Touya Todoroki fue el primer hijo del matrimonio arreglado entre Enji Todoroki (Endeavor) con el poder de crear fuego a su beneficio y Rei Todoroki con el poder de crear hielo.
Touya desde corta edad fue entrenado por su padre, hasta que descubrieron que desarrolló mejor la habilidad de su madre y no era tolerante a sus propias llamas
Este descubrimiento hizo que Endeavor se negara a seguir entrenando a Touya y comenzara a intentar que este se olvide de ser un héroe. Al nacer su hermano Shoto Todoroki fue un golpe duro para Touya ya que Shoto era el hijo “perfecto” para su padre y un día colmado por el favoritismo por parte de su padre se lanzó a atacar a su hermano menor.
Años después de este suceso Touya tenía 13 años y se comportaba como un niño totalmente normal, había dejado atrás sus ambiciones de ser un héroe, o eso era lo que quería que todos pensaran ya que entrenaba a escondidas. Tiempo después logra cambiar su llama roja por una azul le pide a su padre que vaya con él a la cima de sekoto, su padre al darse cuenta que él ha estado entrenando en secreto se molesta y le reclama que lo tenia prohibido. Al final Touya se marcha solo al bosque y al no tener control de su llama incendió todo el bosque quemandose él también, fue ahí donde All For One lo rescata y lo lleva a un hospital donde lo operan y queda en un estado de coma.
Mientras tanto toda la ciudad lo había dado por muerto al haber encontrado solo su mandíbula inferior. Al despertar Touya le pide al doctor que lo deje volver a su casa con su familia con la esperanza de que su padre haya cambiado y se encuentre arrepentido. Pero al regresar a su casa se encuentra una imagen de él en un altar y se percata que lo habían considerado muerto, pero la gota que derramó el vaso fue ver a su padre poniéndole un entrenamiento infernal a su hermano Shoto como si nada sucediera, como si él no hubiera “muerto”. Fue en ese momento que se dio cuenta de que frente a los ojos de su padre al era solo un experimento fallido y que tras su supuesta muerte toda su familia había seguido su vida como si nada. Luego de esto se pinta el cabello de negro y se hace llamar “Dabi” para ocultar si verdadera identidad, así ingresa en la Liga de villanos y se convierte en uno de ellos.
Yo considero que Touya no merecía esos tratos de su padre solo por no obtener las habilidades que se esperaban de él, además esto demuestra que los villanos no nacen siendo así, la mayoría son creados por distintas vías y los héroes no siempre son los que “salvan al mundo” porque la lógica de muchos héroes es que si tienen que sacrificar a una persona por el bien común lo harían y lo considerarían un precio justo, pero yo me pregunto… ¿En realidad lo es?
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Touya Todoroki was the first child of the arranged marriage between Enji Todoroki (Endeavor) with the power of creating fire and Rei Todoroki with the power to create ice.
Touya from a young age was trained by his father, until they discovered that he developed his mother's ability better and was not tolerant of his own flames.
This discovery made Endeavor refuse to continue training Touya and try to make him forget about being a hero.The birth of Shoto Todoroki was a hard blow for Touya since Shoto was the "perfect" son for his father and one day, overwhelmed by his father's favoritism, he attacked his younger brother.
Years after this event Touya was 13 years old and behaved like a totally normal child and had left behind his ambitions to be a hero, or so he wanted everyone to think because he trained in secret. Some time later he manages to change his red flame for a blue one and asks his father to go with him to Sekoto's chasm, his father realizing that he has been training in secret gets upset and claims that he was forbidden to do so. In the end Touya goes alone to the forest and not having control of his flame he set fire to the forest and burned himself, it was there where All For One rescues him and takes him to a hospital where he undergoes surgery and is left in a coma.
In the meantime the whole town had given him up for dead, having found only his lower jaw. Upon awakening Touya asks the doctor to let him return home to his family in the hope that his father has changed and is repentant. But when he returns home he finds an image of him on an altar and realizes that he had been considered dead, but the last straw was to see his father giving his brother Shoto a hellish training as if nothing had happened, as if he had not "died". It was at that moment that she realized that in front of her father's eyes al was just a failed experiment and that after his supposed death her whole family had gone on with their lives as if nothing had happened. After this, he dyed his hair black and called himself "Dabi" to hide his true identity, thus joining the League of villains and becoming one of them.
I consider that Touya didn't deserve those treatments from his father just because he didn't get the skills that were expected from him, besides this shows that villains are not born being like that, most of them are created by different ways and heroes are not always the ones that "save the world" because the logic of many heroes is that if they have to sacrifice a person for the common good they would do it and consider it a fair price, but I ask myself... Is it really?.
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