User blog:No9ah10/An Unspeakably Gruesome Death

 Preface: 

It's been a bit since I last wrote a theory out, but I had a few sudden thoughts that I really wanted to jot down into this theory, so here we go.

This theory contains spoilers up to Chapter 311 of the manga, proceed at your own discretion.

 Part 1: An Unspeakably Gruesome Death 

I'm sure everyone remembers when All Might first told Deku that he was going to die within the next year, and the ripples it sent through the community sparking theories for years to come.

https://imgur.com/a/bdT3Wlt

So far, it seems the community at large has come to accept the "Gruesome Death" Nighteye describes to be Tomura Shigaraki's Quirk, "Decay.".

This is a good hypothesis and I do think this is a very likely outcome, it would be very tragic for All Might to die by the hands of the corrupted descendant of his master, in fact it might even be possible that's originally what was going to happen, but I no longer believe this to be the case.

 Part 2: An Unspeakably Gruesome Quirk 

I would now let to point your attention to the new Jailbreaker, the woman the entire fanbase seems to be calling "Prison Waifu".

As of right now (Chapter 311), we don't know much about her, basically nothing at all, but what's important is what we've seen of her Quirk.

https://imgur.com/a/pHYNvIl

Here's some stuff we can see:


 * Her Arm is turned into a full on Sniper Rifle at the elbow.
 * The Sniper Rifle is seemingly made out of Bone, Ligaments, Cartilage, Tendons, Muscle Fibers, etc.
 * The fired bullet seems to be made out of a Pneumatic Bone with a Microphone inside of it, surrounded by Tendons.
 * Her legs have been fused into what is more of a support pillar of a leg.


 * She's wearing what seems to be a back brace with canisters lining her waist.

From this, my hypothesis is that her Quirk involves:


 * 1) Body Manipulation: The ability to manipulate her body's components into different positions at will.
 * 2) Organic Manipulation: The ability to manipulate organic/living matter, in her case allowing her to perform Body Manipulation on herself and potentially others.
 * 3) Organic Constructs: The ability to create complex constructs out of organic material, so like the Sniper Rifle she made.

It's possible she has more to her Quirk, but this is what we see for now. In fact I believe Chisaki is tagging along with her potentially because he proposed a deal where she makes him new arms.

If this is in fact what her Quirk allows her to do, it would be an incredibly gruesome ability, firstly it would be unimaginably painful for her to turn her body into that Sniper Rifle, to the point where I believe the canisters hold supplements and painkillers. If she were to use that ability maliciously on someone else, the outcome would be horrifying.

 Part 3: An Interesting Set of Narrative Coincidences 

Now, a big problem with All Might dying to Prison Waifu's Quirk is what's the narrative significance behind it, for that I simply considered that she would end up using All Might as leverage over Deku as it's clear All Might is being attacked at the same time as Deku is.

Disregarding that for now though, there's a some things to note about this Chapter.

The first is that we actually get to see a brief flashback featuring Nighteye.

https://imgur.com/a/D0wHnLG

This flashback happens to be the same flashback in which All Might is told if he continues down his current path he would face that unspeakably gruesome death, now why would Horikoshi bring that up now? It happens to coincide with the introduction of the new character's quirk. I'd consider this narrative evidence to suggest that his death and her quirk are at least somewhat related.

However one piece of evidence isn't enough, but two pieces can form a pattern.

Horikoshi takes after Oda in a lot of ways, as we see from Horikoshi being a longtime fan of One Piece, from his interview with Oda, from different narrative beats and from certain Quirks feeling a lot like the wackiness of Devil Fruit abilities.

Going along with this logic, there's a certain trope Oda occasionally does with his chapters, where chapters with the same numbers but rearranged are connected in one way or another, the most popular example being Gear 2nd being introduced in Chapter 387, and Gear 4th being introduced in Chapter 783.

You better believe it,

Chapter 311: Here We Go!!

Chapter 131: Fighting Fate

The Chapter where her Quirk is introduced, and the Chapter Deku realizes All Might will die, have the same digits rearranged.

Narrative Evidence: Strong

Circumstantial Evidence: Moderate

Chekhov's Gun: Yes (literally)