#that’s done somewhat well through the tenko vestige but STILL.

[saltytearsofjoy]

it is just now dawning on me how long tomura has been possesed

#i just miss him. i miss seeing his perspective and horrifically unreliable narration #i don’t think the possession arc was a bad choice. it’s a great way to show how his progression as a villain quite literally destroys his #perception of himself #but I wish it was done in a way where we still see tomuras thoughts #that’s done somewhat well through the tenko vestige but STILL. #that scene during the jailbreak chapters where AFO and tomura have a conversation through tomuras body was so cool. #and I think it would’ve been cooler if that half n half consciousness thing kept goin on #idk. maybe the ‘morphing into and entirely new being’ thing could’ve started in the most recent battles #the league was generally absent most of the rogue izuku arc anyway so all this wouldn’t make much of a difference huh

[haleigh-sloth]

If I may, what do you think about the theory that when Shigaraki using decay to much his body decays. It happened with Deika city and in the war arc after taking to much damage (since he wasn't 100 he started falling apart). His upgrade should of fixed the decay part or am I wrong. Also it looked like he completely lost his hand when they showed him in 295 ? But in the following chaps it is there just crumbled like it was before him getting the AFO upgrade. I swear if he ends up dying by his own quirk ....I'll not be happy.

So I had to go back and look at 295 to see what you were talking about.

His hand looks fine to me? If there’s a different panel I missed when skimming through (and I very well may have), please let me know.

As for the decay harming his body...well...lol, look at the rest of the BNHA cast. They all get hurt by their own quirks. And it's as you said, the upgrade wasn't complete, so his body couldn't handle all that power being forced into it, and it started falling apart on the battle field. Even if he had been given the full four months, that doesn't necessarily mean his body would be immune to the destructiveness of the quirks, it just for SURE means that his body would regenerate from whatever damage it took. Basically, no I don't think there's any reason to think Shigaraki's quirk is going to kill him.

Also, side note because this turned out really long and I didn't have a chance to throw it in here: but I do also think Shigaraki will end up quirkless in the end also. But that's way too much of a long-winded explanation for this already mile-long post.

In regards to Shigaraki dying at all:

Sigh--look. If Shigaraki dies--and that is a big IF--it won't be just because of his quirk. If he does die (I don't think he will but I'll get to that later) then it would be by his own choice and it would absolutely be in a sacrificial manner, meaning he will choose to do it for the sake of everyone else. Because redemptive death is always a possibility, and there is literally only ONE reason that I think Hori would dare choose to go that route, BUT I'll talk about why I do not think that that is even remotely what's going to happen, even with the somewhat sensible choice Hori has with it.

So bottom line is, I don't think Shigaraki is going to die. At all. I'm not worried about it. I'll save the reason why I'm not worried for last to end this post on a good note. I'll start this under-the-cut section off with the ONLY reason I feel like Hori would choose to give Shigaraki a heroic/redemptive death--though I don't think he will:

Shigaraki has no family left. There's not anybody waiting for him to come home, and there's no real set-in-stone-by-the-story situation that shows he will be given a place to go and be taken care of after all is said and done. With Touya, it's obvious. He goes home. With Toga, even though it's not particularly obvious, it's kind of a given that Toga should be given a place with the other teenagers in the story. I want to say at UA even, but it's still too soon to tell. Either way, Toga, a teenager who wants friends who accept her, has an ending waiting for her where she will get that (I doubt her family will come back into her life but we'll see). Shigaraki...I mean what is there for him? I do 100% expect him to be seen as a hero at the end, but like....what comes next. Now look, I do have some of my own guesses as to what will happen afterward, but those are just guesses. There isn't really anything to say that any of what I think will actually happen. SO here is where that tiny lingering concern for redemptive death comes in:

Shigaraki's family, we saw them in the vestige. The concern I have is that Hori will pull the "Kill the villain heroically and show him reuniting with his family in this portal/after-life/alternate plane of existence" trope and call that a happy ending. Because Shigaraki's family left him at such a young age, and he clearly has immense regret over what happened to them. However, I have more reason to believe that won't happen.

It worked for Obito in Naruto, but it won't work here.

Shigaraki's happiness wasn't tied to his family. Yes, he had parents who loved him and wanted him to exist, and a sister who loved him dearly, but his happiness didn't ride on them existing. In fact, he was too young for his happiness to depend on anything. He just needed to be taken care of, accepted, and loved by the people around him. He literally never had any opportunity to form his identity outside of his family, because he was only 5 and had zero control over his life.

Shigaraki dying doesn't fit with BNHA's definition of saving. Midoriya is going to somehow reach Shigaraki's heart and save him from self destruction, and through those actions Shigaraki's redemption will be him destroying AFO--the biggest looming threat over everything else. That's his redemption, his salvation. All that hard work from our MAIN CHARACTER would just be completely pointless if Shigaraki dies. All hope instilled throughout BNHA would go out the window. It wouldn't make sense to end on that note.

And--I'd argue that anybody in the story portrayed as a small child at one point or another (Midoriya, Bakugo, Shouto, Ochacko, Toga, Touya, Tenko) technically has plot armor. (All the UA kids will be fine, but I'm making a point here). BNHA uses children for a lot of things: relaying messages, evoking empathy, evoking emotion, and displaying vulnerability. All things that you typically wouldn't do for your character if you didn't want your readers to root for them to see the light at the end of the tunnel. And before people say "BUT THEY'RE ADULTS"--okay, explain:

Again, you don't remind people of a character's vulnerability in this way unless you want the readers to sympathize, and view them as the innocent kids they used to be.

All of Hori's choices to portray the villain trio in such a way, along with their hero kid counterparts, just tell me that he's telling readers: "Look at how the adults in their lives completely failed them. Look at how they deserved better. Look at the redeemable cores they all have." Like...these are choices he's consciously made. And within this particular story, it really says a lot about what he's trying to do here by doing this. I actually talked about it here, because it's actually really important how he uses specific characters' child selves in very specific moments.

SO, TL;DR: I don't think he's gonna die. I'm not worried about the effects of his quirk. I don't think he'll even have a quirk by the end. But even if he does, there's no real reason the author would use it to kill him.

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