#and the patterns i'm seeing are....... unsurprising lmfao

[transhawks]

lmfao, both. both is good

dumbass take - what cooler place to eat out a cloaca than amidst floating undead experiments suspended in mystery juice?

Smart take - Dabi...doesn't give a fuck. Again, he's like focused on certain things and he underestimated who Takami Keigo was. He found his origins but he fundamentally didn't understand who or what that boy had become and was willing to do. I think the HPSC did a miraculous job with hiding all the wetwork Nagant (and perhaps Hawks) did, because none of the villains seem to consider that the government has been killing scores of people for decades.

Dabi just... thought he had a "gottem" because Hawks was willing to kill to get in the League and didn't even question why that was. To him it was sufficient proof of a lapse in heroism in Hawks, so he was a "tainted" hero anyway and didn't see him the actual assassin he was. What Dabi didn't see is that Hawks isn't a "bad hero" or a example how the system promotes bad actors - he's an example of what the system needs to sustain itself; the machinery behind the emerald curtain.

I hope I'm explaining myself well because there is a distinction. There's a difference between a corrupt hero willing to do anything and a person who has been trained to do anything. One is amoral, the other one is following following rules.

Two, Dabi is a bit more aware than the rest of the League about the Noumu process and quirk farming of kids and I don't think he's fond of it but not enough to speak against it. I don't think he gives too much of a fuck about the lab aspect and how he can use it for his ends. Again, the organization aspect of the League and then PLF never concerned him beyond his own goals. He checked out during the meetings as Twice told us, fucked off somewhere.

And finally, I don't know how to explain this but - Dabi is mentally ill, like a lot of the characters. And I think one of his symptoms is this drive towards risky, reckless behavior. I think the villains he sent towards his family are also in this pattern. He seems to gamble a lot, and risk a lot, and part of that is because he's also quite clearly ready to die at the end of all this. High stakes and all that.

The pragmatic answer - the anime kind of fucked up by showing us this because it doesn't fully make sense and makes Dabi seem more stupid than he is, which doesn't mesh with how clever he actually is. Which given they fucked up the ReDestro scene, unsurprising. While I still stand by the idea that Dabi is less caring about the League as an abstract concept/Ujiko's/Afo's plans being blown up by him past what he can use to tear down society and his dad especially, maybe it was too risky? But also, this man shot a fireball at Hawks while he held Jin at knifepoint confident that Hawks would protect a man he's been trying to knife. Like he was right but man, that was a gamble he ultimately lost when Hawks murders Jin right after.

#asks #dabi

[spookbot]

there is a direct line from me discovering and subsequently forcing my two best friends to listen to “start wearing purple” by gogol bordello in 2005 and me listening to self-ish by will wood and the tapeworms 3984938 times in 2020

#I LIKE A WEIRD SCALE WHAT CAN I SAY #i made a playlist of songs i remember making me go 'ooh what's that more of that please' when i was younger #and the patterns i'm seeing are....... unsurprising lmfao #kitty if u see this i'm not sorry for making u think about start wearing purple again