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Super!

The populace spend all their lives glorifying and worshipping the pavement where the "heroes" walk on like celebrities. But when the "heroes" failed, they start turning against them. Do they not realize that if they just toss away their heroes, they would be still the target of the villains?
Who Watches the Watchmen? That's what this comes down to at the end of the day. The thing is, we the viewer have an advantage over the people who live in this world. We can see everything as a meta-whole via the fourth wall which allows us to take in the majority of the bigger picture. But for them, yes, they enjoy the UA sports festival and they see All Might and Captain Celebrity stopping disasters and hugging babies. And they also see Bakugo being chained to a post on live TV because he cannot control his temper, Endeavour walking around covered in flames knocking autograph books away, and Mt. Lady who frequently ends up costing the city millions of Yen because she keeps on flattening buildings Godzilla-style. If you lived in this world, if it was your shop or house flattened by Mt. Lady, if it was you who was running when Endeavour sent a wall of flame down your street to stop someone, you too would wonder who the heroes and villains actually are. And it doesn't help that this is a world that has decided upon raising what are essentially child soldiers - which really came back to bite everyone on the ass when UA started to come under constant attack. Parents tend to take photographs of injured children seriously.
Adding to the above, human adoration is fickle and tempestuous. Look at how people react even today with celebrities. When, say, a star player is on your team, they're an idol, the greatest of the greats, etc. But then they leave your team, and people turn against them, spewing hate and vitriol, burning merchandise, wishing ills on them, and so on. Once someone is no longer benefitting you and yours (heroes no longer beating back the bad guys to keep a perceived peace), people turn on them, even if their reasons are faulty. In this case, people are lashing out on the misconception that without heroes, there wouldn't be villains, and thus now that the heroes aren't winning, they're the root of the problem.

I am not expecting people to reach a perfect system, and considering superheroes are busy fighting villains, just because the system is flawed it doesn't make villany acceptable after all. But there are so many instances of people turning into villains because of the system and rightfully pointing the flaws out. Did any of the superheroes try anything to change the system because of that and stayed heroes? Maybe ask for help or ask someone else to take care of it entirely. As stated, I am not expecting anyone to achieve a perfect system, I am just unsure if any hero who didn't turn into a villain is still trying to change the system and isn't just fighting villains.
Reforming the very basis of society is far more difficult than fighting villains. Remember, most heroes are just as ignorant of the shadier side of the Hero Commission as any random civilian. Most are brought up to see heroism as either just a career path or honestly believe in the idealistic image it presents. This is a world where superheroes and supervillains battle in public on a daily basis. Many people either have been saved or at least know someone who has been saved by a hero at least once. For the most part, the heroes are genuinely benevolent, if flawed, and are looked up to because of that. Out of the people who do know of the darker side of hero work, they see how depraved villains can be and can rationalize the idea of being used as hired guns to a point to counter it. Let's not pretend that the government of any given real world country doesn't engage in a dozen atrocities before breakfast in the name of "peacekeeping". Heroes pushed too far in the business of doing HC wetwork can easily be relabeled villains at any time and will be taken down before they can give up the dirty little secrets they know.
Even ignoring the general ignorance and societal programming, bringing reforms is never simple and always opposed by those who benefit from the current system. A hero can't just punch out offending actors in government both because there are far too many and because their only legal protections come from the very hero system itself. Any violence (don't kid yourself, hero work is mostly violence) against a government official will result in immediate reclassification as a villain and incarceration. Possibly even assassination. Heroes aren't politicians. They deal with problems directly and this is a problem that just doesn't have a direct solution. To reform a system, the hero would have to start up a full political movement and slowly gain a following that can win enough elections to rise to a point where the laws can be rewritten. This is a long, complicated, and usually very boring process with no guarantee to show any results even over decades. Especially since there are so many monied interests (heroism has always had a very profitable corporate element in this series) in preventing change to hero society. This is complicated even more by the fact that villains are very much active and making city-destroying plays all the time. Even All Might in his prime could barely keep up with them and have time to sleep. This means that there is no chance of doing anything meaningful politically and keeping up a hero career, so they would basically have to become full time politicians in flashy costumes. All of this political drama could make an interesting story, but it wouldn't be the sort of one fitting here. Unless Deku unlocks some hidden legal argument Quirk in One For All, we are unlikely to see this process in any meaningful detail in this shonen battle manga. At least not until All For One is dealt with permanently.
Well, they might not manage to change the system for the reasons mentioned above, but I really think Deku might be unsatisfied with it. Maybe they will manage a few small changes or raise awareness somehow. Better than nothing. Plus, as All Might himself stated, even if they get rid of All For One another Big Bad might arise.
Do you remember that scene in The Matrix with the lady in the red dress? It is honestly one of the most important lessons that anyone can ever learn: there are those who are so beholden to the system, so hopelessly dependent on it, that they will fight and die to protect it. It doesn't matter what the flaws with that system are, or even if those flaws are ultimately just as harmful to them in the long run as they are to everyone else, they will resist change. Its just a sad fact of life. Many social issues that we pat ourselves on the back for making progress in today have actually been battles that go back generations, it's just that those heroes were not written into the history books.

How many homeless people begging have you passed by in life? The sad truth is Bystander Syndrome is very real. If people can rationalize that "someone else" will take care of a problem, they will ignore it with hardly any regret. In a world where superpowered battles are the norm, the temptation is only greater. That is Shigaraki's point: he is what happens when a society becomes unwilling to solve its problems and labels them villains when they grow too great to ignore. He's out to show people what sort of monsters can result from their apathy.

Excessive force is wrong torturing prisoners is wrong

Prisoners are to be treated as humanely as if not possible than feasible

Those who want their own lives to be hard and difficult and dangerous have no right to force that on anyone else

Bystander Syndrome: Justified since it’s enforced In-Universe due to highly restrictive Quirk regulation laws. Even if someone has the Quirk for a situation they won't be able to help if they lack a hero license. And if they do use their Quirk they'll either be labeled a villain or vigilante so most seek to stay out of trouble. While this mentality is supposed to keep people safe from Quirk misuse and getting civilians endangered it’s actually caused more harm than good. In fact, following the destruction and death that Tenko Shimura/Tomura Shigaraki caused before he died this topic is brought up when many start questioning how things could’ve been different if someone other than All For One stepped in to help him after his awakened Quirk killed his family.

Misery Builds Character: Numerous shonen animes have characters whose better traits are attributed to understanding suffering. In the final battle All for One even brings up this trope as a way of justifying his actions towards his underlings. Sero calls him out, pointing out that he turned out a good heroic student despite never having tragic highs and lows. He further states that anyone would be better off without tragedy in their lives.
This is also deconstructed numerous times prior to Sero's point, especially with Todoroki and arguably Midoriya. While the two of them ultimately do turn out to be alright it's very strongly highlighted this is in spite of the suffering they endured, not because of it. If anything suffering as a Quirkless person and from the bullying throughout his life leaves Midoriya with a dangerous martyr complex and disturbing lack of regard for his own well-being while Todoroki's suffering under his Abusive Dad left him with No Social Skills, disconnected from the rest of his peers until Midoriya helped him open up and willing to stunt his own growth to spite his father regardless of the very real risks such a thing poses to himself and others.

Ambiguously Human: Society decayed when Quirks appeared with the definition of human becoming loose and fear breaking out in everyone. And Chapter 220 shows that there's still discrimination against people with Mutation-type Quirks (like Spinner of the LoV) with groups that are basically The Klan roaming about.

Personality Powers: A number of characters in the series have Quirks that reflet their personalities such as Bakugo's explosive personality matching his Quirk. In the Meta Liberation Army arc this idea is deconstructed when Curious brings up another In-Universe belief that many people are actually changed by their Quirks, meaning they develop interests and personalities as a result of their Quirks having biological effects. She points out that Toga’s Quirk led her to have an attraction and admiration for blood as well as a drive from a young age to try consuming it. That behavior was repressed by her parents and society at large, forcing her to try containing herself for years. When her bloodthirstiness finally exploded upon seeing a boy drenched in blood after a fight she went off the rails and became a Serial Killer. Curious mentions this might not have happened had society been different and taken care of her properly since it was literally a part of her that nobody understood.

Hero with Bad Publicity: After the Paranormal Liberation War ends with many cities destroyed and escaped criminals running rampant alongside the villains, public opinion of heroes plummets. Society hurls nothing but criticism and insults at them, continuously blaming them for the country’s ruined state. While some like Endeavor endure and keep fighting most simply give up rather than risk their lives in significantly more dangerous environments only to be hated. Even some such as Death Arms who keep going at first eventually get worn down by negativity, retiring due to severe stress and low morale.

Kirk Summation, Shut Up, Hannibal! and "The Reason You Suck" Speech: As the series progresses it gradually becomes clear many who turned to villainy are not immoral lunatics but rather collections of broken people who wound up driven to it after being failed by society in one form or another. Needless to say, attempts to lecture them by the heroes usually end up coming across as Condescending Compassion at best and Dehumanization at worst. More often than not (such as during the confrontation between Twice and Hawks) this results in alienating the villains further.

Evil Is Cool: With the figure of Stain it shows how damaging the concept can be to society, particularly young people as Stain goes from a semi-obscure and shadowy villain to a household name overnight. His visage and message is broadcast all over the media and merchandise is even produced and sold at malls. Since the attention Stain gets from the media encourages troubled people such as Himiko and Dabi to become full-time villains this essentially leads to a type of criminal renaissance. This is troublesome because, even if villains are “cool” they’re still people who hurt innocents, shown when Kaminari praised Stain's coolness, failing to realize he just voiced appreciation for the man who permanently crippled his schoolmate’s brother right in front of said him until he’s called out on it. Ironically, despite Stain himself having nothing to do with it some of his adherents go on to wreck society during the Paranormal Liberation War out of a desire to undo the world of fake heroes Stain crusaded against.

Personally, i loved this ending. Especially since there was actually an ending, a very much satisfying one that actually made sense. So, thank you for writing and hopefully next story will be at least as awesome.

As I'm sure a lot of people have already told you, it's a shit ending. Which is too bad because it was a decent story.

Slightly ominous that Taylor "can't help her hunger". It sounds as if maybe she's still helpless before the curses that The Four gave her at the start of the story, despite having grown to be... a great demon? Bordering on godhood?

precioso
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pd: espero que V sea mujer en el nuevo fic. jugue ya 4 veces y en todas jugue con V de mujer, simplemente es mas genial, incluso cuando le dejo el cuerpo a Jonny, queda tan bien que es increible

I liked this story a lot. The Taylor your wrote was an awesome character and their journey was beautiful and complex. It was sad then ending but realistic in the situacion.

I loved the story. This is my first time interacting with anything WORM related and youve definitely given me somwthing new to read. I get wym with writing yourself into a corner, it kinda threw a lot of the side plots out the window though I still think you did an amazing job.

Thank you for the chapter!

I still think this story has potential. Even if it's a side story starting off where things feel rushed. I've enjoyed this story a lot though regardless.