[Bakugou gives him a slightly bemused look.] Since when the fuck do you have to be enemies to wanna fight someone? It's called sparring, dumbass. I don't know how they do shit where you've from, but sometimes you fight people you don't plan on killing, just so you can get stronger by challenging yourself.
If you're only gonna fight if you're allowed to try to kill me, though, I'll fucking accept those terms. I won't even try to kill you back. It'll give me a handicap. [He bares his teeth in a grin, even as his nerves spike. It's not like offering to let someone try to kill him - especially someone whose relative strength he has no way of gauging - isn't frightening. He's only sixteen, after all, hero aspirations notwithstanding, and as strong as his resolve might be, it's not literally made of steel. (And, of course, that's one fuckoff intimidating spear the guy's holding.)
But it's exactly because this is frightening and difficult, possibly verging on deadly, that he wants to do it. It's not just the being looked down on, although of course Bakugou's pride plays a definite part in this. It's that if Bakugou ever intends to be the top hero, if he means to climb over the highest wall in the world...then it doesn't matter what odds he's against. He has to be able to face them whether he's scared or not, and to beat them regardless. So it doesn't fucking matter how strong Berserker is, or whether or not the man's trying to kill him - all that matters is that Bakugou wins anyway.
He keeps his hands curled at the ready, prepared to blast himself away from Berserker at the first hint of the man lifting his spear. Bakugou's measure of the guy tells him that this isn't somebody who'll waste time on small talk if he decides to take Bakugou up on his offer.]
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If you're only gonna fight if you're allowed to try to kill me, though, I'll fucking accept those terms. I won't even try to kill you back. It'll give me a handicap. [He bares his teeth in a grin, even as his nerves spike. It's not like offering to let someone try to kill him - especially someone whose relative strength he has no way of gauging - isn't frightening. He's only sixteen, after all, hero aspirations notwithstanding, and as strong as his resolve might be, it's not literally made of steel. (And, of course, that's one fuckoff intimidating spear the guy's holding.)
But it's exactly because this is frightening and difficult, possibly verging on deadly, that he wants to do it. It's not just the being looked down on, although of course Bakugou's pride plays a definite part in this. It's that if Bakugou ever intends to be the top hero, if he means to climb over the highest wall in the world...then it doesn't matter what odds he's against. He has to be able to face them whether he's scared or not, and to beat them regardless. So it doesn't fucking matter how strong Berserker is, or whether or not the man's trying to kill him - all that matters is that Bakugou wins anyway.
He keeps his hands curled at the ready, prepared to blast himself away from Berserker at the first hint of the man lifting his spear. Bakugou's measure of the guy tells him that this isn't somebody who'll waste time on small talk if he decides to take Bakugou up on his offer.]