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all’s well that ends well - chapter seven “momo & the bakusquad”

pairing: todoroki/bakugou

info: fake dating, slow burn

Shouto frowns. “We don’t have plans.”

“I made plans,” Katsuki replies with a huff. “Actually, Dunce Face and Raccoon Eyes made plans, and they told me to invite you.”

“Oh.” Shouto feels his frown deepen despite himself. He knows Katsuki must have kept in touch with Kaminari and Ashido, but he doesn’t know what that has to do with him. “What if I’m busy?”

“Momo said you weren’t,” Katsuki answers without missing a beat. “So unless you’ve got something better to do, you might as well hurry up and get ready. The party starts in an hour.”

With that, he turns around and slouches off the way they came, leaving Shouto standing in the locker room doorway as utterly confused as he’d been before. Less than ten minutes ago, he’d been ready to change and head home to do a bit of cleaning and watch some TV before the fatigue hits him and he drags himself to bed, but it appears as if the universe has other plans for the two of them. Did Katsuki just say party?

Did Katsuki just say Momo?

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escapism

for @gachahugs hbd chair!! i still haven’t finished the series there might be some small inconsistencies with canon D :

fandom: hunter x hunter

Flashes of nightmares and hours of absolute nothing had fuzzed up his mind. He hadn’t known where he was, or what had happened, and for a horrifying minute he’d thought he’d dreamed it all up. Before he saw Killua standing there, he’d been almost sure that he was back on Whale Island, an eleven-year-old fisher boy with an overactive imagination. But it was all real. Killua, Leorio, Kurapika. Real. Hisoka, Chrollo, Ilumi, the Spiders, Neferpitou and the Ants, the other Zoldycks… Unfortunately also real. Or fortunately, maybe. He’s never able to make up his mind. It is all real, of course it is, but the fear that it was all in his head lies ever present in the dark. Sometimes he wonders if it’s a selfish fear. After all, wouldn’t it be better for everything not to have happened at all?

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all’s well that ends well and all’s well that ends - chapter six - “baby, don’t hurt me”

pairing: tdbk

tags: fake dating, slow burn

“I mean-” Bakugou says, tapping his fork against the table again, “it’s not like I’m the type to get all gushy and shit when I care about someone.”

“You mean when you like them?” Shouto asks around his bite of cake. Bakugou reaches across the table to smack him in the cheek, ever so lightly.

“Don’t talk with your mouth full, fuckface. Whatever you want to call it, it’s not like I- like I’ll start shitting glitter or smiling at people or whatever those other lovesick idiots do. But I guess, if you paid attention, you’d probably see it. Unless you’re dense as a brick, or truly fucked up.”

“Most people are,” Shouto agrees, shifting his attention back to Nadine. She’s curled into his side completely now, her purrs reverberating throughout his body. He kind of wants to keep looking at her forever, never leave the room, never go on another stupid fake date or face Rurikawa or Midoriya or the cameras-

The cameras.

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all’s well that ends well and all’s well that ends - chapter five

pairing: tdbk

“Well, alright, Ground Zero. Let’s see if you can outdo Shouto when it comes to appreciating his looks!”

Bakugou mutters something angry and profane under his breath, but spins his board around anyway. He’s written one word: eyes.

“Ah, Shouto’s eyes! Of course!” Reina opens her own eyes even wider as if to get a better look at Shouto’s. “They truly are unique, and both so beautiful. What do you like about them in particular?”

“Everyone likes his eyes,” Bakugou says gruffly, then pauses for a moment. Reina and Shouto pause with him, one expectant and the other unsure.

“Nobody has his eyes. Not a single person in the world. Any fucker with a shapeshifting quirk who tries to copy ‘em won’t even get near the same result. You look at those eyes, and you know exactly who you’re looking at. It’s just him. And I like looking at him.”

As if to prove his point, Bakugou tilts his head ever so slightly, meeting Shouto’s gaze. He looks sure and steady, the way he does when he knows something Shouto doesn’t. Shouto stares back, uneasiness worming its way through his mind. His eyes came from his parents; they’re nothing special, and nothing he’s proud of. Bakugou must know this already.

“Oh, how romantic!” Reina cheers, and when Shouto shifts his attention back to her she’s pretending to wipe a tear from her cheek. “Who know you had such a way with words, Ground Zero! This relationship is really bringing out a new side of you.”

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all’s well that ends well and all’s well that ends - chapter four

pairing: tdbk

“Shouto-san! Ground Zero-san! Over here!”

“Can you let us know more about the nature of your relationship?”

“Is it true the two of you are spending time together again? What brought on this change all of a sudden?”

“Ground Zero, are you truly off the market? Your fans are dying to know!”

“Fuck,” Bakugou swears under his breath, though it’s practically drowned out by the clamoring crowd. Shouto really couldn’t have said it better himself--he hadn’t expected everyone to arrive so quickly, or care so much about a simple social media post. Rurikawa and Nanao really know what they’re doing with this whole fake dating plan; Shouto just wishes he knew what he was doing, too.

“Shouto-san!” one reporter yells, jamming a microphone in Shouto’s direction. “What’s it like spending time one on one with Ground Zero? Is it true the two of you are on your way to becoming more than friends?”

read chapter four here on ao3!

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my todobaku/bakutodo fic recs list aaa!! i had to narrow it down a lot but these are most of my absolute favorites.

cruel to be kind by shaekspeares

(i literally. will cry over this fic i will never get overt his fic. this is literally what i dream of being able to create this fic is everything. if i could write like this i would just start sobbing.)

Over the course of a year, Katsuki Bakugou develops in the aftermath of the League of Villains run in. Introspection has never been his strong suit. Also, Todoroki is there- increasingly present, increasingly bothersome, and eliciting increasingly confusing feelings. Kidnapping was easier than this.

[alt: a look at todobakus evolving relationship from the perspective of one troubled lil asshole]

always gotta backtrack also by shaekspeares

(have to put this one too because it makes me sick from just. wanting to be able to do this with words. i love it so much please read everything by this author jesus god)

A kidnapping, a double dose of truth serum and a snowstorm walk into a bar- or no, wait, that’s just one day on the job for Bakugou. And then Todoroki shows up to reap the benefits.

It’s Just You by Ellessey

(just a really good confession fic to take a break from conflict. great balance of sweet and funny, bakugou pov, also the rest of the class is there which i like so much!)

"If we get it wet it'll stay in pretty waves when you take the braid out," Aoyama offers, and the mental image makes something snap inside of Katsuki.

"Ah," Shouto says with a gentle laugh. "That's alright. Maybe next time."

Next time? Next time Shouto turns up with his hair woven into this soft, intricate arrangement that is sending every bit of Katsuki's resolve up in smoke? How the fuck is he supposed to handle a next time?

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Bakugou Katsuki has always had a lot of feelings about Shouto's hair. Seeing it in a French braid might be the thing that makes him stop keeping them to himself.

wanna put my tender heart in a blender by lelex

(makes me want to cry! tdbk as close friends and pro heroes after ua, really amazing hero work writing! very good and sweet and funny and has a really great dramatic point towards the end.)

Todoroki won’t eat anything peach flavored and likes his water exactly room temperature. He won’t let Katsuki make their tea because “he does it wrong” even though he does it absolutely right. He once made Katsuki listen to voice recordings of one of his cats meowing at different times of the day to “see if she sounded more melancholy earlier in the morning.” For being like, kind of jacked, his hips and shoulders and elbows are bony as fuck. He, as a rule, has to sleep on the right side of the bed or he can’t sleep at all. Katsuki fucking hates him.

And now previously empty corners of his brain are filled with all of this dumb shit about stupid Todoroki and he has to cart it around all the fuckin’ time.

the drawing board by strangergods

(i literally binge read this last night at 4am and it made me sick with feelings!! it’s the slow reveal darkish twist recovery/therapy heavy angst hurt/comfort fic of my dreams. i wish my angst was this painful oh my god. anyway.)

He understands, intellectually, that other people must do something with their day that doesn’t involve working out or getting beat up by super-powered mutant criminals or harassing one’s boyfriend into fucking them sideways. It’s just that he can’t quite picture doing it himself.

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Todoroki takes up a hobby.

with you, it’s different by brioche

(conflict! it’s so good the conflict is amazing i am so excited. and an eight year slow burn jesus christ! i really like this one, especially pre/during confession.)

Four times that Bakugou goes with Shouto to visit his mother at the hospital, and the time that she leaves it to visit them.

all’s well that ends well and all’s well that ends by djbunn3

(um this is mine! i’m still working on it but i’m really excited for it, it’s the first fic i’ve been excited for in a really really long time. it’s a slow burn future/fake dating au with some currently undisclosed past conflict between tdbk, so if that sounds good to you then please check it out!)

The plan is simple: Shouto is to fake a romantic relationship with Bakugou. He is to convince everyone--friends, fans, colleagues--that they are, or very soon will be, in love. No one aside from the two of them and their agencies is allowed to know the truth--that their relationship is simply and entirely platonic. (If he can even call it that, considering the fact that they’ve barely spoken in the past three years.) Everything is riding on this lie--if Shouto’s faulty memory or Bakugou’s sudden secrecy get in the way, it could cost them their jobs, their futures, their friendship… No one is allowed to step out of line. No one is allowed to break character. No one can know the truth. Though the deeper they go and the closer they get, the less sure Shouto is that he knows it himself.

(the tdbk fake dating au that's not quite what it seems.)

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all’s well that ends well and all’s well that ends - chapter three

pairing: tdbk

“What was it like,” Shouto repeats, “when you were trapped inside the marble. Or… Were you the marble? I don’t remember what that guy’s quirk did exactly.”

He’s expecting Bakugou to shut him down, but instead he lets out a soft snort. “I wasn’t a fucking marble, dumbass,” he says, propping his elbow on the window ledge and resting his cheek on his fist. “I was just like, compressed, or whatever. And it wasn’t anything too bad.”

“It didn’t hurt?” Shouto asks. He’d always figured it had.

“Was a little cold, but that’s all. It just- it felt like I was looking through a glass bottle in the ocean. I could still see everyone, and I could kinda hear, but it sounded the same as everything does when I take my hearing aids out.”

“Oh,” Shouto says, his eyes darting to Bakugou’s ears where the little pieces of plastic poke out just slightly. “You could see?”

“Saw you practically belly flop onto the ground trying to get to me before the villains did,” Bakugou huffs, the corner of his lips pulling upwards. “It was a valiant effort, I guess. I wouldn’t have minded if you’d actually grabbed me, but beggars can’t be choosers.”

“Oh,” Shouto says. His fists flex and clench involuntarily by his sides, chasing the ghost feeling of a marble in his hand. He reaches over and presses his thumb right between the first and third crease of his palm and the phantom longing dissipates.

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all’s well that ends well and all’s well that ends - chapter two

pairing: tdbk

Bakugou’s eyes are still boring into Shouto’s like diamond-edged knives. Shouto looks away guiltily.

He’d forgotten.

“I didn’t think you still…” Bakugou trails off, almost hesitant.

“I don’t,” Shouto replies, shaking his head once. His still-messy hair falls over his shoulders, but he doesn’t bother to fix it.

“Some… Some things get buried under others,” he says quietly, like he needs to explain himself. “In my head. I think it’s- I think it has to do with the training I went through as a kid. Those years don’t really feel… defined, to me. They’re slippery, I guess. They all just turn into a blob sometimes, and I can’t remember when and where and why.”

He waits for Bakugou to butt in, to mock him for his subpar vocabulary or at least take the chance and insult his family. But Bakugou stays quiet, and Shouto’s stupid mouth takes it as an excuse to keep going.

“Those years at UA, they’re better,” he says. “I have a lot of memories from high school. Mostly good ones, I think. Lots with you, and Izuku, and Momo. But things- things still get lost in my head, and I feel like… like I’m missing some memories that I wouldn’t want to miss. I want to remember it all, but…” 

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all’s well that ends well and all’s well that ends

Pairing: Bakugou Katsuki/Todoroki Shouto

Summary:

Shouto focuses on the faces spread across the table, his hope diminishing slowly. It’s not that he doesn’t like his options--it's just that he doesn’t want to date any of them. He doesn’t even want to fake date them, which is the whole point of the stunt.

“There’s nothing wrong with these people,” he says, turning his attention back to his manager, "but I don’t think I can pretend to be in love with any of them."

"Well, what are we supposed to do about that?" Rurikawa snaps, crossing his arms with a mix between a glare and a frown. “It’s not like you have a romantic history to work off of. Unless we can pull a secret boyfriend or forbidden love from somewhere in your past, we’re basically starting from… ground…”

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It's been three years since Shouto last spoke to Bakugou, and apparently the universe has decided to bring them back together by... forcing them into a fake relationship with each other. Strictly for PR purposes.

No feelings attached.

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my ao3 (djbunn3) | my worse ao3 (nanasuoka)

main blog @sourstares | about my ocs @trulami

this fic won the kumoricon 2019 fanfic contest (smashing mirrors)

this fic got me into a college creative writing program (twenty-four seven)

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trails of fire, you always knew (they would carry me home, they’d lead me to you)

my fic for the @bnhacolorbang 2019! it’s a pretty heavy slow burn, so mind the tags! i was working with @mae-i-scribble this round, and they came up with some wonderful artwork to go alongside my fic, so be sure to check them out!!

Pairing: Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto

Rating: T

Color: Red!

Summary: 

“I,” he says, sounding choked and upset even to his own ears. He’s never- he’s never done this before. He’s never asked anyone for anything like this. It makes him feel weak, the idea of admitting that he is truly alone in a sea full of people who all have someone. “I don’t… have anyone waiting for me.”

He almost spins around and walks away, embarrassment coloring his face. It feels like everyone is looking at him–at his scar–and it makes him feel queasy. Like they know he doesn’t belong here, with his disfigured face and his powerless body, his hands that can’t do what they’re supposed to.

The silence stretches on for far too long for his liking, and yet only a few seconds have passed before Midoriya says “Oh!” and smiles so wide it has to hurt his face.

“Then come eat with us today, Todoroki-kun!” Uraraka says, like it’s just that simple. Even Iida seems pleased that they’ve eliminated all possible reasons for him to not accept their offer.

Slowly, unsurely, Shouto nods.

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we’ll all go together when we go

lio & gueira & meis

major character death

“Lio.” It gets his attention, and his heart stutters in his chest at the same time. Meis hasn’t spoken in over two hours, and the fact that he’s called out Lio’s name is reason enough to get him to turn around. Meis, as pale and emaciated as the rest of them, stares back at him with flat, hopeless eyes, Gueira half-propped against his shoulder. White decorates his dark hair, flakes of snow landing between their bodies and barely even melting against their skin. “‘m sorry,” Gueira murmurs, feeble. “I don’t think… I’ve gotta stop for a second…” Lio’s at his side in a second, frozen, clawed hands pressing against Gueira’s back, helping lower him to the ground. He’s not even shaking anymore, barely even moving. The soft swell of his chest as it rises is the only sign that he’s still there, but Lio knows it’s only a matter of time. “It’s okay,” he says, because he can’t bear to tell the truth. “We’ll wait.” 

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chasing cars around our heads

pairing: lio & galo | lio/galo

Somehow, Galo has broken into his apartment.

Lio isn’t one hundred percent sure, but he’d put good money on it being Gueira’s fault. After all, there’s only one other key that can unlock his door, and the last time it was used was right before his generals headed off to Burning Rescue, right where Galo spends a good twelve hours a day.

The sound of shuffling echoes through the vacant apartment, a couple of distant thuds and whacks as Galo sets down his belongings and kicks off his shoes, followed by light footsteps approaching the bedroom.

“Lio?”

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