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2023-06-14
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2023-12-19
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Dreaming Like a Kid

Summary:

It doesn’t make sense, really; feeling this obligation towards someone that made him hate himself for what he wasn’t. Thinking of Deku trapped and confused and in pain, makes something creak inside Katsuki. Like his bones are about to splinter. He’s thought about trying to soothe it, but the feeling is too deep to even dare reach for. What other parts of himself would he have to get through to find it? How much skin and sinew is he willing to scrape off to get to wherever and whatever this is?

Because how can he understand it, in a way that doesn’t hurt?

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Once Deku disappears after the sludge villain attack, Katsuki starts to wonder if Deku really didn’t look down on him. Maybe Katsuki does owe him... something. But now, over a year later, it’s too late to pay him back.

Until they find a lead.

Chapter 1: Table of Contents - Chapters and Tags

Chapter Text

Part 1: Rising 

Chapter 1 - Table of Contents

Chapter 2 - Smoldered Coals and Idols

  • Highlighted relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & All Might

Chapter 3 - Spicy Ramen and Setbacks

  • Highlighted relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & Best Jeanist; Bakugou Katsuki & Kirishima Eijirou

Chapter 4 - The Context Clues in Unbroken Bones

  • Highlighted relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & Best Jeanist; Bakugou Katsuki and Aizawa Shouta; Bakugou Katsuki and Uraraka Ochako  

Chapter 5 - "Because" as Rationale

  • Highlighted relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & Kirishima Eijirou; Bakugou Katsuki & All Might; Bakugou Katsuki and Aizawa Shouta; Bakugou Katsuki & Class 1-A

Chapter 6 - The Brink of Splintering

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & Nighteye; Bakugou Katsuki & Togata Mirio; Bakugou Katsuki & Kirishima Eijirou; Midoriya Izuku & All Might

Chapter 7 - Play 

  • Highlighted Relationships: Midoriya Izuku & Chisaki Kai; Midoriya Izuku & Eri; Eri & Chisaki Kai 
  • Trigger Warnings: Blood, torture, knives, cutting, near-death, physical + mental/emotional/psychological abuse

Chapter 8 - Grooves and Edges

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou; Bakugou Katsuki & Nighteye; Bakugou Katsuki & Togata Mirio

Chapter 9 - Self-Slaughter

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou; Bakugou Katsuki & Uraraka Ochako; Bakugou Katsuki & Aizawa Shouta; Bakugou Katsuki & Nighteye; Bakugou Katsuki & Togata Mirio; Bakugou Katsuki & All Might

Chapter 10 - A Cage of Bone

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou; Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku; Bakugou Katsuki & Uraraka Ochako; Bakugou Katsuki & Aizawa Shouta
  • Trigger Warnings: Homophobia, internalized homophobia

Chapter 11 - Unbridled Reckoning 

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou; Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku; Bakugou Katsuki & Togata Mirio; Bakugou Katsuki & Nighteye; Bakugou Katsuki & Aizawa Shouta; Bakugou Katsuki & Chisaki Kai
  • Trigger Warnings: Blood, stabbing, referenced torture

Chapter 12: Katsuki Bakugou: Rising

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku; Bakugou Katsuki & Togata Mirio; Bakugou Katsuki & Nighteye; Bakugou Katsuki & Aizawa Shouta; Bakugou Katsuki & Uraraka Ochako; Bakugou Katsuki & Chisaki Kai; Midoriya Izuku & Chisaki Kai; Midoriya Izuku & Eri; Eri & Chisaki Kai 
  • Trigger Warnings: Blood, torture, cutting, near-death experience, character death, referenced/implied psychological/emotional/mental abuse 

Chapter 13: Downpour

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & Aizawa Shouta 
  • Trigger Warnings: Implied suicidal ideation

Part 2: Unraveling. (14)

Chapter 15: Start of the Fall

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou; Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku
  • Trigger Warnings: Internalized homophobia 

Chapter 16: What Did I Save You For?

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku; Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou; Bakugou Katsuki & Aizawa Shouta; Bakugou Katsuki & All Might; Midoriya Izuku & All Might
  • Trigger Warnings: Homophobia/implied homophobia; blood/gore

Chapter 17: It's Always Been My Fault

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku; Bakugou Katsuki & Aizawa Shouta; Aizawa Shouta & Eri; Bakugou Katsuki & Eri; Midoriya Izuku & Eri
  • Trigger Warnings: Internalized homophobia, bullying, suicide baiting

Chapter 18: Tell Me To Stop

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku; Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou; Bakugou Katsuki & Class 1-A
  • Trigger Warnings: Internalized homophobia, homophobia
  • --STEAMY SCENE--

Chapter 19: I Don't Know How To Do This

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku; Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto
  • Tigger Warnings: Internalized homophobia, homophobia, blood

Chapter 20: I Made Him Bleed

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku; Bakugou Katsuki & Toga Himiko 
  • Trigger Warnings: Blood/gore, kidnapping

Chapter 21: I'll Kill You

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & Aizawa Shouta; Bakugou Katsuki & Toga Himiko 
  • Trigger Warnings: Blood/gore, kidnapping

Chapter 22: I'm Already Useless

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku; Bakugou Katsuki & Dabi

Chapter 23: I'll Never Be This

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku; Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou; Bakugou Katsuki & Dabi
  • Trigger Warnings: Kidnapping, underage drinking/forced drinking, homophobia, physical/psychological abuse

Chapter 24: Just a Kid

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & Eri; Bakugou Katsuki & Dabi

Chapter 25: There Are Eyes

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku; Bakugou Katsuki & Toga Himiko; Bakugou Katsuki & Dabi
  • Trigger Warnings: Blood/gore

Chapter 26: Red, White, and Starlight

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & Toga Himiko; Bakugou Katsuki & Dabi
  • Trigger Warning: Torture, blood, stabbing, cutting, psychological/emotional/mental abuse

Chapter 27: Let Him Go

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku
  • Trigger Warnings: Torture, blood/gore, near-death experience

Chapter 28: The Hero Deku

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku; Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou; Bakugou Katsuki & Aizawa Shouta; Bakugou Katsuki & Uraraka Ochako; Bakugou Katsuki & All Might
  • Trigger Warnings: Blood/gore, homophobia, bullying, suicide baiting

Chapter 29: Crayon Heroes

  • Highlighted Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou; Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku; Bakugou Katsuki & Aizawa Shota; Bakugou Katsuki & All Might; Bakugou Katsuki & Eri
  • Trigger Warnings: Blood