not only did it reinforce the “ah, it was mutual, they just didn’t understand each other” narrative pushed in the final fucking exam arc (SHITTY) im expected to believe that bakug0u unloading all his emotional labor onto 1zuku and beating the hell out of him is some kind of positive development (at the very least he should not have won that fight) and honestly i just. REALLY hate how every confrontation w/ bakug0u goes he just falls back on old habits and horikoshi never takes the bully-ism he wrote himself seriously urgh