#dabi’s dance

[arjengelly]

#bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #dabi #shouto todoroki #todoroki fuyumi #todoroki natsuo #todoroki touya #dabi’s dance #todoroki siblings

[silversoulsociety]

DABI’S DANCE!!!

#head empty just Dabi’s dance #dabiedit #dabi’s dance #todoroki touya #touya todoroki #todoroki toya #toya todoroki #bnha #bnha spoilers #bnhaedit #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #bnha s6 #anime #anime gifs #my gifs #anisource #dailyanimatedgifs #oroedits

[dabislittlemouse]

Everyone bow down to Touya Todoroki

Yall this episode ruined me… i legit have tears in my eyes… im still not recovering

His dance was PHENOMENAL, the voice acting was perfect, the animation, the background music… yall need to understand this is one of the best episodes in anime history!

He looked so good in his shine and glory, a literal king, a God even

The way he kept shouting “Father”

The way he had the whole world in his hands at that moment

Ps. Tagging some of my mutuals who were as hyped as me for today so we can all cry @hunajan @sattosugu @syrenkitsune @iamtheempress @eroslaurie-fairybaby @candycandy00 @dabiscrispyankles ILL TAG MORE

#dabi #touya todoroki #mha dabi #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #mha #bnha spoilers #bnha #shoto todoroki #endeavor #enji todoroki #todoroki #dabi’s dance #anime #hawks #league of villains

[rosesofstydia]

Touya Todoroki + text posts

#bnha #mha #my hero academia #touya todoroki #dabi is touya #dabi #dabi’s dance #will i ever shut up about this… i don’t think so #my beloved

[moodyvoid]

#🥺 #bnha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #mha #dabi #Touya #touya todoroki #league of villains #Dabi’s dance

[littleholmes]

they nailed it, the dance, dabi’s announcement, his VA captured that anger and excitement, the dance, E’s stunned silence and panic and the way they kept going back to his 😧face, the hair dye washing out, the dance, the way Shouto called to him to and the fact that he was so shook he couldn’t help, you REAP what YOU SOW!, the League being shook, the Hawks backstory, the Dance!, the Touya backstory and narration, the little clap that starts the dance, the VA’s voice getting louder and more angry and more happy and you could just hear the absolute delight in his voice on this, THE DANCE—

#bnha #mha #dabi #todoroki touya #shouto todoroki #bnha spoilers #bnha anime #listen the todoroki family is my fave #I was so worried they weren’t gonna do this well #mha anime #touya todoroki #dabi’s dance #todoroki shouto #shoto todoroki

[cozzzynook]

“I have a great name.”

“Call me, Touya.”

#bnha #mha #dabi #touya todoroki #dabi todoroki #mha season 6 #dabi’s dance #mha touya #dabi is a todoroki #todoroki #todoroki family

[myheromedia]

Touya.

#bnha #mha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #boku no hero manga #touya todoroki #shoto todoroki #enji todoroki #endeavor #bnha endeavor #dabi #bnha dabi #mha dabi #dabi’s dance

[sarah-dipitous]

Happy one year to the episode that made my photos look like this

#dabi #my hero academia #dabi’s dance

[spiritofwhitefire]

Dancing on the grave of the man who murdered you

Recently I made a joke post saying that “I do not relate to Dabi but I do admire him, which is arguably much more disturbing”. Well… that may not be entirely true. Because like many other victims/ survivors of parental abuse, I find his story, particularly Dabi’s Dance to be one of the great moments of catharsis that I have witnessed in media.

::read more::

Part 1: The silent sufferer

I’ve read a lot of pre-touya reveal fics where enji was depicted as this towering monster in touya’s life, the same sort of obviously monstrous abuser as he was with shouto. But when the reveal happens, we see that in touya’s case, it’s a bit more complicated than that.

Enji is subtle with touya, he grooms touya with much more serpentine grace than he does shouto because he shows a loving side as well. He showered touya with praise and promises of greatness and told him how powerful and loved he was. And then he ripped all away.

Enji stopped spending time with touya, smiling at him, no longer praising him. In fact actively telling him he wasn’t good enough for the one thing he had always praised him for in the past. His other siblings (Natsuo and fuyumi) had always been deemed useless, the failures of the family and so now what is he to think of himself as? Imagine going through that physical trauma while also knowing you can’t lean on your biggest support? And what’s worse, he sees himself replaced, like he never mattered as an individual at all? This is abuse. Just because we don’t see him being physically traumatized like shouto doesn’t mean he didn’t go through a horror of his own.

The worst part is that we know he still to this day loves his father. You can’t hate someone that deeply without loving them, even now he craves his fathers approval and acknowledgement. To make someone depend on and love you that deeply and then rip it all away takes a terrible toll on that persons mindset because then they are forever chasing that acceptance and plagued by good memories that make them question that bad ones.

Part 2: crawling out of your grave

It is very telling that even after burning alive, Touya doesn’t even blame his father. If you were looking for proof that touya cared deeply about his family, it’s in the scene where he wakes from his coma. His first thought is of his family, how worried they must be and how badly he wants to make amends for the way he left things. He makes excuses for Enji’s absence at Sekoto and I fully believe he would have returned to his family had he not seen what he did.

Now MHA is hardly a source of realistic fiction however I do want to mention that after waking up from a coma, your body is extremely weak. Most people need to be on bed rest for weeks after their coma and are often severely underweight and in a very delicate place health wise. A burn victim with fresh grafts? VERY DELICATE place, at high risk for infection. I have no idea how far that hospital was form touya’s home but I doubt it was close. He ran home from there.

And in that physically and mentally delicate place he was forced to confront what Enji had been essentially building up over the course of the years since touya became unable to be his heir - that touya’s life didn’t matter.

Enji didn’t kill touya, but he might as well have.

Part 3: make me your monster

The first thing I want to talk about is the horrific idea that looks translate to quality of character. It’s not a fictional issue, it’s a real world one and it I see it reflected all the time in people’s reactions to fictional characters. Blah blah blah yeah Dabi is a villain, but he’s not a villain because he is a burn victim. He is a burn victim who happens to be a villain. I’ve already talked about how weird people’s reactions to the entire idea of skin grafts are and I’m not going to get into it again but it’s actually horrible the way that people react to anyone with facial differences.

He’s a fictional character so speculation about his life after leaving home is a little ridiculous but I mean… a 16 year old boy fresh out of a 3 year coma with blankets of trauma and a severely burned/ grafted body trying to make it on the streets? The amount of resilience, conviction and inner strength that kid has is beautiful, truly.

Step 5: Touya’s Dance

Apart from being really fucking cool it was also incredibly emotionally charged. The adrenaline in that moment is overwhelming. When you’re in a moment of ecstatic triumph your body just can’t contain it. His motions are not graceful, they’re awkward and jerky and entirely an expression of desperate emotion. He’s confronting his monster after years of torment, a man who birthed him but couldn’t even recognize him. Truly his voice actor deserves an Emmy for that performance the way his vocals rose and fell with despair, and passion! Beautiful.

And that’s not to mention his video recording. @pikahlua and @thyandrawrites wrote a wonderful post analyzing his disposition in that recording when the manga came out and the anime did not disappoint. That was the voice of a little boy buried too soon, talking about his own murder, his death! And atop the giant, a man who has lived his life as a vengeful spirit, whose wrath has finally come to collect. It’s a dance of vindication sure, but it’s one of pain too.

Afterword: As a victim, as a survivor…

For anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and felt like someone else, for anyone who had ever felt dead before they died, forgotten while they still breathe, like a failure when they were never give a chance….

Most of us will never get justice or revenge. For me, my father hurt me and my mom and now he’s changed and I’ve been forced to forgive him. And I still love him, but I’ll never forget what he did. And no one will ever know how bad it was. But seeing that man confront his monster and dance in ecstasy at his vengeance, in that moment, I felt something close to peace. And to see how many others feel as I do, well. It’s just nice to be seen. To be looked at.

#dabi’s dance #Dabi #touya todoroki #MHA #bnha #Dabi meta #MHA meta

[phantomkinoc13]

Can i just say that was SO Unhinged and Sexy of dabi

#bnha #dabi’s dance #mha #mha spoilers #bnha dabi #dabi #touya todoroki

[dabislittlemouse]

You just had to be there

This is a historical moment, this should be written in history books and put into museums as well.. will never forget this day.

#dabi’s reveal manga #dabi’s reveal manga 2020 #dabi’s dance #dabi #touya todoroki #my hero academia #mha dabi #boku no hero academia #bnha #mha #todoroki #toya todoroki #dabi mha

[rosesofstydia]

Has this been done yet? Anyway…

#bnha #bnha season 6 #my hero academia #dabi is touya #touya todoroki #dabi’s dance #dabi #bnha spoilers

[arjengelly]

This is his week 🔥

#bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #dabi #todoroki touya #dabi’s dance

[persianminaj]

Babe 💙

#dabi mha #bnha dabi #dabi is touya #dabi #mha touya #touya todoroki #league of villains #mha season 6 #Dabi’s dance #Dabi dance

[littleholmes]

I’ve been waiting for this episode for years! No I will not shut up about my favorite chapter or these scenes now that they’re finally animated. I’m so glad anime-onlys are finally getting this reveal because I’ve been screaming over this moment since that chapter

#bnha #mha #todoroki touya #dabi #shouto todoroki #dabi’s dance #listen the todoroki family is my fave #I’m losing my marbles it’s finally here! #touya todoroki #toya todoroki #shoto todoroki #mha anime #bnha anime #bnha manga #mha manga