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fact: today is the 94th anniversary of the Boston Molasses Disaster
fact: today is the 98th anniversary of the Boston Molasses Disaster
fact: today is the 99th anniversary of the Boston Molasses Disaster
HAPPY CENTENNIAL, BOSTON MOLASSES DISASTER.
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Dabi’s Idea of “love”
Now that the official translation for chapter 293 has come out, we get some dialogue where Dabi claims that Shouto was “raised with love”. Many fans, including myself, were initially very confused by this. Dabi claims that he’d seen Shouto be physically beaten by his father and that is hardly what anyone would call being” raised with love”. I initially wrote this off as him being sarcastic, and he probably is at least to some degree, but that didn’t really sit right with me.
Then I tried to think of the whole situation in Dabi’s somewhat twisted perspective. At least from what we know already without trying to read in between the lines, the biggest chip on his shoulder is that he was the “success” at one point, leading to grueling training and a bestowed purpose of carrying out their father’s dream. Whether Dabi enjoyed the training or not is debatable but the fact still stands that at a very young age, Dabi had it ingrained into his head that that is what love is and that his father’s goals are his whole purpose in life; this is literally what he was “bred” to do.
Then the only source of attention he was receiving from his father stopped abruptly and he was replaced. The attention he got from seeking approval from his dad, which was his purpose in life, was all null and void since he was suddenly a “failure” and a “disappointment”. This is why he would wonder what his purpose in life was, his original purpose was given to someone else.
So yeah while his perception is completely warped by insanity and utterly incorrect, he does truly believe that Shouto was raised with love. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Dabi thinks his brother had a good childhood, but Shouto was given the attention that he wasn’t getting which I’m thinking he might think of as some sort of twisted love. It’s a “the grass is always greener on the other side” kind of take from him.
What’s interesting to me is that he implies that this is why Shouto is a kind person. Dabi isn’t delusional enough to see himself as some good guy, but if you apply that logic to him, that would mean that he sees himself as being a bad person solely because he didn’t receive the “love” and attention that he craved. I know this is kinda obvious to point out since he’s referred to himself as his father’s “creation” multiple times now, but it brings up the point that he thinks that everyone is solely a product of their environment. While this is true in many ways and I firmly believe that the whole of the LoV would have turned out differently if their circumstances were improved, we’re shown clear examples of how people still have the ability to make distinct choices in their lives and you really can’t blame everything on your upbringing. Shouto and Hawks are good examples of him being proven wrong in this mentality.
While you could definitely argue that there is some truth to this, Hawks is a selfless and well meaning person who, unlike his father, would not kill someone over something like monetary value and tries to avoid casualties. While I honestly don’t think he makes a great hero and I have mixed feelings on him, I personally believe that he is not simply a product of his environment though it has effected him on a fundamental level. Though morally gray, he’s not some sadistically violent person. The appearance of Best Jeanist, contradicting Dabi’s claims of murder, showcases that.
Another thing that is compelling to me is how Dabi simultaneously uses this mentality to shift blame off of him and he prematurely judges people based on their personal history. I think it’s sad because he’s about the most extreme example of being a product of one’s environment though, now being a fully grown adult with a developed sense of morality and choice, he is to blame for this. While Endeavor does carry blame for this, in the end it’s Dabi’s adult choice to kill 30 innocent people. He wasn’t forced to do that by Endeavor. He still is the kid seeking his father’s attention except now that he’s been labeled as a failure, he’s seeking that out in another way: doing anything and everything he can to upset or “destroy” him. He tried so hard to gain his father’s “love” and approval that he “killed” himself and then he gave up on trying because he’ll never be good enough, so he’ll have to be bad enough ((I know it’s corny don’t come after me)). His whole life purpose that he’s been taught since he was born is still the same and deep down he probably knows this, so he wants to prove to himself that everyone else is like that too. His father is whole entire being and he just can’t let that go. It’s tragic really.
no meds this man just be raw doggin it with mental illness
things that piss me off about dabi and fans’ reactions to this arc:
-Dabi is definitely, absolutely not justified in going after Shouto (who deserves none of this!! this boy deserves only love and support and some gotdamned therapy) ima just say that now.
-It’s also shitty of Dabi to say he didn’t care if Natsuo was hurt/killed.
-The canon characterization may very well be Dabi is so far down the path of revenge and has spent so long suffering alone away from his family members that he no longer cares for them/feels anything and is willing to proceed with plans to hurt Endeavor even if they are caught in the crossfire. However, I also feel it’s worth mentioning that right now, he very much seems to be caught up in a manic episode/meltdown/basically losing his shit. Think about it- he’s spent however many years plotting this moment and his chance to get revenge on his father and expose him to the world is finally here, and I think the likelihood that he’s saying whatever shit he thinks will hurt everyone the most is likely. That, or he’s so caught up in the mania he’s just lashing out at fucking everything. I think to some extent he means it, because he’s shown signs of being severely depressed and there’s a numbness that comes with that, but I also think deep down there is still some care there, even if small, or at least some acknowledgment that the other members of his family aren’t the main target and source of his suffering. He literally hasn’t seen them in years and it’s easy to say ‘I don’t care’ when it’s not to their faces. (Why send a tape specifically to Rei and keep track of her? Why not hurt Shouto at the summer camp when he so easily could have?) I think it’s also clear he didn’t mean to kill Endeavor with the previous Nomu attacks, but wanted him to succeed (in a ‘Build him up bigger so when I bring him down he falls even harder’ type of way. After all, Dabi obviously wanted to be the one to take down Endeavor, not a random Nomu.) Again, shitty he didn’t care that Natsuo/Shouto got caught up in it, but I think he didn’t think Natsuo would die due to Endeavor saving him. (Again, that doesn’t justify it, and is some twisted logic, but this is complicated.)
-I want to make very clear I’m not absolving Dabi of his actions, but as an abuse victim and someone who’s intimately familiar with familial abuse, his actual feelings do not make him a bad person and are actually more common than you’d think if you’ve never experienced abuse. When you’re suffering that kind of trauma for so long, you lash out at and feel angry at other people in the household, even other targets of abuse, because your abuser fucks you all up so bad and turns you against each other (even if not intentionally). It becomes a sick competition for attention even from a person who’s horrible and terrible. Dabi undoubtedly felt like he’d been thrown away and jealous of Shouto, the ‘perfect child’ Endeavor finally succeeded in getting (again, this doesn’t excuse him actually hating Shouto, but I can see why he might feel bitter). In a perfect world he would’ve dealt with those feelings with therapy and realized Shouto was just as much a victim and not murder attempts, but this is bnha lmao. Him wanting to hurt Shouto- a fucked up urge, but in a trauma-inducing environment as a mentally ill teenager, you can understand why he felt it. Acting on it is what’s truly fucked up. I also find it unlikely he doesn’t care for Natsuo at all. Natsuo, who he went to specifically for comfort for his whole childhood, not even his mother but his brother?
-At first glance, it may seem many “fanon” interpretations of Dabi are now ‘invalid’ or whatever but I disagree. Sure, we do know that he wasn’t secretly skulking about watching out for his siblings from the shadows- clearly. But narratives that involve him reconnecting with his siblings, remembering or learning to care for them again, realizing he’s hurting them and he isn’t the only one with trauma, reconnecting with his want to protect them as his family, etc. still make sense. People are not static. They still hold the capacity for change and healing given the proper circumstances. Most fanfic are AUs, given they don’t follow canon exactly and word for word, and characters can make different decisions and feel differently if different events happen. Even if you do want to write a very different characterization for Dabi, that’s fine, especially if bnha ultimately ends up doing the whole Todoroki narrative dirty.
-In conclusion: yes, currently Dabi is acting a madman and doing some very reprehensible things. He is a severely traumatized individual who grew up in a home involving copious amounts of violence. However, I do not think the point of all this family drama is just to say “fuck it, Touya’s dead now he was too far gone whoops! But heroes are good anyway!” I think it’s likely we’ll get some scene with him arrested and being confronted by Rei or Natsuo or something along those lines and see some regret. (Why spend so much time on this arc and show their reactions if they aren’t going to be involved at all?) Simultaneously, it’s also possible the story will go the “he’s too far gone” route and basically have him end up as a mirror of Endeavor: so obsessed with his own trauma he threw his own family under the bus for his own revenge plan. While possible, I think that’s a shitty and lazy way to go and disrespectful to Touya himself as an abuse survivor. He is definitely extremely deep in his revenge right now, but I do not want that to be the end of his character.
-I want Dabi to have to face up to his own actions. I want him to realize he fucked up and hurt people he shouldn’t have. I don’t think we’ll get some mushy apology montage, but we have not once seen all the Todoroki siblings together at one time, and I want Dabi to have to deal with the repercussions of seeing his family again and realizing oh, they were never the ones I should have hurt, and I don’t think he’s too far gone to do that.
-I think it’ll be really shitty if Dabi, an abuse survivor, is ultimately depicted as the insane lunatic that needs to be put down and has no chance for any kind of redemption while his abuser who bought his wife for eugenics and neglected/abused his entire family gets to walk free with a shitty redemption arc. Don’t get me wrong, I’m aware Dabi is a villain and as such is going to be on the losing side in a story where heroes win (I mean, it’s technically all a flashback from number one hero Deku) but he still has very valid points about hero society and how fucked up Endeavor truly was, and throwing it all away would be such a cop out. If bnha does truly go with the most insulting route for Dabi I feel it shows a lack of understanding for abuse and abuse survivors and fanfic authors are justified in ignoring and changing that for fics, especially if they’re abuse survivors themselves. I guarantee they’ll write better narratives about abuse lmao.
-Lastly: Dabi is a morally grey character. He’s a villain. But people who like his character or want to look at the why and how of his actions in a nuanced way are not just ‘dumb villain stans’ or whatever weird shit the bnha fandom has come up with. We just want this narrative to actually make some goddamned sense. Dabi’s actions are not all justified but do make sense in the context of his backstory and motivations and current mental state, I just hope to god hori doesn’t ruin it completely from here.
Edit: this post is also highly likely imo and also explains Dabi’s behavior (but as a reminder for those who don’t read closely, explaining something is not the same thing as justifying it.) “I can’t feel anything anymore” is a hallmark of being depressed/suicidal and his supposedly not caring for his siblings anymore most likely has to do more with his own suicidal state than aggression towards them. Dabi acting as manic as he has these last few chapters makes sense if he isn’t planning on living.
Was it OOC for Dabi to not care if Natsuo dies? Is this Horikoshi being a bad writer?
Well, idk what’s going through Horikoshi’s mind, but I don’t think it was out of character.
I… haven’t seen many people really take into consideration that Dabi doesn’t plan on making it out of this alive, and what that means for his psyche.
The rest of this post discusses suicide pretty heavily, so be warned.
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BnHA Chapter 293: We Have Purposely Named Him Wrong, as a Joke
Previously on BnHA: Everyone’s favorite Symbol of Jeans, Best Freshest Jeanist, descended from the heavens to rain controversy unto the fandom. Dabi was all “fuck this” and burst into flames that were apparently hot enough to snap steel cables, so I’m pretty sure he should in fact be dead at this point! But thankfully for him Horikoshi continues to have no understanding of how fire works, and so he and Shouto are currently battling and turning into some sort of supernova together. Meanwhile Tomura woke up and summoned a few of the Nearly High Ends to attack Jeanist, and everyone was like “oh shit”, and Deku was all “[cracks knuckles] time to find some more bones to break.” But before he could do anything, FUCKING MIRIO OF ALL PEOPLE POPPED OUT OF THE GROUND TO DECK THE NOUMUS WITH BOUGHS OF HIS FIST. Just like the song goes.
Today on BnHA: Mirio flashes back to what is now my favorite scene of all time, in which he’s all “Eri can you please restore my quirk”, and she puts down her plate of chicken nuggets and wipes her hands on her sweater and is all, “sure.” Back in the present, Kacchan is all “JEANIST IS BACK, THAT MEANS IT’S TIME FOR YOU KNOW WHAT,” and fandom is all “OH MY GOD” and Kacchan is all “I’M GOING TO CALL MYSELF DYNAMIGHT”, and everyone falls over and he’s all “WAIT, IS THAT NOT A GOOD NAME” and Mirio is all “IT’S THE FUNNIEST NAME OF ALL TIME” and now I need someone to call the coroner to come collect my poor son’s body. Meanwhile Dabi and Shouto fight some more, and then Deku is all, “I’ve been watching this for almost two whole minutes which means I’m ready to start my patented shounen therapy now” and Dabi is all “are you serious”, but Endeavor gets inspired and finally jumps up and punches Machia in the face, at which point the sedative finally kicks in and the big man keels over. Anyway so that was a RIDE.
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“He didn’t want to share his leg hole” Drama queen now, drama queen always. Quick drawing for fun! nothing serious!👀 I saw a post about babies throwing a tantrum…. I think this is something Touya would do 🤣
Reaction to BNHA 293 be like
The past never dies
part 2/2, part 1
An animatic for all Dabi stans in this trying time. Hope you enjoy it and stay happy!
(*warning: manga spoilers*)
https://youtu.be/GsPBtWvPDUo
I have been laughing at this for 10 minutes straight
So earlier today I mentioned posting some “remastered” versions of my old works, and here they are!
In the past, I’d always been reluctant to add watermarks to my work, because I felt they’d detract from the pictures themselves; however over the course of the past week alone I’ve been met with too many instances to count of people reposting my work without my permission, both credited and not.
This is genuinely one of the biggest dickmoves you can make to an artist, as it’s a case of taking their hard work, stuff that they are genuinely proud of and that they spent time and effort making, and throwing it out in a frequently random and completely out of context manner without even having the courtesy to ask first, and -in some instances - expecting them to appreciate it.
While I’m aware that this is a sadly incredibly common occurrence, I maintain that it really doesn’t need to be.
Regretfully however, I am likely going to have to start watermarking my work like this. I was thinking something along the lines of;
Don’t be a Dick, Don’t Repost.
I repost because i want people to notice these cool art, and you want people to not know you? Stop this bullshit pls
(hopefully this is just a bit of confusion over the difference between reblogging and reposting but dude.)
here’s the number two hero killing a man anyway LiKe aNd SuBsCriBE fOr MoRe
