If Endeavour did go missing for some reason, what would Todoroki do? Would he be glad, indifferent or a tiny bit worried?
He definitely wouldn’t be totally indifferent, that’s for sure.
And before I go any further than that I just wanna say sorry if this gets rambly, but my mind is a jumbled a mess and this kind of took me to a personal place where there’s a string of a pretty dark train of thoughts, lmao...
So let me start by saying his feelings towards his father are a bit more complex than just ‘I hate him and he sux and i hope he dies’ because to simply say that is not true by any stretch of the imagination, and it’s a whole hell of a lot more complicated than that.
To some degree (not one that’s small by any means, mind you) he does hates Enji for things he’s done and who he is as a person, but he still respects the hero side of him. That somewhere deep inside this man there was, at one point, the rationale to save people and do good things for the world and perhaps it wasn’t always about being ‘Number 1.′ Whether or not that’s been lost somewhere along the way or buried deep inside remains to be seen.THIS DOES NOT MEAN HE FORGIVES HIM FOR ALL THAT HE’S DONE (there’s a possibility he probably never will so jot that down).
Now the groundwork’s laid out let’s proceed on with his feelings towards the matter:
It wouldn’t be just one feeling; it’d be a string of them. Spanned out over the course of a few weeks to months, probably. It starts with indifference in the sense that Shouto thinks he’ll be fine because ‘He’s the number two hero, isn’t he? He’ll get himself out of this situation.’
After a while there’d be a mixture of disbelief and anger, because this man is the man who boasts of being among the best. His father should be better than to let himself be ‘captured’ or ‘go missing.’ His father is a great many things, but a coward he is not. Would he really allow himself to be ‘taken away?’ or would he fight until the death to ensure that never happened?
And if he didn’t come back after a long while of being gone Shouto would probably start to feel a bit unsettled like: ‘That’s it? That’s all it took to take down my old man?’
Finally, there’d be some acceptance, but not complete relief. Trying to find a word to describe his feelings is difficult because it’s not quite ‘free’ and it’s not quite ‘empty.’ It’s probably something he’d have to mull over for a while because having a person who has been a constant in your life, whether their influence was good or bad, suddenly taken away from you is something that will generate feelings that aren’t just gonna go away into thin air as you scream “I’M FINALLY FREE!!!!” especially if there was some dependence on this person.
