#oddly bakugou less critical

[justatalkingface]

The UA Entrance Exam

This was going to be part of a larger post about UA as a whole, but I decided this was probably best to stand alone, because this is more random thought/opinion than a proper critical post. Welcome to what is probably going to be a controversial post: the UA Admissions test isn't bad?

The main argument against it is that it puts those without a combat quirk at a disadvantage, right? And, well, that's true. But... is that wrong?

Here's the thing: the more heroism as a whole is developed in the setting, the more something becomes startling clear, one simple fact that stands above all others.

Heroism is a profession defined by fighting.

You can be a rescue hero, you can spend your time saving people from collapsing building or finding those who are lost, but if you've gotten to the point of being a professional hero? You know how to throw down.

I'm not even talking about UA, here: there's a license exam that everyone has to take, as part of a process of being a hero. Half of it is saving people, yes... but the other half? It's purely about fighting other people. Hell, even part of the saving people portion has combat aspects, since it's focused around, not just saving people, but saving people while under attack.

I'll say it again: if you are a hero, you are a fighter, by definition.

So, what's that have to do with the UA entrance exam? In all honesty, that exam is functionally a simulation of running around a city, beating up random street thugs. It's testing if you can beat people up, one of the most fundamental parts of heroism (deadpan stare).

The follow up point is, what about Quirks that aren't combat focused, but are still useful for heroism? Shinso, for example? If those were actual people, he probably could have beaten them, right? That's unfair!

And, I'll admit, that's right; in the context of that exam, it is unfair, because some people can vomit lava lasers and some can't. Is Brainwash useful? Absolutely. Counterpoint: what is day one Shinso going to do if he meets some guy in an alley with no mouth and a knife?

Die.

Literally, if he didn't run away, all he'd do is die.

Everyone who passed, and quite a few who didn't pass, could take down Wannabe Slenderman, while Shinso would just end up dead in that alley. This is going to sound bad, but life is unfair, and if you're going to go around picking fights with dangerous people and not prepared for that fact, you will pay for it.

Now, let me introduce you to Chad Hagakure.

In the grand scheme of things, while Toru has a useful support power, Shinso's is a lot better than hers, more versatile, more powerful. You can, in the words of Ollivander, do great things with a power like that. While Toru's Quirk gives her some advantages against the robots, it isn't going to beat them for her, either, and the off button idea is fanon with no canon backing.

So how did she get in, with her inferior quirk, when Shinso didn't?

Because Shinso coasted through his life with only his Quirk, and then was helpless when met up with something with the amazing ability to shut up. Everything he did, before Aizawa took him under his wing, revolved around making the other person talk, and absolutely nothing else. Toru, meanwhile, found opponents her invisibility couldn't magically destroy for her, and responded by beating them to death.

You probably think I'm being dramatic or something, but I'm not kidding. You need to stop robots to get points to pass; Izuku is the only person to pass on rescue points only, canonly. She doesn't have a power or tools to let her restrain them like Minoru did, so she had to, had to, break them. She doesn't have laser beams, or fire blasts, or anything to make it easy for her; all Toru had was the ability to ambush things, her muscles, and maybe a rock or a steel plate or something she picked up along the way.

That's all she had... and then she managed to kill her way in the heroism course anyways, past people who probably had Quirks much more compatible with the problem at hand. She went up to robots, probably from behind, and then hit them until they stopped moving.

In other words, Toru went into the Entrance Exam... and then the Doom music kicked in.

At the end of the day, though, I'm saying all these things, and while they're true, I feel like I'm dancing around the fundamental point: being a hero is about more than just a Quirk.

As a setting, MHA is one with a broad set of powers and abilities, by design. It means that there's lots of cool and interesting people to meet, which is the point, but on a practical level, it also means that every Quirk, every Quirk, has something that counters it. For support Quirks especially, there's seemingly always that One Simple Trick to beat them; a pair of thermal goggles, for example, renders Toru Quirkless. If you just don't talk, Brainwash is useless. And when that happens, you can't just say, 'Time out!' and get a new villain; you'll have to fight them anyways.

If you depend on your one special trick and nothing else, one day that will be your downfall.

UA has a lot of questionable decisions in it, about it, around it, but it is good at teaching its students how to beat the living shit out of people; you could even say it specializes in it. It has no illusions about the reality of the job it's preparing them for. And in the same vein, this isn't something that should be a surprise to any applicant; almost every time we see a hero in the media? They've just finished fighting someone. If they're not entering UA with wide open eyes about what they're going to have to do (and probably after signing some liability waivers to boot), then frankly they're idiots.

The Entrance Exam, mostly, tested one simple thing: are you ready to fight someone? Are you ready to walk into that alleyway and beat those thugs into submission? It's easier for people with combat Quirks, yes, because those are Quirks that are good at fighting, but that's not the end all; in another life, if he had worked out before hand, if he was determined to win, even if he was at a disadvantage, Shinso could have walked in, picked up a piece of rebar, and just hit things until he passed.

Like, let's compare Shinso and Bakugou: both of them have a good Quirk, and both of them knew it. (I know fanon and the narrative say otherwise, but Shinso has had nothing but praise from the flashbacks we've seen, with only a few comments that were somewhat negative but still held implicit respect for his Quirk and it's powers. Everyone he talks to says he has a good Quirk. He's happy using his Quirk. He is not the fanon abused little racoon.)

Shinso accepted that as fact and walked into UA without putting any work in, from what we can see (he faced Izuku, who was effectively Quirkless, and the second his Quirk failed he panicked and basiclly flailed more than fought, still only trying to make Izuku talk rather than actually beat him in a fight, even though Izuku was right there, about to beat him in a fight, and prepared to avoid his Quirk) and was smacked down accordingly.

Then we look at Bakugou, and that's the thing with Bakugou: he had an easy road to heroism, and knew it. I've said this somewhere before, but Hori leans on 'Bakugou works hard' as an excuse to not talk about his moral failings, because he does work hard, but not that hard. 'Bakugou working hard', in all honesty, is peak 'Tell not Show', and is repeated so damn often I'm sick of it.

The thing is that the idea of that isn't wrong, just the execution of it. With his muscles, with the way his Quirk is supposed to work, he had to put work into bulking up, staying in shape. He didn't just get his Quirk and say, 'I'm set for life', he fought for it. And while Hori praises him like Rock Lee when we barely see him do shit, the idea of a talented person working hard anyways could have been great. It's something you see in a lot of shonen manga, and is emblematic of heroism itself, and the spirit that UA is supposed to show: you can't just coast into heroism. You need to fight for it, earn it.

...I got a bit off topic there, but the point is the kid didn't just manifest those muscles out of the ether, he has to be training off screen, even if we should be seeing it more on screen.

Bakugou had a good Quirk, but was willing to train himself to achieve his goals.

Toru has a, honestly, medicore Quirk, but still managed to fight her way to her dreams.

Shinso has a good Quirk, but his only strategy when his Quirk failed him was, 'try harder to get them again with my Quirk!'.

Heroism is about power, true, but it's also about attitude, willingness, determination, the ability to perform under pressure and to make good choices and act on them, all the things that got early Izuku through the series before he got Full Cowl, often without using his Quirk at all. Most of that, if not all of it, can be trained over time, true... But if you're not born lucky, and you're not willing or able to work out enough, to think cleverly enough, or to be vicious enough to smash some weak robots, then honestly you're probably not ready for the hero course.

[sapphic-agent]

I think the biggest thing I've learnt from the more critical side of MHA is: don't let your favoritism affect your story. I think it's natural that you're gonna like more characters than others. But if it's like noticeable to a point where the audience sees it, it's a big problem. Or if the character is a fan favorite, they'll praise it to sky heaven. The fact that Izuku VS Shigaraki has been oddly side lined so much in favor of Bakugo VS OFA or him rescuing All Might is... weird to me. Like, I get it. He was dead for a year in our time. But... this IS Izuku's story not Bakugo's. Even if Bakugo is a deuteragonist, he's still not the MAIN protagonist. Shouldn't we be shifting more or less to Izuku VS Shigaraki? MHA has been building up their final fight for 8-9 years, and we're oddly all focused on AFO and Bakugo? And for AFO's backstory, I care less for the potato man. Shigaraki is the villain of MHA, not potato man. Such as Izuku is the protagonist of the story, Bakugo isn't. And it's so baffling to me to see MHA twt praise this series to high heaven and just don't oddily notice that Izuku is just oddily fucking quiet through out this fight?? I know he's focused on stopping Shigaraki, but nothing???? Like the Toga and Uraraka and Todoroki Family arcs got all the attention they deserved, so why tf isn't Izuku and Shigaraki?? I understand they were gonna be last, it IS the final battle after all, but it just seems it's gonna go downhill from there.

Plus, how tf is Izuku gonna be able to save Shigaraki?? Izuku is at his witt's end, and Bakugo said he would take care of AFO. Because if it's ACTUALLY Bakugo & Izuku VS Shigaraki. I'll just- I'll be so done. I get the whole "Izuku doesn't have to do everything on his own" but like- Shigaraki literally KILLED Bakugo and got revived from his goddamn blood exploding. (That shit is still funny to me.) like good Lord, can Izuku just have HIS moment??? If all of the cool power ups and cool moments go to Bakugo instead of Izuku, and Bakugo somehow saves the day.

The fucking ending is gonna be ruined by favoritism. Again, this is just an IF. But I felt crazy reading twt's and no one noticing Izuku hasn't said anything of a) Bakugo being brought back to life b) or just reacting to anything. It just seems like Izuku is just there as a device to carry us towards the ending, at this point.

You're right and you should say it.

Mind-boggling how people will look at this shit and still say Horikoshi doesn't favor Bakugou. Like, what? He is 1-v-1-ing the big bad of the series. The villain who killed almost every past OFA user (would also like to add that these are the same users he insulted and looked down on, so if he is the one to finish AFO, that's a slap in the face to every single one of them). The man who incapacitated All Might. The Demon King who's ruled the underbelly of Japan for the past 200 years.

And you mean to tell me that Katsuki Bakugou of all people is his final boss? That's just embarrassing for AFO tbh.

But the fact of the matter is, yeah Izuku's fight with Shigaraki should have been the main event. Instead, it's being treated as a side quest. Hell, it's being treated as less than a side quest as both Uraraka & Toga and the Todorokis & Dabi were given more attention.

It's sad, not only for Izuku but for Shigaraki too. Horikoshi was so close to making him a complex villain, only for all of his character progression from Deika to go down the toilet. He can't be saved because he's been written to be so completely detached from his humanity.

In general, Izuku and Shigaraki should have had more moments together throughout the series. This interaction between them is meaningless because Izuku doesn't understand Shigaraki enough to save him. It's why he's getting frustrated because there's really no feasible way for him to save Tomura. He isn't Eri or Kota who were just kids in danger and who wanted to be rescued.

I hate to say it, but Izuku hasn't had enough development to be able to save Shigaraki. It's not his fault (it's Hori's), but it's true. For him to understand Tomura, he needed to broaden his worldview and Horikoshi hasn't allowed him to do that.

It's an utter disservice to both characters

[heroprose]

can i request dad! bakugou with a quirkless child, please?

a/n. since i’ve gotten a dad!katsuki with a daughter request before, i hope you don’t mind his child being a daughter in short write up as well! thanks for requesting as always:--)

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it was a strange situation, observing katsuki bakugou from afar this way, observing him in a light that was not so rose-tinted and observing him in a critical fashion for your bright-eyed child who could not.

it’s been a week since your daughter’s pediatrician had let you and katsuki know about her quirklessness. there, in the sterile office that was much too cold and dry, it seemed like all the fantasies of your child being a pro hero thinned away and reality appeared, more concrete than ever before. all the fantasies she and her father conjured up, that is. 

you’re lucky all the excitement over heroes hasn’t seeped entirely into her. there’s a bit of oddly-placed relief that she dreams of more than just institutionalized justice and vigilance, and that she’s just a child. you’re uncertain katsuki feels the same way, because his gaze has been somewhere else since that appointment, like he wishes to seek out a future over his daughter’s shoulder that’s a bit too hard to chase now.

you recall the way her head jerked over to look over at her father during the appointment, to gauge his reaction before determining her own emotions over her absent quirk.

in fact, everyone in the room stared at katsuki that day. but katsuki’s eyes were only fixated on his daughter. red, red eyes that betrayed nothing when he reached out, his hand just hovering over her cheek for a second before he withdrew. 

“quirkless?” he echoed simply. nothing more, nothing less, but the disappointment is raw.

her eyes were upward that day, blurry with confusion and all you could do was hold her closer.

and now, at the playground, her eyes were simply downcast, small hands wiping at scraped knees. you’d watched her slip from your peripheral view and nearly leaped up on instinct if it weren’t for katsuki’s hand on your knee keeping you to the bench. 

“stay there,” he tells you, his voice brusque and already far away.

katsuki stands in front of her and his mouth is moving and you squint to decipher his words.

hey. you alright? you can imagine him saying in his typical blunt manner.

her chin doesn’t tip upward to look at him and a liquid sadness cascades down your spine. she speaks to the ground, instead. whatever she says, it renders katsuki silent. no words are exchanged when he kneels down in front of her and sweeps the hair out of her eyes. all you can do is squint.

what could have she possibly have said to him? it is no surprise she looks up to him after all. something along the lines of i’m okay. but are you okay? is something she would say, you just know it. but the moment comes and goes quick, too quick, and the knees have stopped bleeding. 

“what did you tell her?” you ask curiously when he finally returns from wiping clean her cuts and sending her back onto the play structure. “she’s not normally one to cry when she gets hurt.” 

“nothing,” katsuki says, his steely eyes now a little more sharp and in the present.

“nothing?” you scoff. “yeah, right.”

he levels with you. “yes, nothing.”

your eyebrows shoot up. “oh. i see. secret father-daughter talks now, huh?”

katsuki lets out an exhale and you still. “listen. she wants to be a hero still, damn it.”

a soft, acknowledging noise leaves you when words can’t. “well... she’ll...,” you trail off, unsure of if what you were about to say was the best, but katsuki beats you to it.

“she’ll figure it out,” he says in your stead (albeit more abrasive than you would’ve) and you feel the liquid sadness evaporate off. “i know she will. she’ll be miles better than the dumbasses in the industry with quirks, know that.”

and finally, you let a breath go and feel a smile pull at your mouth. “you’re right. she will. also, stop swearing-- we’re literally at a playground.”

[katsukikitten]

Ice bath

A/N this is my first Todoroki one shot. So hopefully it is to my Katsudaddy standards. Enjoy!

You dodge a fiery explosion a second too late, the explosion burns your left arm harshly as you grit your teeth.

Katsuki really wasn't holding back today as you roll to dodge another. You swallow your nervousness as hesitation will get you killed, still your eyes shift to Aizawa Sensei wondering why he's paired you with one of the top three fighters in class.

Hell, you were struggling to stay top three of the bottom let alone fight someone who was more than capable of being a pro hero by strength alone.

You're waiting to use your quirk at just the right time as it takes more than half of your energy for just one shift.

You were a late bloomer and hadn't found out you were a shape shifter until middle school and by complete accident!

So much so that you shifted into your crush midsentence while talking to your best friend.

It was only when your voice deepened to his did you realize, screaming and scaring yourself back to normal.

You dodge another explosion, snaking to the left before you decide now is the time to strike.

You will your body to change, holding back your scream as your body broke it's own bones, ripped its own muscles just to rearrange themselves again.

Your mentor said the pain would go away the more you used your power but you had your doubts as the pain still rang through your bones as four powerful paws hit the floor.

You snarl a feral growl, earning a smirk from Katsuki. His blood red eyes dance over your new form, black fur and all.

You slink towards him, feeling the rush of power as you waft his sweat, the adrenaline in his veins smelling temptingly sweet but he lacks fear.

You're not sure he knows fear even as he stares down 300 pounds of pure muscle.

You lunge and he dances around your attacks, barely dodging as your sharp claws slice through air and when they miss they marr the stained gym floor, splintering the wood in deep grooves.

Frustrated from not catching your prey you begin to lose count of the ticking minutes that have rushed by but Bakugou has not.

He's watched you, as he's watched everyone for their weakness and he knows you can only hold a form for roughly eight minutes and he knows you only have five seconds left.

5

You pounce, ready to use this black pather's body to your full advantage with all the ill intent to fuck Bakugou's hero suit up at the very least.

4

You slowly come down to your target.

3

Right paw raised.

2

Claws extracted to full length ready to slice through cloth and flesh alike.

1

Your body twists and contours to normal. Your body still mirroring how the big cat's body language as you fall into Bakugou's trap.

The ash blonde has a shit eating grin as he holds his hand to you palm out.

His sweat ignites threatening to swallow you whole, all you can do now is protect your face as you prepare yourself for a point blank blast and pray to Kamisama you still have enough of the panther's blood flowing in your veins to land on your feet.

That is until the blast never comes and nether does the gym floor.

Instead you're met with a strong arm holding you agaisnt him as if you weigh nothing and his right arm outstretched, frosted fingers glinting in the harsh gym lights.

His eyes are ever cool, frozen even as his icy gaze settles on a glaring hot head through an astonishing amount of ice.

"You should go easy on Y/N." His normal even tone has a slight darkness to it, causing your heart to race before it jumps to your throat in shame, "She doesn't quite have her quirk down yet."

Your face burns hotter than any flame Todoroki can produce as the lump in your throat thickens.

His heterochromatic eyes glance to you in his arms, flashing with emotion so quickly that you do not catch it.

Cannot catch it as your vision begins to blur from the horror of your current situation.

All you had managed to do was get burned by Bakugou's explosion and the words of your crush.

"Ah...Th..thank you Todoroki-sama. I appreciate the help." You fake your best smile as you fight to keep the tears at bay. Pushing against his toned chest lightly to which he easily releases you.

Eyes colder than Castillo are glued to you, clouded with confusion as they watch your form shrink into the girl's locker room.

"Tch, you always make her cry, Icy Hot" Bakugou growls, "Even when you know she fucking likes you."

"She what?" Shouto inquires, dark tone saved only for this arrogant blonde that dares to char her pleasantly smooth skin.

"You're so fucking dense." Katsuki hisses as he places his hands behind his head before walking to the boys locker room.

Days pass by and you avoid Todoroki like a mule does Monday.

Whenever the gorgeous blood red and fresh snow haired boy would approach you would make an about face move, shoving your way past people to steer clear of your normal study sessions with him. Always missing his crest fallen face as you meld into the sea of bodies that flood the hall.

But what should it matter that he was feeling something other than his deeply embedded apathy?

After all he only thinks of you as the weak and stupid little girl.

Why else would he have offered to help you study in the first place?

You were nothing but a charity case. A good mark for his application to a pro hero agency.

Nothing less and *never* anything more.

At least Bakugou didn't hold back on you and he always criticized your fighting but that was all to help you.

He was right you'd never make it as a pro hero if you didn't practice with someone at full speed.

So to a fiery hot head's, and icy gaze's, surprise you approached Bakugou after the final bell, cheeks burning with blush.

"Um excuse me Bakugou-sama." Todoroki's gut clenches at the honorific, sama, really, that brute?

"Whaddya want ya damn extra? You're gonna make me late to practice." He snarls as he looms over you, glaring with an intensity that you cannot meet.

"Ah..about that." You blush furiously, "I was wondering if you could maybe....help me?"

Your voice squeaks at the end and Bakugou reacts oddly. His body goes rigid for a moment before a smirk flashes on his face.

All the while the wood from the chairs in the back of the class room groan from the rapid temperature change of scalding to freezing.

You shiver when you finally meet Bakugou's gaze, he leans closer his face inches from yours.

"That's if you can even fucking keep up." His smile is too wide as it seems to curl from ear to ear in unsettling malice.

You nod furiously.

"I can." You declare as heterochromatic eyes burn into your skin.

For weeks Bakugou pushes you past your limits daily as you train with him and the results are amazing.

You can hold your form over twenty minutes, almost tripling your original time limit and the pain from shifting has subsided greatly.

You hold your knees and huff as Bakugou calls out rapidly what to change into and how long to hold it.

"Cat, five minutes."

"Mouse, four minutes."

"Aizawa Sensei remainder of your limit." He barks like a drill sergeant though he too is drenched in sweat from his own training.

"People are a bit harder, I need see them a lot." Your protest is met with a scalding gaze.

"Do you not sit in the front fucking row? The seat right in front of his lecturn?" He asks darkly before tossing you a water bottle.

"Yes."

"Yes what?" He pulls his shirt up to wipe the sweat from his face as he speaks, revealing and that would give Adonis envy.

You swallow desire.

"Yes, sir." You blush, liking the dominance that Katsuki exudes, "But Katsuki-sama I avoid looking at Sensei. He makes me nervous."

Bakugou looks at you with even eyes before giving them a slight roll.

Unbelievable how shy you are.

"Then why dont you shift into someone you look at most often." He grunts, stretching his arms above his head, the hem of his shirt rides up and you hope to get another glance at his sculpted body.

"Like you, sir?" You blush again heart pounding and you wonder if you have always been this flippant about your feelings. Scarlet orbs flick over your shoulder unbeknownst to you catching an icy set of eyes staring before he smirks wildly.

"Yea, like me." He almost purrs and you half melt.

You shift, bones cracking and growing to accommodate your new stature before Bakugou Katsuki is staring at his own shit eating grin.

You mimic his scowl perfectly and he laughs.

"Damn I look mean." He says before becoming serious, "Sixteen minutes and when your muscles start to scream I want you to speak in an even tone. No matter how much it hurts."

You nod as he jumps to grab onto the overhanging bar, pulling himself up effortlessly.

Time feels as if it slows, your muscles scream to shift to something, anything else as they can no longer keep this form. You force yourself to focus on the feeling in your chest.

The one that makes your heart skip a beat and your stomach flutter with anticipation.

"Y/N how ya feeling?" He taunts back still to you as he some how has the endurance to continue his regime.

"Fucking great, you pleb." You growl in his voice and he drops to his feet. Coming closer to inspect you, his nearness has you nervous as he approaches. His gaze fixated on a point behind you before he begins checking details, his eyes narrow.

"My eyes are red." He comments, he fingers your hair, "And my hair is always spiked up. You're shifting."

"I'm not." But your voice is no longer his fiery hot tone, it is even, cool, somebody else's. Someone's who you've hadn't heard in quite sometime, someone's who's voice still had your heart racing.

Bakugou seems to shrink an inch shorter as your perspective changes, body temperature cooling and yet heating as red and white bangs fall into view.

All the while Katsuki wears a small smile of triumph.

Your body heats too much, you've pushed yourself too much as you overthink why you would be turning into him of all people and of all times.

Your body rapidly changes from Todoroki to Katsuki to mouse to cat. All in a vicious cycle and you scream in pain as your body finally withers back to it's own form. Hair damp with sweat and plastered onto your steaming body.

Face paled as a cool hand is placed on the nap of your neck, your limp body is pulled to a cool surface. You sigh and let your vision fade in and out.

"What did I tell you?!" A snap of heated dark emotion, "You push too hard!"

"Tch. I pushed enough. She's strong she just thinks too much. She's the one who couldn't decide whether she wanted you or me." Katsuki's tone is harsh, "Had you more faith in her than maybe she would have asked you to train instead of me. "

"Quit standing there dumbass. She's gonna need an ice bath." He snaps as you finally drift beneath conciousness. Snuggling into the cool body that you're pressed against.

"How are we?!" Todoroki is alarmed, shielding you from blood red eyes. That roll so hard one would think he was having a seizure.

"You put her fully clothed in the tub." Katsuki stalks into the dorms. Todoroki stares down at your flushed form, his own cheeks dusting with shame as he wonders how many times he has upset you with his callousness.

He cannot help his frozen heart that you've seemed to melt.

He cannot help that he wasn't raised as a child only sharpened like a weapon.

Bakugou has the cold bath water running by the time Todoroki enters the small room.

"Alright icy hot, add some ice cubes in there and set her in."

"I'm not like the dispenser on the fucking fridge." He bites, small explosions skitter on Bakugou's skin. After he exhales through his nose he answers.

"Yea yea. Same damn thing." As Todoroki eases her into a slightly frosted bath. His brow furrows with concern as Katsuki sucks his teeth.

"She'll be fucking fine. She'll be awake in five minutes, don't let her drown." He says ducking out the door, "And d on't fuck it up this time."

He wonders how many times Bakugou has pushed you to this point and how many times he's held you to his body.

How many times you've snuggled into his chest with such a small smile on content like you had with him.

He seethes but watches you carefully.

He cannot believe he is going to even think it but maybe Bakugou was right.

Maybe if he had believed in your abilities a bit more you wouldn't have turned to a drill sergeant that makes you say yes sir or yes Katsuki-sama.

You should only be that submissive for him.

"Shouto." You murmur and two toned eyes flick to you to see you still sleeping.

He grips onto your head, heart heavy with guilt and worry.

He sighs and counts the minutes.

Sure enough your eyes begin to flutter as you come too.

Cheeks somehow flushing even in the ice cold bath as you pull yourself into a sitting position. Covering your breasts as if they were exposed causing a deep rage to settle in his chest.

"Ahh Todoroki. I...I...where is Bakugou-sama?"

His eyes freeze over and you jerk back, long moments of silence stretch between you.

"Has he seen you naked before?"

"Wha...what?" Your heart hammers into your chest and a shiver runs along your spine.

"Has that vile Bakugou Katsuki stolen a look at your heavenly form?" His tone some how darker, colder as steam leaves his lips. Part of his body begins to freeze while the other begins to ignite.

"N...no!" Your teeth chatter now as this is the time Bakugou would normally drain the cold bath and leave you to a scalding hot one.

"No what?" Todoroki bites out, harsher than Bakugou has ever asked. Still you automatically answer after having been trained.

"No sir." You slap your hand over your mouth, embarrased that that reaction was so normal. Todoroki smiles a cruel smile.

"Just no sir?" His eyes meet yours, as he comes closer with his warm hand. He presses it to your cheek, thumb tracing over your blue lips restoring their color slowly, "If you answer right I might just heat your bath for you. Or I can warm you up in other ways if you'd like."

Your core burns suddenly at the closeness of him, of his tone and words. A shudder runs through you as you're somehow drawn closer to him, mouth parting to kiss, but he pushes your face back gently. Thumb pulling at your bottom lip.

"N...no Todoroki-sama. No one has seen me naked before." You blush at the thought of anyone seeing you so vulnerable.

"Good because this..." He moves his heated hand slowly down your body. Sliding too damn slow down your cheek, throat, down your sternum, over your stomach and stopping in the water betwern your legs, you let a small moan slip from your lips. The water becomes steaming hot but the bath is not what has you panting. He's hardly touched you and you two haven't even spoken in a month or so and yet here you are a needy mess just for him.

"Is all mine and mine alone." He removes his hand from the water, sure to let his fingers slide over your inner thigh before standing, leaving you with thoughts for only him in mind.

@my-todoroki-academia since you picked icy hot bae let me know your thoughts 😊

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Hiii Some answers for 11 and 20?? 💜💜

11. anime you didn’t expect to like but did

20. least favourite anime ships

I didn’t expect the first question to get this long. Due to this, I’m going to put a line.

Thank you for the ask! I really enjoyed it!

11. anime you didn’t expect to like but did

Some of these anime aren’t even that good. I just had such low expectations that they surpassed them. Some of these anime are genuinely good though.

D-Frag! 

This anime sounded like some stupid harem at first. You have big tits, the loli, the sadist, and what the heck was the last one? This series was oddly charming and funny at times. I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone.

Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai

I watched the first season of the Monogatari series, and this series has the Monogatari series beat. It’s far less morally questionable, it isn’t as up in your face, and it’s a pleasant series to watch. I genuinely liked all these characters and the way they were developed, and to think we were all drawn in because of a bunny girl (I was drawn in because I heard stuff about it actually having a plot).

Senyuu

Looked like a stupid fantasy cliche and ended up being really funny

Dame x Prince Anime Caravan

I was expecting this to be a really stupid reverse harem. I’ve watched a fair share of reverse harems based off otome games (I was scouting out anime for a friend), and I ended up coming across this. It was oddly really funny, and they know that none of these characters are ideal. They aren’t meant to be. They’re so flawed, and it knows it’s bad.

Zankyou no Terror

Everyone was saying how bad this was. It was actually pretty good. It’s because you all have high expectations. This was a solid anime. It was a little cliche. I will admit that.

Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo

Harems are usually stupid and don’t know how to get the point across well, but this one doesn’t play the same games as say Nisekoi. It has a compelling mystery that I was actually invested in. Sometimes it was a little cringe, but it was overall a pretty good anime.

Kenka Banchou Otome: Girl Beats Boys

Another anime based off an otome game! This time, it was good because it didn’t focus on the otome game elements. It wasn’t a great anime, but I still enjoyed it.

Zombieland Saga

I watched this because I heard the premise and was like, “They didn’t. That sounds so weird and out there!” I watched it and was absolutely blown away. It was actually really good. I would call it one of my favourites of 2018.

Kyoukai no Rinne

I was expecting Inuyasha and got an Inuyasha parody instead. The rating was so low because people didn’t expect it to be so parody-like and episodic. It was the same thing over and over again. I don’t think it was bad though.

Koutetsujou no Kabaneri

Everyone said it was an Attack on Titan ripoff. It wasn’t. For one, there weren’t any WWII references. Two, it was just not the same… at all. It shares a lot of the core staff like the studio and the score composer. I’ll admit that much. It was a very entertaining anime that I found to be well done.

Kiznaiver

This one is criticized for being melodramatic. I found it entertaining, and anime is melodramatic. That’s pretty consistent. Plus, I liked the animation (done by Studio Trigger)

Kimi to Boku.

I usually don’t like slice-of-life anime. This is an exception.

Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai

I wasn’t expecting this anime to be so funny and so darn relatable (thanks Ishigami). I was really going to skip it, and that would’ve been a huge mistake. It was a great anime. Kudos to Aoi Koga getting one of her first breakout roles.

Inobato

Another case of “you came in for this but didn’t get that”. This anime presents supernatural fights but ends up being a show about kids fooling around. It wasn’t that bad though.

Hinamatsuri

I wasn’t expecting to laugh that hard. It was absolutely hilarious at times. It’s like Mob Psycho 100 but in its completely own form. I highly recommend it. I just thought it was going to be a stupid skippable anime.

Honobono Log

The entire anime is like 30 minutes. It takes little to no commitment. You don’t even need to know the character’s names because there are none. It’s just a bunch of fluffy scenarios that guilt you for being the single dumbnut that you are.

Grand Blue

This anime is very questionable, but I laughed at some of the jokes in this anime. I had an online friend who watched this too, and by the end, we both agreed that we didn’t want the laughs to end. The faces alone are funny.

Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens

This anime lacks in female characters, and it was kind of stupid at times, but I found it to be a somewhat pleasant anime to watch. 

Hataraku Saibou

Never did I ever think that an anime about cells in the human body could be so interesting and engaging. The relationship between the red and the white blood cell was so sweet.

20. least favourite anime ships

There are a lot of popular ships I don’t like. I don’t like Shin Soukoku or Chitoge x Raku (Onodera is the best girl and we all know it). I don’t even hate the ships listed. I just don’t see the point. But keep in mind that I won’t be listing ships that are illegal (incest, 

Bakudeku (Midoriya x Bakugou) from My Hero Academia

Their relationship has not developed enough to really have me sold on it.

Sakura x Sasuke from Naruto

Where… where did this come from? They tried to fix it in Boruto, and I like Sarada, but this pairing just… huh?! They did this because they wanted an Uchiha child.

Ritsu x Masamune from Sekaiichi Hatsukoi

There’s this thing called consent. It seems that Masamune has never heard of it. Shame.

[arkus-rhapsode]

That caramel ask was really neat and now I’m wondering what 1-B’s would be like. Feel free to take your time with this one until the next round in the manga starts and we see the remaining student’s personalities more thoroughly.

Okay so sorry I haven’t gotten to this one yet, but after the recent chapter I think I can manage to but this together. For those coming in blind, this is a follow up to my previous caramel ask with Class 1-A. This ask is based on the Kids Next Door episode CARAMEL, where a ritual is used to remove a person’s most treasured quality and turned it into caramel. However with that quality removed, the person it was removed has a radical shift in personality, who change to fit their now lost quality. So for example in the show, numbuh 2, who was once smart is made dumb and neanderthal like, and their caramel was noted as tasting sharp and complex.

Anyway here’s that for class 1-b~

Monoma: Quality removed is his egocentrism. This results in Monoma becoming a much more saintly generous person, very mindful of the feelings of all those around him. He wants to make sure everyone is doing their best and actually gets along surprisingly well with class 1-A. If he does have any problems with them, he’ll write a factual document citing umbridges he has, but suggestions on how to improve constructively. His caramel taste very overpowering. Bold and filling.

Tetsutetsu: Unlike Kirishima, his quality removed is his vigor. Without it, Tetsutetsu is much more less inclined to rise to a challenge. He’ll only fight those he know he can win, and if they turn out to be too powerful for him, he’ll pull a Joseph Joestar and run away. His caramel is smooth, but oddly tender. You really get a workout eat it.

Kendou: Quality removed is her thoughtfulness. Gone is Kendou, the big sister of class 1-b, now all she is now is apathetic and unresponsive. She doesn’t care what’s going on with others, she just lets stupid people act however they want or let others fail because they weren’t good enough, it’s not her problem. She’s the type of person who’d throw peanuts at zoo animals, just cause she can. Her caramel is warm and tastes very made from scratch, as if it was made just for you in mind.

Shiozaki: Her quality removed is her faith. Without it, Shiozaki is now an atheist, however without her faith placed in the divine she has no more of her grace or vindictiveness. Instead she now spends the days indulging in all things wrong to pass the time, happily enjoying gluttony, wrath, greed, envy, lust, pride and sloth, seeing nothing wrong with it. Basically she is so hedonistic, she could pass as Nero Claudius. Her caramel taste like communion wafers.

Honenuki: His quality removed is his flexibility, now he’s incredibly stiff. He always seems uneasy around others, or anxious in new situations. He still wants to have friends and care about them, but he’s now so socially stiff and awkward it never works. He’s still smart, but everytime he gets a test in his hands he almost is crumbling even though he knows everything. His caramel is chewy and stretchy like gum.

Awase: Quality removed is his handiness. Like Satou, he’s a total butterfingers. When he gets something in his hand, he’s so nervous and shaky it falls out of his hands. His caramel is rough and hard like the calluses of a welders hands.

Kaibara: He has lost the quality of focus. Kaibara would be usually focused on a single thing and keep it between him and who he’s with, but now he’s all about butting into other people’s business. When people are discussing something, Kaibara will immediately interject himself into the conversation with his opinions. He can never keep to himself. His caramel is hard, almost like you have to put in in your mouth and focus on sucking it till it melted to get any flavor.

Kamakiri: The quality removed from him is his aggression. Kamakiri is now very calm, reserved, and humble. He chooses to never resolve issues with violence. He thinks all conflict can be solved with diplomacy and consideration for others. His caramel tastes strong at first, but the more bites you take, the less flavor you find it has.

Kuroiro: He has lost his edginess just like Tokoyami, however, instead of becoming a hippie, he’s now incredibly paranoid and appalled by the dark. He is very much like Ichabod Crane, seeing everything dark in relation to the devil or witchcraft. His caramel taste like dark chocolate.

Komori: Her quality lost is her cuteness, Without, Komori is more of a slob, she does keep up with personal hygiene, and all in all, very unappealing. But frankly she doesn’t care what people think of her. Many describe her as a total, dirty gremlin. She’ll do name puns, but now more cause she likes to bother people with them instead of trying to seem cute. Her caramel tastes light and fluffy.

Shishida: The quality removed from him is his intellect. This results in him being a witless dullard similar to Rhino from Spider-man. And that’s just in human form, in beast form, he’s almost completely unintelligible, aside from the shrieks of rage. His caramel is rich, but filling.

Manga: His quality removed is his expressionism. Manga struggles now to even convey himself, constantly stuttering and finding it hard to speak. His caramel is tangy with a lot of pop to it.

Pony: Her quality removed is her innocence. This results in her becoming much more prejudiced and cold hearted. She also will act a bit more like a stereotypical disrespectful American, and will often ask people to speak in English to make it easier on her. Her caramel is sweet, but almost feels like it’s lacking something from it.

Kosei: His quality removed is his simple enthusiasm. He is now more judgmental and cynical, it’s not as if he is without feeling like the now apathetic Kendou, more he still preserves his openness and ability to project, but most the time that projection is negative and judgemental. Basically if you went to an action movie, he’d start nitpicking the plot rather than just shutting up and having fun. He criticizes everything people do, whether it’s those on his team or on his opposing team. His caramel taste very nostalgic taste to that childhood, cavity creating food.

Tokage: Her quality removed is cooperativeness. This makes Tokage a lot more… Shindou-ish. She puts on almost the same face as if nothing changed, but in reality, she’s much more devious and mean-spirited, doing everything for her own sake. She tends to manipulate others into doing her dirty work or sacrifices them for her own self interest. Her chattiness is now more about what lies and doubts she can sow in to benefit her, if people get hurt physically or emotionally, well better them than her. She also doesn’t make plans, she just says what priority is and that people will need to protect her. Her caramel is savory and smooth.

Yui: Her quality removed is her reserved attitude. With that gone, Yui is almost always angry, screaming, and shouting. Unlike Bakugou, Yui’s outburst are tied down to any little thing that has ever annoyed her that she is screaming about. Talking with her is like a minefield because she’d just let loose on all her problems with you or her situation. Her caramel is like a stale marshmallow, It has flavor, but it’s chewy and hard.

Shoda: His quality lost is his humbleness. Without it, he’s all about how awesome he is. Wearing gaudy clothing that has his name bedazzled on it just to show how he wants people to know who he is. If he’s on a team, he will constantly mention how he’s the one carrying it. His caramel tastes like any ordinary caramel, nothing too special.

Yanagi: Her quality lost is her emotionlessness, Yanagi is all about expression now. She’ll encourage all her class to go out and have fun, trading in her internet surfing for some real surfing. People think she’s basically sparkling, with smile that could light up a town. But if she gets down, she’ll take it to extremes, bawling like a child. Her caramel is sour.

Bondo: His quality lost is his fragility. Now Bondo’s glass heart had been traded in for an iron heart. He still doesn’t talk much, but mainly because he views it as weakness. He refuses to be scene as weak, he even stabbed his hand with a needle and didn’t even flinch. His caramel is crunchy, yet surprisingly warm.

Hiryu: He loses the quality of his ethnicity. He no longer cares that he is foreigner, he now views Japan as his only home in the world, somewhat of a reserve of Pony who became more xenophobic, Hiryu became xenocentric. Unfortunately his way of embracing it is rather extreme. He’s never not seen wearing a kimono, he fans out over shires and acts like it’s the first time he’s ever seen one, and he will get into arguments with native Japanese that they don’t understand their own history. His caramel tastes like Lo Mai Chi or Noumici.

I did have fun doing these, and this being my second one, I think I dived a bit deeper into them than I had when I first did this for 1-a.