Ah, so it’s kind of explained in chapter 378!
The Troupe does not acknowledge the power dynamics of society (a major theme of this arc), which makes them the wild cards this arc as much as Hisoka, imo. Even in Meteor City there appears to be some kind of power dynamic that the Troupe clearly has little to no regard for. I’m curious to see where this develops!
I agree about a Dabi redemption! As for Rei, I hope so. I do think they should reconcile at some point. I would love to see her play a large role in it but her willingness to forgive Endeavor might be a current obstacle and we don’t know what her relationship was like with Touya before… but I would think her willingness to forgive Endeavor means that she will also and perhaps way more eagerly forgive Touya and still love him despite his villainous deeds, which like. He needs.
The Zoldyck children… as cats! because why not.
All of them have a funny resemblance to cats. Makes sense with them also being assassins, felines are very successful predators.
Last picture is a size comparsion between them! Kalluto is still a very small kitten as you can see.
I also hace planned the main gang,Hisoka and Zoldyck parents as animals! might draw them soon
I LOVE PUNS
In short: they reveal Dabi has personal motivations for everything he does. Despite his talk about following Stain’s will, and he does, he has personal motivations as opposed to a cold ideology.
He spares a terrified child and it later almost leads to the downfall of the villains’ plans.
He takes time, when he succeeds in snatching the marble, to taunt Shouto in a personal sense.
He takes time to fight Endeavor even though everyone notes how stupid it is to fight him right there, even Dabi himself.
And then the Snatch fight itself isn’t terribly insightful (ti’s cool though) but his comments afterwards are pretty insightful.
In short, he’s motivated by personal connections and emotions. Presumably a bereaved family (likely the Todorokis), a personal grudge against Endeavor, perhaps sympathy for Aoyama, and probably a personal history with Shouto. This undermines Dabi’s claim that his goal is to make the hero killer’s will a reality.
why u lying
It might very well be a philosophy he believes in, but again, I suspect the reason he does is personal (that he’s Touya), because we’ve only ever seen him making decisions from an emotional standpoint rather than a logical one.
I’d have to reread the entire series, Anon! Alas, I don’t have time for that right now. I will eventually though!
Usually he represses his emotions, but I think there is always a lot of emotion under the surface. So you might say he’s cold as ice at first but underneath he has some serious burning emotion. He cares deeply for his loved ones–family and friends–and is terrified of failure. I spoke about his character and its contradictory nature here.
I’d agree. And because verbosity is one of my weaknesses I’ll talk a little bit more about this.
I see the concept of “bad writing” thrown around to the point where it has next to no meaning in that people tend to view it as a cheap substitute of “I didn’t like this.” However, at the same time, not every “this is bad writing” claim is an “I didn’t like this.” Bad writing does exist. To an extent it’s absolutely subjective, but there are general concepts that most people would agree are not good writing. One of the concepts that is generally considered bad writing is misleading your audience.
Red herrings/bait and switch is a trope, however, and most tropes are tropes because they are often used in good writing. But a trope by itself is not good nor bad writing. A trope can either be seen as trite and pointless, or excellent, depending entirely on the execution of the trope.
Bait and switch, or red herrings, can be either good or bad. They generally work well if and only if you have an equally or preferably, even more so, satisfying option to appease your audience. Like “you were wrong, BUT HERE IS SOMETHING BETTER.” If you don’t, your audience will feel misled.
Being tricked but finding out the alternative is even more satisfying, though, is completely different. Deliberately misleading your audience without a more satisfying reveal comes across as… not awesome writing and you run the risk of alienating your audience by treating them like lols. Of course, no creator should be indebted to their audience and fandom entitlement is like, a legitimate thing that’s really creepy and disturbing to see, and teasing is all good, but if you’re deliberately building something up and don’t have something satisfying for your audience, that’s… not going to end well. Especially in a serial story which in part thrives on speculation and hype, of which theorizing is a part, you really don’t want to risk your audience thinking there is no point to theorizing anymore. (Overthinking is often a thing and tbh I don’t think BNHA is that deep of a series, but you definitely want your story to, like, make sense and satisfy as many as possible though it’ll never please everyone.)
At this point regarding the Dabi Todoroki theory, I can’t think of what would in any way be an equally satisfying or more satisfying option for Dabi’s real name and/or what happened to Touya. I can’t say that that cannot happen, though, because you never know, but I think things are just too heavily hinted at this point that I genuinely can’t think of something equally satisfying from a narrative perspective. We’ll see, though.
I actually already did a post about that interaction and its significance for the plot/foreshadowing for Dabi’s probable redemption here! I don’t really have much to add, except to say that I do think that the fact that Touya had a body unsuited for his quirk is interesting from a symbolic perspective when you consider this scene.
Presuming Dabi is Touya at this point, and even taking into account the fact that Touya would not have known Aoyama had a quirk ill-suited for his body, it’s interesting because Touya probably would have seen Aoyama as a frightened kid hiding from the chaos and violence erupting around him, and quite likely that would have hit… close to home for him. Perhaps it even reminded him of himself at a point. Knowing what we know know–that Aoyama and Touya both have bodies for whom their quirks aren’t compatible–it’s kind of symbolic that even as Dabi’s engaging in his first real villainous activity (since he was noted to be a petty criminal beforehand), he’s being driven by memories of a violent family and has mercy on a kid who shares a trait he was cast away from his father’s favor for. It wouldn’t surprise me if Touya/Dabi needs to learn to have mercy on himself in many ways, because self-preservation doesn’t really seem to be his thing and I wonder if he tried too hard to regain his father’s favor, hence the scarring. We will see.
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