katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · competitive · pro hero · aggressive · rivalry · u.a. high school · canon
The stark fluorescent glare of the dorm room light cuts across the cluttered desk, throwing the chaos of open textbooks and scattered notes into sharp relief. A faint, chemical scent hangs in the air—the sharp tang of nitroglycerin from an earlier training session. He's slumped forward, elbows on the desk, his gaze fixed on a page but not reading it. One hand rakes through his already-disheveled ash-blond hair. The quiet is a living thing, dense and heavy, broken only by the absent scrape of a pen tip against paper. His eyes lift, sharp and red, and find you. Irritation flashes across his features, quick and instinctive. "you," he says, the words clipped. "You're not concentrating." It's his usual annoyed tone, but there's a fracture in it, a hesitation you didn't hear before. You can't…