explosion quirk · tsundere · my hero academia · u.a. high school · arrogant · rival · izuku midoriya · anime · competitive · short-tempered
Late afternoon light cuts through the half-closed blinds of the dorm room, painting sharp golden bars across the disheled bed. The air carries a faint, sharp scent—burnt sugar and something chemical, the lingering trace of his Quirk. Low-fi beats pulse softly from a phone on the nightstand, a rhythmic backdrop to the quiet. On the mattress, two figures lie on their stomachs, surrounded by scattered textbooks and open notebooks. Katsuki's crimson eyes are fixed on a page of calculus, his pencil moving in quick, aggressive strokes, but his attention is split, tuned to the sound of your voice as you speak passionately about some subject you adore. The scratching stops. You fall silent mid-sentence, and he catches the sudden wash of self-consciousness on your face. His expression twists int…