#adult BKDK

[poorexcuseofafangirl]

Extra: “I can’t believe you talked to Bakugou without getting so much as a glare! Most people can’t even look in his general direction without some kind of threat.”

Midoriya: “I mean, it would be a little weird if they did. We are engaged after all.”

Extra: “....YOU’RE WHAT?!”

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[whatarainyday]

thinking about college students bkdk 🥺

[spoksstuff]

pro-heroes dkbk meet ua students dkbk ❤️‍🔥

all credits to the original artist @Nitro_Sugar on X

[bicheetopuff]

I think the people complaining about AFOs back story have forgotten what his character represents.

He’s a manipulative rich old man that wants to own and monopolize every major resource in the world so that he can be considered a god.

His entire being is a metaphor for major corporations and every politician and billionaire ceo ever… so him being a narcissistic and greedy kid isn’t at all surprising. He doesn’t have a traumatizing backstory because he’s a manipulative power hungry chump like he has been the entire series.

[marimeeko]

Izuku using the name "Kacchan" in an emergency situation(training camp) 🤝Katsuki using the name "Kacchan" in the heat of a world ending battle that's being broadcast live, instead of his Hero name he worked on for like 6 months

[polonium-snap]

Bkdk plot bunnies pt. 4

- Katsuki is a great fucking adult, the best even

- he does his taxes, hell he even does the whole Bakusquad’s because he doesn’t “want them to go to fucking jail for tax evasion”

- So imagine his surprise when in the mail he receives a letter from the tax agency because he overpaid his taxes

- Now of course it’s a matter of pride, Katsuki goes over his calculations again, sure he made no mistake

- He calls the tax agency to asure them he NEVER makes mistakes

- “Oh yes, I see here you got married a year ago congratulations! That means you get a tax discount, that’s why it appears you overpaid this year sir.” Says the costumer service agent

- “I’m not married! You guys fucked up.” Katsuki says vindicated in that he didn’t make any mistakes.

- “Your name is Katsuki Bakugou, right? I can see here your marriage certificate, and you indeed got married about a year ago”

- “I think I’d remember if I had a fucking wedding” katsuki said starting to get angry

- “…Sir, I can see in public records that on 17/07/XXXX you married Midoriya Izuku now Bakugou Izuku, if you had a divorce maybe it hasn’t gon-“

- “D-did you just say Midoriya Izuku?” Katsuki stuttered

- “…yes…?”

- Katsuki hangs up.

- He pulls up public records himself and sure enough there is his marriage certificate where Izuku took his last name (bc in Japan you can only keep one surname per couple)

- “Motherfucker.” Of course bullshit like this follows Katsuki when Deku is concerned.

- He runs to Izuku’s apartment taking it a step further and going through his mail

- “Bakugou Izuku, Bakugou Izuku, this fucking idiot…” Katsuki muses as he flips through the mail.

- “Dekuuuu!!!” Katsuki pounds on the apartment’s door roughly.

- “I’m coming, I’m coming!” Izuku’s voice is heard from inside. “Kacchan w-“

- “Apparently a year ago we got fucking married” Katsuki shows the marriage certificate on his phone to Deku

- “What?!”

- Katsuki explained everything. “…and just now I looked through your mail and it’s all addressed to Bakugou Izuku, how the fuck did you miss that for over a year?!”

- “Oh my god, so we’re legally married?!”

- “Somehow!!”

- “W-when did this even happen?!”

- They look at the date and try to figure out if someone forged their signatures

- They remember that day a big sting operation in Yumeshima island (the Vegas of Japan according to google lol) had just ended and a few of their friends were there, they had just missed Izuku’s 20th birthday because of the operation so they decided to celebrate there

- And everyone got really really drunk, both Izuku and Katsuki themselves blacked out

- “So we got married then?” Izuku asks

- “It appears so.” Katsuki said

- “How did we not know until now? I mean at least one of our friends has to have remembered.”

- Katsuki got angry “if one of those fuckers hid it from us I’m going to explode them.”

- They call Uraraka first; “Sorry Deku-kun! I can’t remember anything from that night either.” She apologized

- Then Kirishima; “What? Those weddings aren’t fake?! They had Michael Jackson officiating, that can’t be legal!!!”

- Todoroki; “Wait, so you guys aren’t together? I thought you just decided to get married, that’s why I bought you that blender you wanted Bakugou.”

- Shinsou; “oh yeah, I just thought it was the funniest shit ever. I even kept the original certificate.”

- “So you’ve been sitting on this for a year?!” Deku said.

- “Yeah,” Shinso confirmed. “I mean, I didn’t think you would take this long to realize, Midoriya, or should I say Bakugou?”

- “IM GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU!!!” Katsuki bellowed at the phone.

- “Come on Bakugou, let’s not fight, I wouldn’t want to leave Izuku a widow”

- “MOTHERFU-“

- “Besides, just get a divorce, you haven’t been married long so you won’t have to legally separate your things or anything” as much things new heroes two years out of high school could have

- They decide to sort the legal shit on their next day off

- Or they would have if the news didn’t leak to the press just a day later

- ‘Pro hero Deku and Pro hero Dynamight MARRIED FOR OVER A YEAR?!’

- The PR of the agency begs them to stay married until it blows over

- “Izuku baby, why didn’t you tell me you got married to Katsuki-kun! You didn’t even invite me to your wedding!” Inko cries as Deku tries to console her

- “You fucking brat, you didn’t have the fucking decency to invite your own mother to your wedding to Izuku-kun, do you know how long I’ve been waiting for this?!”

- “Fuck you hag, this is exactly why I didn’t fucking invite you!” Katsuki replies

- The media starts getting suspicious because they don’t live together and don’t do PDA

- In an interview Bakugou panics and says they live apart because they are saving up for a house which everyone thinks is so cute

- PR makes them do a little PDA

- So slowly they settle into a relationship and just never divorce

-later, two years or so after they have a proper wedding and live happily ever after

Pt 1| pt 2 | pt 2.5| pt 3| pt 5 | pt 6 |

[mimithealpaca]

even though he and i are adults scribbles #1

i've been reading "even though we're adults" and after finishing volume 3, my bkdk brainrot was like NOW MAKE A BKDK AU OUT OF IT

however, i am currently comic crunching and will be for the foreseeable short future so... just scribbles. scribbles for now.

quick headcanons (subject to change)

no quirks!!! because, contrary to the fact that i am a MHA fan, i am very bad with superpowers. so guess what. NO ONE GETS POWERS

BKDK are childhood friends, but they separated at like 4-years-old (look i gotta have my childhood friends trope YOU CAN TEAR IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS)

kacchan works at a bar (just like akari)

deku is an elementary school teacher (just like ayano) and is married to tsuyu

they at first don't recognize each other because LOOK IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE THEY MET EACH OTHER and deku used to wear glasses. he got laser eye surgery not too long ago though so he doesn't wear glasses anymore. also they're like in their 30s

deku is the first to recognize kacchan though because, i mean, of course he would! he's kacchan! but probably after the alcohol wears off or begins to wear off and they chat a bit and realize they have a lot of memories in common...

deku will still be the first to kiss, but kacchan is the one who asks

kacchan's ex was kaminari <3

[wisterioak]

y'all I'm so tempted to write a bakudeku fic that projects my middle school self onto bakugou's anxiety/inferiority complex induced anger and aggression

[pinkykats-place]

BakuDeku angst w/ happy ending

Aged Up AU

AO3 Fanfic Recommendations

Disclaimers!

None of the stories linked below are mine.

Most are SFW … check tags.

Gif not mine - created by @fiery-lune

Note: if you read any of these stories and like them, please leave a kudos and/or comment for author!

Can You Hear Me by crescendmoon

Summary: When a powerful villain puts Izuku in a coma, Bakugou is there to watch over him. He knows he must be strong for Izuku's sake, but he can slowly feel the magnitude of the situation closing in on him, breaking down his walls. At this point, he'll believe in anything if it means Izuku wakes up.

One Shot | Pro Hero au

Fact Not Fiction by SecretKiwi

Summary: Some of Izuku's old notebooks were better left out of sight, and Katsuki stumbles across something he wasn't supposed to ever see.

{One Shot}

Rated - Teen & Up

DOG FIGHT by Wildish_Gambino

Summary: Dog Fight (noun) - a practice between men, in which all compete to see who can get the ugliest date.

Rules: 1) You must be polite

2) You must buy your date a drink

3) You have to get a dance

The man with the ugliest partner wins.

— — —

Or Pro Hero Katsuki brings nerdy next-door neighbor Izuku to a dogfight...but ends up falling for him in the process

Complete | 5 Chapters

Pro Hero Baku x Quirkless Deku

Rated - Mature

Why do you say that? by spookyserpent

Summary: “You can’t live without me,” Izuku says, quietly. “But you won’t live with me.”

Warm hands clench into fists.

“I love you, Katsuki,” Izuku says. “But I’m not going to hurt or hide myself for you.”

“Izuku,” Katsuki breathes. “Don’t.”

-- -- --

Or: Izuku goes to America and Katsuki realises his drunk confessions hold more truth than he’d like to admit.

{One Shot}

Rated - Teen & Up

Don't Leave Me Behind by Sol_Morales707

Summary: All their lives, from elemental, middle to highschool, Katsuki Bakugou has been popular. Fame follows him, be it by his Quirk or leadership, while Izuku was the shadow following him. Always left behind, a kicked pebble that yearns to be a part of Kacchan’s life.

There’s nothing in the world he wants the most.

Ten years and nothing has changed.

{One Shot}

Rated - Teen & Up

The Deku-Shaped Hole by SaysiWrites

Summary: Katsuki had few regrets in his life, but most of them revolved around one person: Deku. He'd made a lot of mistakes, and knew deep down that he should probably make amends.

He never expected the opportunity to be torn from his fingertips.

Complete | 15 Chapters

Rated - Mature

You're the Only One for Me by WriterKichi

Summary: While shopping for a Christmas gift for Katsuki, Izuku happens to see him with Eijirou by the jewelry. He knows that they’re just friends, but he can’t help but let his imagination run wild…

{One Shot}

Rated - Teen & Up

The interview by silverynight

Summary: "But I mean if you like him romantically."

Izuku is suffering, he knows the answer to that question, has accepted it a long time ago and has decided he's more than okay with being Katsuki's friend. Of course he doesn't like him romantically, even though Izuku does.

He knows Katsuki is going to deny it; he'd probably say they're just friends.

The color slowly vanishes from Katsuki's face, it almost seems like he's panicking.

But then...

"Like him? We're not even friends!"

Complete | 2 Chapters

Rated - Teen & Up

our own abyss by ContraryBee

Summary: On the verge of a hurt-fueled, world-ending fight, Katsuki does the brave thing and takes a sharp left turn into healthy communication.

“Kacchan, you are breaking my heart right now,” Izuku’s bottom lip trembles but he’s not sure if it’s in anger or hurt, “What’s /wrong/?”

One Shot | Pro Hero au

Rated - Explicit

Tell Me You Love Me, Show Me You Love Me (Don't Let Go) by MJBunnyLuv

Summary: “You’re upset,” Katsuki spoke, finally breaking the silence. It wasn’t a question.

Izuku turned, finally taking in the blonde’s sharp features. The angled strip of light from the tall lamp post accentuated his high cheekbones, the intensity of his eyes as they stared out the windshield, the tension he held in his jaw. It hurt the freckled man to think about saying anything, to see that his boyfriend was trying to piece together where he went wrong. But that was the entire problem…Katsuki rarely seemed to know where he went wrong, not until a screaming match ensued. Sometimes insults were thrown, the kind meant to hurt, to stab and twist the knife just to get the wanted reaction. But Izuku was tired of those kinds of conversations. “I think we should take a break.”

— — —

OR After a night of miscommunication and failed expectations, Izuku & Katsuki argue about their devotion to each other. Claws come out and painful words are exchanged, sending them into a week of hell, their relationship hanging in the balance.

{One Shot}

Rated - Teen & Up

Piano In The Dark by Kvngloki9

Summary: It’s Katsuki’s 25th birthday & he’s not really in the mood to celebrate. It’s been a shitty few months and he’s not really feeling it. He comes home to his boyfriend who disappeared post argument 3 months ago simply cooking dinner with threats of breaking up. Now all Katsuki can think of is how to make him stay.

One Shot | Pro Hero au

Rated - Explicit

What I love about you today by keyhimura

Summary: After a miscommunication causes the most stupid fight of their lives Katsuki tries to find a better way to convey his feelings, stumbling in a bunch of colorful papers that despite seeming dumb end up giving him the strength to make things right.

— — —

(Or the one in which Bakugou realizes he's eloquent as a frog and steps his game up in order to fix things between him and Deku)

{One Shot}

Rated - Explicit

I Belong Nowhere But In Your Arms by lucif5er

Summary: Katsuki tries to win Izuku back after years of being broken up and apart with some angst on the side.

{One Shot}

Quirkless Midoriya | OmegaVerse

Rated - Mature

selfish by ladyofsnails

Summary: “An official partnership?” Katsuki clarifies, and Izuku nods. Katsuki feels his heart sink, shoulders slumping with sudden exhaustion. This idiot. “People can’t back out of that, Deku, at least not with a shred of decency or pride left. It’s a permanent thing. We become permanent parts of each other’s lives.”

“You don’t want that?” Izuku’s voice warbles, just barely, his expression of hurt so deep and his words so wrong Katsuki can’t even look at him anymore.

{One Shot}

Rated - General Audiences

My Hero Merchandise by DekusCheriPop

Summary: Katsuki is confused and a little pissed. Wasn't he supposed to be someone closer to him than AllMight? Someone that shined so brightly in his eyes? His vision of Victory? Wasn't that what he was screaming about at Ground Beta years ago? Then why.....

Why isn't there a single merch of him in the nerds apartment?!

{One Shot}

Rated - General Audiences

The Ghost of a Touch by CrunchySnow

Summary: Izuku and Katsuki attend a late night show, a game of dares resulting them into getting closer. They both react very differently to that, which makes both of them feel like they’re being rejected by the person they've been in love with for ages.

Complete | 3 Chapters

Rated - General Audiences

It's rotten work. Not to me. Not if it's you. by ElStark

Summary: “I know I like you more than you like me,” he lets out a sigh, wet, trembling, and heartbroken. “It’s okay, though. I don’t mind as long as you like me enough to be with me,” Izuku’s fists close around Katsuki’s shirt. “I love you so much, Kacchan,” he rubs his face against Katsuki’s chest, tears dampening the fabric, “So much.”

{One Shot}

Rated - Explicit

Never or Forever by s_the_queen

Summary: Izuku's heart breaks every time Katsuki says he’s busy. They’ve been together five years, but it looks like the end is in sight.

Katsuki is in love with the smartest man he's ever met. It makes him paranoid when he starts to make...plans.

— — —

-or- Our idiot boys love each other but they're so bad at understanding each others' feelings ffs

Complete | 5 Chapters

Rated - Teen & Up

Seeing you by CrunchySnow

Summary: Izuku has reconsidered being Katsuki’s hero partner, refusing to explain himself. Katsuki is making up his own mind and he doesn’t like the answer he finds there.

{One Shot}

Rated - General Audiences

🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤

[sunpinktulip]

this is fun! how about this, thoughts on bkdk adopting??

i feel like izuku would love kids and really want to, but bakugo is afraid of "screwing them up"? he doesnt want them to be like him. but in the end, hes the favorite dad and does matching outfits and everything

your thoughts??

a lot of projecting here from my husband and I cause we are gays who kin these two idiots in love, LET'S GO

i feel like Izuku would be supernervous but also very excited about adopting, and would try to be the best dad possible, but he would also patiently wait until they both think are ready for it (which Katsuki doesn't cause Izuku might be his partner but he is not letting him be more prepared than himself even then)

And I think Katsuki would be very careful in general with the kid, which could even make him come across as angry or a little mean at times, but he really just doesn't want the kid to have all of the problems that he had (self-esteem issues, poor handling on their emotions, all that), and growing up with that the kid would just accept it as that's the way their papa is, and they both warm up to each other with time

I also feel like the kid would think very highly of his papa since daddy (Izuku) is still very open and talkative about how amazing his lover is (Kacchan sugoi and all that), while also learning the non-verbal ways of communication that Katsuki shows, caring for both of them and showing his love throw actions and physical touch

[dekusneakers]

Summary:

Kacchan: you ever gonna explain what you meant earlier? [3:45pm]

Deku: nothing to explain! [3:50pm]

Kacchan: fine [3:50pm]

in which izuku and katsuki communicate in the only way they know how. badly. but also with texting.

[BNHA MANGA SPOILERS up to 322! Veers off of canon vaguely after that.]

[voidlessmaze]

i think deku should go working for miruko for a while after graduating highschool

[rose-lord-of-simps]

I feel like I just can’t ship BakuDeku because I’m a Izuku Midoriya kinnie and I know for a fact I wouldn’t be able to date Katski after everything. Like all the bullying and the middle school scene and honestly first year of UA the way he treated Deku I don’t think I’d be able to date him after that.

Like he could confess to me and I’d have to look him in the eyes and tell him exactly why I physically can’t return the feelings.

That guy has traumatized Deku for years of his life until Izuku picked himself up with Allmight barely helping.

I could be friends with Bakugou, and I 100% agree when people say that their lives are connected. You can’t have one without the other. If they don’t get married then the other is the best man at their wedding.

But even if Bakugou was a kid and he is better now, it doesn’t erase the damage he caused, Izuku needs therapy to get over everything. Deku is acting currently like nothing happened and everything is okay. Izuku Midoriya deserves to be mad at Bakugou. He deserves to recognize that what happened wasn’t right and just because Bakugou is trying now doesn’t mean it is going to be okay over night.

[pikahlua]

Control your heart, but not like how you think

I've tried so many ways to write this idea out before. Hopefully I get it right this time.

There's a widely-accepted fandom interpretation going around a lot lately that I think needs to be challenged. Perhaps I won't be able to express it in its complete version because I don't subscribe to it, but I'll try my best to approximate it and hopefully most of you will know what I'm generally talking about.

It seems like a lot of people believe "control your heart" is a plot line that refers to Izuku's inability to contain his love for Katsuki, that "control your heart" is advice from a well-intentioned but ultimately incorrect adult who wants Izuku to suppress his feelings for Katsuki, and that Izuku is hiding his feelings but will eventually let go and embrace his love for Katsuki in an explosion of anger. Or something. Admittedly this interpretation varies a lot depending on who's talking about it, and I cannot hope to encompass every interpretation of it with one paragraph. But it always boils down to some version of "control your heart is about Izuku repressing his feelings for Katsuki."

Let's discuss.

Table of Contents I. Why I want to challenge this aka false dichotomies II. What Banjou said III. Katsuki's rage IV. Tomura doesn't control his heart V. The AFO connection

I. Why I want to challenge this aka false dichotomies

I want to challenge this interpretation of "control your heart," but my main goal here is not to shoot down BKDKs. I want this to be understood more than anything: the goal here is to help BakuDekus.

You see, fandom and shipping arguments--they're very susceptible to false dichotomies. I believe this is the source of a LOT of certain shipping interpretations that seem to go so far in one direction they fall off the rails.

I'll give you an example. I vividly remember how an anti-BKDK once went for chapter 1 in which Izuku rescues Katsuki. They started with the argument "Izuku didn't save Katsuki because he loves him, he would have saved anyone else in that situation."

This is a false dichotomy. "Izuku loves Katsuki" and "Izuku would have saved anyone else in that situation" are NOT mutually exclusive. It's very possible for both statements to be true (and I would argue they both ARE true). However, in the heat of an argument, it's very easy to accept the framing of these statements as mutually exclusive without stopping to think. You can try to argue against the premise. You can try to argue "no, Izuku saved Katsuki BECAUSE he loves Katsuki, and he wouldn't have done the same for anyone else," but you have to ignore or distort so many canon elements to get there. That makes it very easy for your opponent to point and laugh about how your interpretations are so wrong that they have to bend the story to make them work.

But there's another option: reject the framing. If you accept the framing, you're allowing the other person to dictate the discussion.

What does this look like? Let the evidence lead you to the conclusion and not the other way around. And that's a difficult thing to do. I would never say I'm perfect at it either. But if you are convinced Izuku loves Katsuki, then whatever evidence lies in canon shouldn't scare you. In some way, it doesn't MATTER what happens in canon--in that you're invested in their dynamic together and you'll ship them regardless, because there's ALWAYS an interpretation that will support the ship. But you can read the ship into whatever the canon provides. If someone says "Izuku would save anyone, so the reason he saves Katsuki is not because he loves him," one potential response would be "Izuku would save anyone, and also he saves Katsuki because he loves him." Don't let others control how you interpret the story with their words.

To take this back to "control your heart," there may or may not have been a shipping argument that spawned this--I have no idea. But there doesn't have to be. The point is to challenge the framing of the assumption, because there may still be another shipping interpretation if the original assumption doesn't hold up.

"Control your heart is bad advice that causes Izuku to repress his love for Katsuki and he will end up exploding" is one way to frame this.

But consider this new framing: "Control your heart is about Izuku using his anger/love as a source of strength so long as he doesn't let it control him--just like Katsuki does."

II. What Banjou said

The "control your heart" line comes from Banjou in chapter 213.

But I think people really gloss over the part that comes before:

This isn't about repression. Banjou says, "It's okay to get mad. That rage can be the source." Control here is not about repression at all.

This is about whether or not the rage controls Izuku instead. This is about Izuku going berserk and losing his senses. I've discussed the phrasing in Japanese before:

The phrase in Japanese is "kokoro wo sei suru" (心を制する). The word in question, kokoro, does not have a direct translation into English. It is often translated as "heart," "mind," or "spirit." The meaning of sei suru is "to control," "to command," "to get the better of."

The notion that "control your heart" means "don't let your rage get the better of you" is supported by chapter 367.

Tomura reveals that the reason he wanted to leave Izuku the "presents" of his comrades beaten and Katsuki dead was to anger him--which would cause Izuku to fight poorly. Mirio talking Izuku down after this further supports that "control your heart" is meant to be a good thing, something Izuku should do.

We also see a precursor to this in All Might vs AFO in Kamino (you know, the first one). AFO was determined for years to find something to "steal a bit" of his heart away--and he came up with using Nana Shimura's grandson.

Tomura himself stokes All Might's anger by attacking his students at the USJ.

But each time All Might gets angry, he keeps control and saves the day.

All Might is able to be effective despite his anger--or perhaps even because of it. Izuku needs to be able to do the same.

III. Katsuki's rage

In a weird way, the poster child for using anger as a source of strength is Katsuki Bakugou.

I say "in a weird way" because Katsuki's anger is often used as a front for something else. He hides behind anger. But at the same time, since he seems to be angry constantly, he surprises everyone with how much control he has over himself...

...to the point where Tomura even misjudges Katsuki's veil of anger at the sports festival to be resentment towards society.

And we know a big part of the dynamic between Izuku and Katsuki is about emulation.

We've just had a grand battle between Katsuki and AFO in which Katsuki achieved his strength by emulating Izuku--his battle analysis, his tolerance and willingness to endure pain, his use of his own pain as a weapon, etc.

So what if "control your heart" is the corollary to what Katsuki just went through? What if Izuku's "control your heart" is about him learning to use anger to win in the way Katsuki always does?

IV. Tomura doesn't control his heart

If Izuku does need to "control his heart" to be like Katsuki, this provides an opportunity for a moment in Izuku vs Tomura where Izuku can acknowledge Katsuki's role in Izuku's growth. This will depend on Tomura acting as a foil.

I start with the assumption "control your heart" means “if I want to save the people I love, I can’t let anger in the moment control me. I have to use my anger, which comes from my love, to reach the bigger goal.” In this case, Izuku has to control his heart long enough to get what he wants (to save Tomura), and he may have to go even further by applying this ability to someone else who doesn’t control their heart (Tomura).

I do think Tomura can represent a person who is not in control of his heart--which is why he lashes out and destroys everything. He gives in to his instincts to destroy. He loves destruction. And he represses the child inside him who has to explode out when someone like Mirio says he doesn't have any friends. If there's any character who represses his true desires, it has to be Tomura Shigaraki. He denies the idea that he's human, that he's saveable, that there's a crying child inside him--things Izuku asserts because he has seen the truth of them. So Izuku learning to control his heart may be what allows him to save Tomura, and if so, he can give some credit for that to Katsuki (and to All Might as well).

V. The AFO connection

I think one of the major details people discuss surrounding "control your heart" is this notion that Izuku lied about what triggered Black Whip in chapter 217.

"Any clue what set it off? Maybe something's triggering it." "I dunno..."

There's this assumption by the fandom that Izuku is lying because he should know that Black Whip going berserk was triggered by Izuku's anger at Monoma insulting Katsuki. Honestly, I think this is a misreading of the above scene. I don't blame anyone for the misreading because the scene is written in a confusing manner, but I think this page is talking about something else.

Katsuki isn't asking "What caused Black Whip to go berserk?" (answer: Izuku's emotions). He's asking "What caused Black Whip to become accessible?" In other words, why is One For All evolving in this way now? Why didn't All Might have access to these quirks when he had One For All? Why didn't you, Izuku, have access to these quirks until now?

To which all Izuku can say is, "they [the vestiges] just told me the time was right."

If you think about it, it doesn't make sense that Izuku's emotions triggered the "unlocking" of Black Whip and Izuku's sudden access to all these new quirks. If all that was necessary was for Izuku to have a surge of emotion and the desire to "catch" something to unlock Black Whip, he should have unlocked it back at summer camp when Compress kidnapped Katsuki or when Katsuki was about to disappear through Kurogiri's portal.

So in the above page, we're really meant to hone in on Katsuki's suggestion: "Yeah, something to do with All For One..."

There's evidence to support All For One is connected to One For All's evolution. In chapter 209, right before Izuku's team's match in the joint training exercise (where Black Whip first appears), we "randomly" get a cut to All For One in prison:

There are plenty of hints scattered about that this all has something to do with AFO. Remember, Izuku has a dream where Yoichi spoke to him the night before the Joint Training Arc begins--and the dream included a bit of AFO's backstory. It's very possible this was the true "unlocking." I would argue the best hint we have about what's happening with OFA is AFO's line of "I hear my little brother's voice!"

...because it sounds like the AFO-OFA resonance from chapter 369.

Putting all these pieces together, I would like to share with you my current theory about "control your heart." You don't have to subscribe to this idea, but this is where I personally am at right now.

I think the fact Black Whip went out of control in the Joint Training Arc reveals this evolution is about the resonance between OFA and AFO (the QUIRKS, not the people) that we’re seeing in the story right now. Katsuki’s role in this is that he’s the trigger for Izuku’s anger, which didn’t unlock the quirk factors but allowed them to go berserk in the moment. The idea of "control your heart" most likely means “anger is good, but don’t let your anger control you, you should be the one in control.” And Shigaraki understands this because he tries to provoke Izuku’s anger to defeat him. Izuku has to keep his own anger from interfering with his heart’s desire to save Shigaraki, and Katsuki is horrified that he’s a trigger for Izuku in this way (which is why he freaks out when Izuku attacks Tomura in the Paranormal Liberation War, and why he tells Izuku "stop trying to win this on your own" after he gets stabbed saving Izuku). This informs Katsuki's desire to "no longer stand in Izuku's way," because Izuku can only be triggered when Katsuki isn't strong enough to keep himself from being exploited. Izuku was triggered by Katsuki's death, but he managed to CONTROL his anger, not suppress it. He's still angry, he's just channeling it to achieve his goal of saving Tomura. And it's likely this point could come up in Izuku's attempt to save Tomura as Tomura is someone not in great control of his heart. And in the same way Izuku was an example for Katsuki to emulate so that he could use his pain and analysis as a weapon to defeat AFO, Izuku can use Katsuki's example to emulate "controlling his heart" aka controlling his rage to be his power in battle.

For your consideration.

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wanted to do a bkdk fic rec list for my recent faves, so im dropping some here 👇👇👇

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rise by titan (@/yee-boii)

a fic about love and also kinda growing up and changing as a person. fluffy and introspective and bakugou-centric if ur looking for adult bkdk learning how to be together. love this one a lot!

order up by sweetfictionaldreams

a funny fic where kacchans a cook and dekus an expo and absolutely nothing can go wrong wdym. very funny and also has some nsfw

you and i collide by ethereals

scummy frat boy kacchan hits nerdy stockholm syndrome deku with his car. need i say more? contains some nafw

the secretary by crispymika

an office romance between pro hero bkg and fem!quirkless!deku !! deku is also mtf trans in this which is a headcanon i now absolutely adore. contains some nsfw.

may contain traces of love by xplodobaby

another bkfemdk fic!!! i absolutely adore this one too. its a fluffy monster that is sweet and a little angsty in all the right places. a wonderful meet cute for anyone looking

runaway matchmaker by anoksun

deku, kacchan, and a no-good meddling cat who won't stop embarrassing him. short and sweet!

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IF I DONT FIND THIS BKDK FIC I WILL GO FERAL

Katsuki does the whole "take a swan dive off the roof" deal and after school that day Katsuki goes back for something and in his way to the closed school he sees Izuku jump and fucking die right in front of him. Izuku comes back and they're like "wtf was that??!!!!"

Then Izuku and Katsuki then go all out killing Izuku in various ways where Izuku takes note of everything. He gets hit by a train, jumps off a cliff, Katsuki snaps his neck etc.

Unknowingly Izuku lost a leg (or arm, but p sure leg) after getting hit by the train and the leg got left there. Furthermore, the boys don't clean up any of the deaths so someone (maybe cop) finds the death sites and links the deaths together with all the blood.

They get into UA and are in a romantic relationship. They say that Izuku has a healing quirk but has "requirements" without specifics. It's not until Izuku gets hurt during the sports festival that they can't get away from the adults to reset him. With the most privacy they can muster, behind the school nurse curtains Katsuki snaps his neck and the adults can all hear it and know exactly what's up afterwards.

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