Thelreads, MHA 316, Replies Part 2
1) “Not the wisest thing to say when he can fucking murder your ass in the blink of an eye. He beat you up once, and now you are unarmed, don’t test his patience.”- Again showing how Overhaul’s not exactly changed even with his remorse for his past misdeeds. He only cares about how the boss got hurt because of him because of how painful it is to him, personally. He still sees everyone else as diseased monsters not worthy of consideration.
2) “No Midoriya, keep him away from her! Don’t you ever put him in as much as the same city as her ever again. She doesn’t deserve to go through seeing him, not even in her thoughts.”- I honestly read this as being more for Eri’s sake than anything, letting her move past Overhaul and the damage he did to her, if she’s ever willing to see him again for that last goodbye on her own terms. It gives her more agency and control over events than Overhaul ever would have.
3) “…Although I wonder if you only said that as a way to break him, since you knew this would twist the knife in.
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Nah, you would never, what am I even saying here.”- I think it’s honestly a bit of both. Midoriya’s greatest skill is his ability to read people and understand and empathize with their innermost pain. With Overhaul, he’s now seeing his genuine remorse, but still understanding that he’s fundamentally the same selfish warped person who hurt Eri despite that. So he gives him an ultimatum: that if he can bring himself to express this remorse towards someone who he doesn’t really care about, Izuku will help fulfil that desire, meaning that the thing that’s keeping Overhaul from seeing the Boss is now the same sociopathic disregard of others that’s so defined Chisaki up til now. 4) “Oh All Might, already done killing those dudes?
WAIT THE MIGHT MOBILE SURVIVED? HOLY SHIT MAN”- It’s very well-made. Glass can be broken, sure, but the materials that make up the running of it are capable of taking a few knows or two.
5) “Midoriya is fucking pissed right now, that’s what he is. The moment he sees the potato faced fucker he’s gonna snap his neck.”- Izuku can see the best in people. AFO can see the worst in them, and twist it to suit his callous disregard of everyone and anything that doesn’t benefit himself. Izuku capable of making peace with a defeated overhaul, but AFO? There’s probably no genuine remedy for their enmity but absolute death. He’s too powerful and too remorseless to be redeemed or locked up – somebody’s gonna have to punch his ticket to put and end to his reign for good. 6) “Oh wait what the fuck
are we already cutting to two months later?
whatAlso, I remember that place, it’s been a while”- Naturally the League would crash in a place where they already knew there’d be no-one around…but AFO’s not that sloppy of a planner.
7) “Are you sure Midoriya? Shigaraki is quite capable from what we’ve seen, he literally resurrected so he could destroy the world, I wouldn’t put past him being angry enough to overpower you.”- His body is still probably destabilised from the beating Midoria gave, so even if his emotional strength can overwhelm Izuku, his actual self can’t contain the power at present.
8) “No surprise, the place is empty. AfO knew that lady nagant lost after all, he turned her into a firework remotely, he would be stupid to still be hanging around here.”- That, and just to twist the knife, he gave her a false meeting location from the start. Nagant didn’t achieve anything but helping AFO’s agenda no matter what action she took, a fact he’s all too happy to rub in Izuku’s face here.
9) “Okay he definitely was expecting that to happen. Can’t say I’m surprised. AfO is definitely the type of person who would send her to her death just to spite Midoriya and All Might.”- He really goes the extra mile to make himself the absolute villain. Tomura has the power and the destructive force, but AFO has the persona of a villain crafted down to a fine science…even if said persona is all there actually is to him.
10) “Let us not start the philosophical debate about what a villain makes, not with you at least, because Midoriya will probably teleport to your location to beat your ass if he listen to a single second more of you talking”- AFO doesn’t really “debate”, he baits people into listening to his words, crafted in such a manner that they seem to make sense, without actually believing anything he says, just to get a rise out of them or trick them into making a mistake. He’s essentially an internet Troll with unlimited power to exercise his spiteful agenda.
11) “It eats at his soul and replaces it with pure anger, when he gets to you he won’t be the pure and good-natured boy that set out on this journey, but a monster.”- Well, that works out fine for AFO. After all, no matter how far Izuku falls into anger and rage, AFO will always be a bigger monster than him. Midoriya just doesn’t have the pure depth of evil in his soul that drives AFO’s every waking moment. @thelreads
