In literally any other fandom they wouldn’t make NEARLY as much fem!protagonist aus as the do in bnha. And I’m 100% sure it’s because Deku cries a lot and has a kind heart. By making him a girl they accentuate this traits making her a weak willed shoujo protagonist (the one that I hate the most) who is super passive and everyone saves.
You know what? Fuck this. Make Fem!Izuku a fucking badass. Make her bleed, make her fight, make her physically stronger than his male counter part. Make her have the kindest heart and still be a crybaby, but also make her take none of anyone’s shit. Make her not care about Katsuki, make her worried about Todoroki but not weak. Make her a STRONG female character. Make her break her bones, make her cry ugly, make her have snot, make her someone who is not cute when she cries.
We literally have tons of fucking shoujo mangas with this type of character dynamic. Make her be different. Make interesting, make her REAL.
And for the fucking love of god MAKE HER A LESBIAN TOO. Please don’t make her the only one who stays “gender bendered” make a female Todoroki, make a female Katsuki, make a male Ochako and a female Iida. Because I’m like 40% sure that half of the people who make her a girl just want to make Ships Straight and there’s already TONS of canon straight manga with this premise, and honestly is disgusting to have my fav character be reduced to a fucking trophy wife for a bunch of Ooc guys.
a thing i noticed during the fight with all might is deku seems to remember a situation where katsuki protected his friends- including deku- from older kids when they were younger, and kicked butt so efficiently deku was then convinced for years kacchan could never surrender and would win in the end. in fact deku has seen kacchan fight a lot, had to ta notice how kacchan starts a fight and his usual fight pattern, kacchan protected deku as much as he ragged on him
yknow i never thought about it that way but now that you mention it, i don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to infer that. we don’t know the context but yeah, deku’s definitely seen bakugou fight enough times to know his patterns pretty well
i’m also of the opinion that they did genuinely have a good relationship before things went to shit so this supports that idea
and i’ve always loved that scene of them as kids bc it shows how, to deku, bakugou always has been and always will be inherently a hero. i think that’s part of the reason he doesn’t seem to hold any of the stuff that happened between them against him, bc he knows that he’s a jerk but he’s not a bad person.
he has firsthand experience with how heroic bakugou can be
(look at that little blush)
Actually, and maybe I simply don’t recall, but it was never specified or shown that this flashback scene was of katsuki protecting deku, was it? I assumed a bunch of older kids tried to push him around and he refused to let them, and deku saw it all happen (*coughs* spying on ur ultra cool crush).
But I also think that it doesn’t really matter how you interpret it… either way, deku, from a young age, to have had that kind of expression while watching katsuki had to have seen katsuki as a heroic figure–even if he hadn’t been actively playing the role of protector here. Saving may be the most important part of being a hero but… deku has experienced firsthand from a young age why the ‘winning’ part is so important to the image that comes with being a hero.
Saving is the occupational requirement. The basic definition. But winning is essential to being a hero, in the way that the word brings up feelings of awe and glory and, of course, victory. It’s not just about saving lives, it’s about looking cool as you do it, so that the people you’re protecting will feel not only relieved, but inspired. That’s what makes heroes cool. And that’s why I think kacchan has always been, in a way, deku’s hero…
it was never stated but i think a lot of their childhood is up to interpretation considering we only get little snapshots. he could have hid behind the tree when the kids started shit w/ bakugou since he’s been shown to have a tendency to hang out w/ them at more of a distance or
it could be that he was just spying. but like you said it doesn’t really matter, it just matters that in this moment bakugou was a hero to deku. (tho i do still like the idea of bakugou protecting deku even if just subconsciously and as a side-effect of standing his ground. and it would make deku trying to help bakugou at the river have one more layer of incomprehensibility to that moment for bakugou since in his mind it should always be the other way around. still, it’s more of a headcanon than anything else)
but yes v. nice addition!!! bakugou is very much a figure of pure concentrated inspiration for deku
Recently, I caught up to Boku no Hero Academia. I know nothing of
the BNHA fandom, but I will say this: I’m disappointed by the fact that the relationship between Katsuki and Izuku isn’t generally considered to be the most profound. When I say profound, there are no positive connotations.
Izuku and Katsuki are, as of now, not friends. When I say profound, I simply
mean that I have a heck-ton of content to discuss. So yeah, this relationship
is definitely the most complex in the series, albeit a flawed one.
Fortunately, this relationship is undergoing a
transformation. By the end of the manga, it will have evolved into something
that is complex, mutually supportive, and beautiful. In this post, I aim to examine and accentuate its intricacies. If you aren’t exactly a fan of Izuku and Katsuki’s relationship, I hope this post brings you to appreciate it as much as I do. (Please ignore any typos, by the way. I didn’t look over what I wrote.)
I think my favorite premise behind the BakuDeku ship is there’s nothing Bakugou can do to make Midoriya hate him.
Nothing.
Midoriya’s that crazy about him.
Bakugou tells Midoriya to kill himself? Midoriya responds by risking his own life to save Bakugou’s without even so much of a shred of hesitation.
Bakugou tried to murder him in their first week of classes? Midoriya’s response can be summed up with a: “We’re gonna’ be equals and I’m gonna’ be a hero, and you’re gonna’ notice me dammit.”
Bakugou says he’d rather lose than work with Midoriya? Midoriya punches him and screams the equivalent of “How dare you. You can hate me all you want but don’t you dare lose.”
Bakugou gets kidnapped? Midoriya nearly kills himself trying to get him back. Like twice.
And that’s all canon.
I’m not even touching the parts of the series where they start getting along better and becoming actual friends heading toward that Wonder Duo partnership Midoriya’s been dreaming about since he was four.
All this is really coming down to is I need more jealous/aggressive Izuku pursuing Bakugou fics because it’s closer to canon. XD
Okay but putting my obsession with Katsudeku aside, I genuinely actually really 100% agree with this. I know anti’s are only going to view this as “abuse” bc ya’ll are just blinded by the fact that it isn’t your ship and it immediately creates a red flag in your head.
But the thing is, to Izuku, Katsuki means ALOT to him. Even more than All Might himself. He said so himself in chapter 119. Just because Katsuki acts like a short-tempered asshole, it doesn’t define who he is. That’s just looking at it on the surface level. And Izuku knows this. He’s always known from the very start. After all, they are childhood friends, so why wouldn’t he? Of course he acknowledges Katsuki’s shitty behavior, but because he knows how Katsuki’s character is, how he handles things, how he thinks, and the difficulty of expressing himself properly, he doesn’t stamp that “bully” label on to him like others do.
Katsuki is a very complicated person. Izuku sees and understands this. So justwhy would he hate him?
This is all I’m gonna say about this matter before I end up finding myself ranting. I don’t want to hear shit from ya’ll anti’s. If you can’t have the decency to try to see it from our perspective instead of being a small minded fucknuckle then just continue on shipping your ship and leave us Katsudeku fans the fuck alone.
I actually thought that bakushima moment was actually a bakudeku moment because it was izuku who thought of the plan
I TOTALLY AGREE. In my opinion, it really was a Bakudeku moment because Izuku thought of the perfect plan to save Kacchan. As much as he wanted to be the one to grab Kacchan’s hand, he knew it would’ve been a big stab to Kacchan’s ego because HE KNOWS KACCHAN LIKE NO ONE ELSE DOES and since their relationship in that moment was still rocky, Izuku knew that Kirishima would deal the LEAST amount of damage to Kacchan’s ego, since those two are friends, not rivals.
But, in the end, it actually was Izuku who saved him. Izuku saved Bakugou once again because he thought of that plan (I mean, c’mon, even Kirishima was fuckin surprised). But, since Bakushima shippers only see Kirishima holding Kacchan’s hand, it’s dubbed a Bakushima moment to most people. If people had more insight and read between the lines and understood IZUKU’S FEELINGS in that situation, they would see how it was more of a Bakudeku moment.
Hello, if you’re reading this and you hate bakudeku, you’re in the wrong place. Stop trying to upset yourself. Block me, block the tag, and leave shippers alone. Canon has proved time and time again that Bakugou and Deku’s growth is supposed to be a good thing for both of them. The author actively wants them to be friends and rivals. Stop trying to attack folks who enjoy this ship just because you don’t like it.
If it’s personal, that’s fine. I get it. But it’s not personal for everyone. And people who ship it don’t condone abuse in real life. People actually ship it because they condone negative and toxic relationships turning into something healthy and positive for both parties. And I get if something like that bothers you. I’m also a victim of bullying and abuse. I get it. But please don’t use that as an excuse to bully and abuse people for liking the ship. It’s counter-intuitive, and it’s a waste of your time and energy.
It doesn’t make you better than anyone. It doesn’t heal you. It doesn’t stop them from becoming friends in canon. It doesn’t stop anyone from shipping it.
Bakudeku is an insanely popular ship. Just this blog alone has almost 6000 followers, and that’s not even a sliver of the actual bakudeku population on tumblr, much less the whole world. It’s even more popular in Japan. People love it. And it’s not because they were raised to condone abuse and bullying. It’s because there’s something there. They have good writing and good development.
Once again, nobody ships it because they get off on abuse. Everybody saw the same scene in the first chapter that you did. Nobody is sitting there like “hell yeah I love when Izuku Midoriya suffers.” No. We love him as much as you do. We relate to him as much as you do. We want to see Bakugou be nicer to him too. In fact, it’s all we yearn for. All of our content surrounds them being kind to each other, loving each other, and working through their differences.
You must understand that this ship is not something to attack people over. It’s not the hill to die on. When you chase folks off the internet for liking a ship, you’re being far, far worse than Bakugou could ever hope to be. You’re being the bully. And it’s not okay.
So please, for the sake of others, for the sake of folks who have been abused in the past, for the sake of peace, for your own sake, just… Block the tag. Let it go. Step away. It isn’t worth it.
How some anti’s of Bakudeku claim to hate bakudeku because of Bakugou’s ‘abusive’ behavior towards Izuku, yet when I go and see that they ship Bakugou with Kirishima, Uraraka, or anyone under the fucking sun, it just confuses me.
Like, if y’all are so worried about Bakugou’s ‘abuse’ towards Izuku, what the hell makes you think that him dating Kirishima or Uraraka is gonna make a difference? People who are abusive almost never change.
If y’all really felt disgust towards him for his ‘abuse’ and telling Izuku to go kill himself, you wouldn’t be pairing Bakugou with anyone. That includes Kirishima or Uraraka or anyone who is considered to be the sweetest character, because then, that ship would be problematic. Just like how you feel towards Bakudeku when you constantly claim how problematic it is.
Y’all do realize that abuse can fan out into multiple people and not just one person specifically right?
I would know, I’ve seen it, and dealt with it.
Makes you wonder who really needs to get their facts straight.
