#Angsty headcanon

[doumadono]

MY HERO ACADEMIA MASTERLIST

The war was over, but the scars it left behind were far from healed, both physical and emotional.

Bakugo lay in the hospital bed, his body covered in bandages, his mind foggy from the painkillers.

The room was quiet, the beeping of machines the only sound as you sat beside him, waiting for him to wake up. Your heart was heavy with the knowledge of the painful news you had to deliver when he woke.

Slowly, Bakugo's eyes fluttered open, confusion and disorientation clear in his gaze. “Where... where am I?" he muttered, his voice hoarse and weak.

You leaned closer, taking his hand in yours. "You're in the hospital, Katsuki.”

His eyes narrowed as he tried to sit up, wincing in pain. "What happened?"

You took a deep breath, holding his remaining hand. "Katsuki, there's something you need to know."

His eyes, still foggy, tried to focus on you. "Spit it out," he muttered, impatience tinged with a hint of fear.

"Your arm," you began, struggling to keep your voice steady. "They couldn't save it. It was too damaged."

Bakugo's gaze darted around the room, panic rising as he tried to move his right arm and found it wouldn't respond. "What the hell?" he gasped, looking down at the empty space where his arm used to be. "What... What the fuck!"

Tears filled your eyes as you squeezed his remaining hand. "I'm so sorry," you whispered, barely moving your lips, tears welling up in your eyes. "They did everything they could."

Bakugo's face contorted with a mix of disbelief and rage. "My quirk... it was in my palms. How am I supposed to be a hero now? No... no, no, no!" he shouted, struggling to sit up, only to fall back onto the bed, his body too weak to support him. "This can't be happening!"

You tried to hold him, to calm him, but he pushed you away with his remaining hand, his eyes wild with fear and anger. "Get away from me!"

"Katsuki, please," you begged, tears streaming down your face as you reached out your hand to place it on his shoulder. "I'm here for you. We can get through this together. We’ll find a way…"

Bakugo screamed, his voice breaking. "Don’t touch me! I'm useless! I'm fucking nothing! And you want to find a way?" he scoffed, his voice rising. "There is no way! I'm useless without my quirk!"

His words cut deep, but you refused to give up on him. "You're still a hero, Katsuki. You're still the strongest person I know…”

He turned his face away, tears of rage and frustration streaming down his cheeks. "Just leave me alone, woman. I want to be fucking alone. Get the fuck out!”

You left the room, your heart shattered and tears streaming down your flushed cheeks, but you vowed to yourself that you wouldn't give up on him.

Days turned into weeks, and Bakugo's anger only seemed to grow. He lashed out at everyone, pushing away those who tried to help. Bakugo's mood grew darker as he struggled to come to terms with his loss.

He spent hours in physical therapy, not to regain strength, but to punish himself for his perceived weakness.

One evening, you found him in the hospital gym, punching a bag with his remaining hand until his knuckles bled. 

"Katsuki, stop!" you gasped, covering your mouth with curled palm.

He ignored you, his breath coming in ragged gasps, tears mingling with sweat. "I can't... I can't do this," he panted.

You approached him quickly, and grabbed his arm, forcing him to look at you. "You're destroying yourself. This isn't helping."

"And what do you think you know?" he spat, his eyes wild. "You still have both your arms. You still can live and enjoy your sweet life, goddammit!”

“And I want to live it with you," you said fiercely, refusing to let go. "But you need to let me in. You need to let me help you."

His anger gave way to despair, and he sank to the floor, covering his face with his hand. "I don't know how."

You knelt beside him, wrapping your arms around him. "We'll figure it out together. You're not alone, Katsuki. Not ever."

Slowly, painfully, Bakugo began to accept your help, allowing you to be his support as he navigated this new reality.

Everyone, including you, his parents and his friends stood by his side through it all, offering support, encouragement, and love.

The therapy sessions became less about punishing himself and more about finding a way to live again.

Slowly but surely, Bakugo regained his confidence, finding new ways to use his quirk and his skills to remain a hero. He still had moments of doubt, moments where he cursed his fate and his limitations.

Those moments became less frequent, replaced by a determination to rise above his challenges.

"I love you," he said one morning, out of the blue, as you approached him in front of the classroom, bringing him bento you’ve prepared for him.

You turned to him, surprised but pleased. "I love you too, Katsuki."

He smirked, a shadow of his old self shining through as he leaned forward and placed a tiny kiss to the top of your head, accepting the box. "I know. And I'm gonna prove to you that I'm still the best damn hero around."

You laughed, feeling a warmth spread through your chest. "I never doubted it for a second."

Bakugo found solace in the realization that he could still be the hero he always aspired to be.

[cheemscakecat]

I think I solved the “That six-fingered nerd hasn’t been himself in 30 years” line.

People have been wondering for years if Shifty had somehow met Stan during the 30 year gap, or what else that line could possibly mean. But if he could have left the bunker, I doubt he would still be living down there. I think there’s a different explanation.

By that point in the episode, Dipper had already said they were looking for the author, that he had gone missing.

Hear me out: Shifty’s in denial about Ford’s disappearance.

Stanford was so preoccupied with Bill’s betrayal and trying to block him out that he didn’t have time to go back to the bunker. He had been planning to go back after the portal was finished, but obviously the threat of possession and Bill invading the dimension kept him away. Fiddleford certainly wouldn’t come back, even if he had his memories intact.

And then Ford got pushed into the portal.

Shifty wouldn’t be privy to this information, especially if he was trapped in the bunker. Even if there was something wrong with the cryogenic chamber and he unthawed a few months after the initial freeze, he wouldn’t have known.

I think he spent those decades in the bunker trying to dig a way out, but being blocked by the metal lining. That’s why he was still down there by the time Dipper and crew investigated.

It must have felt like the slightly nicer scientist, the one that at least found him entertaining, had abandoned him. Either he meant so little to Ford that he forgot all about the bunker [a possibility if they were only keeping him to be frozen], or Stanford intentionally left him to starve should he ever unthaw.

So imagine someone telling you that the scientist has been missing all this time. For 30 years you’ve been resenting this person for how he treated you and threw you away in a glorified tomb, but now that’s being challenged.

Blaming the scientists for everything was easy to process:

The only time he saw the sun was when he hatched, then Ford put him in a cage underground. With no intention of ever letting him see the sun again, or any live animals.

The only food was canned, and it wasn’t even designed for pets. They just fed him baked beans.

They wouldn’t trust him to look at their faces. Fiddleford hated him and wanted to freeze him. Ford only seemed to like him because he was a “pet”.

It was easy for Shifty to tell himself that these neglectful men left him to die in a metal box underground. That they hated him all along, or saw him as an animal and forgot they left him in the ice chamber.

But Ford’s disappearance called that into question. He knew Ford was the author of the journals, from begging to get to read them. The nicer of the two scientists. The one that was at least hesitant to freeze him in a tube for all eternity, just for being a shapeshifter. The one that was interested in his powers, instead of repulsed.

It would be painful to admit the possibility that Stanford planned to come back. That he might have died 30 years ago, and that was the real reason why Shifty was left alone in the bunker. The possibility that Ford died was a heavy one already. Shifty never saw his parents. This scientist was the first face he saw when he hatched, for better or for worse, Ford was the closest thing to a parent Shifty had.

“That six-fingered nerd hasn’t been himself for 30 years!”

He couldn’t have died, he just… He changed. That’s why he never came back, he just stopped acting like himself!

[moviememokeeper]

Reca is a perfectionist

…to a concerning degree

Nobody quite figured out why he obsessed so much about every detail of every project,

or why he got so frustrated when a mistake slipped through the cracks,

at the end of the day, people still praise his works like masterpieces

All he can think of however is his fathers voice ringing in his head

Never enough

He’ll never be good enough

Not unless everything is perfect

[part-time-zombie]

You know how there are certain concepts in the sanders sides lore that allow for whump/sickfics with a few sides? (Namely bruised ego for Roman and shedding for Janus) You know how that's probably the only way any of the sides can realistically get sick at all and that Logan especially cant get all too badly sick/injured?

Well I think I found something that just might count.

Let me present to you... Brain Fog.

Brain Fog usually presents with symptoms like difficulty concentrating, forgetfulness, fatigue, confusion, losing your train of thought, and poor focus or attention span. While it can be brought on by hormonal changes or as a side effect of some medications, the most common causes are stress, lack of sleep, poor nutrition, and even things like depression, anxiety, and adhd.

So imagine, c!thomas has been going through it and Logan is running himself into the ground as he tries to get Thomas to get things done. This only leads to Thomas feeling even worse than before and Logan exhausting himself in his increasingly desperate efforts to get through to him.

Finally, Logan is overworked until he is sick and practically dead on his feet, and of course he'd insist he was fine and keep trying to work even though his weakened state is now taking a toll on Thomas via Brain Fog. By the time the others catch on and force Logan to rest he's more like a zombie than a side, and they insist on keeping him in bed until both him and Thomas can recover.

Poor Logan is fatigued and drained, and maybe even in delirium from how badly the Brain Fog managed to get, and Janus has to step in to force Thomas to take a break and get some rest for both his sake and for Logan's.

No work gets done, but Thomas does end up feeling better under Janus' care, which leads to Logan eventually making a full recovery. When he feels well enough to get back to work he feels both grateful at Janus for helping, and resentful that he was so much better at it than himself.

[ashthewaterghoul]

CW - Mentions of beheading, death, blood magic(?) and Dew's elemental change ritual.

Ifrit was Terzo's bodyguard Ghoul after Omega was cast back down to Hell. He was standing guard outside while the three Papas played that fateful game of Uno!

He only realised that something had happened to the three when he felt his bond with Terzo break. He ran into the room, and saw them all dead. The sight of Terzo’s body, and it was just his body, broke him the most.

After coming back to the den in a daze, Ifrit went into a major depressive state because he failed his one purpose. Fire Ghouls were nothing if not warriors.

When he was brought before the Clergy for his "failure", he was sentenced to death. What's more unforgivable than letting not one, but three Papas die? An entire bloodline wiped out on his hands.

Ifrit put up no fight as he was dragged down into the dungeons and received his sentence, meeting the same headless fate as the Master he failed to protect.

Dewdrop was taken in his sleep and injected with a serum that felt like liquid fire, straight into his gills. He was bound and forced to lie over a pentagram while the Clergy chanted.

Dewdrop, for some reason, felt as if Ifrit was with him as he goes through this painful, gory and gruesome ordeal.

Dewdrop would later find out that Ifrit was with him in a way…

Ifrit didn’t need to be strapped down to the guillotine because he was so depressed and immediately accepted his failure and fate; a Fire Ghoul in the pits would get much worse and that’s what he deserved. But what did need to be held down were the vials that collected his blood.

The Fire in his blood created the serum that burnt Dewdrop's Water out of his soul, and replaced it with a Fire of his own.

Dewdrop is obviously disgusted and horrified when he finds out, but he takes some comfort in knowing he's always got his Fritter with him, forever.

[emrick-huntr]

OH MY GODS

Tw - seizures

I just saw a TikTok bucky hc thing and one of the hcs was that bucky had seizures cuz of the machine hydra put him on ☹️☹️☹️☹️

This hc hurts me deep down cuz I have Epilepsy, and ofc I fully believe being electricuted/brainwashed would cause at least some Epilepsy tf.

CRIES AT HIM.

[soulless-bex]

i get wanting to differentiate Dick and Jason by giving Jason a different Robin costume, but i think it makes more sense that he kept it the exact same in an attempt to gain Dick’s approval and show him that he just wants to carry on his legacy.

poor kid probably also thought (wrongly so, but trauma does stuff and all) that his place in the Wayne family was precarious as hell and thought that the best way to get them to let him stay was to emulate Dick the best he could. which is a terribly sad reflection to have because now all i can think about is that this would mean none of them really knew Jason before he died because he only ever showed them a distorted version of himself.

cue Jason coming back from the dead, acting like a completely different person because he no longer cares what they think of him (he actually really does but he convinced himself that nothing he could do could make them love him after everything he did).

[pu33yboi]

Satosugu head canon that Suguru puts 1 sugar in his coffee after satoru kept complaining that his kisses were tasting bitter.

Now he puts 2 sugars in his coffee because he’s missing the sweetness that follows.

[avonne-writes]

Now not to be sad on main after the beautiful answer you gave to my latest ask, but the fact that John is so afraid of people leaving and Gale wishes for him to never have to go through it again made me think about what will happen once they're old and, you know... the fact that someone has to go first, as the saying goes 💔

I'm sorry I just had to share this painful thought! 😭

RE: this post

I know, I couldn’t help but think about the same too 😭💔 Already when they're young, Bucky thinks about this sometimes, and he’s terrified. Then, several years later, Georgia dies. It’s the natural order of things, but it forces Bucky not only to cope with the loss of his mom but to confront the idea of his and Gale's own mortality. It’s a difficult period for them both.

More sad thoughts and MCD after the cut. Warning for angst.

Imagine if Gale knows that he’s going to pass first, how much Bucky's denial of it would break his heart. Because Bucky would deny it to the last moment. Gale would feel like not being able to spare Bucky from this final goodbye is a failure of his, and he’d try to hang on and fight but the body has its limits.

Adding Bucky's wish for Gale to this makes it even more painful. Because he would make sure that Gale knows how much he loves him even in those last moments, and Gale would close his eyes for the last time filled with so much love and gratitude that it would drown out the pain.

It's just as painful if Bucky dies first. If he knew his last lucid moments were coming, he’d cling to Gale a lot, and Gale would be scared of leaving him alone even for five seconds. The hospital would make special arrangements for him to be able to stay with Bucky. And they don’t really know which moment is the last only once it has passed, but Gale makes sure he keeps telling Bucky he’s there, he’s there. And Bucky would try to tell him one last time that his love will always stay with Gale even after he’s gone.

Given that this would be after 60-70 years of a relationship, no matter who dies first, the other wouldn’t be long to follow.

[scourge-lover]

My headcanon that Arthas Menethil's favorite fruit is cherries comes from the food item in WoW, Homemade Cherry Pie, and the 1903 play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov.

Aristocracy and social upheaval. All that.

His mother as queen never really cooked much but the one thing she liked to make for him, or at least personally oversee the bakers, is a simple rustic cherry pie.

Arthas could eat a whole one by himself if his father didn't reprimand him.

Even decades later after when his body is frozen and numb and everything tastes like ash in his mouth, Arthas still remembers the taste of Lordaeron Sovereign dark red cherries inside a buttery flaky crust.

That rare cultivar of cherry went extinct when Lordaeron fell.

[part-time-zombie]

Every side has their own notebooks/journals that they use to log things they find important. Most of them don't know the others have ones too, as they're all usually kept private.

Logan keeps recordings of important information (and anything said to him that he considers stupid), Patton has a scrapbook full of fun/formative memories, Virgil writes down his deepest fears and stores them away, and Janus keeps track of gossip he gathers from the others.

The twins are different when it comes to what is writen down. Remus usually maps out his next scheme, with the pages looking strangely scientific, or he'll jot down some of his worse ideas.

Roman keeps two different books. One of them is filled with verbatim quotes from the other sides, namely the insults and criticisms they've given him. He keeps track of who said what and when, with Logan currently having said the highest number of hurtful things to him over the years. The notebook is painfully full, with only a few empty pages left.

His other book is currently collecting dust in the back of his closet, untouched for years. It's only about a quarter-way filled, despite it being used in tandem with the other notebook. This one is the counterpart of the first notebook, it's contents being every compliment and word of praise given to him. Patton was in the lead when he last updated it, but if you scan some of the earlier pages you'll find one of them littered with fresh tear marks as one phrase was harshly crossed over, enough to nearly tear the page:

"You're my hero"

[mother-of-houseplants-2]

do you have any angsty headcannons about Lip (maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I think the trauma/abuse he’s been through has been slept on by most of the fandom and despite his flaws I sympathize with him a lot and think he deserves comfort)

hi anon! so sorry for taking so long to get back to you! thank you so much for asking; of course i have sad lip thoughts. i love my boy lip and i totally agree that he's been through a lot and deserves empathy. my little guy...

lip hcs:

as a little kid who experienced both homelessness and food insecurity, lip is never able to shake the anxiety that comes along with never having enough. even after they move into aunt ginger's house for good, and fiona drops out to keep them all fed and housed, lip can't stop feeling like the other shoe's going to drop. for years, he had panic attacks when the fridge got a little too empty, did careful math to ration out their money, and stashed granola bars and rice and peanut butter in various places around the house, just in case. when fiona finds out about his food hoarding and confronts him about it, his first instinct, of course, is to get angry and defensive - but when her voice goes all soft and comforting, he realizes he can't stop shaking. people don't tend to think lip's an anxious guy, but really, he's just good at hiding it.

like debbie and carl, lip also needed braces as a kid, but never asked or said anything about it because he knew they couldn't afford it and didn't want to put added stress on fiona. he didn't get actual professional dental care until he started developing chronic migraines from his wisdom teeth growing in as a teenager. (if i'm not mistaken, he got them removed in s1 ep1). his lower teeth always remain a little bit fucked up. he's super insecure about them. when he sees carl and debbie icing their faces after getting their braces tightened, there's a not insignificant part of him that feels like an embarrassed little kid again, mouth full of crooked teeth that colin milkovich always teased him about. a little kid with one more need unmet.

when he was little, before he realized frank and monica were pieces of shit, but after he was old enough to realize that they were supposed to be his parents, he wanted them so so badly to love him. but fiona was always frank's favorite, his responsible, spitfire, beautiful little girl, and ian was the cute, tiny baby, monica's mini-me, and even though neither of them really cared, it tore lip up inside that he was nobody's favorite. he tries not to be resentful, but it hurts. he's brilliant and funny and smart; why isn't he good enough for either of them to stick around? to love? to put him first? as he grows up, he comes to realize that being frank and monica's favorite is not a good thing at all. still, he can't help carrying around that old, aching hurt.

frank gives lip his first beer when he's nine years old. fiona's out at a rare sleepover, the little ones are asleep upstairs, and frank's throwing a rager for his friends and suddenly has the time for him. he gives him a can and teaches him how to chug, which makes everyone laugh and cheer. frank even hauls him up onto his shoulders, crowing "that's my boy!" like a real father should when he's proud. lip feels on top of the world for about an hour and a half, after which he pukes his guts up in the kitchen sink, alone. by then, frank is already passed out on the living room floor. he spends the next day feeling awful, but he doesn't forget the gleam of pride in his father's eyes. it makes it kind of worth it.

like liam, lip also used to get nightmares as a kid, stemming from the terrifying noises of vehicles and music and shouting outside the car window when he, ian, and fiona used to live in a car. he has incredibly vivid dreams, which translates to incredibly vibrant nightmares. like liam, lip also used to hide himself somewhere small and safe when he woke up scared. as a child, that place used to be fiona's arms. when he feels like he's too old for that, though, his go-to spot is his closet. muffling his sobbing and hyperventilating behind his palms while curled up and shaking in the corner of the closet becomes a common occurrence, even as he grows up. it tapers off once he gets sober, but every once in a while, tami will wake up to him cramming himself in a tiny corner of their bedroom, breathing hard.

mini hcs:

lip never really had a childhood stuffed animal because any toys they came across as little kids automatically went to ian.

when he tries to infodump about stuff he learns at school to his siblings, more often than not, they playfully tease him about being a nerd instead of actually listening, and it's just a joke, but it's also kind of crushing.

he once got so emotional while reading the outsiders by s.e. hinton he had to lay down on the ground, unable to cry, for the rest of the evening.

the first time he takes freddie to an art gallery, he starts shaking and getting a little lightheaded thinking about helene and has to leave. he takes freddie to the zoo after that instead.

dissociates and over exercises to cope with stuff after getting sober.

as he gets older, he starts looking more and more like frank. he has a whole crisis over it in his late thirties/early forties. it involves a drastic hairstyle change and a long "have i turned into my father?" breakdown.

becomes the least connected of the siblings after they all disperse. he's so busy and overwhelmed trying to raise a stable, healthy, happy family that one day he looks up, and his siblings are all gone and grown up and don't need him anymore. there's so much he's lost.

[weezmancer3]

Mother-Truckin' Klance hc

Lance's dad would find and fix vintage cars, so Lance grew up with an affinity for old cars, specifically trucks. When they return to Earth after the war, Keith mentions something about fixing up his dad's old truck, so of course, Lance is like, "My dad's practically a mechanic and I help him all the time. I'll come with :)". When they make it back to Keith's desert shed, and Keith shows Lance the truck, Lance loses his marbles. Like, won't shut up about the model and how it's in such good shape for being left alone for so long. Keith just invites him to stay and help him fix it up because he could use the help, and it's the first time he's seen Lance this happy since they lost Allura.

[aaapril0987]

I NEED OCTONAUTS HEADCANON PLSSSSS. ESPECIALLY CAPTAIN BARNACLES (ANGST) HEADCANONS🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[emrick-huntr]

I've been wanting to write some bucky angst for a while now, I might have an idea for a story -

Main jist of it: Bucky wasn't alone back in HYDRA. (Whats a kid doing in the cell with him?)

Plz lmk what u think, that's all I'm giving yew. Smirks. If I think more about it it's gonna be super angsty, and maybe a little bit of stucky if I think hard enough.

[cyanbugremix]

Headcanon that Gabe always changed the radio station whenever "Little Bitty" by Alan Jackson came on, because it reminded him of the fact that his wife wasn't there with him and David anymore