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bakugoukatsuki-rising · 3 years

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I'm. The new covers, op. The new covers. Gosh. Both of them hold so much symbolism. And technically they both are canon, they are both original ideas that could perfectly be valid. Horikoshi simply found something better. But anyways, I'm going to go ahead and ramble about it because Im- Op, prepare for a long ask! Hope you like it!

So!

On the one where Katsuki's the one in the picture, he's not on his knees like he is in the other two covers. Instead, he has his face down, body forward, one hand on one leg, the other one holding out for something...He's bowing. Bowing in Japanese culture is a pretty big deal. Hes not just tilting his head a bit, his head and body are on full on commitment.

Such a tilted bow means a LOT, specially from THIS guy, Mr dont let anyone walk in front of me. Even more when hes not just bowing, but accepting such an open display of given help, Mr shonen anime lone wolf. Accepting something he always has trouble admitting to. Accepting the past, accepting the wrongs. Accepting Izukus help means so much, and that's what these three covers have in common.

His hand is sctretching out. He's ready to say yes to that hand out in the air.

(Ps. I wonder if he's watching his own reflection on the water in this panel, as well?)

Hes in middle of the picture with those childhood friend at the back, which means audience. It means letting people see what hes done, what he's sorry for. He is being open and exposed and vulnerable. That's no fighting stance.

Remember guys, in case you haven't noticed before, Horikoshi puts lots of metaphorical value in his manga and on his covers. Sometimes you've got to dig in deep and think to get the bigger picture. And in this case, the bigger picture screams regret and wanting to make things right from the start.

This cover occurs in the past, at the moment where everything started, and Katsuki fully remembers this. Katwuki has thought of this, is thinking about this. He's had eye bags for gods sake, he's clearly troubled by all of what it means.

These three covers are the visual explanation of what's going on inside Katsuki's head, because this is clearly focused on him and his perspective.

(Ps. Rivers symbolise the massage of time. If that doesnt add to everything else, I dont know what to tell you.)

So! Next!

Wow, if this isnt one of my favourite things ever. Okay. Christ.

I have two options here. Scratch that, three options. Scream into the void, scream into this post, or actually make a good presentation of my inner turmoil. I'll have to go by the third option. (Haha. Just like horikoshi did. Dont # me, I'm funny in my head.)

This cover melted my insides, froze them all over, and hit me with them like a hammer.

I know they're kids, but let me get this straight-so kids seriously look at their friends with these looks in their eyes and think "ah, yes. This is my very good friend. This gentle smile and kind look I'm giving him as if he was my whole world? Well, hes just a very good friend."

I looked at my childhood crush this way, I dont know what to tell you.

Anyway, let's actually jump to the information at hand.

This panel seems like it's making a reference to what Katsuki wishes could have been. And if that's not absolutely soul-crushing...this cover is Katsuki's feelings, guys. These are probably his very thoughts. This scene has gone through Katsuki's head at some point.

We've got Izuku in his stuck up pose all over again, in just an awkward angle. It's like katsuki isnt looking AT this katsuki right now, but at the spot where the actual past Katsuki, at some point, was. As if this Isuku is frozen in time. Dont believe too much in this paragraph, I still have my doubts about that, but I feel it's a possibility. Izukus eyes seem to be focused on the water, while Katsuki is just the tiniest bit back, reaching for Izukus hand. And gosh.

I dont think I've ever seen older NOR child Katsuki have this look plasted into his face before. He's...sheepish. Kindly, awkwardly sheepish. No hate, no anger, no shame, no nothing. His face is clear and sweet and has this "Whoops. You got me. But thanks." kind of expression on.

The hand behind his head, just the tiniest but embarassed? That little smile? It's all so soft.

Rambling about softness though- I really liked the hand scene in this particular panel. If you close up your view, you realise that theres no effort to pull anyone out of nowhere. In this panel, they are simply holding hands in frozen time for no purpose at all.

Katsuki has his hand around Izuku...simply holding there.

Again, because the angle is awkward, it's kind of messy, but you get the point.

It's all simply beautiful. Horikoshi clean likes give me life.

And lastly. The actual cover.

I screeched so hard when I saw this. My first instinct when seeing this for the first time was to straight up go trigger happy fingers and write about it to my friends. Christ.

Everything is so...SOft. horikoshi made a good decision by mixing both previous drawings in one. We have parts of the two covers in one, which is amazing. In this one, Katsuki isnt alone, as Izuku's there too. But we dont have the audience either. Probably because the main focus on this panel is no one else except them two.

Again, Katsuki looks like he's bowing, but instead of looking all the way down, he's in the middle. Not looking at Izuku nor looking at the ground, like it shows in the previous covers. Instead, Horikoshi found a middle ground. He's looking at his hand. At the gesture.

Hes not holding hands quite yet, but his hand is there. At arms reach. Not close enough but there. Wanting.

Theres so much regret and again, softness.

Again, like you Op said a bit bad, the angle is off here. This is present Katsuki remembering his past. The angle is off because this Izuku isnt holding out for our Katsuki. This is a memory. A wish. Katsuki's wish.

(Ps. Izukus trousers drenched in the rivers water. This detail was so nice. It's a subtle action that describes Izukus characterization so much. Izuku went in the river with Katsuki in mind, not caring if he got his clothes soaked in the process too. For Izuku, only Katsuki was there. And for Katsuki, only Izuku is.

As a plus, I can't believe the cover of this is literally called Bakugou Katsuki rising. They named the entire thing after that one chapter. Actually, I very much, totally believe it. It's the moment so many people have been waiting for, after all. The moment so many scenes have been amounting for, little by little.

*dreamy sigh*

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed this little thing, I had to get it out of my system and dont want to bother my dear friends anymore than needed.

Have a good day, OP! I'll stay updated!

You kinda just...took my heart and curb stomped it, not gonna lie. Your observations are so beautiful and so accurate. The sketch with little Bakugou taking Izuku’s hand is so...raw, and yeah, that expression is definitely one of love. Those eyes, the way he is HOLDING Izuku’s hand, not TAKING it. He isn’t taking it to stand up, he is literally just...holding it.

That isn’t the way you take someone’s hand when you’re trying to pull yourself up. It’s an awkward angle and just...wouldn’t work right. No, he is literally just holding his hand, and that’s exactly what Bakugou wishes he did all that time ago. He wishes that he not only took Deku’s hand, but held onto it. Held it as if it were something precious, something to be cared for and protected.

These are Bakugou’s true feelings expressed in these drawings, and I think Horikoshi released them on purpose, to show us more of what he wanted Bakugou to be feelings through all of this. Since after all, we know that Bakugou expresses himself in action, not so much words. And because Horikoshi is an absolute genius, he thought to give us these other glimpses in how he feels through these actions.

And the other sketch with him bowing his body to Izuku, and the way the log looks like it’s on his back with his ‘friends’ on top of it.

The pressure of needing to be the coolest, the strongest, the best. Those kids put that kind of pressure on him, even if they never realized it. They encouraged his behavior and fed his ego, and it never allowed him to see how he was wrong. But now he is realizing it, and he is bowing himself in light of that acknowledgement. He is lowering his head and putting his pride away, so he can get back what he lost all those years ago; the opportunity to take Izuku’s hand.

To take the hand of the only one of those kids that ever loved him unconditionally. Who never pressured him or expected him to be invincible. Who saw all of his flaws and was completely prepared to support him despite all of it. The only one.

I’m just a mess over all of this, and I am so incredibly thankful to Horikoshi for creating this beautiful relationship. AND IN A SHOUNEN MANGA, NONETHELESS!!

Thank you friend, for your beautiful thoughts. I think they’re spot on, and I am so emotional all over again because of this.

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puckish-saint · 7 years

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Hello my love! I'm really sorry this is a reader insert but I've been waiting to send you this for a while! I would like reaper and Hanzo (separate) with a (preferably fem) s/o and the s/o is insecure about her pale skin. It makes her not want to show any of her skin but unfortunately it's getting warm, so their boyfriend is confused as to why they're wearing long sleeve tops and jeans? And then they reassure them it's fine and lots of fluff?😘 sorry if this is confusing and thank you if you do!

Reaper

Before his botched resurrection he wasalways the first one out sleeveless and in shorts at the first hintof sunshine.

Now he’s glad he has you to bemiserable and bundled up together when everyone else enjoys thespring weather

As such for the longest time he doesn’teven care why you do it. If pressed he’d assume you were doing itout of consideration for him, but the truth is as long as he’s notalone wearing his winter clothes for as long as humanly survivable(and, in his case, beyond that), he’s fine

It takes the annual spring cleaning tostoke his curiosity. In true spring cleaning tradition you started bysorting through the old books and photo albums and have spent thepast hour reminiscing about the past, cleaning supplies forgotten byyour side.

“Puberty saved your ass.” you sayas you flip through the remarkable transformation that is apre-pubescent Gabriel hot on the way to win the World’s MostAwkward Kid award to the man so beautiful his mirror image fell inlove with him.

“I once got out of a speeding ticketbecause the cop thought I was hot.” he says conversationally andflips the page to show you the incident in question, recorded fromthe passenger seat of a car. He taps the photograph and it plays ashort video, showing a cop in an unfamiliar uniform flustered atGabriel’s shameless flirting.

“Italy?” you ask.

“Spain. With the ingrate. He filmed.”he says.

You move on, dusting off old memoriesinstead of the vases that really need it more. Once you’ve gonethrough his Life in Pictures, it’s his turn to tease you for everylife choice you ever made that got immortalised on film. Eventuallythough a theme starts to emerge.

“Alright, I have to ask. What’swith the long sleeves?”

He points at a picture taken just a fewyears before you met him on a carnival parade in Rio. You’re theonly one with sleeves reaching past your shoulders and the differenceis all the more stark with the scantily clad dancers in front. Youshrug, try to flip to the next page but once something got hisinterest there’s little to stop him.

“I know it’s not scars because I’veseen you naked.” he says, content to guess if you won’t tell himwhat’s really up. “And I don’t think it’s a modesty thingbecause long-sleeved or not because the outfit you wore on thatundercover op last month was a public challenge to indecency laws.”

“You’re thinking of what you did tothat outfit afterwards.” you say but if you hoped you coulddistract him you’re disappointed.

On one hand he starts listing all thereasons why you might choose to carry your winter wardrobe into July,ranging from the reasonable to the crazy.

“You promised a dying family memberto never wear a tshirt in your life.”

“I’m so pale people seeing me infull sunlight might go blind.” you say at last, caving under thepressure of Gabriel’s sheer pigheadedness.

“It’s not that-” he protestsimmediately but concedes at your glance. “Okay, you’re a littlepale. So what? If people don’t like it they don’t have to look.”

“They might not be able to if theystare at me directly without protective glasses.”

You argue, but there’s no heat behindyour words. Gabriel has started kissing your shoulder, slipping hishands underneath your shirt while he trails a path up to your neck.You tilt your head and close your eyes, smile when he hums pleased.

“You’re gorgeous,” he says. “Weara damn t-shirt.”

“What a speech, Reyes.” You laugh,push at him when his hands start wandering where they definitelyshouldn’t if you want to get any cleaning done today.

“You still love me.”

There’s no arguing that.

Especially not when he lets you haveone of his old t-shirts, proclaiming in big bold letters “I savedthe world and I didn’t even get a statue.”

Hanzo

He’s observant but reserved. If askedhe could recall every outfit you wore for the last month, but heisn’t in the habit of offering his opinion where it’s notrequested. (Not anymore, Genji would say, and promptly recall storiesof Hanzo during their childhood having something to say abouteverything and not shy in doing so)

He notices your tendency for longsleeves and trousers even in the scorching heat of Gibraltar’ssummer and suggests once going downtown to buy a more appropriatewardrobe. When you decline he lets the matter rest, even if he stillwonders in the privacy of his own thoughts

A trip to the beach forces the issueinto daylight when you regard the Official Swimwear, issued byOverwatch back in the day and leftover after its fall, like ananxious person might look at the draft for a public speech thatincludes the instructions to [break into song here].

Hanzo, who’s arguing with Genji thelevel of appropriateness a speedo offers, throws you a questioningglance, his non-verbal offer to go somewhere private and talk thisout while simultaneously pleading with you not to take him up on itif it involves talking about feelings.

You shake your head and give him athumbs up, moral support for an argument that is quickly devolvinginto each brother taking potshots at the other.

Luckily Jesse has extended an openinvitation for the use of his serapes in the face of almost certainsunburn. It allows you to cover up at least partially and on the waydown to the beach everyone’s so excited - or involved in argumentsabout the pros and cons of tight swimwear in the case of Hanzo andGenji - that nobody looks too close at you.

On the beach itself it’s easy enoughto pull your legs underneath you and pretend they’re not severalshades brighter than the sun-bleached sand. You watch the otherssplit up into smaller groups and barely notice Hanzo coming up besideyou.

“I confess I may have hoped for theopportunity to touch you inappropriately,” he says quietly at yourear wearing an uncharacteristic smile. “It is made harder by yourchoice of attire.”

You chuckle and pull him against you,relishing you get to do this and he won’t push you away like heused to.

“The beach put you in the mood forsome inappropriate touching?”

“With you I’m always in the moodfor inappropriate touching.”

Neither of you notices Hana walkingpast with an incredulous expression on her face, nor her askingAleksandra in not-so-hushed tones if this is how old people flirt.You’re too busy with each other, exchanging chaste kisses and lesschaste promises, until he asks laden with innuendo: “Would you liketo come swim with me?”

There’s nothing you’d like more ifit weren’t for the unfortunate issue of your skin making a markedeffort to double as a reflector.

“Hanzo, I ... “

Once again he proves he notices morethan he speaks about. Brushing his hands over the slim strip of skinyou didn’t manage to hide underneath the serape he says: “I’msure the others won’t be too jealous of your beauty.”

He offers nothing more than this, anacknowledgement that he knows or guesses what worries you and that,in his eyes at least, there is no cause for it.

“Alright.” you say and let yourselfbe pulled up, Jesse’s serape fluttering forgotten to the ground.You can’t help the pang of self-consciousness but Hanzo gives youno time to dwell on it. He takes your hand, and leads you to thewater, giving you ample view of his own assets.

“You look good in a speedo.” yousay and Hanzo grunts in satisfaction.

“Of course I do. Genji will not seeit,” He turns around when you’re hip deep in water to make goodon his promise of inappropriate touching. “But it is not hisopinion I value most.”

It’s a sentiment you can only return.

#overwatch imagines #hanzo #reaper #reader insert #Anonymous

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