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hello!!!!! you’ve mentioned previously that you have some opinions on bakugo mitsuki as a mother, and im super curious about them 👁️👁️

Hihi!!! Basically, I’m one of those people that really dislikes Mitsuki. Ultimately , my opinion is that the fandom can be really weird in their mindset about her because she is a toxic/bad mother, and I think that’s true regardless of how much someone might like her.

(This is really long because I yap about a couple different things, sorry!)

Mitsuki falls victim to an issue that I have with Horikoshi as an author; he has a really bad problem with tone and trying to merge his comedic aspects with his more serious ones. The best example I have is Hagakure, a character that solely exists because he thought it was funny to have a female character with the ‘needs to be naked to be invisible’ trope— something that destroyed her ability to be an ACTUAL character and caused her to be so overlooked that she accidentally makes more sense as the traitor than Aoyama, the one that was known to be traitor since day one.

It’s absolutely fine to have darker themes in a silly show, have a kids’ show become darker, or have two juxtaposing tones to highlight how serious things are getting. Spy x family is a show that does this incredibly well, imo, even with some of the pacing issues I have with it. With mha, however, Horikoshi will just randomly add things and commit to them just because he’s thinks it’s a funny bit and it ultimately ruins a lot of things about his work.

Bakugou Katsuki is one of them. As much as I love him, his character is fundamentally flawed because his author’s intentions with him and what the audience would interpret from him are so vastly different. The reason for this is because there are two major aspects of his character that are big deals but Horikoshi refuses to actually handle it as if it is because, to him, they’re jokes or something that’s not meant to be taken too seriously (based on the way he addresses them). The Sports Festival ending was absolutely horrifying if you think about it for more than two seconds— there is absolutely no way it is ever NOT abusive to muzzle and chain up a fifteen year old boy on NATIONAL television (possibly international because Aizawa says this festival replaces the Olympics). This is especially true when that same student had previously been attacked by a villain that GAGGED and RESTRAINED him (the sludge villain at the beginning of the show).

This is something that would traumatize him. I don’t care if he “deserved it” (he didn’t), this was humiliating and abusive and if UA wasn’t a sociopolitical superpower alongside the hero commission, the repercussions of this would’ve been devastating. But it’s never addressed because Horikoshi did it as a joke. This moment is meant to be funny and you’re supposed to laugh at how out of control Bakugou is. Despite the fact that this display is what leads the MAIN ANTAGONISTS to feel sorry for him and offer him a place with them because they believe he’s being abused by hero society. And I could hear the argument that this was all intentional and the league kidnapping him was meant to show how bad the end of the festival was, but I’d argue that nothing ever happens to cement that idea (in the anime, at least! I know that lots of stuff gets cut from the manga so it might not be wholly Horikoshi’s fault if there is manga or side content that goes against any of this). No one ever apologizes to Bakugou for it. Bakugou never talks to a friend about how these events were connected. It’s never addressed and, with how the villains and hero society are consistently treated throughout the series, I find it hard to believe that this was the actual intention here.

All this to say that his relationship with his mother is the exact same.

Mitsuki treats him the way she does because Horikoshi thinks it’s funny. She’s meant to be a parody of the strict/harsh mother that a lot of Asian households have— but the problem with this is that a lot of Asian mothers are abusive. In fact, the “harsh” way a lot of parents are across different cultures is all abusive, but it’s often justified with “well, that’s just how parents are here” but I don’t think that’s a good excuse.

It’s important to note that her being abusive makes her a bad mother, but I don’t think she doesn’t love her son or that she’s inherently a bad person. People often jump to this defense when you say she’s abusive, which is part of the strange mindset I spoke of earlier. It’s really dangerous, imo, to imply that an abusive person can’t love their victim and I don’t like that perspective, even with domestic abuse. These things have nuance and it’s not an all or nothing thing like people online like to pretend it is. Treating someone badly doesn’t automatically mean there’s no way you could ever love them or care for them, it just means that you treated them badly. Their love doesn’t justify their abuse, nor does it make it any less bad or traumatizing and saying that it’s okay because Mitsuki loves him has that implication.

In the same way I can say that someone is saying/doing something homophobic and not mean that they are a homophobe that hates gay people and wants to take our rights away, Mitsuki is abusive, but I don’t mean she’s a ruthless child abuser that feels no love or remorse. I’ll say that again: when I say she’s abusive, I don’t mean she’s incapable of love, but her loving her son does not change the fact that she treats him poorly and that she, and any mother she’s meant to parody, are bad mothers because this isn’t a healthy way to raise a child.

And I say that as someone who has a mother like her! Mitsuki as a fandom topic is really triggering for me and I tend to avoid positive posts about her because so many people like to justify her behavior, which in turn feels like they’re justifying my mother’s behavior. To add context as well, I’m white but my mother’s side of the family is all Japanese, with my great-grandmother being the one to immigrate to America. I don’t say this to compare my experiences with people who are actually Asian or Asian-American with mothers like Mitsuki (because I’m like 1/8th Japanese at this point so I’m in no way apart of this group 😭😭), but a lot of these behaviors are caused by generational trauma and I know my mother acted the way she did because of her mother, and because of her mother, and so on. Basically, this topic is kind of personal to me, even if I’m not in the exact position to be able to speak on it from a cultural standpoint.

To circle back, though, I don’t believe it’s accurate to say my mother doesn’t love me, even though she was abusive to me. I don’t think it’s accurate to say my grandmother didn’t love my mother, even though she was abusive towards her. Parents are far more complicated than that and it feels really gross to justify objectively bad actions by saying “well, she can’t be abusive because she means well and loves her son!”

Arguably, Endeavor loves his kids, as shown in his atonement arc (though, I don’t love how that one is written either)— that doesn’t make things any better, though, does it?

Mitsuki hits Katsuki. That is an objective fact because I have the scene pulled up right now and I’m watching it happen. Another objective fact is that it’s never okay to hit your kids. It’s not okay to spank them. It’s not okay to whoop them. Psychologically, this does more damage than good and Katsuki is actually such a good representation as to why. When you hit a kid for being bad or too much, they learn that when someone is “bad” then they deserve to be hurt, which leads them down two roads— either THEY become physical against other people when other people do something wrong (like the way Katsuki uses his quirk against Izuku— because, yes, Katsuki was abusive towards Izuku too. That doesn’t mean he’s a bad person now. He was a child and this was a learned behavior from his mother/his environment but that doesn’t suddenly justify it or make it better), or it means that they continue to allow other people, such as romantic partners, to hurt them as they get older because they feel like that’s the acceptable punishment.

I don’t care that he’s a teenager. I don’t care that she does it to reel him in. If it’s not okay to smack another adult because of their attitude problems, it’s not okay to do it to a child.

And the way she speaks to him is incredibly damaging. I don’t have access to the manga panels rn so this is based on the anime (dub with the translated subtitles) so maybe the manga handles it slightly better— but when Aizawa goes to ask for permission to let Katsuki stay at the dorms, Mitsuki smacks him COMPLETELY UNPROVOKED and when he snaps back at her with aggression telling her not to hit him, she responds with ANOTHER smack and says, “Oh, shut up! It’s your fault to begin with for being so weak. You got caught, and now you’re causing everyone trouble!” (subs)/“Oh hush! If you hadn’t been so damn weak, you never would’ve gotten caught and caused all that trouble!” (dub line)

Her son was just kidnapped.

Kidnapped by people that, at this point, have cemented themselves as incredibly dangerous individuals. The nomus are publicly known and publicly associated with the league because of the attack in Hosu City. He was kidnapped by people so dangerous that ALL MIGHT had to retire after he fought them— on NATIONAL TELEVISION. Katsuki could have died. Katsuki was traumatized. And this is how she treats him in front of PRO HEROES.

Following this, she hits him AGAIN and goes on about how Katsuki is good at everything because of his quirk, but that he was always being praised for shallow stuff and she says that it’s likely why he ended up like this. For starters, this obviously upsets him a bit. Humbling him isn’t a bad thing, but there’s a time and place for it and it’s very obvious that this line of thinking is how we end up with him having his fight against Izuku. He’s incredibly insecure despite his pride and if everyone was praising him for shallow stuff, what was she doing? How was she handling it other than hitting him and telling him that he’s weak? Do you really expect me to believe that the ONLY reason Katsuki acts the way he does is because his peers and teachers said that he was the best, and it has nothing to do with his mother who is aggressive even when he doesn’t do anything and describes him as “good at pretty much everything he does because of his blessed quirk”? His mother who responds to his kidnapping with “well, you got caught because you were weak and it caused so much trouble”?

Children are a product of their environment and there’s nothing anyone can do to convince me that Katsuki is the only child in the world whose biggest influence wasn’t his parents.

“He’s a hot tempered brat and we know he’s a pain” (dub)/“he’s a hopeless guy” (sub). If she talks like this to his teachers, to Pro Heroes, how does she talk to him when they’re alone? How did she respond when he was attacked by the slime villain? When he was chained up and muzzled on live television? You simply can’t convince me that she would’ve reacted any better.

I don’t care that she liked what Aizawa said at the press conference. I don’t care that she means well. I don’t care that she loves him. I don’t care that she clearly cares for him at the end of the manga when he’s in the hospital. No amount of manga panels showing her smiling when she’s near him or holding him as a baby will change the fact that she is a major part of why Katsuki is the way he is. Again, she can love him and be trying her absolute best and still be abusive or a bad mother, regardless of what Horikoshi was intending. I will never argue that she hates her son or that she does this maliciously— but based on her behavior, she’s incredibly damaging to be around.

When did she start hitting him? Was it when he was younger and getting too prideful for his own good? Did it start because he was annoying? Or because he had an attitude problem that she didn’t have the patience to solve without needless violence? Did she try anything other than hitting him or was he just getting on her nerves so that’s what she resorted to first? There are times where kids are truly uncontrollable and there really is nothing you can do to stop them from acting out. There are so many parents right now dealing with kids that refuse to listen and are engaging in really bad behaviors— again, I have personal experience with this.

But something tells me that Katsuki isn’t and never was meant to be one of those kids. Something tells me (and that something is his characterization and how he thrives under Aizawa who actually respects him and how he’s disciplined and grows without parental intervention and how he’s a hero) that Katsuki was not so uncontrollable and dangerous that it warranted any of this. He’s a fifteen year old boy going through some of the worst things people in this universe can imagine and she’s treating him like a burden. It’s actually devastating when you think about it.

My mother did the best she possibly could with the resources she had and I have no doubt that she loves me. But love should never feel like that, and while I respect anyone who wants to like Mitsuki or play with the Bakugou family dynamics, I don’t like her and I don’t like his family and I don’t like the amount of people in the mha fandom that consistently try to justify her behavior by saying it’s just a joke or just a product of the culture.

TLDR: I really dislike Mitsuki and how she’s handled in both the show and fandom. I 100% think that Katsuki is a victim— of his parents, of UA and hero society, and of the villains that target him— and it’s such a critical part of his character to me, a part that often goes overlooked because it genuinely doesn’t seem like most of it was intentional so a lot of people ignore it or just miss it entirely.

winter break ❄️

The only genes Bakugo got from his father is the genes that contributed to his quirk everything else its just Mitsuki

@mha-quotes-and-such

ah yes like mother like son

Short For Grenade update/excerpt !

every time i think im making solid progress with this fic, it keeps getting longer on me lol, so here's the most recent bit ive written:

“My, my, what a passionate statement,” Mitsuki pointed out, poking his knee. Katsuki frowned.   “I hate you,” he hissed.  “You are just chalk full of those feelings today, kid.”   Katsuki groaned loudly and extricated himself from his mother’s gentle grip, stomping up the stairs with a few curses tossed over his shoulder to avoid her less-gentle, bitch-ass cackling at his expense.  “C’mon Nade!” Katsuki called, grinning proudly to himself when he heard the sound of her nails scrabbling up the stairs behind himself. “Good girl,” he praised, waiting for her to trot into his room before he closed his door. 

Still in the living room, Masaru fell into Katsuki’s abandoned space on the couch, intertwining a hand with his wife.  “He didn’t slam it,” Masaru pointed out quietly, a wide, wobbly smile crawling over his face.  MItsuki eyed the staircase for a long moment before raising their clasped hands to place a kiss on her husband’s wedding band.  “Guess we’re not fucking this whole parenting thing up after all.” Masaru’s hair was greasy where it brushed against her neck, his body warm in all the places they were connected, and Mitsuki was…happy. She carefully stroked Masaru’s bangs away from his forehead while he began to sniffle on her shoulder, the sound of Katsuki’s raucous laughter echoing through the house, followed by the gleeful, yipping bark of Grenade the fucking dog.  Maybe…maybe they really weren’t fucking up, she thought to herself- maybe for the first time since they’d brought Katsuki back from the hospital, away from the watchful, knowing gazes of the doctors and nurses, and Mitsuki was left wondering just what the hell she was supposed to do with her baby now.  “You’re such a damn sap,” she murmured, tightening her grip on Masaru’s hand.  Masaru chuckled wetly, lifting his face to press a lingering kiss to Mitsuki’s temple. His eyes shone behind his glasses.  “Grenade,” he said wondrously, because neither of them could recall the last time Katsuki had stormed up to his room, angry, and not slammed the door.  And nothing else really needed to be said.   Mitsuki tipped her forehead against Masaru’s.  “Grenade,” she agreed in a whisper.

I hope you know this made me sob so violently I bathed in my own tears

He hates the rain :(

have yalls angry mitsuki coming to terms that kariage is a good boyfriend for katsuki. And her twisted thinking about the sports festival.

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Anger riled up in her as she saw her son tied up infront of millions. How could this happen? Why is no one doing anything?! Her baby boy is struggling in quirk restraints not even fit for his quirk.

Mitsuki could barely hold herself back. Masaru had grown still next to her. She could barely think, so many questions went through her head. Perhaps they were doing the right thing? Maybe katsuki had done something wrong and is paying the price for it, surely UA wouldn't do something like this without a reason.

-time skip to after sports festival, katsuki is at home now- (I'll figure out how to write this part later)

Katsuki didnt say much, or at all once he got home. He just stayed inside his room all day. It was getting late. Around 7 PM.

There was a knock at the door, it was kariage, Katsuki's boyfriend. Mitsuki let him inside, even if she still wasn't so sure about him. Could you blame her? Kariage was basically if hot topic and stereotypical bad boy had a baby. And that baby being kariage, the poster child of bad behavior.

However, the look in his eyes said otherwise. There was a bloodlust hidden, a fury almost breaking to the surface as there were glimpses of sadness. Mitsuki looked at kariage as he went upstairs to her son's room.

A while later, she heard muffled sobs as she washes the dishes....and then cooing? Sweet nothings are a better phrase. She heard the sobbing stop and turn to giggles. Mitsuki turned the water off after completing the last of the dishes.

Mitsuki went upstairs, she stood infront of the door and heard the stupid jokes that kariage was telling her boy. No matter how bad they were, they still made katsuki laugh.

Mitsuki smiled to herself as she walked into masaru and her bedroom and sat next to her already sleeping husband. Maybe, just maybe, kariage was ok enough to be with her baby.

have yalls angry mitsuki coming to terms that kariage is a good boyfriend for katsuki. And her twisted thinking about the sports festival.

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Anger riled up in her as she saw her son tied up infront of millions. How could this happen? Why is no one doing anything?! Her baby boy is struggling in quirk restraints not even fit for his quirk.

Mitsuki could barely hold herself back. Masaru had grown still next to her. She could barely think, so many questions went through her head. Perhaps they were doing the right thing? Maybe katsuki had done something wrong and is paying the price for it, surely UA wouldn't do something like this without a reason.

-time skip to after sports festival, katsuki is at home now- (I'll figure out how to write this part later)

Katsuki didnt say much, or at all once he got home. He just stayed inside his room all day. It was getting late. Around 7 PM.

There was a knock at the door, it was kariage, Katsuki's boyfriend. Mitsuki let him inside, even if she still wasn't so sure about him. Could you blame her? Kariage was basically if hot topic and stereotypical bad boy had a baby. And that baby being kariage, the poster child of bad behavior.

However, the look in his eyes said otherwise. There was a bloodlust hidden, a fury almost breaking to the surface as there were glimpses of sadness. Mitsuki looked at kariage as he went upstairs to her son's room.

A while later, she heard muffled sobs as she washes the dishes....and then cooing? Sweet nothings are a better phrase. She heard the sobbing stop and turn to giggles. Mitsuki turned the water off after completing the last of the dishes.

Mitsuki went upstairs, she stood infront of the door and heard the stupid jokes that kariage was telling her boy. No matter how bad they were, they still made katsuki laugh.

Mitsuki smiled to herself as she walked into masaru and her bedroom and sat next to her already sleeping husband. Maybe, just maybe, kariage was ok enough to be with her baby.

📁 is this where you send the folder emojis??? Ik pretty sure it is. I love your Bakugou centric Headcannons it’s really fun to read them!

🥺❤ Thank you! And it's super fun doing them too! This is my favorite part of tumblr, doing asks. There's just something about them. And I'm rambling haha. Sorry.

I was going through my wattpad (Luna_Dragongem) recently and found my character bio for Kariage AKA Undercut-kun (It's there in my multiverse fic). I hope y'all like it.

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Given name:

Yusuke (it means healing or support)

Surname:

Kioku (it means memory)

Age:

16

Birthday:

Feb 23

Occupation:

Student (regular school somewhere in the city side of Musutafu. He wants to become therapist, someone who deals with trauma)

Personality:

Chill and laid back. He has a bad habit of smoking but has quit as per Bakugou's request. Uses lollipops and chewing gum for withdrawal. He likes to tease Bakugou (poor boi gets so flustered). He says innuendos from time to time.

Quirk:

Mind Archive (I know it doesn't exactly match his name but idc)

If he touches his index fingers to the temples (right next to eyebrows) of someone's head for 5 seconds, he can look into someone's memories. He can only go through for 5 minutes and only 6 times a day.

Only he can see it unless someone else were to touch him, they continue seeing as long as they touch Yusuke. When using his quirk, his index fingers have a glow to them.

The memories are shown as a screen (Imagine Hibiki from Fairy Tail using Archive magic) the memories are like a video which can be fast forwarded, paused, slowed down and everything like a video. When used, the person who's memories are being seen is unconscious.

Drawbacks are dizziness for Yusuke and the person who views with him. Depending on how long the viewing is, the dizziness either increases or decreases.

Bonds:

Bakugou Katsuki (Boyfriend of 1 and a half years. Started secretly dating during the summer between 2nd and 3rd year of middle school. Came out a few months before the UA entrance exams. They haven't hidden it since, but aren't big on PDA)

Izuku Midoriya (Former bully, stopped in high school. Acquaintances now)

Mount Lady (They met very few times but hit it off regardless, they annoy Bakugou to absolutely no end) <- that one hc of bkg and mount lady bring cousins

Bakugou's parents (Mitsuki gives demonic shovel talks)

Inko (Bakugou and him went and apologized to her about Izuku. Izuku wasn't there. It's a secret between these three since Bakugou wants to atone)

How they come out AKA how I wish to come out:

They go around the neighborhood on kariage's motorcycle and yell. No one really cares cuz they had suspicions. This just confirmed it. I feel like it'd be a conservative town so there would be a little bit of homophobia but no one cares.

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❤ Hope you like it! I have to say, this is a work I can say I'm proud of in confidence.

I'm particularly happy abt the quirk, would he be a psychologist for heroes to help with trauma or Villains to help them get back on their feet, out into the world? Or would he be a regular psychologist for civilians or children? Who knows! 🤷‍♀️ but I don't want to think about that. He'd just help people wherever he can.

Stay safe and have a lovely day!

Agghhhhh all I can think about is Bakugou having a newborn and wanting to let his partner get some rest cause they've been with baby almost solo all during the day for the past 2 weeks, so he brings Baby Bakugou to work with him....

IN A BABY BJORN.

And Bakugou isn't gonna care because he's stable in his mindset as a man cause we ain't got time for toxic masculinity. He knows who he is and that's a Father now and a caring partner.

Just shows up to the workplace, strapped in with a orange, green and black Bjorn because of course, 'Dynamite' . Gotta represent properly like a badass.

Newborn sleeping against his chest as he has his baby's diaper bag on his back, a backpack and not a sling shoulder bag because "I ain't trying to ware out my neck and shoulders dumbasses".

Everyone coming over to see the new addition and he tells them that if they wake up his baby he'll kill them and make sure they can't go out in the field for 2 months.

Some of the sidekicks getting a kick out of "Soft Daddy Dynamite" vs "I'll Kick Your Ass Dynamite"

Just

*screech*

Is it my baby fever acting up? I think so 🥺🙌🏻🥰🧡💚🖤❤🖤💚🧡

mha incorrect #2

izuku : * loses katsuki in crowd *

izuku : hey todoroki i think we lost kacchan

todoroki : just wait and watch

todoroki (screaming) : u know deku he is way better then bakugou i think deku should be future no 1

katsuki appearing out of nowhere : WHAT DID U SAY ICY HOT