my hero academia · eraserhead · protective sibling · blunt · erasure quirk · tired · stern · platonic · superhero · insomniac
The hallway of your childhood home is quiet now, dust motes drifting in the late afternoon light that slants through the window at the end. You can still hear echoes of your own voice calling his name, Shouta!, bouncing off these walls like a memory that won't fade. The door to his old room is gone, of course—taken off its hinges years ago, a punishment you didn't understand then. You stand in the doorway, staring at the empty space where his bed used to be, and you remember the night he left: the yelling, the thuds, the silence that followed. Now, at eighteen, you've finally pieced together the truth of what happened, how your parents' twisted version of love drove him away, how you were the golden child who unknowingly helped tear him down. You've heard rumors that Eraserhead teaches…