#bnha s6 spoilers

[helga-grinduil]

ITS FUCKING COMING

UPD.: ITS COMING NEXT WEEK, NOT THIS ONE, PEOPLE

[phoenixgreen]

this is the only thing I will think and talk about for forever now. Head empty. Only this

[decarbry]

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[struggling-author]

TW: mainly for mention of domestic abuse

also Spoiler warning for the newest MHA episode

I just love how complex the Todoroki family is. Enji stopped training Touya because he cared about him and didn’t want to see him hurt, but he completely failed to show him that he actually cared and instead just made him feel like a broken toy that’s been replaced. Touya specifically says Enji lit the fire under him to wanna become a hero, which he is now trying to stop, but at the same time he learns nothing from this and does the same with Shoto.

Touya seems to react especially harshly to women because he thinks they cannot relate to his feelings about wanting to be a hero. Indeed Rei and Fuyumi both don’t have such ambitions, but neither does Natsuo which suprises Touya but his reaction is more shock than anger. I wonder if this is just him projecting from seeing his parents, believing that men are ambitious and women are not, or if it is more of a cultural bias/sexism, though I am leaning towards the first because he doesn’t seem to socialize much with people outside his family.

It is also interesting how despite having similar upbringings, Shoto and Touya seem to develop in opposite directions. Touya is very angry towards his mother but does hold admiration for his dad and wants his approval, and wants to train to become a hero. He interacts with his siblings but doesn’t seem to care much for it. Shoto doesn’t show much interest in training amd would rather play with his siblings, develops a much more protective feeling about his mother (which continues even after she burns him) and wants to reject his dad entirely.

I would guess this comes from the way in which they were first trained. When Touya was born Enji was not that desperate yet and actually seemed to train him with praise and affection, showing him love to an extent, which lead to Touya associating very positive feelings with training and being a hero, only turning cruel once he feared that it would be taken away. With Shoto on the other hand Enji was getting desperate, he kept him separated from the others (partially to protect shoto, but I think here it was more to protect his perfect hero than out of actual care) and forced him to train. He was seemingly always angry and expectations were high so nothing Shoto did was ever good enough, leading him to associate very negative feelings with both training and his father. When he then saw his mother suffer under him too he felt the need to protect her.

I wanna write something about Rei too but I find it difficult to place her right now - the two strongest symbolisms for her in the episode are definitely the eyes and the flowers - the flowers could mean that at some point there was something like actual love between her and Enji, but tbh I find that unlikely from what we‘ve seen. I tink it‘s more that she tried to find it in herself to love their family and make it work (like she said try to keep smiling despite circumstances). also it seems the eyes she saw on shoto reminded her not just of endeavor but of touya too, so was she - in her delirious state when she burned him - somehow trying to stop shoto from turning out like touya too? in general how did her mental state develop? it’s my interpretation that when we saw Enji hit her in the episode it was the first time he got physically violent this way, and while I don’t think it happened very often, I also don’t think it was the last time - and I assume it was a breaking point for both of them (his “angry face“ or as Rei calls it “his eyes“ keep getting worse and worse as the episode goes along and I think in this scene it’s at its worst so it would make sense that we are seeing the first time this face ever appeared, the first time it has gotten this bad, so that’s why I think it’s the first physical abuse)

(also random side note but I found it weird how quirk marriages were presented as something very bad but arranged marriages were apparently fine, and I‘m very sure this is a cultural thing but still - the irony when it’s basically the same thing)

Fuyumi and Natsuo get the least attention in this episode so there is little to comment on them. I am curious how Natsuo turned to be so resentful of his father while Fuyumi didn’t. We both see them in roughly the same positions, watching as Touya attacks Shoto, hiding from Enji as he beats Rei, playing with Touya. The only difference is how Touya interacts with them individually but I doubt this will be the deciding factor in their personalities so I will leave this up to ”we‘ll hopefully find out later“. Perhaps it is due to Fuyumi being born earlier, so she still remembers a time when Enji was not so cruel to them and thinks they can go “back“ to being a happy family, while I think Natsuo said at some point that Enji was like a stranger to him so it makes sense he wouldn’t care to get something back that he never had.

As Rei calls out, Enji has a tendency to run from his parental duties. He says about raising Touya that he could only show him the world of a hero, so when he decides Touya cannot be one, he basically stops trying to raise him and pushes it onto Rei (The same may be true for his other children but it’s unclear). I would guess here that he has started to realize the impact he has had on Touya turning out the way he had so far, but he doesn’t trust himself to do better and basically feels unfit to be an actual parent, so he thinks the best way is to remove himself enitrely. He confirms this again in the hospital in the present, saying the reason he didn’t go to see Touya show him his new move is because he wouldn’t have known what to say, so he did nothing. This leads me to think, in a situation where Enji is truly challenged (or at least emotionally) his fear reaction is neither fight nor flight, it is actually freeze (ironic tbh). We see this trend continue in recent episodes, when Natsuo is in danger he freezes, when Dabi reveals himself he freezes, both times other people need to step in to do his job, and luckily they could. In the past when he expected Rei to step in and do his job, she couldn’t (and partially because Touya had already been molded to resent her). Enji felt trapped by his own feelings of inadequacy and Rei‘s powerlessness so he let his anger out on her.

Short version: In parenting, Enji knows how to light the fire of ambition under his children but he can’t put it out and expects Rei to step in and do it, but she can’t. Just wanted to point this out again to put it in relation to their quirks, because I fully think it was intended that the fire quirk person is the one who lights the fire and the ice quirk person is expected to put it out - and how this doesn’t work is also reflected in the name of the episode ”the wrong way to put out a fire“

Anyway this post was not meant to follow any real structure (and it didn’t) but now it developed to where I wanna put some sort of conclusion. Drawing again from the title of the episode, it is implied that there was a right way to put out the fire, but that the wrong one was chosen. The wrong way was Enji running from his mistakes and pushing them onto Rei when it was already out of her control, the right way would be him finally breaking out of his frozen fear state and accepting the responsibility of being an actual father. So as nice of a gesture it is that everyone gathered around his bed to tell him they‘ll help, ultimately the job has to be his. That being said I have no idea how this story will end. I‘m not one to call anybody irredeemable, but I do not see how Touya could have anything close to a realistic redemption arc with the state of mind he is in, however it doesn’t seem right to just kill or lock him up forever either. It’s in your hands Hori.

[saltytearsofjoy]

g girl help

[tootysweetcheeks]

“EriDeku is a much more acceptable ship than BakuDeku”

Hate BakuDeku? sure, think it’s a toxic ship? Sure and think that it’s a unacceptable ship? Cool go ahead, but don’t come out with the absurd take that a p*dophilloic ship is more acceptable! It’s actually not, and in fact it’s even more unacceptable than BakuDeku!

I don’t get why they chose Eri to say this shit, as if there aren’t plenty of other girls Izuku has interacted with and of age like *cough* Melissa *cough* Shield *cough*! Also the whole “It’s not p*dophilia because Deku is still underage” agenda is so ridiculous, it’s still p*dophillia! Izuku is still underage yes, he is a 16yr old teenager. Eri is a child, a 6yr old child. There is so much difference between them(not only age) that makes it a factor to why they can’t be a couple, such as emotional, mental and physical abilities. The power dynamics and I could voice more, but you get the point - relationship between a child and a teen isn’t acceptable or A okay! Izuku is also 3 steps(years) away from becoming an adult, when he turns 18 Eri will still be a kid and shit when he becomes 20 she would have only just gone into double digits(10yrs old)…still quite literally a kid!

At this point, BakuDeku would be a much more acceptable ship than that, or hell Izuku not ending up in a relationship all together is 1000% percent more acceptable than that! You really do have to be all types of weird, if you think that a child X teen(which would soon be child X adult) relationship is much better than a ship between those two! I’m 95% sure they said it to troll or to be edgy but still I had to rant, and I do have to say that why not just say you hate that ship and be done with it!

[dallina17]

"Shigaraki, you killed so many"

"You hurt everyone"

"There's no way I can forgive you"

"I can't forgive you"

"But back then when you were swallowed up by All for One"

"Back then, you looked...

"...like you were asking to be rescued"

[deadboyswalking]

They SNATCHED his waist for the anime

[lylylylyy]

The scene of Touya shouting Flashfire Fist is just perfect...

Looking forward to his prominence burn in the future!

[haebeomsleftbuttcheek]

I swear the anime really missed out on showing danger sense in this episode 😩 when the civilians were rioting and shouting at the prospect of Izuku staying, they were so hostile that it triggered Danger sense in the manga! We can still see the hostility in this episode, but I don’t know I was kind of bummed that they didn’t add that detail!

[stodareegg]

One might say that Mr Compress half-assed his reveal

[helga-grinduil]

bones added an extra scene with izuku saying that the public was lied to about the students' involvement in the battle. they were told there was no students on the main battlefield fighting shigaraki. it's a little thing, but is also genius. really emphasises how shady as fuck it was to draft children into an operation like this and hpsc KNOW that.

[fairywithgremlintendencies]

"who else is going to step in and train my useless children" well damn aizawa

[decarbry]

"Bonus points if its after the hospital arc" is Mic out here taking away Aizawa's knife privileges after sawing his own leg off? Because valid. Imagine Mic cutting Aizawa's food for him and just being like "... isn't this a bit excessive? I'm not going to use a kitchen knife to amputate my other leg". And Mic just sasses him back like "YEAH WELL I didn't think you'd cut off your own leg in general but here we are."

eri is ahead of shouta in knife safety lessons

[stacks-of-stags]

continuously sustaining psychological damage from a piece of media that is slightly too well-written

[matryoshkalex]

to celebrate the second half of season six and my some of my favorite scenes coming up, heres some coloring i did of the cover for ch 317!!

this whole upcoming arc is one of my all time favorites i think and edgy dark izuku will never not be super cool to me (even if he makes me really sad) and ive seen some people do these so!! i wanted to try it and WOW i had a lot of fun :D i went through and redid the lines to make them super sharp and can i just say that i am so in love with horikoshis art. like ive said it before and ill say it over and over again but i just want to absorb his art so bad . yeah anyways i hope yall like it!! im planning to do at least a few more!! maybe of a whole scene that i might be in love with. we'll see

(more versions + transparent of the line work under the cut!!)

these versions arent all that different but !! i did wanna include this one where i had the original image overlaying everything for the extra crunchiness of the crosshatching bc i absolutely love the texture

so the transparent line works im jus including in case someone else was possibly interested in coloring it?? feel free!! i would love to see if anyone does (also idk of the image will even be an ok enough quality,, if not just lmk and ill figure out a better way to share it lol)