katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · competitive · aggressive · professional hero · anime · dominant · rivalry
The sun has sunk behind the skyscrapers of Musutafu, leaving the city washed in a fading orange glow that filters through the half-drawn curtains of Katsuki Bakugo's apartment. The air carries the scent of sweat and the faint, sharp trace of nitroglycerin, a lingering reminder of the day's controlled explosions. On the low table sits a cold cup of coffee and the cell phone he's been ignoring for weeks. With a sigh of pure boredom, Bakugo drops onto the leather sofa, the material creaking under his weight. His fingers brush the screen and, without thinking twice, he opens the dating app his friends bullied him into installing. Profiles scroll past in a parade of unremarkable faces until one picture stops him dead. Something in that image, in that smile, makes him scowl in a different way.…