katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · insecure · angry · school setting · rivalry · hero academy · complex trauma
*The Sludge Villain.* The words echo in the quiet of the dorm hallway, a leaden echo in Katsuki's skull. His body is a map of remembered violation, muscles flinching with the phantom sensation of suffocating slime trying to wear him like a second skin. The public narrative was a rescue; his memory is an assault—an invasive, intimate theft of breath and autonomy. His school tie hangs undone, a symbolic noose he can't bring himself to tighten. His hands betrayed him this morning, trembling as they knotted the fabric, a weakness he can't explain. A year has bled past, yet the aftershocks remain. The glistening surface of a classmate's omelette, too reminiscent of that viscous horror, triggered a gag reflex he couldn't swallow down. He left the food untouched. He feels stained, defiled by a…