#keeps checking in to make Shigaraki is okay and tails Aizawa like a fucking shadow to make sure he doesn't try to do anything cute

[cosybunny]

(More) More Human Than Human ramblings (I cannot be stopped, this plot bunny is too well-fed)

Love how Dabi deals with his sense of guilt via being the most annoying asshole he can possibly be. Because 'I'm really sorry you got hit by a sex quirk when I was supposed to be watching your back, I feel shitty about it' is too healthy and communicative (he could never), but prodding Shigaraki's buttons at every opportunity to reaffirm the bonds of their antagonistic little relationship is perfectly acceptable. Their love language is arguing and death threats.

Makes it especially feel dire when Dabi stops taking the piss, after a while, because he senses Shigaraki is too miserable to reciprocate and it's a little too real to joke about now. Goes from making fun of him and the absurdity of the situation to offering himself up to burn the quirk off quicker because seeing him like this is genuinely affecting him, which, of course, cracks open a whole new can of fuckery for both of them.

(Dabi should've worried less about how he's starting to care too much about the League and his terrifying newfound protectiveness over Shigaraki, and worried more about what Toga and Twice were scheming behind his back. By the time they ambush him with their Kidnap A Pro Hero For Their Asexual Leader To Cuddle plan, they've already gotten to Spinner and Compress. It's too late not to get roped in. Damage control and all. Besides, Duster needs help.)

(Eraserhead is not sure why the League's resident arsonist reminds him so much of his own students, and is too fucking sober to contemplate the Implications™, but at least he's experienced in calling out stubborn brats on their own bullshit)