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Hello! I'm new to your blog and I'd like to ask for a transfer student (gn if its easier on you) from Texas to UA. Like class 1A is told that they're having a new student from Texas and they think to throw a wild west welcome party. Reader doesn't have the heart to tell everyone they're from the city so they just go along with it and maybe them and bakugou end up alone after the party and get to know each other some? Thank you!!!

(a/n):hello anon! thank you so much for the request!! this is really interesting and i hope i did my best!!🥰

p.s- so i read this over and over again and what i understand from here is that reader comes from the city; not from the wild west. i hope i got that right! :’’)

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texas beaut .

a bakugou katsuki x reader oneshot

“did you hear?! we’re getting a new student!!”

“a new student? cool! i can’t wait to meet them!”

“do you think they would give me their number? now i’m worried...”

“oh my god. shut up you idiots,” bakugou told his friends, having the last few bites of his dinner in the dorms.

“what’s your take on the new kid, man? pretty sure you have something to say,” his red friend said, ignoring the cue for them to quiet down.

“huh? i don’t know. heard they were from... Texas or something. damn deku was talkin’ about it,” he said.

he watched as his friends jump up and down, discussing on even bigger plans. he did hear a few - mainly a welcome party, showing them around school, so many things that he knew he could show interest in. knowing him, he was about to play the “chill guy who’s pretty nonchalant about the new kid thing.”

i mean, they’d probably be an okay person. he thought while zoning out.

“hey, bakugou! we need you for this!”

^^^

“settle down, 1A!” iida said for what seemed like the umpteenth time today, as everyone scurried to their seats. the discussion of the wild west themed party was still going on,and it’s halfway done.

in came aizawa-sensei with his sleeping bag. “now. i’ll make this quick. all of you have heard it - we do have a new student. come in, y/l/n,” he waved his hand to someone outside the door, as the class turned to the door, waiting for someone to enter.

as y/n entered, they received various ‘oohs’ from half of the class.

bakugou turned to look at the whole scene unfolding, and when he did, he didn’t regret it.

usually, when it’s someone new, he tends to look away from it as soon as possible. it didn’t seem to buy his time. but right now, it was the total opposite.

his palm which stayed on the jaw now went out of it’s place.

something about y/n pulled him into curiosity. they’re from a different country. they have decided to travel all the way from Texas to UA. of course there could be a reason. but to think that they transferred here - wow.

aizawa-sensei snuggled into his yellow sleeping bag, giving you the floor.

you adjusted your tie, taking in deep breaths. “hello! my name is (y/n) (y/l/n)! i’m so glad to be here! i hope to know much more of your school and also to be friends with everyone here!”

while talking, you took a good look around the classroom.

there was a green-haired boy, eyes gleaming with excitement. a red-haired boy with cute pointy teeth. a girl with pink rosy cheeks. a girl who has earphone jacks on her ears. a dual-color eyed boy.

a spiky blonde haired boy, with ruby red eyes, looking directly at you. something about it was very peculiar.

a few questions in and you noticed your homeroom teacher crawling out of his sleeping bag. “you done? alright. head over to your seat there. the next teacher should be here pretty soon. 1A, you know what to do,” he said, walking out of the door.

you made your way to your assigned seat, and sat down. moments later, a few of your new classmates turned to look at you, introducing themselves. you laughed. it was definitely a new kind of feeling.

especially when you felt the same bright red eyes looking at you.

“um, what’s that boy’s name over there with the blonde hair?”

^^^

“hey.” you heard him say as he approached your desk after a whole day of stealing glances. you weren’t weirded out by that either - considering the fact that you were curious about him too.

everyone talked to you during the school hours, except for him.

it was only the both of you left in the class. the class rep, iida, handed over the key to him. they left, saying sorry a number of times because they had lots of work to complete back in the dorms.

you did need assistance back to the place too. you weren’t used to the school just yet, so having one person as a company would definitely help.

“oh, hello! um, i’m still new to all this, but how do i address you?”

“king explosion murder.”

“woah! really?” you chuckled.

“no,” he snorted at first, but then looked away immediately. “bakugou. look,i’m gonna get straight to the point. i got a pretty tight schedule, ya know? now, put these on.”

“blindfolds? oh, they have cute little eyes on them! are they yours?”

“hah? no way. it’s dunce fa- kaminari’s.”

“okay... wait, but why do i need to put these on?”

“just put them on and....and trust me. hurry up.”

you obliged, sliding them onto your eyes. he then held your arm, indirectly telling you to start walking.

so you did. he was a great company, even though you didn’t get to see his face. he held you back in case you looked like you were about to fall/ hit something nearby. other times, he was quiet.

and it wasn’t like it was awkward silence, either. it was a pristine one, as there were small talks in between. him trying not to snicker with how you stretch your arms out to walk, and him giving you directions.

it was nice.

he then told you to stop, and you heard a large door opening. he brought you in, and you assumed that he closed it behind the two of you.

“alright. take ‘em off,” he mumbled.

the second you did, you saw party streamers flying everywhere, with balloons hanging. you saw the entirety of 1A wearing cowboy hats or boots, and bandanas either tied on their wrists or their necks.the decorative banners had little horses on them, with mini Texas flags, and basically what you would see in the wild west. kaminari was playing the harmonica with so much of passion.

it was cute, but this was all for you?

but how were you supposed to tell them-

“welcome to UA, y/n!” they screamed, rushing over to you, with some engulfing you in warm hugs and high-fives.

“oh my lord! this is amazing, thank you so much!” you smiled widely, clapping your hands. “and the decorations! this is amazing!! i really appreciate your hard work.”

maybe now’s not the time. a cake, self-made. and the decorations. some were handmade, you could tell by the adorable drawings. the setup itself was glorious. so no, you didn’t want to shatter their efforts.

this was still amazing, regardless.

“so, are you ready to cut the cake y/n?! sato and bakugou worked on it,” mina - the pink haired girl - pointed to the both of them.

“of course! i’m pretty sure it tastes so good,” you said, walking towards the wide table with the lovable bunch.

^^^

the common room was cleaned up really quickly. not a lot of mess was made but cleanliness is priority for sure.

“so... you were zoning out quite a lot lately. what’s up with you?”

bakugou looked into your eyes. you gulped a little, setting down your drink. “nah, it’s nothing-,”

“was the cake out of taste?” he raised an eyebrow. “pretty sure i used the right ingredients. sugar boy over there knows his ways with desserts. or was it the food?”

“woah, woah, chill out bakugou! no, the cake was perfect.i loved it a lot. like,i would eat it again.”

he cleared his throat, backing away. “damn it. okay, cool. then what was up with you? no one asked you up to this point, so there.”

“um... okay. you have to promise me not to tell anyone about this then.”

“i knew it.”

“wait! it had nothing to do with the party. absolutely nothing. but keep it a secret. promise me?” you held out a pinky finger, waiting for him to do the same.

he looked at it, hesitated; but gave in anyway. “whatever. i promise. what is it?”

“how do i say it... i’m not, um, from the part of where the wild west is? more like.... i’m not exactly from this part of Texas. yes, i am familiar with this type of culture, but i wasn’t exactly raised with it.”

he blinked a few times, and nodded. “oh.”

“and it’s not like i wasn’t hating it at all! this was already one of the best moments i’ve had so far in the academy; which makes me look forward to more! it just made me sad that i did have to admit it sooner or later. on the other hand, i was so happy.”

“geez, i told them about it,” bakugou placed a hand behind his neck. “gonna have to ask this again - was this whole party thing okay?”

“yes, don’t worry about it!”

“i’m not worried! i just didn’t want to think i wasted my time prepping for this!” he said.

so he was worried.

“worried or not, this was very eventful. you’ve outdone yourself, bakugou katsuki.”

he smirked. “ha, you don’t seem bad yourself.”

“why, thank you. the same goes to you, good sir,” you bowed.

“hey. multiply that by 10.”

“no fair!”

the talk went on for quite a while. the bakusquad were bewildered by how bakugou didn’t seem to complain to you about his bedtime, but then again, they loved seeing their friend - usually really worried about his schedule - finally beating it while making friends with the texas beaut.

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(a/n): beaut ; a fine example of something. it sounded really wholesome to me, so i went with this title. i hope you liked it! <3

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3smuth · 4 years

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Great Designer Search 3

The last Great Designer Search competition was a couple years ago by now. I participated in GDS3, but my 10-card submission as part of the last round of cuts was pretty unimpressive. A confluence of factors were involved (overconfidence not least among those), but the inevitable result was a great deal of frustration directed toward myself. I had originally planned to use my blog to complete challenges alongside the participants that made it as they were revealed, but it turned out trying to do so just made me feel worse.

Now a couple years removed from it, I think I’m able to cut myself a little slack. Which means I may finally be able to work through the GDS3 challenges as I’d intended. The first challenge was a tribal challenge, and given my love of frogs I immediately selected those as my tribe of choice. While it’s been a couple years, I’ve tried to reproduce those designs and their intentions as cleanly as I could.

Commons

The first challenge allotted two non-evergreen keywords for each contestant (and no new keywords), and my commons showcase both of my choices. Entwine is admittedly a strange choice for a tribal challenge, but the cards I was building just turned out that way. Tongue Lashing is a pretty straightforward Plummet variant, a type of card that appears in every set; this one has a frog theme, allowing you the feeling of your frog eating opposing fliers. Naturally we want the removal and the counter to happen together to produce that effect, but affecting combat in two different ways at instant speed is a reach for a common; the Entwine cost allows it, but pushes it to a mana cost where that’s not wholly unreasonable.

The ‘emerge from’ variant of Emerge was my first choice for a Frog tribal mechanic, allowing small Frogs to ‘grow up’ into big ones. Unlike Emerge’s original appearance, I used it in this case as a way to facilitate tribal decks - by reducing colored mana costs (rather than adding them) it allows multicolor tribal decks to more easily play cards like this one. The secondary effect is intended to represent a frog’s ability to draw attention to itself by croaking; for a while I had a Blue card in this slot (to have both colors represented at common) with a jump mechanic instead (’CARDNAME has flying as long as it’s attacking.’), but one of my uncommons was using flying to represent jumping already.

Uncommons

The first challenge required a card of every card type - creatures are expected and easy, but some of those card types are a little harder. Polliwog Pool was my attempt at a land that is great in tribal decks while still being generally useful as multicolor fixing. I knew I wanted frogs in Blue, Green, and Black (though heavier in the first two; Black simply allows more options for historical frog decks), and triple-color lands are hard to balance. In a tribal deck, this is a reliable (often untapped) three-color land; outside of a tribal deck, it’s often a better Khalni Garden or Opulent Palace, with the downside of being weak to removal. In general, I’m happy with where it ended up.

Artifact was another type that was difficult to design toward. My immediate thought of an equipment that allowed frog-like jumping was one that granted flying while attacking, but that wasn’t particularly creative and any tribal aspect seemed tacked-on. Turning it into a leapfrog effect (the Pegasus Courser ability, but on a non-flying creature) seemed slightly more original, and benefiting both the frog doing the launching as well as the frog being launched felt more natural.

Rares

Having a healthy supply of 'tadpole' tokens (0/1 blue Frogs) is necessary to support the emerge theme - both mechanically and flavourfully. I knew I wanted my enchantment generating those tokens, and I took a few passes at how I wanted to do that, some generating tadpoles every turn and some growing your Frogs until they produced tadpoles of their own, but few of those effects felt Blue without becoming too wordy. When I realised that Polymorph fit thematically with both the mechanics and the flavour of tadpoles, and fit neatly into Blue, it felt like an obvious choice. There is a valid design concern that this is too much for Blue; it allows a creature-light deck to tutor out specific creatures easily, and doesn't even require a second card to generate the tokens for you. If anything, that is likely a question of rate, and between the two mana costs there are probably enough knobs to adjust to make it reasonable.

Overanuran is my single favourite design. I strongly believe the name is a homerun, it combines multicolor abilities cleanly, plays well in Frog tribal decks, and creates a powerful, exciting effect when combined with entwine. I'm very happy with it.

Mythic Rares

I wanted to make sure to include a Frog tribal commander, though ideally one that is not completely relegated to Frog tribal. The colors made the most sense, and using 'emerge from' gave the card a distinct tribal bent that also provided overlap with existing emerge cards. The second ability helps ensure that there's an advantage to emerging off of tokens, and allows decks to take either the cost-reduction or creature-boosting route to maximising the card.

Kutai is a personal character of mine, the design of which just happens to reference Frogs already. I decided it was more important to make a walker with a clear identity than to make one purely dedicated to Frog tribal. The space he plays in is releasing potential: whether it's growing tadpoles into frogs, harnessing the mana in lands, or turning cards into more cards. I particularly like how he turns lands you control into lotuses, and I worked to maintain a theme of three-for-ones throughout his design.

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