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no offense but there is no fucking way fuyumi could drop a truth bomb like “yea so natsuo honest to god believes that dad killed our brother” and everyone just reacts calmly like bakugou literally doesn’t even blink an eye he’s just like “ah, that explains it” like uh huh ????? y’all just heard ur friend’s brother died and his other brother thinks it was their father WHOM U ALL KNOW TO BE ABUSIVE who murdered him and all u have to say is oh worm? for real? on god? are u FUCKIN with me!!!!!!!!!!!!! no one is allowed to defend horikoshi’s writing lmao i cannot believe that in a world of superpowers, this is the most unrealistic shit to come out of this entire story so far what the hell!!!!
Ok! So I’ve been playing Ultra Rumble a lot. Like, A LOT. And I mainly main Dabi because I like his alpha skill and laying fire traps everywhere. But what my brain keeps on focusing on is how Dabi was probably a B-student/average kid in school.
Let me explain!
In the game you get rankings based on how you play. D being the worst and A+ the best. And Dabi’s comment are “I was so close to achieving greatness” (im paraphrasing) in C rank and “The expected outcome” for B. And for A he’ll go “you talking about me? I’m not mad.”
He takes being an average student so calmly and even expects it. He doesn’t mind it either. Yet when he gets noticed, he’s happy. Just…ughhhhh makes my brain rot start reaching because it makes it sound like THIS DUDE REALLY PUT ALL HIS EGGS INTO THE HEROICS BASKET AND THAT BASKET BROKE.
You know what has always struck me as odd? The fact that Toya and Fuyumi have such a small age gap. The manga has confirmed that they were born in the same calendar year, with Toya being born in mid-late January and Fuyumi being born in early December.
Prior to all this being confirmed, many people had assumed Toya was 3 years older than his sister to fit with the "Endeavor waited for each kid to get their quirk before having the next one" narrative, but now we know that Toya was only 10 months old when his sister was born! (We also know that Fuyumi was born partially out of Rei's genuine desire to have more kids so they could support each other).
But still, why have them THAT close together? From a family planning standpoint, probably so the kids would be closer in age and therefore possibly closer emotionally, but how about from a story standpoint?
Well, I believe it was to avoid any misreadings of what exactly got Toya so frustrated regarding his siblings.
Think of it; if Fuyumi had a 3 year age gap between her and Toya, there would probably be people arguing that Toya was simply angry that he was no longer an only child. Any frustration he voiced regarding his siblings could simply be hand waved away by saying "oh, he's just bitter that he has to share his parents' attention".
But by having him and Fuyumi be THAT CLOSE in age, it's physically impossible for Toya to remember a world where he was an only child. In his earliest childhood memories, Fuyumi would always be present, meaning he's literally never known a world where he didn't have a sibling and didn't have to split his parents' attention.
So when, in the future, Toya gets despondent and angry over Natsuo and Shoto's births, we know it's not because he's losing his "only child" status. Toya has never really been an only child. Instead, he reacts that way because he sees the bigger picture and understands that these siblings are different than Fuyumi. They weren't born from a genuine desire to have more kids.
They were born to replace him.
So, I know that the purpose of this chap was supposed to demonstrate what a virtuous person Deku is and further establish him as the moral paragon of this manga because apparently he’s able to ‘sympathize’ with villains. However, the problem here is that this entire message is undermined when you remember how Deku reacted when he actually encountered a villain, who’s made his motivations for becoming a villain explicitly clear, i.e. Dabi.
Remember that the same Deku that says this:
Is the same character that said this:
Despite the fact that he knew about all of this:
It just undermines any of the emotional impact that this chap is supposed to have.