Quirkless

Chapter 57 - Proposition

Dabi wasn't sensitive, not by a long shot. He didn't care about most feelings, whether they'd be from people around him or his own. There was just one distinctive emotion that was always present in the back of his mind. His hate for Endeavor. It's what led him down this path of villainy in the first place. Yet recently there had been another thing as well...

A certain fondness of his comrades. Something he only realised after they lost someone. Guess it's true when they say you only start appreciating something when it's not there anymore... No, Dabi wasn't a sensitive guy, but he could admit that he cared about his teammates. About the other members of the League, this...dysfunctional family of misfits.

And in a way he was protective over them. Must be his older brother instincts kicking in, or at least, that's what he blamed it on. It's not like he was the oldest in their ranks, certainly not now that the Meta Liberation Army was joining forces with them. Of course he was happy with the expansion of their empire, their image, their ideology. Yet the win tasted sour...

This wasn't something they'd normally do. Not something Shigaraki had ordered them to do because he wanted to. No, this had all been his plan... All For One was a manipulative bastard. From the moment he arrived, he'd been bossing everyone around and Dabi hated it. What did Shigaraki see in that bastard..? Why did he let himself be manipulated like that?! Shigaraki never did something he didn't want to! And yet-

Yet this asshole just had to walk in here and snap his fingers and Shigaraki would do his bidding! It angered Dabi more than he thought it would. Maybe because there wasn't anything he could do about it... All For One could do whatever the fuck he wanted and get away with it because no one could stop him from doing so. He was too powerful, too strong. He reminded him of Endeavor in the worst possible way, only feeding into his anger.

"Dabi?"

"Hm?" Dabi hummed, looking aside at Toga. She was standing next to him, looking in the mirror as she was brushing her hair. They were standing in the bathroom of the League compound. A place the Liberation Army didn't know about yet and a place All For One rarely visited. And if that bastard showed his face down here, it was to talk with Shigaraki in his room.

"I think that bottle got what it deserved" she pointed out. Dabi frowned, only to look down at his hand, seeing he crushed his bottle of hair dye. Huh... He didn't even notice he did that... Well, it was empty anyway, so it didn't really matter.
"...I guess" Dabi shrugged, throwing the bottle in the trash.
"Ugh! I can't get my hair to look right!" Himiko whined, pouting at herself in the mirror.

"Aren't messy buns supposed to, I don't know, look messy?" Dabi asked, raising a brow. He didn't get why she was making a fuss about it. Her hair always looked the same anyway. Nothing wrong with that, of course. It was something Dabi grew accustomed to, something familiar, easy to find within the chaos of the battlefield.
"I wanna do something else with my hair today" she stated, turning around to face him.

"You wouldn't know how to braid, would you?"

Only a minute later, Dabi was seated behind Himiko, his hands waving strands of her hair together. They were seated in the common living room, but there weren't a lot of people around at this time. Compress was seated on another couch, but he paid no mind to them. Kurogiri had passed on his way to the kitchen but he hadn't commented on it either. Yeah, things were calm and peaceful... A nice break from their normally hectic life. Domestic, almost.

It reminded Dabi of the days his father would be gone on long missions away from home. When everything would be quiet in the absence of his booming voice. He'd play around with his siblings, help his mom out around the house... He'd sneak out to train whenever his mom was too busy to stop him and come back around dinner time, only to get scolded by his sister. He wondered how she was doing these days... His baby sister was already 22 years old now, wasn't she? Damn, he felt old.