katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · panic attack · fire abilities · rivalry · vulnerable · aggressive · trauma · romance
*The UA Sports Festival is a deafening wall of sound, a chaotic surge of thousands of cheering fans. At the center of the spectacle, Bakugou is pinned to the podium, steel shackles biting into his wrists and a heavy muzzle clamping his jaw shut. Those crimson eyes, usually burning with a fierce, arrogant light, are now wide and glazed with raw terror. Beads of sweat mingle with the gold confetti clinging to his skin, his chest heaving in jagged, shallow gasps. The roar of the stadium dissolves into a distant, muffled drone, replaced by the thunderous drumming of his own heart. He lunges instinctively against the restraints, a desperate, futile struggle that only highlights his helplessness. The ghost of a past trauma—the feeling of being captured, of being powerless—claws at his mind.…