Jump time, and MHA has a lot to get through with chapter 270, Inheritance. We can start with this - the machine X-Less gets distracted by is located roughly where I've drawn the blue arrow, while he's behind the remains of Shigaraki's tank, indicated in red

Beautiful detail on the wreckage aside, I wonder why X-Less was made to hesitate. In-universe his reason is clear, but there's no clear reason for him to do so narratively. Perhaps that machine currently stores the 2 Quirks the doctor took, and Shigaraki will use them

Kudos to Mic for not knocking Garaki out and keeping a level head. Prioritising of the success of the mission over his personal grudge is also something Aizawa did last chapter when he stayed back and let Mic handle it

We already knew Garaki was the mind behind the Singularity theory, but he gives us a lot of information about the timeline of MHA. We learn that even 70 years ago society was still recovering from the advent of Quirks, and that Garaki himself is about 120 years old.

This probably makes him one of the earliest people with a Quirk, likely part of the first generation, which would make him a similar age to All For One. This fits with what we know about One For All's users - with the exception of All Might they died young

so they couldn't have had the Quirk for long. We don't know about the first 3 users though, who could have had it much longer - IMO the first probably did.

The doctor's Quirk also gives us a clue on All For One's age. It doubles the user's lifespan, so he definitely can't be older than 160-200, but more importantly is the fact that he got it 70 years ago. Suppose he was 200 now, he'd be 130 when he got Life Force. That doesn't track

At most I'd say he's 150, which would mean he was 80 when he got Life Force and is biologically 75ish now. On the lower end he might be younger than Garaki, but I don't really see that, so I'd put him in the range of 120-150

However Life Force also tells us something really interesting - for the past 70 years All For One's physical mobility has been hampered by his anti-ageing Quirk (This downside is why I think he only has the one, if there was one without drawbacks he'd switch in a heartbeat)

So him not moving around much in Kamino was partly due to Life Force, not just his injuries. In the vestige flashback we see him move around much more quickly, but he was probably forced to change his fighting style when he got Life Force

Shoutout to @VocalPineapple for this part - comparing Shigaraki to Nine, from Heroes Rising, you'll notice the latter acts in much the same way. I wonder if Shigaraki was supposed to have Life Force too, but I hope not. His mobility is currently one of his greatest strengths

Now this part is truly disturbing. If All For One had access to Erasure the world would be his for the taking. That's why I personally don't think Shigaraki will get his hands on it even now, though that doesn't mean Aizawa won't die.

Shigaraki's dreamscape (probably the vestiges of All For One, though it's a little more incoherent than OFA's) is gorgeous. Something that I find truly sad about Shigaraki is that he takes the time to converse to these warped memories of his mother and Hana, reassuring them even.

Side note - Hana is the name of the other protagonist in Horikoshi's oneshot Tenko, which is about a boy who can disintegrate anything he touches with both hands and a woman who wants to become a warrior. The two don't share many similarities beyond their names,

but the Shimura siblings in MHA are a clear callback to that oneshot name-wise, and in Shigaraki's case also regarding both his ability and, to an extent, his backstory

Back on topic - that willingness to talk is part of what makes the Shigaraki of now infinitely more terrifying than the one we saw back in chapter 13. The childish villain earlier in the story would no doubt have snapped and blamed his family, but the current Shigaraki

is detached and level-headed. Is a monster that can empathise truly monstrous?

Kotaro's hand has his fingers splayed here, in contrast with the scene the preceding dialogue is taken from, which is when he hit Tenko. In that scene he had his fingers together, so I think this is symbolising how he closed down Shigaraki's ambitions and dreams

All For One appearing from inside of Kotaro is emblematic of how he filled the genuine fatherly role Shigaraki wanted but never got from Kotaro, but also how AFO simply took a different approach to sculpting Shigaraki the way he wanted than his biological father

His head being covered is probably due to the 75% completion, which might be the cause of the unstable dreamscape too. And of course, hiding All For One's eyes means we lack the "window to the soul" for the soulless Lord of Evil

In one chapter we get 2 cases of characters taking duplicates of their own Quirks. The question is - is it purely symbolic, or is there a logical reason for doing so?

Garaki is one of my favourite characters in MHA because of what he adds to the series. You rarely see anyone try to game the power system - the closest I can think of would be Smiles in One Piece - so that in and of itself is an interesting concept. But Garaki also

expands our knowledge of Quirks.

I love theorising about power systems. How different abilities might interact, or alternative applications or powers are my bread and butter (see also my theory on the workings of Double), https://twitter.com/Sporeman0/status/1256233841834045441?s=20

so I've got something in mind about Garaki's Quirk replication and transferal technology, but I'll save that for sometime next week. It's not relevant to the actual events of the chapter.

This shot here is absolutely incredible. It makes me wonder if Horikoshi's been planning this scene since chapter 18, when Shigaraki first referred to the hand on his face as his father. The two hands on his head both being left hands, Nana's requiring Float to fit in,

we even get Kotaro's hand, covering Shigaraki's face, being the same one he was hit with as a child. If this was intended from over 200 chapters ago that's some incredible planning

This is clean as hell. Shigaraki swipes away even the hand of the one hero from his family, the person who made him keep thinking he could be a hero, and rejects his family's pleas. The fact he also brushed off their help earlier means he's completely free from them,

and they can no longer get in his way. It's the ultimate betrayal of hero society to turn your back on a holder of One For All, its key protector, in order to accept All For One, the person most dedicated to bringing it down

Regarding the wire Shigaraki is awoken from, I don't really mind if it's a coincidence. With the amount of damage dealt to the lab it'd be more of a surprise if there wasn't anything in the water. However, we can see from the relative positions of X-Less, the wire and the machine

he wanted to destroy that he was not responsible for it falling into the water, it was already there. Which makes me wonder if Shigaraki was already receiving the shock needed to wake him up, he just had to accept All For One within the dreamscape.