#saba talks

Like let's talk real stuff here. Bakugou feels (felt) threatened by Deku.

Bakugou, at a young age, was given a scale "I'm 100 and deku is 0" but deku never acted like 0. Deku kept trying, kept proving him wrong, and it infuriated him so much because: it made him feel inferior. Here was the epitome of failure, working hard to beat him, and that was an insult to Bakugou. It was a personal offense, and THIS IS cANON he literally thought deku was FUCKING W HIM he thought deku was laughing behind his back like he was a huge joke!!!

The kid just has an inferiority complex fueled by his childhood and his inflated ego!!! He's disappointed in himself!!!! He thinks he's failed and people are laughing at him!!!! He's embarrassed of himself for having such a big fucking head about it all!!!!!!!!! HE'S ASHAMED!!!!

And this is the best part!!!

Katsuki realizes he's been wrong this whole time. He accepts it, whether he outwardly shows it or not (coughcough advice scene during suspension, coughcough entire babysitting arc coughcough telling deku to pick up the slack cough).

What a fucking transformation in like, what, two years? He's still a salty ass fucker, bless that boy, but he's getting back on his feet. Thanks to Deku and his meddlesome ass.

And let's not forget Deku... Deku i'm-gonna-be-a-fucking-hero-whether-u-dig-it-or-not-kacchan. This boy baffles me, if I'm being one-hundered pa-a-se-n-to honest. I would've dropped that salty ass boy ages ago. Then again, I'm not saintly shounen manga protag material so, yeah.

Heart-of-gold Midoriya Izuku. Who put ur pure soul on this tainted planet??? I can hear Christine in the background singing "god give me courage" every time he has to deal with Katsuki.

Listen y'all!!!! This kid doesn't take shit!!! Enough of that crap. He ain't a pushover. Y'all think Katsuki was the only one who fucked w him in middle school? Have you ever met a middle schooler???? If they're not sneering at you about the simplest things like your Payless sneakers, they're throwing shade just by completely ignoring your existence. As an adult now, hah middle schoolers are fucking stupid. As a middle schooler? That shit was awful. It was horrible to be made fun of, to have people laugh at you, to have no one come to your rescue. In middle school, Izuku had no one, and the one person he thought he had didn't accept him.

And that's that. That's middle school. AND EVEN THEN, the fucker still does wild shit like dive head-first into a situation that will 92.3% cost him his fucking life. Even then!! He does not give up on his dream!!! He looks Katsuki in the face and tells him to eat his own ass!!! True story.

Izuku is not a pushover.

He's a strong-willed, determined, motivated, intelligent fucker!!!! This kid never took Katsuki's shit!!!! Stop acting like he grovels and trembles at the guys feet. He doesn't. We see a lot of them as kids, but when we get to the present in the narrative, Izuku is no longer suctioned to his side. At some point, Izuku had refused to let Katsuki keep making a fool out of him.

But even then, he saw something in this asshole. Because, let's be honest, Katsuki was a lot of fucking bark, but he took his bite seriously. This kid gets into UA already having INSANE control of his quirk (take a minute to think about the control and familiarity this kid would have to have w his quirk to pull the stunts that he does), already has special moves and a (stupid) hero name. He's smart, it's not a secret. He's dedicated. He wants to win, and he wants to be the best. It's not a joke to him--so much so that he gets this twisted ass idea that Izuku (epitome of failure, inserted into his mind at such a young age) is insulting him by merely wanting to stand beside him on a even playing feild.

(Fuck me I started talking about Bakugou again.)

And Izuku doesn't just get all mushy and empathetic with Katsuki out of no where when he gets to UA!!!! He still keeps his distance and is wary.

But when he starts to see the changes I mentioned above--he starts to see the Kacchan he remembered admiring as a kid.

When Katsuki loses his shit in their first sparring match, Izuku feels bad. He gets a peek of what Katsuki sees, and he has to fix that immediately. We blurted an important fucking secret, but he needs to understand.

And I think it's safe to say this is the first time Izuku has seen Katsuki cry. Right then and there, whether he means to or not, Katsuki reveals his biggest fear: not being number one, not being good enough. How could Izuku not sympathize?

These boys are just two sides of the same coin. They're both hard-headed, determined ass brats that could learn a thing or two (or ten) from each other!!! They mean a lot to me. They've come so far in just under a year(?). It's wild.

I can't wait to see the Wonder Duo at its finest.

Sigh, it’s ridiculous I have to preface with this, but I’m not saying the good-natured, wholesome, sweet protag/hero is awful or “bad” writing. Explicitly morally correct and passionate protags are just that--they’re good people with strong ideals of justice and happiness and peace and that’s great! It’s the type of people we need! As a follow up, people who are assholes just for fun and honest to god wish to hurt people just for the pleasure or satisfaction it brings them, are bad people!!! This is true!!!!

But Bakugou Katsuki is not one of these people.