Whoever Doesn't Believe That The League Is The Epitome Of Found Family, Remember That Shigaraki Got Turned

Anyone wanna guess what my next Animatic is gonna be? 0.0

endeavor stans talkin abt the “cycle of abuse” but the only thing they know is how to cycle through the same damn arguments from two years ago😂🤡

This is so unserious. A normal blood transfusion doesn't do that??? OFA is not that unique if Toga can just do transfers like that too. Lmao

Hey there, wuzzup? Just wanted to ask a quick question: Do you think that, if someone would grab or pet Dabis arm, he would feel the touch? Because you can't tell me you get tf I know how many degree burns and your nerves don't get fucked up by it. Same goes for his back, neck and legs. Do you think he'd feel it if someone would touch him at those areas?

Hey! I tried to research this myself a while back for fic purposes, and I only managed to find out that third degree burns are usually painless because they cause nerve damage. I also know that burnt skin feels leathery and stiff. I don’t know if that also affects the sense of touch, and if so, to what degree. I tried to research that too, but the online sources that deal with the topic without just saying “go immediately to a medic!” are few and far in between, and those that do are hella graphic, so a big nope for me. I’m sorry I can’t be of much help here, but graphic depictions of injuries make me nauseous

Maybe someone else can help? 

Dabi’s Definition of “Hero”?

There’s a lot to be said about what Dabi thinks of pro heroes, but one thought has been rattling around in my head for a while now: Dabi’s definition of “hero” seems to hinge very specifically on concepts of selflessness and protection.

Virtually the first thing he does, every single time he meets a new hero, is mock their compulsion to care for others:

His first words to Aizawa:

To Vlad King:

To Snatch:

And then even with Hawks:

I find it equally interesting that the back alley thugs’ threat to kill him on sight was met with immediate violence:

Without knowing whether their quirks might have been useful for the League at all, Dabi solidly writes them all off as “trash”:

Looking back at this arc is hilarious because everyone had Same Face Syndrome but their same face was Overhaul…

Are they garbage because they all had weak quirks and Dabi somehow sensed that–or are they garbage because Dabi’s standard for “worthy” is based on his ingrained personal values, some of which might (ironically) have to do with how people treat others? At the very least, it’s kind of interesting that the generally pleasant Twice recruits an absolute monster, while the only person Dabi’s even close to recruited for the League is a hero.

Anywayyyy, none of the other League members respond to pro heroes with anywhere close to the same degree of consistency (Tomura’s dialogue is all over the place when confronted by All Might and he says almost nothing to Snatch; Toga flat out ignores Aizawa in favor of Deku, etc. etc.), and while Dabi has been in contact with more pro heroes than any other member of the League–so he’s had more opportunities to wax philosophic than the others–I don’t think that this is just Horikoshi making Dabi the League’s mouthpiece.

The fact that this occurs repeatedly, sometimes with almost the exact same dialogue, makes it feel a lot more like a character-establishing hang-up–without prompting, Dabi habitually calls attention to pro heroes’ drive to save others at the cost of themselves. He treats the idea, “heroes are always trying to save others” like a definition or, bizarrely enough, an accusation, and he keeps coming back to that definition–and his clear derision for it–with every hero he meets.

When you lay out all his scenes, Dabi really does seem to be preoccupied by the notion of selflessness and the extent to which pro heroes will go to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

There’s a lot to unpack with this idea and I really don’t have time to think all the ramifications of this through, but I noticed this and have been thinking about it for a while now.

While none of the other villains specifically dwell on it, Dabi keeps coming back to the idea that heroes are supposed to put others first.

Why, it’s almost like he’s got a massive chip on his shoulder about their willingness to save people from villains but not from the cruelty of fellow heroes. You get ONE guess which hero doesn’t get accused of caring more about others than himself…

Just some food for thought!

A gift for @dcay​ I couldn’t get it out of my head when at work they were talking about the spinner cursor and you kept thinking of our Spinner.

He's always up to something, we just don't know what.

Maybe UA 2nd Year is where they learn about Hero ethics and de-escalation techniques. And unfortunately everything happened before Deku could learn any of that.

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