#disabled dabi

[fanon-and-canon]

a guide to dabi's names for keigo (in my disabled dabi/villain reform au):

chicken - dabi's annoyed

pigeon - dabi's neutral

birdbrain - keigo is being ridiculous

kei - dabi's neutral, but more soft

keigo - versatile, typically when dabi's annoyed

birdie - versatile

baby/little/pretty bird - dabi's feeling soft

[lavenderauthor]

Title: Biologically Wired to Think Enji's Eldest is Hot by LavenderAuthor (6k)

Fandom: Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: Mature

Relationships: Dabi | Todoroki Touya/Takami Keigo | Hawks, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Todoroki Enji | Endeavor, Dabi | Todoroki Touya/Original Male Character(s), Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Iguchi Shuuichi | Spinner

Summary: After months of sleeping around(or just making out) with most of the cold-blooded and avian mutant population that frequented a secret heteromorph club, Dabi accidentally gets on the nerves of a specific group who both hated that he A) frequented a club meant for mostly heteromorphs and B) is a non-heteromorph sleeping around with only specific heteromorphs.

Said group, after seeing him at a gathering and easily slipping between partners like usual, made the brash decision to turn the gathering into a hostage situation. They made one mistake, however: they kidnapped Endeavor's eldest son.

(Gif by itssleepyrabbit)

[bnhafunfun]

Hard of hearing Dabi, who intensely watches your every move to understand everything.

[eddies-spaghetti]

disability pride icons for disability pride month

(can be used as long as you credit me)

[manicpixieyandere]

The League of Villains

Society and Quirks

So we just finished binging all of MHA and read the remaining chapters of the manga. And damn we did not expect the League of Villains to be some of our favorite characters to ever grace this Earth! But it's kinda unfortunate the franchise the ended up in. Let's talk about that!

First let's start by talking about the LoV and what quirks represented for them. In MHA it's quite common for quirks to be used as allegories for different kinds of marginalization.

Heteromorphs like Spinner are a representation of racism.

Toga's quirk is a representation of how she loves someone and how society deems that love "wrong". Toga is shown to love both boys and girls. People beg her to "just be normal". She is obviously queer.

Dabi's body was not made to deal with his own quirk. This reads as being born disabled. He also has the common disabled experience of being told to forget his dreams and aspirations.

Twice's double quirk and the trauma that came from it lead to him developing dissociative identity disorder.

Some in the LoV were also marginalized / had a rough start without anything to do with their quirks.

Magne is a trans woman.

Mr. Compress comes from a family lineage of criminals.

Shigaraki is a League of Legends player.

(No but seriously this poor kid was abused and manipulated his whole life).

Speaking of which a lot of the LoV were abused and / or neglected as children. Most of the shit Shigaraki went through was due to All For One, but it's not like his bio dad was stellar either. We all know Endeavor gets the worst dad of the year award for how he raised Toya, but Dabi also got the AFO manipulation to a degree as well. Toga's parents were neglectful and verbally abusive.

All of this is to say; The LoV members clearly had a rough life. But they found a family in each other! They all cared for each other in their own way! Twice and Toga were very close and would take care of each other. Dabi burns down Toga's childhood home. Spinner and Shigaraki bond over video games and were genuine friends. Compress takes care of everyone and saves them. Everyone is sad when Magne and Twice die.

All of this leads to this beautiful line from Shigaraki:

He wanted to be their hero. He wanted to destroy the world not just for his own urges, but to make the world a better place for his friends, for the LoV. But did he succeed, even a little bit?

Wellll... The hero society that doomed them all is still going well and thriving. The most change to come out of their mission was a bigger focus on quirk counseling. This is definitely important but it is not the only thing that needed to change. And it only changed because of ONE PERSON. The ONE person who showed empathy for Toga. Ochaco is the one to implement this change, but she is only one person. She cannot change the entire world on her own.

This is where we just can't get past the clear biases in the writing of MHA. The villains are not treated fairly. For example the heroes get off scott free with practically EVERYTHING. Bakugo dies? Just kidding! Oh the condition for him coming back to life was now Edgeshot has to die? Nah he's fine too. Deku had an entire arc about wanting to save Shigaraki when no one else agreed, only for him to kill him in the end. And after killing him it's not like he implemented changes to help prevent whoever the next Shigaraki is gonna be. The cycle will continue until changes are made.

So as you can see there is clear favoritism in the writing. And that is something that tends to be an issue whenever you have a plot device such as quirks that represent marginalization and you have villains who are trying to fight their oppressors. Let's look at a few examples!

For animation fans an example that leaves a bitter taste in our mouth is The Dragon Prince's dark magic. Dark magic is something that is seen as corrupt but also explained to be a way for humans to have magic to fight their oppressors as they were seen as less than since they had no magic. But dark magic is also used as an allegory for drugs and addiction, so it gets messy.

For the superhero fans let's look at The Boys. Supes are a complete mess. You have them representing conservatives and cops in an "all supes are bastards way" while also having them as a marginalized race in danger of being genocided. You can't have both.

Both of these examples show messy allegories in fantasy where rising against your oppressors is painted as wrong and the marginalized are also seen in a negative light due to some other component of their fantasy (drugs and cops respectively). MHA falls into the same trap with its villains. They're fighting their oppressors. They are oppressed due to their quirks just being who they are, but those quirks also lead to violent murderous urges (decay and transform most of all). It ends up creating a scenario where you teach the audience that it's bad to rise against your oppressors, it's bad to want change.

So what could they have done differently? Without completely redoing the quirk fantasy, the simplest answer would be to REDO THE SYSTEM! They hinted many times in the series it needed to change somehow and just never did. Normal civilians even wanted it changed, not just the villains! But it just doesn't change. They needed to put more focus on that push not just from the villains but from the innocent civilians as well to prove it's something that needed to change. But it never will. It's fiction and the book is closed.

But just because it's fictional doesn't mean it doesn't represent real world events. The story teaches negative things about marginalization and how we should never make a stand. It's like telling all the women right now in America to not be angry their anatomy and rights are being taken away from them. It's telling those women to love the man who is doing this to them. It's telling queer people to just accept they can't get married or transition anymore. It's telling us there is nothing to be done. But remember that isn't true! If you keep fighting things could change. It unfortunately may not be in your lifetime, but at least we can try to make things better for the future generations so no one has to hurt like the LoV did, like real people do today.

[gayfortheplot]

I know we're ignoring canon right now, but can. Can we just talk about Dabi's ending for a second? Because like. What the fuck? This guy's been suffering his entire life. From being abused by his father, to being kidnapped and experimented on while he's in a coma, just to escape and go home to find out his worst fears have come true, his family abandoned him, they never really cared. Then, he spends the next 8 years homeless, where he damages his body so much to the point he's being held together by staples? How painful was his daily life?? No wonder he wanted to die. His life was hell. And now, he spends his last days alive trapped in a fucking fish tank, in excruciating agony (you cannot tell me he isn't in any pain. He has no fucking skin left, along with his other injuries. Not to mention the emotional and psychological trauma once again inflicted on him). He doesn't get to choose whether or not he wants to keep living through this nightmare. He doesn't get to choose whether or not he wants Endeavor to visit him every day. No one asks him his opinion on any of this. They decide for him, and he doesn't have the strength left to protest. He can't move, can't talk, can't do anything. All he can do is sit there, watching on helplessly, with the knowledge that after his death, his family will once again leave him behind and forget all about him. He'll never see the League again, the only people in the world who actually loved him unconditionally and never saw him as a problem or a mistake. He has to die with the knowledge that he failed. His family won't ever truly see him as a person, and he never, not once in his life, got to be happy.

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[joptartsart]

Going back to my roots by redrawing the oldest piece of Dabi fanart i can find 🫡

2024 vs 2016

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[mydarlingedits]

can i please get dabi icons with this hpd flag? https://x.com/yttdbutgay/status/1694769385896808863/photo/2

HPD DABI CIRCLE BORDER* ICONS

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I hope you don't mind that I some included variants with a slightly altered flag, it was a bit hard for me to see, personally ! (I have variants of the other ones too if you want them, there's just an image limit lol) ᯓᡣ𐭩

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[PLAIN TEXT: 'op is an adult' on the top left, and 'No DNI ! Just be nice' on the bottom right].

[whileyoureinschoolidothisallday]

Me, decorating the space around Touya's tank with holiday decor, holding a santa hat ornament out at the guard: hello mr. sir happy holidays! Would you mind giving this to the doctors when they come back? I was gonna get a sticker to put on the tank but I don't know if that's gonna interfere with anything, so I got this instead that they can just hang up right over there when they go in on the other side, and then look look look! It looks like he's wearing it while you talk to him! Isn't that fun? =D

Touya: -making his alarms go off in protest-

Me: Nah, nah, listen--you put your clown ass in there you're gonna wear the hat to match!!!!!

[fanon-and-canon]

MY DISABLED DABI LONGFIC HAS STARTED! i finished it yesterday, im so excited to finally be able to share this!!!! gonna try and upload weekly

[theforestsongz]

every time someone says touya in a fix it au would be a pro hero an angel loses its wings btw. au where touya follows anything BUT the path enderculo initially set out for him please. au where he learns to love himself despite being disabled and not "meeting expectations" perhaps?

[number1villainstan]

this pisses me off so bad, i shouldn't be thinking about it for my own mental health, but even with my somewhat limited knowledge of bnha canon the more i think about it the more examples i can find of boku no hero academia's rampant fucking ableism

[airs-headspace]

Just gotta clean up the lines then I can color in all these DAbiTou babies (and one adopted!)

[lovesick-level-up]

Disability Pride Month Challenge Day 7

day 7: character(s) with a disassociative disorder (did, osdd, depersonalisation/derealisation, etc)

the characters we picked for this are: mafuyu asahina ((headcanon) did), kiibo ((headcanon) osdd) + touya todoroki ((headcanon) did)

flag credits: did/osdd/udd flag

feel free to use with credit as long as you aren't on our dni, but don't claim as your own! like/reblog if you save or enjoy!