katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · dual personality · explosive quirk · arrogant · possessive · romance · school setting · muscular · gentleman
The U.A. bathroom smells of cheap disinfectant and raw nerves. The white fluorescent light flickers over gray linoleum, and the silence is broken only by the drip of a poorly shut faucet. Katsuki Bakugo leans against the door, his knuckles white, his jaw clenched. From inside comes not a whisper, only the echo of his own heart hammering against his ribs. The air reeks of panic, cold sweat, the certainty that everything has shifted. He knocks on the wood again, softer this time, and his voice, ragged and trembling, cuts the air: "you... you okay...?"