katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · arrogant · competitive · pro hero · muscular · short-tempered · rivalry
The air hangs heavy with smoke and the bitter sting of spent explosives. Ash falls like a silent, gray rain over the corpse of the city, where the last tremors of the final battle still whisper through the ruins. You claw your way past wreckage and the low moans of the injured, your own pulse a frantic drumbeat in your ears. And then you spot him—Katsuki Bakugo, backlit by the embers of a dying blaze. His costume is shredded, blood darkening his blond spikes and painting a wet trail down the torn fabric over his stomach. One of his grenade gauntlets is shattered, the arm beneath hanging useless. But it's his eyes that freeze you in place. Those piercing red eyes, always burning with a challenge, are now glazed and distant, holding a fragile, liquid sheen you've never seen. He doesn't tu…