#like before that arc i didn't really grasp how much shiggy cared for his friends

[mettywiththenotes]

Hi quick thing I just realized

Shiggy is all about accommodation with those he loves, right? He constantly proves this by accepting the limits of his friends and working around those limits.

With Twice, who has trauma with creating more of himself, as well as having limits to his quirk despite it being op, he doesn’t curse Twice for not wanting to duplicate himself. When Twice can’t clone the bullet, he doesn’t go off at him, he sits there, staring at the bullet, and wonders what else they could do. While Twice is thinking about how much of a burden he is to the LOV for not being able to help them how they want him to, Shiggy is already accepting that nothing can be done and is already thinking of how else they could get an advantage.

He also works his way around his friend’s goals; he lets Dabi join in whenever he wants and when he does, he doesn’t call him out on it. When he leaves, separates himself from the group, Shiggy still lets him go.

Notably, Spinner is missing through some of their group shot screen time [like in the Overhaul arc, when he wasn’t part of the Meeting Overhaul/Magne’s Death scene or the You, Me And All Of Us scene], presumably this is foreshadowing to him being unsure of whether the League is the way he wants to go [I think I saw @codenamesazanka mentioning this, tho please correct me if I’m wrong]. Yet Shiggy doesn’t question this either. He lets Spinner do his own thing, and then join them if he wants to, just like he does with Dabi.

But I think I’ve seen one more way Shiggy accommodates for other people: He doesn’t wear gloves.

Normally, somebody afraid of their own quirk [implied to be shown in chapter 236 i think] would put on some gloves and make sure they don’t accidentally decay something or kill someone, especially at the age that he was at and how fresh the murder of his family was in his mind.

Of course AFO taught him to kill, and Shiggy was then groomed by AFO to accept that it was his purpose to kill, but I think along with this, Shiggy also learnt to not restrain himself. To BE himself

I keep thinking about the dedication it must have taken for Shiggy to learn how to keep one finger [sometimes more than one!] up at all times, and the muscle memory that has to be taken into account for that to become second nature.

Shiggy doesn’t just accommodate his friends, he accommodates himself to the world, and not in a “Well I’ll do this to help everyone” way

He does it in more of a “Why should I have to hide this? I’m capable enough to control it, so why should I put a glove on just for OTHERS to feel safe? The world never allowed me to be safe, so I owe them nothing. Either trust that I won’t kill you from a slip up, or let me kill you”, you know?

Anyway this post doesn’t have much of a point to it, I just find it fascinating that Shiggy doesn’t wear gloves maybe because, narratively, it would mean stifling his “individuality” from the world, and Shiggy has NEVER done that, nor has he ever felt the need to.

Instead he takes responsibility of his own quirk and learns to keep it in check.

In the same way that he is aware of his friend’s disabilities, trauma and nature, he is aware of his own quirk and the damage it can do. He accepts that and rolls with it, and keeps it in check to benefit himself and his environment.

I just think thats really neat

Idk man I KNOW Shiggy is kindhearted, we’ve been shown clear evidence of this since MVA arc [the whole series, really, but I think it’s a lot clearer in MVA for anybody who wasn’t paying enough attention], but even now I’m still. surprised? and very happy. that this is actually who Shiggy is, he embodies his ideals and he cares about those around him as well as his own well being

#what this post is really saying is that i still haven't recovered from how fucking good mva arc was #and we can clearly see that in shiggys character as a whole #he truly does care #the man who says he likes nothing cares so much #it's been 2 YEARS since mva and i'm still riding off the high of that arc #btw that was the arc that sealed the deal for me with shiggy #before i thought he was interesting #i didn't LIKE HIM per se but i wanted to know what he was about #and then mva arc came and like. i just fell in love dude #like before that arc i didn't really grasp how much shiggy cared for his friends #i was just like 'oh yeah there are his lackeys' #what a fool i was #A FOOL #anyway in conclusion i love shiggy and i miss him #bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha spoilers #bnha manga spoilers #tomura shigaraki #league of villains #my villain academia #mettys posts #metty posts