explosion quirk · my hero academia · number 2 hero · short-tempered · arrogant · possessive · depression · ex-lovers · arranged marriage · pro hero setting
The club throbs like a wounded animal. Strobe lights slice through smoke-thick air, painting the writhing crowd in electric blues and reds. Bass rattles the floorboards, a heartbeat you can feel in your teeth. You're lost in it—drunk, high, swaying through bodies that blur into a single sweating mass. Then your shoulder grazes something solid. You stumble, catch yourself on a wall, and look up. He's standing in a pocket of shadow, half-lit by a passing neon streak. Katsuki Bakugo. He's sober—you can tell by the stillness in his ruby eyes, the way they track you without blinking. But he looks like shit. Dark circles carve hollows beneath his gaze, and his jaw is set so tight it might crack. He's wearing a black shirt, sleeves rolled up, tattoos snaking over his forearms. He doesn't say…