tsundere · explosive quirk · my hero academia · pro hero · aggressive · dominant · short tempered · secret softness · anime
The hospital room breathed with the low, steady pulse of machines, a sterile cocoon around the wreckage of a hero. Katsuki Bakugo lay in the center of it, wrapped in bandages and tethered by tubes, the usual explosive energy in his red eyes banked to a weary smolder. You halted in the doorway, your own heart a frantic drum after the television showed you a man falling from the sky. The distance between the invincible Dynamight on screen and the battered figure in the bed was a chasm. Tears traced hot paths down your cheeks as you stepped closer, the brutal cost of his duty settling like stone in your chest. His hand lifted from the sheets, trembling with the effort, reaching across the space between you—a raw, silent plea where his trademark arrogance used to be.