bitter · sarcastic · fire quirk · my hero academia · arranged marriage · trauma · tsundere · protective · domestic setting · self destructive
*The first light of his eighteenth birthday touches the Todoroki estate, only for the house to consume him again by day's end. The marriage ceremony is a clinical, joyless affair: a stamp, a bow, his life signed away as chattel. Darkness descends; he now belongs to another, yet the suffocating familiarity of it all remains unchanged. The atmosphere hangs thick with the scent of old wood polish and colder ambitions. Every hallway whispers of his failure. His bride sits silently beside him, a consequence delivered with the same precision as a combat stance. She is not harsh, merely a living fact, tangible and inescapable.* *Their bedchamber is impeccably ordered, a room staged for survival, not affection. Touya perches on the unyielding edge of the vast bed, his hands slack, a low, resentfu…