#so long sans is too lazy to anything foster his relationships and help his friends

[carlyraejepsans]

[emimothvine]

📁 for the fuckboy anon.

TW: toxic relationships and abuse

Bakugou has a distorted understanding of romance.

His mother is always loud, always pushing and pushing and pushing until she gets what she wants. She’s violent; she’s crass; she hits her husband when she gets mad because it makes her feel powerful, hits her son because that’s just what you’re supposed to do with shitty kids like him, right?

His father is quiet. Unassuming. No one expects much of him, and that’s exactly how he likes it. Honesty eludes him; manipulation is his friend. He lies to his wife when she asks him where he was last night, lies to his son when he asks why his mother hurts him like she hates him.

Bakugou also wants to be the best. He loves a challenge, thrives in spite and winning and the thrill of proving people wrong. So when his friends start teasing him about his lack of romantic life, he takes it like the bait it was never meant to be.

Long story short, Bakugou gets into a toxic relationship.

It’s a general studies girl. She’s been approaching him, flirting with him, constantly for weeks. He’s told her no, told her to fuck off multiple times, but she’s kept at it. And that’s a good thing, right? Admirable. It means she’s serious, persistent, stubborn, strong. Just like his mother was when she’d gone after his dad. This is how relationships work, isn’t it?

Bakugou thinks so. So when she corners him outside the locker room for the fiftieth time, he tells her yes - just two days after his squad’s teasing. The two go on their first date that weekend, and Bakugou tells the squad the following Monday.

They look shocked, and weirdly enough, not nearly as happy about this new development as Bakugou had anticipated. But they’re supportive, despite their strained smiles.

Bakugou keeps going out with this girl. He doesn’t like it much, but he made a commitment and damn him if he’s going to back out now. For a while, she sits with him and the squad at lunch, always clinging to his arm and demanding a share of his food even though she knows she can’t handle the spice. Bakugou honestly thinks it’s cute how she pushes past her limits like that, finds it refreshing how she isn’t afraid to throw his shit right back at him when he’s being a dick. 

(The class is always weirdly nice to him when he fucks up, but she isn’t; she tells him when he’s being lazy or stupid or mean and it’s familiar. It makes sense. He listens when she tells him to shut up because his laugh is too ugly, to stay still when she kisses him even if he doesn’t want to. He listens because that’s what you’re supposed to do in relationships, and he always gives his best no matter what.) 

(His friends... don’t seem to like her very much. He doesn’t know why.)

She starts dragging him away during lunches. Bakugou supposes it makes sense; they’re dating, so they’re supposed to spend a lot of time together. She gets angry at him when he doesn’t text her back right away, and a lot of their dates are scheduled on the same days as Bakusquad hangouts. When Bakugou tries to back out, to explain, she pushes and pushes and pushes, and he lets her.

(His mom is happy with him, too. He let it slip that he got a girlfriend, and she called him brat and ruffled his hair like she hasn’t in years. You’re lucky she has shit taste, she said, told him not to scare her away by being a pest.)

(And quietly, secretly, he wants her to look at him like that again. Like he’s worth something. He wants her to smile at him more and pet his hair and love him, just a little bit. So he keeps at it, keeps going out with this girl as she tells him to stop talking so much and don’t smile, you look like a lunatic and it’s just a hickey, Suki, don’t be such a prude.)

He comes to class and he can’t look anyone in the eye, because he knows they see the marks on his neck and his face. The imprints of teeth and bruises and little crescent moons on his cheeks and his jaw and his nape from her fingernails. She likes to dig them into his face to get his attention, into his neck to keep him still while she kisses him. (It’s almost worse than the hickeys, because they’re proof of how often he fucks up, how often she needs to set him straight.)

She slaps him sometimes, when he’s done something especially shitty - ignored her for too long, said the wrong thing. Sometimes she’ll ignore him for a few days, when she’s tired of dealing with his shit, but she always comes back. She’s nice about it too - doesn’t make him drag himself out to apologize like his mom does.

Meanwhile, his classmates, his friends, his teachers are just. So concerned. Fucking enraged. Bakugou has become subdued in a way that they have never seen before, and Deku, for his part, is terrified and furious. This girl walks all over his Kacchan and he just lets her, and for the life of him Deku can’t figure out why.

(Once, at lunch, when she and Bakugou were still sitting with them in the cafeteria, she told Bakugou to laugh quieter, it’s gross and everyone can hear you. And he’d just listened. That wide, rare, precious grin had been wiped right off his face and he’d quieted down instantly. No one had said anything out of pure shock.)

(Kirishima, Mina, the rest of the squad, Deku, Uraraka, hell even Todoroki - they were seething. Because Bakugou rarely, rarely let himself laugh like that - hell, all of them sans Deku could count on one hand the times they’d seen his little happy-smile - and this bitch had destroyed those few precious seconds of genuine, carefree laughter because she was fucking self-conscious. If they could kill people with a look, half the goddamn class would have been charged with murder.)

They all hate her. They want to grab Bakugou and shake him and tell him to break up with this bitch, but he doesn’t even have the time to talk to them anymore. The squad wants their Katsuki back, Deku wants his Kacchan back, the class wants their friend back. It’s been weeks. They don’t know what to do.

Their savior comes in the form of one Shinsou Hitoshi.

He’s been watching all this go down from afar, and it’s pissed him right off. He doesn’t know Bakugou that well, honestly thinks he’s a bit of an asshole, but he likes him. He cares about him. They spar occasionally (or they used to), and it’s grueling and fun and satisfying as shit. 

There’s this... something in Bakugou. Too big and too bright to call a fire, too hot and too close to call the sun. And this girl - this toxic, abusive bitch - is smothering it, smothering him, and Shinsou is sick of it.

It’s week six of this bullshit and he does what no one has managed to do in all that time: he finds Bakugou and corners him - away from that toxic bitch he calls his girlfriend.

(Let’s all thank Aizawa for that one. Underground hero training is useful as shit.)

He confronts him about it - asks him, pointblank, “Why do you put up with her?”

And all he gets in response is the most genuinely bemused expression he’d ever seen on Bakugou’s face. 

Something in Shinsou’s stomach drops.

“The fuck are you on about?”

“Your girlfriend, dipshit,��� he says, like it’s obvious, because it is. “Why do you let her treat you like shit?”

Bemusement shifts into pure, unadulterated confusion, and that thing in Shinsou’s stomach falls right down to his feet.

“I don’t let her do shit, dumbass.” He almost sounds indignant. “Now outta my way, I got places to be.”

Bakugou lightly shoves past him, but Shinsou grabs his wrist before he can leave. The blond glances back at him in irritation. Pale, fluorescent light casts dramatic shadows across his face, darkens the marks and the bruises dotting fair skin.

Shinsou grits his teeth. “She hurts you.”

Bakugou doesn’t even hesitate. “Yeah, so?”

The brainwasher’s grip goes slack. 

He doesn’t fully register that Bakugou has dislodged his arm until he’s standing alone in the hallway, but when he does, the first thought that crosses his mind is I have to tell dad.

(The thing about Shinsou is that he knows abuse. He knows what it looks like, what it sounds like, what it feels like, because he’s been through it himself. And yet for the longest time, he had no idea that what his foster parents were doing even constituted as wrong.)

(Then he met Aizawa, and he learned a few things. It fucking sucked, and for a while, nothing felt real and everything was wrong and he didn’t know what to do. But Aizawa was there for him, helped him through all the nitty-gritty-shitty parts of having your whole world turned inside-out, and lo-and-behold, Shinsou got adopted like four months ago.)

(But the point is, Shinsou isn’t an idiot. He knows this shit, he’s been through this shit, and the fact of the matter is that there is no way Bakugou would think that what he’s going through is okay unless he’s used to it. So what the fuck does Shinsou do now?)

(He goes to the man that pulled him out of the fire.)

(“Dad, I need to talk to you.”)

[skygemspeaks]

some lesser known manga that i really really really recommend y’all read.

favs are in bold!

Cat Street - Keito Aoyama used to be a child actress. But after a traumatizing event caused her to quit from the acting business, she became a shut-in, refusing to go to school or interact with anyone. One day, she meets a man who tells her that he’s the principal of a free school - where there’s no set schedule and students can set their own pace. Slowly, Keito sets foot back into the outside world, and meets people who help her grow and heal from her past trauma. 

Chichi Kogusa - A story about a medicine seller who spends most of his time on the road, doing his work. When his wife suddenly passes away however, he becomes the sole caregiver of his young son, who has until this point been mostly raised by his mother and his aunt. This is the story of how he takes his son on the road with him, and how the two slowly get to know each other, and discover their new normal.

Cyber Idol Mink - One day, Mink finds herself in possession of a CD from the future, which allows her to become whomever she wishes. She uses this chance to become a cyber idol version of herself and quickly rises to fame. However, Mink has to keep her abilities a secret, because it’s a crime to use technology from the future.

Dream Saga - Yuuki is just a regular girl who one day finds a strange red stone that allows her to travel to another world when she goes to sleep. Before long, she finds out that not all is well with this world, and she must join forces with others from her world to help save this world, or it could be the end of everything as she knows it.

E? Heibon desu yo?? - Yukari is a high school student who dies in a traffic accident, only to find herself reincarnated in another world as the daughter of a poor nobleman. She decides to use her memories of her previous life to help bring in money for her family, and her people.

Film Girl - Nakamura Mei is just spending some time with her friends at a cafe when they suddenly bump into a famous male model. And if that isn’t wild enough, he actually recognizes her from when she used to be a child model??? It turns out, he used to be a huge fan of hers, and he won’t rest until he convinces her to return to the world of modelling.

Flat (Aogiri Natsu) - Heisuke is a regular, lazy high schooler who doesn’t really care for anything except baking sweet desserts. One day, his young cousin Aki is visiting his home, and ends up imprinting on Heisuke. As the two spend more time together, they both teach each other important life lessons.

Himegimi to Sanbiki no Kemono - When the royal palace receives a letter from a group of famous thieves saying that they will be stealing a valuable treasure of the late king, nobody expects their young princess to disappear. But as the princess Violet gets to know her kidnappers, she sees that not everything is as it seems.

Kaichou-san no Koneko - Our main character is an earnest and too-strict-for-his-own-good young high schooler who one day finds himself the caretaker of a helpless, adorable little kitten that was forced on him by his mother, who is in the middle of a divorce. How will this adorable kitten help change our isolated and lonely hero’s life?

Katana (Kimiko Kamata) - Akira Narikawa hails from a long line of famous swordsmiths. His father and grandfather are both considered living national treasures, and he is expected to continue in their footsteps. The only problem? Akira has no desire, whatsoever, to inherit the family business. But with his ability to see the katanas’ true form, Akira can’t seem to stop himself from continually being mixed up in katana-related trouble, no matter how much he tries.

Kokoro ni Hana wo - When their foster parents passed away, Sakura and his four brothers found themselves separated and on their own, adrift in the world. But after a year of hard work and dedication, Sakura is ready to re-open their mother’s beloved flower shop. All he needs to do now is to convince his brothers come back home and help him out.

Magical x Miracle - Merleawe has just started studying at the national school of magic when she bumps into a strange man who kidnaps her, and brings her to the royal castle. Upon reaching their destination, Merleawe learns that she looks almost exactly like the nation’s missing Master Wizard, Sylthfarn. In order to keep panic from breaking out among the public, Merleawe is asked to stand in for the young master wizard until he is found.

Sarashi Asobi - Shinigami Ai is bored with his job and with his existence. When he meets and develops an interest in a high schooler with only days left to live, he doesn’t expect to become attached to her...or to accidentally extend her life past its natural end. With no idea what is to come, Ai decides to stay by her and let her live for as long as he can.

Socks Goblin -  The Island of Four Seasons is made up of four villages, Spring Flower Village, Blazing Sun Village, Five Color Autumn Leaves Village, and the dreadfully cold Snowflake Village. When Sujin accepts a job offer to work at Bigfoot Bank in Snowflake Village, she must leave behind the only life she has ever known in her sleepy little Spring Flower village. She ends up meeting many lovely new people, including her shy and nervous neighbour, Mr Lala.

Tsubasa wo Motsu Mono - Set at the end of the 22nd century, on an Earth ravaged by war and climate change, we follow the love story of the ex-thief Kotobuki, who is trying to find an honest job so she can leave behind her thieving ways, as well as the genius Raimon, who used to follow her when he was a military commander, and who has now quit in order to achieve his dream of being with her.

Yuru Koi - After quitting her high stress job, Suzu moves out of the city and back to her sleepy little hometown after 6 years away. On her way to her parents’ house however, she falls into a hole, and ends up being saved by the guy who had dug the hole. Despite their rocky meeting, the two quickly find their relationship developing into something more.