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what the fuck are you talking about?

[ It's more or less an actual question. The pieces he's being given don't make the picture real easy to put together, but Tomura can surmise a hazy one. The only possibility for Todoroki to witness Dabi being tended to... It's an obvious conclusion to reach.

It's not unexpected. They've already lost two to heroes, and every one of them understood the unspoken risk that they could be next. They weren't unprepared for death, nor to rot away in a cell in the equivalent to death—they weren't unprepared for it to happen to someone else. They wouldn't allow that to rattle their resolve—not faced with the sacrifices of their own, who fought with every drop of blood and every last breath to bring them as far as they did.

Resolve is strengthened by anger. Anger flares hotly in Tomura, bursts against the confines of his skin, begging to be released to make its own way towards peace. With whatever presence of mind he still has, he throws his phone aside before Decay touches it, slams his hands down against the coffee table instead. It cracks and disintegrates near-instantly, and it's—not enough, nowhere near enough, and it's his only regret that Todoroki hadn't told him this in person. Such a fucking shame.

If Todoroki was looking to aim for his heart, he wouldn't find it. The hate will drive Tomura on, just as it always has—every failure, every loss is fuel for his will, making it ever more imperative that he succeed. For every one of them that couldn't, for every one that would never come back.

When he retrieves his (remarkably sturdy) phone, the words that breeze onto the screen come coldly. ]

you think you're gaining ground in this war, is that it? do you even understand what bullshit you're peddling? coming here to talk up your brother before saying you've sealed his fate and thrown him into the dungeon anyway. safe? what a fucking joke. some family you are.

hold on to those events you said you've seen. they'll be your last glimmer of hope before it all turns to dust. I'll make sure of it. every prisoner you've taken, every life you've saved, I'll change it personally - until you're left standing in the ruins of your society, wondering how you could have failed so spectacularly.

that's my promise to you, todoroki. the next time I see you, I'll kill you.

#because you're in a text based game, Todoroki that's why

[heir_conditioned]

[Well, at least it's something more than two words, and nothing stings more than losing someone to the other side. Even though it sounds like if Shoto had said he had died, that would've stung less. Another day another threat. Not that it's any LESS threatening, just that it's nothing different.

What's different is the prospect that he's sealed his brother's fate. If they were all prepared to die, then they were all prepared to lose as a possibility, weren't they? The threat is, again, nothing new for him. Shigaraki is a force to be reckoned with as is.

But he is momentarily of thought. Why not just kill him now? Destroy until he can't and then force the heroes out of hiding. Why hadn't they? He's prepared for the general 'go fuck yourself', none the less—]

No one is gaining ground, least of all us. In the end no matter what we do, we've all already lost a long time before this war. I won't leave him to rot or be forgotten. For all he's been through, for anything he's been through, I won't let that happen to him. He is and always will be my brother; not a dirty little secret, my brother.

Be it at home, here and now or back in the carriage, or the first day you got here, I've been prepared for you to try to kill me. I offer you the same thing I always have. If I'm the last person on these islands you would go to, I'll still answer. That's the same thing I would do for anyone.

I'm sorry the news upset you, but he is alive and if you want to reclaim him, then do it. We can worry about you killing me when we meet head on, when it actually matters, versus here where it doesn't.

[wincon]

[ It's not as though the suspicion hasn't lingered in the back of his mind, it's just that it takes on full clarity now: why Todoroki pursued Dabi so doggedly while they were here, why he swore up and down to keep his promise to Tomura, why despite all of that his words and actions rang as empty as a death knell. None of this was ever for Dabi's—or any villain's—sake—they were all for his own.

So that Todoroki could feel like a good hero. So he could feel like a good brother.

Perhaps, at some point, Tomura had imagined the connection Todoroki wanted would have yielded some kind of understanding, some respect for his own brother's desires. But it's clear now that Todoroki made no such effort, that he sees nothing of Dabi aside from a rag doll to be manipulated at his own whim: to be a brother, against his will, to be "saved," against his will, to fulfill the delusional destiny Todoroki has already set out for him.

The stupid idiot won't even admit it. Same as every self-righteous, egotistical hero, putting every dissident in cuffs "for their own good," unable to admit that they're willing to forsake the other side to protect their own. The demand that every ultimatum, every arrest, every kill they make be met with vows of self-improvement, and Dabi now caught in that quagmire through the selfishness of one who insists on being his brother. Tools of oppression who expect to be thanked for it.

Well, Tomura can't be surprised or disappointed. He's done more than enough kindness in laying out the consequences of Todoroki's choices—anything more would be expecting chicken not to squawk like all the rest. Heroes can kill the individuals who refuse to change, so Tomura will do nothing more but follow that example.

Such a brilliant, glittering world there is, waiting for their return. ]