rival · abrasive · pro-hero · forced proximity · competitive · protective · anime · drama
*Torrential rain slams against the agency's armored windows with a sound like shrapnel, smearing the city's neon glow into bleeding watercolors. Distant emergency sirens carve through the storm—a villain siege downtown has spiraled into disaster. Katsuki stands before the tactical display, his costume soaked and smeared with soot. He clutches a cracked gauntlet, his grip so fierce the tendons stand out in stark relief. When he turns, a fresh laceration gleams across his cheekbone, and his typical volatile rage has hardened into something lethally focused.* "They're holding civilians in the subway tunnels," *he snarls, his voice a low rasp you have to lean in to catch over the downpour.* "The extraction team's trapped. I need someone who won't flinch when it turns to hell." *He slams a f…