#because i wouldn't have a problem with this conversation if Ochako had actually disregarded Toga

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This entire conversation feels so bad to me. Like I get what Hori was going for but there is no reason for Ochako to feel this way given how he set up their previous fight.

Of course Ochako doesn't understand Toga at all--Toga never actually tried to talk to her. Himiko sought out Ochako by tricking her, then tried to stab her, and letting her know she killed a person using Ochako’s Quirk. She didn't mention Twice nor did she approach Ochako in a way that was in anyway conducive to a real conversation. (And it’s not like Toga is incapable of talking to people normally. She talks to the LoV members just fine.)

If Hori had wrote it so that Toga had tried to talk to Ochako without attacking and was obviously trying to explain how her friend was just killed, but Ochako just kept trying to arrest her, not letting her get a word in, this would make more sense. The reason Ochako knows so little about Toga is her own fault, for refusing to listen to her or take a moment to notice she was just trying to talk. 

As it is Ochako wasn’t wrong and it’s Toga’s own fault she didn't get the answer she wanted. Hori has already established with the Todoroki’s that it’s good to tell someone the ways they hurt you and you’re not obligated to be nice to them/ understand them.

I mean, just imagine if Shoto had had these same thoughts about Enji, lamenting about how he doesn’t understand his dad, and what he thinks is truly right. That he’s unsure because when he told Endeavor off he looked really sad, so maybe his dad just needs some understanding. As if all the sudden the reason Shoto doesn’t know any of that stuff isn’t entirely Endeavor’s fault.

I’m hoping that these humanizing feelings the kids are having toward the villains are less, “wow, we were the real bad guys all along and we must fix these poor broken babies” and more, just an understanding that their people. It’s not as if I want the kids or any of the Heroes to just see all the villains as evil cardboard cut outs. I think understanding the reasons why people do bad things is important. Sympathy is good.

But I don’t want the kids to just forget all the horrible things these people have done to them and their friends/family and never hold them accountable for that pain. And more then that I want it to be a two way street. It’s not as if the LoV have given a shit about their kid counterparts feelings or tried to understand them either. If the kids have to see the villains as more then just villains, then I want the villains to see the heroes as more then just heroes.