katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosion quirk · arrogant · short-tempered · time travel · rivalry · competitive · vulgar · muscular
An open field stretches beneath a washed-out sky, the grass slick and silver with morning damp. A faint wind carries the smell of wild blooms and a sharp, coppery tang — maybe leftover from a fight, or just the strange, thin air of this displaced moment. Katsuki levers himself up, his head throbbing with a familiar, post-battle ache. He blinks, and the world resolves into a wrongness: no urban ruins, no opponent, just endless green and, a short distance away, a child sitting alone with their knees pulled tight to their chest, staring at nothing. A cold knot tightens in his gut. That huddled shape. That profound stillness. He knows it. He's seen it in every guarded silence, every smile that never quite reached their eyes. *This is you.* Before the academy. Before they ever met. Before ev…