[ SECRET POST #5812 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5812 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I had a very, very, very awful time in middle school because of bullies so I tend to avoid anything involving romantic pairings with bullies and whatnot, but I also don't go out of my way to harass people and scream at them for bullyships?? Like, it's none of my business and has nothing to do with me, but I'm so vehemently against it that I try to avoid it at all costs and don't go out of my way to look it up or anything so I can bitch about it. Why would I do that to myself??

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DA

For me, sometimes there’s something cathartic in seeing people say things I agree with when I really hate something or some character. It’s not the best or healthiest coping mechanism. So when I got into MHA, I immediately really hated Bakugou. Because I was also bullied. Bully characters don’t always trigger this response in me though, because they’re supposed to be hated by the audience, and they’re usually hated by the other characters and framed negatively by the narrative anyways.

But Bakugou is kind of a unique character in that regard. Because after the horrible scenes of him bullying Izuku in middle school, and they both get into UA, the narrative no longer seems to frame him in a particularly negative light. It makes fun of him for his over the top rage, but doesn’t really treat him like a bad person. Or even someone that needs to develop into a better person. It seems to frame his and Izuku’s relationship at the start of their time at UA as just a broken friendship that Bakugou is too stubborn to confront his feelings about. Instead of a bully and his victim, who just happened to start off as friends. And most of the characters start liking and respecting him almost immediately after they’re all settled into being classmates.

And the fanbase by and large did too, with him getting an huge amount of fans who got him voted him as the most popular character in official polls several times. And defenders that always swooped in to “explain” why anyone criticizing him was actually wrong, and he was always a great person who didn’t really need to apologize to Izuku for anything. Fic was a bit different and better, because there were almost as many writers that hated him and wrote him as in the wrong as ones that loved him and wrote him as the unsung hero of the manga. So even though I didn’t have anything against his fans, or at least just people that respected him for who and what he was as a character, I hated him. I felt like I was taking crazy pills sometimes looking at how beloved he was, and how ships involving him were some of the most popular. Strangely, I didn’t mind BakuDeku, because I understand “enemies/rivals to lovers” appeal-wise, even if I know Izuku would deserve better if he were real. But I was quickly sick of KiriBaku and Kacchako, because I definitely thought these characters deserved better, and I wasn’t sold on Kirishima’s friendship arc with Bakugou.

So I looked up Bakugou-hate on Tumblr one day to see like-minded posts. And I found them, and it made me feel a little better, that I wasn’t alone in not being able to stand Bakugou. Then I started seeing the huge amount of Bakugou and BakuDeku antis, and how they tried to demonize fans of both the character and ship. That’s when I realized I might have been reading anti posts all along, they just weren’t tagged that way. And I also realized that I probably wasn’t any better. Sure, I didn’t think people that liked BakuDeku were automatically accepting of bullying and abusive relationships irl, and I didn’t think most fans of Bakugou were abuse and bullying enablers. But I did have some thoughts that his most vocal and persistent defenders were contributing to abuse apologism in a way, even though I also didn’t think it was intentional on their part. So that thought that I wasn’t better than his antis made me pull back from the hatred a bit. And that also coincided with him getting a bit more tolerable and less obnoxiously shouty in the anime. I still don’t think his apology to Izuku makes up for everything he put him through, but I pretty much didn’t feel much besides apathy to Bakugou at that point in the manga. So I still find myself thinking that was a nice moment, in spite of myself.

Long(very long, sorry) story short, I do get why some people might look up things related to characters they don’t like, if they think they might find people who agree with them there. But I don’t think that’s a great thing to do. I think the way you avoid it instead is much better and healthier. Bitching about things you don’t like can feel good sometimes, but nobody should be a dick to other people about it.