#pinkspeak

when it dropped i was seeing people repeatedly crop this to only deku and bakugou or including shouto with the caveat that “shouto is being a good friend letting deku and bakugou bond (without interjecting)” as if he isn’t a part of the “we” in question here

aside from the fact that that’s a bit of a wild take to have on a singular panel showing only a snippet of conversation… katsuki mentions remedial lessons and house arrest. not just house arrest. he’s referencing both his house arrest with izuku as well as his supplementary course with shouto. so when deku says “unlike WE were” … the WE is all of them. shouto is in fact a consideration in this dialogue guys… they are ALL bonding. it is not deku and bakugou bonding and shouto standing idly by as a “good friend allowing them to bond” (which is a crazy take btw)

when i was a kid i tried So hard to have a steady art account on tumblr and failed every single time lol. gonna try my best to make this one stick. thanks for joining me

(if you ask me i think katsuki is one of the few actually playing the game but touya likes griefing his builds too much)

i do nawt wanna be deku in this situation 😭

but i think its possible to find some of what shigaraki did as classifiably “bad” while also justifying/forgiving him because like… he was an exploited child?? he didn’t even get to Choose this for himself??? something horrible happened to him and some fuckass adult used him as a pawn the entire time. its hard to blame him when he was groomed into everything he became, very little of it could be classified as free will imo. even his “own decisions” were rooted in AFO’s influence over him when he was a vulnerable child in need + his traumatic experiences in childhood, which were weaponized For him