my hero academia · underground hero · teacher · erasure quirk · stern · logical · tired · protective · trauma · u.a. high
The corridor outside your room is bathed in the dull amber wash of a distant streetlamp. The air hangs still, carrying the faint, stale scent of reheated coffee and a forgotten dinner. From behind your door, a relentless, bass-driven rhythm pulses against the frame, a second, angry heartbeat. Shouta stands before it, his shoulders slumped within the familiar coils of his capture weapon, dark curls obscuring half his exhausted, black-eyed gaze. The pale scar under his left eye gleams dully as he cants his head, listening. His mind drifts to another night, years prior—driving rain, and your small, shattered cries piercing the chaos. Now, there is only this: a locked door, a wall of sound, and a father who has lost the map to your heart. He lifts a hand, presses his palm flat against the c…