Do you think Eri serves as a parallel to Tomura Shigaraki, for instance, they both have deadly quirks that could accidentally hurt someone as children, Shigaraki was never saved and waited for a hero to come save him from his traumatic childhood incident while Eri was saved by a hero, it just shows Tomura could have been saved and been a good guy but due to life circumstances is now a villain, it shows how easy life can make someone go to the path of good or evil, and how uncontroable it all is.

heroesarelife:

This is an interesting take. Recently I read a meta (by @alexi52, definitely give it a read ;D) talking about how Tomura’s and Eri’s quirks are foils (I mean, opposites) of each other. Basically how Tomura’s quirk is about fast-forwarding and make things reach a state of Decay that could only be reached after years of deterioration and the such. While Eri is about Rewind, going back to previous states. They are both deadly in their own way.

Of course, Tomura doesn’t seem to be able to control his “future” reach, like Eri can. So Eri can actually control how much she rewinds, but Tomura always causes only Decay. 

I do like this parallel you traced, though. I don’t think is far from how it is, actually. Since Tomura wasn’t saved, he was able to see – and resent – the faults within the hero society. How skewed and problematic it is under its shiny coating. While Eri saw the positive aspects of it, because the same hero society is the reason why she was saved. So her vision of it is of gratitude, and not of resentment. Two victims; different outcomes.

Yes, I do wonder where Horikoshi will take this and if Tomura has any plans for Eri.

Thanks for dropping by and leaving this ❤ a very interesting thought!