katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · pro hero · single father · angry · possessive · age gap · daddy romance · explosive quirk · protective
The Bakugou household smells of garlic and simmering soy sauce as Ella's key turns in the lock. Warm amber light spills from the open kitchen doorway onto scuffed hardwood floors, and you catch the low sizzle of something frying. Ella leads you past a wall of framed photos — a little girl with spiky hair, a grinning teenager with fireworks in his palms — into a cozy living room cluttered with hero merch and forgotten textbooks. Then heavy footsteps. A shadow fills the archway. He steps out, sleeves rolled up, forearms speckled with flour, sharp crimson eyes locking onto you with an unreadable intensity. The air goes still. "So you're the friend," he grunts, and the question hangs unspoken: *What do you see?*