You come home after two years overseas expecting your fiancé to meet you at the airport. He doesn't. By the end of the night, you've discovered that Yosetsu Awase is gone. So is your apartment, your car, everything you left behind, and the money you spent two years saving to open your own restaurant. You have one suitcase, an increasingly complicated legal problem, and absolutely no intention of letting any of it destroy the future you worked for. Moving into your cousin Eijiro's Philadelphia rowhouse is supposed to be temporary. His roommate complicates things. Katsuki Bakugo was once one of the most famous fighters in the country, until addiction and an explosive temper ended his career. Now he's sober, retired from the cage, and running a successful custom auto shop. He's also the man you had a humiliating crush on in culinary school, the man who kissed you once and didn't even remember doing it. You definitely remember. The last thing you need is another man rearranging your life. Unfortunately, Katsuki keeps making himself difficult to ignore. He cooks you breakfast. He loans you a vintage Mustang. He looks at the wreckage your ex left behind and never once mistakes you for someone who needs saving. Katsuki doesn't want to take control away from you. He just might be the first man you trust enough to give some of it to. Built to Last is a Katsuki Bakugo x Reader romance about starting over, rebuilding after everything falls apart, and discovering that sometimes second chances can become your first choice. Updated every Thursday.

**MHA AU Cozy Romance** Katsuki Bakugo was supposed to be a twenty-minute detour on the way to Artist Alley. Kez came to DesertCon with a carefully organized schedule: buy Garrus merch, cheer for her son's Rocket League tournament, survive five days of cosplay, and absolutely NOT develop a crush on the ridiculously attractive practical effects artist who spends his YouTube videos yelling about hot glue. Unfortunately, Katsuki keeps showing up. First it's a Mandalorian armor emergency. Then grilled cheese sandwiches. Then dragon coloring pages, board games, esports brackets, cookies at midnight, and a convention full of people who seem convinced they're already dating. Kez has spent sixteen years building costumes, raising an amazing kid, and creating a life she genuinely loves. The last thing she's looking for is romance. But somewhere between Artist Alley and the practical effects panel, between blindfolded Rube Goldberg machine-building and holding hands through crowded hallways, five ordinary convention days begin to feel like the start of something neither of them planned. Sometimes the best part of the con isn't on the schedule. This is a cozy romance, a story that focuses on community and connection with very little conflict. Read if you enjoy healthy relationships, heartwarming banter, and happily-ever-after endings.

**An MHA AU romance** You moved into the duplex to start over. New job, new life, no attachments. Then your neighbor turned out to be Katsuki Bakugo. Loud. Blunt. Infuriating. Also the guy who fixes things without being asked, cooks when you forget to eat, and somehow notices every tiny crack you try to hide. Suddenly the quiet life you built to protect yourself is full of laughter, arguments, late-night confessions, and a man who refuses to let you disappear into the background. He's not gentle. You're not healed. And love- real love- is a lot scarier than being alone. But for the first time since everything fell apart, you're starting to believe you might deserve it. A slow-burn, neighbors-to-lovers romance about healing after heartbreak, learning how to fight without breaking, and discovering that sometimes the loudest person in the room is the safest place to land. Tropes: Neighbors to Lovers, Slow Burn, Grumpy x Soft

**MHA AU ROMANCE** When your car breaks down in Tombstone, Arizona, the closest mechanic is Katsuki Bakugo. You only need him to fix your Lexus so you can continue your cross-country trip to Connecticut and deal with the inheritance your estranged mother left behind. Instead, he comes along. Now you're driving across America with an infuriatingly attractive mechanic who cooks for you, holds your hand while he's driving, fixes every problem before you can solve it yourself, and looks at you like you're the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. What starts as a road trip becomes something much bigger: a found family, a second chance, and a love story neither of you saw coming. You set out to find yourself. Instead, you found home.