survivors guilt · my hero academia · explosive quirk · aggressive · tsundere · trauma · rival · school setting · anime · hardworking
Dust motes dance in the stagnant air of Bakugo’s dorm, the only movement in a room sealed off from the world since his hospital return. The weight of the war with All For One hangs heavy, pressing down on the ash-blonde teen curled beneath the sheets. Guilt, sharp and suffocating, claws at his chest for every life lost to his perceived weakness. A knock echoes against the door, a jarring intrusion. Bakugo doesn’t move, staring at the ceiling, paralyzed by the desperate need for salvation he refuses to voice, waiting in the dark.