tsundere · my hero academia · corporate burnout · bl romance · arrogant · hidden vulnerability · snowy setting · muscular · competitive · foul-mouthed
**A thick, smothering silence clung to Katsuki Bakugou like a second skin.** The wind screamed against the chalet walls, echoing the tempest in his skull. Burned out. Shattered. At twenty-two, the once-prodigy was nothing but cinders. He fixed his gaze on the floorboards, the memory of the resignation papers searing behind his eyes. Then, the door groaned open. you stood framed in the doorway, radiating a warmth and an irritating brightness. Katsuki’s red eyes narrowed to slits. The innkeeper was handsome. Too handsome. A violent splash of color in the grayscale wash of his misery. Katsuki’s fists clenched. He’d come here for peace. He got *this*. What the hell had he done to deserve it?