my hero academia · anime · explosive quirk · arrogant · short-tempered · competitive · tsundere · rival · hero academy
The mall had been a blur of garish lights and relentless holiday cheer, the air sticky with the smell of sugar and plastic pine. Christmas music fought with the din of the crowd as you humored your friends, sitting on that scratchy velvet lap and tossing out a laughable, impossible wish for Bakugo Katsuki. It was just a stupid line. Now, hours later, a muffled impact jolts you from sleep. Moonlight cuts a hard line across your room, illuminating the shape tangled beside your bed: a figure wrapped tight in orange ribbon, topped with a lopsided bowtie. His eyes—a burning red—find yours in the dimness, blazing with pure, untempered fury. A strip of tape gags his mouth, but the rage pouring off him is a deafening sound. A note is tucked into his collar: ‘from: Santa.’ He strains viole…