i can admit this Dabi is my roman empire. imagine you write a superpowers world and establish early on underneath the fun shonen glaze is very clearly unjust system that has fascist undertones and it lurks under the fun at all moments and then you write The poster child of Domestic Abuse with a father implied to be SO BAD it might be the first case of people rooting for a potential father murderer in mainstream fiction. enter Dabi, a character so critical his existence can shake up the hero society, with potential to shape the direction the story would take, just to redeem Endeavor. just to make Shoto a well adjusted hero. imagine you capture how domestic violence feels, the stress induced autoimmune diseases destroying your body, hating your home and hating the world for it, just to not utilize it. damn.
