Sir Nighteye Is Trans Because I Said So

Sir Nighteye is trans because I Said So

When a character is narratively doomed to incompletion by no fault of their own but simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time

I find it kind of funny people still don’t think All for One had a tragic backstory cause, well, he did.

I get it, though. People believe that if a character has a tragic backstory, you’re supposed to feel sympathy for THE character or that the backstory excuses that character’s actions.

It doesn’t.

All for One’s backstory IS tragic because of what All for One COULD have been.

That’s the point. Even Yoichi states it.

AFO had the greatest Quirk of all time. He could have done so much good with it, but that didn’t happen.

This was because of multiple factors:

-Born with only each other in the gutter.

-Quirk activated in the womb. His urges already manifested. The “arrogance” and believing “everything belonged to him”.

-No parental figures at all

-A tumultuous time when society was collapsing

-Hunted and looked down upon as less than human if anyone looked at them at all.

-Living in the slums

-Having to scrap, steal, and kill to survive. To eat.

-Having the first escape from all this terribleness be ratty comic books

-Having no goal, no purpose, until the comic books. Until Yoichi decided on his.

-Comic books set in a world of black & white morality. Confusing them into believing this is reality.

There’s more, but this is a quick list.

ALL of that is why All for One ended up the way he is.

Others state in the epilogue that the state of society after the war is like it was when Quirks first manifested. That it’s the same kind of world that CREATED All for One.

Yoichi says he couldn’t steer his brother down the right path, but that alone means there WERE paths.

But everything was set up perfectly to create a monster.

It IS tragic. Tragic because of what could have been.

Azula is at her best when she's Stalin-pilled purge-maxxing. Quit coping with some boo-hoo sob story to deny her this in your AUs or whatever the fuck. Let her be the force of nature that she is. Too many of you make her into this flimsy wet paper bag and it's cursed.

Sir Nighteye: What would the world do without Atlas to shoulder it?

Izuku Midoriya: Why should the world need an Atlas to shoulder it?

All Might: Idk who this Atlas guy you’re talking about is but he sounds like a good chap.

I'm ngl for some works of fiction I get to a certain point in canon and go "Alright this shit may not be over for you author, but it is over for me" and then just let my imagination ruminate joyfully, untethered by such silly things as canon and What The Author Intended