(possible spoiler for the bnha manga, read at your own risk)
Unpopular opinion:
Quirkless Bakugou doesn't sit well with me.
For some reasons, everyone seems so... on fire and hooked and in love with the idea that Bakugou will be quirkless in the next few chapters for reasons I can't understand yet and as much as I want to ask, I also don't because that would entail a lot of asking and conversations I don't think my brain can follow.
Is it because of the angst? Is it because Bakugou saving Midoriya or Aizawa or any other vital hero is peak growth? Is it because it's poetic justice that after being one of the strongest and the best for so long, he'd finally know the hell he'd put Midoriya through? To know what it feels like to be treated like glass, to be "fragile", and less than dirt, to be a pebble in the road, a "nuisance"? To be reduced to a quirk when you've had the world in your hands? Because that's exactly why I don't like it.
Bakugou may be privy to the hell Midoriya knew. Maybe he won't be. Because we all know that if there's anyone who can rise to the top, quirk or no, it's Bakugou. Bakugou who's skilled and talented and lives on spite and anger and ego. Bakugou who can look someone in the eye and call them an extra even if he respects them. If there's anyone who can be a quirkless hero and be number one, it's Bakugou. And Izuku, Izuku who always looked up and loved and supported him will be there every step of the way. And it feels as if he's taking it away from Izuku. It feels as if the only thing that Izuku kept to himself (the abuse, the sadness, the pain) would be things that Bakugou will be unfamiliar with and I find that unfair.
Personally, I don't want an apology that stems from knowing and being in the same place as the person you hurt. It's angst. It's flavorful. But maybe I'm just not in the right headspace but if the reason why Bakugou apologized to Izuku because he finally knows what it feels like, it will hurt. But I want Bakugou to apologize, not because he knows what it feels like, but because he understands it was wrong.
I need Bakugou to understand that what he did was wrong. That's it.
I don't want him to know what it feels like. I want him to understand.
Don't take away from Izuku his own experiences just so Bakugou can know it. Because if there's anyone who would support Bakugou through and through and believe that he will be the best hero the world has ever seen, it's the boy who never stopped calling his childhood friend and bully "Kacchan".