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Interview between Miya Shimizu and Pro Hero Dynamight (Bakugou Katsuki) and Midoriya Izuku
MS: Hello everyone, and welcome back! Today I have two incredibly special guests that you have all been begging to see on the show. Please welcome, Bakugou Katsuki, better known as Pro Hero Dynamight, and YouTube sensation Midoriya Izuku!
MI: Thank you so much for having us, I’m so excited to be here!
MS: Well, it’s certainly great to have you both here. Let me tell you, I don’t think we’ve ever had more requests for a guest appearance!
MI: Wow, really?
MS: You’re surprised?
DM: Psh, one person could tell him they’re his fan and his jaw would be on the floor. He’s so fucking humble.
MI: Oh come on, that’s not the same thing! Of course I’m surprised that people want to hear from me more than actual celebrities!
DM: As if you’re not an actual celebrity. You probably have more fans than any Japanese pro hero, yours are from all over the fucking world.
MS: Well, Dynamight, you yourself are a fan of Midoriya, are you not? You do seem to know a lot about him.
DM: Not a fan, don’t start spreading shit, Miya. Nah, we grew up together.
MI: Kacchan!
MS: Sorry, did you just say you grew up together?
DM: Yep.
MS: I- I think I speak for everyone when I say I desperately need more information.
DM: Grew up on the same street, went to the same school until I left for UA. That’s it.
MS: Any more details you can provide, Midoriya?
MI: Well, our mothers were best friends, so we saw each other a lot as kids. We were both really into All Might-
DM: Oh, fuck off, you were much more of a nerd than me.
MI: Don’t pretend you didn’t beg to borrow all of my toys and movies and-
DM: But I wasn’t the one who had an entire wall of shelves with every available figurine and who would cry every time a new one was released until you got it-
MI: Okay, okay, I get it! I was really into All Might and Kacchan entertained my obsession, happy?
DM: Yes, that’s exactly how I remember it.
MS: Sorry, can we backtrack a little – Kacchan?
DM: His stupid nickname for me as a kid.
MI: Katsuki was hard to say, okay!
MS: And did you have a nickname too, Midoriya?
MI: Um, well, when we were really young he’d call me Zuku, or ZuZu, but for most of our childhood I was Deku.
MS: Deku? That doesn’t sound particularly flattering.
DM: It wasn’t. Teasing at first. Bullying later. I’ve apologised.
MS: So you haven’t always been friends?
Pause. They look at each other.
DM: No. He- I got it into my head that he started looking down on me.
MI: What?
DM: He was Quirkless, right? The scrawniest little thing you could imagine, couldn’t hurt a fly without bruising the hand he smacked it with, net alone fight villains, and did absolutely nothing to change that: no training, no exercise, nothing. And yet he was convinced that he could get into UA. And here I was, most powerful Quirk I knew, and I still had to train my arse off every fucking day, and it still didn’t feel like enough. Was told I had to train harder, practice harder, burning the skin off my hands to get my Quirk under control. And he thought he was just as good as I was. So I don’t know, I guess I started beating him up to show him that he wasn’t. He’d have to work twice as hard as me to compare. But he never did. No matter how much I tried to drill it into him, he still thought that he could just magically get better than me, that he could surpass all my training and beat me one day.
Longer pause.
MI: Kacchan I-
DM: Yeah yeah. I was a dick, thinks the world revolves around me, have to be the best, too concerned about what other people think, I’ve heard it all before. Do I need to grovel again?
MI: No, no, I… I thought you just hated me cause I was Quirkless.
DM: I’m a piece of shit but I’m not that much of a dick. You just pissed me off with your optimism and of course I take everything personally. So.
MI: No, I mean you’re kind of right. I wouldn"t have had a chance getting in - not just cause I"m Quirkless, obviously, Quirkless people can do anything other people can, but I didn"t try at all, beyond watching real pros fight. I don"t know why I didn"t realise you were trying so hard.
DM: What, you think being a hero is a piece of cake?
MI: Obviously not, Kacchan, I know that now but... everything just seemed like it came so easy to you.
DM: No, dumbass, it was hard as shit. I was either at the gym or in a random open space teaching myself to fucking fly every second of every day. Why d"ya think I stopped coming round to your house?
MI: I don"t know, because you hated me?
DM: Because I was fucking busy pouring my blood, sweat, and tears into that entrance exam. And even if I had free time, I didn"t want to spend it listening to how fucking easy you found everything.
Another pause.
MI: I didn’t know.
DM: Don’t you dare.
MI: What?
DM: Forgive based on that. If you’re going to forgive me, do it cause I’m the best shitting apologiser in the world, "cause you can see that I’ve grown as a person, because in your twisted little head just me becoming a pro hero makes up for it, whatever. But don’t you fucking dare do it because you think I was right.
MI: Kacchan…
DM: Next question, Miya.
Pause.
MS: Well, I suppose my next question would be the exact nature of your relationship. It seems there is already so much we didn’t know…
Midoriya turns red enough for the cameras to pick up.
MI: That’s – that’s really all! We really haven’t spoken to each other since we were fifteen!
MS: And there was nothing between you back then?
DM: Just told you we didn’t get on, didn’t I? And I’m pretty fucking sure we covered this shit last time I was here. So, next question, Miya.
Dynamight seems to be gritting his teeth, each syllable enunciated in the final statement.
MS: You both seem pretty adamant to deny something I wasn’t even asking about. Is there a reason why you’re both so determined to assert your relationship, or as the case may be, lack thereof?
DM: I said, next fucking question.
MS: I don’t mean to make you uncomfortable, Dynamight, it’s just that your fans want to hear this information. What kind of an interviewer would I be if I wasn’t asking the hard questions?
DM: A respectable one, who might just end up keeping her fucking job.
Miya blanches .
MS: Well – I…
MI: If I may, there really is nothing between Kacchan and I. We used to know each other, yes, but really now we may as well be strangers. I respect him a lot, I really do, and I hope that we can become friends again, but it isn’t and won’t become anything more.
A pause. Dynamight looks at Midoriya, who is glaring determinedly at Miya, before looking back.
DM: Right. Nothing more.
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Twitter.com
ProHeroWiki @allaboutthepros 21mins ago
As always here’s the subtitled interview! I don’t even know what to say about this one I’m not going to lie, kind of emotionally processing over here, so I’ll just drop this and run: youtube.com/ACTUALdynazukuinterviewenglishsubtitles
3,984 comments, 7,299 retweets, 34,912 likes
ILoveTooManyThings @infinitefangirl 20mins ago
THEY *clap* ARE *clap* CHILDHOOD *clap* FRIENDS???????? *applause* #dynazuku
2 comments, 13 retweets, 74 likes
ConstantlyScreaming @dynazukuforever 18mins ago
I WOULD KILL 20 MEN TO SEE BABY DYNAZUKU INTERACTIONS #dynazuku
15 comments, 34 retweets, 109 likes
Never Stop Fangirling @izukusbestie 16mins ago
any quirkless people out there, if you haven"t started watching @IzukuCan"tSing you absolutely HAVE too. "Quirkless people can do anything other people can"!!!!!!!!
11 comments, 28 retweets, 114 likes
101fantheories @FanTheories101 1mins ago
OK SCRATCH MY LAST VIDEO DYNAZUKU TRAIN IS AGO NEW AND IMPROVED ANALYSIS HERE: youtube.com/dyna!zuku! #dynazuku
2 comments, 4 retweets, 20 likes
prosaremybros @rosestoes 1mins ago
they LITERALLY said there was nothing going on,,, how was this what convinced you???
101fantheories @FanTheories101 30secs ago
@rosestoes did you watch with the video off or something??? did you not SEE THEIR FACES??? Watch my vid, but briefly – there’s nothing going on between them now, but give it a week max before there is
Midoriya Layla <3 @iloveizuku 30mins ago
so I know izuku said on live not to do this but… @IzukuCan’tDance @dynamight -- collab??
104 comments, 726 retweets, 1,951 likes
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To: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
have you seen it?
was it ok?
From: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
it was perfect
proud of you
To: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
thanks kitten
still cant really believe he remembered me
From: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
it sounded like you were a pretty big part of his life
it’s not like heroes don’t have memories right
To: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
or not remember but like
idk
care?
From: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
you’re a pretty hard person not to care about, izuku
To: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
it’s just different
i really though he hated me, yk
From: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
yet he’s still your favourite hero?
To: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
i am a professional hero analyser, i don’t have biases!!!!
or i don’t know, maybe it’s BECAUSE i knew him??
like i saw how hard he tried to get better, both as a hero and as a person and he really did it
i can’t help but be proud of him i guess
From: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
it’s probably for the best you aren’t dating, you’re far too good for him anyway
To: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
!!!!!!!
stop it you
tbf at least we got to make a point that we’re not dating
i hope the internet chills a little bit now
From: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
not that i trust people in fandom to be chill a day in their lives
To: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
i said a little bit!!!
but um
i had a question actually
From: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
…
To: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
would it be weird if i did a collab on my channel with him?
it’s just that i really would like for us to be friends
and i think if the internet sees us hanging out super platonically it will calm down the shipping even more!!!
but feel SO free to say that would be weird
cause like it probably would be right???
he probably wouldn’t even say yes so
From: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
i think it’s a good idea
To: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
really?
From: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
really
besides it’s not weird from my end
how many times do i have to say i trust you
To: K.E.M. (@NotAKat)
you’re like
WONDERFUL
how did i get so lucky???
Privately, Katsuki thought that Izuku wouldn’t consider himself lucky for long.