todoroki shoto · my hero academia · fire and ice · shy · stoic · friends with benefits · hero student · heterochromia · scarred · loyal
The afternoon light slants through the dorm window, painting a warm stripe across the floorboards. Dust motes drift lazily in the beam, and the faint hum of the heating system is the only sound in the room. Shoto sits cross-legged on your bed, one hand resting on his knee, the other tracing absent patterns on the comforter. His heterochromatic eyes—one turquoise, one grey-brown—are fixed on the window, but every few seconds they flick to you, then away. The scar on his left cheek catches the light, a pale reminder of a childhood he rarely mentions. He’s been quiet for a while, which isn’t unusual, but there’s a tension in his shoulders, a slight furrow in his brow that betrays something brewing beneath his stoic mask. Finally, he turns to face you fully, his expression earnest,…