#and then they just started saying how irrelevant natsuo is?!?! brother?!:/? if he is so irrelevant why are you so obsessed with him

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ppl trying to trick me into random fandom arguments that i don’t care about just because they felt like hating??? bro take your twitter bro arguments to twitter then tf is this my issue? get out of my comment section like huh 😭😭

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Why I don’t believe Touya’s hair is red

I never make such long posts, but bear with me here.  I don’t think Todoroki Touya’s hair is completely red(I specifically think he’s the boy with white hair and red streaks), and here’s why:

It was never red in the manga

The overall consensus is that since Touya has a fire quirk his hair must be red, right?  I see a lot of people referencing that one flashback in the anime; you know, the one Shouto has of all his siblings?

But wait, something’s wrong here.  In the manga none of the children but Shouto had a lot of Enji’s red hair, seen here:

You could argue that the anime changed it per request of Horikoshi to fit with how he decided the story would go, but then why wouldn’t he change his hair in the second flashback, which came much later in the manga?  It’s possible it was for consistency, but at one point Horikoshi would have to change it to red, why not as soon as possible, so as not to confuse the readers as much?  So then, why did the anime change it?

Well, the most logical explanation is that there isn’t actually a reason for the change.  Bones seems to make sudden unnecessary changes quite a bit, to be completely honest.  They mostly change eye color, however they have done a few major changes, especially the interaction between Bakugou and Best Jeanist in season 2 (analysis done by @plusultra-fox​, please check it out).

Both Iida and Mic had their eye colors changed; Iida from red to blue and Mic from red to green.  It could possibly be because the animators thought red eyes seemed too villainous for hero characters like Mic and Iida, but they also changed Fuyumi’s eyes from blue to grey.

Bones could have decided the other two siblings were irrelevant, with only Fuyumi being known at the time, and changed their hair colors for convenience(easier to animate and in order to distinguish them?).

Whatever the reason Bones has for changing the colors of characters, it still stands that the siblings in both flashbacks in the manga have the same color hair, even after the release of the anime episode.

His mother never mentions him specifically

Here we see the iconic flashback of the moment right before Rei burned Shouto’s left side.  What does this have to do with Touya, though?  Rei says, “The children, they’re... Like him more and more every day.  And Shoto... His left side.  Sometimes I look at him and hate what I see.”  She specifically mentions only Shouto’s left side, the side with red hair and blue eyes.  If Touya had red hair, it would be more prominent than only Shouto’s left side, especially if he had blue eyes(which would be true if you believe in the Dabi Todoroki theory, which I’ll get into more later).  Rei would’ve mentioned Touya looking like Enji if he had red hair.

It’s possible Horikoshi didn’t want to draw too much attention to the other siblings this early on in the manga, but if you pair this with the fact that in the manga both of Shouto’s older brothers have mostly white hair, it makes a lot more sense.

His body is like his mother’s

If you’re a fan of the Dabi Todoroki theory, you know this one well.  In another of Shouto’s flashbacks, he remembers Enji training him, who also mentions Touya.

“Touya’s case was regrettable.  He possesses even greater firepower than mine, and yet... He inherited Rei’s weak constitution.”

In the raws, “weak constitution” is “冷の性質,” or “cold nature,” implying that Touya’s body was made for ice, but instead he got a fire quirk, and not just that he had a weak or frail body(I’ve seen a lot of theories that Touya is the smallest in the flashbacks because of this, but Natsuo and Touya’s age differences would be too great for their height to be that different).  Considering the association between hair color and quirks, then Touya having all or mostly white hair makes a lot of sense.  In the manga flashbacks of the children, we see the smaller boy has all white hair, and the taller boy has mostly white hair with red streaks on the side and under.  Unless Natsuo, who we’ve seen with all white hair, bleached his, the taller child would be Touya.  The majority of his hair is white, correlating with his so called “cold nature,” while the red streaks represent his fire quirk.

Why he could be the boy with red and white hair/Taking into consideration the Dabi Todoroki theory

Keeping all of this in mind, now I’ll be addressing specifically the arguments that Touya is the smallest child in the flashbacks and the theory that Touya is Dabi.

Obviously a lot of the base for this theory is the scene in the anime with Shouto’s siblings, where the child in the middle has red hair.  In the manga the middle child(location, not age) has completely white hair, styled down.  The same child appears in the later flashback, where the height difference between the siblings is much more clear.  Since many people believe that Dabi is Touya, and that he is the red haired child because he has a fire quirk, that means he is the smallest child in the flashback.  Again, however, considering their ages and the fact that Natsuo has only been shown to have pure white hair, just like that child, it would make the most sense for the smallest to be Natsuo.

I’ve seen reasoning based on hairstyles, however, it has been shown in the manga that characters may change their hairstyle, especially because of life-altering events.  Specifically Kirishima, but Toga is also seen with her hair down in a few of her flashbacks.

It wouldn’t be illogical for Natsuo and Touya to have gone through circumstances that inspired them to change their appearances, i.e. whatever happened to Touya that Natsuo mentions here:

Speaking of this panel, Natsuo is the one who brings it up, out of all his siblings.  This could possibly be hinting at a closer relationship between Natsuo and Touya.  Assuming Touya is Dabi, and that “what happened with big bro Touya” was that he ran away/was kicked out/was severely injured, after Touya’s absence Natsuo may have taken after Touya and started styling his hair like his older brother.  Likewise, Touya, if he is Dabi, would have wanted to erase all ties with his old self and change his hairstyle and color.

Overall, I’m just really hoping to see the reveal of Touya soon.  Personally I believe in the Dabi Todoroki theory, and I think it would definitely be cool for him to have naturally red and white hair, just like Shouto.  It would definitely make for an interesting and very obvious reveal if he was shown with both colors in his hair; how often do you see people walking around with red and white hair, blue eyes, and a fire quirk, after all?