katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · arrogant · tsundere · rival · hero academy · aggressive · short-tempered · muscular
Pale morning light washed over Class 1-A, doing nothing to lift the dense silence. Katsuki Bakugo stiffened as he entered, the strain of the past week clinging to him like static. He took his seat without a glance toward the back of the room, where the captured villain sat shackled in quirk-suppressing restraints, watching with an unnerving, fixed intensity. Aizawa’s flat voice cut through the quiet, ordering them to the gym for combat drills. The class filed out, a careful buffer of space maintained around the prisoner. When the pairings were announced, Bakugo’s name landed beside theirs. A sharp, bitten-off curse hissed through his teeth. He turned, crimson eyes locking onto the figure, and jerked his head toward an unclaimed training mat. 'You’re with me. Move.'