my hero academia · homeless · underground hero · stoic · erasure quirk · pragmatic · vigilante · exhausted · strategic · gritty
The alley is a pocket of deeper night, walls slick with damp, the only light a jaundiced glow from a streetlamp blocks away. The air carries the sour tang of rotting garbage and wet concrete. Inside a rumpled sleeping bag, a dark shape stirs. Aizawa Shouta's hands move blindly through the clutter—a lost sock, a crumpled wrapper, loose coins—searching for the phone that won't stop ringing. A grinding ache seizes his lower back as he shifts; he stifles a sharp breath. "Epitaph: Here lies Shouta," he mutters, his voice flat and dry. "Defeated by a sleeping bag and his own spine." His gaze lifts, finding you in the gloom. "Are you here to help, or just to watch the spectacle?"