i’ve been doing a lot of ... thinking about tomura’s quirk ; specifically the sequence of events between the flashback where afo is extending a hand to him and the flashback where tomura is standing above the body of -- someone , presumably his father , and more specifically i’ve been thinking a lot about the order of those two events , because tomura’s hands in the latter are bloody whereas his hands in the scene w / afo are not. i’m kinda batting around the concept of tomura originally being quirkless , and ... receiving his quirk ( all for one has intentions of passing down quirks to tomura , he says as much to jeanist ‘ your quirk isn’t one that would suit tomura ‘ , where that comes into play is yet to be seen but. i don’t think he intends to rot away forever in tartarus and i believe wholeheartedly that he thinks tomura will expand and grow and free him whenever he’s able ) from afo.
there’s mention that not all recipients of a quirk are able to handle the strain of it, and i’m thinking more clearly about the fact that tomura’s lineage implies that the ability to retain a quirk might, in fact, be a hereditary thing, and that afo could have possibly sought him out not just to torment all might but because he knew he could receive quirks, and that the decay quirk is the first and so far only ( given to him when he was very young ) quirk he has received, wherein afo is waiting until he comes into his own to receive more -- tomura in the beginning of the manga struggles to point his hatred somewhere more concrete, settling solely on wanting to destroy everything he doesn’t like, so i can imagine why afo would want to wait. the only issue with this is that tomura has clear trauma regarding his father, but -- my theories regarding that surround his father as being an abusive and tormenting figure in his life, and afo possibly giving him the power to amend that, and that from a young age tomura expressed interest in murdering his father, but ... the patricide of one’s father at a young age would be traumatic for anyone to deal with and ehhhh -- until i decide more on what i want, i’ll be keeping his backstory and how he talks about it more vague, but this is ... something to think about.
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