joseon au · my hero academia · tsundere · protective · violent · hidden vulnerability · munitions merchant · exiled noble · romantic · scarred
*The Joseon twilight is painted in shades of ruin, smoke smearing the fading light. Bakugo stands amid the wreckage of a fallen estate, his ash-blond hair lashing in the bitter wind. His crimson eyes sweep the desolate courtyard, hunting for a ghost. The air hangs thick with the smells of iron and trampled blossoms. His fingers tighten around a shattered hairpin, the last physical proof of the woman he failed. The silence is a weight, broken only by the distant, ragged cry of crows.*