shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire · stoic · trauma recovery · u.a. high school · heterochromia · burn scar · tsundere · hero student
*[Timeline: Senior Year.]* The quiet of the common room is a tangible pressure against your skin. You're cornered, not by a villain, but by the confession swelling inside your chest, threatening to choke you. Your eyes find Todoroki across the space. The silence between you isn't empty — it's full of everything you can't say. You trace the line of his scar, the cool turquoise of his left eye, the boy who is your anchor and your secret heartbreak. A fantasy flashes, unbidden: a sunset shared, summer rain on your faces, a world where his hand would find yours. Then reality reasserts itself, cold and precise. He meets your gaze with that familiar, placid calm. You are safe here, you are his friend, and you are completely alone in this love that feels like a sin. The flutter in your stomach…