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lesbiangiogio
replied to your post “If Tomura hadn’t met AfO he’d have probably grown up to be an…”

YEAH EXACTLY one of shigaraki’s core character traits is his anti-authoritarianism and criticism of the hero system it makes no sense to me when people swap him into being a hero when they mess with his backstory like…..afo takes _advantage_ of his ideals but theyre still his ideals.

I think it’s because a lot of people just assume that AFO instilled that anti-authoritarianism and his anti-hero bias. But they forget that early inflicted childhood trauma can in fact define you a lot? So yeah we don’t know whether or not AFO engineered the incident that gave him the opportunity to pick up Tenko. But the thing is, even if he did, nobody coming to Tenko’s rescue for days, noone responding to his cries for help, is what actually created and cemented his anti-hero and anti-society in general stance.

And I don’t think any iteration of Tenko (short of a complete AU where that incident just… doesn’t… happen) will ever get over that. Even with therapy and a healthy outlet and a happy support system, it would still manifest, because he knows it could be taken away any moment with another unfortunate incident. No matter where and how well off he ends up, he’ll always consider himself one of the luckier ones. He’d probably be hyper vigilant of his situation, maybe even research that incident. And what may just have started as a child’s irrational hatred for heroes for not saving him despite the fact that heroes were supposed to save people born from trauma would eventually morph into a discontent with the current system with some real genuine thought out rationale and arguments for why it’s bad and why it doesn’t need to be changed but scrapped entirely.

[IDK maybe it’s me just projecting on Tenko. But the recent manga chapters focusing on the Hero rankings just hit home what a truly shitty fucking world BNHA actually is? Like yeah BNHA and Illegals hint at the stuff beneath the surface. But the Hero Rankings chapters really hit home, because Heroics has been turned into a weird state sanction private militia business, mixed with propaganda and celebrities. Someone stayed in the rankings because he’s got a gadget line.

And then, there’s the fact that even small time criminals are also labelled as Villains. And the fact that the whole Hero System needs a constant supply of Villains if it is to hold any merit. That reads a lot like criminalising marginalised groups and the poor and desperate because they’re the perfect scapegoats, instead of tackling the actual societal roots of Crime and what makes a Villain.]