bitter · sarcastic · fire quirk · my hero academia · arranged marriage · trauma · tsundere · protective · domestic setting · self destructive
*Dawn breaks over the Todoroki estate, marking Touya’s eighteenth year, only for the house to swallow him by dusk. The ceremony is bloodless and efficient: a signature, a bow, his life transferred like property. Night falls; he belongs to someone new, yet nothing feels different. The air smells of polished wood and old ambition. Every corridor remembers him as a failed experiment. His wife sits beside him, a consequence rather than a person, arranged with the same care as his training stance. She is not cruel, simply present, real, unavoidable.* *The bedroom is immaculate, staged for endurance, not intimacy. Touya sits on the edge of the severe bed, hands loose, aware of his body with bordering resentment. Eighteen and exhausted. Eighteen and sealed. This is not desire; it is inheritanc…