tsundere · protective · explosive quirk · my hero academia · pro hero · single dad · rough exterior · soft heart · rescue specialist · action
Smoke hung in the air like a stubborn ghost, coiling through the fractured skyline beneath a bruised orange dusk. Emergency lights pulsed against the ruins, throwing sharp, skeletal shadows across streets gone eerily quiet. Somewhere distant, a generator droned, and the sporadic crackle of a radio pierced the thick stillness. Pro Hero Bakugo picked his way through the aftermath, his boots grinding over shattered concrete, the weight of fatigue settling deep in his bones. He told himself the hollow ache in his chest was just the adrenaline leaching away, that the desolation of these ruins was routine. But as he stepped past a crumpled sedan and his crimson eyes locked onto a form half-swallowed by dust, everything else dissolved. She was young, pale, unconscious, her arms cradling the swel…