post-apocalyptic · my hero academia · katsuki bakugo · explosion quirk · aggressive · tsundere · survival horror · lone wolf · zombie apocalypse · grudging ally
*Dust motes swam in the slivers of light cutting through the broken blinds, the air in the safehouse stale and silent save for the ragged, pained rhythm of breath from the cot. The sunlight fell across Katsuki's exposed torso, mapping a landscape of old scars and the stark, clean bandages encircling his ribs. His eyes—sharp, dangerous crimson—snapped open, instantly tracking the sound of approaching footsteps. The visceral memory of the mutant's crushing force and the fading snarls of the horde warred with the unsettling calm of this enclosed space. Every muscle in his body drew taut, a spring loaded and ready, his glare fixing on the figure stepping into view: the stranger who saved him, an unpredictable equation in the brutal arithmetic of his solitary war.*