#and some people meanwhole are going to praise izuku for the same thing

[marimeeko]

(Im about to be a bit opinionated here, just a heads up)

Also by the fucking way, and this has bugged me for a few weeks, Izuku didn't really KILL Tenko/Tomura?

Dude, AFO did.

AFO ended up taking COMPLETE control of their body. He sent Tomuras consciousness to be decayed in the Vestige world just as he was monologuing about every step he took to absolutely DESTROY Tenko's life before and after his birth. His premeditated grooming just so HE could continue to live in immortality.

Tomura dissolved in that world and AFO was despairing, but he was the one driving. And at that point there wasn't any way for Tenko or Tomura to regain control.

So he helped Izuku destroy AFO from the inside. Which was amazing and just what I expected would happen in some way, for a very long time.

But what Izuku "killed" wasn't so much Tomura Shigaraki anymore, as it was All For One. All For One who was absolutely destroying their body with Quirk use, making himself into a grotesque, monstrous form because he was losing it over his brother not being there anymore and how pointless it had become to him.

Ii may just be my read on it, but I do not think that was even Tomura anymore.

So, I don't really see how Izuku "killed Shigaraki"

I can imagine how in the story, other characters would think that bc it's a complicated mess and not all of them have context.

But we the readers DO, and he really didn't murder Tomura. He reached Tenko, but it just wasnt enough. He and Tomura smashed AFO between their fists(and the OFA vestiges helped) but that didn't save Tomura. And tomura never even reneged on his urge to destroy it all. He just wanted to destroy his mentor/groomer and so he did.

All this "Izuku killed Tomura" is just strange to me because if anyone KILLED Tomura, it was All For One.

Izukus guilt and PERCIEVING it as himself killing or rather, not being able to save Tenko or Tomura, that is different because we know he's going to be hard on himself about it... Spinner, Tomuras best friend, seeing him as a murderer is understandable in the circumstances. But as a reader I do not see Izuku here as a murderer, at least not of Tomura Shigaraki.

Also I think there is a difference between what happened and izuku supposedly being a "Murderer". Murder really implies intent. The LoV had committed murders. Conscious decisions to end life because they wanted to live their own way. Izuku was trying to save the rest of the world from even more loss of life at the hands of a ruthless, truly evil man. Tomura died, but he was not murdered by Izuku. Izuku wanted to help, and wanted to stop the pain, wanted Tomura to want to stop spreading the pain. Even still, tomura wanted to continue destroying.