#i'm pretty sure the reason why i love vigilante izuku so much is bc i (more or less) agree with camus' works on rebellion

[atlasofoverthinking]

the way i could make an essay about how the average depiction on vigilante!izuku falls into albert camus' definition of 'rebellion' whereas villain!izuku (and just the League in general, even in canon) falls into his definition of 'revolution'

[mettywiththenotes]

Something that I find is a missed opportunity to be explored in MHA is whether or not people's love languages are affected by their quirks, similar to how Toga's own view of love is, and how different quirks would give people different perspectives too(idk ever since MVA this sort of stook with me the most?) (also a dumb concept :people commutong more vigilantism actions during valentines day bc they were trying to impress their crushes lol)

Aha I wouldn't go as far as say vigilantism actions happening on valentines day lol

But I'm pretty sure the love language thing is case anyway? At least for emitter types or specifically those who have a strong association with love

And love languages are everywhere, really, so I'm sure they must have some effect

Like Toga's view of love being "I want to become other people because I love them so much" is there. I think hers falls under "strong association" so that would be more about controlling your emotions than controlling your quirk (tho thats not to say the two can't be tied together)

Then you have La Brava, her quirk is that when she utters the word "love" or "i love you", the person she loves most gets a power boost. Even saying "i love you" is a love language, it's the act of saying it, giving that confession, that makes her quirk and love language so tightly interwoven. If she were someone who couldn't say the words "i love you", for whatever reason, that would interfere with her quirk use

Ochako doesn't necessarily have a different love language but she does float when she's all flustered so, that indicates to quirk control (just like Toga)

Love language can also include helping, providing service to others, so straight away thats a lot of heroes there lol

Bakugou is included in that too I think because of his burst of quirk evolution when saving Izuku - because his love language is basically "don't come to me for anything😤 *helps out anyway*", that adds into his emotional nature with his quirk, and seeing Izuku nearly dying added into that emotional need to help

(It even ties into the popular fanon that Shouto activates his fire quirk or ice quirk accidentally every time he receives love)

Quirks are tied to emotion, period. So depending on what other people's love languages are, that can feed into emotion (the feeling you get when you receive support, or give support, words of affirmation that make you happy etc) and what you do with that in the world can effect your control or what you deem to be worth your love and the emotional connection with that love

I mean, I guess this is why they have quirk classes / quirk counseling? Quirk classes are for training you to control your quirk into adulthood, which would include your own definitions of love and learning how to control your reaction to them (so you don't accidentally hurt someone or smthg), and quirk counseling is for further control over quirks (perhaps an even stricter approach) so that would be there and used so nothing like vigilantism nights on valentines day ever happen lol

Personally I wouldn't say it's a missed opportunity, technically the opportunity is still kind of there. It definitely does tie into people's mindsets of emotion in connection with their quirks too. We probably get glimpses of it in the series, but not with love (unless its specifically Toga or Brava or Ocha), just with different emotions