Tiene bastante sentido.
I kinda wanted to share a few thoughts on why I think All for One possibly was a university professor, mostly because it’s a seemgly small thing but I think it adds interesting layers to him and possibly give us an idea on how his rise to power might have been so… here we go ^^’
1- The place where his last battle with the 2nd OFA user took place
Now, this was the detail about him that first set off this whole speculation train of though: as it was pointed out by @nakamafor on twitter isn’t any random place but rather the University of Tokyo.
Despite most of it being destroyed we can still make out that the walls of the Takeda Auditorium behind them, and the buildings around are also set in the same layout as the University of Tokyo
(kinda like they also noticed that the place being bombed for having people who oppose AFO also seems to be a irl place)
Now it seems that a lot of detail was included to this brief panel, true, but is it enough to conclude that AFO has any connection to this place? Was it just a coincidence that the battle took place in here?
2- Sensei
One of the most defining things about AFO that we know of is that he plays a role of a mentor, an autority, a Teacher. This was ever since his introduction, before we even knew about his connection to the noumus or to One for All
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Also it is not unsual for him to go on long spiels and infodumping, it’s the role he seems most confortable with
3 - Ujiko
Ujiko’s backstory and the key event that brought him and AFO together was the article he released about the Quirk Doomsday theory, where he was the one to first speculate about the possibility that, as quirk evolves, they could reach a sincularity where there would be no way for control them or wield them in any way
Notably amoung his circle of academics he was widely rejected and the theory was met with disdain with everyone other than AFO. This was Ujiko’s side but what about AFO?
If anything this fact seems to demonstrate that AFO is acquainted with academic circles, and he paid close attention to studies regarding quirks. So it wouldn’t be a surprise if he belonged to theses spaces as a member, possibly as a professor.
4 - Boku
Now, we know that throughout the manga AFO and Izuku share many similarities and have many parallels.
Most notable is their affinity with quirks and using them by creating a combination
One of those similarities is that they both, in the japanese version use “boku” to refer to themselves in the first person. Which mean that “my hero academia” could apply to both of them, this story could be the one of the rise of the OFA user or the story of the greatest viilain, All for one.
In a way, this specific parallel is a mean to tie the plot, both how things started and how they will end. In one academy, rose of the Greatest villain, from another academy (UA) the greatest Hero of All time will rise along the people he saved and inspired, in order to defeat this Villain.
Es un concepto interesante, pero prefiero los fantasmas.
I know there isn't any confirmation about spirits/ghosts existing in the bnha world but wouldn't the ofa vestiges world count? Deku is technically interacting with the dead right?
Not exactly. From a technical standpoint, the vestiges are not ghosts. The way I see it, ghost implies something more spiritual or supernatural, which isn't what's happening. What's happening is more akin to genetic memories, a popular sci-fi idea that memories can exist within DNA. The manga tells us that Quirks contain some degree of genetic consciousness or memories of the users. When "One For All" copied their Quirks into itself, it brought over that consciousness. As "One For All" grew in power, the Quirks and the vestiges were able to properly manifest themselves and talk to Izuku rather than being brief dreams. This is the same thing that is happening with Tomura and All For One. Think of it more like someone's brain being copied onto a computer and later talking to that person. They're still around after they died, but they're only copies of the original, not the various users coming back from the dead.
They were at a rather low level of technological development when Cold happened upon planet Sadla, their original homeworld. Many were even still Stone Age hunter-gatherers. With emphasis on the hunting.
They venerated ancestors and practiced animism.
Saiyan children, like humans, are born underdeveloped and take a long time to mature. But Saiyans also have much higher caloric needs than humans. This resulted in lower fertility rates and selected for monogamous behavior even more strongly than in humans.
In pre-Cold Saiyan society, the family was the unit around which all social life was organized. Spousal, fraternal, and parent-child bonds were particularly revered.
In order to better mold the Saiyans for his needs, Cold implemented policies to undermine the family structure. Most notably, taking newborn infants and sticking them in conditioning pods. Some didn’t see their parents until they were already toddlers.
This is where the practice of sending Saiyan infants to clear low-risk planets came from.
Casual sex wasn’t really a thing in Saiyan society, due to aforementioned monogamy. Sex released all kinds of intense hormones that started a pair bond pretty much right away. And the process could be difficult to stop once it started.
It’s for this reason that Saiyan society didn’t have much in the way of formalized marriage ceremonies. Any couple that had sex more than 3 or 4 times was de facto married.
(See also: Vegeta one day referring to Bulma as his wife and Bulma just going along with it.)
They were, for the most part, enormous prudes. Extreme lust for sex was seen as the result of an inadequate lust for battle.
(Vegeta sees humans the way humans see bonobos, basically. It’s especially startling to him because of their outward resemblance to Saiyans,)
Dragon Ball with everyone else: oh no no consequences for any of you guys. There’s probably gonna be some stakes but it’ll all be ok in the end. It’s the journey that matters!
Dragon Ball with Future Trunks: Lmao fuck you eat shit everyone you love is gone and they will NEVER come back :D
"... you should smile more."
"Smile more? Oh god no, I hate my smile!"
yoichi took one look at kudou, asked ‘is anyone else gonna impregnate that man’ and didn’t wait for an answer
Tomura is a Vestige of One for All that annoys Deku, Part 2
Izuku sets up a play date between Tomura and Spinner 🤣 he needs a break, man
...Every heart has some pain...
"Do you believe in DFO?" "... It depends."
Fanart lore:
Hes so me