#to make the story edgier? to make the consequences more dire?

[pikahlua]

Sigh.

I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna say it again.

1. I warn you against taking the story beats in MHA at face value. Just because something looks one way doesn’t mean Horikoshi won’t make it go a different direction later. He only puts like one or two major story beats per chapter. Don’t be fooled by them.

2. Just because Hawks lost his quirk doesn’t mean he’s done. If you think this, you’re guilty of the exact thing the moral of MHA warns you against: equating a person’s worth to their quirk. Why’re some of y’all agreeing with AFO on this? We literally got a flashback to chapter 1 where this perspective was explicitly debunked!

3. Heroes are heroes BECAUSE they make sacrifices for others. I guarantee that by the end of this, many characters will suffer permanent consequences not as a result of being heroes but because definitionally making these sacrifices is what makes them heroes in the first place. And yet I predict a significant, noisy portion of this “fandom” is gonna cry about how someone losing their quirk or becoming disabled or dying ruins everything because some of these characters can no longer be “pro heroes”--as if the story hasn’t been telling us all along that “pro heroes” aren’t necessarily real heroes. Anybody can be a hero, regardless of their quirk. That isn’t referring to PRO heroes but TRUE heroes. Some of y’all need to listen to Stain more closely.

#my hero academia manga spoilers #final showdown spoilers #pika rants #the sheer number of people i've seen who say tokoyami should have lost his quirk #ask yourself #what purpose would that serve? #to make the story edgier? to make the consequences more dire? #mha isn't about that #it's not about random consequences being some interpretation of realistic #it's about exploring HEROISM #hawks lost his quirk for a reason #that's not the end of his story #not by a long shot #same goes for any character who has faced or will face consequences #*cough* like katsuki *cough* #*cough* or probably izuku lbr *cough*