Dabi/Relationships

## Family

### Enji Todoroki

The Flame Hero: Endeavor is Dabi's father. Dabi holds a huge grudge against Enji for rejecting him in the past and feeling like he was being used as a tool. In fact, Enji's overwhelming abuse on him seems to be the main reason for his fall to villainy.

When Toya was born with a stronger fire Quirk than his father's, Enji wavered between disappointed and satisfied. It wasn't exactly what he was looking for, but he saw its potential, so trained Toya from an early age to be a hero. In the beginning, Toya's relationship with his father was actually relatively healthy; Toya's training didn't have the level of harshness as Shoto's and Enji spoke to his eldest son more casually. Likewise, Toya was very excited to learn all of his father's moves, including his strongest ones. He put his dreams onto Toya, promising he could become Number One and surpass All Might. When Toya's Quirk began burning him, did Enji go see a doctor over it. The doctor stated Enji designing his children through Quirk marriages was ill-advised. It turned out the exact combination Toya received from his parents' ice and fire Quirks, was self-jeopardizing. Toya's body had Rei's resistance to freezing temperatures instead of high temperatures that his fire Quirk required.

Enji realized his son couldn't surpass All Might without seriously harming himself. Therefore, Enji explained to Toya of his condition and halted their training. Thinking he was incapable of showing his son anything other than heroism, Enji didn't know how to bond with his son anymore and spent less time together as a result. Missing his father's devoted attention, Toya tried getting it back the only way he knew how: He adamantly waited for Enji's free days and nagged for them to return to training. With Enji continuing to deny him, Toya trained on his own and hurt himself in the process. He claimed he couldn't let go of the dream Enji ignited inside him. Whenever Enji saw those burns, he'd sternly tell Toya to find a different calling on his own and questioned why he didn't understand. Enji grew frustrated at Toya not listening, thinking he'd inherited his stubbornness. He moved onto more drastic measures. Enji was willing to crush Toya mentally for the sake of his physical well-being. He gave his plan for the perfect heir a secondary purpose; of making Toya feel replaced and giving up in his despair. Rei pointed it out their son would have some understanding of what he was doing and it was too cruel.

Ironically, this backfired as Natsuo and Shoto's births made Toya more obsessed and desperate. This boiled over to the boy screaming for Enji to look at him and almost scorching his replacement, an infant Shoto. Enji prevented any injuries and gained a new paranoia of Toya. Later that night, Rei explained the incident was simply down to a son not being noticed by his father. His wife challenged Enji to stop using his hero status as an excuse to run away from being a father. Despite this warning, Enji enforced the current setup harder: Enji isolated Shoto from his siblings and put all his efforts into him. He neglected his "failures" and entrusted others to raise them, warning for eyes to be never taken off Toya specifically. Despite his father's total rejection, Toya still copied some of his beliefs, such as the Todoroki family being in a different world to regular people. Through out the years, Toya often cried, not knowing what his life's purpose was anymore. By then, Toya gained a new awareness of his father's cruelty, witnessing the physical abuse towards Shoto and Rei firsthand. Reflecting on Enji's pervious actions, Toya thought it was wrong for Enji to neglect his kids and it contributed to him lashing out at Shoto.

Even in middle school, Toya would still sneak away to strengthen his Quirk. After experiencing a growth spurt that gave him blue flames, Toya excitedly approached his father and asked him to come up to Sekoto Peak to see a surprise. Getting upset at Enji's doubt, the young teenager yanked his hair and cried that if Enji witnessed his improvement, he would no longer regret creating him. Though Enji wouldn't indulge Toya's training, refusing to show up at Sekoto Peak. As a result, Toya had a mental breakdown and lost control of his flames. The boy didn't know how to stop it, since Enji had halted their training prematurely and he never learnt the necessary safety measures. He accidentally caused a forest fire and Enji rushed to save him when he saw the smoke. Though the recuse attempt only found a section of Toya's jaw, so it was assumed he'd been incinerated. However, Toya managed to survive. As a result of his past abuse and the trauma of having his body largely scarred, Toya ran away from home. His stance on Endeavor shifted, going from wanting his approval to hating him. He hid away and secretly watched Endeavor's actions from afar, planning to enact his vengeance one day.

By the time Toya was an adult, he'd taken up the villain name, Dabi. He began following Stain's ideals that the selfishly motivated couldn't be true heroes, thinking his father was the embodiment of this. Many years later, Dabi would later endanger Endeavor's life, by sending High-End at him. During the battle, Endeavor was ironically given a scar similar to Shoto's. After defeating the High-End, Dabi greeted Endeavor, amused by the latter's unfamiliarity with him while he seemed to know a lot about him. Dabi earned his father's disgust after he callously disregarded the murder of Snatch. Dabi tried to attack the weakened Endeavor but decided to retreat once Mirko appeared on the scene, though he told his father that they would meet again while angrily calling him by his real name. He would later send Starservant and Ending to make Endeavor suffer even more than before.

When the Paranormal Liberation War occurs, Dabi gleefully reveals his true identity as Toya Todoroki to Endeavor upon reaching their location on Gigantomachia. He also reveals everything about Endeavor's past to public eye out of pure hatred for his father. This deeply shocks Endeavor to the point of feeling devastated to see his oldest child as a villain. Dabi also admits wanting to make Endeavor suffer for the rest of his life, believing he doesn't deserve any redemption for his past sins. He's so narrowed-minded on his goal, he doesn't mind killing his innocent loved ones, if it means hurting his father. Though Dabi seems to be aware of his own wrongdoings, he claims they'll dance in hell together. For these reasons, Dabi ultimately desires to kill and put an end to his father. He continues to mock and deride his father whenever possible, blaming the injuries or deaths of others Dabi causes, such as when he blasts Nejire Hado with his Quirk, to put Endeavor through more suffering. Later after successfully overpowering his younger brother, but seeing that their father had lost consciousness, Toya had chosen to hold off on killing Shoto. He reveals he's willing to kill the rest of the family, including Shoto and Natsuo, if it means hurting Endeavor. He targeted Shoto, as he wanted to savor their father's devastation when he sees the murder of his "masterpiece". When that failed, Dabi opts to retreat in order to further prolong their father's misery.

Later, after regaining consciousness after the battle against him and Gigantomachia, Enji was shown to greatly lament his past abuse and abandonment of Toya and deeply regretted his past actions towards him, with him acknowledging that his eldest son has succeeded in ruining his career as a hero. Later Enji would break down and admit that despite him being a mass murderer, he still could not fight against his eldest son. Dabi also refers to his father by his full name, showing his detachment towards him.

When seeing his father making a speech, Dabi was disappointed that he did not fully break his father's resolve after the latter revealed his abuse to his family to the world.

### Rei Todoroki

Unlike his father, Toya seemed to be very close to his mother Rei as a child according to Natsuo and Fuyumi. It is also mentioned by Natsuo that Toya's "death" greatly devastated Rei as her mental state had already been harshly affected by her husband's past abuses. Many years later, Rei would still think of Toya despite not knowing he is still alive as the villain Dabi.

As shown in the memories of their family, Rei loved and cared about her eldest son a lot, having been shown to greatly worry about him upon learning of his body's odd constitution of having her resistance to frost and his father's fire Quirk, and even more so as his body began to accumulate burns on an almost daily basis due to his insistence of training despite this. Later, upon realizing of Toya's stubbornness, Rei was shown to be greatly distressed upon her husband proposing his plan to make him "give up", having come to realize that her son was already aware of what her husband desired from having more children and was worried about the mental anguish he would go through.

While Rei greatly loved her son, Toya did not share a great bond with her. He was aware of the reason behind his mother and father getting married, and that Rei was basically sold off by her family. Because of this, Toya thought very little of his mother and did not rely on her for anything, believing that she was good for nothing. When Rei attempted to get Toya to reconsider what he really wanted to do in life and to look beyond his father, Toya coldly rebuked her, reminding her of the reason she married Enji and why he was even born at all, also placing blame on Rei for his problems.

By the time the Paranormal Liberation War occurs, Rei is shown to be completely horrified when Dabi reveals his true identity as her long-lost son that she thought she had lost many years ago.

### Shoto Todoroki

Shoto is Dabi's youngest sibling. Shoto would always watch him, Fuyumi, and Natsuo play together, often wanting to join them as they had fun but his father prevented any interactions between them since he had to train and get stronger. However, when Shoto was born, Toya began to feel a strong animosity towards him because he saw Shoto as his replacement for their father's dream. Driven by anger, envy and frustration, when Enji pleaded Toya to find another calling in life, Toya demanded that his father look at him, and furiously charged toward Shoto to attack him. Toya would later come to deeply regret his attempt to attack Shoto, understanding that he did nothing wrong and that he was nothing but a baby at the time. As seen in his pleading with his father, Toya was shown to initially consider Shoto as a rival of sorts in surpassing All Might and obtaining their father's affection.

Currently, Dabi and Shoto share an ambiguous relationship, although Shoto still appears to slightly remember him through his memories. It's also unclear if Shoto blames Enji for Toya's accident, with the rest of his siblings being conflicted over it.

The two brothers would confront each other when the Vanguard Action Squad invaded Beast's Forest to kidnap Katsuki Bakugo. Upon looking closely at Shoto's helpless expression during their brief confrontation, Dabi taunts him for failing to rescue Katsuki while calling him by his real name. This suggests a feeling of mockery and pity towards his brother. Shoto was also greatly shocked upon recognizing Dabi when the latter revealed himself in public during his attempted attack on Endeavor and Hawks. Though, he still only knew Dabi by his villain persona, and not as his brother.

By the time the Paranormal Liberation War occurs, Dabi gleefully reveals his true identity as Toya to Endeavor and Shoto upon reaching their location on Gigantomachia without any hesitance. He also admits to originally wanting to kill Shoto once he had become successful in his hero career, thinking of him as Endeavor's little puppet. This reveal causes Shoto to feel shocked and horrified upon seeing his oldest sibling as a nefarious villain. Dabi doesn't seem to even consider him a human as he refers to him as a puppet or a masterpiece. This shows he now only sees Shoto as an extension of Endeavor and a target of his grudge. When the two of them fight, Dabi has no problem in going all out against Shoto, coldly stating that he no longer feels anything for anyone and musing that he would get to kill Shoto right in front of Endeavor. However, it is also shown that Dabi only thought of it to make his father despair, as when Endeavor was unconscious, he stopped fighting him because Endeavor wasn't watching.

Although he seemed to only care about making Endeavor feel despair, it is hinted that Dabi hates Shoto even more from the moment he was born because Shoto inherited his mother's ice powers which regulates his flames while he only inherited his mother's low tolerance to fire. It may be possible that Dabi shows strong envy towards his youngest brother which is the reason why he wanted to kill him in the first place.

### Fuyumi Todoroki

When she was born, Toya was happy with the new addition to the family. When they were kids, Toya confided in her about his desire to be acknowledged in the eyes of their father. In turn, Fuyumi showed great concern over seeing her older brother's burn marks and asked him not to push himself, though Toya angrily ignored her pleas and simply said a girl wouldn't understand, determined to surpass All Might.

Despite being a "failed creation" like him and Natsuo, Toya did not share a particularly positive relationship with Fuyumi. Though he did interact with her rather well and would play together with her and Natsuo, Toya would choose to confide in Natsuo his personal thoughts and doubts instead. When Natsuo told Toya to talk to Fuyumi about his doubts instead of him once in a while, Toya rejected the idea, believing that both his mother and Fuyumi were good for nothing due to their constant attempts to dissuade him from training his Quirk and his dream of becoming a hero that surpasses All Might.

Nowadays, Fuyumi mourns his "death" and she prays at his altar. Unlike Natsuo, she doesn't seem to blame their father for his death.

However, when Dabi revealed himself in public in an attempt to attack Endeavor and Hawks, Fuyumi appeared greatly shocked by this despite not knowing his true identity around that time. Like the rest of her family, Fuyumi would be deeply shocked and saddened by Dabi's broadcast and the revelation that he had become a mass murderer and a villain.

### Natsuo Todoroki

As seen from the family's past, Toya didn't initially have a good impression of his younger brother upon his birth, due to him having realized what their father was trying to do by having more children. Despite this, Toya and Natsuo grew extremely close to each other, to the point of being inseparable, as they always played together as kids. Toya would also tell Natsuo everything about his inner thoughts and turmoil and lean on him for emotional comfort. It's implied that he felt a sense of camaraderie with Natsuo as he considered that they were both their father's "failed creations". To Toya, Natsuo was the only one who could understand him and the only one he could talk to, and when Natsuo suggested that he talked to Fuyumi about his problems instead of him once in a while, Toya was deeply hurt by the implication that Natsuo was brushing him off, to the point of nearly crying. His supposed death, which happened shortly after his mother went away, greatly affected Natsuo, which caused him to greatly resent his father, whom he considers to be primarily responsible for what happened to Toya.

Nowadays, Natsuo still remembers Toya and still can't forgive his father for it. When Dabi revealed himself in public in an attempt to attack Endeavor and Hawks, Natsuo appeared greatly shocked by this despite not knowing his true identity around that time. Around the time of the Paranormal Liberation War, Dabi mentions Natsuo when he delivers his speech to Endeavor, implying he still fondly remembers him despite them not seeing each other in a long time. When Dabi revealed his identity as Toya, Natsuo was shown to be horrified when he saw what his older brother had become on his phone. Alas, when Shoto criticizes him for sending a villain that nearly killed the same brother he loved and depended on, Dabi replies that it was a shame he didn't die because Endeavor would have suffered more, only caring about inflicting as much suffering onto Endeavor as possible even if it means sacrificing his family.

### Hatori Sohma

When they first met, Hatori wasn't afraid of Dabi's horrifying appearance and was very calm around him. Dabi started feeling comfortable around Hatori which ends up with them having a strong bond, and later love. after their bond increases Dabi began to love Hatori and Hatori began to love him too, despite their civillian and hero status.

Later on, Dabi discovered Hatori's secret. Hatori begged Dabi not to tell anyone and he agreed, leaving Hatori to sigh in relief. soon after, they went to Dabi's comfort place for a picnic and that led to Dabi confessing his romantic feelings for Hatori, with reciprocation. they had their first kiss which ends up becoming heated and passionate, it ends up with them having sex afterward. After that, Dabi and Hatori began dating and have a deeply affectionate and sexual relationshp.

Years later, they are married and have 3 children.

## Friends/Allies

### Tomura Shigaraki

Dabi and Tomura were very disconnected during their first meeting. Dabi immediately insulted Tomura and refused to tell him his true name. Dabi also doubted the League of Villains' allegiance to Stain's ideology. This eventually caused Tomura to try and attack Dabi, who was ready to defend himself but Kurogiri stopped it.

Even so, they became comrades after Tomura found his conviction following their first meeting. Dabi follows Tomura's orders and he trusts in Tomura taking charge of the League of Villains. Following All For One's defeat, Dabi becomes a valuable ally and partner to Tomura.

He also appears to respect him, as he was amazed by the latter's power in the war against the Meta Liberation Army and was pleased he gained an army from their victory. However, Dabi reveals to Hawks that he never cared about Tomura nor the League of Villains and that he only wants to use them to further his own goal.

### Himiko Toga

Dabi appears to view Himiko as a valuable ally. Even so, he doesn't appear to have a high opinion of her personality and often refers to her as crazy. In their first meeting, Dabi doubted the League of Villains' motives just because of Himiko's desire to join them. They do, however, become comrades. Since they were both admirers of Stain, they shared a common goal in wanting to bring down the hero society.

Dabi doesn't tolerate Himiko making fun of him when things do not go as he would like, as when she accuses him of not having social skills and burning those he doesn't consider fit to be part of the league, or being upset because his fire had no effect on Gigantomachia. Generally, Dabi responds to these provocations with blunt sarcasm. Though recently, Toga has shown some concern for Dabi, asking him about his sizzling arm and if he was alright.

### Twice

Dabi had shown no problems working with Twice and was seemingly not annoyed by his antics and contradictory personality. In return, Twice had confidence in Dabi's strength and rebuffed his doubt about his own strength. It is implied that Dabi and Twice viewed each other as brothers in combat.

However, there were occasional arguments between the two, given that Dabi stated he did not care what happens to his fellow League members, which conflicted with Twice's strong sense of camaraderie. When Giran was kidnapped by the Meta Liberation Army, Dabi doesn't hesitate to consider it nonsense to go and rescue him, which generated a violent response from Twice.

When Twice was cornered by Hawks during the Paranormal Liberation War, Dabi thinks to himself that Twice shouldn't blame himself; it's the scummy heroes that are to blame as always. Another note is that Dabi even gave Twice some encouragement to keep fighting, showing no signs of blame towards his comrade, and actually gave Twice a high-five. Upon witnessing Twice's death at the hands of Hawks, Dabi appeared devastated to the point where he became fully committed to the task of killing Hawks to avenge his ally, but only because he cared more about Twice's worth to his own ambitions than his friendship with him. Dabi later had no qualm in using Twice's dead body in an attempt to demoralize Tsukuyomi, as well as use the villain's death at the hands of Hawks to incriminate the No. 2 Hero as a part of his broadcast to break people's faith in heroes.

### Spinner

Dabi and Spinner share similar interests in taking down the hero society as both are huge followers of Stain's ideology. However, Dabi seems to disregard Spinner's presence like with most of his fellow League members. He even complains about Spinner's driving skills to the point the latter would shout back with annoyance.

Dabi often snarks at Spinner's expense and insults him whenever the opportunity comes by. When Spinner later reveals his motivations for joining the League of Villains to Tomura, Dabi mocked him by calling him a hollow cosplayer, implying that the latter enjoys insulting Spinner for laughs.

Spinner was quite surprised to learn Dabi was the oldest son of Endeavor, remarking on how he did not talk about it.

### Mr. Compress

Like the rest of his comrades, Dabi doesn't really care about Compress that much. Despite this, Dabi and Compress seem to have good camaraderie as they've teamed up on a few occasions. One of the notable team-ups involved them both using their Quirks to take down Snatch when confronting Overhaul. However, Dabi enjoys mocking Compress when the opportunity comes by, notably when he calls the latter out for doing nothing during the clash against the Meta Liberation Army.

### Izuku Midoriya

Dabi met Izuku briefly, during the raid on Classes 1-A and 1-B's field training. Izuku dodged Dabi's fire attack and witnessed him abduct Katsuki.

They meet formally during the Paranormal Liberation War in Jaku City after he arrives on the back of Gigantomachia, where he is stunned to learn that Dabi is actually Shoto's eldest brother and Endeavor's first son, Toya Todoroki, whom he had learned about from Shoto when he invited him and Katsuki to his house for dinner. He listens to Dabi claim that he plans on killing Endeavor and tries to stop him before Best Jeanist arrives. When Shoto starts fighting Dabi and starts getting overwhelmed, Deku uses Blackwhip to help him, causing Dabi to retort for him to stay out of family business. Deku replies saying that Shoto is his friend and Endeavor is his mentor. Seeing that he was intent on intervening, he asked him as a hero does he not pity Dabi because of what he endured. Izuku did feel empathy and stated while he knows Endeavor's actions were awful, he is watching in earnest how he is trying to change. He yells to Dabi that he isn't Endeavor, which has no effect on Dabi but wills Endeavor to finally take action again.

## Enemies

### Fumikage Tokoyami

Dabi acts in a condescending and manipulative manner towards Tsukuyomi when they first meet, telling him that his mentor Hawks betrayed and killed Twice, then saying that the heroes' hands are dirtier than the villains'. He tells the young hero that he's stopped thinking for himself and asks him who really deserves saving. However, Tsukuyomi refuses to be swayed by Dabi's words, choosing to stand by Hawks' side no matter what he had done.

### Hawks

Dabi has shown to be distrustful towards Hawks. It is unknown if he would have killed Hawks in his weakened state, despite that the two had set up High-End's attack together. Dabi even questions Hawks' integrity to the League of Villains as Hawks explained he had to keep up appearances for the Hero society.

Soon enough, Dabi lets him join the Paranormal Liberation Front because he saw Hawks being able to commit a murder. Their relationship is mocking, dishonest, and resembles a constant power struggle. Dabi was the only villain who saw through the hero's lies and suspected Hawks of being a double-agent.

By the time the attack on the Gunga Mountain Villa begins, Dabi makes his way to Hawks' location, knowing it was Hawks who triggered the war.

Dabi joins the fight against Hawks, countering the hero's extreme speed with strong blasts of fire. Hawks manages to escape, but before he can kill Twice, Dabi screams Hawks' real name, which had been kept a secret since Hawks was a child.

After Twice is killed by Hawks, Dabi becomes furious towards the hero and ruthlessly attacks him with his flames. Dabi forces him to stay on the floor while burning off Hawks' wings completely. During this confrontation, Hawks asks the villain who he really is and Dabi answers. After hearing his true identity as Endeavor's son, Hawks stops struggling with a shocked facial expression. Dabi tells him that Hawks should've known that his old adversary was a bigger threat to him than any other villain. Dabi also claims that he doesn't care whether Hawks lives or dies.