Tag: dabi

I dabis brieth interactions are important to dabis character like aoyama,shoto,snatch and endeavor. they have an important each of them would you like to explain?

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.

excuse me could you do a post about dabi,toya and aoyama its about the recent info about the chapter about how aoyamas quirk did not match his body and how toya has powerful flames but has a body that unsuitble for a body made for ice instead of flames can you do a post about this?

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. 

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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. 

Do you think dabi pities or hates shouto?

I think Dabi does not know Shouto at all. I do think he is Touya, though.

But Endeavor definitely kept them apart, and I think the fact that Natsuo, who is the sibling closest in age to Shouto, did not even know Shouto’s favorite food until recently indicates Dabi/Touya probably knows Shouto even less well than Natsuo. Natsuo also says Endeavor took care that the three eldest would not be involved in Shouto’s life “at all.”

I think it’s possible Dabi thinks Shouto is a mini Endeavor in the making. I also think it’s possible he primarily pities his brother, since he clearly knows Shouto was abused, or both–they aren’t mutually exclusive. It’s possible he resents him for having all his father’s attention. It’s possible he doesn’t.

I think whatever Dabi thinks of Shouto, though, is not crafted in whom Shouto is. Instead, it’s crafted in terms of Shouto’s role in their family: victim, and their father’s chosen child. Maybe he gives one or the other extra weight, or maybe gives them both equal weight.

I hope they get the chance to know each other as actual people beyond their hero/villain dichotomy. I think they will. 

what if dabi is hit by eris quirk so he is turned into a kid again with no memories so he has a chance to grow up the right way and endeavor actually be a parent to dabi who had been the one to grow up to hate him the most. and this is the only way I think dabi can avoid prison

Hm. I see where you’re coming from, but I don’t personally like the idea. I think it’d be better to learn to cope with endeavor as an adult for Touya if he’s Dabi, and I think avoiding prison is not something we have to worry about. Prison doesn’t really work in fiction because it stagnates characters growth just as much as death does: that’s why it’s often the end for villains who survive. If Dabi earns a redemption and lives through it (and he should as it currently stands), prison just doesn’t work from a narrative standpoint. Real world doesn’t apply to a series about people who seek to do better than they did in the past as I think That’s bnha’s main theme.

could you dive into symbolism of dabis sawn up skin and shotos burn can you tell me what symbolism they have with the characters?

Shouto’s burn covering his fire side is literally symbolic of how his fire side–the side he got from Endeavor–is scarring for him. His father scarred him, even if his mother was the one who poured the boiling water. No matter how powerful he grows and how comfortable he grows with using his fire side, he will always have a scar. It’s a realistic symbol of abuse I think. You can recover, but it doesn’t change the past. That being said scars don’t have to inhibit you, yet they’re there. 

Dabi… I think once we know exactly what happened it will be easier to analyze, but for now I’d say that he’s literally trying to keep himself together (like when his staples separate when he’s mentioning regrets and going crazy and dead families) but his scars separate him from the world. 

They make him identifiable, because presuming Dabi is Touya, his anger over his abuse/scars on his soul is indeed a major part of his identity and how he sees himself. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, either, but of course Dabi is not channeling this towards a healthy development. If he is indeed overusing his quirk, and in the above panel where he fiddles with the skin, it’s shown that he’s still hurting and not healing currently, and I hope and believe he’ll get the chance to do so some day.