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Dabi is the only one I’m looking forward to this volume not endeavor the cover made me upset seeing him what I really want to see is dabi just dabi

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I do like the symbolism of the cover, even if Endeavor is triggering. Hawks and Endeavor share wings, like how Hawks helped Endeavor out. Endeavor’s left eye is covered by flames, symbolizing his scar but also how his focus on his quirk and pushing himself and pushing his quirk in his children has left him half blind. Hawks has his back turned, and in front of Hawks are blue-ish flames and darkness, which seems to be again symbolic of the panel in which Hawks walked towards the darkness, perhaps foreshadowing a future fall to villainy and of course, representing the deal we know he’s struck with Dabi. 

For Dabi it’s hard to say since we’ve only seen a fragment of it, but. His eye color and Endeavor’s are both prominent, even though Endeavor’s is like tiny. I can still clearly make out that it’s the same color.

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what if bakugous past as a bully catches up to him? he didn’t relentlessly bully izuku he bullied others in the past. like what if the brother the people whom he bullied exacted revenge on him becuase of what hes done to push his brother to near suicide? i beleived it would help mold his character better into thinking about his actions towards others and people not thinking he could be a hero since he bullies a kid into near suicide.

It’s not impossible, that’s for sure. Bakugou’s angry routine along with his raw power caught the eye of the villains in the first place, leading to his abduction. His brash tendencies also caused him to fail the hero licensing exam. If this particular element comes back to bite him at some point, well, it wouldn’t be shocking.

It’s also possible that Bakugou’s foiling with Endeavor (good hero, bad person, even if he’s on redemption path now) will be explored more. We don’t know exactly what happened to Touya, but we have a pretty good guess. Endeavor is a bully who pushed and pushed his kid to be the best and pretty clearly it almost killed Touya–they might even believe it did kill Touya. Bakugou and Todoroki already have some further exploration of their relationship destined, in terms of them both needing to get those licenses, so it’s possible that Bakugou might be involved when whatever happened to Touya comes out, and might again be struck by the realization that hey, taunting people about being weak and not strong enough has serious consequences. 

why isn’t touya mentioned until later in the todoroki household could soemthing happen to him that made them scard to talk about?

Honestly, I think the likely answer is that they think he’s dead or institutionalized with burns, but I also feel like this wasn’t properly foreshadowed in the story. The incident devastating their family was portrayed to be Rei dumping scalding water on Shouto’s face. While I’m presuming whatever happened to Touya played a role in Rei breaking, it really should have been foreshadowed a bit earlier imo. But in all fairness, the loss of a child and the loss of a sibling can be so traumatic many grieving people might indeed prefer never to talk about it, so it’s not unrealistic. 

how do you think touya feels about his family right now?

I think it’s pretty clear he hates Endeavor (presuming he’s Dabi). Regarding Shouto, I think there are a lot of possibilities, because Touya was the closest besides Shouto to fulfilling Endeavor’s desire to have a powerful kid. I think Touya may have been comparing himself to Shouto, since Endeavor surely compared them.

Therefore Touya might have different feelings towards Shouto than he does towards Natsuo and Fuyumi, whom I have absolutely no idea what he feels but I would venture to say he cares. He says implies as much here, at least:

But back to Shouto. I think it is entirely possible Touya pities his brother, but also it’s entirely possible he resents him in some way–we simply have very little information at this point, so both are possible. Or maybe he just pities him. Or maybe he mostly resents him, even as he acknowledges Endeavor is behind it. (You can resent someone and still care.) It is entirely possible he thinks Shouto is Endeavor 2.0, as we know that from others making this very assumption (like Inasa does), this is not a ridiculous assumption to make. Which may be in part why he taunts Shouto when he steals Bakugou from him. 

I wrote this on Shouto-Touya’s relationship here. 

As for Rei… I’m very, very, very interested to know his relationship with her given her relationships with her other children–which is positive. But we also know she snapped at one point, and we don’t know if Touya was around for that. I very much hope to see their relationship touched on. 

Hawks and touya I think are meant to foil each other. They were both trained/told from a young age that they would become heroes, with neither ever being treated as actual people. Their desires were chosen for them by others and while touya chose to become dabi, hawks kept on the same path as he was told to. Hawks is shown to always do as he’s told and we rarely see dabi agreeing to anything. (1/2)

And the whole icarus thing could be a reference to how dabi himself burned up, though it probably wasnt his fault, with the scars evident. Hawks might be the one to burn up next, since he’s flying so close to endeavor’s sun. Maybe their positions switch and dabi ends up having to save Hawks. (2/2)

Yeah, that’s a great point about how their childhoods foil each other!! Dabi was also eventually (presumably) cast aside for not having the right quirk for his body, and Hawks was chosen based on his quirk. Like you say they have both been defined by their abilities. 

I’m excited to see if their foiling will be explored more. Unfortunately, my current prediction is that while Dabi will move more towards the light and redeem himself, Hawks is going to get burned not literally, but by sinking further into actual villainy. I would love to see Dabi save him. We will see. 

could you do a post theaoryizeing dabi?

could you do a post thearizing toya i mean toya not dabi

Sorry Anon, I’m not sure what you mean. At this point I think it’s basically canon Touya is Dabi, and I’ve done a lot of posts on Dabi’s character and where I see him going in the future! Feel free to look through my tag. If you’re asking for a specific kind of analysis I haven’t done before, feel free to come back and specify! 

Do you think there is any chance of Rei serving a role in bringing back Dabi/Touya? (Not in a bad way, but BNHA is a very hopeful manga so I doubt Dabi/Touya will get a short stick especially if the idea that Endeavor caused him to become the way he is. So that’s why I’m assuming there will be some kind of saving/redemption)

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.

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.