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!! THE!! CHEEK!! SPARKLES!! omg i love this headcanon, it’s so friggin adorable. Oh man, it’s so sweet that Kariage’s the only one who knows about them? Like, it’s a literally testament to just how close they are to each other, you know, that they knows things about each other that no one else does. And the way Kariage is the only one who can fluster Katsuki enough for the little sparks to show up? The fact that he’s smug about the fact that his boyfriend is only cute with him? Immaculate.

any bakugou and undercut-kun hc?

Kariage is the only one that knows about a little.... side effect of Katsuki’s quirk. It’s nothing bad, nothing life-threatening, it’s just fucking adorable.

See, if Katsuki gets flustered or blushes hard enough he lets off tiny little star-like sparks all across his cheeks. He can’t control it, can’t stop it, and Kariage adores it.

No one else has gotten Katsuki to do that and he definitely hasn’t told anyone about it, he thinks it’s fucking embarrassing, it’s so stupid and childishly cute.

But Kariage loves it, it’s one of his favourite things about Katsuki. He loves the way he looks when it happens, cheeks all flushed and brows furrowed, nose scrunched up in frustration, all the while his cheeks are covered in bright little sparks. It’s the cutest thing ever. What he loves more than the way it looks, though, is just the fact that he’s the only one that can make it happen. 

I am banging my fists on a table as we speak. Oh my god, I just?? I really like this?? I remember when you messaged me about this, and I was super excited to see how you handled this!! To be honest, I never expected Kariage and KariBaku to get as popular as it did. When I first started shipping it back in August-ish, literally no one I knew had heard of it. Only a few Japanese and Korean writers and artists had works spread across the web, and @pyrrhicwildfire had their fic on ao3 that came out last year, which helped me get hooked.

Now, we’ve got a whole ass Discord server for KariBaku, so many talented artists and writers creating amazing content every freaking day, and a doc for Kariage and his rise to fame?? Please, I am so happy that you made this!! It was absolutely perfect, even for a work-in-progress, and I can’t thank you enough for making it <33

The Kariage Master Doc

It is a somewhat collective from of Kariage and his character. It's still unfinished but I'm planing on adding onto it. Such as expanding on the history of the character and other smaller aspects. Going more into depth with his dynamic and the versatility that it holds.

asdfghjkl I’m gonna be honest, I don’t really have words to describe how much I freaking love this. Like, I knew distantly that you were writing a fic, but I was not prepared for the greatness you wrote. I actually cried, literal tears fell out my eyes, I was this close to sobbing. You’re writing style fit so freaking well for this story, and it just tied everything together in a prefect little package.

The part where Katsuki begins to worry about whether Kariage would want to stay with him - an embarrassment, a wild animal, a villain - and everything after practically tore my heart to shreds. How you describe Katsuki walking home after the festival, hiding to keep people from seeing his face was absolutely heartbreaking. The way Katsuki acknowledges that baths make him feel good enough that Kariage gave him stuff to make him happy, but thinks that he doesn’t deserve something like that after the Sports Festival, instead taking a shower so cold it piractically hurts? That’s where I really started to cry.

And, when he curls up with Kariage in bed and just starts sobbing? Yeah, I got shivers reading it. And, the atmosphere of the story when Kariage is comforting Katsuki felt so real, so personal, that I actually had to take a break in reading becuase I was feeling it. Feeling the hurt and desperation and love and validation, and, yeah, by the end of it I was full out sobbing. It was absolutely perfect, and I’m so freaking thankful that you decided to share it, because it was simply amazing. <33

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Undercut-kun, Bakugou Katsuki/Kariage-kun Characters: Bakugou Katsuki, Kariage-kun, Undercut-kun, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, (mentioned) Additional Tags: Sports Festival Arc (My Hero Academia), Bakugou Katsuki Needs a Hug, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Childhood Friends, Established Relationship, Bakugou Mitsuki’s Bad Parenting, (undercut is the childhood friend from middle school) Summary:

“You hurt, baby?”

The concern in Kariage’s voice nearly made his knees buckle. It wasn’t what he expected, it wasn’t what he deserved. Kariage shouldn’t worry about him; if he was hurting it was his own fault, his own weakness which caused it. 

It was fine, he was fine.

But Kariage was looking at him in that knowing way he always wore whenever Katsuki didn’t voice his true feelings, brows furrowed and dark eyes sparkling in the room as he trailed his gaze over Katsuki’s face, hands still cupping his cheeks and the scent of cigarettes, leather and vanilla encompassing his senses.

Or:

The Sports Festival happens and Katsuki is falling apart.

Based on a hc I posted a while ago. I thought it was a sweet idea and wanted to write a full one-shot, the first in a series I’m planning on writing. Hope you like it!

haha not me near to crying tears of joy because one of my favorite content creators acknowledged me im,,, i need some time to recover, my cheeks hurt from smiling so much and so wide and i am just so happy!!! asdfghjkl <33

hi uhm!!! before i get too shy, i just wanted to pop in and say i really really REALLY love your karibaku content and i appreciate so much, especially when it shows up on my dash because!!! it just!!! makes me so happy!!! :D so thanks you a lot for your contributions to our little rarepair, they always make me smile real big <33

Oh my god hi!!!! Thank you so so much, you’re such a sweetheart !! <3 I really love writing for those two idiots, it’s such a fun ship! And I love all the stuff you’ve created for them too, it’s so good!! <3 <3 <3

!!! The fact that you feed us rarepair shippers so well is so amazing of you, Gab. Like?? The pure perfection of this? I fucking teared up reading this, I had to read it multiple times, Gab, it was that amazing, okay? Everything about this story is absolutely exquisite - Katsuki becoming Number One, Aizawa and the class crying because they’re so proud, the proposal scene??? It was so beautiful, Gabby, like??? The way you worded everything made it all the more perfect and you are literally one of my favorite people ever <33

Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Kariage, Bakugou Katsuki/Kariage-kun, Bakugou Katsuki/Undercut-kun, Bakugou Katsuki/Kariage│Bakugou Katsuki’s Childhood Friend Summary:

“Do you Bakugou Katsuki, take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?”

Or, congratulations then a marriage proposal.

wrote a karibaku (kariage / bakugou) marriage fic! 

wow :))) you really :))) love tearing :))) my heart out :))) don’t you? :)))

No, but this, for real, made me teary eyed. Like, the concept of Kariage being the only one who cared for Katsuki despite there being so many people Katsuki cares about? The way cigarettes/smoke, the color black, sneaking out reminded Katsuki of his sweetheart? How Katsuki never had win with Kariage, because he was already so good, so perfect in the eyes of his boyfriend? Catch me crying in the club, this shit hurts.

BAKUGOU HEADCANON 27

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Kariage dies from lung cancer due to his smoking habits during Bakugou’s 2nd year and fuck, Bakugou knew this was coming, knew that it’ll be sooner that later but he still can’t wrap his mind around loosing one of the people that cared about him. (Bakugou cares about a lot of people, though they seldom care about him too).

Sometimes when he sees a cigarette bud on the street, he can’t help think about how they’re the reason he lost the one person in his life he truly loved. When he smells smoke, they bring tears in his eyes and his throat instantly gets tight because it smells so much like Kariage, it’s like he’s there beside him again. But that’s just it right? That smoke is the reason he’s gone. Funny how that works.

He can’t bring himself to wear the color black anymore because it reminded him of their high school sweetheart days and suddenly he feels numb, feels nothing because the love of his life isn’t there to watch him grow as a hero and as a person (like Kariage said he would). Can’t bring himself to sneak out of U.A. no matter how much he wants to because that used to be their secret thing. When he becomes number one hero, sure he’s proud he’s made it, he worked and bled for this. But the one person that supported him since day one wasn’t there to watch the stars with him until sunrise that night. He thought the day he’ll reach number one will be the best day of his life, but it’s not. Not without him, the only person that mattered. He realizes after everything that his greatest goal in life wasn’t victory, because he was already a winner with Kariage. 

And now he isn’t.

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agsfdghjk PLS Everytime I see your art,,, I get a little heart attack, just a lil. Like!! They are so cute, and your art style makes them infinitely more so. Just,, the concept of little Kari being so enamored with Katsuki, following his footsteps and looking at him with stars in his eyes and a heart that beats far to quickly and!! Katsuki just accepting it!! Because Kari is his friend, and he loves it when his friends are amazed by him!!

But also!! My God, the details!! Wittle babies playing soccer and Kari just fucking,,, rolling around the ground because he’s having fun and like!! Fidning this little flower that reminds him of his Bestest Everest Friend and!! Him picking it specifically for Katsuki because it made him think of Katsuki?? Please, you’re making me far too soft how 🥺

sunflower head or dandelion head?

LMAOOO NOT @ ME POSTING THE ART SITTING IN MY GALLERY LIKE 🧍FOR WEEKS OR PROLLY EVEN MONTHS

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Hello. I have come to shove my love for Karibaku down your throat. Jk. I really do love them tho.

And imma continue to IGNORE what’s happening in the manga. I SWEAR.

I AM NOT CHECKING MY TWITTER FOR THAT S O L E R E A S O N.

WOW, so I finally got around to rereading this and lemme tell you,, it is just as painful as the first time you talked about this concept on Discord. Like?? Wow, Gab, really tearing my heart to shreds here.

ANYways, yeah this is just?? So supremely sad, to be honest. There’s just something so depressing about reading stories and concepts where characters dying preventable deaths, and all I can think of is the build up to this, you know? How many times Katsuki must’ve asked, told, pleaded for Kari to give up his habit, only to have Kari laugh and tell him it’s not that serious as he lights up another cigarette, as his voice gets deep and scratchy, as he gains a cough that never really goes away, until he can barely breathe after a few steps and can’t laugh unless he wants to pass out.

Then, Kari gets the diagnosis and there’s,, there’s nothing they can do. No medicine is working, it’s too far along, they’re not given hope - they’re given a time limit. Maybe Katsuki’s mad, at first. After all, he told Kari time after time after time, looking out the corner of his eye as Kari smoked, breath raspy and fingers shaking: That’s gonna be the death of you.

He wished he wasn’t right, for once in his fucking life.

Kari dies and takes some part of Katsuki with him, some integral, important part of Katsuki that lets him feel, lets him live. It’s buried alongside Kari in a casket that won’t ever open, and Katsuki maybe feels a little like he, too, died.

But his heart still beats and his lungs still breathe and his stomach still grumbles, and Katsuki feels like his body has betrayed him. Because how can he still be alive, when the one person who actually saw him is gone, buried six feet under, never to be seen again, never to laugh or cry or love again?

Katsuki’s alive, but it doesn’t feel like it. Not when the colors he sees are dull, and he feels rooted to solid ground. Even when he becomes the Number One Hero, people cheering out all around him, he can’t muster up a smile, can barely mutter through a scripted speech before he’s beating it. He sits a home, dressed in his half-done up Hero Costume, and thinks about how he’d give it all up for Kari. He’d stop being a Hero, leave the people who call themselves his friends and family, shed his name and every aspect of his identity just to have a chance to talk to Kari even once.

But the real world doesn’t work that way, and he wakes the next day and continues the constant cycle of sorrow.

Anyways, yeah this broke my heart, hehe </3

BAKUGOU HEADCANON 27

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Kariage dies from lung cancer due to his smoking habits during Bakugou’s 2nd year and fuck, Bakugou knew this was coming, knew that it’ll be sooner that later but he still can’t wrap his mind around loosing one of the people that cared about him. (Bakugou cares about a lot of people, though they seldom care about him too).

Sometimes when he sees a cigarette bud on the street, he can’t help think about how they’re the reason he lost the one person in his life he truly loved. When he smells smoke, they bring tears in his eyes and his throat instantly gets tight because it smells so much like Kariage, it’s like he’s there beside him again. But that’s just it right? That smoke is the reason he’s gone. Funny how that works.

He can’t bring himself to wear the color black anymore because it reminded him of their high school sweetheart days and suddenly he feels numb, feels nothing because the love of his life isn’t there to watch him grow as a hero and as a person (like Kariage said he would). Can’t bring himself to sneak out of U.A. no matter how much he wants to because that used to be their secret thing. When he becomes number one hero, sure he’s proud he’s made it, he worked and bled for this. But the one person that supported him since day one wasn’t there to watch the stars with him until sunrise that night. He thought the day he’ll reach number one will be the best day of his life, but it’s not. Not without him, the only person that mattered. He realizes after everything that his greatest goal in life wasn’t victory, because he was already a winner with Kariage. 

And now he isn’t.

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Idea: dadzawa gives kariage a shovel talk with the Aldera gang present. Katsuki is embarrassed and amused. Aldera gang are happily watching with popcorn. Mic, deku and inko join the talk. Do what you will with this.

asdfghjk I hope you know that I’m trying my absolute best to try and fit in at least one (1) shovel talk into the main fic, and understand that, if i can’t, it’s 100% going to be one of the interlude one-shot. Regardless, it’s going to happen.

!! THIS!! GAB THIS IS PERFECT!!

OMG, I just asdfghjkl I love how they’re so careful with each other, that despite their years of being together, they know that having this secret little code makes sure that they never feel unsafe around each other!! I love the good communication trope, especially for these two. Also, can I please say that it’s amazing that the little code helps both of them? Like, it’s not one-sided, because it provides safety and security to both boys, I love it.

AND!! And the rest of the Katsucrew picking up the code? I love it, it’s so cute and in character for these little losers. Also, the little hint about their tree is so freaking adorable. And, AAHHHSDFGHJK the ending? I’m,, catch me crying the club. Perfection is overrated, they have each other,, I’m,,, sobbing. This is so cute!!! You’re such an angel for providing this <33

📁 undercut-kun x katsuki Jk jk jk haha Unless👀👀 (You're the only one feeding me with his ship😭)

(if you catch me replying to asks months late, nO YOU DIDN’T)

Kariage (undercut-kun) and Bakugou have been dating since middle school, it’s in context that they’ve spent years getting to know each other, working around one another’s insecurities and weaknesses. Kariage especially to Bakugou, after the sludge villain, sports festival, kidnapping, fights, etc., he’s been there.

He and Bakugou devised a code or secret language if you will, right after the sludge villain incident. Two consecutive taps must be done first if you’re going to initiate physical affection towards one another, and wait for 2 seconds if the other is going to shake their head as a no. If not, then the physical touch is welcome. 

This is done to not surprise Bakugou or Kariage at the sudden contact, to not activate their fight or flight response. This stemmed from Bakugou’s traumas of people grabbing him and Kariage with his abusive parents. It’s a simple secret act between the two of them, yet important nonetheless as it shows consent.

Another is four consecutive taps meaning that they feel unsafe or their anxiety is spiking up. No matter where they are or what they’re doing, they stop and try to leave (if they’re with other people) and goes to a certain safe place, like Bakugou’s room or under their tree at the park, until the person feels comfortable again. No questions asked between the two of them, they give the other space or affection depending on the mood and wait until they tap 2 times to signify they’re okay again.

With this, they built trust and boundaries, something Bakugou’s other friends may lack or ignore. They build comfort and protection, because no matter how strong Kariage seems to be, there are times when things become overbearing. They’ve been doing this for years and the other members of the Katsucrew or Aldera Gang (dubbed by @hitheryon) has caught up on their signs and makes it a habit to watch out for those subtle taps initiated to know how to cheer their friends up or to give them time and space.

Kariage and Bakugou know their friends have realized and seen their private codes already and they couldn’t be happier as the signs they use become an unspoken thing between the group. No questions asked, they’re simply there for one another. They might not be perfect, but they’ll go through everything and anything together.