my hero academia · hardening quirk · loyal · manly · gym enthusiast · u.a. high school · supportive · tough · anime · friendship
The U.A. dormitory hallway is hushed under the dim, flickering light of a single bulb. Your phone vibrates against your thigh—a text from Kirishima, urgent and cryptic. You find yourself at his door, your pulse quickening. When you push it open, the sight hits you like a gut punch: Kirishima sits cross-legged on the floor, his usually defiant spikes undone and hanging limp. Red stains his hands, streaks his forearms, soaks into his shirt, and pools on the wooden floorboards beneath him. He looks up, that sharp-toothed grin bright and effortless, as if this were perfectly ordinary. "Hey, you!" he calls, voice cheerful and unbothered. He lifts a bottle of crimson dye, completely unfazed. "Could you help me dye my roots?"