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The scene where Yukine and Nora sit down and eat…

Oh yeah that’s really going to be challenging for her, for once someone really likes her, and that same person doesn’t want to use her powers like everybody else or anything, it’s just.. her !

I knoooow! I’m so excited to see how she develops with this. The idea that someone can like her without using her–that’s a new concept for Nora-chan.

Regarding paragons in HxH. I checked the definition and it is quite different from “The Paragon” trope. I think Gon can be already considered a bit of a paragon, according to tvtropes anyway, and will become more paragon-like in future.

Oh, I took it to mean the definition, not the trope, which I’ve never heard of actually! Apologies. The trope if according to TV tropes is “A character who lives to help others, but in a way that shows those people how to help themselves.” That I think we might see, and already do to an extent (Cheadle for example comes to mind, Pakunoda, etc). I agree I can see Gon especially after his development whenever he returns to the story going this direction, and Killua as well.

The scene where Yukine and Nora sit down and eat legit is like the scene in Pale Fire. Damn can you see the future 😂

Hahahaha!!! IF ONLY. Lol. Though there are some things in that fic I def don’t want in canon! 😂
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But seriously like I’m dying over spoilers. Noraaaaaa. My guess is that again, irrelevant to whether she’s in on Fujisaki’s plot, she’s realizing Yukine genuinely likes her… which is hopefully gonna challenge her.

if dabi does turn out to be toya why do you think his actions would have anything to do with his family?

why do you think dabi is a todoroki?
       
   

do you think dabi is an abuse victim?
       
    

I’m guessing these are from the same anon. 😀 I’m always happy to talk Dabi.

It’s stated in the text that something awful happened to Touya and that is related to Endeavor directly. Natsuo says it twice. The first time I don’t have access to the official Viz translation, but the translator noted that Natsuo is using a term in Japanese when he says “you and Shouto” that implies “you, Shouto, and another sibling who is explicitly not Natsuo himself.” We know now it’s Touya.

It could be abuse or abandonment–which is a type of abuse that produces just as harmful long-lasting psychological effects. Yes, Endeavor did something to Touya.

Dabi clearly has a personal grudge against Endeavor, seeing that he joined the League of Villains because of Stain’s philosophy against heroes who are bad people in their personal lives (Endeavor exactly) and targets Endeavor and plans to target him again.

And we know Dabi has a hang-up about family/something related to why he is a villain now has to do with family.

Not to mention Dabi’s personal grudge against Endeavor–I can’t think of what else would make narrative sense at this point. He’s just someone who Endeavor wasn’t nice to, or a friend of Touya’s who saw a friend suffering? That could in theory work, but we already have that kind of character challenging Todoroki in Inasa (who comments on how Todoroki and Endeavor have the same eyes, which btw, Dabi also has).

So that option no longer makes sense, because it’d just be a repeat of Inasa but villainized and Inasa I like you but you’re just not that important.

Dabi being Touya honestly seems like the only narrative option I can think of that explains why Dabi has a personal grudge against both Endeavor and Shouto (in Japanese, the “too bad, Todoroki Shouto” is very familiar and it’s supposed to be unnerving).

My guess is we can look to Inasa to understand why, perhaps, Dabi if Touya would want to mock Shouto–because Touya might think Shouto’s just like Endeavor. If Natsuo didn’t even know Shouto’s favorite food until chapter 192 I’m guessing Touya knows even less about Shouto, so it might make sense in a sad way for him to presume that the son who’s trying to become a hero like Endeavor was raising him to be might be just like Endeavor–but, of course, Shouto is not.

Do you think any of the protaganists of HxH has potential to become a paragon, is there possibility that togashi will take that direction?

Nope! I think the CA Arc pretty clearly deconstructed the idea of paragons in Netero and Meruem (paragons of strength) and I don’t think any of the protagonists or antagonists (adult trio) are heading that direction. HxH is very morally gray and I expect it to stay that way; I don’t see anyone becoming the “ultimate” of anything because it would contradict the themes. 

I read the last reblog you did and I was curious. What is your opinion about Carl Fritz?

He’s a… coward. An understandable coward, but a coward nonetheless. He reminds me of isolationist politicians or just people in general who hide away and hope that the problem will disappear, but as SnK seems to be showing us and as @harostar pointed out, generations are a cycle that is hard to escape from. And what makes him a coward is that he forced other people to forget as well, forced them to cope like he coped, and as a result, nothing has changed. If anything things have gotten worse. He had no hope that anything would get better and simply wanted them to wait to die. He’s hopeless, and I hope the series refutes his philosophy with Gabi and Falco.