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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Happy birthday to my beautiful sun precious angel sweet little puppy Cheng Xiaoshi!!! Qiao Ling is cooking him delicious rice noodles with quail eggs and braised beef shank!! Lu Guang is buying him a slice of black sesame cream cake and it is such a big, fluffy, flavorful slice!! They both chipped in to buy their lovely angel a special antique camera that Qiao Ling tracked down on the internet and Lu Guang (attempted to) haggle for!! Cheng Xiaoshi is feeling so so loved and happy and they're also taking him to a SHIBA INU CAFE!! He is literally getting doggy piled by three full-grown shibas (and four puppies) and chortling as we speak!!!
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Gonna post some of my robots from Deviantart
Twins in my AU have gone through some pretty bad stuff, so I drew it :3
And yes they are able to remove their armor unlike most
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Does anyone else just...feel pity when they think abt Silas? Like, his whole character arc (what we get of it anyway) is him naively believing in everything the Eighth taught him to believe. His stupid ass teenage brain prioritizes the reward of becoming a Lyctor over the safety of his cavalier. Does that mean he shouldn't face the consequences on his actions? No, of course not. That's how teens learn after all, but the fact that he died before he could learn and is now frozen forever as an edgy teen revenant is just tragic as balls.
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Sometimes I think about Carter going away for university and I’m like, wtf.
Then I think about Ox going to visit him, meeting some random people, then them going to the club and I’m like, what the fuck.
Then I think about them sleeping in a tiny dorm bed together because Carter needs pack (they both do) and I’m like, WHAT THE FUCK.
And then Ox just, goes home. And Carter finishes school at some point?!
It's unhinged.
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Dethvanity is really funny to me conceptually as an episode because you can see how little they had to make the characters insecure about for the bit. They swing for obvious lowblow choices with Pickle' baldness and Nathan's weight and even those require some suspension of disbelief because ok. Sure. Nathan '(said extremely proudly) never skipped a meal in my life!' Explosion is insecure about being a big man now. Nathan *guy who everyone thinks is smoking hot 99% of the time* Explosion is a tiny bit larger than usual and is insecure about it now. Lol. Lmao even.
But anyway then we hit Skwisgaar and Toki and there's like NOTHING to swing for, you can see them going uhhh ok Skwis doesn't sleep he probably drinks a lot of coffee, and Toki? Shit, what does Toki have to be insecure about with his looks. He's perfect, he's adorable, he's ripped. Um. FUCK IT, HE'S DOING NOTHING BUT EATING LEMONS. WE GOT NOTHING, WE GOT NOTHING, JUST GIVE THE BOY CITRUS FRUITS.
WOE 🍋 BE UPON YE
I'm sure i could make some smarter points about the attempts at applying vanity in this ep and how outside of this and a few other moments i do actually like that the show rarely takes pot shots at things like Nathan's weight, but you see Nathan has shirtless scenes in this one and so my intelligence is impeded when all the blood rushes out of my head and into my-
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