#Emotionally has any sort of meaningful dynamic w bakugou

[kacchanbiased]

Snagged this screenshot off of twitter, who got it from Reddit. I have to say I understand why this person has this impression—and that although that was not Horikoshi’s intention in writing All Might & Bakugou’s relationship, that was unfortunately the impression it gave off to many people, including me.

Majority of the time we see AM & Bakugou interacting it’s in relation to Izuku. The only times I can think of where AM does something of note directly “for” Bakugou’s benefit is when he consoled Bakugou following the Camino Ward incident and when he was driving Todoroki and Bakugou to and from their provisional license classes. Basically every other major interaction between them involves Izuku in someway. The OFA meetings, the trainings, even that pep talk he gives the two of them following DKvK2 involves Izuku and the both of them becoming the best heroes together. I think at some point early on he even admits that they both build each other up…? Meaning he accepts/understands that keeping Bakugou around Izuku guarantees the improvement/growth of his mentee.

I don’t think you’ll die if you admit that this is true, because I largely think this is Horikoshi sort of doing that thing where he fails to “look at the bigger picture” when it comes to his writing. I find he does this a lot. He wants to create an impression of one thing, but fails to set the pieces together to support it. As it stands, Bakugou & AM have a pretty detached relationship. I’m sure AM cares about Bakugou, but probably the same amount he cares about 1-A—which is to say not all that much based on what we’re shown… The truth is the relationships between AM & 1-A (excluding Izuku) simply haven’t been built enough for the audience to truly invest any emotions into them.