Smilez6 - Smile.z

If Gojo can grow an arm, he can grow legs too. As long as he has his head, he will survive

I am not coping, I expect his death, but something feels off.

Kacchan’s cluster in the latest episode of the anime is this gentle, rainbow pastel color.. like back when they shared OFA in Heroes Rising. I made countless of theories that Hori is gonna go with the “connection of the hearts” route as a way to share OFA between Izuku and Katsuki and I honestly think I’m right.

OFA has been told to CONNECT PEOPLE’S HEARTS and that emotions too strong for the WIELDER to handle can BEND IT’S RULES! Katsuki has been showing signs of having OFA lately.

He’s actually surrounded with OFA stars every time he thinks of IZUKU or is WITH Izuku or WANTS TO BE WITH IZUKU!

And if he does, it’s not because of 2ND user. It’s PURELY because of Izuku OR his own feelings! And it’s probably both.

Not to mention, if Shigaraki’s HATRED was strong enough to affect OFA realm.. then Katsuki’s LOVE.. did so as well.

But the current wielder can override OFA and bend it’s rules with emotions TOO STRONG FOR ONE PERSON TO HANDLE! And Izuku has been losing control of his heart and OFA BECAUSE OF KATSUKI lately. Clearly it’s an emotion too much for him to handle.

So whatever happened here, it changed the laws of how OFA works and Izuku’s strong emotions opened the door of OFA to Katsuki.

If Katsuki did receive OFA this way, he didn’t get it physically. Not via DNA.. he doesn’t HAVE it but he has ACCESS to it. That’s why AFO can’t sense it. Because it’s within Izuku but Katsuki can use it! He’s like a silent, ghost wielder.

OFA stars showed up around Katsuki for the first time when he followed Izuku into the first war. They started forming from his explosions when Izuku followed him and across this chapter, slowly morphed into the stars.

They appeared suddenly in one chapter. And they have been present each time Katsuki THINKS OF IZUKU! He doesn’t ALWAYS have access to it. Only when his feelings for Izuku overwhelm him.

This doesn’t mean Katsuki isn’t strong on his own. He is. But AFO is in another league. He simply cannot be beaten with regular quirks. Even Izuku who has 6 quirks on top of OFA is struggling. For Katsuki to be able to deal significant damage to him.. he had to have had OFA.

His love for IZUKU, allowed him to use OFA. And he died calling out to Izuku.. with a smile on his face.. wishing to be by his side.. he dies surrounded with OFA stars.. he dies being too fast.. his heart exploding from the inside with an image of 2nd user.

And now we know 2nds quirk is super speed.

Hori has always been about emotions more than about raw power. So Katsuki receiving a powerup because Izuku loves him and because he loves Izuku back which allows them to share this great power is something Hori would definitely do.

Would it be cool if Katsuki somehow evolved his power so much that he was able to freak AFO out and deal significant damage to him? Yes.

But Katsuki tapping into OFA realm, using its power because of his and Izuku’s love.. is more special and more UNIQUE.

in his defense: he was very cold

I loved this scene so much especially how Nobu voiced it. The way Bakugou's voice sounds makes me feel so many emotions at once.

I’ve got. All kinds of bad feelings about this. They literally put a kid on the front lines for the purpose of tanking a specific knock out weapon and I get it’s a good match up but also? He’s like 16? He’s a teenager and he’s terrified out of his mind.

You know what this reminds me of? The very first chapter when Bakugou was being attacked by the slime villain

Familiar isn’t it? We got to wait for the right quirk and let this kid fucking die in the mean time. Here they got the right quirk but it’s in a kid and he might die in the meantime.

Like I’ve been giving shit to the Villain Liberation Army about their fucked up ideals but I can’t deny it’s really just an extreme fast forward of what this society is already headed towards. And by extreme I mean kinda accelerated. This society will fucking fall apart without “the right quirks” and the heroes perpetuate it too, we’ve seen where it fails so many times now with Izuku’s quirklessness, with Shinsou, and fast forward to Kaminari here who couldn’t really say no since the entire plan hinged on a teenager absorbing the power of a fully grown, willing to kill zealot.

All this is knowing that taking too much electricity will literally fry his brain. (But that’s a gag right like All Might coughing up blood from an old injury that took out a fair amount of his organs is a gag too.)

But it’s okay because he gets his moment of badassery right? Every thing is fine as long as they look cool doing it and win (or lose making a grande finale and leave mourning in their wake cough Water Hose Duo and Koufa cough). That’s what All Might did too.

What really kills me is how through the entire chapter Kaminari keeps looking backwards at where his friends are in the “safe zone.” We get multiple panels where he’s looking around and all the heroes are charging forward and it’s so obvious that he’s scared and confused. He’s way in over his head, he’s been at hero school for less than a year and now he’s on the front lines supposed to be defending the very heroes he put his hope and trust in with his life.

Look at the composition of these two panels. Which side is the dialogue really addressing? What’s wrong with your society that a single disbeliever will bring it down? Who’s making children put their lives on the line to fight for an ideal they don’t really understand?

These are zealot words, fighting words, and smack dab in the middle is this kid who’s basically being raised in a military institution to become another soldier to die for them.

This is what being a hero means in this society.