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Todoroki Shouto is suffering.
Every day in the morning, he wakes up to the sound of his father harping in his ear. It is not very pleasant to wake up to the sound of his dad’s voice. It is also not very pleasant to wake up to lectures about quirk marriages. It is even worse to have to listen to his dad talk about girls because Endeavor has a habit of thinking that he’s good at absolutely everything and thus thinks that he’s a lady killer (which Todoroki has been told does not mean actually slaughtering girls, because that seems much more likely). Hint: he is not a lady killer. If anything, he is a mood killer.
On most days, not even the sun is up to see him dragged off into the forest—or what used to be a forest before his dad completely burned it down. There, they have their daily training. It is not training. It is a one-sided beat down. Todoroki knows his dad must feel stressed from having to hold up that massive ego all day every day, so he lets himself serve as a punching bag. Sometimes, Todoroki actually does his side of the training and hits back, but then he has to listen to hours of family etiquette after, so he’s not really sure how to win this situation.
Breakfast is the same thing every day. One glass of milk, filled up to the line, no more and no less. He is not allowed to drink coffee. Endeavor thinks that it is a teenage rebellion drink that will stunt his emotional growth. Todoroki thinks that his dad is doing a fine job as a replacement for that. Two scrambled eggs, picked from the mother chicken at the crack of dawn. Even in the animal kingdom, Endeavor is doing what he does best: tearing apart families. A piece of toast, which is heated by the Holy Endeavor Hand, and thus must be finished at all costs.
Todoroki goes to school after that, or he did, before he graduated. He doesn’t get to see any of his siblings or his mom. Those traitors wake up at normal hours and gets to take the car to school. He is expected to do a two minute mile to school. He ends up saving up and buying a car later on, though that turns out to be the worst decision of his life.
School is fine. His scar is one of the seven wonders—the other six have to do with the cafeteria food, so Todoroki is a little offended to be lumped together with that disgusting gruel. Many people try to touch it and he tells them not to, so they do what any normal person would’ve done and try even harder to touch it. There have been many creative attempts, such as jumping him in the bathroom and sneaking up on him in math class. One boy gets lucky and accidentally brushes against Todoroki’s face when they bump into each other in the hallway. The boy is hailed as the school’s personal hero. Todoroki feels violated.
After school, he listens to groups of girls complain about their curfews at nine. Todoroki’s is five. When he gets home, Endeavor is performing borderline illegal operations by printing out pictures of the girls that his hero agency had saved that day. He writes down all their quirks and how they could fit with ice and fire. Todoroki wonders what those girls would think if they found out that the super cool number two hero Endeavor is just a sleazy old man who is trying to get his son a girlfriend.
Endeavor hands the profiles to Todoroki after he finishes his lecture. Todoroki pawns them off to his brothers when they come home from their normal lives. They are more than happy to take them. Endeavor always asks Todoroki why he isn’t a Casanova like his brothers are. Todoroki tells him he got his genes.
Dinner consists of sending Todoroki into the woods and telling him to hunt. His dad thinks that it is much easier to catch wild animals with fire rather than ice, so it’ll force Todoroki to ‘embrace his heritage’. Todoroki proves him wrong by going to the McDonalds down the street where he orders two burgers, fries and an extra large soda. Endeavor never seems to wonder why Todoroki’s supposed diet on squirrels fill him up so much, and Todoroki never tells him. That is how their relationship works.
At night, Todoroki finishes his homework and looks up hero agencies to apply to once he graduates. On particularly stressful days, he adds his father’s hero agency to his wish list, and then takes great satisfaction in dumping it into the trash can. He later chooses to join All Might’s agency, which, in hindsight, is probably the worst decision he could’ve made because he indirectly signs himself up for Bakugou Katsuki. No one signs himself up for Bakugou Katsuki. Except maybe Midoriya Izuku. Todoroki still hasn’t quite figured out how that relationship works yet.
His dad comes in at eleven to tuck him in. He sits there for an hour telling Todoroki how awesome his quirk is. Endeavor is not particularly creative, so it is the same thing every night. It has become the national anthem of the house that his brothers sing because they think they’re funny. Hint: they are not. Todoroki dutifully does not listen to the lecture, and Endeavor dutifully pretends he does not notice.
After his father finally leaves, Todoroki uses his phone to surf the internet. He knows Endeavor monitors his cellphone data, so he watches the most scandalizing videos he can find. He has to bleach his eyes after watching Boku no Pico one night, but it is great consolation to wake up the next day to a very traumatized Endeavor. He even gets out of training that morning.
Todoroki Shouto is suffering.
Life is a little different nowadays. He has moved out of his father’s house to go live in an apartment with Kirishima, who he had met at the agency. Kirishima is nice and talkative, and does not try to touch his scar. When asked about it, Kirishima states that he has decency. There aren’t many people in Todoroki’s life who have decency, so he appreciates it. Kirishima leaves his clothes everywhere and takes up his side of the couch though, so Todoroki thinks that they have very different definitions of the word.
Todoroki wakes up every day because of Kirishima. Actually, the more accurate saying would be that Kirishima’s snoring wakes him up at three every morning and is so obnoxiously loud that he cannot fall asleep again. Todoroki googles this problem and tries all different types of remedies from pinching Kirishima’s nose to kicking Kirishima off his bed. The latter attempt ends with a sprained toe because Kirishima apparently has a habit of hardening his entire body before going to sleep.
Bakugou, Kirishima explains. Todoroki has begun to realize that no matter what troubles he may run into in life, it can be traced back to either Endeavor or Bakugou Katsuki. He isn’t particularly inclined to fight either of them, though, because that sounds extremely dangerous to both his wellbeing and his mental state, so he hopes the two of them take each other out and solve all his problems.
They have a small cat too. It is Kirishima’s cat and it is named Dog. Kirishima thinks it’s hilarious. Todoroki does not think it is hilarious when he calls out for the animal and the neighborhood kids think that he does not know the difference between a cat and a dog. Todoroki tries to explain, but no one ever believes him. Kirishima just laughs at him when that happens, because apparently he has decency.
Kirishima takes forever in the shower in the mornings, so Todoroki ends up having to improvise on a daily basis. He is at the lowest point of his life, he thinks, as he sits in a trash can in the living room filled up with water that he heated just because Kirishima needs twenty extra minutes for proper hair care. Kirishima catches him once and then takes a picture. Todoroki has never felt more betrayed when it becomes a framed poster in the agency.
Breakfast consists of coffee, potato chips and oranges, which may be the most disgusting combination Todoroki has ever had. However, watching Kirishima squirt mayonnaise on his own breakfast makes everything else seem much more edible. He ends up pawning off a lot of it to Dog anyway, and then buying a granola bar at the vending machine on the way to work. Unfortunately, Uraraka likes to throw vending machines during villain chases, so they are becoming an extinct species.
He gives Kirishima rides to work because the redhead helps him pay off the Bakugou-explosion charges occasionally. Kirishima enjoys blasting the radio and singing loudly and off-key because he thinks that he is the next big thing. Todoroki tells him one day that he is not the next big thing. Kirishima ignores him for the rest of the ride and Todoroki finally gets the peace and quiet he thinks that he really deserves.
Todoroki has minimal complaints about the rest of his coworkers. The #StopBakugouShitfits2k30 group is nice, and they add Todoroki to their group chat. The majority of their messages have to do with Bakugou, so they add him to the group as well so he can feel included and listen while they complain about him. Todoroki thinks it’s awfully nice, but Bakugou does not appreciate the sentiment.
Bakugou Katsuki is a large part of why he’s suffering nowadays. He is so angry all the time that Todoroki feels tired just by looking at him. Todoroki doesn’t really care if he’s mad or not, but Bakugou seems to have some sort of grudge against both him and his car. Todoroki wants to get payback but Bakugou drives this very old pickup truck and Todoroki kind of doesn’t want to go near that thing.
It is a very difficult life.
Todoroki finds out about the app from Uraraka, who brings it up on the group chat one day. Uraraka and Kirishima assign him their delegate trainer because he accidentally let slip that he runs at least two miles every day. Uraraka even entrusts one of her eggs to him. He doesn’t really know what to do with it, but she tells him to just leave it alone and it’ll hatch. Todoroki thinks that that’s about as much parenting as Endeavor ever did.
It is one quiet Friday at the agency when he decides to sign up for Pokemon Go. Paperwork has once again circulated over to Iida, who spends way too much time dotting his i’s and crossing his t’s. Mineta is browsing through his high school facebook group. Uraraka and Kirishima are playing slime soccer against each other. Todoroki tries to read the news, but he sees his dad’s picture on the front page, so he quickly closes the tab.
He picks up his phone and downloads the app. He had never played any of the games or watched any of the shows while he was young, but the little pets that Uraraka showed him were kind of cute. The game takes forever to download because Bakugou gets priority, because the world is unfair like that, and the remaining bandwidth gets divided among the rest of them. He sends out in the group chat:
[2/26 11:14AM] Todoroki: Bakugou can you stop using the internet I need to fulfill my dreams of becoming a Pokemon trainer
Bakugou ends up flipping him off and the internet becomes even slower, if that’s even possible, so it’s a while before the app finally finishes downloading. The icon is a circular thing that is red and white. Uraraka calls it a pokeball. It looks just like him. Todoroki immediately likes it a lot more.
He tries to sign up as Todoroki, but the name is already taken. Todoroki briefly wonders in horror if his dad is at home terrorizing all these poor virtual pets. He names himself Shouto and tries to customize his character, but no customization ever has his split hair color. He never ceases to feel offended. At this point, Todoroki relates more to the pokeball than to his character.
He ends up dressing himself in all black—to reflect the inner darkness of his turbulent soul. Just kidding; he just likes the way it looks. The professor guy talks for a bit and then three pets appear around his character. He ends up choosing the blue one, because Kirishima tells him that water beats fire and it makes him feel better to know that this little blue turtle can take care of the two most problematic people in his life—Endeavor and Bakugou Katsuki.
The little turtle is named #ANTI-ENDEAVOR and just like that, Todoroki has his first pokemon.
He forgets about the app for a while because his own life is already hectic. He goes out to lunch every day with the agency and they have daily competitions about who can consume the most food. It always ends the same way; they leave poor and with the knowledge that Mineta can eat them all under the table.
Patrolling is done in pairs, and Todoroki gets paired up with Iida more often than not. Iida is nice, and he actually does have this elusive decency, but he talks a lot, and sometimes Todoroki just wants peace and quiet. Iida does not know how to keep his voice down, so he ends up yelling a lot—Todoroki supposes that it is simply a skill you acquire if you spend too much time with Bakugou Katsuki. Iida also stops to direct traffic way too often, so patrols basically consist of Todoroki sitting on the sidewalk making little ice sculptures for kids while Iida stands in the middle of the street and lives out his dream of being a policeman.
He does patrols with Uraraka a lot too. They skip out on patrols when they are paired up. Between his quirks and her levitation, the two of them are able to do many neat tricks. They perform little skits at the community center and become local heroes. Correction: Uraraka becomes a local hero. The kids don’t seem to like him very much because apparently ‘you should try to lose some weight’ and ‘your face is kind of ugly’ are not socially acceptable comments to give. There is a lot for him to learn since his previous bar of acceptable comes from Endeavor.
He and Uraraka create a Bakugou ice sculpture and go through the trouble of levitating it up to his fifth floor for his birthday. Bakugou gets angry because he thinks he’s being made fun of. Todoroki thinks it’s extremely rude to turn down a perfectly nice gift, especially since he went through the trouble of giving him a perfectly nice duck face.
When they are not patrolling, they are playing Mario Kart in the office. Kirishima brought his set in to the agency only because he got tired of playing against Todoroki all the time. Todoroki is not very fun to play one on one against. He sets banana peels right before the finish line, steals all the item blocks and bumps you off the edge of a cliff. Todoroki thinks he’s just being competitive, but apparently there is some sort of Mario Kart bro code etiquette that he does not know about that he violates all the time. Todoroki gets red shelled three times in a row and he doesn’t complain. He does not think this is quite fair.
The four of them—Todoroki, Kirishima, Bakugou and Uraraka—play together most of the times. Mineta takes the opportunity when there is a lot of internet bandwidth to stream a lot of sin or whatever he does in his shady little corner. Iida goes outside and reenacts real life Mario Kart. No one stops him.
Bakugou, of course, is the biggest Mario Kart jerk. Todoroki still remembers that one time when he was in second and Bakugou waited at the finish line to slam him off track. Todoroki ends up falling to eighth place. Instead of being reminded of the bro code, Bakugou is instead congratulated for breaking Todoroki’s winning streak of twelve. Todoroki feels betrayed when his fellow #StopBakugouShitfits2k30 members congratulate their supposed mutual enemy just because he may or may not have blue shelled them one too many times.
Todoroki thinks that maybe they should stop playing Mario Kart, because Bakugou is clearly under the impression that what is acceptable in the game is acceptable in real life. It is okay to bump someone’s car with your own in Mario Kart. It is not okay to do so in real life. It is also not okay to total Todoroki’s car in celebration to pour salt on the wound.
It is a very difficult life.
There is a sort of prank war going on between him and Bakugou that originally started out as a way to get revenge for his car, but turned into much more when Todoroki realized that he was actually kind of good at pranking. Whereas Bakugou just continues wrecking his car like it’s nobody’s business, Todoroki puts thought and creativity into his. He’s actually a little proud of his pettiness.
The only time he regretted one of his pranks was the first time, when he was still young and inexperienced. The agency had gone to a bachelor party, and the only reason Todoroki went was because Kirishima neglected to inform him that he was using their shared apartment that night for such a purpose. The bachelor party was basically just an excuse to find out who Bakugou’s mysterious boyfriend was. All that Todoroki learned on that night was that drunk Bakugou was a scary Bakugou. He still trembles when he remembers that night. The nice words. The hugs. The touches. They all left the party with the agreement to never let Bakugou get drunk in front of them ever again.
Now, though, Todoroki is proud of his character development from an emotionless character to a prankster. He starts small by pulling the classic doorbell trick. It makes Bakugou angry, but everything makes Bakugou angry so that’s not saying much. He manages to convince Mineta to purple ball Bakugou by offering a picture of Yaoyorozu Momo that he got from his middle school yearbook. He learns from that experience that Mineta is quite willing to burn down the world if he can get the girls. Todoroki thinks that no one in their agency has their priorities straight.
His best prank, though, comes from after Midoriya Izuku returns from his trip oversees. Midoriya is genuinely nice and Todoroki likes him, though he keeps asking Midoriya what he likes about Bakugou Katsuki and the only answer he ever gets is ‘his smile’, so Todoroki thinks that there may be something wrong with Midoriya’s head.
Being friends with Midoriya entails him some privileges, one of which is Midoriya’s phone, which by extension gives him access to Bakugou Katsuki’s phone number. He doesn’t read their old messages—he is socially awkward, but he at least knows that that is not morally correct—but that doesn’t stop him from sending new messages. He has a lot of fun pretending to be Midoriya. He has a lot of fun embarrassing Bakugou and being able to get away with it. He has a lot of fun sending this to Bakugou:
[5/18 02:49PM] Deku: Thank you, daddy
Bakugou, quite obviously, does not appreciate this. However, Todoroki does not really care. The month of daddy jokes around the agency are enough to offset any wreckage to his car. Bakugou looks like he is going to spontaneously combust at any given moment. Todoroki’s life is decidedly not as difficult anymore.
Being friends with Midoriya also gives him a Pokemon Go partner. Midoriya is quirkless, but he’s a bundle of desire to improve. They become running partners and mornings are spent going around the city. However, while Midoriya is genuinely nice and Todoroki likes him, Midoriya also comes attached with this decidedly not as nice hazard named Bakugou Katsuki.
Bakugou always complains about having to wake up at five every morning to run around with two shithead losers. Todoroki reminds him they do not need a babysitter. Bakugou reminds him that he does not trust him. Midoriya thinks that they’re perfect for each other, but then again, he seems to think that Bakugou is romantically compatible with absolutely everyone. Todoroki thinks that Bakugou should be worried that his own boyfriend is constantly trying to set him up with other people.
For all his complaining, Bakugou has never missed any of their daily runs. It is rather weird to watch the two of them interact, because Bakugou is not actively trying to be mean and Midoriya is not actively trying to be nice. In fact, Todoroki learns that Midoriya can be very sassy, and they often team up together to prank Bakugou. Bakugou feels betrayed. Todoroki thinks that he’s finally getting a taste of his own medicine.
Bakugou knows as much about pokemon as Todoroki does so the two of them often have competitions about who can spout the most incorrect facts. Midoriya is amused by their display and does not correct them when Ghastly is called “purple boo’ and Squirtle is called ‘fucking koopa’. Midoriya is, to no one’s surprise, a pokemon junkie. Todoroki wonders how it feels for Bakugou to know that if his house was on fire and he was trapped with All Might and pokemon, Midoriya would leave him to burn.
“I’ll fucking burn your face,” Bakugou had spat out when asked.
“You wouldn’t be the first,” Todoroki had responded. It might have been the first time he managed to shut Bakugou up.
Normally, they compete over dumb stuff. They race each other to see whose egg can be hatched first. They fight over one pokemon gym when there are dozens more in the city around them. Todoroki goes out of his way to walk an extra five miles to the pond to catch a Magikarp and name it after Bakugou. They make it the agency logo. Todoroki doesn’t know what is better, the fact that such a sign exists or that Bakugou has to look at it every morning when he goes to work.
Todoroki thinks that that is enough to prove their hatred for each other, but apparently their antagonisms toward each other is interpreted as sexual tension throughout the agency. Mineta gives them a ship name of todobaku. Bakugou is upset because apparently being the second person in a ship name is an insult to his manliness. Todoroki is more concerned that the agency thinks that there is any way he and Bakugou can be involved in a healthy relationship together.
Even Midoriya sits down and reminds Todoroki that he is Bakugou’s boyfriend. Todoroki has to waste an hour assuring Midoriya that he is not trying to steal his boyfriend, he’s just trying to beat him in Mario Kart and he would much rather marry his own car. Midoriya says he understands. Todoroki really doesn’t think he does.
Apparently Midoriya is very bothered by this, though—or so he says; Todoroki knows he can be very sly—so Bakugou comes to ask what kind of shit he has done to make Midoriya cry. Todoroki tells him truthfully that they are apparently shipped together—which Todoroki does not understand, because what does that even mean? Are they literally supposed to get on a boat and sail to America? Is this what romance is? Is this how Endeavor got married—by demonstrating his manliness by overcoming the fear for his greatest nemesis: water? Bakugou gets angry after this explanation and tells Todoroki to fix it. Todoroki just wants to go home and sleep.
Todoroki Shouto is suffering.
He gets invited to a family dinner. Hint: it isn’t an invitation, and it isn’t a family dinner either.
He returns to his apartment one day ahead of Kirishima, who had gone on an investigation of what Bakugou’s apartment looks like. Apparently, the last time he had gone he had been drunk out of his mind and just crashed in Midoriya’s bed as soon as he finished trashing the apartment. Todoroki could care less. Bakugou probably manufactures his creepy smirks and huge ego in his hidden lair. Todoroki already sees enough of them on a daily basis.
Todoroki goes into the dining room and Endeavor is sitting at the table and eating his chocolate. He is also petting Dog and feeding him pieces of the wrapper, which Todoroki is almost entirely sure a hazard and a detriment to health. Todoroki gets war flashbacks to his own childhood. He doesn’t even want to know how his father got into his apartment without setting off the alarms.
“This is a nice cat you’ve got here,” Endeavor says, though he is looking at Dog like he wants to skin it alive. Todoroki is just thankful he didn’t start with his very embarrassing killer line of ‘is it hot in here, or is it just me?’
“That’s Dog,” Todoroki says.
“No, Shouto,” Endeavor says, like he is still five. Todoroki wonders if it’s possible for him to ever stop speaking so patronizingly. “That is a cat.”
They sit in awkward silence. It isn’t a family dinner to Todoroki because there are quite a few relatives that are still missing. It is a family dinner to Endeavor because Todoroki is the only one he hasn’t disowned yet. Todoroki wishes that Endeavor would hurry up and disown him too.
“Shouto,” his dad begins, and Todoroki stares at the bowl of bananas on the table. He wonders if he can drop one on the floor and make Endeavor slip and fall when he leaves. If he leaves. “Isn’t it about time that you stopped this teenage rebellion and come back home? There is nothing that you can learn at the enemies’ agency that you can’t learn at my own.”
And perhaps there isn’t. Todoroki is pretty sure that working at Endeavor’s agency would really strengthen his skills and prestige. But he thinks about the Mario Kart, the dinners and the parties that they go to and the friendships that he has obtained ever since he joined All Might’s agency that he most certainly would not have gotten if he had never left home.
And so he summons the power of friendship and blasts Endeavor out of his apartment.
Just kidding.
The power of friendship does come knocking on his door, though.
“Open up, you shithead!” Bakugou Katsuki yells from the other side of the door. He sounds slightly out of breath, like he had run all the way from his apartment. “There’s a fucking Jigglypuff in your shitty apartment that I need to catch!”
“What,” Endeavor says, but Todoroki is already on his way to flinging the door open.
“I’m,” Todoroki says when he sees Bakugou’s scowl. He feels like he’s stuck between a rock and a very hard place. “Kind of busy right now.”
Bakugou’s gaze slides to Endeavor’s figure, imposing as he flames about in the dining room while feeding a cat very unhealthy substances. He is still scowling, but he looks less angry than before. “Pokemon waits for no one,” he mutters, and then pushes past Todoroki without a second glance and invites himself into the living room.
“Who was that?” Endeavor asks.
“Coworker,” Todoroki responds.
They lapse into awkward silence again. Todoroki can hear the sound of Bakugou’s footsteps in the other room as he shuffles around to find the location. He wonders where Kirishima went. He kind of wishes Kirishima also came along. He still remembers the last time when Kirishima and Uraraka kicked Endeavor out when he showed up one day at the agency. Bakugou, he knows, wants to be the number one hero. He wouldn’t anger the number two hero like that, especially for Todoroki’s sake.
“Like I was saying,” Endeavor says gruffly, when it doesn’t sound like Bakugou is planning to leave any time soon. Todoroki hopes that Bakugou is having a grand old time catching that Jigglypuff because he would be the only one. “It is time for you to move back and settle down. I have been lenient with you, but enough is enough.”
“I’m staying here,” Todoroki says.
“No,” Endeavor says. “You are the son of the number two hero, and you should act like it. You are not like those disgraceful siblings of yours. You are the perfect weapon. You have the perfect quirk. So stop acting like a disappointment.”
Todoroki opens his mouth, but he doesn’t really know what he wants to say, doesn’t really know what he can say, to this man who has never listened to him before. He’s never felt like a disappointment before except when he is in Endeavor’s presence. He always feels comfortable with his life, with his own pace, until his father comes along. But Endeavor listens to no one. He didn’t listen to his wife, or to his other children, and certainly not to Todoroki.
But before Todoroki has to make a decision on what to say, Bakugou comes back out, carrying a bucket with him. Todoroki vaguely remembers it as the bucket Bakugou threw up in when Todoroki got him drunk all those months ago.
“Bakugou, what,” Todoroki says, before Bakugou flings the entire bucket of water at Endeavor’s face.
“That’s water gun,” Bakugou says to Todoroki, because Endeavor is still sputtering and unable to respond. “Fucking koopa troopa learns it at level 15.”
“Okay,” Todoroki says, because he isn’t really sure what else to do but stare as Bakugou waltzes out the door as if he hadn’t just taken out the number two hero, who is a puddle of watery mess on the dining table. Dog is lapping at his face.
“Shit for brains wants to have a Mario Kart tournament,” Bakugou says. Todoroki is well enough versed in Bakugou language to recognize the statement as an invitation. “I’m going to fucking kick your ass all the way off Rainbow Road.”
“Okay,” Todoroki says.
“Shouto, we’re not done talking yet!” Endeavor yells and almost falls down when he slips against the puddle of water on the ground.
Todoroki follows Bakugou out of the apartment and doesn’t look back.
“He was very cool,” Todoroki says, his eyes glued on the screen as he tries to make an epic come from behind win. “He protected my virtue and came swooping in like a knight in shining armor.”
“He is, isn’t he?” Midoriya says. “He is so genuinely nice and caring, and I’m so lucky to have him.”
“I would totally date you if I could, man,” Kirishima pipes in. “No one would ever try to hit on me with him around to protect me.”
“No one would ever try to hit on you even without him,” Todoroki reminds him. Kirishima cries crocodile tears.
“Fuck you shitheads! Are you fucking making fun of me?!” Bakugou growls and he takes his eyes off the screen. They take advantage of the moment and push him off the stage. Bakugou yells more profanities when his cart is fished up from the abyss of hell and gets run over by Kirishima’s bullet. Everyone is happy besides Bakugou, but Bakugou is never happy, so no one really cares.
“Thank you,” Todoroki says after the game.
“What did you say?” Bakugou says, looking too smug for a loser, so Todoroki decides to fix that.
“I just beat you five times in a row,” Todoroki says, and Midoriya has to hold Bakugou back before he blows up the whole set.
And so the agency gets a new member in Midoriya, and life goes on. Todoroki’s life is a lot of suffering, yes. That is not the last time that he sees his father, of course not, and Bakugou Katsuki is still as antagonistic and destructive as possible. The #StopBakugouShitfits2k30 are as equally mean as they are nice, and they don’t hesitate to throw him under the bridge for their own benefits.
But Todoroki Shouto continues to grow, his repertoire of pranks, his collection of pickup lines—courtesy of Kirishima, his pokemon collection, his group of friends. And they are a group of destructive, sassy, and not all that nice young adults, but Todoroki wouldn’t have it any other way.
Just kidding. He would throw them all off a cliff in a heartbeat if it meant he could finally find this elusive Mew to complete his pokedex.