#431 fix it fic

[marimeeko]

Unnamed Fix-it fic: Chapter 2! (Post 431, Angst, hurt/eventual comfort, mutual pining and idiocy, BAKUDEKU)

Alright, I'm sending this one. I have had a bit of a war with myself over the sequence of events, but I think I have it figured out. I will continue to be anxious about it though. Lol.

Also I estimate this will be about 5 to 6 chapters. I think. I will try not to get carried away, lmao.

This chapter is admittedly cheesy-sweet but like...whatever, it's fun. 🥲

//Chapter 1//Chapter 2//

"With that, let's take our break for lunch!" Izuku clapped his hands together, cheerfully dismissing his class of first years. The classroom began to buzz, students beginning to sweep all of their worksheets and study materials away into their bags.

"Oh, it's a bit early," Izuku corrected himself, finally checking his watch. The time usually escaped him when he did his lectures, but today it had gone at a stellar pace. "So, does anyone have any last questions before we are all packed up?"

No one thought to raise their hands , so Izuku carried on with erasing the board behind him.

Someone next to the window looked at Izuku and raised their hand and asked,

"Midoriya-sensei, DynaMight hasn't crashed our class to bring you lunch in a while! What's going on?"

"What? DynaMight?" Izuku laughed, thoroughly not expecting that question at all. "Well, he's really busy, and he's working on his own agency now, so I imagine he's off taking care of that!"

The classroom then started to whisper, excitedly, about the prospect of DynaMight having his own agency. Izuku smiled to himself as he got back to erasing the board, thinking fondly about Katsuki having become a favorite of his students. Most kids their age, and even the kids in his class, tended to like more...agreeable, or charismatic heroes, as well as ones higher than Katsuki on the ranking list. Mirio, of course, was quite popular, not just for his power and his record of saving, but for that honest, goofy personality and golden retriever energy.

Katsuki had his audience, for sure, but they skewed typically towards young adult males who liked his powerful quirk and take no prisoners attitude in battle.

However, the students in Izukus orbit seemed to have taken a shine to the bombastic hero. Not that Izuku could blame them...Kacchan was still amazing...

"Midoriya-sensei! Does that mean you're going to go work for his agency??" Kota shouted this time. The classroom went quiet quickly, everyone anticipating the answer.

Izuku froze, hand still raised, eraser pressed to the board.

He had already shown his students the suit that now allowed him to do hero work, and given them a rousing demonstration of how the suit replicated his former powers, and it had honestly been one of his funnest days teaching to have his students try to catch him in it. The kids were inspired to see their legendary teacher back in action, so it was only natural, he supposed, for the kids to have questions on how he intended to do his hero work going forward.

But the question still caught him off guard somehow.

The eraser in his hand finished it's streak as Izuku turned back around.

"Well...I'm a teacher, so my place is with you guys!" Izuku cheerfully explained. "I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to do both..."

That drew mixed reactions from the class.

"You can't just stay in here," Kota suddenly rebuffed. "You're too good, Deku, and you have the suit now! Think of how many people you could save!"

Izuku was floored, but immediately waved away the praise in a panic.

"Kota, wait, hold on, it's not that easy-- and I'm hardly at the level I was back then," Izuku inwardly flinched at how much he sounded like the awkward teenager he used to be, as he turned bright red and his hands waved in front of him. "Kacc--DynaMight and I--"

"You can't deny, though, that you two made an incredible team!" A girl from the other side of the class spoke up, her glowing eyes piercing right through Izuku. "We've all seen the footage from the war, Midoriya-sensei! Y'all were unstoppable against All for One and your chemistry's insane!"

A chorus of students agreed in time with her.

Izuku scratched at the back of his head frantically, "Guys, that was 8 years ago, and we..."

And we have different lives now; he wanted to say, but somehow, the words stuck in his throat.

"Sensei... did you and DynaMight... break up?" Another student with animated hair who always visually reminded him of Burnin piped up.

A very heavy silence seized the classroom, and 20 sets of eyes rounded on Izuku. Izuku could have heard a pin drop, and suddenly realized that even his breath had stopped dead in its tracks. The implication, the words hung uncomfortably in the air.

"I-we...wait... what??" Izuku stammered, trying to inhale again. Green eyes looked around at his students, utterly confused. "You guys, that's not what happened," he tried to laugh, but it came out as sheer panic.

"It would explain why he hasn't shown up to bug you for like, a week..." Kota scoffed with his arms crossed. "He's always acted like a huge jerk."

"Yeah, but not with Midoriya-sensei," another girl countered, whirling around to face Kota. "You've known them the longest, there's no way you can't see how different he acts in our classroom, Kota-kun!"

"DynaMight was here just last week for that communication demonstration!" Came a differing perspective from the elected class president, a stern girl who reminded Izuku so much of Tenya. "Anyway, it really isn't our place to assume about Sensei's personal life, I think this has gone far enough, don't you all?"

"T-thank you, Arisa-San," Izuku thanked the girl, with a deep sigh that was punctuated by the tone of the dismissal bell.

As deeply pulled in to the sudden drama as the students had been, their switch was immediate. Having already packed away, they all got to their feet in a hurry and the clamoring for lunch began. Voices rang past Izuku as they gave their departing thanks for the lesson, and well wishes for lunch, and even a few of them commenting,

"I hope he shows up today, Midoriya-sensei!" "Don't worry, Sensei, it'll work out!"

And the class rep herself stopped on the way out, bowing deeply and apologizing on behalf of her classmates for intruding.

Izuku could do little else than stand there, where his feet had been rooted in shock, waving his beloved students off to their break, bowing his own thanks to the girl. She really was like Iida, he couldn't help but smile.

The noise and chaos filtered slowly out of the room, and Izuku's held breath escaped him in a rushing sigh.

"Where on Earth did that come from?" He weakly mused, melting down into his chair.

It had been almost 2 weeks exactly since he saw Katsuki at the reunion and the subject of the agency had first been broached. True enough that Katsuki had shown up to UA to do that presentation on communication, and it had gone perfect, but had remained mostly business. But the kids were right, and he somehow hadn't realized until now that Katsuki hadn't shown up unannounced with an extra Bento during his lunch hour for several days.

He hadn't realized that it had become such a habit that even his kids were counting on it happening frequently. Somehow, they had noticed the absence of Katsuki barging in their unlocked window, and he hadn't.

Izuku's gaze shifted from the stack of papers he was sorting, to the window in question. All he could see outside of the glass was a perfectly blue sky.

He pushed his chair back and approached the window, and slid it open. It was unlocked, as usual. Katsuki had perfect enough timing somehow that he rarely ever actually interrupted any of his lessons. It's like he waited for the bell.

Izuku pressed his hands into the sill and leaned out, looking out on the city far away from the secluded location of UA. As if he was hoping to spot a far away figure growing closer and louder on his way. He honestly wondered sometimes if Nezu and the security team were aware of Katsuki exploding himself onto campus just to see him. If they were, they hadn't said anything.

Izuku pulled himself back inside, and slid the window gently shut. He found himself missing Katsuki's presence, and now mourning the several days that the absence had gone unnoticed.

But he didn't demand or ask questions of Katsuki. He enjoyed his company on lunch breaks, and the meals he cooked were delicious. He couldn't ask for more from his childhood friend and rival, couldn't be greedy with his attention. If Katsuki had to spend time elsewhere, doing other things, Izuku was far from argument.

Scarred hands lingered on the glass and the pristine frame. Izuku's softened green eyes pointed downward, seeing the image of Katsuki sliding it open, not hard enough to damage, but definitely enough to make an entrance. Sticking one boot in first, the other knee folded up to his chest, face mask pulled back over his forehead, and often smeared in a layer of soot. Izuku could see clearly, the mental image of Katsuki carrying his two Bento, leaning against the frame of the window, with a rough, teasing "OI, Sensei," and a smirk.

Izuku ran his fingers along the frame.

Suddenly, a sadness panged in his chest, because there was no mark of Katsuki being there...he always made sure to clean the frame after lunch... and no sign of him showing up.

Today it would be like the other days, Izuku would head down to the UA cafeteria, a pile of papers in his hands to pour over until the next class would begin. That's just how it was.

"Different lives," Izuku murmured to himself. Then tore his gaze away from the window to get going.

That's all it was...right?

As he passed his desk, he grabbed his Suit Case with the bold, green and black "18" on it, the decal being a memento that had been included when All Might and Katsuki had given it to him. He never went anywhere without it these days.

The metal in his hands, the heft of the technology within, gave him an idea. After all, he had a small window of time later, if he hurried...

--

It was just past sunset when Katsuki finally stopped on the ledge of a building, echoes of his explosions hanging in the air and smoking out of his gauntlets. Breathing only a bit heavy from the workout of flying over the tops of buildings, crimson eyes settled on the streets below.

The afternoon had settled down quite a bit and the evening promised to be calm, at least, from where he stood, mid patrol.

He checked the time, it was a perfect point to stake out the area and take a breather.

As the lights turned on throughout the city, Katsuki crouched into a squat position, and felt the tension ease out of his calves. A lot of running around and responding to incidents earlier had left him feeling the physical strain of the day etching slowly into his muscles.

His stomach grumbled lowly. It had also apparently been a while since his last meal.

He grimaced, he was exceedingly aware that he had forgone taking his lunch hour at UA. In fact it weighed heavy on his mind lately.

There was guilt about it nagging him, he didn't really like avoiding Izuku. But there was also a feeling of necessity, as if he was protecting his peace, as some therapist might tell him.

Or maybe it was Izuku's peace he was protecting. Letting him have that space to do what was special to him...even if it included being away from Katsuki.

He shook his head, blonde spikes flapping around and bangs batting his face, before burying a gloved hand into his hair. What was he even thinking? Protecting Izuku's peace?

It was bullshit and he knew it. He just didn't want to feel hurt when looking at his most important person. But if he was so important, why would he ignore him like this? It was stupid. He knew it was stupid.

He could just hear his father's lectures in his head, telling him there was no reason to think that Izuku and his relationship had to change, just because Izuku told him no. Then his mother chiming in with telling him he was being overdramatic, and most likely an asshole.

Yeah, he probably was, he thought with a puff of a sigh.

But, at the same time, Izuku hadn't really reached out to him much, either. And that made him so much moodier.

A grimace almost overtook his face, before he suddenly heard something behind him-- sounds of footsteps, nimble, but deep, as if they were iron clad. They leapt across unseen rooftops, and punctuated with the sounds of blasting air.

Wait-- he knew those sounds...he knew exactly what made those sounds.

Katsuki turned to look over his shoulder, and sure enough, there was Izuku, bounding gracefully closer, clearing the last gap to the rooftop Katsuki was perched on with a perfectly timed blast of the One For All replica suit. Izuku landed with another "clomp-clomp" of his boots, and jogged across the roof, a huge smile obvious on his face, even through the darkness.

"Kacchan!" He called out excitedly, thrusting a hand up to wave. In his other hand, a dangling plastic bag, Katsuki had to surmise it was from a convenience store.

"Kacchan, so glad I found you!" Izuku panted as he came even with Katsuki, who suddenly found himself on his feet.

"Hey," Katsuki greeted, somehow surprised to see Izuku there. "You took a patrol tonight?"

"Not exactly," Izuku said with one last deep in hale and exhale to catch his breath. "I have plans with Uraraka in a bit, but I wanted to find you, first..." Izuku explained, and then reached for the bag that was swinging on his arm.

Katsuki shoved down the feelings spiking through his heart at the mention of Uraraka.

"I um...I know it's not much, it certainly doesn't beat your cooking! ...and I would try to do better, maybe get some good takeout or something if I had more time, but--" Izuku pulled out a package, clear plastic, containing a trio of rice balls, and held it out to Katsuki. "But I-- I didn't see you at lunch today, or really, in a few days, and I just wanted to make sure..." Izuku was rambling, and he knew it.

Katsuki's wide eyes jumped from Izuku's face, to the offering and back to Izuku, but somehow couldn't find the words. The way the colorful lights from the cityscape played across his freckles, his scar, and his bright green eyes didn't help the feeling that he wanted to lean in...

"I just wanted to make sure that, you know...you got a good meal in?" Izuku finished, voice trailing off as if he was becoming more embarrassed by the second. When Katsuki took a moment to respond, Izuku's cheeks heated up and his confidence wavered.

"I mean...if you have, that's good too, you don't have to take it. You probably had something good earl--"

"Oi, quit muttering, you're gonna drive me insane," Katsuki retorted, but Izuku's heart lightened to hear a subtle fondness behind the commonplace demand. Izuku felt Katsuki's hand weigh down his as he took the offered food, the plastic creaking as it changed hands.

"Actually, I haven't eaten in hours," Katsuki smirked, holding on to the meal as he took a seat on the ledge of the roof, boots dangling down the side of the building. Izuku didn't hesitate to sit down beside him.

Katsuki wasted no time in grabbing the first rice ball and taking a large bite. Izuku watched him with a smile, seeing the hunger Katsuki felt clearly melting away. He then turned and looked out on the city with Katsuki.

For a moment, traffic several stories below dominated the quiet between them.

"It seems quiet tonight," Izuku mused. Katsuki nodded.

"Yeah, or we're just waiting for the other shoe to drop," Katsuki added, around a mouthful of food, his eyes, obscured by his pitch black mask, narrowed suspiciously at the easy shift he had had that day. "Too bad you have a date or whatever with Round Face, something fun usually happens around 8 or 9 when the weirdos come out, you could get some real Hero Work in," Katsuki ribbed, starting in on the second rice ball.

"Oh, I really couldn't, right after that I have to get some coffee and get through a bunch of essays! We have a really busy unit, right now, and it's almost finals!" Izuku cheerfully declared. "But, um...next week....I think I might have a few free blocks of time?"

Katsuki rounded on the final rice ball, and considered his words carefully before saying anything.

"Whatever works, Sensei," he settled on earnest support. "And don't you dare get addicted to caffeine like an idiot. If I catch you with a bunch of 5-Hour Energy garbage drinks like that dumbass Kaminari, it's on sight, Izuku."

Izuku laughed, and smiled so warmly at Katsuki, the blonde thought he might melt. So he looked away as he chewed, feeling his face getting obnoxiously hotter.

"I really did miss you at lunch, Kacchan." Izuku sighed after the fond laughter. "So did the kids, believe it or not! They uh...they actually thought we had broken up. Does that sound like they thought we were dating??"

Katsuki choked on the food in his mouth.

"They what??" Katsuki strained around a couple of coughs. Izuku blushed deeply and looked away.

"Yeah, I uh...they caught me off guard, too." Izuku nervously said. Then he had some realization and looked back at Katsuki with a hint of panic in his eyes. "Oh wait... please, don't let that stop you from coming in, I really do want to see you more, and the kids love you, they mean well, but..."

"Izuku it's fine." Katsuki said, a little harsher than he meant to. He was still so floored. "Let the brats think what they want, I guess. If it bothers you, tell 'em to shut up, be a mean teacher for once."

"Sorry," Izuku whimpered, fingers fidgeting in his lap. "I dont want you to be upset with them, I think I shouldn't have said anything..."

"I'm not upset with them," Katsuki growled. Then sighed, trying not to sound like the angry asshole he knew he could be. He closed his crimson eyes and took a deep breath. Time to try for a little honesty.

"You're important to me, Izuku. So I guess...it's like a compliment," He opened his eyes and stared down at his hands, clutching the empty plastic container, feeling the comfort of his now full stomach. "It means they can see how much I care for you."

"Kacchan," Izuku smiled the warmest smile yet, city lights dancing on his blushing face. "I hope if that's the case, then they can see the same in how I care about you!"

He said it so easily, so innocently, that it killed Katsuki on the inside...but in the warmest, most enticing way.

"And...I do want to work with you more, I promise," Izuku added. "When my schedule opens up, let's coordinate! I'll be able to take a few shifts here and there!"

The offer is still open...Katsuki wanted to say. Please, take it, be my partner, and then go out with me for real. The words pounded on the inside of his head as if they were caged, and demanded to be spoken.

"Literally any time, Izuku." Katsuki said softly. He hoped, selfishly, that there was enough heart and meaning inflected in his words that even Izuku would catch it. If he could just beam it into the skull under all of those green curls, he would.

For a moment, their gazes connected, and that was all Katsuki needed, to see those expressive doe eyes focused on him, and him alone. Izuku, even at 25 years old, had no idea how beautiful he was, and was anyone going to tell him?

Would Uraraka tell him?

Abruptly, the moment ended, and Izuku pulled out his phone, eyes widening immediately.

"Kacchan, I do have to go, though, sorry," Izuku apologized, and jumped to his feet. Katsuki followed after, ready to see him off, despite the disappointment. Truth be told, he had been in one spot too long himself and needed to move his patrol along.

"Don't go for any of the crap in the cafeteria tomorrow, nerd," Katsuki ordered Izuku gruffly as the quirkless hero knelt in a few stretches before him. He held out the plastic container from the rice balls, and Izuku accepted it into the bag he still held, promising wordlessly to dispose of the trash. "I'll pay you back for the food today and then some."

Izuku lit up the rooftop with one final smile.

"I got it, Kacchan!" He chirped, and turned with a flip of his yellow cape, and started heading off with a final wave over his shoulder. "I look forward to it!"

Katsuki watched as Izuku took off, teal lights from the suit streaking off into the dark and once again bounding across rooftops and alleyways.

He grabbed the back of his neck with a hand, and warmed up his hand just a bit, enough to swallow some of the tension in the muscles. Turning back towards his city watch, he thought to himself that maybe his dad was right...he could still be with Izuku even if it wasn't quite what he had imagined.

With a figurative and literal leap of faith and confidence, Katsuki took a step and plunged off the roof, igniting his quirk with loud, popping explosions and shooting off into the night.

---

(To be continued)

* I also realize that I initially wrote this with the wrong timeline in mind; so correction: when Katsuki said that it had been a week since he'd given Izuku the suit, it had actually been a month according to 431 itself. This is currently about 2 weeks after the reunion dinner. Izuku at this point has had the suit for about a month and a half, then. Sorry for the mistake!(I had started writing a bit before the translations started becoming reliable)

* in another vein, I am going to address the convo in the car and the whole sidekick/partner thing, just kind of with my own interpretation how it went and how it was MEANT to be received by izuku, bc that is the biggest gripe i have about 431 as we all know. But that conflict is for next chapter.

*at the risk of this chapter being too cheesy, I included like, half of a silly idea I had in a previous post of mine where all the kids hear that izuku has a date planned, and they assume that it's with Dynamight. So when they hear that it's with uravity instead, they are shocked and immediately think that the worst has happened and Bakudeku broke up, despite Izuku telling them that they weren't a couple.

*cheesy or not, though, the fluff is a nice reprieve from all the angst 🥲

***hope you enjoy! Next chapter whenever I can manage it!

[whomstdosthouthinkiis]

my two cents on Horikoshi's end notes, and the fandom moving forward.

I know that other bakudekus and myself are #Going Through It™️and we want to be able to wash our hands of an ending we don't feel gives us emotional closure, especially when it comes to Kacchan's arc and their relationship. (I vacillate between seeing it as bittersweet with tints of hope and heartrendingly depressing and an absolute gut punch)

But I feel like a lot of us are jumping to conclusions and conspiracies way too quickly. When Hori says "he's turning off the camera and releasing them from their dramas" he's saying that he's not going to put them through another story. "their dramas" being the trials and tribulation and arcs that they went through over the course of the series, he's letting them off the hook and won't be putting another arc in the story. And, though he may refer to himself as the camera man, turning off the camera is just kinda a normal phrase to mean that the story is over, what ever happens now is up to our imaginations.

Now, I get why we are upset by this, ignoring canon wasn't how we got to be bakudeku shippers. Almost until the very end with very few hiccups, Kacchan and Deku's relationship was the most impactful and compelling one in the series, it grew and changed and blossomed in ways that only made the emotional resonance and investment stronger. They were each others most important person, to the point of insane unhinged acts of devotion, and their relationship was the driver of most of the stories major themes. it's not hard to see the appeal, even without shipper goggles (I legitimately only read the manga for the last 2 years when something bakugo or bakudeku related happened, that's how much this part of the story compelled me)

So, it really sucks to feel like we've been let down, when it felt like we had already made it to the end. I know I will always cherish those 5 months of canon compliant fluffy bakudeku fics and fanart after the first ending. It really felt like we had won in a way.

It sucks that now the last piece of canon we have is giving ammo to people who wish to belittle, hate, and judge us for our investment in, and interpretation of, these characters and this story. And, that all subsequent fan works will be colored by this development of the story, in a way that definitely shifts it in more angsty tragic direction. that this is the final note we leave off on sucks, even if we chose to ignore it, because not everyone will.

That sucks.

BUT, we can still ignore it.

We don't need it to not really be canon.

We don't need Horikoshi's permission to ship them, even now.

We have 400+ chapters of manga, side stories, anime, music, canon content that supports the bond and relationship that we love and hold dear, so much material to continue to interpret, and remix, and adapt, and transform from. so many moments, big and small, that can't be taken away by one chapter.

I know endings tend to re-contextualize things, but we can imagine a timeline that's different, that we like better or think is more compelling, or more fun, or just different. we can imagine 100 different timelines, all diverging from different points, filling in different gaps, and making new paths forward.

I know we're all coping, that our hearts are hurting, but I also see so much strength, and resilience, and creative energy, and love.

The cameras aren't rolling anymore.

Now, WE get to decide what the future for these characters will bring.

And I know we'll give them many many good ones

[neverstopsleeping]

And finally here I am, trying to fix the unfixable.

Who better than Toga revealing herself *not dead* to ruin the shonen het happy ending? 💛

Fix-it #mhafanfic featuring #tgck #bkdk and maybe some hints of communication 🥹

[sugawara--san]

plz send epilogue fix it fics

[mudhamster]

I'm the one closing that door

The voice that wafted past his feet into the apartment sounded honeyed, almost victorious, "Who knows. We have all the time in the world. Maybe we can get Bakugou to move out, the place is cute and-" Fucking what. "Excuse you?" Ochako pulled her legs off the railing with a small scream and jumped out of the chair. She was wearing a shirt she probably thought was one of Deku's. And Katsuki was anything but okay with that. Her whole presence, from the half-naked shoulder to the cup in her tiny fingers, irritated his already cracked perception. "Get outta here," he instructed her with a nod, making room in the balcony door. She made a surprised face, then shook her head, "You can't kick me out." Tch. How he just damn loved people telling him what he couldn't do. "I can and I will," he said pointedly.

tbc on ao3

#My way of coping with the chapter 431 mayhem and a bad dream

[deadwriter16]

early bkdk fics r SAVING me rn … before we knew anything abt bkg dying or izuku’s vigilante stint … even before the paranormal liberation arc and way before the apology. back when the last thing that happened was like … the endeavors agency arc. these fics knew izuku and kacchan’s dynamics so intimately and so accurately that it’s just like … THIS is what i wanted. THIS is what i so dearly miss. so anybody still sad abt 431 along with the fix its and the angst i implore you … go back to the early fics that made us all so happy. the ones that hardly fit with canon now and yet are more canon than the actual bnha ending. they will heal your heart. i promise

[polonium-snap]

TW: slight nudity

Panels I did of chapter 6 of “hold onto each other” by yuckbarracuda

This dkbkdk fic is FANTASTIC it’s a fix-it after 431 and has Izuku realizing a lot of things, so please read it and give my friend a follow on twitter

[rashoumon-homo]

4:32 am

The mha 431 leaks have been lowkey ruining my mood for the last several days so I finally made a short hurt/comfort fix it fic! Hopefully it helps someone else out there too like it did for me to write it.

Link here

[transplantedmate]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61943443/chapters/158395027

I wrote a longfic! And just posted ch 1!

This is fully written so I'll be posting a chapter every couple days - just need to do a lot of html editing.

The short version: Izuku needs a place to stay for a few weeks. Katsuki happens to have an empty guest room. Friends to lovers and other domestic shenanigans ensue.

(AO3 summary and all details about ratings, tags, etc. are below, feel free to skip to that, I have a lot of yapping to yap)

This story takes place 3-ish years after Izuku gets the suit. It assumes that the 431 epilogue happened.

The timeframe of the fic is not that long (I mean, it's right there in the title) but this is written as a slow burn of sorts. It covers the whole story, from them realising "oh, I like you" all the way to... well, I'm not going to tell you exactly how it ends yet, but it's definitely a happy ending.

This story is about falling in love, but it's also about friendships, about asking for help, and about letting those around you support you. It features appearances by most of the UA students we meet in canon, Inko, the Bakugous, All Might... you name it. i had a lot of fun exploring their different voices and POVs.

Also cats. There's cats in it. And a lot of coffee cups.

The fic is on the fluffier side, but has it's angsty moments. (I swear, you leave Bakugou alone with his thoughts for 5 minutes and that yumy yummy angst just writes itself). there's some humour in there too, because why not.

It's primarily a bkdk/izukat/whatever you call that ship story, and most of the fic is from their POV/focused on Izuku and Katsuki.

That said, I had a lot of fun making space for some of the less-developed canon characters (e.g. Sato) to have their own dialogue and moments... and some of the more fleshed out characters outside of our main pair too.

Speaking of which, that's the name of the first chapter: Making Space

The fic includes snippets of texting between the UA students too, especially in this first chapter. I surprised myself by really enjoying writing that. It also made me learn a lot of css. Check it out! It turned out quite pretty I think.

Ok, now the specifics:

Rating: T

Chapters: 17 + epilogue (1 posted)

Chapter length: between 1.5 and 2.9 k per my latest count. Most chapters are about 2k.

Relationship:

Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku

Characters:

Bakugou Katsuki

Midoriya Izuku

Uraraka Ochako

Ashido Mina

Kaminari Denki

Kirishima Eijirou

Asui Tsuyu

Sero Hanta

Koda Koji

Shoji Yuko

Jirou Kyouka

Yaoyorozu Momo

Midoriya Inko

Yagi Toshinori | All Might

Bakugou Mitsuki

Bakugou Masaru

Mineta Minoru

Hagakure Tooru

Aoyama Yuuga

Shinsou Hitoshi

Additional Tags:

Friends to Lovers

Roommates

Domestic Fluff

Developing Friendships

Falling In Love

Idiots in Love

Uraraka Ochako is a Good Friend

Uraraka is a good friend of BOTH Deku and Bakugo

Mentions of past Izuocha (in a healthy manner they are friends)

Food as a Metaphor for Love

Getting Together

Fluff

Some angst

Pining

Mutual Pining

Pining Bakugou Katsuki

Pining Midoriya Izuku

all the pining

Bakugou has a cat (pet)

Good Parent Midoriya Inko

Good Parent Bakugou Mitsuki

Kirishima Eijirou is a Good Friend

Kirishima Eijirou is a Ray of Sunshine

Texting

Bakugou Katsuki Swears A Lot

Soft Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku

Moving In Together

Post-My Hero Academia Chapter 431: More

Post-Canon

I wouldn't call this a fix it as much as a fic about healing and growing

[lightseoul]

help i’m just trying to find recent izuocha fics on ao3 in light of 431 but their ship tag is flooded with fix-it bkdk fics 😭

[firesign-18]

I would love to hear your thoughts on ch431 if you're willing to share, especially since better translations are finally out! Also, I guess since I'm curious too, would it affect ISYH in any way?

Hahahaha SO I had written a big spiel for the notes of chapter 47 and talked myself out of it but, just for you, okay!

One bit of disclosure - I originally really liked IzuOcha but the increasingly one-sided nature of it, and the rise of tgck, made me very indifferent about it. So maybe I’m less inherently hostile to it.

So anyway, here’s what I wrote at the time…

Probably an unpopular opinion (pls don’t shout at me 🤣) but to be honest, I didn’t hate it - it was largely what I expected from the ending the moment Himiko’s death was confirmed, and I was so pleased to get a lot more on the QCP work Ochako was leading alongside more on her relationship with Himiko (some people got very vexed about her referring to Himiko as almost like a vestige, but it makes a lot of sense! How tragic but moving that Himiko is still so close to her heart after all this time 🥹). What’s sad, though, is togachako as a ship was truly so queer (and BkDk too, though in my personal view that’s a bit less clear cut from a romantic POV than our girls, despite the way the boys are utterly obsessed with each other) and a lot of younger fans in particular seem to be really struggling with the Shonen archetype of queer build up and no pay off. It’s frustrating for those of us who are queer, of course it is, and with this in particular IMO it all directly stems from the decision to kill Himiko. She lives and a multitude of possibilities emerge. If only we’d stop burying queer characters FOR plot purposes then maybe we could have them fulfil even greater purpose IN our plots.

I also would have liked to have seen Katsuki smile but the translations coming out since the official version dropped have, IMO at least, softened the conversation between him and Izuku in the car and that made me less confused and sad about that too. Ultimately Izuku has a right to choose the path that makes most sense to him as an adult in his mid-20s - he doesn’t have to remain the wide-eyed 16 y/o who thought Kacchan was perfect forever, but it would have been nice to have seen a bit more of that kid coming through. E.g., I would have liked him to have countered Katsuki’s sidekick offer by saying uh no we’re going to compete and chase each other for the rest of our lives, so get ready No.15 for me to be the most kick-ass part-time hero ever and rocket up the rankings!

I also am a bit baffled at how little change there is in hero society, but hey, that was a problem with the entire ending and not just with 431. As you can tell, that’s one thing I am trying hard to fix in my wee story.

However, one thing that is beyond repute - adult Ochako is an absolute smoke show, so at least there’s something for us all to agree on! 😍

What did YOU think @evelynpr ??

I’m writing a little comphet fic on the side about it that I’m really enjoying - will hopefully get it out next week at some point 🤪

[marimeeko]

Btw an update for any Bkdks reading my little fix it fic:

I HAVE requested to join AO3 so I can post fic on a legit fiction site, so there's that to look forward to! Currently my email says I'll be invited by the end of December.

I'm a couple of chapters ahead rn and am still agonizing, hopefully an update soon. Incidentally, I have also caught something at work, been battling headaches, and of course it's holidays this week so, we will see when I actually get the next one posted 🤔

Anyway, if you're enjoying my little pet project, I am very happy, and soon I will be able to actually host it. 🤞 thanks for your patience!

[whomstdosthouthinkiis]

In the interest of my mental health and creating a better fandom environment, I will no longer be reblogging meta or critiques about 431

It really disappointed me and stirred up strong emotions, but I would rather focus on the parts of mha that I love and wish to celebrate

I will still reblog bkdk 431-fix it fics and fan art as I enjoy those, but that will be the extent I engage with it going forward.

[neverstopsleeping]

Turns out I wasn’t done with fixing 431 (bcs shit is ASS and it NEEDS to be FIXED), so here are another +21k worth of writing 🎉

Izuku in this fic made me go insane (I get you Kacchan I get you!), but eventually he’ll get there I promise.

[a3rosp4ce]

my main purpose of making an account is to look for a fully translated ver of bnha 431 so i can use it as reference to write a bkdk fix it fic