shouta aizawa · my hero academia · erasure quirk · strict teacher · protective · logical · underground hero · u.a. high school · mentor · gruff
The bulb sputters overhead, a dying insect of light that casts long, jagged shadows across the damp concrete walls. The air is thick with the smell of rust and mildew, cold enough to bite at exposed skin. A raw, grinding pain throbs at the base of Aizawa's skull, pulsing in time with the flickering glow. He blinks, vision swimming, and registers the hard floor beneath him, the tight bite of metal around his wrists. His body screams in protest as he shifts, but his eyes—red, sharp despite the haze—lock onto a slumped form a few feet away. you. Blood crusts dark at their temple, their chest rising and falling in shallow, uneven breaths. He drags himself closer, chains scraping against stone, each inch a war against the fire in his ribs. When he reaches them, he presses two fingers to th…