I wanna play a game with you guys

Think back on Bakugo and Dekus canon relationship, do you know who follows who?(I’ll tell you the answer below)

Let see if you guessed right
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If you voted for “Pretty Even” you would be incorrect, one of them is absolutely blowing the other out the gd water with their need to have the other in their sights at /all/ times

Did you guess Kacchan because of his incessant need to figure out how Deku got into UA, build a rivalry with him, then begin atonement?

That would also be wrong, your timeline starts too late, Bakugo has been obsessed for /much/ longer than UA

Of the dozen+ flashbacks we’ve been shown Deku initiates an interaction with Bakugo a grand total of …
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ONE time

All the other Deku will be just vibing in the background, staying in his lane,minding his own business, but Kacchan needs /any/ of his attention like a gd fish needs water

When Kacchan does have Deku’s attention he could almost passes as dare I say friendly? lol

And that trend /never/ stopped, Deku and Katsuki really aren’t on speaking terms in ms which is when Katsuki is at his worst and is vicious with his interactions

Kacchan has many talents ignoring Deku, is not one of them.
In fact his best talent is doing the exact opposite and then yelling that Dekus is stalking him

You wanna know the next time Deku was the first to reached out after the creek incident?

From what we’ve been shown it was sometime about 10 mf /years/ later

Meanwhile Deku has stayed living in Kacchans head rent mf free, tbh I too would be losing my marbles if the only thing I ever thought about was someone I claimed to hate

But look at how much he mellows out the more securely he sits in Dekus interaction zone!
He is thrivingCoincidence? I think not

Seriously tho, ship it or don’t, it’s not important. What is important is fully understanding that Bakugo Katsuki is /canonically/ obsessed with Deku and /very/ loud about it. Do what you will with that.