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BNHA 266

Well spoilers duh!

Here is a theory:

with Toga being able to replicate Quirks now alswell and Twice dying a very heroic and happy (for him at least) death, I would love to see a version of sad mans parade by Toga: Happy Girls Parade.

Because Jin would want her happy!

Where she uses her Qurik to become him and then uses his Quirk endlessly.

I think that would a) be awesome to see b) be a very fitting character progeression for Toga c) be extremly dangerous, because the villains are gonna be numberd down after this by a lot and I don’t think that the story just ends there, with all the side plots still going on d) be something Jin would have loved. Also this was an absolut heroic death for a character who is a villain. He was selfless, standing up for his friends, kept going until he couldn’t anymore and well it makes sense Jin isn’t a villain in the sense that he wants to do evil things, he just wants to make it right for his friends (who happen to be villains).

I hate to see him die but I loved the way he died. (Still in denial and hoping that he might have survived somehow.)

https://www.loc.gov/law/help/child-protection-law/japan.php

Link for Child protection Law and Policy in Japan. But it completly covers what you said.

I went over the whole thing and spouse abuse in japanese law too in this post.

Hi I’ve only just caught up on the manga and the Todoroki situation, and I’m sort of confused. You see I’m not a victim of abuse or at all experienced the types of abuse, like I know Neglect is a form of abuse and I know physical abuse but not emotional abuse.

My main question is how was Touya emotionally abused? I know he was neglected but a lot of people say he was emotionally abused, and I don’t deny it but I just wanted to get a better understand on how he was emotionally abused?

Okay so TW: Abuse

Okay, so in order to really answer your question you gotta have a full grasp of the definition of emotional abuse. But before I give you the definition I have to put a disclaimer here:

I live in the United States. Every state has its own definition of abuse and its own Family Code that the laws follow. 

I also feel I must add this:

I investigate abuse and neglect for a living. It is literally my every. day. normal. life. to deal with this stuff. When I’m not on tumblr talking about fictional characters, I’m working with real human beings going through this stuff. And the definition I’m about to give you is straight from my work materials that I use to investigate and close cases of abuse and neglect.

ALSO very important: The US and Japan are entirely different and I have no earthly idea how they handle situations like this. I cannot speak from a perspective of a Japanese person. I’m using my own experience and knowledge gained here in the US. I’m applying our standards of abuse and neglect to the Todoroki family because, well, that’s all I know. I can’t apply Japan’s standards because I don’t know them. Don’t take what I say as saying “Japan should follow these standards” because I’m not. I’m just using what I know about the subject to apply to these fictional characters. 

Now that all the disclaimers are out of the way--

My state’s definition of emotional abuse is:

Emotional abuse is when one or more of the following has occurred:

> a child suffers mental or emotional injury that results in an observable and material impairment in the child’s growth, development, or psychological functioning

> a person or persons cause or permit a child to be in a situation in which the child suffers a mental or emotional injury that results in an observable and material impairment in the child’s growth, development, psychological functioning

Given this definition can you see how it’s considered emotional abuse now? The Todoroki family is not just a case of neglect. “Emotional neglect” isn’t even an allegation we investigate. There’s physical and medical neglect and neglectful supervision, sure, but if it’s emotional neglect then it’s pretty much just emotional abuse. 

The definition of emotional abuse is not reliant upon the ACT of the parent emotionally abusing their child, it’s reliant upon the result of the parents’ actions. Notice how in the definition is specifically says “results in an observable and material impairment”, meaning that because of the mental and emotional injury sustained by Toya, it is considered emotional abuse. 

Before I present my evidence to the court let me explain in detail why this ended up being abusive and not just neglectful.

Endeavor had children for the wrong reason. Before Toya was even born he was doomed. He was born into a relationship with his father that consisted of training nonstop, spending lots and lots of time together, getting nonstop attention from his dad. We don’t know how much time Rei spent with Toya, but based on their testy relationship, I’d say they never got to have a strong bond the way Rei did with Shouto. But regardless of Rei’s presence, Toya was BORN into this dynamic, and so his little kid brain immediately made the association of: training = father’s love and acceptance. 

So when you have that association in your brain (reminding you this is like a 4 or 5 year old brain), and suddenly your father STOPS training you, what does that tell you?

no more training = loss of father’s love

That’s what happened here, and that’s what Enji’s behavior told Toya. And for a kid, whose entire world consists of their parents and family, that’s pretty fucking devastating. Now for the actual evidence.

Evidence of emotional injury:

Toya was self harming

And showing observable signs of distress (note hair pulling/ripping), and the crying spells.

Endeavor failed to step in and remove his child from a harmful situation (i.e. spending time with him or something, literally anything) and it injured his child to the point that it was too late.

What makes this a situation of emotional abuse and not just neglect, is that there’s observable emotional injury. Oh and PHYSICAL injury. It even resulted in “death”. 

Emotional abuse does not just mean verbal assault, name calling, talking down to, etc. It’s also a lack of emotional support and care.

The unfortunate reality, at least here where I live, is that in real cases of emotional abuse it’s still very hard to prove and intervene on because no matter how hard you try you can only go off of what you’re told by the children and the family, and you can never get 100% of the full picture. It sucks. In the case of the Todoroki family, we as readers get to see the whole picture. So therefore I can easily say this is a situation of emotional abuse. 

Anyone else think that Mr. Compress would be a better fit villain for Uraraka than Toga? From what we know he is the great-great-grandson of the peerless thief that stole money from wealthy pro heroes and gave it to civilians and that Atsuhiro himself follows his path of exposing the corruption and injustice of the pro heroes. By the way Oji Harima is still considered one of the worst crimials even though the guy is literally the Robin Hood of BNHA.

- Used to be a magician who was barely scraping along. Is what HK said about Mr. Compress’s past, that is so far (bnha 315) all we have of his past.

And considering his theatrical ways you’d think he was a good magician. 

My guess here would be that he wasn’t allowed to use his quirk (who he definitly has full control over, so no need to persume he’d be a threat to accidentally injure someone) so he was stuck doing card tricks we have in our world or something similar. That lead to him seeing pro heroes getting money for using their quirks, despite doing actual damage even (I mean Mount Lady in a big city, really?), while he had to find ways to live a basic live, because he wasn’t allowed to use his quirk for magic tricks to make a living. Which lead to him persuing his great-great-grandfathers ways of taking money, just more in a Jesse James way of stealing from the rich, but keeping for himself.

Which leads me back to Uraraka.

Her driving focus of becoming a pro hero is to help her family financially, to the point where she skips meals to save money. While her want to become a hero was already there for other reasons, this is her motivation: to keep her family financially secure, because pro heroes make good money.

Besides the fact that Uraraka’s backstory is an early sign of flaws within the hero society it would make her be a perfect antagonist for Atsuhiro Sako, who’s literal lineage is: pro heroes make too much money, while civilians are too poor to live.

On the other hand someone who has control issues with his quirks that lead to others being endangered like Tokoyami would be a better fit for Toga (also Hawks killed Twice, Tokoyami is Hawks student, would make for some amazing conflict).

hoLY SHIT-

this chapter hit like a wall (yes a wall) and like Dabi is Touya reveal? Hello?

Plus everyone is hating on Hawks calling him a chicken-fuck and all that but I will remind you that he had to do it and Dabi has fault in it too since he made Jin overuse his quirk

And why is everyone declaring Jin dead?! Like I know hes very likely dead but theres a %5 chance he isnt so ima keep my hopes up

And finally please stop hating Keigo he did hurt Jin (which im a little angry to him for) but he doesnt deserve the hate guys pls

and one last thing

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