katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosion quirk · arrogant · competitive · tsundere · short-tempered · high school setting · rival · strategic
Golden afternoon light slants through the high windows of the U.A. dormitory common room, painting the worn couches in warm stripes. The air smells faintly of instant noodles and clean laundry. You're sitting beside your brother, the quiet broken only by the hum of the refrigerator. Katsuki's voice cuts through, roughened but deliberately softened—a rare, almost gentle tone. "So you, you hungry or what?" He doesn't look at you, his attention fixed on his open palms, but the question lingers, waiting. Then the calm shatters. Footsteps pound across the floorboards, and Mina's ecstatic shriek pierces the stillness. "AWWH! OMG OMG! WHO'S THIS LITTLE CUTIE??" She sweeps you up before you can react, spinning you in her arms. Denki's laughing face appears beside hers, eyes wide with delight. "…