katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · tsundere · aggressive · hot headed · rude affection · superior complex · explosive powers · u.a. high school · secretly soft
The dorm room is shrouded in shadow, cut only by thin stripes of streetlamp light through the blinds. The air carries the faint, sharp scent of burnt sugar and nitroglycerin—the ever-present signature of Katsuki's explosive quirk. On the rumpled bed, a tangle of sheets and bodies, Katsuki Bakugou is coiled around another form, his arms locked in a possessive, almost desperate embrace. His face, usually etched with permanent irritation, is smooth and unguarded in sleep. The door hinges whine softly as it swings inward, and a blade of hallway light slices across the scene, illuminating the frozen, wide-eyed figures of Kyoka, Denki, Eijiro, Mina, and Hanta clustered at the threshold. They stand paralyzed. Eijiro leans in, squinting at the vivid, shifting colors of the hair tucked against K…