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• Canon Content Warnings: My Hero Academia is set in a world where currently most of the human population has gained the ability to develop superpowers called "Quirks" (個性, Kosei), which occur in children within the age of four: it is estimated that around 80% of the world population has a Quirk. Among the Quirk-enhanced individuals, a few of them earn the title of Heroes, who cooperate with the authorities in rescue operations and apprehending criminals who abuse their powers, commonly known as Villains. Because it is a Japanese series influenced by Western comics, many warning similar to that genre also apply, violence chief among them due to battle. There are also elements of natural disasters, crime and lawlessness committed against the innocents of society, abuse from villains and corrupt heroes, treachery and manipulation, semi-graphic injury, and moral arguments between what is “right” and “wrong” and who is to blame for the social problems that cause villains and heroes to clash. Mentions of and slight usage of substance abuse (drugs and alcohol) has occurred, as well as more gruesome images of biological experimentation and some graphic superpowers demonstrated. There is little in the way of body horror or sexual situations, though elements of Japanese society commentary has made its way into the story.
• Character Content Warnings: Dabi himself is a sociopathic mass murderer who seeks to destroy his father’s heroic reputation, uproot the hero society, and ultimate murder his father and little brother out of revenge and insanity. This was caused by his father, Enji (the herom Endeavor) abuse towards him as a child, mostly emotional and some physical, by heaping his own ambitions on Touya (Dabi’s real name) to become the greatest hero, and then abandoning him when it was revealed Touya’s Quirk injured him. Instead of training or helping him, Endeavor attempted to dissuade Touya’s determination to reclaim his father’s attention by ignoring him and then replacing him by having more children, which ultimately cause Touya to endure a psychotic break and eventually kill himself when his Quirk went out of control as a child. Scarred but still alive, he went insane with revenge and became obsessed with destroying his father’s career and ambitions by tearing down the hero society and murdering his little brother, Shoto, before killing Endeavor. Due to his status as a villain, Dabi comes with character warnings including violence, language, graphic bodily injury (burn scars), sociopathic actions, lack of conscience towards murder and crime, sadism and insanity, as well as generally being a rude and callous person all around. These kinds of things, as well as mentions of the childhood abuse of himself, his three siblings, and his mother, not to mention the hypocrisy of “heroes” in all forms, are likely to come up in conversations and interactions with him regularly.
C haracter Background 
• Character/Canon History: You can find a detailed recounting of Dabi’s history here, with anything else wanted about the series on the same wiki. • Core Relationships ~ Enji Todoroki: For being a lone wolf villain, Dabi has plenty of relationships that stand out in relevancy to him, each one having influenced and impacted him into becoming the person he has. But none have affected him so much as the one he has with his father, Enji Todoroki, the Flame Hero, Endeavor, his little brother, Shouto Todoroki, the Hero, Shoto, and his mother, Rei Todoroki. To get the immediate out of the way, Touya harbors massive amounts of resentment for his father, who created and raised him solely to embody his own ambition: that of surpassing Endeavor’s rival, All Might, the greatest Hero of them all, Only to promptly reject and abandon Touya as a failure as soon as it became apparent he wouldn’t be able to accomplish that task, due to his body being an ill fit for his Quirk. Mind, all of that took place by the time Touya was six years old. For almost four years, he was told by his father he would be the greatest hero, would be the victory Enji couldn’t have, and would be the one to carry the title of the No. 1 hero in the world. While it certainly filled Touya with pride and yearning to make his father proud of him, it also prevented the boy from ever forming any personal ambitions of his own, never having been given the chance to grow into his own person. In this way, he was raised as a tool, rather than a person, and it was Enji’s overwhelming abuse on him that caused Touya to fall to villainy.
Initially, Touya had a healthy relationship with his father and was eager and happy to train with Enji, who was both satisfied that his firstborn son had been inherited a fire Quirk even stronger than his own, but also disappointed that Touya had not inherited his wife’s ice Quirk. Though he’d hoped for a child with both Quirks, he still saw potential in his son and trained him from an early age to be a hero. The training was firm and rigorous, but didn’t have the same level of harshness that would later be forced upon Touya’s younger brother, Shouto. Through the training and his life, Enji put his dreams onto Touya, promising him that he would become No.1 and surpass All Might, filling the boy’s head with his own ambition. This, as Touya later said, “ignited the fire within me”, one that would never go out. But when Touya’s Quirk began to burn his body, the doctor Enji went to see criticized him for designing his children through Quirk marriages. It turned out the exact combination Touya received from his parents' ice and fire Quirks, was self-jeopardizing. Toya's body had Rei's resistance to freezing temperatures instead of high temperatures that his fire Quirk required. Because of this, Enji realized his son could never surpass All Might, as further use of his Quirk would harm him.
With that, Enji immediately stopped training his son and told him about his condition. Unable to show Touya anything more than heroics, and unwilling to try, he spent less time with his son. By now, Touya had grown used to his father’s devoted attention and missed him terribly. He began to stubbornly wait for Enji on his free days and nagged him repeatedly to try and get him to train him again, but his father only denied him further. Thinking he could win Enji’s attention and affection back, Touya trained on his own, unable to let go of the dream Endeavor had ingrained within him. After all, he had nothing else. But whenever Enji saw his burns, he lashed out at his son for continuing and sternly told him to find a different calling, frustrated that Touya couldn’t understand and blaming his stubbornness. Determined to stop his son, Enji decided on drastic measures: he would have another child, a perfect heir, with the Quirk he desired, to fulfill his ambitions, and to make Touya feel like he had been replaced and thus give up in despair. Rei pointed out Touya would soon realize what Enji was doing and it was too cruel, as the result would essentially be crushing Touya mentally for the sake of his physical well-being.
When his younger brother Natsuo was born without the Quirk Enji wanted, he too was discarded and ignored, as had Fuyumi, Touya’s younger sister earlier, until finally, the Todorokis’ fourth child, Shouto was born, with the perfect combination of fire and ice Quirks. But instead of stopping Touya as Enji hoped, the plan backfired horribly, as each child meant to replace him only made Touya more obsessed and desperate to regain his father’s favor and attention. The mental and emotional strain of being abandoned and replaced ultimately boiled over into Touya raging at his father and physically attacking his replacement, the infant Shouto, with his flames. While Enji prevented any injuries, he became more paranoid of Touya’s growing instability and despite his wife’s challenge to him that he was causing Touya’s pain, he refused to listen and instead sequestered Shouto from the rest of his siblings and threw all his focus, time, and effort into training Shouto to be the perfect hero. Neglecting his children he deemed as “failures”, he told his wife and servants to keep an eye on Touya specifically.
From there, Touya continued to hold to his father’s ambitions and copied some of his ideals, including looking down on others due to his “elite” status, but was further traumatized by witnessing Enji’s cruel treatment of Shouto and his mother, Rei, including physical abuse and verbal insults, while Fuyumi and Natsuo huddled together in fear. Through the next few years, Touya often cried at night, no longer knowing what his life’s purpose was, unable to recognize any path other than what had been branded into him. While he recognized Enji’s abuse towards Shouto and Rei was wrong, as well as his neglect of his other children, all he could do was reflect on it and live. But he continued to sneak out to train and strengthen his Quirk, never once giving up on the idea that he could fulfill his father’s ambitions. After he experienced a growth spurt, both physically and powerfully, he approached his father in excitement, wanting to show him his newfound strength. Inviting him to Sekoto Peak for a surprise, Touya was again crushed when Enji doubted him, and angrily plead with his father to look at him and see his improvement, hoping it would impress Enji enough his father would stop regretting his creation.
Despite the rejection, Touya went to the mountain to wait for his father, hoping to see him, but Enji never came. This resulted in Touya having a mental breakdown and lost control of his flames. Unable to stop it, as he’d never been taught how due to the halted training failing to teach him the necessary safety measures, Touya’s fires raged out of control, consuming the forest and himself alive. His father rushed to save him, but all they found was a piece of his jaw, assuming he’d been incinerated. However, Touya managed to survive and crawl off the mountain, burned and scarred. The past abuse and trauma of his life, along with his scarred body, caused him to snap completely. No longer desiring Endeavor’s approval, he began to hate him. Retreating into the streets and shadows, he survived and secretly watched Endeavor’s actions from afar, consumed with the desire to get revenge on his father.
By the time he was an adult, Touya had taken up the villain name, Dabi, driven by his insane revenge and hatred. He conspired with other villains and involved himself with the newly-formed League of Villains, intending to use them to make his ambitions of destroying his father a reality. To that end, he began to endanger Endeavor’s life, sending some of the League’s biological monsters (High-Ends) to battle him and siccing villains on Endeavor who had histories with him. At one point, after the High End attack, he met his father face to face, amused that Endeavor no longer recognized him (due to the scarring and dyed hair) and taunted him by knowing things about him he shouldn’t. Afterwards, Dabi proceeded to attack him and the No. 2 hero, Hawks, only to opt for retreat once another hero, Mirko, showed up, but not before angrily yelling at the man to not die, using his real name just to mock him him.
During the Paranormal Liberation War occurred, pitting hero against villain, Dabi gleefully revealed his true identity as Touya Todoroki to Endeavor. Determined to leave his father’s reputation and career in shambles, he sadistically revealed everything about his past, including his father’s abusive treatment towards his wife and children, to the entire world, broadcasting a prerecorded video, all out of pure hatred for his father and his desire to cause him even more paint. Leaving Enji devastated at the truth, Dabi ranted about wanting to make him suffer for the rest of his life, declaring he didn’t deserve redemption for his past sins, and literally danced in the air out of sheer delight over just how much suffering he would have his father endure. His narrow-minded goal on his revenge meant he would even kill his family if it meant hurting Endeavor, as Dabi was perfectly fine attempting to murder Shouto right in front of Enji, only stopping and abandoning the attempt simply because it wouldn’t be satisfying since Endeavor passed out and couldn’t watch. Shrugging off his own crimes and blaming everything on his father, he mocks and derides Enji at every chance he gets, callously saying every injury and death he causes is all his father’s shoulders. Everything he can do to prolong his father’s misery, he will, refusing to let him escape paying for his crimes. He takes particular pride in forcing Enji to watch the “failure experiment” he cast aside murder his “puppet masterpiece”, knowing just how much of his ambition Endeavor has placed on Shouto.
After the war, Dabi had managed to secure one of his personal victories, ruining his father’s career as a hero and turning almost the entire public majority against him, which forced the man to take account of his actions and confess to everything in front of the public. But even that wasn’t enough for him and Touya was left disappointed that his father still found the resolve to continue being a hero despite revealing his abuse to his family to the world, determining to hit him even harder the next time before killing him.
• Core Relationships ~ Rei Todoroki: In some subtle comparison, Touya’s relationship with his mother, Rei, and his youngest brother, Shouto, are similar to his relationship with his father, but mostly branch and stem from them. Initially, Touya was very close to his mother when he was young, as she helped raise him and encouraged him to become the hero his father wanted. She would stand up for him when Enji went too hard on him and looked out for his well-being, especially after learning of his body’s odd constitution of having her resistance to frost and his father’s fire Quirk. However, her care turned to worry and fright when she saw the burns showing up on her son’s body on an almost daily basis while he trained. Though she recognized Touya’s stubborn refusal to give up on his ideals of becoming a hero, she was greatly distressed about Endeavor’s plans to force Touya to give up by replacing him with other children. Despite knowing the mental anguish it would put Touya through, she still went along with the plan.
However, when the plan backfired and Touya became even worse in his determination, their relationship began to deteriorate, as Enji put her in charge of making sure Touya couldn’t sneak out and train, which would further injure himself. She tried to talk to her son and get him to look at options other than being a hero, but by that time, Touya had come to see such advice as further insult and dismissal of his potential. At one point, Rei advised him to look past his father and choose his own path, but Touya rounded on her in fury, revealed he knew the reason behind his mother and father getting married, and that Rei had basically been sold off to Enji by her family. He coldly rebuked her for caring, thinking his mother saw him as little more than a chore, and reminded her of the reason she married Enji in the first place and why he had been conceived in the first place. No longer seeing his mother as anything more than a weak woman who cowed to Enji, Touya thought little of her and condemned her for being the reason behind his ill-fitting body, growing even more embittered towards her as she had given birth to him prematurely as well, leaving his growth stunted during his youth and giving him a weaker constitution compared to his siblings. Touya angrily began to place blame on Rei for his problems and repeatedly ignored or rejected her advice and continued to train, which led to further altercations between Rei and her husband for failing to keep Touya in check.
His “death” later on greatly devastated Rei, further straining her already-harshly-affected mental state due to her husband’s past abuses. As she had no idea her son was alive, much less had become a mass murdering villain, the reveal of Dabi’s secret during the Paranormal Liberation War greatly horrified her over what her long-lost son had become. However, this ironically would backfire on Dabi, as seeing her own blame in what happened to Touya caused Rei to regain her strength enough to resolve the rest of her family to come together and figure out a way to deal with Touya, for his sake as much as theirs.
• Core Relationships ~ Shouto Todoroki: Finally, Touya’s relationship with his youngest brother, Shouto, is immensely strained, due to Shouto’s reason for existing being to replace Touya entirely. Everything Touya was supposed to be, the ambitions placed on him, the future set before him, were wiped out entirely as far as Endeavor was concerned when Shouto was born. In essence, Shouto’s birth wiped out Touya’s reason for existing. Because of this, Touya despaired over seeing his baby brother and quickly broke down emotionally and mentally when his father refused to acknowledge him in the same room. Driven by anger, envy, and frustration, Touya furiously lash out at the infant Shouto and attempt to attack him in the arms of his mother. After the incident, Shouto was kept separate from his siblings and Touya would watch him from afar, growing in jealously and animosity towards his sibling. Despite his initial hatred towards Shouto, Touya would eventually come to regret his attempt to attack Shouto, understanding that his baby brother did nothing wrong and the emotional outburst had been fueled by his spontaneous rivalry due to the “replacement” aspect of their lives, someone he had to contend with in order to win back his father’s affection.
His current relationship with Shouto is ambiguously hostile, however. After witnessing the abusive treatment Shouto and his mother received from Endeavor, Touya continued to train, desperately wanting to impress his father and make him reconsider abandoning him. This, ironically, would also lessen the attention Enji showed towards Rei and Shouto, perhaps indicating an unconscious desire to protect his mother and brother from his father’s abusive focus, but ultimately was more about Touya wanting Enji’s attention, as he used to have. However, if he had any positive feelings towards Shouto as a child, after his “death” those feelings vanished and were instead replaced by the same burning hatred he shows towards his father.
While Dabi is not set out to ruin Shouto’s life as he is Enji, he shows little regard for his brother’s safety and shows no hesitation in attacking him with lethal intent. The two brothers would first clash during the kidnapping incident in the Beast’s Forest, where Dabi escaped Shouto’s pursuit and foiled his attempt to rescue his kidnapped classmate. Even taking the time to mock him for his failure while looking closely and enjoying his little brother’s helpless expression. The mixture of mockery and pity plays with the two ways Dabi views Shouto, both as a rival / enemy and as a victim of their father’s abuse. However, he seemed to enjoy the way Shouto was left shocked and saddened by his attack on Endeavor and Hawks and has no qualms about taunting him when they meet.
By the time the Paranormal Liberation War occurs and Dabi reveals his true identity as Touya to the heroes, Dabi revealed his true feelings towards his brother. He originally planned to murder Shouto once he became successful as a hero, seeing him as nothing more than Endeavor’s “puppet masterpiece” and the most effective way to cause his father pain. Shouto’s shock and horror at seeing his eldest sibling as a villain was further thrown into disgust when Dabi admitted to feeling nothing about Natsuo’s near-fatal encounter with one of the villains Touya had sent to attack Endeavor. Shouto accused his brother of being insane and Touya happily confirmed it before attacking him.
Ultimately, Dabi doesn’t view Shouto as a human so much as the “tool” Endeavor had once treated Touya as. To him, Shouto is nothing more than an extension of Endeavor and a target of his hatred, willing to use him to get to his father. He doesn’t hold back when they fight, fully willing and intending to murder his youngest sibling in front of their father and fantasizing over what sort of face their father would make when he kills him. He coldly states to Shouto he no longer feels anything for anyone and isn’t moved by the prospect of killing the rest of his family or others simply to torture Endeavor more. This callous view ironically causes Dabi to spare Shouto’s life, as killing him when Enji couldn’t watch was pointless.
Interestingly, Touya makes a point to express his happiness that Shouto had been raised with some semblance of love (assumedly from their mother) when he was in the process of trying to burn him to death via an embrace. Because it’s that love from Rei and the affection Enji poued into Shouto that would make his death rip Endeavor apart the most. Despite failing to kill Shouto in the war, the two brothers are destined to clash once again in the final face off, with both contemplating their battle in the future, Shouto on how he can fight and save his brother, while Touya only dwells on the pain his father will fill with his masterpiece’s death.
C haracter Personality Through Key Moments
• Positive Experiences/Traits ~ Determined / Obsessive: To say Dabi has any traditional “positive” experiences in his life would be a stretch, as anything he’d consider “positive” would be the results of his abuse and villainy. Still looking at it from an idea of personal accomplishment, it’s easy to say Touya is at least, if anything, exceptionally determined. From a young age, he became driven by Endeavor’s ambitions to become the greatest hero who ever lived, one who would surpass All Might and accomplish the goal his father never could. Even after his Quirk was revealed to be an ill fit for his body, Touya stubbornly drove forward and continued to train in private, resisting all attempts his father and mother made for him to stop. Regardless of the damage it did to his body, his desire to live up to his father’s expectations exceeded to the point of obsession. When Enji decide to have more children as a way of breaking Touya’s spirits and replacing him, thinking this would make him give up his determination to become a hero, the plan backfired and Touya became not only fixated on achieving that goal, but grew even more desperate to win his father’s attention back and prove to the man he shouldn’t regret creating him. Even after living with years of abusive neglect, he remained focused and hopeful he could someday grow strong enough that Enji would take notice of him and consider him worthy of his own existence. This stubbornness, inherited from Endeavor, is what continues to drive him as a villain. After his tragic “death” on Sekoto and suffering burns all over his body from his Quirk raging out of control, Dabi’s dream of proving himself to Endeavor was twisted by his sorrow, confusion, rage, and anguish and sent him even further spiraling into insanity. No longer wanting to win back his father’s affection, he became solely devoted to destroying Enji’s hero career. Seething in his hatred for the man who put him through so much, Dabi focused all of his attention and resources into surviving on the streets of the hero society and stalking Endeavor’s career as a hero, while plotting the most torturous and effective way of bringing him to utter ruin. He finally emerged from the shadows to join the League of Villains, not at all concerned with the fact he ultimately viewed even these powerful villains as nothing more than dispensable, albeit useful, tools at his disposal in his war against Endeavor. Everything he could find and make use of, he did, from siccing villains on Endeavor who had a past obsession with him, to kidnapping U.A. students with the aim of discredit and destroying the hero society Enji was a part of.
He cares for nothing outside of himself and his revenge, viewing everyone else as either a pawn to get something out of or an obstacle to remove if they get in his way or simply don’t fit the criteria of “useful” that he looks for. Narrow-minded and crazed, Dabi’s not afraid of using his own family against Endeavor if it means hurting him. He was unmoved by his brother, Natsuo’s near-fatal encounter with one of the villains he sent, tried to murder his youngest brother, Shouto, in front of Endeavor just to see the man’s face, and uploaded a scathing, morale-crushing video of his family’s sordid history to the entire world, completely callous to the fact his mother’s recovering mental state could be wrecked entirely by the spiteful tell-all. When Dabi sets his mind on a goal, he moves to accomplish it, regardless of what is required for him to do. Whether it’s becoming a hero, surviving on the streets, accepting villainy, or murdering his father and making his life a living hell while burning his family in the flames and anyone else who gets in his way, Touya is the embodiment of a forest fire gone out of control, unstoppable and consuming everything in his path.
• Positive Experiences/Traits ~ Intelligent / Resourceful: When you are dead set on being the downfall of someone you hate, you end up learning a thing or two. Due to being a Todoroki, Touya was given a proper, if not advanced education, attending school both home and middle. Even when he was only 13, he was seen at a computer with plenty of textbooks around, giving indication he was doing well in his studies despite his focus on his training. Unfortunately, after his descent into villainy, Dabi made use of his education and intelligence for all the wrong reasons, a fact he has no problem acknowledging and mocking people with. Plenty of these skills he learned on the streets, including becoming adept at acquiring resources illegally or through trades, or utilizing criminal methods such as sabotage and blackmail. It was Dabi who focused on recruiting other villains for the League of Villains once he joined, though his high criteria for usefulness and his own callous disregard for people’s lives means he mostly murdered the ones he found after deeming them trash.
But when he found the No. 2 hero, Hawks, willing to subvert to the villain’s side, Touya opted to make use of the man’s connections. Eternally suspicious and untrusting, he put Hawks through plenty of tests to ensure his veracity, including forcing him to leak information on heroes (allowing Dabi to attack Endeavor with the High End) and ultimately demanding he murder a fellow Pro Hero to prove himself worthy to the villain’s call. Even after accepting Hawks into their ranks, Dabi was the only one who remained suspicious of the winged hero and saw through his deception of being a double agent for the heroes. He not only never trusted Hawks from the beginning, but also was the only one smart enough to figure out who Hawks really was, digging into past records and stories to eliminate identities and names and ultimately sending armed thugs to Hawks’ mother’s home to threaten and interrogate her for information. With this, he deduced Hawks’ true motives, though was unable to prevent him from kicking off the first war between heroes and villains.
His keen intellect is also the fuel behind Dabi’s preference for gruella and psychological warfare. After seeing the corrupt elements of heroism and knowing the fickle nature of people, Dabi realized bringing down the hero society wouldn’t be done with just killing heroes. To destroy them, he had to make use of everything at his disposal, including other villains, the heroes’ backgrounds, and the selfish attitudes of the general populace. Because of this, he opted to release a prerecorded video to the world during the war, outing Endeavor as a domestic abuser who tried to create the perfect hero through breeding with his wife and abandoning the failures after they didn’t measure up. He also manipulated footage of the war to show Hawks’ murdering one of the villains (granted, Hawks opted for the lesser of two evils, as killing Twice prevented the deaths of hundreds in return) and twisted the public opinion into thinking they witness Hawks murdering in cold blood a villain who was only trying to help his friends. Bringing the hypocrisy in the hero society to light and smearing the reputation of the top two heroes, Dabi was able to use the raging war to completely shatter the public trust in heroes and demoralize them in one fatal blow. This ultimately left society ravaged as All for One released thousands of villains from jail after the war, and unleashed them upon civilians who no longer trusted heroes could help them. All of this just to see his father crumble under one heavy blow after another.
• Negative Experiences/Traits ~ Insane Revenge: If it’s not been made clear already, Dabi’s most defining character trait is his insane, obsessive drive to ruin his father in revenge for all the abuse he put him through as a child. Every aspect of his current life is molded by that experience. Calm and aloof on the outside, he has a violent streak that’s easily roused, seen when he immediately shifted to attack Shigaraki when the other man lunged at him during their initial confrontation, and when he attacked the hero Eraserhead with a surprise pointblank fire blast from the side. His callous nature is apparent upon first glance, as little ruffles him outside of gleefully or angrily interacting with Endeavor or Shouto. This disassociated aspect means he treats his allies with little, if any, respect, insulting them and being rude to whoever he feels like. While he’s entirely capable of being charming and his general attitude can make him surprisingly charismatic, Dabi ultimately doesn’t care about anyone’s life by his own, seen multiple times when he almost catches his allies in his flaming attacks and when he ruthlessly incinerates a group of villains in an alley simply because they weren’t the kind of riffraff he was looking for.
He gets a sadistic pleasure out of pointing out the flaws in hero society and heroic ideals to others and, if he feels like it, talks to his opponents about why they’re doing what they’re doing, especially when their background makes them just as guilty as him. Hypocrisy and corruption are topics he regularly spews out at the people he battles, seeking to distract and demoralize them so that he can kill them even faster, or at least take back the advantage in a situation. His insanity even leads him to blame Endeavor and the heroes for everything he does, laughing as he torched Nejire Chan and verbally hoisted the death of another bright future all because of his father’s flames. When he showed no remorse to the near-death experience of Natsuo, his own brother, Shouto literally exclaimed in disbelief to his face that Dabi was insane, something the villain gleefully affirmed because he no longer had “feelings” left inside him. He accepts his own insanity and villainy, enjoys tossing the onus of them onto his father, his family, and the heroes in society, refusing to take any responsibility for himself for his actions, save for those he masterminds to hurt Endeavor. And even those he merely notes wouldn’t have happened if Endeavor hadn’t been the man he had and done the things he did.
• Negative Experiences/Traits ~ Sociopathic Use: Dabi claims he has no feelings left inside him, his mind all burnt up by his traumatic past. This couples with that stubborn superiority he learned from Endeavor as a child, thus leading him to view other people as nothing more than stepping stones and tools for his use. Even his allies are seen the same way, as while he worked with Shigaraki and showed respect for his abilities, when alone with Hawks, Touya bluntly dismissed his companionship with the other villain, saying he didn’t care about Shigaraki or the League ever since the start. What value he sees in people comes from what they can offer him, the same as Enji had treated him as a child. Not that it means he can’t act. Dabi is a keen manipulator and despite his sociopathy, is completely able to act suave and friendly to people if he wants. He sticks around with the League and most of them even consider him a friend, as seen when he trades quips with them, high fives Twice on his way out the door, protects them (even if it does sometimes leave them singed), and regularly travels with them to complete missions, even if this means have to stick his neck out for them on occasion.
However since his attachments to them are purely utilitarian in nature, he only cares about them to protect what he sees as his investments in their skills. When Twice died, Dabi went completely ballistic towards Hawks, torturing the man for killing him, but not out of sorrow for losing a friend, rather rage over losing Twice’s Quirk which would’ve made Touya’s ambition easier to claim. Likewise, he only bothered to battle the giant villain left behind for Shigaraki by All for One, Gigantomachia, once with the rest of his team, before bluntly refusing to risk himself again for them when they returned for a second round. He stayed behind to work on recruiting Hawks and handle some High End creatures, leaving the rest of the League to fight without him. However, this could be seen as him at least trusting they would be fine without his power, something which ultimately passed as true. He battled with them against the military forces of Re-Destro, another villain leading his own army, and came out a lieutenant in the resulting victorious hostile takeover merger of Re-Destro’s group. But despite his varies ties to others in the underground, Dabi remains content to keep them all at arm’s length and never attaches to anyone outside of those objectified views.
D eer Country Attributes
• Canon Powers Intact: Dabi will be keeping his canonical powers intact and will have to learn about his new blood powers. He utilizes the Quirk, "Cremation" (assumed name, real name unknown), granting him the ability to create and generate large amounts of highly destructive blue fire from his body at will. Here’s a link to his Quirk in the wiki; if there’s anything needed more on it, let me know. He’ll have to figure out how to use and master his new abilities, so he’s starting at square one with those. • Blood Type: Paleblood. May update to Coldblood in a year.
• Omen: Black wolf with a few white streaks.
• Blessed Day: January 18. It’s his canon birthday (though he’d like to use the date of his “death” as a giant middle finger, he’s gonna habitually still use his birthday, so sucks to be him).
• Patron Pthumerian: Madam Generosity. Given his character and personality, Dabi will be nonplussed and dislike his Patron Pthumerian because he views kindness as weakness and her generosity and desire for luxury bring up bad connotations related to his own mother and father. Her dislike of violence is only offset by his mild appreciation of her making short work of people when she does resort to it. At least he’ll accept her calmness, though her belief in everyone having a comfortable life, her benevolent disposition towards forgiveness and second chances, and her displeasure towards manipulative or sadistic acts will put her at extreme odds with Dabi, since he is, for the most part, the exact opposite of his Patron. Which I think is pretty damn interesting. Plus snakes are awesome. He’ll do his best to ignore her, though might be willing to help eliminate someone who stands in her way, if only to have an excuse to murder someone without getting into trouble with the law.
• Power Manifest: Dabi’s going to be starting off with very basic and rudimentary grasp and skill with his blood powers. Initially, he’s going to at least appreciate his powers being stronger at night (though it might take him some time to actually realize that’s a thing and not simply some psychosis-related assumption). He’ll be dealing with his telepathic abilities first, and then progressing to dreamwalking (espionage and spying, yep), then onto causing hallucinations (totally gonna use that as a weapon for the most part), and finally onto prophetic visions (which will not please him at all and he’ll be rueful of it, unless he can make use of it to his own selfish advantage). He’ll at least be more interested in paleblood jewelry being able to put people in trances… His blood powers do not compliment his Quirk much at all, but that’s the story of his life, so here’s to more bitterness and having to learn how to cope and adapt.
W riting Samples
I’ve linked to Dabi’s TDM top-level threads, including both prose samples (bracket) and texting samples, talking to allies, enemies, and strangers. If you’d like more, I can link to memes or journal threads as well. | • Samples: | Ally – here. | Enemy – here. | Enemy – here. | Stranger – here. |
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