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A Personal Potential Concern with Ch. 320

Honestly, come 320, and the coming fight that is bound to happen. I think there’s one person that poses the most significant threat to Midoriya.

No, not Todoroki. Not Yaoyorozu. Not Bakugou.

In fact, this person can easily become an immediate threat to everyone in Class 1-A.

Think about it.

Dark Shadow is empowered by two things. The first is darkness, a fact we knew ever since the Calvary Battle. The second is negative emotions from Tokoyami if he lets said emotions get the best of him.

And we all saw what happens if that occurred.

Thus far, we’re only used to seeing him get stronger in actual darkness.

But we’ve never seen in action Dark Shadow be affected by other means, like quirks that use darkness as a weapon, such as blasts of energy.

And I have no reason to suspect that if Dark Shadow was to be struck by such a quirk, it wouldn’t affect him. He’s sentient, but he is still a quirk. He could soak it up like a sponge, feeling no pain from it and actually get stronger, but if he gets hit too much with it, he could become more unruly.

Of course, a lot of it is speculation, since that was one of Tokoyami’s most unique aspects: he’s the only hero we’ve seen so far that has a quirk based on darkness.

Then came the JT arc. We see of course Kuroiro’s quirk, that he integrates with anything black.

Then, we see Deku suddenly get Blackwhip. And we are introduced to the original user, Banjo. He reveals that his quirk is enhanced significantly thanks to One For All, and one of the things he warns Midoriya about is to keep tabs on his heart when using it.

So we have another quirk associated with darkness and keeping emotions in check, with destructive consequences as a result for failing to do so.

Bringing us to today.

Izuku is being ganged upon on by the people he is sacrificing just about EVERYTHING to protect, and they are threatening to apprehend him, bringing themselves right in the crosshairs of AFO in his mind.

Bakugou, being the obnoxious shithead he is Bakugou, is taunting and belittling Deku, undermining all that he’s doing. And he’s getting the class ready to pounce.

It’s raining.

We don’t see Tokoyami’s reaction throughout all this, but I do imagine he carries resentment that it has come to this and that it needs to be done.

And Deku is no doubt feeling a lot of things. Exhaustion, sadness, anger, hurt, fear, among other things.

This is a nuke WAITING to go off.

My fear is if Dark Shadow gets a full forced strike of Black Whip, the danger factor is kicked up to 11.

I don’t think Dark Shadow will suddenly absorb Black Whip from Deku, because Deku did not consent on transmitting his power to Tokoyami/Dark Shadow. But I do believe that DS could get a boost of power from it because it is darkness. And since OFA is integrated into BW, some of that strength goes along with.

It took the combined strength of Todoroki and Bakugou to stop DS at the camp. Now, they have those two, plus Hagakure, Aoyama, Kaminari and Yaoyorozu along as well. But OFA gets stronger with each transmission, and that’s been transferred now nine times. And quirkless All Might became the number one hero by literally using nothing but raw physical strength alone. Given the other factors I’ve listed, I don’t think an OFA- charged DS will go down as simple as spamming lights.

Now, I don’t think Midoriya will simply spam Blackwhip constantly and hit everyone willy nilly. As we’ve seen, he is an analytical fighter, and has seen and studied everyone’s quirks in action, including Tokoyami. I believe he considered such an outcome and will have ten other methods on taking out Tokoyami. But a lot can happen in a fight, and it could be BW hits DS on accident.

Anyways, that’s one of the worst things I hope doesn’t happen.