First of all Dabi wasn't forged in the fire. Toya didn't die then. Not even after a brutal death. Not even in Afos cruelty or Garakis bs restorative medicine. No. He run with hope shining in his eyes hoping his dad changed. That his death mattered. It didn't. So Dabi was born

https://twitter.com/Nini90463558/status/1927758983441404235

And now as an adult we have him breaking crying literal blood - then Shoto touching his heart dragging him out of his tomb and Toya lashing out and in the end Shoto finally reaching him and making him want to face himself, reality ,his family and Life itself.. he was crying ice

@KaidoKujothe2nd I swear if I have to see someone blaming his suffering as a child calling him a psychopath crash out while he was a young child with unaddressed complex PTSD on survival mode after a parent using him and discarding him.. that's Toya after shoto was born - he didn't have any @KaidoKujothe2nd Inherent malice. People rarely actually see him. Toya is such a case were the end result was truly him being a victim of circumstances and full of unrelenting suffering that made him lose himself.

It's funny - Enji created Toya's self harming mindset - made conscious decisions that escalated Toya's deteriorating health by withdrawing emotionally because Toya wasn't a resource that was worth investing in anymore and trying to replace him like a broken object - and I am Supposed to see that as him being a good person because he was disturbed by the consequences of him exploiting Toya ? He didn't even fucking say to the doctor or rei what he was doing with Toya and Toya received a misdiagnosis about an alleged genetic defect

The doctor: physical examination - first degree burn + a cool body + a stronger version of Enjis Hellflame = "diagnosis" the quirk hurt his body because of incompatibility - learning of quirk eugenics and no warning bells to look deeper

https://twitter.com/crematedsmolder/status/1917623670240935993

Did he ask when it presented? Did Enji pass it as Toya s flame becoming "naturally" stronger? There's no way in hell he admitted he was training a baby to such extremes- it kills me because In pediatrics MANY TIMES THE PARENTS ARE THE ONE SPEAKING FOR THE CHILD

I am just thinking about how endeavor could never burn himself with his quirk because heatstroke would kill him first before he could reach that point of getting his fire at such a level - and I am thinking how Toya overcame heatstroke (Enji is an idiot I will explain below) Enji could not push past a point because his core temperature rose to a degree his organs couldn't function - his body limited him and couldn't cool himself down making him unable to burn higher

This your man? He is such a realistic depiction of a pathetic bastard it's beyond words - I am losing it I appreciate his character of how realistic it is but don't you fucking dare erase the 20 years of conscious torment and cruelty he inflicted on his family the lives he destroyed and made painful and in some cases damage that cannot be taken back

Talking with a friend here I got reminded how insidious it is that many blame the decline of TOYA'S health on Toya himself or refuse to name the actual root cause and the actual person that made him sick. It wasn't an unfortunate non preventable event. It was todoroki enji

A human child isn't a machine. The fact that Toya was pushed to that degree to the point of burning himself - he was never weak or had a quirk unsafe for him- ENJI trained him on unsafe levels. Enji s expectations and training was unnatural. Toya was too damned resilient

IT'S NOT TOYA'S PERFECT LIFE HE IS MISSING AN ARM HE WAS LOSING TOUCH WITH REALITY HIS MIND LITERALLY CRACKING! YOU GUYS ACT LIKE TOYA WASN'T MISERABLE BEFORE SHOTO WAS BORN! the only way he could have been happy was if endeavor wasn't a douche


Toya was grounded to reality and reconnected with his humanity fully with shoto. Shoto made him feel human after years of torment cognitive dissonance and grief. How can you guys erase Toya SAW HIM? if he didn't give a fuck He wouldn't be seeing baby shoto the last time he