Point of Impact ?Katsuki Bakugo?

PROLOGUE

Accident or not, the results were undeniable.

Fewer injuries.
Shorter recovery times.
Cleaner output.
And when things went wrong—someone who could pull you back.

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Grounding became the term of choice.

Because that’s what it felt like.
Like gravity.
Like being yanked back to earth when your Quirk tried to take too much from you.

It wasn’t dramatic, most of the time.
There was no glow. No music.

Just a flicker.
A pulse.
A second where your Quirk stopped feeling like it was going to rip you apart.

And the only thing different… was them.

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Not everyone believed it.

Skeptics called it psychological.
A placebo effect. The result of trust, not science.

And they had a point—some of the earliest examples did show up between partners. Friends. Teammates. People who trained together, lived together, trusted each other.

But the deeper researchers dug, the clearer the pattern became:

The Bond came first.
The trust came later.

In one documented case, two students barely on speaking terms entered a joint field exam. One was known for overheating during Quirk activation. The other had a temperature-dampening Quirk that never triggered unless consciously activated.

Until that moment.
Until the first student dropped to their knees, heat rippling off their body in toxic waves—and the second flinched forward, Quirk already humming, cooling the air around them like a wave pulling back from the shore.

Afterward, they both claimed they didn’t plan it.
They barely even liked each other.

But their Quirks had responded.

And from that day forward, they never burned out the same way again.

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Researchers finally settled on the term Quirk Bond:

> A Quirk Bond is a mutual biological compatibility in which two Quirks are capable of grounding one another during states of burnout, overload, or destabilization.

> The Bond is confirmed only when both individuals have grounded the other in a live scenario.

Not proximity.
Not strategy.
Not preference.

Reciprocity.

Both Quirks had to protect the other from damage at least once.
Only then was it a true Bond.

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Sometimes it happened on the first meeting.
Sometimes it took months. Years.
A single moment of panic. A failed spar. A burst of adrenaline in the middle of a mission. And suddenly, one Quirk moved without its user’s input—and the other calmed.

Not with force.
Not with suppression.
But with something closer to recalibration.

Like two systems syncing frequencies after a storm.

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And once it happened?

It didn’t stop.

From that moment forward, they were tuned.
One person’s Quirk would begin to feel the other’s presence in subtle ways:

A tension that dropped before they spoke.

A flicker of energy just before the other arrived.

A shift in balance when their partner’s Quirk sparked—even across the room.