#also nowhere in my post did i say bkdk is canon. in fact i said that i DON'T think it will be canon.

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lol???????

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oof random thought but i feel like a lot of the fandom makes bakugou really ooc. a lot of people (especially bkdk shippers) make bakugou a tsundere when hes just an ass, which annoys me alot. anyways i was just wondering how you feel about the fandoms portrayal of bakugou.

I’m gonna state ahead of time,,, everyone here knows that I am Nowhere Near a b*kustan kinda person. So, I’m not the Best kind of person to go to if you want answers about portrayals of B*kugou. That being said, I will answer this to the best of my ability.

(I would also like to mention that, as I am a person who is very critical of B*kugou, I will be censoring his name. This is not because I hate his guts or think he’s the worst, it is simply because I think that people who like B*kugou would rather not see this post showing up in a search tag and I’d like to precaution against that)

I think that the way the fandom portrays many different characters is quite often ooc, it’s just that it’s in varying degrees of severity. I think the way the fandom portrays B*kugou is a kind of ooc where if you blink you could miss it, but it’s certainly there. I don’t think they get the fact that he’s an ass wrong, I think that the real problem is that they don’t always get the motivation for ‘why is he an ass’ right.

I recently reblogged a post that mentioned this, but there are a few ways that the fandom portrays B*kugou in an ooc way. There’s A: B*kugou bullied Izuku for years so that he would realize that he couldn’t be a hero, there’s B: B*kugou bullied Izuku because he enjoyed causing suffering, and there’s C, which is what you said essentially: B*kugou cared for Izuku and kept trying to push him away so he wouldn’t get hurt being a hero.

A and C are very similar, but C is specifically the kind that involves the claim that B*kugou did it because he cared and... yeah, I’ll get into that in a second.

But the point is, all of these reasons are incorrect. He didn’t do it because he cared or because he wanted to prove anything to Izuku. At the same time, he’s not quite so cruel as to do it just because he likes making Izuku suffer. 

Here’s my interpretation of why B*kugou did what he did;

B*kugou bullied Izuku because doing it made him feel powerful. He wanted to flaunt his abilities, and he wanted everyone to recognize him as powerful.

This reasoning probably sounds close to the second reason I gave above, but there’s one key difference, and it’s something all the misinterpretations of B*kugou have the same problem with. Here’s the truth of why those don’t work; B*kugou does not care about Izuku. He doesn’t hesitate to think what pain he’s causing Izuku with this (so it’s not B.), and he doesn’t care about making him give up so that he’ll give up on being a hero (there goes A. and C.). Actually, I even believe that if Izuku wasn’t there, he still would have turned out the same way. It’s about flaunting power, and so easily he would have just replaced his favorite punching bag; the only reason he bullied Izuku the most was because he saw the way Izuku was nice to him and took it as an insult, believing that Izuku must have been looking down on him. If Izuku wasn’t there, he would have picked the next person who tried to treat him with kindness. 

And now that I’ve said that... particularly the idea that B*kugou bullied Izuku because he “”cared”” and wanted him to give up on being a hero so that “”he wouldn’t get hurt””... that’s... so fucked up. (And usually, it’s also what bkdks pretend is what happened when. It just flat out isn’t). You don’t bully someone for ten years if you “secretly care” about them. You don’t completely shoot someone down at every possibility if you “secretly care” about them. And you definitely don’t tell someone to jump off a roof if you “secretly care” about them. B*kugou isn’t some ~*Tsundere UwU*~, when he says that he hates Izuku he genuinely means it. 

I suppose Horikoshi is at least partially to blame for these problems, though. He has never treated the bullying that B*kugou did to Izuku with any degree of care or thought; as soon as the first two episodes are over, it’s like the whole story changes. Horikoshi does not show any long term effect on Izuku from Bakugou’s bullying, showing that even he does not treat what happened between them seriously, even though I think it matters a great deal. All of these problems mentioned above are spawned by the way Horikoshi writes their interactions in canon; by having Izuku call the person who bullied him for ten years a non-threatening nickname like “K*cchan”, by having Izuku so quickly wave off a name that literally means useless and was used to torment him from years (to the degree where he uses it as his hero name even), by pushing this narrative that “they need to learn to work together”, and then by trying to shrug everything off and make them act like “proper rivals/ friends” after like... one yelling match in a courtyard that ended with them fighting, again. Their canon relationship is a mess. And it just goes to show that Horikoshi does not understand the severity of the past backstory that he gave them. Especially considering that B*kugou hasn’t even apologized yet.

Anyway. Sorry. I kinda rambled on you there. But yes, these are my thoughts on the subject

(Also I didn't like proofread this before hitting post so if there are typos, please tell me so I can fix them)