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My dearest, Izuku,
I think everyone forgot my birthday. I don’t care for gifts, or a party, nothing of the sort. Not one person, besides you, has wished me a happy birthday.
Thank you for wishing me a happy birthday
Yours and yours only,
Katsuki Bakugou (April 20th)
My dearest, Katsuki,
“Is light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair?” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground.
Yours and yours only,
Izuku Midoriya (April 20th)
My dearest, Izuku,
I know I’ve talked about this probably a hundred times at this point but I cannot get it out of my mind. Kirishima says he’s my best friend. Is he really? Because I don’t think so.
Sure, we could be close friends, but best friends seem like a reach. Maybe I’m his best friend, but he is not mine.
He has two mothers, only one being biological. He still sees his father but they divorced when he was young because his mother realized she is a lesbian. He loves the color red for whatever reason (because of Crimson Riot), and he had a weird emo phase in middle school.
I know more about him but that's all I can remember off the top of my head. The point is: he doesn’t know those kinds of details about me.
Sometimes I feel like no one knows those little details about me. I rarely hear positive things about myself that don't have anything to do with my quirk.
Yours and only yours,
Katsuki Bakugou (April 23rd)
My dearest, Katsuki,
I know you. I know little details about you. Here's a list of things I know about you off the top of my head:
You only started eating spicy foods so you could impress your mom, I’m not sure you ever really liked spicy foods.
Your natural hair color is brown, but you dye it to match your mom because she is your role model.
Even though your mom is your role model, you vowed to be nothing like her - parenting wise.
You hold things with the tips of your fingers if it doesn't belong to you because you are scared of making someone sick because of the nitroglycerin in your sweat.
Your love language is physical touch
You eyes are a shade darker than your mothers
You idolize Aizawa more than you do All Might (for obvious reasons)
You show care and concern through actions rather than verbalizing it because you’ve never been good with words. Although when it comes to something important to you, you articulate yourself beautifully.
You will only let a few people take care of you because you don’t want anyone to see you as weak.
You're not weak.
You are loved.
These are things I know and believe wholeheartedly.
“I am afraid that if I open myself I will not stop pouring. (Why do I fear becoming a river? What mountain gave me such shame?) - Jamie Oliveria
Yours and yours only,
Izuku Midoriya (April 23rd)
My dearest, Izuku,
My mom called me last night. At first I ignored the call, I knew what she was going to say. She called again and I decided to answer. She wants me to come home for the weekend.
I can’t stomach going home all by myself.
I don’t think I’ll be able to handle her this time. Hounddog has been telling me that I need to have a conversation with her without arguing. It's easier said than done, actually it might be impossible.
She can’t take any type of criticism without victimizing herself. If he passive aggressively talks about being the worst mother on earth one more time I might just agree with her.
Yours and yours only,
Katsuki Bakugou (May 10th)
My dearest, Katsuki,
“Cruel mothers are still mothers. They make us wars. They make us revolution. They tell us the truth, early. Mothers are humans, who sometimes give birth to their pain instead of children” - Unknown
Yours and yours only,
Izuku Midoriya (May 10th)
My dearest, Izuku,
I went home for the day, as expected we argued and she cried. She cried for hours and wailed about raising such a terrible son. I almost felt bad, but then I realized that I am simply a reflection of her and she is only projecting her self hatred onto me.
I resent her for that. I resent my father for being so compliant to her.
I never wish to be in a marriage where my partner feels as though they cannot call me out. Tell me to stop talking, ask me to take a breath once and a while.
My father is pitiful.
On another hand, my dad apologized to me before I left. He said he was sorry for what she said. I told him it was okay and that I didn't care, I lied.
Can you come to my dorm after dinner? I don’t want to be alone.
Yours and yours only,
Katsuki Bakugou (May 11th)
My dearest, Katsuki,
Of course.
“The truth is that no child can save her mother,” - Franz Kafka
Yours and yours only,
Izuku Midoriya (May 11th)
My dearest, Izuku,
Do you ever feel lonely in a room full of people?
Yours and yours only,
Katsuki Bakugou (May 12th)
My dearest, Katsuki,
“Perhaps loneliness is the real proof that we belong to something greater than ourselves, the way absence is proof of what once was a presence,” Anne Michaels, Infinite Gradation,”
Yours and yours only,
Izuku Midoriya (May 12th)
My dearest, Izuku,
I see myself in Monoma. I see the anger he has, the feeling of not being enough. I feel it too. Am I like him? Do I make everyone as miserable as he does? Am I intolerable?
I hope I do not.
Yours and yours only,
Katsuki Bakugou (June 22nd)
My dearest, Katsuki,
“If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you,”
Yours and yours only,
Izuku Midoriya (June 22nd)
My dearest, Izuku,
Happy Birthday. I wish you another 16 years of standing by my side.
Yours and yours only,
Katsuki Bakugou (July 15th)
My dearest, Katsuki,
Thank you, Kachann.
Yours and yours only,
Izuku Midoriya