Their Death Has Always Felt Like It Ruined The Story In Some Way. A Story About Saving People And Hero

Their death has always felt like it ruined the story in some way. A story about saving people and hero society being corrupt only for said victims to die in the end? I can’t make sense of it

the illusion of free will

people say shigaraki is responsible for the deaths he caused, and while i don’t completely deny that, it’s way more complicated than just “free will.” what people miss is that he was groomed from the age of five, when he was at his most vulnerable until he finally broke free from afo’s grasp. afo deliberately took him in at a point where he was completely dependent on others for guidance, then shaped him into the perfect successor.

to shigaraki, his master wasn’t just a villain, he was his savior, the only one who “understood” him, the only one who gave him a sense of purpose after the world abandoned him. and that’s exactly how manipulation works. afo didn’t just take him in, he rewired his entire mind, fed him lies, reinforced his hatred, and conditioned him to believe that destruction was his only salvation. shigaraki never had a chance to form his own worldview because afo made sure to mold it for him.

look at shigaraki’s reaction when he was separated from afo, it wasn’t just anger, it was pure desperation. that’s the reaction of someone who has been so deeply conditioned that he doesn’t know how to function outside of his abuser’s influence. shigaraki was entirely dependent on afo, and when you’re raised under constant manipulation, you don’t suddenly “wake up” and realize you’ve been controlled your whole life.

it doesn’t work that way. when he saw all might trying to save bakugo while attacking the league, he felt betrayed by the world all over again. to him, it was proof that heroes will never save people like him. but that idea wasn’t his, it was something afo planted in his mind for years, reinforcing it over and over until shigaraki believed it as an absolute truth. so when afo was no longer there, what was left? nothing but the doctrine his master forced onto him. if he wasn’t groomed, if he wasn’t brainwashed into thinking destruction was his only option, then he would have taken another path. but that was never an option for him because he never had the freedom to choose in the first place. as afo himself admitted, shigaraki never had free will. none of his choices were ever his own.

compare this to dabi and toga. they were abused, but they never had an outside force controlling them like afo did with shigaraki. they became villains on their own terms, dabi out of revenge, toga out of rejection from society. but shigaraki? his entire ideology was forced onto him. if afo had gotten to shoto instead, then shoto would have ended up just like shigaraki.

and here’s the worst part; nobody in the story even questions it. if horikoshi wanted us to humanize the villains, then he should have given them a humanizing death, something that forced people to acknowledge what they went through and how they ended up like this. but instead, nobody even stops to ask why afo had to groom a child into being his successor. nobody wonders why japan’s greatest villain was so reliant on manipulating a mentally ill, traumatized young man into doing his bidding. they just see shigaraki as a monster.

shigaraki never had a choice, but the world acts like he did.

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Does anyone else feel like TikTok is constantly changing things and making problems?

Like TikTok waters down things so badly. I’ve seen the zoophile and mental illness finger pointed so much on that app, and the terms aren’t even being used correctly! No, that person isn’t a zoo cause they use fantasy toys. No, that therian isn’t a clinical lycanthrope. No, BPD isn’t just mood swings and being abusive.

I know you can still find things like this on other platforms but it feels like TikTok is just overrun by it?

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idk what else to tag mental health tiktok otherkin this is so stupid misinformation

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I genuinely need to know if there’s a transpecies term for fictionkins, cause damn, I godda turn into Shigaraki you guys 💔

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I just found out there’s a chance I don’t have the anatomy for an industrial piercing and I’m gonna lose my mind

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Introduction of myself !!

Hi, I go by Reayen. I’m a therian and Shigaraki fictionkin (I believe I’m a reincarnation of him).

I’m 17. Aroace genderfluid, AuDHD

My theriotypes/kins are- dog(not sure what breed yet but it kinda looks like an Aussie), I think feline but I’m questioning, shapeshifter, and I think some sort of monster dog.

I’ve only known about my therianthropy for a few months now so things are bound to change as time goes on. I’ve only found out what a fictionkin was a day ago (turns out I wasn’t just going insane all those years lol)

I like How To Train Your Dragon, The Amazing Digital Circus, Murder Drones, Across The Spider Verse, Smiling Friends, Puss in Boots, and Steven universe.

(I’m pretty welcoming of anything and these may change as time goes on) I don’t support proshipping so please DNI (I’m willing to explain why if anyone wants to know!), also any other Shigaraki kin’s are free to interact but don’t tell me about it (I don’t have an issue with you at all I just get really sad and upset when I see duplicates or roleplays), I will not post any photos of my face, I’m dyslexic so if you have any typing quirks please add translation, I won’t share anything about my personal life or relationships.

My brain keeps blanking on at else to add so I’ll just leave it at that for now. I’m still figuring out Tumblr so I wouldn’t mind any tips!

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I need to do this to my skates