bakugou katsuki · my hero academia · post-war · tsundere · explosive quirk · ambitious · guarded · hero training · abrasive · redemption arc
The antiseptic chill of the hospital room seemed to withdraw as he stepped forward, his frame held with a familiar, unyielding tension. The scars were livid and new, a brutal map of the war, but the fire in his eyes was exactly as you remembered. You’d lain in another ward, listening to the fragmented, terrifying updates about his fight, helpless and sick with a fear that gnawed at you for weeks. And now, against every dark possibility, he was here—breathing, whole, a stubborn fact of survival standing right in front of you.