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Birthday fic for Bakugou!!!! read it here

Pure fluff and humor.

Kabedon

Headpatting

Smol Izuku blushing

For Kacchan

Standing next to each other, smiling

Izuku’s eyes regaining light when Katsuki got mentioned

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Honestly thank you so much for bringing this up because it’s something I’ve been meaning to talk about since I read Viz’s Translation. The way I saw those panels changed drastically because of the official wording. 

Okay so the Manga Stream Translation looked like this: 

And this is what All Might said about it: 

So it was easy to imply that the words on each boy’s picture, were each boy’s feelings when that’s not actually the case. 

See after seeing such a drastic change I sat there for a minute and wondered if the translation teams of FA (yes kira they are) And Manga Stream could really be that bad.  I mean normally they get pretty close to what’s going on in the manga so I didn’t think the fault them too much, but as I kept thinking about this panel, and reading what All Might says under it (which changed alot too)

It made me realize I’d been reading that page incorrectly this entire time. 

Katsuki’s feelings towards Izuku are: Envy, Disgust and Inferiority

Izuku’s feelings towards Katsuki are: Awe, Conceit and Rejection

‘But Kira that doesn’t make any sense, Izuku’s not conceited’ 

No, he’s not, but Katsuki is. I want to say in this sense it’s a  “You’re so conceited!”  cause of wording. 

They way All Might but it is what made me realize it.  They’re dealing with emotions and when they are around each other they get so strong that they cease to function.

The awe and inferiority are what really tipped me off knowing what happens in future chapters of the manga. 

Izuku is so in awe of Katsuki that he stops thinking and it become hard to talk, but Katsuki just screams at him so the rejection bubbles up and then he ends up mulling over how conceited Katsuki is that Izuku just ceases to function in Katsuki’s presence. 

Katsuki is envious of Izuku’s progress so much that he’s disgusted with himself because he’s not making as much on his own and as such, he has one of the worst inferiority complexes I’ve ever seen. 

I point to this panel: 

Izuku comes back after their internship sporting new moves and a new control over his power and when everyone notices those moves aren’t exactly new, we get this.  Bakugou disgusted with himself for wasting all his time, and envious of Izuku for making so much progress.  The “Grrrrr Again” in the second panel was left there to show you that inferiority complex kicking in. 

As I explained in “Katsuki Bakugou and Society” Katsuki is in a position where his quirk decides his worth and being born with such a powerful one means he should be almost prefect, right? Izuku was born quirkless so what the hell is going on?!

Where as on the flip side, the only reason Izuku is using said moves is because he uses Bakugou like a living breathing motivational poster: 

In Danger?

Need to think about new moves? 

Set a goal for your new moves:

With Izuku it’s almost always “Just like Kacchan.”  or like the non-offical translations write. “What would Kacchan Do?” 

Izuku is always talking Bakugou up. “He may be a jerk but he’s amazing.” 

So I can see how awe and conceit ended up on Izuku’s side of feelings. He’s so utterly in awe of everything that Bakugou does, but he acknowledges he’s still a prideful jerk. 

But you can tell, you can see it on his face, Izuku wants them to be friends like they used to be so there is a heavy dose of rejection that comes with being around Katsuki. 

But yes, in short. 

We’re reading them wrong, the emotions belong to the boy not in the picture, not the other way around. 

Related Meta Reading:

“My Best friend’s a nerd and an idiot, and God he pisses me off” (Katsuki’s POV on his relationship with Izuku) (spoilers)

“Just because you’re an asshole doesn’t mean I don’t care.” (Izuku’s POV on his relationship with Izuku) (spoilers)

Katsuki Bakugou and Society (spoilers)

Katsuki and Izuku’s relationship verus Katsuki and Kirishima’s (spoilers)

A look at Katsuki and Izuku’s Childhood

Katsuki’s childhood and how he was raised (spoilers)

Todoroki’s Childhood and Bakugou’s Childhood (spoilers)

Training Camp: About Bakugou’s Quirk

Katsuki’s smirk in chapter 1

Something that I really like about Bakugou and Midoriya’s rival dynamic is how their fighting styles are both the opposite of each other and the opposite of what you would expect.

Midoriya is always muttering some strategy or other and he’s got his notebook full of ideas and different counters to fighting styles so you’d expect him to be really good at targeting weaknesses and having multi-layered plans and back-up plans to have a sure victory. 

But it’s actually the opposite. His low self-esteem leads him to not care about his own well-being and the majority of the time he ends up relying on the brute strength of his Quirk alone and badly injures himself by being too reckless with his power. Like he does strategize, but he always seems to fail at accounting just how much damage One for All does to his body, and with his battle with Chisaki he completely disregarded the limits altogether by having Eri on his back. Which seems like a practical plan but not really a good plan if you think about the fact that he has a small, emotionally distressed child with a difficult-to-handle Quick on his back during the entire thing. A lot of the time he usually goes into the fight with some kind of sound, logical plan but then when it goes awry, he almost always finishes with a huge SMASH to end things quickly and usually ends up broken in the end. Yes, he wins, but yes, he’s done. Most of his plans come with too much risk to himself.

You’d also think that as someone who has spent a long time observing people, he’d be good at discerning emotions and the intentions of other people, but due to his big heart and naivety he lets his guard down a lot and is surprisingly reckless when it comes to defending others and acts before thinking. Like how he charged in when Bakugou was captured by the sludge villain. Or like how even though he knew what Shinsou’s Quirk was he just rushed in out of anger because Shinsou had insulted Ojiro.

I would have thought that Midoriya would have been smart enough to understand that Shinsou was just trying to rile him up, but nope. Just… just charged right in there screaming like an idiot. This scene was even more frustrating because a lot of us viewers expected him to know better.

On the other hand, Bakugou is loud and brash and always emotionally straightforward with what he approves and disapproves of. You’d think that he charges into battle recklessly without any regard to his personal safety as long as he can win, but he’s the one who strategizes for maximum efficiency. 

His fighting style is incredibly self-preserving, with his costume designed to minimize the risks his body takes and his actual fighting style in the Databook is listed as “Hit and Away”, meaning that he gets one good hit in, then backs away and waits for or creates another opening to get another good hit in. Plus, he’s a quick thinker in battle and both discovers and targets weaknesses within a single fight, like with Tokoyami and Kirishima. And it’s not that he doesn’t take risks at all, but he usually thinks of the consequences of his actions before actually performing them. In other words acting after thinking. Like how he realized during his kidnapping that even if he blasted them all away with a huge blast, Kurogiri would have been able to counter him. So he didn’t do it and tried to think of another strategy.

He always seems really closed off towards other people and rarely gives a damn about what they think, but he was the only one who could tell that Shindou (from the Hero Exams) had bad intentions towards their class.

He’s also an occasional Mr. Exposition, explaining things like Quirk limitations or knowing about the rival Hero schools. And he’s surprisingly observant towards other people’s feelings. Like how he could tell that Kirishima was depressed and tried to cheer him up (twice) and more recently he seems to be keeping a close eye on Todoroki and his family problems.

And the best part is that even though their fighting styles and certain personality aspects are the opposite of what you would expect, they make sense.

Midoriya is a total newbie at using his Quirk and he’s always been on the sidelines when he was Quirkless so of course he wouldn’t be able to account for the damage he could take to himself, nor would he always be able to have a logical Plan B if his first plan went awry. And of course, if he’s never been in a fight before, he’d have a hard time both thinking and moving at the same time like Bakugou does. Which is part of why he froze up during the U.A. entrance exam. In a way, his weakness is similar to Yaoyorozu’s. Both great thinkers, but actions can be difficult to do at the same time.

Bakugou on the other hand is a veteran with his Quirk and possibly has the best practical Quirk control in the class. He’s also been in a lot of fights when he was younger, so he’d be better at finding strategies to win and he’d know how to minimize damage because he knows how much damage he can take. His thinking is almost completely instinctual, like an animal surviving in the wild. Like how he immediately knew that running away from All Might was impossible, so the best thing to do would be to fight (well, not the best thing, but the more practical thing. He probably would have been more clear-headed if anyone but Deku had been his partner).

So Midoriya’s body acts before he can think (as pointed out by All Might) and Bakugou usually acts after he thinks. Midoriya is actually the really reckless fighter who often injures himself and Bakugou is actually the really cautious, quick-thinking fighter (though he does make some questionable decisions when he’s lost his temper). And you’d never know it by looking at their daily behavior alone. 

Picture this, BakuDeku featured in the Road to El Dorado.

The cast would include:

Bakugou as Tulio

Midoriya as Chel

Kirishima as Miguel

Midoriya as Chel

All Might as Chief Tannabok

All for One as Cortes

Shigaraki as Tzekel-Kan

“What’s with that movement? He’s moving like Bakugou”

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