Sketches For Mother’s Day Feat. Rei

One last dance in the deepest pits of hell

very rough but i like how the todoroki siblings resemble each other so much yes even natsuo!!!!! added my own interpretations as well ofc, but following canon for the most part :)

sidenote i LOVE how the joke of Rei's gene's being insanely dominant turned out to be siginifact for the story <3

highschool days but it's mic and enji

YO YO YO TODOROKI-KUN!! GRUMPY AGAIN TODAY??

998. and I do push his buttons.

I need to see this movie ASAP!!!!!!

Remember when some fans screamed about Hori being an abuse apologist because he wrote a redemption arc for Enji? I bet they're hiding in shame now.

Hori did not force Natsu to reconcile with Enji in the name of "family unity".

Natsu is not being deliberately unforgiving here. There is no childish pettiness in his resolve. No misplaced need to get back at Enji by clinging to negative feelings. Some sins take too much emotional labor to forgive, and some abuse victim cannot afford it and need to focus on their own healing away from the source of their trauma. This is what Natsu needs, and I'm glad he's giving himself what he needs without thinking of himself as unkind.

Hori showed that Natsu still cared about Enji because that is still his father. He showed him being able to have civil interactions with Enji, being able to look at his character objectively, and even joke about viewing Enji as cool for the first time in his life. But he still allowed Natsu to keep his distance from Enji and go to his own path.

Enji didn't have to be an irredeemable monster for that to happen. Natsu didn't have to be consumed by hate, rage, and resentment for that to happen. Sometimes, it's best for family members to keep a safe distance from each other. Sometimes, it's the only way for healing to happen.

Family can still be family without wholesome togetherness. There is a space for family bond to exist between "cut them off" and "reconcile".

Quick rambling about Enji’s arc (and his family arc) with regards to chap 387

So, I’ll probably write something much longer later on… but I needed to get this out of my system.

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Touya: Father, why have you forbade me from entering the delicious chamber?

Enji: It's called an oven, and you will die.

Touya, crying: I am strong, father.

Do you mind talking a bit about Enji and Rei? To me they have one of the most interesting relationships in the series, but discussions around them never really go anywhere. Pls I'm starving 😭

You'd have to be specific about what you want me to talk about lmao, there's a lot to be said.

I think their relationship is so tragic, because they could 100% work. "Right person, wrong circumstance".

In the right circumstance, Rei cools Enji's fire, and Enji builds her self-confidence. They balance each other nicely, like in My Father's Warmth.

But in the canon series, they're both so awkward, emotionally weak and have some many flaws that they're doomed to crash. With my interpretation, they both saw each other as a means to an end (especially at the start), Enji was enabled, and Rei was so cold. It's really interesting, because they WERE happy before Touya’s Quirk started hurting him, and Fuyumi is trying to put the broken pieces together. Both Rei and Enji neglected their kids (in the books, Natsuo mentions disliking Shoto because he took away their mother, and wanting Enji's attention), they blamed each other instead of working together before Touya's "death". Fuyumi replicated her mother's behaviour of "smiling through it without confronting the issue" and Natsuo replicated Enji's, "anger and running away", while Touya is the extreme of both (mutual destruction), and Shoto is the good of both that they have (which despite what the fandom claims, there's a lot of good in both).

They're both broken victims of the same society that the LoV wants to destroy, all the while being part of the problem (Bystander effect, a huge theme of the series). Generational trauma and all that (Enji with his father, Rei with the Himura)

They are so wonderfully nuanced and complex but ofc nobody is willing to talk about it because nuance is scawy.

I could go on, if there's something specific you want me to talk about, ask me!! :]

Bnha episode 129 “The Hellish Todoroki Family, Part 2” || Onion Headlines