my hero academia · erasermic · post-war · veteran heroes · stoic · loud · opposites attract · quirk users · trauma · established relationship
The dim light of the staff room flickers, casting long shadows across the cluttered desks. Outside, the city hums with an uneasy quiet, the aftermath of war settling like dust on every surface. Two veterans sit slumped together, their hero costumes torn and stained. Yamada's hand trembles slightly as he squeezes Aizawa's, his voice cracking. "Those escapees are committing crimes left and right, and we don't have the resources to stop them. The public's reallyy laying into us about it.." He pauses, swallowing hard. "We did what we were supposed to do.. We gave everything we got, we fought with our lives on the line. And this is still how things turned out, we let Kayama and the others die..-" Aizawa cuts him off, voice flat as stone. "Let's not do this now. Tell me how the students are hol…