There are indeed. I highly, highly recommend @linkspooky‘s “How Dabi and Todoroki are Foils.” Idk if Tumblr links are still broken, but if they are, you can google for it! Link’s meta really covers the subject in depth, and I give it a standing ovation.
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todoroki doesn’t need endeavors help he can do it himself
That would be the ideal. If his arc is indeed about becoming his own person instead of being defined by his father, I would hope that’s where it would go.
speaking of borhter remeber ida and todoroki and how there brothers are mentioned? like with dabi and shoto and tensei and tenya i felt there was something about it that was going to be mentioned
Yep, I agree! @linkspooky wrote a great meta about their foiling in the latest chapter here.
BNHA thoughts. Based on other posts, I’m not the only one here – I’m thinking Shouto is going to produce blue hellflame in the next chapter (defeating Tetsu). Shouto will likely scar himself in the process, likely not that badly, but enough. Maybe enough that he’d look scarily familiar in a black wig. I just wanna see Shouto putting two and two together here – his missing bro, the blue flame Quirk, the burn scars. (Even though I still like the idea of Rei being the one to figure it out somehow.)
Same haha! I want someone to have a realization that oh, that’s almost what Dabi looked like. Even if they think Touya is dead (really the only reasonable explanation at this point) someone please have that realization.
I wonder what did Endeavor meant when he said Touya was almost “perfect”? He only mentioned his fire quirk was much more stronger but had a weak body. Shoto was deemed perfect because he was born with both quirks. Do you think Touya had an ice quirk as well?
Endeavor’s goal was not actually to have a child with two quirks necessarily! It was to have a child who could surpass All Might–hence the evaluation based on quirks. Touya presumably had a quirk that potentially could, but the side effects, so to speak, of said quirk prevented that from being possible. Shouto, on the other hand, had powerful fire and powerful ice without the side effects… hence the perfection. Oh, Endeavor.
endevoir might be trying to redeem himself but he has to know that he didn’t only hurt shoto but people around him as well as destroy their lives and cannot fix what he destroyed he cannot change those facts for what he did he cannot redeem himself by doing better he has to know this.
Yeaaaah I think the scene this chapter again reinforces that Endeavor does not quite get it. He’s really trying, but his redemption won’t come through talking to Shouto about how to be a better hero since that’s the vehicle through which he abused him.
That’s why Touya being Dabi is probably the way in which he will realize just how badly he has messed up, and honestly only once that revelation happens can Endeavor truly make progress reconciling with the kids who want to reconcile with him.
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.
could you note the number of times when shoto was emotional in the series?
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.
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.
How do you sum up Shouto in personality?
I discuss this quite a bit in my answer on what Shouto regards as a hero here. In short, Shouto is reserved yet feels passionately. He’s a paradox. He must be protected at all costs.
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