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Goblin girl fall is upon us

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Now that Volume 35 is out and we finally have translated extras from it, this really just makes Touya's escape from the hospital even more depressing.

I always just assumed he burned the place to the ground to get out. But knowing he didn't because his flames were so weak, and knowing that if he had maybe Ujiko and AFO could have been stopped sooner is just upsetting.

Touya really can never catch a break from life's tragic irony.

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Something silly

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It's not gay if only the cigs touch

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dabi is the most capricorn to ever capricorn

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hori stop cooking pls 🙌

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I’m going to self destruct from the sappiness and I couldn’t be happier

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Annnnnnnnd another oldie! I tried something different with this one, and I really liked it and enjoyed the process, so I've come to appreciate this Kacchan as the one where I finally realised what I wanted from my art.

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why is everyone talking about ochako thinking of izuku for like a second when she literally told toga that she would give her her blood for the rest her of her life.

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your honor, she’s just a teenage girl

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“i want to talk about love with you himiko-chan” HORI KEEP COOKING

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[sobs uncontrollably]

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instigator Dabi

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dabi having the fire/ice quirk combo, but instead for producing both he makes flames so cold that they burn

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Something to pay attention to is how Tenko and Touya grew on this kind of families that followed the traditional role of the father as the leader of the house, holding the power, making the rules and the choices, while the mother was relegated to a second place of caring for the children in the terms the man stipulated and keeping the house in order.

Rei and Nao were treated by her husbands more like subordinates taking orders than mothers that should have equal saying when their kids and their house are related to the problem. Whenever you are trying to study the Todoroki and Shimura family, you need to acknowledge they had a bad power dynamic based on misogyny and strong patriarchy.

Nao and Rei were victims of their husbands too, explicitly in Rei's case and implicitly in Nao's case. In both stories is mentioned that Enji and Kotaro held all the economic power of the family, which if you remember is the main reason behind Rei and Enji's marriage happened, and a (probable) factor behind why Nao's parents didn't interven for Tenko's sake, since it was not their house per se but Kotaro's. In both cases we can appreciate the way Nao and Rei are ignored and dismissed as authorities in their own houses, treated as more an employee than you know, a woman who has equal part as a head of the house. And in both cases the story goes as far as to show us how Hana and Fuyumi couldn't get Touya and Tenko's pain beause they didn't receive the same treatment from her dads, which was not a good thing at all but rooted in their misogyny; Enji and Kotaro'd ignored their daughters too, not caring if they were as rebellious as their sons, because in their minds the girls were just girls and well, they weren't a big threat. Hana resorted to lying in fear of her dad punishing her and becoming invisible almost whenever her dad was mad, while Fuyumi was pushed away early on and had to fulfil the mother role once Rei couldn't be there anymore.

That is the house Tenko and Touya grew up in, that's the house that abused them and their mothers and their siblings for years and years. Tenko says it explicitly: this's the house my father made, and Touya calls out his mom when she tried to act as an authority in the house: I know you married my dad for money and we are simply experiments so don't act like you you have any control here. It'll do you good to you all to remember the kids do not know their mothers challenged their fathers for them, they feel betrayed by their moms without understanding their situation or why things are like that (they are only kids!) and Rei and Nao were not perfect, they have a part in how things went down, but you can never ever compared them to her husbands without acknowledging any of this.

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headcanon ( in a way canon?) that touya cries when he feels too much, happiness? cries. anger? cries. and dabi not being able to cry, lashes fire every time he feels too much bc he always exploded when he felt too much.

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the only reason i barely tolerate endeavors character is because his family in a way need him to heal, not forgive him but his kind of not so good atonement arch i think in a way gave fuyumi and shouto some courage to heal, fuyumi finally saw her father who never gave her the attention she craved from him, give her that attention and i think it started comforting her inner child, which all she ever wanted was a normal and loving family and saw endeavors change as a change for all of them, which why i think she is trying so hard, so they can all heal. i think shouto was more bittersweet to endeavors change because he saw that his father can be decent, which was something only fuyumi and touya had the chance to witness, but simply wasn’t because his greed got to him more than his family, but at the end that is his father and i don’t think that he ever truly hated him, which is expected because we all have complicated feelings for our parents, i think he saw endeavors tries as a way to connect with the people he calls family, but he never had the chance to bond with. natsuos anger will probably never leave, but he will try because deep down all he ever wanted was his parents to pay attention to him. in school briefs it was mentioned that he didn’t really like shouto when he was young because he took his mom away and it was also mentioned that he tried to gain his dads affection too. fuyumi was more like a parent to him than his two parent were. he recognizes his mom as a victim why is why he tried to reconnect with her. i don’t think he will ever forgive endeavor, but i think that he will recognize and accept his atonement because at the end he still is that young boy that all he wanted was his father to pay attention to him and that is what endeavor is trying to do. rei will never forgive, but i think that by her ex husband apologizing to her and trying to make up with their kids will probably give her some closure because she knows that he knows how he made her feel and him even barely owning up to it can help her move forward, because if that man that made her miserable can try for the better so can she.

i think touya is the most tragic of them all. In so many ways he was reminded that all he was, was a failure, an experiment gone wrong. Before he burnt he was reminded, after he woke up from the coma and went back house, every time he saw endeavor. And i think that people forget that his transformation to dabi from touya was not a day transformation, but one that took years. when he woke up he wanted to apologize to his mom, he was willing to try but he was reminded that his existence wasn’t that important if endeavor didn’t try to change after his death BUT after he became the number 1. He was a boy physically 16 and mentally 13 that had to live in the streets and catch up on lost time. A young boy that all he ever wanted was his fathers love, he was failed by both his parents and i think he is the least likely to ever completely heal. because his dad his family is trying too little too late. i think that his mom is the key for him to find closure, after all he wanted to apologize to her when he woke up from the coma, that was the first thing he thought about. he finally started seeing his mom as the victim that she was, started seeing that she was like him, which makes the fact that he looks a lot like her even more sad. also his siblings are an important factor because they were the only people that he could act like a kid too, the only people were he was touya.