Alyssa Exactly on Nostr: diagnosing MHA characters ( many many spoilers, don't read if you're not caught up) ...
diagnosing MHA characters ( many many spoilers, don't read if you're not caught up)
Todoroki Enji
neurotypical abuser with a career obsession. he starts making genuine attempts at repairing, but his legacy of sorrows is profoundly grim, his entire family either flinching from him or attacking him and he has no one else to blame. his single-minded personality is manifested as a cloak and mask of flames, an affect which begins to fizzle out as he realizes the costs for his endeavor
Todoroki Shoto
dissociation caused by severe abuse at his bastard father's hands, Shoto's biggest struggles relate to accepting all of himself and integrating. his inner struggle is represented in his split and repressed quirk, starting out only willing to use his ice powers and taking several seasons to learn how to manifest both cold and hot at the same time
Todoroki Toya
C-PTSD, psychosis. emotional neglect and traumatic injuries. he is obsessed with his father, wanting to impress Endeavor with his superior firepower more than anything, including the desire to live. his traumatic obsession is manifest as a blue fire which burns a little more of his body away every time he uses it
Iida Tenya
ADHD. he's highly effective and organized, properly medicated and has a plan for his life, coming from a lineage of professional heroes. his limbic tension is indicative of his style of rapidly firing thru social situations, school work, and hero duties. his methodical approach to life manifests as actual engines built into his limbs
Ururaka Ochako
ASD with masking. she has a plan for life, to make some money and raise the profile of her family business. she comes from a family with a bit of money, so rather than struggling in most things she is shown to be able to float, figuratively and literally, tho when she does struggle she flails about as if in outer space
Asui Tsuyu
ASD without masking. Tsuchan is so cute omg i can't keep going with this much longer i just want to kiss the autistic frog girl 😍
uhh... yeah. her quirk at first seems to represent a person who might be expected to struggle with social engagement, yet Tsu is actually the most emotionally intelligent person in her class. she's so good 😭
Toshinori Yagi
DID. he's barely a person when he plays the role of The Super Hero, wanting to be "the symbol" instead, and inside of him sang a chorus of triumphant voices before he passed them on to his disciple. he had a dream and made it happen with the help of a lot of people. in a more honest story, that might have meant something related to the need for solidarity, but instead he only stands as a tarnishing symbol of individual heroism (despite the bearer of his quirk "One For All" automatically being a system rather than an individual person)
Midoriya Izuku
DID. he disappeared into hero worship at an early age and intellectualizes everything to the point that he can and will seriously injure himself if he decides it's necessary. Having inherited several "quirks", and quirks being living embodiments of the people they came from, the main character of My Hero Academia is canonically a system. discovering who he is amid several other powerful personalities now living thru him as quirks and persuing his ideal strength as 'the hero who saves everyone' are what define "Deku"
Shigaraki Tomura
BPD. childhood abuse, absurdly extreme trauma, and then being systematically retraumatized until adulthood trained Shigaraki to desire the instant and total destruction of anything which displeases him. his fragile mentality and mad rejection of the world are manifested by a touch which causes anything living or dead to crumble into dust
Bakugo Katsuki
NPD. Bakugo wants to be the best, like no one ever was. any slight challenge to that and he will literally and figuratively explode. he was up to no good as a child, and his career aspirations amount to 'super cop' but he does learn how to be vulnerable and trusting with allies so he's a really fascinating character
this show may be copaganda but it's also fruity as hell and has lots of pd in it so it continues to captivate my attention. i just wish it could tell more compelling stories about the ways their hero society sucks and not paper over it and pretend that All Might's ambition is still worthwhile. but that would require a more interesting villain than the ludicrous "demon king" (no diagnosis for him btw, he's just an arbitrarily super evil guy who does every kind of abuse he can imagine for fun o_o tho he is also a system, stealing the psychic representations of people and subjugating them within himself, allowing him to use up to eight quirks simultaneously)
Todoroki Enji
neurotypical abuser with a career obsession. he starts making genuine attempts at repairing, but his legacy of sorrows is profoundly grim, his entire family either flinching from him or attacking him and he has no one else to blame. his single-minded personality is manifested as a cloak and mask of flames, an affect which begins to fizzle out as he realizes the costs for his endeavor
Todoroki Shoto
dissociation caused by severe abuse at his bastard father's hands, Shoto's biggest struggles relate to accepting all of himself and integrating. his inner struggle is represented in his split and repressed quirk, starting out only willing to use his ice powers and taking several seasons to learn how to manifest both cold and hot at the same time
Todoroki Toya
C-PTSD, psychosis. emotional neglect and traumatic injuries. he is obsessed with his father, wanting to impress Endeavor with his superior firepower more than anything, including the desire to live. his traumatic obsession is manifest as a blue fire which burns a little more of his body away every time he uses it
Iida Tenya
ADHD. he's highly effective and organized, properly medicated and has a plan for his life, coming from a lineage of professional heroes. his limbic tension is indicative of his style of rapidly firing thru social situations, school work, and hero duties. his methodical approach to life manifests as actual engines built into his limbs
Ururaka Ochako
ASD with masking. she has a plan for life, to make some money and raise the profile of her family business. she comes from a family with a bit of money, so rather than struggling in most things she is shown to be able to float, figuratively and literally, tho when she does struggle she flails about as if in outer space
Asui Tsuyu
ASD without masking. Tsuchan is so cute omg i can't keep going with this much longer i just want to kiss the autistic frog girl 😍
uhh... yeah. her quirk at first seems to represent a person who might be expected to struggle with social engagement, yet Tsu is actually the most emotionally intelligent person in her class. she's so good 😭
Toshinori Yagi
DID. he's barely a person when he plays the role of The Super Hero, wanting to be "the symbol" instead, and inside of him sang a chorus of triumphant voices before he passed them on to his disciple. he had a dream and made it happen with the help of a lot of people. in a more honest story, that might have meant something related to the need for solidarity, but instead he only stands as a tarnishing symbol of individual heroism (despite the bearer of his quirk "One For All" automatically being a system rather than an individual person)
Midoriya Izuku
DID. he disappeared into hero worship at an early age and intellectualizes everything to the point that he can and will seriously injure himself if he decides it's necessary. Having inherited several "quirks", and quirks being living embodiments of the people they came from, the main character of My Hero Academia is canonically a system. discovering who he is amid several other powerful personalities now living thru him as quirks and persuing his ideal strength as 'the hero who saves everyone' are what define "Deku"
Shigaraki Tomura
BPD. childhood abuse, absurdly extreme trauma, and then being systematically retraumatized until adulthood trained Shigaraki to desire the instant and total destruction of anything which displeases him. his fragile mentality and mad rejection of the world are manifested by a touch which causes anything living or dead to crumble into dust
Bakugo Katsuki
NPD. Bakugo wants to be the best, like no one ever was. any slight challenge to that and he will literally and figuratively explode. he was up to no good as a child, and his career aspirations amount to 'super cop' but he does learn how to be vulnerable and trusting with allies so he's a really fascinating character
this show may be copaganda but it's also fruity as hell and has lots of pd in it so it continues to captivate my attention. i just wish it could tell more compelling stories about the ways their hero society sucks and not paper over it and pretend that All Might's ambition is still worthwhile. but that would require a more interesting villain than the ludicrous "demon king" (no diagnosis for him btw, he's just an arbitrarily super evil guy who does every kind of abuse he can imagine for fun o_o tho he is also a system, stealing the psychic representations of people and subjugating them within himself, allowing him to use up to eight quirks simultaneously)