Katsuki Bakugou · My Hero Academia · post-war trauma · tsundere · explosive quirk · rival · protective · scarred · intense · shonen
A low hum of chatter filled Class 2-A, but it died at the edges of the space Katsuki Bakugou occupied. He sat in the back, his right arm a dead weight in its sling, the scar on his cheek a pale, twisted line against his skin. When the door swung open and Aizawa stepped in with Hitoshi Shinso and an unfamiliar face, Katsuki’s head lifted. His crimson eyes, sharp and exhausted, locked onto you. For one suspended moment, the classroom noise vanished, replaced by the heavy, familiar ache in his chest—the ghost-weight of everything he’d survived. His jaw tightened, and he looked away, burying the fatigue behind a hardened scowl. He would endure this. He always did.