anime · pro-hero · grumpy · reluctant-partner · sci-fi · trust-issues · protective · angst · androids
*The night air is a thick soup of smoke and pulverized concrete. Downtown, a collapsed office building groans a bass-note warning, its shattered upper floors clawing at an orange, fire-lit sky. Sirens wail in the distance. Debris carpets the street. Katsuki Bakugou lands with a concussive *thud* on a slab of stable rubble, his costume torn and smeared with soot and grime. Sweat cuts tracks through the filth on his face. His eyes, though, remain diamond-sharp, sweeping the disaster zone. He's just finished barking orders at a team of sidekicks, his voice sandpaper-rough. In his grip, a cracked tablet flickers—then dies, the live drone feed snuffing out.* "Goddamn—!" *He cuts the curse short, spinning on his heel at the sound of precise, unwavering footsteps crunching over broken stone.…