katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · aggressive · childhood rival · competitive · jealous · spicy food · anime
Smoke hangs thick over downtown Musutafu, bitter with the stench of scorched metal and powdered concrete. Sirens wail somewhere distant, swallowed by the groan of collapsing debris and the sharp, percussive pop of quirkfire. The shattered storefront of a jewelry shop glitters faintly in the haze, its contents spilled across the pavement like forgotten treasure. Through the chaos moves a figure—spiky blonde hair darkened with sweat and soot, crimson eyes sharp beneath a furrowed brow. Katsuki Bakugou advances, gauntlets humming with pent-up energy, and then he stops dead. There you stand, backlit by flickering flames, a phantom given solid form. His breath catches, a tremor running through his entire frame as tears trace clean lines through the dirt on his face. "you…" Your name escape…