Meta Liberation War

Chikara Yotsubashi, known to the world as the Villain Destro, wrote Meta Liberation War during his imprisonment. The book is an autobiography, but the politics in it are the point.

His position is that the government has no business regulating Quirks, and that free use of them belongs to people by right. Once the writing was done, he killed himself.

The text has gone through several printings. Much of the original had to be reworked for the latest edition so that it would sit properly in a changed era.

Not every reader takes it seriously. To some it reads as propaganda, a long excuse dressed up as philosophy, written to justify what his organization did. It works on people regardless, and the principles in it still carry weight in the present.

Destro is both author and subject. The passages quoted from the book lay out his reasoning at length. Quirks, he argues, are a permanent feature of humanity. He leans on figures drawn from staged bouts pitting a parent against their own child, and concludes that each generation comes into stronger ability than the one before it. Strip out the confounding factors, he writes, and the child wins every time.

From there the conclusion follows: if abilities keep climbing inside a society that represses them, the law eventually loses its grip and everything falls apart. He rejects the terrorist label on those grounds, casting himself as a man trying to head off a collapse by freeing Quirks from legal restraint and growing an ethic of personal responsibility in place of the rules. He also observes, pointedly, that the people who cannot follow his argument tend to be the people the current system pays.