I’ve got this feeling that Izuku will end up quirkless again at the end of MHA, and that OfA will somehow dissipate. And I think that would be a beautiful and meaningful ending. Like: “you’re an ordinary person and still can be a hero”. I totally see him supporting his fellow ex-classmates as heroes in the future, especially Kacchan.
Last night at 2 AM I tried editing something. I’ve never actually edited videos before so this was new territory to me. I’m not exactly sure what I’ve made here, but… I don’t regret it.
We don’t know what Nana’s husband looks like, so we have many theories about who he really is. And there are even theories that her husband is Afo himself!
However, we know something that quite refutes this theory:
1) Nana’s husband died, probably killed by some villain - maybe even by Afo to get Nana to give the OFA to him;
2) Gran Torino knew Nana’s husband for sure, since he and Nana are great friends and comrades (maybe someone was even in love with someone), so Gran Torino would definitely have said something particularly caustic and nasty to Afo at the Battle of Kamino;
3) if Afo, who is obsessed with the concept of family, was Nana’s husband, then first, he wouldn’t have killed her and would definitely have broken her will; second, he, as Kotarou’s possible father, would have sought him out after the battle with Nana; third, he wouldn’t have so disfigured his personality and used Tenko as a possible grandchild.
But! Let’s see something funny that perhaps echoes DFO’s and Shimura Inko’s theories!
Kotarou’s hair structure is not like Nana’s: slightly curly hairvs.smooth straight hair. However, he has inherited the shape and color of his eyes from his mother. Tenko also has curly hair at first glance, but if you look closely and compare, Tenko’s hair is closer to Nao’s hair structure - slightly curly wavy hair, while Hana has inherited Nana’s hair structure - smooth straight hair. Tenko and Hana also inherited Nana’s eye shape (Tenko also has a mole under his lip and Hana has Nao’s eye color).
From this we can conclude that Kotarou’s hair structure was derived from his father. Nana’s husband has curly and unruly hair. But the only mystery now is the color of the hair.
Now back to the connections with the other theories! If Inko is Nana’s daughter, she definitely got her straight, smooth hair structure from her mother. From her father, however, Inko clearly could have inherited the color and shape of her eyes, as well as the color of her hair. It turns out, then, that her father and presumably Nana’s husband - in addition to his curly hair, his hair color and eyes, which are more round, are green. And perhaps his height is not above average either.
The main character of the “My Hero” oneshot, Jack Midoriya, comes to mind! Funny,if with such a friend and comrade as Gran Torino, Nana married an ordinary clerk of not outstanding appearance.
But you might ask, what does the DFO theory have to do with it, too? Given that Izuku, if he is also Nana’s grandson, might have inherited some characteristics from his grandfather. However! One note here - Gran Torino didn’t assess Izuku as someone familiar to him, only Toshinori noted that Inko is similar to Nana. Which means that after all, Izuku was able to inherit most of his external characteristics from his father,butwith the obvious influence of his mother’s genes.
Izuku has rounded eyes, while Yoichi, the supposed uncle, and Afo, the supposed father, have sharp outer corners. Maybe as Izuku gets older, his eyes will change slightly from being so childishly large and round, especially since we can already quite easily see in some of the shots lately that his eyes are starting to get a sharp outer corner as well.
As for height - assuming that Afo is 225 cm tall (and if that’s not the work of quirk), and Yoichi was not much shorter than his brother during the quirk era, then Izuku, who is taller than his mom after all, may still be taller. Just the growth spurt at his age may be contributing to this (moreover, we haven’t had any new information about his height yet, that personal height information dates back to his admission to the Academia UA, the boy could have grown up in a year).
And now the structure and the color of his hair. Izuku has rather unruly curly hair, and the dark part of his hair, which many people mistake for his second hair color, is still a shadow that shows the thickness of that hair. Izuku’s hair color is lighter than Inko’s, and has a shade closer to turquoise, which can be obtained by mixing the colors: white (silver) and green.
And if Nana’s husband had green curly hair, it would be more manageable, like Kotarou’s, and probably also trimmed short - a typical office worker. And that’s probably why Gran Torino didn’t recognize his friend’s grandson in Izuku yet - the hair color and texture + other differences in appearance inherited from his father could confuse the pattern of recognition. And vice versa - Gran Torino could not recognize a familiar villain in the person of Izuku because of the influence of genes on the boy’s mother’s side.
But we will only be able to speak more accurately and boldly about all this when the meeting between Inko and Gran Torino takes place. And it’s too bad that, for now, the paths of these two still haven’t crossed. After all, Gran Torino would have known for sure if Nana had had another child or not.
