A rare moment when Endeavor recognizes he does in fact have more than one child. He immediately regrets it.
When you’re the only one in the family that doesn’t have cold resistance
Endeavor:
And it wasn't for love that you went back home
Rei - Pregnancy Study
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So this started off as a pregnancy sketch study, but it kinda turned into me thinking, "We need more art of Rei being a mood."
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Touya: I've been a menace since I was born.
Rei: You've been a menace since you were conceived.
Ryoko Kui is really good at writing siblings I think
Currently insane about the parallel Endeavor was created as a coping mechanism to protect Enji from the heartbreak about his father's death the same way Dabi was created to protect Touya from the heartbreak of Enji emotionally abandoning him.
And then how their endgame is Dabi destroying Endeavor, leaving Enji and Touya sharing a slow hell of grief.
Enji, surrounded by the white walls of the hospital and the beeping of the heart monitor attached to Rei, holding his son for the first time and being in complete awe. He holds the baby so gently, like one wrong move would destroy the fragile peace between the three of them. The child blinks at him with beautiful blue, oh so blue eyes, the same color as him and he just falls in love right then and there. Rei is looking at him with such fondness, and he decides right then and there that he'd do anything to keep this child happy and loved.
Cut to two decades later, no. 1 hero Endeavor kneels on the battlefield, the broken and burned body of his first born cradled in his arms. His son, who had only wanted to make him proud. Who he had abandoned and ignored in a pursuit of a legacy that has only left him with an absent wife and a quiet home. The same legacy that led to his son burning alive twice, first for his love and the second for his death. He looks at the empty shell of a man lying in his arms, heart breaking on how his beautiful baby boy had succumbed to such a painful life because of him. That the promise he made once upon a time to love his son unconditionally will forever remain unfulfilled.
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