Things to note here:
Yoichi took Kudo's hand. Bakugo did not take Izuku's hand, and didn't want to.
Yoichi was willing to be helped and saved. Bakugo was not.
Kudo looks down on Izuku for being an idealistic, foolish boy that wants to save everyone—but Kudo is like that too.
He's idealistic to the point of being crazy, for wanting to save not only his enemy's brother, but to take down the strongest man in the world, and save Japan from being ruled by him.
Kudo can look down on Izuku for believing in, and wanting to help, Bakugo, his childhood bully and someone he should hate.
But Kudo is just like Izuku. Yoichi was someone he should've hated, but he couldn't actually do it, and reached out his hand to help him up.
IZUKU AND KUDO OUTSTRETCH THE SAME HAND
YOICHI'S BODY IS FACING KUDO. BAKUGO IS FACED AWAY, WITH ONLY HIS HEAD TURNED
Yoichi was willing to acknowledge and look at Kudo head on. Bakugo wasn't.
Bakugo was acknowledging his Quirked friends when Midoriya suddenly appeared on the scene. Midoriya wasn't supposed to have been there. Like how Kudo shouldn't have been able to find Yoichi's vault.
Even if Midoriya and Kudo were weak to society (Gearshift is not a strong Quirk then), the level of receptiveness is visible.
Yoichi is weak and has no idea who he is, but gives his attention and fully looks at him.
Bakugo is strong, popular, and knows Midoriya, but doesn't want his help because of that. Because he views Midoriya as below him, but Yoichi never thought that way: rather, Yoichi saw himself as weak.
Izuku and Kudo didn't have to help them. The two just wanted to.
They both wanted to help someone they should've hated.
But they couldn't bring themselves to.
Like Midoriya, Kudo believes in Yoichi's goodness, and doesn't see him for AFO's brother.
Kudo looks at Midoriya and calls him an idealistic, delusional fool. But Kudo is just looking at Midoriya and seeing his past self.
Kudo is idealistic, stubborn, and delusional like Midoriya. He too, believed in the goodness of others he should've hated.
This is why Kudo wants Midoriya to walk down the same path as him: Midoriya will run full-sprint, but he needs to have friends that can match him.
Kudo knows what Midoriya needs and has to do. Because he went through the same thing.
This could also be another reason why he shut up when Midoriya used Gearshift to save All Might. Because Kudo wanted to save Yoichi when it was illogical and would've ruined him, but he did it anyway. Just like Midoriya did.
The fact Izuku and Bakugo are in knee-deep water. Yoichi and Kudo aren't, but they definitely were when Yoichi died.
Izuku thought Bakugo's life was endangered, and asked if he was okay and needed help.
When Yoichi and Kudo are knee-deep, Kudo is holding his hand, and Yoichi's life is endangered. Not just himself, but Kudo.
Y'know what I think about that? Next point. Here you go, bkdk shippers.
Holding hands was them tying / joining their lives together.
Kudo offered that. Midoriya offered that.
Yoichi took it. Bakugo didn't. But he would in the future, when Midoriya offers it again. And when he does, Midoriya embodies Kudo's Quirk into it.
Kudo tries warning of the blowback of Gearshift, but sees Vestige-Might's flickering, and shuts up.
Maybe he was reminded of Yoichi or his comrades. His Quirk was being used to save someone, back when he couldn't do the same as he held someone's hand.
This time, rather than to get away from the danger, it was to approach the danger and save someone in AFO's grasp.
Bakugo = Kudo, Izuku = Yoichi
An idea you'll see around the BNHA fandom about these characters is that.
But instead, the panels flipped the ones holding out their hand. First it was Kudo, then it was Izuku.
If Bakugo held out his hand, Izuku would've taken it. Like how Yoichi took Kudo's.
But if Yoichi and Kudo swapped places and Yoichi held out his hand, Kudo wouldn't have taken it. Because Yoichi was the younger brother of the Demon Lord, and someone Kudo should hate.
If Bakugo took Midoriya's hand, or Yoichi rejected Kudo's, the story would've been much more different.
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I cant find a base about cutting a pomegranate...
It's the first time I'm drawing a fanart without a base or smthng and I think it came pretty good.
Fanfic: A Rose by Any (Other) Name by HeyAssbuttImBatman
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The art
And the reference :3
Yeah, i just couldn't hold myself for not to draw them like that🙂
new au but even I don't know what it is about yet...
I just created this one while trying colors and usually its hard to draw something like this when I try to be careful about the sketch😭 though I hope I'll get really better so that I'll be able to feel bad about posting this art lmao
Im gonna answer you from here because my comment got lost because of the internet😭 Im gonna write here again😔🤧
@nightblightowl
First of all, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me! I was remembering that moment like Deku was holding her hand with two hands and so I didn't think it was the same one here, thank you for reminding us! Im gonna put the prev hand holding moment here
However I still can't think this moment as romantic because at the prev moment, she was thinking about Himiko Toga, not Izuku. She was thinking about the girl who loved her. And again, when Deku came right in front of him she was still thinking about Himiko Toga. That's why I can't find this panel romantic. It felt more like just hurt/comfort to me. She literally thought Toga was alive and pushed her for a moment so she stumbled (I still think if horikoshi was gonna make izuocha clear, izuku shouldve tried to hold her and then he couldve hold her hand🫠 but anyway). She was still thinking about Himiko Toga.
Yes, she should move on bc she is dead. She has to live with that but she should move on but she still couldn't. I want her to confess her feelings, I want them to talk with each other but if they are gonna date, I don't want them to start dating like this. Izuku made his move to her with Katsuki's advice's, not with his own pure thoughts. Ochako still thinks about toga even when she is with him and I really think they should get therapy first😭 (I wrote this better in my prev comment but got deleted hhhhh)
Lets move on to the other subject
Do you remember when they were child and following bakugo with "bakugo agency" song? I was referring to that :) Izuku wouldn't do something he doesn't like even when he was that little and if I gotta show and example that would be when he was trying to protect someone against Katsuki and the others.
You can also see the pic I send in the first comment. He was asking to bakugo after all this years, about the agency thing. He doesn't need to ask him at all, he could ve ask anyone but he asked Katsuki. Even Shoto got curious and ask them if they are gonna open an agency together and they didn't refuse it so maybe Izuku was actually still thinking about working together even though if it may not be the "Bakugo agency".
Also I've never said Deku is obligated to tail Katsuki, can you please tell me why you thought it like that so I can edit my prev comment? Also I already said he could still be a teacher and be a hero in Katsuki's agency. I thought it was odd for him to reject him without even thinking for a moment. Because this doesn't feel like the same boy that said "Its not like I could just go and refuse him" when Katsuki wanted to fight with him.
Don't you think that rejecting katsuki could've another meaning too? Because what Izuku said in the chapter doesn't feel like a good excuse to me.
Katsuki wanted to be closer to him than before. Izuku whos the one who chased him for his whole life, acted like he is just an old classmate of his is normal for his character? I don't think so. And even if it is, I think Horikoshi should've make that more clear. Thats one of the reasons why I thought Izuku looks so blank in this chapter. Just like you said, they have come so far so thats what makes everything weird.
If you actually read all this long texts, thank you btw lmao. When it comes to making analyses I kinda can't stop😭 🌼
Tbh if my main ship would be izuocha, I'd be so disappointed.
I mean, Horikoshi didn't even drew Izuku catching Ochako when she was literally falling right into his arms. He could've said "It would be a bit of an unlucky situation if you fell, wouldn't it?" (I dont remember word to word in eng those words but you get it.) just like when Ochako talked to her for the first time he saw him and catching him before falling. One of them might have confess their feelings and then they would fall in love literally and that would be actually something meaningful.
I don't know how you guys feel but if izuocha is really going to be canon, I think it shouldve been like this, not with dabbing lmao.
We all know Horikoshi cares how he draws hands. Horikoshi thinks hands are one of the most characteristic things in the human body, thats why him choosing izuku and ochako dabbing makes everything funny to me. Everything about izuku in this chapter was so blank to me idk.
Also when Izuku was leaving katsuki, the way katsuki put one of his hand in his pocket and probably holding that All Might card firmly... I felt a lot of things while seeing him only in that panel.
Their dream was opening an agency together and being heroes together and compete with each other... How did it come to this? Izuku still could've join Bakugo's agency and do part time teacher job, why did he reject him and did that so coldly? What changed? Im sure even Shoto wanted to be in their agency, my baby boy will be frustrated when he hears all of this😭
I wanna talk too much but I don't know where to start...
Note: its just my thoughts, I tried to not add my thoughts about my ship and I respect what you think, if you wanna share your thoughts please do it but in a respectful way :3