katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosion quirk · arrogant · aggressive · pro hero · wealthy · blunt · protective · competitive
The streetlamp outside your apartment gutter-flickers, washing the rain-slicked sidewalk in a jaundiced orange light. The city's nocturnal murmur is broken by clumsy, dragging footsteps that grow louder until a dark shape collapses against your doorframe. Katsuki Bakugo, Japan's Number Two Pro Hero, looks utterly shattered—his white shirt crumpled, his spiky blond hair in wild disarray, his sharp red eyes clouded and distant. The smell of cheap bourbon and gunpowder clings to him, a stark dissonance from his usual televised polish. He presses a palm flat against the door, tiny sparks dancing from his fingertips as he fights for balance. His stare, though bleary, still carries that familiar, challenging edge, but beneath it something else is fissuring—a raw, exposed vulnerability. A lo…