#bnha ch 360

[comradekiwi]

I’m p sure this is paralleling the sludge villain incident so bkg won’t die bc that would not be conducive to his nor deku’s arcs - bkg has to save himself or be saved again

[vampyrsm]

cw; angst. major bnha spoilers (ch. 360)

being a dad looks good on bakugo, you think. he’s grown into quite the man, long gone is the young angry boy who shouted at the top of his lungs and now stands in his place is a wall of pure muscle, impenetrable.

except on the days when his own mind is enough to crumble his defences.

it’s around 6:20pm in the evening, katsuki has been absent most of the day, in and out of his office or simply out of the house to be with his friends. but he’s finally back home, ushering in his daughter who is yapping on and on about how her quirk is going to be totally stronger than his and she’ll knock him off that top spot. he smiles and laughs along but you see the light isn’t quite reaching his eyes as he meets your gaze from across the room.

you make no move to go to him, allowing him to slip off his shoes and coat, telling your daughter to go finish up any homework she might have before dinner. that’s when he makes his way over to you, you’re leaning one hip against the island counter when comes to stop just infront of you. toe to toe, face to face, he’s leaning into your space with a sad look in his eye.

you know exactly what’s wrong.

“i know today has been a tough day for you, but the war is over,” you stroke your knuckles against his cheek as you continue, “i promise you that it’s okay to start living like it.” his eye darts to meet yours, the other a ghastly white that used to make your heart ache in remembrance as to what happened to him as a kid. “okay?” he grunts non-committed as he loses himself in your gaze.

the cool metal of his fingers wrap around your wrist as you subconsciously reach for him. he smiles a little at you, leaning in to kiss your wordlessly. his kiss conveying his thanks.

“go set the table.” you’re grinning against his lips now, his own twitching up to smile back at you. you’re thrusting a pile of plates and cutlery into his hand that he takes easily.

“what’s the magic word?” he says, leaning in again expecting a kiss.

you smile again, “divorce.” now he’s laughing, not the loud belly laugh you’ve heard plenty of times. more like a chuff of laughter, he loves how easily you can distract him from the war waging in his mind. then you lean in again, sharing a slow but passionate kiss.

“love you too.” he whispers back, before parting ways just before your daughter bursts through her door at the smell of the food cooking on the stove and he goes to set the table with his mind now partially clear.

his teenage years were hard, adult life harder when it took him triple the effort to climb the charts with a handicap but he did it. he achieved his goal, and he now has a loving wife and beautiful daughter. he’s proud of what he’s achieved and where he is today, and he would change nothing if it meant he achieved the same outcome every-time.

copium. i’m not ok with chapter 360 so this is how i’m going to deal with it

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[greenhappyseed]

BnHA Ch.360 leak reactions:

AFO!Shig discovers he has legs and feet! Suck it Shoot Style.

He’s not just using Bakugo as bait for Izuku - no no, AFO!Shig is gonna enjoy this first and play mind games. He continues to insult Bakugo’s power, emphasizing the gap between Explosion and One For All and instilling doubt and fear in Bakugo.

Nejire and Amajiki try to land hits on AFO!Shig but his body just…adapts…and his fingers grow mouths with teeth???

Mirio phases through the horror show to rescue Bakugo and shout his own insults to Shigaraki about how he must not have any friends. That gets through to Shig, and the pause lets Mirio punch Shig with Nejire’s power.

Mirio notes that all of the heroes together can’t do much until Izuku arrives.

Best Jeanist picks up Bakugo from Mirio (like a chain????) and offers to stitch Bakugo back together. Does he mean physically or emotionally? Yes. OMG, IS THERE AN HONEST MENTOR MOMENT WITH JEANIST AND BAKUGO????

Jeanist emphasizes the heroes still need Bakugo and he can’t give up. It reminds me of Aizawa telling Aoyama that he will fight, and as long as he’s with others he’ll be okay.

Ah, but Bakugo’s spirit isn’t crushed that easily, mwahaha! Bakugo may look stunned but it turns out his head is very much still in the fight. He’s analyzing, like Izuku in his notebooks, and he spots something about AFO!Shig that others have missed…how the right side is a feint. (Interesting that the right side of AFO!Shig’s face is the one burned and seemingly controlled by AFO).

There’s a long history of right hand feints (“petty tricks”) from both Bakugo and All Might….. DvK1, Kamino, and DvK2:

[class1akids]

If you have seen the sneak peek of chapter 360 can you give us your opinion of what you think will happen? I was have read if he gets saved by the Big 3 (not sure if that’s true or just a theory) mainly I just wanted to get your take on the upcoming chapter! I have been following for a while and I love how you talk about each chapter!!

The whole chapter is out, as well as the summary, so if you are willing to spoil yourself, you can find out exactly what happens. I've also already written quite a lot about it - if you check my bnha 360 tag.

Last chapter, when fandom fell into despair, I said that I didn't believe this was the end of Bakugou's involvement in the fight (as the core of his character is never to give up) and that how HK handles what is coming is going to be an indication for me for the rest of the story.

The one thing I was adamantly against is rage!Deku come in, see the desperate state Kacchan is in and use that as emotional catalyst to beat Shigaraki.

Let me explain why I didn't want that:

"I'm sorry I said something so awful"

We had the Villain Hunt arc which concluded basically by saying that Deku can't do this alone, he needs to accept others, he needs to accept people with less power than him staking their lives out of their own free will to help him and trust that they can handle themselves. If Bakugou here had to be bailed out by Deku specifically, it would have proven right Deku's fears that the others can't keep up with him. You know the exact thing he even apologized for as an awful thing to say, because it also would have proven everyone right who ridiculed and stomped over quirkless Deku's dreams. The entire narrative question of the story about who can be a hero.

2. Wait but isn't it exactly what happened? Bakugou had to be saved...

Bakugou having to be saved by the team is not problematic - because that precisely shows both Bakugou's teamplay philosophy from back in JTA (I'll have your backs and when I'm in trouble you'll save me) and also how hero society has grown and changed since Ch 1 when the heroes stood around waiting for someone with the right power to save Bakugou (or you know nobody helping Tenko), while now they all work together to get him back.

3. "Control your heart"

I don't know if you have noticed, but since the endgame fight started, everyone who had a part in it so far got taunted by the villains, putting them face-to-face with their worst fears, guilts, inadequacies. And raising to the bait gets you beaten. All those words were wielded as weapons - targeting their hearts.

Shouto (whose new power required perfect concentration / meditative state) got told by Touya how he was their father's half-baked little puppet who will never amount to anything and kept being rejected by his brother.

Hawks was taunted for losing his wings / becoming worthless.

Endeavor got taunted by letting his sons fight each other, and when that didn't work, AFO pulled out the Touya's body card (and Endeavor went down when he lost his head).

Jirou and Tokoyami were called weak gnats

You get the pattern...

Which to me meant two things: (1) Bakugou needed to prove that he really faced and conquered his worst fears (that he's weak, not as great as everyone told, that he's the stepping stone for Deku, that he has no chance to become no. 1.) and is able to stand up mentally in face of those fears and continue to give his best (2) if everyone else needs to control their hearts and fears, Deku shouldn't (again) win by rage.

So the new chapter's direction feels really good to me, because Bakugou after that soul-crushing, brutal and absolutely humiliating beatdown is controlling his heart. He's focused, he hasn't lost his faith that a path to victory can be found, he hasn't lost his will to fight. A power-gap is not the end of the road, it means having to find other ways (like early Deku who could only keep up by quirk analysis, teamwork and creativity). We see Bakugou vulnerable and hurt - but he hasn't given up. How could he? That's who he is. That's his image of All Might - the one who never gives up, no matter how hard.

4. "But with his broken arms"

So this was one of the biggest problems last chapter - how can Bakugou keep fighting and contributing (even if he won't give up) when one of his arms are broken, essentially depriving him of half his quirk.

My response to this was that Deku was allowed to fight in such situation (most famously in the Muscular fight - where both his arms were broken, his 100% OFA hits shrugged off, yet he managed to keep on with his broken arms and somehow surpass his max).

So for Bakugou, there were 3 possible paths: (1) same as Muscular!Deku - getting to keep on fighting with a broken body (2) a quirk awakening removing the limitation of his quirk (3) finding an entirely different path to victory (such as a fight inside the vestige realm or a team strategy).

I feel like the way implied in the end of the chapter is a mix of everything. BJ will stitch up Bakugou's arm. He seems to have a quirk awakening that would allow him produce explosions from other body parts than just his palms, opening up more options for him. And he seems to have spotted a weakness to exploit in Shigaraki. And as far as I'm concerned - that's a good way to go - playing into all of Bakugou's arc.

5. "It doesn't matter, he can't win against Shigaraki. He's Deku's villain"

Again, to me this is not an issue. Bakugou can get a win / make a difference while simultaneously Deku can still have a lot left to done.

I don't know if you noticed, but none of the villains are done. Toga has the Twice clones up her sleeve, Dabi's chest is glowing, AFO is rewinding. I'm sure even if they beat ShigAFO, a new boss-form will come. And Deku's role in any case is about saving Shigaraki (giving rise to a possible conflict between Bakugou and Deku or alternatively, to showcase their relationship where Bakugou, the one who almost died at Shigaraki's hands will be the one to back Deku up, displaying his trust in Deku's way) so he can help them destroy AFO.

So I'm very optimistic with how this chapter played out. It's reinforcing the themes I want to see and it gives Bakugou to stand on his own feet to complete his own arc (that's the stage we are at). The resolution of the important bonds will come after - and I'm sure it will come. Bakugou and Deku will talk, will fight, will support and save each other. I'm sure of it. But this would have been the wrong time.

[thetrashywritingwitch]

thoughts or theories on bnha chapter 360?

A lot lol but I dont feel super confident in writing meta or ch analysis. @/class1akids usually has good write ups and predictions for chapters and where they might be going.

[lavenders-writing]

SPOILERS FOR CH 360 OF BNHA BELOW THE CUT

IM SORRY BUT IS BAKUGOU CRYING IM GOING TO SOB AND WEEP AND FALL ON THE FLOOR

F U C K DUDE

HORI'S GOT US ALL BY THE BALLS, HUH

im actually going to yell i. i dont know what the words say bc i only speak fucking uhh english and shit but like. i am scared :D

anything bad happens to him im throwing a fit he's so :(((

he is CRYING

C R Y I N G

THIS IS THE THIRD TIME HES DONE IT IN THE SERIES

FIRST ONE WAS WHEN HE FELT INSIGNIFICANT

SECOND ONE WAS WHEN HE FELT GUILTY

AND IDK W H AT HE FEELS RN BECAUSE I CANT. READ IT. anyway im excited and scared for tomorrows ch

feeling completely normal tonight :)

[comradekiwi]

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