#(like?? if spinner is supposed 2 get parting words they at least gotta be able to undo the quirk overload so he can comprehend speech again

[haleigh-sloth]

shouto will try to save dabi as his younger brother and not a hero, not someone with a better quirk; just shouto who suffered same as touya and wants to reconcile with his older brother as well as tell him his feelings and abuse are validated. shouto saving dabi is okay for me (ofc it depends on how the author handles it) but deku "saving" shigaraki is a lot more complicated tbh. because deep down, what shigaraki really craves is not complete destruction but the safety of a happy home (2/5)

that has been completely lost to him (not that it was ever there to begin with) yet he was happy with his family except for the time his dad was around. the guilt of killing his family and the fact that they would never come back to him still weighs down on his heart ("it is like i will never feel better again") unlike dabi, for whom the least his family gotta do is acknowledge his struggles and his person; for shigaraki, there is nothing left in the world. i want something more meaningful(3/5)

in "saving" shigaraki in the end, something that makes him (as well as me as a reader) feel that: yeah, this is something worth living for and not some inspirational talk (courtesy this being a shonen manga) which suddenly makes Shigaraki leave behind his (very rightful) convictions and change his view about the currently-rotten hero society. Because again and again, all that has happened to him is even his found-family torn apart (kurogiri, twice etc) so how is he supposed to (4/5)

trust the very heroes who are the reason for his life being a tragedy (same with twice) & allow to be saved by them? meaning, now it's Deku who needs a stronger conviction. just "i wanna save that little crying boy" is not conviction strong enough coz Shigaraki is not a crying boy anymore. unlike a young impressionable Eri who got saved by a hero with a cape, he is an adult who knows very well about the hero society and their hollow words. (so sorry it went so long; i had to say this to you)

ANON!!

I think tumblr ate part 1 of your ask so I'm sorry, I'll answer based on what you were able to send

So I agree with everything you said!!!

I'll say first that Shigaraki's convictions don't need to change. Just his methods. But moving on--

I've said it many many many times. I want Shigaraki to find family in those around him. Yes, the LOV is a found family, but the jury is out on who all will survive aside from the main 3. I don't expect them to die really but...trust issues. Also, the fact that Touya's endgame is with his family, it just makes me think that while they'll all always be very close and a found family, they might not necessarily spend every second of every day together like they do right now. Like, they'll start their own lives. The lives they want to live. Spinner literally has a fandom lmao. I wouldn't be surprised if he was like the face of advocacy for people with heteromorphic quirks. Compress deserves to become the magician he always wanted to be. A magician who steals from the rich. Lmao.

But in all seriousness--I so much agree that Midoriya's conviction needs to be stronger. And I think him saving Shigaraki will absolutely go beyond just taking him away from AFO. It has to. Like once he gets him away from AFO, it would be dumb for him to just say "bye" and go back to his normal life. No, they need to stay together and help each other. Midoriya saving him needs to extend to him staying with him after and helping and watching him heal and grow. Like, I've no doubt that Shigaraki will want keep the one person who viewed him as worth saving close and in his life. And I've no doubt that Midoriya will want to stay too after he's saved him.

I had to emphasize that ^^ because some asshole yesterday thought it'd be cute to test my patience on this subject that I talk at length about....and draw....and very obviously care deeply about. Anyway~

Shigaraki absolutely needs a family. I've said it many times that I want him and Midoriya to act like brothers eventually. After all, the whole AFO and OFA conflict is a war between two BROTHERS. Soooooooo yeah. But not just Midoriya. Toga and Bakugo too. Toga is not gonna go home to her family. Her parents had no problem shunning her so, I am doubtful she'll go back to them. So her and Shigaraki will probably remain really close, and Midoriya and Bakugo can be there for that too. And Ochacko! Like....all of them should stay together. The Todosiblings included. Shouto and Touya would definitely be a part of that group in MY ideal ending.

Shigaraki needs to be surrounded by people who accept him and love him. Touya has that with his biological family. Shigaraki will have to find that with the kids who worked to save him, and the LOV members who accepted him from the beginning.

Also, the kids who worked to save him would absolutely benefit from seeing him improve and heal and live his life. That's seeing their hard work pay off. Seeing that they made someone's life better and therefore made the world a better place and less cruel. That's hope. That's a happy ending.

Everybody ending up together and staying with each other is the best ending I can imagine, and I hope we get something similar to that, if not exactly that.