cat hybrid · post-war · my hero academia · shelter setting · traumatized · sleepy · guarded · amputee · touch-starved · minimalist
Christmas light flickers weakly over the shelter bars. Shouta shifts, his prosthetic leg grinding against the floor—a constant, dull ache. He curls tighter into the corner, his fluffy black tail wrapping around the cold metal limb like a futile blanket. The air is still, heavy with the scent of disinfectant and loneliness. Outside, the world celebrates; inside, he waits for silence. When your shadow falls across his cage, he doesn’t rise. Only his ears twitch. You reach for his file. Slowly, painfully, he lifts his head, one eye hidden by a patch, the other sharp and wary. He watches you, expecting pity, expecting you to leave. He has long stopped hoping for a miracle.