I'm not really active in the fandom but do you know of anyone who makes fanvids? I wanna float 'Ain't It Fun' by Paramore as a Bakugou fanvid. Though the parts about being all alone would be contrasted by the end of the song with friends ideally, the rest is perfect I think for his kinda internal thoughts re: character development via trauma/failure at least in his own eyes since pretty much slime villain on. IDK, I think of him every time I hear it.
I actually don’t, but I’ve thought about this exact song w/relevance to Katsuki before.
This is something I haven’t seriously explored in one of my long fics yet, but it’s a headcanon of mine that Katsuki was kidnapped several times as a child. Like, I don’t think it happened canonically, but that’s something I really like to think about for canon Katsuki. He was kidnapped several times as a child, but nobody knows/knew about it.
Katsuki was a kid with an extremely powerful, flashy quirk. An untraceable, practically unlimited source of nitroglycerin is something I bet you tons of criminal organizations would love to get their hands on.
To add to that, Katsuki must’ve looked like easy pickings as a child. No older siblings or hero parents looking out for him. No body guards. Running around with all the other neighbor children (one of whom we know got kidnapped/turned into a nomu).
Bonus: he seems to have the perfect attitude to fit in with a gang. Rough and tumble little monster.
So some group gets it in their head to grab him. And they do. And then they find out why that was a bad idea. Explosively.
He escapes, probably uses a tollbooth to call the cops on the bad guys, and then leaves before the police get there b/c he sees the sitaution as solved. Katsuki sees himself as responsible for protecting himself/as the hero, not as the victim.
Rinse and repeat with Katsuki growing more distrustful and angry towards strangers/the world in general, but never telling anyone else that this is going on.
Once he hits about 12~ish, he’s old enough and strong enough that most organizations know better than to try it.
So he finally feels grown up/proud of himself/like a real hero who isn’t ‘weak’ anymore.
And then the slime villain happens.
and then the kidnapping happens.
Ideally the rest of everyone only finds out he’s been kidnapped like 5-10 times previously when a reporter whose kinda cornered him/isn’t supposed to be talking to him asks about the kidnapping and Katsuki remarks that it wasn’t his first time being kidnapped, and the whole media/public/everyone is like; wait im sorry can you run that by us again.
Katsuki wasn’t even hiding it on purpose. Like, okay, he’s a little ashamed/defensive of it, but it was mostly just that he honest to god never thought it was important to mention to anyone else that he was kidnapped a bunch of times as a child.
Thought that was a relatively normal Childhood Experience
His most recent kidnapping only upset him because this time he couldn’t escape on his own and other people got hurt helping him.
Aizawa, quietly: “what the fuck.”
Katsuki, still unaware this isn’t Normal: “Yeah so after the fourth time I got kidnapped I started doing all my homework at school and storing it at the lockers there so I didn’t have to worry about getting my backpack back from kidnappers because that was always a huge pain.”
Aizawa, louder this time: “What The Fuck.”
Izuku, horrified that all this was happening and he had no idea: “WAIT THAT’S WHY YOU DID THAT WHAT THE HEL-”
Izuku is just so fucked up by this because it was all going on while he was just having a relatively normal if somewhat sucky childhood and he had literally 0 clue that when Katsuki said he got those bruises from a “fight” he meant like a fight with actual villains. Not like. Slightly older children.
Katsuki is slowly catching on throughout all of this that his childhood wasn’t actually that normal, and just gets really confused.
Katsuki: “wait what do you mean not everyone gets kidnapped as a child.”
Izuku: “because nobody else is!! you knew me growing up why would you think that was normal???”
Katsuki: “oh i thought you just didn’t get kidnapped because you were-” *realizes there’s Other People here so he can’t mention Izuku being quirkless* “-so fucking annoying.”
Izuku, also realizing where he was going with that but also knows he can’t say it: “yes okay that makes perfect sense.”
Everyone else just assumes that Izuku was a really fucking annoying child other then All-Might who knows what’s actually up there.
There’s been a cold case/on going case for a ‘missing child with a pyromancy quirk’ because the police had some evidence/footage of the kidnappings, and it was so fucking weird ‘cause this kid would just pop up every so often but they never got any real info on him, and part of that is because Katsuki was never reported missing and the other part is that Katsuki’s quirk isn’t a pyromancy quirk so they were looking in the wrong category for matches.
Aizawa was enlisted to help on the case at one point, but he couldn’t find anything and so as Katsuki’s recounting on his kidnappings it sounds weirdly familiar and then it all clicks in his head and he’s like “WAIT”
okay this has gone off on a tangent but that’s what this song makes me think of and I agree it’s very fitting for katsuki.
