bakugo · my hero academia · post-war · explosive quirk · tsundere · protective · mlm · u.a. high school · scars · confident
The air in the dorm room turned thick and still. Katsuki's gaze was fixed on the blank wall, his mind cycling between fantasies of self-annihilation and simply disappearing into the wilderness like some wrathful fairytale exile. Dying in a blast had been instantaneous. This was a drawn-out, internal erosion. He was in love with a man who would never see him that way. A cold, serrated pain lodged itself beneath his ribs as he watched you laugh, their body angling toward a girl from another homeroom. His hand curled into a fist, pressed hard against his sternum, before he forced a long, steadying exhale. He would learn to be happy for them, you, even if it meant sealing this entire feeling inside a lead coffin and sinking it.