horikoshi killing off magne was actually his way of validating her gender identity by treating her like he does every other woman in the series <3
Sidenote on my tags on my last reblog, but I also wonder if the open front on Dabi's new outfit isn't also meant to invoke seppuku imagery, the samurai ritual suicide
What made me think of this is the fact that Horikoshi clearly gave some thought to how much of Dabi's chest to expose, cause the preliminary design didn't show a lot of skin (notice the version on the left, which is clearly reminiscent of burial clothes, or 死装束 in japanese):
The right side is crossed over the left, in typical fashion for funeral ceremonies. Normally, you wear a yukata or a kimono with the left over the right, as only the dead are dressed the other way around. Dabi's outfit is then supposed to bring to mind the way you'd dress up a corpse for the last rites before a burial.
However, Horikoshi discarded this more "proper" look for what we as a fandom called the "yassiefied" version, with an open, bare chest:
Which honestly brings to mind the aforementioned seppuku ritual.
I know that Dabi is no samurai and that he normally likes loose and low cut clothes, but the fact that his burial-clothes-inspired shroud is specifically open all the way down to his belly seems too deliberate to be coincidence, or something thrown in for fanservice alone, especially considering how the design wasn't originally meant to be... Slutty, for lack of a better term.
So I guess that what I'm saying is: since Dabi went into this war with the intention of committing murder-suicide, it wouldn't surprise me if his outfit too was meant to invoke that duality: that is, the idea that he's both someone already dead (and whom his family mourned and buried), but also someone ready to take his own life to correct a wrong
Idk, just some food for thought
GEE BAKUGO, I WONDER WHY?
no but bkg calling izuku out on his unhealthy mentality without explaining that he's like that partially bc he spent his formative years being bullied by bkg is so funny to me???
like he admits he knows izuku "better than any of 1-a" which is true!... but that's also probably bc class 1-a is definitely still in the dark about all of the trauma u inflicted on him pre-ofa 😟 likeeeeee "never thinks about his own good" yeah, i think being called useless/worthless for the majority of your life will do that to you!
idk i don't dislike bakugos character at all, he's had a lot of positive character development, my gripe is just that horikoshi still hasn't connected the dots with the other characters as far as izuku's backstory goes lol!!! bc without them knowing the reasons why izuku is so hard on himself, i feel like bkg's words portray him as like... just some crazy person who does crazy things bc he's crazy 🤪
anyways all might said it best, the words izuku needs to hear rn are "it's okay to rest" and "you're already doing your best"! and i'd like to add that hearing someone, specifically bakugo, say "you aren't worthless, i was wrong" would probably do him a whole lot of good! i really really would hate to see a deku v kacchan 3 where deku gets beat to a pulp and is just magically fixed by the power of shonen rivalry lol 😭
Ahhh- i cant do annon- 😭 just wanted to say me and my partner really love spinner and your art- maybe if its ok could you possibly draw them a lil spinner! (If not its totally cool!)
Anyway have a good day- *fades out of existence*
Aw thanks so much bro!💛💛💛 Here’s a little dude, it’s raining where I am so I thought it was fitting 🦎🌧
it's a pretty wild move for horikoshi to, mid-chapter, change the story from one of a boy who punches a lot in response to society's deepset flaws and those victimised by it, to instead featuring gentle seeing muscular and going "hey......you don't have to be evil. there is a better way" only for muscular to go "what no way i love evil so much i'm finding someone to kill right now". and they just keep going back and forth like that until the they fall in love. this is a romcom. and the rest of the manga.