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Summary:

"Even though you tend to come off... a certain way, you've actually got quite a lot of emotions, Bakugo," Hound Dog says amicably, though the friendly tone he tries at is diminished a bit by the muzzle he speaks through.

"What about it," Bakugo snaps back. On his list of pet peeves, being psycho-analyzed makes top five.

"It might help to find an outlet for those emotions, and nobody has to know about it." Then, to tie up the sales pitch, "Agencies like well-rounded heroes, and that includes emotional well-roundedness. It'll help you get to number one faster, more surely. You should keep a journal. You'll be able to express yourself with more dimensions, but still have privacy."

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If Bakugo Katsuki's gonna keep a journal, you bet your whole ass and a half he's gonna do it right.

Notes:

I'm basically done with "Getting Lucky," have a lot of oneshots sitting around, but this idea stuck with me the most.

There's not going to be an update schedule, I'm not really *actively* working on it and there's no backlog, I just come to it when nothing else interests me. It's an easy project to have in the background that's still kind of fun. I love them both so much, but Bakugo is just so fun to write, I think bc I relate to Uraraka already (being a more... even-keeled person, LMAO) 🥲

Hopefully the formatting makes sense, but if not: there shouldn't be italics. If something is (accidentally) italicized, it means it's supposed to be underlined. I tried to mimic what I could of handwriting. Bold means that Katsuki went hard with the pen, LMAO.

Also, I usually swipe HARD left on first-person POV. I don't think I've ever even written it, not even as a kid? It's incredibly difficult to get right, but this has been really fun LMAO. I guess this whole fic is gonna be pretty experimental, as I've never written in THIS limited of a perspective before, as well as with such an unreliable narrator. Writing for this fandom is just full of firsts for me 😂

There'll be 12 chapters, one for each month, the 13th chapter will be a wrap-up.

Chapter 1: 2150 April

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

2150 April 7 (F)

So I’m doing this bullshit. Hound dog told me I should keep a journal.

So I didn’t. And then the next week when I came in, he asked to see the fucking journal and I said, “You said should,

and he fucking just “You have to keep a journal.”

the FUCK.

I guess if I’m doing this shit it better be like Helen Keller when they dig this up. No point doing this if I don’t end up immortalized like Tolkien for it or something.

God. FUCK.

 


 

April 8 (S)

I was also told to journal every night. Either get something down, or try for 30 minutes. Every night.

What the FUCK, who even has that much to SAY.

 


 

April 9 (Su)

Putting shit down to get shit done.

 


 

April 10 (M)

This is bullshit. He’s not even going to read it.

 


 

April 11 (T)

KIRISHIMA JUST TOLD ME

THAT MY HOWITZER IMPACT

COULD BE BETTER?!?!

I’M GOING TO FUCKING KILL HIM

 


 

April 11 (T)

Kirishima was right. 






 

 

Fuck him.

 


 

April 12 (W)

Well after that fucking debacle, I have to make sure all my moves are at their best. 

I’m power-based, I know it, the class knows it, my teachers know it, LOOK, THE WHOLE FUCKING UNIVERSE KNOWS IT, ALRIGHT? IT’S NOT A WEAKNESS, IT’S A FEATURE. And most of my moves revolve around that feature. 

I guess I could fiddle with more spray-type attacks, kinda lacking on wide-range.

Sounds boring as hell.

 


 

April 13 (R)

The nerd’s onto me, sniffed around me the entire time at the USJ, then said I should pair up with Uraraka. Some bs I could barely hear about adding speed to power, you know how he fucking gets.

No thanks though. Like I’m gonna let myself get slowed down by an extra.

 


 

April 14 (F)

Kirishima came up to me trying to recruit me for some study group. If he thinks I’m about to waste three hours every night trying to shove information through a handful of thick skulls, he’s dumber than I thought he was.

 


 

April 14 (F)

FUCKIN BASTARD JUST SAID I OWE HIM!

OWE HIM FOR THAT WHOLE FUCKING THING ABOUT MY HOWITZER IMPACT!

IF THE COPS FIND THIS, I’M NOT THE FUCKING CULPRIT, HE DROPPED DEAD HIMSELF.

 


 

April 15 (S)

I fucking went, alright?! And they didn’t even need me. Annoying. 

Cheeks got all up in everybody’s business ‘cause they were doing physics tonight. So I just wasted three hours listening to Round Face ramble on and on and on about Newtonian Mechanics.

Don’t drag me to something and then not need me. Jesus, Kirishima.

 


 

April 16 (Su)

I forgot to mention that this study group isn’t, like, five people. It’s basically the entire damn class. Jesus, Kirishima, warn a guy, shit.

I have no idea how to get anything into Kaminari’s fucking brain, or Ashido’s for that matter. Whatever they’ve got inside their skulls, it’s not a brain. It’s gotta be a sieve or something. Jeez.

Everybody was grilling me about English. I figured Cheeks would handle it what with last night, but when I looked at her, she just clocked out, redder than a damn tomato. Apparently (according to that sparkly bellybutton beamer), she got a 67 on the last English quiz.

Jeez.

 


 

April 17 (M)

I’m so damn annoyed.

I can’t get my head out of this box of–I don’t even know what to call it. I’m stuck in target-based attacks, I can’t figure out anything wider. My Howitzer Impact is a wider area, but it’s not an entire Area of Effect.

Which is totally fine for any of those other extras. Kirishima’s pretty much a one-hit wonder, Ashido doesn’t do much else than sling acid, same with that guy with the bellybutton laser. But I’ve gotta be better than everybody else.

(Plus, Kaminari’s almost entirely AOE and I’m not about to let Dunce Face beat me at something.)

 


 

April 18 (T)

Aoyama (which is apparently his name) figured out what I was doing and suggested I get some kind of hose attached to my costume.

First, I chewed him out for staring too long at me. Then I went to Support.

Just before that though, I saw him and Cheeks whispering to each other right after he dodged my fist. I could tell they were talking about me.

Idiots.

 


 

April 19 (W)

We’ve got a quiz on Friday, and Kirishima tried to convince me the best way to know you’ve really learned something is to teach it. Maybe that’s the case, but I’m pretty sure those morons will make it work in reverse. 

 


 

April 19 (W)

How the hell does Kirishima keep dragging me into shit. How do I keep letting him.

 


 

April 20 (R) 

I fucking told Kirishima and Kaminari I’m not celebrating this bullshit with anybody, the best gift they can give me is to leave me damn well alone.

So of course they pull the ENTIRE class into it. I knew something was wrong when Icy Hot came skipping over telling me he’d fight me with both his quirks in Ground Beta.

At least they got the damn cake right.

(Also–Shinsou’s actually pretty damn smart.)

 


 

April 21 (F)

Don’t mind the blood, Uraraka just fucking knocked my brain out of my skull, is all. Jesus. Gunhead and his stupid martial arts.

And then when I had the decency to let her know that the fight wasn’t half as boring as every other fight I’d just had, she got all red like that other time and fucking booked it.

Weirdo.

 


 

April 22 (S)

I think I’m concussed, what the hell?!

 


 

April 23 (Su)

Recovery Girl told me it was a mild concussion, got it fixed right away.

Next time I fight Cheeks, I’m wailing on her. 

 


 

April 24 (M)

I’M GOING TO KILL ICY HOT

WHO THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE IS, SCORING HIGHER THAN ME ON THE QUIZ

AND FUCKING CHEEKS. HAS SHE ALWAYS BEEN GOOD WITH NUMBERS?! WHAT THE HELL WAS SHE DOING LAST YEAR

I HATE THESE PEOPLE

 


 

April 25 (T)

Uraraka corrected me during the study group.

Am I still concussed?!?!?! What the hell.

 


 

April 26 (W)

Look, I don’t fucking care that this class rags on me, they’ll be eating my dust in another year so what do I care? But I sure as hell don’t need that damn nerd sticking up for me, hell.

He’s so annoying. Kirishima shouldn’t drag me into shit when I’m not needed and Deku shouldn’t drag himself into my shit when I don’t ask for it.

These people have no damn boundaries.

 


 

April 27 (R) 

This is stupid, but listen–

Sometimes when I meet with Deku and All Might, I still can’t believe I’m just casually talking to All Might. I hate it, ‘cause that’s the kind of thing fanboy trash Deku would think, but damn, if it doesn’t give me that weird feeling. Whoever said not to meet your heroes is full of shit.

Speaking of being full of shit… I really don’t know how the hell Deku’s going to handle his damn quirk. Kinda relieved that wasn’t me–I like my quirk, thanks. And this is all starting to look like a pain in the ass.

 


 

April 28 (F)

Got my costume back with the adjustment today. This shit is insane. Can’t wait to name it. I’m a fucking flamethrower. But like, explosive. Fucking take that, Icy Hot!

Not quite the range I’m looking for, but still kinda does it for me? Hell, who cares, it was just so cool.

God, I’m so awesome.

 


 

April 29 (S)

Fuck, I’ve been pissed all day.

Eraserhead had us figure out quirk permutations with each other, and he started me off with Todoroki. I already know our quirks work great together, it’s just annoying. What’s even the point of paired quirks, it’s not like I’m about to tail Todoroki to whatever agency he ends up at just to combine our quirks all the time. And my quirk's fucking fantastic on its own!

And I don’t even mean teamwork–I’m working on that, alright?–it’s this quirk-combo thing specifically. It just seems useless. I’m confident Todoroki isn’t looking to make this regular, either.

This would only really work between someone with a more support-based quirk, and we don’t have a ton of those in the class. Do we have any? I guess there’s Kirishima. And that runt. But I’ve seen them fight, and I wouldn’t mark them as support.

We’ve got a damn good class.

(I still can’t stand a single one of them.)

 


 

April 29 (S)

Shinsou’s support. I just realized that when I was thinking back on the other pairs I saw. He was working with Hagakure today–also, that’s a scary pairing. Poltergeist-vibes, y’know what I mean? Kinda messed up that he didn’t make it into Hero studies, definitely means the test’s kinda biased.

I also almost forgot to mention that Uraraka almost took me out a second time, scooting around with Iida like they were competing on the Fuji Speedway, dammit.

Kinda made me think of what Deku said that other time, though.

 


 

April 30 (Su)

Holy shit HOLY SHIT

URARAKA USED HER QUIRK ON ME

DEKU WAS RIGHT

HOLY SHIT

 

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