#also bkg being dead still months later

[haleigh-sloth]

Okay the cover is underwhelming but it's fine.

Honestly the biggest issue with it is that it's very misleading for what actually happens when he sees Bakugo's dead body 💀

[person-behind-books]

soulmate au where your soulmates quirk is imprinted on your skin.

bkg has been born with green lightning coursing over his body

dk, with glowing veins and stars in his hands

at first, they don’t think too much about it. they’re too young for their quirks and are at most vaguely interested in their soulmates.

then bkg’s hands erupt during naptime and everyone is in awe of him and looks at dk and his hands of stars.

when a quirk specialist declares that bkg’s blood is where the nitroglycerin comes from the looks to dk and his veins of fire double.

but dk turns out to be quirkless and there are so many quirks it is rather believed his soulmate is someone else out there, rather than a one-sided soul bond. after all there are stars in izuku’s hands, not explosions. still, it doesn’t stop the pitying looks he receives and the dismissal for his quirkless-ness.

when all might gives deku his quirk a spark of hope ignites in him that maybe their soulbond isn’t as one-sided as everyone pretents they don’t belive it is but it manifests in broken bones and swollen limbs.

then he masters control of it but only realizes the green lightning, too caught up in the fight against stain, during class the next week when bkg looks at him with an unreadable face.

they don’t talk much after that and their relationship only grows more strained over bkg’s rescue and the provisional hero licensens-ing (?) exam.

then bkg figures out the secret of OFA and in the following fight all their raw emotions clash and are finally set free.

They still don’t talk about the potential of them being soulmates but they talk.

Time flies over the next few months, school work and their internships keeping them all busy until izuku suddenly finds himself on a battlefield.

He’s more terrified than he’s ever been with his allies at his back and AFO-Shigaraki at his front.

nobody sees bkg’s explosions errupt in stars from his hands in his desperation to save dk but as deku watches bkg get impaled and falling limply to the ground - AFO tossing him so uncaring away - the fear from before is nothing in comparison to the emotions welling up.

the rest of the fight is a blur in his memory and he’s unsure how he managed to make it out alive.

he wakes up to all might and bkg at his bedside, to tdrk’s brother alive and hellbend on killing their father, to so many civillians dead, to the villains still at large, to japan’s society on the verge of falling apart.

he thinks maybe they could talk about their soulbond now, maybe bkg is finally ready, but with regret he turns away and leaves UA.

How could he be selfish now, when japan is in such danger only because he failed in winning against AFO-Shigaraki.

He eats-  he arrests villains-  he saves people- he reassures people- he eats- he sleeps- he eats- he arrests villains- he saves people- he sleeps- he eats- he sends the villains locations to the police- he saves people- he reassures people- he eats- he sends the location of villains to the nearby police- he saves people- he saves people and have them inform someone of the villain- he saves people- he saves people- he saves people- Class 1A is in front of him- All Might, Uraraka, Iida, Todoroki are in front of him- Kacchan is in front of him- He’s so tiered. Maybe it’s okay to rest a bit. He collapses.

He, once again, wakes up in the infirmary.

His friends are there. And his mother. And All Might. It’s so good to see them again, he hadn’t even noticed how badly he missed them all.

Bkg comes by later. Maybe both of them are now ready for that conversation.

Japan is still in chaos, the villains are still a danger, and hero society’s future is unsure but he has his friends again, his family, and maybe now also kacchan.

The situation is still so messed up but in that moment he smiles, a real smile not those he forced before even they became too much of an energy drain to maintain.