#batarouweek2022

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For @batarouweek Day 4: Home at last. A little comic about Garou, Badd and Zenko. It took me the whole day to finish this one, and it's still done in really quick way, I am very sorry about that.

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Batarou week 2022 | Day 2 | The quiet moments

And they say opposites attract, but Garou and Badd are exactly the same, stoking each other’s fires until their fists char and flames flare up between their tongues. And Badd has become accustomed to the heady smoke that rolls leisurely under his skin, soot sifting down as it drops from his eyelashes. He's aware of every scorching shift of Garou's lips on his shoulder, and relishes in the crescent branding of his smile into Badd's skin. He hopes it keeps. Hopes each brush of Garou's fingertips sinks deep to his bones, grafts itself into his nerves, writes its languid journey into his DNA. It’s when Badd can’t distinguish where the heat is coming from, inside or beside him, when they melt into each other, not opposites but something entirely different, when Garou's eyes are two hooded suns glowing a sunset in the dark of their room. That’s when Badd can sigh out a furnace, quench his thirst. Wrap his arms around the flame and be burned, in the most breathtaking, safest of ways.

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Day In and Day Out (Day 3 of Batarou Week)

When Garou came to live with Badd, the hero resigned himself to having adopted another animal rather than living with a partner. It was accurate at first, with how Garou prowled around, situating himself wherever he liked (even if it wasn’t in a place he had been invited to be), taking things that he wanted without asking, and lazing the day away while Badd went out to pummel monsters.

Of course, the good part was that in many ways Garou was as affectionate as a pet too. When Badd came home, he met him at the door, excitedly rubbing against him, regardless of his gross state. He crawled into bed with him, resting his head on his chest, nosing at his neck and ear and insisting that he pet him until they both fell asleep. And there was humping, but…Badd didn’t exactly use rolled-up newspapers to handle that.

Days off were a bit more complicated.

“Garou, I gotta clean up the apartment.”

“Noooo…stay in bed with me.”

“This is the first day all week I don’t gotta patrol! Zenko’s gonna kill me if it gets any worse.”

Garou let out a thin, high whine, latching himself onto Badd’s body. Somehow he had managed to keep the human monster’s hand out of his pants but now he was literally wrapped around him with all his long, tight limbs.

“Fine.” Badd used the deep stores of energy that he usually got paid to employ and hoisted himself out of bed, Garou in tow. “Have it your way, Stretch.”

One of the many problems Badd had had to learn to deal with when it came to living with the ex-hero-hunter was that their relationship was like one rock and one hard place, both of their stubborn natures clashing until someone got tired—not gave in, not agreed, but very specifically were worn out by the elements of time and fatigue.

“This is the pot on the stove all over again,” Badd groused as something pulled in his leg.

Garou gave his neck a petulant chew. “I used it for tea. It was perfectly clean. It didn’t need to be washed.”

“I don’t know how many times we gotta have this talk, Garou. If ya use somethin,’ ya clean it.”

“I’m not wasting my time on something that just had water in it.”

“And ya didn’t have to use it anyway! That’s what we have an electrical kettle for, dumbass!”

The pot sat there for a month until Zenko eventually washed it. However, when unyielding idiocy became a point of contention in social outings, no one else understood what a pot on a stove had to do with anything, but it always devolved into Badd and Garou arguing.

This time, the breaking point came when Badd was dusting a shelf in the living room. Garou gestured at it with his chin. “Missed a spot.”

That was when they started rolling around on the floor after Badd dropped Garou on his back.

And then that might have led to other horseplay, and that might have wrecked Badd’s thoughts of changing the bed because that was hard to do with two bodies in it.

“Can’t believe you got me back here. Pain in the ass.”

Garou snickered, reaching over to play with the hair on the back of his neck. It was all a mess; Badd never put it up on days off. “Yeah, you really tried to stop me, Metal Bat.”

“Tch. Stop this,” he challenged and leaned over to give him a hard smooch, knowing that Garou would do the exact opposite. Sure enough, they didn’t part until Garou was happy with the full-contact map he had made of the inside of Badd’s mouth.

But the thing was…as time went on, certain things just started happening that were so seamless that Badd almost missed them.

The way Garou would join him in the kitchen when he was making dinner, scooping up dirty dishes to make room for the cutting board, tossing out the shitty ends of vegetables and fluffing the rice when the appliance sang its little song.

And then he started being around more when Zenko got home instead of slinking off to Badd’s bedroom. And, sure, sometimes “helping with homework” was talking about how “math was bullshit,” but when Zenko wanted a snack after school, Badd found Garou more than once holding her up with one arm as she picked whatever she wanted from the pantry.

There were family nights with movies and board games.

And outings with the three of them at the festivals.

Before Badd knew it, he wasn’t always coming home to having to do everything himself after a whole day of hero work. Sometimes the dishes were done. Sometimes the floor was swept. And once or twice there was dinner ready, even if it was either rice with almost-rare meat and zero vegetables or a curry possessing a unique blend of flavors (good luck asking Garou what was in it— “What recipe?”).

He thought about these things when he lay down next to Garou at night, a cool, lean cheek pressed into his as his long arms made him a tight little spoon. “‘Ey, G.”

“Hmm?”

Badd touched his cheek and angled his face back to kiss him. “Love ya. I’m glad you’re here with me.”

Garou smiled and nuzzled him back. “Love you too. But we’ll see how glad you are when you see I ate the last pudding.”

Well. There would always be those moments, too.

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Bad Boyz: Batarou Week 2022 Contributions Master List

(Tagging @batarouweek​)

Here is the complete list of all works made for the Bad Boyz: Batarou Week 2022 that are posted here, on Twitter, and AO3.

Please note that some works are NSFW, and these will be marked with [NSFW]. Those without that marking are by default SFW.

Please let me know if I’ve missed some works, and I will add them here! :)

DAY ONE - Soulmates, Onesided/Breakup, Roleswap AU

Soulmates art by ganetart (Tumblr | Twitter)

Ying and Yang (Soulmates) art by z3p4ry2 (Tumblr)

“Heartbreaker” Fic by SenseEarly (AO3)

Onesided/Breakup art by Skelaath (Twitter)

Onesided/Breakup art by e02280_nsfw (Twitter)

[NSFW] “We Will Meet Again” Fic by PaperFicWriter (AO3)

Onesided/Breakup art by plastic_star5 (Twitter)

Soulmates art by plastic_star5 (Twitter)

DAY TWO - ABO Dynamics, Sports AU, The Quiet Moments

Sports AU art by ganetart (Tumblr | Twitter)

The Quiet Moments art by greyskies2002 (Tumblr)

[implied NSFW] ABO Dynamics art by e02280_nsfw (Twitter | AO3)

The Quiet Moments art by Skelaath (Twitter)

The Quiet Moments art by plastic_star5 (Twitter)

[implied NSFW] “The Nest is Best” by PaperFicWriter (AO3)

ABO Dynamics art by SenseEarly (Twitter)

DAY THREE - Villain AU, Domestic/Marriage, Working Together

[implied NSFW] “Day In and Day Out” fic by PaperFicWriter (Tumblr | AO3)

Villain AU art by ganetart (Tumblr | Twitter)

Domestic/Marriage art by aforrestofstuff/izzybadapple (Tumblr | Twitter)

“Nose Booping” Fic by SenseEarly (AO3)

Marriage art by e02280_nsfw (Twitter | AO3)

Marriage cosplay by plastic_star5 (Twitter)

DAY FOUR - Home at Last, Childhood Friends AU, Hanahaki Disease/Sickness

Home at Last art by ganetart (Tumblr | Twitter)

“What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger” by SenseEarly (AO3)

“Sleeping Closest to the Door” by aforrestofstuff/izzybadapple (AO3)

Childhood Friends AU art by plastic_star5 (Twitter)

DAY FIVE - Date Nights, Alternate First Meeting, Cafe/Restaurant/Barista AU

Alternate First Meeting art by ganetart (Tumblr | Twitter)

“The Coffee Shop at the End of the (Alternate) Universe” fic by PaperFicWriter (Tumblr | AO3)

Alternate First Meeting art by aforrestofstuff/izzybadapple (Tumblr | Twitter)

Date Nights art by MarrowBrawo (Twitter)

Alternate First Meeting art by plastic_star5 (Twitter)

DAY SIX - Rivalry/Sparring, Love Languages, Historical AU/Different Time Period

Love Languages art by ganetart (Tumblr | Twitter)

Historical AU/Different Time Period art by plastic_star5 (Twitter)

“Hidden Meanings” fic by SenseEarly (AO3)

DAY SEVEN - Chapter 157, Highschool/College AU, Reunion

Chapter 157 art by ganetart (Tumblr | Twitter)

“Red Riding Hood” fic by SenseEarly (AO3)

Highschool AU art by e02280_nsfw (Twitter | AO3)

 Chapter 157 art by plastic_star5 (Twitter)

DAY EIGHT - Free Day

Free Day art by ganetart (Tumblr | Twitter)

Free Day art SenseEarly (Twitter)

Free Day art by Kinzeki (Twitter)

Free Day art by e02280_nsfw (Twitter | AO3)

Free Day art by plastic_star5 (Twitter)

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For @batarouweek 2022 - Day 1: Soulmates, One-sided/Break-up, Roleswap AU. (I chose soulmates).

Here's a colored version and a grayscale version (to better see their similar auras).

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For @batarouweek 2022 - Day 6: Love Languages. Some little random doodles I did real fast to catch up with the week. No shading, just simple coloring.

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For @batarouweek Day 2: Sports AU. Garou (from baseball team "Monster") is excited to meet the rival baseball team "Hero's" pro player Badd. After all, he wants to see are all the rumors about his "unstoppable" skills true.. And maybe beat him in the game.

Bonus sketch:

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For @batarouweek Day 3: Villain AU. Monster and his betrothed. I debated should I really post this, but whatever. Garou's monster form is a monster to draw and I had no idea what is with its design (the details keep changing a little in the manga, so yeah)...