#Steffie reads bnha

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I think canon has proven beyond doubt that Deku’s biggest weakness is Simp.

His worst matchup is “People who mildly insult Kacchan”.

Dude had one job, don’t touch Shigaraki so he won’t get OFA and the man makes a single offhand insulting comment and he’s like “Nah, fuck that, imma choke him out”.

#steffie reads bnha #bkdk #bakudeku #I’m not even reading this through shipper goggles #that’s straight up what happened #super straight behavior

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We searched all the records but no heterosexual explanation could be found for this behavior.

#steffie reads bnha #bakudeku #bkdk brainrot #bkdk #motherfucker wakes up with a hole in his stomach #gets told Deku is still unconscious and is like medical science is bullshit I’m getting up #is barely being held back by three different people with restraint capabale quirks #one of whom is like twice his size lol #his strength is fueled by the gay agenda

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So mad a dude he was expecting to rile him up insulted Kacchan he unlocked a secret power up that ALL OF THE LIFE THREATENING SITUATIONS HES BEEN IN didn’t unlock. Super straight behavior.

#Steffie reads bnha #bkdk #bakudeku #this is so funny #like a literal child was being abused and tortured and he was like ‘not mad enough’ #but a known shitheel says one thing about his boyfriend and he’s like IM GONNA BRING UP POWERS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE FROM DECADES BEFORE

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Low key love Monoma’s unhinged obsession with Bakugou.

#Steffie reads bnha #monoma neito #bakugou katsuki #monobaku #bakumono #I dunno it’s hilarious

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Ch 119 and 120:

#Steffie reads bnha #let’s have a homoerotic fight about our feelings for each other and inability to express them #bkdk #bakudeku #like Bakugou is def intentionally queer coded #you can’t convince me otherwise #Hk could tell me himself and I’d still be like #cool story but you shoulda made him less gay then #I don’t make the rules

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LOL @ “Bakugo isn’t the deuteragonist” when their journeys both begin after the same inciting incident (the sludge villain) and both characters immediately begin their growth and change in the same trajectory after that point. Like Bakugou immediately stops the over the top extra bullying (still an asshole and a bully don’t get me wrong) and doesn’t say shit for TEN MONTHS after that event while Deku is simultaneously going through his own journey of taking on OFA. It is very much a turning point for both of them that informs the rest of the story and is CONTINUOUSLY brought up so the audience doesn’t forget that.

Literally everything after that is framed in terms of Deku and Bakugou with some Todoroki seasoning (and even then I personally think that is just because Todoroki family drama is so compelling and HK just leaned into it). Even their roles within the class itself: Bakugou bringing himself down when he sees how strong his classmates are and being humbled by them, Izuku bringing himself up and being inspired by them, so they can get to similar levels. Todoroki is a great example of this in action, he uses his flame side in his fight with Izuku but pulls it back with Bakugou. There are so many examples of this same type of thing with all the side characters, they get something from Izuku and something else from Bakugou but it’s almost always both of them.

Like this is in no way meant to diminish the importance of anyone’s fav, that’s always a thing that gets hackles raised when you are dealing with a diverse cast, but I didn’t realize it was so blatantly setup that way narratively in the manga tbh, I thought it was creative licensing on the part of the anime because of BK’s popularity and how fun his character is. But this is very obviously a deliberate writing decision from issue 1 that is reinforced over and over.

I’m only on Vol 6 so this may shift in later arcs but I dunno man 🤷‍♀️ seems pretty straight forward to me where I’m at. I’ll see how it plays out as I catch up.

Also, side note, really love this early panel considering that we later find out how these three are tied to Midoriya, Bakugou and Todoroki.

#Steffie reads bnha #very much against her better judgment #bkdk #bakudeku #bakugou katsuki #adhd gonna adhd tho #too old for this shit

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HES SO PROUD OF HIS MENTOR.

#steffie reads bnha #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #I love that this angry duckling imprinted on the strangest mentor he could have

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Jeanist and Bakugou’s relationship is super important to me ya’ll.

#Steffie reads bnha #best jeanist #bakugou katsuki #like they both chose each other for a reason #and like knowing he goes to him first with his hero name later #😭😭

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I knew this was coming from the anime and it still made me cry again😭.

One thing I appreciate about this style of character and why I’ve been drawn to so many of them as my favs in various media over the years is the will and determination and drive and conviction, that they are just themselves despite everything and everyone else, and it always makes me so sad when that’s not just enough and they have that moment where they realize it.

Like this moment is SO fucking heartbreaking because like at it’s core it’s about him not being enough as he is, or at least that’s his perception, and being forced to change and being scared of that I just find it so upsetting.

#Steffie reads bnha #bakugou katsuki #don’t touch me #i’m emotionally compromised

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Bakugou’s behavior right before he dies is still so fucking suspicious and weird??

Right after AFO grabs him is when Bakugou gets the weird light in his eyes. Like his iris goes white, and at first I was “oh, like he’s just upset that he said that about being Izuku’s shadow”.

But then he completely ignores Jeanist when he’s trying to sew up his arm up and says “..Right” like he’s answering someone else. He seemed distracted, not defeated.

And he repeats that, “Right” in the next issue before he tells Jeanist to take care of everyone, not like he’s psyching himself up but like he’s coming to terms with something or replying to something, but like it also clearly states that he didn’t know his cluster attack was going to do that to his body, soooo wtf is that about? It seems very out of character. That’s what’s sat wrong with me this whole fucking time. Why would he say that if he didn’t know this was gonna happen?

It just seemed like he’s talking to someone, and it’s right after AFO grabs him and we’ve already established that All Might couldn’t communicate with the vestiges either until he was touching Midoriya in the hospital. And then we have this panel of 2nd user right after that when AFO starts talking about how angry he is.

And also he’s like talking to the All Might vestige and again he starts off with “Oh right,” like he’s mid conversation and continues to tell him about the card.

A few issues back the vestiges were talking to each other and plotting to do something to help Midoriya and I was like “that’s odd, how are you gonna do something to help him externally, you are literally in his head”.

It’s all fucking strange. Like if Bakugou was truly going to go out with a weird side effect of his quirk (which, fucking lame way to go imo, like wtf) it should have been during a moment of like regular Bakugou high intensity and then he like falls down, not having a peaceful moment where he calmly walks back into battle and fires off explosions without a peep, like he knew what was gonna happen even though the text tells us very explicitly he didn’t?

I just don’t get it. And it seems hella suspect. There’s shenanigans afoot.

I mean maybe I’m wrong and just being a deluded stan or whatever, but it just doesn’t add for me and it never has. It’s incongruent with the story so far, it’s a very meaningless death for a very important character especially considering how impactful he’s been throughout, and it’s a death that in no way suits the character themself. It’s like if he died right before battle from like, tetanus or something. It’s hardly better than an offscreen death of a major character. He didn’t save anyone. He didn’t change anything. He didn’t have an ironic death or a particularly emotional one. Like it’s emotional for us because we’re attached to him and he’s fucking dead but if another character we weren’t as attached to died in that exact same way where a little box of text had to explain why they died we’d be like “well that was anticlimactic, wtf why were we shown this?”

Even after reading the entire text straight through from beginning to end I think it’s even fucking more suspect now than I did when I just had the one issue and the synopsis. If the point of the death is that sometimes deaths are pointless and meaningless in a war or whatever or like pushing yourself too hard can lead right this than as a writer I have to question why would you put in that much time and effort developing a character like BK when you could use literally anyone else and get the same messaging across.

#steffie reads bnha #and fucking weeps #mha spoilers #bnha spoilers #bakugou katsuki #i honestly don’t know #like I’ve read it several times and still don’t get it #like did his heart exploded from the quirk #or from AFO attacking him #what’s the point of the text box if it’s the latter

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Kiribaku is precious as fuck too ngl.

#kiribaku #Steffie reads bnha

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This moment was also really critical to my happiness in these trying times.

#steffie reads bnha #bakugou katsuki #the casual before battle hangout #the intimate family knowledge #everyone stop looking at each other so softly you’re battle hardened child soldiers

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Why does Kaminari make this gesture? Is it just a liberation front thing in this universe or is there another meaning?

#steffie reads bnha #MHA #bnha #kaminari denki

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Okay Shigaraki.

That origin is uh…yeesh.

#Steffie reads bnha #thats fucked up buddy #the gif was really perfect tho #shigaraki tomura

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Tbh the Eri arc was…. not my fav. It was just NEVER ENDING and I don’t really care all that much about non 1A people? Entirely too much focus on side characters and villain minions.The Kirishima bits were its only redeeming feature.

The story itself had promise, I really like Chisaki as a villain, but having it mostly be executed by side characters was a very ineffective way to handle it imo. Like Mirio is okay but this was ENTIRELY too much screen time for what I consider a redundant character. Suneater was adorable though, I love him.

I found myself kind of flying through the panels because I just didn’t care that much. I’m also wondering why were Urakaka and Tsuyu involved at all?!? Lol. All that could have been cut and would have changed nothing.

#Steffie reads bnha #MHA #mha critical #bnha

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I’m about to get to THAT issue and I’m already crying 😭

#steffie reads bnha #bakugou katsuki