#izuku loves his friends

[antsday]

okay i will admit it: i don't like 431 from a narrative standpoint (or really any standpoint) but if you view it exclusively as the true epilogue in an alternate universe of mha in which 5 year old katsuki is right about deku looking down on him and doing everything to spite him and wanting to bring about his downfall then the whole thing becomes kind of absurdly funny

[nuppu-nuppu]

[raccoonfan101]

adding onto this: deku also would be so broke bc he’s spending all his money on his friends merch!! obviously they send him all their stuff for free, but deku buys anything that’s has one of their faces on it.

i think before bakugou’s character arc, he really didn’t care about having merch except that it’s a sign he’s a top hero. his motivation is to be a hero, so he really didn’t think that much about merch he’d have.

after the apology and before his death, his views changed! he thought about what merch deku would buy of him (he knows deku would hoard that shit).

when he became a pro-hero, people thought he started selling out with all the different merch he came out with. he didn’t really care what others thought, he needed money for that suit!

now in the future when the wonder duo is back fighting crime, he thinks about merch as a way to inspire others. (he harassed every brand he worked with to create deku merch bc who’s more inspirational than him? haha… but i think he has a thought that the two of them are now like all might, inspiring kids to do good).

[marimeeko]

I don't think anyone has talked about post epilogue, when Rody someday comes to visit Izuku in Japan!

And what about Bakugou and Todoroki tagging along since they were all together in Otheon.

And Bakugou just CONSTANTLY struggling with his feelings coming from watching Rody and Izuku being besties and even looking like they are just a shade away from being a couple.

Pino hasn't made a single peep OTHER than affection for Izuku, and Bakugou knows what that means.

So Katsuki, who is obviously deep in his feelings for izuku, who is funding and orchestrating the secret support suit for Izuku, is just PINING for Izuku and "the rest of their lives", is just walking around Japan with Izuku, Rody and Rodys two little siblings, just SICK with his own frustration, jealously and anxiety.

But also he's desperately keeping himself in check because he has no right to ruin anything for Izuku. He wants Izuku to be happy. Right now, Izuku is so so happy to be with Rody.

But Rody is also extremely happy to be with Izuku...

Katsuki trying so hard not to hate Rody for it.

Katsuki trying so hard to not be mad that it's not HIM and Izuku out on a date, or a patrol, or even just a walk to the store, instead of Izuku guiding Rody around points of interest as a guest.

Katsuki is even getting to the horrible point in his life where he sees Izuku interacting with the young siblings(and he's always amazing with kids) and imagines them instead as little freckled kids with mops of blonde and green.

To further the illusion, as he stares with icy crimson eyes, he visualizes Rody standing there with a hand on Izukus shoulder instead to be himself, Katsuki "DynaMight" Bakugou, standing proud and beaming over their tiny family.

The thought makes him feel fluttery inside but at the same time, so lonely.

He sneered over how much he craved that domesticity.

Katsuki GROWLING like a territorial cat if Rody takes Izuku by the hand to go look at something new.

Katsuki almost losing it and maybe even having to walk away from the others if Rody starts floating the idea of Izuku visiting or even leaving Japan for Otheon. Telling him there's always room for him in their place(by now he has gotten a better apartment) and the kids screaming YES DEKU COME STAY WITH US!

Katsuki having to collect himself as he can't help but overhear Izuku kindly saying it would be nice to visit someday(but he doesn't hear Izuku go on to say that he would overall prefer to stay in Japan bc it's home and his mom/kacchan is here and his studies, plus a job is already lined up for him at UA....)

Then Todoroki sensing all of this simmering emotion in Katsuki of course and assuring Katsuki with his presence. He let's Katsuki rib him if it makes him feel better(it doesn't)

But Todoroki would also eventually assure Katsuki that "You're underestimating how much Midoriya cares for you. Just because he hasn't said it....we all know he's just not very forward about his true feelings."

Katsuki hopes that's true but just kind of grunts in response.

"You know...you could always ask him out yourself" Todoroki tells him in the flattest tone possible, and Katsuki sputters and turns beet red

[piedpiperart]

Part eleven of Ghost hero!

Part ten

Update coming soon…

[evelynpr]

FINISHED WATCHING MHA MOVIE 2: HEROES RISING!!! SPOILERS AHEAD IF YOU HAVENT WATCHED IT

OH MY FUCKING GOD THIS WAS SO GOOD YO HOLY FUCK I LOVE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAA

This was truly My Bakudeku Academia. Watching that final battle felt like a religious experience- as if I was watching the birth of Christ. Holy fuck if that really was the original ending, with Deku passing OFA to Kacchan, and the whole "Oh it actually stayed with Deku and Bkg got amnesia" didn't happen, this would have been a dramatically different story moving forward.

Horikoshi really loves Bakugou- like absolutely no question. The story following this kind of ending would be about him continuing OFA's legacy with the guilt of a thousand suns on his shoulders for "taking away" Izuku's dream. Izuku would have continued the hero course as an actual quirkless student. I would love to see aus of this being canon and continuing their story from there.

I'm guessing Nine here was supposed to be AFO, and he would basically be gone too. Katsuma is perfectly set up to be the next protagonist (I can already imagine him using Cell Regeneration as Super Regeneration- he could become invincible while also healing others. Incredibly amazing quirk).

NUMBER ONE COMPLAINT I HAD WAS ADDRESSED. THE REST OF THE CLASS ACTUALLY DO FEEL STRONG AND USEFUL AND EVERYTHING AS SHIT I LOVE IT AAAAAAAA

YES MY GIRL OCHAKO FINALLY HAS HER BIG MOMENT FLOATING SO MUCH DEBRIS!!! I'M SO HAPPY- EVEN JIRO, AOYAMA, SHOJI, TOKOYAMI AND MORE HAD LEGIT GOOD SCENES AND FIGHTS I'M SO FUCKING HAPPY YEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH THEY ARE SOOO COOLLLLL THEY GENUINELY GAVE IT THEIR ALL FUCK YEAHHHHH

(note. THAT WOLF GUY CALLED SHOJI UGLY- A FELLOW HETEROMORPH, CUS HE WAS PROJECTING HIS "MONSTER" ISSUES ON HIM HOW FUCKING DARE YOUUUUU)

THEY ALSO MAKE IT ACTUALLY MAKE MORE SENSE HOW THE WHOLE CLASS IS SEPARATED ON AN ISLAND TOGETHER AS A WHOLE CLASS THIS TIME TOO (and not just half like last movie). They even managed to tie it in to AFO, the LoV, and Hero Society. Like it actually feels more grounded and reasonable why the class would be here alone with supervision.

They even add hints of Touya Todoroki with him having a short battle with Endeavor, Hawks spying in the LoV, the HSPC head cameo, and other little things too. Man I loved this fucking movie I would watch it 10 more times right now.

[rose-void-789]

Just two nerds bonding over their destructive boyfriends

[yah1dka]

¡mha spoilers!

i just want to talk about the epilogue and cry a little

it feels like these fanfics, where the characters are getting married and the bridesmaid is painfully in love with the bride but still helps her organize the wedding cause she cannot ruin her happiness

look at her, i'm sure she would've cry right after if she was alive

it just doesn't seem right from the togachako perspective, because i can accept izuku's crush, but ochako??? her main point was to overcome her feelings for him because it was stopping her from being a good hero. i'm sure there is hundreds of analyses why it's so important for her character development and i'm just disappointed.

sure, we can say that this time ochako may love him differently and that wouldn't mess with her way of saving people anymore, but why then ochako would want to be with him at all...

i don't want ochako to suffer her whole life and mourn toga, but it shouldn't be izuku. like, anyone, but him would've been alright

[everypanelofizuku]

Chapter 69 - Interview with Midoriya

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Just want to say: a, I admire very much that you've figured out a healthy way to work on your fics that allows you to have fun with it. And also b, am very excited to hear that you are getting there with pez! It has fully given me brain rot ever since I read it last year, there is just such a lack of content for the highly specific trope of using time travel as a device to explore extremely unhealthy levels of self loathing.

I just adore everything you're doing in it. Neither midoriya is anywhere approaching okay for any portion of the fic and I love rereading and mining into all the subtle characterization pointing to that. It's a bit like nhtycth in that some really goofy funny stuff is often hiding some really fucking worrying things, but the fact that characters DO do that stuff—that todoroki uses his teaspoon's worth of extremely stunted social skills to bludgeon his friend's door open and help him, that a rpf shipping war is an actual source of drama despite how goofy the sentiment seems on the surface, that about half of what jon says is deeply worrying and the other half is extremely funny and there's a lot of overlap between the two—really lifts the tension and brightens the universe. It's sort of similar to what you did with gerry, in that endless misery isn't nearly as painful as the ups and downs of a life that, when you step back and zoom out, has something deeply and horribly wrong with it.

(jon sort of reminds me of spider-man in that he uses human to deal with trauma and stress, except I don't think he at any point realizes how fucking funny he is. He's just there, in a home depot, gnashing his teeth because he's got so many bodies to dispose of and this cashier sure is taking her time.)

I really, really, really have had trouble finding fics that take everything midoriya has dealt with to task. It's a hell of a thing to live 14 years as a disabled minority, have it heavily shape your existence, and then one day you wake up and you realize you're...not that, or at least, nobody will ever acknowledge you as that again. You've lost all claim to it. Those experiences that shaped who you are? Dust in the wind. 14 years of pain and life might as well be buried in the ground for all the good they do you. Nobody's going to cut you any slack or quarter, you've gotta simply work harder, be better. And now when you do that you get the results you wanted, so that's fine, then. That's good. There was something wrong with the you before, and there's something right with the you now, and if the transition is a little rough, well that doesn't matter, you're the same as everyone else now, so it's your own job to fill in whatever gaps you need to.

I really can't get over how mentally fucked it must be for midoriya to run into quirkless people, run across quirkless issues, and be silently caught between, incapable of speaking his mind and too scared to do so anyway around those he can trust.

Also I should mention, I'm just very excited for bakugou to get back from the gym. He's been there like a year I hope he's getting a good workout in.

Me realizing that it’s been a year since pez dispenser debris:

I feel like there’s just this very specific type of grief that Izuku has to grapple with in the span of pez dispenser debris that I’m just obsessed with. He’s sort of silently mourning who he could have been, when 1) he has to present like there’s nothing lost to maintain his secret and 2) the entire world is constantly inundating him with the message that there was nothing lost.

Like. I don’t want to get too deep into it because it risks spoiling things and I do have major plans to continue it (I’ve loved this story for so many years before I ever even hit publish), but the emotion that Izuku’s feeling right now is so much more complex than “I hate who I used to be and want him to stop existing” or “I just want to keep my secrets.” And I think the way he interacts with Mirio is the biggest evidence of that.

Izuku’s placed himself at the very center of the Quirklessness debate with his support of Mirio. He fights for Quirkless heroes, very publicly, to the point where he’s not even graduated yet but considered to be one of the most prominent voices on the matter. If you took a poll of Quirkless people as to which hero would be most supportive of them pursing their own career in heroics, Izuku would be right at the top of the list. When it comes to Quirklessness itself, he’s nothing but supportive.

But he didn’t tell Mirio the truth of his own Quirklessness.

Out of everyone, Mirio’s the one everyone expects to know, despite him being a relatively newer relationship compared to someone like Iida or Uraraka or Todoroki. And I tried to imply that he’s sort of the one who knows the most about Izuku out of everyone save All Might.

Like, we’ll get into how much exactly Mirio knows soon, so I won’t divulge what, if anything, Izuku has told him. But we know that Mirio knows, weirdly enough, that Izuku is deeply fucking haunted. He knows that boy has many violent ghosts in his bones. He finds it hilarious and will tell their realtor about it. Izuku told him about the discontent spirits who died in a violent passion and live on inside of him before he told him about his Quirklessness.

And I just feel like one of those things is a little bit easier to discuss than the other.

Izuku has decided to keep his own Quirklessness quiet in a way that surpasses secrecy about One for All. If it was just about OfA, he could tell people he didn’t get his quirk until the entrance exam, and it wouldn’t even be a lie. He’s purposefully obscuring his own past as Quirkless even as he takes a forefront of the Quirkless hero debate with his open support of Mirio.

And the fact that he’s at the forefront of this debate in and of itself requires a difficult dichotomy. He is the world’s most vocal proponent for the first Quirkless hero. He is a known figure in the Quirkless community now.

He isn’t considered one of them anymore. He’s an outsider coming in.

It must be such a strange, odd sort of grief to come to the people you were home amongst for most of your life and be greeted as a stranger. To return home, and to be welcomed in for the first time, and to not even be able to tell people that you’ve lived here all your life and don’t need a tour.

It’s a sort of death of self, I think. And I think Izuku never expected to have to grapple with his own ghost.

[delawaredetroit]

You know, Shouto's All Might's secret child theory isn't that insane given how quirks are known to work and his own backstory. But what does make it crazy is that Shouto decided to go with the most personally scandalous interpretation by deciding in his head that All Might had a child from an extramarital affair.

And on top of that, within a day of coming up with that theory, Shouto challenged Izuku to a televised duel and then directly confronted him about All Might's alleged scandal when his only observed evidence was same quirk and All Might pays more attention to him

[334iwatchshit]

unfortunately, they could never make me hate you Katsuki Bakugo

[lucianinsanity]

I want to see Todoroki being the number one Bkdk supporter, he is literally on both friend groups

Mostly with Izuku but I have to remind y'all that he was the one insisting him and Katsuki were friends, on tv, so much that Katsuki yelled at him

And Katsuki respects him!!! He calls him by his name in multiple occasions!!!!

Tired of them being love rivals, I want Todoroki to be there when Izuku is talking about how pretty Katsuki is illuminated by his explosions, and I want him to be there when Katsuki talks about how cute Izuku looks when he is floating in the air trying to catch him

I want him to be there vibrating like "I need this two to get together now now now now" because they are both like "but he only wants to be friends tho" and he knows and he wants to scream it but he is not going to, he just slowly tries to push them together

And maybe he just fails, but they get together anyways and Todoroki is so happy for them, he wants to be the one to marry them

Third wheel Todoroki because he is just so happy they got together and Izuku and Katsuki are like "we love/tolerate you but please can you go? This is our date" and be all "sorry, I love you guys so much, have a nice date" and he stays for a little longer until they tell him to go again

I don't know, I need Todoroki to be so in love with his friends, because again, Katsuki IS his friend, even when he won't admit it

[mettywiththenotes]

This was probably obvious but I'm going to say it anyway

Tomura talking to Izuku using "hero", referring back to their labels and how their fight is supposed to be between enemies (not saviour and victim), "That's what makes us heroes and villains" etc

Tomura talking to Izuku using his actual name, all the while goading him and playing on his feelings with All Might. He's making the situation more personal in order to distract Izuku from what he's doing/needs to do

[evelynpr]

re: your post and bnha straightbaiting, i'm laughing my ass off at dudebros saying that deku didn't get the girl because he was portrayed so awfully in the end that bakugou could have stolen his girl lol what. they're completely erasing uraraka's agency and making her a prize to be won by men basically. the entitlement that izuku should have gotten the girl because he's the protag is staggering. people who hate bakugou because "he's a bad person" crying about how in the end he looked better in the narrative than deku and is thus more entitled to uraraka?? congratulations you played yourself

It's actually absurd how quickly people disregard and belittle everything about a female character the moment they aren't exactly who they want them to be, in this case, the final "prize" of a man.

As if Ochako's narrative is solely about her infatuation, and not also about saving people, heroes and villains, and also about love. Some assholes just can't have a female character be a whole character without a man. My god.

The things people have said about her, Deku, Bakugo, and even other characters (Hatsume especially), are so absent and dismissive of their character and themes that I'm genuinely so disappointed and disgusted by these people's lack of empathy and rampant misogyny.

The ending is far from perfect, but if this is how you think Ochako's story should end, did you ever really care about her at all?

[dailybakudekusong]

Today's Daily BakuDeku Song Is: Stargazing - Myles Smith

Take my heart, don't break it Love me to my bones All this time I wasted You were right there all along You and I stargazing Intertwining souls We were never strangers You were right there all along