#this has been in my drafts for months and i don’t remember why

[notanythingyet]

izuku had the luxury of slowly falling in love with kacchan over the years as they grew up and navigated hero work together. he started subconsciously imitating kacchan since childhood, but only recently started doing so with the conscious effort to emulate his heroic vigor.

meanwhile, kacchan unceremoniously stumbled into love with izuku, the realization coming directly after he risked his life to save izuku, reminding him of how Izuku had done the same countless times. and when kacchan’s ‘body moved on it’s own’, that was the first moment of imitation on kacchan’s part, and now he can’t stop his mind from wandering into the likelihood that his initial feelings of animonisty for the nerd was all a mask he put on to hide his real feelings of adoration and awe.