🕯SLOW BURN🕯 A strange and unexpected pairing? No doubt. And yet, they just can't seem to stay away from each other. In the midst of chaos - through fight after fight with villainous foe and classmate alike as well as even each other, Katsuki Bakugo and Denki Kaminari take on their most feared battles of all. Their own pasts. Can Katsuki overcome the pressure from his life to be perfect at everything and the crushing anxiety and realization of such an impossible task? And can Denki push through the numbness that constantly overtakes him? Can he defy the feeling of complete and total isolation in a crowd of people? And can he ever look his father in the eye again? The most pressing question of all, however. . . Can they save each other to save Izuku Midoriya? {CONTENT WARNING!!!} This story contains heavy themes of violence and swearing. Mature topics such as depression, SH, anxiety, unaliving ideation, verbal and physical harm amongst family, bullying, inferiority complex as well as other serious mental health disorders and illnesses and psychological paralysis. Each chapter will come with its own content warning. I have not read the Manga and am writing this at the time before season 7 has come out. This will be based on seasons that have aired at the time of writing and likely will not be changed or edited to fit later seasons. Also, if you have read Bursting Envy (a BkDk fanfic I wrote a while back), Bakugo's story will be more or less the same - just hopefully with less cringe writing. So without further a do, here goes.
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