#but yeah BKDK THO

[spinji]

I know it's been weeks since the final chapter came out but I can't get over how much Izuku and Katsuki's relationship objectively drove the story from start to finish, they don't want to exist without each other and they got the happy ending that was ripped away from another pair that All For One heavily projected onto: Yoichi and Kudo(I personally read that as a big brother not approving of how his younger brother chose to run away to be with another man, and how he chased after and killed both of them for it. You know like an older sibling not approving of their kid sibling's dating life).

Genuinely insane that their bond is the entire backbone of the story. Like, that's objectively correct. Even in the times before they were alive, there was a bkdk equivalent setting up the lore.

You can call it rivalries or hope or idealism or heroic spirit or whatever but we all know what this is, it's LOVE

Still mad we aren't getting Bakugou v AFO until next season because that freakout confusing Katsuki for Kudou is the funniest shit AFO has done. Starting with the most recent episode we have officially reached the "clowning on AFO" stage of the war and I love it.

[flying-cat]

It was crazy watching bkdk go from the most hated ship to the most popular ship in the fandom

[wander-wren]

a Thought, tm, if you will

Katsuki is sprinting before he properly knows what’s happening, caught up in green and redredred and Deku. He skids to his knees, half colliding with Deku as he scrabbles for a good hold on Katsuki’s shoulders.

Scrabbles, because his hands are wet and slippery with his own blood and there’s no traction. His eyes are wide, pupils so huge there’s hardly a hint of emerald, his mouth open with gasps for air, teeth stained red.

Katsuki realizes he’s babbling like the nerd himself. “Fuck, fuck, stop moving, I gotcha, I’m gonna get you out of here, just—shit, just fucking—where the fuck is it coming from.“

Everywhere.

Broken bones shift and splinter further under his clumsy hands. Kacchan has never been the one of them that fixes things.

“D—Izuku, hold on, hold the fuck on, I’m fixing you-“

“Kacchan,” Izuku gasps, body jerking, out of control. Katsuki thinks death throes and then thinks over my goddamn corpse.

“Shut the fuck up, you stay with me, you hear? I swear to god, I am dragging your shitty ass home.”

“Kacchan!”

And Izuku grabs the sides of his face with his blood-slicked hands, yanking him down hard and crushing their lips together. Katsuki makes a noise of protest, muffled. He tastes Deku, ozone and sage, and then he feels it.

Lightning crackling through his veins, making a home in his bones. Pure power, generations of it, flowing easily under his skin.

Tenth.

Katsuki rips away with a short, horrified cry, but it doesn’t help. Doesn’t stop it. Izuku’s eyelids flutter shut, the ghost of a smile still on his face, and Katsuki grabs the front of his uniform before he collapses. He drags him in, cradling him against his chest, letting his blood flow red and red and red over both of them and watching Izuku’s quirk dance helplessly on his skin. Like it can’t settle. Like it knows it doesn’t belong to him. The sounds of battle are ringing all round them; it’s only a matter of time before another attack catches them. The fighting’s not over.

Fuck the fight.

Katsuki staggers to his feet and starts sprinting. Save to win.

He hasn’t lost to Deku yet, and dammit, he isn’t starting today.

credit where credit’s due, i saw a tododeku fic with a similar premise (mid-battle kiss to transfer ofa) which i did Not read bc my first thought was WOW I WANNA WRITE THAT and i dont wanna. accidentally steal too much. so i made it bakudeku and now it’s living in my head

[bravano]

goddamn it, I come back to My Hero Academia for the first time in years and it’s ending???!? WHAT THE HELL?!?

what do you mean we’re currently in the middle of season 7?!?! Last I checked, season 3 had just come out!

Five Chapters left?? what?? AND WHAT HAPPENED TO DEKUS ARMS??? AND BAKUGOU DIED FOR LIKE A YEAR?!?

WHEN DID SHIGARAKI GET HOT!?!?

Oh yeah, what the hell is a blackwhip?

oof I remember when Dabi being a Todoroki was only a fan theory lol, I remember writing a few posts about it back when he first showed up lol.

Ain’t gonna lie tho, Deku’s new haircut is actually kind cool. Hm, what’s that? WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE’S QUIRKLESS AGAIN??

ALSO LESBIANS?? TOGA?? URARAKA?? I NEVER SAW THAT COMING BUT HOLY SHIT THEIR CHAPTER IS BEAUTIFUL.

and don’t even get me started on bkdk. You mean to tell me I won’t get flamed anymore for liking it? That’s it’s considered one of the most popular ships now? Most people consider it practically canon? Phew. OG BAKUDEKU SHIPPER HERE THAT GOT DEATH THREATS FOR LIKING IT BACK IN 2017 ✨🙏☺️ nature is healing

Honestly tho, it was one of the first anime I ever watched, and to come back to it now with so much stuff having happened, it’s definitely shocking lol. But honestly, when I catch you Horikoshi-

[the-anime-enthusiast]

izuku midoryia’s type in women PLEASEEEE🙏🙏

OFCC!! Sorry for taking so long, in my last post I explained why I've been on an unofficial hiatus but yeah 😭 I got u!!

IZUKU MIDORIYA - type in women

PHYSICAL 🤸‍♀️

bro DOES NYYYAT care, literally at all. I think everyone has their preferences, him too ofc, but he's him guys. The ratio from hips to waist is NOT what bros laying attention to, but ofc I'll still give you my opinion.

SUN KISSED BADDIES you got that like sunburn across your cheeks? he's going crazy. like legitimately. I don't think he would be able to handle his feelings. he'd probably pass out from a blood pressure spike.

He likes them brown haired girls 😔 and brown eyed girls 😭 (song reference) He honestly doesn't care Abt details like that, he'd date anyone, but he def compares his love life to shoujo series and he stays seeing those dark haired baddies.

ass tits thighs personality ✅ he's fs a personality man but let's bffr, every guy has there thing....height, hips, and arms. He likes his girls shorter than him 🙂 (around 5'2? not too short tho cuz then he gets weirded out) He LOVES dem hips. Yk whenever a girl has that natural dip in her hips, it kinda looks like those donut stack toys babies play with? (random comparison I js can't think of anything) HE LOVES THAT SH!!T. He's def secretly crazy for thick hips, like when u got some fat around them. Loves it 100%

okay...so the whole arms thing...he likes girls who have thicker arms...and not rly a muscle kinda thick, more like an auntie thick when you got that little folded skin hanging over the elbow. Bros specific, and bros a lil weird Abt it. He would NEVER admit it out loud, but it's like a creepy fetish for him. He would js never actually be creepy Abt it tho cuz yk, HE HAS COMMON DECENCY. (Unlike some guys 🙄)

When I say he's not picky, I MEAN he is not picky. It's giving very much Yuji Itadori and that one girl that he was like "yeah it would be her" (very mindful, very sweet, very wholesome, very demure) Slim, Thick, Skinny, Midsize, Plus size, All size, Morphing Size (idfk im running out of sizes and you never know with those quirks man)

MENTAL 🧠

if ur a mean ass bitch you can get TFFF OUUUTTT bro does NOT stand for that sh!t 🙅‍♀️ tbh i dont think he'd be picky when it comes to personality but he doesn't stand for someone who has room for hate in their heart, even after everything hes been through. I'm not gonna sit here and be like "oh he's a sweet cinnamon roll 🥺" like bffr, but he won't even look in your direction if you're a "hater"

He generally wants someone sweet, or just nice in general. like ochaco (no I'm not shipping them, she's just really nice and the best charcter to describe his preferred personality to)(did you see her with toga? shes a sapphic queen guys bffr) He wants someone who cares TREMENDOUSLY, like he does. Kindness is what gets his attention, being a good soul and good spirit, someone he can match wave lengths with mentally.

A strong mind and determination. (bkdk reference) (I'm joking) He knows exactly where he wants to be in life, even if his idea of that is a little messy, so he likes whenever someone has the same drive he does, natural will to be good. He wants someone mentally tough and ready to face the world for what they believe, as long as they know in their heart it's what they want/believe. (all might reference)

RANDOM 🎉

He rly likes girls who can draw 😭 He thinks it's the coolest thing ever and it makes it so easy for his partner to get him gifts bc he'd melt if he got a personalized drawing of him and his fav heros 😭

LOVE LANGUAGE - physical touch

he's not huge on pda (he gets rly embarrassed, not in a embarrassed of you way, more of a, im shy and feel like my face is going to explode, kinda way) but he loves sweet little acts of physical touch. Whenever he's stressed or really anxious holding hands melts all his worries away.

LOVE LANGUAGE -quality time

bro fr js wants to be next you. he loves little cheesy dates (amusement park and sharing crepes)(manga reference) but yeah, just cheesy things like that.

Really likes nerdy girls (very big on matching energy if you can't already tell) like js geek out with bro and he'd die for u istg.

Play a damn board game with this kid, Jeezus Chrysler. Whip out monopoly and you'll have his attention till he rots in fictional jail. He actually REALLY sucks at board games but refuses to ever stop playing them. Jenga? He can't even set the blocks up without knocking them over. Uno? He forgot what the word uno was. I mean literally say there stuttering trying to remember what word he's supposed to say.

BUY THIS KID SHOES. He doesn't know why...but it's one of his favorite gifts to receive. He loves trying them on and showing them off to you. He also gets rly geeked out over custom fan shoes. (think like those Hercules sandals from the Hercules movie) He knows it's cringe. He doesn't care. He has display racks for all of them on his wall.

OMG I FINISHED WRITING IT HOLY SH!T I DIDNT THINK I WOULD I js pulled all of these he out MY BEHIND BRO it's midnight I'm dead ASF, I have that convention in 2 days, shizzz wild rn. Pls lemme know what u think!! I've never been a HUUGHERE Deku fan, I kinda js appreciate his character, but I think this is pretty cutesy, how tf do u spell that. Anyways, yeah. This was fun. BYEYYEYEYEHEHEHEHEHEYYTEYRYTRYYR

[vaguelyaperson]

oh sure bkdk seem like polar opposites, but they both, in fact

are stubborn

have zero fucking chill

like... they’re so fucking emotional. my dudes.

... and yell a lot

ambitious/competitive

will throw down anytime anywhere

absolute nerds

academically inclined

strategic geniuses

all might/pro hero trivia

but also jocks

ambiverts (they seem just as content around others as they are by themselves)

also note they have similar number of friends

socially awkward af tho

& get embarrassed easily

one stammers, one gets snappy -> both flustered

yet ironically very charismatic!!! people are drawn to/inspired by them

fiercely protective (of each other and loved ones)

are the splitting image of their mothers

chafe at authority (their forms of deviance differ)

self-sufficient/struggle asking for help

have admitted willingness to break his body to achieve his goals

idiots

these two are just the same fucking person, different fonts. “i know him better than anyone else” yeah, fucker, cause your souls were clearly cut from the same cloth. one of you just has a potty mouth and the other fools people with his doe eyes into believing he’s innocent

[cookiekat-blogz]

Ik y’all bkdk shippers are happy…

Guess who never thought she’d live to see the day where bakudeku was non toxic and on the verge of being canon?

me!

So have I changed my opinion? My opinion has (pretty much) always been the same: “yeah their cute but like only if it’s canon… and the fans ruin it but if you seperate the fandom from the show than it’s not all bad, only if they actually, I dunno, got along?”

it’s been three years and now they got along, bakudeku almost canon before gta 6, crazy.

do I want it to be canon?

I dont mind but at this rate I’d pefer so, I just still can’t see it, not that I don’t like it just that I never expected mha to actually be fruity.

now it’s time to make jokes about all my friends who crapped on it and called them straight.. (I did the same but ngl you didn’t have to ship bkdk to think they were fruity)

then hide in a rock somewhere and never come back if it’s not confirmed. /hj

thesis statement: neet, good for them, may get back into it, still reminding you of the 2019-2022 audios tho.

[angy-grrr]

im going to say something that might be surprising coming from me: if hori decided to make izu///ocha happen, I wouldnt be angry, and I could see why it could make sense for the story.

I personally dont think izu///ocha will happen and see their "romantic moments" as platonic/not focused on them as a couple, but if he were to make them happen I wont go around saying how the manga is pure trash and that he cant write anything.

These past weeks many stans of some characters have been dominating the general tags with doom posting and being mean, mainly because the ideas they were sure would happen in the manga were broken and denied, and I dont think we should do that if we end up in a similar position. Dont get me wrong, I would "mourn" that ending because I see the potential and the way the characters need something else to be fulfilled -I dont see how Izuku would fulfill anything with that, and Ochako's character would regress.

We still need to be respectful and not forget all the things we have enjoyed just because we dont get all the things we wanted -some of us criticize this about other parts of the fandom, so lets do our best to learn from those things.

As a bkdk and togachako, I would be heartbroken. As a reader, I would be confused and bored -in any case, if he ends up adding some sort of dramatic confession, I could appreciate a cute dialogue and drawing. Im not going to talk shit about the manga that has been a part of my life for such a long time just because there are decisions I cant enjoy.

When I say I can see how it would make sense I dont mean it as in well written, but as in "yeah, a shonen. They blushed, he thought about her words to remember he can try to save Shigaraki, and she said she fell in love with him". I can see how it could become canon, but there isnt much going on that would make me be happy or interested in them together at all -when I say theres no drama going on with them, its meant to be interpreted as "I dont see any romantic tension, or way this could further the plot nor serve the characters. This is mainly to have a classic shonen ending, not because the story needs it from my point of view".

Im not going to bully someone or wish the characters died tho. And I think others shouldn't either.

[knichii]

OK. does anyone else feel irritated that eng dub seems to be favoured in mha? in edits, in fics, it's clear most people watched dub and idk it's been rlly grinding my gears.

okay, to get this out the way, I don't like mha's eng dub. I don't like any of them. half don't fit their characters, 75% of the time the tone lands forced and awkward, and its literally just unbearable for me to watch I'm sorry. I have this issue with a lot of anime and cartoons so this isn't solely a my hero problem, but this is definitely the most severely I've disliked a dub. and yet I cannot escape it.

one of my biggest issues is the nuance that's lost in translation. anyone with any familiarity with the Japanese language will know what I mean. list of examples:

HONORIFICS

1. iida refers to class 1-A with '-kun'

2. yaoyorozu refers to class 1-A with '-san'

3. asui refers to class 1-A with '-chan'

3. deku with '-kun' (m) & '-san' (f)

that says SO MUCH about their characters, how they view their relationships, how they view themselves,, but in dub?? all of that's lost. ESP the significance of deku still calling bkg 'kacchan'. [simplified, '-chan' is used for cute/endearing things. it stemmed from children mispronouncing '-san', and became a childish, cutesy way of calling someone, usually someone you're VERY familiar with. it implies a shocking ammount of intimacy] thru years of bullying, all the rocks and straight up non existent road of their relationship, deku STILL calls him 'kacchan', the ONLY one allowed to do so ("but kaminari--" NEENAWNEENAWNEENAW).

in eng dub it gets reduced to a mere nickname, lacking all of its weight.

another thing is bakugou sub vs dub (...)

URGGGGGGHHHH

the most recent example is when bkg says "of course you pulled it off, Icyhot." (I forgot the context tho) in sub, he says "of course you pulled it off, TODOROKI".

THATS SUCH A NICHE, SUBTLE WAY OF SHOWING HIS DEVELOPMENT THATS TOSSED STRAIGHT OUT THE WINDOW. translation (manga) also has him calling his seniors 'senpai' which is... not what he says in sub????? 'senpai' indicates respect for someone your senior,,,, which. bkg would never show. (or only in EXTREMELY rare cases, MAYBE)

there's also my peeve abt names. this may be an only me issue, but I don't like it when japanese names are written in western format (e.g Izuku Midoriya)... ("this guy cannot be fr rn" unfortunately yes I am). I don't have a reason for this, and I'm aware it's niche and irrational, but I always cringe a little when I'm reading a fic, that's SET IN JAPAN, and their names are written Given Name, Family Name. emphasis on SET IN JAPAN. THEY ARE JAPANESE. THEY ARE NOT AMERICAN.

bkg's hero name. his og one which was translated to King Explosion Murder, losing all of the wit and cleverness in the jp original. this post goes into more detail and is very cool check it out

slightly irrelevant but bkg's jp va, Okamoto Nobuhiko, like. wow. the bkdk fight? the voice cracks? the ANGUISH?? the softness in his voice when bkg was abt to die (the hallucination w all might) ??? like,, wow. the emotion is so much more raw than it's conveyed in eng

I've gotten off point. point is I WISH MORE PEOPLE APPRECIATED AND WATCHED IN JP SUB. IM SCREAMING INTO THE VOID AND MY OWN VOICE IS ECHOING BACK I CANT DO THIS ANYMORE.

(note: jjk was my first anime fandom so I'm probably spoiled. over there, sub seems to be favoured, barring a few iconic lines [ray chase lwk served as sukuna in the shibuya arc] and the fics, like 70% of the ones I read, used japanese honorifics and culture. in comparison, mha was a bit of a shock. the side of the fandom I washed up on is so... American??? maybe I'm in the wrong place idk. everything's just extremely white and slightly uncomfortable.)

this was a bit of a vent post,, obviously ik people are entitled to opinions (even if they're wrong), I js wanted tk if anyone else felt the same way

reading this back, I'm aware of how chronically online I am. yeah. still tho

[marimeeko]

Horikoshi: I love drawing hands. Hands are the most expressive part of the body

All of us, mostly artists jealous of the hand drawing prowess: yeah ok king we can tell

Horikoshi: *writes the most incredible hand-symbolism into his most important connections in MHA*

All of us and especially bkdks: 🥹😭 YOURE SO RIGHT THO

[one-and-a-half-yikes]

This thought had been in my head before, and I didn't think about making a post about it till I saw a really dumb post I disagreed with.

Once again talking about Izuku having a crush on Ochako, while acting as if Izuku is an average shounen protag like all the others. Except for one thing...

While it can be stated that Izuku did at one point have a crush on Uraraka, and I'm not gonna dispute that, many have already pointed out how Izuku very quickly gets over it the more time he spends at U.A. And all of this is true, but there's one thing I haven't seen anyone point out yet and that's that all of Izuku's moments where we see him crushing on Ochako I treated like a gag.

There's a lot of moments from the earlier parts of the series so I didn't grab them all. But I'm gonna use some to make my case here.

this is literally the first panel where we see this happen, and right off it comes across less like a crush and more like...actually I don't know how to even describe that face...

But the point is that it doesn't really seem like the face of someone who's flustered (especially because we see Izuku get flustered at multiple other points and it looks nothing like this-), and he's barely blushing at all in this. The way that this scene is made, makes it seem like you're meant to treat this in jest. "Oh a teen boy having a crush on a girl, just a boy being a boy!" Yes. A boy being a boy. A teen boy who was previously bullied and ostracized by all his peers and who's only interaction with the opposite sex would have been his mom. I can't imagine why he's having this reaction. Anyways.

Okay now Izuku is flustered...but it's because of personal space? Not the girl in front of you? Huh. Okay. This happens again btw, during the first OVA (I think), where Uraraka in her excitement at being paired up with Izuku ends up in his personal space without consideration for his boundaries.

This continues on sparsely throughout random points in the story, until they just...stop. Completely. And this interesting, because every other time regarding IzuOcha specifically focuses on Uraraka and her feelings about Izuku. And it's never treated as a joke. Whereas with Izuku, you're meant to find it funny, but never highly important, or warranting you're full attention. It's just something that I find interesting, especially when you take into consideration how this parallels KiriMina and KamiJirou, and how for both boys and their feelings toward their respective love interests their feelings are treated again, with weight.

And like I said, Uraraka's emotions are treated seriously. We're given multiple moments to see her contemplate on this stuff. But never Izuku. Why? Because he's not important, it was always gonna be one-sided thing between them, imo I don't think, even if bkdk was never meant to be a thing, that Hori ever intended for this to be a deep, meaningful relationship between these two. That it was always never gonna happen. That's my two cents tho.

Not sure how to end this off, so yeah...if anyone wants to add anything or ask if I didn't explain something well enough lemme know cause I have no idea if I did 😅

[obsessive-dumpling]

Alright. Let's talk about this coaster set....in what realm do we make a set of FORTY FUCKING FIVE COASTERS- FUCKING COASTERS- of just TWO DUDES with some INTENSE ass emotions and it be completely fucking chill? They have the audacity to look at us unblinking and say "yeah, they're rivals" while handing us FORTY FIVE COASTERS of them in matching outfits and their most emotional scenes. Maybe I wouldn't call bullshit if it had been a normal 4-6 set but 45?! This is like that recap video they made with the angsty music and then only showed bkdk the whole video. Like bruh. Come on. Just say it. Just fucking say it.

They are fucking gorgeous tho...

[socalledsomethingorother]

hey y’all i’ve been struggling with trying to write because i have so many wips and ideas but not enough motivation

here’s a list of the wips i have, i’d appreciate some feedback on which ones you’d like to read <3

in which katsuki isn’t satisfied with izuku’s answer on how he unlocked blackwhip. he questions izuku about it and angst insues. happy ending tho, i always do happy endings

a melancholy fic about their relationship after the war. they realize how much they need the other and it’s just about them navigating their relationship with each other while also dealing with the mental tolls of being in a fucking war at 16 or whatever

in which katsuki is pressured by the top three heroes (endeavor, hawks, jeanist) to infiltrate the league. his death is faked and he joins the LOV under the effects of an appearance-altering quirk.

in which katsuki is a vestige of OFA and experiences izuku’s grief firsthand while keeping his existence a secret within the OFA world. he becomes acquaintances with the 2nd, and they have almost a mentor-mentee type relationship

in which izuku works in cybersecurity and katsuki, who’s desperate for revenge for his missing friend, helps izuku by hacking into the case files and sending him clues about the suspect.

in which current bkdk meets their past selves. no plot idea yet but i Love this trope

so yeah! i’d really appreciate any feedback <3

love always,

katherine

[doodlejoops]

HAPPILY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE POTENTIAL HAIKYUU FANARTS the bkdk one is so cute alreadyyy (i‘m talking abt actual haikyuu character art tho oc (unless you meant bkdk in haikyuu then i mean hell yeah too lol))

Oh don't worry there is gonna be plenty of Haikyuu to come! There are SO. MANY. GOOD. CHARACTERS. to draw but Ukai, Bokuto and Kageyama in particular are demanding my attention.

[lempeeartz]

I love thinking of bkdk as equals. Which, I mean, yeah, duh, right? No, but what I'm saying is: it makes me unhappy to see some real life couples not really treating each other fairly?

Like, ok an example: I really dislike the "women have to serve men all the time" type of mentality (the toxic mentality tho, not the thing itself, bc I mean if you wanna serve your man all the time, you do you) and yknow, it just feels really sweet to think abt bkdk taking turns doing things like that (the bare minimum in a relationship basically??)

This might sound sad but it makes me so happy to see the bare minimum in relationships. It's like, people should be doing it in the first place, but it's such a hard concept for some people.

TLDR: Anyway, this was kind of a vent type of thing (??) abt how I use bkdk to imagine a healthy couple who love each other and treat each other right.

[vaguelyaperson]

Time to talk about That Cover

holy shit my bkdk heart be still

I wanna preface this by saying that I am only conversational in Japanese, not fluent, and in my utter excitement upon seeing the cover for the first time, already mistranslated it (mistaking 侵す for 傷, one meaning to 'to harm,' the other meaning 'injury.') My apologies but we're all losing our minds so les gooooo

I was about to go to sleep but this cover ruined my life

the title of this volume (fusegusha to okasusha) basically means "the one who protects and the one who harms," which is clearly a reference to Deku vs AFO-Shiggy

HOWEVER 'okasu' (侵す) can also mean to encroach, invade, violate, ect... implied to be inflicted on something inanimate, a possession... like, there are words that specifically mean to hurt people. That's not the word here.

hetero interpretation is that AFO-Shiggy is an invader on Yuuei terf and Deku is its defender

cool, yeah, badass

the gay implication is that Bakugou belongs to Midoriya

okay okay okay okay

we do love a possessive Deku in this house

but what gets to me is that this volume uses the more traditional kanji for protector (禦 instead of the simplified 防)... anyone more fluent have a suggested reason for this choice?

cause for now I'm just going with Deku is badass and cool and we gon put some respect on his title as protector

The official heroaka twitter account captioned this cover with "倒れた爆豪を抱きとめるデクが目印です," which to my understanding (correct me if my colloquial translation is off) means "The image of Deku holding back a fallen Bakugou."

(Tho I am a bit confused by the way 抱き止め is used, because it implied restraining someone, holding them back from something... and if anything, Deku is the one holding himself back??? Again, correct me if I'm missing something)

Look i'm doing my best

And I really wanna fucking know why the traditional kanji for protect

(So traditional that my Japanese keyboard on my phone doesn't even fucken suggest this kanji for fusegu)