#eri chan

[black-and-yellow]

The walk home from UA

[assassyart]

Little Explosion Murder Dynamight

Extras:

[nyxowl16]

what is up with queer depressed men adopting kids and actually doing a good job of parenting??????

and bonus ofc: Stolas and Lucifer!

[fever-dreamer97]

Aizawa: Why have you been rebelling against me lately?

Shinso: Don’t know what you mean.

Aizawa: Bull, I asked you to hand in an essay about current events.

Shinso: Which I did.

Aizawa: You handed in today’s paper with your name written on it…in crayon.

Shinso: Nothing more current than today’s events…and I was babysitting Eri.

Aizawa:

[decarbry]

eraser merch part 2

[redbluenight]

She's running towards...

MHA 415: Rejection

[blithefool]

Dadzawa ftw

[joelysmile]

Happy bunny year 🐰🐰🐰

[x-kiwi-03]

This would've been fire idc😭😭 (fake leaks)

[sansan9]

[fever-dreamer97]

Okay, detention for everyone for not talking about this moment more.

[doodlegraveyard]

Eri, documenting the end of a day out with her papa and Masaki-san

She and Aizawa deserve a little Normal, I think 🌆🧡

[Image description: a digitally colored sketch of Eri, Aizawa, and Masaki Mizushima aka the hero Manual on a train. It’s late afternoon, and the Sun setting outside casts a warm light on the scene. Aizawa has fallen asleep, arms crossed. His scarred face, eyepatch, and all black outfit are contrasted with the multiple colorful hair scrunchies on his wrist and his nails which have been painted pastel hues. He’s leaning on Manual’s shoulder. Manual is also dozing off; he’s wearing a Ganriki Neko tshirt and is holding Aizawa’s forearm crutches, which have colorful stickers on them. Eri is sitting in close foreground, facing away from the viewer, in the seats facing Aizawa and Manual. Her long pale hair is pinned with multiple colorful clips, and we can see she has Aizawa’s phone and has taken a photo of the two men sleeping, which she is now decorating with hearts and cat stickers. End description.]

[oogiedoogieboogie]

✨✨Been dead for a while so have a Spider-Man/Marvel!Erasermic Family AU that’s been living rent free in my head for like 3 months ✨✨

[decarbry]

parenting 101, or, “neither of us are leaving this table until you try it”

day 20: cauliflower

[kiame-sama]

Truly, the cutest part of this whole episode is Mirio mimicking Eri's movements

[deadboyswalking]

Why The Overhaul Arc Matters

Strap the FUCK in I just realized the actual narrative significance of the Overhaul arc.

Eri-Tomura Parallel

At a surface level, Eri and Tomura have obvious parallels, right?

Visually, they look very similar with light hair and red eyes. Quirk-wise, they both have incredibly powerful, devastating Quirks that caused a fatal accident with their real families.

Eri hated herself because of the poison that Chisaki put in her head. Tomura hates himself for the same reason but with AFO.

They both were groomed to feel fully responsible for their traumatizing childhood accidents and for their only self-worth to be related to being useful towards their manipulative abuser and his goals.

Their parallels have been discussed at length by many people, so I'm not going to go into it except to say: no, they aren't literally blood related like some people argue. I also don't think AFO gave either of them their Quirks. Did AFO give Decay? Analysis Thread

Overhaul-AFO Parallel

That leads me to my next point: Overhaul and All For One are the same character.

As leaders, they prey on vulnerable people and buy their unquestioned loyalty (the Shie Hassaikai, Dr. Garaki, Machia, etc)

They will use these people for their purposes and then discard them at will, without any emotions or ethics to consider.

Their relationship toward their charge is NOT exactly parental. There is zero affection or even pretended affection towards Eri or Tomura and, in fact, others are doing their actual day-to-day care (various Hassaikai members, Kurogiri).

They speak in the same way to and about their charges. "You're a cursed human." "Another death on your hands." "Symbol of Fear" "You have within you the impulse to destroy that even you can't control." A huge part of their abuse is based in manipulating their charges to despise themselves and think they're inherently evil, so said charges give up on being a regular human. Further literary parallel: Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Deku's Connection

AND FINALLY, my point: the Overhaul-Eri situation is directly responsible for Deku's current empathy toward Tomura and drive to save him. When Deku saw AFO take over Tomura and use his body for his own purposes during the war, especially with what he saw in the vestige realm, I think the parallel with Eri clicked.

Tomura is what would've happened to Eri if she hadn't been rescued. I fully think that if Eri had survived to adulthood without being rescued, Overhaul would have groomed her to live entirely for his benefit with full live-or-die loyalty for him (like the rest of the Shie Hassaikai, but stronger due to manipulation from childhood onwards). She would have grown to hate society for not saving her AND for being against Overhaul's goals. I honestly think she would've been even scarier than Tomura since Tomura at least had Kurogiri (who has been show to genuinely care for him on some level) rather than random gangsters as his primary caregiver.

Don't you see? It's all connected to Deku's endgame: pulling Tomura away from AFO and saving someone else who has been damned because of their Quirk and abuser. Of course, saving Tomura, a grown man who has committed A LOT of violence, is going to be much harder than saving a wholly innocent little girl, but the SEED was planted during the Overhaul arc.

I believe this is also WHY Deku chooses to see the Tenko that still lives inside Tomura.

Final Thoughts

This might be super obvious but I'd been scratching my head for MONTHS about how the Overhaul arc is significant to the narrative since the Quirk bullets storyline went nowhere and I'm not a fan of the "Eri rewinds the villains or the whole world!" take. I was so quick to discard the Overhaul arc as unimportant when the bullets didn't impact the story much, but I just completely missed the big picture.

I SAW the Eri-Tomura and Overhaul-AFO parallels but I couldn't quite figure out how the pieces went together beyond the surface parallel of two similarly abused children and two abusers. Understanding this connection also fixes what I had considered to be a huge logical plot hole in the story: why did Deku have a sudden 11th-hour change of heart and shift his focus from defeating Tomura to saving him?

Overhaul-Eri to AFO-Tomura is a direct link for Deku's endgame and the total themes of the story, I just couldn't see it before.