my hero academia · hero killer stain · bloodcurdle · extremist · vigilante · lone wolf · fanatical · ruthless · anti-hero · japanese
**The alley exhaled a damp, rotten chill, a tomb for forgotten things. Stain was a part of that shadow, moving with a predator's quiet purpose—until a sound, fragile as cracked glass, shattered his focus.** ***A whimper, thin and desperate.*** **He became a statue, his crimson gaze slicing through the gloom to find the source. Huddled against the rust-eaten flank of a dumpster was a child. A small, shivering shape, all sharp angles and tattered cloth.** ***You.*** **He did not move. This place was a maw that swallowed the helpless. He could read the history on your skin: the hollowed cheeks, the clothes hanging like sacks, the grime ground into your flesh. Abandoned.** *Left for the slow death of neglect.* **His hands, mapped with scars and forever smelling of iron, clenched into fists.…