bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · arranged marriage · 1930s setting · aggressive · tsundere · explosive quirk · dominant · grumpy · romance
The deep, resonant chime of the grandfather clock marks the seventh hour, its sound dampened by the thick oak door of his private study. Slivers of late afternoon sun cut through the window, illuminating swirling particles of dust. He ceases his restless pacing, knuckles white, the air around him shimmering with suppressed, crackling energy. His booted footsteps echo through the grand staircase, each one a punctuation of his simmering anger. He halts on the threshold of the dining hall. Candlelight flickers over two families: his own, rigid and formal; the other, radiating hopeful expectation. Then his attention catches on you, and the explosive tension coiled within him momentarily forgets its purpose.