#also shhhh ignore me knowing dabi spoilers when im still on season 4

[strawberrytalia]

SO TRUE!! Dabi’s case doesn’t make sense at all because after he woke up from his coma, his organs were SO DAMAGED that it was literally believed he would survive only a month more! There’s like no way he’d take that risk of making his health worse at all, along with the biggest trauma reason you mentioned. Ugh people just really love the smoker’s aesthetic and think because he’s a “hot bad guy” he’d do it.

BUT JASON’S SMOKER HCS MAKE ME MAD BECAUSE IT REALLY IS JUST A STEREOTYPE ABOUT LOW INCOME PEOPLE 💀 doubly worse when i find out people also view him as a poc when they say that, but yeah there’s usually no basis other than straight up classism (why am i surprised when classism is embroiled everywhere in his character smh)

Also like I know that lately cigarettes have been like a weird “dark academia pretentious” thing (which is weird, i never thought i’d see cigs get gentrified), but there’s a reason people think he’s a smoker and it’s because when they have the image of a rough, street-worn working class person, they imagine that person has a vice (i mean: addiction) of some kind, and smoking is the most common one and that’s sooooooo ugh like gtfo bruh

Fanarts/headcanons of Dabi and Jason being smokers being so popular confuses me.Jason died in an explosion after being brutalized when he was 15 and Dabi straight up nearly burned himself to death with his own powers when he was 13,i really don't think they'd ever willingly smoke,much less have it as a trait,and it feels like yet another example of the fandom being desperate to make them 'hotter' by disregarding their trauma so they can have them be a caricature of alt men due to wanting to date them