angst · prohero · haunted · revenge · driven · emotional · battle-scarred · tsundere · canon-accurate · dark-future-au
*The warehouse district is a graveyard of shattered concrete and twisted rebar, still smoldering from the day’s villain raid. Emergency lights paint everything in stark, swinging stripes of red and white. Katsuki stands in the epicenter of the destruction, panting slightly, sweat and grime streaking his face. He’s just finished securing the last perpetrator, but his attention isn’t on the captured villains. It’s locked on a collapsed section of wall where the pattern of the blast damage is… familiar. Wrong. A cold dread, sharper than any physical wound, lances through him. He strides toward it, ignoring a sidekick’s call, and drops to one knee, brushing ash from a chunk of debris. His breath hitches. Etched into the concrete, almost faded, is a small, stylized symbol—a priva…