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  1. Public Bookmark 10

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    But still, Izuku smiles and takes the first of many now-familiar steps to the train station because even to be caught thinking about Kacchan gives him an excuse to let the fingers of his memory trace the outline of his back, which is something. Kacchan is his childhood friend and sometimes his rival, after all, though that may not mean much in the years to come.

    Izuku wilts along with his sheepish smile. “I don’t think he would like it very much if he heard me.”

    Something in Todoroki’s blank expression gives Izuku the impression that, somehow, in a way he cannot understand, he casts an exaggerated look-right and look-left down the thoroughfare as if to make a point of Kacchan’s absence even though he never stops piercing Izuku through with his limpid stare.

    “I don’t think he’ll hear you,” he says.

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    The thoughts and feelings of others, as well as one's thoughts and feelings towards oneself, play as much of a role in writing one's life story as the cosmic reality of random chance. A sudden encounter with a ragged, spiteful middle schooler drives this home for Izuku Midoriya and the people closest to him.

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    30 Jul 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    My favorite "Christmas fic" got a sequel!

  2. Public Bookmark 21

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    This “presentation” is a primer on Katsuki Bakugo’s character, influences, character arc, and meta. This post covers topics including Kohei Horikoshi’s manga influences, basic character roles in literature, a brief history of shonen manga and the real-world conditions in which the genre as we know it came to be, Japanese social and cultural references such as honne and tatemae, and other miscellaneous anime tropes.

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    25 Oct 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 49

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    Meanwhile, Fuyumi again snuggles up in the collar of her down jacket as she sees them off, takes Izuku’s hand, and says — and Katsuki swears he doesn’t care at all about this. He even sits in the car and juts out his lower lip in a pout to look as disinterested and unaffected as possible — “Thank you for being Shouto’s friend.”

    And Katsuki looks at her smile and Izuku’s blushing cheeks and their intertwined hands and Todoroki’s cheerfully embarrassed face, and realizes like the stupid child he knows he is:

     

    I want what I don’t deserve.

     

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    Dysfunctional and insecure tryhard Katsuki Bakugo throws his own stupid baka life into disarray when he attempts a misguided radical act of compassion: ask Shoto Todoroki's sister, Fuyumi Todoroki, out on a date.

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    07 Dec 2021

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Everything I ever wanted from the POV of a flailing petulant idiot teenager.