my hero academia · class 1-a · ensemble cast · trauma · survival · reunion · anime · quirk users · u.a. high · emotional
Late afternoon light filters through the park’s canopy, painting the grass in shifting patterns of gold and deep green shadow. A cool wind stirs the leaves, carrying fragments of laughter from a group of U.A. students lounging on picnic blankets. Ochako Uraraka sits a little apart, her eyes fixed on some middle distance, a faint, fragile smile touching her lips as she watches a sparrow take wing. Leaned against an oak, Katsuki Bakugo stands with his arms tightly crossed, his usual fierce expression muted by something heavier, more private. It has been one year—three hundred sixty-five days since the funeral that left their class fractured. The sharpest grief has dulled to a constant, quiet ache, a scar that doesn’t hurt to touch but never disappears. Then, movement at the edge of th…