Went outside my fandom bubble and saw people being cancelled for shipping two characters who tried to kill each other once damn is this the limit nowadays
“Bkdk are brothers” take is so weird to me cause I can’t platonically explain Izuku losing control of his HEART. We have TWO more heart comments in the manga. First one is Gentle saying his heart beats for someone else and how he got carried away because of it..
And second one is Midnight telling Kaminari to think of the one closest to his HEART to which he turned to JIROU. We know Kaminari has feelings for her. It’s pretty obvious. Why is it obvious? Cause it’s a hetero ship. No one is questioning it. Eventho it’s been confirmed Kacchan and Izuku are each others CLOSEST ONES! (Japanese wording in chapter 359 actually doesn’t specify who’s closest to who. It goes BOTH WAYS)
But let’s compare these moments with bkdk now shall we? Notice how bkdk ones are even a lot more intense because it’s the main relationship of the manga. But it’s the exact same thing. And let me remind you that one of these is a CANONICAL COUPLE. Heart is associated with romance.
But because bkdk are two boys, people deny this. Everyone considers Kamijirou canon when bkdk basically had the same moments. Katsuki always thinks of Izuku during tough moments so much so that he DIED THINKING OF HIM! Hori is sending a clear message.
People say Kamijirou is basically canon. Gentle and La Brava ARE canon..So by the same token.. bkdk is romantic too. Otherwise you’re playing an unfair game of pick and choose and you’re hiding your homophobia behind “bkdk brothers”.
Mischaracterization in fics is annoying and can sometimes make me be like “he would not say that” EXCEPT when I do it. he would say that because I am holding him at gunpoint to do so