Character Name/Journal: dabi skinstitch Can Kiritsubo Tell Their Fortune?: absolutely! What Fortune Can Kiritsubo See?:WARNING! spoilers for MHA. apologies if you're canon familiar and this is all silly! tl;dr: dabi is the son of one of the top pro heroes, endeavor, who becomes a villain after his supposed death. basically endeavor (todoroki enji) forces his wife (rei) to marry him by essentially buying her from her family - they're a respectable family but poor now and so with his status he's able to arrange a marriage with her. he marries her for her quirk: he has fire, she has ice, and he wants to create a child that has a half-hot half-cold quirk because he believes that rei's ice would help mitigate the shortcomings of his own fire quirk. endeavor has always felt like he's been in the shadow of all might, the 'symbol of peace' for their society and the (former) number one hero, and while he believes himself to be lacking--as he's never able to catch up to all might--he thinks that he can create a child that can surpass all might for him. thus, we have dabi (touya).
unfortunately, their little experiment doesn't work out so great - dabi's quirk is fire, but his body favors his mother's quirk, meaning he has a body that's more resistant to ice. in turn, this means that when dabi uses his quirk, he ends up burning himself, and endeavor gives up on training him to become a hero and instead basically tells him to go live a normie life. dabi persists in training by himself, which upsets endeavor and so he decides to keep trying for more kids to create one that will work. (also i assume in the hopes that dabi will give up on being a hero since he's hurting himself.) he has a daughter, fuyumi, and then another son, natsuo, both of which have rei's quirk--and then he makes shouto, who ends up with the half-cold half-hot quirk that he wanted. dabi's of course upset because his dad never pays attention to him anymore and essentially just treats him like a reject now, and he's obsessed with becoming a hero/living up to the dream that his dad foisted onto him. he gets really upset and at one point lunges at shouto as though he might kill him out of jealousy/hurt--from then on, shouto is kept away from his siblings and trained by endeavor, and dabi just continues training by himself.
one winter night? day? i forget, dabi goes up to sekoto peak, which is on a mountain and where his father used to train often. he's about thirteen at this point, and his fire changes from red to blue, since he's about the age where teenagers bodies start changing blah blah--and he wants to show his dad all that he learned. he asks his dad to meet him on the peak, and his dad gets upset at him and decides not to go. dabi, in turn, waits for his dad on the peak, crying, and loses control of his flames. he ends up essentially burning to death, saving himself only by throwing his body into the nearby lake. his whole family thinks he's dead since they never find the body and find only a small piece of his jawbone--because his body ends up 'rescued' by one of the big baddies, and he spends three years in a coma in a children's hospital (this gets more complicated but i'll just leave that there for now lmao) and wakes up to be told that he'll never be able to use his quirk again, has grafted skin, presumably borrowed?? organs?? other stuff??, and he runs away from the hospital to go back home because he thinks that his parents surely miss him, and also, he wants to apologize for all his shitty behavior.
when he finds his way back to his house, he ends up going inside and seeing endeavor essentially beating the shit out of shouto in hero training--and he realizes that nothing has changed at all, even his death had no meaning and didn't make his family rethink and/or change a single thing. so he goes and prays in front of his own shrine in his house and thus 'dabi' is born. he basically lives on the streets, watching endeavor via youtube clips, etc to continue his own training and forging a plan for his ultimate revenge. he ends up joining the league of villains, a bunch of like minded people who have been rejected/shit on by society and who think this whole hero society is shit and should be changed. although dabi himself is very secretive and tends to be aloof/keep himself separated from the league, he does care about them.
basically this whole thing culminates in him finally revealing himself to both endeavor and shouto during a battle, and essentially revealing his plan to essentially kill shouto and then kill endeavor and himself--basically he just wants endeavor and enji to both suffer as much as humanly possible for what he did and he doesn't care who gets in the way. this is about where his canon point is, in game.
starting from here is dabi's future in canon. you can read until the end (mha is finished now!) and if only i had found this link before i word vomited everything else up there....it's fine.....
in terms of imagery, obviously there are a lot of connections that dabi has to fire and ice, burning, burnt flesh, burnt dreams, everything. dabi's body itself is also basically falling apart, as he's burned all of the grafted skin and done severe damage to himself and his insides. the seams that he staples together used to be tucked in, but from continuing to use his quirk, it seems that he's damaged himself so much that those seams are starting to separate. he can't cry (supposedly) and leaks blood from his tear ducts when he tries, and he can't feel anything on the damaged skin; his body is also so fucked up that he can't really feel pain anymore. that opens up to her being able to see all kinds of damage basically anywhere in his body...and obviously, the future of where all that damage is taking him.
his connections are strongest with his family (who aren't in game) and the league, of which there are two members here: compress and tomura. tomura is the leader that binds them all together, but compress and dabi are very close in-game. other characters she may see bonds to include fuuta, esikko, edelgard, and others (will add as needed haha). in terms of his family, he sees his mother as a weak useless woman, his father as a selfish conceited waste of a hero, and his sister also as a weak useless woman. for natsuo, he used to consider him his close friend but was willing to put natsuo's life on the line to hurt endeavor so...shrugs. his feelings for shouto are complicated: at one point he wanted to apologize to him for what he'd done, but now he seems a little too far gone for that; he sees shouto as endeavor's puppet/masterpiece and would like to kill him if possible. (mostly just to stick it to endeavor)
whatever symbolism, etc that you'd like to come up with, based on All That Word Dumping, is totally fine with me. the only thing i'd prefer that she be kept in the dark about is his birthname (touya) since i'd like it if he could hold onto that to tell her if/when he's ready. obviously though i'm down with her realizing dabi is not his real name (since that's probably pretty obvious). if at any point you have any questions about him (in canon, or in game), please feel free to ping me anytime! i'm a really go-with-the-flow person so i'm usually happy to roll with whatever.
How Open Would You Like Her to Be About It ICly?: as open as she wants to be! i'd sort of prefer that he doesn't find out that he's not going to die in the end (since i feel that would drastically change some things about him) or that he doesn't successfully kill any of his family, BUT i'm very open to him finding about how much he fucks up his body, the state of the world back home, and/or anything else otherwise, really!
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Character Name/Journal: dabi
Can Kiritsubo Tell Their Fortune?: absolutely!
What Fortune Can Kiritsubo See?:
WARNING! spoilers for MHA.
apologies if you're canon familiar and this is all silly! tl;dr: dabi is the son of one of the top pro heroes, endeavor, who becomes a villain after his supposed death. basically endeavor (todoroki enji) forces his wife (rei) to marry him by essentially buying her from her family - they're a respectable family but poor now and so with his status he's able to arrange a marriage with her. he marries her for her quirk: he has fire, she has ice, and he wants to create a child that has a half-hot half-cold quirk because he believes that rei's ice would help mitigate the shortcomings of his own fire quirk. endeavor has always felt like he's been in the shadow of all might, the 'symbol of peace' for their society and the (former) number one hero, and while he believes himself to be lacking--as he's never able to catch up to all might--he thinks that he can create a child that can surpass all might for him. thus, we have dabi (touya).
unfortunately, their little experiment doesn't work out so great - dabi's quirk is fire, but his body favors his mother's quirk, meaning he has a body that's more resistant to ice. in turn, this means that when dabi uses his quirk, he ends up burning himself, and endeavor gives up on training him to become a hero and instead basically tells him to go live a normie life. dabi persists in training by himself, which upsets endeavor and so he decides to keep trying for more kids to create one that will work. (also i assume in the hopes that dabi will give up on being a hero since he's hurting himself.) he has a daughter, fuyumi, and then another son, natsuo, both of which have rei's quirk--and then he makes shouto, who ends up with the half-cold half-hot quirk that he wanted. dabi's of course upset because his dad never pays attention to him anymore and essentially just treats him like a reject now, and he's obsessed with becoming a hero/living up to the dream that his dad foisted onto him. he gets really upset and at one point lunges at shouto as though he might kill him out of jealousy/hurt--from then on, shouto is kept away from his siblings and trained by endeavor, and dabi just continues training by himself.
one winter night? day? i forget, dabi goes up to sekoto peak, which is on a mountain and where his father used to train often. he's about thirteen at this point, and his fire changes from red to blue, since he's about the age where teenagers bodies start changing blah blah--and he wants to show his dad all that he learned. he asks his dad to meet him on the peak, and his dad gets upset at him and decides not to go. dabi, in turn, waits for his dad on the peak, crying, and loses control of his flames. he ends up essentially burning to death, saving himself only by throwing his body into the nearby lake. his whole family thinks he's dead since they never find the body and find only a small piece of his jawbone--because his body ends up 'rescued' by one of the big baddies, and he spends three years in a coma in a children's hospital (this gets more complicated but i'll just leave that there for now lmao) and wakes up to be told that he'll never be able to use his quirk again, has grafted skin, presumably borrowed?? organs?? other stuff??, and he runs away from the hospital to go back home because he thinks that his parents surely miss him, and also, he wants to apologize for all his shitty behavior.
when he finds his way back to his house, he ends up going inside and seeing endeavor essentially beating the shit out of shouto in hero training--and he realizes that nothing has changed at all, even his death had no meaning and didn't make his family rethink and/or change a single thing. so he goes and prays in front of his own shrine in his house and thus 'dabi' is born. he basically lives on the streets, watching endeavor via youtube clips, etc to continue his own training and forging a plan for his ultimate revenge. he ends up joining the league of villains, a bunch of like minded people who have been rejected/shit on by society and who think this whole hero society is shit and should be changed. although dabi himself is very secretive and tends to be aloof/keep himself separated from the league, he does care about them.
basically this whole thing culminates in him finally revealing himself to both endeavor and shouto during a battle, and essentially revealing his plan to essentially kill shouto and then kill endeavor and himself--basically he just wants endeavor and enji to both suffer as much as humanly possible for what he did and he doesn't care who gets in the way. this is about where his canon point is, in game.
starting from here is dabi's future in canon. you can read until the end (mha is finished now!) and if only i had found this link before i word vomited everything else up there....it's fine.....
in terms of imagery, obviously there are a lot of connections that dabi has to fire and ice, burning, burnt flesh, burnt dreams, everything. dabi's body itself is also basically falling apart, as he's burned all of the grafted skin and done severe damage to himself and his insides. the seams that he staples together used to be tucked in, but from continuing to use his quirk, it seems that he's damaged himself so much that those seams are starting to separate. he can't cry (supposedly) and leaks blood from his tear ducts when he tries, and he can't feel anything on the damaged skin; his body is also so fucked up that he can't really feel pain anymore. that opens up to her being able to see all kinds of damage basically anywhere in his body...and obviously, the future of where all that damage is taking him.
his connections are strongest with his family (who aren't in game) and the league, of which there are two members here: compress and tomura. tomura is the leader that binds them all together, but compress and dabi are very close in-game. other characters she may see bonds to include fuuta, esikko, edelgard, and others (will add as needed haha). in terms of his family, he sees his mother as a weak useless woman, his father as a selfish conceited waste of a hero, and his sister also as a weak useless woman. for natsuo, he used to consider him his close friend but was willing to put natsuo's life on the line to hurt endeavor so...shrugs. his feelings for shouto are complicated: at one point he wanted to apologize to him for what he'd done, but now he seems a little too far gone for that; he sees shouto as endeavor's puppet/masterpiece and would like to kill him if possible. (mostly just to stick it to endeavor)
whatever symbolism, etc that you'd like to come up with, based on All That Word Dumping, is totally fine with me. the only thing i'd prefer that she be kept in the dark about is his birthname (touya) since i'd like it if he could hold onto that to tell her if/when he's ready. obviously though i'm down with her realizing dabi is not his real name (since that's probably pretty obvious). if at any point you have any questions about him (in canon, or in game), please feel free to ping me anytime! i'm a really go-with-the-flow person so i'm usually happy to roll with whatever.
How Open Would You Like Her to Be About It ICly?: as open as she wants to be! i'd sort of prefer that he doesn't find out that he's not going to die in the end (since i feel that would drastically change some things about him) or that he doesn't successfully kill any of his family, BUT i'm very open to him finding about how much he fucks up his body, the state of the world back home, and/or anything else otherwise, really!