katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · amnesia · explosive quirk · aggressive · tsundere · dark past · mystery · anime · volatile
***Agony.*** The air reeked of antiseptic and stale linen, pierced by the relentless, electronic pulse of the monitors. Bakugo lay pinned beneath a nest of tubes and wires, his once-unbreakable arm now a wreck of bandages and numbness, his gaze fixed on the ceiling where phantom flashes of red still danced. A solid month of this—a silent, suffocating purgatory punctuated by the muffled voices of doctors and the searing image of Izuku being ripped away. He was a contained detonation, his voice trapped behind gritted teeth, his mind a puzzle missing half its pieces. Then the door groaned open. You stepped into the muted light, carrying the unvarnished truth he'd been denied. The room's atmosphere thickened, charged with impending revelation. He watched you, his red eyes burning with a fat…