I've been thinking about Toga a lot lately and I just came to the conclusion that she should have been Monoma's villain, not Uraraka's.
This is not a diss on Ochako, I love her. But someone, I think it was @doodlegirl1998, pointed out that there were way more similarities between her and Twice. Bonding her and Toga over their love for Izuku was... Shallow on Horikoshi's part.
I could rant for a whole post about how frustrating it is that Uraraka turned off her feelings for Izuku to become a better hero only for her feelings for Izuku to be way more relevant to her being a hero. Horikoshi can't write consistent characterization to save his life
Monoma on the other hand is really similar to Toga. They were both antagonized because of their quirks- albeit Toga more severely- and one thing I've noticed is that Monoma's attachment to 1B is similar to Toga's attachment to the LOV. Monoma loves his class. We don't know a lot about his dynamic with them, but we can presume that it's because he's accepted by them, which is why Toga loves the LOV. It's also why he takes a liking to Shinsou, because he sees Shinsou as someone who went through what he did.
Of course, Monoma wasn't a main character so doing this wouldn't have made sense. But it really got me thinking about who really could have understood Toga and maybe saved her
Hi @sapphic-agent 👋
Yep I do agree that ochakos villain should of been twice as they both have a lot of similarities compared to ochako and toga but I do think that there could be a lot of changes done if something like toga and ochako were to be done again.
I have always thought of monoma and toga as similar and I have seen plenty of fics that talk about how they could be related. Honestly I kinda of dig it if they were cousins or something of the sort but having two strangers being so similar in both quirks, how they were treated and looks honestly says so much.
I do think that if monoma was one of the main characters in 1A his story could of been intertwined with togas and I do think that we would get a much more satisfying story overall instead of what happend with toga and ochako or just the whole togaocha fiasco. Heck making toga monomas villain will forcibly give 1B more screentime and that's something we desperately need in the story so yeah that works.
Also can we talk about how much of a good duo Vlad and toga could of been. Two blood users and we could of gotten from Vlad in general. Also something something about how monoma is incredibly close to Vlad king and how he is one of the teachers who treated him fairly to something something how maybe if given the chance toga could of been rehabilitated with Vlad and monomas help.
In the end the whole toga and ochako thing revolving around izuku in a way is so shallow on hori's part especially when the two characters showed great potential.
