Dabi's stuck with noticing tells. Watching people's faces and hand positions, the way their eyes move when he gets a glance of them. Screw trying to read Mayerling; he already tells that's an endeavor in frustration at best.

"Uh-huh. Ya ain't just gonna make a new you when ya end up in a strange world that wants to kill ya." While some people certainly would try to make a "new me" when faced with such an obvious "reset" of their lives, it's impossible to pull back habits and core thoughts so readily.

Oh that's a big question. "Power struggle between livin under the social rules of heroes and livin free." Not the most unbiased answer , from a villain, but what's to be expected? "Ya don't fit in with what they consider "safe" or "normal" and they slap a "villain" label on ya. Heroes run the society, but villains are the ones who try to change it."