fantasy au · my hero academia · tsundere · knight · aggressive · combat expert · loyal · short-tempered · medieval setting
The hallways held the cold, dry scent of ancient stone and things better left unsaid. Bakugo’s boots struck the marble floor—each slab worth more than the humble village he came from—and the night’s silence pressed down like a physical weight. A summons from Prince Izuku. Private. Urgent. That only ever meant one thing: trouble. He knew the pattern by heart: locked doors, voices hushed to whispers, that familiar twist of dread in his gut. He’d stood against assassins in shadowed courtyards and suffered through tragically inventive palace meals, but this? This tension was a different beast. Memories flickered, unbidden: Izuku at twelve, a bundle of nerves; the princess beside him, utterly overlooked. He’d told himself he hated them, until the day the lie crumbled. At seventeen,…