questions apparently gives her super-speed.

3) “Oh no wait there she is

and she seems to be a speedster

We found koichi’s cousin, and she’s about to fucking die.”- Or was dead all along. 4) “FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK I FUCKING KNEW IT FUCKMOTHERFUCKING FUCK

HOW IN THE FUCK’S NAME DID YOU GOT HERE THAT FAST TOGA, EVEN IF YOU USED THE QUIRK FROM THAT WOMAN I DOUBT YOU COULD OUTRUN THE MOUNTAIN”- Toga’s disguise bursting when Urarak says she’ll save “Takeo” – who is basically a stand-in for herself and her own attraction to Izuku and Uraraka – all whilst blushing and naked because of her Quirk certainly caused some….interesting discourse on the internet when this chapter first came out. It almost looks like she couldn’t keep control of herself when she thought (in her own head) Uraraka was reciprocating her feelings. 5) “Nice face there Uraraka, unfortunately, remember that Toga is a ninja”- Were it not for the circumstances, Uraraka’s reactions almost feels like her dealing with a clingy girlfriend who keeps popping up in her life when she least expects her. It’s certainly a nicer way of looking at their situation than one traumatised girl desperately seeking support and affection from the only other person in her very small social circle she can think of to help her deal with the loss of a dear friend.

6) “Yeah see? She’s probably standing right by your side, but you can’t see her because she’s just that good at being stealthy.”- Toga prepped this battleground in advance before luring Uraraka into it. Tight confines to limit the extent she can get lifted about by Zero Gravity, dark rooms to help lower Uraraka’s visibility, and multiple connecting rooms to allow her to move into her blind spots quickly. In retrospect, she moved even faster than expected from Machia to find this place and set it up before reaching Uraraka.

7) “Which kinda describes how he’s looking 80-90% of the time. Honestly, that boy could look like he fought a bear and lost badly while coming out of the shower.”- The only fight that Izuku has walked away from where he didn’t look like he’d fought a combine harvester and lost was against Overhaul, and only because he was getting healed non-stop during it.

8) “Alright, it’s time for it. Time for her to put the cards on the table and know the truth, is she a monster to be killed, or is she a human to be saved”- Toga sadly needed more advice on how to actually frame her question, without it coming across as ambiguous flirting with the object of her interest. Another thing she might have had an easier time with if anybody had given her the help she needed.

9) “Oh thank god you had some clothes thrown around Toga, but still, that was quite the fast change you made, were you practicing this?”- Between this and the speed boost she’d have needed to set up this battlefield ahead of Machia, I choose to believe the power of Horny transforms Toga into the Flash. I mean sure she has other motivations, but you know that’s at least a contributing factor as well.

10) “Toga please can you be a bit more specific it really looks like you’re flirting with her rather than making a deep philosophical question about your own worth

I mean, you are kinda flirting with that knife and all, but please focus girl”- Toga is, for all her skills and abilities, still a young girl that was raised in an environment that didn’t put in enough effort into understanding her needs and perspective, instead expecting her to be the one to eventually understand if the lesson was drilled into her time and again. All this did was lead to her repressing her instincts until they exploded, and as a result, Toga is very bad at expressing herself when it comes to conversations like this. She’s good at showing her emotions and acting on them, but bad at explaining why this matters so much to her, especially since she doesn’t bring up Jin’s fate, still too damaged by processing his loss to realise that Uraraka wouldn’t assume that a hero would kill somebody in the line of duty, and thus that Toga’s asking her if she’s somebody who deserves to be saved or destroyed like a rabid animal. 11) “See Toga, that’s why you need to be more direct with your questions, Uraraka thinks you just did a really roundabout way of asking her out”- I couldn’t help but notice that Uraraka didn’t say no to the idea of another girl asking her out, just that it was neither the time or the place for it. 12) “Uraraka didn’t knew what was going on in Toga’s heart at the moment, she just stated a fact, she needs to stop her since she’s a villain endangering innocent people, but… Oh god this is not end well”- Uraraka is motivated to act by the loss of Nighteye, feeling that she failed to do something that could have saved his life, whereas Toga is motivated by Jin’s loss, feeling like her life is now in danger from the same heroes that deemed it necessary to kill him and wanting conformation from someone – anyone – that they see her as more than a monster to be put down. Neither fully expresses their innermost thoughts, so neither fully understands the other. 13) “I’m kinda hoping she’ll go back to the league, but at the same time I don’t know if she’s willing to do so. This is being quite the hellish day for her, and Dabi is there being an asshole, not helping at all- I don’t know if she won’t go her own way. If she’s a monster, what reason does she have to be with the rest of them? Because I know that Toga doesn’t see them as monsters, as villains, she sees them as people first.And, that is the one thing Uraraka implied by accident she isn’t.”- At the end of the day, the League is the only place where Toga can not only be herself without judgement, but feel safe and protected by her friends. And now those friends are all being taken away from her one by one, to her mind all of it resulting from the oppression of the same system that demonised her ever since she was a child. You can’t help but feel sorry for her, because in many ways, she’s just as much a victim of this war as Twice.

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sora-art-513 · 1 year

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A fanart of Mha season 5 of episode 21, it’s been so long since I have drawn Uraraka with Toga again🥰(or any of the mha characters, So sorry). I love the episode 21 and Toga’s Backstory as well😆 and this is also a spoiler from chapter 287-288🤔✨

#togaocha #toga x uraraka #toga himiko #uraraka ochako #togachako #digital #digital drawing #digital artwork #digital illustration #digital art #drawing #artwork #illustration #fanart #my art

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ao3feed-izch · 7 months

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Mha goes to the boiling aisles

by Melody_BSD_fnaf

Words: 288, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), The Owl House (Cartoon)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Class 1-A (My Hero Academia), Hunter | The Golden Guard (The Owl House), Willow Park, Luz Noceda, Gus Porter

Relationships: Mattholomule/Gus Porter, Amity Blight/Luz Noceda, Hunter | The Golden Guard/Willow Park, Midoriya Izuku/Uraraka Ochako, Ashido Mina/Kirishima Eijirou

source: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50259076

#ao3feed #dekuraka #izch #izuku midoriya #izuocha #ochako uraraka #ochadeku #auto

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niks-minion · 4 years

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Horikoshi: oh, sorry folks, no chapter next week, too many things to draw and stuff

Me:

#I don’t trust him after cheerfull Bakugou Katsuki: rising #like at all #somehow it’s the most disturbing thing this week #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #manga spoilers #bnha 288 #mha 288 #bnha leaks #mha leaks #kohei horikoshi

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simplysparrow14 · 4 years

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If that ominous shadow person is who I think it is...

#boku no hero academia #Bnha 288 #mha 288 #Bnha #mha #best jeanist #my hero manga #bnha manga spoilers #mha spoilers

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linkspooky · 4 years

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TogaChako - Good Girl and Bad Girl

Toga Himiko and Uraraka Ochako embody the classic good girl slash bad girl dynamic. It’s a classic dynamic in which one girl will represent what is the traditionally held notions of what a “good girl is” ie/ pure, nice, friendly and the other girl will embody the opposite of that a “bad girl” impure, mean, slutty. Inevitably, these two girls will fight. However, the crux of the good girl bad girl dynamic is that while the girls are total opposites on the outside, inside they’re the same, cuz they’re both girls after all.

Uraraka and Toga are written to be compared, they’re character foils, because the conclusion we’re supposed to come to isn’t one of them is good, one of them is bad, one of them is selfless, one is selfsh. Rather, they’re written so we see it’s the difference in circumstances that made them who they were. Toga became bad because bad things happened to her. Uraraka is good, because she was born into a good life. What makes a bad girl bad and what makes a good girl good? More under the cut.

1. Good Girl

Describe Uraraka Ochako. She’s a normal girl. She’s spunky. She puts other people first. She became a hero to help her parents make money, and feels bad because her motivations aren’t as selfless as say her close friend Izuku Midoriya’s. (But that’s wrong because she literally is being selfless, her reason for becoming a hero has entirely to do with benefitting someone else and not herself). She’s supportive, and friendly. She’s always cheerful and never lets herself get too down.

Uraraka represents the standard of a good girl in hero society. She’s always ready to help her friends, but ultimately she’s kind of passive. She works hard but is not too ambiitous. She’s selfless and always thinks of other people before herself. She has all of these good qualities.

However, I would argue Uraraka is a lot more complex then this. On the surface she seems to be just a good, nice girl who wants to help others, but her internal mechanisms are complex. While yes I agree Uraraka doesn’t have much of an arc so far due to lack of focus, there’s a difference between not having an arc and not being a complex character.

A simple character - what you see is what you get. A complex character - Has internal mechanisms that show the surface isn’t as simple as you thought.

A simple arc - character moves through the plot without changing who they are. A complex arc - character struggles in a way that fores them to change.

Uraraka’s inner mechanisms are complex in that there’s more too her in what we see at the surface, it’s just she hasn’t been challenged in any way. The plot doesn’t address her flaw and try to force her to change.

With that in mind let’s get into Uraraka’s character. Uraraka is defined to her goodness. Uraraka pushes herself to always be good to others. The reason being is that Uraraka is a very sensitive girl who is attune to the feelings of other people.

Uraraka gets serious for just a second, and people remark that she doesn’t seem like her normal self.

Uraraka then immediately backs up and gets embarrassed. She goes out of her way to beat herself up and denigrate herself in front of others, insisting her motivations are much more selfish than people like Ida and Deku.

Uraraka then tells Deku and Iida that she’s not becoming a hero for her own sake, but for someone else’s. Her entire motivation is to help both of her parents live easier lives, because she feels like she’s been a burden on them and pursuing her own dreams would be too selfish.

Uraraka is very secretive of her own feelings. She’s almost afraid to come off as selfish which is why she doesn’t share what her real goal is. Also, when she starts to get a little motivated to accomplish something for herself, everybody around her remarks how different this is from the fun-loving Uraraka they all know. Also, one last detail Uraraka never even talks about herself, and her friends don’t really think to ask, because Uraraka just so naturally makes things about others and not herself.

It’s already been elaborated why the reason Uraraka grew so perceptive. Uraraka’s parents were struggling to make ends meet and she grew up in poverty, and even if she has good parents that try really hard not to let the effect of this struggle show in front of her, Uraraka saw it anyway because kids are always watching their parents.

Uraraka learned to be sensitive to her parents needs, to never demand too much for her parents, her behaviors all became centered around not becoming a burden to others.

Uraraka thinks it’s only natural to put others first and help others before helping herself. That other people’s happiness is more important than her own. Because she’s someone naturally empathic. Because she’s someone naturally able to see the pain and struggle other people go through, because she grew up seeing it. However, the problem with this behavior is it makes Uraraka essentially a support to everyone else.

Uraraka is constantly putting others up on a pedestal and using that as an excuse to lower herself further and further. As cute as her admiration for Deku is, it’s also a bit unhealthy - as she uses it as an excuse to beat herself up. She sees Deku as this amazing person, whose always struggling to help everyone, whose always saving everyone for completely selfless reasons and she always suffers in the comparison.

I think part of Uraraka wants to stand out like Deku does, and has the same desire to go all out to save people, but Uraraka is so used to being secondary in her own life she can’t bring herself to.

Uraraka can’t even cry in front of others. I think, the most telling behavior she has in the entire series is the moment where she breaks down on the phone describing everything she did wrong because this is how Uraraka sees herself. She’s so extremely critical of herself, and constantly apologizing for herself, while at the same time hiding what she really feels from others.

Uraraka has all these self esteem issues that she basically just shelves so she can play the good, nice girl, that gets along well and is friends with everyone.

Uraraka assigns the role of group placater and peacemaker for herself because it’s something she’s so naturally good at and she’s always thinking of others, but because of that, Uraraka herself suffers. Uraraka only knows how to help people by belittling herself and her own role in things.

Uraraka’s greatest fear is being selfish. She doesn’t want to look like a bad girl. That’s the connection between Toga and Uraraka, because what Uraraka is afraid of ultimately is living her life the way Toga does.

2. Bad Girl

Toga is everything that Uraraka is afraid of being, and lives the life that Uraraka is afraid of living. Uraraka is someone so afraid of being selfish, and getting distracted that she is not even allowed to have a crush on a boy. Whereas, Toga lives her life chasing what she loves. Everything Uraraka represses about herself, Toga expresses. That’s the difference between the two of them.

When Uraraka first encounters Toga, her willingness to chase what she loves looks from Uraraka’s perspective to be entirely monstrous. Uraraka sees Toga as a selfish monster, because in part she is afraid of appearing that way.

Toga Himiko the bad girl.

However that’s far from the whole picture of Toga. When we see her away from Uraraka’s perspective she’s entirely different. She’s someone empathic, capable of being kind to others, and thinking about others feelings.

Toga’s just as capable of reading other people and addressing their feelings as Uraraka is. However, there’s still a key difference in their behavior. Uraraka acts to avoid conflict. When she intervenes, what she usually does is act in a way that avoids stepping on toes, and touts the “we should all get along and be friends’ line. Whereas, Toga is someone who directly addresses the conflict and the hurt feelings of others.

For Uraraka the most important thing is getting along with others. For Toga the most important thing is being true to her own emotions. Which is why she’s able to directly address the problem with Twice, she didn’t tell him to bear with it, she told him she knew he was in pain but that the two of them could take down the mafia together.

Even Himiko’s most selfish monster moments aren’t really that monstrous. Himiko’s reason for stalking both Uraraka and Deku is not because she’s weird and creepy, but because she wants to be a normal kid just like them.

Himiko’s reason for sucking the blood of high school girls and taking on their appearances isn’t because she’s preadtory, it’s because she’s been a runaway with no home for two years and she’s terrified of getting caught.

Himiko who is framed as a selfish monster, is actually quite the normal girl. She’s a normal girl reacting to the pressures of the society around her. The kicker is that Himiko isn’t someone who just decided to flip and turn out this way, she is only the way she is because she tried to live like Uraraka did at first.

Himiko tried to push everything down and live like a normal girl. She tried to lie about herself so she’d be a good, nice, harmless girl. She only became so selfish, because she tried to live selflessly first. She only prioritizes herself, because she was used to putting herself down before this. We see her classmates react to her, they all describe Himiko was the kind of girl that Uraraka is right now.

However, behaviors in Uraraka that are self-defeating and unhealthy, are absolutely ruinous in Himiko. Himiko has no sense of self, because she spent so long trying to be what others wanted her to be. Himiko is who she is, in reaction to the pressures of everyone around her.

When Himiko tries to figure herself out, she always gets the same response. Why do you have be so selfish? Why can’t you just act normal? Which completely ignores the fact that she TRIED and that’s what got her here.

The main difference between Uraraka and Toga is not one of them being good, and the other being bad. Toga’s been through way harsher life circumstances. Uraraka has parents that affirm her identity, and Toga’s parents deny her over and over again.

The point of the good girl bad girl dynamic is that they’re both girls in the end. Yes, Uraraka’s never reacted as badly as Himiko has. However, Uraraka’s also never been pushed so far. In fact someone as empathic as Uraraka can be oblivious to the suffering of others.

Uraraka doesn’t see what Himiko is going through, because she hasn’t suffered the way Himiko has.

It’s like. When you have a good sibling and a bad sibling. The good sibling always behaves because they conform to the pressure their parents put on them. The bad sibling acts out in response to that pressure, and because of that their parents have to discipline them and they end up soaking up most of the parent’s attention. In that situation the good sibling can come to ressent the bad sibling for acting out and needing attention in the first place.

Reasonable child and unreasonable child. There exist these black and white categories to define children into where one looks good and one looks bad, that actually totally fail to address the child’s behavior because people are complex and therefore don’t fit into black and white categories. But, Uraraka is still working with that black and white logic when it comes to heroes and villains. Even though she’s usually so good at sussing out the complex nuance of other people’s feelings.

This is what’s happening here in this chapter. You can apply the dynamic between the two of them to the conflict at large. Toga is selfish for acting out and causing problems for others, because she wants her own personal grievances to be addressed. Uraraka is sefless because all she cares about right now is helping the most amount of people. Uraraka is willing to repress herself, and put others needs before her own, because what’s most important is everybody gets along.

However, Uraraka insinuates, the same way that Himiko’s parents once insinuated that Himiko’s acting out just makes her selfish.

We’ve seen this conflict before. Himiko literally went into the conflict to ask this question. Do problem children like her count as “everyone”. However, no matter what happens this arc, no matter what critcisisms the villains levvy against the heroes we get the same hollow repettition of “Heroes save everyone”. Which is why Himiko looks just about to snap here.

Uraraka who is used to brushing conflicts aside and avoiding them for the sake of “everyone gettling along” sees the girl who can’t get along with “everyone” and calls her selfish. To Himiko, this is the same words she’s been hearing her entire life. “Why are you making a fuss? Why can’t you just be normal.”

From one perspective, yes Uraraka is the one fighting seflessly because she’s just trying to save as many people as she can and Himiko is getting in the way of things. However, Himiko is someone who grasps the bigger picture. Himiko addresses the problem directly rather than sweeping it under the rug, there are people who aren’t saved by the hero system. Those people are just as in need of saving as what heroes deem to be innocent people. You can’t claim to save everyone and then ignore the suffering of people you deem as “bad”. Himiko seems like she’s acting selfishly, but then again she’s acting for the sake of people like Jin who died because heroes insisted that his life was less important.

Uraraka is at the same time very perceptive to the suffering of others, and also very oblivious, and it has much more to do with personal hangups than anything else. She doesn’t want to see Himiko as someone similiar to her, because Uraraka is someone so deathly afraid of coming off as selfish. To the point that she treats people with genuine grievances against society as selfish childrens making demands for atttention.

Uraraka is the one who can’t face herself, and therefore the answer she gives Himiko is to the effect of “Shut up and deal with it.” It’s a very personal thing for Uraraka once you realize that Uraraka has also been shutting herself up all this time, pushing herself down, always letting people walk all over. Uraraka is capable of putting herself aside for the sake of others, so as a result she sees people who can’t put themselves aside as selfish.

“I can do it, so why can’t you? Why can’t you be normal?”

I hammer down so hard on this point because there’s a difference between placating and conflict resolution.

Placating comes from a place of “I want the conflict to go away” or “I want the hurt feelings to go away.” Placating is just saying whatever you think the person you’re talking to wants to hear in order to please them. It’s behavior that’s based entirely around avoiding conflict. Uraraka placates, she sweeps it under the rug, she swallows her grievances for the point of everyone happily getting along together.

This placating also applies to the hero system at large. It’s not really designed to save everyone, so much as make the vast majority of people feel safe at the cost of the minority.

When there is a problem does Hero society directly address the issue? Or do they sweep it under the rug for the appearance of everyone getting along?

I think the fact that every time a villain brings up a problem this arc, the heroes just shout “Heros save everyone” and “Heroes never give up” is evidence of the latter. That’s why, when Uraraka says it, when Hawks says it, “Heroes save everyone” just comes off as hollow because in the very same breath they both make it clear that Toga and Twice are not part of the everyone who gets saved.

#himiko toga #uraraka ochako #mha meta #my hero academia meta #my hero academia #mha 288 #mha 288 spoilers #bnha 288 #bnha 288 spoilers #himiko #uraraka #ochaco #ochaco uraraka #toga himiko

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mindmakesmemes · 4 years

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Hawks: I don’t understand...how did you survive?

Jeanist: Simple, I recovered in a high tech, state of the art joffin

Hawks: A what

Jeanist:

#is this cursed #yes #but can we say its not possible??#hawks #best jeanist #bnha 288 #mha 288 #keigo takami #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #bnha 288 spoilers #mha 288 spoilers #bnha memes #mha memes #mine

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antiquity1111 · 1 year

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Sorry to trouble you but was curious if you’re still doing MHA meta and work? Your stuff is amazing and insightful, always a pleasure to read and re-read, but it seems a lot of meta-writers for the fandom have slowly been disappearing.

Welcome to my Tumblr page! :) Thank you so much for your kind words and for checking in. You're not bothering me, I promise. I've definitely noticed a decline in the number of fans creating meta and translations for BNHA. There are all kinds of reasons for why people decide to take a step back from the fandom or abandon it altogether. Some are disappointed by the direction the manga has taken and is taking and are finding it difficult or impossible to enjoy the series the way they did in the past; some find certain narrative choices unforgivable; some have grown disillusioned with the manga, the fanbase, or both; some have found other series they're more emotionally invested in and giving more time to; some have become lurkers, consuming content from the shadows and avoiding direct interaction with other fans; and some have just been distracted with, well, life. Things have been rough on the home front for a while now, and I've been feeling absolutely drained by all of it. I've also spent the past month applying for jobs, and one finally came through! I'm working part-time Monday through Friday as an assistant preschool teacher for infants age 6 months to 13 months at a child development center in my area. Between work, family, and doing my part to keep my household running smoothly, I've been busy. I know it's been a minute (a month? more?) since I last shared anything BNHA-related, but I can assure you I'm working on more content to share with you all! I had originally planned to upload four different posts--direct Japanese to English translations for No.375 and No.376, an English vs. Japanese translation comparison for Spinner's 288 speech to Toga, and an English vs. Japanese translation comparison for No.294 and No.295 for Mr. Compress--all at once, but I've been dragging on that last one. It's taking longer to finish than I ever anticipated it would because of everything else going on. My new plan is to upload the other three posts as soon as possible. With any luck, I'll have at least one up tonight! Fingers crossed! They'll all be uploaded to Tumblr first. The links will then be added to the ever-evolving Google doc pinned to my Twitter page and shared in a separate tweet announcing the uploads. I hope you enjoy them as much as you have the others! <3

P.S. You're my first ask. <333

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thequietmanno1 · 2 months

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Thelreads, MHA 288, Replies Part 1

1) “Last time we had OfA cast the spell of GTFO on AfO, and then Toga got all philosophical and it got a bit sad… Anyway, let us get started, because I want to see where that one is gonna end at. This is Chapter 288: Save Takeo!!”-Chapter should have been titled “Save Toga”, because that’s what she’s really asking Uraraka, but then I guess we wouldn’t be having the miscommunication between them that’s sparking further conflict.

2) “Machia is truly an unstoppable force in action, that’s a mountain going 100km/h through a city, jesus fuck man, we would seriously need an All Might-level of power to keep him down.”-The problem with facing Machia is that the only person who can actually give him a standard fight is already being targeted by AFO and Tomura both-in-one, so there’s really no chance for Izuku to help out against the mass devastation he’s causing as a side-effect of him just trying to reach his master ASAP

3) “Five? Try twenty. Really, there’s no amount of distance that would make it safe. The End is here, and Machia won’t stop until he reaches it.”- They can try and run towards Machia, away from him, or avoid him, but either way, the malice of the master he serves so blindly will find you out one way or another. Like, even if they stopped Machia by some miracle, he’s already caused so much destruction and damage getting here that many cities may not recover at all, assuming things even get better from this chaotic melee. 4) “I have a feeling that there’s one fiery guy up there that wouldn’t agree with that line of thought. I bet he’s giggling right as we speak.”- The juxtaposition of this hero on the ground level acting genuinely selflessly heroic and Dabi’s scornful dismissal of the ideology of heroes actually holding up, based on Hawks’ necessary murder of Twice, underscores his own hypocrisy. There’s somebody in this mess who just wants to help save people, and he thinks it’s nothing but the ranting of a brainwashed populace who think too highly of the humans who dub themselves “heroes”. 5) “Oh right, you were here as well, I almost forgot it.

Also, thank you captain obvious, it’s not like you could’ve looked over your shoulder and see an army of them approaching from all sides.”- Sceptic is not the flashiest member of the MLA, but his computing skills and ability to undermine communications between different teams mean that he’s the perfect guy to help out with what Dabi has in mind… 6) “OH I DON’T EVEN NEED TO ZOOM IN TO SEE WHO COMPRESS SAW

ITS URARAKA AND TSUYU, RIGHT THERE ON THE LEFT CORNER

THEY ARE CLOSE, AND TOGA KNOWS IT”- That Compress noticed them and helped point them out to Toga, despite the League needing all hands on deck at present, just because he knows how much she’s thinking about them and needs to have a conversation with them after Twice’s passing, shows he’s a good team player. He could have intentionally hidden their location to make sure Toga was sticking by their side when they plunged forth into the melee with Tomura, but instead he not only aids her, but gives her his blessing to go resolve her personal issues with them, merely asking her to come back safely alongside Spinner. Like, these guys may be villains, presently culpable in mass slaughter through riding Machia, but they are truly ride or die for each other, sans Dabi, who’s finally letting his true colours show through…. 7) “Alright, Toga is equipped, and ready to deploy. Something tells me that she doesn’t plan to come back, one way or another. It feels like that with Shigaraki awakening under the control of AfO and Twice dying, that the league is, subtly, approaching its End.”- On the other hand, where else could Toga go? Sure, she doesn’t know about AFO hijacking Tomura, and that’ll put a downer on her mood as well when she finds that out, but both Compress and Spinner have her back as well, so Toga does have somebody to look after in the League still left to return to. Even if the whole world demonises her, those two have still stuck by her, so she knows she can rely on them even at her lowest point. 8) “Mr. Dadpress was not something I was expecting to see now, shame we hadn’t more of it before this fateful moment. Toga is going, she needs answers, and she’s willing to die to get them. She can’t live with this doubt, with this fear. She must know.

And, once she does, she’ll decide what path she shall take. Either on her own, or back to the league.”- I assume that Dadpress really honed his parental skills whilst Tomura was undergoing the surgery, given how Loopy Twice was and Toga needing somebody to look after her from the near-death beating she received. Even if he’s not a powerhouse member of the League, in Tomura’s absence he’s the one standing up to hold them all together, physically and emotionally. In contrast to Dabi and his mysterious nature hiding the fact he genuinely doesn’t feel the team vibes with the league, we still knw very little about Compress, but the fact he’s a full-on supporter of the younger members through thick and thin has come through loud and clearly, 9) “Well fuck you too Dabi, not like I was expecting much more from you by this point. You are on the brink of getting what you want, the rest of the league has outlived their utility I suppose.”- Dabi’s about ready to kick the show off, and there’s nothing that could really impede him now. With or without the league, he’s got everything he needs to get the ball rolling, so it doesn’t matter to him if one or two of them jump ship before the Curtains rise. 10) “Well, it seems like it’s only one person in this group that isn’t feeling the loss of Twice, now that Spinner stepped forward to talk. He knows he can’t stop her from leaving, but he can’t let her going without saying that he also misses their friend; regardless of being villains, they were friends, they were family.”- The league becoming each other’s support and therapy group is a beautiful thing to witness, even if it’s tinted by tragedy over how this, while well-intentioned, only allows the re-enforcement of their worst traits. Like, they let Toga run off and face down Uraraka, without giving her some advice on how to properly express herself to the young hero the way the League members know Toga, which contributes to the mis-communication issues. 11) “I would say he’s definitely more interested in that than Dabi, but it’s not that much more. Still, I bet he won’t take Twice’s death lightly, we saw how he reacted to Magne.

There will be retribution, especially now that he has the power to do so”- Well, that’s entirely dependent on if it’s still Tomura in charge by the time they get there… 12) “OH BOY, NOW LETS SEE HOW URARAKA IS HANDLING THIS

SHORT ANSWER: NOT THAT WELLTHAT THING IS COMING AND THERE’S NO WAY TO EITHER STOP IT, OR TO SAVE THE PEOPLE ON HIS WAY”-The oncoming destruction visible in the background, the streets seemingly absent of civilians to save, but you just know that there’s people hiding in the buildings somewhere, hoping and praying that they won’t be swept up in the damage, and unintentionally lowering their chances of being saved in time.

13) “At the very least they are not part of the Prometheus school of running away, and they are moving out of his path rather than trying to outrun him, but honestly, it doesn’t help that much. He’s causing a big wave of destruction around his path, and like the heroes said, debris is being thrown rather far.”- Machia’s not even trying to cause damage, he’s just lifting the buildings out the way to make his passage easier, showing much the same disregard of civilian casualties that Dabi does. He doesn’t intend to harm them, but he prioritises his own aims over the wellbeing of others, unlike heroes, which in this case gives him an advantage, and is why the villains can pressure the heroes despite the numbers disadvantage. They were disregarded by society, so now the shoes on the other foot, they’re not holding back.

@thelreads

#my hero academia #bnha #chapter replies #thelreads #mha 288

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