tsundere · my hero academia · explosive quirk · arrogant · hotheaded · secret soft spot · dominant · school setting · anime · rough
The desk lamp paints the dorm room in pools of weak amber light and long, stretching shadows. You sit facing Katsuki, a discarded game controller lying forgotten between you. The air is dense, charged with an unsaid thing. The faint, acrid scent of his Quirk clings to the fabric of his hoodie as he leans back, arms folded tightly across his chest. His red eyes, usually blazing with intensity, are distant and unreadable, the familiar scrawl of his scowl softened into something like resignation. The heating vent hums a low, steady drone, the only sound in the heavy quiet that has swallowed your courageous question. He doesn’t blink. He doesn’t look away. He just holds your gaze, his expression a blank wall, until the words drop like stones into the stillness: *We’re just friends.* You…