izukutodo:

Sometimes I see fanart of AUs in which Izuku had an actual childhood friend … and it makes me sad cuz when I think about it, he never had a real friend before he met Iida and Uraraka. The only one who is credited as his “childhood friend” is the guy who, you know, has an explosion quirk and led the gang of bullies that abused Izuku for at least ten years of his life… -.-

wr3h:

LITERALLY my biggest gripe with reading BNHA is why Izuku cares so much about Bakugou TO THE POINT WHERE HE WILL BREAK HIS BODY FOR HIM when Bakugou has shown countless times how much he doesn’t care about Izuku and how Horikoshi is just trying to force a friendship between them under the assumption that both of them have issues when it’s really ONE of them. And Bakugou is also like…continually praised for his feats and achievements yet his past actions has never been brought up??

And also why is Bakugou now one of the few who knows about Izuku’s secret?? Over someone like Ochako and Iida or even Todoroki???

Idk man this really annoys me.

maybelleteas:

why do people romanticize abusive characters? like to me praising and shipping a character who is abusive and narcissistic even if they’re a teenager is just such depressing taste. like even if they say oh they’re complicated or are gonna grow to be a better person… why not focus on another character in the same canon that already is 100x a better person? esp when the writer is proving that they don’t know how to redeem the character in a believable manner

izukutodo:

Oh my God, fucking tell me about it! It’s not even like his behavior is portrayed as particularly problematic by Hoikoshiki-sensei himself. Like, no matter what the fuck he does, everyone forgives him or is okay with it. And OF COURSE, that leads to the fandom, condoning his behavior, too!
It irritates and disgusts me so much. I hate bakugo and will never get all those bakugo wankers
🤢
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izukutodo:

My hatred for bakugo just keeps growing with every thing he does or says. It also srsly pisses me off that the description at the beginning of each volume says “katsuki bakugo. Midoriya’s childhood friend”
Bitch, where??? He literally spent ten years of their lives, bullying Izuku because apparently, that’s what you deserve for being quirkless but daring to show sympathy to someone who does have a quirk.

Some “friendship” that is. Yikes.

errormacroalice:

It’s always okay to rant about Bakugou here, don’t worry. 

I honestly don’t see his character development at all though? Like he went from “Deku, kill yourself or I’ll kill you” to “Deku I’ll kill you and I’m also sad so I wanna kill you harder.” Like I get character development can be a negative growth but tbh it doesn’t even sound like growth to me. Bakugou’s been a non stop asshole to Deku since they met as children, and he still like? Hasn’t stopped? Even after Bakugou found out All Might and Deku’s secret (tbh Bakugou doesn’t even deserve to know that!! Iida deserves to know! Ochako deserves to know! Todoroki deserves to know! [Especially Todoroki like damn they’re disciples to the Number 1 and Number 2 heroes like they deserve to know and grow into those positions as friends and not rivals, they deserve to be better friends than All Might and Endeavor ever could be.] Bakugou has done nothing worthy to Deku to know something so important!!) I really wish he wasn’t one of the five main kids in Deku’s “squad,” so many kids in 1-A deserve more attention and actual growth. Hell, kids in 1-B and Shinsou deserve more focus and growth. 

izukutodo:

Preach! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 

and no, thank you! Thank you for sending this message, finding more bakugo haters gives me life. I’m glad I ain’t the only one who hates that character.

Before I started reading BNHA, I thought I was gonna like Bakugo for sure cuz everyone just ~loves~ him. But now that I actually know what a piece of shit he is – yeah, he is definitely not just “troubled”, he is a spoiled, self-entitled, arrogant jerk – I am just baffled and disgusted by how much the fandom – and Horikoshi-sensei himself, too, I guess – just glorifies this bully.
And don’t get me started on that ship… why so many people want to romanticize an abusive relationship is beyond me. Really, you gotta not give a crap about Midoriya if you want him to be together with his #1 hater, blegh. Anyone who actually cares about Izuku would want him to be with someone who he does not have a decade-long history of physical and mental abuse with. Which means pretty much anyone but Bakugo. >.<

errormacroalice:

You really don’t have to thank me for complaining about him all the time, omg you cute thing…. 

I just don’t appreciate Bakugou as a character or as a person. He really doesn’t add anything to the story that isn’t already being added to it by other characters. He’s getting a half-assed redemption arc and is never gonna apologize to Deku. It really sucks that someone who is so unapologetically and purposefully hurtful and rude to everyone for no reason is so popular, especially with the amount of people that love and/or relate to Deku. I really hope Deku gets the chance to just, yell at the top of his lungs and kick the shit out of Bakugou before they have to be forced to make up by Horikoshi.

izukutodo:

Hey! 🙂

I actually totally understand that sentiment cuz I got bullied, too. I daresay anyone who was a victim of bullying would not ship themself with their bully… or Izuku with bakugo. That’s why I keep thinking that peeps who ship them must be or have been bullies themselves ugh

The worst thing is that bakugo does not even regret or much less apologize for what he did – and keeps doing – to Izuku … he just gets worse somehow. If he ever did repent and smh atone for his decade-long abuse, then I might actually start to appreciate his character. But as things are rn, it def doesn’t look like he’ll redeem himself anytime soon… or like I’ll start liking him anytime soon…