@seirxi And Izuku also does this iirc - he says (thinks?) something like "I've got to win this to prove All Might was right to pick me!"
All Might like: kids please no that is not the lesson I am trying to teach here!
@seirxi Yep. If Izuku wins the fight it confirms Bakugo's worldview - his failures are due to his lack of strength/skill, and he needs to improve at them (which was already what he worked at most). Bakugo winning means he's wrong about that. So What Now.
@seirxi My interpretation of Bakugo's disappointment is that if he loses the fight, his path forward is to become physically stronger and better, which is a clear goal he knows how to work towards. If he wins he has to confront his real flaws, which is a terrifying and unclear prospect.
@XDshinigamiSAMA *deep breath* DO ๐ NOT ๐ SEND ๐ US ๐ CLASSIFIED ๐ DOCUMENTS. This is not reverse psychology. For real, i'm running out of jokes about this. We cannot use them (it's sort of "turbo illegal"), and the people posting them can get into serious trouble.
Was reminded of the Miss Bianca books and I am deeply delighted by her anti-carceral position. Here's her poetry on freeing a former villain from captivity, an effort even the Mouse Prisoner's Aid Society resists.
You're going to say "but if they're mice and he's -" but if an Edwardian lady author could write mouse/horse romance in her children's books I don't see why we should baulk at the prospect of interspecies romance.