I'm insanely late to the party, I'm not even through MHA and your blog just gives me life- I came to this fandom looking for new ships and you're just fueling me
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listen I’m aware I’m late to the Bakugou hero name reveal party but consider SUPPORTIVE BAKUSQUAD + proud bf Kiri
they would 100% make fun of him but they would also celebrate and hype him up and u can rip their friendship from my cold dead hands
KiriBaku AU (outline style--straight up just a bunch of thoughts, not fancy writing lol--its SUPER ugly bc the bullet points didn’t transfer but such is life)
Kirishima Eijirou is a prince. Second in line to the throne. But he never asked to be born royalty.
Bakugou Katsuki is just a commoner, but he knows he’s destined for more than just being a blacksmith’s apprentice.
Eijirou is 2nd in line to the throne in the Kirishima family (after his big sister, and his little sister is 3rd in line)
And he really hates it
Hates the special treatment, hates the extravagance, hates the attention, and he really hates the expectations
He hates living lavishly while some people have nothing.
He knows that outside the borders, there are people getting restless. They don’t let him hear too much information, but he knows there’s trouble.
He doesn’t think it’s right for royalty to command an army of soldiers to their death from atop the palace
All he wants is to fight, to train, to be /worthy/ of his position by more than just his birth. To have earned something because he was good enough, not because his parents lived in a castle.
But “royalty doesn’t fight, Eijirou”
But he really thinks they should.
One day, when he’s about 18, Eijirou discovers a secret passage in his room: and it leads to a forest outside
And it also has a path to the roof
So he watches the soldiers, hiding on the roof and he practices in the forest
he uses a stick bc he couldnt find a sword that the soldiers wouldn’t miss--they were all particular
A few months later, one day he’s training and a stranger happens upon him in the forest
Eijirou hears a crunch of leaves, he turns around surprised--he’s terrified that someone from the palace had discovered what he was doing
He holds out his stick and sees a young man, probably his age, with pale blonde hair and red eyes-- definitely not anybody from the palace, Eijirou would have noticed.
Eijirou like: “Back away stranger!” while ‘menacingly’ holding his stick towards Bakugou
And Bakugou like “Uh, you’re threatening me with a stick? Like you’re holding a stick to my face and you’re trying to get me to go away? You’re dumb”
Bakugou has an actual sword because he apprentices at a blacksmith--and he tells that to Eijirou. He tells Eijirou that he knows he’s skilled, he just needs to prove himself. Then he can show everyone that he’s better than them.
He’d be the number one warrior in the kingdom.
When Bakugou asks Eijirou who he is, what does he do? Eijirou tells him he WORKS for prince Eijirou.
And that his name is “ei”
Bakugou doesn’t recognize him because he has his hair spiked and all there are official palace portraits of Eijirou with his hair down--which baku has never seen, let alone see the actual prince.
After Bakugou laughs at Eijirou for his hair and his stick, Bakugou and “Ei” decide to train together, they both think they could help each other and it would be nice to have someone to fight.
Eijirou and Bakugou train together in secret for a very long time--two years. They’ve gotten very good, and they also have gotten very close.
Is Eijirou in love with Bakugou? Maybe. But between his status and the lies. He doesn’t think he’s worthy of Bakugou in any sense.
Bakugou is the manliest person he knows. Strong and determined. And always honest.
Also they got some really nice swords bc Ei provided some cash money--he claimed that prince Eijirou supported him--and Baku was able to get some good materials and make some killer swords
Maybe a fun ball scene somewhere, threat of an engagement? Who knows
But there’s some more concerns of activity around the border (there’s a particular group calling for a new reign)
He and Baku are always neck and neck; their determination combined with some level of natural skill keeps them on their toes.
Bakugou always jokes that they could try out to be soldiers, or even in the royal guard--if being royalty and working for royalty wasn’t total bullsh**
Bakugou wants no part in that hierarchy--you don’t even have to be good or powerful to be royal. That’s not how you truly reach number one.
Cue awkward laughter from Eijirou.
Baku ‘apologizes’, “Oh, I forgot you work for those f**kers. It must suck to suck.”
It’s a normal afternoon and Ei goes to train as usual, taking the shortcut, meeting Bakugou, practicing.
Maybe during this training session things are getting ‘intense’ between Ei and Baku,
maybe they linger when they touch a little too long
Maybe they’re leaning closer, for whatever reason. Maybe they’re just a breath apart
But then they hear the warning bells ringing from the palace--it’s under attack
And both of them are concerned, of course. Someone is attacking the kingdom
But Eijirou is FREAKING OUT, because no matter how conflicted he is, that’s his family!
So the two of them sprint out of the woods and head straight for the palace.
(Baku honestly had never gotten to be this close to the palace before, but he keeps his cool.)
The guards have somehow been taken out. They get closer and see many dead bodies
Then they see one man lying on the floor, dying. But he’s still alive for now.
The two of them kneel beside him, trying to stop the wound.
But it’s hopeless.
They ask the dying man what happened at the palace and Eijirou works very hard to not be frantic with the poor soul.
He tells them that rebels took the palace. It had been planned for a very long time--very targeted. No one at the palace had been prepared for something of this magnitude, something this calculated.
The king, queen, and two daughters were imprisoned during the attack.
And Prince Eijirou…. He had been killed.
They had stormed the prince’s chambers and--for whatever reason, maybe he fought back too much, had killed him then and there.
No mercy. Prince Eijirou was dead.
So Ei starts panicking, and is a little confused.
He’s like… “No? No! The prince isn’t dead!”
He feels awful that he’s running around free while his family is trapped. And in serious danger.
He has no idea what this group of rebels wants with them. Whether they will establish a far more tyrannical rule of their own or…
As Eijirou is freaking out, Bakugou (and the dying knight) think that Ei’s just acting weird because he cared about the prince and didn’t want to believe that he was dead.
Bakugou actually gives his sincere condolences, “I’m sorry, I know you and the prince were close.”
But Eijirou /knew/ he wasn’t dead. Because he wasn’t dead! He was alive, and breathing.
The rebels probably just didn’t want to admit there was a royal on the loose. So when they couldn’t find Eijirou, they lied and said he was dead. No one in the palace would be there to prove them wrong--Eijirou had made sure of that when he lied to everyone.
That meant the only people who knew that Eijirou was alive were him and the people that wanted him dead.
If Eijirou turned up alive, it would throw everything they had achieved out of order.
The dying knight warns them away from the castle. Anyone associated with the royals would be hunted.
And Ei agrees. He needs a plan to save his family. But that would take time that he wouldn’t have if he stayed in the capital.
So Ei and Bakugou steal some horses and they get away from the capital, the palace, the rebels as fast as they can.
They run and hide.
All Eijirou has of his family is the ring with the royal seal he wears on a chain that hangs around his neck, always hidden behind his clothes. It feels like fire against his skin.
Bakugou hates being on the run--all of his instincts make him want to fight. To face the problem head on. But he doesn’t. He avoids it all. And he does it for Ei.
The rebels send a small group of 2-3 people to find Prince Eijirou and figure out if he has any plans to stop them, but most importantly: they have to kill the prince.
This group learns through some sources that apparently someone who worked for the prince is on the run.
So they start looking for Ei for information on how to find the prince--not aware that they were hunting the prince all this time.
Things happen while on the run.
Are there bed sharing shenanigans? There are bed sharing shenanigans.
Do they HIGHKEY fall more in love as they spend more time together, even in this stressful situation? Perchance.
But do either of them make a move? They can’t. Not right now. The stakes are too high. Things are too tense.
And Eijirou knows he’s still lying to Bakugou--even if it is for his own safety now.
But they aren’t just on the run, they’re trying to make a plan to save the palace. For Bakugou to show that he can do it. That he’s the best.
For Eijirou, he needs to prove that he can fight for the people. And he needs to save his family. It’s really personal for the both of them.
They go from village to village, trying to see where loyalties lie.
For the most part, people seem to stay loyal to the crown--which makes sense when they hear the plan of the rebels.
The plan is to execute the king and queen by month’s end
And then one of them will marry the eldest daughter to “validate” their status
They’ll kill her soon after too
These rebels are no revolutionaries, they simply desire chaos and power--they want the throne for themselves, not to abolish it.
Before, Eijirou had been wondering. What if they just freed his family, but let the monarchy leave with them. Maybe it would be for the best to let the rebels win. But now he knows for certain they just want to establish an even worse dictatorship
So Ei and Bakugou rile people up a bit, and ask them to be ready to fight if need be
As they do this, the group of rebels hunting them down gets close. And there’s a confrontation. They catch Eijirou alone. They realize that it’s him. He’s the prince.
Ejirou has to fight for his life.
Luckily, Bakugou gets there just in time, and they defeat the assassins easily together.
And two nights before the king and queen die and the crown princess will be married to the rebels and the throne is lost, Ei and Bakugou have gathered a lot of people.
These are the people who agreed to help fight the rebels and take back the palace.
Before Ei has to rally the troops and they go to the palace, he has to tell Bakugou something
Eijirou and Bakugou sit down in their room. At first, Bakugou thinks maybe, just maybe, Ei will confess his feelings.
Maybe it’s his fear that something will happen to the other. But that’s not what Bakugou gets.
“Bakugou, you know about Prince Eijirou?”
“That he’s dead?”
“He isn’t, he’s not dead.”
“What are you saying, Ei? The whole kingdom knows he’s dead. I thought you’d accepted it.”
“No. I know he’s not dead. Because… I am the prince.”
Eijirou shows his royal seal to prove it. And Bakugou feels like an idiot.
Eijirou explains why he never said anything: at first he didn’t know Baku so he had to lie--and it was great to have a chance to know someone where they didn’t bring in preconceptions about him as royalty.
But as things became...more, if Bakugou knew, he could have been hurt. And after they were on the run, it was too dangerous to even think the truth.
If Bakugou knew the truth, he definitely would have been killed.
Bakugou is silent during all this. He doesn’t say a single word.
The only thing that he says is that they have to gather the people and prepare to storm the palace, to save Eijirou’s family--he adds.
Eijirou really really wants to cry--but he has to reveal himself to the people so they will follow him and save the whole kingdom. And especially his family.
It’s a lot to do.
Eijirou gives a good speech to the people, and they are ready to fight. Ready to follow him. They all go to the palace.
They make it to the castle and break down the doors just as the current monarchs are about to be executed.
With Eijirou leading the charge, they manage to stop the execution--but now it’s a fight for power.
And it’s intense battling. The rebels are skilled--obviously or they wouldn’t have made it that far.
Eijirou and the people win, but not before the lead rebel gets a good stab in at Eijirou--he wasn’t even aiming for Eijirou actually.
Bakugou had defeated the lead rebel, but as Bakugou was turning to face another opponent, the defeated man--barely staying up--lunged at Bakugou.
Luckily, Eijirou was there just in time. He crashes to the floor and starts bleeding everywhere.
And we get some dramatic tears from Ei’s family, who thought he was dead, find out he’s alive, and now he might die?
But most of all Bakugou who’s yelling at Eijirou for being the biggest idiot “You can’t die! I’m still supposed to be mad at you, and then I’m supposed to forgive you… and then I’m supposed to get the chance to tell you that I’m in love with you, idiot.”
Eijirou laughs and smiles, “I love you too, Bakugou.”
--ONE YEAR LATER--
A year later and there are a lot of changes going around the capital city. It’s almost unrecognizable.
There are new buildings, and new people. And familiar faces doing unexpected tasks. And of course the missing faces of the ones who were lost.
The palace is no longer a residence. Instead, it’s used as a central headquarters. The leaders still work there, and yet--those who once led no longer lead.
Eijirou’s older sister works in the old castle’s library. She helps organize the numerous books and scrolls. And in her free time she writes the story of what happened in that kingdom. She has a lot to say.
Eijirou’s younger sister studies under a blacksmith as an apprentice. She loves it, being able to work with her hands and create.
Eijirou’s parents worked to take care of a small farm on the outskirts of the capital. It’s simple work, nothing that one might expect of former rulers of a kingdom.
The monarchy had been disbanded. The people had been given the chance to elect their leaders, anyone who would have a significant impact on their lives had to be chosen from among them.
Just like Eijirou had always wanted.
Many of the elected officials are those who had fought valiantly in the battle to defeat the “rebels.” Everyone who had seen the courage that the people fought with felt comfortable placing their trust in them.
The people had elected Bakugou as the head general and lead strategist for the kingdom. After all, he was one of the reasons that they were able to defeat the rebels.
It was his plan, and a well executed one.
Well, it wasn’t just /his/ plan.
It was his and Eijirou’s.
But Eijirou couldn’t have been elected to be the lead strategist.
Not when he’d already been elected as the leader of the new government.
It had been Eijirou who fearlessly led the people into battle. Eijirou had given them strength and courage--and hope--when they needed it most.
He’d proved his worth to the whole of the kingdom.
They had gotten to know him personally; they got to know what kind of a person he is: kind and honest.
So Kirishima became the first democratically elected leader of the country.
And he’d earned it through his own merits.
And Bakugou got to prove he was more than just a blacksmith’s apprentice.
But that’s not the last big change happening in the capital city.
There were preparations for a wedding. An important wedding, that many people would attend.
It wasn’t everyday that the two highest ranking officials got married.
And everyone could see how in love the two of them were.
And Bakugou and Eijirou are in love and all gushy and happy and cute and too much for this world. Just fluffy cuties.
FINALLY they got together
Ei got to prove his worth to everyone, but especially himself--he earned everything he had
And Baku got to be something more, and he maybe learned that power isn’t everything and he found love and cheesy stuff
Another change going on is that there are preparations for a wedding.
AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE END (and they were not colonizers so we can like them :) )
