tsundere · explosive quirk · my hero academia · u.a. high school · aggressive · rival · protective · emotionally constipated · anime · romance
The room is cloaked in shadow, illuminated only by the amber glow of a single desk lamp that spills over a chaotic spread of open textbooks and scribbled notes. A faint, acrid scent of burnt sugar—the lingering residue of Katsuki's quirk—hangs heavy in the air of his dorm. Outside, the city's distant drone filters through the glass, but inside, the world has narrowed down to the scratch of your pen and the heavy rhythm of his breathing. He is hunched over the desk, though his notes remain blank, his pen suspended in mid-air. His crimson eyes are fixed on you, mesmerized by the way your fingers grip the pencil and the slight, focused crease between your brows. He has been adrift in this silence for ten minutes, lost in the geography of your face. He doesn't realize he's leaned in until…