#bnha rivalry

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[flying-cat]

I still cannot get over that specific panel of Katsuki's face something about it is soooooo SOOOOOOOOO 😭

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[catsvkis]

god the contrast between the 400 previous chapters to the last few ones lmfaoo it would've looked ooc if it was a fanfic 😭😭 for all the times he acted all irritated with izuku after dvk2 we found out that he actually LOVED IT. loved that shit. loved that izuku kept his eyes on him, how he paid attention, how he challenged him, how he could challenge him back, how he knows that izuku wants his attention as well. he would've been fine with this continuing forever.

[bakudekublogblog]

kacchan there is actually a way you and izuku can be together forever i have this crazy inventive solution for you it's called a marriage license

[jade-of-mourning]

combine their vocabularies and together they could say a lot of superfluous things!

[delawaredetroit]

Here's the problem: instead of reflecting on his actual character flaws, Bakugou doubled down and started viewing Izuku as an extension of All Might. His respect for Izuku was contingent on Izuku having "All Might's power" and All Might's belief in Izuku's value.

It makes sense given Bakugou's ideology and their society's victim blaming narrative why he would blame himself for All Might's retirement. And there was progress for his character in that Bakugou came to terms with the fact he wasn't currently the strongest. But even after his fight with Izuku, his entire value system was still built around strength.

He didn't reflect on any of what Izuku said before and during this fight. Bakugou was only willing to talk things out with All Might. He still had no respect for Izuku as a person outside of the power he potentially represented.

[shih-coulda-had-it]

Redestro and Toshi twins au should recreate the Yoichi being punted by AFO scene

couldn't decide which twin would be funnier. but yeah. brotherly violence.

[tomorrowandtomorow]

Afo: *targets katsuki because he's izuku's closest person.*

Katsuki: damn right i am. and my name is kacchan thank u very much.

[kynamo]

our story has yet to be finished

[bicheetopuff]

You ever think about what was going through izuku's head whenever he saw katsuki warming upto the other students in 1-A (particularly Kirishima), respecting their abilities, and accepting them as friends (before his own relationship with katsuki started to develop)

I know obviously he would have been happy that katsuki is making true friends, but a part of him must have felt so insecure about himself and wondered why katsuki didn't want to accept him.

I also feel like the moment during the final exams when katsuki said he'd rather lose than work with deku must have hurt izuku atleast a little because he saw katsuki working with others during the cavalry battle or during the usj incident. He even acknowledges that kirishima has become katsuki's friend.

I’m sure he’s glad that Katsuki is making friends, but at the same time I think a part of him is kind of feeling left out about it, considering how he doesn’t acknowledge it until it’s absolutely dire while still making it clear that he noticed. I feel like it could a similar case as Ochako’s, feeling silently jealous and hating the feeling because he wants to be happy for him. I feel like that’s somewhat confirmed by this interview that he did in 2019 when Heroes Rising was about to come out.

(This translation is different than the one I linked, but are essentially saying the same thing)

And considering the way he was drawn in the panel where he made this choice, I’d say yeah, he definitely feels some sort of insecurity.

He takes both Katsuki and Uraraka’s words as “he doesn’t want to be rescued by *me* specifically” which is sad because I feel like it’s clear that that isn’t what Katsuki intended when he said what he said. Like, yes he probably wouldn’t have liked to have been Izuku to reach out to him again, but I doubt he’d let his petty grudge let him stay in All Mights way in a situation like that. I think he wanted him to not follow him because Deku was already in a fucked up state and would’ve been made a liability fairly quickly, especially considering how Deku had already been targeted by the league of villains specifically before this. Katsuki is brash, but he’s not dumb.

In the case of their final exam, I actually don’t think Izuku was hurt because Katsuki would rather work with other people, I think he was more hurt that Katsuki was willing to lose at all, under any circumstance, because that’s just not the Katsuki he knows.

(Some of these panels are edited together, so if they don’t feel like they’re in order, that’s why)

Deku has always had this unfaltering faith in Katsuki. Faith that ran so deep, that Katsuki saying something otherwise, legitimately pissed him off enough to punch him in the face and lecture him. He doesn’t want to hear it because he doesn’t want to believe it. It has nothing to do with how Katsuki feels about him but more how Katsuki maintains his own values, so that he can continue to look up to him without regret. You know why?

All Might is the worlds Symbol of Peace, but…

Katsuki is Izuku’s Symbol of Victory.

And I think Katsuki started to treat his urge to win differently, especially after his and Izuku’s final exam. It seemed like he was more willing to act like Izuku when he needed to, just like Izuku acted like him when he knew it’d benefit him. Willing to work as a team with people and sacrifice himself a little more. Because he literally can’t let Izuku one up him in anything. Hence why he died for no other reason than to prove a point. That he’s willing to do anything to win even if that means breaking himself.

(There’s like three panels I want to put here but I can’t cuz I’m running out of space and want to keep space for the last point I wanna make.

Basically, just reread the end of DvK2, Class A v Class b joint training arc, and the PLW arc. If you care that much lmao.)

It almost seemed like that even though he wanted to keep winning to Deku, he didn’t really want Deku to lose him at the same time. Which is why we never saw them fight again. Neither of them wanted to win or lose, which was why their training was always basically just Deku letting Katsuki get the best of him, because let’s be real… Izuku could’ve beaten Katsuki physically, easily. But he can’t stand seeing Katsuki lose, so he never let him. And I’m pretty sure Katsuki was aware of that, considering how his internal monologue in the PLW arc was saying.

Anyways…

Katsuki has to win, but also, Deku can’t lose. That’s basically the conclusion they came to terms with silently.

Literally the definition of “Person A fell first, but Person B fell harder,” but y’know… they’re just being silly. What they want for themselves are contradictory from what they want for each other, and it makes it so that they simultaneously want both of them to be the best version of themselves.

It also kind of mind fucks you when you think about how Katsuki strived to be the hero that Deku already saw him as, while Deku did the same thing, but both were kind of in the opposite direction/a direction neither of them really wanted the other to take… Katsuki believed that Deku’s urge to save was his biggest strength while simultaneously being the reason for his lack in success because he stopped taking himself into account if it meant saving someone, which is true, while Deku believed Katsuki’s biggest strength was his urge to win while also simultaneously believing that it was the reason for Katsuki’s downfall in some cases because it inflated his ego too much and he’d be willing to do anything to win just to protect that ego… which is also true… ugh they hurt my brain

This post ended up being a lot longer than I intended, oops

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Never seen a homoerotic rivalry I wouldn’t ship.

[bakudekublogblog]

i am a bit like rrrrrrrrr about izuku not acknowledging kacchan at all, but also kacchan literally just told him not to slip up, so if izuku had a moment where he was like “omg kacchan” he would have REALLY been ignoring kacchan in that moment

[chiquilines]

Yeah yeah genderswap kiribaku are getting me through the week what about it

[pepperyhoney]

i always thought of him as a late bloomer who will become very popular amongst the bisexual crowd due to his certain nerd-who-had-a-glow-up charm

[searenbound]

I’m feeling dramatic again, thinking about being the sweetest little Omega stepsister caught between the eldest and youngest Todoroki brothers who don’t know how to share except apparently when it comes to you.

They’re both Alphas who’ve set their sights on you from the moment you and your mother moved in, and while you hate that they fight over you, you can’t help but love how they fight for you.

You always seem to end up in a false heat, lightheaded and dazed while the two take turns proving they’re worth as an alpha