I love Midoriya and Kirishima’s friendship. I know their relationship isn’t prominent, but they have a healthy and solid friendship that’s often overlooked. I don’t have a specific theory on it, but I’ll talk about it.
Midoriya and Kirishima have had a decent relationship from the start.
While Midoriya is against Bakugou during the Heroes vs.Villains exercise, Kirishima is concerned for Midoriya’s well-being.
Even though running away isn’t manly to Kirishima, Kirishima understands why Midoriya has to run away while fighting against Bakugou.
Kirishima really starts to respect Midoriya after he beats Bakugou during the Heroes vs. Villains exercise. Kirishima is one of the first classmates besides Iida and Uraraka to befriend Midoriya.
Kirishima thinks so highly of Midoriya that he’s fine with Midoriya being student council class president even after it’s proven Iida should be class president.
Midoriya and Kirishima both like each other’s Quirks and find each other’s Quirks to be very useful.
Kirishima keeps a watchful eye on Midoriya after All Might’s Fight with noumu.
And even runs over to make sure Midoriya is okay even though Kirishima should be heading out of the USJ right now.
Kirishima tries to protect Midoriya when it looks like Todoroki is being hostile towards Kirishima before the Sports Festival.
Not only does Kirishima think highly of Midoriya, but Midoriya thinks highly of Kirishima as well. Midoriya thinks Kirishima is very cool.
Kirishima understands the pain Midoriya feels for not being able to reach out and rescue Bakugou. The two of them relate to not being able to do anything to help Bakugou.
Kirishima uses this understanding to successfully convince Midoriya to help him rescue Bakugou.
Midoriya and Kirishima are such good pals, that Kirishima gives Midoriya advice on how to act like a thug. XD
Kirishima notices that Midoriya’s mumbling habit has toned down lately and makes an observation when the habit suddenly comes back
Midoriya understands Kirishima, particularly his relationship with Bakugou, well enough that he uses that understanding to rescue Bakugou. He knows Kirishima would be the only one who can reach out and rescue Bakugou. He understands how important Kirishima is.
Midoriya’s understanding of Bakugou and Kirishima is correct. Kirishima can reach out to rescue Bakugou.
They’re both pretty good friends throughout the series even though the relationship isn’t a huge deal. It’s very mutual, nice, simple, and drama-free.
They get a lot of meaningful interactions during the Internship Arc. I’d argue their relationship gets a lot of development and importance. Kirishima is Midoriya’s number one supporter during that arc and loves how pumped up Midoriya has been.
As I said before, Kirishima is such a Midoriya supporter and raises Midoriya’s spirits.
They work really well together.
Also, Midoriya singles out Kirishima as someone he could share his problems with specifically. He specifically says he can’t talk to “Kirishima and the others” about his problems, implying Kirishima would be one of the first people Midoriya would turn to in order to talk about his issues.
Midoriya and Kirishima both have heroic spirits. They both want to help people and both can relate to not being able to help others. They can certainly bond over that.
Their friendship makes sense since they both have similar values and are nice people. They both look up to each other and both work well together. They did well together while rescuing Bakugou and breaking down walls.
I hope Midoriya and Kirishima talk more and team up more. They’ll probably both face hardships, fight tough bad guys, and get injured during the Internship Arc, and that will help them grow and bond together. That’s the closest thing I have to a theory on their relationship.
(I have such a love/hate relationship with this Ask. I loved making it, but when I was done making a long answer to this ask, I accidentally deleted my answer and had to redo the whole LONG answer again. I was tempted to just give up answering this Ask. Thank god I finished it.)
honestly after chapter 146 I really want it to be a running joke that Rappa will just seek Fatgum and Kirishima out to have a fight at the most random times. Like the two will be out on patrol and all of a sudden Rappa is blocking their path and says “FATTY! RED! LETS HAVE A MATCH!!!” and the two of them are just like “Didn’t we fight last month? How do you keep escaping prison???” Like he hasn’t joined another organization or anything he just does underground fights and then when he’s in the mood he’s like time to challenge my two favorite people!! Like it gets to the point that he is more of an expected nuisance than a surprise threat. The two of them are just like oh Rappa is back lets see if we can convince him to fight us on another day. Most conversations kind of just end up being like this:
“Lets fight!!!!!!”
“Rappa its the end of patrol we’re tired.”
“Who cares!”
“You wanna go at us when we’re 100% dontchya?”
“hm…”
“You aren’t the kind of guy that wants his opponents to be fighting him with a handicap right?”
“HELL NO!”
“Then lets rumble some other day ‘kay?”
“hm… ALRIGHT! I’ll see you two another day! Then we’ll see who lives!”
I fucking love Kirishima Eijirou and his stupid sharp teeth and ridculous spiky hair and gaudy animal print shirts and impossible hero costume and too loud voice and his love for vintage stuff and manly things he’s a goddamn disaster and he brightens up my life so much
“What if if Kiri kept pushing it past unbreakable he could harden to the point of becoming a diamond” was the thought – well, someone already pointed out to me it’s a p ridiculous idea, but by then the image was already stuck in my head haha
I always find weird when people say that Kirishima’s quirk isn’t all that cool as far as powers go cause when I really think about it usually if in a series there’s a character whose weapon is a shield/being unbreakable then there’s?? a super high chance they’re my fave???
and also, like, “it’s just hardening it’s not as cool as explosions or shapeshifting or anything else” but?? in a fight as long as you don’t manage to land a proper hit your power can be as cool as you want he’s still winning??? literally there’s no power that’s better than being unbreakable if the aim is to fight Kirishima should seriously stop overthinking this
1) Bakugou’s sigh of relief when they grasp hands 2) Bakugou letting his emotions slip by smiling while closing his eyes like he can’t believe this happened and is letting it sink in 3) Bakugou’s glint in his eyes when he looks at Kirishima 4) Bakugou’s wide grin while he says ‘you idiot’ 5) DETAILED ANIMATION FRAMES 6) THE HAND SQUEEZE
just moving along like everyone else 