#quirkdom

[softer-ua]

Honestly AFO is so quirk obsessed that it makes him bad at being a villain

With his power and the amount of time he’s been alive he should have put an entire puppet government in place, a shadow police force with nomu aids, taken over the hero commission, and every hero school should be running under his rule

He literally could have just unfunded and finned UA and every other school into submission, have them teaching his version of heroism and history, had the commission fire any hero’s he didn’t like, had the government funding programs he wanted and dismantling ones he didn’t

At this point his reach should be far outside Japan, he should own like 65% of the worlds governments and 98% of the worlds funds and assets

Like AFO could have the kind of evil empire that runs itself and all he has to do is occasionally shift a couple chess pieces around, the kind of power that without him moving those pieces here and there society falls apart, stock markets crash, and governments grind down into an unexplained inefficiency

Instead he’s got a couple of street thugs that kidnap and/or recruit kids, a nutty professor and his monsters, and a very loyal sentient mountain

Which if he was just starting out would be fairly impressive but the fuckers been around since very nearly the dawn of quirkdom, and in that time the most power he ever managed was like maybe a decade(?) of what amounted to semi anarchy and a less functional Yakuza that fell apart after fighting All Might one time

One For All is definitely a threat to his regime but taking that power should only be a part of his schemes to accumulate power, not the lynchpin that he puts all his resources into and refuses to actually take any real control over the world without

Instead he’s obsessed with taking the only quirk he can’t steal, and puts no real planning into world domination other than wanting to create this vague idea of a symbol of fear

Which is stupid because fear is an innate part of the human experience; there will always be things we fear that drive us to take extreme action to avoid it; like sacrificing our everyday lives to jobs we don’t like so we can avoid homelessness, starvation, and unprovided for children

So frankly AFO is an idiot and his quirk obsession will be continue to be his down fall

[hamliet]

You’ve answered how to write a good tragedy....So how do you write a good redemption story?

Hi! So, I’ve addressed this before, primarily here. If you’ll notice, all the predictions for how this would play out in Enji’s arc have come to pass, soooo. We’re now in the “acceptance” and “more suffering” phases for him. He’ll likely get to penance via what I’ve been also predicting from the start (see Hawks stans this is not a new prediction for me).

If we wanna break these down even further, the thing about Dabi and Shigaraki (less Toga because, well, Hori and the female character dilemma) is that their arcs are systemic. So let’s examine these arcs, because you can see a pattern in these steps between fathers and sons. (Idk what’s going on with the numbering thing but w/e).

Initial crime:  

Endeavor marries Rei and forces her to produce children whom he plans to use to further his own ambitions as a hero.

Touya helps kidnap Bakugou.

Nana Shimura abandons her son, Koutarou, and then dies a hero but alone.

Tenko kills his family and is left all alone.

A worsening of the crime:

Endeavor abuses his family.

Touya targets his family with Natsu and Shouto, kills 30 people, etc. 

Koutarou abuses his children.

Tenko becomes Shigaraki and targets kids at UA, spirals as a villain.

Reckoning/refusal of the reckoning:

Endeavor: Touya dies and he locks Rei up and refuses to accept that it might just be his fault. Continues to treat Shouto awfully.

Touya rejects Shouto on the battlefield and rejects himself.

Koutarou’s wife tells him she’ll leave him if he hurts Tenko again . Three seconds later he attacks his son.

Tenko rejects his family (this isn’t bad since they asked him to die) but emerges from his coma to control Gigantomachia and kills a bunch of people. 

Suffering:

Endeavor’s family doesn’t accept his attempts to change and his reputation is now trash after a Dabi Todoroki reveal.

Touya’s all alone and more burned than ever.

Nana’s legacy is utterly trashed because her grandson is being used against her by the man who murdered her.

Tenko is having his mind literally controlled and not allowed to be his own person/establish his own legacy.

Acceptance:

Thank you Rei Todoroki. We’re at that moment with Enji right now. He knows it is all his fault and will not deny it.

Touya: now he’s finally outed himself as Todoroki Touya. We’ll see what this looks like for him in the future.

All Might and Gran Torino are showing a bit of this what with GT wondering if they did the right thing, as is Deku through his musing that Shigaraki looks like he wants to be saved (as carriers of OFA, they carry on Nana’s legacy). There’s more to be done.

Shigaraki’s gonna have to accept AFO sucks. He’s already showing signs of this through not wanting him to take control.

More suffering:

Buckle up buttercup Enji’s suffering is just beginning. He cannot deny his son in the media,

Touya’s probably going to Go Through It with AFO and the League and perhaps Hawks going after him.

All Might is probably going to have to suffer a bit and realize that his cowardice in not tracking Shigaraki in the first place makes him somewhat at fault.

Shigaraki’s probably going to wrestle for control of his very essence.

Penance/Sacrifice

See this is where my Enji-Hawks prediction comes in. I really think Enji needs to sacrifice himself to save Touya from something (it doesn’t have to be Hawks, but that’s my current theory); however, he will probably survive.

Shouto will probably get through to Dabi, and Dabi will probably help in the final battle. Yes, he’s going to have to do something to fight.

All Might might sacrifice his life to reach Shigaraki in a Han Solo/Kylo Ren type way, or he might not. He might also live, but I’m less optimistic.

Deku will probably get through to Shigaraki, who will use his quirk to destroy AFO and perhaps quirkdom entirely.

Forgiveness.

The integration of the separate arcs of father and son: Endeavor and Touya will probably both get a chance to heal and be a part of their family.

Deku will probably be the last OFA holder and establish the legacy of heroes with Tenko’s help. Hopefully they will establish a better society with the help of Touya and Toga, a society that saves victims.

I also think that, while there are very valid criticisms of why the trope tends to be this way, often the more suffering=the better the chances of not having a character die. The reason I think Dabi and Shigaraki have good chances is that their entire lives have been suffering. It’s just not particularly thrilling for their suffering to mean just death in the end. Enji is more of a risk than they are because afawk he hasn’t suffered all his life, but he’s still probably not gonna die imo.

[harliequeen]

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