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Okay so my response went on a little longer than expected! I still would appreciate any feed back you guys can give me.

I’m going to step back and pretend I was villain who had no issues with harming innocent people (in other words, Dabi.) I’ve come face to face with my abuser who has made my life a living hell and is worshiped by the public as an incredible and just hero (who is Endeavor.)

If I were Dabi, my goal would NOT be to kill Endeavor. Although killing Endeavor would be very enjoyable, it would be over too quick. Also this would only cause Endeavor to be seen as a tragic hero and to be loved even more by the public. I would want to humiliate Endeavor and make the world hate him just as much as I do. I would want to take away anything and everything Endeavor has ever care for. I would want to make Endeavor suffer, and to live the rest of his life in suffering.

I’m 99% sure that Dabi has probably spent YEARS planning how to get the perfect revenge against Endeavor. He exposed Endeavor on life TV for the abuser Endeavor truly is. For extra measure, Dabi also made sure that  Endeavor was beaten up to a bloody pump. Not only will Endeavor now be seen by the public as an abuser, but someone who is also weak as well. It wouldn’t surprise me if the public turns their backs on Endeavor and strips him of his hero status.

To add even MORE fuel to the fire, Dabi also tried to burn Hawks alive AND humiliate Hawks by portraying him as a villain to the public. As much as the fandom LOVES the idea of Hawks and Dabi having romantic feelings for each other, the notion simple is NOT true. In fact, it’s very much the opposite. Dabi HATES Hawks ALMOST as much as he hates Endeavor. Hawks is one of Endeavors biggest supporters and is also the second top ranked hero. You can argue that Dabi only attacked Hawks because Hawks went after Twice. However, I’m pretty sure that Dabi was planning on killing Hawks the whole time. Dabi did go through the effort of getting personal info on Hawks to use against him before hand. Also leaving Hawks alive would be too much of threat.  

The next step would be to kill Shoto. Dabi made it very clear that he doesn’t give a damn about his family and would be more than happy to use them to achieve his goals. If Shoto dies, Endeavor would be left with no one to carry his legacy. Shoto seems to acknowledge this and has to come terms that he will most likely have to kill his older brother in the future.

I feel like ppl still get Dabi's intentions wrong. I don't think he wants Endeavor dead or genuinely tried to kill him. And the crux of Dabi's issue isn't the abuse in the sense ppl often paint but neglect: he *wanted* to have Endeavor's attention and not getting it is what caused him to spiral. Not verbal or physical abuse but abandonment.

Yeah, Dabi could have easily tried to kill Endeavor during the war considering Shigaraki had done most of the work for him but he didn’t even try. His focus was completely on Shouto because his intention was to kill him and to ruin Endeavor. He wanted Endeavor to suffer for what he did and that’s why he did what he did before he revealed him to the world, to make the impact worse.

And I do agree that it was the neglect that affect Dabi the most (we don’t even know the extent of his training to be honest but going off Dabi’s words, when his injuries became apparent, Endeavor stopped caring for him like he did with Natsuo and Fuyumi). And really, I can understand why. He went from his father’s favourite to a failure and nobody important. That would kill anyone’s self-esteem and leave a lasting impact.

That’s why he resents Shouto so much, because he got what Dabi wanted.

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For all you writers out there!

When To Keep Your Writing Stiff (pt 7)

Part 6

Part 1

Gonna shoutout a specific fanfic, “Salvage” (ATLA) for writing that is even leaner than mine is, and mine has zero fat whatsoever. This was really good. I particularly like how some scenes were only 2 or 3 lines long as an example of what I’m going for here.

When I say “stiff” in the following examples I’m specifically talking about a lot of the same syntax, few similes and metaphors, few ‘said’ synonyms, very little, well, “life” in the prose. And this can be good in a few situations.

1. Your narrator is in shock

Shock doesn’t all look the same, but the kind of shock I mean is the one where the person is really quiet and un-emotive, they’re probably not speaking or reacting much to whatever catastrophe just happened and probably not responding to their name or anything spoken to them. Their body is pretty much going “uhhhhhhhhh factory reset!” when whatever it is, is too much to process.

A asks them a question. Once. Twice. B stares ahead. There’s a brown stain on the wall that looks like a thumb.

So if they’re narrating, they’re probably going to be giving the absolute bare minimum, need-to-know information and won’t be thinking about the best adjectives and adverbs. Especially if you normally write with fluffier prose, a jarring shift like this can really help sell the shock and dissociating of the character, something so traumatizing that it effects how the story is told.

2. Your narrator is depressed

Somewhere between New Moon’s 4 pages of just Months to show Bella did absolutely nothing in a depression rot and normal prose (though it was effective, particularly in the movie when they could draw out the words on the screen for longer and did the whole spin-around-her-depression-chair montage).

January came. It rained a lot.

They’ll probably either narrate very thinly, or listlessly. They might focus on a random detail and start going on a long ramble about that one detail that isn’t at all important, but it’s either all they can think about or all that can move them to feel anything in this moment, like:

On the bedside table, that coffee mug still sat there in a thin sheet of dust. What had been liquid now long since dry and gluey. It still sits there, collecting cat fur.

This might be the best place for sentences that all sound and flow exactly the same, but use it sparingly.

3. Your narrator is having a panic attack or trapped in a traumatic situation

Different from shock in that while they are physically capable of moving and interacting, they can’t let themselves describe what they’re seeing and feeling in grand detail. Maybe they’re moving through the horrific aftermath of a battle and all they can describe is the mud under their feet and how it squelches. Or they simply say that “there’s bodies everywhere” because looking too long or too hard at who those bodies belonged to is too much.

4. You’re writing something that has incredibly fast pacing

This post was inspired by a fic I just wrote that spanned about 5 months in about 18k words. Narrative was skipping days ahead between paragraphs at some point as my character was processing the end of an abusive relationship. It sped up and slowed down where necessary, but compared to its sequel that I also just finished (22k words across 7 days), I’d covered a whole month in about 2 sentences in the first one.

See nearly any part of Salvage (or my fics if you feel like it)

What happened in that month didn’t matter, only what was before and what’s different now and how this character realizes how their life is slowly changing, some things they never noticed that are suddenly right in their face or things that quietly slipped away.

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TLDR; sometimes the lack of emotion and sensory details and frenetic, dynamic syntax is the point, that can sell the reader on the narrator’s mental state far better than picking the juiciest adverbs. If it’s so impactful to them that the physical telling of the story is changed, you’ve done your job.

However, Hawks always reminded me the popular “Red Tail Hawk.” Yes I know this is a fan favorite, probably because the name “Red Tail Hawk” has the word “red” in it. However, the bird has very little (if any) red on its feathers. To be honest, I’m not sure why I personally associate Keigo with Red Tail Hawks. Maybe it’s because I see them all the time (The species is very popular here in North America.) They are truely magnificent animals and have to be one of my favorites...

However if you want another bird species that is actually red in color that could have inspired Keigo’s character, then might I recommend the “Red Lorikeet” aka “Red Lori.” I actually have seen these birds twice in person from a traveling Lorikeet exhibit. Pictures do not give justice to how beautiful and vibrantly colored the birds are in real life. They are also extremely intelligent. Lorikeets are sometimes even kept as pets.

Everyone says red tailed hawks are what Hawks is but they got no black face markings, they are brown, and have no fluffy head doohikies. They also say he must be a raptor because he eats meat, but he is also human. And we eat meat.

Consider

Black eye marks

Red wingies

Lil upraised hair doohikies

Im not here to start discourse in the birb fandom im just sayin---- consider

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