have only taken a peek at jtwitter so far but a lot of them (at least when compared to western fandom) think that mystery person could be spinner?? I don't think it is but i can't help but wonder how horikoshi would explain that. and just imagine being spinner that scenario. one minute you're passed out on a hospital floor, next minute you're quirkless, tied up in some stranger's house, and unaware that your boyfriend has been dead for two weeks. what a fate
WHAT A FATE. Went immediately from tragic romance in shonen adventure manga to escape-from-captivity (maybe seek revenge, afterwards...?) horror/mystery/thriller movie. What even.
For a few moments on leaks night, I had also thought maybe Mystery Person was Spinner. I was desperate and full of love for my guy. Also Mystery Person just looked so sad and pathetic. I believe - and love - that people think it's Spinner, because the character is so sad looking and also kinda pathetic. Sorta like Spinner during his hikikomori days.
Also maybe because of the hair, kinda. The length and texture of it?
(I had wondered like - why the hair color change? Maybe the pink hair was part of his quirk, so when he lost that, the pink coloring goes too? 😭
@robotlesbianjavert said "turns out being able to climb up walls was due to the heteromorph genetics but NOT the quirk factor. the quirk factor was the hair. and they fucking took it from him. his love interest coding. during pride month too……" 😭)
The theories seem to be:
1) After getting his Scalemail scales removed, Spinner also lost his other quirks/quirk factors. Then he escaped from the hospital. (But got captured...?)
2) Kurogiri managed to teleport Spinner away, and between then and now (two weeks(?) after the war), Spinner somehow managed to lose his quirks/quirk factors.
2.5) Spinner might have been given a quirk-erasing bullet to save him from the brain melting of extra quirks?
(Which might finally explain why that bizarre gun panel is in Chapter 372. @stillness-in-green pointed this out. But opens up a whole other list of questions. Who was holding the gun? Officer Gori? Present Mic? Mic's gloves would fit the hand holding the gun... Why would Heroes have a quirk-erasing bullet? Did they find one, after arresting the Doc, or from the remains of the lab after Jaku? Why use it on Spinner??? Actually, using it on the heteromorphic quirk spokesman kinda makes sense... in an extremely atrocious way—but why on earth not use it on AFO or Shigaraki? etc etc etc)
I don't think Mystery Person is Spinner either! (which, like, WOW. Taking away the heteromorphic quirk from a character who was just involved in a heteromorphic discrimination mini-arc, no matter how badly it was resolved... yikes; and in a story about accepting living in a society full of different quirks (pending any new quirk doomsday theory plot thing) - another ehhhhh) But we have three weeks so we all might as well go insane.
Thanks for the ask!
