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[blstys-a]

‘ you’re not a bad person for being angry. ’

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again anger edges its way to the surface of their conversation, plucked from the quiet as if touma can unearth the newly minted fear of it inside bakugou as easily as they can glittery red crystals. 

everything about their face says believe me. bakugou wants to. he wants to. fists clench at his sides only to uncurl again, pleased at their state of freedom. it’s not the anger that gets the better of him, it’s the fear disguised as such that does. 

“ easy for you to say — the people training you to be a hero don’t bind your hands and muzzle your mouth like a criminal because of it. ”  his voice is constructed to be cold and void of anger purposefully because he can control himself ; he isn’t the loose canon he’s made out to be. he just has limits. oh, baby, does he have limits. he sprawls out on the ground, starfish, curling hands into tufts of grass. 

“ you know the league did the same thing... bound my hands because i was threat. except they didn’t muzzle me. funny how that works. funny, really, that because of my anger they thought i was more cut out to be on their side. ” 

he’s rambling now, the thoughts tumbling out of his mouth like secrets— things he’s never had the opportunity to talk about. 

“ guess they got what they wanted because it was the reason all might retired, that fight. if i hadn’t been angry, if they hadn’t taken me - everything would be different. maybe that doesn’t make me a bad person but... fuck if if doesn’t make me feel like i should have been a better one. ” 

the silence that follows, however brief, chokes him ; a hand lifts to loosen the ghost of a tie that he hasn’t worn in over a year.  “ thanks, anyway. you know. for not thinking i’m rotten. i think maybe you were the only one that didn’t ever doubt my intentions and that’s. thanks. ”