ik I haven't been on tumblr for a minute, but I saw a reel that said "those two characters that can NEVER be free of each other. they will both haunt each other's narrative." and I immediately thought of bakugo and izuku.
Like i’m actually losing my mind over Bakugo and Izuku because they are so doomed it hurts. Like they literally never stood a chance at being normal about each other. They grew up together, had the same dream, stared at the same hero posters, and then the universe just decided to split that dream in half and make them each other’s curse. Bakugo cannot exist without Izuku being there as proof of everything he hates about himself: his guilt, his fear, the fact that the “worthless” kid kept chasing him and became his equal anyway. And Izuku??? Izuku will NEVER be free of Bakugo because Bakugo is the first person who ever defined strength for him, and the person he still watches out of habit, despite everything because his idea of victory is so intertwined with Bakugo in his mind. The fact that they practically represent binary stars too says enough. They are two bodies trapped in the same orbit for enternity, feeding off each other’s gravity, unable to escape. Every time one of them moves forward, it drags the other with him. Every achievement, every failure, it’s always measured against the other. The worst part is how Izuku looked up to Bakugo as his hero despite everything and never stopped chasing him, constantly trying to be more like him only for their roles to switch in the end and Bakugo was stuck chasing someone who stopped chasing him a long time ago. But their stories are still so painfully intertwined that they genuinely would not have become the people they did without eachother. The story REFUSES to let one exist without the other, and that’s what makes them insane and devastating and ahdheuwhwgegehehheh.
