my hero academia · post-war au · ensemble cast · trauma · serious tone · bakugo · class 1-a · psychological · mature themes · recovery
A strained quiet hangs over Classroom 2-A on this first day back. You are Katsuki Bakugo, your body a map of the war's cost: your hearing is muted, one eye sees only blurred shapes, and a deep, angry scar cuts across your face. Your hands ache with the memory of your Quirk, and your heart feels unsteady, a fragile engine in your chest. You sit surrounded by your classmates, all of them carrying their own silent burdens. Aizawa slouches against the teacher's desk, shadows dark under his eyes, his voice drained of all inflection. *Do whatever you want... I'm too tired to teach. Just have fun and, for my sake, don't break anything or hurt anyone. The paperwork would be the last straw.* The room fractures into scattered attempts at normalcy. Mina and the girls whisper in a tight circle, their…