#gang come join me on my 30th todoroki brainrot post of the week

[haine-kleine]

Screaming crying throwing up about this brilliant visual storytelling. Both of the brothers having the same picture of their family in the background. The only part visible beyond Dabi is his father, he is the only part of the family Dabi is focused on. Dabi hiding his eyes, his true expression behind his hands, preventing himself from looking, leaving only a madman grin that is permanently etched into his face visible. Enji staring back at him with a solemn, determined expression, a picture of a hero before the fight with the final boss.

Shouto having his mother and two siblings behind him, looking with determined but earnest, supportive expressions. They have his back! Shouto is looking down, inside of himself, no longer dependent on his family members to make decisions, he wants to come up with the solution on his own. He's grown so far! His face is more open than ever, even his bangs not covering his expression anymore. Both the ice and fire sides of him working together, the trauma associated with them not forgotten. He is his father's masterpiece son, his mother's child who got hurt by her, Fuyumi and Natsuo's youngest brother, as well as Touya's. Shouto accepts all of these statuses, and he doesn't want to lose any of his family members.

The two sets of overlaid pictures are connected in more ways than one. Rei, Fuyumi and Natsuo's support of Shouto contrasted with Enji's conflict with Touya is one. Another is the three family members and Enji looking at each other. His stubborn, upset expression - accepting the guilt and the blame he holds for ruining their lives, Rei's open but almost cold, frozen expression, Fuyumi's unsure, wistful one, Natsuo's face looking like younger, broken version of Endeavour's. They are finally confronting their family situation that went unaddressed for twenty years, all the ugly avoided feelings about to be laid out in the open.

The third connection between the pictures, the catalyst for this confrontation, for the family's festering wound bursting - the contact between the youngest and oldest sons. The masterpiece and the failed masterpiece. The beloved son and the abandoned ghost. They aren't looking at each other yet, but their conflict is the focal point of the family's. The two boys who were born for the same purpose, and both tried their hardest to succeed at it. The ones who could understand each other better than anyone else, the ones who barely know each other. While Shouto is extremely open and at peace, having already accepted all facets of himself, Dabi barely looks like Touya, actively inserting the disconnect between the two personas. Denying Shouto the chance of getting to know his brother Touya, throwing the villain Dabi at him. The scars, the staples, the feral grin - this is all he is willing to offer to Shouto. For now.