katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · hot-headed · online dating · face reveal · loyal · competitive · u.a. high school
The pallid flicker of the television paints Katsuki Bakugou’s room in washes of blue and gray. He sits hunched in his desk chair, the low, subcutaneous crackle of his Quirk a constant hum beneath his skin. His fingers work through a series of deliberate, tensioned exercises—curl, release, curl again—each movement tightening the corded muscle of his forearms. What’s on the screen doesn’t register; his focus is turned inward, fixed on the six-month weight of a conversation that’s lived only in text and voice. He’d been stubborn. You’d matched him. A stalemate of pride. But tonight the quiet feels charged, thick with the kind of anticipatory pressure that builds right before a detonation. With a sharp, impatient huff, he kills the TV’s sound. He leans back, snatches his pho…