it's so fascinating to me that dabi & hawks are fraternal foils, yet there's nothing about their dynamic and constellation with endeavor that signifies fraternity, they're in relation to each other as sons of endeavor (emphasis on him, not them). their sense of worth depends of endeavor the patriarch, they center him the way a child centers their parent and it's crazyyy how endeavor indirectly sets up dabi & hawks against each other as filial rivals the way he sets up touya and shoto.
the difference is that touya & shoto have a more tangible rivalry going on while dabi & hawks compete with each other thematically, they have similar experiences with childhood neglect & abuse and choose polar survival strategies so to me, dabi vs. hawks boils down to the dialectics of which post-traumatic survival strategy (fight vs. fawn) leads to the parental attention their inner child desperately craves.
and tbh? idek who actually gets what they wanted or a "kinder" conclusion. dabi dies for the sake of revenge and hawks comes out alive, but it is ultimately dabi who gets to move on from endeavor and focuses on his little brother & the unconditional love he experienced despite everything he put him through, meanwhile hawks is still deeply attached to the endeavor he chose as a pseudo-paternal figure as a 5yo like he doesn't get to move on at all and doesn't receive the fraction of unconditional love that dabi does. it's crazyyy to watch hawks go through all of that and act like nothing happened, as if dabi's presence never challenged his stance on endeavor/abusive men/the way he copes with what happened to him as a child.
and ofc hawks can't do any of that, endeavor as a "redeemable" character only works if hawks is there to remind the reader of his good deeds, which only works if hawks doesn't get to progress and reflect. It's sad but also funny on a meta level because there is a very clear analogy between horikoshi reducing hawks to a tool that suffers from bad writing for the sake of another character's writing and the hpsc reducing hawks to a tool that suffers mentally for the sake of the establishment. (dog motif works so well for hawks but i digress)
idk, one thing i really like about the todoroki subplot is that it's good at showing how an abuser messes with a family's dynamics and renders it dysfunctional, there was no way for touya to be normal about his little brother and ofc he saw shoto's birth and his own death sentence, and there was also no way for dabi & hawks to have a normal relationship either because endeavor is an omnipresent patriarch in their fight. horikoshi barely scratched the surface of dabihawks' dynamic in relation to endeavor and completely ignored it the final arc to ride endeavor a little harder, but the implications are there and i won't let anyone ignore them!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm gonna be honest with y'all. I don't ship Luffy with anyone. I think all of his relationships are strictly platonic. If I weere to ship him with anyone, it would be with someone who's close in age to him. Like Koby or Nami, maybe Zoro. But I don't really see him having any romantic partners. Maybe after he become the Pirate King? I dunno. I appreciate good art. But Luffy remains a single pringle who likes to cuddle with his found family in my mind.
I'm writing a modern au Lawรoc and I am torn on something. Corazon. I dunno if I want him alive or not. Like, I want to give Law a break but also, I dunno how much it would change his over-all personality. My fellow Law lovers, what do y'all think?
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TOUYA Relationship Headcanons
Alright well a new hyper fixation happened so i'm here to write for Touya, also i didn't check this for errors
-no matter in what way you two have met, it makes you pretty special to have won him over enough to be chill around you
-despite his casual demeanor, he is never chill at all actually ๐ญ
-but thankfully despite how much he tried to hide it he pretty much is an open book when you get to know him because he trauma dumps lmfao
- his trauma with his dad made him an attention whore and will be satisfied if he gets the attention he needs but if he feels threatened by the things that make him feel insecure, he'll act out
-this means he is a jealous boy and will act out if he thinks he will lose your attention
-i know a lot of people see him as a fuck boy but i don't think he would cheat unless he was hurt or thought he was being cheated on
-..mostly because he is super selective about the people he lets close so he doesn't like the idea of hoeing around.
-he also doesn't think it's cute to have no morals (ironic i know) but he is annoyed by people who act randomly without plan or thought
-he's a little bit emotionally stunted but that doesn't mean he doesn't understand anyone's feelings, it just means he doesn't know when to put other people's feelings before his own
-he doesn't really have a huge grudge against pda or physical affection and would probably always have his hands on you in some way
-he is very protective over the few good things he has in life, including you and would see it as out of the question to have you in danger
-he would go bonkers if you got hurt by anyone, anything
-uses his body warmth to keep you warm when you are cold/sick
-he doesn't know how to deal with a lot of situations like you being in distress or being sick, but he's not dumb so he'll use his resources (he'll ask his bff spinner for advice or in any case he'll google it- !)
-one time you said you liked cats and as the personal space heater that gets followed by strays, he grabbed one and brought it home to you the next day
-he can't cook but he can clean. he actually thinks people who don't know how to clean are gross asf (despite what his crinkly appearance might say otherwise)
-he has some spots on his body what he does not like being touched due to his scarring
-he likes to take baths ๐๐ผ
-he doesn't like sweets much but he loves spice!
-he is expressive and loud the second he gets a chance to and is always moving, tapping his feet or fingers
-he also likes to make dark jokes especially about himself and his quirk and would laugh hard if someone poked fun at it in the same way
-he really likes to play fight
-i feel like once his flip has switched he would be the type of boyfriend who likes to chase and tickle you, play pranks on you and laugh and play games with each other