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.)

and also at the house of blues..

Barty had a mullet. Like shaggy layered and long in the back. But he didn't do it to piss off his father. He did it because he genuinely wanted it. He dyed a bit of his hair green, not just because it'd piss his father off but because he genuinely wanted to.

Let's talk about Barty doing crazy/rebellious things, not just because his father would hate it but because it was something he actually wanted. His father being annoyed was just a bonus

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he gives u this look after u snuck into his room, wyd? 🫣

genesis has probably given himself numerous impulse haircuts and they all come out surprisingly good except half of the times he ends up devastated that he’s accidentally given himself a style that he didn’t intend to… the time he gave himself a mullet on accident was a moment he will never forget and he has nightmares about it, and no one will ever let him live it down

these guys..... absolutely SILLY. goofy even

she is MEGA dead

THAT SCARES ME THE MOST FROM THE WHOLE TRAILER

WHY IS AMITY (AND GHOST HELLO) HELD ON PUPPET STRINGS???

I'm thinking this is right before she gets turned into a puppet

This shot being somewhere after that scene

Probably

Idk but it's a puppet's hand and Amity is one of the only characters that wears nail polish so it might have gotten ✨yassified✨ after she turned into a puppet

ANYWAY SCARED IS THE EMOTION I AM FEELING HELP

a little design for if evan survived the bite

ITS MIDNIGHT IN AUSTRALIA. happy new year you fuckin animals, hope yall made good resolutions or whatever

my little sister turns 18 today and that feels so crazy to me

most times i think that I'm not really the most attractive of people but sometimes I am reminded of that one time near the beginning of college freshman year when a very gorgeous and model-esque femme lesbian in my class asked her college friends if I was into girls before even actually really talking to me which then turned to very enthusiastic and quite downbad flirting from her end when I did confirm that Yes I'm Bi. so basically the gist here is I must be doing something right if I was able to somehow have someone have a downbad gay crush on me in my first year - oh and that one reason why i wasnt even that much fazed by the enthusiastic flirting and ended up lowley rejecting her is because I'm not into femmes so whoops

the slow, not so subtle, shuffle towards curt and then nod and bop back to the front of the stage

Started as Disco hair doodles slowly turned into my favorites and fun hair doodles lol