wait but i just realised jesper is absolutely gonna tell wylan all about milo and wylan is gonna be so hype about it when all the other crows were telling him to get over it
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There's a lot of validity in the idea that older Bakugo is a traumatized pro-hero with major PTSD... but you know what's kinda fucked up to think about? The fact that Bakugo is also a 22-year-old pro-hero with major PTSD even before that, too.
It's almost easy to imagine that things are actually better when he's older (the therapy finally a routine, the trauma long set and on the path to being healed)... and that it's his whole 20s that are spent as a pool of disaster trying to recover from the war(s).
He looks back and barely even remembers being twenty, much less twenty-five or twenty-seven. Barely remembers how little he slept, not at the hands of trying to balance hero work and getting a degree at the same time, but just out of the pure insomnia that came from trying to move on and every nightmare attached.
Hardly ever showering, never shaving (not that he ever grew much of a beard, but the facial hair was definitely there. There's pictures of him on the news with an awkward, grown out haircut and patches on facial hair that make him look positively... immature), barely even eating more than a few protein bars or an energy jelly drink-a day. It's a blur, and his friends are hardly there to pick him up out of it because they're all going through it, too. Somewhat.
It's definitely weird if you meet him during this period. He's not all there, at least, not all of the time. He doesn't really register your interactions, the friendship you extend to him (a younger, or ever older, version of him would've shown you that deep seeded ferocity in response, tried to bite the hand that fed him, even if it were love... but 20s Bakugo... doesn't seem to notice). Even though only one of his eyes is clouded over, the good one never seems to brighten up.
There's definitely moments when the old him shines through: when he's with Deku, when he's in the midst of battle, when he finds out that Todoroki still does a shitty job at chopping scallions. But it's a long time before he's even close to the same, able to step out from underneath the fog of simply surviving and into the sunshine of recovering.
But I think sticking through it with him is worth it.
(It's a weird moment, a happy moment, the first time you realize that Bakugo has changed. That the pouring rain outside hasn't bothered him since he showed up at your apartment. He forgot his umbrella, he's been quite careless ever since the war—wet and shaggy hair frizzed up, cheeks red from cold—but he doesn't seem to mind, with his bare feet up on your coffee table, his eyes gazing out the window. You hand his tea, and instead of gulping it down in one go, letting it burn in his throat, he winces at the heat.
"Tastes like shit," he says, and you laugh because it always does. Just this time, he noticed.)
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No seriously cringe culture traumatized me so bad as a young artist because even now I can't say "yeah so, my OC Sun's Grace is like the physical manifestation of Golden Cheese's Soul Jam because said Soul Jam wanted to experience the world, and Sun's Grace is very powerful as a result even if she doesn't know the reason why" without feeling like I'm gonna be yelled at just for her existing.
So just a word a word to young artists out there: Your OC is so cool and don't listen to people saying they're "cringe" just bc they are a bit powerful or somehow rewrite the canon or have a rainbow color pallet or are shipped with a canon character or whatever bc what matters is that you're having fun 🧡
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imagine watching that first press conference and the dumb idiot american who knows nothing about football compliments the arsehole journalist who proceeds to call him the fuck out on his lack of knowledge only then the next day you read an article by arsehole journalist saying ‘yeah I want him to win :)’ that’s some real seduction shit
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