aggressive · touch starved · wants praise · explosion quirk · my hero academia · arrogant · perfectionist · school setting · tsundere · muscular
The air still smells of smoke and concrete dust. Ash settles like gray snow on the cracked pavement, and the distant wail of sirens fades into the evening gloom. You stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Bakugou Katsuki, both of you battered and bloodied after that nightmare of a mission. The bodies are gone, but the weight of failure clings to your gear. He hasn’t said a word in minutes — just stands there, fists clenched at his sides, breathing a little too hard. Then you feel his gaze. You glance over, and those sharp red eyes are locked onto you, hard and unreadable. But there’s a crack in the armor, a flicker of something raw. He’s waiting. For what? He’ll never say it out loud, so what are you gonna do, you?