#i also dont think wed have all this stuff with edgeshot trying to save him if they were gonna be like

[denkisauce]

every once in a while i login to tumblr, get a snippet of the chaos going on in the manga, and then never recover 😭😭 what are your recommended strategies in coping with bakugou's potentially permanent hybernation?

!! okok so my #1 coping mechanism is i like to look at things from a marketing perspective. they cant kill off bakugou bc that baby is a cash COW like the amount of revenue he brings in alone from merch and stuff?? the fact that he has been voted #1 EVERY YEAR -- imagine the analytics!! he can't be killed he's simply too popular it wouldnt be good for business. it helps me to look at things like a capitalist rather than a reader lolol

the other reason i dont think he's dead for good is it would just be too narratively jarring for him to die at that point in the story. this doesnt mean he's off the hook forever but if bakugou were to die (and i genuinely dont think this is just my shipper brain saying this) it would be in dekus arms. it would be dramatic, there would be last words spoken to each other, we would see reactions from other classmates/ time would slow down a lot more for that moment. and pacing wise it would not make sense for him to die forever right at the beginning of his fight with shigaraki calling him weak. it would not be without him making some obvious sacrifice or proving himself in a big way. what bakugous death here was is a catalyst. it was to kick off deku's fight with shigaraki, deku finally using the 2nd's quirk. narritvely it just wouldnt make any sense for bakugous death to just happen suddenly bc of quirk overuse and then the reaction being deku and mirio being like 'lets ignore this in favor of the fight at hand' if bakugou died there would be a lot more momentum to it, rather than his death adding momentum to something else if that makes sense? he's just way too important of a character

#and i genuinely dont think any of this is copium lol like if bakugou died in 362 it would be bad writing plain and simple #and i have a lot more faith in horikoshi than that #i also dont think wed have all this stuff with edgeshot trying to save him if they were gonna be like #oh oop nice try edge but he Dead dead #also my hopeful prediction #edgeshot is gonna sew his heart up but baku will still be dead and theyll be like ahh we need to restart his heart! #and you know who is in this arena??? #THATS RIGHT KAMINARI DENKI COMIN RIGHT UP WITH A QUIRK EVOLUTION #defibrillator to the rescueeeee #bc i also believe denkis gonna have some importance in this fight bc his current role is very very background character support-y #and he's kind of a bigger character than that so i think he was strategicially placed in this arena with these players for a reason! #and thats that on that! #bakugou katsuki #katsuki bakugou #my stuff #bnha manga spoilers