#and midoriya does! except where he chose his connection to yagi and has a supportive relationship

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okay I know I'm late, but wrt todoroki's whole "are you all-might's secret love child" scene. it really surprised me after I watched it when I found that in fandom it's turned into this running gag - and I mean I'm not against it, like that shit's hilarious, it just wasn't my takeaway from the scene at all?

because 1) he was 100% right about there being a conspiracy. like he didn't guess what the actual conspiracy was because wtf who would guess that? but he was right on the money that midoriya somehow had all-might's quirk. 2) as guesses go, it wasn't out of pocket. quirks are inherited. midoriya has all-might's quirk. there is a logical way for that to happen. 3) when midoriya says no he doesn't insist or throw out more speculation. he says "okay, I know you're hiding something though" and moves on. what I'm saying is todoroki gets painted as oblivious pretty frequently and as an obsessed conspiracy theorist sometimes and this is held up as like, a prime example of both things. except this is really a moment where he legitimately notices something no one else has, draws a reasonable conclusion, communicates with midoriya about it directly, and then keeps an open mind.

but more importantly: who there is the successor of a top hero, with an inherited quirk that he isn't comfortable with and a complicated father-son relationship he doesn't advertise to his classmates? todoroki is going through some shit, and he's asking "are you like me? do you understand?"