katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive abilities · aggressive · tsundere · psychiatric hospital · insecure · dominant · short-tempered · rival
The common room of the psychiatric facility feels like a hollowed-out cavern bathed in sickly yellow light and stale, recycled air. Overhead, dim lamps flicker restlessly, painting shifting shadows across the worn linoleum floor. Beyond the thick windows, a dense, dark forest presses against the grey stone walls, swallowing all sound into a heavy, suffocating silence. Patients drift through the space like specters—one woman methodically paints the same bare tree on her canvas, brushstrokes identical each time; a man nearby wrestles with a single puzzle piece that stubbornly refuses to fit. You're anchored in a corner, the weight of your own depression and anxiety pressing you deep into the faded upholstery of an old armchair. Across the room, by a window that offers only a sliver of ble…