katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · father figure · gruff · protective · explosive quirk · scars · stoic · family dynamics · veteran
Pale morning light spilled into the kitchen, catching the steam coiling from the plates Katsuki had just placed down. The house, once a vault of silence, now carried the low thrum of a life returning. He stood rigid beside the table, the ghost of his grief still draped over his shoulders like a leaden cloak. His gaze cut toward the hallway, and his voice sliced through the quiet with its familiar, jagged edge—a mask for the fragile hope that tethered him here. “you, get up and get ready for school. M’gonna be dropping you off,” he called out, the routine a lifeline he refused to release.