#its 230 in the morning and i have to wake up n study soon but i wanted to jfiaojfdoi

[todorokiprotectionsquad]

ch. 188 spoilers..

k i usually don’t do this but i just read the new chapter & i wanted to note that it’s really bugging me that i can’t seem to predict the outcome of this enji vs nomu fight.. one part of me believes that he’ll pull through but another part wonders if he’ll die.. or at the very least, maybe this will be the end to his hero work?

during the fight with the nomu, enji is very reflective on his life. on how he’s lived, how he’s treated his family.. additionally, each member of the todoroki family (not including the mystery 4th todoroki brother) and toshinori and aizawa all get premonitions about enji - the moment he’s struck

i mean.. look at this. horikoshi dedicated an entire two pages to these bad gut feelings. he gave shouto almost half a page to himself.. also note how shouto instinctively flames up a bit when he sees this happen. enji was abusive and shitty but he’s his dad. healthy or not, there’s obviously a connection

also notice aizawa’s dad mode activated?! going to check on shouto?? and protecting eri??? a sweet man

now getting into the symbolism i really wanted to focus on... enji’s downfall (?) resembles the death of a star. simply put, when a big star runs out of fuel, it expands to into a red giant. the dying star gets absolutely enormous. it burns out other fuels from anywhere it can before finally blowing themselves apart, resulting in a major explosion... the supernova shines extraordinarily bright for a while and then.. poof. fades..

note: we’ve all been comparing hawks to icarus but totally missed the part where enji’s resembling a star?? just..... wow

okay getting back to it..

enji has been no. 1 hero for quite some time now. so let’s call that his star phase. when you consider his personality (arrogance mixed with flared emotions) you could say enji is full of hot air lol. air is just a mixture of atmospheric gases and a star is just a big ball of gas.. just casually shining, no impending doom or end or anything. 

now let’s jump to the present arc. we’ve seen him struggling against this nomu, this is his big fight. he’s sort’ve gone from his star phase to becoming a red giant

so here we see enji call his upcoming attack a finishing blow. for him or the nomu?? hm. okay, then we see him note that he’s beginning to overwork himself. he’s getting desperate, so he’s pulling things he usually wouldn’t. sort of like a dying star, grabbing fuel from anywhere they can, just to keep burning

and here it comes

in the above page, that’s where i really noticed the star parallelism. like. enji looks like an exploding star there. it’s like his supernova phase, he’s so bright, he’s outshining everything around him

only to fade so soon...