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Overhaul's backstory is inverse to Tenko's story in a lot of ways. After Tenko freed himself from his father (mostly involuntarily), he was doomed by his "savior", All for One.

Overhaul on the other hand freed himself/escaped from All for One and then doomed the person who genuinely tried to be his savior.

Overhaul's backstory had the potential to make BNHA's promotion of the ideal of individuals reaching out to save others more nuanced and interesting. The boss saved a traumatized child, the same as the old lady in the last few chapters. Yet, that child from the epilogue ended up a hero hopeful but Overhaul doomed both his savior and everyone who was dear to him. What changed in their society to make that possible or what made Overhaul so different that being saved as a child couldn't stop him? It just feels like a significant loose end that doesn't fit with the overall themes of the manga

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Me neither 💙

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enough is enough / just shut up and watch

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Hello everyone.. Horikoshi sensei has announced an international popularity poll... Let's vote our favorite character from My hero academia!

Edit Feel free to vote for more than one character, but keep in mind there's a time limit for the next round of voting... Voting closes on September 30th, 2024, and the winner will be revealed on December 2nd!

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what would your ideal Overhaul conclusion look like? Your word is fact to me

Hello!! I have a few different ideas for what an “ideal conclusion” could look like, so I suppose I’ll just supply which one I like most, bc I am nothing if not self-indulgent. Also, you put too much power in my hands lol :3

First and foremost: He would get prosthetics. No matter what the situation or plan, he’d be provided with prosthetics.

I’d retain him not meeting with Eri, because Eri does not want to see him. She isn’t ready. It won’t help anyone at this point in time for the two to see each-other again.

Pops is alive, although he and Chisaki have not met again face-to-face. Chisaki still apologized via letter, since that’s all they allowed him. They prohibited Pops from contacting Chisaki, because they don’t think it’s a good idea for now.

He faces consequences, but they are not simply “you’re going back into solitary confinement to rot for the rest of your days”. That’s quite a waste. In my world, there’d be facilities made that are what prisons are actually supposed to be—a rehabilitation center. There’d be strict regulations/schedules, limited freedom, rules on socializing, and monitoring (when outside your room, which is equipped with a bed, table, kitchen, and bathroom), but you also get genuine help in ways such as therapy, and you’re treated with actual humanity. The LOV and some of the Shie Hassaikai would be in one. Their prison sentences include community service, which is typically the only time they spend off facility grounds. I’d want Chisaki to be working in a hospital as part of his community service, although he doesn’t work directly with any civilian patients (yet).

But that’s all to be explained outside the actual scene. As for what the actual scene would theoretically look like…

We find out Chisaki’s working in a hospital as his community service via Midoriya coming to visit him. Chisaki is shown with prosthetics, clean-shaven, and doing genuine work. They have a not-friendly-but-not-hostile conversation where it’s basically Midoriya explaining that he wanted to see what Chisaki was up to, and saying that, despite everything, he wishes the best for Chisaki and hopes that he stays on the right path. That he hopes that one day, Chisaki will learn how to sincerely apologize to Eri, because he’ll understand what he put her through; because he’ll also understand what he himself went through, too. This is when it’s confirmed Chisaki had been experimented on in Garaki/AFO’s orphanage via flashbacks. In these flashbacks, it’s also shown that a lot of the things Chisaki said during the Hassaikai arc were, in fact, taken from things that’d been said to him. It’s shown that Chisaki had sacrificed things multiple times as a child in order to protect others. He always got hurt and betrayed. It was not his tenth act of kindness that had freed him, but his first act of apathy. It’s also shown how anytime Chisaki did anything Pops didn’t want him to, or ‘wrong’, Pops’ only response was to punish him (a lot of the things Pops punished him for as a kid were neurodivergent behaviors).

Midoriya smiles at Chisaki, which mildly surprises him and breaks him out of the flashbacks. “Do you hate me?” Chisaki would ask, impassive. “Do you hate me?” Midoriya would retort.

Midoriya would bring up wanting to help everyone he can, wanting to inspire others to help those next to them. He asks Chisaki if he wants to see Kurono again. “Is this blackmail, a threat, or leverage?” Chisaki would ask. “Is ‘none of the above’ an option?” Midoriya would say with a wobbly smile. Kurono then enters the room. Both Chisaki and Kurono’s eyes widen as they see each-other. A pause.

Then, “Your hair is longer,” Kurono would say. “Your hair is shorter,” Chisaki would say. Kurono hesitantly smiles as he steps as close to Chisaki as he can without touching him, always so aware of Chisaki’s wants and boundaries. “How are you? How’ve they been treating you?” Kurono would quietly ask with his signature note of protectiveness. Chisaki’s eyes gloss. He pulls Kurono into a hug, Kurono yelping in surprise, and Chisaki’s skin breaks out in hives. He buries his face in Kurono’s shoulder. “I’m sorry,” Chisaki would sob into Kurono’s shirt. Kurono wraps his arms around Chisaki, smile returning even softer than it was before. “It’s okay,” Kurono would whisper.

After a moment, Kurono lightly pushes Chisaki back by the shoulders. “We really messed up, didn’t we?” Kurono would tearily laugh. Chisaki deeply frowns. “I messed up,” he would argue. “Yeah, okay,” Kurono would say, raising a brow, “Like when we accidentally poisoned our classmate.”

Chisaki’s frown somehow deepens even more. “That is not the same,” he’d adamantly say, voice cracking, and Kurono bursts out laughing while still crying. Then, that panel switches to one of the two of them as young teens; Chisaki had been indignant and ranting about something while Kurono had just laughed.

Midoriya watches the two, shakily smiling while tearing up himself. Then, he catches sight of something that makes his eyes widen and jaw go slack.

Chisaki’s smiling. Something nearly unnoticeably small and unbelievably hesitant, but there on quivering lips. Genuine and real.

Or something like that? It might be wishful thinking/unrealistic, but I really want Chisaki to smile. I also tried to make it kinda summarized bc I don’t want it to be unrealistically long, although I’m pretty sure it still is unrealistically long for a conclusion of a side character that nobody cares about lmao. Or, two side characters nobody cares about lol. I’m just saying I would’ve eaten up a Kurono/Chisaki reunion

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Akemi Miyano embodies the song 'Can't Catch Me Now' by Olivia Rodrigo in the most perfect way.

Oh, you think I'm gone 'cause I left But I'm in the trees, I'm in the breeze My footsteps on the ground You'll see my face in every place But you can't catch me now

The Black Org might’ve killed her but she left pieces of herself in the people that would take them down. In her sister, in Conan, in Akai. Her ghost embraces Haibara, smiling at her through Ran’s familiar self-sacrificing kindness. Her blood stains Conan’s hands, the little detective that carries too much on his shoulders. Her touch haunts Akai, his love for her genuine despite the fact that he had used her for his own purposes.

And I think that's what makes her such a compelling character despite the little screen time she had. They thought she was a mere pawn, someone that was easy to throw away and forget but she haunts the narrative while the people who loved her fight to destroy the very thing that took her away from them.

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i want to believe that Horikoshi's original plan for Chisaki's character was different from what he went for in the original story. I mean come on.. It doesn't make any sense. Why would he make Deku promise him something and then change the story afterwards (like that pact he made with him right before Overhaul got locked up again). We haven't seen overhaul actually regretting torturing Eri.

I think the editors pushed him to hurry up with the story and advised against resenting Overhaul because of the negative feedback. I mean there is tsukauchi commenting about how pops meeting overhaul is better than Eri liking her trauma again (which is good don't get me wrong), it sounds like he's justifying his story choice. Also there were hints in the shie hassaikai arc that rappa and red riot would have fought together again.

I said this in the past and I will repeat it till the last day of my life...

Overhaul's character is underestimated and wasted.

Edit. By the way, AFO's comment on Overhaul being a victim of hero society bugs me. Why wasn't there an explanation?

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It's such a waste for Overhaul to simply rot in a prison. So many people got hurt and buildings were destroyed during the war, they should have gotten him prosthetics and made him heal those injured people and restore their homes. Imagine how much faster those affected areas would recover and how much money the government could save if they made Kai do the labor. It's not gonna make up for what he did to Eri but at the very least it would help so many people at a much faster rate. I feel like Hori doesn't want to use the potential of this character simply out of spite

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last time we saw bbgirl was this panel and i have so many questions

like the whole “apologize to eri” sounds like its own arc where poor eri gets to heal, chisaki getting a second chance in life + more of his backstory especially now that we know for a fact he was in one of garaki’s orphanages and was the BASIS for shigaraki’s quirk. how did he end up there? why was he on the streets where pops found him?? was he thrown out or did garaki just let him go? did he accidentally kill his parents/ guardians (since he and shigaraki are mirrors to each other) ? when/why did his aversion to touch start?

genuinely confused as to why horikoshi threw this whole sentiment in the story just to not follow through with it or for it to be off screen which would be worse. so much freaking potential here ._.

chisaki is such a complex and interesting character and not to mention his quirk and how symbolic it can be for him to “overhaul” himself and come back as a better person to serve society. he did what he did for the person that saved him after all.

again, i feel like there’s so much more to him than what we’re getting.

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I. Won’t. Recover.

He’s so sweet man, how can he say something like that 😭

My baby love 🥹

He’s the cutest man ever, he’s always nice when nobody sees it, and that’s so incredibly sweet.

I’m in love.

From YouTube: KNB season 2 AUDIO DRAMA vol 5 FEAT. Momoi Satsuki

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I miss him 😞

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Ok.... Ok..... OK

424 spoiler ahead

So even though it seems like the story is coming to a conclusion with the last chapter it doesn't feel like anything is ending (at least not to me).

The conclusion to the battle is bitter and it feels more like a begging of some sort.

There are still some subplots to resolve and we need more to the story.

I don't know I had faith in Horikoshi that's why I came this far.. I still believe he can turn things right but it would mean to continue the story for a bit more...

Ps. Oh yeah how could I forget about deku's dad... Where the actual f*** is he?

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That was pure evil

Picture not mine link

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@wbswag I was actually thinking of sharing a similar post, asking the same question.. But I figured that maybe the reason why AFO didn't steal Overhaul is because in order to modify the quirk you have to multiply it.. Like you can't reconstruct a quirk and change it.

Perhaps another reason was to observe Chisaki's development of his quirk theory. Then we have Chisaki's experimenting on Eri for the quirk canceling bullets, AFO must have known about it and was waiting for the end result. ( I know that was way after the Garaki facility I think there's more to it, maybe AFO has a quirk that shows the future or he's just to cocky to want overhaul).

Pretty sure this is one of my most Hardcore Delusional takes yet, but it’s something that’s been in the back of my mind ever since chapter 312 where it was shown that All For One was in direct proximity to a defenseless Chisaki… and didn’t steal his quirk. I remember when the chapter was more recent, there was a bunch of people theorizing that AFO stole the Overhaul quirk, but over the last 100+ chapters, it’s become apparent that he probably didn’t.

And I thought to myself, “Why not steal that quirk? It would help you and your whole plan greatly. Why on earth would you pass up that opportunity?” And these feelings were thrown back in my face by chapter 419, where it got confirmed Chisaki was in one of AFO’s facilities as a kid (He had a previous, even better opportunity to steal the quirk, which challenged my original idea that AFO let Chisaki keep the quirk to maintain his manipulation of Shigaraki).

So the question is: Why, for the sake of everything holy and unholy, did AFO not steal Chisaki’s quirk despite having every chance, reason, and more to?

But I was reading quirkwizard’s post about their opinion on the 419 Overhaul-Decay reveal, and it came to me, kinda baselessly but still—what if he literally can’t? What if there’s something about the quirk or Chisaki that makes it so that AFO literally can’t take the quirk somehow?

Because like quirkwizard said, it makes no sense for AFO to have just not stolen the quirk? Like, I can semi-see what he was going for with stripping the reconstruction part when he gave it to Shigaraki to promote pure destruction or whatever, but why not make the copy and then take the original for himself or Garaki? Especially back then, before anyone but AFO knew about Chisaki?? And also, yeah, how DID Chisaki get out of the orphanage? Did he just breakout and run away like Touya did? Or was it something deeper? I’ll probably brainstorm it and make another post, BUT if anyone has any personal theories about it, PLEASE tell me, I love reading Chisaki theories!!

But anyway, yeah. Is it that maybe he actually can’t? Is that why he had to resort to merely making a, in his own words, subpar copy? Because why was stealing Chisaki’s quirk never even on the table, for anyone, in either of the blatant two different situations it could’ve easily been stolen??

I feel like the Overhaul being the origins of the Decay quirk thing is to deepen the parallels between Chisaki and Shigaraki (obviously), but the real question is why. Why deepen the parallels between them to that extent, in that context? Unless there’s still more to be revealed about Chisaki and his past (like @ikamigami ‘s theory that Chisaki is AFO’s kid, which is a theory I cannot stop thinking about btw) that’ll further connect him and Shigaraki.

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woe, aomine manga icons be upon ye / kagami / kise

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personally, i love the theory that overhaul's quirk was also given by garaki at some point; someone pointed out that both tenko and overhaul express similar reactions to their quirk--allergic or autoimmune itching, hives, etc. We've already learned through the series that being quirkless and then being given a quirk, or otherwise having a quirk that wasn't your own from the start, often leads to incompatibilities. aoyama's navel laser gives him stomachaches, we don't even need to get into izuku's whole deal. being given decay and waiting for it to manifest, leading to itching... it's very similar to how overhauls breaks out in hives at times.

if the quirk he was given is only one half of the original quirk it was stripped from, that means the reconstruction half of that quirk was still in garaki's possession. chisaki was also an orphan--and didn't we get insight that garaki split the decay portion from the reconstruction portion of said quirk? real coincidental considering orphan chisaki's quirk, overhaul, depended on reconstruction. and how chisaki was instrumental in creating quirk-reversal bullets... that all for one needed... in order to ensure that his body lasted during the war...

all im saying is that it's starting to track

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okay, so, minor bit of explanation here. There was a theory I remember seeing back when Dabi’s backstory was revealed that, based on some shared decorations, Ujiko’s orphanage that we saw was the same one Chisaki was in during a flashback in his backstory. In the leaks, that exact panel of Chisaki was shown as AfO was explaining where Tomura’s quirk came from. Disintegrate is 100% a nerfed copy of Overhaul.

That's true.. But can two people have the "same" quirk? I apologize, but I'm having trouble understanding that. I mean AFO clearly has the power to control quirks so I guess he can do anything to create new quirks.