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All the better, honestly. Shiggy’s a union guy!

well 🤷🏻‍♀️

…I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness… envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance…

…I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish, to riot in the excess of my despair. Evil thenceforth became my good… The completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion…

…dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment… I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion… But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine…

For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires… I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this?

Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me? …I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on… my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice…

…My work is nearly complete… Do not think that I shall be slow to perform this sacrifice… Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames…

—Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

I think Rei's writing is actually quite consistent, unlike another person we won't mention here. I think you actually answered your own question in your post, the reason why Rei reacted to Shouto's and Touya's situations differently was because they were different situations. It's the same logic to why Shouto and Touya reacted differently to their abuse and when you apply the same logic here it becomes easier to understand why Rei approached them differently (continue)

(continue) I think the other issue though is that Rei also didn't understand Touya either. She understood more than Endeavour but didn't understand fully which is why she wasn't able to reach out to Touya. I think the problem is Rei believes only Endeavour can get through to Touya. This was the case 16 years ago when Touya was 8 and this is still the case when Touya is 24. The only difference is she's more demanding but she's still missing something vital when it comes to understanding her son.

You bring up a lot of good points that I don't totally disagree with, anon, and that's fine! But I still maintain my conclusion in my original post.

I think the issue with Shouto vs Touya is that Rei applied the same tactics to Touya as she did Shouto, but it didn't land because Shouto's existence was justified and celebrated by his father for the sheer fact that he was born with the "perfect" quirk. His internal conflict arose not from his existence, but his similarities to his father, which he feared would result in him becoming exactly like his father, since that's essentially what Enji was gunning for -- creating a child that could be the perfect version of himself, rather than working to be that version of himself.

Whereas Touya was born "imperfect," so trying to meet his father's expectations against all advice and despite all the pain it caused him was never about being a hero and was all about validating his own existence. So I actually think the issue there was that Rei approached them the same, when Touya required an approach that acknowledged and validated his different circumstances.

Also, I agree that Rei didn't completely understand Touya because she couldn't fully relate to his experiences, but she definitely understood enough to know that Touya was aware of his father trying to replace him and that this would impact him negatively, hence his acting out and continuing to train, because we get confirmation of that in the flashbacks of Ch 301 & 302.

horny anime fangirls do more work than actual mangakas…..you could throw an evil anime boy across a room and tumblr user dabiscock will characterize him before he lands

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IM STUPID I CAUGHT ONE BUT NOT THE OTHER

edit: augh fuck i’m stupid (AGAIN!) and probably should have noted that the japanese doesn’t actually say anything about rei or enji. it translates to something like “a cold burning flame that incinerates everything,” so it reads to me like a general descriptive statement that FOR SOME REASON incorporated the kanjis from rei and enji’s names.

REAL BNHA FINAL PAGES LEAK:

bakugo: deku you quirkless nerd… hawks is calling, he wants your help designing the new plush pajamas to give to prisoners…

deku: oh right! i guess i better get going. have fun in combat training, remember to learn how to kill villains in one shot!

*behind bakugo we see ochako and iida sharing a kiss*

deku: ha, i guess we all saw that coming.

*deku runs into all might*

all might: young midoriya… i told you real heroes moved without thinking… and i stand by that. continue not thinking and you will be a hero no matter what

deku: wow all might… thank you!

*deku walks away holding a notebook that says “IDEAS FOR NEW VILLAIN BURIAL GROUNDS #12”*

*THE END*

Dabi is a very Tim Burtonish character if you ask me