It's Freaking Interesting How The Members Of The League Get Angry When People Suggest They Are Miserable.

It's freaking interesting how the members of the League get angry when people suggest they are miserable.

Watching My Villain Academia, I realized there's a common mistakes characters and fans make alike. That mistake involves talking about the League like they were miserable people who are just suffering and that's why they decided to join and stay in the League of Villains.

When in fact the League gave them a place to belong, friends who care for them, the opportunity to develop their abilities, the opportunity to find out who they are and why are they fighting for, etc.

There's a narrative where "normal" people find those who are different as "poor miserable people". And that narrative is really harmful because you're stating that their situation is a misfortune, a tragedy. In the sense that for example, someone with adhd is pitied and put aside instead of being treated a good way, with all the rights a person deserves.

With that in mind it's easy to understand why the members of the League get angry when other people suggest they need to be fixed. Example: Hawks trying to save Twice and Curious talking to Toga like she was a martyr.

It's the say thinking that makes people see minorities as charity jobs and not people to be properly respected. It's like when the Catholic Church suggests that lgbtaq+ people need to be saved and redeemed, because they are dirty sinners who would never live like normal people.

When Toga thinks about being "normal", she asks herself what does it mean, to be normal. And she reaches the conclusion that she is normal and she deserves to live, love and be herself. People all her life pitied her for being born a monster, but she knows she is not a monster, but a normal girl. Not because others find her different it means she is not normal.

And when Hawks suggests Twice is miserable, he gets strongly offended. Why? Because before finding the League, he was alone, sad and went down a spiral of crimes. He couldn't trust anyone, not even himself, less alone authorities. Within the League he found a reason to be heroic, he found friends, he learned to have fun and smile, he found his motivation to stay alive, he found people who protected him, people who appreciated him, people who saw him like a normal man. So why would a hero decide he was miserable? The difference between the League and the other characters it's that most members of the League never judge the past or the lives of the others without knowing. Mr. Compress says it in the War arc. The members of the League knew it was not their place to choose for a person if they were miserable or happy.

When Geten faces Dabi, Dabi shows that he knows what is like living the life Geten is describing. Geten is talking like Dabi would never get what is like being trained since he was very little, focusing only on his quirk. This makes Dabi angry for the same reason, because Geten is assuming things without knowing.

And when Tomura faces Re-Destro, we can see how Re-Destro realizes he's been judging Tomura wrong all along. It happens with other enemies that face Tomura. Everyone believes they know how Shigaraki thinks, what he wants, how he feels. They think Tomura is a childish man, some dumb immature kid without experience, determination or knowledge.

The problem with the members of the League is that everyone decides what they are seeing. The heroes, the other villains, the citizens, they keep pitying the League.The heroes, the other villains, the citizens, they keep pitying the League. Everyone assigns them a value or a narrative, but just a few persons can see them as they really are. Deku, Ochaco and Shouto are realizing that too, that they've been pushing their views instead of learning and not judging without knowing.

If Toga smiles, who are they to judge if she is happy or not? If Twice says he is sad, why should Hawks assume the reasons instead of talking with him? No one heard Tomura and his speeches, everyone ignored what he was saying in order to create their own version of Shigaraki. In doing so, they were erasing the human being and building a myth, a story, instead of seeing the real man in front of them.

It's good to notice that Deku, Ochaco and Shouto talk about stopping Tomura, Toga and Dabi, but that's it. Stopping, and then what? In order to properly see something, you need to make it slow down, right? So in order for the kids to see the villains as they are, they need to make the villains stop and share some moments with them. How else could Shouto learn more about his big brother? How else could Deku get to know Tomura past if Tomura doesn't talk with him? And how else could Ochaco properly communicate with Toga, if they are always in the middle of a fight?

Take for example Kurogiri. Only when they stopped Kurogiri, could Aizawa and Mic speak to him and understand better the situation. I really hope there'll be some type of communication between Mr. Compress and the heroes, or between Spinner and someone else.

That way the heroes could understand the humanity within the members of the League, their ability to feel love, friendship, to sacrifice themselves for a friend, to overcome obstacles and protect those who they love, etc.

And by doing so, they could realize that all the member of the League wanted was to be happy and fine, they've never wanted to be miserable. Even Dabi who's kinda suicidal, he still holds close to his life, you can see he is conflicted. It's not that hard to redeem them, because they want to live, they want to love.

I repeat it: The League of Villains want to leave and be loved, to be able to exist.

That's the key for this situation.