Baby Steps

Hideout Raid Arc + My Ships

KATSUDEKU

BF gone. asd;jfkl system error bf gone…

Kirishima can see it, Deku. He’s Baku’s bff and he can totally see it.

For those who object to All Might calling Kacchan Deku’s friend, just remember that his bff Iida punched him in the face.

This freaking call back to Chapter 1. In case you had any doubt that Deku is being moved by the desire to save Kacchan. He could die, he could piss off his mom, everyone is telling him not to, but it doesn’t matter. Because it’s Kacchan.

Hearing Kacchan’s voice re-energizes Deku to do something when he was paralyzed with fear.

crying poor Deku

See, Naruto, this is how you save your rival: take into account his real feelings.

Cheering as one

Bakugo notices and figures out what’s up with Deku.

Deku notices and wonders what’s up with Kacchan.

“What’s going on with you and my BF?”

TODOMOMO 

Todoroki had to ask Momo personally to make the second tracker.

She did it because she trusts him. She says so explicitly.

Cute little flirty scene.

Separated from the rest of the group. What did they do?

I headcanon they walked home together.

(For my Kirimina and Iidaraka feels: Mina looks worried about Kiri’s plan, and Uraraka agrees with Iida that this is a bad idea).

Shiggy-AFO Has been a bkdk stan/anti since the start, good for them, good for them

In hindsight this moment has a lot more weight and foreshadowing to it! Gives me the chills

Katsuki, loudly: I liked you first!

Deku, louder: I confessed first!!

Katsuki, yelling: FINE BUT I ASKED YOU OUT FIRST!!

Deku, yelling back: OKAY, BUT I SAID "I LOVE YOU" FIRST!!!

Katsuki: Tch fine...

Katsuki, getting down on one knee: I proposed first.

Deku, through tears: M-motherfucker.

Everything I see is bakudeku

Artist ReiON: https://twitter.com/Rei_LeeYU/status/1121021557629784064

BakuDeku Headcannon: The Line Between Love and Hate

💥🥦- Bakugou has always held resentment towards Midoriya; the greenette’s nickname is proof of that fact. No one knew when these feelings began hell, even Bakugou himself couldn’t pinpoint the direct moment he started to hate Midoriya.

💥🥦- Bakugou still can’t believe Midoriya gave their relationship a chance. He still remembers the horrible things he did (and said) to Midoriya (the worst being when he told the boy to kill himself) yet, Izuku still managed to forgive him. The explosive man knew he must do everything in his power to show the forever emotional man that he made the right decision.

💥🥦- It starts off small, telling Midoriya that he isn’t as shitty as before (he still had his brash language; there’s no changing the way he is). He still yells at Midoriya but, it doesn’t hold the same malice as it did before. Everyone notices the shift but, they don’t question it. It’s about time Katsuki learned to express his feelings.

💥🥦- Communication is the key between them. Bakugou had to learn that not everyone views him as inferior and that explosive violence solves nothing. Therapy in the form of music allows him to keep calm while also giving him an outlet to show how he feels. All-in-all, Bakugou Katsuki has learned to be a soft boy for Midoriya and a mean bastard to everyone else.

💥🥦- Sometimes, he does slip up and get a little too loud but, that’s to be expected. No person is perfect. All that matters is that he always apologizes for his words once he has tome to evaluate himself. Our boom boom man has graduated anger management!

💥🥦- Bakugou isn’t the only person who had to change. Midoriya also had to learn to grow a spine. He’s still a crybaby that loves to help people but know that he can be assertive. He knows when to stick up for himself.

💥🥦- “You shouldn’t let him talk to you like that,” that was a stick that broke the camel’s back. Midoriya was tired of Bakugou’s outbursts, never once apologizing for the role he played in damaging his mental health. Therapy was crucial for him as well. He had to learn to love himself and that it’s not a crime to defend himself.

💥🥦- While he still cries at everything, he’s learned to accept that part of himself as well. He’s emotional; that’s part of his charm. He likes the name Deku. Even if it was meant to damage him, he finds great satisfaction in turning that negative into a name that strikes hope and happiness into the hearts of so many people.

💥🥦- “Good job, Deku,” Midoirya loves to be praised, especially by Bakugou. It makes his smile. His smiles are so full of life and love and sheer happiness. Him smiling makes everyone smile. “Aye, Deku, stop that creepy ass smiling,” that makes him smile even more. Bakugou’s words mean nothing when he’s hiding his flushed cheeks.

💥🥦- “Kacchan! You’re blushing,” Midoriya giggles. “Do you like my smile?”

💥🥦- “Don’t ask me stupid ass questions,” that translates to ‘your smile makes me happy to be alive.’ It’s a good thing most people around him speak ‘Bakugou-nese.’

💥🥦- The two of them are so adorable in public. Midoriya loves to wrap his arms around Bakugou’s waist and nuzzle his head into his chest. While Bakugou normally hates when people touch him, he melts in his boyfriend’s arms.

💥🥦- They’re often goofy together. Bakugou may yell but, he’s a big lover of laughter. And Midoriya just happens to be a source of humor. Look at his face! You’re telling me if that face told a joke, you wouldn’t laugh?!

💥🥦- “Hey, Kacchan, what do you call a pig with no legs?” Bakugou facepalms as he tries not to laugh.

💥🥦- “Babe, you know I love you but-“

💥🥦- “Kacchannnn just guess,” Bakugou twists his tongue in his mouth as he still tries not to snort.

💥🥦- “Ground Pork?” Midoriya pouts.

💥🥦- “I wanted to say it,” Bakugou can’t help but laugh and hold his stomach as tears run down his face. We all know he doesn’t find the joke funny; he finds the adorable pout on his baby boy’s face funny.

💥🥦- “I’m sorry, baby boy. Tell to me again,” he quiets himself.

💥🥦- “Okay, so what do you call-“

💥🥦- “GROUND FUCKING PORK,” he’s such a tool sometimes.

💥🥦- “YOU’RE SUCH AN ASS KATSUKI,” that doesn’t stop him from laughing. He wipes his eye and shoots a crooked grin to Midoriya.

💥🥦- “I like your ass.”

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Deku wins owo Or did he? I love this Fantasy AU so much. 

All Might using magic to help train his protege’s owo and Deku wielding lightning magic and Bakugo having fire AHHH 

Thank you for the help friends ; v ; Esp you Stormy! 

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Bakudeku Fic Recs

Wonder Duo: Rising has reached 500 followers on twitter! To celebrate, we decided to come together and create a list of Bakudeku fic recommendations. All fanfics on this list are SFW, are within the range of 300 kudos or less, and were recommended by one or more of the anthology’s contributors!

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Fic: stones at the starlight by Shousanki

Length: 2.9k

Summary: Katsuki and Izuku struggle to survive in an adult world not kind to (not-quite) childhood sweethearts as they search for the small and good things amidst petty indignities.

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Fic: to the moon and back by Rejectimate

Length: 1.4k

Summary: Training camp has nothing on Katsuki’s strict sleep schedule. But Deku’s embarrassing ass sure does.

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Fic: don’t misunderstand by Kokushibo

Length: 1k

Summary: three times that kacchan addresses him. one time that he does it differently.

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Fic: Twin Stars Week ficlets by Hollyandvice (series)

Length: Varies

Summary: A collection of Bakudeku ficlets for Twin Stars Week.

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Fic: CORDIPUGUS by Greatcloudninja

Length: 3.2k

Summary: Katsuki Bakugou, a slave-turned-gladiator, has one more fight to win to earn his freedom. His goal? To be able to marry his beloved Izuku Midoriya, noble son of Senator Toshinori Yagi. But first, he has to get through his toughest battle yet.

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Fic: when the saints by Flapkack

Length: 2.5k

Summary: In Bakugou Katsuki’s humble fucking opinion, parade blocks were one of the most effective forms of torture. Telling someone to walk straight forward, eyes ahead, shoulders square, rolling their feet, playing the exact same damn cadences over and over and over again was already bad enough. But then, toss in a string of other people to keep in line, bad marchers and freshmen, to make matters even worse.

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Fic: Small Town Change by CommanderSipShady

Length: 12.2k

Summary: They say nothing ever happens in this sleepy town, but that night everything changed for the better. 40 year old BakuDeku real world AU. 

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Fic: At the Mountain’s Edge by Anzul

Length: 30k (multi-chap, WIP)

Summary: Muromachi Japan, 1465. Soulmates - once nothing but a flightful fancy among the Heian nobility - have become the political currency of the century. Blessed with telepathic communication and the ability to sense each other regardless of their geographical distance once a bond has been established, they are an invaluable commodity to any warrior hoping to amass power in the wake of the Ashikaga’s weakening rule.

Bakugou Katsuki is no exception. But no matter what matchmaking house his family visits, they all tell him the same thing: that at the end of his red string, there waits no one. Katsuki is destined to walk his path alone.

Now forced to become a candidate for political marriage, Katsuki must learn the traditional arts and proper courtship etiquette to attract more suitors. Izuku, the adopted protégé and matchmaking master of the Midoriya House, is hired to be his tutor. Izuku himself is not only without a soulmate, but Bondless - someone without a red string at all, but capable of seeing everyone else’s.

[Or: An alternate soulmate x historical AU where everybody has soulmates except Katsuki and Izuku.]

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Fic: all the savage soul requires by Majjale

Length: 50k (multi-chap, WIP)

Summary: Bakugou seems to have exhausted his patience for words and no longer acknowledges that Midoriya exists, so Midoriya crosses his legs, stares down at his hands limned in firelight, and makes a list of things he knows.

One. His name is Midoriya Izuku.

Two. He is a Godmarked, future god of life, heir to the divine throne.

Three. The gods have been fighting Death for eons, and now he’s coming for recompense with everything he’s got.

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Fic: to measure a year by Shousanki

Length: 4.7k (multi-chap, complete)

Summary: The dance of two leaves around each other. Collection of Katsuki/Izuku drabbles, originally written between the winter of 2017 and summer of 2018.

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Fic: we run in antiparallel by Kokushibo

Length: 1.1k

Summary: there are different ways in which a boy can be saved.

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Fic: this is not a night for tragedy by Keigeyama

Length: .6k

Summary: Katsuki looks at him, forehead creasing, his expression somehow at once angry and soft—then he smiles, simpering. “Well, aren’t you just the best”.

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Fic: once more, with feeling by OneshotPrincess

Length: .8k

Summary: He’s not Yamikumo, Katsuki tells himself fiercely. He’s not Yamikumo, he thinks as he watches him play in the grass with a kite with Kouta and Eri. He’s just fucking Deku.

So why does he still make Katsuki feel this way?

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Fic: of all kinds by Coldbones

Length: 4.3k

Summary: A story is never just a story, and a dragon can never change its scales.

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Fic: I Don’t Have Any Roses But I Have A Rabbit? by Teaandtumblr

Length: 3.3k

Summary: Midoriya has just stepped into the world of rabbit showing only to run into his childhood friend…who is apparently also into the same thing. Lucky his rabbit is so cute!

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Fic: Starshine by Blueslove

Length: 1.3k

Summary: Deku’s eyes always light up when he talks about that book.

It’s as if his being lives to praise the pages, like his lips don’t know how to form any other words. He speaks of the characters like they’re friends, the story as if he’d lived it himself, and the place like he’d seen it with his own eyes.

Katsuki can’t stand it.

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Fic: another old space odyssey by Sorethroat

Length: 2k

Summary: “Car-di-o-meg..aly,” Deku fumbles around the words. “I can’t see the moon with you.”

He stands there, Deku smiling tight like if he moves his tears will spill over, and they’re too young to laugh at the idea that the insurmountable obstacle in front of them is a heart that’s just too big.

Bakugou is an astronaut but he’s forgotten why. Midoriya wants him to come home.

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Fic: Butterfly Wishes by Sushirapper

Length: 4.2k

Summary: Deep in the middle of a forest out back of a little town in the country, there lay a wishing well.

It was not particularly pretty, nor particularly deep. It was not even that magical. But it was, at the very least, old—and all folk knew that with time came the strangest of truths, best left unbelieved or unseen altogether.

Izuku was one of these truths.

Or, Izuku can grant wishes, Katsuki is a mortal who doesn’t know any better, and even the most innocent things always come with a price.

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Fic: Beyond the Veil by Seeress

Length: 11.9k (multichap, complete)

Summary: A locked door. A ghostly presence. A long forgotten name.

Katsuki goes back to his grandparent’s old house and finds a presence he barely remembers, still waiting for him.

His grandmother’s stories all had the same cautionary theme: Do not stray off the path. Keep your hands to yourself. Be polite to those you meet. Be wary of undeserved generosity. Do not be deceived by masks. Remember your way home.

But Katsuki was a child of skyscrapers and 24 hour convenience stores. He walked on streets lined with man-made lights that turned on before the sun goes down the horizon and never went out until the sun rises again. He lived in a house full of noise, in a city full of living, breathing people.

He had never known true darkness; nights when even the moon sheds no light and the world is silent, but you know deep within your bones that you are not alone.

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Fic: Nowhere I’d Rather Be by Dat_heichou

Length: 1.8k

Summary: It’s 3 a.m. on the coldest sunday of the year and Izuku is too excited to feel tired. It’s release day of the newest All Might figure and he made sure he woke up early enough to buy one.

It’s freezing and dark and Izuku is sore from the rigorous training that U.A. third years go through, but he still excitedly shifts from one foot to the other. There’s nowhere he’d rather be.

“It’s cold as fuck out here,” Katsuki gripes beside him, burrowing his nose deeper into the collar of his thick, thermal lined jacket.

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Fic: solar by Kindaopps

Length: 7k

Summary: Here he is, a god, wanting a mortal.

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Fic: Sunlight Moving by Peredhils

Length: 3.8k

Summary: The night air was cool but not as damp and depressing as it had been when leaving England. The sea breeze was refreshing and it was crisper than it smelled standing from the shore. Although the rocking of the boat made him a bit nauseous, coupled with the unease that came with being unable to see any land on the horizon, Katsuki liked it more than he thought he would. Standing at the ledge and looking up at the stars, all so bright and clear, was easing the day’s troubles.

He wasn’t alone for long.

Katsuki, a duke organizing the creation of a new university in England, meets astronomer Izuku on board a voyage overseas.

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Fic: let me hurt you, until we don’t by DeKatsu

Length: 3.3k

Summary: Deku decides that using his quirk with his hero license suspended is a smart idea. Katsuki doesn’t understand why he’s thrown into the holding cell as Deku’s accomplice.

And then they talk about feelings.

Which isn’t even the weirdest shit, considering that their cell mates end up giving them the push they need.

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Fic: last days of war by antisora

Length: 38k (multi-chap, WIP)

Summary: When the first Kaiju climbed through the portal to their world, Izuku and Katsuki were six years old. And from the tender age of six, they knew they were going to be rangers.

All Izuku wanted, all he ever wanted, was to save the world alongside his best friend.

“Six,” Deku murmurs against his lips, and Katsuki pauses. “Hah?" 

Deku looks just as confused, before turning pink. "Oh. Did I say that out loud?”

“Your mind never shuts up, huh?” He rolls his eyes. “Whaddya mean by ‘six’?" 

Deku turns pinker. "It’s, um.” Mumbles incoherently. Katsuki looks at him in annoyance.

“Wanna try that again with more sense this time?" 

The nerd ducks his head, eyes shifting away. "I said… it’s the amount of times we’ve kissed." 

Katsuki’s brows furrow. "You keep track of how many times we kiss.”

“Y-yes?” Deku says sheepishly. “It sounds embarrassing when you say it out loud." 

"You are embarrassing.” Katsuki clarifies flatly, then cups the back of his neck when Deku inches away. Tilts his chin back up with his other hand to pull him closer, smirking. “You’re such a nerd. Bet I can make you lose count.”