Q for Izu (technically several Qs)
When Kacchan was mid-storming-out and stopped to say "we're not boyfriends, right?"
What did you think that meant? What did his tone sound like to you? What did the pause before he took off feel like to you?
What would have gone differently if he had worded it "you don't want to be boyfriends, right?" instead?
(Since my brain seems to need context to answer these questions, I am having Izuku answer this question as if you are his close friend who has an insect shape-shifting quirk and who was literally a fly on the wall in the teachers’ lounge during the referenced scene.)
“Honestly, my brain kinda whited out right after that haha 😅 All I could process was that Kacchan was mad at me. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I think I must’ve thought he was reminding me we weren’t boyfriends and . . . and scolding me for letting our teachers think otherwise.
In hindsight, I know that doesn’t make any sense, because whether or not Kacchan wanted to be boyfriends, he still played an equal role in us getting caught, and Kacchan’s proud, but he doesn’t blame other people for his own mistakes, so really I know I should’ve known better, I shouldn’t underestimate Kacchan like that, I really don’t know what I was thinking, but—“
“Izuku, my guy, next question.”
“R-right! Sorry. What would have gone differently if Kacchan had worded it, ‘you don’t want to be boyfriends, right?’ Hmm . . . I wanna say it would be different, but I’m not sure it would. You see, I’ve spent so much of my life trying to convince myself to let Kacchan go, and then when I can’t do that, trying to cherish what we do have and not ruin it by hoping for more.
I don’t think I’d have answered Kacchan right away, if he’d asked like that, but maybe I would’ve chased him. Maybe. I want to say I would’ve.”
Thanks for the ask, “fly” Anon 😎
