#but his IS a hero with or without a quirk

[anti-katsuki-lounge]

Izuku vs 1-A: Katsuki’s Hypocrisy

Hey y’all 👋. I’m back for yet another rant about everyone’s favorite character 😂.

So Izuku’s fight with 1-A, the one where they try bringing him back to UA after he runs off, is a heavily criticized part of MHA, and for good reason. Today, I want to talk about the biggest flaw in the entire scene, and that’s how Katsuki proves once again that he’s really learned nothing.

Katsuki begins his portion of the confrontation insulting Izuku, claiming he’s looking down on everyone else and believes that they can’t handle themselves against AFO. Katsuki frames this as an ego thing, and the scene is supposed to show how Katsuki’s using his own personal experiences of underestimating someone/overhyping their own self to show that he knows what he’s talking about.

Thing is, Katsuki’s experiences and what Izuku is currently doing are two different things.

Izuku left to protect everyone. He witnessed what Tomura and AFO can do during the former’s attack on UA. Many heroes died and several of his classmates almost did. He knew Tomura and AFO were targeting him, and that they would attack again and again until either they were killed or he was. To protect as many people as possible, he left and kept himself hidden with the idea that Tomura and AFO would try tracking him down and he could bring the fight somewhere where casualties would be reduced, if not eliminated. There’s certainly flaws with his plan, but it was one he created out of desperation and selflessness.

Furthermore, Izuku would’ve done this no matter what. If one of his classmates was Superman himself, he still would’ve left (ok, maybe an exaggeration, but you get the point). He was willing to risk his life so that no one else would have to get hurt.

This is far different than Katsuki treating everyone as inferior to him due to him being born with a powerful quirk. Katsuki went out of his way to hurt others, Izuku went out of his way to save others. Katsuki looked down on others due to having a stronger quirk. Izuku saw that people were targeting him due to his own quirk, the one quirk that had beaten his opponents before.

This is why Katsuki comparing himself to Izuku falls flat. Katsuki’s actions were fueled by selfish reasons whereas Izuku’s were fueled by selfless ones. Izuku never saw himself as superior when making his decision, he simply realized that his quirk is what was fueling the actions of Tomura/AFO.

Another issue with the confrontation is when Katsuki mocks him for being an All Might wannabe. Bro, your hero name’s literally an homage to All Might’s. Your whole reasoning for being a hero is because you want to be like your interpretation of All Might, a powerful hero who doesn’t lose. Izuku is an All Might wannabe, yes, but he inherits most of All Might’s good qualities.

Going even further, prior to the confrontation itself, Katsuki has the audacity to blame All Might for Izuku’s decision. Yes, a lot of Izuku’s actions are influenced by his admiration of All Might and the hero’s failure to teach him to be better, but he’s not the only one to blame. In fact, he’s not even the worst offender. A lot of his issues stems from Katsuki’s bullying. His lack of self worth that he’s gained from Katsuki is part of why he’s always willing to sacrifice himself without any care for his own safety. Katsuki is who taught him to hold everything in and not want to burden others with his issues, because he doesn’t feel like he’s worth being listened to. Katsuki completely destroyed his self esteem, which is what causes all the negative traits he picked up from All Might to be amplified. His hesitancy to trust others with his burdens can also be traced back to this. Shota’s “logical ruses” also add to this, as 1-A clearly don’t trust him, and as a result, end up not always trusting the heroes to do their jobs. It’s why 1-A went out to rescue Katsuki himself.

Ultimately, Katsuki’s projecting his own behavior onto Izuku, but their situations aren’t comparable in the slightest. Izuku’s actions are fueled by selflessness and a lack of self worth. Katsuki’s are fueled by an inflated ego and his selfish desires. Katsuki’s callout fails to work because he once again shows that he doesn’t understand Izuku, the role he himself played in shaping him, and what it means to be selfless.

[riotheratakadew2u]

Sometimes I find myself thinking about Shigaraki and MHAs ending and I just get annoyed. I really didn't like AFO for quite a while but the ending where Horikoshi tries to turn him into a fucking Aizen-esc villain just really annoys me? On one hand I get that its like . Shigaraki at his heart beneath everything was a good person beneath like . all the evil-ness. Like he was born good and All For One just manipulated him. But on the other hand it just. COMPLETELYYYY undermines EVERYTHINGGG about Shigaraki as a villain. Hes no longer turned evil by shit that is like "valid" like societies super over-reliance on heroes and his dad was good actually and was MANIPULATED into physically abusing his children and alllll of it ever ever ever was actually planned by all for one and his quirk isn't actually his and its. Its just soooo fucking annoying? Like. it tries to put the far worse villain of All For One in the spotlight. While heavily undermining the far better villain of Shigaraki. It just makes me annoyed and so i choose to believe its not actually canon and I pretend its not real because Shigarakis a really great and phenomenal villain without it being real!

Like shut the fuck up all for one."Not once in your pitiful life has any choice been your own!" damn you for this shit Horikoshi . A billion curses on your blood line may you go bald within a year.

[bullyhunter--69]

Truth Tells All (Denki Kaminari x Reader)

Summary: When a new student arrives to class and decides to use you to deminstraight her quirk, it goes a way you could never had expected.

TW: Miscommunication, lots of emotions, lowkey reader gets humiliated in front og her class but not in a second-hand embarrassment way

This day had already been shit. You had woken up late, your uniform didn’t look good today, and you had no time to do your hair. 7 am and you already wanted to go back to bed. You were the last one running into the classroom, right before Aizawa entered the room to take roll. You had no time to talk with friends, so you just sat down at your desk with a heavy sigh. 

“Alright, students— I have a surprise for you all today. We will be welcoming a foreign exchange student into the class, and I want you all to be nice to her.” 

Right on cue, the classroom door swung open and a tall, brown haired girl strutted in. Her hair was perfectly curled, her lip gloss shone in the light, and her uniform looked crisp and freshly ironed. She had this.. aura around her though. She seemed to be plotting something. 

“Hello everybody! My name is Annabel and I’m from the US! It’s a pleasure to meet you all.” Her smile was big and bright, causing the room to return her greeting politely, a few people asking what her quirk was.  Annabel looked over to Aizawa. “Sir, may I give them a.. first hand look at my quirk, please?”  After a tired sigh, he nodded. “Just don’t cause any fights, it’s too early for that.” 

“Alrighty! You, green hair!” Her arm extended to point directly at Izuku, who squeaked and shook in his chair. “Yes..?”

“Who’s your favorite hero?” 

Without a second of hesitation, the words “All-Might!” Were yelled out loudly, causing his face to turn red.  This act of the new student didn’t surprise anyone, though, as she had tried it on a few other students before pointing directly to you. 

“Hmm.. who do you have a crush on?”

Shit, what the—!?

Pins and needles filled your body, your hand slapped over your mouth, and your legs shook. This feeling.. No, it can’t be..

She had a truth-telling quirk.

Your mind started to fog over as you struggled to keep the one thing you had kept secret all year down and buried. This, by far, was the toughest fight you had gone through yet.  You started to feel your grip on reality loosen, your hands falling to your side, and a bubbling sensation in your throat. Finally, as all eyes were glued to your struggling form, the dam broke and you could no longer control yourself. 

“DENKI KAMINARI OF CLASS 1-A!!”

The room fell silent as you sprang up from your desk, tears already in your eyes. And you thought today couldn’t get any worse.. As you started running out of the class, someone grabbed your wrist to stop you, but you pulled your arm hard and got out of their grip. You didn’t look back to see who it was, but you knew that desk was Denkis, so it had to be him. 

Your feet carried your panting, shaking, sobbing form down the hall and all the way into the bathroom. With one final heavy breath, you collapsed onto the cool tile floor and lay your head against the wall.  You knew Denki didn’t like you back— it was obvious he had eyes on some girls, or even guys, that weren’t you. He was the best friend that couldn’t ever be more. The one you loved with your entire heart and soul, but only ever got platonic affection in return. And here you are, having a panic attack in the bathroom while you were sure everyone was laughing at you back in the classroom. Fat tears had already soaked your red-hot cheeks, your trembling hands running through your messy hair. You were a wreck and there was no way you were going back to class like this..

So you stood up and made your way out of the school, down the street, and back to your dorm to lock yourself in there for however long you could without getting kicked out of UA. Back in the classroom, it was a mess. Kirishima and Sero were loudly cheering on Denki about his crush liking him back, Mina and Jiro were giving the new girl a piece of their mind for putting you through something like this, Izuku was discussing with Iida what to do about you leaving class, and finally, there was Aizawa.

“That’s Enough, class.”

As soon as his voice was heard, the room fell silent. 

“Annabel, go to the office. I’m writing you up for inappropriate quirk usage.”

As Aizawa escorted her out of the room and gave her directions to the office, she was rambling on about how she didn’t do anything wrong. 

“Mina, Kiri, what do I do?” Denki rushed over to the two with worry-filled features. He did like you back... but he knew you didn’t know that yet. 

“Well, you go find her and tell her, obviously!” Mina said with a big smile.

“Yes, but it would be better to let her calm down first. She went through a lot just now, and I know she won’t respond well if you confess now.” Kirishima added, putting a hand on Denki's shoulder.  The blonde gave a small nod. “I’ll talk to her tonight. Let’s hope this incident doesn’t change how she feels.” 

Back in your dorm, you lie in your bed. Your uncomfortable uniform was tossed somewhere on your floor, your shoes were sitting in your desk chair, and you had changed into the hoodie you had stolen from Denki months ago when it was cold out. He thought he lost it but you had just kept it a secret, it felt like your last hope to have him as yours. You didn’t have any of your things since you had just up and left the classroom— hopefully someone will bring your stuff by.

You had been head over heels for the blonde ever since 2 weeks into UA. He welcomed you into his friend group, was always there when you needed someone, and always opened up to you in return. He had the most gorgeous eyes, his hair always laid just right, and you always admired his fighting style and quirk. Everything about him was phenomenal to you.. and just because of a new student you felt you were going to lose that forever.

You couldn’t tell how long you laid there before drifting off into an empty, dreamless sleep. It felt like days and seconds all at once, but a soft knock at your door brought you out of the sleep you were trying to get.  As your eyes cracked open, your heart sank. Luckily, your bedroom lights were off, so pretending not to be there was easy. If that was Denki.. god, you didn’t know what you would do. He was surely going to drop your friendship-

“(Y/N)?”

A soft voice called from the other side of your door— it wasn’t Denki, it was Kirishima. This didn’t solve all of your worries though, he and Denki were best friends, after all. 

“Mina had to stay after class to work on some school work, so I brought you your bag and books— I hope you’re doing okay. Everyone is already eating dinner, and if you don’t come down, I’ll make sure to save you some, alright? You gotta eat since you left before lunch started. Your stuff is right outside the door.”

There was the sound of things being gently set against your door, followed by soft footsteps leading off towards the stairs. Kirishima was amazing..  With a heavy sigh, you hoisted yourself out of bed and approached your door with hesitation. As quickly and quietly as you could, you grabbed your stuff from your doorstep and locked your door back. You were happy Kirishima was giving you space, since you were just going to ignore this. Ignore what happened and your crush on Denki. This wasn’t going to be something you’d let ruin your life. 

Since you had slept the day away, sleeping again wasn’t an option for you, and you were getting pretty hungry. It had been a few hours since Kirishima had dropped your stuff off. Looking at the clock next to your bed, you saw it was almost midnight. Closing the book you had in your lap and placing it to the side, you stood up with a crack in your knee and a pop in your back. 

“Fuck, man.. I shouldn’t have slept once I got back here...” You muttered to yourself as you opened your door as silently as you could. Everyone should be asleep at this point in the night.. Creeping down the stairs quickly, you ran to the kitchen as quietly as possible. The only true sound coming from you was the growl of your hungry stomach. Hopefully, Kirishima actually saved you some dinner to reheat. Luckily for you, it was sitting right in the fridge with your name and a cute little smiley face written on a sticky note placed on top. Perfect.. Now you just had to throw this in the microwave and get back to your room to eat.

Well, that was the plan, until soft footsteps were heard approaching the kitchen.

“(Y/N)..?”

Fuck.

It was Denki.

Your body tensed, your stomach dropped, and the food you were placing into the microwave almost spilled. Your hands clenched around the microwave safe plate in your hands and you started to shake.

“Denki, please, just.. let me get my food and go.”

Denki could tell by the instability in your voice that tears were already filling your eyes, and he was right.  The lump in your throat stung, and your eyes were aching with tears. Your stomach felt like it had shifting knots in it, and there was a metallic taste in your mouth from the bite you had on your inner cheeks. This was heartbreaking.  Denki slowly approached you, leaning against the island in the kitchen behind you.

  “I’m not going to make you talk about this if you don’t want to, but I do want to at least tell you something before you head back to your room. I’ve.. I’ve had feelings for you for a while now, and I promise, I’m not going to reject you. That girl did something dirty and violating to you, exposing you like that in front of everyone, and I’m so sorry. You didn’t deserve that. I know you’re hurting right now— you’re my best friend, I can tell when things are going on in your head. But.. just know that your feelings are returned, alright? I like you back.”

And with that, Denki turned and left to return to his room to turn in for the night.

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It had been days since that night. 4 days, to be exact. Every day that passed, you stayed near silent in all of your classes, avoided Denki as best as possible, and cooped yourself up in your dorm every second being around the rest of your class wasn’t required.  Every night, you lie awake thinking about what Denki said. It felt so... real, but unbelievable. There was no way in hell he felt the same way back. Not when there were so many people around him who would be better suited for him as a partner. You were just.. you, and that was it. You weren’t the strongest, or the fastest, and sure as hell not the most attractive.

What you didn’t know, though, is that Denki spent every one of these nights awake and thinking as well. He thought about how perfect you were, how much he absolutely adored you, and how much he wanted you to feel the love he truly felt for you that he had kept locked up for months. It pained him to see you doubt yourself all day, every day, during training, math class, and with yourself as you are. He couldn’t keep watching you feel like this, so he was going to put a stop to it as best he could. Sitting at his desk at 2 in the morning, he grabbed a pen and ripped a piece of paper out of his English notebook. 

‘Meet me at the front gates at 6 pm tonight. Wear something comfy, it might get cold. -Denki <3’

It was the best he could do as of right now, since you seemed to be actively ignoring him ever since his late-night kitchen confession a few days ago. You had been the last one to class every day since the morning of the forced confession caused by that stupid girl with the truth-telling quirk, so Denki gently laid the note on top of your desk when he got to class himself.  Moments later, you slipped into the classroom and into your chair silently— another habit you seemed to pick up since the confession. Noticing the note on your desk made your anxiety spike once more. Your hands shakily picked it up and opened it with caution.

As your eyes scanned the writing, your brain took in the words slowly. Swallowing the thick lump in your throat, you felt a few sets of eyes on you. You knew it had to be Denki, and maybe even Kirishima and Sero. Disregarding whoever was watching, you shoved the note deep into your bag and pulled out the book you needed for first period.

This day was the worst yet. Every second felt nauseatingly slow, and every class felt like boring mush that your brain just couldn’t take in anymore. Denki was the only thing that filled your thoughts. It ranged from horrible thoughts of him laughing at you for thinking he wanted to date you, all the way to thoughts of the perfect life with him. It was exhausting, and honestly, you were still debating meeting up with him tonight.

The end of the school day finally came and, once again, you rushed back to your room. It was time to truly debate this... whatever you’d call it, with Denki. Maybe he just wanted to tell you something privately, maybe it was a date. Hell, you didn’t know, but this feeling was the worst thing you had ever felt. 

Finally, with a deep sigh and a straight face, you decided— you would meet him at 6. 

Slowly, you made your way down the stairs and to the front door. There was no need to dress to impress, so you wore something casual— Denkis hoodie, jeans, and your everyday sneakers.  Your hand grasped the front door knob gently, and you stopped for a moment to take a deep breath. This was the moment you could turn back and just try to put this all behind you, but... You couldn’t do that to Denki. Not after all of the months spent with him as your best friend, not after all of the time he spent making you laugh and feel loved, and not after the fact that he might just be taking you on a date tonight.

With your head held high, you turned the knob of the door and stepped out into the cool, autumn air. Denki was right, it actually was chilly. Your steps were filled with determination as you approached the front gates, just as the letter had requested of you. It was 5:59pm, and you didn’t see him.. until his head popped out from around the gates with a soft smile. “You actually came..”

“I couldn’t just ignore you forever, huh?” You shrugged your shoulders, eyes focused on the leaves decorating the walkway. Denki took a sudden, deep breath at your words. He didn’t want you to feel forced, but he had to get you alone again somehow. 

“Walk with me?” He offered with a gentle voice, holding out a hand on the off chance you wanted it. To no surprise, though, you avoided his hand as you stepped forward. “Where are we going?” Your eyes flickered up to his with a questioning gaze. He had your trust, but this was still so scary..

“Well, I figured the Boba shop down the street? Today is their least busiest day, and it’s the only shop with your favorite flavor.” He guided you past the gates and in the direction of the shop he was talking about, and you followed without any hesitation. “That sounds good, it’s a nice little shop.”

The walk there was silent, but your shoulders and hands kept gently brushing each other, which caused a deep blush to form on both of your faces. A few times, you even tried to step further away from Denki, but his big steps made that impossible. Once in the shop, you found the booth you both would be settling into, and Denki ordered for both of you so you wouldn’t have to. After paying and getting both drinks, he sat himself in the seat across from you and handed you your drink. 

“Listen, (Y/N), I meant what I said in the kitchen a few nights ago. That wasn’t pity, that wasn’t bullshit to make you feel better— I’ve loved you since freshman year and nothing has ever lessened that. Especially not the fact that you confessed your feelings in front of the entire class.. But I am genuinely sorry that happened to you.”

Your heart skipped a beat hard, and your breath hitched. A big lump was starting to form in your throat that was hard to swallow away. “Denki?”

He was watching and listening intently, on the edge of his seat for your response. “Yeah?”

“I.. I’m sorry I’ve been avoiding you, a-and ignoring you.. it was so scary. I thought I was gonna lose you..” A sniffle left you, but you continued as you looked up into Denkis' eyes. Tears filled your waterline, threatening to spill over. 

“But.. Your actions and words have shown me I have absolutely nothing to worry about.. and so we are clear, I do truly love you. I’ve felt this way since Freshman year as well..” Chuckling softly, your hand gently reached for Denkis— intertwining your fingers together. 

“Thank you for the Boba date, Denki.” Finally, a sweet, wide smile covered your face, and you leaned over the table to give his cheek a soft kiss. 

His eyes went wide, and he smiled brighter than you’d seen him smile all week, his hand squeezing yours tightly.

 “Thank you for joining me on our first date of many, (Y/N).”

[ghastme]

this is for the people that hate on bakudeku because they're 'toxic'.

i won't force the ship on anyone, just want you guys to consider some things. Yes he bullied him, from 4-14 years old, that's a long time i will agree. He did tell him to kill himself, also yes.

But he didn't do it because he hates Izuku.

He felt inferior when all he ever heard other people calling him superior, strong, having much potential because of his quirk. He wants to live up to all those standards people have put on him, and when he saw izuku with a pure heart, with heroic intentions just as himself, but without a quirk he couldn’t, or didn't want to, understand that a person can be good, or strong no matter the quirk, or absence of one.

Society taught him quirks are everything, quirks make good people. And izuku is a good person, but without a quirk. Society says he's weird for not having one, and what do children do when they hear adults talking badly of something? Most of them adapt that opinion. for example racists; if you keep feeding a child your opinion of how they are "bad" people, the child will grow up thinking they are bad. Because those are not beliefs right, they're facts, right? Or so the children think.

That's why he always repulsed him.

Izuku kept showing him that he is strong, kept surpassing him. And instead of continuing to push him away he decides to try and understand. This leads to several fights beween the two. He's struggling to split truth from societal standards.

Eventually he figures it out, helps izuku with his new quirk. But he's haunted by the way he acted before, the bullying, the insults, the fights. He struggles to forgive himself, and call it a headcanon but I believe after all these years of growth he still has nightmares and regrets.

During the time he helps him, the two of them grow closer, letting go of the past and trying to create a present. Every step they take in their friendship, a bit of grudge falls away. Forgive and forget right?

When izuku leaves school for his vigilante arc, bakugo likely panics.

All that growth, he didn't have time to apologise yet, but izuku is gone, it might already be too late.

When he finds him he apologises; not to bring izuku back, but to tell him that he genuinely regrets what he did, telling izuku that he's a changed person, subconsciously telling him that he supports him fully in his decision to fight, that that might be the last time they talk, he has to apologise;

"if this is our last moment, atleast let me tell you the truth".

Deep down I believe he would have let izuku go and let him do his thing, helping him from the background, but since he cares so much about izuku now, he tries to bring him back to safety before the apology.

Izuku, the kind person he is, undestands his growth, undestands that he is not a little kid influenced by society anymore, but a grown guy with his own opinions. He doesn't tell him he forgives or forgets anything, but the way he sags into bakugos arms, I'd say he's willing to try, willing to move on forward.

From there on out they grow even closer, bakugo even tries to let go of the childhood nickname they've grown used to, originally meaning "useless", "blockhead" or whatever, he finally feels close enough to call him by his first name.

The fact that Izuku still calls him kacchan after everything means he always believed in katsuki, believed in that he is a better person than the hero society has shaped him into.

People consider a romantic relationship between them because they consider that progress close to love, that there could be a hidden motivation behind bakugos openness to said progress. That they were always meant to be.

I dont think we should force any kind of ship on anyone, but outright saying it's toxic when there is so much to be considered is a little bold, in my opinion.

Thanks for reading this rant. I am not justifying his past self. just stating my opinion to this topic, that I felt i should share.

[springismss]

ᱬ⛧ my villain viii ~ dabi

𖤐 part sum: when a burning question leads to you venturing out on a night, you come across the one person who can answer it. only are they going to answer as easily as you think? and the tension, you could cut it with a knife.

𖤐 pairing: dabi x pro hero! female reader

𖤐 part content: mention of a drunk person, slight sexual tension if you squint. generally sfw (but that will change soon!)

𖤐 a/n: two parts in one day? wow, look at me go! this is the most motivated i've felt for a long time. hope you all enjoy the part, catch you all in the next! as always likes, comments and re-blogs are deeply appreciated!

𖤐 word count: 1.9k

𖤐 links: series masterlist | 《 prev part | next part 》

And so began the ever-tiring daily routine you found yourself in. Everything seemed to have changed since that encounter, and no matter how hard you tried, you couldn't keep a grip on the small amount of sanity you felt like you were losing.

No matter how hard you tried to stay sane, you began to fail when alone for more than a few moments at a time. Those eyes were all you could see when you closed your own. The pair of almost contrasting colours that seemed to glow in the dark.

The physical mark they'd left on you had long since healed, but the mental one still stung.

Then there were those turquoise ones. The ones that brought back so many memories of times that had passed, times that were filled with joy. How could someone you once knew like the back of your hand, and called your best friend, turn out to be one of the villains who caused your students pain?

As much as you wished you had the answer to that question and the others you had, you didn't. And the longer you pondered on them, the more you wished you did.

Wherever you looked, you swore you'd see flashes of the piercing blue, only for it to disappear as quickly as you'd seen it. The doubt making you question everything you'd ever known. You'd heard about what had happened to Rei, Touya's mother, so you understandably didn't want to meet the same kind of fate as her due to her son.

As for his appearance, you'd be lying if you said it didn't take you by surprise when you first saw him, made you feel physically sick for a moment. The purple, wrinkled skin that was attached by staples to his normal skin was really a sight to see; you could understand why people called him the patchwork villain. You guessed it was from losing control of his quirk; he did have a slight intolerance to the immense heat produced by his flames.

And his hair. The beautiful white you once admired was now replaced with black. Even though you loved his white hair, something about seeing him with black hair stirred feelings. As much as you hated to admit it, he suited it more than you thought possible. Even wondering what it would be like to thread your fingers through it.

Despite your feelings, you needed answers. You'd been without him for long enough; he couldn't just walk back into your life without giving you an explanation. That's what led to you grabbing a jacket and heading out of your front door into the world you'd grown to hate slightly.

You had to find Dabi, no matter what it took. You wouldn't stop until you did, even if it meant putting yourself in danger. You were a hero, it wouldn't be too hard to handle yourself, right?

The bustling nightlife sounded around you as you walked the streets, observing every place you could. You'd almost forgotten what it was like to be out at night, to be one of the figures that were out without a care in the world.

Knowing Touya, he'd be doing one of two things: avoiding the populated area or just wandering around, not bothering to blend in, or worried about who would see him. Your gut guessed he would be doing the latter, now that the league was gaining popularity, so you scanned around. Scanning in hopes of finding him sticking out amongst the crowd.

A shiver of uneasiness ran through you as you clung onto yourself, hands gripping somewhat tightly as you hoped to create a sense of safety in your slightly broken mind. Letting out a sigh of frustration, you stopped beside a shop and took in a breath, steadying your mindset before continuing. Mentally cheering yourself on before a little self-doubt began to show.

'Maybe this was a bad idea, I shouldn't have been so quick to rush out that door, especially on a night like this'.

A sudden pull on your arm made you crash back to reality with a bump, as you turned your head to the source of the direction you were pulled in. "Well, hello there, sweetheart! What's a princess like you doing out here on her own?".

Scrunching your face in disgust, your eyes looked over an older male who'd clearly had a little too much to drink. You had no idea who he thought he was, but no chance in hell was he doing what you thought he was going to do.

Grabbing hold of his hand, you pushed his arm down in an attempt to remove him from your body and out of personal space. "Excuse me? I'm not on my own-". Letting out a frustrated grunt, you tried once more to push his hand away. The force of his yanking in retaliation knocked you off balance slightly, free hand reaching behind you to grab onto something to keep you steady.

That's when you felt it, the obvious hardness of someone's torso as you gripped hold of what you could assume was their top. Looking over your shoulder, you came face to face with the very person you were searching for. How had he managed to find you when he was near enough impossible for you to find? "Hey, don't think you can just forget about me, princess!".

Narrowing his eyes, Dabi looked at the situation before him, noting the way you were being tugged a little too roughly even for his liking. Clicking his tongue in annoyance, he stepped forward, hand gripping onto the arm of the man who had hold of you. He clearly towered above the pair of you as he stopped by your side, free hand cupped at his side. "You heard her, she's not on her own. So you best let go of her".

Of course, much like anyone else who would be in the man's state, he didn't like what was said, trying his best to pull you closer to him. "Oh yeah? And what makes you think I'm going to listen to you, or even her, for that matter, patchwork?"

Before you could even register it, a gasp passed your lips as you saw flickers of blue in the corner of your eye. You prayed the man would back off, while Dabi had no issues with causing a scene, you did. You were a hero after all. If word got out about this, your career could be over.

The sudden appearance of the flames made the man jump back slightly, dropping your arm moments later, albeit roughly. He wasn't about to get caught up in whatever the two of you had going on. Turning on his heel, he walked away from the pair of you, not before flipping you off. "Whatever, you can have her. She's not even that good-looking anyway".

Raising your brow at the words, you returned the gesture, huffing out a little as you pouted. "You know, doll, a little birdy told me you've been looking for me". Glancing to your side, you rolled your eyes. Of course he'd find out you were somehow. "Hmmm... Let me guess. One of your little friends told you I was?".

Shrugging his shoulders, Dabi just looked around, not bothering to entertain your question. Of course, one of his friends told him. Toga could be quite unusual when she wanted to be. "If that's what you think, you think that. But why else would you be around this part of town? Especially at this time of night." Glancing back at you, he took in the way you folded your arms, a smirk tugging at his lips. "So what is it you want, little hero?"

Crossing your arms, you stepped back to create some distance between you. Tilting your head slightly, you looked over his figure, trying to work him out. Trying to figure out what he wanted from you. Dropping your arms with a sigh, you cast your gaze back up to his face, looking over his features once more. "I want answers, Dabi. It is Dabi now, isn't it?".

A hum of disinterest was your only response before a scarred hand lifted, fingers motioning for you to follow them if you dared. Of course, your fight-or-flight instinct kicked in. You were hesitant, but the more you thought about staying in this place alone, the more the idea of following him seemed like a good choice.

Weaving through the crowds of people, you somehow managed to keep up with the tall villain. The little game of chase slowed down as the number of people began decreasing the further you moved from the busy streets; abandoned warehouses slowly coming into view.

"So, this is where we're going to talk? Such a nice place to take a lady".

A cool breeze swept through the area you stood in as you stared off at the male ahead. One of you was on their guard, ready to expect the unexpected. The other was enjoying the moment, watching the other glance around, trying to adjust to where they were. "You know, I never would have thought you'd have come with me, little hero. After all, there might have been an ambush waiting for you".

Letting out a laugh, you crossed your arms as you continued to stare him down. "Come on now, I think we both know that wouldn't be the case, would it, Dabi? You said so yourself the other day that you didn't want any harm coming to me. Now....".

Stepping forward, you let your arms drop as you cupped your hands by your side. Small flickers of your purple flames began to show, ready to strike if the moment called for it. "-You're going to tell me exactly what the fuck you think playing at, Touya".

A wicked and almost twisted grin tugged at his lips as he started to step towards you. Boots heavy on the floor as he moved, stopping in front of you with a matter of seconds. He had to admit, he liked this side of you, even if he knew you were shaking deep inside.

Long fingers slipped under your chin, moving your head up to get a better look at you once he reached you. Turquoise eyes scanned over your face, taking in every detail just in case he never got to see you again after this moment. Your eyes locked with his soon after, neither of you wanting to back down.

"You haven't changed at all, have you, (n/n)? You're prepared to face and dance with the devil just to satisfy a long-burning question you've had eating away inside all these years".

A smirk of your own tugged at your lips. Of course, he'd say that; it was a typical Touya thing to say. Letting a hum pass your lips, you placed a hand on his chest, fingers tracing the scarred and normal skin for a moment before you pushed him back, body landing on the damp concrete with a thud.

Of course, you'd play a dirty trick like that to get him to drop his guard. He'd long forgotten what it was like to feel your touch, so for you to use it against him, he couldn't help but admire it slightly.

Crouching down, you took a moment to look him over again. While villains like him usually took their time and played with the people they took into their grasp, now it was your turn.

Standing up, you stepped over him and placed your feet on either side of his body. Even if your mind was screaming at you not to go any further, you pushed the thoughts to one side as you sank down onto your knees, perching yourself on top of his thighs.

"Maybe I want to play with the devil. After all, he does have a name, doesn't he?".

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[deusvervewrites]

Extraterrestrial: I stiffen as a hand latches onto my neck with the exception of one finger. Ochako is busy buying bug spray, and Izuku had to use the restroom.

Ugh... It's the Villain from the USJ. I don't have time for this!

"Easy, Hero" he says, all to calm "Wouldn't wanna ruin your reputation score."

Damn it. Sighing, I look turn to get a look at him...

"You ever think of using some chap stick? It'll help with your dry lips."

He blinks at that. Hey, he wants me to be calm, so he better be prepared for some snark!

"Let's go sit down and have a chat, act like we're old friends or something."

"If talking keeps you from going after them, then fine. Let go of my neck though. We both know I can't fight you right now."

He does so and we go sit at a lunch table, I wonder why he wants to talk to me.

"You confuse me, Hero. You're attending UA all set on becoming a Hero, and yet you're fighting, protesting and even debating some of the Laws regarding quirks. You made a big fancy speech that's been played on loop when you fought Stain."

That's it? I caught his interest because of my humanitarianism? My advocacy for less restrictive Quirk Laws so people don't have to fear getting thrown in jail just for something they didn't know was illegal because of their Quirk.

"I'll tell you what I told a good friend of mine: The current Quirk Laws make it so that even something innocent like my sweat is illegal."

That got his eyes to widen a little. He started laughing soon after. It sounded like Izuku's blade was scraping on a chalkboard. Painful.

"So, you want to give them hope. Let them smile without knowing the dangers that lurk in the dregs of society?"

What? That's not even what I was talking about! It's LITERALLY JUST SWEATING IS ILLIEGAL DEPENDING ON THE QUIRK!!

"That... That's not what I said at all. I want to ease up on the Quirk Laws because soon enough it'll get to the point that EVERY Quirk would be illegal to be born with!"

He looked me dead in the eye, mania practically shining in his red gaze.

"Y'know, that sounds an awfully similar to what All Might preaches."

My breath hitches as he starts looking around.

"You know, I could kill about three, maybe four people here before I escape. If you don't want me dust any of them, don't follow"

A black mist starts spiraling behind him, he keeps an eye on me. Likely to keep me from rushing him.

"Next time we meet, I wonder if you'll still feel the same"

Things look like they're gonna get more complicated.

She's so done with him

[isabeauwolf]

Four. Four soulmates. Oh Kamisama no! - Reader x ShiggyOverDabiHawks 11

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💞Chapter 11: Blue Eyes

You watch Shigaraki leave. It was weird. You touched him. He touched you. You're still here? You didn't turn into dust. Was his quirk malfunctioning? Could that even happen?

You stare at your soapy hand. Flexing it, turning it this way and that, snap your finger, and inspected it. Yup, your right hand is still here and working. Would suck, if I lost my dominant hand by my supposed soulmate.

A chill crawls down your spin as you turned. Oh, I forgot Dabi's here. Your heart flips as you meet his amused and calculating, ice cold blue gaze.

The silence felt awkward as you returned back to the dishes. Just act like he's not here. Maybe he'll get bored and go to bed? Then again.. he's not nicknamed stray alleycat for a reason in the fandom.

"Ya know, handyman's mostly all bark and no bite." Dabi's voice breaks the silence.

He sounds closer?

"Unlike you? Is that it?" You say before you can stop the train of thought. "Snabi coming out to play now?" You can feel the heat of his skin radiating like a natural furnace and he doesn't seem mad.

His playful amusement continues growing as his interest is peaked, staring you down with a brow raised. "Snabi?" He tilts his head. "The fuck is that?"

He's got you in his hypnotizing gaze again. Dammit, they're pretty. "It's from the animal crossover MHA did for certain characters." You muttered, trying to keep your poker face as you explained further. "As the name implies "Snabi" is you as a snake." You start to blush as The Villain releases a soft chuckle.

"I gotta say, doll." Dabi picked up where Shigaraki left off, rinsing the dishes and drying them without a complaint or being asked, which was odd. "Looks like you can stick up for yourself too. I'm impressed. Challenging gamer boy that is."

It made you suspicious. What's his motive? Dabi isn't known for his charity. He must want something... other than getting back home and getting his revenge on his father and continuing his march on raising hell, tearing down hero society and burning himself into an early grave.

You shook your head and sigh. "What do you want?" Scrubbing down the pot from the rice cooker with a soapy sponge.

"Spunky and bright aintcha?" Dabi teased, smirking. Drying the plastic rice scooper and setting it down in the drying wrack. "Compared to most chicks who would have begged for their lives, cried, pissed their panties and screamed bloody murder." He rolled his pretty blue eyes and gave you a devilish grin. "I'd say your tougher than you look."

What the hell is with these Villains giving you compliments today? It's nice and unexpected. It's working. Oh, how you fucking hate how it's working. Your face grows hotter as you fully turn to look at him. "Okay, are you high or taking a hit of snow or some shit?" You made a face of half disgust and confusion that made the flame villain snicker.

"Do I look like I have the cash to be takin' drugs?" Dabi retorted, giving you a shit eating grin and showing off his pearly whites.

You stared into his eyes. Azure blues light yet dark as a starlight filled sky. You could get lost in them for hours.

Dabi's lips quirked higher. "Got a thing for baddies don'tcha doll?" He's trying to get underneath your skin, and it was working.

Shit, he caught you staring. "I'm a sucker for blue, green and golden eyes okay." You stammer and glance away, returning to finishing the last of the dishes, face nearly bursting into flames. "Fuck, forget I said that."

"Cute." He said in a teasing tone. "And no. I don't think I will." Completely denying your request.

Of course not. You knew underneath Dabi's laidback, tough guy, angry, angsty, vengeful and festering daddy issues, self-loathing and sarasam; he was a guy who'd gotten his heart broken too many times. Mostly by his shitty excuse of a father, Enji Todoroki, Endeavor.

"You dodged my question." You reminded him without glancing at the dark-haired man. "It's only fair since I've answered yours honestly, isn't it?"

"Fair enough." Dabi shrugged his shoulders, rinsing the rest of the silverware. "Nothing wrong with bonding and helping right?"

"You're more of a chatter box and as nosy as you look, aren't you?" You fire back.

"Awe." Dabi pouts in fake sympathy. "Don't go cold on me now, doll."

"If you are curious about what the fuck is happening with me between Hawks and Shigaraki? I'm just as clueless and in the dark as you are." You turn the tap fully onto Dabi's side as you dry your hands with another hand towel from the drawer beside you on your left. "Are you secretly worried that some sort of soulmate thing will happen between you, Overhaul and me too?" You placed the hand towel on you should, reaching for a paper towel to wipe down the excess water on the counter and between the double sinks. Tossing it into the trash can when you are done.

"I'd be lying, if I said I wasn't curious." He shrugs his shoulders. "I don't like surprises."

You frown. "Again. I'm sorry for dragging you all into whatever this is." You turn and hop onto the counter beside your side of the empty sink, crossing your arms underneath your chest and crossed your legs at the ankles. Closing your eyes and leaning back until your head lightly hits the back of the cupboard.

Dabi said nothing at first. "Nothing any of us could have done."

Your gaze shifts towards him. So much is unknown about Dabi's past. Aside from his obsession with watching his family from the shadows and training his quirk by watching his father's video. The rest of the blank years were missing between when he first awoke from his coma until before he joined The League. Maybe to give him that mysterious bad guy vibe? Or it was an afterthought. You didn't know.

"What burning questions are you thinking about now?" Dabi replied without turning his head as he finished rinsing the bowls, adding them to the drying wreck and working on the bowls. "Or are you falling for me already?"

"No." You bite your bottom lip and settle with your hands in your lap. "Did all you ever really do is training your quirk alone and keep to the shadows?" You felt nervous, but you said it anyways.

The flame villain paused. "Aren't you supposed to know everyone about us? Our pasts? Our futures?"

"No. Not everything." You emphasize and explain. "All of The League's back stories are mentioned and shown in later seasons, but not everything." You admitted, your voice growing softer. "The least I know is yours and Overhaul." You sigh, opening your eyes. "Shigaraki's and Hawks I think stayed the same into their teens and adulthood."

"You really do have a bleeding heart, don't you?" Dabi pointed out. Not surprised as he didn't answer your question. "Even for a cold hearted and screwed up bastard like me, huh?" He meets your gaze after finishing the dishes, shutting off the water and placing the now damp hand towel to hang on the faucet.

"Nobody is completely heartless." You shoot back and offer him the hand towel sitting on your shoulder.

Dabi takes the offered towel, raising a brow. "You would be surprised how truly heartless some can get doll." He surprises you dropping the towel, pressing closer. Too close. Uncrossing your legs, spreading them with ease and wedging himself in between, and caging you against the counter.

Your eyes widened as your heart stuttered, and you felt his body heat.

The Villain hunched his shoulders until his face was eye level with yours. "If you keep thinking naive shit like that someone's gonna take advantage of you." His fingers drummed against the countertop; he smirks, wide and wolfish, staples pulling wide. Leaning forward, his breath hot and fanning your ear, causing you to shudder. "Still trust me?"

Dabi is exactly the type of bad boy mothers tell their daughters to stay away from. Staring so close into those criminally and devlish blue eyes, the longer he stood inside your personal space; the more curious you were wondering what he was going to do? Dabi was many things. Bold. An asshole. Crass and shameless. A demon on your shoulder, surrounded by smoke, char and hellfire with a pile of dead bodies continuing to pile his funeral pyre, feeding his flames, uncontrollable rage, hatred and broken dreams.

Out of all three Villains.

Dabi was the one you were the most cautious about. Unpredictable. A loose cannon. He can switch at the drop of a hat and that made him more deadly, dangerous. Dabi is willing to burn and take down whoever stands in his way to completing his goal, same as Tomura Shigaraki and Overhaul.

You knew if you showed fear again, they'd eat you alive. If you crumbled, they would win. You remained quiet, staring deeply into his twin pools of sapphire gems as the muscles in his jaw ticked and clenched against his burnt jaw, scars and staples. He clearly didn't like your silence. It seemed to piss him off, even more.

This staring contest was growing more awkward. You were beginning to think you'd lost your mind, if you'd rather be anywhere else, but here. Knew if any of the others saw you two in such a risky situation that it would look at if you and Dabi were a break away from kissing right now.

Once the shock faded you began to notice what you hadn't before.

You can smell nicotine and charcoal. A hint of cinnamon? And coconut? Your surprised expression faded quickly into confusion, then it clicks. "You used my shampoo and toothpaste, didn't you?"

Dabi's face grew blank as he backed away and rolling his eyes. "What if I did?" He sassed, reaching into the pocket of his sweats and pulling out a pack of cigarettes. "You said we could use whatever." Turning the back upside down, smacking it against the palm of his free hand until a nicotine stick loosened enough for him to grab it. "I didn't use your toothbrush, if that's what you're worried about." He brings it to his lips and lighting it with his finger.

"You still could have asked anyways." You huffed and hoping down off the counter to pick up the discarded hand towel.

"Didn't feel like it." He countered, taking another deep inhaul and quickly blew it out, shoving the pack back inside his pocket, turning and heading towards the living room couch. "Night, mini fan." Dabi had found one of the spare sheets and blankets from the hall closet and gathered the throw pillows your grandma insisted on getting.

You watched as he plopped down onto the floral couch; lounging as if he owned the place. "Good night, Dabi." You shook your head as a small smile broke out on across you face as you flipped the light switch off and headed towards your bedroom. "Get some sleep. I imagine Hawks and Overhaul are early risers."

The flame villain scoffed, watching you leave as he took another drag. "You have no idea."

Once you left down the hall and completely out of sight.

Dabi sunk deeper into the couch, staring into the darkness until his eyes adjusted as he felt his face heat up in embarrassment and he released a shaky breath; his heart pounding within his chest. He may act tough, but he knew jack shit when he came to women. Dabi didn't have time for dates, thinking about chasing pretty girls or getting laid. He'd always been to hyper focused on training his quirk, his career as a Villain, plotting his revenge to even care.

Now, he was stuck here in an alternate universe. A quirkless world. Free of Metahuman abilities that only existed in fiction and fantasy. He'd guess that OverBitch thought of this world as paradise or heaven compared to back home, if the germ freak wanted to get rid of quirks so fucking bad.

Dabi didn't even know why he'd felt territorial over you earlier. Jealousy? Why the way the feathered chickens sappy, mushy and lovestruck gaze pissed him the hell off. Or how Shigaraki was able to touch you? You weren't dead. You were still standing. Alive and normal. Unchanged. His thoughts went back towards the nightmare you had mentioned earlier. How your red string was tied to theirs, the one wrapped around your finger, and connecting to the ones buried deep within their chests.

Dabi felt his heart skip another beat. He shivered, remembering the painful feeling of his string being pulled and yanked by the crazy goddess and stuck-up bitch. Inhaling another puff of smoke, holding it for as long as he could and slowly letting it out, leaning over and reaching for the metal ashtray and placing it on his stomach. His free hand raising and landing his palm flat against where his heart lay within his scarred chest. Flicking the ashes into the ashtray before putting it out.

Whatever. He blew the last plume of smoke through his nose, setting the ashtray back onto the coffee table, covering himself with a blanket, resting an arm underneath his head and relaxed further. Dabi glared at the ceiling, scowling as he rubbed his eyes with the heel of his hand and yawned. He didn't care, if you knew how their pasts, their futures or how their stories ended. You were another person in their way. Another steppingstone. Tied to them by fate or not.

Dolls another distracted that he didn't need. A cute, feisty... distraction. Your wide doe-like eyes. Smooth looking skin. Curves and kissable lips. Dabi swallowed, his lips twitched and curling. You knew he would be waiting outside should you run, and you didn't. You knew about All For One. To think old ball sack face had been one of the men talking to him in that computer screen back then after he'd first awakened from his coma. That shit hole of an orphanage that Mister Sunny ran, and Dabi had burnt to the ground. So Overjerk was there too, huh?

And yet, what exactly did you mean when you said him and birdbitch had been failed successors? The fuck was that about? Then again, the old him had been obsessed with pleasing his father and wanted to run home. Was it his blind and twisted, unshakable devotion and revenge that saved him?

Shigaraki and Hawks didn't know about that place.

Guess, Dabi should consider himself lucky given what happened to the bastard finding handyman. The underfed, crazy, bratty manchild looked as neglected, lonely, touch and love starved as the rest of them. He'd bet the money he had in his wallet that once germ freak finds out that Shiggy touched you he'd lose his shit. He'd keep it to himself for now. Watch and observe from the shadows, same as he'd always done.

Closing his eyes. Dabi wondered if anyone had noticed any of them were missing back home? Or had time stopped? Had doppelgangers taken their places? Did Twice create doubles of himself, Shigaraki and Overhaul to trick everyone until they returned? Rolling onto his side, he wondered if he truly had lost it? Hit his head and had fallen into some crazy dream or coma again only this time Shigaraki, Hawks, Overhaul and you were trapped inside his head with him.

He'd never seen you before in his life. And yet, he had felt your body heat against his own. Your coconut shampoo and conditioner. The way your breath had hitched, and your breath fanned his face, staring deep into his eyes as he stared back. He'd felt his stomach flip and nervous butterflies, his palms growing clammy as he wondered if he should have quickly stollen a kiss before the others, even tried. It would piss them off. He wouldn't give a single flying fuck.

Dabi wasn't a quitter. He'd observe. Figure out your dislikes and likes. Slowly watch and figure out how to woo you and steal your heart away from the others. He'd waited nearly a decade to come out into the light from the shadows and into the spotlight as a Villain. What difference would it make if he had to wait longer?

Besides you were already a fan of his, weren't you? True, he shared you with the others, but he'd noticed you had zero Endeavor merch or other Hero merch aside from Hawks. Mostly his, Overhaul's and Shigaraki's. If you knew his backstory. He wondered what did you think of his father, Enji Todoroki, Endeavor? Did you hate him? Did you see how corrupt and rotten Hero society is to the core within their world? What else would you share with them?

Guess he'd find out soon enough. Dabi's breathing started to even out, his chest rising and falling slowly, falling into the realm of dreams and blackness of the night. It had been a long time since he'd fallen asleep so fast. So deeply. He didn't dream of his past. Burning alive. If hellfire, orange flames, phantoms of his childhood. He just slept. A deep slumber and rest that felt as if he had only closed his eyes and blinked.

Snoring, dead to the world and lights out.

--- End of Chapter 11 ----

Woohoo 🙌 I hope everyone enjoyed MC's second interaction with Dabi? 💙🥰 I know our flamed alleycat was probably way out of character offering to help with the dishes. Or switching tactics to get close and personal, eating up your personal space. As Overhaul mentioned before "who's playing fair?"

Dabi does whatever he pleases.

All's fair in Love and War, right?

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[duskstarskies]

Hii! Top 5 purple duo moments for the ask game ^_^

HI!!! and YES YES YES GES YES okay i love this sm. this question also gives me a chance to talk about season 3 more. i feel like s4 purples is more established and it’s kinda hard to rlly get them there bc its them in face of conflict, they are relying on their bond built up from former seasons and u can’t rlly evaluate them without knowing that relationship. I really do enjoy the rifts in their relationship tho it rlly confronts them with their flaws and stuff they Dont Really Talk About Ever. (bc they are so ok with just letting things be unsaid. kills them kills them kills them)

also this is not in order if i had to sort this out idk if i would be able to lol…

1 - walking on air in survival minecraft

This very well could be vitalasy’s personal “peak” on lifesteal (talking content not lore) and it’s awesome how much this derails him later on. This is where i think their relationship rlly starts to strengthen and develop, they literally huddle together to comfort each other to prepare to fight the revengers. It’s their first big-stakes plan working together, vitalasy had his dripstone (which subz helped with) but its both of them here since they both died to the revengers. i just rlly loved this video and i rlly loved purpleduo in here.

Also its vitalasy’s baby steps working with bending minecraft rules :3 it makes so much sense for him to escalate the glitches for s4, and why wouldn't it work out, s3 was such a success! 

During s4 deliverance, vitalasy makes an offhand comment about how “we rlly are walking on air” when theyre walking on barrier blocks to the final eclipse base. That's a callback to this. I love callbacks. how much times have changed since then…

2 - s3 deliverance

I kinda chose s3 deliverance bc i dont rlly talk about it ever and a lot of things have been said about s4’s already. And without s3 deliverance we would not have gotten s4’s. so it’s the blueprint!

It’s also very telling of subz and his thing for the past like every single action he does in lifesteal is so influenced by past events. and okay, like duh everything we do is based on past things that happened to us but it’s rlly the most apparent in him bc he directly references back to shit ALL THE DAMN TIME. u can tell how s3 influenced subz to plan s4’s deliverance bc he passes the goal of saving the server to vitalasy…

(in s3 vitalasy’s got this hero thing going on reviving everyone whos been banned, defeating clownpierce. So after he sacrifices all his hearts to revive everyone, he asks subz to ban him, to finish off clownpierece, his original last goal) 

since there’s very little footage and general canon stuff i rlly am out here making shit up. and i LOVE IT!!!!!

also subz fights with vi’s sword instead of deliverance in the final battles of s3 which is. Gugghhhhhhgghhggg.

3 - karaoke

one of my favorite vitalasy quirks is that he’s a singerrrrrrr it’s very endearing to me. and alot of the times subz kinda lets him do his thing yk (vi going, “just the two of usss, we could make it if we tried!” and subz going mhm mhm likeeee). there’s this karaoke stream that only exists in clips and its honestly such a ??? experience bc subz audio is delayed or something and he thinks hes so nonchalant #smh. i like that it was probably 100% vitalasy’s idea and subz just sounds like he wants to die. but he goes along with it anyway. very fun awesome purpleduo dynamic

there’s a canonical lifesteal boyband and vitalasy was lead… that’s also important to mention. there’s also this moment where vitalasy is singing the “l is for the way you look at me” song and he waits for subz to finish the line (the v and e part), subz doesn’t know it so there’s like an awkward silence and vitalasy gets mad at him it’s funny. right after [this clip] (context: zam and mapicc kill him again so hes on 5 hearts) vitalasy starts to sing cupid by fifty-fifty and subz just endures. he’s singing “i gave a second chance to cupidddd, now im left here feeling stupiddddd” with such solemnity it’s like wow… vitalasy you are so teenage girl. and subz is his best friend who can not rly gaf but shes stuck on the phone with him anyway.

and best believe if purples actually sang baby it’s cold outside for the lifesteal christmas album i would not be normal about that AT ALL.

i don’t know if this was a true “moment” it’s kind of a collection of them, i think it’s fun and it’s all the same idea so im counting it :3

4 - the meeting

I was going to make a whole separate post about this scene bc it freaks me up and also it IS THE FIRST TIME SUBZ DOESN’T AGREE TO HELP VITALASY WITH HIS PLANS OUTRIGHT… and he is so so so so scared about it, hes scared of vitalasy, hes scared for zam… I LOVE IT SO MUCH. and one of my favorite screenshots of them ever:

They’re looking at that moon from two completely different perspectives. Vitalasy thinks this is a chance for a “classical team up” while subz is at war in his mind and has the spotlight (moonlight) on him now. I love this scene so much it completely makes subz confront his undying loyalty towards vi and love for zam. which ultimately tears him apart. And him denying to help vitalasy on trapping zam in that box forevers while meekishly going “but u can… if it makes you happy” / “ur not like mad or upset i don’t want to...” / “i feel like if i say no im betraying him” ……………

This is honestly such an awesome awkward conversation between purpleduo and it highlights their differences soooo well u barely ever see purpleduo at odds LIKE THIS EVER i love it

“justice, revenge… they’re very different.” / “i could visit him!” ………Vitalasy.

5 - meow? meow meow meow! kitty4kitty. and also oomf uzukali’s art that i love forever ever ever ever evers

honorable mentions:

“if vitalasy jumps off a bridge im jumping after him” - the reason why i started posting clips of them tbh. like he said that shit so casually and it’s not meant to be that deep but it is. it means SO MUCH!!!!!!! fuck u fuck u fuck u fuck u i hate you itzsubz. (said with adoration)

S4 end fight ^__^ subz knew vi was going to give ro and mapicc the hearts, he was still on his side even tho everyone else thought he betrayed for personal gains. WATCH THIS CLIP RIGHT NEOW. which honestly makes the rest of s4 so damaging bc this kinda shows vitalasy’s goodwill… n how it all turns on him later on. love it so much <3 vitalasy and his big fat stupid heart. also i just love s4 endfight in general, dualities sweeeep (also one of the best ls videos but u didnt hear that from me) (coming from a ls video enjoyer)

Ending minecraft’s deadliest assasin when vitalasy goes “i couldn’t even get myself to trust my best friend…” and its vitalasy asking if subz would betray him. Probably staged but it gets turned around in my head a lot… s3 where they’ve been through a lot already. But this was when nothing seemed hopeful. And they haven’t been through anything that could really tear them apart yet. It’s the doubt that lingers bc they’re still relatively new to each other… big big fan of that video in general.

(edit) oh my god i forgot about reunion. initiation of eclipse… vitalasy coming back after apo/dupe war… ough. and they kiss.

whenever they match each other’s freak. They are not normal about each other

[unwaveringemotions]

bakudeku will live together. izuku is now a teacher in U.A., this is his hero academia, he loves to teach to those little kids that remind him of him and his friends, there’s a kid especially that reminds about him. he has a quirk but is shy and has a low self esteem. deku will help him.

bakugou is now the number one hero, he is a peace symbol because izuku - quirkless but happy - wanted that his kacchan would’ve been this symbol, no one else could be in this role, because after all bakugou’s dreams too was to become the number one. izuku gives him this possibility , he also saved the world and his strong and gentle even if people wouldn’t say so but izuku knows him better than anyone one. he loves him for this after all.

every day izuku and bakugou share kisses before to go to work, every evening they try to go home as soon as possible because so they can have dinner together and then go to bed and share cuddles and kisses.

everything is perfect, everything is good.

this is how bnha will end well maybe not with kisses and cuddle on screen but this is how it’ll end trust me i had a vision !!!

[r-u-living]

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[hatsunevita]

post-war bakudeku as pro hero duo where deku, having lost his quirk, starts using technological support stuff (like the costume all might had during his fight with all for one) because he is not ready to give up his dream and there are still people in need of saving.

and i like this concept because i think bakugou would destroy anyone who dares say that deku is not a hero anymore due to his quirk loss. bro is literally the first one to defend izuku’s honour and he gets so pissed when anyone underestimates deku and his determination to save people no matter what.

just. just imagine bakugou saying “you don’t need a quirk to be a hero, and izuku is a living proof of this phrase”. imagine him continuing to view deku as his equal. as someone worthy of competing. as his partner – in any sense.

[nepttunnee]

the thing that really gets me in mha is that like. before deku gets his quirk everyone is like you cant be a hero at all. which at the time makes sense bc all might is number one but like at all??? thats crazy. and then woah he has a quirk and he can be a hero and gets into the top class of the top hero school and we immediately meet a guy whose power is just tail. his name is tailman. and another who i kid you the fuck not is a diaper wearing misogynist whose whole schtick is he has sticky balls. and they’re like these r the top students ever!! the future of japan!! and deku is like i could have never gotten here without all might!! meanwhile ojiro is sitting there like a singular fucked up backflip away from being in the same boat as him hello?? looking at him straight on he’s just man?? are you serious right now. and then deku loses his super cool quirk whatevs and has to wait forever for his super powerful best friend/lover/enemy? to buy him a super cool gadget thingy whole time fucking tailman is over here on the same level as the kid who makes lightning bolts strong enough to fry the human brain come out of his hands

[the-mad-martian-on-mars]

i’m watching all the mha movies again and seeing izuku fighting genuinely brings tears to my eyes he’s THE HERO out of everyone in the world he’s the one who deserves a quirk it’s so unfair it’s so fucking unfair

[red-n-ded]

Stowaway AU

For @numberoneredriotfan

In Stowaway AU, Lala and Roro join Rody and Deku in their road trip running away from the cops. The entire Soul family get to bond and heal with Deku, who inspires, not just Rody, but all of them to chase after their dreams.

Fic ramble below ⬇️

Lala and Roro forgot to give Rody his tie before he left so they run after him to give it to him. Unfortunately, they get lost and Lala spots Deku, Shoto and Bakugou doing errands. She splits away from Roro to ask the heroes-in-training for help. Roro panics when he sees that his little sister is gone.

Deku offers to walks around with her, calming down the scared girl by asking her about herself and her brother as they call out for Rody’s name. He protects her during the bank robbery and chases after Rody for the case of jewelry. However, Lala recognizes Rody and when Deku attempts to jump onto the roof to continue the chase after Pino flew into his face, Lala grabs onto Izuku’s leg begging to be brought along (deja vu?). At first, Izuku is hesitant to bring a child with him but at Lala’s insistence, he ends up carrying her on his back, careful to make sure she doesn’t get hurt. Roro spots the chase from below and runs after them.

When Izuku crashes into the train, Rody is horrified to see his sister happily waving at him from the hero’s back. At the station, Rody worriedly checks Lala if she's hurt. She assures him that she had fun riding on Izuku’s back and explains that she came to give his tie. (she doesn’t tell rody how she was screaming into Izuku ear the first few jumps. she apologizes to izuku about it later)

Rody immediately starts scolding her and the hero but gets caught in the middle when Izuku asks for the case and Lala asks what Rody’s job actually is. Izuku and Rody still fight over the briefcase (with Rody trying to make a run for with it while carrying Lala under his arm) and Izuku still apologizes to him when the case opens. To make it up to both of them, he helps Rody and Lala to go find Roro. (Lala instantly feels guilty for leaving him behind) They do find him in the crowd before getting cornered by the police.

Rody is ordered to hold onto his back and the kids while Izuku escapes the police and Humanrise. Rody doesn’t pass out, focused on holding onto his siblings (all of them screaming in fear), but the added weight does makes Izuku fall from the bridge. After escaping from the water, they find out that Izuku is accused of child kidnapping and mass murder. Lala advocates for Izuku since she’s the one “kidnapped”.

Once Izuku suggests they run, Roro and Rody are eager to leave him behind. Lala doesn’t want to, trusting Izuku, but she reluctantly agrees when her brothers remind her of the many heroes who never came to help them. Rody calls the police and all Souls go to trade in the case for their normal live again but it’s revealed to be a trick. Izuku is woken up by Pino and Izuku saves the Souls from the arrow. Lala starts crying about Izuku dying and Roro desperately looking for a doctor or a hospital (cry-yelling at Izuku to not pull out the arrow). Rody tries to calm them down as they look for a place to hide.

Roro instructs Rody how to properly heal him, telling him how to support the arrow and bandage it (note: do not remove arrows if you’re pierced by them. Clean then cut the arrow and bandage over the head. Only remove when completely necessary and it’s obstructing movement.)

They hide in a cave to properly get rid of the arrow and properly bandage his wound. Izuku is in awe of Roro’s skill, who reveals that he wants to be a doctor and reads medical textbooks for fun. Izuku encourages him to pursue that dream but Roro gets upset and offended, thinking that Izuku is only optimistic because he has everything. Roro accidentally reveals that he’s quirkless. It makes all Souls panic, especially when Izuku looked like he saw ghost. Roro starts to cry and in his silent break down, Rody pulls him into a hug. Lala joins in.

Izuku watches helplessly and pinned against protective glares. Rody shares Roro's sentiment, quietly revealing he wants to be a pilot but cannot due to their situation. Lala remains silent and hugs Rody’s arm. They all brace for pity but Izuku just smiles and stage whispers to Roro and Lala, asking if they can keep a secret. Lala excitedly says yes while Roro nods as he wipes his tears, confused but earnest in his promise. Izuku reveals that he was once quirkless too and his quirk came in extremely late. He has struggled and had to work twice as hard but is willing to work for his dream and catch up to his classmates. This surprises all the Souls and with their perspectives changed, they all properly introduce themselves.

On the road trip, Izuku bonds with the Souls as the kids are eager to learn about Izuku’s stories and with every story, they (including Rody) see the hero in a new light. (After the whole mission, they beg Rody to search up Izuku’s sport festival fight just so they see the real thing)

At the gas station, Lala and Izuku cannot be seen so Roro and Rody work together to distract the cashier.

At the mountain, Roro and Lala loudly cheer on Izuku as he pulls up the truck. (They get to the other side within a few hours)

When they stop at a flower field to review the directions, Izuku notices Lala's habit of talking to plants and flowers, often believing that they understand her. She gives Izuku and Rody matching flowers for luck (making both boys blush), finds special herbs that the flowers told her can help with the pain and thanks a plum tree for providing four ripe plums that suddenly appeared on a low hanging branch. Izuku is curious and suspicious but Roro and Rody are used to it, allowing Lala keep her innocence and play pretend.

They stop so Roro can check on Izuku’s wounds and take out the arrowhead. Izuku continues to tell Roro and Lala about his time in UA and his experiences and friends while Rody fixes his bandages. Lala is most excited about the fighting parts, eyes shining as Izuku recalls his fight with Muscular.

“Actually Kota is about your age. He’s kinda grumpy but has this cool water quirk that lets his shoot water out of his hands.”

“He sounds fun! I wanna be his friend! He can water all my other friends.”

Izuku explains to Roro about Recovery Girl and the existence of scholarships and internships. Roro gets excited and despite Rody insistence to not worry, Roro admits that he knows about his struggles and is willing to do anything to help Rody gives him a tight hug and is willing to support him all the way, making him promise to be the best doctor Otheon could offer.

Unable to resist, Izuku then asks for their quirks. Lala’s quirk hasn’t come in despite her 6th birthday coming up in a few months so she’s expected to be quirkless. After seeing Izuku so accepting to Roro, Rody carefully introduces Pino.

They arrive at Klayd and prepare to split up but Humanrise attacks and Rody nearly falls to his death while izuku grabs the kids and the briefcase. Lala cries out for someone to save him and before Todoroki arrives, the trees reach out to grab him from mid-air.

Apparently Lala was telling the truth (sort of). While she cannot understand plants and they can’t talk to her, she can project her pure emotions and thoughts to the plants around her, similar to how Rody is soul-bonded with Pino. (Izuku theorizes that the stronger her emotions, the greater the radius of her quirk) Lala immediately gets excited by her quirk, especially since it resembles Rody’s so much.

Izuku and Lala ramble about her quirk before they’re interrupted by Bakugou and Shoto. While Rody, Shoto and Izuku try to solve the puzzle, Roro and Lala sit awkwardly with Bakugou. Lala then gets the courage to ask about UA. Bakugou brags about his experience as a student and banters with Roro, who claims Deku is the best hero. Bakugou assumes Lala’s interest means that she wants to be a hero but Lala instantly becomes insecure, not really responding yes or no (her eyes darting to Roro and Rody). Bakugou notices and awkwardly tries (in his own way) give her encouragement, recalling how she saved her brother. He then asks Roro if he wants to be a hero. The boy is quiet at first but remembers Izuku’s words and admits his dream with pride, barking out a threat if Bakugou dares to tease him. Bakugou is stunned but laughs, impressed by his guts and orders him to not let any stupid people get in his way.

They find out about Eddie and the Soul family cry together, Lala being reassured by Shoto that her father is a good man and a hero. Izuku encourages the family to leave to safety but Rody hesitates. Usually he’s happy to have the world burn as long as he’s with his siblings but Rody isn’t so eager to leave Izuku behind now, especially after the entire Soul family bonded with him. Luckily, Roro and Lala becomes the last push to convince Rody to help them. They hijack a plane and Roro and Lala hug Izuku good luck, giving him the flower that dropped during the fight. (Izuku tucks the wilted flower in his pocket)

Rody plans to fly all of them to safety just in case it doesn’t work but they crash land and get captured. Roro and Lala are held hostage while Rody gives the key but at the swap, Lala and Roro uses it as a distraction to escape. Rody still gets shot and Roro and Lala get separated across the room. Izuku fights Flecturn while Lala hides. Lala watches the fight from her hiding place. She has full confidence in Izuku but is desperate to help. She starts to panic and looks away, angry at herself for being unable to do anything. Unknown to her, her anger and determination causes her quirk to make the flower in Izuku’s pocket to overgrow. Izuku notices this and throws it at Flecturn, encasing and choking the villain with the petals and vines. It holds him down long enough to give Izuku a breather and defeat him sooner. Izuku searches for Lala, who is overjoyed that Izuku won but Izuku retorts that it was Lala who defeated him. Izuku shows Lala the overgrown flower and explains how it saved her and her family. (“You’re our hero, Lala.”)

Lala and Izuku hear the countdown stop and rush to where Rody and Roro are. They find the key plugged in (thanks to Pino) and Roro is cradling a tired Rody, who’s lying on the ground, while trying to stop the bleeding. Izuku tells Roro that he’s doing great and removes the weight from him by cradling Rody himself. Rody weakly asks if he was a hero like his father and Izuku happily replies that they all were. They all laugh-crying together

When Izuku wakes up and learns that he’s assigned a hospital room with the Souls, who all insisted that Izuku is family. He cries when the doctors tell him this and sits next to Rody on his bed when he wakes up, to thank him. Roro and Lala wake up and light up when they see Rody and Izuku awake, escaping from their beds to tackle the two teens in relief.

Shoto and Bakugou finds them all asleep on Rody’s bed. Realizing how much they mean to Izuku, they get a working phone for Rody.

All the Souls are there when they say bye at the airport. Roro promises to get a scholarship and get into the best doctor school possible. Izuku says that Recovery Girl is willing to accept apprenticeships at UA and Roro says he wants to be worthy of it, shyly admitting wanting to see Izuku again. This realization makes the kids cry, afraid that they won’t see him again for a while, and unlike in the movie, Rody doesn’t have the heart to tell him to not come back. He stays quiet and comforts his siblings while hiding his own tears. (“Come on guys. Don’t cry. We’re in public.”) Izuku notices that Pino is at the verge of tears and initates the hug, promising to come back. The kids join in when Rody hugs back.

Izuku is about to leave but when he’s a couple feet away, Lala, who was looking nervous before, yells out to Izuku.

“Is it possible that I can become a hero even with this quirk?”

This comes to a shock to everyone. This is the first time Lala ever voiced her dream out loud. Lala has always admired the idea of helping people and especially people who don’t often get help from heroes. Roro and Rody always said that they don’t like heroes so she never said anything and brushed it off as a pipe dream. But after seeing Izuku and how he isn’t like the heroes that pass by her area, how her brothers can actually trust him, she is now definite that being a hero is all she wants to be.

“I always dreamed of a being hero for my community, one that can defend my home. Could I ever hope to become someone like you?”

Izuku recalls a similar memory and nervousness on the rooftop with All Might. The bittersweet feeling nearly makes Izuku cry but at the memory of tears and sunset in alleyway comes racing back, a wave of pride takes over. He gives Lala a genuine smile and say the words he wished and did hear that day.

“Lala Soul, you too can become a hero.”

Such simple words but Lala lets out a sob as her dreams are validated. Izuku waves goodbye to his family in Otheon, excited to visit again and see the kind of hero the youngest Soul will grow up to be one day.

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Just want to say: a, I admire very much that you've figured out a healthy way to work on your fics that allows you to have fun with it. And also b, am very excited to hear that you are getting there with pez! It has fully given me brain rot ever since I read it last year, there is just such a lack of content for the highly specific trope of using time travel as a device to explore extremely unhealthy levels of self loathing.

I just adore everything you're doing in it. Neither midoriya is anywhere approaching okay for any portion of the fic and I love rereading and mining into all the subtle characterization pointing to that. It's a bit like nhtycth in that some really goofy funny stuff is often hiding some really fucking worrying things, but the fact that characters DO do that stuff—that todoroki uses his teaspoon's worth of extremely stunted social skills to bludgeon his friend's door open and help him, that a rpf shipping war is an actual source of drama despite how goofy the sentiment seems on the surface, that about half of what jon says is deeply worrying and the other half is extremely funny and there's a lot of overlap between the two—really lifts the tension and brightens the universe. It's sort of similar to what you did with gerry, in that endless misery isn't nearly as painful as the ups and downs of a life that, when you step back and zoom out, has something deeply and horribly wrong with it.

(jon sort of reminds me of spider-man in that he uses human to deal with trauma and stress, except I don't think he at any point realizes how fucking funny he is. He's just there, in a home depot, gnashing his teeth because he's got so many bodies to dispose of and this cashier sure is taking her time.)

I really, really, really have had trouble finding fics that take everything midoriya has dealt with to task. It's a hell of a thing to live 14 years as a disabled minority, have it heavily shape your existence, and then one day you wake up and you realize you're...not that, or at least, nobody will ever acknowledge you as that again. You've lost all claim to it. Those experiences that shaped who you are? Dust in the wind. 14 years of pain and life might as well be buried in the ground for all the good they do you. Nobody's going to cut you any slack or quarter, you've gotta simply work harder, be better. And now when you do that you get the results you wanted, so that's fine, then. That's good. There was something wrong with the you before, and there's something right with the you now, and if the transition is a little rough, well that doesn't matter, you're the same as everyone else now, so it's your own job to fill in whatever gaps you need to.

I really can't get over how mentally fucked it must be for midoriya to run into quirkless people, run across quirkless issues, and be silently caught between, incapable of speaking his mind and too scared to do so anyway around those he can trust.

Also I should mention, I'm just very excited for bakugou to get back from the gym. He's been there like a year I hope he's getting a good workout in.

Me realizing that it’s been a year since pez dispenser debris:

I feel like there’s just this very specific type of grief that Izuku has to grapple with in the span of pez dispenser debris that I’m just obsessed with. He’s sort of silently mourning who he could have been, when 1) he has to present like there’s nothing lost to maintain his secret and 2) the entire world is constantly inundating him with the message that there was nothing lost.

Like. I don’t want to get too deep into it because it risks spoiling things and I do have major plans to continue it (I’ve loved this story for so many years before I ever even hit publish), but the emotion that Izuku’s feeling right now is so much more complex than “I hate who I used to be and want him to stop existing” or “I just want to keep my secrets.” And I think the way he interacts with Mirio is the biggest evidence of that.

Izuku’s placed himself at the very center of the Quirklessness debate with his support of Mirio. He fights for Quirkless heroes, very publicly, to the point where he’s not even graduated yet but considered to be one of the most prominent voices on the matter. If you took a poll of Quirkless people as to which hero would be most supportive of them pursing their own career in heroics, Izuku would be right at the top of the list. When it comes to Quirklessness itself, he’s nothing but supportive.

But he didn’t tell Mirio the truth of his own Quirklessness.

Out of everyone, Mirio’s the one everyone expects to know, despite him being a relatively newer relationship compared to someone like Iida or Uraraka or Todoroki. And I tried to imply that he’s sort of the one who knows the most about Izuku out of everyone save All Might.

Like, we’ll get into how much exactly Mirio knows soon, so I won’t divulge what, if anything, Izuku has told him. But we know that Mirio knows, weirdly enough, that Izuku is deeply fucking haunted. He knows that boy has many violent ghosts in his bones. He finds it hilarious and will tell their realtor about it. Izuku told him about the discontent spirits who died in a violent passion and live on inside of him before he told him about his Quirklessness.

And I just feel like one of those things is a little bit easier to discuss than the other.

Izuku has decided to keep his own Quirklessness quiet in a way that surpasses secrecy about One for All. If it was just about OfA, he could tell people he didn’t get his quirk until the entrance exam, and it wouldn’t even be a lie. He’s purposefully obscuring his own past as Quirkless even as he takes a forefront of the Quirkless hero debate with his open support of Mirio.

And the fact that he’s at the forefront of this debate in and of itself requires a difficult dichotomy. He is the world’s most vocal proponent for the first Quirkless hero. He is a known figure in the Quirkless community now.

He isn’t considered one of them anymore. He’s an outsider coming in.

It must be such a strange, odd sort of grief to come to the people you were home amongst for most of your life and be greeted as a stranger. To return home, and to be welcomed in for the first time, and to not even be able to tell people that you’ve lived here all your life and don’t need a tour.

It’s a sort of death of self, I think. And I think Izuku never expected to have to grapple with his own ghost.

[vaguelyaperson]

everyone who thinks deku can’t continue to be a hero after losing his quirks SEVERELY underestimate the shit this menace could get up to if he had a batman style utility belt