User blog:No9ah10/(MANGA SPOILERS) Shoji is a traitor... just not in the way you think

Ok so hear me out.

First of all, I'd like to warn you that you must have read up to Chapter 218 of the manga in order to not be spoiled by this post, now that that's out of the way let's go through this.

I'm going to add a disclaimer that as of now this is more of a small theory, just one I thought up on the way to school and felt I needed to post about it.

As of Chapter 218, we have full clarification on what Destro's Quirk Liberation Army was and what it's motives were (to allow people to freely use their quirks, which was the implication previously but now we know for sure). We also know that there's followers of Destro's ideology within society on the down low. Do you see where I'm going with this?

Last year Horikoshi told us Shoji would be getting his character arc soon, and he has yet to deliver on that promise. I believe that Shoji might be someone who follows the ideals of the Quirk Liberation Army and will become a point of contention in the upcoming arc or later down the line.

This theory of mine was partly inspired by reddit user evilsnowcookie's Shoji Traitor Theory (Especially the poem).

For now evidence is insanely slim (I'm planning to expand this blog if more appears, I just want to get my idea out there), as we've never seen the liberation army or Destro mentioned in his presence.

Evidence:

1. Shoji's Mask has yet to be explained (Let me quickly address the art concept and how that's not necessarily what it looks like at the moment, but it could still play into it.). It's possible that he has to wear the mask due to something relating to his Quirk (possibly an incident in the past where he lost control), and allowing Quirks in the public would solve this issue.

2. Shoji's name comes from a japanese poem titled "walls have ears, doors have eyes" "壁に耳あり障子に目あり" (Kabe ni mimi ari shōjinimeari) which originates from a japanese poem. The poem roughly translates out to:

“Walls have ears.

Doors have eyes.

Trees have voices.

Beasts tell lies.

Beware the rain.

Beware the snow.

Beware the man

You think you know."